> I think ebonics if a load of crock, but as an aficionado of linguistics... I was under the impression that modern linguists generally agreed that good linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive. Could you…
> So it would be fine if the scarcely dressed participants in the show were of the same gender as the main characters? It would be less sexist, but it would remain stupid. Anyway, let's return to the main point of…
There's a comment by a Brad Hicks halfway down on that article about how ridiculous it was that Judge Wright allowed surprise testimony from the audience. It's even stranger that it was an attorney, who would be acutely…
Is there a word to describe this sort of writing style? > There was no Microsoft money, no Starbucksian gentrification, no post-grunge feelings of cultural inevitability—only the low-tide stench of marine oil and…
In addition to what asynchronous13 mentioned, the Iranian Air Force maintains and fields several US exports (notably the F4 and the F14). It wouldn't be terribly surprising if their techs were already proficient in…
This isn't germane to the discussion. > FBI Agents are busy flying to Iceland working on Hollywood's vision for the future of who owns the internet, data, and computers Wikileaks has very little to do with…
The discipline of statistics can be defined as the set of techniques used to draw inferences and conclusions from a sample--an incomplete set of data. When you have all of the data, playing with it ceases to be…
> I think ebonics if a load of crock, but as an aficionado of linguistics... I was under the impression that modern linguists generally agreed that good linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive. Could you…
> So it would be fine if the scarcely dressed participants in the show were of the same gender as the main characters? It would be less sexist, but it would remain stupid. Anyway, let's return to the main point of…
There's a comment by a Brad Hicks halfway down on that article about how ridiculous it was that Judge Wright allowed surprise testimony from the audience. It's even stranger that it was an attorney, who would be acutely…
Is there a word to describe this sort of writing style? > There was no Microsoft money, no Starbucksian gentrification, no post-grunge feelings of cultural inevitability—only the low-tide stench of marine oil and…
In addition to what asynchronous13 mentioned, the Iranian Air Force maintains and fields several US exports (notably the F4 and the F14). It wouldn't be terribly surprising if their techs were already proficient in…
This isn't germane to the discussion. > FBI Agents are busy flying to Iceland working on Hollywood's vision for the future of who owns the internet, data, and computers Wikileaks has very little to do with…
The discipline of statistics can be defined as the set of techniques used to draw inferences and conclusions from a sample--an incomplete set of data. When you have all of the data, playing with it ceases to be…