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The first mistake is that you have written three paragraphs and referred to them as "the following paragraph." ;) "Already we have sent" seems more "really awkward" than "mistake" but "We have already sent" is much better. ... I would like that for you to come up with some good ideas. ... Also, I th...

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It seems to me calling bad, er, un-good things by good names was what annoyed Orwell. Isn't this the opposite (criminal is plus-un-good-wise than anti-social)? Orwell would be annoyed if it were changed to "socializing behavior suggestions" (my attempt at a Newspeak), wouldn't he?

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Ken Greenwald wrote:If life gives you platypus, you can always have platypusburgers!

I think I'll wait until it gives me two so I can have platy pie!

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In addition to the physical problems of reading things online, you have very possibly just participated in the violation of the copyright of the translators and the original author as well. Congratulations. :)

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...and corruption. ... ... and had succeeded in gathering around him young Arabs from Khuzestan province," which has a large Arab minority I don't know any more of the story than that those three sentences, but he seems to have been doing more than being quietly crazy in the corner. He seems to hav...

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dante wrote:A guy was hanged for claiming to be God?
He didn't match the description of God obviously - beard didn't even remotely resemble God's or he couldn't offer any substantial proof of his identity or whatever.

I think I read this in a book somewhere.

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russcable wrote: In some places, ...

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She just could nod her head - usually she could shake her head really hard but today she could just nod. She could only nod her head - nodding her head was the only thing she could do. "speechless" is probably good by itself. "Speechless with happiness" sounds odd to me. She was so happy that she wa...

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Phil White wrote:Like Edwin and Erik, I am bothered by the unusual collocation "come to a peak".

It's not that unusual in reference to beating egg whites. :)

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Why transitive? All the examples work quite well with the intransitive meaning "to start suddenly aside through fright or alarm."

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We have a nationwide shoe chain that continously has a BOGO special, except it's buy one, get one half off.
I suppose it's not fitting.

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From the perspective of Amereican English: A: How many students can his university's dorm contain? B: Approximately 2000. The university has only one dorm (very odd) and it is enormous (very odd). A: What's his university's dorm ' s capacity? B: About 2000 students. I would assume this is a typo and...

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Having read the article, it seems that "treatments" is what is actually meant. Many of these trials will result in "valid treatments" (tumor size is reduced without killing the patient even though there may be no increase in actual lifetime or survival). Many of these treatments apply to more that o...

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"Useless tit" sounds British to me. I was anticipating the punchline would use the word "boob".

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Is this for a man or a woman? I think a man would prefer something simpler:
Those clothes look nice (on you).
You look nice (in those clothes).

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