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"Interesting question! I'm actually working on a study comparing the uses of emoticons in English vs. Japanese computer-mediated discourse, but we aren't looking at frequency or reasons for use, just function w/in the sentence/message. But I can tell..." [
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"When I lived in west Texas, my then boss, a good ol' boy native Texan, had a bunch of these phrases that I had never in my life heard (being a native Yankee). To wit:
"That'll make your socks roll up & down"--something is surprising,..." [
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"In Conversation Analysis we use the terms intersubjectivity/intersubjective understanding to refer to the alignment between a speaker and a hearer. Intersubjectivity can be empirically demonstrated in micro-analyses of conversation and doesn't only..." [
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2 months ago
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"When ethical questions about internet stuff come up, I always revert to the tired ole metaphor of rooms at a party. Metafilter is one giant party, and we're all engaged in discussion here. Anybody can listen in on what we're saying, and the whole..." [
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3 months ago
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"The question is: "If open source was evenly split male-female would behaviours change?"
Ah, I see. Well, assuming that much/all communication in open source communities takes place online, then one aspect of behavior that might change..." [
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4 months ago
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"Research skills and critical thinking skills are not valued under No Child Left Behind legislation and have been disappearing from public school curricula in the US for about seven years now.
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"There are a ton of studies of online social behavior, going back more than 10 years now. Research specific to message boards (particularly Usenet) is a bit older, current research tends to focus on blogs and social networking sites (MySpace, Facebook,..." [
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"All of the suggestions made here so far are good ones, and one piece of advice I would add is to think about how you think when inventing/choosing a filing system. What are the ways you intuitively organize and remember things? The last thing you..." [
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"None of the Bonnat chocolates that Noka uses are plantation-specific and only the Venezuelan Puerto Cabello is arguably "single-estate." (This means that Noka's statements that its chocolates are single-estate or specific to plantation are..." [
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