I just mentioned errors in speech to relieve you of the burden of doubt, whether the the was to be considered part of "language", as it is a mistake made in writing.
@Cerberus If something sounds perfectly fine in casual or serious settings to a sufficiently large class of people during a sufficiently long period of time, they will carry on using it, and they'll be making no mistake doing that. If it doesn't sound right to others, they don't use it. That's what correctness, grammaticality, and style boils down to in my book.
> Correct use of these words is simple, but increasingly rare. The parts compose the whole; the whole comprises the parts. The whole is composed of the parts; the parts are comprised in the whole.
> The phrase ✳ is comprised of is increasingly common but has long been considered poor usage. It was not a frequent collocation until about 1950. Replace it with some other, more accurate phrase.
maybe all this mistake stuff only really matters for a culture with reading/writing. who cares about a noticeable change beyond one generation since great-grandparents and great grandchildren are not communicating.
I don't like Fowler or Garner. I like the MW Dictionary of English Usage, which is what Huddleston and Pullum recommends in CGEL as the most well-researched usage manual.
Also, although the MW Collegiate Dictionary is small in size, it contains some words not found in other, bigger dictionaries, like the word jaspery.
The only thing bad about the MW books is that the front covers usually have a terrible design showing an ugly circle with some ugly colour combination.
@Færd It's hard to say when we will die, and after we die, we will live again, in different ways in different faiths.
I hear it is a China style of cooking, I will never order them again.
Now, although I don't like living in Antarctica, I must say most of the food here is very nice.
I think sometimes people go to expensive restaurants and then say the food is very good because they paid a lot for it when it is actually not so good, lol.
@Færd I was under the impression that X is comprised of Y is commonly used. Now I will need to look that up more.
@JasperLoy they have very good data science backing them up. I don't know if users' expectations get met but okcupid's descriptive science is very public.
@KitZ.Fox is this where the question about selenium comes in?
I knew a software manager who did UI testing by fingersmashing the keyboard and closisng their eyes while randomly moving and clicking the mouse.
It sounds like the UL's (Underwriters Laboratory) methods of approving consumer electronics (like laptops and coffee makers) which has at least one battery of stress tests where they drop the item from a given height and see what happens.
I mean, that's a really useful test for some very specific circumstances... but...
@KitZ.Fox the best situation is to, when doing the regression (or otherwise) testing by hand, have selenium (or other automated testing platform) record your hand actions as a macro for the future. Doing that is a bit more difficult than it sounds (the one time I tried it with selenium).
For example a situation where you are on the phone with a friend and he is with a person that you know. You would ask him to say hi for you.
The french equivalent would be "Passer le bonjour"
I am looking for formal and informal ways to say that.
At night the absence of street lighting due to an abrupt power cut, would give _______ to thieves (Here I want to convey that it would give a sort of good chance to the robbers to break into houses)
(Short of words)
What words can I use at the place marked as_______
I ended up writing this : At night, the absence of lighting on the streets due to abrupt power cut would give an evil opportunity to burglars to break into houses.
@Abcd grammatically correct, semantically strange. it doesn't sound right to have an opportunity that is evil. Only people or sentient beings are evil.