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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
2024-05-11 20:42:51 UTC
wugi
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[embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France
started 2024-05-07 23:33:16 UTC
2024-05-11 07:32:36 UTC
HenHanna
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Kate Swift died (7-5-2011)
started 2024-05-08 22:24:25 UTC
2024-05-10 15:18:45 UTC
Athel Cornish-Bowden
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Allen Mawer born (8-5-1879)
started 2024-05-09 10:28:40 UTC
2024-05-10 12:11:47 UTC
Antonio Marques
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(inverted (upside-down) chars) -- Madam, I'm Adam. ·ɯɐpⱯ ɯ,I 'ɯɐpɐW (abcde, ǝpɔqɐ)
started 2024-05-04 17:36:04 UTC
2024-05-08 19:45:30 UTC
HenHanna
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Eleven in France
started 2024-05-05 09:16:20 UTC
2024-05-08 10:43:55 UTC
Adam Funk
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Portuguese Language Day (6 May)
started 2024-05-06 10:50:29 UTC
2024-05-07 13:00:24 UTC
Antonio Marques
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Looking For A Word :-) --------- (Deadpan (surrealist) callous cynicism)
started 2024-05-01 08:02:09 UTC
2024-05-06 11:40:20 UTC
Anton Shepelev
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Technical linguistic lingo in a mainstream show
started 2024-05-04 13:17:00 UTC
2024-05-05 18:08:27 UTC
HenHanna
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ALL-CAPITALS in Cartoon babbles, US military, City, County, Municipal Code Signs
started 2024-05-05 17:55:49 UTC
2024-05-05 18:03:09 UTC
HenHanna
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How did I miss this one?
started 2024-05-03 10:50:56 UTC
2024-05-04 18:31:09 UTC
ulf_kutzner
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( google.com/search?q=askew ) --- How is this accomplished ?
started 2024-05-04 01:53:37 UTC
2024-05-04 17:15:35 UTC
HenHanna
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To waffle, ‘to waver, to vacillate, to equivocate, to dither’
started 2024-04-25 06:43:54 UTC
2024-05-04 14:47:49 UTC
jerryfriedman
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King James Bible published (traditional date) (2-1-1611)
started 2024-05-03 21:29:09 UTC
2024-05-04 09:45:01 UTC
Ross Clark
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Tony La Russa reached the 2,500-win mark..., joining Connie Mack and John McGraw as the only managers in MLB history ...
started 2024-05-03 17:59:20 UTC
2024-05-03 23:35:10 UTC
HenHanna
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the [German Donald Trump] ----- What is this [Figure of Speech] called ?
started 2024-05-01 07:50:27 UTC
2024-05-03 18:09:38 UTC
HenHanna
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The 'have' of possession
started 2024-04-30 05:54:10 UTC
2024-05-03 01:24:41 UTC
Peter Moylan
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Alien Day (26 April)
started 2024-04-28 11:06:41 UTC
2024-05-02 10:05:09 UTC
HenHanna
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Otto Jespersen died (30-4-1943)
started 2024-04-30 09:23:32 UTC
2024-05-02 08:56:04 UTC
Athel Cornish-Bowden
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The Great Exhibition opened, London (1-5-1851)
started 2024-05-01 21:36:21 UTC
2024-05-02 05:50:46 UTC
Aidan Kehoe
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Doch wenn man was bestimmtes isst, mag man's daran nicht leiden.
started 2024-04-05 18:38:26 UTC
2024-05-01 07:57:51 UTC
Stefan Ram
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'mag...leiden' --- (I don't suffer fools gladly)
started 2024-04-07 23:41:42 UTC
2024-05-01 07:21:34 UTC
HenHanna
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An
started 2024-04-28 09:25:14 UTC
2024-04-30 14:01:08 UTC
wugi
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Alfred Hitchcock died (29-4-1980)
started 2024-04-29 09:40:17 UTC
2024-04-30 00:30:53 UTC
HenHanna
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Morse Code Day (27 April)
started 2024-04-28 11:07:27 UTC
2024-04-28 17:56:38 UTC
Aidan Kehoe
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License Plates Day (25 April)
started 2024-04-26 11:30:43 UTC
2024-04-26 13:52:44 UTC
Aidan Kehoe
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World Book Day (22 April)
started 2024-04-24 21:23:08 UTC
2024-04-26 06:28:35 UTC
Aidan Kehoe
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Nabokov shows up the subjectivity of judgments about the "character" or "quality" of different languages
started 2024-04-23 04:26:21 UTC
2024-04-24 01:11:33 UTC
bertietaylor
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Sentence-ending particles in English
started 2024-04-14 16:27:16 UTC
2024-04-23 17:46:43 UTC
Stefan Ram
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Vladimir Nabokov born (22-4-1899)
started 2024-04-22 11:42:42 UTC
2024-04-23 04:31:17 UTC
HenHanna
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