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  1. sleipnir214

    CajunCenturion

    Gentles, Is is my sad duty to report that our friend John Austin, known here as CajunCenturion, passed away yesterday. He collapsed at work and could not be revived. He had been suffering for years with kidney cancer, which though not the proximal cause of his death, is certainly the real...
  2. sleipnir214

    "Weaved" vs. "Wove"

    I have been following thread1256-1540679. In today's (2009-04-04) World Wide Words newsletter, there was a question about "weaved" versus "wove": World Wide Words is copyright (c) Michael Quinion 2009. All rights reserved. The Words Web site is at http://www.worldwidewords.org . Want to ask...
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    the use of neologisms

    A professional lexicographer's Boston Globe article on the use of neologisms: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/08/03/chillax/ Want to ask the best questions? Read Eric S. Raymond's essay "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way". TANSTAAFL!
  4. sleipnir214

    American Book Review list of the 100 Best Last Lines from Novels

    He loved Big Brother" from 1984 is number 7. Sorry, it looks like the list is only available as a PDF Want to ask the best questions? Read Eric S. Raymond's essay "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way". TANSTAAFL!
  5. sleipnir214

    Diagram of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

    http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/diagrams2/preamble.htm Want to ask the best questions? Read Eric S. Raymond's essay "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way". TANSTAAFL!
  6. sleipnir214

    A scathing restaurant review

    A food critic having fun writing about a restaurant that apparently has no redeeming elements. http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2203404,00.html Want to ask the best questions? Read Eric S. Raymond's essay "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way". TANSTAAFL!
  7. sleipnir214

    An article on the mathematical analysis of the evolution of English

    The Harvard study looked at the regularlization of the conjugation of irregular English verbs. http://www.sciencecodex.com/harvard_scientists_predict_the_future_of_the_past_tense Want to ask the best questions? Read Eric S. Raymond's essay "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way". TANSTAAFL!
  8. sleipnir214

    "The New Republic" article on the use of curse words

    <caution> The article, titled "Why We Curse" and subtitled "What the F***?", is an explicit discussion of the use in English of curse words. As such, there are a [heck] of a lot of curse words in the article. If you are offended by the presense of curse words in the text of an article, even...
  9. sleipnir214

    How to install and boot 145 operating systems on a PC

    I don't know why you'd want to do it, but apparently you can. http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=147959 Want to ask the best questions? Read Eric S. Raymond's essay "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way". TANSTAAFL!
  10. sleipnir214

    Report: Text messaging harms written language

    The frequency of errors in grammar and punctuation has become a serious concern, [Ireland's] State Examination Commission said in a report after reviewing last year's exam performance by 15-year-olds." http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/04/26/ireland.text.message.reut/index.html Want the best...
  11. sleipnir214

    X Window slow to start when network disconnected

    I am running FC6 on a Dell laptop. I have the machine booting to a command prompt (default runlevel 3). When my NIC is connected and I issue startx, entry in to the GUI is quite quick. However, when I the machine is not connected to the network, starting X Window is very slow. I am running...
  12. sleipnir214

    The askOxford.com &quot;Commonly Confused Words&quot; page

    The AskOxford site is very good. This particular page was sent to me this morning by the Site of the Day at refdesk.com http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/classicerrors/confused Want the best answers? Ask the best questions! TANSTAAFL!
  13. sleipnir214

    Word-A-* lists

    I subscribe to several Word-A-[Day|Week|Month] lists: YourDictionary.com's "Word of the Day": http://www.yourdictionary.com/wotd/wotd.pl OED's "Word of the Day": http://www.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd Wordsmith.org's A.Word.A.Day: http://www.wordsmith.org/ World Wide Words...
  14. sleipnir214

    &quot;Plutoed&quot; as the 2006 Word of the year.

    The American Dialect Society has chosen plutoed, meaning "to demote or devalue someone or something" as its 2006 Word of the Year. Here is a link to a PDF of their press release, which includes other submissions and the voting by the ADS membership...
  15. sleipnir214

    A site containing palindromes, anagrams, etc

    Just in case anyone is interested: http://palindromes.hobby-site.org/ Want the best answers? Ask the best questions! TANSTAAFL!
  16. sleipnir214

    Newest words added to the OED

    On June 15, the Oxford Press announced the latest additions to the OED. The words newly-listed in the dictionary include: nanobot, hacktivism, mash-up, adware, geocache, Google, rug muncher, dotcom, and automagically Look for "Out-of-sequence new entries" at the URL...
  17. sleipnir214

    Innate grammar

    It appears that we all have an innate understanding of basic grammar. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1645419 Want the best answers? Ask the best questions! TANSTAAFL!
  18. sleipnir214

    Article at Wired: The Secret Cause of Flame Wars

    This Wired.com article reports on an article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. We aparently have only a 50% chance of interpreting correctly the tone of an email. But we think we're accurate 90% of the time. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html?tw=wn_index_2...
  19. sleipnir214

    Oracle thinking about buying Zend

    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060209_810527.htm Want the best answers? Ask the best questions! TANSTAAFL!
  20. sleipnir214

    The Word of the Year is &quot;truthiness&quot;

    The following is a quote from a news release in PDF form at http://www.americandialect.org/Words_of_the_Year_2005.pdf Truthiness Voted 2005 Word of the Year by American Dialect Society In its 16th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted truthiness as the word of the...

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