English isn't my natural language, but how common is the word "acrimonious"? Should
...real differences in the perception of "a couple" among native speakers of English; Randall is among those (like me) who understand "a couple" to mean impreci
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...iller-xkcd-every-majors-terrible/ Xkcd's 'Every Major's Terrible' Is Now A Real Song].
:''Unbearable'' and ''terrible'' rhyme for people who have the {{w|English-language vowel changes before historic /r/#Mary–marry–merry merger|Mary
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...e a song to let English speakers know what Rock 'n Roll sounds like to non-English-native people.)</small>
...x line-endings (if you open it up on Windows use Notepad++ or some other ''real'' text editor).
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...hink the title sounds similar. The German Mein is a bit more open than the English Mine which is spoken a bit longer. Kampf has one syllable and ends with a t
...n captcha are in randomized order and do not match with actual position on real board and are actually, which can be deducted from fact it's using differen
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"I'm more than a spambot! Our love was real!" might suggest that the spambot has actually more self-awareness/feelings
...o: the "I am not a robot" button feels adding extra flavour to the story. (English =/= my native language) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.183.123|162.158.183
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...phrase, for instance, makes no sense ate all, but among children acts as a real restriction on discourse, a kind of bard curse that ties up the recipient i
..., kind of a spanish version of what "All your base are belong to us" is in English. {{unsigned|81.34.231.6}}
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...by {{w|Edgar Allan Poe}}, one of the most popular pieces of poetry in the English language. The comic quotes the first four lines of the work, in which the {
This unexpected turn reflects the ambiguity of the verb "to rap" in English. According to the [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rap Merriam-We
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...Cueball, Beret, etc. It's my opinion that the only names that should be "real" proper names are those that are named in the comic. Megan, Miss Lenhart,
...d in "Pi vs. Tau". The picture was without that dot. My bot just shows the real link it did upload here.
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...h an incredibly controversial change without any consensus and without any real benefit doesn't suit this wiki at all. I ask that we undo the change or at
...[[User:Lcarsos#Formatting]]. If people think this should be moved out to a real page I'll do that. Just tell me what people think a good name would be. [[U
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...ots that repeat edit certain pages) and block users with 1 or 2 edits. The real problem there is how to grant those super-powerful abilities without allowi
...eat challenge to get more practice, even much more as if talking to common English natives.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:27, 8 June 201
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== Convert to real X-Forwarded-For IP addresses? ==
...u admins do the https://serverfault.com/a/526551 thing so you can block by real IP addresses and ranges? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.134|172.70.211.
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...ho can't read XKCD because she's blind. The transcripts on this site are a real boon!
...o need to be explained some xkcd jokes that would be obvious to any native English speaker living in the US. I don't have an opinion about changing the taglin
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...atively supported by mediawiki. Even so, if performance is proven to be a real (not just conjectured) problem, can we do something clever, perhaps, with t
...r in the comic page names was a good choice, because there would have been real issues otherwise, but for now I would say : "don't fix what is not broken",
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I suck at wiki stuff but am a real human - sorry for the confusion. {{unsigned|Schmammel}}
And I am not native English, so I am still happy about everyone correcting me.
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...pparently basing this desire on the fact that Irons, a classically trained English actor, portrayed Scar, the main antagonist in the 1994 Disney animated feat
[[Category:Comics featuring real people]]
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...ction. The fictional person believes a circular map is more fitting to the real Earth's three-dimensional spherical nature because both are round. This bel
...nnot be offended by being referred to by the wrong pronouns. In {{w|Middle English}} 'they' and 'their' were {{w|Singular they|accepted genderless pronouns th
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...the NHC has named the hurricanes using random words out of the {{w|Oxford English Dictionary}} (OED). The humor here is intrinsic: "Hurricane Eggbeater" is a
...all points on a surface is an {{w|uncountable set}} (as is the set of all real numbers). {{w|Cantor diagonalization}} is a famous proof that it is impo
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...f the RPG fan-boys (and -girls, judging by Megan's presence) looking for a real-world souvie of their gaming exploits. He gives some half-hearted patter,
...ence “of a strange country, pertaining to the Otherworld”; compare Old English ellende in a foreign land, exiled (cognate with German Elend penury, dis
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...xample the passage is fine, but it should be made to stand apart from the "real explanation" in some way, maybe in a callout or italicized as I have it her
...mic does it actually mention programming? Parentheses are used in ordinary English too, and they also have to be paired with each other. I think this comic is
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...and varied other ones listed regionally, IIRC), so may technically demand English usage more so than the US itself.
...of things, compared to the national usage of English. (Somewhat mis-spelt English, of course. ;) [[Special:Contributions/178.98.31.27|178.98.31.27]] 07:09, 2
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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.
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...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
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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><div></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
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...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
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...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]])
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...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
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...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
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...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
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...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
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...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|
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...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.)
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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
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...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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...ectronic recipients (if suitably clued up, in both cases, e.g. knowing the English names for months and thus their unique abbrvs). And if someone converts DD/
They didn't mention Julian Day. It uses just one real number. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.70|172.69.134.70]] 00:20, 3 July
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:(Translated into English from Sustainable) The year is 2140, and “society” has been decimated. L
If someone made what was above into a real thing as a better writer, I would buy it on the spot. [[User:Netherin5|“T
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...deaway is clearly a reference to Kill Bill, but I am not skilled enough in English to write it myself...
...amily mountain hideaway (in Colorado) and studied for a weekend. This is a real place. Also, we all got 4's and 5's on the exam, best teacher I ever had! -
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...er sugar content than Balsamic vinegar. My hypothesis for this is that the real draw fro the flies is related to fragrance [[Special:Contributions/108.162.
In English, the acid in vinegar is called "acetic acid". IIRC, "ethanoic acid" makes
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...h their neighbors -- based on the frequencies of first letters of words in English, and assuming no correlation between each first letter and the next, I calc
...n characters are used in practice (4 bits)". Hm. There is a huge list with real world passwords out there, leaking from RockYou in 2009. After some process
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...quent ads are those that mention "Play free games!". While these sites are real, they tend to be collections of Flash-based games taken from other sites fr
...|| The shoot-'em-up game "Zero Wing" on SEGA's Genesis console features an English translation so terrible it has long been a source of memetic humor. The lin
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...he Chinese game Happy Farm was more popular at the time. This strikes many English-speaking xkcd readers as odd, because Farmville is much more famous, leadin
...w|Facebook}}''' is a social networking site that allows people to meet old real−life friends and make new friends that share similar interests. One of it
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;Is it a real word puzzle?
