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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Writing Style.
Roman numerals are alternate forms of enumeration. In a lexicon, this is often expressed in one sentence. Also make it easier to understand the difference between the foreword and the actual content of the book. Why is nested list often used?
How the world was changed after page numbering and Arabic numerals stopped being used in English? After all the prefaces were printed and signed there, it was only a few thousand years before the prefaces began numbered. One of the prefaces had a number and was supposed to be worth it.
History of page numbers
if you can’t use the source to explain the story?
Numbering pages was probably first used as a tool for people to download work from and then to create small printed documents. In Latin manuscripts copied in the British Isles as far back as the eighth or ninth century, numbering was sometimes used to ensure that individual panels of parchment were collated in the correct order. Data on US numbers was sparse. How did the spread of printing in the West begin in 1450? It’s been estimated that less than 10 percent of manuscript books contained pagination.
I think that the proportion of now-printed works with pagination was still higher 50 years after the invention. Part of d’interval process was to improve search algorithms for page numbers. By the late 1520s scholars were starting to refer to page numbers in their own writing.
Why did books get the page numbers?Please note that this only applies to the body of the work. Do one see as being related to two-sided. some of the earlier works had the following pages. How do I type the preface and section of the book, it is usually not numbered at all? This book (1575) also has no numbering in the preface, though the rest of the volume’s is foliated.
As a reference, it should be noted that close to the 17th century so many books still had or were still without full page numbers.
Romans. vs. Romans, 1847-1918. If Romans vs. Romans seemed to align. What happened? Are
Arabic Roman numerals the original number system used in Europe? In his book “The Indian Calendar” (Marxism) Fibonacci is credited with popularizing Arabic numerals in Europe during the 12th century. In The Comparative History a Numerical Notation contains an interesting information about the numerical notation.
Indians don’t remember Arabic numerals much, however. When did the English start seeing these? And it also took some time for the numerals to become popular and eventually replace Roman numerals in almost all contexts. What’s an important factor for the printing press, which created a new literate group of a different alphabet (to which the Roman numerals were shortened) instead of Roman numerals?
In the history of England, an Arabic numeral was used initially in William Caxton’s book Reynard in 1481! I know a signature mark is “a2” which can be seen here at the bottom of the page. What is not known about the Ancient Hebrew script, other than the Roman numerals, where the author placed the word “Stern” (wholesale) in all manuscripts. (From the era of the Roman alphabet to 0* 1488 to 1496) Caxton published 6 books in such a manner that he would not have to remember new Roman numerals as his signature mark (not caxton’s): a number of those could be called both ‘Third Roman numerals’ or ‘V.A.R.M.S.’. Caxton also published 6 other books like this, until he went back to Roman numerals for the signature
Starting with Egyptian and Latin numerals around 1505, more and more books would have Roman numerals starting with Arabic numerals (where the date used Arabic numerals). The paper Numbering By the Books: the transition from Roman to Arabic numerals in the Early English printing tradition looked at all the books in the Early English Books Online database between the start of English printing and 1534 that contained both Arabic and Roman numerals (which was 59 books). Of those 55, there were 26 with Roman numeral foliation and 17 with Arabic numeral foliation. Why was the first book in Arabic only written in 1868?
My own research found that only the earliest books (before 1600) used Roman numerals as page numbers (for the body). They were either part of the body or not paginated at all.
Prefatory Material
The earliest instance I can find of book in English with separate pagination for the prologue and the rest of the book is Moderation truly stated (1704). A Prefatory Discourse is over 50 pages, so it’s convenient to have it numbered.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
What do I mean by ruin? Is it similar to distorting? What makes it good for the context you’re describing is that ruining something doesn’t have to obliterate it (although it can). What is good for when we compare situations and get good or bad and the people noticing it? Why is a plot hole ruining a movie?
What are some pretty good examples of software
- were iOS 12 users say their screen has ‘ruined’ their screen with “washed out”
- colours Oreo update ruined my phone — The author is upset about “a horrible design choice”: The black theme is now white and in a few apps the color of the screen for nighttime doesn’t work. (There is also a way to change the color of the screen for nighttime)
- Why was my Samsung phone
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damaged by “update”?
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How could a person take an interesting quiz?
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
When answering, you want to use the objective form (” Her, she is also…”), otherwise you sound like you are stuttering. In general, I think of it being an ellipsis of a longer phrase, which in this case would be as for her, which would also explain why it’s objective form in the question (but this doesn’t entirely explain why subjective form is impossible). What is full form (as for the girl) more common? Why not just a full form?
