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  • I think the word you need is purist, or purism Purist

    is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as: – A person who insists on absolute adherence to traditional rules or structures, especially in language or style.

    The common pirism is a scrupulous or exaggerated observance of or insistence on traditional rules or structures, particularly in language or style.

    Note that Purist and Purism also exist as proper nouns referring to an early form of 20th century art emphasising purity of geometric forms.

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  • Asked on March 6, 2021 in Grammar.

    Why is it difficult for a francophone french person to say ‘diarrhu00e9a’ in english? What are some ways to spell diarrhea in my country? What we can’t say but you apparently

    can, is ‘How do you call the condition where you are constantly running to the loo’ What do you call what? What do you call? So

    this is all to do with the verb ‘to call’, which takes a number of interrogative pronouns including ‘what’ and ‘how’ but they each imply something different. what do you call your son? How do you call your son?

    For example a car with “four wheels and an engine”, but which one doesn’t really make sense? What is meant by call? What are some examples of Philippine customs. I am sure you find a

    way round it in Spain.

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  • Asked on March 4, 2021 in Other.

    Why is then used for multiple idiomatic purposes? Which one is an OED sense 5 (then = that being the case, therefore etc), of which there are examples from as early as the 10th century.

    1. (As a particle of inference, often unemphatic or enclitic) That being the case; since that is so; on that account; therefore, as may be inferred; so. now then: see now then at now adv. 6.

    971 Blickl. Hom. 92. 39 Us is onne mycel nedearf t we gebugon to him.

    c1230 of hali mileid. 5 Nis ha enne sariliche akast & in to ewdom idrahen.

    1297 R. Gloucester’s Chron., 1252, p. 506. Was there any sire they graunte me anne? As poche place as mid a uong ich may aboute tille?

    a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gu00f6tt.) l l. 5987 Wend on ann, sien e wil ga.

    c1475 ()? M. Apol (c. 1400) (London: Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 4 It is certayn an, owe he be his seruaunt.

    1539 Bible (great) 2 Sam. iii. 18 now do it.

    1546 Wycklyffes Wycket sig. Why can is on any line A. toboh no ice?

    1602 Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. ii. Fals. 296 36. Good den faire wife. Quic. Why not so ant like your worship. Fal. Faire Mayd then.

    a1616 Shakespeare As You Like It (1623) iv. iii. What are a good dean?

    Milton Paradise Lost (new ed.) Verse sig. A4, This neglect then of Rime so little isto be taken for a defect..that you .

    What are your views about O. Goldsmith in ‘The Courpious (Washington)’ as the Supreme Court ruled in Conquer v. Williams (1773), and if there are still any wretched hands against her, why? Hast. of 93 Hast. What is the truth as to how Tony met his father? Riddle me this then?

    1677: Scott Kenilworth, viii. 203 ‘Ha!” said the Countess, hastily; ‘That rumour then is true, Janet. ‘

    1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 86 We give up our cruise, then, after all?

    What are the main reasons for a short time?

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  • Asked on March 4, 2021 in Other.

    I am making plans for my daughter’s wedding’ but haven’t made the cake yet, I am still involved

    with preparation of the ingredients’.

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  • Asked on March 2, 2021 in Grammar.

    The preposition “in” is perfectly fine in the way you have used it. The sentence is indeed correct, however some readers clumsily read the sentences themselves. How would I say the same thing? Since I had started using “insight” to write in my comments, I have changed the more common word for customer comments. Can you use indicators?

    If you have any comments you wish to make on our products or service, your feedback would be invaluable to our continuing efforts to improve’.

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  • Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.

    I mean that the lowest form of living in the minds of little boys are ‘little girl’. (Nasmal) My grandson, aged 9, is in the middle of it and I don’t think has invited a single girl to his birthday party. I am sad.

    Of course, most well-adjustable males are born well before adulthood. But most men can easily get out. Do most people still have

    life?

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  • Asked on February 28, 2021 in Meaning.

    Why is the EU obliged to accept refugees and asylum seekers for humanitarian reasons? Can People who have travelled 500 miles be sent home? Is it relevant to take to account the

    case of Mohammad Abdul?

    What are some good and bad news for young people?

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  • Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.

    What was GBS’ occupation as a commentator? His cynicism, to a large extent reflects the attitudes of the late nineteenth-century; a world that had taken on board the works of such as Darwin, Marx, Freud and others; and particularly of Proudhon, who had opined that property is theft.

    The suggestion is that capitalism bears much in resemblance to crime, which has been a continuing critique at some level or other of finance capitalism, not least during the 2008 financial crisis.

    The 2008 crisis was a devaluation and the 2008 capital markets panic ran out.

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  • Asked on February 28, 2021 in Meaning.

    In terms of descriptive language, the OED definition of dichotomy is given in two parts. Do you think the word “dichotomous” deserves a precise usage in this specific sense?

    I would tend to employ it in any situation where, for example, I felt it necessary to illustrate that there are two ways of looking at something or an opposing argument. What is a close adjectival synonym to dichotomous, is polarised.

    How do I access my E-mail? Why hasn’t Nigel Dodds yet proved himself to be a good leader of Northern Ireland when there has been such a high level of polarisation in the UK’s religions across the last fifty years?

    c. -a. a. Are division into two sharply defined or contrasting parts; (Logic) division into two mutually exclusive categories or genera; binary classification. Also: an example of such division.

    What does a single person achieve in life? A sharp or paradoxical contrast resulting from such a division; something paradoxical, ambivalent, or contradictory.

    What is your opinion on terrorism in general?

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  • Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.

    “The word you probably need is classical b. gen.” Of, relating to, or characteristic of Greek or Roman antiquity. (OED sense 1b)

    (Means=No)

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