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Q: English Usage Proper Word Search

I am making a pair of earrings. They go together as a pair but they do not match each other. What word explains this?

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01:28

Q: Is there a word for a cluster of couches around a coffee table, as seen in nightclubs and hotel lobbies?

Title says it all. Something like this:

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03:51

Q: 'Empathetic,' but relating to ones environment/surroundings instead of people

If to be 'empathetic' is to have a strong understanding of people and their thoughts and emotions, what would be the equivalent title give to one with a strong understanding of their environment, the events and interactions within it, and their consequences? 'Intuition' comes to mind and speaks t...

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04:06

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, +4 more: www.thegarciniaeliteslim.com/slimforce-forskolin/ by crotgelt on english.SE

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14:14

Q: Word for talking to a stranger with the purpose to befriend them

I'm looking to translate a word from my local dialect (Algerian) to English. The exact word is dsara which means trying hard to talk to a stranger with the purpose of befriending them with no mutual feeling. An example of this would be a taxi driver who tends to talk to his customers about person...

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Sid

15:18

Are there more words like butterfingers? i.e. words/phrases which have a word preceding a body part?

Mitch

15:29

@Sid two-faced?

knock-kneed?

ankle-biter? wait..biter-of-ankles?

Sid

@Mitch Hm. Two face works. No, I was looking if a body part can be either the suffix or the prefix of a word

Izana wistaria

Hi. Which one is correct:
1)I work neither Tuesday nor Wednesday
2)I work neither on Tuesday nor on Wednesday

I mean I don't suck at English but those sentences are confusing me

Any tips or help or answers would be appreciated.

tips hat

Now, I'm waiting.

Actually I asked that question hours ago but... never mind, no one is supposed to answer things I know.

And this is chat, which is, like, not so important compared to the main.

Captain Bohemian

@Sid airhead, headache.

Sid

@Izanawistaria I think the second one is correct but... I don't have a link to prove

Izana wistaria

okay

Thank you

Captain Bohemian

15:47

@Izanawistaria you asked that question in the main site of ELU?

Izana wistaria

@CaptainBohemian Nah, above, hours ago. Yesterday.

Captain Bohemian

@Izanawistaria You don't meet some pervert arguing with you that your question should be put in ELL?

Izana wistaria

@CaptainBohemian Eh?

But hey, even if someone argued about that they would be called 'persnickety' or a pedantic <censored> rather than a perv.

A perv is something different I'd say.

Sid

@CaptainBohemian I think you meant pedant rather than pervert

Captain Bohemian

@Izanawistaria I met that pervert asking me to move my question to ELL by the argument my question isn't profound enough to put in ELU even after I turned down several times.

Izana wistaria

15:55

I'm sorry to hear that

Captain Bohemian

@Izanawistaria but I feel that person is ill-willed.

Izana wistaria

Well, it is the internet and you need to ignore those sticklers for the rules people, unless, they really have a good point.

Assume good intentions perhaps?

Forgive and forget?

I don't know.

Captain Bohemian

he seems to mean to tease me.

Izana wistaria

Eh, ignore him then.

What's the question? My English isn't that bad, perhaps I could answer you here in chat?

I'm not so well versed in grammar terminology though

Although I'm pretty fluent

Captain Bohemian

I am also not so versed in grammar terminology; I just started to learn those linguistical terms.

I usually just start to use an English sentence pattern after having seen it somehwere. I didn't know an English sentence can be parsed grammatically until the recent.

but I am still not sure if parsing grammatically can help me decide if a sentence is grammatical.

Izana wistaria

16:11

Yes, every sentence contains a Subject and Verb and an Object

I think of parsing as something different. Like to make out what the sentence is saying rather than its grammar.

Captain Bohemian

my parsing grammatically means to separate a sentence into parts each of which is designated a linguistical term.

Izana wistaria

I know

That's good

I call that diagramming a sentence though

Analysing the syntax of the sentence.

MetaEd

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Izana wistaria

That sort of thing

Captain Bohemian

I think that's boring for some people, and when a person is speaking, (s)he wouldn't think that much before speaking. (s)he just speaks by habit rather than analyzing the grammatical structure.

Izana wistaria

16:24

Exactly. That stuff is are for those who are interested in that sort of stuff, grammarians and the like. It is boring for me as well. I'd rather take a nap than break down a sentence according to its parts of speech. It can be useful though, if you are stuck about sentence and want to know its parts of speech and such.

@KannE Just a thought. There aren't many cool TV shows on Netflix, how do you enjoy it? Don't get me wrong, it is a nice thing to have if you aren't so picky.

Captain Bohemian

I feel it interesting but I haven't got time to learn most of it.

Izana wistaria

Great

What do you do by the way?

Captain Bohemian

do physics.

Educ

17:02

Educ

17:54

here is context : friend of mine send some document to our facebook's group and after that he name each document with his class and his order for example, Document xxx turn to Composition (name of the class) 1 (order of the document as its appear within all the documents )

is it correct to say : In order to organize all the documents, he labels each one with its class name and his order.

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18:31

Q: What is the word for an hard-to-solve solution spoken intuitively and relaxedly?

I'm trying to translate the word "khoáng đạt" in Vietnamese. It is translated as "broad-minded" or "liberal-minded", but I think the word "khoáng đạt" is more than that. Say there is a profound question that is very abstruse when thinking about it, let alone finding the solution, but the speaker ...

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Faheem Mitha

18:58

@Izanawistaria I think both of them are ok. The second is technically more correct, but the first is idiomatic usage - sometimes the preposition is dropped if it can be inferred from the context.

I mean, it's not like sentences are mathematical theorems.

See for example, english.stackexchange.com/questions/129856/…

More relevant, perhaps:

Q: When can we omit the preposition "on" before weekdays

I am a bit confused. When can we omit the preposition on before weekdays? (Monday, Tuesday etc.) Sometimes I read weekdays without the preposition on. If the preposition is left out, does it work the same way, or does it change the meaning? Example without the preposition The UGC issued the ...

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So, like i said, idiomatic usage.

And I agree with the posters in that thread that it feels like an Americanism. I think a British English speaker would be less likely to drop it in that way.

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KannE

22:18

@Izanawistaria Ha-ha, it's probably more for my age group, I would assume. I've hated TV for the last 10 years at least...and if a series isn't worth binge-watching, it isn't worth watching at all, IMO.

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Mitch

23:29

@KannE I just want to point out that the media (not just TV) has been touting that this is the golden age of television, and Netflix shows are supposedly part of it. The problem is that there are so many choices now it's hard to decide which ones to bother with. Depending on your likes and dislikes I'm sure there's something there.

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