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The meaning of language is socially coordinated
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Mescal posted:The meaning of language is socially coordinated Just like your mom.
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Sep 30, 2023 20:01
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theres actually zero difference between correct & incorrect things.
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Sep 30, 2023 20:19
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incorrect means correct?! what a country!
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Sep 30, 2023 20:37
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The word "inflammable" may be erroneously thought to mean "non-flammable".[3] The erroneous usage of the word "inflammable" is a significant safety hazard. Therefore, since the 1950s, efforts to put forward the use of "flammable" in place of "inflammable" were accepted by linguists, and it is now the accepted standard in American English and British English.[4][5]
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Sep 30, 2023 20:41
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Achmed Jones posted:i know i'm getting trolled but the internet idiots who read a 140 character hot take and think they know what they're talking about GET MY GOAT. the number of supposedly-educated people who somehow think that prescriptivism and descriptivism are rival sports teams instead of analytical tools is fairly disappointing. So the meanings of the words "prescriptivism" and "descriptivism" have drifted over time, what's the problem? 
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Sep 30, 2023 23:27
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Captain Hygiene posted:The word "inflammable" may be erroneously thought to mean "non-flammable".[3] The erroneous usage of the word "inflammable" is a significant safety hazard. Therefore, since the 1950s, efforts to put forward the use of "flammable" in place of "inflammable" were accepted by linguists, and it is now the accepted standard in American English and British English.[4][5] what a country!
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Sep 30, 2023 23:33
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The Aztecs regarded gold as the product of the gods, calling it literally "god excrement" (teocuitlatl in Nahuatl)
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Oct 1, 2023 04:57
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He looks very polite.
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Oct 1, 2023 07:47
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Post more cute sharks.
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Oct 1, 2023 09:32
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He was an early competitor in Robot Wars, but his robot Blendo was deemed too dangerous for competition.[2]
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Oct 1, 2023 15:40
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quote:The term "pizza effect" was coined by the Austrian-born Hindu monk and professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University, Agehananda Bharati
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fuckin almost all sharks are not a danger to humans! shark racists you know what just killed a couple fisherman in Australia? a fuckin whale that rammed a boat and flipped it
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Oct 2, 2023 06:22
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The history of pizza begins in antiquity, as various ancient cultures produced basic flatbreads with several toppings.
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Oct 2, 2023 10:50
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Because puttana means roughly "whore" or "prostitute" and puttanesca is an adjective derived from that word, the dish may have been invented in one of many bordellos in the Naples working-class neighbourhood of Quartieri Spagnoli as a quick meal taken between servicing clients.[9][10][11] Alternatively, food historian Jeremy Parzen suggests: "Italians use puttana (and related words) almost the way we use poo poo, as an all-purpose profanity, so pasta alla puttanesca might have originated with someone saying, essentially, 'I just threw a bunch of poo poo from the cupboard into a pan'."[12]
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Oct 2, 2023 18:05
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His first official transplantation of a monkey gland into a human took place on June 12, 1920.[17]
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Oct 2, 2023 21:39
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i think that's the third time that guy's come up in this thread
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Oct 3, 2023 05:34
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WWI era Magazine ad illustrating the advantage of floating soap
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Oct 3, 2023 15:19
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The character A. Elk and her "Theory of Brontosauruses" is used in the American Psychological Association Style Guide to illustrate how to reference a periodical article in a learned journal.[4]
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Oct 3, 2023 23:23
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One of the main problems is that he cannot come back to the real world to see his father (still in the hospital) or Reiko ever again.
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Oct 4, 2023 03:54
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quote:Between Alphas and Betas, only females can carry on a pregnancy, but male Omegas are often envisaged as being able to become pregnant via a uterus connected to the rectum,[14][15][16] and Alphas can impregnate regardless of their main gender.[17] To make penetration and impregnation easier, male Omegas often have self-lubricating anuses.[9]
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2013 - Russia - A person attempted a backflip on the ledge of a roof of a 16 story building, but when attempting to land on the ledge, fell from the building and died.[17][18] 16 August 2019 - Russia - It was reported that a person was "engaged in parkour on the roof" of a 9 story building and during a jump, fell off the roof and died from the fall.[19][20]
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https://twitter.com/WeirdMedieval/status/1710273788384833584
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"Rod of God" redirects here. For the proposed orbital strike weapon, see Kinetic bombardment.
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Oct 8, 2023 02:56
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lmao thats real  good civil war flag
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A matter of some contention after the Great Depression arose over the heights of Massive and its neighbor, Mount Elbert, which have a height difference of only 12 feet (3.7 m). This led to an ongoing dispute which came to a head with the Mount Massive supporters taking it upon themselves to build large piles of stones on the summit to boost its height, only to have the Mount Elbert proponents demolish them.[7][8][9]
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The name is one of several toponyms sharing similar etymologies, ultimately meaning "land of the blacks" or similar meanings, in reference to the dark skin of the inhabitants.
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well-read undead posted:The name is one of several toponyms sharing similar etymologies, ultimately meaning "land of the blacks" or similar meanings, in reference to the dark skin of the inhabitants. tbf the name of most countries come from some some version of either "we live here" or "those weirdos live there"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_warsquote:Some discussions are born lame; some achieve lameness; some have lameness thrust upon them. Upon coming across a discussion that is borderline lame, some Wikipedians may be tempted to go do something useful. This is a big mistake. Left to its own devices, the discussion might inadvertently become useful. What's the fun in that? It is essential that as many editors as possible chime in, not adding to the discussion at hand but pointing, LOL, and lamely commenting about how lame it is and how it's a big waste of time (See Self-fulfilling prophecy, Positive feedback, and Exponential growth). Merely stating the discussion is lame is frequently not sufficient; every opposing statement must be denied with increasingly vehement assertions of the lameness. While at first blush, wasting time whining about what a waste of time something is may seem illogical, the inherent irony just magnifies the lameness. An additional step to increase lameness is to include repeated links to this essay, which is WP:LAME. Administrators have a special role to play; proposing and implementing topic bans on lame participants is doubly effective: it not only increases the present-day lameness, but, by quashing debate, helps ensure the lame issue remains unsolved for future generations of Wikipedians to go on about. Lamely.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Donald_Trump
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He had a number of feats he would perform, such as:
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The pumping of water is a basic and practical technique, far more practical than scooping it up with one's hands or lifting it in a hand-held bucket...The ancient concept of the aqueduct took simple and eloquent advantage of maintaining elevation of water for as long and far a distance as possible.
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Tunicate posted:The pumping of water is a basic and practical technique, far more practical than scooping it up with one's hands or lifting it in a hand-held bucket. [citation needed]
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Improvements [edit] Sources needed, for example: why's the poisonous water poisonous, why's it not potable? The old, gravity powered aqueducts, potential energy due to altitude is slowly converted to kinetic energy, allowing it to be carried long distances. It's not simply controlling kinetic energy. Today, water may be contaminated. What about in the past? In the future? Should also refer to ground water since it must be pumped and there's far more groundwater than water in lakes and rivers. How do we pump above 11 meters from groundwater? If one forms a vacuum above water, it'll move up at most about 11 meters due to the pressure of the atmosphere, but what do we do when we need it to go higher? 99.235.118.210 11:31, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
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Australian passports issued from 2003 have had the lyrics of "Waltzing Matilda" hidden microscopically in the background pattern of most of the pages for visas and arrival/departure stamps.[96]
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quote:Wheelchair user and drug baron Peter Loomis has his $400 million drug fortune stolen in South America by his errand boy Carlos, who stashed the fortune on an undisclosed boat in an undisclosed harbor.
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