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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
jheem wrote: "Wouldn't somebody in Russian use Cyrillic ш?" I suspect the writer was thinking of ho......
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Discussion Topic  Tonality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Listening (involuntarily) to Japanese anime theme music, the thought occurs: What is the interplay ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Encomium (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
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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Discussion Topic  Hybrid words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
No ancient Greek or Roman would have used a word like "carbohydrate," even if they wanted to lose we......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Ran across an interesting usage "Taškent," versus the more usual "Tashkent." Someone in the Russian......
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Discussion Topic  Viral Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Has Wordcraft ever had a discussion of "viral language?" By that I mean the differences among (i) a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
There is an interesting list of many punctuation marks with origins at: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
First, my thanks to all the kind folks for their welcome to Wordcraft... I've continued to follow l......
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Discussion Topic  Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Interesting notes this week on printers' marks. Anyone know the name for the small circle above a v......
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Discussion Topic  Discreet / delay (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Dealing with contango and backwardation in economics, ran across “demurrage” (late fees in shipping)......
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Discussion Topic  Clumsy fix or clever improvisation? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Great technical discussion at ArsTechnica on switches and routers, which called Cisco's IOS a "kluge......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Interesting cognate. There is a German sense to sonder, meaning "special" (perhaps "apart?") in dis......
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Discussion Topic  Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
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Discussion Topic  Any good sources (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
...for foreign etymologies? Greek in particular? Σαραβαλο ("saravalo") means “wreck.” But I wonder......
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Discussion Topic  Contranyms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
A paltry dozen? I wager this august body can double that with ease! Herewith, an interesting piece......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Nope (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Heh. Ok, but really no need to go off-shore......
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Discussion Topic  Nope (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Is "no" shorter than "nope?" Yep. Do people therefore prefer the shorter form? Nope. ......
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Discussion Topic  Acolouthic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Saw this. Is it meaningful?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literally (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Never let vanity get in the way of a good line......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literally (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
The first is a medical emergency, the second is merely an American late for dinner....
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