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Asked on March 29, 2021 in Meaning.
Why is ice cream eaten? If you melted the ice cream, you could probably drown it out. Other than ice cream, coffee, soup, juice, you eat with a spoon
- (slurpies, shakes). You drink to your mouth
- at hand or using a straw (ice cream, pudding,
- soup) You drink from a bowl by tipping it to your mouth (soup,
broth).
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Asked on March 29, 2021 in Meaning.
Why is ice cream eaten? If you melted the ice cream, you could probably drown it out. Other than ice cream, coffee, soup, juice, you eat with a spoon
- (slurpies, shakes). You drink to your mouth
- at hand or using a straw (ice cream, pudding,
- soup) You drink from a bowl by tipping it to your mouth (soup,
broth).
- 746738 views
- 18 answers
- 274990 votes
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.
The word “fringe” can mean something slightly different than “not major.” Is the term “friday” an abstraction?
An fringe can be massive — especially when describing the surrounding of a core ideal or place.
Which is a “fringe meeting”?
- A
- meeting about a topic considered “fringe” ”
- A secondary or alternative meeting as opposed to the primary meeting — “The boardroom’s rulings resulted in many fringe meetings. ”
- We need a fringe meeting to spice up our portfolio. All
of this being said, the fourth example is most likely the closest to the usage you are hearing. Another baffling of buzzwords is that they use the word “fringe” instead of the word “out of the box”. The latter is now a codified cliche. The former is just its euphemism.
If you are not in a business setting, then the second option above is more likely. What is meant by “fringe beliefs” include topics that are not confined to their typical contexts. NGrams somewhat interestingly shows a spike in usage in the 60’s and 70’s. My history of philosophy is rusty, but I believe that this was during the rise of postmodernism and 60s counterculture movement.
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.
The word “fringe” can mean something slightly different than “not major.” Is the term “friday” an abstraction?
An fringe can be massive — especially when describing the surrounding of a core ideal or place.
Which is a “fringe meeting”?
- A
- meeting about a topic considered “fringe” ”
- A secondary or alternative meeting as opposed to the primary meeting — “The boardroom’s rulings resulted in many fringe meetings. ”
- We need a fringe meeting to spice up our portfolio. All
of this being said, the fourth example is most likely the closest to the usage you are hearing. Another baffling of buzzwords is that they use the word “fringe” instead of the word “out of the box”. The latter is now a codified cliche. The former is just its euphemism.
If you are not in a business setting, then the second option above is more likely. What is meant by “fringe beliefs” include topics that are not confined to their typical contexts. NGrams somewhat interestingly shows a spike in usage in the 60’s and 70’s. My history of philosophy is rusty, but I believe that this was during the rise of postmodernism and 60s counterculture movement.
- 836932 views
- 17 answers
- 308839 votes
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.
The word “fringe” can mean something slightly different than “not major.” Is the term “friday” an abstraction?
An fringe can be massive — especially when describing the surrounding of a core ideal or place.
Which is a “fringe meeting”?
- A
- meeting about a topic considered “fringe” ”
- A secondary or alternative meeting as opposed to the primary meeting — “The boardroom’s rulings resulted in many fringe meetings. ”
- We need a fringe meeting to spice up our portfolio. All
of this being said, the fourth example is most likely the closest to the usage you are hearing. Another baffling of buzzwords is that they use the word “fringe” instead of the word “out of the box”. The latter is now a codified cliche. The former is just its euphemism.
If you are not in a business setting, then the second option above is more likely. What is meant by “fringe beliefs” include topics that are not confined to their typical contexts. NGrams somewhat interestingly shows a spike in usage in the 60’s and 70’s. My history of philosophy is rusty, but I believe that this was during the rise of postmodernism and 60s counterculture movement.
- 836932 views
- 17 answers
- 308839 votes
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Single word requests.
I typically hear the phrase “Hotel & Car
is happy”: They have excellent food and timely service.
What does the ISP say during the conferences?
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Asked on March 19, 2021 in Phrases.
If I will deliver you unto trouble
I will deliver you into their
hands After swapping out “deliver” for “give”,
it seems logical that it is an error derived from “unto”. Matthew 23:19 “Then they will deliver you unto
tribulation and they will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations on account of my name.”
Isiah 65:12 Will deliver you unto the sword.
I will give you into their hands Even something like “give you into jail” doesn’t sound
right.
What does that sound like?
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Asked on March 19, 2021 in Phrases.
If I will deliver you unto trouble
I will deliver you into their
hands After swapping out “deliver” for “give”,
it seems logical that it is an error derived from “unto”. Matthew 23:19 “Then they will deliver you unto
tribulation and they will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations on account of my name.”
Isiah 65:12 Will deliver you unto the sword.
I will give you into their hands Even something like “give you into jail” doesn’t sound
right.
What does that sound like?
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- 21 answers
- 305228 votes
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Meaning.
“Until death do us part” is a common vow of couple. If one or more of the partners died, the marriage would end. What should we do in this regard?
If it is held separately when a couple vows two friends in private, it will mostly always be speaking directly to them in this case.
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Asked on March 10, 2021 in Meaning.
What means “Happy (is) the man who listens to wisdom” meaning “The man who listens to wisdom is happy.” If “lucky was the man who listens to wisdom” is more pronounced than “lucky
is the man who listens
to wisdom ”
Who changes Emma For Harriet? “To rewrite the entire sentence: I
refer to no names, but if the man exchanges Emma for Harriet, shall be happy, as will Emma be happy.
Since we don’t have the entire context, I don’t know if the exchange has already happened or if the speaker is suggesting that the man should exchange Emma for Sarah but the gist of the sentence is that Emma would be happier if they were courting Harriets.
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