Oxford Dictionary: Late 18th century of unknown origin. But if we extrapolate from MW: Culdesac (First Known Use 1738) History and Etymology for cul-de-sac; French, literally, bottom of the bag, we might deduce cul to mean direct or divert?

Both work for me.

Culvert: a tunnel carrying a stream or open drain under a road or railway.

Direct is perfectly OK.

Thank you. @GWarner :)

ugh! i just noticed I used -vert to define -vert.... SMh..

Ah

no need im just diverting myh boredom into new things.

Let me show you something interesting then...

You might want to read this... second answer.

It's intriguing

Is this a trend? English Learners reading old texts? First the spirtualist book listend on gutenberg and now one from the 40's? who is instructing them to read such old stuff?

Which one?

Only two positions? Is that in addition to the existing ones?

English learners are overly picky

Only those two come to mind at the moment.

@DecapitatedSoul I would suppose so. But I certainly wouldn't go to writings by Peter the Great if I wanted to learn modern Russian.

BTW, I hadn't cracked open this Latin dictionary in 20 years... It's just a sentimental thing really.

From Dictionary.com

here's something interesting.. lexico.com/en/definition/cull colliere: to collect

I only have 100 rep in ELU. explains why i cudnt add a tag to a question

God Bless the internet for finally allowing me to find something close to a defintion of a phrase I wonder about since the 80's..

I kinda had a feel for what it meant, I just wanted confirmation...

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"embryo mystic"

Intuitively. Someone with heightened awareness since birth or from a very young age.

@DecapitatedSoul Are you a student of linguistics?

@AIQ, Yes. But I don't study linguistics at college/ uni. I just search things up and learn. 'Interest'

I've learnt a lot of things on EL&U. Sometimes I answer a question that surprises me... like I make things up and they turn out to be correct.

Not 'correct' but.... reasonable.

@DecapitatedSoul Oh. But what sparked that interest?

As far as I remember, it was 'articulation of English consonants'.

@M.A.R. Have you participated?

Word of the day: plunge pool

@Cardinal Nopes

I am very confused. Are we not consistently maintaining any rule here? Should we not closevote basic questions that can be answered by a simple google search? For example, questions like "What is the meaning of this phrase: the apple doesn't fall far from the tree?" can be easily answered by a google search. At the very least, askers of this sort of questions should be telling us what research they have done. I see users with high rep answering these kind of questions.

@AIQ, You're absolutely right. I have a stupid idea but not sure if it sounds plausible.

SE should make a box (what's that called?) like the text body, title and tags and should name it 'research you have done'.

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So the asker will not be able to proceed without filling that section/ portion of the question.

@AIQ That problem is as eternal as the grammar tag. People answering are here to help others, and some people focus on helping individuals one at a time while others see it as more important to help as many people as possible.

People who write lots of correct answers get lots of reputation, even if it is one or two votes at a time, so it makes sense that those who don’t mind answering the easy questions even though they are low quality will end up as “high rep” users.

@AIQ We should.

Confusion if the first stage of grief

Or is it second?

@DecapitatedSoul Yeah, or they could just provide the potential asker with links to dictionaries and directions on how to google.

But we're still in the stone age. It's so very difficult to implement even the simplest changes like these. It messes up the whole website!!

Welp

@DecapitatedSoul Actually that sounds good. However, there could be certain types of questions where there may be not much research to be done (or not much can be found in google). Maybe your idea would fit perfectly with some tags (word-meaning, phrase meaning, grammar, etc.) ...

@ColleenVpartedways I get all that. But there are a number of posts in meta discouraging such behavior from answerers. I am fairly new here and I don't have a lot of reputation to actually write comments under the answers (for the answerers) stating that we should not feed the bears. But this should be done.

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