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  • Asked on December 24, 2021 in Meaning.

    If you dig around a bit and dig around in the dictionary, you’ll see that there’s a prefix com- meaning “with” or “together”, as seen in words like “companion” or “comrade.” And before certain consonants, that prefix modifies to con- Other words using this “con-” prefix to mean “together” include “contiguous” and “connection”.

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  • Asked on December 24, 2021 in Meaning.

    If you dig around a bit and dig around in the dictionary, you’ll see that there’s a prefix com- meaning “with” or “together”, as seen in words like “companion” or “comrade.” And before certain consonants, that prefix modifies to con- Other words using this “con-” prefix to mean “together” include “contiguous” and “connection”.

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  • Asked on December 24, 2021 in Meaning.

    If you dig around a bit and dig around in the dictionary, you’ll see that there’s a prefix com- meaning “with” or “together”, as seen in words like “companion” or “comrade.” And before certain consonants, that prefix modifies to con- Other words using this “con-” prefix to mean “together” include “contiguous” and “connection”.

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  • Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.

    Particularly when referring to times, about can mean “nearly; almost”. If I say, “I’ll be there at about three o’clock,” then I am not promising to arrive at exactly three:00, but I will be there not too long before or after three.”

    Why can ‘right now’ not mean ‘at this moment in time’? What does it feel like to be very soon? Also feel like it is not as urgent as doing a daily life. And although the word has a fairly informal register, it mixes an intensifying word (right) with a word that soften the intensity (about), which is a bit logically contradictory. In formal writing, you probably wouldn’t see this phrase.

    What do English speakers just about now mean? I’ll use informality more. What else would you suggest I use.

    But the English expression “just about” is often used with a small pause in it: right about… …now!

    Of late, the vowel in about will be drawn out as well. What happens to a speaker who knows something will happen in just a few seconds? They say “right aburuuuuut…” to signify the “very soon,” and then shout, “now!” when the thing actually happens.

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  • Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.

    Particularly when referring to times, about can mean “nearly; almost”. If I say, “I’ll be there at about three o’clock,” then I am not promising to arrive at exactly three:00, but I will be there not too long before or after three.”

    Why can ‘right now’ not mean ‘at this moment in time’? What does it feel like to be very soon? Also feel like it is not as urgent as doing a daily life. And although the word has a fairly informal register, it mixes an intensifying word (right) with a word that soften the intensity (about), which is a bit logically contradictory. In formal writing, you probably wouldn’t see this phrase.

    What do English speakers just about now mean? I’ll use informality more. What else would you suggest I use.

    But the English expression “just about” is often used with a small pause in it: right about… …now!

    Of late, the vowel in about will be drawn out as well. What happens to a speaker who knows something will happen in just a few seconds? They say “right aburuuuuut…” to signify the “very soon,” and then shout, “now!” when the thing actually happens.

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  • Asked on March 19, 2021 in Meaning.

    Particularly when referring to times, about can mean “nearly; almost”. If I say, “I’ll be there at about three o’clock,” then I am not promising to arrive at exactly three:00, but I will be there not too long before or after three.”

    Why can ‘right now’ not mean ‘at this moment in time’? What does it feel like to be very soon? Also feel like it is not as urgent as doing a daily life. And although the word has a fairly informal register, it mixes an intensifying word (right) with a word that soften the intensity (about), which is a bit logically contradictory. In formal writing, you probably wouldn’t see this phrase.

    What do English speakers just about now mean? I’ll use informality more. What else would you suggest I use.

    But the English expression “just about” is often used with a small pause in it: right about… …now!

    Of late, the vowel in about will be drawn out as well. What happens to a speaker who knows something will happen in just a few seconds? They say “right aburuuuuut…” to signify the “very soon,” and then shout, “now!” when the thing actually happens.

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  • Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.

    I do like to see articles written with the construction: “A quote, he said. ” What are some more quotes, now from the internet? I

    read every day from 1 am through 4 pm, the quote has been done. Starting with the quote is good story-telling since it brings you into that person’s point of view immediately, and inserting the he said after each sentence helps to orient the reader and let them know exactly who is speaking. Is it possible to put the he said all the way at the end of a passage?

    Why doesn’t there always need a he added at the end of the paragraph? If the paragraph is continuing, then the reader knows that the same person is continuing to speak, so it’s unnecessary to re-identify the speaker. Again, in case of paragraph with continued paragraphs, it’s a paragraph.


    I should note

    that English speakers are very familiar with this quoting pattern. We get used to hearing it from a very young age. I should add that I was only just getting absorbed into the quoting pattern. We don’t want to copy just yet. What I’ve been told all my life from Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”: “Now, my dears!”

    Rabbit one morning, “you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.” ”

    ” I just believe that here in India I don’t know that being a good person. All the above is absurd.

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  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.

    ” Ad hoc” in English does not a synonym of “this” or “such”, so you’d be changing the meaning of the sentence if you used “such” and “ad hoc” interchangeably.

    If you need a specific purpose, look at that definition you quoted: “Created or done for a particular purpose as necessary. If you wanted to rewrite this sentence and just skip Latin, try writing something like: “A tuple is always a custom-built structure,

    and take out a tuple for a

    particular purpose.” Then to take out that tuple you can use a sentence’s actual meaning as. ”

    Interestingly,
    for the designers whose software/app is paid without a job, custom-built is considered ad hoc. @eques: ” ” ” For the authors of Wikipedia, ” ad hoc” has a slightly different connotation than custom-built. As @eques comments below, ad hoc has a slightly different connotation. Should a product be built on-the-fly but have never been designed before? Sometimes ad hoc can even have a negative meaning (as something that’s slapped together quickly as a temporary solution, but is probably badly designed and should be replaced), but that isn’t the case in this particular example.

    Here’s an example of ad hoc: We cut a hole in

    the wall and put a fan in it as an ad hoc cooling system for the server room, but eventually management will have to replace the air conditioning unit with a more powerful one.

    What are some examples?

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  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.

    Is the first one wrong? When you have the phrase ” by ” to say a phrase that achieves a direct result this action can be defined as: “To say or by an ” Is it

    good to plant flowers in your yard for generating a lot of interest?

    In your example 1, you suggest that the police used the method of suspecting Mr. John’s responsibility to arrest him. How can I know someone is arrested without having evidence of an arrest? What may be the reason behind the arrest not the result of the action? If you wanted to use “by ” with an arrest, then this makes sense:

    By handcuffing Mr. John and taking him into custody, police arrested him.

    I’m an engineer at the University of Saskatchewan.

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