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RE: Diet of Worms
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Calque: using a word or words that has a non-standard sense in one language and borrowing that same ......
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RE: Diet of Worms
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Actually this doesn't seem to be clear. The regimen is from a Greek word ......
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March 06, 2004 14:43
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March 06, 2004 14:37
RE: Fluids
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The doctors' advice is slightly odd, since fluid and liquid mean exactly the same thing in this cont......
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March 04, 2004 00:18
RE: Pronunciation of interesting words...
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March 04, 2004 00:10
RE: Dr Seuss's cat
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Is it just me or does the imprint 'Tapir, Trondheim' not inspire sober confidence? Various issues h......
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February 20, 2004 10:23
RE: Enquire vs. Inquire
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No, Fowler means 'enquire' is a formal word for 'ask'. You enquire what the time is, or when the nex......
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February 19, 2004 00:35
RE: Modern coinages
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February 17, 2004 11:41
RE: Diacritical Marks
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Or Groučo and Čico, and if this Unicode doesn't show up I'll look silly. Tashkent is known......
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February 17, 2004 09:12
RE: Tonality
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Not connected, not in Japanese anyway. Vowels can be long or short: a short vowel has one mora, a lo......
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February 14, 2004 15:57
RE: Tonality
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A tone language or tonal language uses pitch as an intrinsic part of the meaning. A classic example ......
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February 14, 2004 01:29
RE: Tonality
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I don't think it would make any difference in Japanese: in English speech we don't stress 'happy bir......
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February 14, 2004 01:19
RE: A new more-vowels-than-consonants challenge
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aeolian harp air guitar (bet that was it) quena...
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February 11, 2004 07:05
RE: Encomium
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I've never been able to work out what the verb for that should be: encomize? encomiaze? Why don't we......
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February 11, 2004 06:59
RE: Caryatid, telemon and atlas
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Fascinating snippet: sexual ornament affecting architecture. If you'd been asked beforehand for an e......
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February 06, 2004 01:27
RE: Hybrid words
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television monoplane, monolingual -- and the spurious mono/bi distinction has become established by......
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February 03, 2004 23:54
RE: Viral Language
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Not spoken text, but spoken input. Brains are genetically designed to convert spoken language input ......
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February 01, 2004 15:05
RE: Viral Language
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Languages can jump from brain to brain via a written text, but the receiving brain has to know the l......
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February 01, 2004 14:16
RE: Viral Language
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I think I should point out that the media that carry Korean and Turkish are exactly the same. Human ......
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February 01, 2004 12:57
RE: English as she is writ by UK stylists of note
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Well if we're going to be pedantic, there is no such thing as the ......
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February 01, 2004 00:27
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