The word could be "Hipster" or "Snob", but I'm looking for something more precise.
A good example would be somebody that doesn't wear Nike shoes simply because everyone does it, and wears instead Adidas.
I'm looking for a single word to describe the bending-down motion that animals such as camels or elephants do to allow riders/passengers to more easily mount them.
all
I have a problem to find the good word for describing a course that is thorough, fast (in short time) like seminar and fruitful. Is it possible for me to use words 'a straightaway course'?
Thank you in advance!
I'm looking for a single word that communicates the same message as "ensure correct". Which is different than "make correct," which implies that something is being done, while "ensure correct" implies that something is being done only if the thing that must be correct is incorrect.
My usage is f...
English has some idiomatic uses of the perfect and of the continuous/progressive that either seldom or never occur in almost any other European language.
I'm looking for a word (doesn't matter how obscure) that describes the turbulence / twisting of one substance in another.
The example I'm trying to describe is colored ink being dropped into — and flowing through — water.
I.e. "The ink [XXX] through the water."
Visually:
Source: Shutterstock
I'm sorry that I know nothing about how Arabic works. I believe its verbs do change their forms in ways similar to how Indo-European verbs work, such as for person and number and tense and voice.
My understanding is that it is very complicated.
But at least you have the advantage of coming from a language that inflects its verbs.
Pity the Asian learners of English for whom this is an alien concept.
One of the odder little quirks of English is that when you say "This is the first time..." is that you have to use have + past participle. Other European languages use a simple past there not a compound one like we do.
This is the first time I have ever seen such thing.
That was the first time I had ever seen such a thing.
However, you can sometimes use the simple past with never.
You can use "I never saw" for other occasions but not for this one. It has to be concrete, like "I never saw the burglar who stole my silverware while I was asleep."
I also think that English has a more complicated setup for knowing when to use the compound past instead of the simple one than many other languages have. Or possibly just a different one that doesn't translate exactly even to other languages with both a simple and a compound past.
One of charactors in my reading book is called St. Quentin. And his job is author.
If that's the case why use St instead of Mr.
If that's not the case, what is the St's meaning?
I don't get the joke: Sometimes people ask me, “ What would you do if you had a million dollars?” My answer is always the same three words: All-Pistachio Diet.
@Educ I don't really know the fancy syntactical terminology, so I can only really spell it out for you: You want to say something along the lines of this: Please [tell me] if someone knows [of] any active group [for] grammar/vocabulary. Except without the editorial brackets I've inserted to delimit the changes.
@Keepthesemind That seems like a fairly recent usage, and slangy. Note that Random House (2010) doesn't list that definition, but the A.H.D. (2016) does. It probably comes from ellipsis of "I hope I [get/receive a] medal …".
That's especially so since it's in the context of sports.
How would you complete this sentence? The gap has to be filled with only one word.
He takes ___ to decide what to do next.
I've thought about these:
responsibility
on
But couldn't came up with other words.
Serious question.
I guess my question, if traced back, is what is the meaning of the word originally. What I've found so far is that it simply means "good", or "novel", I also like the direct translation into French which means "fiction" (romans). Of course after that there's the town, nation, a...
@tchrist I don't know, but if you don't, maybe you folk should get more aggressive about deleting closed questions in the backlog so that people who have legitimate concerns can try asking again in a manner that's more compliant with policy without their question being closed as a duplicate of a closed question.
@tchrist Well look at you with your posh diamond and your dapper blue pseudonym. XP More seriously it's more of a meta-concern really, and I suspect @Mitch is ignoring me anyway. I can't remember the last time he actually responded to anything I said, except maybe yesterday.
Some high-rep users regularly go through the recently-close-voted and recently-delete-voted queues accessible from the 10k tools. You can tell this is happening because you often wind up putting the final delete vote on postings whose first two delete votes are from the same small set of delete-v...
Imagine someone who contributes work of such low quality that their peers cannot help but to do their work so it is done correctly. An individual who intentionally employs a strategy of sloppy work as a means of getting out of doing it. What's a good word or phrase for best describing this pers...
@NVZ I did notice that. It's because he has carriage returns where he wants to start a new line but not a new paragraaph. You don't notice it on a wide window.
@tchrist I'm one of the delete voters on almost all the q's on the delete queue.
@Tonepoet I don't know if I can follow your logic, but I just like to get things done quickly than wait around. To that end I am one of the more aggressive deleters. I am not an aggressive closer, but if the community votes to close, I go the next step if I find the question out of step.
That one question is just off the deep end with nothing good to come out of any kind of editing.
We are now at the point that most questions on ELU get closed. Our 90-day closure rate (25k only) is sitting at around two in every three. Some days it’s worse than that, some days it’s better, but in the long run we’re at around 65% closed.
Other quality metrics are also telling, albeit perhaps...
@tchrist If I could press a button that would lower the number of votes needed to close or reopen a question from 5 to 3, I'd probably do it. I think that would better facilitate the close to reopen and improve cycle.
@tchrist It's something I mentioned somewhere in chat before. Kinda got shot down the last time I mentioned it though, due to the prospect of closure wars. Still, I think it would help to reduce premature answers that detract from the need to edit, help to create an incentive to make the necessary edits (because it is more likely to work before all interest is lost in the question) and help reveal more of the applicable closure reasons that may apply to the post for independent rectification.