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Nationality modifier vs. Language modifier
"Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize" (USA Today)
"Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature" (BBC)
Q. Are we to understand
that Mo Yan wrote in Chinese,
that he was a ...
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How to determine if an attribute applies to a group or a specific individual
I am in the middle of an argument, and therefore trying to figure out the breakdown of the definition:
a member of a military group devoted to engineering work
which appears in Merriam-Webster's ...
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Ambiguity of “We discourage X from doing Y by using Z” [closed]
Given the sentence,
We discourage people from committing crimes by using law enforcement, religion and education.
I see two possible interpretations:
[We discourage people by using law ...
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Nested parentheticals — restructuring for clarity
It's widely known that the name "JavaScript" is trademarked by Oracle (formerly a trademark of Sun, formerly a trademark of Netscape).
What was formerly a trademark of Netscape?
Sun?
Oracle?
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