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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
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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
RE: Miscellaneous words
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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
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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
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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
RE: Promiscuous
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Geoff: Good remembering. It seems I have repeated myself, in a different context: ......
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November 17, 2010 16:26
RE: Promiscuous
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From the "Wind and the Lion" ......
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November 17, 2010 14:33
"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: 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
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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September 18, 2009 05:18
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In "Rabbit Redux" critics feel John Updike returned to a character in the most positive sense possib......
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August 12, 2009 09:13
Floral Terms
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Interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal, on the origins of floral terms. ......
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July 04, 2009 08:07
Inseparable words versus separts
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There are a number of words where the "separated" form is unable to stand alone. For example, while......
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May 27, 2009 18:30
RE: Miscellaneous Words
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"Fugue" in simple form can be either the contrapuntal musical form or the psychological state....
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May 19, 2009 11:19
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Speaking of "-cracy," we've have "mobocracy" above, and we all know "aristocracy," but it's not too ......
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February 12, 2009 09:31
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Etymological geography, or, if you prefer, geographical etymology: ......
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January 14, 2009 09:48
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