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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:48 AM
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Victim's finger severed in snatching of purse
"The suspect is described as a light- to medium-complected . . ."

the word is COMPLEXIONED. COMPLECTED is not a word.

why is this in the newspaper?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0511090289nov09,1,4799974.story?coll=chi-news-hed
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:52 AM
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1. OUCH!
That's just wrong on so many levels.

BTW - how's work ...
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:59 AM
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2. quit
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 09:36 AM
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3. what's next
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 09:40 AM
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5. i dunno
i think i'm gonna move again . . .

trying to figure out where i want to go . . .
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 09:57 AM
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9. Ask DU.
Everyone has an idea of job availabilities and living cost in their cities.

Find an area that fits most of your needs and go for it!
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 09:40 AM
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4. *polite cough*
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=complected

2 definitions.
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 09:44 AM
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6. "ain't" is probably in the dictionary too
it is still nonstandard english.
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 09:57 AM
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10. The informal words of today
Are the candidates for tomorrow's standard usage. No living language can be contained in a list.
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Dora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 09:48 AM
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7. Complected is informal, but acceptable word choice.
complected

SYLLABICATION: com·plect·ed
PRONUNCIATION: km-plktd
ADJECTIVE: Informal Marked by or having a particular facial complexion. Often used in combination: “A white-haired and ruddy-complected priest stood on the deck of one of the trawlers” (New York Times).
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from complection, variant of complexion.
USAGE NOTE: Complected has a long history in American folk speech, showing up, for example, in 1806 in the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: “ are . . . reather lighter complected . . . than the Indians of the Missouri” (Meriwether Lewis). Complected has long been treated as a dialectal term in dictionaries, but it actually should be regarded as informal Standard English, since its nationwide distribution disqualifies it as a regionalism. In 1915 its reported use in west Texas extended its semantic domain beyond skin color to general appearance: “a fat-complected man.”

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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 09:50 AM
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8. I take issue when they "pleaded guilty"
we have a perfectly good past-tense word for "plea". It is plead. But the papers have rules of their own, apparently.
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 09:59 AM
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11. I prefer 'pled'
But yes, it grates on my nerves to hear 'pleaded.'
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