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eduction transitive verb

1. to bring out
2. deduce

Maybe everyone who attends Harvard has an eduction ceremony before they leave?? I just hope whoever ends up to educting their scholarly articles uses a better method of spell checking. :-P

So it was divided into three parts but it is not a trilogy?

Trilogy

Perhaps it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, but it is what it is.

If you're gonna spell shit wrong, don't hi-light it and draw attention to it.

Sheesh.

That aside, I think you have to realise that the internet makes lots of things easier - including both pedophilia and making people more aware of pedophilia - one negative, the other positive. I don't think you're ever going to get to the stage where the entire internet is "safe for your and my child", You are just gonna have to train your child not to go to certain places - just like in real life.

You forget that Orwell later rebutted this opinion .

You forget that Orwell later rebutted this opinion .

You forget that Orwell later rebutted this opinion .

You forget that Orwell later rebutted this opinion .

You forget that Orwell later rebutted this opinion .

You forget that Orwell later rebutted this opinion .

You forget that Orwell later rebutted this opinion .

"Banal" can be pronounced with two unstressed syllables, as you do, or it can rhyme with *giggle* *giggle* anal. Notice that in Merriam-Webster's online, banal has THREE possible pronunciations. One of them is BANE-all. The Oxford English that comes with OS X seems to agree. In an interview, I'd probably pronounce it with unstressed syllables, but in casual conversation you should pronounce it however you want.

On a tangent, Language Log often cites examples of hyper-(in)correctness like yours.

Yes, Vista sucks bad in every way. Did anybody find out anything good about the kernal upgrade with SP1? But my main (off topic) point is, according to this big dictionary site banal can be pronounced 3 ways in English: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/banal

No, carafe is a two syllable English word. Always has been.

It was derived from the three syllable French word, which itself was derived from Arabic.

When referring to politics as a discipline, the word can be treated as a singular noun, or plural depending upon the context. Historically, it was also appropriate to use plural in all contexts.

Oxford and Webster both agree with me.

confiscating

1 : to seize as forfeited to the public treasury
2 : to seize by or as if by authority

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"Seroactive" appears to be a less common synonym for "seropositive".

As are you.

TYVM, and there's a word for this type of article, scurillous.

BTW, I know it's against the spirit of /. commenters to RTFA, but anyone with mod points is invited to spend a couple on the parent of this reply. : )

Theft: 1 a: the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it

usage In forte we have a word derived from French that in its "strong point" sense has no entirely satisfactory pronunciation. Usage writers have denigrated \for-t\ and \for-t\ because they reflect the influence of the Italian-derived 2forte. Their recommended pronunciation \fort\, however, does not exactly reflect French either: the French would write the word le fort and would rhyme it with English for. So you can take your choice, knowing that someone somewhere will dislike whichever variant you choose. All are standard, however.

"Price point" is in the Merriam-Webster dictionary since 1900, not sure what your problem is with this word, or why you think it originated in the 90's.
Re: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pricepoint

You can call anything a standard, but it doesn't count as jack unless it's actually used by the majority of people. I could come up with my own disc and declare it a standard, but it wouldn't be "standard"* in the sense that most people use the term. Part of the reason we're even having a "format war" right now, is because we have two potential standards, but we're still waiting for the market to decide which will in fact become the actual standard. You can of course sometimes have several standards, but in the case of physical media that's very rare and usually only exists in cases where several different media have very different capabilities and thus serve distinctly different market niches.

Also, following your argument about putting the latest format into your equipment, assuming you're correct, it seems that MS doesn't make much sense, seeing as how they developed a format, and then didn't put it in their latest electronics.

All of this of course doesn't matter at all, because I never really wanted to debate the merits of Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, nor of Sony vs. MS, I was just trying to highlight why it was that they made various decisions and to show how the latest developments mesh well with Sony's previous decisions.

*Taken from http://merriam-webster.com/dictionary
Standard [adj]: a: regularly and widely used, available, or supplied b: well-established and very familiar

The victim had a traumatic avulsion of one of his digits, that means an open artery and people with open arteries can bleed out scary fast, even from a finger or fingers in this case. Yes it's probable the victim would have regained his wits and preformed life-saving self-aid, but surely someone had to and in this case it was a first responder that learned first-aid in a training game. A better account of what happened is in the forums at America's Army.

Technically, according to Webster, The use of they, their, them, and themselves as pronouns of indefinite gender and indefinite number is well established in speech and writing, even in literary and formal contexts.

I can't call the language non-biased, but in this instance the bias does not exist in the English language itself.

That being said, the author followed well established usage.

This makes me cringe, too, but technically, according to Webster, "he" can be used in the "generic sense or when the sex of the person is unspecified".

I can't call the language non-biased, but the bias exists in the English language itself.

That being said, the author should have followed basic writing etiquette and replaced the pronouns with him/her, he/she, etc... or, get rid of the gender-biased pronouns altogether and restructured the sentences to use words like "oneself".

http://www3.merriam-webster.com/opendictionary/newword_search.php?word=w00t&last=0

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aint

How many lomaniacs in a Megalomaniac?

How many lomaniacs in a Megalomaniac?

How many lomaniacs in a Megalomaniac?

How many lomaniacs in a Megalomaniac?

How many lomaniacs in a Megalomaniac?

How many lomaniacs in a Megalomaniac?

How many lomaniacs in a Megalomaniac?

How many lomaniacs in a Megalomaniac?

How many lomaniacs in a Megalomaniac?

How many lomaniacs in a Megalomaniac?

How many lomaniacs in a Megalomaniac?

How many lomaniacs in a Megalomaniac?

I believe the term he meant to use was oligarchy which somehow gets confused with fascism over and over.

oligarchy: a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes; also : a group exercising such control

from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=oligarchy

  Jury Nullification happens whenever a jury votes its desires and not it oath to be true to the facts and the law.

No sir. It is a not guilty verdict or acquittal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_Nullification

http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Jury%20Nullification

When a jury goes along with a rogue prosecutor in railroading the accused, it is certainly dereliction of their moral duty but it is not, by definition, nullification because they are in agreement with the prosecution.
 

Using Linux might make me a geek, but it does not make me a nerd.

Using Linux might make me a geek, but it does not make me a nerd.

Unfortunately I can't find anything conclusive. Merriam-Webster lists this definition of "snow" but - unusually - doesn't have any information about the etymology. It does appear to be fairly new, and used mostly in Australia and the U.S. To eat crow apparently has an uncertain origin, though Rudyard Kipling invented an explanation for it in one of his stories. Wikipedia has a somewhat confused attempted explanation, but nothing really concrete.

You are not allowed to shout fire in a crowded theater, because that insights panic.

"...undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people."