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151390 Benct Philip Jonsson
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Mar 1, 2008
10:23 am
... The problem is that even if I think the form of some articles on FW is suboptimal it is the form their authors have given them, and as such the authors are...
151391 Benct Philip Jonsson
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Mar 1, 2008
11:07 am
... It is also the usual solution....
151392 Jim Henry
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Mar 1, 2008
4:09 pm
... Sai can correct me, but I think by "form" he might have meant things like "different conlangs being documented on half a dozen different wikis", "different...
151393 Jörg Rhiemeier
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Mar 1, 2008
5:54 pm
Hallo! ... Yes. The point is that the person most knowledgeable about a particular conlang or conworld usually is *the author himself* - what he says is as...
151394 Eric Christopherson
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Mar 1, 2008
8:22 pm
... Most GUIs have a lot of keyboard shortcuts... you just have to learn them. You should be able to find them in the help for the program and in the menus....
151395 Eric Christopherson
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Mar 1, 2008
8:26 pm
... I had one too, for my Commodore 128. I think it cost $70 in the late '80s. I loved it, especially to draw with, and have often wondered why they didn't...
151396 Sai Emrys
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Mar 1, 2008
10:13 pm
... That is primarily correct, in that that meaning of 'form' is all I meant there. It's true though that I *also* support editing form in the sense of how...
151397 li_sasxsek@... Send Email Mar 1, 2008
10:26 pm
... forcing ... ability ... keyboard ... to ... devices ... of ... IBM ... My issue is that I just hate the whole point-and-click concept as the primary means...
151398 li_sasxsek@... Send Email Mar 1, 2008
10:39 pm
... Christopherson ... forcing ... ability ... keyboard ... to ... devices ... of ... learn ... and ... too. They have *some* keyboard shortcuts. Not...
151399 li_sasxsek@... Send Email Mar 1, 2008
10:41 pm
... Christopherson ... late ... Mine was for my Apple II. I bought it. Played with it breifly and never used it again. ISTR is costing a lot more than that,...
151400 Tristan McLeay
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Mar 1, 2008
10:51 pm
... Microsoft was just copying other keyboards like the Mac and Sun keyboards, which both contain an extra command key compared to 101-key keyboards. Some...
151401 Mark J. Reed
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Mar 1, 2008
11:23 pm
... The Apple ][ had a black/greenscreen display, sure. But the Commodore and Atari 8-bits had color displays, typically on a TV, with default screen colors...
151402 li_sasxsek@... Send Email Mar 2, 2008
3:31 am
... why ... this ... way ... I ... to ... Most of what Microsoft does is copied from others. I've always hated XP (been running 2000 for home), and Vista...
151403 li_sasxsek@... Send Email Mar 2, 2008
3:37 am
... Yeah, Apples were the high-end of the home market so there weren't too many users using televisions as the primary monitor, especially since they didn't...
151404 Henrik Theiling
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Mar 2, 2008
4:23 am
Hi! ... Not a problem for me: I'm switching between that ergo keyboard I posted earlier and a laptop very often (several times a day), but since they are so...
151405 Paul Bennett
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Mar 2, 2008
5:36 am
... Dual-boot is so 1990s. VMware is definitely the new hotness. Paul -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/...
151406 li_sasxsek@... Send Email Mar 2, 2008
6:54 am
... That could be an option too. I'm not sure I have the hardware to handle it....
151407 Eric Christopherson
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Mar 2, 2008
7:26 am
I recall seeing a while back a web page or article that gave a short list of some of the uses which reduplication serves in languages around the world -- e.g....
151408 David J. Peterson
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Mar 2, 2008
8:39 am
Eric C. << Second, does anyone know of any theory dealing with reduplication where both the base and the reduplicant have some sort of *semantic* value and are...
151409 Mr Veoler
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Mar 2, 2008
12:19 pm
One thing I have had in mind to ask: What about definiteness? The definite article, and a generic demonstrative - what's the difference? Is an indefinite...
151410 Mark J. Reed
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Mar 2, 2008
12:38 pm
... Yup. March 26th, 5ish PM, CNN Center food court near the Starbuck's. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
151411 caeruleancentaur
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Mar 2, 2008
12:56 pm
... The Wikipedia entry on reduplication is quite extensive! It does not mention, however, it's use in Spanish as an intensive/continuative, perhaps because...
151412 Douglas Koller
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Mar 2, 2008
3:57 pm
From: caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> ... "She cried and cried (and cried)." Not so mystical. Kou...
151413 Philip Newton
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Mar 2, 2008
4:00 pm
... Does it do hardware graphics acceleration, though, so you can play games that you only have for your secondary operating system? (Or view graphical...
151414 Philip Newton
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Mar 2, 2008
4:13 pm
... Ah, as in the famous, "Yes, but do you just like her, or do you 'like her' like her?". Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>...
151415 MorphemeAddict@... Send Email Mar 2, 2008
6:22 pm
In a message dated 3/2/2008 06:59:58 AM Central Standard Time, ... Is that even reduplication? It seems to me to be mere repetition. stevo </HTML>...
151416 Paul Bennett
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Mar 2, 2008
7:41 pm
On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:57:57 -0500, Philip Newton ... Current versions don't do direct host graphics access for the guest OS. I understand it's one of the...
151417 Paul Bennett
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Mar 2, 2008
7:49 pm
... Semantically, very little, if any. I suspect you could replace every demonstrative "that" and every "the" in English both with "bleen" and be just as...
151418 David J. Peterson
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Mar 2, 2008
7:59 pm
Stevo: << Is that even reduplication? It seems to me to be mere repetition. ... I agree. We see the same thing in English with longer phrases: "And she would...
151419 Eric Christopherson
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Mar 2, 2008
8:12 pm
... I was just about to bring up the same distinction. How is it done in Spanish? ... In my Dhaqran, at least as I envision it right now, the distinction is...
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