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Martha
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November 2023 Photo Contest: On the trail
I especially like the middle picture. In fact, I think this'd be a stronger entry with just the middle picture.
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March 2022 Photo Competition, Unusual modes of transportation
Not sure if it can be considered a mode of transportation if it doesn't move...
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December 2019 photo competition: "Winter or near winter public holidays"
This picture would be vastly improved through cropping.
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November 2019 photo competition: "How Did That Happen?"
This picture would be improved by closer cropping.
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November 2019 photo competition: "How Did That Happen?"
My coworker has PTSD from the time his neighbor drove through the front wall of his apartment. It was a matter of inches/minutes that neither he nor his dog were hurt. So pardon me while I fail to find this picture amusing.
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Are questions about languages and language barriers on-topic?
I know absolutely zero Dutch, but I can figure out that waar is de uitgang means something like "where is the exit". :)
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What is the stance on unfamiliar English words?
@PeterM, I believe phoog was making a joke about the Indian use of "doubt" to mean "question".
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Do we insist on using month names instead of numbers?
As others have noted, the nature of the delimiter used doesn't remove ambiguity: 11.8.2011 looks like November to an American, and like August to a European. Same goes for 11/8/2011, despite the fact that using slashes as the delimiter is not at all common in Europe. The only way for a date to be totally and completely unambiguous is to use letters, not numbers, for the month. (Unless of course you're writing in Lithuanian or Irish, in which case everyone will know what day and year you're talking about, but they'll have no clue which month it is.)
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Do we insist on using month names instead of numbers?
Um, I think you got confused in your negations. "Avoid unambiguous formats" means that you want uncertainty.
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Should we ask for US visa refusal letters?
Note that "called to the bar" is very, very British parlance. Maybe you mean "passed the bar exam"? But that's kind of implied by the use of the term "lawyer"...
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