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Discussion Topic  RE: Chameleon (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Same answer as for any Greek word with ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dog's vocabulary (in Potpourri) by aput
On subject/object marking, I'm not sure of the details, but most of these apes were taught ASL, and ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dog's vocabulary (in Potpourri) by aput
(Actually, "the" criterion was wrong, but it's the criterion that's pertinent here.) Well, organiza......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dog's vocabulary (in Potpourri) by aput
Intonation is fine as part of a word: human-English isn't tonal but dog-English presumably is. You c......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dog's vocabulary (in Potpourri) by aput
I don't think there's much debate among linguists. We all know dogs can understand words; Rico's abi......
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Poll  RE: "which" vs. "that" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
They're not interchangeable (as relative clause markers -- that both have other meanings can be take......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Extra syllables (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Epenthesis is the general term forn insertion of sounds. But in the case of tetrasyllabic 'resemblin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Psycholinguistics (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Language Log had some problems this morning. They're back up now, and are usually quite reliable. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Psycholinguistics (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Serendipitously, Geoff Pullum ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Names and origins of sports (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
To clarify jheem's explanation: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: discern (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Well it certainly can't be used as a mere synonym of 'comprehend'/'understand': *I can't discern wh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Beer Names (in Potpourri) by aput
Cloris Leachman? The one who was... was it Phyllis on the Mary Tyler Moore Show? *tries to put dates......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Compl__mentary (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
For once the OED doesn't give us a nice graded series of senses. The words appeared in English with ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "less than enamored" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The usage is called litotes. It uses the negative of one sense to mean the opposite: no fool, no slo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A self-contradictory word (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: A theory on "theory" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In science a theory is a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Back-to-front words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek is a palindrome: PS is the letter psi....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Laauhuahua (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Mostly diacritics indicate some differing pronunciation, but not always. The circumflex in French is......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Laauhuahua (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I haven't an answer, but I'll point out there are probably more consonants in some of those words: t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Everyday (in Potpourri) by aput
When I do Web-hit tests I sometimes rerun them to eliminate what seem to be biases in the top result......
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