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Trafficking just means trade in illegal goods. If selling sex is illegal, than prostitution is sex trafficking.

I realize that it's pedantic to bring this up every time someone claims that these laws are trojans, but it's not irrelevant: if they make a law against sex trafficking and you cheer for it, and it turns out that you don't want a law against prostitution... well that's at least partly on you. Yes they're taking advantage of public confusion over the word, so they certainly deserve some of the blame, but at least some of that blame also needs to fall on the people who demand laws without any understanding of what those laws are or what they mean or their consequences.

Just a reminder: the word "trafficking" just means trade in illegal goods. "Sex trafficking" is prostitution. Many people confuse it for sexual slavery, in other words: human trafficking for the purpose of sex.

It's that confusion which lets them get away with anti-prostitution laws like this one, with very little push-back from the public.

Look I didn't make that up, trafficking just means buying or selling something illegally. Thus, "sex trafficking" means buying or selling sex illegally. The fact that people often use "sex trafficking" as shorthand for "human trafficking for the purpose of sex" means that interested parties can exploit that ambiguity in language.

Can we go back to calling it programming yet?

Not in place of "code", no. You can use it in place of "coding" if you like, they are pretty much interchangeable. Why do we have to use one rather than the other?

Unless of course you say "coding" as a verb.

Or indeed "code" as a verb the way it is used in the title and summary.

It's too bad that breast doesn't mean the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest, or meat from the front part of the body of a bird or an animal, or something. The article doesn't make sense otherwise.

No. What I meant was to use the word queue. You'd have to be pretty thick not to grok that at this point. If I was being technical, and writing a class that implemented a queue, then I would certainly name the method that adds items to the queue "enqueue". However, I am in fact speaking English, and using the word queue as a verb to describe the process is quite correct I'm afraid (for you.).

Well, that's nice, but I just checked the Oxford American Dictionary, and it agrees with me that it's a correct usage, even in "American English" (which is actually just English with a couple of misspelled words here and there..). So how about instead of being butthurt, you check your facts more thoroughly next time?

Why the American ones, as opposed to English? I'm Scottish, and my native language is English. In the English language dictionaries I've looked up, it says that "wrongly" can be a synonym of "incorrectly". How about the Cambridge University Press? Or the Oxford English Dictionary. Or Merriam-Webster

> I don't think 'rubbished' is a legitimate word.

Oxford disagrees

Why would a donkey have sex w/ a mare? Just to get the horse riled?

Because a mare is a female horse or donkey.

The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary lists both alternatives.

Or learn to pronounce the word the British way, in which case the spelling is correct.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/missile