Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year later, the phrase "I don't know" appeared twice as often in Anna's speech, and the year after that its incidence doubled again...
This is in the official release, mind you. (I think the phrase "Tom-a-Kong" is a bit excessive...
...omniscient system is a complete buzzword from my tutorial. I was almost tempted to use the phrase "hermeneutics of suspicion," which was the other great term, but I never figured out what it meant. What the omniscient system is all about, rather simply, is that some higher being knows everything that's going on in the story (usually it is the person who thought up the story in the first place...
...absolute moral sense, I have an absolute moral problem with making absolute statements about subjects that inherently rely on absolutes. After two years, I don't remember exactly what I meant by that phrase in my paper. It seems redundant now, not to mention totally devoid of meaning. I suppose it was just one of those late night instances where the words sounded good together...
...specter is haunting China -- the specter of capitalism. But the octogenarian leaders in Beijing don't come right out and say that. They call their bugaboo "peaceful evolution," an innocuous-sounding code phrase for what they think is an onslaught led by the U.S. to overturn their socialist system...