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RE: Moslem vs. Muslim
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Johnson: bomb them Carter: I want to have sexual intercourse with Polish people Bush 1: *vomit* N......
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June 28, 2004 16:16
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A person who dies goes into Heaven. A thing on the Earth that rises up to a great height gets near u......
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June 28, 2004 13:23
RE: Regional accents
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Sharp differentiation between dialects or accents is usually illusory. If two dialects are distingui......
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June 27, 2004 15:19
RE: Psycholinguistics
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Language Log had some problems this morning. They're back up now, and are usually quite reliable. ......
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June 27, 2004 13:46
RE: Moslem vs. Muslim
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Classical Arabic only had three vowels [a i u], and the word was Muslim. Modern Arabic dialects ofte......
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June 27, 2004 10:15
RE: Psycholinguistics
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Serendipitously, Geoff Pullum ......
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June 26, 2004 16:54
RE: Regional accents
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As jheem says, it's basically amount of time. There are other factors, such as degree of isolation, ......
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June 26, 2004 16:51
RE: Names and origins of sports
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To clarify jheem's explanation: ......
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June 26, 2004 03:09
RE: discern
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Well it certainly can't be used as a mere synonym of 'comprehend'/'understand': *I can't discern wh......
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June 26, 2004 03:00
RE: Master
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Master was formerly used of grown men -- "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man" --, a......
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June 24, 2004 10:05
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Cloris Leachman? The one who was... was it Phyllis on the Mary Tyler Moore Show? *tries to put dates......
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June 16, 2004 09:18
RE: Compl__mentary
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For once the OED doesn't give us a nice graded series of senses. The words appeared in English with ......
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June 15, 2004 23:56
RE: "less than enamored"
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The usage is called litotes. It uses the negative of one sense to mean the opposite: no fool, no slo......
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June 15, 2004 23:48
RE: A self-contradictory word
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June 15, 2004 00:36
RE: A theory on "theory"
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In science a theory is a ......
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June 14, 2004 00:48
RE: Lerning to spel is crewshul
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Irish is the only language I can think of where there's been a big reform of the spelling. It's also......
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June 13, 2004 00:56
RE: Lerning to spel is crewshul
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Lerning to spell may be important, but getting the reesons rite is too. Changing dubble consonants t......
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June 12, 2004 05:08
RE: Back-to-front words
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The Greek is a palindrome: PS is the letter psi....
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June 09, 2004 10:07
RE: Odd fruits
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I believe a cantaloupe is also called a rock melon....
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June 05, 2004 23:38
RE: Spam, Beyssian filters and word-salad
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The way to avoid the word-salad on the Web is (for now) surprisingly simple. All those spam pages ar......
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June 04, 2004 01:38
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