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Re:Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to g... by acheron on Thursday October 03, 2013 @11:21AM (#6489511)
"biased". The word you want is "non-biased".

I literally* don't understand how people mess this up. If you were talking about a list of projects that had not yet been submitted to one of those lists, would you say they are "non-submit"? No, obviously you would say "non-submitted". If you were talking about books that had been printed by a publisher, would you say they are "publish"? No, you would say "published", because it's a past participle, and that is how we say past participles in English. This is not a prescriptive/descriptive thing: every English speaker over the age of 5 talks this way. But for some reason "bias", a completely normal verb, causes people to throw out everything they know about English.

So, stop it.

/rant

* Yes, literally.

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Re:Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to g... by notthatimbias on Thursday October 03, 2013 @01:49PM (#6490602)
Just to help you literally understand:

People get this wrong because with many accents (most American regions among them) the "ed" in "biased" is almost silent when spoken aloud at conversational tempo.

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Re:Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to g... by serichsen on Friday October 04, 2013 @04:24AM (#6494322)
That is perhaps an excuse for people whose lips move when they are reading.
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Re:Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to g... by ClayFerguson on Sunday October 06, 2013 @06:39PM (#6505737)
I consider lip-movement during reading a mental disorder. It means your cerebral cortex is connected to your motor cortex in a flawed way. It's a significant 'brain wiring' issue, and would severely limit how fast one can read as well. It's not as bad as "mouth breathers" but close.
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Re:Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to g... by bdcravens on Thursday October 03, 2013 @02:00PM (#6490698)
As long as we're being pedantic, in most cases, you'd use "unbiased", not "non-biased".
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