*{{w|Brian Eno}} is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist. Rea
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...) that her own personal failings will reflect on the negative stereotype. (Real example: a group of professors asked SAT testing body to ask for demographi
In popular culture: it appeared twice in the grade 10 english module in the philippines,and without the correct citation. p.s. what shoul
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...tch</code>, and <code>Throwable</code>. These can refer to actions in the real-life game, but are also keywords in the Java language that are used for {{w
...throwing and catching the <code>Ball</code> object. Note that unlike the real game, this program actually has the same person both throwing and catch the
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...boundary fictively invented', but I'm not sure that the second one is good English. I may have studied too much sociology. [[Special:Contributions/121.73.5.
...ts (a bullet for "real" boundaries, followed by "the rest" - including two real boundaries - didn't make any sense to me).[[User:Xseo|Xseo]] ([[User talk:X
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With the psychology of XKCD readers in mind, I thought I'd look around for real-life applications of this self-same snippet. To quote the meme: "I was not
...surely wrong part, but this explanation still needs some work by a native English-speaker. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.97.215|141.101.97.215]] 07:05, 23
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(Sorry for my English... and the ugly code...) {{unsigned|194.119.85.99}}
..., you could much more easily build a raft. So it's not like they're in any real danger of drowning when the tide gets higher. - [[Special:Contributions/206
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...the pressure at the {{w|Inner_core|Earth's core}} and the width of the {{w|English Channel}}.
...s \frac{\text{Prius combined EPA gas mileage}}{\text{Minimum width of the English Channel}} = \pi</math>
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...ation_(abstract_algebra)|derivation}} may have little different meaning in english. What I meant was the process of finding partial derivative (compared to {{
...he presentation of the idea accurately; after the initial step, there's no real advice to give. Good luck is the best you can hope for. [[Special:Contribut
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...o decode the book. A cut out from the book is depicted in the first frame (real or similar).
...d Dragons. They speak in a somewhat outdated English. The reference to the real plant {{w|Aconitum|Wolfsbane}} could also be a reference to another invente
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...mentioned in the comic misheard it as the other. Try saying it out loud in English. <small>[[User:MrGameZone|0100011101100001011011010110010101011010011011110
...e comments. Furthermore the spelling "penis(t)" for "pianist" would be bad English — does this slang really exist? If so it has to be explained. Second: The
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I've always thought that "interrobang" was one of the coolest words in the English language. Don't ya think?! --[[User:Dangerkeith3000|Dangerkeith3000]] ([[Us
;Just from real life
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...ion of that thing, and the first was more than simply a rough draft, but a real work of art that took time and skill. {{unsigned ip|172.251.86.161}}
...on of Japanese characters, this would be equivalent to connecting signs in English to England, which apparently is not the most obvious conclusion. [[User:Jol
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...ical to intellectual, and east-west corresponds to one from web-focused to real-life-focused. The map also bears a slight resemblance to {{w|South East Asi
...map. Left is "Focus on Real Life," labelled "IRL," an abbreviation for "In Real Life." Right is "Focus on Web," labelled ".com." Up is "Practicals," labell
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...d: I do focus on science, like Randall does, looking for a NASA budget for real exploration.
...edit and may revise for clarity as you have said that you are not a native English speaker. Then you may remove the incomplete tag whenever you feel ready. [[
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Could it have something to do with time dilatation? something like "real" time vs "observed" time (my first comment, hope I did it right) [[Special:
: I understand that English might not be your first language, but please clarify. The explanation cover
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...I may change my negative view of eugenics, regarding any native speaker of English who ever uses "shouldn't of". <br/>
...people said "I'm glad I saw [movie]". This is secretly the most brilliant real-world-application idea that the strip has produced, to this very day. Excep
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...hrough each clause and either give a link to that part of the demo, or the real history. {{unsigned ip|173.14.129.9}}
:::Thanks for your help on grammar, I'm not native English. My main source was the Stanford site mentioned at the trivia, and he is ju
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...to Cueball. A fun, alternative explanation is that Cueball has found his real niche! A natural genius in literary criticism! (I know that's not what he
...c family."- specifically the "since it's constructed, it can't belong to a real language family"- to be rather dubious. Now, full disclosure, I have absolu
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...th other appearances. ([[:Category:Comics featuring White Hat]]) The real White Hat, when he speaks, is generally a bit of a wet blanket or well-mean
...ther strips, and it's not too harmful to put him under the umbrella of the real White Hat. I see your point; White Hat is no longer a generic character lik
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...do Americans hate soccer? || Soccer, or (association) football in British English, is rather unpopular in the USA compared to most other regions of the world
|Why aren't Pokémon real?||Pokémon are fantasized creatures that were designed to produce an intere
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...the Exhibitionist, all of which have negative connotations in contemporary English. That the viewer is encouraged to identify negatively with these four posit
...that he is usually the Philosopher. Also, “Philosopher” in vernacular English is neutrally valenced, potentially having the ability to expound either wis
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...TTPS. The fact that NO HTTPS page is signed by multiple authorities is the real problem. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:56, 26 Se
I feel that it should be pointed out that “valanced” means drapery in English, according to Merriam-Webster
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In English math, it's sin(x) as an abbreviation for sine of x -- is sinus something sp
:I'm not native English, but sine or just sin in programming is correct. Thanks for your help.--[[U
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...orrect on this point. I think this comic is also a more general comment on real vs simulated experiences. For example, do you think it is more fulfilling t
::Clearly I meant the English speaking world. It's only used that way in American. Don't be pedantic. At
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This is probably because I did in fact start typing on a real typewriter.
...mon question from the French and some other nationals. The answer is that English does not work that way. There is no official codified version. The most y
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:I wouldn't call 3DES secure ... but yes, in this situation the real problem is not using per-user salt. Note that I would expect that at least
:No, for calculating the encryption key of Triple DES, there is no real benefit in knowing million passwords, you would still need to brute force i
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There are real world uses to both Tau and Pi: Pi is the number that relates to what you ge
...plain for non math people should be much more simple. Randall likes simple English, I like simple Math. Not everything is covered but more people will underst
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...n electrical outlet. This reinforces that this is a virtual company, not a real one. [[User:Sulis|Sulis]] ([[User talk:Sulis|talk]]) 10:04, 22 November 201
...building that he has somehow gained entrance to. It seems unlikely that a real company would make both apps and stickers for phones. Obviously you can't
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...s not common to non US citizen must be be explained in more detail than in English.
...ld be the original because it helps people with a smaller knowledge on the English language.
