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Boringly, "not show up". I would probably use the same. I would also accept "flake out," "ghost," and "stand me up." To me, "stand someone up" specifically refers to a date. To me, it's a date in the more generic sense, of a scheduled event that someone bailed on at the last minute: "Cindy and I we...

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Vijay wrote:Oh, Americans and messy-ass food...

Hey, it's better than messy ass-food!

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- Is it linked to a particular religious branch? is it supposed to be Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or a compromise? The NRSV isn't tied to a particular denomination, though it's the preferred version of the United Methodist Church along with the Common English Bible . - In particular, does it incl...

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linguoboy wrote: IME, Midwesterners don't get het up about what you call certain foods.

Aside from the soda/pop distinction, I think I agree with you.

(Soda is the correct word, by the way)

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For general usage, I prefer the New Revised Standard Edition, which straddles a pretty good line between being readable, and keeping fidelity to the original texts. I'm given to understand it's one of the main translations used in academic settings.

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To be fair, "pot" and "stone" are morphemes I would consider to easily be in a sentence together...

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Alright, new question! What are these? https://www.tomasoabestratingen.nl/wp-content/uploads/bfi_thumb/pad-met-halfsteens-verband-met-kaseitjes-lxbq5ar5495ywo5tt75zlgeqt44qud8b4afwwv4ya0.jpg I don't think the site likes external image embedding, but when I click the link, it works. Anyways, I'd cal...

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I must say that in the nearly 10 years I've been here you're the first person interested in logical conlangs that I've seen coming here. This is actually more of an artistic conlang forum. I have no idea where the logical conlang people hang out though. Huh? Sindyr has a whole lot of posts in C&C Q...

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Obligatory XY problem avoidance: why do you want to find them? Do you have a goal in mind?

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"Shit, I don't have any cash on me! Do you mind covering for my lunch today?, I'll totally make it up to you next time!"

Yeah, I've heard this usage before, and even probably used it before.

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This diagram is how I finally figured out how the whole "Mth cousin Nth removed" thing works in English. It's actually a pretty logical system: count up on both sides to the most recent common ancestor; the minimum count is M, the difference is N. Also, the whole "kinship tutorial" is pretty cool, ...

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Part of the problem with climate speculation is that we really only have one example to derive general principles from: our Earth. So, climate resources are going to head in the direction of similar celestial situations, simply because we understand it better. The alternate side of this is that you ...

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Bought a car a while back, with a warranty coverage package. After having the car a while, the A/C doesn't work. I take the car into the shop, they say the compressor is bad. Warranty company doesn't want to cover a real replacement part; they want to use one of their own replacement parts. They sen...

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I had to start reading the article to figure out what the headline was even trying to say. Really? What didn't you get/did you misinterpret? I got it immediately, and I can't see any gardenpathy stuff in there? I didn't realize that the phrase was "'carnists' killed in Vegas". I kept trying to find...

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Vegan’s life upended after Facebook rant about “carnists” killed in Vegas

I had to start reading the article to figure out what the headline was even trying to say.

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Salmoneus wrote:the duplicitous American Serpent

Wait, what? I've never heard of this. Do you have some examples?

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Zaarin wrote:
linguoboy wrote:"'za" from "pizza".
...Seriously? Is that pronounced as spelled, or as /sa/ by analogy, or...?

It's even a word you can play in Scrabble.

I've always heard it pronounced with a /z/.

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Io wrote:I'm surprised Sal didn't mention Dick or Mitt, OK neither was POTUS but still close enough and I'd imagine their names sound quite amusing to Britons.

We had a Dick for president.

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I have heard it with the stress on the initial /i/ before, though I tend to associate that with a more rural dialect for whatever (probably biased) reason.

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I don't recall coming across "watch party" before; IMD that's a "watching party". Weird. I've only ever heard "watch party", never "watching party". (Mostly weird because we're from the same city) But different generations, IIRC. Hm, I don't know that we've explicitly said as such. I'm in my early ...

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linguoboy wrote:I don't recall coming across "watch party" before; IMD that's a "watching party".

Weird. I've only ever heard "watch party", never "watching party". (Mostly weird because we're from the same city)

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Even on Earth, we have annular eclipses, where the angular diameter of the moon relative to the sun is too small to actually cover the sun completely, so we get the "ring of fire". It just sounds like on Almea, that's a bit more dramatic.

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linguoboy wrote: Most organisms are screwed. That's kind of how nature works.

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I laughed

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Do tell. I always love crude jokes, even if people are often reluctant to tell them.

Though I also am hard to offend, so make of the social mores what thou wilt.

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