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English & Linguistics / Another survey

« on: December 08, 2004, 03:53:01 PM »

If you took the survey today, please retake it at the new link posted above. Apparently they only let me have the first twenty responses for free, and then they start charging.  

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English & Linguistics / RE: Reexamine

« on: December 07, 2004, 05:01:58 PM »

Word's spell checker is not to be trusted. If in doubt, look it up in Merriam-Webster.

But anyway, your instinct is right. Prefixes generally don't need to be hyphenated, unless they could be misread. It's also helpful to distinguish between pairs like recreate and re-create. But that's probably more than you really wanted to know, so I'll stop typing now.

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English & Linguistics / Another survey

« on: December 07, 2004, 01:28:26 PM »

It's just my subconscious (or not-so-subconscious) expressing itself: our car is having problems, I like cats, and I want everyone's info so I can stalk them. :fear:

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English & Linguistics / Another survey

« on: December 06, 2004, 05:16:51 PM »

Linkage

Please go and take this survey. It's for one of my final projects.


Edit: Okay, I now have a new link. Hopefully I won't have the same problem at this place.

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English & Linguistics / Quick, stupid question

« on: December 06, 2004, 02:47:28 PM »

The sign for minute is a double prime—not a straight or a curly quote, but a straight, slightly angled symbol. Let's see if it'll post correctly:

“4?33?”