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Sorry for my bad english, I'm not a natural writer [[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.239|108.162.2
:The Grumpy Cat is not grumpy in real life - so cat pictures DO lie! [[User:Schmammel|Schmammel]] ([[User talk:Sc
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...l dirt, they would dig in exabytes of digital archives, trying to find the real important stuff between stuff someone stored simply because storage capacit
...h, while closely followed by Hindi and Arabic. I would not be too sure, if English will win out in NYC.
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...rds could be used, or a real-life example given. That and I'm not a native English speaker, so someone else should do some grammar check. Also, I posted that
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:There's some real irony in someone declaring that atheists are boring while also affirming it
...know if I'm reading it wrong, but "it" is kind of dehumanizing. I suppose English might not be your first language, in which case: <-- that. Don't call peopl
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...munity_portal/Coordination|Coordination]] page as I can't seem to find any real guideline on this.[[User:Jarod997|Jarod997]] ([[User talk:Jarod997|talk]])
...ice that some of the names Beret Guy is using imply that in the dialect of English he speaks, only manmade or highly technological things are known, and he ha
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I'm not a native English speaker, and I'm just curious. Is there any popular saying about ass-ass-i
...you and me.", then she wouldn't be assuming anything. Of course, in spoken English, you could determine which one it is through inflection. Maybe Randall coul
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...ould want to bite into a lump of slightly soft wax. Does anyone do that in real life? Sounds pretty disgusting to me. -- [[Special:Contributions/173.245.53
...manages employees, does job interviews and so on. However I'm not a native english speaker either.-- [[Special:Contributions/141.101.97.205|141.101.97.205]] 1
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It appeared that Randall created new panels in near real time, as user suggestions to dialog were submitted around the release of th
...clusive. Some of the options that were there very early were in quite poor English. Later, the same idea was still there, but in a more refined sentence. Howe
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...ssions. I simply create an anonymous browser window and I got back to the real page once xkcd was not able to track me as a returning user. [[User:Spongeb
...ery creative! But I'm not convinced that Randall is making frames in near-real-time, nor am I even convinced he's part of the approval process at all. I
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...anything as an IP address. It can still represent something that is not a real IP address - fake IP addresses with four random non-octet numbers are far f
:::As my main language is not English I'm not familiar with nicknames, but if Meg is a common nickname for Margar
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...k the language and the layout first before calling on this. I'm not native English, so I can't be better than native speakers. Couldn't believe...--[[User:Dgb
...e and not the name he was born with. Companion of Horus obviously is not a real name. Iry-Hor is the name he made up for himself when he took the throne.[[
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::: That's not obvious at all, actually. I believe the English language has a noun for the specific kind of person who, making an argument
...a natural right and also not a right explicitly granted by FB), but their real point is that FB is violating their freedom of speech (which FB sometimes r
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I am not a native speaker of English. I thought the joke was on the double meaning of "case", meaning both "some
...no front-facing one. [[User:Real English|Real English]] ([[User talk:Real English|talk]]) 15:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
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...alls (or Megans) he feel represents the real Cueball. However, there is no real behavior of Cueball. So who should decide. I could also change these transc
...girl or a pastry cake, but from Denmark. And although I'm, really good at English for everyday use, it is not by far a language I can understand everything.
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...to exchange his soul for talent in blues music. There are a few different real crossroads that have been put forth as the legendary location. These includ
...based on the Kármán-line. Its a bit difficult to explain as a non-native English speaker, but I will try to give my best. An aircraft needs to fly at a cert
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...her half fears that civilization with that kind of shows is going to build real battleships soon.
...t news and documentaries. In addition to fictional triumphs, we also have real-life failures. We've broadcast that funding to NASA has been cut, and how
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:::Real value $27,370
::$1,000/yr for 30 years (inflation-adjusted) at a 4% real return (long-term stock + dividend average) $56,080
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|"
Real age/name unknown":<p>Cooper's
real name remains unknown. While he was estimated to be in his mid-40s, his prec
...otiable American currency," it is phrased in a way not typical of American
English.</p><p>The phrase "You're tearing me apart!" originally appeared in ''{{w|R
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...peaks French will have similar troubles in learning subtleties of American English but which would contrast from those troubles encountered by someone who's n
...urvived the jump with some injuries but had lost the money in the process. Real name Lynn Doyle Cooper, died 1999. {{unsigned ip|173.245.54.169}}
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...tion from the database. In the library example, one might select (in plain English) all books written by a certain author or published after a certain date, e
The percentage of people lit appears to approximately correspond to real demographic data: note, 5 of the 10 characters are female; the median world
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[[:File:pixels-time-turner.png|This panel]] jokes that if the real life JK Rowling had a fictional time-turner which worked, she would have go
...aning of the word "hydrant", a pipe which supplies water (derived from the English root ''hydro-'' meaning ''relating to water'', which is in turn from the Gr
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...ken the underlying equivalence relation to heart, and (over)applying it to real life, genuinely judging sets to be identical if they all contain N objects.
