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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Meaning.
According to Wikipedia, the “cat” reference is a consequence of drinking the water the flowers were standing in is to prevent rot and to stop her from rot. When Mr. Winterbottom is seated, James touches the chair and drinks the water. Schlieu00dflich zeigt er unzu00e4hlige Varianten
des Einschenkens und trinkt versehentlich aus der Blumenvase statt aus dem Becher, was er mit einem deutlichen Verzug des Gesichts und der Bemerkung “I’ll kill that cat!” quittiert (sinngemu00e4u00df: “das schmeckt wie Katzenurin”) which (in effect) says that
after numerous variants of mis-pourings, he drinks by mistake from the vase rather than the cup, then with significant facial distortion ex What do you think about scent?
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Word choice.
Negationism, a particular form of illegitimate distortion of the historical record such that certain events appear in a more or less favourable light”, would be the best term for the revisionism your examples portray, if it weren’t usually applied just to denial of historical crimes.
Retroactive continuity is used in discussing popular literature, and will be applicable if we overlook the fiction-rather-than-non-fiction aspect of the examples. Retroactive continuity refers to “alteration of previously established facts in a fictional work… to revise the in-story history to allow a course of events that would not have been possible in the story’s original continuity resolution of errors in chronology”. The term retroactive history is also seen occasionally, referring to adjustment or reinterpretation of real-life facts to fit one spin or another.
What are some related but not-quite-applicable terms: hindsight bias : an inclination to see events that have already happened that they were expected or probable, or confirmation bias: a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs, or hypotheses.
People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. How powerful is this effect for our emotional sensitivity?
How is a strong female population affected with sexual orientation?
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Word choice.
Negationism, a particular form of illegitimate distortion of the historical record such that certain events appear in a more or less favourable light”, would be the best term for the revisionism your examples portray, if it weren’t usually applied just to denial of historical crimes.
Retroactive continuity is used in discussing popular literature, and will be applicable if we overlook the fiction-rather-than-non-fiction aspect of the examples. Retroactive continuity refers to “alteration of previously established facts in a fictional work… to revise the in-story history to allow a course of events that would not have been possible in the story’s original continuity resolution of errors in chronology”. The term retroactive history is also seen occasionally, referring to adjustment or reinterpretation of real-life facts to fit one spin or another.
What are some related but not-quite-applicable terms: hindsight bias : an inclination to see events that have already happened that they were expected or probable, or confirmation bias: a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs, or hypotheses.
People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. How powerful is this effect for our emotional sensitivity?
How is a strong female population affected with sexual orientation?
- 846124 views
- 11 answers
- 313822 votes
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Meaning.
According to Wikipedia, the “cat” reference is a consequence of drinking the water the flowers were standing in is to prevent rot and to stop her from rot. When Mr. Winterbottom is seated, James touches the chair and drinks the water. Schlieu00dflich zeigt er unzu00e4hlige Varianten
des Einschenkens und trinkt versehentlich aus der Blumenvase statt aus dem Becher, was er mit einem deutlichen Verzug des Gesichts und der Bemerkung “I’ll kill that cat!” quittiert (sinngemu00e4u00df: “das schmeckt wie Katzenurin”) which (in effect) says that
after numerous variants of mis-pourings, he drinks by mistake from the vase rather than the cup, then with significant facial distortion ex What do you think about scent?
- 843053 views
- 10 answers
- 311632 votes
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Single word requests.
The phrase “other traveller” is “one who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization, but has never accepted them”. Technically, the phrase applies fairly well in the current context except that people are unlikely to automatically assume a fellow traveller is an intellectual or a journalist or secretly receives benefits.
So, depending on context, also consider nouns collaborator and quisling, and phrase tame journalist.
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Single word requests.
The phrase “other traveller” is “one who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization, but has never accepted them”. Technically, the phrase applies fairly well in the current context except that people are unlikely to automatically assume a fellow traveller is an intellectual or a journalist or secretly receives benefits.
So, depending on context, also consider nouns collaborator and quisling, and phrase tame journalist.
- 856203 views
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- 317504 votes
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Single word requests.
The phrase “other traveller” is “one who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization, but has never accepted them”. Technically, the phrase applies fairly well in the current context except that people are unlikely to automatically assume a fellow traveller is an intellectual or a journalist or secretly receives benefits.
So, depending on context, also consider nouns collaborator and quisling, and phrase tame journalist.
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Asked on March 17, 2021 in Single word requests.
Swamper is a possibility, in its sense 3, “Someone or something that swamps or overwhelms.” Also consider flooder, a word of more recent origin meaning “a person floods message boards with unwanted or repetitive comments”. Drencher means “One who, or that which, drenches”. Deluger has the same meaning as Duller but it isn’t in any dictionaries. Related: dambusters, those who bust dams, causing floods.
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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Phrases.
This box occupies seven square feet of area. “The box is 12 feet wide and 88 feet deep.” A problem with “This box occupies seven square feet” is that occupies are often taken to refer to the volume a box occupies. This can lead to a slight cognitive dissonance. What are some examples of where and how space is used in a box in order to indicate the footprint of the box. If “space” or “the floor” are used instead of “area”, the redundancy is lessened as well.
If you wanted to give me a day of your time and I would like to give another day of your time to fix this, what is the best idiom to use in English?
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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Phrases.
This box occupies seven square feet of area. “The box is 12 feet wide and 88 feet deep.” A problem with “This box occupies seven square feet” is that occupies are often taken to refer to the volume a box occupies. This can lead to a slight cognitive dissonance. What are some examples of where and how space is used in a box in order to indicate the footprint of the box. If “space” or “the floor” are used instead of “area”, the redundancy is lessened as well.
If you wanted to give me a day of your time and I would like to give another day of your time to fix this, what is the best idiom to use in English?
- 870125 views
- 2 answers
- 322708 votes