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RE: POLL: KEY WEST
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Yes. I noticed it too. But I would think you know more about it than anyone else; aren’t you the Ad......
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May 02, 2023 06:25
RE: POLL: KEY WEST
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May 01, 2023 13:59
Books that should have been movies.
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I was listening to an interview where the interviewee mentioned EE “Doc” Smith and it made me think ......
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April 30, 2023 18:45
For those not on FB
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Answers: A Surrealist’s Smorgasbord I was playing with an online AI and I asked it to produce a lis......
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April 30, 2023 02:07
RE: Nothing to do with language but
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April 30, 2023 02:01
RE: Nothing to do with language but
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April 30, 2023 01:57
RE: Nothing to do with language but
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IIRC, Jung thought that dreams could be semi-consciously guided, but could also guide. Maybe Harry ......
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April 29, 2023 05:17
RE: Nothing to do with language but
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I hadn't really thought about this before, but now I see your point. I tried hard to see an actual ......
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April 26, 2023 20:22
RE: POLL: KEY WEST
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Those are great limericks. I wish I hadn't missed them. It is great to be back! BTW, what happene......
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April 26, 2023 20:04
RE: POLL: KEY WEST
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Yuu know me well, Hab. ......
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April 24, 2023 19:36
Link the Lyrics
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A game: Post a snippet of about four to eight lines of a song lyric. It should include a word or ph......
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April 24, 2023 12:04
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4 gave me a "Error 404 - file not found" error when I tried to follow the link. I suspect the ellips......
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April 23, 2023 18:08
*** Words better known in their negative forms
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A man can unkempt or innocent, but can he be “kempt” or “nocent”? This week we’ll eyeball words of t......
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April 23, 2023 13:34
RE: POLL: KEY WEST
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I think we are waiting for 3 more votes. Or 4 more-- can't remember: am I supposed to hang back and......
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April 23, 2023 06:34
RE: POLL: KEY WEST
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I plead lingering covid fog. Basically what you see is what you get. Anyone whose lim is presented......
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April 23, 2023 06:30
RE: Nothing to do with language but
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Well it seems that I am aphantasic Bob, as opposed to a fantastic Bob. (Which of course I also am.) ......
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April 22, 2023 20:59
RE: Nothing to do with language but
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I do too. The images are generally well-formed but their sharpness can fluctuate depending on what ......
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April 22, 2023 06:22
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I do see images, although often as not they are amorphous....
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April 21, 2023 07:27
RE: Cyril, Methodius, and Old Slavic
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Wow! Wonderful find! Many thanks! Nothing I had read before showed so much detail of the flow of,......
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April 21, 2023 07:25
Nothing to do with language but
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I have what will probably strike you as a weird question. When you close your eyes and try to visual......
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April 21, 2023 05:46
RE: Cyril, Methodius, and Old Slavic
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Geoff. I just came across this video on ......
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April 20, 2023 04:57
RE: POLL: KEY WEST
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This is tricky. A few I eliminate on technical grounds, three I eliminate because they are mine, one......
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April 18, 2023 19:06
RE: POLL: KEY WEST
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Just making sure that I understand. We should judge 7 as a three part limerick and twelve as a two p......
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April 18, 2023 18:56
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Five for me, please. That's number five, not five of them. (Don't want to be greedy!)...
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April 18, 2023 16:06
POLL: KEY WEST
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1.A vacation in lovely Key West Is for feeling exceedingly stressed It will all melt away On the......
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April 18, 2023 10:57
RE: Cyril, Methodius, and Old Slavic
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Thanks, zmježd! At least I now know the "where" of my query. Early Russian/Ukrainian history is oh......
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April 07, 2023 06:15
RE: Cyril, Methodius, and Old Slavic
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The translation of the Bible into Old Church Slavonic (OCS, aka Old Bulgarian) was done in the 9th c......
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April 07, 2023 04:55
Cyril, Methodius, and Old Slavic
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A linguistic query: Where did these two Greek Orthodox monks do their translation into a Greek-base......
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April 06, 2023 14:47
RE: Another acronym query
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Oh. Why couldn't I find that on a Google search??? I ended up with Confederate States of America f......
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April 01, 2023 06:17
RE: Another acronym query
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I guessed immediately that CSA didn't mean Child Support Agency which is what it means in the UK and......
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March 31, 2023 19:05
Another acronym query
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What do the various initials affixed to movie makers mean? I see CSA, ASC, and a bunch of others co......
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March 31, 2023 17:17
RE: NGO
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Too darned many acronyms! You must be right, Bob....
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March 22, 2023 05:25
RE: NGO
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In the Uk it means non-governmental organization which is a bit of a misnomer as they are usually bo......
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March 21, 2023 23:40
NGO
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What's an NGO? It's a common acronym, but all I think of is "Non-Gonococcal Outbreak." I doubt tha......
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March 21, 2023 12:40
An even better translation fail
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Another hilariously bad machine translation (at least I hope that’s what it is) in our local communi......
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March 19, 2023 07:33
Can we push past the boring ones?
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I am in XiAn for a dental appointment again and took the metro yesterday where I was amused to hear ......
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March 14, 2023 18:51
RE: Latin and Grek in biology
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OK, thanks. I'm still unsure why there was a division of terms between the languages of description......
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March 11, 2023 09:17
RE: Latin and Grek in biology
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zmježd
Partially a remnant of everybody doing serious writing in Latin. Taxonomy and the ISV (Internation S......
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March 11, 2023 07:07
Limerick Game: Key West
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Well here's another two-parter with stress on second 'syllable' that is much easier to work than Sey......
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March 10, 2023 12:05
Machine poetry
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Corresponding with a friend about chatgpt and poetry he used a new word. I don’t know if it was an i......
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March 08, 2023 17:18
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
An IQ of...
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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
RE: Spelling question
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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
RE: They aren't gerunds, so what are they?
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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
RE: Spelling question
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March 01, 2023 04:57
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
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
RE: Spelling question
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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
Translation fail
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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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