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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Folks of this persuasion are insensed when you look for evidence
Most of the Democrats that I know are evangelical Christians. I doubt how many would not be insensed by this Politically Correct (from the Far Right) prepackaged tirade.
the younger ladies were insensed at their own dashed hopes.
I’m Insensed! I’m … .. I’m flumoxed!
This one may easily be a simple misspelling, but there are a lot of them. The standard word derives from a stem meaning to set on fire (cf. incendiary bombs)—the putative eggcorn would substitute for that the notion of causing insanity or rendering senseless, with sense prefixed by the negative in -. Either may of course be understood, via a standard metaphor (or metonymy), to indicate the causing of rage or fury.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-05-18 16:23:05)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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