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Re: Grammar problem
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latishya
Today at 06:54 PM
Do New Zealand government institutions like schools have to put up slogans in Maori as well as English, like in Quebec? Maybe they could put up the Maori version in big letters so that everybody sees it first. Fewer people would be able to critique i
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Weekly Themes
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Tenderfoot
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BranShea
Today at 04:27 PM
Just for the record and as dogdays' side step, Tenderfoot is one out of the series of comic albums produced by Morris and Goscinny (the same one from Asterix)that was and still is immensely popular in Belgium, Holland , France. I've also seen them in
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Re: frampold, doggedly defined
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BranShea
Today at 01:51 PM
Well, live carefully, vote dangerously.(maybe the other way around) I'll take the cheerful one too: let it B
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Re: hogwash for the dog-days (#91)
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hogmaster
Yesterday at 12:27 PM
and with BranShea's, Owlbow's and tsuwm's entries all in, I'm assuming it's a wrap. ten entries to follow anon..
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Re: attend to yourself first
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TheFallibleFiend
Yesterday at 09:56 AM
Both your reply and TwoSleepy's captures the essence of what I mean when I say the term. I suspect it is also what the original poster meant. But I can't think of a word or phrase that defines it. It's perhaps a manifestation of selflessness. Str
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Re: bottom
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The Pook
08/05/08 01:42 AM
Well, dare I say it, I'm glad we got to the bottom of that then...
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Re: boustrophedon
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Faldage
08/04/08 08:39 PM
Originally Posted By: ParkinTThanks, Faldage, for that input.
Originally Posted By: FaldageAs to the original question the term refers to both miror image and upside down. We don't have to decide on one or the other to proclaim it b
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Re: one of twelve for the century
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Faldage
08/04/08 07:45 PM
The Chinese word for eight sounds like the Chinese word for prosperity so there's a big rush to get married on this coming Friday. Similarly, the Chinese word for four sounds like the Chinese word for death, so 04/04/04 was considered an extremely u
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Re: yumi i man blong Vanuatu
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zmjezhd
08/03/08 11:58 AM
An example of Bislama is the national anthem of Vanatu, Yumi, Yumi, Yumi (link), the title of which uses the inclusive first person plural pronoun yumi 'you and I' as opposed to mifala 'that person and I' which is exclusive of the hearer (link). The
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Re: cicerone
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zmjezhd
08/02/08 11:26 PM
According to the dictionaries I consulted, it occurs in English before it does in Italian, early- to mid-18th century (cf. Shenstone, ca.1768 link). It's in Bailey's and Johnson's dictionaries. I've never been able to figure why a guide would be call
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Miscellany
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Re: Boktos
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zmjezhd
08/01/08 11:32 AM
By Greek, do you mean Modern or Classical. I looked in a large Classical Greek (Lewis, Short, and Jones) under βοκτος (boktos) and βωκτος (bōktos.). Zip. Online did a reverse lookup on
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Re: kleenex, band-aid, scotch tape
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tsuwm
08/01/08 08:14 AM
genericized trademark, a form of metonymy, and genericide (with lots more examples).
-joe (brand eponym?) friday
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