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lunar phases Gibbous moon is a phase of the moon. It has no relation to daytime moon or the moon at nighttime. (moonshadows)
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it was just an example of "a word that described the moon," Bran.
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Hydra: Is there a word for nighttime moon? tsuwm: the ron obvious answer to him [Hydra], provided subsequently by jheem, is 'moon'. and, tsuwm: knowing as we do that there seems to be a word for "almost everything" (Richard Lederer, on There's a Word for It!), I had no reason to doubt this claim and simply put the question. "Almost everything", but not nighttime moon? Perhaps you contradict yourself.
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>Perhaps you contradict yourself.
perhaps you play the fool.
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All right, tsuwm. You used the wrong word, or told a bad joke. BranShea called you out. And now you are grumpy. Take it out on me, if it makes you feel better.
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I wouldn't call it "called out", Hydra. A first post can decide what happens next. If I had known the post was on behalf of
someone, who had heard the word before and wanted to find it back, I might not have answered at all and leave it to the experts. I thought it was just a jesty question. And I always like to 'play'.
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for future reference: I would, in all liklihood, post a jesty question elsewhere, perhaps in Wordplay and fun.
-joe (all badinage aside) friday
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[style rule guidance aside: just there is an instance of quoting outside the period that looks really odd, to me.] Are you referring to the full stop inside quotes? Truss explains the rule: if a punctuation mark was a part of the original quote, it goes inside; if not, outside. Americans tend to put it inside, no matter what. I don't see a problem with that.
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