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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
Can an OED citation exist and give any examples that are used from the main usage of old English until present. Why do I believe in intonation? Does the “so” have sarcastic eyes in the mouth when translated as “not at all”?
Shakespere’s much ado about
nothing has: “That you haue such a Februarie face, So full of frost, of storme, and clowdinesse. You stop the egypt of something but then stop.” Now
here’s a public domain citation from britain in 1819.
And yet another example from the King James Bible, published 1611:
Genesis 27:20: And he said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son?
It’s English vocabulary from other countries before America. Is there a way to understand “English” and “English”? Why doesn’t anyone know if this is a modern Californian invention?
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in American english.
Is there a wide difference between the original version (on-line operation) and the modern use (to go online, etc.)? In 1950, being “on-line” meant that a device was using the phone in a fixed location over a line of communication. For some people online means the whole user experience, not just the methods through which the computer is connected. Why have we now made a change in meaning in the 80s when we started saving time online? With
the term getting more common, there was a tendency of lazy typists to opt out of the hyphen in the book.
Computer and Internet grammar has evolved rapidly since the late 1980s. Why don’t many people think of the word internet as a means of “accessing” the web “outside of Google or Yahoo?”
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