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- Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:42 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Between you and I
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12620
Re: Between you and I
Users of "sooner than later" could care less.
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 5:35 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: I have a few questions I want to ask
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5566
Re: I have a few questions I want to ask
What a relief! Machines are still stupid.
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 5:32 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: is best/are best
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5900
Re: is best/are best
You are talking about "use", not colors.
Think "We could use up to eight colors, but I think four is enough. I think [that the use of] four colors is best."
This is my opinion, proximity be damned.
Think "We could use up to eight colors, but I think four is enough. I think [that the use of] four colors is best."
This is my opinion, proximity be damned.
- Mon Sep 02, 2019 7:17 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: stochastic terrorism
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13184
Re: stochastic terrorism
...or at least, what we really mean.Phil White wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2019 4:29 pmQuite so. And Erik is absolutely right. There is no need to obfuscate responsibility with a term like this when "incitement" is what we are really looking at.
- Tue Aug 27, 2019 10:07 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: stochastic terrorism
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13184
Re: stochastic terrorism
The concept certainly has elements of "dog-whistle" to it.
- Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:50 am
- Forum: No, wait. Don't tell me
- Topic: The story
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10283
- Mon Aug 19, 2019 5:50 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: solace and consolation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9860
Re: solace and consolation
Thank you, Erik.
I just wonder if the Latin goes further back toward something a cat might understand as she snoozes in a patch of sunshine on a cold day.
I just wonder if the Latin goes further back toward something a cat might understand as she snoozes in a patch of sunshine on a cold day.
- Mon Aug 19, 2019 11:15 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: solace and consolation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9860
solace and consolation
A friend whose brother has just been admitted to an alzheimers unit in a faraway state is finding solace and consolation in some of the good qualities of the unit. Seeing the words together makes me wonder about their origins. I'm wondering if there is any solar-energy in their comfort.
- Fri Aug 09, 2019 2:23 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Overton window
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10342
Re: Overton window
"...threw up the sash..."
Talk about framing...
Talk about framing...
- Fri Aug 09, 2019 2:14 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Violin, viola.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18001
Re: Violin, viola.
I always called the instrument a vee-ola, and often say it when the apropos term would be "voilà".
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 11:08 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: prelapsarian
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9413
Re: prelapsarian
Lapse must be the root of it.
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 11:00 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Damascene conversion
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15653
Re: Damascene conversion
Saul's rebirth was possibly conceived by Stephen even while Saul approved Stephen's being stoned to death.
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 10:53 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Finnegans Wake and beesknees
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14203
Re: Finnegans Wake and beesknees
It's not so bad.
Though I will never get it done within the 2-week inter-library-loan time-limit.
So I'll blame them.
Though I will never get it done within the 2-week inter-library-loan time-limit.
So I'll blame them.
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 10:00 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Damascene conversion
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15653
Re: Damascene conversion
The steel named for the place also passes through the fire, takes quite a beating, and emerges better for it.
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:28 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Finnegans Wake and beesknees
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14203
Finnegans Wake and beesknees
I have been ignorant of James Joyce and Finnegans Wake but thanks to an article about computers analyzing literature according to the probabilities of one word following another, and that Finnegans Wake has been found to be the least-predictable piece in the "English language" (!?), I have taken-up ...