...or example, has both sinij and goluboj to describe different blues that in English are both blue. Japanese, as another example, has blue and green together (k
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...snippets), while the explanation should have the translations for any non-english text and any needed explanation for differences in cultural context. Regard
...d I could make a stub for the German one (It'd probably be wise to have a *real* German check that one though) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.86|108.1
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The crystalline structure is not like real-life crystalline carbon (neither diamond nor graphite). I removed that but
Old English Krypton is particularly hazardous and may explode on contact. Dark matter i
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...rastive focus reduplication. Since the word "like" has several meanings in English the reduplication serves to indicate the most ideal form of "like", i.e. ro
I think I'll edit the explanation, in a moment. The real life Univac name represents the words "Universal ''Automatic'' Computer", n
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As a native English speaker, I'd like to say that "few" is relative, and defies any hard limits
...d give to all children equally based on how good they have been... Is the "real" Santa a commie? Let's just slap the hammer and sickle on that red suit of
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Maybe include a picture of Ceres (the dwarf planet) to show the real white spot (not the inspection sticker) [[User:SirKitKat|sirKitKat]] ([[Use
...w.belusafoods.sk/1/index.php?kat=3&ac=5&id_p=170 BELUŠA FOODS s.r.o.] (no english version, sorry). Salmonela in this kind of Ceres would be very interesting
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...Maybe something to add to the description (looking at someone with better english and story telling skills than I got) [[User:Aquaplanet|Aquaplanet]] ([[User
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...comic books and other fiction (though unfortunately, this does not work in real life{{Citation needed}}). It's possible the plutonium is even in her womb,
The English physicist {{w|Henry Moseley}} discovered the law relating the {{w|atomic nu
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...lue = White.] NOTE: This is a major readjustment of colors and there is no real color matching between the two images. White is not actually blue in this i
This is a secondary effect, and not the real reason why behind what is going on in the first place. The correct renderin
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...in a south-top map. Such a map is, of course, almost completely useless in real life, because it completely distorts the relative positioning of the landma
...n this world map, a channel now exists between the UK and North Korea (the real world's South Korea) there could obviously have been many wars for the domi
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|The {{w|Roanoke Colony}} was the first English attempt to establish a permanent settlement in the New World. The colony of
...f the creature in the film - but contains so many features not seen on any real ape (for instance, dark palms and hairy breasts) that few scientists take i
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...cement doesn't make you so frightened. Moreover, this explanation is not a real explanation for heavy injuries. Actually, many specialists of the first exp
I apologize for my bad English grammar. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.74|141.101.99.74]] 18:14, 2 A
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|Old-English style message for "buffer overrun" instead of more modern language. There w
|virtual memory got too real
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| 30 years ($1,000/yr at a 4% real return (long-term stock + dividend average)
! rowspan="4"|Real estate
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Number systems aren't real math, at least not serious math. They're an affectation. 99.9% of math is
: Of course it's "real math." There aren't that many applications, but so what? Math isn't about a
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...not the English monarchy after all. The surname Pendragon shows that. The English had not arrived to push the British off to the west coast. [[Special:Contri
Should be lawful king of Britain. King Arthur was fighting against the English. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.66|141.101.98.66]] 08:30, 6 May 2015
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...nd a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or ''ten hundred'') most common words in the English language. Randall found his own method to determine which words would go on
...mic). But it was far from being a small or normal comic! It was the first "real" game comic released on xkcd (albeit not the first [[:Category:Interactive
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:::: Ooh, English cuisine is a byword, but I don't think even they brew their wine. [[Special
:::::: "English sparkling wine"... An old joke meme, mostly, but I've heard it said that it
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: I don't know proper English wording for things, but 3/2=3*2^-1, so it would be represented exactly unde
...ring concatenation (be it "a"~"b" or "a"."b") and numerical addition. The real WTF is abusing '+' for string concatenation, which has very different prope
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I'm looking forward to finding out what the words are in English (as opposed to Unicodish). [[User:Azule|Azule]] ([[User talk:Azule|talk]])
For non-native English speakers is even funnier: you look up the lyrics after giving up on deciphe
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A few remarks, but I'll leave it to someone better versed in the English language to work it into the explanation if he/she wishes to:
...advance the state of art in constraint solvers to speed the computation of real world NP hard problems (such completions exist/existed). -- [[Special:Contr
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...orrectness, the nature of this God, and making false assumptions about the English language. As someone who is a native speaker I know that "it" can be used a
..., as in "The child opened its eyes". Show me an example of real, published English that breaks this rule, and you may have a point. So far, you have nothing.
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A dog is a "canine" which, depending on your dialect of English, can sound like "K 9".
...is "Buddy", and he is never called "Pluto" at any point. So there was no real basis to bring the name popularity into this, nor the connection to Disney'
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...a star in the constellation Orion. It is commonly (at least by speakers of English) pronounced as "beetlejuice". {{w|Beetlejuice}}, however is a film directed
...ng the same as how the {{w|Uranus (mythology)|Greek god}} is pronounced in English) is preferred by astronomers, but both are commonly heard. Similarly to Dun
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The '''{{w}}''' are an English {{w|girl group}} formed in 1994, consisting of "Scary Spice", "Sporty Spice
[[Category:Real people]]
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...hought of as a pinnacle of achievement for its civilizarion- in this case, English civilization. So it is entirely possible that one day, after the fall of th
Maybe something similar exists in English? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.193|162.158.91.193]] 10:04, 29 July 2
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...d phrases are replaced with synonyms which are chosen from the most common English words. This renders ordinary words like "rocket" into "flying space car", o
! Real Title
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...ish titles in Germany, too. But somehow they are different to the original English titles... (No worry: Star Wars is Star Wars - but even that was translated
:: Now this is real funny: in Spanish the title is "El retorno del Jedi" which refers to one si
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Seems worth mentioning somewhere that 3x3cutrix is semi leet/133+ for the English word executrix, the feminine form of executor, but I don't know quite where
...need re-writing to point out that ±5 is as close to zero (parity between English and car-speak) as you get in this example. Perhaps "...scores of ''merely'
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...sual data set for people to play with. This is obviously not going to be a real random sample of people, but in the interest of getting cooler data, if you
...hese words don’t appear in any of the following dictionaries: the Oxford English Dictionary, the New Oxford American Dictionary, Wiktionary, or Dictionary.c
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::Uninspired. Wanna troll for real, you should have put in "slime mold" or some other bullshit protist. [[Spec
...as a verb)]into a noun by use of the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-tion#English -tion suffix]. While this is a standard form, it is also nonsense (as the
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...non-standard forms all the time), I'm pedantic because it causes my brain real difficulties in processing the meaning of what a person's said. I mean I'm
...ctually were only half of the full price you are ''truly'' asking for, the real price would still be considered cheap" (i.e. it's less than half price). O
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...mend that this article be overhauled and rewritten, preferably by a native English speaker.<br>Also, the title text may be a reference to the [https://www.red
...If you write stuff like that you will scare away people who is not native English. Maybe this is your intention? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|ta
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...ther words. "wow" is not a word but an onomatopoeia, and "rude" is a basic English word known to everybody {{Citation needed|}}. Somewhere along the line, fol
...generates little reaction by the fans and/or the dugouts. Here "everyone's real mad".--[[User:Troy0|Troy0]] ([[User talk:Troy0|talk]]) 08:59, 5 March 2017
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...'ve been a sounding board for a friend's journey to getting her Masters in English, giving her feedback on all of her papers for the last 2 years, and the rul
...t it take over your social life entirely. You can hang out with your three real friends while your AI hangs out with the AIs of the fifty people in your co
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...ssible to mistake the two words when spoken in the majority of dialects of English.
...the two main pieces of the ''Titanic'' wreck, which, as it likely would in real life, garners media coverage as a 'historic salvage'. The salvage seems to
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...(film)}}?I'm not sure how this will be pronounced in different part of the English world, but could it be pronounced just like '''''Rice''' the Titanic''? Tha
...le. ''Rice'' is /raɪs/ and ''raise'' is /reɪz/. Too many differences. An English speaker who hears ''rice'' when ''raise'' was pronounced is like another wh
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...isted it would mean ''making an advert''. The correct spelling in American English is ''advertising'' (telling the public about a product)) and the original c
...o plays into the title text in that Amazon is ultimately striving to make "real time" deliveries of everything, so a toothpaste pipe is closer to reality n
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...", but it's actually "half to two". Now if I could only understand why the English phrase "half again as much" also means 1.5 times...
