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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Meaning.
The triple is for somersault whirlpools; the quad is for twists: gold
went to Britain’s Gary Hunt, who nailed his back triple-quad. I mean a three-somersault, four-rotation twist dive from a back-to-the water position.
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Phrases.
I feel the sex of the US with the Chinese or the US accent of the subjunctive. How
can you describe a
John Cage sonata. In the following sentence If I be like a melody, it could only be a John Cage sonata.
the verb is in the present subjunctive to indicate doubt or unrealized condition. What if nobody uses this construct today, if at all, and certainly not in conversation?
In urban vernacular, “I be” takes the place of “I am” or “I was” or “I said,” so “I be like” means roughly “This is how I feel” or “This is what I said.” Why do I quote “Blah Blah Blah” by Rich Homie Quan? “When she try to argue
with me I be like, “Blah blah
blah blah” (I hope you don’t need meto explain rap lyrics further.) Part of the point is that
it’s nonstandard.
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Synonyms.
Is it being prejudicial that something is advantageous will induce prejudice in someone who is aware of it? If a prank is perpetrated on such a person, he/she is also prejudiced.
A wise judge will not allow the prosecution to introduce gory crime scene photographs because they will be prejudicial to the prosecution. Who will see how horrifying is the picture in a jury’s minds will lead them to ignore the actual evidence of whether the defendant is responsible. Due to the personal nature of the case, the trial lawyers will often be prejudiced, unable
to offer a fair judgement on all evidence.
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Word choice.
What is your impression of the choice of article seem to reflect or reflect a different emphasis? ” a slightly agitated Mrs. Smith” means, “Mrs. Smith”. White was a mildly agitated person,” while “the calm Mrs. Smith was in a very sensitive and strong position.” Smith could speak of a highly agitated person, but they said it was not suitable for play. “Spock” means the agitated version of Mrs. Smith. Smith in contrast to her normally cool and collected self.
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Asked on March 10, 2021 in Meaning.
“Assign” has the meaning of a transfer, here of ownership. What is from-to/action between persons, so the English idiom prefers “to.” Since ownership changes hands (a metaphorical usage meaning people), it would better to keep exchange between people, not names: vehicle’s ownership is
reassigned to the loan officer.
The document that signifies ownership is called the vehicle’s title; and this piece of paper records the name of the owner. Across the English idiom is ‘in”: The vehicle is retitled
in the name of the loan officer.
What do you think of me?
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Asked on March 9, 2021 in Grammar.
Is prosper in the sense of prosper an intransitive verb? What is that passive voice of Dolphin that can’t
be transposed into the passive voice of Dolphin? So in the active voice, you can say
The bullfighter flourished (active verb) a cape (direct object). For instance, a cowfighter does his jacket for that.
To transpose this into passive, make the direct object the new subject, make the new verb passive with a form of the verb “to be” as an auxiliary with the old verb; make the old subject the object of the preposition “by”: A
cape (subject) was flourished by the bullfighter.
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Asked on March 8, 2021 in Meaning.
Does negotiating have two meanings? What is the first step to find agreement? You can negotiate such an agreement with another yourself, or you can have someone negotiate on your behalf. To find your way on a difficult path is the second meaning. Why is second meaning what I repeat in life.? Let’s let x (“principle”) and y (“self-interest”) be our identity. “Then your sentence becomes To
grow into the world he or she must negotiate between principle and self interest. To do this is to have no illusion, to gain a sense of self I mean.
This means that it is necessary to find a difficult path through life that balances acting on high moral principle on the one hand and acting selfishly on the other.
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Asked on March 6, 2021 in Grammar.
These are “nominate absolutes”, and you may argue that they modify the entire clause to which they are attached or that they are “absolutely” free-standing.
In your example
the gas tank exploded in the air sending shrapnel through the air.
Does the participle tell us what kind of tank it was or does it tell us what was the tank explosion in on the roof? There’s no tank or explosion but that would have taken a tank to send a beam. Is the clause a target of reform or not?
In the famous dangling constructions about
the keys having been found, the car was driven home.
Also, it seems that the finding isn’t much to do with the type of car or in any way be related to all the other things as mentioned either. So free standing seems the better
choice.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Single word requests.
What is a word? What does the conservative answer actually mean? Is it true that lexicographers are sometimes mistaken and include errors, otherwise all other lexicographers have copied those errors? What do you feel about obsolete words? What is hapax sex line? What are some examples of obsolete hapax legomena not used for centuries? Even if we ignore those exceptions, dictionaries don’t necessarily list all words derived by standard rules. Space in a dictionary gives all kinds of meaning to words.
Let’s start with hobby, surely a word (and dictionary heading) for a type of activity. What types of activities are devoted to this purpose? English uses the suffix aism to denote a movement and the suffix -ism to denote a practitioner. Almost all spoken English is in English. These are based on the phrasing of “Asympostics”). Our society is divided between socialist and social. Can we also consider hobby “a sound word”? The OED does, finding first written examples in 1846 and 1871. A report by Professor Paul Moore.
As socialism begets socialistic, can we consider hobbyistic a word? Are we all the same? The Ngram viewer finds the following from The Art Of putzing: Your Guide To A Guilt-Free Retirement Of Puttering by M Decker and J Hickey:
Along with the naturally hobbyistic, such persons need to be avoided.
As mystic is to mystical, is there a next step to hobbyistical? Christopher Kane makes a hobbyistical blog. What do you all
mean by that?
English creates adverbs from adjectives ending in -al, therefore is there any reason not to recognize the adverb hobbyistically? How is an adverbial construct, standardized-formed from an adjectival. And if it is unreliable, will a google search tell you whether anyone else disagrees?
What is the reason behind this essay being so popular?
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Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.
Generally speaking, the major words in a formal title are capitalized, but there seems to be no consensus in this case. What gives this copy of a 1997 Louisiana varsity football, varsity basketball or special teams ruling?
Both of these see like formal enough venues to provide guidance, yet both take different typographical stands.
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