Oh, oh, oh! I found a thing! A thing someone has already written! It has JSON. @Matt can help with working this out, I'm sure. I forked it. Is that OK or bad etiquette?
@MrHen In general, yes. Although like femme fatale they can be used for good when you want to imply that somebody is dangerous in an exciting or exotic way.
@Cerberus Venus came to my mind too, but despite being a love goddess I think she's more associated with beauty than seduction.
That's sort of the general problem, most of the words that are positive suggest passive beauty, whereas most of the words that suggest seduction are judgmental.
On further thought, I think I may have been overly harsh on RyeBread, and I'm tempted to remove my downvote – except that his edit made the answer worse than it was to start.
I follow up with a doctor who I like but I am not sure of his feeling coz he always talking with me formally but last time I have appointement I sent him email telling that I will cancel the appointment because my kid is sick he replied telling me some advices for my kid conditions and he said up...
Largely it's a matter of presentation and attitude. For example, femme fatale isn't really much different from siren (indeed, one of your definitions includes “siren”). And yet, I thought your answer was good while his was terrible.
RyeBread even linked to an example of “siren” used to mean “exotic beauty” (from what I could gather from the context), which wasn't too bad.
And if his answer said, “this word has some negative connotations, but it's increasingly used to mean this more neutral thing instead,” I would totally upvote him.
Some moron just downvoted this answer. This is the same answer as the accepted one, except I gave it first, lo these many years ago. Why I don't play in this sandbox anymore, Part XXXIX.
@BraddSzonye Ah, so you did. Sorry, was tabbed out.
Install the application on your phone and run it once in a while. It will map Wifi and cell towers linked to GPS, so the service can use it for people to find their location even if they have no GPS. It is really important that we all develop an open-source, non-spying alternative to Google's ubiquitous location service.
The application will only run when you tell it to start scanning, and turn off when you tell it to. All data are anonymous. Mozilla can be trusted.
Given this standard English sentence:
The town population numbers 3000.
where "number" is transitive.
Then for this sentence:
The town population numbers in the thousands.
is "in the thousands" a quasi noun then?
@Noah This particular user is so problematic that the moderators delete his posts on sight, regardless of whether they might otherwise be on topic.
A few of us regular users try to close them when we see them, so that other users don't waste time answering questions that will almost certainly be deleted.
Why do several words have two or more meanings?
For example:
fly - to fly like a bird
fly - like black people say "he is so fly"
cool - cold to touch
cool - like some kids say when the like something
???
Why is english so stupid to do this?
Actually I should have upped the ante and asked him to name not one language without homonyms, but one word in any language that does not have several meanings.
Ah yes, Serbian is peculiar. But your description is not entirely correct. What actually happens in Serbian is that once a word is found to have a second meaning, a law is enacted that says it's actually Croatian, or Bosnian, or Macedonian, or Shtokavian, or Old Church Slavonic. And until the law is passed, as a work-around you just write the one meaning in Cyrillic and the other in Latin. (Disclaimer: I am not a Serbian lawyer.) — RegDwigнt7 secs ago
Given this standard English sentence:
The town population numbers 3000.
where "number" is transitive.
Then for this sentence:
The town population numbers in the thousands.
is "in the thousands" a quasi noun then?
Why do several words have two or more meanings?
For example:
fly - to fly like a bird
fly - like black people say "he is so fly"
cool - cold to touch
cool - like some kids say when the like something
???
Why is english so stupid to do this?
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…