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Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.
What do you think
of the orange fruit colour? Which hat resembles a banana? Before today’s English-speaking world, the colour was referred to as eolrad (yellow – red).
Why are oranges so hot? I’d speculate, that saying yellow-red was a bit awkward (was it a mixed colour or, say, half blue and half turquoise) and oranges happened to be the most natural source of this colour. On top of this, at at least, I can’t think of any other. Except for sun, but not always orange.
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Asked on March 1, 2021 in Word choice.
If you mean something that gives pleasure: Delight
a high degree of gratification: joy; also : extreme satisfaction something
that gives great pleasure If
you’re talking about the state of mind: Bliss complete
happiness There
are also joy (which can be used in both contexts), pleasure, and felicity.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Single word requests.
In online chats, the terms “to come online and go offline” are used. However, how do they differ?
Edit: Your own suggestion is another good variant, applicable if there is someone/something else that performs the operation. E.g. a computer (video for example) that does the operation. My friend went offline right in the middle of discussion vs. VMware. In all honesty, my friend went offline right now. We had to take the server offline for maintenance on it..
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