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Anonymous

00:40

@GaurangTandon No, because our and this both want to fill the same determiner slot. You can only have one or the other.

Gaurang Tandon

03:31

@snailboat ok thanks

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New Meta Question

04:43

Q: Why is it that changing a question doesn't affect existing close votes in the slightest way?

I am writing this Meta question as a question I posted on ELL today is currently sitting on four close-votes, precariously on the cusp of being closed. The reason people cite for their votes, I gather, is the question, as it was initially phrased, was a question about the meaning of the term and ...

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user1732

13:57

@snailboat which is your linguistic preference‌?

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ColleenV

17:44

Daily idiom: "sweep under the rug" The school officials tried to sweep the widespread cheating under the rug, but everyone found out about it anyway. Trying to cover it up made the scandal worse than it would have been if the school had come clean.

Ugh my phone hates me - sorry for the double post.

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