Sorry not a native speaker. Trying to translate a word to English.
Like in a situation where you walk in on your brother and his friends watching porn.
You yell: 'You _________ kids!
Preferably in the derogatory or pejorative sense.
I thought horny was the word but both definition in Wiktio...
@Cerberus We don't know that for certain Cerb. It could just as easily be argued that Stack Exchange competes with Daily Writing Tips on Google search results, and that we deprive the author of income because people no longer need to visit their webpage to see the answer, possibly reducing the number of valuable hits. It also seems to be a case of blatant copyright infringement to me, as well as a Gen. Ref. answer. And yes, I did see the answer, through the magic of the Wayback Machine.
I have been Googling and trying different dictionary sites but still can't find an English word that is equivalent to this Burmese word
"သေႏၲယုတ္တယ္" (Zawgyi Code)
"သန္တေယုတ်တယ်" (Unicode)
Translation (multiple meanings) :
It's an insult -
"Pregnancy that will bring bad luck."
"The child...
I have been using the word "retypeset" or rather "I am retypesetting this document", but I cannot seem to find those words listed in the dictionary. I am wondering if they should be written with a hyphen, as in "re-typeset" or "re-typesetting", or if there is another word that would carry the sa...
I mean the kind of person who keeps saying in all parties and events, you know me, i am sarcastic, or say things like "man, have you seen someone more sarcastic than me" or post on facebook memes like "most likely to be killed for being sarcastic" i mean what do you call such people
I was looking for a general term to describe vernacular houses that are not used as dwellings, but for different functions (granaries, etc.). I used 'auxiliary houses' but I didn't want to downgrade them to something as such.
@MetaEd I agree with your choice to delete the answer based upon our referencing guidelines, but I must object to the notion that it was plagiarism, because that is a more specific academic offense. A requisite of plagiarism is claiming the work as your own. I wanted to cite about a dozen different definitions regarding the matter, including three or four definitions from major universities in the plagiarism F.A.Q. post you made but the post ended up being too long.
@Tonepoet Plagiarism has no one universal definition. There are corner cases that each institution covers differently. SE is a bit informal about how it defines some things. You'll see a policy posted in five or six places, each time stated a bit differently, which (to me) is problematic.
@MetaEd All of these reference the same requisite worded differently. The key factor here is that because you are not indicating the work is somebody else's, you are implicitly indicating that it is your own words.
So at SE do you have to claim the work as your own for it to be plagiarism? No, if it is not clear that it's someone else's work it's plagiarism, at least in some forms of the policy.
@Tonepoet And universities disagree about plagiarism too. There's at least one university that now includes in its definition of plagiarism the idea of too much borrowing. If the work is mostly someone else's, then it's plagiarism even if it's fully and correctly attributed. That's not how all universities define it. It's up to the individual institution to define what they will call plagiarism.
@MetaEd Consensus is a little more important in a matter like this. I checked Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and Yale, which I take to be the four most indicative institutions.
Cambridge is the strictest regarding what exact guidelines they use to determine if plagiarism occurred, but the basic concept is the same.
@Tonepoet It may be prudent for an institution to take into account what's done elsewhere, but it is still SE's duty to set its own policy. Is that policy not strictly in accord with what other institutions do? Okay, maybe that's a problem, but until they change the policy, it is what it is.
SE's meta posts and so on make clear one big no-no for them is earning reputation by posting other peoples' answers. So even if it's properly attributed, it's a problem because of the SE reputation system. This is the practical reason why SE's plagiarism policy incorporates "too much borrowing".
@MetaEd The problem is that it's not officially called a plagiarism policy anywhere. The help center post is literally entitled "How to reference material written by others", with the U.R.L. pathway being /referencing. The first paragraph deals with plagiarism, but that does not necessarily mean that plagiarism is the subject of the whole article.
@Tonepoet Not sure how that matters. The point is that at SE it's not allowed to earn reputation by posting other peoples' answers, regardless of whether they're properly attributed.
@MetaEd I concur, for the mostpart. And yes, it matters. I don't like to see people accused of more serious crimes than the one they actually committed.
@Tonepoet Well, in this particular instance we're looking at an article which was reproduced word for word, in entirety, from another source, without quoting (or blockquoting). It was impossible without retrieving the source to know which words were novel and which were borrowed. According to anybody's definition, that's plagiarism.
@MetaEd Hmm, you may just have a good point there. I hadn't considered it like that because I originally assumed it was relatively clear that everything below the attributed headline was borrowed, but perhaps that assumption was mistaken. I'll need to double check.
