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		<title>I not conjugate, I not</title>
		<link>http://www.weinraub.com/2009/12/26/cry-conjugate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Becca doesn&#8217;t quite have all her verb conjugation and helper words down yet. In fact, sometimes, she just bails on conjugation altogether. Pretty understandable, as Thai language has no verb conjugation by subject and only very simple and consistent conjugation by past/future, the equivalent of adding &#8220;-ed&#8221; for the past tense and &#8220;will -&#8221; for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many vs. Much</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Becca still seems to trip over usage of the words &#8220;many&#8221; and &#8220;much&#8221;. 
Of course, we can see that the issue is enumerability and countability.
So we could say &#8220;I ate so much pizza that I gained 10 pounds&#8221; or &#8220;I ate so many slices of pizza that I gained 10 pounds&#8221;. The difference is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking through some old mail and found a link I had sent around. It was a NY Times Op-Ed piece about the troubling use of illegal as a noun.
Every last bit of the article is right on, and despite being nearly two years old, it&#8217;s is still just as relevant today. For example:
Since the word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My reticence, my reluctance</title>
		<link>http://www.weinraub.com/2009/07/29/reticence-reluctance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A NY Times piece today on the Microsoft/Yahoo search deal contained a usage of &#8220;reticence&#8221; where &#8220;reluctance&#8221; would have better.
After tense, months-long negotiations, the deal was derailed, in part by Mr. Yang&#8217;s reticence,&#8230;
They would no doubt justify it by pointing to the entry,  in their query.nytimes.com service which seems to use the American Heritage [...]]]></description>
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