There is no single-word equivalent for fargin in English, though there are single-word antonyms like begrudge and resent. In the same way, there is no single-word equivalent in English of the French word frileux (someone who has the tendency to feel cold).
That doesn't make Yiddish or French "ri...
@Mitch I suppose...but the step from justice to judgemental is less obvious to me. And the link between whore and non-judgemental is also not super strong.
Yes, it makes sense. Whether it is identical to the sense you have in mind, is a different question entirely. For starters, I would not take podcast to mean "a house music episode that is one hour long". But since the sentence will be found in some sort of context, this is probably not an issue.
Using jokey words - like "floccinaucinihilopilification" instead of "belittling" - can be helpful in setting atmosphere, when the less pompous word might be too sharp. Easy additions like "ism" merely make them longer without appreciable benefit. Does the prefix "auto" here add valuable intensi...
@Robusto I had it, you have it now. Is that how capitalism works in your country? You take other people's stuff away and then pretend you don't have it?
That is, Geoff Pullum (in some paper) just recognizes that people nowadays say between you and I in formal occasions and between you and me in informal ones. At the door to the club "It is I", at the door to the crack den "It is me"
@Mitch If I had to answer a question, I would have known that me was the accusative. That's pathetic. I need to stop that I immediately. I like that. Geoff Pullum, I should read.
What words do you use to describe an unmatched couple? For instance, if we found that a girl is out of the league of her boyfriend (8 vs 5), or the other way around, how do you describe such couple?
@Mitch I would literally pay you a thousand roubles if you walked up or into the kind of establishment you'd see in Trainspotting and try saying "It is I". Please do it.
@Robusto Grammar criminals. "What are you in for?" "I taught kids that sometimes.... sometimes it is OK to end a sentence with a preposition" silence. everyone backs away
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When is it okay to end a sentence in a preposition?
I see it a lot, even though my elementary teacher told me it is wrong. This is probably a new development, a sign that our language is in decay. Soon none of us will be able to understand each other. But this slopp...
Thomas "Tom" Neuwirth (born 6 November 1988), better known by his drag stage persona Conchita Wurst, is an Austrian singer. Wurst came to international attention when winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix".
Born in Gmunden, Neuwirth studied fashion before embarking on a singing career through the 2007 casting show Starmania. He subsequently became a founding member of the short-lived boyband Jetzt Anders!. In 2011, Neuwirth began appearing as Wurst – a drag persona noted for her beard – and came second in the Aus...
@medica yeah no shit, people keep saying how everyone voted politically, while the song was actually good and he presented it well. Unlike so many other contestants.
OK, so I have these bookmarked webpages discussing small topics under the folder 'Articles'. But I also have some webpages/sites that I wouldn't prefer to call 'articles' because they're more detailed and comprehensive and are more about a whole subject that topics.
@Mitch "In its widest acceptation, concupiscence is any yearning of the soul for good; in its strict and specific acceptation, a desire of the lower appetite contrary to reason."
@RegDwigнt By the way, you should try leek fritters sometime. They are somewhat like draniki, but with leeks. This recipe by Ottolenghi is pretty good.
By the way, @Mitch, Latin has the first kind of "phrasal verb" here, but probably not really the second or third kinds. At least not the way English does. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasal_verb#Examples
I think any language has the first kind. Latin would just write the particle in front of the verb rather than after the verb or after the object. And attach it to the verb in writing, so it becomes con-formare etc.