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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Word choice.
In this setting the two are pretty much the same. Language can have a literal meaning, a canonical meaning (the first thing you think of), a metaphorical meaning (the face of a cliff) and implied meanings. Obviously, language have many meanings; texting means every word (both literal and non literal) and words (translation) can differ by definition or for a reason.
Literally, “we cannot pick up that huge boulder”. What does “must not” mean? Both are not intended to convey that you really don’t want to let person X die and you should try to make that not happen. What is the best way
to compare two apps?
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Single word requests.
What is the best Indian restaurant in North Beach? Therefore,
This works for general businesses, for both services and deliveries of goods.
This does have a very specific meaning in the food oriented industry (catering a dinner), but a such a business that provides both services and goods (cooking and the food itself) can easily be doing that specific activity of catering. What makes pizza delivery a good idea? In the later instance, delivery is perfect.
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Other.
What is the relative clause?
- It starts with that
- it contains a subject and object (is a complete sentence without the relative pronoun)
Don’t be distracted by the possible variations, the variation with ‘that’ is usually the most telling intro to a relative clause. When’ works grammatically and you might think it’s the better choice, but it just isn’t used that much by native speakers (and sounds a little weird).
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Asked on March 11, 2021 in Single word requests.
All
speculations are valid but not substantiated. Speculative Science explains more about the nature
of Speculation that is not all purely speculation.
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Asked on March 8, 2021 in Meaning.
‘Rolled’ is the past participle of ‘to roll’.
“Role” is a noun, not a noun. The only possible derivation of ‘roled’ is as the verb ‘role’ verbified, then take its past participle. What is a very lengthy stretch to know about ‘roled’, given that it is not recognized word.
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Asked on March 5, 2021 in Single word requests.
He-Shows-a-Wise person uses human emotions for good, and drops them when not. If the teacher is a doctor, or
a scholar, he-Shows someone who uses them to his benefit.
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Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.
Native AmE speakers, routinely pronounce ‘fifths’ as
or
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(I had thought the latter less common, but now I’m not sure). Can you write a script for a movie and show about an entire sequence? See the question about other difficult clusters like -sps.
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Asked on March 2, 2021 in Meaning.
Is it wrong to call induction space a solution space?
Solution space works because it is very specific and your idea seems to be about solutions to a problem that comes from a given set.
Induction space is used in many ways but have very varying uses in your google link. That’s because it is very non-specific and so can be used locally and disambiguated with the context (and your own explicit definition).
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Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.
Iftar is how you say in English, as straight a borrowing as possible, with no translation. ‘Breakfast’ does not replace iftar but marks a daily meal and is not used for fasting. Iftar means that one is breaking a fast. The event is ‘breakfast’ but this isn’t.
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.
I asked them if they would do me a favour. I don’t know how they responded, but there are always the same people who do in fact do me a favour. I actually never had a problem with them they just made fun of me like this. (A)
Sounds pretty good. (b) I understand the sounds. How do you request the Lord to help me in any way? I
got it (or at least asked them) if I should ask them if they will get me a favour. (A)
Sounds. (B) Sounds wrong. Non-parallele tenses or aspects or something.
What do you ask for a favor? (C)
Sounds fine, but yes the meanings varies. I asked them (in the past) whether (in the past) a favor had been done by them.
I asked them to do me a favor. What could I do? (D)
Do you have taste for music? Indirect quotes of “Do me a favor” and “Please can you do me a favor?” “”The
power of words is powerful “If/when they get everything right”, I am in a bind.
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