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  • ...is one really interests me. Another one of those amazing visualizations of real-world facts xkcd is so great at. I have no idea what one might write for an ...ate description of the president's role in legislation (or of a pre-modern English Parliament). {{unsigned|208.32.120.10}}
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  • ...ony of finding the incorrect explanation (the analogy) interesting and the real explanation (the mathematics) boring.
    3 KB (451 words) - 14:56, 11 October 2022
  • ...ite to each other at the end of first year he gave his address as (not his real name, obviously) Sean Murphy, Kilbeggan, Ireland. We all laughed but he sai ::Ah ok. And you had me thinking that someone in the English speaking world was using our German term ;) --[[User:Kronf|Kronf]] ([[User
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  • ...{{w|superscript}}.<font color="#36b"><ref>Aha! I fooled you and this is a real ref tag! However, there are no references.</ref><sup>[3][4]</sup></font> Wh ...Latin words. -Ax is also, specifically, the root of the -acious ending in English, as in "audacious" or (appropriately) [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dicti
    4 KB (620 words) - 20:35, 30 September 2023
  • I'm surprised "ship" isn't among the most commonly used words in English. Where do these statistics come from? [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want y ...referring to [[wikipedia:Simplified Technical English|Simplified Technical English]]? — [[User:Ethaniel|Ethaniel]] ([[User talk:Ethaniel|talk]]) 14:09, 12
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  • ...e would participate here at this discussion. So I am sure we will find the REAL explain. I am with you. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 2
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  • ...y in the world" would make absolutely no sense to me if I was not a native English speaker or I simply wasn't getting the comic's point in the first place. No ...not "involves interactions with real objects". Isn't a vagina/penis also a real object?
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  • : Another native speaker here. You typically would not "hang out" – in real life – with people you don't "like" – as in you like your friends. Ther : This native speaker agrees. The dialog is ordinary informal American English. That's why facebook and Google hijacked the words. Facebook and Google w
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  • :::Now, to extend the metaphor into the real world, you can think of <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> as meaning "container" and ...something declare that the word "this" is the most hyperlinked word in the English language, LOL! I cannot believe that excluding the word was accidental. - N
    16 KB (2,693 words) - 03:14, 14 December 2017
  • ...here's no easy way to disambiguate this since it is a common time zone for English speakers in the USA and UK. ...every full moon, to make the time between full moons exactly 30 "days" (in real life it's 29.5 days). [[Special:Contributions/75.103.23.206|75.103.23.206]]
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  • Another way: draw a line between the real object and its reflection. Things are reflected around that line. If that ...t years" is an idiom. Wouldn't that be "first year students" to be proper English? [[Special:Contributions/207.225.239.130|207.225.239.130]] 22:05, 11 Decemb
    11 KB (1,702 words) - 22:33, 5 November 2017
  • ...elp in solving problems. The complex notion of analyticity yields fruit in real analysis. Extensions to hypercomplex numbers are weirder, however. --[[User ...and also what "observed" (which would link it to holidays....) can mean in English language please revert this. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]])
    5 KB (779 words) - 06:17, 15 May 2024
  • ...ternet and for this work, he was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award. His real name is Stephen D. Crocker. *Dr. {{w|Stephen Wolff}}, spelled differently than Steve, but the same as the real name of Steve Crocker. He is one of the many fathers of the Internet, mainl
    5 KB (848 words) - 01:59, 6 June 2024
  • ...rst user's leopard now produces language in Chinese, why is the message in English? {{unsigned ip|108.162.250.155}} ...cerned... Chinese characters are usually typed using an IME and a standard English leopard. We type in the pronunciation romanized and select from a list of c
    4 KB (583 words) - 00:48, 14 March 2024
  • ...cts are presented in a white cover, just showing the word "Ja!" ("Yes!" in English) and much smaller the content of the product. Maybe this could also be ment ...ched to a red/white two-colour scheme with the product in large letters in English. The problem was, that multiple brands did this, which made them look very
    10 KB (1,453 words) - 08:30, 18 April 2024
  • ...way of knowing, and i don't know if its mentioned in Enderverse lore). The real question is "Does this lego house have enough house-ness and collectivity t ...say yes, X to say no.' Not only are there people who don't have very good English skills, there are a bunch of people who don't actually bother to read direc
    9 KB (1,403 words) - 18:56, 23 October 2022
  • ...nitly correct there while HO is completly illogical. The HO can be used in english only because it is common to use O instead of saying zero, while this is un The original width of the section of real world being modeled (18m * 87) works out to 1 mile. [[User:Johanna-Hypatia|
    5 KB (782 words) - 06:14, 27 May 2022
  • ...he latter, contains identical characters in the 2nd and 4th positions. (In English translations of the text, this is the part rendered as "LORD" in capitals.) [[Category:Comics featuring real people]]
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  • ...ranslate every sentence in the Explain to Hungarian and put it after every English sentence. It must be checked frequently to make sure nobody removes the Hun ::I've removed that translation because this wiki tries to ''explain in English'' the content of the comics. And Hungarian is just an example, an example f
    3 KB (501 words) - 12:52, 27 January 2020
  • ...he three 5k ohm resistors...apparently it is a myth! Does anybody know the real reason? ...anation for Magic Smoke? I even had to make a <sup><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[285|REAL Citation needed]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></sup> sign to indicate that the needed
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