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Ones complement [math. / comp.] is one of the few ways to represent negative numbers.
 

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English is spoken incorrectly by about 98% of native English speakers.
 

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Speakers of English as L1 have lost ownership to the far larger ESL camp. The Internet as a mass medium has and will continue to have a significant impact* on the English language.



*google David Crystal
 

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Googly-eyed farmers are the indigenous people of Kansas.
 

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'Up yours' is foul language.
 

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"Easy come, easy go" is not a sentence, yet it is understood as if it were.
 

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Were is one the few remains of the subjunctive in Modern English.
 

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States are countries where English may or may not be the official language.
 

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Language, as we understand the word, is used on this planet only by humans.
 

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Humans (young children) accomplish a feat science has not found the answer to: Mastering a language.
 

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Language can lead to heated arguments about, for example, the use of the subjunctive.
 

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Subjunctive moods in the Romance languages are a mystery to me.