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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Meaning.
There is no such thing as “real” synonyms. As to placing these words in an order of importance, that is difficult, because I would associate them with different circumstances.
What is imperative that plays a vital role in the successful completion of a task or project?
Is it imperative to have test-scenarios in place before we send in the QA team?
I started this process by calling QA to the QA team and they worked so hard to make sure that we had all questions and test scenarios ready before I started coding the test scenario.
Critical is used in two situations: something
- can go wrong, and it really endangers the success of a task or project.
- If something were to fail, it would be in danger to succeed.
The database encountered a critical error, due to which our production systems were unavailable for hours!
Database Server is a critical part of our production environment, so we should ensure we have a fail-safe back-up solution.Does something of utmost importance have the functionality to be really a thing?
While we keep developing it is of utmost importance that we keep communicating with our customer to ensure we can manage expectations.
What’s important is not a mandatory, but a bit less important than that in my mind? In this sph, we can also do more research, even if we don’t manage to communicate with the customer regularly enough. Why don’t we build something else?
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Asked on March 10, 2021 in Single word requests.
Is it safe to speak directly to your best half or girlfriend during a bad day? If not so, tell her the most common word in the Handbook for the Married Man, the essential work that is traditionally only
handed
to
him
after
he
gets
married?Is it the same work that advices against honest answers to questions that start with does this… and explains the possible meanings of nothing in response to “what’s the matter? The latter is a chapters that many of us men never get to fully comprehend, though.
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Asked on March 8, 2021 in Single word requests.
One word seems difficult, but this is usually described as lost income or lost revenue. Losing in this case does not mean you had it, once you have lost it, but rather that you expected to receive it but you don’t.
When someone suffers an injury and is unable to work less, we describe the money he could but would make for his health as lost income. We also describe income (salary) that he had expected to earn but he doesn’t.
What if a fault in a product unexpectedly causes the product not to be sold as much as expected, the product manufacturer suffers lost sales, leading to loss of revenue.
What is your revenue source? (Ask me a question)?
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Asked on March 5, 2021 in Meaning.
When used passively (they are letting me marry someone) there seems to be no problem.
Do you think context is everything?
My friend Bob had an
affair with me and was in love. He got married with me. It made sense.
What’s the difference between my marriage to a woman named Bob or me posing for him/her without elaborating upon it??
The moment three people are mentioned, it usually not that hard to distinguish object, indirect object and subject, in which case the objects are the ones that end up as a couple by the action of the subject.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Word choice.
These photographs come from the private properties of people which were initially elected in a democratic way to run a country which belongs to the poorest in southern Europe.
I would not consider it wonderful that these people managed to enrich themselves to the extent of presumptuously recreating Versailles during the short period they were in power. It shows how these people have abused their power to shamefully enrich themselves beyond their imagination.
I realise there are people who would admire such effective behavior, and even call it wonderful. But for most people (and especially those that got to pay for it) this is horrendous.
Why are pictures deemed silly, not so much because they inspire you to laugh, but because they are absurd and preposterous. Why did the people get into these buildings all the while the rest of it was poor?
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
What do dogs say between the
legs while fighting for bones?
Oxford reference has a reference to Chaucer for this.
Wiktionary also has an entry on Facebook.
It doesn’t seem to be a very common English expression, although in my mother tongue it is very well known. What’s the best BBC international examples?
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
What is what is very special about today’s era of technology?
Can you use two genitives to modify
a single noun?
At least not outside Indian English.Today’s is a “genitive”.
I don’t want to use the common possessive here, because it’s hard to imagine actual possession in this case. In this answer I will use “genitive” to refer to the form that is used to indicate possession and that was once called genitive.What were the examples that sound plain wrong? In that case we still form a single genitive:
John Paul’s car.
If we use any other adjective to modify our noun, it always follows the “genitive:” John and Paul’s
red car.
Note also that when we have a “genitive” we don’t use an article. What is the best way to use non-genitive modifiers in
this article?
