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| bio | website | cryptofreak.org |
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| location | United States | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 10 months |
| seen | Dec 17 '12 at 21:28 | |
| stats | profile views | 23 |
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Oct 24 |
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Meaning of “take the way” +1: it feels fine to me. |
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Oct 11 |
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What does Homer mean when he says, “her words had wings”? Great answer, thanks! |
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Aug 19 |
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When should one use the comma versus the semicolon, and vice versa? Copying entire pages like this doesn't seem fair to eHow or its author, and - because I doubt it qualifies as fair use - it's probably illegal. |
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Aug 19 |
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What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them? Annnd a nearly identical thread from two years ago, heh. Good times! |
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Aug 19 |
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What does the phrase “Begging the question” mean? @Colin Fine: I should think it's still (for a little while) reasonable to consider this new usage incorrect. I doubt very many of those who use 'beg' to mean 'prompt' are aware of its logical context, which means they are doing so from a perspective of ignorance. (For comparison, it is far more common for people to misuse 'there' for 'their'. The fact that it's high school students doing so instead of CNN news anchors seems sort of irrelevant to me.) |
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Aug 18 |
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“Irregardless” vs. “irrespective” I don't see how the number of appearances in COCA suggests anything about a word's properness. 'tremulant' only has two hits, while 'cromulent' has eight. The Corpus is a measure of rarity, not correctness. |
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Aug 18 |
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Alternative to “maze” as a description for Pacman's environment? I have a quibble with 'graph'. Graphs are interconnected nodes, and it doesn't feel like there are nodes per se at the end of every "wall." Also, some levels contain "floating" sections that are not connected with the rest of the board. (To be fair, however, one could certainly model a Pacman board as a graph.) |