...lready had the distinction, while "weekly" and "monthly" were created from English words, with no way to distinguish the two meanings.
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...acquired or built a new high powered {{w|flashlight}} ("torch" in British English), which he wants to demonstrate to [[Megan]]. When Cueball refers to older
:Cueball: Real bright, though.
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...st the pyramid or in the volcano makes sense) or else you actually try the real experience, and again after the ocean comes a pyramid makes more sense than
...he way (not from the very start though) This I have now posted without any real order in the [[1608: Hoverboard/Transcript]] page. Hope fully a full and us
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**There is both a giant octopus' arm (marked as ''not real'') and a very large octopus under the ship. The shape of the octopus is the
...ide]] - a direct hoverboard reference, and complaint that they are not yet real (only [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/0/01/1608_1048x1095y_Two_hove
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...in a deep fryer which is filled with oil (though I can't be sure with the English definition correlation between grease and oil). {{unsigned ip|108.162.218.1
Not to mention, Cheese on pizza is'nt real cheese (At least, not on the deep freeze supermarket kind of pizza): at lea
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...tletext = SOUND DOGS MAKE: [BARKING] [HISSING] [LIGHTSABER NOISES] [FLUENT ENGLISH] [SWEARING]
The comic might also be a joke on real-life controls, physical or virtual, often having no clear "default" value.
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...sions, but is common in spam messages about stock tips. Not being a native English speaker, I wouldn't attest this, but someone who is might confirm... [[User
...njection. This comic might be showing such an experiment with a mixture of real and fake signals.
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...to the {{w|imperial system}} as previously used in most of the rest of the English speaking world. They have many commonalites, and both systems have temperat
...ind most convenient? This is probably the reason he ends up not giving any real answer, as giving the answer in Celsius would make him a bad friend. Panick
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...e as the host mentions that people keep asking her whether or not she is a real astronomer.
...th how to zero in on a word and its definition. For a typical and expected English dictionary (unless she made further errors) the word "Astronomer" is actual
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...ce to the "Fall Out Boy" song, entitled "Champagne For My Real Friends And Real Pain For My Sham Friends", from their 2005 album "From Under The Cork Tree"
Quote from early explantion: White Hat thus wish that his real friends have access to free health care, and all his single friends will ge
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...hat are created with the pairs. See the whole [[#List of real duos|list of real duos]] as well as the [[#List of alternative duos|list of alternative duos]
...though this exact combo would not be possible in the xkcd version, as the "real universe" combo takes the second names from two duos rather than the first
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...d pro tip] in [[1608: Hoverboard]], it is almost 100 comics since the last real protip comic: [[1565: Back Seat]]. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kyn
Can someone explain "Yikes" for a non-native english speaker? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.219|162.158.114.219]] 03:01,
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...h/podium podium] and [http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/lectern lectern] in Oxford Learners Dictionaries. In medieval universities,
The comic is playing on a stereotypical politician, without any real beliefs, here represented by Cueball, but they want to appear to stand for
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...mpire-era Roman numerals, the overline denotes "multiply by 1,000", but in English an overline/underline combo just means we're being fancy. [[Special:Contri
...he jargon that Cueball spouts out). So since Randall has never spoken with real plane experts, he doesn't actually know high the bar is to be counted as on
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...on-words can be easily read. The hyphenation problem is probably unique to English. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.13|108.162.221.13]] 13:06, 5 May 2016
...guages, the cases where the hyphenation will be confusing will be rare. In English, the cases where the hyphenation will NOT be confusing will be rare. -- [[U
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I think the real question is: how long until there actually is one on this planet, even thou
...this out on an old Danish world atlas (''Lademann Verdensatlas'' with most English names also included). And although I could not determine the capital of Mic
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...sense, as Markov processes are probabalistic and have no knowledge of how English semantics work.
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...e pretty much confirmed that "updog" and similar is not well known in most English-speaking countries. Yay! I was correct after all. (I wrote the first draft
:Those stupid chatbots that have existed for decades now are *not real* AI. But you could train those to respond in certain ways. It is quite poss
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...not as statements made by mathematicians or Randall. The actual rule is '' English doesn't allow utterances to end in a lax vowel''. [[Special:Contributions/1
:Schwa doesn't distribute as a lax vowel in English. Consider, for example, that there are both tense and lax vowels (and even
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:::No, Chinese is not a pictographic language. The relatively few real pictograms have indeed been simplified through the fact that the brush was
"Emojish" could be a good replacement for English which suffers from highly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthograp
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...dering English into text would have any part in the changes that (at least English) is undergoing (which are largely related to spelling and grammar, not the
...ne may want to mix them to get a funny typing... as long as writing proper English is not a concern. Conclusion: I hardly see how Unicode restricts anything,
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...uring my edit. It's not a very good explanation though as I'm not a native English speaker. [[User:Treed|Treed]] ([[User talk:Treed|talk]]) 15:04, 5 September
...ter explaining goose migration. Apart from Kevin this looks very much like real geese migrating, with one arm often longer than the other and often a few b
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...OF COURSE THERE ISN'T! This is a comic! It's a joke! And Ponytail isn't a real person who can start one! Non-existant concepts have appeared throughout th
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...tes nor Canada existed yet).{{citation needed}} Also, glaciers don't speak English, or any language for that matter.{{Citation needed}}
...rica (although Megan, immediately underneath, does note that this is not a real fact). As the writing stated that ''Pokemon go extinct'' this can also be s
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...ws the first part of a dictionary entry on the word ''Reductionism''. In a real dictionary like [http://www.dictionary.com/ Dictionary.com] an [http://www.
...ery letter of the {{w|Latin alphabet}} (the writing system used by the {{w|English language}} and many other languages) is ultimately derived from {{w|Egyptia
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::Jorts is not a spelling error it is a real term used on Wikipedia and now linked in the explanation. They are mad abou
http://wordtree.com/what-the-victorians-did-to-english-grammar/
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...ee the explanation of the next comic about the strange fact that it speaks English). Megan points it towards a spider sitting in its web; the Sphere is awestr
...avel, and they decided to use time travel the first time to go back to see real spiders on Earth. This also tells us that they are from so far into the fut
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...d list of all types of series on the [[:Category:Comic series]] page. All "real" series are listed chronologically there and the type (five in one week/two
..., but note that the visitor from future is speaking English. The idea that English will remain but knowledge about webs vanishes ... seriously? Did no one tho
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...found in their entirety). And they do not know whether they even represent real events or myths. One of the two is indeed a myth, as it is about a man buil
...ve come from Earth (maybe travelled away), they may just have retained the English language. But given the fact that young people today probably would not und
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All of these words can be looked up in the English version of Wikipedia, but only a few are {{w|common noun}}s, three of them
**Enough tiles (...): Are there enough tiles in the standards English version of Scrabble to write the word?
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The last line is actually a real punch-line... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.201.78|162.158.201.78]] 14:51
...onto a letter frequency counter, then looked up the letter frequencies in English on Wikipedia to compare to the average frequencies. The letters that appear
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...g Sphere, a floating black energy sphere from the future. It speaks fluent English and seems to come from very far into the future and it calls Earth "your pl
...ular release schedule Monday and Wednesday, but then stopped there. Other "real" series where more than one comic in the series came out in the same week a
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...ome of these, as well as including many silly names that simply sound like real British towns to an American ear. A protractor is shown off the coast of th
Note that in British English, the correct spelling of “labeled” is ‘labelled’.
