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The thin red line

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? That’s usually a reference to British soldiers especially during the musket era. What’s it mean here?

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The squiggly line that spell check draws Uber under misspelled words

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It draws under words usually, not über them

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it’s a joke that a lot of people copyedit or mark students’ work in red pen, a pun on the thin X line, a(n arguably risible) belief that those in a particular uniform are the only thing keeping society intact.

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