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The bias of people upvoting high-rep answers regardless of quality is extremely hard to prove, but it does exist, no doubt.
Only yesterday, I saw a high-rep user paste a completely unrelated and incorrect link as an answer (he was working on two questions at the same time) and in the two minute...
Wiktionary marks alright as an "alternative spelling" of all right, and allright as a "common misspelling" thereof. Merriam-Webster only has entries for alright and all right, and this usage discussion:
The one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared...
A jinx, in popular superstition and folklore, is:
* A type of curse placed on a person that makes them prey to many minor misfortunes and other forms of bad luck;
* A person afflicted with a similar curse, who, while not directly subject to a series of misfortunes, seems to attract them to anyone in his vicinity.
* An object/ person that brings bad luck.
* A common slang term used when two people say the same thing at the same time, said as a game among children.
The superstition can also be referenced when talking about a future event with too much confidence. A statement such as "We'...
This question came about in a discussion between myself and another user of the Gaming.SE chat after I linked in this chiptune track called
An Eskimeau Experience
Here is the gist of the discussion:
It's either Eskimo or Esquimaux. Not a portmanteau of both.
Eskimeau is a portmanteau o...
Maybe it's just me, but I get the feeling we are seeing an increasing number of English language learner questions.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but is it what we really want? Aren't we going to scare away (or just plain bore) the experts?
Related question, (to which the accepted answer ...
I would like one or more synonyms for anal retentive.
I was chatting last night in an mmorpg, and any message with the word anal was banned. I ended up talking about my canal retentive minus c guild-mate instead.
Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same optimistic outlook. The book was such a success, that Porter soon produced a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. Further sequels followed, including Pollyanna Plays the Game by Colleen L. Reece, published in 1997.
Pollyanna has been adapted for film ...
I have a friend from the southern US who uses the phrase "might could" quite often. He'll say, for example:
I might could do that this weekend.
When I first heard him say this it made me do a double take. I wasn't sure, though, if its incorrect or correct but just not idiomatic outside the...
There are some particular questions that are asked at least once a day on Stack Overflow.
They're well-posed questions about trying to solve problems nobody should solve (great example: "How do I get this HTML DOM element with regular expressions?").
Obviously, all the interaction will be in th...
Als Sahne, Rahm oder Obers (in Teilen Österreichs) wird der fetthaltige Teil der Milch bezeichnet, der sich beim Stehenlassen von Rohmilch natürlich absetzt. Die Bezeichnungen für Sahne sind regional unterschiedlich und werden zum Teil auch nicht einheitlich verwendet. Neben der grundsätzlichen Unterscheidung von ungesäuerter und gesäuerter Sahne gibt es eine Reihe weiterer Sahneprodukte, wie Schmand oder Crème fraîche, die sich vor allem in ihrem Fettgehalt unterscheiden.
Herstellung von Sahne
Sahne oder Rahm entsteht durch Aufrahmen der Milch. Hierbei steigen die in der Milch enthal...
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Is EL&U the right place to ask linguistic questions that do not pertain to any specific language? E.g. questions on grammar that is shared by most every language.
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How would one optimize the number of repetitions required for vocabulary acquisition and retention by taking the forgetting curve (link text) into account?
Does anyone here use Mnemosyne, Anki or SuperMemo? [Can't post more than 1 link initially]
And do you know of any similar systems (not spec...
:This article is about the band. For the food, see French fries.
Papas Fritas is an indie-pop US band. Formed in Massachusetts in 1992 by two friends, who were soon joined by another member on bass. The band's name is Spanish for French fries, and is also a pun on the phrase Pop Has Freed Us, which is also the title of their 2003 retrospective album. During their formative years the band performed for fun around Tufts University while they attended as undergraduates. They were eventually picked up by Sunday Driver records and soon released a 7-inch EP titled Friday night. Their EP received...
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Can you recommend a book/website where I can develop better my english proficiency and fluency. My accent is terrible and when I speak in English I stammer a lot. I cannot afford to take any English lessons so I rely on books/websites a lot.
Thank you.
Hey all,
I have exhausted the thesaurus.
What would I call somebody who comments on a stack exchange post?
A commenter?
Any suggestions?
This is a follow up to "http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/12999/what-do-you-call-somebody-who-asks-a-question-and-somebody-who-answers-a-question"
In physics, a wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that would be, fundamentally, a "shortcut" through spacetime. For a simple visual explanation of a wormhole, consider spacetime visualized as a two-dimensional (2D) surface. If this surface is folded along a third dimension, it allows one to picture a wormhole "bridge". (Please note, though, that this is merely a visualization displayed to convey an essentially unvisualisable structure existing in 4 or more dimensions. The parts of the wormhole could be higher-dimensional analogues for the parts of the curved 2D sur...
I've Been Expecting You is the second album by Robbie Williams. The most successful singles from it were "Millennium" and "She's the One". The album was one of the best selling albums in the UK from 1998–1999 and to date has sold over 2.5 million in the UK alone making it Williams best selling UK album. It sold a total of 5 million copies in Europe, as confirmed by the IFPI . I've Been Expecting You was ranked 91st in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. Williams and Chambers started the writing process of the album in Jama...
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