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| location | Brazil | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 1 month |
| seen | Mar 10 at 6:25 | |
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Mar 10 |
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Decadence of the word decadence I can understand the change of meaning from dilettante since it changed in a time when all terms referring to amateurism were getting a bad connotation, since by then art, specially in Italy, was become more and more of a profession. But the marketing use of decadent began before the word was more widely used elsewhere in the language, as far as i can tell. |
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Mar 10 |
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Decadence of the word decadence decadent on that example is within it's intended meaning as far as I can tell. |
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Mar 10 |
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Decadence of the word decadence interesting! the only dict i had that showed that use was a pocket one, hence no "humorous" call out. So, no dictionary explicitly endorses the food-advert use of decadence? I know they have to keep up with a live language changing, but I'm trying to grasp the changes in "decadence" to understand what does it take for a word used to wrong to be accepted as right. e.g. how long before dictionaries start to list 'literately' as 'figuratively' just because people misuse them too often? |
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Mar 10 |
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Why is “margarine” pronounced with a soft “g”? isn't that exactly what I said? |
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Mar 6 |
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Etymology of “ping” As a non-native English speaker who works with a California hightech cia, i was shocked to learn that "i will ping you" means to send an instant message (im). And in my job i pretty much use ping daily. |
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Mar 6 |
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Why is “margarine” pronounced with a soft “g”? this only hints that it was pronounced correct for some time and the current form was noted as mispronunciation... Or i got it all wrong. Anyway, the current pronunciation is extremely painful to anyone that sees the written word wout being exposed to the pronunciation first... |
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Dec 19 |
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Cottage Cheese: So called to differentiate from “expensive” cheese? wouldn't most cheese names be in use before the industrial revolution? |
