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Mar 8, 2018 at 23:05 history edited herisson CC BY-SA 3.0
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Dec 5, 2015 at 23:31 answer added wilpeter timeline score: 1
Dec 3, 2015 at 5:14 history tweeted twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/672282813778014208
Dec 1, 2015 at 17:34 answer added user149769 timeline score: 0
Dec 1, 2015 at 0:08 answer added Dan Henderson timeline score: 4
Dec 1, 2015 at 0:00 comment added Dan Henderson Making a snowman would likely be difficult, if not impossible, with snow spheres. Oblate snow spheroids would be much more conducive.
Nov 30, 2015 at 15:51 comment added cobaltduck That it was a "bonus question" on a "high school freshman English class" leads me to suspect that the teacher did not expect a single canonical answer, but was far more interested in the students' ability to clearly articulate their arguments. FWIW, I once had "How many snow spheres are required to make a snowman?" as an extra-credit question on a geometry test. Simply answering "three" got minimal points; answering "None. In this part of the country snowmen are made of plastic" got more points.
Nov 30, 2015 at 7:32 answer added Samuel Brashears timeline score: 0
Nov 29, 2015 at 22:05 comment added anongoodnurse @LWhitson2 - A lot better, thanks! It is refreshing that you are open to the possibility that there are perfect synonyms (I'm not being sarcastic; it just is refreshing.)
Nov 29, 2015 at 20:20 comment added Graffito My feeling is that "damp" refers to water absorbed by some stuff and that "moist" relates more to seeping water, i.e. in-depth(damp) vs superficial(moist).
Nov 29, 2015 at 15:31 vote accept LWhitson2
Nov 29, 2015 at 15:31 vote accept LWhitson2
Nov 29, 2015 at 15:31
Nov 29, 2015 at 15:31 vote accept LWhitson2
Nov 29, 2015 at 15:31
Nov 29, 2015 at 15:19 comment added Hot Licks @GeorgePompidou - Doesn't Avogadro's number factor in there somewhere?
Nov 29, 2015 at 13:01 comment added LWhitson2 @medica, I added a little more context to the question for you. I found this very interesting that it was being asked in a high school English class yet I could not come up with a good answer to the question. That is why I thought it would be good for this site.
Nov 29, 2015 at 12:56 history edited LWhitson2 CC BY-SA 3.0
added a little more clarification to the origin of the question.
Nov 29, 2015 at 11:12 answer added JEL timeline score: 12
Nov 29, 2015 at 9:46 comment added Færd @GeorgePompidou 10^-23 amounts to almost zero! So your saying that moist is much wetter, aren't you?! ;)
Nov 29, 2015 at 9:41 history edited Mari-Lou A CC BY-SA 3.0
separated "wet" from the two options
Nov 29, 2015 at 9:32 comment added user85526 I think that damp = 2(moist*pi*10^-23)/e
Nov 29, 2015 at 9:22 answer added James K timeline score: 4
Nov 29, 2015 at 9:11 answer added Paul Evans timeline score: 2
Nov 29, 2015 at 8:16 answer added Sven Yargs timeline score: 20
Nov 29, 2015 at 8:11 answer added Nils timeline score: -2
Nov 29, 2015 at 6:27 comment added Blessed Geek quora.com/…
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Nov 29, 2015 at 3:00 comment added anongoodnurse @tchrist - Because the world is black and white, and language follows mathematical precision, of course. You surprise me.
Nov 29, 2015 at 3:00 answer added Færd timeline score: 75
Nov 29, 2015 at 2:59 comment added tchrist Why do you think one is wetter than the other?
Nov 29, 2015 at 2:58 comment added Hot Licks One or the other, or maybe both.
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Nov 29, 2015 at 2:58 comment added anongoodnurse Hi and welcome. What does the dictionary say? To include the definitions (and their ambiguity) are more conducive to helpful answers (like, "Neither." than asking the question without context. (Just fyi, this question can be closed for lack of research.)
Nov 29, 2015 at 2:55 history asked LWhitson2 CC BY-SA 3.0