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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:45:46 -0700 (PDT), darwinist <darwinist@gmail.com
Can a 100 word story be good? More to the point, have you seen it
done? What about 200 words?
Micro-fiction is an interesting idea, and there are some interesting
examples...
Started by darwinist on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
The last sentence
There are at least two stories which....
The bulk of it was an excuse for not having done homework due to alien
abduction .
My English teacher once put us onto the challenge of writing a story
of _exactly_ fifty words[1].
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Started by voidref on
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by 29 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at reddit):
I can't....
Clay does impossible lack of vision.
D fails to extract that language, being a kitchen sink of all imagineable language features instead.
C++ is an abomination (with a beatiful core language hidden deeply inside).
Remain.
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 21:52:16 -0800 (PST), Dan Christensen <Dan_Christensen@sympatico.ca
As far as I have been able to tell, Godel's incompleteness theorems
have had almost no impact on the vast body of research in pure
mathematics. Is this actually...
Started by Dan Christensen on
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by 15 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
This was the first "natural" example of
a true statement about the integers that could be stated in the
language....
EVERY theory (if it has one at all) has a DIFFERENT Godel sentence.
There is no such thing as "the" Godel sentence.
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I was taught that a sentence must have a verb. Must it? Why? Is it so in all languages? It's got nothing to do with your Vorsprung durch Technik, you know, and it's not about you joggers who go round and round and round.
Started by logical bob on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at rationalskepticism):
Even though it derives from a full sentence perhaps "goodbye" is now."
- Jacques Monod.
There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.' In formal English, the shortest possible be served by formal language.
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On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:49:31 +0100, "Peter Hucker" <none@spam.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxzYoz9-gC4&feature=related
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http://www.petersparrots.com http://www.insanevideoclips.com http://www.petersphotos.com
"I am" is reportedly...
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On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:09:58 +0100, Bod <bodron57@tiscali.co.uk
Yum yum!
Bod On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:28:30 +0100, "Peter Hucker" <none@spam.com
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:09:58 +0100, Bod <bodron57@tiscali.co.uk
I am going to attempt to get... .
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Whenever I need information on a programming topic I tend to search Google directly in English. I don't even bother trying to search in Spanish which is my mother tongue, I know that probably I won't find anything interesting.
Do you ever try to search...
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Google Translate is a very useful tool which maybe you could use language....
english.
No, I didn't + I dont think it is useful :(
Not Applicable with a particular language e.g.
language is english, but thats often ok.
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A while back in the Deep South, I heard a black woman talking on a phone. She said "Maybe he was just trying to provoke me. Maybe he was just trying to getupundermy SK N." Why the emphasis on the word "skin?"
Typical southern jive talk involves the contraction...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at wilmott):
Not all languages use amplitude for emphasis the way ....
But it doesn't explain why hypothesized that "up" is like an exclamation point inside the sentence.
In the English language so it's the letter that often gets dropped.
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:12:33 -0800 (PST), "hhgygy@gmail.com" <hhgygy@gmail.com
Hi native speakers.
I had an argument with a fellow translator on whether this sentence is
correct or not
[i]Translation fees are calculated on basis of the source ...
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Les (BrE) On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:29:15 -0800 (PST), Marius, which seems... .
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athel
On Sat of" is idiomatic English; "on basis of" is not.
That the English version is virtually always the shortest,
usually quite noticeably.
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A while back in the Deep South, I heard a black woman talking on a phone. She said "Maybe he was just trying to provoke me. Maybe he was just trying to getupundermy SK N." Why the emphasis on the word "skin?"
Typical southern jive talk involves the contraction...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at wilmott):
Not all languages use amplitude for emphasis the way ....
But it doesn't explain why hypothesized that "up" is like an exclamation point inside the sentence.
In the English language so it's the letter that often gets dropped.
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See:-
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2009/08/the-copy-machine-is-busted-ars-reviews-wolfenstein.ars
The shortest and most succint review of this particular flop.
Apparently the game also assumes that most FPS players have << 100 IQ.
Silly...
Started by john.dsl@verizon.net on
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by 17 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
The German language, which
most probably won't be noticed by most of you native English speaker, 25 Aug 2009 05:31:01 GMT, "gnomon@al.ia" <gnomon
This review was the shortest of 3 that I have of English errors and typos....
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