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throaway5454
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Comment #44789164
"old money" tended to come with the assumption that you'd operate with a bit of noblesse oblige.
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Comment #44771252
I forgot about this site! Keygen music is one of our unsung cultural treasures imo
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Comment #44665460
Ai used in this way is going to replace gui as we know it. Why click when you can just tell ai what you want to to do.
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Comment #44596374
So it's not immoral for a rights holder to manipulate you into buying more product...but it is immoral for me to continue to use the product I want, even after the company has made…
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Comment #44596343
What's immoral about it? The company decided it doesn't want to make money off of it anymore, so he's not giving them any! Just because it's against the rules doesn't mean it's hur…
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Comment #44573741
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Comment #44551570
We are here, were everywhere!
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Comment #44516069
Chesterfield, serviette?
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Comment #44516060
Popularized by Trailer Park Boys in the 2000s, if not well before
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Comment #44516043
Can? Where in Canada is this canned brown bread at?
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Comment #44504321
You would know where words came from based on the way they're spelt. That would let you know how to pronounce them. It's the exact same thing people do now we just do it without th…
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Comment #44495582
Door and pool are pronounced the same where I am, with a drawn out double o sound. When spoken rapidly, the vowel contracts, especially in door.
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Comment #44495532
None of English is nonsense. But without diacritics, you need to know the historical contexts behind the different spelling or pronunciations to understand the rules.
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Comment #44495517
All those examples follow the linguistic patterns of the languages they come from. They aren't arbitrary, they just don't teach us the context when we're learning as children.
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Comment #44495511
Draught beer is a linguistic holdout. I think many USA places list it as draft beer.
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Comment #44495402
The rare double gotcha fact
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Comment #44494110
The wierd things the latest JP movies still have the Dino's as being featherless
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Comment #44494102
Brachiosaurus I think. Brontosaurus was originally thought to be a separate species from Apatosaurus but later revealed to be the same.