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I am writing someone can “sit still” and doing something persistently, who can stick up to something for years. How to describe this characteristic? Such as steadfast, footed... I just cannot get a satisfied one. And how to describe the opposite, antonym of it? One that always switches his/her ...

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Q: Word to name a group that sits between Junior and Senior

I have a school system which 6 year levels. these 6 year levels are broken up into 3 groups. currently i have Junior (1st and 2nd year) _____ (3rd and 4th Year) Senior (5th and 6th Year) i'm looking for a word that would fit in-between Junior and Senior which would also be used to name them. ...

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Q: I don't know how to word this better

"To hear opinion beyond from my friends and family." Is there a better way to word this ? All I can think of is "To hear opinion other than my friends and family." But I want to sound little more serious, rather than casual. English isn't my first language. I would like to hear some feedback f...

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SmokeDetector

08:58

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Q: What is the word for events that we can not control

I need to find a noun for event or set of events that we can not change or control. Is there any word that fits the meaning? Thanks in advance.

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10:12

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Q: Concise adjective for 'supposed-to-be'

I'm creating a Google keep clone repository on Github, and I know that as time progresses, it will deviate considerably from what Google Keep currently looks and behaves like. I want to capture my thoughts above concisely and enter into the optional description field, and what I have come up wit...

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Educ

10:36

Good morning

CowperKettle

@DanBron Okay.. I will try posting questions over there, like this one:

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Q: Meaning of "gambled" in "whose wasted right hand gambled against his left" (Aurora Leigh)

From Aurora Leigh - what is the meaning of gambled here? It's hard to understand. I first thought his wasted right hand was somehow pinned to his left one using the brass button, but the dictionaries have only the "game-of-chance" meaning for the word gamble.

elizabeth-barrett-browning

But I have the feeling that this one would have been at home here

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Q: What verb should I use in the following context?

What verb should I use when I want to say that someone (e.g. writer of a book) mentions the names of different authors all together? I mean although the authors have different writing styles, they all have one quality in common and that's why the writer of a book uses their names together. I'm t...

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Dan Bron

That one doesn’t seem to involve any interpretation? It’s a simple SWR. We answer those all day. But if you want to take it off ELU, I think Writers.se would be more appropriate than Literature. Not sure though.

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13:28

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Boris_yo

13:49

Hello. I want to buy pendant with necklace. Pendant has beautiful illustration and has necklace attached to hand around the neck. I don't understand which of the following is right because both seem to be nouns:

1) Necklace pendant
2) Pendant necklace

Which is right?

When speaking of pendants does it assume there is already necklace?

I know necklaces do not always come with pendants...

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Q: What's the word for when you are told to do something but you don't do it?

for example- father is mad at me when I ***** what he told me to do.

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Q: What's a single word for "Memories of the old days we shared together."

I am trying to find a single word noun that describes these phrases/concepts: Memories of the old days we shared together. Your loving memory A sound that brings back good and bad memories, causing you to miss them. I don't want to use the word memory. I need something multilayered. An obscur...

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Matt E. Эллен

18:00

fingers crossed I should be a mad hatter soon

Dan Bron

I just got 2 new hats, no idea what they are.

Oh, I found them.

Matt E. Эллен

secret hats! initiation into a society so secret you don't know how you joined

Dan Bron

Now that I have the level-1 space brain, i want the levels 2 and 3. I'll probably get level 2 passively from the same answer that brought me level 1.

Level 3 will be a ... challenge

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Q: A better way to say "labor providing resource"

Folks. Does anyone have a better way to say "Labor Providing Resource"?

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Educ

18:48

Good evening

Dan Bron

Lies, it's not even 2pm ;)

Educ

Is it correct to say : I would like to remind you that I have been received anything yet from Professor M.

Dan Bron

Keep it simple: "I still haven't received <name the thing you want them to send> from Professor M. When do you think he xan send it?"

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Q: Does garb include shoes?

I looked it up online and Google says the definition of “garb” is “clothing, especially of a distinctive or special kind”. Since “garb” is clothing, I guess it doesn’t include shoes? I wonder what it means to native speakers.

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Dan Bron

20:09

In my headcanon, pieces of garb have to be principally textiles

largely cut from floppy 2D planes

it's weird to put hard-edged or structured things under garb, like shoes

or a bracelet

Cerberus

21:04

You elect not to wear shoes?

Dan Bron

21:16

I wear shoes, but I don't recognize shoes as garb.

And let's not talk about thinks I elect; the last election I participated in didn't go my way

Educ

@DanBron this week

Cerberus

Ah, yes.

Perhaps you shouldn't vote Le Pen next time, then.

Dan Bron

Perhaps it would be better to adopt a Le Pen name and live under an assumed identity

Educ

Complete the sentences with must+be/have+verb/can't have

Cerberus

Nom de guerre is more correct.

Don't choose the Pen!

Educ

21:29

The streets are wet. It (rain)

The streets are wet. It has been raining

Dan Bron

Are you looking for "It must have rained"?

Educ

am i right ?

