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Originally Posted by mburbank
Perscribed to. Perscribed to. That Kennedy 'perscribed' to.
How do you make it through each day thinking you're smart? What do people say when you say things like that? Do they just politely pretend you said the right word?
Listen. A 'perscription' is wjhat your doctor wrote you so you can treat your manic depression and hypoglycemia. People do not 'perscribe' to ideas.
Do you have any idea at all how pretentious and stupid you sound when you try to use vocabulary you have no grasp of?
"Oh, sure, way to ignorificate the substntiousness of my ideations with obfistulatory remarks on the satelites of my verbiage, Jew!"
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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Prescribed
pre·scribe ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-skrb)
v. pre·scribed, pre·scrib·ing, pre·scribes
v. tr.
To set down as a rule or guide; enjoin. See Synonyms at dictate.
To order the use of (a medicine or other treatment).
v. intr.
To establish rules, laws, or directions.
To order a medicine or other treatment.
Law.
To assert a right or title to something on the grounds of prescription.
To become invalidated or unenforceable by the process of prescription.
...I'll just leave it there.