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French uses "ne" in contexts where English wouldn't use "not". --- (The pleonastic ne)
started 2024-03-12 11:17:01 UTC
2024-06-07 06:23:54 UTC
Ruud Harmsen
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What is a "cult"?
started 2024-05-26 20:09:52 UTC
2024-06-06 13:51:18 UTC
Ulf_Kutzner
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Nonplussed
started 2024-05-09 01:56:11 UTC
2024-05-26 20:09:50 UTC
Rich Ulrich
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Worcester
started 2024-05-17 21:32:51 UTC
2024-05-24 07:48:16 UTC
Athel Cornish-Bowden
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First-person `shall' in 1975
started 2024-05-14 22:40:41 UTC
2024-05-21 18:46:26 UTC
Kyonshi
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Kanbun -- ( and Roman adoption of Greek gods and epics )
started 2024-03-22 02:02:25 UTC
2024-05-21 18:34:06 UTC
HenHanna
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An agranam
started 2024-05-19 07:07:52 UTC
2024-05-21 15:43:33 UTC
Anton Shepelev
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App
started 2024-04-29 03:17:43 UTC
2024-05-15 04:40:50 UTC
lar3ryca
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Looking For A Word :-)
started 2024-04-12 21:13:51 UTC
2024-05-06 11:40:20 UTC
Anton Shepelev
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the [German Donald Trump] ----- What is this [Figure of Speech] called ?
started 2024-05-01 07:52:02 UTC
2024-05-03 18:09:38 UTC
HenHanna
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Innocent question
started 2024-04-27 11:14:12 UTC
2024-04-28 18:50:19 UTC
Anton Shepelev
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PTD on Baring-Gould's Annotated Sherlock Holmes
started 2024-04-13 12:30:15 UTC
2024-04-14 03:35:14 UTC
Rich Ulrich
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Initialisms or acronyms
started 2024-04-03 12:05:03 UTC
2024-04-13 12:15:59 UTC
Anton Shepelev
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Grammatically Correct: "Demain, il fera [le] jour"
started 2024-04-04 06:51:47 UTC
2024-04-09 13:40:53 UTC
wugi
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HenHanna
started 2024-04-05 12:35:34 UTC
2024-04-08 08:52:22 UTC
db
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(ACB on) -- Virginia Woolf died (28-3-1941)
started 2024-04-06 20:33:52 UTC
2024-04-06 20:42:10 UTC
HenHanna
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What's the origin of the word flake, meaning crackpot?
started 2021-05-29 14:35:36 UTC
2024-04-04 18:35:54 UTC
jerryfriedman
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French [surname CAPITALIZATION] -- in the French version of Wikipedia?
started 2024-03-29 18:47:25 UTC
2024-04-04 07:41:30 UTC
Tim Lang
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"a sight for sore eyes" -- [lion's share]
started 2024-03-29 21:27:14 UTC
2024-03-29 21:32:10 UTC
HenHanna
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Short (adverb) meaning --- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
started 2024-03-28 02:05:33 UTC
2024-03-28 13:20:10 UTC
Anton Shepelev
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HELP! -- Swallowing a teaspoon won't paralyse you even if you can't do so (4)
started 2024-03-15 17:37:10 UTC
2024-03-19 08:33:45 UTC
HenHanna
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Salinger: amalgam of prizefighter and mystic...
started 2024-03-08 03:44:36 UTC
2024-03-10 22:04:32 UTC
HenHanna
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IWD
started 2024-03-07 23:29:04 UTC
2024-03-09 20:06:41 UTC
Sam Plusnet
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[the few] is more likely to mean [a few] or [few] ?
started 2024-03-05 08:17:30 UTC
2024-03-07 04:54:26 UTC
Opinicus
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defeat
started 2023-11-28 08:31:29 UTC
2024-03-05 08:10:31 UTC
HenHanna
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PTD is the Donald Trump on AUE, in that ...
started 2022-06-04 21:31:57 UTC
2024-03-05 08:02:37 UTC
HenHanna
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when was the last time PTD was seen here?
started 2024-02-21 19:49:54 UTC
2024-03-03 18:05:15 UTC
occam
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i looked for online Nroff simulators / emulators and found none!!!
started 2024-02-28 23:50:36 UTC
2024-03-02 21:48:34 UTC
Gilmeh Serda
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testing from NovaBBS
started 2024-02-20 18:42:57 UTC
2024-03-01 20:12:46 UTC
HenHanna
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ult., inst., prox.
started 2015-11-16 19:49:36 UTC
2024-02-23 18:26:51 UTC
Steve Hayes
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