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How do you quote a passage that has used '[sic]' mistakenly?

punctuation quotations asked May 11 '11 at 3:00
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What is a feminine version of 'guys'?

word-choice gender gender-neutral hailnames asked Apr 2 '11 at 13:51
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Factorial and exponential dual identities

analysis power-series generating-functions asked Feb 4 '11 at 18:22
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What is a good alternative for the reverse of a boycott?

single-word-requests phrase-requests antonyms asked Dec 12 '16 at 15:28
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Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions

historical-linguistics morphology language-change asked Sep 14 '11 at 17:36
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What is the difference between free-will and randomness and or non-determinism?

free-will asked Aug 10 '11 at 18:06
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Formal alternative to bullsh-t

single-word-requests phrase-requests asked Feb 20 at 20:57
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What is the difference between “English” and “British”?

british-english connotation ethnonyms asked Dec 16 '11 at 20:36
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Where did mathematicians learn how to do truth tables?

logic math-history asked Jun 3 '11 at 15:12
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Can't deep learning models now be said to be interpretable? Are nodes features?

neural-networks deep-learning interpretation asked May 4 '18 at 16:27
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Top Answers
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What is “ass door”?
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What do you call a disk with a hole in the middle?
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Is it true that English has no future tense?
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Is there a saying or proverb for a situation where the weakest party will always lose?
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Is there an antonym (a complementary antonym) for “spicy” or “hot” regarding food (I DO NOT mean “seasoned”, but “hot”)?
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Idiom: People caring about minor stuff while something terrible is happening
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Is “women men girls love meet die” a valid sentence?
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How to read exponential expressions, e.g., “2^16”?
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How do you say “Come on, man” to a woman?
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Is there a word for the person who hides truth in order to deceive?
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Do native English speakers use the word 'notif' to mean ‘notification’ or ‘alert’?
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What's a parallel for 'mitigate', for worsening a good situation?
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Is it possible to solve any Euclidean geometry problem using a computer?
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Alternative term to “Blacklist” and “Whitelist”
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What does the term “hot dog lawyer” mean?
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What's the pun in this “Julius Caesar” reference?
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Word for when we accidentally invert the syllabic utterances of words?
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Is “skills-wise” correct English?
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How popular is the word “cromulent”? If I use this word in conversation with native speakers, doesn’t it look out of place?
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Generic name for places like village, town and cities
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“I'm home” or “I'm at home”
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Algorithms from the Book.
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Should foreign words used in English be inflected for gender, number, and case according to the conventions of their source language?
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English equivalent of the Portuguese phrase: “this person's mood changes according to the moon”
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Is a hamburger considered a sandwich?
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Paucity of words for relationships
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What would you call a person who doesn't want to learn anything new?
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What overarching category do “street,” “road,” “avenue”, etc. belong to?
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Does English use the word ‘thou’ in any situations nowadays?
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Meaning of “modulo the fact”
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