@CowperKettle The connection to English literature is that Joan Didion, American writer and great stylist, has written that when writing a book, she reads, or has read, medical books to avoid reading an author that would inadvertently buy necessarily affect her style, and this readinf has included tropical diseases such as Schistosomiasis.
but not buy
reading nit readinf Apologies for sloppiness on my part. Hope you like the cannon.
It's like I told you I wore shoes to block mud from getting on my feet. And you're like why would you want to block mud while traveling, and how much mud can they block anyway. And I'm like, they block all the mud. And you're like, odd.
It's a multi-million dollar industry. People buy them by the billions.
Some people wear them at construction sites. Some people wear them in the office. Some people wear them to bed if the partner is snoring. Some people wear them to bed, period.
With earbuds you get a much more sophisticated product at half the price.
Because they're ohropax with in-built speakers. So you can funnel through any sound that you want at any volume that you want at any point that you want.
@RegDwigнt The problem is that grammarly isn't perceptive enough to realize what you're trying to do, so they'll think they are getting something from you, even when they're not. XP
And I don't give a damp sock if they're perceptive or not. If they aren't, that only suits me fine.
If I take ten bucks from you and you think that's good, I'll take another ten. I do not see how that is a problem at all. It's not a problem for you, and it is not a problem for me. Everyone wins.
> The classical Greek philosopher Socrates believed the ideal house should be warm in winter and cool in summer. With clarity of thought like that, it's easy to see how the great man got his reputation.
@RegDwigнt It's more like five cents, and the point is that if they think it's good it's still rewarding, which encourages the continued publication of grammarly ads on the website, (at least until you click so many times that you bankrupt them or trigger some sort of clickthrough fraud detection mechanism). It will inevitably lead to somebody asking "What is the difference between grammarly and grammatical?" and nobody wants that.
@Cerberus I prefer the après-garde. Let other people work out the kinks in the beta version.
@JaspervanLooij Dude. I've been thinking that for years and here you just blurted it out.
More importantly...
What does it mean in "Snitches get stitches"? That never made sense to me. Are they thinking giving up someone is like sneezing or like running a hundred yard dash and you get a stitch in your side from exertion?
Doesn't seem likely.
Being a witness doesn't seem like you would breath hard enough to cause such a physical reaction.
All the guilt might give you a headache or an ulcer, sure. But a stitch?
Those guys were just looking around randomly fora word that rhymes.
I clicked on one Grammarly link exactly once, and now I have to defend myself for three days in a row. Jesus Christ. There's your lesson, children. Never, ever, click on Grammarly links.
Me neither. But somehow the song 'Camelot' keeps running through my head and it just dawned on me that that's a song, not from ancient Wessex like Greensleeves was, but from some musical like Lion King or West Side Story.
@CowperKettle ear buds are never lost while they're being used. You know -exactly- when they pop out of your ears and they land right at your feet. The time they get lost is all the time you're -not- wearing them.
What is the grammar structure used here: "Tackle real-world problems, applying classroom learnings to confront modern social and environmental issues."
I see that it could be rewritten as, "Tackle real-world problems. Confront modern social and environmetal issues by applying classroom learnings...
That blank does not require anything at all that conveys the complete meaning, or any part of the meaning, or any meaning at all. Because the situation is then explained in great detail in the sentence that follows. Why do you want to say the same thing twice over. Do not put any word at all in the blank, and you are done. — RegDwigнt ♦1 min ago
What are these questions we're getting.
Gimme a rest.
"I need a single word for this whole sentence except I still want to keep the whole sentence."
I want to announce that if you buy the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary from amazon.com now, you will get the version with copyright 2020, updated with new words. @Tonepoet
@JaspervanLooij I thank you for the information. I already have an 11th edition though. It's an older printing, but probably good enough for my purposes, which is generally just to make sure that what I write in an answer is corraborated by an indelible source.
The words @RegDwigнt sells aren't genuine! He sold me a bog once, but upon closer examination the b was really a p disguisded as a d. It took me ages to figure out that what he really sold me is a pog with a dog on it.
I once sent a postcard from Russia with a photo of the Lenin mausoleum, where I took a ballpoint pen and crossed out "Lenin" and wrote "Bon Jovi's bog" instead.
In an effort to save my health, I do not smoke most of the time, I refrain from eating animal products almost always and I work out quite regularily.
However, in order to not even slip one more time (I still slip quite regularily, sadly), I want to enshrine those habits onto my body. I want to g...
Warum soll's überhaupt in Englisch sein. Ich verstehe die Welt nicht mehr. Was ist so toll an Englisch. Englisch ist kaputtgespartes Deutsch. — RegDwigнt ♦13 secs ago