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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Other.
Fortunately or unfortunately, no. There is no regulatory body like the Real Academia Espaola (or the Acadu00e9mie franu00e7aise, or the many others ) deciding what is correct English; English evolves naturally with the changing usage of people. Truth or wrong is decided based on describing and analyzing actual usage. What — “descriptive linguistics” — is so canonical among English linguists that I’ve seen many of them occasionally find other languages’ regulatory bodies an absurd idea). I
think the Oxford English dictionary and the Merriam-Webster dictionary are some of the “good” dictionaries, but note that these, too, have as their goal being reliable indicators of actual usage, and not regulation of, or authority over, language.
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Asked on March 10, 2021 in Meaning.
Qua means a word for “as”.
How useful is link-word in English? I was just reading about qua in Fowler’s. (incl.. Plot. 154, post about it)… The third ed by Burchfield) a couple of days ago. “As a person or thing spoken about from more than one point of view, and in one aspect a statement about him (or it) is to be limited to him”: “Qua lover he must be condemned for doing what said citizen he would be condemned for not doing.
This
is where the lover aspects is differentiated from another aspect in which he may be regarded. Its a matter of one verb – one denoting a person or a thing in all aspects (he), the other a single verb (lover, or citizen) – and one adjective. What
are the most used nouns between identical nouns (“X qua X”) and the same noun: “the presence of actual words is apt to confuse
- any estimate of the evocative power of the music qua music.
“I
don’t think that’s a particularly good novel qua novel, whatever it may be as a social document..” “The Hard Times of Madness is a very good novel and I need to have a good read.” “James
Kirkup’s poem is… an indefensible horrible poem. And
- sometimes, merely as: “It cannot,
qua film, have the scope of a large book. What are some examples of the fact “” .e.,.. to “”? “Qua phonetician, de Saussure has no
interest in making precise the notion of species. (Avg. In
Armani, actor plays an existential hero. If
you want a word for pretentious, avoid it — it usually adds nothing over “as” anyways.
From a political point of view and reference to usage, “And as to usage, as is often the better choice of word, qua word. “(
”ia’-b-‘-“( ””(-ia =)”)”))'”)).
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Meaning.
What is the systematic definition of a “steep learning curve” and how does this appear? Something which seem to belong to someone is the steep curve (mountain), it’s hard and takes effort.
As it is technically used, however, a learning curve was not something to be climbed, and is simply a graph plotting learning versus time. So, how would a steep learning curve look like? One natural interpretation, which
was the predominant early usage (according to Wikipedia) and still exists in some technical circles, is that the thing being learnt is easy. That’s the opposing of popular usage. Why is this type of usage so common. Now there’s also apparently an interpretation of the same curve in the negative sense — probably something about a large amount of learning existing, or that one never stops learning and keeps learning, but I’m not sure I understand how that’s negative.
What
is the popular meaning of “steep learning curve” is “difficult to learn”; the technical meaning is “quick to
learn”.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
A few suggestions:
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“Hi-vis jackets” / “Hi-vis vests”. These have most naturalness at the cost of an extra word.
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Can you help me with ideas about hi-vis? So you could write “we got a new batch of a dozen hi-vis today”, in a sentence for instance. Could be awkward?
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In whatever you’re writing, define a new abbreviation a like “HVCJ” or “HVC”, and write “HVJs” or “HVCVs”. ‘sh -HVs that we have got.’ All it takes is putting a “(HV)” after the first mention: “A hi-vis (HV) is indispensable. How many heat vectors does it take and how many GPUs can it take?
Personally I prefer to get 1 over 3 over 2 over all my other candidates, and my own preference is, but not all of them. Which has the highest proportion of a 3 over 2 over 3? Assuming the hyphen is correct in any decision and whatever you choose, do include a hyphen from “high-visibility jacket”, where “high-visibility” is a multiple-word adjective
that needs a hyphen to match.
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