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r/startrek•

To be honest, I never liked Dax. I did like Odo the way he was, but I liked Curzon Odo even better. Of course, it was mandatory to hit the reset button at the end of that episode and return to the status quo. But if I try and pretend it was a moral dilemma, would it really have been that bad if Curzon never returned to Dax? I always felt like the memory of Curzon was overshadowing Dax's other personalities anyway. He gets mentioned more than any other host, except the current ones, if my memory serves correctly.

If that Dax symbiont was so awesome, it should have been fine without Curzon.

It would have been quite interesting to see how the rest of the DS9 storyline would have turned out if

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r/whatstheword•

I've seen this literary device too many times for it to be a coincidence. It is often used to mean something specific. Examples I've come across:

men or women religious

punishment divine or judgment divine

paradise lost

mirror black

And it isn't just in poetry. I've also seen the term "women religious" being used in an academic paper, so it was used intentionally with the syntax noun before adjective.

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r/DoesAnybodyElse•

I'm not talking about tinnitus. I mean, when you've had your headphones on and you were listening to loud music for some time. When music fades out, there's no such feeling, but when there's a sudden stop, my ears get a funny feeling just for a moment like if someone pulled suction cups off them. It's not quite the sound of silence, more like the sound of the sudden transition from noise to silence, before the silence.

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r/whatstheword•

I don't know if this is too meta, but after being on r/whatstheword for a while, that's what I've been wondering. Language evolves constantly, so really anything could have its own word. But in a world of infinite possibilities, there is of course a chance for any number of things that don't have a word yet.

I think there should probably be a word for something that doesn't have its own word yet.

Also, as an afterthought, I think there's a difference between things that could have a word already, but they just happen to not be named yet, the unknown, on the one hand - and things that are fundamentally unknowable and cannot have a word, on the other hand.

So, the former group could probab

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