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RE: Should we get rid of words?
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Speaking of euphemisms, Jon Stewart had a couple of segments on last night's show addressing this is......
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April 01, 2009 20:51
RE: Should we get rid of words?
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You might be able to expunge the noun from polite conversation through shaming and shunning, but you......
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April 01, 2009 20:43
RE: Bluffffffffing Game: Spurtle
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I'll take #3. Wordmatic...
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March 29, 2009 21:19
RE: Bluffffffffing Game: Spurtle
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Here I am--very late, and I'm posting one now if it's not too late, Asa! Wordmatic...
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March 26, 2009 21:41
RE: Books that should never have been written?
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No wonder he included Darwin, Mead, Friedan--now the puzzle makes sense! WM...
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March 23, 2009 18:00
RE: Books that should never have been written?
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Interesting article, Kalleh. I agree with you, Richard and Pearce here. The books on the list may h......
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March 23, 2009 15:10
RE: Agnostic?
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Platform promiscuous sounds more apt to me. CW, I agree with your assessment. Probably if we went ......
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March 21, 2009 10:50
RE: Analytics
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When I was a web editor, I also used Google Analytics to track how many times our various pages were......
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March 19, 2009 06:38
RE: Agnostic?
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I have never heard agnostic used in this sense. I've heard it used to mean "choosing none of the op......
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March 19, 2009 06:23
RE: calved off
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Sorry for the ambiguity. "It" refers to the glacier, not the ship! WM...
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March 07, 2009 10:21
RE: calved off
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I had only heard it used for pieces of a glacier breaking off, and not of icebergs, though that make......
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March 06, 2009 21:47
RE: This is just too true...
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Somebody I know says, "I don't twitter. I often twitch, but I don't twitter." That says it all for......
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February 26, 2009 21:29
RE: Goo-goo
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At my first newspaper job, I worked on the copy desk, writing headlines and editing wire copy. One ......
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February 22, 2009 15:38
RE: fargling
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February 11, 2009 21:54
RE: fargling
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Never heard it called "fargling." We always called it rock-paper-scissors. Wordmatic...
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February 08, 2009 21:36
RE: What is grammar?
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Kalleh, it looked like a style change to me. There was nothing ungrammatical about either version. ......
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February 06, 2009 21:21
RE: Driving Truck
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I have heard the expression, and in Upstate New York, where we used to live. My husband's brother w......
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January 20, 2009 21:08
RE: Hand Waving/Foot Stamping
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Yes, but I had never heard either expression used in that way in my life--yet several others in this......
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January 17, 2009 19:35
Hand Waving/Foot Stamping
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Recently, I heard the expression "hand waving," as in "How was the speech?" "Oh, it was a lot of ha......
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January 17, 2009 08:00
RE: How cold is it?
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Yuk, Jerry. Were you in the Navy? My husband has a few trite catch phrases from his Navy days--fla......
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January 17, 2009 07:52
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