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Latin and Grek in biology
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While reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, I noticed that at one point she erroneousl......
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March 02, 2023 07:03
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Just a random thought... only people with an IQ of 140 can understand that games advertised with "on......
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March 01, 2023 18:36
RE: They aren't gerunds, so what are they?
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Or put another way... a collection (or system) of tubes is tubing....
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March 01, 2023 18:33
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Interesting that the one that has WITHOUT EXCEPTION been claimed to be correct by the people I've as......
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March 01, 2023 18:31
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Less to do with grammaticality, and more to do with semantics. For me, ......
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March 01, 2023 05:01
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March 01, 2023 04:57
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It's when all the icicles on a water tower fall on you at once....
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February 27, 2023 05:52
A what?
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Caption from a YouTube video: "Woody Harrelson's in a heap of water after this SNL drug joke." I won......
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February 26, 2023 19:24
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I think she has a future as a reviewer....
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February 19, 2023 05:24
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Churchill would have approved!...
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February 19, 2023 05:15
Kids can be brutal
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In this week's episode of the UK version of The Apprentice they were given the task of designing a l......
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February 17, 2023 06:16
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It certainly is in this translation. I don't know about in the US but in the UK a rent boy is a gay ......
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February 17, 2023 05:54
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Sounds a bit naughty to me....
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February 17, 2023 04:54
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There's the answer to the question, "Does a bear shan't in the woods."...
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February 17, 2023 04:52
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Translation fail: I am in a chat group for my residential community. Obviously it’s in Chinese but w......
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February 16, 2023 21:32
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...so apparently Milne's usage implies "an apostrophe means one or more letters have been omitted at......
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February 15, 2023 10:17
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AA Milne had this to say about the issue: ......
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February 15, 2023 10:10
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Nah, that was the Baltimore CLOGS....
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February 10, 2023 05:11
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My knowledge of American sports is so extensive that the Baltimore Colts could have been the state s......
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February 09, 2023 07:43
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I was being facetious. The Baltimore Colts were an American football - NOT baseball - team. Why it......
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February 09, 2023 05:03
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I see no reason why n't!...
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February 08, 2023 09:38
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You are in good company. Others I have asked - including my old English teacher - agree with you. I ......
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February 07, 2023 18:20
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I've only seen the last one, but then I've led a sheltered life....
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February 07, 2023 09:12
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shalln't... shaln't... shan't ? I have always used the first one but the spellchecker insist that o......
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February 07, 2023 07:29
They aren't gerunds, so what are they?
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Often I see "ing" endings on nouns, such as cowling instead of cowl, tubing instead of tube, and cas......
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February 01, 2023 11:15
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Then we can have the fifty greatest mimes if you like. The question of the odd usage remains....
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January 29, 2023 06:10
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Drummers? Along with bagpipes they're high on my list of undesirable neighbors. The Japanese have ......
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January 29, 2023 04:39
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I agree. He, however, consistently uses it the other way round saying things like “it’s much higher ......
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January 28, 2023 20:44
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Smaller numbers = higher on/closer to the top of a list, is my convention. The rationale for me is ......
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January 28, 2023 19:22
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There is a YouTube channel that I sometimes watch that reviews albums and also sometimes looks at th......
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January 28, 2023 06:49
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Point made. Thanks for the clarification....
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January 22, 2023 07:01
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True but being accused of bias by both sides only shows that you are actually unbiased. You see it i......
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January 21, 2023 17:19
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Are we going to New Mexico or off the coast of africa? Tell us, Bethree5....
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January 21, 2023 10:04
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This sounds impossible. Bias is by definition favoritism towards one thing or another. One cann't ......
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January 21, 2023 10:01
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Taos sounds like a good one. I thought of Mali but its rhymes seemed suspiciously familiar. Sure......
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January 20, 2023 14:55
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Just watched a video about Elon Musk and Twitter. When it was finished I glanced through the comment......
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January 18, 2023 20:10
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January 18, 2023 09:39
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Speaking of Octave Chanute and the Kansas City bridge, McCullough seems to have dismissed it with o......
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January 17, 2023 20:21
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And I wonder whether we might need to invent a "vote index" - votes per submission. After all, I pu......
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January 17, 2023 20:04
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...not to mention that in addition to Dansk being a high-end kitchenware vendor, Dansk is Danish for......
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January 17, 2023 19:54
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Everything is possible with a little imagination. A Danish young man in Gdansk Tried hard to master......
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January 17, 2023 07:42
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The first two that came to mind were Gdansk and Taos. Nah - I don't think so!...
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January 17, 2023 05:06
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Thanks, Geoff! [& my vote was for yours!] So, just to revive this thread [& pls forgive me for 2 f......
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January 16, 2023 19:39
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I will tell you. World champion is NOT the winner of the completely inappropriately named World Ser......
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January 09, 2023 22:18
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I have no idea. The Baltimore Colts maybe?...
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Who are the current baseball world champions? And who previously held the title? I'll post the corr......
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January 07, 2023 20:03
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Most US sitcoms are, when you remove all the advertising, around twenty two minutes per episode. In ......
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January 07, 2023 19:47
A repost from my FB about The Apprentice
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Well, that's episode one of The Apprentice over. My favourite quote of the episode was the candidate......
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January 07, 2023 19:43
Could be damp...
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This one, from a YouTube video about movies, made me laugh out loud. “I will have to dig deep into M......
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January 04, 2023 17:31
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I'm the one who voted for #9, so Bethree5, you're welcome! ......
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