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December 25th, 2008

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Happy Christmukkah!

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• 3 weeks ago

  Why is my 500GB Maxtor HD showing up as 7GB?

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• 2 months ago

  Is there a specific Yiddish or Hebrew word for food that is kosher for Passover?

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• 2 months ago

  Is it too extreme to say that the current raw food diets are a glorified and socially acceptable form of anorexia?

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• January 18th, 2009

  Quick ways to defrost a freezer?

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• January 11th, 2009

  Does anyone know of a Discordian Haggadah?

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• 3 weeks ago

  Why is my 500GB Maxtor HD showing up as 7GB?

  Sorry all, thanks much for responding. After plugging it into many a computer, and running many utilities it refused to acknowledge anything more than the 7GB that were there. (The nice little partition GUI showed one partition taking up the whole of the hardrive of 7GB) Then I realized I hadn’t actually unplugged the drive from the power strip and let it power down. Sure enough upon plugging it in all of a sudden it was a 500GB drive with small sliver of a 7GB partition. Ahh the great power of “Have you tried unplugging it?” Thanks again all. Still curious how/why the drive would run itself in a way that made over 400GB of itself completely hidden?
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• 4 weeks ago

  What do you think will happen to English in the next 30-40 years?

  @DarkScribe Then you mustn’t be referring to the Oxford English Dictionary, or Websters. Because these two are written on the descriptive principles. This would be why these dictionaries contain the words Crunk Irregardless and ain’t
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• 4 weeks ago

  What do you think will happen to English in the next 30-40 years?

  @the100thmonkey Thank you, said much better than I would have in response to DarkScribe. I do still feel that the written form of a language slowly but surely bows to the spoken form, and the more “formal” slowly gives way to the more “casual”. As for the idea that English’s Variants branching off into sub varieties, that may actually be the case for some peoples. But I just don’t think English as a lingua franca has been around for long enough. Look at places that have been colonized over and over again. The Philippines don’t speak Spanish anymore, and although Tagalog has many Spanish borrows it most definitely is not Spanish. I think that for many people who are learning English as a second language but still have some connection to their native language, English will not be around long enough to completely displace their native language. But there are a few cases where English may have completely displaced the native language. I do not know enough about the Language situation in India, but I am guessing this may be an example. (although they still do have a strong media in Hindi if I am not mistaken)
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• 4 weeks ago

  What do you think will happen to English in the next 30-40 years?

  @DarkScribe True the people who are actually behind US media may not be Americans. But the ones who are speaking (Actors, TV Personalities, Musicians) are, for the most part, Americans. And it’s those who are speaking who control the language. As for the “done” past tense marker being a sign of a non-literate American I believe only strengthens my point. Language is not controlled by the Literate, but by the masses. It was not the Latin Scholars that started writing in French, the illiterate working class of France was speaking French long before it was written down and accepted by the “literate” class.
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• 4 weeks ago

  What do you think will happen to English in the next 30-40 years?

  @the100thmonkey Oh there will most definitely be Englishes. There already are. But I think those will most likely slowly vanish as a new lingua franca develops. Instead of everyone in the world speaking their on “English” people will start speaking their own “Mandarin”. And although “done” is very American, America (like it or not) has control of the majority of English media. And for some reason the majority of international English speakers attempt to replicate American English over other Englishes. And my statements are not at all that educated. I mean we could all start speaking martian in a few years you never know. You can’t really predict these things all that well. ;-) Oh and I don’t know about you, but my Proto-Indo-European is bomb-ass.
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