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Re: Sideburns
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BranShea
31 minutes 32 seconds ago
Originally Posted By: zmjezhdsideburns
Are they not the corners of the beard? (link and link). Are these the ten commandments and a lot more?
5) They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corn
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Re: Build Your Vocabulary and Fight Hunger
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BranShea
Today at 11:25 AM
For non native speakers it works anyway. They have changed another thing since november. When I make a mistake, after two new sets of words it puts in the mistaken word again. It helps. So there is a repetition factor added.
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Re: "Go to lunch" or " Go for lunch"?
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BranShea
Today at 10:53 AM
Yes, I've been informed it's something like that, but I did not see that either.
To me the joke poses still another problem for understanding.
If one should ask me " What is the difference between 'a great tuna salad sandwich' and 'great se
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Re: facial hair
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Jackie
Yesterday at 09:54 PM
I haven't shaved in over 25 years And, does your location explain that? ;-) Welcome aBoard!
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Re: Hair
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twosleepy
Yesterday at 06:57 PM
I beg to differ on this one, Anna and of troy. Alopecia is the loss of hair, not the state of being hairless. The opposite of alopecia would be a word meaning the unexplained gaining of hair, which is not the definition of hirsute. This is why I didn
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Q&A about words
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Re: Capitalization of eponyms?
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Faldage
Yesterday at 06:40 PM
Originally Posted By: latishya decided my English was not strong enough to tell a native speaker something about his own language.
He's from Australia. They don't speak English there.
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Re: apple or banana?
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BranShea
Yesterday at 04:09 PM
> comparing apples and oranges again, jheem?
It just needed that little push from collegues apparently to get to the final truth of the matter. I'm grateful for your combined special efforts. It may not be relevant as to the point of t
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