After 2.5 years of being almost entirely unchanged, we're thinking about redesigning
http://stackoverflow.com/users
This page is kind of underutilized real estate at the moment:
It is rather monotonous, since it always shows the same list and Jon Skeet is always on top. (Although to be fair, ...
I had previously understood it to mean
something more along the lines of
"drawn out, longer than it needs to
be, impassioned persuasion."
You were wrong, I don't think it ever means that.
For example, in a friendly letter, "My
[diatribe] begins here."
For example what? What are...
Hi all, i wanted to learn MS. So i need to learn for GRE exams, can you people specify some online links where i can find many useful tutorials for GRE preparation?
I sometimes see cases where "off" is followed by an "of", and it sounds awkward to me. For example, I would prefer
This story is based on a true story.
upon
This story is based off of a true
story.
What do native speakers think/prefer? Should I avoid that kind of usages?
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Clearly this is not intuitive or right so I made some adjustments.
Strunk & White and Copy Editor now only count posts, provided:
The post is not ...
I've never understood this. Why is the proper usage "uninstall"? You can't actually "unin" something at all and this isn't that case with most (all?) other use cases. Examples:
You make someone sane, but you don't uninsane them.
You make something accessible but never uninaccessible something.
...
This is called paraprosdokian.
A paraprosdokian (from Greek "παρα-", meaning "beyond" and "προσδοκία", meaning "expectation") is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpre...
Sometime it's vague for me when to use other vs another, for example,
You need to buy other book vs You need to buy another book.
What's the different between them, and when to use other or another?
A little debate going on here so I just want to know which one it is; I'm saying it's my other account since my another would be my one other account.
The other person insists they both can be used; however, I'm more than positive that it's only other in that context. Plus, my another account j...Transcript for
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Bread is a staple food prepared by cooking a dough of flour and water and often, additional ingredients. Doughs are usually baked, but in some cuisines breads are steamed, fried, or baked on an unoiled skillet. It may be leavened or unleavened. Salt, fat and leavening agents such as yeast and baking soda are common ingredients, though bread may contain other ingredients, such as milk, egg, sugar, spice, fruit (such as raisins), vegetables (such as onion), nuts (such as walnuts) or seeds (such as poppy). Referred to colloquially as the "staff of life", bread has been prepared for at l...
Money is any object or record, that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, occasionally, a standard of deferred payment. Any kind of object or secure verifiable record that fulfills these functions can serve as money.
Money originated as commodity money, but nearly all contemporary money systems are based on fiat money. Fiat money is without intrinsic use value as a physical commodity, an...
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