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What does "this" refer to in the following quote from the Wikipedia article on Learning Curve?
The learning curve can also represent at a glance the initial difficulty of learning something and, to an extent, how much there is to learn after initial familiarity. For example, the Windows pro...
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I have looked in a number of places, with contradicting results.
The Urban Dictionary provides a whopping 73 "explanations", of which I will quote just a few. (Original spelling and punctuation preserved.)
ZOMG is a varient of the all-too-popular acronym "OMG", meaning "Oh My God".
ZOMG...
"Whole Lotta Love" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It is featured as the opening track on the band's second album, Led Zeppelin II, and was released in the United States and Japan as a single. The US release became their first hit single, it was certified Gold on 13 April 1970, when it sold one million copies. As with other Led Zeppelin songs, no single was released in the United Kingdom, but singles were released in Germany (where it reached number one), the Netherlands (where it reached number four), Belgium and France.
In 2004, the song was ranked number 75 on Rolling S...
If you ever listened to our sadly defunct podcast, you probably heard about Twitter … a lot. I’ve been a longtime user (since 2007) and I was always surprised how much utility I got out of the thing. Even Joel Spolsky, a longtime skeptic of the service, is a believer now.
We decided to create Twitter accounts for each Stack Exchange 2.0 site that will broadcast interesting questions every so often. Believe me — I despise spam as much as anyone, and I fully realize that Twitter is not RSS … …
We've had an American Americanise some phrases for us (with the point of teaching children English), e.g:
UK English: There’s a little white dog which lives on the second floor.
US English: There’s a little white dog that lives on the second floor.
But there are three sentences which were not a...
What is a term for powerful, moving words? Rhetoric implies the opposite (“empty” rhetoric).
The nominee’s speech was filled with XXX
'doubly connected domain' returns more in google search but it looks more strange for my ear. Which is the correct form according to rules so far?
After posting the question I realised I may be misremembering the following from Fowler's The King's English. Note that "foreword" is common in English now; apparently it wasn't then!
"Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance".
[…] In some sense it is that: the writer whose percentage of Sax...
I need to fill a non disclosure agreement (NDA) at the end of the file it is written:
In Witness whereof, this NDA is
executed as of the date first above
written:
Recipient:
Per: .... (What should I write here?)
Signature: ... (ok)
Name: ... (Is it the same as Per:?)
Title...
No, it is not correct English to say "I feel painful."
You can say "I feel pain", or "I am in pain", because 'pain' is a noun, but "painful" is an adjective so you would need to use it qualify something else (as in your "I feel painful sensations" example).
For grammar class, the teacher told us to write the possessive for each word or group of words below by using an apostrophe and an –s (´s) or an apostrophe alone (´).
Teacher
Teachers
Ms. Sandoval
Adults
Deer
Man
Country
Countries
Dog
Celia
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