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by rossitter 3y ago
In this case I just did a full-text search of HathiTrust's catalog for "and per se and" (quotes of course are part of the query in this case). These are two results of many.
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by rossitter 3y ago
From The Frumentary by William King (1699)[0]: U’s conversation ’s equal to his wine, You sup with W, whene’er you dine: X, Y, and Z, hating to be confin’d, Ramble to the next Eating-house they find;... And Per Se And
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by rossitter 4y ago
The contractors in that joke are for the CEO's kitchen reno: > ...complicated global factors like [one], [two], and my desire for a marble kitchen island with a waterfall edge. As we all know, our competitors are relentless. Even as
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by rossitter 4y ago
Home button on a keyboard, tap the top of the screen on iOS, and I believe Android implements something similar. I agree with the other commenter here. If a text-only article follows the tenets of some version of 'minimalist' desi
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by rossitter 5y ago
Words are only ever added to the OED after a period of use. Before performant made it into the OED as an adjective, the nominal form was listed as a "nonce-word" only and didn't merit its own entry; it was kept under perfo
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by rossitter 5y ago
This wouldn't really be pro/rel, not as it's implemented in European football anyway. It's a single league where entry into the lucrative year-end tournament is partly based on long-term (3- or 5-year) performance, where
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by rossitter 5y ago
This image from Streetview, taken about halfway across the bridge, shows the scale well, I think: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.439515,-79.9004771,3a,75y,99...
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by rossitter 5y ago
> Is it supposed to sound like the end of "turquoise?" Yes, though some speakers use an S rather than a Z sound (think "choice"). I have only heard these pronunciations from British speakers.
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by rossitter 5y ago
I can say I have heard this from native speakers, but I can't pull up any YouTube links right now. I suspect I've heard it from people who don't always go by the spelling pronunciation, in the same way many people who insert
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by rossitter 5y ago
> An-th-ony (with TH from "the") Out of curiosity, is it definitely the voiced TH from "the," rather than the unvoiced TH from "thing?" In the US the spelling pronunciation of Anthony is by far the more comm
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by rossitter 5y ago
> "Please list the most important things that give meaning to your life" The actual English-language version[0]: > ...What about your life do you currently find meaningful, fulfilling or satisfying? What keeps you going and
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by rossitter 5y ago
"Cushion" is a particularly bizarre example, because even if speakers were to stress the second syllable when using it as a verb, it still wouldn't demonstrate initial-stress derivation. The noun "cushion" is not de
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by rossitter 5y ago
The point is that context usually suffices to tell which word is which, same as with wait/weight, time/thyme, and so on. Speakers with the pin-pen merger do pronounce these words the same, and I've known someone who was surpr
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by rossitter 5y ago
> While linguists specify a matrix of vowel sounds, a lot of people use vowel sounds that land in between them Definitely, but this is equally true of mat, met, and mate. As for marry/merry/Mary, there are speakers with a parti
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by rossitter 5y ago
No, this merger only affects the vowel in "pen," not "pine." So it would be "pineapple apple pin."
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by rossitter 5y ago
For speakers without the merger, marry:merry:Mary as mat:met:mate. If you didn't grow up with the distinction (as I didn't), you may find it easy to enough to notice the difference—particularly between marry (~mat) and the other t
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by rossitter 5y ago
Comparable to one use case of the passive voice, maybe. What do you mean by "intended agent"? "Agent" has a common definition in linguistics, and an agent is only an agent in the context of a verb, not an overarching nar
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by rossitter 5y ago
I'm not sure I agree that a distinction needs to be made between the two, certainly not on lines of agency. The "our" in "to our surprise" may or may not correspond to an agent, patient, etc., in the modified clause
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by rossitter 5y ago
"To our surprise" is an adverbial. It has no voice. It can modify passive or active constructions, but it does not prefer one over the other. Active: To our surprise, they had left the door open. Passive: To our surprise, the door
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by rossitter 5y ago
The word "tweet" wasn't added to the OED, just a new meaning of it. Two entries for "tweet" (one for the verb, one for the noun and interjection) have been in the OED since 1916, with citations going back to the 16t
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by rossitter 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "stoppage"? I think baseball does have a pacing problem, but it's really cultural more than anything else: games are about 1.5x as long today as they were 50 years ago, even though in ter
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by rossitter 5y ago
There's no watch to kill in baseball. You have to get the other team out a set number of times.
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by rossitter 7y ago
> I was surprised to learn that left turns account for "more than twice as many serious injuries and fatalities as right turns." This may be because bike lanes are placed on the left side of major one-way avenues in Manhattan:
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by rossitter 7y ago
On major avenues in Manhattan, but not necessarily on side streets[0] or in other boroughs[1]. [0] - https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7740039,-73.9587169,3a,75y,1... [1] - https://www.google.com/maps&#x2
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by rossitter 9y ago
Where are you getting your 2.1 million figure? It was 913,000[0]. Combined with 699,000 votes for Clinton/Kaine from suburban Cook County[1]—whose voters seem to have been unaffected by this breach—you get the 1.6 million number report
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by rossitter 10y ago
This is an interesting idea. It would require a sea change in the city. You'd have to fight a lot of business owners. Most transit in Manhattan is by foot, and you will have separated pedestrians from commercial entryways. As it stands
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by rossitter 10y ago
Courtyards are largest where alleyways would be least needed, on residential blocks. For most blocks where unloading is a problem, courtyards are narrow, uneven spaces that frequently do not run the length of the 'interior' block.
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by rossitter 10y ago
> Add second floor above the road. And on top of it, a third floor. Like an expressway? What about exits, turn-offs, on-ramps? Where would the city find the land to build these? Most vehicles driving around Times Square are at least fair
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by rossitter 10y ago
> make them one way? They are one way. Almost the whole of Manhattan is. Broadway is already narrow. Seventh not so much, but car traffic there can frequently be as bad as foot traffic. I'm not sure what a good answer would be.
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by rossitter 10y ago
This was not written by someone who hates video games. This was written by a woman who has worked in the games industry for some time, and has been lead programmer on notable titles. She is exploring why some of her friends find games unint

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