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English & Linguistics / Endure to the End— need a term
« on: February 18, 2018, 05:47:52 AM »
Is there a theological, technical term for the concept of enduring to the end— obedience in the face of suffering or sure (mortal/earthly) defeat?

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: August 19, 2011, 12:13:58 PM »
This is driving me crazy.

CANNOT.

NOT "CAN NOT."

Am I right?  Huh?

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English & Linguistics / Re: First impression
« on: February 04, 2011, 08:02:48 AM »
Ellery is a boy's name.

Ellory is a girl's name.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: December 21, 2010, 10:03:25 AM »
Yeah, but you don't HAVE to agree with her.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: December 20, 2010, 09:02:08 AM »
You don't gotta.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: December 20, 2010, 07:13:08 AM »
I don't need to.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: December 13, 2010, 05:12:01 AM »
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Under a government that convinced or compelled more and more of its citizens to march to the same dark tune, members of a church that exalted the concept of freedom of choice (moral agency) were bound to feel at odds with the party line.

I have a different criticism than your peers, Jonathon: it's a bit side-comment heavy.  Take out some of the "or" statements and the parenthetical, and it'd be a lot more clean.  Here's what I'd suggest:

Under a government that compelled more and more of its citizens to march to the same dark tune, members of a church that exalted the concept of moral agency were bound to feel at odds with the party line.

I might add the qualifier 'Nazi' to 'party line' to clarify the issues rivka and dkw mentioned.

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Where/how do you draw the line between editing and re-writing?   What do you when you're pretty sure you could write the paper/chapter/book better but that's not really your job?  Or how do you deal with the frustration of knowing that you could do it better but that that's not your job?

I think Jonathon gave a great answer.  I copy-edit for IGMS, and I take the same attitude as he does.  Generally, by the time it gets to me, we don't have any time for changes anyway. 

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: December 07, 2010, 10:20:28 AM »
The amount of detail you're able to see depends greatly on the quality of your graphics card.

Probably that's my problem.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: December 07, 2010, 10:07:15 AM »
The word "moist" makes me crave chocolate cake.

It's so delicious and moist!
Lie.

The worst thing about the PC implementation of Portal is that very little of the wall-scrawl was legible.

Wait, you're pregnant?  I did not know this.

She announced it a few weeks ago in the Pregnañcy Room on Sakeriver.

Aha!  There are a lot of threads on Sake that I don't read.  That's one of 'em.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: December 07, 2010, 09:58:14 AM »
There's no way I'd eat that delicious piece of cake without a glass of milk.

That's how I defeated Gladdos.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: December 07, 2010, 09:57:24 AM »
*craves*

Actually, not really. Pregnancy has a way of making sweets somewhat less palatable to me.

Wait, you're pregnant?  I did not know this.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: December 07, 2010, 09:56:46 AM »
The word "moist" makes me crave chocolate cake.

It's so delicious and moist!

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: December 02, 2010, 08:21:16 AM »
The only place I swear is in my fiction.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: December 02, 2010, 08:18:40 AM »
Worse than "moist?"

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: October 26, 2010, 09:28:24 AM »
I'm a lyricist. 

Fear me.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: October 15, 2010, 10:54:30 AM »
All the funny quotes I have from work are classified.

Rats.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« on: September 30, 2010, 09:58:45 AM »
I wholly support a large, gnarly language.  The larger the language, the better, IMO.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: September 28, 2010, 06:06:27 AM »
No.  There is no R in 'Washington.'

There's a guy I work with from Baltimore.  He says 'Warshington.'  And 'Bal'mer' for Baltimore.  And 'Eye-talian' for Italian.  And 'ball' for 'boil.'

It's enormously irritating.

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English & Linguistics / Re: I hate journalistic writing
« on: September 13, 2010, 05:47:46 AM »
My latest story effort is about a monster who hunts down princesses with fantastic destinies; his most recent target is a girl who keeps trying to commit suicide.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: September 02, 2010, 04:24:44 AM »
Under cows rather than healings?

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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« on: September 02, 2010, 04:23:49 AM »
I don't know what that is, but it sounds gross.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« on: August 26, 2010, 12:24:42 PM »
Right.  That's part of the joke.  Like ending a sentence with a preposition.

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English & Linguistics / Re: I hate journalistic writing
« on: August 23, 2010, 10:49:40 AM »
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The backyard mechanic accused of being the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer pleaded not guilty Monday to murdering 10 women and trying to kill one more person over the course of two decades.

Very, very small doses of arsenic.  No, wait-- not arsenic.  Arsenio.

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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« on: August 09, 2010, 09:44:32 AM »
That wouldn't make me unlucky, Annie.

I've got English, after all.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« on: August 09, 2010, 09:05:50 AM »
Stuff would like to get to know you.  He's waiting downstairs with a grin and a tea-cozy.

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