@DanBron It's not worth trying to parse. one comment made a joke about meds. If the OP is serious, and his comments lead to that, then I am actually concerned medically for the OP.
Also, I'd say that most of the things that could be considered rude in mixed company (both men and women present) would be also rude in single sex company.
@Mitch If you're in a certain group, jokes are bound to come up that contain negative stereotypes about "others". It's human nature, and a civilised group will see them as what they are: jokes, not actual opinions.
But they may give a bad impression upon outsiders, who cannot know that the jokes are 0% serious.
@Mitch On ELU I tend to be verbally quite well-behaved. Some of my friends and colleagues would not remember ramblings slightly closer to the question at hand, especially when spoken. Coherent it may be, but not necessarily easily understood by the audience.
@Mitch Actually, yes. For instance quite some aspects of sex itself I'd rather indulge in in mixed company (and preferably in a small group of say, two people...)
Example: He came up with a catalogue of things his father said or did which upset him.
Is the use of "catalogue" correct in this example? I personally think so, as the word derives from the Greek καταλέγω, which means to "recount, to tell at length, or make a list" (1).
I wanted to use a word ...
I made a rant about subtle discrimination against low rep user. I removed the rant.
I'm in a tug-of-war with several people in my "catalogue" thread.
Basically, I showed how the etymology of "catalogue" elucidates the word. But I was accused of etymological fallacy: the claim that etymology leads to meaning for every word.
I should be able to focus on a single case without being accused of generalization. This is like getting into a logic argument with a toddler.
If I say that "4" is a perfect square I'm not saying that every integer is a perfect square, but that's exactly what @Colin Fine is claiming.
@ktm5124 about your 'catalog' question? That question is not well suited to the main site. Probably better to ask here where we can screw around with it. It's too speculative a question. 'Is this good?' just doesn't work well on ELU.
@ktm5124 Colin was right. You said: X means Y because that's what it's greek etymology says it should be. And that is pretty clearly a literal etymological fallacy. Catalog means something related to but not the same as the original. Yes, the etymology can explain the nuances of a word that we are using vaguely, but the etymology doesn't make the modern definition.
Well, there was only one sentence in my post that could be construed as fallacy. "I personally think so, as the word derives from the Greek καταλέγω, which means to 'recount, to tell at length, or make a list'"
It is hard as a newcomer or NNS to know how to ask a good question. We get a lot of poorly formed questions here that are just exacerbating. And the lessons learned from those drive-by single shot 'gimme the answer now' questions by 1 rep users are maybe rubbing people the bad way.
Having never had to write such a report I can't be very trustworthy in claiming that it is an 'established' way of saying it, but my title sounds natural to me.
Under some contexts, it is a little metaphorical. (may refer to gears/innards of a machine vaguely, or it may mean for a hamburger 'give me the works' means put everything on it, lettuce pickle mayo etc.)
@RejlanGivens I'm sure there is a standard phrasing, one that everybody in the industry used. But I am not in that industry. So I couldn't really say. Your suggestions make sense, but I have no idea if that's what people really say
@ktm5124 I know some Standard Arabic (MSA, CA). Different varieties of the language spoken across the Arab world differe rather significantly from Standard Arabic and from each other - I don't know them.
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@Færd Thanks :-) I'm just at the dentist for a cleaning.