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31 Oct 2006 Tue 09:17 am |
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lol @ aenigma,
İ'm laughing and laughing then laughing again,,lol
İ'm sitting a far,watching you ,see how will you solve this Cyrano-British thing, lol
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31 Oct 2006 Tue 09:56 am |
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Quoting CANLI: lol @ aenigma,
İ'm laughing and laughing then laughing again,,lol
İ'm sitting a far,watching you ,see how will you solve this Cyrano-British thing, lol |
Ouh! Spooky - like big brother eh? 
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31 Oct 2006 Tue 11:43 am |
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Quoting cyrano: Quoting teaschip: Quoting cyrano: I was looking up my dictionaries to be sure about the sense of "arrogant". I was given two synonms of arrogant: haughty and disdainful. Then when I checked the sense of "haughty" I came across the following sample usage which is worth to be mentioned:
"A haughty British aristocrat" (Oxford Dictionary of English)
So, I wonder if being "arrogant, haughty, disdanful" is one of the British customs. |
Cyrano, I think it's more of an American thing "arrogant".  I painfully admit. |
Still I suspected its origin and found this.
arrogant:
- Origin late middle English: via old French from Latin arrogant- 'claiming for oneself', from the verb arrogare (see ARROGATE) (Oxford Dictionary of English)
This is where we reach to "British" again. You see, where there is "arrogant", there is "British" there. |
I always thought we got it of the French somehow
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31 Oct 2006 Tue 05:19 pm |
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Quoting Joey: Quoting cyrano: Quoting teaschip: Quoting cyrano: I was looking up my dictionaries to be sure about the sense of "arrogant". I was given two synonms of arrogant: haughty and disdainful. Then when I checked the sense of "haughty" I came across the following sample usage which is worth to be mentioned:
"A haughty British aristocrat" (Oxford Dictionary of English)
So, I wonder if being "arrogant, haughty, disdanful" is one of the British customs. |
Cyrano, I think it's more of an American thing "arrogant". I painfully admit. |
Still I suspected its origin and found this.
arrogant:
- Origin late middle English: via old French from Latin arrogant- 'claiming for oneself', from the verb arrogare (see ARROGATE) (Oxford Dictionary of English)
This is where we reach to "British" again. You see, where there is "arrogant", there is "British" there. |
I always thought we got it of the French somehow |
Me too, but I was trying to be polite. 
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