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Discussion Topic  RE: Bryson's "The Mother Tongue" (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Good grief, zmj! Richard just said there are circumstances in which he'd drink Budweiser and a falc......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bryson's "The Mother Tongue" (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Boy, these misunderstandings about who said what and about whom do just keep on piling up don't they......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bryson's "The Mother Tongue" (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Incidentally factual errors aren't limited to Bryson. In his series and book ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bryson's "The Mother Tongue" (in Potpourri) by BobHale
For the record I've enjoyed all of Bryson's books including his language ones. I have noted a number......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bryson's "The Mother Tongue" (in Potpourri) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  RE: How many words? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
Yes, I agree. Much as I love Bryson's writing it doesn't do to rely on it as a sole source of inform......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Deep Grammar and slang, etc. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  RE: Deep Grammar and slang, etc. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
Further to the last post. I actually did a tiny bit of work on this myself for my recent course. I c......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Deep Grammar and slang, etc. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
I didn't post the MW definition of "pair", I posted the MW definition of "dyad" and if it is accurat......
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Discussion Topic  Balderdash and Piffle II (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
The OED has now announced the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Deep Grammar and slang, etc. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  RE: How many words? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
BTW zmj, is there a mistake in your David Crystal link? It doesn't seem to work form me....
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Discussion Topic  RE: How many words? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  RE: How many words? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  RE: Banished Words and Phrases for 2006 (in The Written Word) by BobHale
Never heard "gitmo". Only ever encountered "pwn" on this site. Never heard "undocumented alien". Nev......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Entitled: The Game of Sunken Places (in Wordplay) by BobHale
Actually Kalleh I did consider yours. It's pretty common to put colloquial forms into the voice of t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: How many words? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
Last time we discussed this I mentioned David Crystal's book "The English Language" where he has a c......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Deep Grammar and slang, etc. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
Layman's terms? Noam Chomsky put forward the idea that we are born pre-programmed to learn language......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Make/take a decision (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
We use both and I don't think there is any difference in meaning. On the whole I'd say we use "take"......
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Discussion Topic  RE: POTUS: the first acronym? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
Interesting question. When does an encoding become a separate language? Indeed, can an encoding be c......
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