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#1 2010-12-20 10:08:23

Peter Forster
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'embarko' for 'embargo'

Embarko could be read as a veto on disembarkation, which seems roughly embargoish from where I’m sitting:

Is there an embarko on weight as I believe my quoted amount is more than Quoted?

an embarko on arms sales to. Pakistan and to provide her !with bombers, jet’.fighters, and armored personnel carriers.

Technically I think they can look but there maybe an embarko on them ie a WWE Policy preventing them from posting.

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#2 2010-12-20 12:04:36

DavidTuggy
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Re: 'embarko' for 'embargo'

Anywhere else that -o has a negative-looking usage (that could be parlayed into a negative meaning)? (Your example of veto counts as a possible/probable for me—are there others? No itself?)

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