I was filling out a form today which requested 'reverse chronology' 
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EllieGant
- 15 Jul. 2008 @ 21:43:21
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menhir
- 15 Jul. 2008 @ 22:02:31
Precisely.
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- 15 Jul. 2008 @ 22:14:00
I was going to give a definition, though I'm sure you know what it means really, but then when I wrote it I didn't know if I was right, then I scratched my head some more and came to exactly the same conclusion - eh?
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menhir
- 16 Jul. 2008 @ 09:15:41
The request does that, doesn't it. I think it is an attempt at filtering at the first hurdle with an inscrutable thrust. It's either clever, too clever, elitist or bloody-minded.
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- 16 Jul. 2008 @ 19:03:19
Shouldn't it say chronological order rather than choronology? Isn't an ology the study of something. I bet it was a local Government form.
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menhir
- 16 Jul. 2008 @ 19:45:44
I have had a chat with the organisation concerned - or rather an office associated with it - about using the term 'reverse chronology'. And no, it is not a local government invention (yet!); surprising isn't it.
'ology' an unidentified discipline; a field or subject of study when attached to one, or a bailiwick. What! I hear you cry.
A chronology is an arrangement of events in time, a record of events in the order of their occurrence; the determination of the temporal sequence of past events. Even this lot is more naturally comprehensible than the request I looked at.
When I deem the time is right, I will send a little billet doux about the form of language used. (Shakes head) -
- 16 Jul. 2008 @ 20:14:51
Computers are my own personal bailiwick. Haha, I've been wearing out the online dictionary's looking up all these big words.
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menhir
- 16 Jul. 2008 @ 20:18:07
There you are then - stimulation and challenge on blog, tailor made, or should I say, bespoke.
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skip2468
- 15 Jul. 2008 @ 22:12:09
Simple - Die before birth - LOL
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menhir
- 16 Jul. 2008 @ 09:22:35
Good one, I shall put the answer in my stock of responses. -
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tylluanpenry
- 15 Jul. 2008 @ 23:40:55
Oh, for plain English! (or plain Wenglish in my case!)
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- http://menomamauk.blog.co.uk
- 16 Jul. 2008 @ 00:41:12
And how did you answer that question?
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Er - what?