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Chris -- 2018-04-11
There’s a vague resemblance between guys who spend the weekend recumbent before a TV and the stuff that accumulates at the bottom of ponds. Over 3,000 ghits:
Why are fat people so fat? I blame it on lack of self control, sedimentary lifestyle (ever walk or ride your bike for transportation) and supersized “meals”.
www.dvdtalk.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-258167.html
Jordan said it is easy to get caught up in a sedimentary lifestyle, with all of
the modern conveniences available.
augustachronicle.com/stories/070702/gag_251-1566.000.shtml
Plants, because of their sedimentary lifestyle, are especially susceptible to
damage caused by environmental factors.
www.nature.com/embor/journal/v5/n10/full/7400256.html
The Koss KSC-50 is a quality portable headphone for users with a non-sedimentary lifestyle.
www.hardware-pacers.com/pages.php?catTy … 45e6fa2…
I had forgotten how hard it is going from a sedimentary lifestyle to moving
constantly at work.
www.deardiary.org/show/diaries/721/1102896000
The “sedimentary lifestyle” of our kids has been fretted over and blamed for an “obesity crisis” amongst our children.
conservativeu.com/conservativeu/Americana/Big%20Fat.htm
A sedimentary lifestyle reduces the body’s ability to eliminate toxic contaminates and to perform normal metabolic functions.
beseen.net/BeHealthy/ideaconcepts/gen.htm
Pinnids are adapted to a sedimentary lifestyle and possess a unique ciliated waste canal for the removal of sediment from the mantle …
www.marlin.ac.uk/species/Adult_senexp_A … agilis.htm
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Eggcorns sometimes cut both ways… If sedimentary is mistaken for sedentary, then maybe sedentary is also mistaken for sedimentary. (See examples below). Even so, I wouldn’t call these eggcorns since the writers probably have no idea that “sedentary” means “doing much sitting.”
Stick Insects – Natural History
The earliest known Phasmid remains were found by the prominent natural historian Rev Charles Brocherty in 1852, encased in sedentary rock in the Olduvai …
http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Stick_Insects ... l_History/natural_history.html
Eye on Kansas Magazine
Sedentary Rock: Limestone. By Lori Thielen. During Sylvan Grove’s bicentennial in 1976, Duane Vonada along with many other community members pondered on …
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I just ran into this (“Limestone is basically just a sedentary rock. Marble is metamorphic, granite is igneous …â€, spoken by a pretty well-educated lady, who had been in the rock business for years, though she has been in other business now for years.) I think it is likely eggcornish for some: it certainly makes sense. Sedentary rock forms when the silt/dirt just sits there without moving.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2011-08-01 09:50:01)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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