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NAQs (Never-Asked Questions)

These are questions about cinnamonlab that no one has asked me (yet), but I imagine someone will one day.

What does “cinnamonlab” mean?
It stands for “cinnamonlab is not Najoung’s, Aaron’s, Mark’s, or Naomi’s lab.”

What does the logo mean?
It’s a picture of a cinnamon labrador retriever (a type of dog, apparently).

How do you spell “cinnamonlab”?
Either ⟨Cinnamonlab⟩ or ⟨cinnamonlab⟩. It’s all one word, and it may be capitalized either like a proper noun or like a common noun.

What are the grammatical features of cinnamonlab?
Cinnamonlab is one lexical item, pronounced /ˈsɪnəmɨnˌlæ:b/. Regardless of how you choose to capitalize it, cinnamonlab is a proper noun in the sense that it is a determiner with no complements, whose semantic type is e. Cinnamonlab has the same morphological structure as New York City or JetBlue Airways.

Does cinnamonlab have any relation to Cinnamon Lab or Cinnamon Labs?
No.

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