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RE: Literally
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I think the use of 'coruscating' is a simple confusion between words that sound similar and are both......
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January 24, 2005 00:16
RE: Crotchety
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> the sense of being hooked or bent or obvious. What a strange sentence. The sense of being hook......
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January 24, 2005 00:08
RE: Tsunami
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This is someone who's been exposed to English for too long. This is not how it works in Japanese. In......
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January 23, 2005 15:21
RE: Crotchety
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The related group is from a root ......
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January 23, 2005 06:49
RE: Literally
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Normally I say a word means whatever people use it to mean. This is of course fuzzy: does 'coruscati......
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January 23, 2005 01:25
RE: feedback as a countable noun
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I've never seen it used that way, but it makes sense: 'We've had two feedbacks asking about...'. An ......
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January 23, 2005 01:15
RE: What do you think?
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That there is a difference between how languages divide up the world is an interesting point, and an......
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January 17, 2005 09:45
RE: Perchlorate
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Weather verbs are normally regarded as valency 0: it rains, it thunders. In English we need a surfac......
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January 16, 2005 15:20
RE: What do you think?
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Oh-oh. ......
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January 16, 2005 00:04
RE: Perchlorate
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When I first learned those words in chemistry class, valence and valency were synonyms for me and I ......
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January 15, 2005 23:37
RE: Comic Germanicisms
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By far the simplest way if you want an é is to spot that there is already one above you, in the word......
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January 14, 2005 11:53
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January 14, 2005 00:37
RE: Perchlorate
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I forget what the ......
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January 14, 2005 00:31
RE: Another apostrophe question
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January 13, 2005 09:24
RE: Apostrophe again, sorry.
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January 11, 2005 14:10
RE: sea change
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Hm, I give myself 7/10, not too bad I suppose for one of the few occasions when I can't be bothered ......
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January 11, 2005 08:32
RE: Where out of this World
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No, ......
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January 08, 2005 15:41
RE: sea change
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I do think it's much over-used these days. Though Fowler complained of it as a cliché in ......
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January 08, 2005 02:12
RE: European Babel
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centrally-located... Well we've taken in a few new countries since I first had that thought. Obvious......
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January 08, 2005 02:06
RE: Loer
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As to that, I'd guess they got it from some writer who used 'dialect' -- someone like Scott, perhaps......
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January 07, 2005 13:34
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