@Monad You could use it but it will sound weird. Like you're trying too hard to use fancy words that few have heard of before and fewer used. 'purple prose'. just say 'from then on'
The phrase "helter skelter" is strange because you don't see the word "helter" or "skelter" used anywhere, and when I searched Merriam-Webster dictionary for either word it links me to the definition of "helter skelter."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/helter-skelter
Since helter and...
Among a large set of objects, I have subsets where the individuals share traits which distinguish them from the individuals in other subsets.
Notably, these traits can be viewed as contributions toward a goal. For example, if the individuals were people, then three subsets might be 1) lumberjac...
@MattE.Эллен Whew. I was worried there for a sec. Now I have the whole rest of the week to get things done properly without a rush. I may even take off most of the day.
Interesting fact: you can clean out brains that have gotten squished in between keys on your keyboard by using the sharper shards of skull laying about.
Also, you should try to refrain from eating the globs. 1) it comes with all that gunk that was already there (dried hand sweat, crumbs). 2) really high in cholesterol
Really no concern about CJK/mad cow disease because 1) you have no brains for it to infect 2) you're mostly dead.
"He had said he would do it" means that in the past he said something like "I will do it". "He had said he would have done it" means that in the past he said something like "I would have done it".
@Færd Two-fold backshifting? You have to pop the clutch, pull back hard on the emergency break, quickly turn as far right as you can and then straighten out once you're in reverse.
There's actually evidence of many of the classic verb forms of Latin found in various mangled versions in the Romance dialects. So I'm not entirely right. But my heart is in the right place.
slightly center-left of my chest, in case you thought I was a Vulcan or something
@Færd or maybe they were all just making mistakes as they went along
I'm wondering if there is a common term for a person who grants refuge or asylum.
I understand that a refuge is a place that provides protection or shelter of some sort, but in a modern context it's often the case that someone has to grant that refuge whether it's in a house or in a country.
Is...
Sometimes a purely static image will appear to be moving because of some design feature.
That’s not what I’m asking about.
I’m asking about an illusion that arises only through real movement involving patterned objects. This movement can be supplied by the movement of one object with respect ...
@Færd It works exactly like that. "I would have done it" (but didn't because excuse). "I would have liked to have had an ice cream" (but didn't because excuse).
The statements are irrealis. They contrast to some other reality: "actually, I couldn't do it" or "actually, I did not know there was ice cream".
A few friends and I are developing a game that involves producing potions, however we're finding it hard to think of the name for a building suited to producing potions specifically.
Some names we have thought of include:
Workshop
Factory (This seems like more of a modern term, which goes agai...
I'm looking for a single word for 'immigrant' here, that specifically refers to people from a different part of the same country.
"As the capital city, X has a very large immigrant population".
I feel that immigrant in this sentence could be understood to mean immigrants from outside the country.
Is there a sarcastic synonym for the word "compare", such as when one compares oneself to an individual of unattainably great stature or success.
Thanks.
Technically that's an answer, but it does not even partially address the actual question (about punctuation). Incidentally, the stranded preposition rule is not one that most experts care for, or set much stock in.¹ — MetaEd ♦1 min ago
The phrase "helter skelter" is strange because you don't see the word "helter" or "skelter" used anywhere, and when I searched Merriam-Webster dictionary for either word it links me to the definition of "helter skelter."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/helter-skelter
Since helter and...
Among a large set of objects, I have subsets where the individuals share traits which distinguish them from the individuals in other subsets.
Notably, these traits can be viewed as contributions toward a goal. For example, if the individuals were people, then three subsets might be 1) lumberjac...
I'm wondering if there is a common term for a person who grants refuge or asylum.
I understand that a refuge is a place that provides protection or shelter of some sort, but in a modern context it's often the case that someone has to grant that refuge whether it's in a house or in a country.
Is...
Sometimes a purely static image will appear to be moving because of some design feature.
That’s not what I’m asking about.
I’m asking about an illusion that arises only through real movement involving patterned objects. This movement can be supplied by the movement of one object with respect ...
I'm looking for a single word for 'immigrant' here, that specifically refers to people from a different part of the same country.
"As the capital city, X has a very large immigrant population".
I feel that immigrant in this sentence could be understood to mean immigrants from outside the country.
Is there a sarcastic synonym for the word "compare", such as when one compares oneself to an individual of unattainably great stature or success.
Thanks.
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