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Adrian Barlow, CEO of the English Apple and Pear Association, says: “Today, we cannot export Bramleys as th
I'm surprised that nobody here thought of the possible allusion to the real number line and the imaginary numbers, such that every apple could be assig
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...s are. The "two thumbs" is a reference to a well known type of jokes among English speakers. One of the most frequent forms is one person interrupting another
...unter and become mired in quicksand than for a real individual to do so as real quicksand is a rare occurrence in most climates on Earth.
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...ches, where they can have fun and are able to prove more noble than in the real world. Both makes dumping trash in Narnia quite sacrilegious. Sebastian --[
...eone else was so nice to copy edit all my spelling mistakes - not a native English speaker!) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 18:45, 16 Janua
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...ind the fastest typist and fastest machine. This was won by QWERTY in the English world and AZERTY in the French one. Other languages may vary.
...the common Left Right Left sequence of "the" and the many letter pairs in English of "er" which are adjacent left fingers and often caused me jams!
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|colspan=4| {{w|David Attenborough}} is an English broadcaster and naturalist, who produced a documentary series ''{{w|The Lif
[[Category:Comics featuring real people]]
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:: Maybe this is an English term? But I would have thought that a candy counter was for regular candy t
...u're right), "Crème" is the correct spelling. This is a french word - the English would be "Cream", of course - and the french spelling includes the accent.
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::So you know, the English phrase is "look and feel". I know English isn't your first language, I just wanted to correct you on that. If I tried
:I disagree, this comic contains only REAL things. This is NO horror fiction. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbr
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...ubt, may not use/know our invented names for the characters. Of course the real explanation of the concepts should then be added, but your contribution sho
...is explained, then further possible subtleties on Randall's part (weather real or though up) is exactly what needs to be here. It is for the users, and if
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...uld be seen as moving through space (despite the cursor not actually being real). Randall is presumerably making a comment re: Space Time continuum or simi
Just a minor point QWERTY is not the standard "Roman" keyboard but "English" as "French" is AZERTY and German is something else. The other thing is tha
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...the screen below the glass. A typical feature noticed about the glass for real phones would be its strength, as in work phones for construction workers.
: A similar real advertisement regarding the chassis would be that it was {{w|waterproof}} d
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This is obviously wrong because white chocolate is not [[378|real]] chocolate. Let the flamewar begin. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.34
Wow. I've seen stupidity, I've seen REAL stupidity, and now there comes this comic. Randall is confirmed for pleb ta
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No, "joung" is only there, because of my limited english skills [[Special:Contributions/162.158.150.88|162.158.150.88]] 06:59, 4 Apr
Maybe the explanation should point out that the real reason the planes "stay up" is that the tiny birds are on the '''underside'
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:A lot of people who play NBA 2K17 are actually good in real life, so they should have a pretty good chance.
The real question is, how long will it be before there's an XKCD Bracket II Twitter?
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:Usually, any software I use will show the real address in the status bar when I hover the mouse over the link. I always ch
...possibility of a "fire alarm that cried wolf" syndrome. If there is ever a real emergency, you really don't want people think "it's probably just another s
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Corrected some spellings and made the English a bit more idiomatic. Hypersonic is usually considered Mach 5 and higher,
== Real images of birds (and an insect) and aircrafts ==
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...was an unfamiliarity with the word, and was about to talk about how it's a real word and what it means, then I noticed the spelling, LOL! I KNOW I've seen
...ivorship bias to do so? ;-) How should the word be spelled (I'm not native English speaking), and does the word even exist? The spelling should be mentioned w
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.... the {{w|Devonian}} is named after the {{w|ceremonial counties of England|English ceremonial county}} of {{w|Devon}} (aka Devonshire), while the {{w|Permian}
...not educated in the science) by just inserting dog breeds names instead of real names as no one remembers the names of all the microplates. An actual geolo
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...hat Black Hat is making up nicknames. Many of his suggestions are puns for real nicknames of other places.
...ndroupolis}}; {{w|Metropolis}} can either be a type of city, or one of the real or fictional cities bearing the name. Possibly a reference to The Phantom T
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::The minions and the "prequel" (I don't know the english title) are not only watched and enjoyed by children - at least in Germany -
...uels, the one which had the most of Jar Jar Binks was the first one, whose English name was Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. And you should note that
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...of the celestial objects are that similar as shown nor the orbits are. The real scales are shown in this table:
! real (in km)
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...es can't be moved to the Trash if opened but weird things can happen. The real rub here is that the computer does know '''exactly''' what process has each
...s for your help, the major edits before were done by me but I'm not native English. I disagree that a power down is always safe, either because the user can p
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...rmal features of modern smartphones. "3-G acceleration", however, is not a real term, and doesn't describe any meaningful feature of a phone. It appears to
*The number 26 refers to the number of letters in the English alphabet
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In the real world, however, river systems undergo both accretion and avulsion multiple
...held to be the most equitable way to deal with such natural forces by the English common law system and later on, the American legal system.[[User:Surveyorap
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...ce would be to know the device is 2 months old, I do not know. I guess, in real life, this could happen when the thermostat has this guard against filename
...pposed to look innocent, but actually contains an encoded sysroot with the real spyware. It's just also terribly written. Very genuinely Russian.[[Special:
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...ng the user. For this reason, Twitter has removed verified checkmarks from real accounts of celebrities because of political controversies in the past. Exa
The last line of dialogue is a typical English sentence and has nothing to do with the Twitter Moments feature, which can
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...in Portuguese the proper plural would be "santos"). Under the most common English approach for making a plural noun, Santa would have a plural of "Santas". T
...succession from [[2003: Presidential Succession]] is used in place of the real one, Santa's place in the line would correspond to either a person who does
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...a [https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/15/iphone-text-bomb-ios-mac-crash-apple/ real vulnerability] in iOS and MacOS publicized a few days before the comic was
...nce "{{w|SQL}}" like "sequel", after SQL's predecessor "SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language)". The standard for SQL suggests that it should be pronounce
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...cter is commonly transcribed differently into British English and American English as ae and e respectively making a difference in spelling in words such as e
...ook of the same name}}, this is the first generation on the list to have a real, commonly accepted name, and was named as such due to being the generation
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..."Frank ... Johnson. That sounds like a real person! Let me just Google him real quick."
