The Free Dictionary lists particular and specific as synonyms, but there still seems to be a subtle distinction between the two. What is that distinction?
In a phrase along the lines of:
the [particular/specific] card selected from the deck
is there any meaningful difference, or should I...
I suppose someone or other could come up with a great answer for that, rather than voting to close as Off Topic proofreading or Not Constructive bikeshedding, so I shall withhold judgement for the nonce.
I recorded and uploaded this snippet of dialogue so anyone can listen and hear for themselves.
I also did an analysis of the audio using Praat: (click to enlarge)
There are two hyphotheses: (a) that the highlighted segment is the prefix pre- (b) that the highlighted segment is the word for. I...
@tchrist Yeah, it's very thorough. But it still doesn't take into account the change in plosive force that would occur if the speaker had a mouth full of food, which apparently was the case. So I'm reserving judgment.
@Robusto The reason I asked is because I didn’t know whether Barrie would interpret my reference as intended.
@BarrieEngland From this side of the pond, sitting room sounds fine even if it isn’t common, whereas drawing room has a musty-unto-death smell about it, or at least of something that’s escaped its prison in the cellars of Wardour Street. Sometimes people these days will say the great room. — tchrist6 mins ago
@RegDwighт I see a damning overlap of network profiles. What are the chances that both people ask the same way and have accounts on The Workplace, ELU, Stack Overflow, and Personal Productivity?
Well, they post from entirely different IP pools. And given their usual attention to detail, that's not something they'd be able to pull off if it's the same user.
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My favorite part of today's progress meeting was when my big boss and my project lead started fawning over each other for having the great idea of having focus groups, which is something I have been pushing for for literally two years.
@Cerberus I don't recall which particular adblocking extension I have on my laptop or if SE complained about it by name. But I do remember it complaining specifically about the presence of an adblocking extension that was hindering the login process. I've run into it 2-3 times.
> Australian travelers stranded in wilderness because of iOS 6 maps.Motorists were taken over 40 miles off course. — We had a good run mocking iOS 6 maps for its wrong turns and bizarre aerial shots, but that's all over now that Australian police have actually deemed the app a danger to the public.
> Having found themselves 70 kilometers off-course in what the app said was downtown Mildura, the motorists were left without food and water, on some occasions, for up to 24 hours. Oblivious to the reason behind their predicament, they would walk miles further off course, away from their vehicles, looking for a phone signal.
So I had a weird-ass dream. At one point Kit was telling me about her cookbook, which was written by tchrist. Half the pages were recipes, the other half was Perl. There were exactly 10 recipes that contained meat, which tchrist had to include because the publisher demanded it, but he put those ones on blood-red paper so you couldn't read them. I flipped through the book then went to get on the subway, only instead of a train it was a reindeer-pulled sleigh-train.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 "...her cookbook, which was written by tchrist...": I know, right? That's hilarious. The dream content is purely inconsistent. Like you're having a dream about your childhood home, but the house is in a different city, and it's actually some other house.
It would be like one of those dreams you have where your high school football coach is yelling at you, and you look down and you're wearing women's clothing and then all your teeth fall out — and that's the Disney version!
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 what I meant was that ... it's not a book by two authors, but a book by a single author, Kit, but the book was written by tchrist, the single author.
> the argument says it's natural for many animals eat their young in nature, and people are just a part of the natural process or something like that. Some people buy into it and start doing it.
The Free Dictionary lists particular and specific as synonyms, but there still seems to be a subtle distinction between the two. What is that distinction?
In a phrase along the lines of:
the [particular/specific] card selected from the deck
is there any meaningful difference, or should I...
whay scould I lost al my Hotmail
I recorded and uploaded this snippet of dialogue so anyone can listen and hear for themselves.
I also did an analysis of the audio using Praat: (click to enlarge)
There are two hyphotheses: (a) that the highlighted segment is the prefix pre- (b) that the highlighted segment is the word for. I...
This comes with a discussion with user Robusto that initially started from an inability to register a new account for the English Language & Usage Stack Exchange Blog.
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