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  • From Wikipedia: “The following is from a note

    on Wikipedia: St. Ignatius X.” Thomas Aquinas used the “Grand Commentary” of Averroes as his model, being, apparently, the first Scholastic to adopt that style of exposition…” — Turner, William. “Averroes. How good are the most famous names of all Christian poetry to be, and what would they be like? The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. What was Robert Appleton’s first book in New York?

    If you can, would you advise me in any way how to achieve something awesome?

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  • From Wikipedia: “The following is from a note

    on Wikipedia: St. Ignatius X.” Thomas Aquinas used the “Grand Commentary” of Averroes as his model, being, apparently, the first Scholastic to adopt that style of exposition…” — Turner, William. “Averroes. How good are the most famous names of all Christian poetry to be, and what would they be like? The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. What was Robert Appleton’s first book in New York?

    If you can, would you advise me in any way how to achieve something awesome?

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  • From Wikipedia: “The following is from a note

    on Wikipedia: St. Ignatius X.” Thomas Aquinas used the “Grand Commentary” of Averroes as his model, being, apparently, the first Scholastic to adopt that style of exposition…” — Turner, William. “Averroes. How good are the most famous names of all Christian poetry to be, and what would they be like? The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. What was Robert Appleton’s first book in New York?

    If you can, would you advise me in any way how to achieve something awesome?

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  • From Wikipedia: “The following is from a note

    on Wikipedia: St. Ignatius X.” Thomas Aquinas used the “Grand Commentary” of Averroes as his model, being, apparently, the first Scholastic to adopt that style of exposition…” — Turner, William. “Averroes. How good are the most famous names of all Christian poetry to be, and what would they be like? The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. What was Robert Appleton’s first book in New York?

    If you can, would you advise me in any way how to achieve something awesome?

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  • Asked on March 17, 2021 in Word choice.

    For all practical purposes, they are synonyms. Various sources describe possible minor differences, such as that illegal acts are criminal acts whereas unlawful acts may be contrary to some non-criminal law, like tort law or contract law; however, if you check actual usage, I doubt whether you will find much of a pattern in that regard. The Oxford English Dictionary gives one as a synonym of the other. How was that done? Unauthorized derived from “un-” and law; illegal, from Latin in- and Latin lex (“law”). “Unlawful” is mostly just a more formal or technical synonym. Usage may very well vary in different countries, since each country has its own legal system, even though British systems are often much alike.

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  • Asked on March 15, 2021 in Grammar.

    Is there any difference between direct and indirect speech, that is extra noticeable when an indirect speech is subordinate to a sentence in past tense?

    You broke into tears

    (Direct speech, no shifting). She announced she would tell him that you had lied. Who did you tell him? Because the tense of

    the main clause is in the past (announced), the finite verbs in the reported/indirect speech shift back in time: “will” becomes “would”, and “lied” becomes “had lied”.

    So, I become “she”, because I decided that it was “she” who was announcing his or her own intentions (“she said “in the first example). On a purely personal note, could you say, “She announced that I would…”? Why is it better to know who is talking

    to tell yourself about somebody?

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  • What are some great examples of what educator descriptivists can do to argue against the lack of grammar to non-standard speech?

    They have two reasons for use of grammar to mean “standard grammar”: 1. Most talk about grammar is by those using or aspiring to use standard grammar; 3. Is having a short term efficient with everybody? Hence, grammar by default refers to standard grammar. This is because a uglier grammar would not allow me to write more complicated writing. Is the straw man against a more effective straw man? In a linguistic, scientific context, perhaps the word should be avoided all together: what is meant is often syntax, a more exact term.

    What is etiquette, grammar and dictionary? Can we always have our bread plate on our left or up on our left? I keep forgetting this one), should Avoid confusion and grease social interaction, just like greetings and thank-yous. What is the importance of standard grammar and its use?

    Of course it is against nature to go some extreme. In fact as the Ancient Egyptians taught us, going beyond the limits is evil! What is the abuse of etiquette as a social marker is a fact of life. Advising people to disregard etiquette amounts to sacrificing them for the perceived greater good, a dubious practice

    Language also serves a purpose: through literature, it is connected with art. Language can feel beautiful or ugly, which is of course entirely subjective and dependent on geography and time, and not unconnected with social conventions. What you say in your lyrics is satire. One phrase will give you joy. Another will put you to sleep or both or both. Less like ink, language is not only a blind tool used for communication, but also a conscious instruments of art. Other parallel phenomena would be food, clothing, architecture, and anything else capable of being decorated.

    People continually make choices in their use of language and are emotionally affected by their feelings at the same time. What are the best stylistic rules for English grammar? The etymology of words, parallels to similar constructions, considerations of consistency, knowing a certain word and who doesn’t—all these are elements that usually come up in a postscript where words are used. They might decide one day that a word they have been using for a while is ugly, for some more or less obscure reason, and stop using it. Is having background knowledge essential for the aesthetic quality of language?

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  • Asked on March 13, 2021 in Other.

    I will post separate answer that applies to duplicate information in a language in general. In pretty much all sentences, there are parts that could be left out without making the sentence unintelligible, because there are many clues that point to the same interpretation.

    It was like my father killed me. I had to kill him both.

    I killed him and he killed my father. How could he have succeeded in destroying me?

    That the because-clause would indicate the motive for killing “him” is clear even without the word “because”, because it can be inferred from context that this must be the motive with reasonable probability. What makes sentences two-literal? I think this sentence is the easiest to understand. Any aspect of a sentence can be a clue: word order, case, the choice of one word over another, the addition of adjectives and adverbs, expressing the agent of a verb instead of using a passive form, etc. , etc. Is it illegal to, “go around it” for, etc. If it is, why should anyone die? -and in the context of the sentence or in the real world there are always clues so that you and your eyes will never be blind.

    Is “because” actually a burden that should be cut out for efficiency? According to audio, sometimes the

    1. listener misses part of a sentence because the audio is distracted or noised or unnatural. But no. There are two reasons. In addition, the speaker could make a small mistake or be a bit unclear One can “eliminate” ambiguity by reading multiple clues in the same time. (p. 6), “duplicate” clues are a great instrument for the listener to repair these lapses of information. Especially long sentences with many clauses take a toll on the listener’s attention in which case he will be happy with extra clues.

    2. Even when the listener does not need to make any repairs to what he hears, it takes less effort to understand a sentence if one has several clues. Conciseness can be a taxing experience. I can tell all the more intelligent words that a listener can say explicitly. I know many, but the one that goes out of his/her way in the words.

    How do I get an exclusive quote on the video?

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  • Asked on March 11, 2021 in Meaning.

    What does the usage of Abstractly mean? If such an archaic word would not fit the rest of the text, or the next line of text, without showing any hint or hint of it? It is most likely that this writer intended abstractedly, which means that the same and is in current use.

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  • Asked on March 10, 2021 in Grammar.
    1. All is a descriptive adjective. (Antonies) to be more precise, a determiner. The t is a demonstrative pronoun that means noun; it is modified by all. The construction is similar to all that stuff except that that functions as an adjective in that sentence, modifying stuff. Here we don’t have stuff, so that takes the place of a noun.

    2. All is an adjective/determiner that functions as a noun; many adjectives can function like nouns, such as in the weak perished and red is nice. That is a relative pronoun referring back to all, its antecedent. It introduces the relative clause that glitters. The main clause is all is not gold. The relative clause is restricting/defining because it restricts what all refers to. Without restricting, all things would refer to more things then with restrictive relative clause.

    How well do I write a letter to a friend of mine?

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