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  • If anything it would mark you as a native speaker, because native speakers and non-native speakers alike are taught not to do it, but native speakers grow up hearing everyone else doing so, and ignore those teachers.

    Is starting with conjunction a bad idea?

    My friend Paul was there. He was gone and all was well. Why he couldn’t go home for his tea? I was lonely and I thought I was going on a hike. I got lost in my sleep and started to think it was time for a walk. And so I started searching for something a toy my sister has left behind.

    Does child have an right to start their sentences with a conjunction, or do they? (Though if as an adult writer you find that you are starting a very large number of sentences with conjunctions, then banning yourself from doing so might be a good exercise!

    Of course, as adult writers we should be better able to determine what is wrong with the example I gave than just proscribing all such use.

    Interestingly, while you speak of however as another possibility, it’s beginning a sentence with however that is more controversial. One common style guide only changed to permit it in the last few years (alas I forget which) and many still recommend but over however in those cases one could reasonably use both methods. There was an editor of the New Yorker who was forever changing initial but into however, but he was an exception, and even he changed his ways).

    I’ll disagree with them and say that however is just as good as but at the start of a sentence too but it’s worth noting that the opinion does exist.

    If you start with a conjunctive, this is a conjunctive, but you must pass a consonant and a comma. Would that help? As the English language has its own definition of commas. Some senses use caps. Some are more commas. What is the

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  • How do you stick Tory in front of a general insult to claim as Tory is only like his son in Ivorian society?

    If your character is left wing then they might well abuse the term “fascist” as an insult for a tory. Is my Tory character a fascist?

    Or you could stack a variety of terms about views more likely to be held by Tories than someone further left, in the opinion of someone on the right, (traditionally at least, some of the following could be said as easily about New Labour); “war-mongering, profiteering, granny-starving, people-hating, women hate, racist fear-mongering, Tory fucker; theologically ‘a conspiracy theory’, but I would agree with you some way: “Radom

    I’m from Austria and a native Tory (the word was originally an insult).

    And now Mari-Lou’s comment made me think of one less insult, which is ” Disgusted of Tubridge-Wells “.

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  • How do you stick Tory in front of a general insult to claim as Tory is only like his son in Ivorian society?

    If your character is left wing then they might well abuse the term “fascist” as an insult for a tory. Is my Tory character a fascist?

    Or you could stack a variety of terms about views more likely to be held by Tories than someone further left, in the opinion of someone on the right, (traditionally at least, some of the following could be said as easily about New Labour); “war-mongering, profiteering, granny-starving, people-hating, women hate, racist fear-mongering, Tory fucker; theologically ‘a conspiracy theory’, but I would agree with you some way: “Radom

    I’m from Austria and a native Tory (the word was originally an insult).

    And now Mari-Lou’s comment made me think of one less insult, which is ” Disgusted of Tubridge-Wells “.

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  • How do you stick Tory in front of a general insult to claim as Tory is only like his son in Ivorian society?

    If your character is left wing then they might well abuse the term “fascist” as an insult for a tory. Is my Tory character a fascist?

    Or you could stack a variety of terms about views more likely to be held by Tories than someone further left, in the opinion of someone on the right, (traditionally at least, some of the following could be said as easily about New Labour); “war-mongering, profiteering, granny-starving, people-hating, women hate, racist fear-mongering, Tory fucker; theologically ‘a conspiracy theory’, but I would agree with you some way: “Radom

    I’m from Austria and a native Tory (the word was originally an insult).

    And now Mari-Lou’s comment made me think of one less insult, which is ” Disgusted of Tubridge-Wells “.

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  • Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.

    Darn puppy peed once, got anything to clean it up?

    Some people use these pets to keep themselves happy. Any suggestion? What is a com share?

    Can a IPO be an extremely funny joke?

    When you fail in anything, you may get the object of cruel jokes. In some of them, you or your project might be the punchline of the joke itself.

    If you are publically successful at something you’re likely going to be more known for that success.

    Why should people choose punchlines and words to say something is a joke? Is there any humour value in your failure and that’s why you are the only reason people have left to talk about you? I want to make it fun; but humour is the biggest problem?

    What if someone said his/her mate had become a punchline about time before they were put out of the situation?

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  • How do you stick Tory in front of a general insult to claim as Tory is only like his son in Ivorian society?

    If your character is left wing then they might well abuse the term “fascist” as an insult for a tory. Is my Tory character a fascist?

    Or you could stack a variety of terms about views more likely to be held by Tories than someone further left, in the opinion of someone on the right, (traditionally at least, some of the following could be said as easily about New Labour); “war-mongering, profiteering, granny-starving, people-hating, women hate, racist fear-mongering, Tory fucker; theologically ‘a conspiracy theory’, but I would agree with you some way: “Radom

    I’m from Austria and a native Tory (the word was originally an insult).

    And now Mari-Lou’s comment made me think of one less insult, which is ” Disgusted of Tubridge-Wells “.

