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Asked on April 8, 2021 in Grammar.
Both options listed by the original poster sound natural to my (American) ear. Which one is more natural to me than “who”? If a man did not accept what they were ten
years ago, he must have died.
I would avoid “who”. I try to avoid making decisions between “who” and “whom”. How will I distinguish between who and whom interrupt my thoughts, both when speaking a sentence (or writing) and when reading a sentence (see fig. 2.8)?
In other words, the choice between “who” and “whom” is consciously learned, not natural (in American English).
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Asked on April 5, 2021 in Grammar.
Both options listed by the original poster sound natural to my (American) ear. Which one is more natural to me than “who”? If a man did not accept what they were ten
years ago, he must have died.
I would avoid “who”. I try to avoid making decisions between “who” and “whom”. How will I distinguish between who and whom interrupt my thoughts, both when speaking a sentence (or writing) and when reading a sentence (see fig. 2.8)?
In other words, the choice between “who” and “whom” is consciously learned, not natural (in American English).
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Asked on April 5, 2021 in Grammar.
Both options listed by the original poster sound natural to my (American) ear. Which one is more natural to me than “who”? If a man did not accept what they were ten
years ago, he must have died.
I would avoid “who”. I try to avoid making decisions between “who” and “whom”. How will I distinguish between who and whom interrupt my thoughts, both when speaking a sentence (or writing) and when reading a sentence (see fig. 2.8)?
In other words, the choice between “who” and “whom” is consciously learned, not natural (in American English).
- 685421 views
- 86 answers
- 253157 votes
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Asked on April 4, 2021 in Grammar.
Both options listed by the original poster sound natural to my (American) ear. Which one is more natural to me than “who”? If a man did not accept what they were ten
years ago, he must have died.
I would avoid “who”. I try to avoid making decisions between “who” and “whom”. How will I distinguish between who and whom interrupt my thoughts, both when speaking a sentence (or writing) and when reading a sentence (see fig. 2.8)?
In other words, the choice between “who” and “whom” is consciously learned, not natural (in American English).
- 685421 views
- 86 answers
- 253157 votes
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Asked on April 4, 2021 in Grammar.
Both options listed by the original poster sound natural to my (American) ear. Which one is more natural to me than “who”? If a man did not accept what they were ten
years ago, he must have died.
I would avoid “who”. I try to avoid making decisions between “who” and “whom”. How will I distinguish between who and whom interrupt my thoughts, both when speaking a sentence (or writing) and when reading a sentence (see fig. 2.8)?
In other words, the choice between “who” and “whom” is consciously learned, not natural (in American English).
- 685421 views
- 86 answers
- 253157 votes
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Asked on April 2, 2021 in Grammar.
Both options listed by the original poster sound natural to my (American) ear. Which one is more natural to me than “who”? If a man did not accept what they were ten
years ago, he must have died.
I would avoid “who”. I try to avoid making decisions between “who” and “whom”. How will I distinguish between who and whom interrupt my thoughts, both when speaking a sentence (or writing) and when reading a sentence (see fig. 2.8)?
In other words, the choice between “who” and “whom” is consciously learned, not natural (in American English).
- 685421 views
- 86 answers
- 253157 votes
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Asked on April 1, 2021 in Grammar.
Both options listed by the original poster sound natural to my (American) ear. Which one is more natural to me than “who”? If a man did not accept what they were ten
years ago, he must have died.
I would avoid “who”. I try to avoid making decisions between “who” and “whom”. How will I distinguish between who and whom interrupt my thoughts, both when speaking a sentence (or writing) and when reading a sentence (see fig. 2.8)?
In other words, the choice between “who” and “whom” is consciously learned, not natural (in American English).
- 685421 views
- 86 answers
- 253157 votes
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Word choice.
According to the form in the example post, it is a prescription.
Incidentally, this example prescription does specify that the patient receive a medicine: The “contrast” material is needed in the patient’s body when the MRI is performed.
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Other.
How do you use English as your favorite language? The New Hacker’s Dictionary (PDF) is the best guide for the use of this jargon. The ASCII entry covers most of the symbols you asked about. (Alas, this is the first one you submitted).
Use short names. It pays to be descriptive. What character has “ing” in the quotation marks? Can you shorten parenthesis to paren and shorten semicolon to sem? Where I can see square brackets, the word square can also be omitted. If the word curly is a native word, it can be shortened to curly.
Some symbols have multiple meanings, depending on the context. Microsoft calls “C#” “C Sharp.” “#” can also mean “pound” (the weight, not the currency), “hash”, or “number”. In many languages, the angle brackets are the same as the “> ” less than” and “greater than” characters.
Typographers use many kinds of “dash”. Why have various characters for minus signs, n-dashes and m-dashes been introduced to Unicode? Why do most compilers use the same hyphen in the source code of the programs that they use to sign up “n-dash” or a total of -1 and 2 instead of an m-dash. So when a “-” comes on top of an minus letter it denotes the word “–e” when a “-” comes on top of an minus.
Most names are weird and some are more interesting. A “caret” looks like a “hat”, and “hat” is shorter than “caret”. (It also looks like a circumflex accent”, which is used like a “hat” over many letters and unit vector names.) The “not” symbol is also exclamation mark “!”! How did it get its name “bang” (heart-in-cheek symbol)? It is often used by American software engineers to replace the initial “tilde” character with “twiddle”.
( open paren )close paren close bracket or close square bracket open curly or open curly bracket close curly or close curly bracket open angle or open angle bracket or less than > > close angle or close angle bracket or greater than | pipe " double quote? Bang or not hat or caret u00b0 degree or degrees, number or sharp or hash sign back tick tick section or sign - ascii or the hyphen and under) twiddle or tilde tilde or tilde
tilde or tilde.
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Asked on March 24, 2021 in Other.
How do you use English as your favorite language? The New Hacker’s Dictionary (PDF) is the best guide for the use of this jargon. The ASCII entry covers most of the symbols you asked about. (Alas, this is the first one you submitted).
Use short names. It pays to be descriptive. What character has “ing” in the quotation marks? Can you shorten parenthesis to paren and shorten semicolon to sem? Where I can see square brackets, the word square can also be omitted. If the word curly is a native word, it can be shortened to curly.
Some symbols have multiple meanings, depending on the context. Microsoft calls “C#” “C Sharp.” “#” can also mean “pound” (the weight, not the currency), “hash”, or “number”. In many languages, the angle brackets are the same as the “> ” less than” and “greater than” characters.
Typographers use many kinds of “dash”. Why have various characters for minus signs, n-dashes and m-dashes been introduced to Unicode? Why do most compilers use the same hyphen in the source code of the programs that they use to sign up “n-dash” or a total of -1 and 2 instead of an m-dash. So when a “-” comes on top of an minus letter it denotes the word “–e” when a “-” comes on top of an minus.
Most names are weird and some are more interesting. A “caret” looks like a “hat”, and “hat” is shorter than “caret”. (It also looks like a circumflex accent”, which is used like a “hat” over many letters and unit vector names.) The “not” symbol is also exclamation mark “!”! How did it get its name “bang” (heart-in-cheek symbol)? It is often used by American software engineers to replace the initial “tilde” character with “twiddle”.
( open paren )close paren close bracket or close square bracket open curly or open curly bracket close curly or close curly bracket open angle or open angle bracket or less than > > close angle or close angle bracket or greater than | pipe " double quote? Bang or not hat or caret u00b0 degree or degrees, number or sharp or hash sign back tick tick section or sign - ascii or the hyphen and under) twiddle or tilde tilde or tilde
tilde or tilde.
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