Consider the following two sentences,
The accusation that Indian society is incapable of changing itself came from various Western thinkers; most prominent of them was Karl Marx.
The accusation that Indian society is incapable of changing itself came from various Western thinkers; most p...
The Powers That Be have bestowed upon us a new feature: Stack Exchange community blogs. There's also a Stack Exchange blog post about it.
I think a blog for the English Language & Usage site is a great idea. We could use it to:
Provide hints and tips to users on how to write better answer...
The chat link in the top navigation bar is gone. Instead there is a shiny blog link.
Where did the chat link go?
Eureka! Ok, so it's not a single word, but it's what I was trying to think of:
Semantic Satiation
Edit: Found a languagehat discussion on this topic.
Ensign () is a junior rank of commissioned officer in the armed forces of some countries, normally in the infantry or navy. As the junior officer in an infantry regiment was traditionally the carrier of the ensign flag, the rank itself acquired the name.
"Ensign" is enseigne in French, Fähnrich in German, and chorąży in Polish, each of which derives from a term for a flag. The Spanish alférez and Portuguese alferes is a junior officer rank below lieutenant associated with carrying the flag, and so is often translated as "ensign". Unlike the rank in other languages, its etymology has n...
Cerebus the Aardvark, or simply Cerebus (), is an independent comic book, written and illustrated by Canadian artist Dave Sim, with backgrounds by fellow Canadian Gerhard. Cerebus ran for 300 issues from December 1977 to 2004, and was over 6000 pages long, the longest-running original English-language comic book series ever by a single creative team. , it leads its closest challenger (Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo, still ongoing) by over 100 issues. Sim refers to it as the "longest sustained narrative in human history."
The name was originally an accidental misspelling of Cerberus. Cereb...
This should be an easy question to answer.
In my program, I am building a structure which will hold the symbol which identifies a string literal. I want to give the element a meaningful name that will be clear to those coming after me.
My problem is that I can't recall what is the correct word...
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