Just ignore me if I ask too much. Anyway, if one has written a paragraph highlighting a number of key points and one wants to summarize it as a recap (but it is not really a conclusion). Is it formal to say, "All in all, bla bla is so and so."
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it said "dita" in the music video. why the hell couldnt they just make it "Dicta" as in dictator. "dita" doesnt mean anything.
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In English there is only one word for grade of friendship: friends. All of you agree that friends are different: with some of them you just drank beer few times, other you know for many years and you build strong bonds to them. There should be different words for that!
In Russian there are three...
In the office, we've been having a discussion about the grammar in a sentence and have differing opinions about what is right and what is wrong... It is a very minor issue but is still bugging me :)
The sentence in question is "a wide range of features is available" which sounds more natural to ...
Possible Duplicates:
“A total of 10 babies is sleeping.” v.s. “A total of 10 babies are sleeping.” v.s. “Ten babies in total are sleeping.”
Is “a total of 10 payments” singular or plural?
A total of 315 questionnaires was received fr...
I've heard mothers using this on the playground when talking to their children, but not sure what point they were trying to make to them?
We've all been overwhelmed with work, or saw an underwhelming movie... but it occurred to me that I've never heard anyone use the root word, whelm.
whelm (verb)
1. to submerge; engulf.
2. to overcome utterly; overwhelm: whelmed by misfortune.
If whelm is "to overcome utterly," then why is it y...
I saw it in some british show and it looked to be offensive.
Signs are part of language and I don't understand that one, please explain.
Okay, so this is kind of a strange question... but a group on my fraternity calls itself "Popeye" and they refer to themself als "Popeyers". But I got the feeling that that isn't really spelled right.
But what would the correct English plural for "Popeye" be?
When pluralizing family (last) names that also happen to be common English words, does the pluralization follow the same rules as the common word?
For example, "the Smith family" can be pluralized as "the Smiths", but what if your family name is Wolf or Fish? Would it be "the Wolfs" or "the Wol...
What is the difference between offer, propose, and suggest?
Thank you.
Is there a single word to describe an object or idea that is so desirable that everyone wants to attain it but once they have it they are immediately cursed?
The idea is often used in literature--some examples:
In Lord of the Rings, the 'one ring' is a perfect example of this.
In Guy de Maupas...
F'x's answer is completely correct with regards to the usage of the legal term "null and void": Both refer to the same meaning of invalidity. As best as I can tell, "void" is the most appropriate of the two to use if you want to trim your word count.
For everything else, however, the terms do ha...
If your target audience is the world, then you target not only people with a knowledge of American English, British English, and so on, but also people like myself, to whom English is not a mother tongue but a foreign language. If reaching these people is important to you, then you might want to ...
This is called paraprosdokian.
A paraprosdokian (from Greek "παρα-", meaning "beyond" and "προσδοκία", meaning "expectation") is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpre...
