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Discussion Topic  RE: Literally (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think the use of 'coruscating' is a simple confusion between words that sound similar and are both......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
> the sense of being hooked or bent or obvious. What a strange sentence. The sense of being hook......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The related group is from a root ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literally (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Normally I say a word means whatever people use it to mean. This is of course fuzzy: does 'coruscati......
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Discussion Topic  RE: feedback as a countable noun (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never seen it used that way, but it makes sense: 'We've had two feedbacks asking about...'. An ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What do you think? (in Potpourri) by aput
That there is a difference between how languages divide up the world is an interesting point, and an......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Weather verbs are normally regarded as valency 0: it rains, it thunders. In English we need a surfac......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What do you think? (in Potpourri) by aput
Oh-oh. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
When I first learned those words in chemistry class, valence and valency were synonyms for me and I ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Comic Germanicisms (in The Written Word) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: "false friends" (in Potpourri) by aput
I wouldn't say ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I forget what the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Another apostrophe question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: sea change (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: Where out of this World (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: sea change (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I do think it's much over-used these days. Though Fowler complained of it as a cliché in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: European Babel (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
centrally-located... Well we've taken in a few new countries since I first had that thought. Obvious......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Loer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
As to that, I'd guess they got it from some writer who used 'dialect' -- someone like Scott, perhaps......
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