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The experiment is 141+ years of boxing history in which anyone weighing 166 pounds or less is eligible to win the heavyweight championship of the world but never does.

But there is no rule against a 166 holding the heavyweight championship of the world. No 166 fought as a challenger for the heavyweight championship of the world because one has to earn a title shot. No 166 ever earned a title shot because a good big man will beat a good little man. I don't...

Most professional boxers are in the lighter weight classes, not in the heavyweight division. The biggest money in boxing has always been in the heavyweight division. So the lighter weight professional boxers would definitely want to be the heavyweight champion of the world. That is where the...

What do you think that "Only a minority arrived during the Neolithic age" means? My interpretation is that Wade meant that "Only a minority of the most recent ancestors of white people arrived during the Neolithic age". Yes, but I think that Wade meant "most of their ancestry". Otherwise, I...

I don't see how there is not a contradiction. I think that you are aware of the fact that there is not a modern European on the face of the Earth today that can trace all of their ancestry back to the hunter-gatherers. Don't you mean the following?: "Wade uses limited DNA evidence done in...

Thousands of people were lynched in the American South in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Although most lynchings occurred in the South, there were still plenty of lynchings in the North. The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Indiana and the Duluth lynchings in...

There is a switch for a type of motor or some sort of part in HVAC that closes due to back EMF, but I don't remember what type of motor or switch in HVAC closes due to back EMF. What type of HVAC part or switch closes due to back EMF?

Deja Vu

Last year I read Nicholas Wade's book Before the Dawn. Before the Dawn is about the history of humanity in prehistoric times. I am currently reading David Reich's book Who We Are and How we Got Here. Who we Are and How we Got Here is also about the history of humanity in prehistoric times...

By your standard, you can just say anything that I bad grammar is not wrong because it is informal. For instance, by your standard, you can say that the sentence "She don't know" is not grammatically incorrect because it is informal.

The word ain't is informal. Double negatives like "We don't have no money" are informal. When grammarians say that a sentence is nonstandard in formal English, the grammarians basically mean that the sentence has bad grammar. With your standard, nothing would be wrong.

Yeah that is what Alan at EnglishClub.com said about than. You are correct.

The moderator Alan at EnglishClub.com knows more about English grammar than anyone on Earth. I asked Alan about this at EnglishClub.com. If anyone wants to see the actual thread at EnglishClub.com, the thread is at the subforum Grammar Help, and the thread is titled "I am older than she/ than...

You certainly implied that that is your idea on post #8 on this thread and several other posts on this thread. My thesis is that universities should mandate that students take courses on English grammar in order to get a Bachelor's Degree. You responded "Isn't that what grade school is for...

I am conceding that you are and were correct that what you wrote in post #68 is not a comma splice. I still disagree with your idea that universities should not require undergraduates to take courses on English grammar in order to get a Bachelor's Degree.