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Tonality
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Listening (involuntarily) to Japanese anime theme music, the thought occurs: What is the interplay ......
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February 13, 2004 14:54
RE: Encomium
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The Greek root "comos" means "revel." So if an en-comos is what we offer at a revel, it has the fee......
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February 10, 2004 10:45
Hybrid words
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No ancient Greek or Roman would have used a word like "carbohydrate," even if they wanted to lose we......
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February 03, 2004 17:03
RE: Diacritical Marks
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Ran across an interesting usage "Taškent," versus the more usual "Tashkent." Someone in the Russian......
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January 31, 2004 11:12
Viral Language
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Has Wordcraft ever had a discussion of "viral language?" By that I mean the differences among (i) a......
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January 28, 2004 18:54
RE: Diacritical Marks
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There is an interesting list of many punctuation marks with origins at: ......
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January 25, 2004 13:55
RE: Diacritical Marks
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First, my thanks to all the kind folks for their welcome to Wordcraft... I've continued to follow l......
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January 24, 2004 12:39
Diacritical Marks
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Interesting notes this week on printers' marks. Anyone know the name for the small circle above a v......
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January 11, 2004 18:36
RE: Things that aren't poems...
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Kalleh: Recovered this from long ago. Is the site still functional?! Robert...
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April 14, 2024 11:10
RE: A question that has me stumped
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We forget how hard life was for our ancestors, how the plague inspired "ring around the roses" It's ......
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September 07, 2020 06:48
RE: A question that has me stumped
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Guess I'm just lucky with food... ......
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August 17, 2020 19:07
RE: A question that has me stumped
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The flock-passing-smoke / transience is most likely, but I instinctively went to smoked-goose......
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August 17, 2020 08:40
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Boo boo, cha cha, cous cous, mahi mahi, peri peri, pom pom, shabu shabu, Sing Sing, tom tom... Star......
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August 07, 2014 10:09
RE: Reiquepublicae vs Republica
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In Republica Massachusettensi Senatus et Curatores Omnibus Ad Quo Hae Litterae Pervenerint Salutem i......
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June 06, 2014 18:01
RE: Reiquepublicae vs Republica
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Daughter just graduated BU Law. Near the top the diploma refers to "Republica" of Massachusetts. ......
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June 05, 2014 19:09
Reiquepublicae vs Republica
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Diploma for a new graduate refers to the state as "Republica" but the US as "reiquepublicae" Distin......
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June 05, 2014 12:18
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
RE: Ghost words
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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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