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Re:The Multiverse as Muse by colorint on Friday May 12, 2017 @04:39PM (#14327716)
>historical stigmata

I only point out typos that are silly, so with that in mind: Stigmata is where you develop sores or bleeding on your hands as some sort of weird solidarity with Jesus. I imagine that would make writing papers harder.

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Re:The Multiverse as Muse by contras1970 on Friday May 12, 2017 @04:55PM (#14327862)
stigmata is the plural form of stigma, which is

    1 a archaic :  a scar left by a hot iron
      b         :  a mark of shame or discredit
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stigmata
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Re:The Multiverse as Muse by tossaway1 on Friday May 12, 2017 @05:06PM (#14327932)
The link you provided says

> "When the plural form stigmata is used, it usually refers to the nail wounds on Christ's hands and feet, wounds which have sometimes reappeared on the hands or feet of later worshippers such as St. Francis."

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Re:The Multiverse as Muse by contras1970 on Friday May 12, 2017 @05:20PM (#14328028)
usually !~ (always|only). OP's usage was fine and the complainant looked more ignorant than petty.
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