...hion designers ({{w|Oscar de la Renta}}), and so on. Most of the names are real people but a few are fictional characters, including some non-human charact
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::::Certainly, a real explanation to Randall's ''Name Dominoes'' doesn't need a numbered list or
Can "Name Dominoes" grids written in another non-English alphabet be assembled? [[User:ColorfulGalaxy|ColorfulGalaxy]] ([[User talk:
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Spell check> English (links to [[1069: Alphabet]]) and Colors (links to [https://blog.xkcd.com/2
...s first April Fools' comic [[404: Not Found]], which cannot be found, as a real comic by linking to it. Bookmarks/> Secret> Enable Dark Web adds the 'Dark
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...o more than say hiring a bricklayer as a doctor would actually make them a real doctor.
...human speech is broken into subject, object, and verb; for some reason in English we are capable of producing and comprehending speech without objects or ver
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...eader to discern sentence breaks. Incidentally, I had points deducted from English papers lacking that extra space as late as 1998.
...ng before Microsoft got into the act. It started as SEQUEL for "Structured English Query Language". Nor did I intend to say that Microsoft dictated the pronun
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::: IDK, "bleachers" is a pretty basic word from the English language... Okay, somewhat sports-centric - it means the array of seats aro
...m the English language", it's a "pretty basic word from the North American English language". I'm not sure what's worse: someone who doesn't think to use goo
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...y make sense because it (1) doesn't really fit with the comic and (2) is a real stretch. As for the first point: the joke of the comic is that Black Hat is
...[https://www.abbaopticalusa.com/catalog-1 Ironic Iconic]. I'm not a native English speaker so maybe there is something more I do miss.
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Two of these are real:
..."1,00,00,00,000" (100 crore, or 1 arab). This is true even when writing in English, so Helvetica could still be used.[[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User ta
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...d hint as to what the actual sex/gender of the figure is, and in this case English language defaults to "he". Maybe Randall indeed thought of Brian Cox, but t
...mar guide I've ''ever'' seen. Inanimate objects get the non-gendered "it". English does ''not'' default to "he". If anyone wants to refer to someone they don'
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::::I put both those in. In fact, I wrote almost the entire article. I'm English, but I try to "think American" when editing. I immediately thought of Armst
...It's actually ridiculous that this ISN'T the correct spelling! I blame the English language on this one. I'd guess that centuries ago that WAS the correct spe
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...ate night host Jimmy Kimmel humorously refused to believe that they were a real college from the start of the tournament. They lost in their division fina
...k to play off for (nominal) 3rd/4th places. In the FA Cup (competition for English+Welsh footbll clubs, it is described in terms of "Rounds" with Qualifying a
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...Money''. Which will bring more "Moichandising! Moichandising! Where the ''real'' money from the movie is made." --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|
...achterachterachterneef". I'm not even sure that's how confusing it is. The English system is easy. Simply count up to the common ancestor (A), then down to th
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Most English {{w|English compound|compound nouns}} can be constructed recursively. In many cases the
! Real term
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...s recent comics, that's an opinion. He is not saying that this is what the real world is like. And it is objectively not significant, because it is easy to
::: >He is not saying that this is what the real world is like.
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Is "everyone '''on''' here" correct English? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.186.52|172.69.186.52]] 10:30, 14 November 2
...o we, shackled to our metaphorical wall, perceive only what we can see as "real". {{unsigned ip|172.68.174.112}}
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...aid conception's misalignment with reality. Though some trends reflect the real value of the numbers on the graph, i.e. 100 million larger than 10 million
...blem surrounding the intuitive grasping of large numbers: the flaws in the English words used for them. For instance, nothing about the word "million" suggest
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...same vein as two other recent comics, Internet Archive and ArkXiv. Perhaps real things that seem unrealistic is a new topic of Randalls? [[Special:Contribu
...meone perhaps expand on the term "implementing a mechanic"? In New Zealand English at least, a mechanic is a person who works with machines. I thought this wa
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...opped being a Computer Science major and moved (eventually) to majoring in English. Consistent 4.0s in math through Trig and Calc I ... 1.6 in Calc II, retook
...d generalized riemann integrals). I'm halfway through a second semester of real analysis and was floored by how involved integration can be. [[Special:Cont
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Can any English majors verify if 'we would had to modify it' in the Title text is grammatic
:Should it be fixed, to help it make more sense to non-native English speakers? [[User:Netherin5|“That Guy from the Netherlands”]] ([[User ta
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...ty of time to establish some growing of maize in England. I don't know the real truth, but it's plausible. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.82|162.158
...om/search?q=dictionary+corn google's dictionary], and presumably any other English dictionary you might prefer. [[User:Zmatt|Zmatt]] ([[User talk:Zmatt|talk]]
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I suspect the real april fools joke is going to come on Wednesday when xkdc posts an app showi
...improper form "emojis" is used more as a plural frequently nowadays among English speakers. Which form should this explanation use? --[[User:Youforgotthisthi
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...oject dedicated to deceiving the masses into thinking that black holes are real, in accordance with the whims of the Zionist conspiracy." wot? [[User:9yz|9
...ke at least 90% of the times I encounter "podium", it's to mean "lectern". English is a living language, it changes, it develops, and this word has developed
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...ttps://support.lenovo.com/ca/en/solutions/ht000611] So this is close to a "real" button.
In what dialect of English do the words “bird” and “turn” share a vowel sound? I asked three
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...3 times as long as B" is very different from "A is 3 times as short as B". English is weird. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.46|172.68.54.46]] 15:47, 20 M
...West period, and it was really just an extended manhunt. Usually the last real Indian conflict was Battle of Kelley Creek in 1911.[[Special:Contributions/
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...graduates are entitled to delete one word of their choice from the Oxford English Dictionary.
