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Asked on December 20, 2021 in American english.
I would suggest it uninitiated and unindoctrinated, as well as, in certain specific contexts, such as when you want to suggest that someone has not been damaged, misguided, or warped by the awareness of or adverse teachings of a prejudicial stance like racism, unspoiled or untainted?
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Word choice.
In this case, you are seeking a word that is not needed, because you are not worried about making it to a date, you are worried about making it to the show the day it has been postponed. So, at least in this particular sentence, trying to use a word that denotes the date itself creates a need where no need exists in the first place.
On the other hand, if you truly want a word to refer to the new date itself, I’m not aware that such a word exists. “New date,” “later time,” or various versions thereof, work just fine.
As an illustration, consider this: “Oh, it’s been postponed. How do I have to explain that problem?” What is the new date that you are studying? What other word does it make sense for “new date?” If there was only one answer for this question, we’d be closer to finding the answer (and what we do have in common), anyway.
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Word choice.
W/O precedes, and “precedes” is literally right, although colloquially we usually say that A and B “comes ahead of” A in the alphabet. Are the numbers 1 1/2 and 2, less than,
and vice versa? “The
truth is that it is “too bad to be true” (I don’t know how to put that type of word though).
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Phrases.
I’m slammed, I’m so busy I can’t breathe, I’m so busy I can’t remember my own name, I’m inundated I’m buried I’m overwhelmed, I’m just trying to keep my head above water, I’m so far behind I’ll never catch up, I’m up to my ears, I’ve got too much on my plate.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
What has been the British pronunciation lately? If I had to guess, I would say that many, if not most, variations of pronunciation reflect our American tendency to prefer a somewhat simpler or faster way of saying a word. If my oafish American ears get it, the British “shedzhoowul” sounds tricky and a bit slow, whereas “skedjul” sounds easier to say, and comes out faster, suited to our too-impatient tempo of life over here. No joke, or no joke, “labore-atory” takes a microsecond longer than “liberation” a European year too long,
but this is very unlikely, but a common American dirty way of saying it.
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Asked on March 2, 2021 in Grammar.
This seems to me to be a misplaced modifier, also called dangling modifier. In the first sentence of class “on the first day of class,” is rephrasing in syntactically so that it apparently refers to” grade-grubbing. Derive any concept from the inadvertent positioning of the phrase. “This phrase is misleading”
What is this common mistake? “Buried under the snow, George found an old boot.” When I became a teenager who discovered that George hadn’t buried himself under the snow, he didn’t.
(Dan’s thoughtful analysis of anaphor resolution seems helpful, but that generally is a matter of pronoun confusion — figuring out which of more than one referent is linked to a particular pronoun.) (And if John Lawler
weighs in on this question, he’ll set us all straight.
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Word choice.
A word that is used with some degree of specificity for this purpose is “crib.” ”
“What is the best quote ever?
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