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RE: Situated Cognition
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February 11, 2005 12:39
RE: Thusly
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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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February 11, 2005 12:32
RE: Parameter/Perimeter
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I haven't encountered this usage in the wild, only in discussion of it. Neither is quite natural for......
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February 11, 2005 12:27
RE: Brain Freeze
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The usual term is ice-cream headache, though I've also seen cold stimulus headache. Apparently not e......
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February 08, 2005 09:44
RE: Old Dictionaries
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Bailey is now underway in ......
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February 08, 2005 08:27
RE: Getting a Handle on Gambling
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I would have thought it was the amount handled (by the bookies)....
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February 05, 2005 00:16
RE: Name That Book! Help!
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The Greek root for 'name' is ......
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February 03, 2005 13:16
RE: Old Dictionaries
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That's annoying. I've never even heard of .djvu, and am not interested in downloading YA proprietary......
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February 03, 2005 12:14
RE: "gallows": why the plural?
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We think of the archetypal gallows as that single-posted thing constructed as you get letters wrong;......
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February 03, 2005 00:34
RE: cognates: 'moon' and 'month'
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I can add a couple more from unrelated families: Chechen ......
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February 02, 2005 07:56
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I would agree with neveu: a theory in science is a consistent set of principles that generates expla......
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February 02, 2005 02:06
RE: Crotchety
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'Crook' is just slang in Australia, or perhaps colloquial: like much of their slang it's in common u......
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January 25, 2005 23:48
RE: Tsunami
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But the Hepburn system doesn't match the Japanese language -- at least, not as regards /tu/. Would y......
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January 24, 2005 09:42
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January 24, 2005 09:07
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: 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
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