@Cerberus Of course Intelligent Design is true. A puddle of water could have figured that out, just by noticing that the hole it lives in conforms exactly to its shape. Obviously the hole had to have been designed.
@Cerberus I think in English it's common to hear an expression like "I'm dying" of laughter, but not "I'm *dead," right?
@Cerberus I have a French colleague who is completely fluent in English, but every once in a while the odd expression slips through. She hears something funny and says, "I'm *dead."
If you have a Wi-Fi, the devices that you have which support this feature can connect through the Internet. Because a Wi-Fi contains multiple networks used to connect to the Internet, it supports a multiple number of devices. Take note that once you connect two or more devices through a Wi-Fi, its speed significantly decreases.
For MiFi:
“MiFi used as a name for wireless routers that act as mobile Wi-Fi hotspots.” (Wikipedia)
@livresque I have no idea...I'm getting all my news from here. and the news you're getting from me, I make it up.
@MετάEd Ha ha!...too subtle for me.
Wait...she's stern? ...poor joke coming up...I thought she was more aft.
waits for raucous laughter
@livresque look man, I just make stuff up based loosely what I misunderstood from what I poorly overhear...in the next room... with mufflers on....and I'm paying attention to something else. Did you hear that a bomb caused an explosion that just destroyed North Korea?
I just saw that the Argentinians expect to control 'those islands' (the ones with the sheep that people dies over (yes, I know that doesn't narrow it down)) despite what the 'natives' will choose. I thought the locals have been forever mostly Anglo. Is that right?
So what would you do. Get a 1-year contract for home internet, which is a bit more expensive and gets somewhat worse ratings for reliability, and it has a better modem; or a 2-year contract that is a bit less expensive and slightly more reliable, and you get to keep the modem.
These contracts are with different providers.
@Mitch I'm not sure how Anglo they are, but I know they want to remain English by a large majority.
@Robusto ask for bees wax next time... "Yes, I know what I said. Not a Brazilian, I want a bees wax....What do you mean "where". You're the professional! You figure it out."
@MετάEd oh. actually I did. not out loud of course, that would be weird. It took me awhile though. I was really trying to get something about Perl out of it.
I'm pretty sure that "Every X of mine" is correct, but reading and speaking out "My every X" makes me feel uncertain about it... is it also correct?
If it's not used in formal language or common speaking, can it be allowed anyway as poetic license in writing a song lyric?
@Cerberus Keeping the modem is a red herring. How many Jesus years does it take for a modem to become out of date? All technology is thisclose to obsolescence as soon as you buy it. Also, how does a better modem have worse reliability?
@livresque I suppose keeping the modem isn't worth much. As to the better modem with the worse reliability, I don't know! The better modem was tested as such by a consumer organisation. The same organisation also organised a fairly large survey, the result of which is that that provider was a bit less reliable. The difference was not great, and it may be owing to other factors.
I'm looking for the etymology of the word tomnoddy which, according to Wiktionary, either refers to a puffin or a fool or dunce.
From Tolkien's The Hobbit,
Old Tomnoddy, all big body,
Old Tomnoddy can't spy me!
> In 16th c. lowen, lowne, rhyming with chenoun, downe. Of obscure origin; the early forms do not favour the current hypothesis of connexion with early mod.Dutch loen ‘homo stupidus’ (Plantijn and Kilian) which seems to be known only from dictionaries. The ONor. lúenn, beaten, benumbed, weary, exhausted (pa. ppl. of lýja to beat, thrash) has been suggested as a possible etymon. The order of development of the senses is somewhat uncertain.
I've had an email from the Oxford University Press, and this is what they say:
Archaic: very old-fashioned language, not in ordinary use at all today, but sometimes used to give a deliberately old-fashioned effect or found in works of the past that are still widely read.
Historical: stil...
> buster (n.) 1838, "anything large; a man of great strength," American English slang (originally Missouri/Arkansas), perhaps meaning something that takes one's breath away and an agent noun from bust (v.). Around the same years, buster (as an extended form of bust (n.)) also meant "a frolic, a spree." Hence "a roistering blade" (OED; probably not the favored definition in old Missouri and Arkansas), attested from 1850. As a generic or playful address to a male, from 1948, American English. Meaning "horse-breaker" is from 1891, American English; hence back-formed verb bust (v.) "break a hor…
In my mind, the "actually" sounds a little off where it's located.
I would say, "He looks fearless, but he is actually not so brave."
I think this may just be a matter of personal preference, as I don't see anything grammatically incorrect with either construction.
Please review the examples below. Which one of them is correct?
Send a request to the IT team and ask them to key in the 16 digit code.
Send a request to the IT team and ask that they key in the 16 digit code.
Seriously: The thing about these trivial no-effort questions and these trivial one-liner hipshot answers is that they do not enrich the site. They do not even provide anything that anybody else could ever search on.
@Cerberus: "... but actually he is not so brave." "... but he is actually not so brave." "... but he is not actually so brave." "... but he is not so brave, actually." All are fine variations and partake of no degree of formality or informality. — Robusto10 secs ago
Petals and plates are palest pastel. I staple their pleats.
I'm pretty sure that "Every X of mine" is correct, but reading and speaking out "My every X" makes me feel uncertain about it... is it also correct?
If it's not used in formal language or common speaking, can it be allowed anyway as poetic license in writing a song lyric?
I'm looking for the etymology of the word tomnoddy which, according to Wiktionary, either refers to a puffin or a fool or dunce.
From Tolkien's The Hobbit,
Old Tomnoddy, all big body,
Old Tomnoddy can't spy me!
I've had an email from the Oxford University Press, and this is what they say:
Archaic: very old-fashioned language, not in ordinary use at all today, but sometimes used to give a deliberately old-fashioned effect or found in works of the past that are still widely read.
Historical: stil...
In my mind, the "actually" sounds a little off where it's located.
I would say, "He looks fearless, but he is actually not so brave."
I think this may just be a matter of personal preference, as I don't see anything grammatically incorrect with either construction.
Please review the examples below. Which one of them is correct?
Send a request to the IT team and ask them to key in the 16 digit code.
Send a request to the IT team and ask that they key in the 16 digit code.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…