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Wed 2010-08-11 11:58
More words I wish there were
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(Anonymous)Wed 2010-08-11 11:22
Are you determined to remove all the things that make English actually worth speaking, and reduce it to something computer-parsable?

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[personal profile] simontWed 2010-08-11 12:47
Do you think that phrasing your complaints as rhetorical questions relieves you of the need to make them proportional to the thing you're complaining about?
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(Anonymous)Wed 2010-08-11 13:17
Did I make that point about the first such comment in two days, or the fourth?

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[personal profile] simontWed 2010-08-11 13:19
Could four or forty such comments even begin to cover the full spectrum of ambiguity in the English language?
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(Anonymous)Wed 2010-08-11 13:21
Well, one or two looks like a couple of things you've noticed. Four in two days starts to look like a general principle.

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[personal profile] simontWed 2010-08-11 13:23
Statement! One-love.

These four grumbles represent several years of backlog, so I wouldn't worry too much.
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[identity profile] ptc24.livejournal.comWed 2010-08-11 17:05
"More words I wish there were"

S: Are you determined to remove all the things... and reduce it...

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(Anonymous)Wed 2010-08-11 17:32
Ah, this'll be in the way that adding more explanation to a joke doesn't reduce the funny?

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[identity profile] ptc24.livejournal.comWed 2010-08-11 18:37
Not necessarily.
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