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Discussion Topic  RE: The Waters of the World (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Seanahan
I saw lacustrine in a translation of Garcia-Marquez, and I wonder what the Spanish word was that he ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Marine vs. Maritime (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
We have the lake, and I've been sailing quite a few times. But of course I meant my "linguistic exp......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Marine vs. Maritime (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
From my experience, marine is used to describe wildlife, and maritime is used to describe shipping....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Celebreality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
It is used extensively in the marketing for Vh1. I don't really think I've heard it in any other co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Anthropos apteros (in The Written Word) by Seanahan
It is a quite excellent piece of poetry....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Whorfian Hypothesis (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
You can also make a distinction between the Strong and Weak Whorf-Sapir hypothesis. The strong vers......
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Discussion Topic  RE: violence and the pop grammarian (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
I just don't see a better response to "The customer wants something" than "Give it to them". I ho......
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Discussion Topic  RE: OED provincialism? (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
Wasn't Cyberspace coined by William Gibson in Neuromancer? This is what I've always thought and jus......
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Discussion Topic  RE: OED provincialism? (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old Dialects. (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
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Discussion Topic  RE: G-mail sign-in words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Gmail is probably the nicest of all of the free email accounts available on the web. The quota is o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Creative group-terms (in Wordplay) by Seanahan
A clique of graph theorists? Sometimes I think I'm too obscure....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word-spotting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Stumbled across the imdb biography for Sally Rand, and found the word "ecdysiast". I hadn't heard i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Blogged Down! (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
8am: Alarm rings, decide to skip biology, set alarm to 9am 9am: Alarm rings, decide to skip communi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: binomial (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
The Binomial Theorem describes (a+b)^N, where a and b are the nomials. Having a mathematics degree,......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb vs. Stupid (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I'm about 95% certain they couldn't have been saying "that's gay", but I suppose if that is what you......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Grammar Police as Editors (in The Written Word) by Seanahan
Well it is certainly not grammatically correct, but I do believe it is idiomatic, which means it is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Not that we are guilty of this... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
The Boy Scout handshake is always done with the left hand....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb vs. Stupid (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
The details of your story make me think they really were saying "that's kay", and it just sounded to......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb vs. Stupid (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
What floor number was it? Where they going to the same floor as you were? This was a male/female c......
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