Looking for some clarification as to what the last person said in the following question i posted : english.stackexchange.com/questions/522951/…

I don't know what this means : compound prepositional object

Also why this is wrong: to become and wanting" which is an error.

Can sentence structure / flow of a sentence making sense be asked here or is that considered corrective and off-topic ?

I kind of feel like anything I get asked gets flagged and its not been very condusive to my learning

Why does it surprise me that in left-hander/left-handed the stress is on the second syllable and not the first?

Compare with BACK-handed.

@Mitch no, more important things should be concerned about me.

I remember when Gmail first came out and you needed an invite from a friend if you wanted to try it.

It was really something special when I got mine.

Nowadays everyone and his dog has fifty Gmail accounts they don't even remember the passwords for anymore.

It shouldn't be, here, try our Thingie for Teams! It's free and really easy!

Then you become just another spammer. Begging for attention and a couple quid like everyone else.

Instead it should be, you want to try our Thingie for Teams? Well. You can't. And who the fuck are you anyway.

There's a reason why absolutely anything you want from me has that price tag of $3000 attached to it.

@RegDwigнt IKR! My dog hasn't responded to all the cat videos I've sent him.

@Gigili Depends on the lease agreement you signed. In some places leases list tenant rights (allows you to not pay rent if the landlord doesn't fix appliances or heat). In other places it's not as nice. If the lease is hard to parse and things are bad in your situation, you may want a lawyer.

When I was in college and moving apartments and the landlord kept my deposit, an older relative gave them a call, and somehow magically I got my deposit back. So it's nice to have someone in authority on your side.

Granted, I had two cats at the time and they peed everywhere and shredded upholstery with their claws. So...

@Mitch I can respond to the cat videos in your dog's stead for ten payments of $3000.

@RegDwigнt If you want to be taken seriously, you should charge more.

@Mitch I should count my blessings, the contract ends in two weeks. The property has the adjective "VIP" attached to its name and then basic needs and standards of living are not provided. One day the heating system doesn't work, another day there is no internet connection. In the contract I just looked for contract termination terms and made sure I can terminate the contract if the flat is not to my liking.

There must be a reviewing system. A software in which people who has rented a place, rate it or they rather rate the behavior of the landlord (I just hate that word) towards them.

Here's the writer of the HBO series Chernobyl talking about what the show is really about:

Apparently the American right wing has not learned this lesson.

> What I want [viewers of Chernobyl] to take away, more than anything, is that if you lie, if you are part of a system of lies, if you agree with lies that are given to you—by your government, by your leaders, by your churches, by your friends, by Facebook—there is a cost attached to this.

@Gigili Yeah it's an awful sounding word but it's what everybody uses. Legally it's 'lessor' and the renter is 'lessee', but those sound too fancy and no one uses them outside of a legal situation. 'Owner' would be very natural and idiomatic here but I don't think people currently use it. Good ELU question.

(the 'Was "man" ever non-gendered at any point?' is also a great question, but seems to be commented on and answered almost entirely by dudes.)

@Mitch in UK contracts it's landlord. Owner doesn't work for all situations, like our landlord doesn't own the (sort of) flat, but is a part owner. also there's sublets

@MattE.Эллен landlord may also appear sometimes in US rental agreements, I can't remember. but yeah, I forgot about sublets. But then, that's a legal situation, the sublessor is not a landlord either.

wait... the landlord and owner aren't the same? even if co-ownership? 'Landlords' then?

But counter to @Gigili's point, whatever you call them, they're awful even if they're the best ever.

Quick questions... How am I able to see timelines? Is that made available at 3k rep?

or is that made available for everyone?

> What is the cost of lies?

@Gigili In that particular case, gruesome death on an enormous scale. It's also loss of freedom, and it might well ultimately the loss of the earth as a habitable planet for humanity. It hurts us on so many levels, and that isn't even an exaggeration.

That's right but the problem is the ones who weren't part of the lies also has to pay the cost which is everything but fair.