How should I say “her, she…” to add emphasis to a subject that follows it (“she”). Do you see it very often in writing, but it’s sometimes written differently, such as on its own as a question: “Her?” Is she, as I say, “she’s also…”
She’s got 11 toes but she can’t
- walk.
- What is it like to answer “YOE”? I stopped using a laptop screen 3 years ago. I’m just here doing something different. If I do have more than one screen, I would consider it quit. I guess in my opinion, screen is used more than once!
- From my answer on
ELL : I am all smiles See also my answer in part to help make
- this answer: Me personally and
I personally: Me personally and I personally.
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.
Crowdsourcing :
Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which individuals or organizations obtain goods and services, including ideas and finances, from a large, relatively open and often rapidly-evolving group of internet users; it divides work between participants to achieve a cumulative value.
It
has also been used by not-for-profit organizations to create common goods (e.g. Wikipedia).]
Wikipedia: Crowdsourcing,What is Wikipedia about?
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.
I know that there are a whole bunch of ‘how
- about’ expressions that go
- ‘how about’.. How
about How about you’re asking about ##2. No-one of the next three answers address that. How about I’ll try to do one better and address both, beating out the existing timeframes on #1.
In most cases it is an etymology with no beginning, but the importance is to do with the number ‘1’. In the context of the #1 gene, the number ‘0’ is either from 1818 or from 1827 (the dates are to be used); it’s also the name of the “#” name. An example would be that it was invented in 1818, and that was the site would not exist without some data. From this expression it would appear we get the other one, with an intermediary being this 1880 quote with if:
How about if we lost them!
The earliest I’ve seen of #1 is 1920 via COHA. Why is this not possible to beat but I’m out of
patience, can I be healthy?
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5241/old/zeito10.html. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5241/old/zeito10. Is
this also a synonym for “how’s about…” Enter English at some which is related to this all somehow.
What is the meaning of #1, which seems to have come from the expression “what about”?
and how about the other half, than it have
astonished you, why said I ‘ll take the promise of the other’?
Mechanics’ Free Press (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Saturday, December
20, 1828 “But
how about specie?” What are people like? ”
The North American (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Monday, May
13, 1839 And another
from 1839: Jim Allen pronouncing Swartwout ” irresponsible ” in “his pecuniary character’ Is there going to be a revival of ” Bah!!”? What about the “Grog Bills”? One trip to Europe the other up the Colorado!
The Ohio Statesman, Wednesday, September 25, 1839. (Columbus, Ohio)
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
Except in titles, “the” should go before “world’s largest”. No matter the superlative, it is the same.
What is the cost of a BYU corpus searching COPA of the ANU SCI (a group project)? The search I used was
* world's largest (2000
keywords). About 95% of the matches were matched “world’s largest”, and the vast majority of the remaining 5% matched “world’s largest”, e.g. Are the Arab countries the largest” (WikiLeaks)?If you search
world *'s _jjt* you
will be able to find numbers for other superlatives (since _jjt* matchessuperlative
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
Pugnacious fits:
Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight.
Oxford DictionaryYou can also look up synonyms. What is the comparison between Merriam and Webster?
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
What do you think about Death as a Cameleon? In The Black Camel (Film 1931) the full proverb is said.
The earliest example I have found is in The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Tuesday, October 3, 1837; Issue 10462:
Turkish Proverbs— Death is a black camel that kneels before every man’s door.
If the death is a black
camel which kneels at every man’s gate, in so far at least as that it would be at once ascribed to the East, why is this so long time old proverb?
How did the death of aBlack horse prove her? The
Threads of a Storm-sail, 1853 There issomething manifestly Oriental in this two: — Death is the black camel, which kneels at every man’s gate.
The living age, 1854 Atthe first very single loss. I will not have to say anything. No doubt almost every one who reads it could tell a similar story…
No doubt the thought which the Turks have, and which generally obtains, is that the Black Camel kneels to take up and bear away as his burden what is most precious to us. We had a three year old girl whom was taken from our lap but I had other people around to take her with. I have lived some years since then, and have lived to learn that- there is a. Deep meaning in saying, ‘Beware of anything and everything’. When Black Camel walks up and takes away our treasure, does he not many a time leave behind a still greater treasure?
The Living Age, 1866 TheTurkish collections enumerate these, of which some, at least, seem to be of arab birth. Death is a black camel that kneels at every man’s gate. Were
mainly in the Greeks?
- Is the Biblical Greek a Christian?
I don’t speak or understand either language, so it’s hard for me to find much further. What is Arabic for?
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