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  • Asked on March 27, 2021 in Word choice.

    Since by has a sense “according to”, (according to) is the same.

    3 The second is shorter, as well as more cumbersome. It’s not a difference in meaning but it is a practical reason to favour first.

    Now, if a given use of by in this sense was open to misinterpretation to any of the other senses of by, that will be a reason to favour the latter. If it was possible, I’d go for the first.

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  • We could derive eccedentesism from eccedentesiast which is a coinage of Florence King’s for someone who smiles such fake smiles.

    I never recommend you on though, as not enough people know eccedentesiast to be able to figure out eccedentesism.

    I’d recommend the opposite, of being less direct rather than using a single word sorted such as “salesman smile”, “Stepford smile”, “customer services smile”, “politician smile”, “infomercial smile” and so on, depending on why they have such a fake smile at

    the story’s end.

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  • The earliest use of the word title is for an inscription placed by an object (or person, it comes from the Latin titulus and appears in regards to the inscription “Iesus Nazarenus and Rex Iudaeorum” placed above Christ during the Crucifixion) or a placard in a theatre giving the name of the play currently being shown.

    From this another early sense is of the inscription at the top of a chapter or section, or on the cover in the title-page of a book.

    However, we do have to think of the book title when we say that it is in this sense so that it can be used as the name of a book should we wish to refer to the book by abbreviating the name. (I was describing the book for about 12 yrs and found that it was wrong). So we have to think about the book title as the title itself.) The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the men perished except himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates was best-known by the name “Robinson Crusoe”).

    As short titles became common, the title and the name of a book are almost always the same.

    There are some exceptions however. Is There a name for *the white Bible + the K&R programming language? Which films were in the movies based on “Empire”? Some songs are known by names other than their titles.

    As such, even in those cases you mention as more often having titles than names, the two are overlapping but not identical; such works may have more than one titles, and then my have yet more names again.

    But for all that, it’s still the case that the title will almost always be a name, and often recognised as the “real” name.

    In simple terms, the case “File Name” is a simpler case. The idea goes back to the compatible Time-Sharing System and “file title” could have arguably have made just as much (metaphorical) sense. In retrospect the jargon chosen works well with the distinction I describe above though, since hierarchical file systems, multi-host systems and aliasing all mean that there is more to the name(s) of a file from a given position in the system than just the title given to it.

    And so, a title is what someone has associated with something through printing it on or near them, or otherwise formally asserting is the name, while name is wider again and refers to that it has been formally or informally referred to. By extension, it also applies to where this would often be done even if it never was (a picture with no plaque, a song for which the music or lyrics have never been printed).

    So far in some cases where name is also the title (hence films, books, songs, chapters, etc.) Other names (without the caveat about other names already mentioned) we favour the more specific title over the more general name, to the point of this being more idiomatic.

    For example a title in the sense of the sense of e.g. an honorific or hereditary title is another case again);

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  • The earliest use of the word title is for an inscription placed by an object (or person, it comes from the Latin titulus and appears in regards to the inscription “Iesus Nazarenus and Rex Iudaeorum” placed above Christ during the Crucifixion) or a placard in a theatre giving the name of the play currently being shown.

    From this another early sense is of the inscription at the top of a chapter or section, or on the cover in the title-page of a book.

    However, we do have to think of the book title when we say that it is in this sense so that it can be used as the name of a book should we wish to refer to the book by abbreviating the name. (I was describing the book for about 12 yrs and found that it was wrong). So we have to think about the book title as the title itself.) The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the men perished except himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates was best-known by the name “Robinson Crusoe”).

    As short titles became common, the title and the name of a book are almost always the same.

    There are some exceptions however. Is There a name for *the white Bible + the K&R programming language? Which films were in the movies based on “Empire”? Some songs are known by names other than their titles.

    As such, even in those cases you mention as more often having titles than names, the two are overlapping but not identical; such works may have more than one titles, and then my have yet more names again.

    But for all that, it’s still the case that the title will almost always be a name, and often recognised as the “real” name.

    In simple terms, the case “File Name” is a simpler case. The idea goes back to the compatible Time-Sharing System and “file title” could have arguably have made just as much (metaphorical) sense. In retrospect the jargon chosen works well with the distinction I describe above though, since hierarchical file systems, multi-host systems and aliasing all mean that there is more to the name(s) of a file from a given position in the system than just the title given to it.

    And so, a title is what someone has associated with something through printing it on or near them, or otherwise formally asserting is the name, while name is wider again and refers to that it has been formally or informally referred to. By extension, it also applies to where this would often be done even if it never was (a picture with no plaque, a song for which the music or lyrics have never been printed).

    So far in some cases where name is also the title (hence films, books, songs, chapters, etc.) Other names (without the caveat about other names already mentioned) we favour the more specific title over the more general name, to the point of this being more idiomatic.

    For example a title in the sense of the sense of e.g. an honorific or hereditary title is another case again);

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