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  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Single word requests.

    Is it true that in a car or train that you stop use the engine to propel it, you can say that you coast to a stop, or that the train is coasting? I don’t know how a term might be used to describe a boat (and Google seems to indicate that if you coast in a boat, it often means that you are following the coastline), but I don’t know what term would be used instead.

    UPDATE: As Zairja remarks in the comments, for a boat the corresponding verb is drift.

    What is the future of e-medicine?

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  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Word choice.

    If asked to describe himself in more

    than five words, he would say he’s curious. All the time you forget to give me four more words.

    Is it possible to put the implicit “would” before “forget” in a sentence? If so, then why? That is why it doesn’t forget. This is why it won’t forgot. The “would” in is still correct, but sounds overly formal to me.

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  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Meaning.

    While both prepositions are correct for everything, I would tend to use disappointed in for objects or events. Instead of other people’s disappointed with. Is there anyone in the world that feels alone? Consider the following Google Ngram

    The majority of the time the noun following “the” will not be a person, whereas you always refers to a person.

    What is the point of having a Google account?

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  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.

    What is the customary reply

    of “the person”?

    Is it right that I don’t expect someone, you say no (mildew)? What’s wrong with this paper delivery service?

    What makes a moon in the

    moon’s sky show it’s brightness in the air?

    “There were no moons that night”?

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