This is my first post and I was wondering what do you call someone who studies Russia For a living like has an academic researcher or Scholar. A sentence would be I work has a -word-. Thanks in advance for any and all help.
@Tonepoet Her language doesn't have to be identified as Valley speak.
The main features her poem shares with Valley speak has definitely not fallen into disuse (eg uptalk, discourse marker like, etc).
She's not defending those features: she's not talking up uptalk and like and whatever; she's only saying where they come from, and where she, using them, comes from (which has to do with the next point).
She's not so much arguing whether the old white dudes' objections were right, as arguing whether they have a right to object in that manner in the first place.
Is there a word for a speech or lecture that is poorly given? Like the speaker is stuttering, disorganized, etc.
A "prattle" or "witter" seems to be the closest, but they describe more a pointless or nonsensical speech. The speech is substantive, but delivered poorly.
Thanks.
@Færd Hmm, well, perhaps I am mistaken, but it's the specific combination of words which make me think of valley speak most particularly, more-so than anything considered in isolation, esp. in consideration of the fact that the video locates the poetry session as occurring in Oakland California, and the association of the words with females in particular.
What's the opposite of relatively? ie. when discussing the expenditure, you can talk about it relatively (percent of income) or you can talk about it as xxxx - simply a lower amount and not a percent or fraction.
I am looking for a word that could be used to describe a writing style that uses lots of uncommon words, making the writing difficult to understand to the everyday reader. It's as if they make an effort to use words from their word-a-day calendar.
Andrew's adjective writing style used so many...
Term for someone who is strong in a opinion/opinions of his but is open minded enough not to stress it on others and is adjustable in nature. For example a person may be very racist but on meeting strangers never shows even a slight inclination over his opinion
We can describe it as something lik...
@MetaEd Boy it's been a long time since I last heard that word.
I'm thinking that Henry Spencer was still at utzoo then.
Yup.
> Between 1981 and 1991, while running the zoology department's computer system at the University of Toronto, Spencer copied more than 2 million Usenet messages onto magnetic tapes. The 141 tapes wound up at the University of Western Ontario, where Google's Michael Schmidt tracked them down and, with the help of David Wiseman and others,[4] got them transferred onto disks and into Google's archives.
There are all sorts of these folks like Henry whom I used to hang out with several times a year for many years running two or three decades ago, but whom I now know nothing about the whereabouts of today. Every now and then I read that one of them has died before retirement age even.
I just learned that Boyd Roberts has died like a week or two ago.
@Gigili That wasn't totally non-serious. Actually kind of true. But yes, I do read the ingredient labels on food. looking for junk. or aspartame. I hate aspartame (I don't like the aftertaste)
@Gigili As to bumper stickers, no, I'm a firm believer in no bumper stickers at all (for myself). I don't mind them on other people's cars even though they can be a bit of a driving hazard.
@Mitch Yeah, like "If you can read this, despite the small size of the font and excessive length of the content, then I respectfully suggest you stop doing so AND KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD, you moron!"
like saccharine, which causes cancer in rats. or aspartame, which causes convulsions in rats. or levulose, which is left-handed glucose (destrose is right handed), which means it tastes sweet in exactly the same way as dextrose, but is not metabolized (much?) like dextrose.
@Mitch It isn't arbitrary. There are rules. English spelling is NOT random and arbitrary. That's why monosyllables ending in phonemic /k/ are spelled -ck if the vowel is short and -ke if the vowel is long.
These signals MEAN something.
Throw them away and destroy meaning.
back and bake. stack and stake. rack and rake.
speck and speak.
"spec" is a problem.
It "should" be spelled with a K to start with, and it MUST be spelled with a K when the inflection has an E or I following.
It is not by accident that rc has fewer built-in commands than most shells other than the original Bourne shell. The underlying philosophy, eloquently summarized by Boyd Roberts, is that a shell is there to run other programs, not to have other programs built into it. By having a well-defined role, rc has remained small and simple, properties that lead to better performance, fewer bugs, and a more thorough understanding of the shell by its users.
"A shell is there to run other programs, not to have programs built into it." I like that.
That's why many of us hated it when David Korn rammed ksh into the POSIX.2 standard.
Are you putting all these sentences into one paragraph? "I was rock climbing, and the hotels I would like to stay in are all very expensive. Aside from jokes let's talk seriously. Mah moo, te nah dah in the banana patch?"
Many of the early colonial towns (in New England and down the coast) were started/built at the sites of abandoned Indian settlements (because of 90% of every body dying of mumps before the Europeans started to settle there).
@Gigili I was giving you an example of something that tastes sweet but has no sugar... wait...Kool-Aid is mostly sugar. Sugar-free Kool-Aid, as disgusting and life-disaffirming as that sounds, is mostly water.
@Gigili I'm not sure who you are referring to. The number of chocolates I have in a day is uncountable.
@Mitch it's a reference to the football rival teams Celtic (Glasgow) and Hearts (Edinburgh) and the fact that Scottish people are more likely to have heart attacks than other people in the UK. It's not very good. I'm pretty sure even people who get the references won't get it.
Also, the Scots are known for frying everything which is considered something that contributes to cardiovascular disease. Also, 'Hearts' seems like a weird name for a sports team. Why not just call them the 'Rainbow Butterfly Unicorns'?
Is there a word for a speech or lecture that is poorly given? Like the speaker is stuttering, disorganized, etc.
A "prattle" or "witter" seems to be the closest, but they describe more a pointless or nonsensical speech. The speech is substantive, but delivered poorly.
Thanks.
Is there a single word for someone who keeps postponing or cancelling the plans?
Is there any word or phrase or idiom that describes a person who takes the pleasure from the misfortunes of others?
I am looking for a word that could be used to describe a writing style that uses lots of uncommon words, making the writing difficult to understand to the everyday reader. It's as if they make an effort to use words from their word-a-day calendar.
Andrew's adjective writing style used so many...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…