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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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by 33 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
The last sentence;artyw2@yahoo.com
There are at least....
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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Any proper English out there...
No, not a racist title; I mean any people who can write correctly.
I am seeing more and more people starting sentences with the word 'And' . is it now accepted?? when I went to school I would have got a clip around the ...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at vegetableoildiesel):
Nick This Was Proper English
No....
Of English where the writer shows how thick they are by trying to ruin the language as best they can ar$e will come along and tell you that you should start a sentence with a capital letter.
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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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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
, 87 posts
by 17 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Note also an important property of the Gödel sentence of a theory:
it's truth is an immediate consequence of the consistency of the....
In the course of
mathematical research, to be equivalent to the Gödel sentence of some
theory grounds.
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Ostatnio znalazłam na facebooku kilka ciekawostek dotyczących angielskiego:
Interesting Facts About English in no particular order...
1-The most common letter in English is "e".
2-The most common vowel in English is "e", followed by "a".
3-The most common...
Started by merrik on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at mlingua):
The only word in English" (or, less....
"I am."
The word the lazy dog." This sentence is often used to test typewriters or keyboards.
The shortest complete sentence in English is the following.
As in "trouser pocket").
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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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Pangram is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once.
Is it possible to generate shortest Pangram from given word list?
Lets say, I have word list like this
cat monkey temp banana christmas fast quick quickest jumping white brown black...
Started by S.Mark on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Let P be the shortest Pangram (desired result if adding a word would make a potential pangram longer than your current shortest pangram (if any.
Contains n elements, L c will contain 2 n elements .
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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...
Started by Marc Climent on
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by 18 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
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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Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
If you take an Oriental person and spin him around...
Started by sittinghere on
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by 1 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at worldstart):
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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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