A nice expression: "It just doesn't follow" (watching the movie "Mississippi Burning"). In Russian, we would say "Что-то ничего не клеится" (Nothing seems to stick together)
The full sentence seems to be "That just doesn't follow logically".
"The insult pointy-head for one deemed overly intellectual, attested by 1971, was popularized, if not coined, by U.S. politician George Wallace in his 1972 presidential run."
"Nothing like a barber shop for jawing your socks off!" - probably a typo of "showing your socks off". I found nothing for "jaw off" except some horrible Syrian War footage.
I don't usually mind my answer being downvoted because I know the voting system here doesn't work. I saw two identical answers, one of which received 31 upvotes and the other received 9 upvotes. The funny thing was the other answer received 3 downvotes. I believe you would understand why the voti...
Hello guys! Maybe my question will be shunned, but, anyway, here's the question: :D Proofreading questions like this http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/74279/what-was-the-problem-with-the-egyptian-calendar should really be closed?
I have just found one edition that the editor put the context on behalf of the OP and there was a reopen vote cast in favor of this question.
I don't think it is a good idea or practice/policy to allow this kind of edition. The OP should edit it himself when his question is closed if he really ...
@Pandya We use 'scope' as our tag for discussing that sort of thing on Meta.Japanese, too.
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@DamkerngT. Okay, I went back to the comment discussion now that my head's a little clearer and tried to rewrite my comments a little more accurately.
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Let's see if we can't sort out the confusion in these comments. There's some good discussion of this in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (p.79). Here are three examples: ① It was broken deliberately, out of spite. [past participle form of verb] ② It didn't look broken to me. [past-participial adjective] ③ It was broken. [ambiguous] They write: "The verb broken in ① denotes an event, while the adjective broken in ② denotes a state – and the ambiguity of ③ lies precisely in the fact that it can be interpreted in either of these ways. — snailboat3 mins ago
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How does this apply to the question? Well, let me try to rewrite my first comment (now deleted) a bit more accurately. Offended is not an adjective in past tense form. Adjectives don't inflect for tense in English like they do in some other languages. Instead, it's an adjective derived from a verb form, specifically the past participial form of offend (which happens to look the same as the past tense form because offend is a regular verb). — snailboat47 secs ago
@StoneyB I ask because last time I posted comments on this question, they weren't quite right, so I thought it'd be good to get another set of eyes on whatever I wrote :-)
