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Unique is unique. Unique means that there is only one of it. You cannot have degrees of "uniqueness" - either there are zero items, in which case they are not unique because they don't exist; or there is exactly one of the items, in which case it is unique; or there are two or more of the...

Plenty of room! Come on over. Bring a friend!

"Thank you" is, as far as I know, the only correct form in American English, but in Standard English "thank you" and "thankyou" are equally acceptable. This is actually rather interesting because, nearly always, it is the American form that gets shortened, abbreviated, contracted...

Not a chance, Sunshine. May I take this opportunity to pass on my best wishes and congratulations to all those mentioned above (excepting possibly Tannin). Great posting, team, and to celebrate, I'm offering a 24 hour amnesty for grammatical mistakes, at no extra charge. Oh, and make mine a...

Nope. Nothing out of the ordinary. Working backwards from your post, what do we have? -1: CityK didn't bother with full stops. Not a hanging offence. -2: Sechs uses "slower" where he might be better advised to use "more slowly", but then his final sentence would be awkward. On balance, I think...

Did I miss something?

Not possible. An implication is always in the source material. Always. By definition. When reading, one can only infer, never imply

Wacky: mildly perjorative adjective. Of or pertaining to any and all things that one does not happen to actually do oneself.

One can only hope that this reviewer knows his CPUs, as quite clearly he does not have the ability to express himself in standard English. As a rule of thumb, he that cannot write can neither think clearly nor observe accurately. (There are exceptions, of course, but they are few in number.)

Ahem .... You can do better than that.

Thou shalt not edit posts. Thou shalt not make mistakes. Thou shalt not be human. Thou shalt not ask forgiveness. Thou shalt suffer terrible punishment. Be afraid. Be very afraid. We miss nothing. We are everywhere. We have no mercy.

Ahem. ... What's this I hear about moderators accepting bribes from ordinary contributors? We'll have none of that, thankyou.

ATTENTION! WE DO NOT PERMIT TYPOS. WE DO NOT PERMIT MISTAKES. WE DO NOT PERMIT ERRORS OF ANY KIND. ANY MEMBER COMMITTING THESE GROSS VIOLATIONS UPON THE LANGUAGE WILL REPORT TO ME IMMEDIATELY. SWIFT AND SEVERE PUNISHMENT WILL BE PROMPTLY ADMINISTERED. (PS: By special request of the...

In the old days, having issue was another way of saying a happy event or, to be more specific, producing yet another baby. Still, all things considered, it's probably cheaper to have another electronic device. Even if you do have to resort to hard-wired network connections. Mercutio, just be...

Hmmmm .... That is quite possibly a world record, Tea. A four word sentence with three commas (and a full stop just for good measure). You don't feel that you are under-punctuating a little, Small Hairy One? Are you comfortable that your sentence above is ready to meet the world as-is, with no...