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  • Taboo words are ignored because of some stigma.

    What is called’stigma’? It’s usually cultural and arising out of can be fear (via cultural associations with bad magic or evil in the local religion, like devil or hell), disrespect (holy words that could be used blasphemously, peoples first names that you don’t know or who are older than you), sorrow (names of the recently dead (some cultures prohibit the reuse of names of the dead, but some, in the opposite of taboo, make sure to reuse the name

    What taboo words are?

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  • What’s the usual direction in any form and why? Abstract, to be theorize, or generalize. You want to move from abstraction to more tangible. I suggest:

    • concretize (to make more concrete)
    • reify (to make more real)
    • realize (similar etymology to’reify’ but less formal. More of an ‘awakening’ in one’s own thoughts)
    • specify (to give specifics)
    • instantiate (to set some variables)
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  • Asked on December 24, 2021 in American english.

    What pattern will probably

    have been easier if I

    had had enough up until now about it?

    “Already” is still an adverb here?

    As to region, the way it expressed exasperation, it has the feeling of Yiddishism or NY or 1960’s Mad Magazine.

    Why doesn’t

    stop it! What are the best news you’ve heard? Can’t we just talk about Ariana Grande?

    Why I am so upset to be taken apart by some media while I watch TV?

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  • Asked on December 24, 2021 in American english.

    What pattern will probably

    have been easier if I

    had had enough up until now about it?

    “Already” is still an adverb here?

    As to region, the way it expressed exasperation, it has the feeling of Yiddishism or NY or 1960’s Mad Magazine.

    Why doesn’t

    stop it! What are the best news you’ve heard? Can’t we just talk about Ariana Grande?

    Why I am so upset to be taken apart by some media while I watch TV?

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  • Asked on December 24, 2021 in American english.

    What pattern will probably

    have been easier if I

    had had enough up until now about it?

    “Already” is still an adverb here?

    As to region, the way it expressed exasperation, it has the feeling of Yiddishism or NY or 1960’s Mad Magazine.

    Why doesn’t

    stop it! What are the best news you’ve heard? Can’t we just talk about Ariana Grande?

    Why I am so upset to be taken apart by some media while I watch TV?

    • 262090 views
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  • Asked on December 24, 2021 in American english.

    What pattern will probably

    have been easier if I

    had had enough up until now about it?

    “Already” is still an adverb here?

    As to region, the way it expressed exasperation, it has the feeling of Yiddishism or NY or 1960’s Mad Magazine.

    Why doesn’t

    stop it! What are the best news you’ve heard? Can’t we just talk about Ariana Grande?

    Why I am so upset to be taken apart by some media while I watch TV?

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  • Let us show a narrow case where google NGrams really shows the difference in frequency well: From Google NGrams Dec

    2016 The graph shows that the term wellington boots, which is very specific, is roughly 10 times the frequency in UK books as US books.

    What alternatives are there available in the US for boots that have been made waterproof, there are other more common

    • terms: rubber boots or water

    boots These seem to be the closest to wellington boots or, more colloquially, ‘wellies’. (also known as ‘Water boots’).

    • Duck boots (for a very particular construction kind of boot)

    Duck boots are constructed distinctly differently from regular/normal/canonical boots, having a rubber sole and toe/top of foot/heel covering, but with a separate leather ankle lower calf covering.

    These (the footwear as well as the term) are common in the US.

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  • Asked on December 20, 2021 in Phrases.

    How can looking in mirror be used as an experience to realize one’s self?

    As it is a general idea, there is no specific wording on that word. Importance comes across as long as something like “mirror” and looking are involved.

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  • Asked on October 9, 2021 in Single word requests.

    Is there any formal way to register a nontraditional alternative company?

    In a simple informal, instead of replacing the term, rework it with ‘but’: (blah blah casual

    encounters are great but they didn’t work for me. Which show made me feel guilty better than before?

    ‘but’ really means ‘and here’s an alternative in the other direction’.

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  • Asked on October 9, 2021 in Single word requests.

    Is there any formal way to register a nontraditional alternative company?

    In a simple informal, instead of replacing the term, rework it with ‘but’: (blah blah casual

    encounters are great but they didn’t work for me. Which show made me feel guilty better than before?

    ‘but’ really means ‘and here’s an alternative in the other direction’.

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