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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Meaning.
Aside from the meaning of “dichotomy” as the phase of the moon we call “half moon” and as a technical term of art in biology meaning a bifurcation, and a definition of the word on the original OED given two definitions of that word. The first is any two-fold partition (i.e. without value or initial value). I.e. No total value of any one. 2) There’s one side, the other, and nothing in between. The second is a twofold division, if yes. To give an example of the latter, the OED cites a source that contrasts the “popular” theological dichotomy of man into body and soul with the Christian/Atheist trichotomy of spirit, body and soul.
The supplement adds to the second definition “something paradoxical or ambivalent” and gives these examples:
By a dichotomy, familiar to us all, a woman needs her own baby to be perfectly normal, and at the same time superior to all other babies.
Their uncritical use of the ‘Communist’ versus ‘Free World’ dichotomy:
The latter example serves to illustrate some of the sense of the charge of false dichotomy when you’re asked to make a choice between two things, which are presented (wrongly) as the only possible choices
If a fish is sharp enough to cleave a domain, then it makes sense that the parts be distinct in the criterion of the cut. If you didn’t have any basis for making incision, you wouldn’t have any
basis to make it.
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Grammar.
Is there a past perfect for another person or act from past time? I’ve already joined Alcoholics Anonymous. I had bad decisions and didn’t want to end my life. I didn’t want to go to Alcoholics Anonymous “I hate every single person I knew, and I’m addicted to alcohol but will try again if I don’t! ” All those bad choices happened before I joined AA. The
present perfect “have made”) talks about completed action in past time as recorded from right now. Have I ever accepted the admission for AA? ” That covers any decision up to the present. What is a statement or a statement?
What is the meaning of English tenses?
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.
How did Raymond Chandler define “Killer in the Rain”? In both the works the narrator is the FBI detective Philip Marlowe, who returns to the La Verne Terrace house of Harold Steiner. A widow with a father that was a pornographer, sex slave and a blackmailer, Marlowe had found his client’s daughter in a house near the corpse of the owner, and Marlowe has gotten Carmen to go home in her own car. Marlowe is missing from the elevator and wants to find out who killed Steiner.
When a driver starts doing something dangerous on the side of the road, he doesn’t want to drop him off in front of the house to be reported as the scene of the murder. So he has that cabby drop him off on a nearby street, in front of a house that looks like it has visitors, hoping that if the cabby remembers him at all, it will be as a party-goer.
Joe Coburn has it
right?
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
The last meaning (of 28,!) that the OED gives unto “unto” is that of attribution of the meaning of an adjective to a noun. What is the use of ” dangerous indeed to England”? What are the example given? Do Deathworthy For You is done?
Can anyone say for sure that Jesus is worthy of execution?
I only have used a dictionary. I am not a master in the New Testament. With respect to anything that has been written by me, neither is it accurate. So there.
A few notes.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Single word requests.
This is called either a hook and eye lock or a cabin door lock. Your picture looks like the hardware pivots into the room, in which case it’s called a cabin swivel door lock.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
Follow the directions of the manual of style you have selected or the one thrust upon you. What is this correct Chicago Manual of Style -if words ending in PLL or SM are thick and no hyphens are
- catlike — except with suitable names
- from Starbucks, to which is addressed a gill-like
- slit, to which are given compound words, my cash register-like device?
Defining a gender equality report..
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Grammar.
This is an example of hypozeugma in which two phrases (here “potential” and “not actual”) are associated syntactically with one following (here “harm”). This is rhetorical shorthand for
potential harm not actual harm.
Makes actual an adjectival modifier of harm. That’s why, for an adverbial modifier for potential, you’d have to say
a not actual potential harm
which is redundant since something that’s only potential is not actual.
If the usage is contrasting and emphatic, then a single comma is appropriate. If, on the other hand, the usage is that of an aside (with the meaning of your parenthetical “and by that I mean”), then both commas are the way to go.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
I guess you’re looking for intensifier, which in English is a category of modifiers that add emphasis or push a gradable property toward its extreme. Ainsi,
you are so beautiful!
adds emphasis to the estimation of your good looks with two intensifiers. English also has a set of intensive pronouns that add emphasis. All these ending in self. We know my self. Please don’t go elsewhere. How do I describe
my poem as to what I wrote?
I have an awesome authorship and I highly recommend it. ah, i know i am
a realist!
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