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selenography

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    Comment #43907388

    > It's again, unofficial and unwritten and unstudied American English. Hm? Where'd you get that impression? It's certainly unofficial -- English has no official governing body, so …

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    Comment #42655545

    Sure, if by "now" you mean "at least since Geoffrey Chaucer's time": > And thys vyce cometh of false hope that he thynketh he thall lyue longe, but that hope fayleth ful ofte. [1] …

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    Comment #42462449

    I see this endlessly repeated across the Internet, but it doesn't work. -n't is not a general-purpose clitic the way -'d and -'ve are; it can't attach to arbitrary words. ("Well, M…

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    Comment #41782143

    > set us all straight. Se fareblus oni, jam farintus oni. (It definitely won't happen on an echo-change day like today, either. ;)) Contra my comrade's comment, Esperanto orthograp…

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    Comment #40537847

    Another classic counterexample: "This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand, and God." "This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God."

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    Comment #40537618

    The classic, if crude, counterexample: "I helped my uncle Jack off a horse." (The uncapitalized version doesn't just have different semantics; it has a completely different parse-t…

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    Comment #40518666

    "epicaricacy" fails the simplest test for word-ness: it's never [0] used with the expectation of being understood without explanation. (Nor ever has been, according to Wiktionary.)…

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    Comment #39933160

    Isn't that just 442Hz, except about 34.3μs early?