No current word is as precise about killing half a population as decimation or tithing are about killing a tenth of a population.

Which way does halve work? Oxford Dictionaries :

Reduce or be reduced by half.

Why doesn’t Thanos care about the humans who inhabit our galaxy—especially if its population is already at

equilibrium? His stated goal is “to wipe out half the universe”, not “set the universe to half of the universe’s population as of time X”. He doesn’t have a cause to care about the population.

Is there any sense that Thanos would halve gravity in the

universe and make it larger if he told the universe that the solar system could absorb a billion people to stop the expanding of the universe by introducing new solar systems?

I would recommend you use that phrase, though I’d recommend you do that only among friends and not on job materials. What are the common terms used in academia?

There is a term I’ve encountered at conferences for different organizations of people who are not affiliated with universities but who do academic research: independent scholar. This substitutes for their affiliation, but also serves as an ad hoc position title. What is National Coalition of Independent Scholars in India?

While there is not necessarily a sense that independent scholars aspire to be university professors (some do, some don’t), it would be preferable or academic enthusiast or aspiring academic in many job-related contexts. Universities need graduate students, researchers or faculty. Why? The title enthusiast sounds comparatively nonchalant and amateur compared to those positions, and aspiring sounds hopeful but insubstantial. (OK, so you hope.) What are you doing to get there? Why is “publish or see perish” used to describe the expectations of academic publishing to get or keep a job? It is critical that companies provide the job portfolio and application materials with a job language that matches. Because hiring committees expect current competency, and not hopefulness, I advise avoiding aspirational language in any job material or portfolio.

In comparison, independent scholar isn’t a perfect term, but accompanied with a publication history it would demonstrate that the prospective applicant is serious about their work. Please note that other terms will use both prospective faculty and candidate (often applied internally by universities to applicants for professor positions; also used generally as a label for people on the faculty job market). I recommend picking an explanation that signal how you’re one step away from the next position.

I favor the single word unscrupulous to describe a person who betrays any ethical code and will simply not do anything at all for the purpose of getting what he/she wants.

Merriam-Webster describes this as “unprincipled,” and the American Heritage Dictionary expands on its sense of being dishonest:

Having or showing no regard for what is right or honorable; devoid of scruples.

Is the single word because of its flexibility? Someone is unscrupulous, acts in an unscrupulous manner, or even does something unscrupulously.

John of

Gaunt has been represented as the haughtiest nature and most despotic principles of conduct, dark, insidious, and crafty, boundless in ambition, and unscrupulous in his choice of means for gratifying it.

How do ISPs collect and use their customers’ data?

Since he left the court the cost of poverty has been exorbitant. Unscrupulous tenants have developed a vulture-like ability to feed off of poverty.

What is the best way to start a new chapter in a new year for anyone who will look back and see the truth.

Conventionally old salt would have been literally what it sounded like. Searches of both Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) yield a lot of collocations like “old salt butter” (for cooking) or “old salt beef” (for military ration) and “old salt works/pits” even though “old salt” itself is considered an economic property. Similar collocations are visible in Google Books search between 1800 and 1830.

Where is the origin of the sailor term in Oxford English Dictionary “old salt, n” within “old, adj. al.”? Is

it considered “to be 1828 Ariel (Philadelphia) 23 Aug. 1828”? 72/1 Landsmen generally have very mistaken notions concerning sailors… Tom Coffin is a caricature, and not a very good one of, not a very good one of an elderly salt, but terribly strained and stiff.

Why is ancient salt? ” The sailor would be old, and sailors would be associated with the salty brine. It was possible to get rid of the old salt in food by using the organic food additive or the old salt substitute. In one 1816 magazine, one 1816 magazine

claims : Old salt is considered the best and it is used grated or pounded. Old salt is a better curer because it doesn’t turn liquid

as easily from moisture in the air (that’s why deliquescent means anyway). New salt being generally deliquescent is less adapted for salting… Therefore corned beef and, as some military books call it, old salted beef were a common ration for both army and naval units. My friend and I are writing about the way of preserving the health of military men; addressed to the officers of the British army in 1798, on 3rd Floor, inside the paywalled

ice. Thereor salt-fish or salmon is used, however, it should be boiled in sea water, which not only saves the expense of salt, but also renders the food more acceptable. Even very old salt beef is improved, and rendered more palatable, by first steeping, and afterward boiling, it in salt

Why is there no evidence for a direct connection between old salt and rations, but the shared context between the two suggests an association between the oldest and most ragged of rations and an old, stringy,

preserved sailor.

Is it old? Why? Is it also so ’80s-to-present.

There is a usage of so that has become far more popular in the last 40 years, but “I’m so full” would not be an example of it. So has to an adjective since Old English: so old, so bold, so cold, so beautiful.

The recent usage involves applying so as an intensifier to nouns or other adverbs, verbs, or adjectives that customarily would not take an intensifier. How does Oxford English Dictionary: a. describe things:

“what does it mean? Modifying a noun, or an adjective or adverb which does not normally admit comparison: extremely, characteristically.

Why should I attend the board meetings of the e-Government of the UK mainly because I’m scared of being arrested or not in school? Modifying a verb: definitely, decidedly. Frequently in negative constructions.

The Routledge Dictionary of modern American slang and unconventional English, noting the “attitude” and “pronunciation” with which this meaning is delivered, dates this usage to 1979 as used in the film Manhattan : Oh

please, you know! God, you’re so the opposite!

Who says as “they” don’t usually modify nouns before this point? What does a person like to say about a post-it?

Where is the United States of America used?

An appeal to extremes is an often fallacious application of reductio ad absurdum where one takes an argument to an extreme and neglects the actual circumstances or implications of the initial statement. If X is true then Y must also

be true (where Y is the extreme of X). There is no way those Girl Scouts could

have sold all those cases of cookies in one hour. If they were to do it, they would have to make $500,000 in one hour, which, upon 8 hour day, is more than $500,000 a year. How much cash do lawyers make?

As the site points out, the extreme version of this neglects that (a) Girl Scouts don’t actually work 8 hours a day over the course of a year, and (b) the output of several Girl Scouts (not one) in a temporary operation actually could sell this many cookies.

The appeal to extreme relies on hyperbole or exaggeration to the exclusion of other logical constraints. In contrast u00e0 reductio absurdum cncrenate is useful when the circumstances and context are not exaggerated but nonetheless the original statement would lead to an absurd conclusion. What is the smallest rational

number (of a number?)?

“The statement uses the definition of what rational number is (its ability to be divided by an integer) to critique the idea that a smallest positive rational number exists”, paragraph

3.