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Has this distinguished company every wrestled with the meaning of those undefined-quantity words? W......
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January 26, 2013 13:37
Idiosyncratic spelling
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An interesting bit of trivia at: ......
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December 01, 2012 18:53
Excellent, if now obsolete, use of language
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Home About Lawfare: A Brief History of the Term and the Site Contact The Lawfare Podcast......
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March 25, 2012 18:08
RE: Untranslatable
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1. There are a finite set of standard phrases, for which we can prepare standard translations. 2. I......
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December 02, 2011 17:46
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Alas BobHale. I reply as a matter of human nature, outside our common interest in linguistics. In su......
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November 27, 2011 17:43
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We seem to agree, repeatedly, that nothing is truly untranslatable even if, in BobHale's words, it t......
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November 25, 2011 05:12
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zmježd is right, in the end nothing is untranslatable. However, it's not clear that all the cultura......
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November 24, 2011 06:37
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Kalleh - you are quite correct that anything can in principle be translated. In a different context......
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November 22, 2011 22:12
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A search for "untranslatable" here yields pages of entries. Not sure if we've ever had one on terms......
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November 22, 2011 05:02
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WHAT is being raised is the same -- pilus, hair. HOW it is being raised differs. Erect relates to ......
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November 16, 2011 19:35
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No view on the validity of the claim, but some observers say they see proof of a Japanese mini sub i......
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August 30, 2011 03:49
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FDF? * Fédération Djiboutienne de Football, the governing body of football (soccer) in Djibouti......
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January 26, 2011 03:37
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Kalleh: Politicos prefer to say that the group-identity categories are not so much "ambiguous," as ......
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December 11, 2010 04:12
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Kalleh: Because of the intrusiveness of government, the distortions of various preference schemes a......
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December 09, 2010 20:44
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December 09, 2010 07:44
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The reason we see this multiplication of subgroups is "identity politics." Politicos love divide & c......
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December 08, 2010 10:44
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Glad to see that Wordmatic remains fact-based. Perhaps he, like I, can recall a time when reality d......
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December 08, 2010 10:11
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There is an especially ridiculous issue in the US, arising from the set-asides and other results of ......
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December 08, 2010 03:18
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wordmatic: Aristotle is no more ("To say of what is that it is, or of what is not that it is not, i......
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December 04, 2010 04:24
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