@NVZ It may come as no surprise that I sympathize with Mrs. Drizzle a little more here, or at least I would if she wasn't a misrepresentation of Mrs. Frizzle, who was anything but doctrinaire. Regardless, there is another reason ain't is disliked, and that's ambiguity. It seems to have been a contraction of am not originally, since the consecutive mn in amn't is harder to pronounce, then it came to be used for are not and then eventually most, if not all of the other contractions.
Is there word for entrepreneurship which is related to only IT(Software, Web Design, Online marketing, Blogging, etc)?
Can I use as 'IT Entrepreneurship'?
So, what's a good single word or short term for someone who's:
Not politically naive
Well-traveled
A cultural chameleon
Has a good grasp on one or more non-native languages
I'm looking for a descriptive words to indicate "smaller than the standard version".
Example:
I have a html form with some inputs. The inputs come in sizes (eg small, normal, large). Those sizes have a specific width.
Now, I have a version with a small button (in this case an X to delete). That...
Being deceived is not something we normally ------ .
The sentence is intended to say that we normally don't like to be deceived. But it would sound clumsy if I just put the verb "like" in the blank above. So what is the verb we usually use in sentences as the one above? There are of course m...
If someone tries to sound smart in repartee by saying,
Well obviously blah blah blah
but what they said is actually wrong, then what's a good comeback to that, or what's a good way to phrase the comeback?
@Mitch I'd think the whole question, because I can't imagine why such a thing should be on-topic on ELU/EL&U/E.L.U./English Language and Usage/that SWR site
@M.A.R. or you can add 'politely' and migrate that question to Interpersonal.SE! as in, "If someone tries to sound smart in repartee by saying, Well obviously blah blah blah but what they said is actually wrong, then what's a good comeback to that, or what's a good way to politely phrase the comeback?" This is just the type of question we often get there...
@MetaEd I can imagine that the question could be salvaged if it was rephrased as a way as to solicit a single word to indicate that whatever was said is not so obvious, but the way it's worded right now simply solicits off-topic "writing advice" in my opinion. It should probably be closed, and deleted if no attempt to improve it is made.
Only a semi-serious suggestion, @Meta Ed, though I forgot the time limit for migration is 6 months: but my instinctive reaction was, what is an Interpersonal.SE question doing on ELU!
@MetaEd Hmm, I must admit, I didn't pay attention to the age. I'm not so sure if that actually does much to change my advice though, since at least maintaining the appearance of due process may be of importance and there's probably not much of a need to rush into the matter if the question is closed. The only other thing I might suggest differently is that perhaps it's wiser to let sleeping lions lie with a question so old.
Regardless,I doubt the community will vote to close the question itself at this point, let alone vote it down low enough to delete it without moderator intervention, so if it should be deleted, it's going to have to be at a moderator's hand, and I am assuming that you have reservations against exercising that sort of discretion autonomously since you have not already deleted it.
But I could be wrong, so I'll pitch a vote against the question to facilitate the process
A number of symbols exist wherein a part of some whole is used to represent the whole. For example, the atom is often used to represent science, even though it is only one concept in a very broad field. Somewhat more controversially, in one particularly well-known statue, Robert E. Lee is used to...
She was forced ... torture to testify that.
What preposition is the best choice for the blank? Different suggestion, such as by, under, and with can be find in the literature, which by being the most common, it sounds like under is the most idiomatic. What do you think?
I want to indicate that a gathering of people who witnessed an activity appeared to be suspicious of what was going on around them. I'd like to write a sentence along the lines of:
A group was standing on the corner looking suspicious.
However, the sentence as-is could mean two separate th...
I got a notification that I was invited to chat. I have no idea how to use this. How do I know who invited me? And what am I supposed to do now that I'm here?
The connotation of adjective 'appropriate' is positive, while that of the verb is negative.
1. What's this phenomenon called, though this question allows any part of speech (and not just an adjective and verb, as above)? I ask this so that I can try to find lists of such words.
2. Why? Does t...
I listened to the song "Liablilty" by Lorde a few days ago and wondered what the word "liability" in that context means:
They say, "You're a little much for me, you're a liability
You're a little much for me"
So they pull back, make other plans
I understand, I'm a liability
...
