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Discussion Topic  RE: Shall/Should (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I'd say those are some of the most complicated usage notes I've ever read on dictionary.com, illustr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why-Fi? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
You're right zmjezhd, Ackerman wasn't intending it to be derogatory, although it fairly soon became ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why-Fi? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Sci-fi originated as a derogatory term, kind of like "Big Bang". The American Sci-fi channel shows ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Well-meaning but incorrect grammar "rules" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
So, I would never say "There is none left", however, I would certainly say "There's none left", whic......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Well-meaning but incorrect grammar "rules" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I don't like I would ever say "none is left", that sounds terribly ungrammatical to me, while "none ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why-Fi? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Yes, it is a decent attempt at a pun, sorry I didn't mention that, but it is the same pun as Sci-Fi.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why-Fi? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
The Wi is for Wireless. Many people have laptops with wireless internet cards, and many coffee shop......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Language-creation by metaphor (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
To go to grad school in engineering, you take the GRE, and they basically ignore the verbal score. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Language-creation by metaphor (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I would imagine it is a euphemism for poor. Most of the engineers I knew in college thought that a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Language-creation by metaphor (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I thought it was "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". Back in college, my first linguistics pro......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 2005 Mensa Invitational Winners (in Wordplay) by Seanahan
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Discussion Topic  RE: Kissing a fool: chiasmus (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
From the Daily Show tonight, "George Bush declined to speak for the NAACP for five years in a row, d......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Language-creation by metaphor (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Kalleh, if you read neveu's post again, you'll see "three". ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A poem question (in The Written Word) by Seanahan
I'm just too good for this world. I usually pick up on subtle racial insults, to the sense that I h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Harry Potter - alliteration (in The Written Word) by Seanahan
If one were to randomly pick names, one would have 1 in 26 chance of alliteration. Obviously, there......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A poem question (in The Written Word) by Seanahan
Well, I read it 3 times, and it is pretty short, so it is very open. However, my interpretation was......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What's the word for....? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I was going from homo = same, logos = word, but that didn't really capture it. What I was going for......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What's the word for....? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
My initial gut feeling is homologue(homolog)?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rhetorical Device (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Is seems a bit like irony, as simple as that sounds. The definition of irony is, as sung brilliantl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Kissing a fool: chiasmus (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I'm not quite sure how that fits into the category of Chiasmus, but then again, I don't quite get an......
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