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Discussion Topic  RE: Situated Cognition (in Potpourri) by aput
I have no idea what is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thusly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's certainly a word, because lots of people use it; and we all know what it means. It's a recentl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Parameter/Perimeter (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I haven't encountered this usage in the wild, only in discussion of it. Neither is quite natural for......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Brain Freeze (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The usual term is ice-cream headache, though I've also seen cold stimulus headache. Apparently not e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old Dictionaries (in The Written Word) by aput
Bailey is now underway in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Getting a Handle on Gambling (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I would have thought it was the amount handled (by the bookies)....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Name That Book! Help! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek root for 'name' is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old Dictionaries (in The Written Word) by aput
That's annoying. I've never even heard of .djvu, and am not interested in downloading YA proprietary......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "gallows": why the plural? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
We think of the archetypal gallows as that single-posted thing constructed as you get letters wrong;......
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Discussion Topic  RE: cognates: 'moon' and 'month' (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I can add a couple more from unrelated families: Chechen ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bookworm (in Potpourri) by aput
I would agree with neveu: a theory in science is a consistent set of principles that generates expla......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Crook' is just slang in Australia, or perhaps colloquial: like much of their slang it's in common u......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But the Hepburn system doesn't match the Japanese language -- at least, not as regards /tu/. Would y......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Have a Nice Day! (in Potpourri) by aput
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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: 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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