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Discussion Topic  RE: Euphemisms for Sexual Intercourse (in Potpourri) by aput
discussing Ugandan affairs...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Adjectives from proper nouns (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In mathematics removal of the capital is a high honour, not accorded to all eponyms: Hermite is comm......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Subordinate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It sounds like a formal, neutral term to me. I do detect that there could be a pejorative whiff abou......
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Discussion Topic  RE: so that? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word needed for new web-spam (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
All of the clones should have some kind of identifying small print like "ripped off Wikipedia under ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 100? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
1337speak for loo?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word for the air bubble in an egg. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's a bit confusing. As far as I can tell, the technical terms air cell and air sac are both used f......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why so few words of 'color'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The book that suggests female activities were specifically important to language evolution is probab......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Derring-do (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Plow' was not its original spelling. The German is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ruthless (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Those meanings look right on what I know: el-i melek 'god-my king', b-o 'in-him', na`m-i 'pleasant-m......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ruthless (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
There is no way you can get any part of "compassionate friend" out of the Hebrew (or in fact Moabite......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ruthless (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's just the abstract noun of 'rue' = regret, as 'truth' and 'troth' are from 'trow' = believe, or ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Elegant (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The bell-shaped curve may be graceful, but it's distinctly inelegant in some ways. The general equat......
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Discussion Topic  RE: How broad is the word 'spam'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Chaff. I think that's the right term for the little strips of aluminium that nuclear-equipped aircra......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word needed for new web-spam (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I propose wikipollution. When I look up factual information now I need to try and work out what to s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Elegant (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I wouldn't call it academic or a buzzword. It's a term common in mathematics, and in sciences like p......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What's she like? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Or Angela Brazil (which, by the bye, is pronounced Brazzle): ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why so few words of 'color'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The problem with the Ancient Greek words is more that we're not sure what exactly they meant. There ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why so few words of 'color'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Some languages have only two basic colour words (warm/dark and light/cool); others have three (red s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dyke" or "Dike"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The spelling 'dyke' just looks a bit more normal for all senses. Certainly I would only use 'dyke' i......
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