I sometimes listen to incredibly moving music on YouTube and find myself regarding the music as both causing "rapture" and "anguish" in my soul at (almost) the same time. Is there a word that would embody "rapture" and "anguish" in this sense? I know they are antonyms but I'm wondering if there...
I was thinking augmenter but that seems to imply something is added on as opposed to make the original item more.
Booster is closer to the idea I am trying to say but it sounds temporary and it's effect could be by way of something other than increasing the original item. For example a rocket b...
A person who wears a hijab is sometimes called a hijabi, a person who wears a niqab is sometimes called a niqabi. Is there an equivalent term for someone who wears a burqa? According to Wiktionary hijab, hijabi, and niqab are directly from Arabic, and burqa is indirectly derived from Arabic, whic...
@MetaEd @MetaEd, interesting. I can't recall, did I end up posting/commenting/flagging something about that somewhere? Because I actually found that question just the other day because I was considering asking about the appropriate noun vs. verb etymology.
Lol, apparently all that reply number does is insert the ping, which I had already typed manually. Sorry about that.
@vpn Yes you flagged it. It's a dupe of another question, but the other question was closed.
@vpn Yes it does the ping, and the reply number also creates a thread. There are tiny arrows in the PC UI which you can click to go back to the prior message.
When you apply for a position/job, one aspect of your application -- for example your proposal, or your research record, or your background -- is your greatest advantage to get you the position/job. I am looking for a word/phrase to mean such a top plus point.
Example:
I have applied for the p...
@MetaEd Okay, gotcha. Yes, I remember now. I was thinking that perhaps instead of having the old question closed, mods could historically lock it instead. I'm not sure if there is much difference at this point, but to me, the locked message seems a little "friendlier," if that makes sense. Like, it acknowledges the popularity and impact of the original question while still making it clear that ones like it should not be asked.
@MetaEd Alternatively, it could be edited to remove the reference to a list; this wouldn't really invalidate the answers, since giving examples is a good thing to do regardless of the originally question. Or, as Jim suggested in the comments, a new question could be asked, and the duplicates rearranged to that one instead.
Is there word for entrepreneurship which is related to only IT(Software, Web Design, Online marketing, Blogging, etc)?
Can I use as 'IT Entrepreneurship'?
So, what's a good single word or short term for someone who's:
Not politically naive
Well-traveled
A cultural chameleon
Has a good grasp on one or more non-native languages
I'm looking for a descriptive words to indicate "smaller than the standard version".
Example:
I have a html form with some inputs. The inputs come in sizes (eg small, normal, large). Those sizes have a specific width.
Now, I have a version with a small button (in this case an X to delete). That...
Being deceived is not something we normally ------ .
The sentence is intended to say that we normally don't like to be deceived. But it would sound clumsy if I just put the verb "like" in the blank above. So what is the verb we usually use in sentences as the one above? There are of course m...
If someone tries to sound smart in repartee by saying,
Well obviously blah blah blah
but what they said is actually wrong, then what's a good comeback to that, or what's a good way to phrase the comeback?
I want to indicate that a gathering of people who witnessed an activity appeared to be suspicious of what was going on around them. I'd like to write a sentence along the lines of:
A group was standing on the corner looking suspicious.
However, the sentence as-is could mean two separate th...
The connotation of adjective 'appropriate' is positive, while that of the verb is negative.
1. What's this phenomenon called, though this question allows any part of speech (and not just an adjective and verb, as above)? I ask this so that I can try to find lists of such words.
2. Why? Does t...
I listened to the song "Liablilty" by Lorde a few days ago and wondered what the word "liability" in that context means:
They say, "You're a little much for me, you're a liability
You're a little much for me"
So they pull back, make other plans
I understand, I'm a liability
...
I sometimes listen to incredibly moving music on YouTube and find myself regarding the music as both causing "rapture" and "anguish" in my soul at (almost) the same time. Is there a word that would embody "rapture" and "anguish" in this sense? I know they are antonyms but I'm wondering if there...
I was thinking augmenter but that seems to imply something is added on as opposed to make the original item more.
Booster is closer to the idea I am trying to say but it sounds temporary and it's effect could be by way of something other than increasing the original item. For example a rocket b...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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