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posted April 16, 2009 03:41 PM |
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posted June 19, 2009 04:47 PM |
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Nautious or nauseous?
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posted June 19, 2009 04:48 PM |
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Yeah you're right, it's the latter. I knew it didn't look right when I typed it in the other thread. I was too lazy to use the spell check. 
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posted June 19, 2009 04:50 PM |
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I'm not a native speaker, so it's easy for me to get terribly insecure.
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posted June 25, 2009 05:56 PM |
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Please tell me what is the correct phrase:
Red flying egg or flying red egg ?
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posted June 25, 2009 06:01 PM |
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You can put your adjectives in any order you want.
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posted June 25, 2009 06:05 PM |
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Just see you separate them with commas
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posted June 25, 2009 06:07 PM |
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Never seen a flying red egg in my life, anyway... the speculative tense is mine enemy.
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posted June 29, 2009 09:05 PM |
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Do words with latin endings have latin plurals as well?
As in:
museum => musea (instread of museums)
stadium => stadia
and I feel like there are more, but my mind is too slow for that
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posted July 04, 2009 01:00 PM |
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I think certain words(cerberus) have a plural of -i (cerberi), just like in latin. Also mage-> magi in homm ;D
Can someone tell me whether there is any difference between "movie" and "film" ? I never even heard the word "film" a couple years ago in English and suddenly "movie" is the rare word and "film" is used all the time..
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posted July 04, 2009 01:06 PM |
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Only a very very vague one. I think movie is pretty much thought of as a Hollywood thing. Big box office, lots of money spent, etc. Where a film can be something a guy (or gal) does with their digital camera with no funding at all (and of course more). However, you can call those things movies as well imo. Just as you can call the big box office things films.
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posted July 04, 2009 01:07 PM |
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My English teacher hated the word movie, because it was supposedly a very American term, so I concluded that movie is American english nd film is british english. You think that's possible as well, mytical?
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posted July 04, 2009 05:26 PM |
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Dagoth:
Yeah, that seems to be the case.
As for Latin endings, it varies. Some are declined in the usual English manner, and some using the Latin plural.
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posted July 04, 2009 07:32 PM |
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Quote:
My English teacher hated the word movie, because it was supposedly a very American term, so I concluded that movie is American english nd film is british english. You think that's possible as well, mytical?
Movie is american "technical" term that should represent "motion picture video".
"Film" is somewhat archaic (and British) because it actually refers to the actual "film" (material) that stores the pictures... like photo cameras on film, there are cameras (high resolution) on film, like in some cinemas for instance. (you know, the "rolling film"?)
So "film" isn't a good term to refer to, for instance, a DVD movie
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posted July 06, 2009 05:02 PM |
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What does the american term 'liberal' refer to?
Reading the watchmen and I'm curious.
I doubt it means classic liberal, because I think the term libertarian refers to that.
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posted July 06, 2009 05:04 PM |
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American liberalism is either social liberalism or social democratism.
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posted July 06, 2009 05:06 PM |
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Okay, can you specify what the x-axis and the y-axis indicates? It's not entirely clear to me...
The Y-axis seems government control and the X-axis seems to be regulation, but... isn't that the same?
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posted July 06, 2009 05:16 PM |
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X-axis is government control over the economy. Y-axis is government control over social issues (abortion, same-sex marriage, marijuana, etc).
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posted July 06, 2009 05:29 PM |
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An American liberal is liberal with social issues and authoritarian with economic issues.
An American libertarian is liberal with both.
An American conservative is authoritarian with social issues and liberal with economic issues.
A European liberal is roughly what an American libertarian is. Although it's relative depending on the country. The U.S. is overall a more right-wing country compared to most of Europe, so the terms don't fit 100%.
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The terms liberal and conservative change over time, and there are also different usages for them.
Liberal can mean "a lot". For example if you are cooking and use spices liberally, it means you use a lot of spices.
Conservative can mean the opposite, i.e. not very much. To conserve something means to not use much. If you are playing Heroes and you run low on mana, you can conserve mana to save it. In other words you are using it conservatively. To use your mana liberally would be to use a lot of it.
Related to the word conservative is conservation. Conservation was the term used before the word ecology was used, which was used before the word environmental. With this usage of the word, conservation basically means to conserve nature or natural resources. Like the mana in the game, you don't use many resources, or don't overuse the land or water.
Sometimes liberal and conservative are not the opposite of each other. Or more likely it would just be an awkward use of the word.
A conservative investment would be a low risk investment. The opposite would not be a liberal investment, it would probably be called a risky investment.
A liberal interpretation of text would be to "read between the lines" and interpret the text in a broad way. The opposite might be called a conservative interpretation, but it would more likely be called a strict interpretation.
This all leads to the political or social usages of the word. If you apply the above usages to social or political rate of change, you have:
A liberal rate of change meaning a lot of change, or fast change. A liberal sees things they believe are wrong, and they want fast change to fix those things. It could also be viewed as a liberal role of government (a lot of government). A large and widespread role of government would be a liberal view.
A conservative rate of change means little change, or slow change. A conservative sees things they think might be wrong, and their actions are more likely to be limited and slow. They would rather watch things and think them through rather than making fast changes. A conservative (small) role of government would be a limited role of government (especially limited centralized government).
As I said the words change over time.
If you take the first derivative of rate of change, er
If you take a snapshot in time, you are no longer seeing rate of change. You are seeing specific social and political issues which reflect the "current" state of things. The snapshot has become a more common use of the word. The snapshot of where we are now would include things like gay marriage (change) vs not gay marriage (not change). In 20 years gay marriage may be common, and something else would be the liberal or conservative snapshot in time.
The US has moved in an almost a continuously liberal direction for as long as I remember. For example the yelling screaming hippies in the 60s would most definitely have been considered extremist liberals. But most of those same views today would probably be more like moderate conservative. So the rate of change was far more radical and fast in the 60s, but specific views in the snapshot would be much different than now.
So at some point the 2nd derivative of rate of change..., er there was an inflection point, er
Things are not changing as fast as they were in the 60's, so in that regard current times are more conservative (smaller/slower change). But in the snapshot view, things are far more liberal now than in the 60s.
Um, that's not a dictionary definition? As a conservative, I prefer to think things through and try to understand it before committing it to writing. On the other hand I used the keyboard quite liberally doing LOTS of typing.
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