Otherwise, just use the USM link in [this page](http://panmental.de/symbols/info.htm). This will open a small window where you can cut'n paste from in the upper left corner of your desktop. Select the "international" option and click on the corners.
My goal in asking this question is to learn to name my errors. I write many sentences and think, "that's not right," and then I change it to make it sound better. It usually works OK, and my boss is happy but I want to know WHY they are not right.
My current problem sentence is in bold: We dre...
Гипе́рбатон — фигура речи, при которой тема высказывания выделяется путём постановки в начало или конец фразы; при этом также может разрываться синтаксическая связь. Иными словами, гипербатон — разъединение смежных слов.
Классификация и этимология
Наряду с анафорой, гипербатон относится к фигурам перемещения (инверсии). Сам термин происходит от — «перестановка».
Употребление
Гипербатон используется в основном для усиления выразительности речи. Гипербатон — фигура достаточно изощрённая, оставляющая впечатление вычурности, а поэтому он редко используется в разговорной речи, однако нере...
The way I understand it, a date field is numeric, but with fancier display. I'm debating whether to just use an autonumbered field as the primary key, or whether I should go with the user ID + the date. (It's a timesheet - one record per day.)
@Kit Well, if the user ID is wrong, we've got bigger problems. The date could be wrong only in the sense of being the wrong day, but in that case the correction would be a new record entered with the correct day.
@Martha So no typos with the user ID, ok. And if you used the full timestamp, then the date isn't a problem (no duplicate keys). Yeah, you could do that. What do you use the key for?
(In this particular case. I know what keys are for.)
@Vitaly I thought it was helpful to know that a stinker wharf probably meant a tannery or a knackery though. That narrows things down a bit. Do you have a link for the interview?
@Martha I prefer using a surrogate key and creating constraints as needed. But it's one of those horribly contentious issues. I don't get on with our database people so well now after they changed to this way of thinking but then decided they would call all of the key columns 'id'.
Mostly, I just need to define a primary key because the database (practically) requires it, but if I don't use a natural key, then I'll need to do something to prevent one user from having more than one record per day. Of course, if I do use a natural key, then I'll have to do something to prevent the users from seeing 500 Internal Server Error pages...
@Kit Actually I can't really even think of a hot female to talk about instead. I have never understood that stuff, they are just people off the telly and in films.
@AlainPannetier — The words I gave in my response are the words I would use to express interest in something (informally, of course). Obviously I meant my reply to you as a gently sarcastic comment. OK, maybe not so gentle.
The third answer in vote ranking (I'm trying hard not to name names here) is very firm, definite, and wrong. I think all of his answers that I've seen thus far have exactly the same qualities.
Since I seemed to spend all of yesterday chasing him round the site contending his answers, I'm a bit reluctant to do it again.
It falls somewhere between writing critique and correctness... so it's inviting people to rewrite, and that's the trouble. You get answers guessing at what the author meant to say, instead of explaining how language works.
Not that we know how language works, but... our best answers explain why a particular usage makes sense or doesn't, why people use it, what context it's used in, that kind of thing. Maybe with questions like this if we're not going to give them to Writers somebody could jump in to edit them sooner to make them a little more about correctness
@Rhodri If people aren't sure how to answer, it's a bad question. If it is a new user I always leave a comment first but if comments have been ignored.. I vote down.
The whole thing is pointless. Repeating a word is not a crime. There is nothing wrong with the way it is written imo, in fact, most of the alternatives are worse! At least the OP's sentence can be read once and understood.
This for example: The table can display only up to 10 leading entries.
Really comment #1 should be 'Can you provide some context'? then if the OP ignores that people should downvote or vote to close instead of just guessing at the answer. That's my tuppence.
10k users have always had visibility to some of the flags in the system, in particular they could see spam/offensive and comment flags in the tools/flagged route.
The trouble was that these are the easiest flags for us mods to deal with. The trickier ones to deal with are all the rest.
We jus...
You could try the Cartesian approach: "I stink, therefore I am." Actually, that should be rendered in Latin. Where's @Cerberus when you really need him?
I know this has a huge amount of subjectivity, and the answer is most likely "It can be." However, I have met people who say it is, and that people who don't think so are repressed and those that say it isn't, and that people who think it is are deluding themselves.
Has there been any studies s...
I'd have thought this would have been asked already but I didn't see it. Is driving the speed limit safer on a highway? By "highway" I mean high-traffic areas, such as 4-lane divided thoroughfares.
Having commuted for some time, I've noticed that people who clearly drive at excessive speeds seem...
Another thing that bugs me about questions is that pointing out the subjectivity of a question in the question itself does not make it okay to actually ask the question
@RegDwight I pick my battles
Right now I am trying to get them to agree on topicality before getting picky about question formation.
Meh. I don't have infinite energy to wage war. They got grumpy when I told them that irrelevant images should be edited out... so content quality isn't apparently a major concern.
It is sort of like trying to get a style consensus out of Meta.EL&U
@Martha No, I was just put off by the re-direct. He suggests gifts from his Amazon wishlist if people are uncomfortable donating using PayPal, and he likes Neil Gaiman. Sounds pretty trustworthy to me.
It does seem like it. It probably doesn't help that I've been spending less and less time on chat. Stoopid work.
Have I mentioned how much I hate JavaScript?
I was hoping html 5 would remove the need for much of the javascript I struggle with, i.e. with number spinners and especially datepickers, but (1) too few browsers are compliant, and especially (2) the date/time input fields can't be customized, like, at all. If you don't like 24-hour time, you're SOL. If your users get confused by dates that aren't mm/dd/yyyy, ditto.
I came across this sentence while reading Wikipedia and the second occurrence of "continuum" stood out to me as totally wrong since a continuum is specifically a range which can be divided into an unlimited number of possibilities.
"Some linguists consider the rough/soft continuum more accura...
I've downvoted the question and posted a comment, but I still think there might be a real question underneath the peeving, so I haven't voted to close.