John Pappast was the editor-in-chief of John’s newspaper.
John’s old newspaper?What’s the meaning of “old John’s newspaper”?
In our yesterday’s meeting, we have two “genitives”, namely our and yesterday’s and only one noun, meeting. For most English-speaking people, this causes a clash, either grammatical or semantic, meaning that a sentence sounds wrong.
While the same will happen with that
car, *Our John’s car.
Our car. Please be consistent in your car.Don’t forget that our car can be parsed fine if we assume that we’ve somehow inherited our John’s car? In that case, our does not modify car, but John. What is John’s sister’s friend, see also a bit further down, where I discuss his brother’s friend, and more briefly at the end of this post.
I have no problem with the addition of non-genitive modifiers in between a single “genitive” and the noun:
Our great old fast red car.
Why don’t we have a double genitive like John’s sister’s friend?
Where is friend modified by John’s sister, acting as a single genitive. How do John’s friends change their sister’s? I can see this because we can add modifiers between the two, and they will also modify brother, not friend, John’s younger
sister’s friend. -> The sister is younger
John’s sister’s younger friend. -> -> The friend isyounger As Janus Bahs Jacquet points out, multiple genitival constructions are usually parsed as nested, contrary to multiple adjectival constructions, which can be parsed parallel, all referring to the same noun(phrase)
X’s Y’s Z -> -> ‘s -> Z -> Z of
John’s -> brother’s wife -> the wife
of Alice’s -> friend’s phone number -> the phone
number of Note that I mentioned most speakers of English What is the double genitive in Indian English? Our today’s meeting is commonly used to refer to Indian English. Although other English dialects dislike it, we look at their inaccuation with similar uses.
What is the difference between our today’s specials and our speaker?
Can a weakening sense of possession make such double “genitives” slowly more and more acceptable for a growing group of speakers?
If you are reading articles about the absence of articles when we have a “genitive” as Janus Black writes, today(‘s) acts as a deictic. Which has merit?
Definitions really add definiteness to noun phrases. Not only do possessive pronouns and determiners do too, but deictics also add definiteness to noun phrases.
You can’t judge a noun phrase for indefiniteness. Why?I had a quick discussion about this in Google but didn’t actually talk about it. That’s why neither “the/an our meeting”, “the/a today’s meeting,” nor “our today’s meeting” both were untrue. Today’s makes it concrete (duh) so can’t add another (in)infinitiser.
What Does good work and does it have to be for kids?
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
What is this post about grammar?
Can there be a single greatest X?
Who has the most great X?
That means that we can certainly have one of the greatest X, or the single greatest X, but not one of the single greatest X. I don’t have any awareness of whether or not the expression actually existed in this word, it appears the author simply mixed up those two expressions – don’t forget both are typically used as an
hyperbole anyway, so we often don’t even think about the actual meaning of the expression.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
The short version of the English alphabet is: the Latinised version of the Greek alphabet, which in turn was inspired by the Phoenician alphabet.
This long version of English is not relevant to the learning process as a foreigner. Is it still relevant? What is Wikipedia?
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Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.
Late Night – is an adjective meaning happening or operating late at night. See for instance macmillan for a summary of Macmillan. More on macmillan here.
Late at night means during some time at night, quite far into it.
If your job description describes you as a late night worker (or a day worker), have you used a night worker? If you did a work day after midnight, would you be able to work until this hour?
Another common expression is I was working late, one night, which means you were working late than usual (the same way as “he was late” meaning he arrived later than planned) at some point during the night (or evening).
Where “night” is used to mean, as in “the end of the working day” and not night for “when people usually sleep”.
Does your comment indicate that you have to work late at home? No?
What exactly do you take for an Indian phrase that makes you think the “pales of milk” is funny and good indian English? Don’t know if the use of in carries a consonant with in one or at and is generally common in Indian language but I dare say in AmE and BrE it also is likely
frowned upon.
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