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- Posted by: @bill93Posted by: @holy-cow
The first definition in my old college dictionary is: Fastitious: not easy to please, very critical
I always had a less general sense of the word, that such a person had to have everything neat and orderly, and done in a way that suited them.
Insatiable seems to imply that any amount is ever enough, but has less of a sense of being critical.
Unappeasable implies the person can’t be happy with any result or what one can do for them, and has no sense of amount or orderliness.
I guess that’s the word my father used, although I he think he butchered the pronunciation. When he would get antsy waiting for someone to finish something he would decry, “Quit bein’ so damned fuh-stid-jus!“
Also when someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “Tawlable”. When I was a kid I thought he was mispronouncing ‘terrible’…which usually fit his disposition. It took me years to finally realize what he was saying.
If only all the surveys I retraced were done by Kent McMillan!
(No chance, since I have never been to TX)
-All thoughts my own, except my typos and when I am wrong.I’ve told Kent several times that if I was following him on a survey I would really appreciate his notes…but if I worked with him I would probably have strangled him well before lunch.
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