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But your attempted refutation doesn't work if I did not. And, when I introduce into this discussion a comparison with the relationship...

The vast majority of Anglophones don't even know that Frisian exists; but that does't mean that it isn't a language similar to English.

This is just my assumption, but maybe she said something like "...isn't she the heroine of this novel?"

Hmm, you're right. Thanks for pointing it out :D

A worthless cat-raper who cannot multitask and does not properly prioritize, so he turns his back on his little daughter waiting at the...

Not merely cursory research, but cursory thought, and only cursory thought. I didn't claim that Ukrainian and Russian were dialects of...

Two worthless cat-rapers, and one dead child.

Then all hope is lost. Still, it would be cool if a writer who had prostituted himself was literally beaten for doing so by his pimp.

In America, for a time the Bell Telephone company tried to use boys on roller-skates as operators; but, well, boys will be boys. So the...

Your question willfully misinterprets my use of “proper”, which I have explained clearly, with a different use. And that willful...

The editor should have grabbed the writer by the nose with as much force as he could manage, and then have explained that, when next the...

I know how you feel: I saw "anyhow" replacing "anyway" , and people pronouncing it "anywho" ...

Beat that woman and every one of her living ancestors. Then exile all of then to Detroit.

“We have an emergency, and could get something to eat as we travel; but let us have a two-person committee meeting!”

No, your first reaction, before any comment, was to deliver a community strike. So you're falsifying the history of discussion, and I'm...