Dan Bron

It's not clear what the point of your exercise is

Educ

the question

is

Complete the sentences with must+be/have+verb/can't have

Cerberus

@Educ This sounds good. But, as Dan says, it's not entirely clear what the purpose of the exercise is.

@Educ That's not entirely clear.

Educ

21:32

yes i see

i saw here before

someone pointed that every person before become teacher of english

should take IQ test

since we found lot of exercise without any point

Dan Bron

I don't think an IQ test would be a good discriminator. I'm not sure what would be. The ability to easily appreciate and accommodate a variety of views, I think. Maybe something like critical or independent thinking, so they don't irresponsibly regurgitate a bunch of discredited urban legends about "rules".

Ok, I see. Yes, you described the exercise you were given.

Educ

may be this can help any professor of any filed

coursera.org/learn/…

Dan Bron

likely

Educ

Mathematical Thinking

Logic

Cerberus

@Educ Okay, that exercise is written rather sloppily.

The description.

As to the questions, many have several possible answers.

Educ

21:38

so we can't determinate the right answers

Matt E. Эллен

The streets are wet. It (rain) must have fallen from the sky.

Dan Bron

I'm sure your book authors have specific answers in mind, and they want you to respond with those

but as native speakers, we have more options which naturally occur to us

that's what I think Cerebus meant by several possible answers

Cerberus

Yes, but I also think Educ can think of several answers that are all possible.

It has been raining.

It has rained.

It must have been raining.

Educ

yes

that's why i put

the exercise

to check with you

but now i see

this is useless exercise

Cerberus

It's like trying to guess what the author was thinking of.

Educ

21:41

yes i see

Cerberus

Maybe he was thinking of situations where you have evidence of something, so he wants you to use must have been / can't have been wherever possible.

A wet street is evidence, so it must have rained.

Educ

ah i see

Cerberus

Being illiterate is evidence, so she can't have written.

That would be my guess.

Educ

yes

I agree

Cerberus

Despite the poor wording.

Educ

21:42

with you

Khalid must have travaled

he saw him is evidence

i meant he met him

three hours ago

Cerberus

Extremely ambiguous.

Maybe Khalid lives here, and he can't be travelling because you've just seen him.

Or the other way around.

No idea.

Educ

Yes no clue

@DanBron he told us he will send me the document in this week but until now i haven't received any thing from him

i would like to inform my classmates

that i haven't received anything from him until now

how can I say that proprly

I have to use present perfect ?

Dan Bron

21:59

Just say "I haven't received the document from the professor yet." and maybe "I'll send him another note tonight".

Educ

Okay thank you

Tonepoet

22:56

Pop quiz @Cerberus! Does anything seem strange about the following excerpt to you?

> The future, whether indicative or subjugative, sometimes has the force of the imparative; as, Sad vatebis, meaq; negotia videbis meq; ante brumam expectabis, for vale, vide, and expecta. Ne dixeris, for ne dic, or ne dicas.—A synopsis of Latin Grammar (upon the plan of Ruddiman), p. 39, 1891

Cerberus

23:11

@Tonepoet I see several errors.

Maybe those are your typos?

I see one word that's probably a typo in the original text.

Tonepoet

@Cerberus Which one?

Cerberus

And one that uses a term that's clear but no longer in use now.

@Tonepoet Sad.

Tonepoet

@Cerberus There's a reason I'm asking. XP

Cerberus

And I see one example that I find dubious: dixeris is probably not a future perfect ending but a perfect subjunctive.

@Tonepoet And I have no idea what it is. For there are so many odd things about this note.

Tonepoet

@Cerberus It has nothing to do with the Latin to be honest if that helps to narrow it down.

Cerberus

23:16

The term that is no longer in use is subjugative.

If that's what you meant.

I also think the author is using a somewhat different theory of morphology, for we do not speak of dixeris as a future subjunctive in any case. And that's the only subjunctive I see.

I've corrected your typos.

Tonepoet

@Cerberus Yeah, that is. Somebody just asked if that was a word and I was trying to gauge how recognizable it is.

Cerberus

It's easy to understand.

But not in the sense intended by the OP.

It means subjunctive in that book, the grammatical mood.

I feel that subjugative would probably have an active meaning in the OP's example, as in subjugating rather than subjugated.

Tonepoet

@Cerberus I was also interested in Prof. Lawler's comment. You seem to have confirmed it just now.

Subjugate, the verb, is pronounced /'səbʤəˌget/, with a tense /e/ in the last syllable. I've never seen or heard subjugative as an adjective; I wouldn't use it because it would look and sound too much like subjunctive, and that wouldn't help anything. — John Lawler 2 hours ago

Cerberus

Yeah.

Although it's unusual enough in that sense to be used in the other sense if desired.

Although I still think it's an active adjective.

Tonepoet

23:35

@Cerberus Yes, I think so too. It clearly means tending to subdue.

Cerberus

Yeah.

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23:57

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Q: Term to describe how often someone meets their deadlines

I'm designing a report that describes our software users' performance on their assignments. One data point is the percentage of assignments submitted on time. I've labeled this column "Timeliness," but I suspect there's a more appropriate word, and would appreciate any suggestions.

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