I hang out on a couple of evolution/creation mailing lists and those _all_ get some serious workouts. My favorite, though, would have to be the dogpiled disappearance:
[Posts rambling screed full of half-truths, non-sequiturs and pure mis-information]
[Gets a dozen responses picking apart the misinformation point-by-point]
"Those were some very interesting replies, but unfortunately, I have a life/job/hobby/ingrown toenail, so it'll be a while before I can respond to all of you."
[vanishes without responding to _anything_ and/or posts another rambling mis-informed screed as if nothing had happened]
Bill Bryson, in his book "The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way" talks about how the english (and, I suppose, American) wholesale adoption of terminology allows for the acculumation of connotations (i.e. some other languages cannot distinguish between a house and a home, etc.). As has been amply shown in this thread, whinge and whine are taking on similar but distinct definitions...allowing for finer gradations of meaning.
...so what was the fuss about again? :P
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