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English & Linguistics / Lesbian v. Gay

« on: September 03, 2008, 03:47:31 PM »

I've been talking this over with a coworker today, why is the word "gay" gender neutral AND gender specific, while the word "lesbian" is gender specific only?

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English & Linguistics / Language Guardians

« on: August 21, 2008, 07:54:52 AM »

Is it bad that Jon's Super-Grammar and pooka's Super-Ungrammar make me slow down my reading the same?

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English & Linguistics / The Perfect Language?

« on: August 27, 2005, 01:56:22 PM »

What can I say? I can kill a thread with the best of 'em.

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English & Linguistics / The joys of corporate writing

« on: August 25, 2005, 07:28:28 PM »

What is the tendency know as for a poor risk to seek out insurance coverage more than an average risks?

It may be that I've been studying for eight hours straight, but this seems odd.

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English & Linguistics / The Perfect Language?

« on: August 25, 2005, 05:53:31 PM »

"Pffffft, English! Who needs that? I'm never going to England!"

--Homer Simpson

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English & Linguistics / Word Usage Pet peeve

« on: August 25, 2005, 01:19:54 PM »

Your tags are backwards.

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English & Linguistics / The Perfect Language?

« on: August 23, 2005, 07:11:37 PM »

I think it's odd that a supposedly, well-educated professor would make such a general statement.

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English & Linguistics / Words that you can never, ever say right

« on: August 19, 2005, 11:31:27 AM »

Wow, I'm totally confused.

Are you talking about my wife? Or another Jaimie?

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English & Linguistics / Words that you can never, ever say right

« on: August 19, 2005, 10:35:36 AM »

You have a good point, Jon.

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English & Linguistics / Words that you can never, ever say right

« on: August 19, 2005, 10:32:47 AM »

Her dad's from Podunk, Idaho and her parents live right next to where her mom grew up (in Podunk, Utah).

Her family lived in Texas for a few years while she was still growing up. Maybe that's where it's from.

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English & Linguistics / Words that you can never, ever say right

« on: August 19, 2005, 10:18:55 AM »

It's a rogue accent.

Yes, she's from Utah. I'm not sure where she got it from.

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English & Linguistics / Words that you can never, ever say right

« on: August 19, 2005, 10:13:44 AM »

My wife's gonna hate me for this:

She's got this funky accent that makes her say "mee-an-ayz." She also says family: "fee-am-lee," and pants: "pee-ants."

But, that's just one more reason I love her. (And because she's sitting right here.)

On a side note, Boise is said "boy-see" with a hard "s." Not "boy-zee" with a lazy "z."  

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English & Linguistics / Words that you can never, ever say right

« on: August 18, 2005, 07:57:56 PM »

That's my specious little sister.

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English & Linguistics / You wanna' come with?

« on: August 13, 2005, 04:55:54 PM »

*checks the windows*

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English & Linguistics / You wanna' come with?

« on: August 13, 2005, 03:01:30 PM »

Mafia FAQ.

A little about the current game.

The profiles for the current game.

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English & Linguistics / More Comic Sans

« on: July 11, 2005, 09:35:43 PM »

Is that anything like knighting weezer?

[edit] Stupid question marks keep gettin' away.

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English & Linguistics / Second person

« on: July 03, 2005, 04:06:57 PM »

I do what I can.  

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English & Linguistics / Second person

« on: July 03, 2005, 02:29:08 PM »

You're so smart Jon.

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English & Linguistics / You wanna' come with?

« on: June 18, 2005, 12:33:33 PM »

I can't understand this phrase. It drives me nuts.

My question is, does this make grammatical sense? I want to say that the sentence is missing a subject whenever I hear it. But when people say: "I'm going to the store, do you want to come with?" It would also make sense that "store" is the subject in the sentence. It seems that the "...do you want to come with?" is a seperate thought and "...do you want to come with me?" would be more correct.

My whole existence hinges on an answer!

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English & Linguistics / Visual Thesaurus

« on: June 16, 2005, 12:25:04 PM »

I wouldn't buy it for the simple reaon that you can't make it swear.

I want a swearing thesarus! Is it really that hard?

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English & Linguistics / Words that you can never, ever say right

« on: June 14, 2005, 08:13:05 PM »

If I say "Shocial" I want to follow it up with "Shecurity."

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English & Linguistics / Drawerings: Bad or badly?

« on: June 12, 2005, 07:06:19 PM »

*deducts 5 points from his own bank*