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@fmf said
I joined on 28 Oct '05.

Can you extend the list until it includes me?

Were you one of that select group of cash contributors? 2005 seems a bit late for that.

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tropical astrologer

@drewnogal said
ABYSMAL

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Nervy beverage

Too many possibilities. ☹️
SHAKE?

(adjective)

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winter weather

@drewnogal said
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Layers of information.

NEWSPAPER?

@fmf said
I believe children and youths are more often than not using word processors to write stuff now and these will have grammar and spelling check features that mean writers don't even realize they are making mistakes ~ so they don't learn from being corrected. There is also the ubiquitous "Grammarly" which is increasingly good [to be fair] at what it does but, again, I don't think its interventions and corrections lead to the writers learning from their mistakes.

If someone points out grammar errors, it just provokes a grammar nazi call. Ultimely I hope English takes the two-level approach used in some non-English languages, where there's a formal version used by courts and scholars and an informal language used by other people.

Possessive nouns get the apostrophe, possessive pronouns don't.

But don't worry about it, unless you're filling in a job application or thesis. Nowadays clarity is preferred to correct grammar.

Given that they're supposed to be training the intellectual class, do expensive private schools still teach correct grammar?

@drewnogal said
HYPERBOLE

I’ve never heard of the word BOLE.

Bole is the trunk of a tree, used a lot here in desert areas because some trees store water in their trunks to cope better. Some of them get pretty swollen. I don't think there'd be many in your region!

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swollen tree or exaggeration

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Time here perhaps?

MOMENT?

Irregardless

@averagejoe1 said
You are right, she is def of another culture, should have realized that. And I guess she really is a little girl, I thought she was more like just writing like one. That explains why she does not comment on the rape tents, when she prob does know what that is. In another thread, she suggests that it is not happening.
So, moving on, none of you recognize the horror of the subject of this thread?

A news item in a Murdoch-owned newspaper about child rape in a Central American country. Not the US.
What has that to do with Biden, or you for that matter? Mind your own business and do something useful in your leisure time instead of trying to destroy the debates forum.

394. I'm not having one this year.