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		<title>Vendo Tutto</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/04/13/vendo-tutto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My girlfriend has left me. After four years together, she has left me. It happens, I know. It happens to us all, and my turn has come. This time however I’ve made up my mind. I’m going to throw everything out and start afresh. My second-hand life is for sale; I’m starting a new one. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tropes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I love acting. It is so much more real than life.&#8221; (Oscar Wilde, Reality Is Unrealistic) &#8220;Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members&#8217; minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. Tropes transcend television. They exist in life. Since a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straw man</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A straw man is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The straw man fallacy occurs in the following pattern: Topic A is under discussion. Topic B is introduced under guise of being equivalent to topic A. A participant (usually the one who introduced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forvo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ever wondered how a word is pronounced?Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others recording your pronunciations in your own language.&#8221;.Forvo: all the words in the world, pronounced.]]></description>
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		<title>Sinatra</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bombsville Any kind of failure in life. End A word to signify that someone or something is the very best. Player Term for a man who is a gambler by nature, who makes friends easily, and never gives up trying. Rain As in &#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to rain&#8221; indicating that it is time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Wide Words</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2007/08/29/world-wide-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grok To understand something intuitively or by empathy. &#8220;We must look to Robert Anson Heinlein for the origins of this word, which he invented for his science-fantasy book Stranger in a Strange Land in 1961.In this, Valentine Michael Smith, a human being raised on Mars, returns to Earth with psi powers given him by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Daily English Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Daily English Show is an internet show for English students, English teachers and those interested in the English language and language study. You can watch the show on many sites. You can also watch it on your video ipod.&#8221;. The Daily English Show, by Sarah Lilburn. Requires Flash Player]]></description>
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		<title>How Not to Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is hoped that exposing these tactics will help muzzle the growing abuse in our conversational landscape.&#8221;. Conversational Terrorism: How NOT to Talk!, by Dean and Laura VanDruff. This or That &#8220;It is not a question of (this) or (that), but rather it is an issue of (whatever it is you want to say).&#8221;. Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things People Said</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The intricacies of human language may have fouled them up, or perhaps unfortunate slips of the tongue led them to ignominy. Whatever the case, there&#8217;s a lot to laugh at.&#8221;. Things People Said. A RinkWorks production. Some examples: Kids&#8217; Ideas About Love &#8220;Lovers will just be staring at each other and their food will get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Word A Day</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2006/03/22/a-word-a-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.&#8221;.(Emo Phillips) &#8220;A.Word.A.Day includes a vocabulary word, its definition, pronunciation information with audio clip, etymology, usage example, quotation, and other interesting tidbits about words to subscribers every day. You can think of it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2006/02/24/the-history-of-the-universe-in-200-words-or-less/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.&#8221;. (Ray Bradbury) The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less, by Eric Schulman.]]></description>
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		<title>Word Spy</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2006/01/08/word-spy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word Spy, or &#8220;The Word Lover&#8217;s Guide to Modern Culture&#8221; by Paul McFedries, defines itself as a &#8220;site dedicated to recently coined words and existing words revived into modern usage.&#8221;.In fact, this research reveals an unexpectedly sophisticated point of view over reality. Look, for example, expressions as :type-in traffic, or acoustic snooping, or ICE-number. Or, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For everything there is a season</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2006/01/05/for-everything-there-is-a-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Looking for the meaning or origin of a phrase, saying or idiom?&#8221;Here it is: the phrase finder. For everything there is a season.]]></description>
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		<title>Ielanguages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jennifer Wagner, a beautiful site dedicated to the learning of the Indo-European Languages. There are tutorials for twelve languages.A lean, tidy, concise and rigorous work. Respect.]]></description>
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