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 Discussion on question by Denis: Isn'…

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Juhasz
Apr 29, 2023 08:38
It seems like there are some ideas here that need to be untangled before you can really start to find any answers. For instance, in your final paragraph you make the assertion that some people are considered artists and some people are considered weirdos - but exactly which people are making that judgement? And why does their judgement concern you?
 

 Discussion on question by Sharon: 'Bl…

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Juhasz
Apr 23, 2023 17:34
This is a fun way to procrastinate! lammam:mammal :: erutinruf:furniture -- animal:mammal :: household good:furniture -- flying squirrel:mammal :: flying carpet:furniture -- horse:mammal :: rolling chair:furniture -- sloth:mammal :: la-z-boy:furniture -- emlős:mammal :: bútor:furniture -- Earth:mammal :: Earth:furniture
 

 Discussion on question by gaazkam: Is…

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Juhasz
Dec 9, 2022 22:11
That Test of Darkness has a pretty bad design flaw. If A, B and C are all good students, and would all pass their test, all three of them may end up dead (for instance, if all three poison each other's food on the same day). This might imply that the test is also meant to prove that the student is able to survive an assassination attempt. But in that case, you've still got a problem. If A kills B, B won't be able to kill C, and C will end up passing half of the test by default.
 

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Juhasz
Nov 5, 2022 20:36
Fortunately, this has been discussed on the site where it's a better fit: linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/43933/…
Juhasz
Nov 5, 2022 20:36
There are plenty of other words from Latin that start with j, like judge, jury, jar, join, etc. Probably none of those words came directly from Latin, though. They mostly came from French, where they were already spelled with a j. Why were they spelled with a j in French? That is an interesting question....but unfortunately not a question about English.
 

 Discussion on question by Qiulang 邱朗:…

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Juhasz
Aug 26, 2022 10:39
@Qiulang邱朗, sorry about that. I'm not very active over there, so I guess I don't know their standards well enough. To me, your question looked a lot like that other question I linked, but my judgement doesn't count for much.
Juhasz
Aug 26, 2022 10:39
@Qiulang邱朗, the potential value of asking on Skeptics is that someone might be able to find the origin of this parable, as they did for that other story that was misattributed to Socrates. But if that's not interesting to you, I wouldn't bother reposting the question.
Juhasz
Aug 26, 2022 10:39
This is probably a better fit for the Skeptics site. A very similar question was recently answered there: skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39843/…
 

 Discussion on question by Eagle: What…

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Juhasz
Jul 10, 2021 17:24
I don't understand your confusion. The definition you've quoted for play a part does not suggest anything about level of significance or irreplaceability. In a play, there are major and minor roles. In a government, there are major and minor roles. In a scientific discovery, there are major and minor roles. On a sports team, there are major and minor roles. I can't see any difference in meaning, or in usage.
 

 Discussion on question by Cascabel: I…

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Juhasz
May 9, 2021 02:07
I don't think the first example adds anything to this question that's not covered by the second example and the explicit, "If I cannot win, then I will make it impossible for you to win?" Given that, as you've noted, the first example might be offensive to someone, you might as well remove it.
 

 Discussion on question by Sazzad Hiss…

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Juhasz
May 7, 2021 17:55
Read that definition carefully. Karl Marx didn't use a term that included the middle class: "(in Marxist contexts) the capitalist class..." Marx, of course, typically wrote in a Marxist context. This question might be a better fit for the English Language & Usage site. In political contexts, bourgeoisie means one thing, and Mr. Wrigley has provided a good explanation of this. But there are other contexts where the term can have other meanings. EL&U can cover those other contexts better.
 

 Discussion on question by KannE: Term…

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Juhasz
Mar 17, 2021 12:23
Isn't this just satire?
 

 Discussion on question by Matt Copper…

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Juhasz
Feb 4, 2021 02:55
Is there a reason you need a metaphor or idiom? It's not clear to me what benefits a phrase like "cargo cult programming" has over something literal, such as, "superficial imitation", "thoughtless emulation", "uncritical replication."
 

 Discussion on question by user 66974:…

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Juhasz
Jan 20, 2021 23:29
The reason this kind of language has fallen out of favor is that today, gendered language is seen by many English speakers as pointless at best. There is a good reason to describe someone as a person who writes poems (a poet), but no good reason to describe someone as a woman who writes poems (a poetess). I.e. there's no important difference between a person who writes poems and a woman who writes poems, so there shouldn't be two words.
 

 Discussion on answer by DavePhD: Was …

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Juhasz
Jan 16, 2021 23:41
Your answer gives evidence that Sullivan participated in the action. Is there any evidence that he "helped orchestrate the storming"?
 

 Discussion on answer by Panda: What e…

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Juhasz
Jan 6, 2021 04:36
@fdkgfosfskjdlsjdlkfsf, this is news for the same reason that the terrorist plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer was news: the plot was foiled, but it's important to tell us about it. Free and fair elections are perhaps the most important feature of a democracy. That the president and not a small number of Republicans in congress are attempting to invalidate the results of our free and fair election based not evidence, but apparently because they don't like the results seems to me like a pretty important story.
 

 Discussion on question by Mitch: Form…

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Juhasz
Feb 21, 2020 23:08
@MichaelHarvey, that quotation better communicated what's in these dictionary entries: Merriam-Webster; Cambridge Dictionary; Dictionary.com; Collins; Longman; Macmillan; Lexico
Juhasz
Feb 21, 2020 23:08
However, I think this would be a good question if it were slightly rephrased. The search for another term that has the meaning that Frankfurt assigns to bullshit is worthwhile.
Juhasz
Feb 21, 2020 23:08
I'm calling bullshit on that Online Etymology Dictionary definition. The verb to bullshit is used this way ("don't bullshit me"), but I rarely if ever hear the noun used with this meaning. Perhaps once it was so. Or perhaps in certain speech communities. As the Wikipedia article says, "Outside of the academic world, among natural speakers of North American English, as an interjection or adjective, bullshit conveys general displeasure, an objection to, or points to unfairness within, some state of affairs."
 

 Discussion on answer by ghoti: Why is…

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Juhasz
Dec 5, 2019 01:56
Most of this answer is quite good, but the last paragraph is not very relevant and has a number of issues. The Maltese, being primarily descended from Sicilian and Calabrian immigrants, are rarely thought of as Semitic. And as Rish says (and as your own investigations have shown), antisemitism has been used to mean hatred of Jews for 150 years. And given the remarkable persistence of specific antisemetic tropes (blood libel, control of financial system, disloyalty, etc.), it's very much worth preserving the specific word. That is to say, to change the meaning would mask the history.
 

 Discussion on question by David M: Te…

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Juhasz
Sep 29, 2019 19:13
@DavidM, I agree. I think it's a fine question. I just don't have an answer; and am not confident enough that there is no answer to say so.
Juhasz
Sep 29, 2019 19:13
Most advice encourages proactivity? I don't know about that. "Don't count your chickens before they've hatched." "Look before you leap." "A penny saved is a penny earned." "Good things come to those who wait." "Don't judge a book by its cover." "You can't fight city hall." The point is, as common as these kinds of aphorisms are, I don't know that there would be a special word for them - aside from something non-specific like "words of warning"
 

 Discussion on answer by Lambie: confu…

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Juhasz
Mar 28, 2019 13:38
@FumbleFingers, in version control systems, I make changes to a local version of a file, then I push those changes to a remote version of the file (e.g. a version that's hosted on GitHub). If someone else wants those changes reflected in their version of the document, they must pull the changes. So when I finish a feature, I request that others pull my changes with a pull request.