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(n): a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable
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2 months ago reesetee said:

Wellll . . . Yes, I guess you're right. There's just no end to the delightful nonsense that is WeirdNet. I'm glad John never fixed it. ;->

2 months ago VanishedOne said:

The Mystery of WeirdNet is an infinite and inexhausible resource, a thing illimitably unfathomable and therefore, like the Library of Babel, beyond true destruction.

Thanks for the explanation, qroqqa.

2 months ago reesetee said:

You realize, of course, that this is completely destroying the Mystery of WeirdNet. ;-)

2 months ago chained_bear said:

.... wow ....

Qroqqa's my hero.

2 months ago qroqqa said:

'Tell me what the definition means' contains, for example, an indirect object slot:

Tell you what the definition means.
Tell the starving orphan what the definition means.

It contains a couple of verb slots:

Teach me what the definition means.
Tell me what the definition represents.

A tense slot on the second verb:

Tell me what the definition meant.

2 months ago VanishedOne said:

Okay, thanks to WeirdNet I'm learning something new. But could someone possibly tell me what the definition means?

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