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RE: Ghost words
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Just as we explore the idea of word ghosts, and cultural memories, it seems xkcd got the same feelin......
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September 02, 2013 05:00
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Actually still on point, proofreader... Amusing to note which things, though non-functional, give p......
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August 27, 2013 07:03
RE: Ghost words
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Perhaps so, Proofreader. On the other hand, boomboxes got really big, physically, in the 1980s. An......
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August 27, 2013 06:17
RE: Ghost words
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By the way - none of the under-30 crowd wear watches anymore. It's on their phone-pad-laptop. But e......
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August 25, 2013 14:41
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Had occasion this weekend to rent a car. As noted earlier, there was a cylindrical socket for charg......
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August 25, 2013 12:41
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Arnie -- home run! (if you'll permit a US archaism...) The skeuomorph seems to be a deliberate desi......
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August 21, 2013 03:13
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Kalleh: There's a closely related effect - the "echo" of "artifacts." When more people smoked, car......
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August 18, 2013 10:50
Ghost words
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Is there a term for "culture ghosts?" I mean things like the "save" icon, shown as 3.5 inch diskett......
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August 17, 2013 20:26
Discreet / delay
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Dealing with contango and backwardation in economics, ran across “demurrage” (late fees in shipping)......
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July 25, 2013 17:23
RE: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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Interesting cognate. There is a German sense to sonder, meaning "special" (perhaps "apart?") in dis......
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April 14, 2013 04:55
Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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April 13, 2013 18:27
Any good sources
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...for foreign etymologies? Greek in particular? Σαραβαλο ("saravalo") means “wreck.” But I wonder......
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April 08, 2013 16:49
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A paltry dozen? I wager this august body can double that with ease! Herewith, an interesting piece......
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April 04, 2013 04:49
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Saw this. Is it meaningful?...
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February 05, 2013 16:02
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Never let vanity get in the way of a good line......
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January 31, 2013 05:39
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The first is a medical emergency, the second is merely an American late for dinner....
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January 30, 2013 17:32
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zmježd Knowing you for a scholar, I dare not essay humor because… [missing text] PS: Are there w......
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January 30, 2013 14:16
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January 30, 2013 10:57
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Agree, goofy, except if Thomas Mann ever met Mikey Bloomberg......
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January 30, 2013 07:02
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