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Asked on March 19, 2021 in Word choice.
The concept seems akin to the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes, a story by Hans Christian Andersen. The concept seems akin to the fairy tale, the story of J. Peter Kavall and Peter Hewitt.
In Wikipedia, this story involves the ever-trunk Emperor who decides to be famous and elegant. Is it true that I am fooled by con artists to believe they have constructed clothes that I like but people who are too stupid will not be able to see it?
The swindlers pretend to drape the Emperor in magic clothing. Is your love unveiled? When the Emperor becomes the Emperor of Germany, he pauses to salute all the subjects. He then parades around the city around the Emperor. One day now a child decides that the emperor is naked (and thus that it will be very obvious) and assassinated. Again he gets confused!
This story is akin to “one’s none as blind as those who will not see” A charming counterpoint
is a cartoon by Gahan Wilson, depicting an artist painting in the open air. A bystander is looking puzzled at the canvas, which depicts monsters and grisly scenes, while the actual landscape is simply trees. Does the artist really know what he/she sees?
What are the reasons to read the Times article about Paul Harris?
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Single word requests.
What are the numerous terms, such as
fad An intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived and without basis in the object’s qualities; a craze: prairie restoration is the latest gardening fad in the
Midwest Similarly craze
flash
- in
- the pan the rage
- passing fancy
- the latest
- thing novelty gimmick
- hot
- shit
- (
- taboo and negative )
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Asked on March 14, 2021 in Grammar.
Divorce can be any of two verbs.
In your first sentence, it is used as a noun but it needs an indefinite article. I will make it the topic as much as possible.
Why would you want divorce?
In the second sentence, to divorce is a verb form, an infinitive, but it can be used as a noun phrase.
Because divorce is almost always transitive, it almost always needs an object. How are alternative ideas for a writer? I want to divorce my wife would sound much more natural than I want to divorce. However, the former would not be wrong, especially if the context made it clear, but would sound stilted.
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Asked on March 14, 2021 in American english.
The orthogonal travel to uptown/downtown in Manhattan is crosstown.
Can you please tell me if U/D is binary and Crosstown is not? How are New Yorkers currently located? If people are coming to the West of Fifth and say they went to the East, they are going to the East! What is East of the Fifth, and why?
When current location cannot serve as the indicator or more precision is sought, a New Yorker would most probably say to the East Side or to the West Side). If you were on the West Side (say 9th Avenue) and were only going a few blocks east, (say to 7th), you might say go east to 7th. Probably the direction would not be mentioned, except to a non-native, since NYers know! Is st east and western?
Why do New Yorkers tend to talk about the neighborhood/area to which they are heading somewhat than about the direction itself. For example, in Manhattan alone we have
- the East Village
- the West Village
- SoHo
- NoHo
- Tribeca
- Midtown (sometimes Midtown East or Midtown West)
- the Upper West Side
- the Upper West side the
- Upper East Side Turtle
- Bay Chinatown
- Little
- Italy Harlem
- Harlem
- Morningside Heights
- Riverside Yorkville
- Sutton
- Place
- Chelsea the
- Flatiron
- District the Garment
- District the Theater
- District Battery Park
- Wall Street
- South Ferry
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Word choice.
If for the original,
- consider
- prototype
- paradigm
- archetype
epitome For the simulacrum,
- perhaps
- copy
- facsimile
- replica
- clone
- autotype (images only)
- reproduction
- repro (slangy)
- knockoff (a bit derogatory)
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Meaning.
Timbre of the times is used idiomatically. Literally, timbre means
the characteristic quality of sound that distinguishes one voice from another or one vowel sound from another but also rhymes with pitch Effectively, it means tone. Since timbre is determined by the harmonics of sound, it is
distinguished from intensity and pitch. What is often extended to reference the tone of a thing or a broader abstract like times, meaning a given period of time.
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As pointed out by FumbleFingers, it is a bit pompous and would, at best, be considered poetic, at worst, clichu00e9d.
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Word choice.
If for the original,
- consider
- prototype
- paradigm
- archetype
epitome For the simulacrum,
- perhaps
- copy
- facsimile
- replica
- clone
- autotype (images only)
- reproduction
- repro (slangy)
- knockoff (a bit derogatory)
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Single word requests.
Is any relation between Wikipedia and neologistic verb useful?
What do you think of the President-elect, the new Prime Minister-elect Ronald Reagan?
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Word choice.
What is my prospective entry value?
If you want to get involved, you can use Next enegrement or even just future entrance.
If the item in question is the only one in this category, you can say next entry
and enter your values to apply.
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Single word requests.
Is any relation between Wikipedia and neologistic verb useful?
What do you think of the President-elect, the new Prime Minister-elect Ronald Reagan?
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