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To: kiryandil
It's actually "font of knowledge and wisdom".

It's 'fount'. Perhaps you could sight your source for using font, which is normally used to designate type size. My site is Merriam-Webster. Readers could chose which site was more credible and affective.

As to the paragraph in question, a review of the actual data shows the first sentence to be false. As to the second sentence, while there may be an acre or two that was planted to corn where corn had never been grown before, it would be true only on a technicality, but not even close to true in the practical sense. The third sentence? Corn was planted where it normally was.

burning propane energy to produce ethanol energy is a net loss in any thermodynamic equation.

See post 37.

55 posted on 04/05/2014 12:09:58 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: Balding_Eagle; driftdiver
It's 'fount' [of knowledge and wisdom].

More cognitive bias.

A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgment, whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion. Individuals create their own "subjective social reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of social reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behaviour in the social world. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality.

The OED suggests that font of knowledge is now the more common form.

One of us went to university for free on his knowledge of the English language, and you didn't, naif.

The three clear facts I posted above stand, and your "Internet rebuttal" does not. Making stuff up and injecting your own opinion is not a rebuttal.

56 posted on 04/05/2014 1:14:27 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: Balding_Eagle
I'm sorry. The "OED" is the Oxford English Dictionary. I just used the contraction, assuming that you would know what it was.

My apologies.

57 posted on 04/05/2014 1:22:22 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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