For instance, profit margins are concrete, observable numbers whereas human needs can't easily be quantified.
The sentence I'm trying to write is: Due to the fact that human needs are ______, ...
I am looking for a word with the meaning "same measure through."
The same root is "homo."
The measure root is "meter or metr"
The through root is "dia, per, or trans."
I tried looking for a word that meets these requirements for 3 days.
Please help me!
I saw someone use this word before, but I cannot remember what it is. The word
describes this scenario:
Person A makes some points:
This is 1st point. This is 2nd point. This is 3rd point.
Person B refutes those points, often interleaving the original points:
This is 1st point.
1st point...
Looking for a word that can be used instead of an already used generic term in the current sentence.
Examples:
Android smartphones and their iOS _______
Chinese diplomats and their American ______
@Tonepoet To me it wasn't clear. In fact, I dismissed the original complaint because I was so misled by the format that I didn't see any problem. I was asked to look a second time and only then did I see the problem.
@NVZ I'm not sure if they're duplicates or not. There is the potential for a subtle difference. I think Josh's is actually clearer though, and more importantly, the older of the two: Josh asked his question in may, whereas your proposed original was asked in July of the same year. Why would you close an older question as a duplicate of a newer one?
> Usually a recent question will be closed as a duplicate of an older question, but this isn't an absolute rule. The general rule is to keep the question with the best collection of answers, and close the other one as a duplicate. If the selected target question is unanswered, the system won't even let you pick it as a duplicate target.
There should be an auto-recusing device for closing/reopening/etc. That is, prevent people from voting to close or reopen on things they authored. You already can't vote up (or down) your own questions, answers, or comments.
Even if you're a mod or have min-mod powers (like with gold-badges)
Of course you should still be able to flag. That's like a fail-safe comunication with mods
@Mitch The way it's currently set up is actually somewhat of the opposite currently. According to the privileges page, people only need to have 250 rep. to vote to reopen their own questions, whereas it's 3,000 for reopening other people's questions.
I'm not really sure why. I would have assumed it'd be how you suggested in the past. I mean, most people are going to be biased in favor of themselves.
@MetaEd well, i don't have a clear proposal for it, just that one-liner question. also, it's 1 AM here. i'll think about it later. maybe someone else can pick up the ball and run with it..
Is it dɪrekt for you, or daɪrekt? Am I right in thinking that the former is much more common especially in AmE? If so, with what dialect or social class do you associate the latter?
I'm trying to find a word or short phrase that generally describes people that have food requirements or dietary restrictions. The phrase might apply to different kinds of restrictions, might include taste likes / dislikes, etc.
Example usages might be:
- Bob is a _____________ - he has food al...
I'd like to know the appropriate word for negative, positive and neutral?
I have been Googling and trying different dictionary sites but still can't find an English word that is equivalent to this Burmese word
"သေႏၲယုတ္တယ္" (Zawgyi Code)
"သန္တေယုတ်တယ်" (Unicode)
Translation (multiple meanings) :
It's an insult -
"Pregnancy that will bring bad luck."
"The child...
I mean the kind of person who keeps saying in all parties and events, you know me, i am sarcastic, or say things like "man, have you seen someone more sarcastic than me" or post on facebook memes like "most likely to be killed for being sarcastic" i mean what do you call such people
I was looking for a general term to describe vernacular houses that are not used as dwellings, but for different functions (granaries, etc.). I used 'auxiliary houses' but I didn't want to downgrade them to something as such.
For instance, profit margins are concrete, observable numbers whereas human needs can't easily be quantified.
The sentence I'm trying to write is: Due to the fact that human needs are ______, ...
I am looking for a word with the meaning "same measure through."
The same root is "homo."
The measure root is "meter or metr"
The through root is "dia, per, or trans."
I tried looking for a word that meets these requirements for 3 days.
Please help me!
I saw someone use this word before, but I cannot remember what it is. The word
describes this scenario:
Person A makes some points:
This is 1st point. This is 2nd point. This is 3rd point.
Person B refutes those points, often interleaving the original points:
This is 1st point.
1st point...
Looking for a word that can be used instead of an already used generic term in the current sentence.
Examples:
Android smartphones and their iOS _______
Chinese diplomats and their American ______
Example:
They both _____ got the idea to stay out of the room that night because they were angry at each other.
I'm trying to find a word or short phrase that generally describes people that have food requirements or dietary restrictions. The phrase might apply to different kinds of restrictions, might include taste likes / dislikes, etc.
Example usages might be:
- Bob is a _____________ - he has food al...
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