...ps the intention is that such "deleted" words are in fact removed from the English language itself. For example, {{w|Lake Superior State University}} has an
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...nscript, but there seems to be so many colors and shades and my command of English color adjectives is not adequate. -- [[User:Malgond|Malgond]] ([[User talk:
...vacation being only an excuse. Any comments from U.S. residents regarding real-life alerts? -- [[User:Malgond|Malgond]] ([[User talk:Malgond|talk]]) 07:49
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*The length of a light nanoseconds has been set to a 10th of its real value of about a foot. Thus is will not normally be used for any of the sta
***If another editor gets the message in English, please change this to the english version (may be the same though) and delete delete the google translate lin
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...e Mexico-based company Squad that created KSP and are creating KSP 2. The real joke is that the NASA engineers are likely to want to play with the new KSP
...on 'give sb a moon' with some obscure meaning? I'm not a native speaker of English. Maybe a variant of 'mooning' (showing one's buttocks to sb)? -- [[Special:
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...they can process ({{w|Rollover (key)|rollover}}). Computer keyboards for English may be limited to as few as 3 simultaneous keys, whereas other languages or
...e typing instructor for the ''Mavis Beacon'' game, and is fictional, not a real person. Additionally, as a typing instructor, this person (even if she actu
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...hrases; however, some of these are rare or foreign enough that speakers of English don't always identify them correctly and pluralize the last word instead, e
...t ends the game is activated. Such a move can of course not be a part of a real basketball game, and more of a nod to the Golden State Warriors' reputation
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...e him to prove that his comic is true in all idealistic conceptions of the real world. (Please sign off, and make edits separate from others'.)
...soon as I saw the rewritten explanation with confusing phrasing and broken English, I knew that it was him who did it, and honestly... it just makes the artic
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...ardrobe}}'', Narnia is accessible through a wardrobe in a residence in the English countryside. {{w|Mr. Tumnus}} is a {{w|faun}} in Narnia and the first chara
...text, where the slower passing of time was used to take on time-intensive real world problems, was also used for one of the comics in [[821: Five-Minute C
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...nd that night get celebrated. Stupidly I assumed this would be the case in English speaking countries too. So, the UK and a few former colonies have only one
:Not seeing the similarity. The flowchart he mocks there is actually a real flowchart, which helps you realize that the stone you find is not a meteori
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...in a population. But a fringe theory holds that such memories are actually real, in some way related to either reality warping or alternate universes, leav
...el_sprouts_right/ there is an S] at the end of {{w|Brussels}} (at least in English, but not in Dutch, which is one of the official languages of Brussels/Belgi
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...: "A century is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages."--[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 09
...happening (and yet the bugs not, due in a relatively minute but otherwise real part of my own efforts in this regard over the years immediately beforehand
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...OK|Many etymologies}} have been proposed to explain its origin. The Oxford English Dictionary and most other modern dictionaries say that it began in 1839 as
...McCulloch]], a Canadian Internet linguist. She focuses on trends in use of English words in online communications. Randall claims that he consulted with her o
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...[https://i.pinimg.com/236x/cb/a3/78/cba3788d5839c6f6dc24fcb488a2d4e8.jpg A real Lorem Ipsum tattoo found on the web] may just be a photoshop made by a tatt
...a reference to [[286]]. "{{w|All Your Base Are Belong to Us}}" is a broken English phrase found in the opening cutscene of the 1992 Mega Drive/Genesis port of
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Does that pun actually work in US English? In UK English, Tudor and two-door have totally different vowel sounds. The former is mor
:It does work with my weird accent (German, officially learned british English in school, tought by a German teacher who lived a while in Australia, and r
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...a doctor/A&E for a clearly in-progress medical issue - if it wasn't even a real thing (as cynics might suggest may have happened in the text-only pre-Etern
: AKK! NO! It's rhinoviruses, not rhinoviri! Only monoglot English speakers pretending that they have heard of Latin and showing that they don
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{{w|John Horton Conway|John Conway}}, an English mathematician, passed away of [[:Category:COVID-19|COVID-19]] on April 11,
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...pics in physics that are related to motion and forces and used in ordinary English to refer to things that exert power, force, growth, and change (dynamo, dyn
...ne case because it has only positive and no negative connotations in plain English. In the other case because there is much confusion over the meaning of the
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...7*20 + 1*20 + 18*20 + 2*20 + 3*20*20 + 4, because there is nothing in the English to tell you where parentheses should be placed. If you multiply out your ex
...re are at least six thousands.", it comes across as not being either truly English as I know it, and/or not as accurate as it may be intended to be. Similarly
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...simply due to the placement of the particles in the table: In the American English vernacular, the phrase "left and right" is more common than "right and left
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...would it disgust? Grub is just grub, nosh, scran, nosebag. Stuff you eat. Real food, not posh stuff. And definitely not the sort of muck you'd have to eat
Isn't Megan just overly using British English expressions, which is misinterpreted as being weird on purpose? [[Special:C
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...between different regions of the US. There are also quizzes about broader English dialects, but this comic focuses on commonly cited differences between Amer
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...nd that term includes "hammer" as part of it anyway, as with most terms an English speaker would call this type of hammer, as people would indeed recognize it
::I don't think he had an specific real animal in mind there, as though people are saying segments can resemble sca
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| This appears to be an error. Under standard English {{w|Scrabble letter distribution}} there are 100 tiles of which 2 are M. Th
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...d change|sound shifting}} laws to it to guess how it would have evolved in English had it not been superseded, but saying it seems to actually summon a bear.
:Ponytail: Gretchen, is this for real?
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...rom Latin and whose pronunciation has virtually nothing in common with the English word of the same spelling).--[[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.29|141.101.
...name being said out loud in panel 3, though? Or is the name only "true" in English (in which the name didn't exist until Gretchen reconstructed it)? Doesn't m
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...wig, thumb-drive, etc, so not entirely sure if it's the ideal replacement. English is complex like that, and I don't think there's a simple name that's univer
...breeding Blair witches certainly would be such an experience, if they were real. So I think Randall has pulled off a truly epic pun. [[User:CoyneT|CoyneT]
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I associated this comic with the way (non native english speakers like myself) tend to pronounce words like depth and breadth, espec
...entary on deadth-first and hell regarding AI problems. These problems are real and people have experienced them firsthand. I notice the changes added in
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...een nouns and verbs by spelling, only grammatical usage, and many words in English are both nouns and verbs, depending on context and placement.
...ts. If you can find all of the pairs then they would be able to guess your real number and thus this would be a weird kind of phishing attempt. If the grid
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...s* if there are less than three examples. When the math teacher calls the English teacher "My dearest wife" she slaps him and files for divorce on the ground
...not spamming, it's a conscious attempt to clean this category up made by a real live human.--[[User:Quillathe Siannodel|Quillathe Siannodel]] ([[User talk:
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...Your Preferences" is deliberately confusing or non-functional because the real purpose of the site or app is to install spyware (or other malware) or othe
...spell it "lede" because the verb & the noun have such dissimilar meanings. English is a terrible language.
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