Today I learned that "japan" is a word.

#001 | Kodiologist | Wed 27 Jul 2011 @ 7:22:08 PM (UTC)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/japan

I was scratching my head for a while as to why the program I'm writing doesn't correctly capitalize "A cross-cultural study of stress-reaction patterns in japan", despite using Aspell. When databases don't preserve case, there's only so much you can do.

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"…and the colonel was certainly not going to waste his time and energy making love to beautiful women unless there was something in it for him."

#002 | willis5225 | Thu 28 Jul 2011 @ 10:23:48 AM (UTC) | (edited)

I learned something new today.

Well, yesterday, but then I saw no one had responded so I thought I'd respond appreciatively.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir

#003 | HeyDude | Thu 28 Jul 2011 @ 12:37:15 PM (UTC)

Me too.

#004 | Dont Interrupt Me | Tue 2 Aug 2011 @ 12:15:01 AM (UTC)

I'd known this already from a Scrabble context.
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Was it a car or a cat I saw?