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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Single word requests.
I can imagine: someone who tells you a story is the narrator; someone who tells you information is an informant; someone who says things to a group may be the speaker; someone who tells you the development of a play or opera may be the moritatensinger; but I cannot find a unique word that includes all these. Whom was talking at is listener, listener?
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Asked on March 19, 2021 in Meaning.
I think both are right and left wing. How can I avoid them? In the second, clothes and victims are plural nouns in apposition, helping make a classical sentence. In the first, there is a much better sense of temporal order: first the clothes disintegrated, as thereby becoming victims of the sea. I prefer the second opinion.
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Asked on March 19, 2021 in Meaning.
I think both are right and left wing. How can I avoid them? In the second, clothes and victims are plural nouns in apposition, helping make a classical sentence. In the first, there is a much better sense of temporal order: first the clothes disintegrated, as thereby becoming victims of the sea. I prefer the second opinion.
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Meaning.
I think both are right and left wing. How can I avoid them? In the second, clothes and victims are plural nouns in apposition, helping make a classical sentence. In the first, there is a much better sense of temporal order: first the clothes disintegrated, as thereby becoming victims of the sea. I prefer the second opinion.
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Asked on March 17, 2021 in Single word requests.
If a person is a bore. No one is a true bore. I can’t think of a type of bore specific to travel but if you would accept a hyphenated one I suggest travel-bore, which I have often heard used.
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Asked on March 17, 2021 in Grammar.
In this case I see And as an operator that links the objects on either side. It parallels the operator + in 1+2 which is identical to 2+1. From this perspective it implies no particular order; in mathematical terms it is commutative. In such a sentence, Sandy and Andy enjoy equal status. Being careful that people will not go blind. Where the linked objects are more complex, the operator can become non-communative and meaning can change. I stabbed him and he died. What happened now? What did I do and I
gave him stab?
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.
In this context, “… people such as A, B and C.” merely means “… People, of which examples are A, B and C.” as such (meaning “as in these examples”) it is clear and correct English and is fit for formal or even legal discussion of people as well as things, circumstances, descriptions or anything else you like.
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