I'm looking for a single word or even idiom that means hard to give a tangible measurement, as in:
The company's growth due to such as such improvement was hard to measure or "insert term or idiom here"
By my research, I found a very closely related word that denotes turning something good into bad, that is exacerbate:
1. make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
But, I am not fully satisfied with the word exacerbate, as it denotes turning bad into worst. I want the word ...
Why do I need to prove I am not a robot everyday? Because you need to have pictures with street signs and pictures without street signs separated? (*$#^@(^%(#^(@#^
@BAYMAX cf. is short for confer in Latin which means compare. But sometimes, in math texts, they really want to use v. or vide in Latin which means see. =)
@Cerberus the final run is just the blues scale, down then up. So yeah. The bit before that is just a weird harmony change back and forth, that's not really blues or jazz, more like typical of Russian composers of the beginning of the 20th century.
@Gigili plot twist: computers make humans complete those captchas so that they can learn what's a street sign, what's a car, a bridge, a cup of coffee, so that then they can pretend to be humans and not robots.
Yes, I wanted to say the same thing back to Y, but I kept quiet, lol.
Today, I answered some customers' questions at the booths at the fair. They must have been surprised that I answered them even though I was not the staff selling stuff there.
One person asked 'Where is Dell from?' and since there was no answer, I said to him 'It's from America, and it's cheaper than Lenovo assuming the same specs!'
And then another person asked 'How heavy is this?' and since there was no answer, I said to her 'It's 1.45kg!'
I think the Macquarie Dictionary has a lot of words of Australian origin, but it is only available as a subscription or if you buy a copy from Australian websites.
Some real estate agent or architect just started calling them that and it caught on.
What do you call a framework that covers a small patio that is intended for vines/flowers to grow on?
They've existed here forever, but only recently did I come to learn they are called 'pergola' here (presumably Italian?), but I can't think of what I thought they were called before I heard the word (in the past couple years).
That is, I presume Italian used the word aula during the Renaissance or later, and Italian architecture is perhaps the most influential, in modern times (e.g. since the Renaissance).
What kind of feedback do we need? On this post: Bugs related to this site's design elements Honestly, this feels like one political party trying to force a judicial candidate through without any concern what the rest of the country thinks.
BTW @Rob I've been meaning to thank you apropos of nothing. Remember we were having that discussion one day, about the ending of No Country For Old Men. I think I was on the fence about it or something. Maybe still am. And then you said a thing. It ends here because he's said everything he had to say.
And that thing you said stuck with me.
And I've found myself thinking back to that a lot recently. I write 4 bars that are all lovely and stuff, but then I'm all lost. Certainly this ain't a proper piece yet. Certainly I must expand it to 256 bars first, and do something with the left hand, and write a fancy coda and fifty additional harmony changes and a string section. And it's not easy to do any of that, and it's easy to think of myself as a lesser person for that.
But then what happens, sometimes later than sooner, but it now always does, is that I think back to that discussion of ours. And I ask myself the simple question of whether I've said everything I had to say. Not if it's a Proper Piece™. If it's a complete thought. And if it is I just stop. Wherever I am, I don't care. Bar 120, bar 7, this ain't maths. This is storytelling. I read fairy tales as a kid that were but five sentences long. Nothing missing. You said your thing, just stop.
And so I stop.
So thank you for that.
P.S. It certainly doesn't hurt that I have since read the book, and all the other McCarthy books while I was at it. It makes sense now.
@RegDwigнt Nice tribute. Your comments about have you said everything you had to say reminds me of Ockham's Razor as Einstein expressed it: "Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler."
@MetaEd yes, that addendum after the comma is precisely what can kill you. That is the part I'm ignoring now, I believe is what I'm trying to say.
P.P.S. And the reason I am saying that I might still be on the fence about the ending, nowadays and after all I just said, is a different reason. Because it was a good thing. And I didn't want that good thing to end. Not because it was ending at that minute mark. Because it was ever.
The only thing you can do at that point is rewatch it from the beginning. Which kinda works actually. But the yearning stays with you.
@RegDwigнt Everything that happens—a breath, a song, a day, a novel, a life—has a birth, a development, and a death. These things are recognized by the careful observer as little islands of joy in a sea of nothing. To go on beyond their demarcations would be a dilution, a diminution. Less is not more—but neither is more. Enough is all. We mourn the passing of a beloved thing, but better the sudden sorrow than the chance to become tired of joy.
I'm looking for a single word or even idiom that means hard to give a tangible measurement, as in:
The company's growth due to such as such improvement was hard to measure or "insert term or idiom here"
By my research, I found a very closely related word that denotes turning something good into bad, that is exacerbate:
1. make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
But, I am not fully satisfied with the word exacerbate, as it denotes turning bad into worst. I want the word ...
What do you call a person who is satisfied with what he has?
E.g. A person who is hopeful is called an optimist.
Needles, thimbles, hooks and so on. I feel like there should be some all-encompassing word for that but I can't find it.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…