Word: plurality
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...been nearly a week since the last day of classes heralded off the semester into spring reading period, but Dartboard has done little reading. Instead she’s been feverishly typing away at her 50 pages of papers (that’s plural, because she has three) AND attending required classes for her foreign language elective and her concentration course. All the required end-of-the-year research papers, oral presentations and classes have left Dartboard hard pressed for study time. And by hard pressed Dartboard means zero...
...Make sure the news execs finally get around to updating the form bible. “Boo-ya” is spelled with a hyphen and no “h” at the end. “Hos” (the plural of “ho”) has no “e.” Get it right, people...
According to Anderson, if the prisoners rationally identify with each other “as a plural subject,” both will know not to confess...
...miracle is a hoax." His honor is at stake, he says, so he has to make it clear where he stands with the facts. "We are not liars." Monica quietly tends to her five children and does not appear to take issue with his use of the first person plural. All she knows is that she has been healed...
...than 95% of the valley's Muslims found the ethnic cleansing that drove Kashmiri Hindus out in the '90s repugnant; they wanted to see this authentic Kashmiri Hindu community resettled. This is a view with serious political implications, since a return of the Hindu population means renewal of a plural society. Of course, plenty of Kashmiri Muslims want azaadi?independence?but they too believe that a Kashmiri state would be incomplete without its distinctive Hindu minority. There is anger in Kashmir, but surprisingly little hatred. There is also a visible weariness of this long season of violence. The culture...