did she also recall the opening line of the novel Snoopy never did get to finish? “It was a dark and stormy night ….” Time didn’t allow me to explain that this was not actually a Snoopy original. The celebrated incipit was dognapped by Snoopy’s creator, Charles M. Schulz, from Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, a mid-19th century English novelist, poet, playwright and politician who also coined phrases such as “the great unwashed”, “pursuit of the almighty dollar” and “the pen is mightier than the sword”.
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oztypewriter.blogspot.com oztypewriter.blogspot.com
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- Jun 2025
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www.ofb.net www.ofb.net
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model recovery
Great term of art for e.g. scraping.
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A major purpose of this style is Malleable Software, or software that is more supportive of change, reusability, and enhancement.
Is this the first occurrence of this term?
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- May 2025
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martinfowler.com martinfowler.com
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One of the problems with building a jargon is that terms are vulnerable to losing their meaning, in a process of semantic diffusion - to use yet another potential addition to our jargon. Semantic diffusion occurs when you have a word that is coined by a person or group, often with a pretty good definition, but then gets spread through the wider community in a way that weakens that definition.
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medium.com medium.com
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‘Happy Anding’
.> for - phrase - Happy anding - article - Medium - Happy andings! - In praise of "and" - Donna Nelham - 2022, May 2022
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www.ordinarymind.com www.ordinarymind.com
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The fact that we are not going to go sit in a cave for nine years, or the fact that we’re not going to leave home and be monastics or leave home and live the life of a homeless recluse, that is not a limitation. It’s the equivalent of the elbow not bending backwards.
for - The elbow does not bend backwards - D.T. Suzuki - interpretation - by Barry Magid - Our daily, mundane life is the equivalent of this phrase.
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Roman poet juvenal saying bread and circuses
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to - Roman poet Juvenal - phrase - bread and circuses - https://hyp.is/Q9uOEISGEe-ZTp8-GdVfwQ/drlindaellis.net/a-brief-look-at-the-juvenals-bread-circuses/ - This phrase refers to how easily people are pacified and controlled through distractions
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www.regiedesecrivains.com www.regiedesecrivains.com
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Créée à Schiltigheim
Créée au coeur du Quartier des Écrivains, entre Bischheim et Schiltigheim, la Régie des Écrivains est une entreprise de services .... <br /> Bien plus qu'une entreprise de services, la Régie des Écrivains a une mission sociale : remettre en selle des personnes éloignées de l'emploi en leur proposant un emploi, des formations, une écoute et un accompagnement social avec pour enjeu de co-construire un projet professionnel solide : nous avons un agrément d'Entreprise d'Insertion.
Cette mission d'insertion s'applique également aux personnes en situation de handicap puisque : nous avons un agrément d'Entreprise Adaptée.
Pour co-construire au mieux cette mission sociale, nous proposons des Actions de Formations en Situation de Travail (AFEST) dans le domaine de la propreté, des espaces verts en favorisant l'apprentissage par l'expérience, mais aussi des formations dans l'animation, le leadership et le management : nous avons un agrément Qualiopi.
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I like to call it inverse vandalism (when vandalism is destroying things just because one can, then inverse vandalism is making things because one can).
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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Humbert has always been on trial from page one; his offenses have not changed. The jury has. Familiarity has bred alarm: the book feels, in 2021, more potent, more pernicious, less of a riotous highball and more of a ruinous opioid.
"less of a riotous highball and more of a ruinous opioid."
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www.lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk
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The social investigator Charles Booth thought they were ‘lenient judges of the frailties that are not sins, and of the disorder that is not crime’.
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maggieappleton.com maggieappleton.com
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what I've called the barefoot developer
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plato.stanford.edu plato.stanford.edu
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a term of art
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Delere Auctorem Rerum Ut Universum Infinitum Noscas. (Destroy the author of things to understand the infinite universe.)
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briefer.cloud briefer.cloud
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what I call "SQL-by-mouse"
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pressbooks.online.ucf.edu pressbooks.online.ucf.edu
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But the mischief was this, that, for all men could do, there was no possibility to keep them long in that relish; for in a very short while they would have stunk, which had been an undecent thing.
Going back to the previous sentence, we see that the word tripe means either part of the stomach of an animal (mainly sheep and oxen) one eats or "rubbish" as used in slang, foreword that the men the author is describing, consistently indulging in said tripes (as shown in "licked his fingers" and "mischief") the men would have stunk physically from organs and trash and metaphorically, due to overindulgence and indecency.
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Glossary of some important musical terms
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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Comparing pancakes to file management is an apples to oranges comparison.
From this point onwards, I'm going to insist that anything that uses the phrase "[...] apples and oranges" omit it in lieu of the phrase "like comparing filesystems and pancakes".
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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Chapter 26 provides an analysis of Lennie Tristano’s “Line Up.” Based on this analysis,specific elements of his style of improvisation are codified
no note: break up tristano style into atomic jazz style elements
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Chapter 21 introduces 13 phrase models that illustrate the essential harmonic, contrapuntal,and structural properties of the different eight-bar phrases commonly found in standardtunes.
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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Phrase repetition—four measures
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Breath Phrase=Grammatical Phrase=Antecedent:A musical “proposal” (open ended, as if with a comma)Consequent:A musical “response” (closed, as if with a period)Form Phrase
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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Phrase and Lyric Structure
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viva.pressbooks.pub viva.pressbooks.pub
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viva.pressbooks.pub viva.pressbooks.pub
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Sentence and sequence in a binary piece
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www.mendeley.com www.mendeley.com
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viva.pressbooks.pub viva.pressbooks.pub
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Phrase-Level Forms
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www.chompchomp.com www.chompchomp.com
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A present participle phrase will always act as an adjective while a gerund phrase will always behave as a noun.
