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by nollidge 14y ago
Hm. I put LONG one word to the left of where you did. But I suppose that only makes sense with a comma after it. Yours feels more correct if no commas are allowed.
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by nollidge 14y ago
This is often true in English as well. See the above example of "Chinese vegetarian lawyer" vs. "vegetarian Chinese lawyer". Both sound fine, but the former means a lawyer who represents Chinese vegetarians or maybe a Chinese lawyer who rep
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by nollidge 14y ago
Or been invented out of whole cloth by someone who needed another reason to look down their nose at others.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> learning the rules of a language isn't technically "required" in order to attain basic fluency with the language I think that's all Evbn was talking about. Most people aren't Kobe Bryant; most people don't have any desired outcome wit
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by nollidge 14y ago
> I may be reading too much between the lines Yeah, maybe a little.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I hope no one minds if I hijack to ask: What are some really good MODERN adventure games, along the lines of MI or the Space Quests? Besides the Two Guys' Kickstarter campaign, I mean...
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by nollidge 14y ago
Probably best to let the dust settle and watch for offical reporting on where to donate. Fraudsters can spring up quickly.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Varies wildly depending on the blog, in my experience.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Not to mention that yes, cookies tell a website you're a repeat visitor, but that'd definitely be a first-party cookie, not a nonvisited third-party one.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I'd say artisanship, craftwork, architecture, or industrial design are all much closer to what we do than either of those.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Is this true for everyone, though? I've sung in choirs and played various instruments over the years, so my experience of music is almost always one of deconstructing it, and so my unconscious motivation to hum along (or tap my fingers or b
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Was there an "exile" event that I am not aware of? No. He left of his own accord. Read it as "self-imposed exile" or something.
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by nollidge 14y ago
If anybody else is wondering how this is possible: https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/co...
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by nollidge 14y ago
It seems much stronger than one downvote. Personally I reserve its use for blogspam, particularly toxic discussion, or if it's just beating a dead horse.
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by nollidge 14y ago
As an introvert, I have to agree that this kind of back-patting has gotten eye-rollingly ridiculous. We aren't the fucking Ubermensch.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I like to think of them as tags rather than labels: you can have more than one.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Why? EDIT: seriously, why? Were people really clamoring for more Facebook in their lives?
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by nollidge 14y ago
> it clearly is not a fully developed language Says who? Your intuition? > the parallel drawn with French was simply incorrect If you'd actually read that part carefully, you'd notice that the specifics of the example were incorrect
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Just saying "a lot of people do it" is not a validation of anything. Actually, when it comes to linguistics, it's the only thing that validates it. Can you possibly come up with better criteria?
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by nollidge 14y ago
My uneducated 4-year-old nephew speaks American Standard English. It doesn't take any education whatsoever to imitate language.
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by nollidge 14y ago
True! I was more objecting to the "I think" part and the "slang" part, but I should've been clearer about that.
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by nollidge 14y ago
The differences between American Standard English and AAVE are primarily grammatical, not lexicographical. So an AmE-AAVE dictionary wouldn't be very thick. And Leetspeak, txt-speak, and AAVE are not equivalent entities. Leetspeak is an alt
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by nollidge 14y ago
> AAVE is how people of poorer means speak or with less education speak That doesn't make it not a language. What you're saying is that we should base categorize forms of communication based on the social status of their speakers. I hop
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by nollidge 14y ago
> I think AAVE is simply modern America's cockney slang. Well, what linguists think is that it's at minimum a dialect with consistent grammar and using features of many other forms of communciation that you'd probably consider "real"
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by nollidge 14y ago
False dichotomy. Paying attention to socioeconomic-racial-gender status doesn't mean you're not paying attention to individual variation also.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Is there a name for this technique? Is it just a particular application of cognitive-behavioral therapy?
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by nollidge 14y ago
Sounds like you have ADHD and a gifted mind. I'd be wary of attributing the positive effects of the latter to the former.
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by nollidge 14y ago
The term "ADD" was officially dropped from the DSM in 1994 in favor of ADHD-PI (Primarily Inattentive): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_disorder
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by nollidge 14y ago
My favorite is when they CALL ME AT WORK to network at me, especially since I specifically say "don't call" on my LI profile.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Maybe look at it as can and will learn new things. Plenty of people are not so motivated.

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