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user2684291

Jan 26, 2017 20:07

Word of the day: gunboat diplomacy

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Anonymous

Jan 25, 2017 08:46

I was getting a page number for a reference. See CGEL pages 378–9 for discussion of each and every.

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M.A.R.

Jan 21, 2017 17:28

Word of the day: Fiduciary

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Captain Bohemian

Jan 28, 2019 09:27

I think face-to-face voice talking is still necessary to have effective conversation.

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CowperKettle

Jan 28, 2019 07:37

Word of the day: pinched for health

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userr2684291

Jan 27, 2019 16:14

Word of the day: abseil (BrE)

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M.A.R.

Jan 19, 2017 19:55

Word of the day: Ostinato

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Anonymous

Jan 27, 2019 02:05

Some species are gonochoristic, with separate male and female snails.

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M.A.R.

Jan 18, 2017 08:32

Word of the day: Effigies

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Jan 25, 2019 08:07

@Jasper Or to post about words of the day getting starred

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Damkerng T.

Jan 16, 2017 11:34

Word of the Day: unassuming

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Anonymous

Jan 23, 2019 22:16

Sometimes the pursuit of perfection leads you away, not towards. I have that problem.

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Anonymous

Jan 14, 2017 21:11

See CGEL p.1386 for some rules about when it can be used.

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Damkerng T.

Jan 14, 2017 17:53

Word of the Day: magnanimous

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Anonymous

Jan 23, 2019 07:31

@snailboat: I wrote a userscript to filter the downvote list to show only those that have been edited. It's not linked from here, but from a couple of near-duplicates and such-like. It works fairly well, but it can take as long as a few minutes to pull together the list. — Nathan Tuggy 23 mins ago

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user2684291

Jan 9, 2017 13:26

Word of the day: spanghew

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CowperKettle

Jan 17, 2019 16:36

Word of the eve: hoagie

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CowperKettle

Jan 16, 2019 08:49

> Who's more bright than a star?
That's our glorious M.A.R.
Whose each word is more prized
Than a golden dinar.

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CowperKettle

Jan 16, 2019 08:49

> Oh, he is not on the Periodic table,
And Mendeleyev never got him straight,
For he is bright as fiber optic cable,
Although with quite unsteady transfer rate.

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Anonymous

Jan 15, 2019 22:40

What? Governments don't base their policy on discussions in Language Overflow? We might have to rethink our whole approach.

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Anonymous

Jan 15, 2019 22:18

That sounds like plenty of time. I'll wait until 11pm on Dec 31, 2019 to get started.

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Mick

Jan 3, 2017 16:47

Word of the day: mardy

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CowperKettle

Jan 14, 2019 16:43

Word of the eve: inparanoid (an algorithm that finds orthologous genes and paralogous genes that arose—most likely by duplication—after some speciation event)

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CowperKettle

Jan 14, 2019 06:57

'Cause she belongs to Tiny House Movement,
Her shell is both her house and parking lot,
And ever seeks grammatical improvement,
Because she is a learned gastropod.

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Cardinal

Dec 31, 2016 22:23

Happy new year comrades

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Man_From_India

Dec 31, 2016 16:36

Happy new year guys and girls :-) wish you a happy and peaceful year ahead.

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CowperKettle

Jan 11, 2019 19:24

Trump of the day: a wheel is older than a wall

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Mick

Dec 29, 2016 19:06

Today is Charles Macintosh's 250th birthday.

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userr2684291

Jan 9, 2019 19:27

agrees because snailboat wrote it

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Anonymous

Jan 9, 2019 16:57

I like that question, though. It’s a great opportunity to talk about how we end up with ungrammatical structures in our target language when we try to use words the same way we do in our native languages.

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Anonymous

Jan 8, 2019 17:51

Nah, it's a proper HNQ. It meets all the criteria: comments from Lightness. And that's the full list.

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Jan 8, 2019 16:22

I'm having trouble connecting calling kids a goat and the communists taking over

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Anonymous

Dec 25, 2016 22:53

I recommend the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.

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FumbleFingers

Jan 7, 2019 14:29

Apple today is the same as it was back in the Garden of Eden. Tempting, but best avoided!

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Anonymous

Jan 7, 2019 13:50

@Jasper Grammarly is Very Low Quality. Let’s vote to close their ads as off topic.

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Anonymous

Jan 6, 2019 14:40

@FelipeOliveira You might consider The Sounds of Japanese (Vance 2008). It's a detailed book on Japanese phonetics (with some attention given to phonology) and comes with an audio CD, and it uses IPA, but it doesn't assume prior knowledge of linguistics or IPA. Vance teaches you what each symbol means as he introduces the sounds and describes them.

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M.A.R.

Jun 10, 2021 17:29

For a split second I thought @Dhan is Damkerng q_q

userr2684291

Jan 4, 2019 17:35

@FelipeOliveira Are you familiar with the IPA?

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ColleenV

Jan 3, 2019 21:23

@Jasper Nothing short of a good backup is reliable. My husband had an incident where a piece of software he installed months before interacted badly with a Windows update and made all programs that used DX11 fail. Windows 10 seems like it can not ( or will not) completely restore the system state to a previous one.

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userr2684291

Jan 2, 2019 20:32

Word of the day: greener pastures

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Anonymous

Jan 2, 2019 04:32

Compare the single-storey 'a' with the double-storey 'a', for example. The former is typically used in handwriting and the latter in typeset text.

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userr2684291

Jan 1, 2019 01:13

I hope it'll be better than the last, and the one before it, and the one before that one...

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userr2684291

Dec 31, 2018 10:54

Word of the day: chief cook and bottle washer

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CowperKettle

Dec 30, 2018 07:59

Word of the day: socko (strikingly impressive) - "So you pause, and as you pause, something lands socko on your back, pitching you face forward into tasty mud. You struggle and scream as lobster claws tear at your neck and throat."

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CowperKettle

Dec 27, 2018 18:24

Word of the eve: footwork (active and adroit maneuvering to achieve an end)

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userr2684291

Dec 26, 2018 15:20

Expression of the day: at the age of

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userr2684291

Dec 26, 2018 15:11

Word of the day for tomorrow: catnap

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Dec 26, 2018 13:23

@CowperKettle Hey that's cheating! You posted it 40 minutes after the last WOTD

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CowperKettle

Dec 26, 2018 01:30

These people give me gelastic seizures, although on the dhole they may be perfectly good people.

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Anonymous

Dec 8, 2016 16:16

Well, they are kaomoji.

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