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moodle.univ-lyon2.fr moodle.univ-lyon2.fr
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langage comme outil culturel par excellence
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"cultures-of-use"
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les résultats d'événementsantérieurs peuvent transformer la nature d'événements ultérieur
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La perspective"technocentrée
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le caractère médié de la pensée humaine
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hal.archives-ouvertes.fr hal.archives-ouvertes.fr
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An ActivePaper is, by defini-tion, a package combining the code, data, and documentationthat describe together a computational scientific study.
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hal.archives-ouvertes.fr hal.archives-ouvertes.fr
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There is a good chance that you have never heard ofsoftware collapse before, for the simple reason that it’s aterm I have made up myself two years ago in a blog post.
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gbracha.blogspot.com gbracha.blogspot.com
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conceptual parsimony
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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Node severely complicates and confuses things, but node alone is not javascript.
"'JS' does not mean 'Node'"
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about.sourcegraph.com about.sourcegraph.com
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The atomic unit of developer productivity ought then to be one iteration of the inner loop. The appropriate unit is not code quantity, but iteration frequency. We might call this unit of quantity developer hertz.
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wirfs-brock.com wirfs-brock.com
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So, I’m going to coin a term, Personal Digital Habitat
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subconscious.substack.com subconscious.substack.com
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quietly interesting
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the guide shall be written in such a way that all we have to do is produce the guide itself and then a computer can do the heavy lifting—where we might otherwise expect a separate, possibly GUI-driven, "app" to be created for the end user to interact with, we accomplish the same effect by making the guide very detailed—in part also an attempt to evoke the style and quality of old equipment operation and repair manuals that used to be available, when such manuals could be expected to include e.g. full schematics. If done correctly, this should be sufficient for the guide itself to be interpretable by a machine.
"comprehensive codebook"?
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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line in the sand between the old and new "smart" phone worlds
I like this distinction—"new world" smartphones vs "old world" smartphones.
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- Jan 2022
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scattered-thoughts.net scattered-thoughts.net20211
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the frothy web
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philip.greenspun.com philip.greenspun.com
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public type registry
Any known previous occurrences to this phrase? It's used today in the Solid Project.
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- Oct 2021
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blog.gdeltproject.org blog.gdeltproject.org
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A Daily Timeline Of Key Vaccine Topics In 2021 Through A TF-IDF BigQuery Analysis Of The Global Relationship Graph – The GDELT Project. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://blog.gdeltproject.org/a-daily-timeline-of-key-vaccine-topics-in-2021-through-a-tf-idf-bigquery-analysis-of-the-global-relationship-graph/
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- Jul 2021
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lab6.com lab6.com
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There used to be an internet middle class, of non-commercial users whowere not overtly technical, but were still able to self-publish.
This is probably the least flawed claim in the entire piece.
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hypothes.is hypothes.is
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"I am also concerned that despite the best of intentions many of us have not considered adequately what social justice means and entails. I worry that social justice may become simply a “topic du jour” in music education, a phrase easily cited and repeated without careful examination of the assumptions and actions it implicates. That can lead to serious misunderstandings."
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big five
English premier league, Spanish league, German league, Italian League, French league
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slack-files.com slack-files.com
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es:
Signal phrase. Uses the colon because the left is an IC
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- Feb 2020
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twitter.com twitter.com
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rooted him on
to help (someone or something) to win or succeed by expressing or showing strong support
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the tile floor of an emergency room
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perilously low oxygen levels
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the mysterious pneumonia-like illness sweeping China’s central city of Wuhan
Determiner + Epithet + Classifier + Thing + Qualifier (downranking participle clause)
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alumni.media.mit.edu alumni.media.mit.edu
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This phrase book is aimed to help newcomers to the U.S understand what some popular local idioms really mean.
A nice little phrase guide to US English.
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hypothes.is hypothes.is
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Now you have the
Interesting phrase here.
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use ‘本を貸していただけませんでしょうか’ to make it even politer.
book PRT-OBJ lend/give-TE_FORM it-is-acceptable-NEG COPULA-SUGGESTIVE PRT-INTERROGATIVE. "Is it not acceptable to give me your book?"
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‘本を貸してくださいませんか’ (Can’t you lend me your book?)
(your) book PRT-OBJ give-TE_FRM please-NEG (cannot) PRT-INTEROG (?). "Can't you give/lend me your book?"
Using くださいません is the negative of ください which, when coupled with か makes a polite order in the form of a question: instead of "Please give me your book," it is "Can't you lend me your book?"
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By asking questions, the listeners feel that they have a choice to say no and thus are not offended by your request. In Japanese, you should also ask questions when you ask for a favor.
When you ask a question, you give the other person(s) the choice to say "Yes" or "No." This is much more polite than any order using 下さい.
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neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com
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up front
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commitment
N-COUNT A commitment is something which regularly takes up some of your time because of an agreement you have made or because of responsibilities that you have. 投身的事 例： I've got a lot of commitments.
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被卡住
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wac.colostate.edu wac.colostate.edu
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As James P. Purdy wri
Textbook signal phrase.
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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like reading an atheist on the subject of religion
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