paranormal

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by paranormal 14y ago
> I think ebonics if a load of crock, but as an aficionado of linguistics... I was under the impression that modern linguists generally agreed that good linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive. Could you elaborate here?
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by paranormal 14y ago
> So it would be fine if the scarcely dressed participants in the show were of the same gender as the main characters? It would be less sexist, but it would remain stupid. Anyway, let's return to the main point of the argument: employin
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by paranormal 14y ago
There's a comment by a Brad Hicks halfway down on that article about how ridiculous it was that Judge Wright allowed surprise testimony from the audience. It's even stranger that it was an attorney, who would be acutely aware of the normal
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by paranormal 14y ago
Is there a word to describe this sort of writing style? > There was no Microsoft money, no Starbucksian gentrification, no post-grunge feelings of cultural inevitability—only the low-tide stench of marine oil and clams and the calcifie
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by paranormal 14y ago
In addition to what asynchronous13 mentioned, the Iranian Air Force maintains and fields several US exports (notably the F4 and the F14). It wouldn't be terribly surprising if their techs were already proficient in English in order to serv
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by paranormal 14y ago
This isn't germane to the discussion. > FBI Agents are busy flying to Iceland working on Hollywood's vision for the future of who owns the internet, data, and computers Wikileaks has very little to do with Hollywood. Whether you sympat
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by paranormal 14y ago
The discipline of statistics can be defined as the set of techniques used to draw inferences and conclusions from a sample--an incomplete set of data. When you have all of the data, playing with it ceases to be statistics and instead becom