Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer
From: Mario Lang (mlang_AT_delysid.org)
Date: Thu Dec 02 2004 - 15:04:30 EET
Fons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen_AT_skynet.be> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:12:40PM -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
>
>> I also asked you to not be so obstreperous in your posts.
> --------------------------------^
>
> I really love the sound of that word, but it will cost me
> a new dictionary.
>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obstreperous \Ob*strep"er*ous\, a. [L. obstreperus, from
obstrepere to make a noise at; ob (see {Ob-}) + strepere to
make a noise.]
Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise;
clamorous; noisy; vociferous. ``The obstreperous city.''
--Wordsworth. ``Obstreperous approbation.'' --Addison.
Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. --B.
Jonson.
-- {Ob*strep"er*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ob*strep"er*ous*ness}, n.
-- CYa, Mario
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