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Discussion Topic  RE: Diet of Worms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Calque: using a word or words that has a non-standard sense in one language and borrowing that same ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diet of Worms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Actually this doesn't seem to be clear. The regimen is from a Greek word ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation of interesting words... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Fluids (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The doctors' advice is slightly odd, since fluid and liquid mean exactly the same thing in this cont......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation of interesting words... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dr Seuss's cat (in Potpourri) by aput
Is it just me or does the imprint 'Tapir, Trondheim' not inspire sober confidence? Various issues h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Enquire vs. Inquire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, Fowler means 'enquire' is a formal word for 'ask'. You enquire what the time is, or when the nex......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Or Groučo and Čico, and if this Unicode doesn't show up I'll look silly. Tashkent is known......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tonality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Not connected, not in Japanese anyway. Vowels can be long or short: a short vowel has one mora, a lo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tonality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A tone language or tonal language uses pitch as an intrinsic part of the meaning. A classic example ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tonality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I don't think it would make any difference in Japanese: in English speech we don't stress 'happy bir......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A new more-vowels-than-consonants challenge (in Wordplay) by aput
aeolian harp air guitar (bet that was it) quena...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Encomium (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: Caryatid, telemon and atlas (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Fascinating snippet: sexual ornament affecting architecture. If you'd been asked beforehand for an e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Hybrid words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
television monoplane, monolingual -- and the spurious mono/bi distinction has become established by......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Viral Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Not spoken text, but spoken input. Brains are genetically designed to convert spoken language input ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Viral Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Languages can jump from brain to brain via a written text, but the receiving brain has to know the l......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Viral Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think I should point out that the media that carry Korean and Turkish are exactly the same. Human ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: English as she is writ by UK stylists of note (in The Written Word) by aput
Well if we're going to be pedantic, there is no such thing as the ......
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