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CreamyC said:

Someone who comes out with something out the blue thats no irrelevant. Random people are funny but only when they dont go on about how random they are.

 

 

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Creamy, im random as [censored] i am... i mean... i keep batteries in my socks and [censored] and write REALLY random notes in TomD's book of fun about the word random...... rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif

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Samsun said:

what is the defintions of random???

Just so you know:

 

"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"

Random Ran"dom, a.

Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or

without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without

previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random

guess.

 

Some random truths he can impart. --Wordsworth.

 

So sharp a spur to the lazy, and so strong a bridle to

the random. --H. Spencer.

 

Random courses (Masonry), courses of unequal thickness.

 

Random shot, a shot not directed or aimed toward any

particular object, or a shot with the muzzle of the gun

much elevated.

 

Random work (Masonry), stonework consisting of stones of

unequal sizes fitted together, but not in courses nor

always with flat beds.

 

"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"

Random Ran"dom, n. OE. randon, OF. randon force, violence,

rapidity, a randon, de randon, violently, suddenly, rapidly,

prob. of German origin; cf. G. rand edge, border, OHG. rant

shield, edge of a shield, akin to E. rand, n. See Rand, n.

1. Force; violence. Obs.

 

For courageously the two kings newly fought with

great random and force. --E. Hall.

 

2. A roving motion; course without definite direction; want

of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly

used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled

point of direction; at hazard.

 

Counsels, when they fly At random, sometimes hit

most happily. --Herrick.

 

O, many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the

archer little meant ! --Sir W.

Scott.

 

3. Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the

random of a rifle ball. --Sir K. Digby.

 

4. (Mining) The direction of a rake-vein. --Raymond.

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surely if you have a random word that you say a lot, it would make it consistent, and therefore remove it's randomness?

 

Tallywhacker is in my vocab at the mo. Christ knows why....

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