@Mitch Sometimes I teach Unix, Spanish, English, Latin, literature, number theory, color theory, botany, ornithology, outdoor survival, desert awareness, photography; many other things. Depends what any given student or set of students would fain know.
Yes, this is the poetic device known as hyperbaton. It is quite common. See also its treatment here, which discusses the devices of lyric poetry, including in Le Guin and Tolkien.
Speaking of whom, in Letter #171, J.R.R. Tolkien, responding to criticism of his ‘archaic’ style, wrote the follow...
argh...so I push people into the gutter. fine. I don't think I do that, you think I do. Really, if it bothers you that much you should downvote and comment to correct. This really seems like it gnaws at you.
@tchrist That is totally disingenuous hen. How can you welcome my contributions when you say I 'push people down the gutter way'.
Most of your contributions are worthy of the name.
Others seem to unjustly limit people to a fifth-grade reading level, denying all applicability or desirability of anything but.
I wish it were otherwise. That is all.
I am not doing a good job communicating with you, because you never get my jokes or my irony, my allusions or implications, that I lace my pithier responses with.
@tchrist This may sound like going in circles, but I think you misread my intention. I intend to be descriptive. I'm not trying to judge the users, which register they choose to use.
@tchrist Yes, too clever for me. I don't get your references.
I'm just giving an alternate register. I think you don't like that particular register.
Dissecting a joke is like unto vivisecting a frog: it is a slow, painful, messy, and fundamentally ugly deed, and by the time you’re done, the frog is dead.
Frankly I don't feel I'm describing a 'gutter' register. I do think I am talking about mid-formal speech, between formal and informal, not newspaper or literary English, or highschool cafeteria English. But if you call some of my answers 'preaching the gutter way' then now I know.
@MattЭллен I just found out a bit of disturbing news about the mathematics PhD programs language requirements :(
At present, most PhD programs require their students to demonstrate proficiency in reading math in at least one if not two foreign languages; German will essentially always be an acceptable choice.
I need to name a column in a table and I'm wondering what the best option is.
Should it be "Published at" or "Published on"?
I only need to store a full date and time.
From some search I did, it seems that published at is used when referencing a date in the future while published on is used to...
not really. tsunamis are caused by huge earthquakes out in the deep ocean. you're not near deep ocean or really big earthquakes that can trigger tsunamis
not all really big earthquakes are of the type that triger tsunamis
@NareshSharma Then after you've read Alice in Wonderland, you could maybe try some English Language programming books. Coders at Work is a good book, although I'm not sure of the level of the language. It's quite conversational in style.
@NareshSharma I'm just saying, if you constantly read books of type X, you will be pretty proficient in that domain already, or sooner or later. However, you won't be proficient in the language as a whole.
@tchrist Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks'. ("Istanbul not Constantinople" was not, as some may think, a TMBG original, but a 1929 number performed by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra.)
Wiktionary reads:
concinnity: The harmonious reinforcement of the various parts of a work of art.
Call it corporate social responsibility at work if you wish, but we
simply think that under Howard Shultz's inspired and inspiring
leadership Starbucks is just a damned well-managed c...
There's little sense in creating synonyms proactively anyway. Even capitalisation nobody uses. People just start typing capi and the rest gets autocompleted. They probably don't even notice the spelling.
Yes, this is the poetic device known as hyperbaton. It is quite common. See also its treatment here, which discusses the devices of lyric poetry, including in Le Guin and Tolkien.
Speaking of whom, in Letter #171, J.R.R. Tolkien, responding to criticism of his ‘archaic’ style, wrote the follow...
I need to name a column in a table and I'm wondering what the best option is.
Should it be "Published at" or "Published on"?
I only need to store a full date and time.
From some search I did, it seems that published at is used when referencing a date in the future while published on is used to...
Wiktionary reads:
concinnity: The harmonious reinforcement of the various parts of a work of art.
Call it corporate social responsibility at work if you wish, but we
simply think that under Howard Shultz's inspired and inspiring
leadership Starbucks is just a damned well-managed c...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…