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    Saying someone has &quot;a cold&quot; or &quot;the flu&quot; have such deep roots in common use. This is as much a question of linguistics as of medicine or biology. As such, it carries with it all the fraught aspects of linguistic prescriptivism. Here, I&#39;m thinking particularly about exercises of, and resistance to, authority. These terms are like &quot;consumption&quot; or &quot;the grippe&quot; or &quot;the flux&quot;. They are descriptive &amp;amp; symptomatic, first, foremost, and pro...

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    Failing to ekranoplan is ekranoplanning to fail

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    @ianb oooh it never occurred to me how much this resembles the game Jeopardy! &quot;Please reframe your headline in the form of a question.&quot; &quot;Will Biden Remain In The Race?&quot;

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    @glasspusher Exquisite layering

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    @shauna Thank you for this. When I saw the news, I thought back to previous comments you&#39;ve made about how important Hampshire has been to you. I&#39;m sorry it has come to this. I echo a lot of your concerns about what this means. I&#39;ve read about the struggles for Mills &amp;amp; for Antioch, and that Wells &amp;amp; Cazenovia both recently closed, and watched numerous mostly still small liberal arts colleges rush to rebrand themselves as &quot;universities&quot; all in dismay at...

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    (from a recent trip to https://cayugamuseum.org/ )