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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Mar 2, 2003
Er... difficult problem.
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Yael Smith Posted Mar 2, 2003
And you couldn't just say "Difficult problem"?
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Mar 2, 2003
Conundrum is more specific. 
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Mar 2, 2003
The meanings are *essentially* the same, but they have slightly different shades of what I want to say. If that makes sense.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 2, 2003
I've always taken the difference to be that a conundrum is something that can be solved by verbal linguistics. Which would make it the wrong word to use in that context. 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 2, 2003
That has got to be my strangest typo ever... My brain was saying "gymnastics", but my fingers typed "linguistics"... 
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Mar 2, 2003
According to Webster's online, it's both...
1 : a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun
2 a : a question or problem having only a conjectural answer b : an intricate and difficult problem
I was using 2b.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 2, 2003
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Mar 2, 2003
Complex. Sorta.
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Mar 2, 2003
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
Dictionary site.
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Mar 2, 2003
And I probably sound like him cause I spoke to him last night on the phone for a bit - he'd called my roommate.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 3, 2003
Time to upgrade that telescopic sight, then... 
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The Average Joe No One EVER Suspects Posted Mar 3, 2003
Whatever happened to UH?
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