That is not what “unstop” means. You unstop a drain that is clogged, you don’t unstop something you want to restart.

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    3 days ago

    Better than my English second language teacher claiming that a “ship in distress” is doing fine because “distressed” is the opposite of “stressed” (and calling me into her office because I had corrected her in front of the class).

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      when I was studying electronics in vocational school, our teacher insisted that humans cannot hear as low as 50hz. because then we would just be hearing constant buzzing from all the electrical outlets…