I can't remember, I never learned that. I don't know squat about that.

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Oddly enough, I also prefer snuck. Go figure!

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The other day I was watching Love Actually when the word slinked struck (or is it stricked :) me?), I had never heard it before and I took it as a mistake for the good slunk. Yesterday browing my dictionary for something else, I stumbled on slink, whose past and past participle, according to the dic...

Flam, all the occurrences for Nym in that link you gave are of proper names.

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I really don't understand this nym Flam used. I did some research on it http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213443,00.html and I don't see any connection between the way he used it and the definition I found. I'm sure I am missing something here. I'm imbecillic when it comes to comput...

I hardly ever use tag questions. I don't need nobody to confirm whatever I said. Me saying it is enough, ain't it?

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The last 10 posts feature was really nice. I miss that too. Ale jestem wesoły, bo teraz mogę pisać po polsku

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I see we can use funny letters here ね.
Я весёлый.

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It is also intriguing that metaphor seems to violate so blatantly Grice's conversational rules: if the speaker tries to make communication as "rational" as possible, why would she construct a metaphor instead of just being literal? The answer lies in the true nature of metaphor. Reverse s...

climactic, climatic When nine or ten handbooks make haste to tell you that climactic refers to climax and climatic to climate and you should not confuse the two, you might suppose that there is some insidious tendency for the words to be muddled in somewhat similar contexts. Not so. This is a simpl...

I thought some of you might be interested in this:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue.html

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Two possible pronunciations? I wasn't aware of that. And I wasn't aware that it came from French (and I should have guessed that). In Portuguese we have the word descabelado, which is not too different. Thanks for the etymology, Anders.

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I think it is shevel(l)ed because dishevel(l)ed is pronounced with an sh sound, so that means that di, not dis, is the prefix in this word. Well, that's just my gut feeling, I have no PhD on that. I really liked that story, but I was stumbled on choate, which in my mind I pronounced as chote, only s...

I'm glad to know I (or he) got you interested, Henri. You can count on me for anything you need.

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