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Discussion Topic  RE: Untranslatable (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Speaking of reviving old threads: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ghost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Actually still on point, proofreader... Amusing to note which things, though non-functional, give p......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ghost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Perhaps so, Proofreader. On the other hand, boomboxes got really big, physically, in the 1980s. An......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ghost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
By the way - none of the under-30 crowd wear watches anymore. It's on their phone-pad-laptop. But e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ghost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Had occasion this weekend to rent a car. As noted earlier, there was a cylindrical socket for charg......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ghost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Arnie -- home run! (if you'll permit a US archaism...) The skeuomorph seems to be a deliberate desi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ghost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Kalleh: There's a closely related effect - the "echo" of "artifacts." When more people smoked, car......
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Discussion Topic  Ghost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Is there a term for "culture ghosts?" I mean things like the "save" icon, shown as 3.5 inch diskett......
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Discussion Topic  Discreet / delay (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Dealing with contango and backwardation in economics, ran across “demurrage” (late fees in shipping)......
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Discussion Topic  Clumsy fix or clever improvisation? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Great technical discussion at ArsTechnica on switches and routers, which called Cisco's IOS a "kluge......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Interesting cognate. There is a German sense to sonder, meaning "special" (perhaps "apart?") in dis......
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Discussion Topic  Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
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Discussion Topic  Any good sources (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
...for foreign etymologies? Greek in particular? Σαραβαλο ("saravalo") means “wreck.” But I wonder......
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Discussion Topic  Contranyms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
A paltry dozen? I wager this august body can double that with ease! Herewith, an interesting piece......
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Discussion Topic  Acolouthic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Saw this. Is it meaningful?...
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Discussion Topic  How many? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Has this distinguished company every wrestled with the meaning of those undefined-quantity words? W......
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Discussion Topic  Idiosyncratic spelling (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
An interesting bit of trivia at: ......
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Discussion Topic  Excellent, if now obsolete, use of language (in The Written Word) by Robert Arvanitis
Home About Lawfare: A Brief History of the Term and the Site Contact The Lawfare Podcast......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Untranslatable (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
1. There are a finite set of standard phrases, for which we can prepare standard translations. 2. I......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Untranslatable (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Alas BobHale. I reply as a matter of human nature, outside our common interest in linguistics. In su......
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