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Necessary languages
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Besides English, what language(s) are most spoken world-wide? While Mandarin Chinese has the most s......
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January 26, 2012 09:53
RE: Newspeak and prescriptivism
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Or it could be viewed as first needing to know the rules so that you can effectively depart from the......
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January 20, 2012 13:02
RE: World's WORST jokes (part one)
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When Kalleh, Shufitz, my wife and I toured Chicago's Field Museum, I bought only one souvenir: a t-s......
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January 09, 2012 18:08
Newspeak and prescriptivism
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Although I've attempted to accept the non-prescriptivist position of the linguists here, I am left w......
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January 08, 2012 07:18
RE: Baiyin Poll
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January 06, 2012 09:32
RE: Baiyin Poll
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OK, I'll vote again. ......
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January 05, 2012 06:22
RE: aglet/aiglet
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It's been a while! And how about putting on their ......
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January 04, 2012 17:12
RE: Jumbo VI
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Sorry. I just don't comprehend how it works. I'll bow out. ......
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January 03, 2012 14:38
Corporate ownership of language
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San Francisco Gate recently ran an article about a restaurant that serves such simple dishes as maca......
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December 31, 2011 10:13
RE: Steamed about Steampunk
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Sci-fi? Well, you're on here now, and it's tomorrow there. Or is it yesterday here? ......
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December 28, 2011 17:39
Miserlou loves company
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If you've seen the movie, ......
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December 28, 2011 14:07
Steamed about Steampunk
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Where did this term come from? I looked it up, and it seems to derive from a Sci-Fi writer's anachr......
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December 28, 2011 10:52
RE: aglet/aiglet
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Eagles don't smoke Camels, or Marlboros, but if you offered a smoked salmon, probably. Someone on a......
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December 28, 2011 09:24
aglet/aiglet
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This word is uncommon enough for the Bluffing Game, but I'm too curious about its etymology to use i......
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December 27, 2011 09:55
Bluffing Game: Speculum
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Nary a woman in first world countries doesn't know what a speculum is - but that's not all it is. Y......
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December 25, 2011 06:30
RE: And the moral is...
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My goodness, the ghost of yule past! But the critters in the video looked like what we in the US wo......
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December 24, 2011 06:07
RE: And the moral is...
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I am reminded of the old Soviet-era weather man named Rudolph who had predicted rain when the others......
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December 22, 2011 06:51
RE: Word plasticity
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December 21, 2011 18:02
I'm left wondering about the right
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How did we come to think of "left" as being liberal and "right" as being conservative? Was it from ......
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December 15, 2011 06:40
More on silly names for coffee sizes
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Elsewhere we recently mentioned Starbucks' using Italian names for their coffee sizes. I can't find......
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December 14, 2011 05:49
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