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Untranslatable
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A search for "untranslatable" here yields pages of entries. Not sure if we've ever had one on terms......
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November 22, 2011 05:02
RE: from the news
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WHAT is being raised is the same -- pilus, hair. HOW it is being raised differs. Erect relates to ......
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November 16, 2011 19:35
RE: Bird-Words
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No view on the validity of the claim, but some observers say they see proof of a Japanese mini sub i......
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August 30, 2011 03:49
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goofy Many thanks. I foresee hours of pleasurable diversion tracking the threads....
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July 16, 2011 20:25
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The truth lies between mojobadshah and Geoff. The Middle East like any crossroads, is in constant f......
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July 16, 2011 13:44
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For many years Obama's colleagues brayed on about the "well-funded" and "secure" "Social Security lo......
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July 16, 2011 10:02
RE: Miscellaneous words
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Quite literally "wing man." In the US in particular, a wing man is a best friend. When a fellow wa......
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July 13, 2011 14:58
RE: Miscellaneous words
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Not to be confused with Dagon......
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March 07, 2011 20:09
RE: Terms from Foreign Tongues
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More to the point, the deshabille was a sign she was louche......
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November 23, 2010 20:27
RE: "Yes, but can you make it THIS small?!"
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"Times New Roman" replaced "Times Old Roman" in 1931... I believe the "Roman" came from the influen......
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November 19, 2010 18:02
"Yes, but can you make it THIS small?!"
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Ran across an article about the smallest legible font. ......
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November 17, 2010 14:30
RE: Unexpected Meanings from Sherlock Holmes
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The term triggered a sudden flashback to archaic scientific terms, a vision of what today might be c......
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June 23, 2010 20:18
RE: Theme: Unexpected Meanings in "Little Women"
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My favorite use of the word, from The Wind and the Lion. "Eden: And this is your way? Abducting wom......
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May 25, 2010 11:02
RE: Oh My God!
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Ceres' mother was Ops, of whom wiki says: ......
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April 24, 2010 13:54
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(Pyri)phlegethon shares an etymology with phlogiston theory, the precursor of modern chemistry's und......
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April 23, 2010 09:58
RE: Perfect Reduplicatives
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Still too traumatized by a wild ride in Bangkok to describe the vehicle called the "tuk tuk," so you......
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April 16, 2010 05:06
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Since the "nearly identical" reduplicatives pre-date my membership here, I take the liberty of shari......
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April 13, 2010 03:47
RE: Figurative animal-adjectives
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Let's not forget the Italian classic: ......
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January 09, 2010 08:53
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"Euphemism" does not have the same pejorative connotation as the conspiratorial "code word." It's a......
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September 18, 2009 05:34
Why so dead?
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There are a number of expressions with "dead" as an unlikely modifier: dead certain dead eye dead g......
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