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December 10, 2006 16:31
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zm: I don't understand your objection. An algorithm is a subset of instructions. Eg, Spellcheck i......
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December 09, 2006 10:33
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That happens every so often. I thought it was somewhere in WC so I went to the search algorithm, wh......
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December 08, 2006 14:19
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I'd hope you'd concentrate on words of Type 2 ..;.for which I'm most grateful. This Type should be......
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December 08, 2006 11:17
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SENSE denotes the or, more often, a particular meaning....--Merriam Collegiate I had to read it ove......
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December 08, 2006 09:57
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kalleh asks what is it, a question that deserves a thread of its own. It is the combined force that......
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December 07, 2006 13:18
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It strikes me that the expr should mean the flashing of a red light during the performance of a stan......
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December 07, 2006 10:07
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Let us revisit pre- vs de-. Before I was born phone plugs and jacks were used at the telephone offi......
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December 01, 2006 10:29
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Under "all" enter noob. Under "at least one" enter intitle:slang intitle:vernacular intitle:colloq......
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"Momtini" on Google's advanced article archive gets 27 hits going back to 1951 Thus it's gaining so......
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November 21, 2006 09:28
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In connection with Kalleh's followups under Q@A, "Food of Shame" k: Thank you for that. You are d......
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November 15, 2006 08:39
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November 13, 2006 08:16
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November 12, 2006 09:22
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I ran upon the following whilst deleting old email and thought it might make an appropo thread: Bus......
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November 11, 2006 09:58
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k: Three. Used to be five but two banned me for excessive persiflage because I am such a bad pers......
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November 10, 2006 09:06
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Goofy: "Claiming that a word has a certain meaning is not being prescriptivist. It's just stating a ......
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November 09, 2006 12:37
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arnie: No, no seriously, don't give up. Go to OneLook under algorithm and see if some of the defs ......
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November 09, 2006 09:46
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arnie: I wouldn't be too sure about that. First of all, "algorithm" is often used to mean not prog......
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November 09, 2006 08:45
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Guys, don't get me wrong. As a fellow card-carrying prescriptivist I maintain that broadening or st......
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November 09, 2006 08:11
RE: algorithm, routine
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Guys thank you, this is all extremely enlightening. Other sources agreee that "algorithm" isn't a s......
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