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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Word choice.
The difference is only one of expression and context, not meaning. “Slap” me five is a funkier way of saying “give me five” or “give me some skin” or any of several ways of asking for a hand slap/slide!
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Word choice.
The difference is only one of expression and context, not meaning. “Slap” me five is a funkier way of saying “give me five” or “give me some skin” or any of several ways of asking for a hand slap/slide!
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Other.
This is rhyming off rhyme n. Off rhyme n.
A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only, as in dry and died, grown and moon. Often called line rhyme, oblique rhyme, slant rhyme or halves rhyme.
So the answer is yes the lines don’t rhyme perfectly. The poems are rhyme, but the songs also rhyme. I’m not
so strict to the rhyme.
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Meaning.
When used as a conjunction, as is likely in your half-remembered example, for means because.
I was very interested to see these species of wombat, for I had never seen such an example before.
Why I kept seeing the Wambat
even though I had never seen it before?
I
had never seen such a species before, so this species will surprise you.
How can we predict the future of the world?
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Meaning.
Decoration is not always visual. It can refer to any kind of ornamentation, as in music (appoggiatura, trill, grace notes, etc. ), spoken language, and so
forth.
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Asked on March 14, 2021 in Grammar.
Of course functions as a sentence adverb in most cases.
I can help you with that.
What is the Oxford Dictionary of English Sentence
Adverbs?
Are sentence adverbs used for an observation or as a comment.How can I learn
how to do E&U? See also: EL&U answer.
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Single word requests.
I’m thinking of the word mellow. From NOAD:
mellow
adjective
1 (esp. I was hypnotized by the mellow tone of his voice | slow cooking gives the dish a sweet, mellow flavor.
Is it more common in someone with a mellow personality?For a mellow female, the verb can be taken literally.
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Meaning.
Life’s a bitch, so it’s a bitch if you can turn it in a positive? Life’s a beach means that, at the moment at least, life was nothing but wonderful for David Beckham and Sofia Vergara. Why does she play ‘the king of the ocean’ in the movie? Love beaches?
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Asked on March 11, 2021 in Word choice.
Curiously, the statements
I will do to my best.
I
continue to do better. My level is 98.
are, on the face of it, assurances that the speaker intends to try hard and really hard, respectively. Can they also be used to cast doubt on the assertion? If someone gave you a task you find impossible to perform, responding by saying “I will do my best” actually can mean you believe that you will fail even though you are going to try as hard as you are able to. Can increasing level (or other intensifier) be used to enhance the mood of doubt?
Was it true that english is grand?
What is The importance of a simple but effective book?
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Asked on March 10, 2021 in Word choice.
The only useful distinction I can make is that connection refers to the linkage between two things (node) while interconnection refers to multiple connections among multiple nodes. This is not borne out by examining dictionary definitions, however, and if dictionaries (i.e. Google) use such words (i.e. words and phrases) are not used, they can just be googled. Does current usage) have it right the two are pretty much interchangeable.
If you look at the word roots, interconnection seems pleonastic: con (together) + nectere (bind) already means bind together in connect. If inter (between, among) is used to bind together, only “between” or “among” can be used as the “happiness” of the sentence. What makes things easily bind together?
Etymonline tells us that Interconnect is by far the more recent coinage, first attested in 1865, some three centuries after connect. So I really don’t have any good advice except mention the difference, as I did in the first paragraph of this answer.
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