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RE: metastory
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The title of editor is totally self-appointed. ......
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July 21, 2004 16:05
RE: metastory
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The Hunter passage seems fairly clear in meaning to me, though rather wordy, and as an editor I'd qu......
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July 21, 2004 14:16
RE: Incorrect Newspaper Headlines
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Now that's very interesting. I thought Lott's wording was slightly strange. Of course the two words ......
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July 16, 2004 00:44
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> Why a paper bag? Many bags these days are made of plastic. Not so many in the US, where superm......
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July 14, 2004 11:41
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The dangers of false memories! I'd only seen the Truman picture a few times, and my memory had even ......
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July 12, 2004 23:58
RE: Is this a "metaphor"?
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If I had to distinguish them: Metaphor: my laziness is me going underground for summer. Figurative......
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July 12, 2004 01:30
RE: Incorrect Newspaper Headlines
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You know, I always thought that headline was "Dewey Wins". Evidently so do quite a few other people:......
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July 09, 2004 11:47
RE: British vs. American English
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Most of the regional dialects of England lack an [h] sound, but it's still present in the general So......
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June 30, 2004 02:12
RE: "into" vs. "unto"
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A person who dies goes into Heaven. A thing on the Earth that rises up to a great height gets near u......
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June 28, 2004 13:23
RE: "less than enamored"
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The usage is called litotes. It uses the negative of one sense to mean the opposite: no fool, no slo......
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June 15, 2004 23:48
RE: Foundering
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Those metaphors aren't quite dead yet. I've got an image of the M.V. ......
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May 24, 2004 07:22
RE: Dusting
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Not 'is coming' but 'has come'. The ......
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May 21, 2004 02:28
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There is no convenient English respelling for the schwa. I prefer to use 'a' when possible, so JAG-y......
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May 17, 2004 14:05
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I say ["dZægju@] with a final schwa. I don't hear advertisements, nor frequent the rich, nor t......
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May 17, 2004 00:11
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I've noticed Americans sometimes think British usage is always to use plural here, but this is proba......
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May 16, 2004 01:59
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With group nouns (group, tribe, team, committee) both are widely used, and they're much more commonl......
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May 15, 2004 02:13
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Disagree with jheem. It's the stakeholders participating: plural subject. Recast it with simpler wor......
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May 14, 2004 14:25
RE: Boss and Bossy (the cow)
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The Greek is brought in for its articles: masculine ......
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May 06, 2004 01:11
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One of the things most seared into my brain under the Death to Marketing list was seeing a tube of t......
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May 04, 2004 11:39
RE: Boss and Bossy (the cow)
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And which is original, Bosporus or Bosphorus? I've never managed to work it out; both make sense, an......
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