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SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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4695I've heard that "woman" came from "the [hu]man with the womb&Stan1July 23
4694One would suppose she is speaking as a representative of womankind, but that wouValuepro-July 23
4693"men" [youtube video] Tolkien and "Men" (youtube.com)Stan1July 22
4692I saw it as communications-related, something which is associated with grammar.Valuepro-July 20
4691Not sure how that story ended up in this thread unless you took a left instead oZen Dollar Round-July 19
4690The heart of comedy is surprise. Thanks for the laugh.Valuepro-July 19
4689The professor told his class one day, 'Today we will experiment with a new fJoachim K1July 19
4688Comments from French speakers confirm (what are to us) their odd word patterns. Stan1June 24
4687[graphic]Stan1June 24
4686It's the C- at the bottom that gets me. :) [graphic]Stan2February 27
4685Oh, if only . . . :)Stan-12/12/2023
4684Or, "Shamed by AI altering your writing?" LOLValuepro-12/12/2023
4683Shamed by you English? [graphic]Stan112/12/2023
4682After reading that, I wonder why more non-native English speakers don't justS. maltophilia-11/15/2023
4681A chaotic poem about English pronunciation [youtube video]Stan211/15/2023
4680I get that response when unexpectedly hearing bad grammar from the mouths of proValuepro-10/28/2023
4679Bad grammar is so maddening it activates the 'fight or flight' response Tom Clarke210/28/2023
4678:) [graphic]Stan29/20/2023
4677Boris Johnson gives an example of Churchill's deliberate selection of GermanTom Clarke-4/16/2023
4676In 1977 Jorge Luis Borges told William F. Buckley (whose first language was SpanTom Clarke14/16/2023
4675[graphic]Tom Clarke33/20/2023
4674They certainly are the most sanctimonious people who ever lived... [youtube Joachim K22/20/2023
4673"...they claim they are the most moral people who ever lived." ThereiValuepro-2/20/2023
4672The modern Woke not only think they are the most moral people on Earth, they claDMaA-2/20/2023
4671Do you mean to say "Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Tennyson, Orwell, Huxley,Valuepro-2/20/2023
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