choster

It took me a while to figure out what you mean by blanket cover — I guess like a duvet cover, but for a blanket instead of a duvet? The top sheet is usually tucked under the mattress, whereas the blankets or comforters are not, and perhaps because I grew up with that system, tangling has never been an issue for me. It's nice to feel tucked in but not weighed down. Besides, wouldn't you encounter the same problem when you have multiple blankets, or does every blanket have its own cover? Or do Europeans just use fewer layers, given the climate in most places has relatively fewer extremes?

Of related interest: How to find and compare flights carried out by a specific type of plane? Equipment substitutions are extremely common, however, as Nate has noted.

"Valid" is in the eye of the beholder, so to speak. An Abkhazian passport might be valid to a Venezuelan border agent, but not a Colombian. This is a question about politics, not travel.

Does this rise to plagiarism? A good chunk of yourmileagemayvary.net/2020/03/03/… , including images, links, and whole sentences of text, seem to be lifted from travel.stackexchange.com/questions/26341

A lifetime ban from the US is only for deception, right? I thought the max penalty for an overstay was 10 years travel.stackexchange.com/a/147648/1480

Spammer? travel.stackexchange.com/users/103579/1savytravelerr The company is based in Tampa.

Wouldn't a Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo/etc. image search suffice?

There you go :)

The booking agency doesn't know anything about you or the purpose of your trip, so they provide those caveats

You'll see the warning about needing travel documents when you buy the ticket. A passport is pretty standard for international travel, and has been for over a century

You'd know you need a passport (or equivalent), if nothing else, because the airline will tell you that you need a passport just to board the flight

But point taken

I'd say an American trying to visit Russia is pretty painful, to the point where even as a tourist you might hire an agency to handle the visa application

@deltree You won't hear any argument from me. But a U.S. citizen visiting Germany is one of the most painless experiences for an international traveler, in relative terms

I think we have one for arrival procedures, but not for planning. I know it sounds broad, but at a minimum, it could say things like "check the website of their embassy to your country"

@Willeke Do you think we could use a canonical "first time international traveler, where can I found out the relevant procedures/rules?" question?

There are at least tens of thousands of Americans who visit Germany every year; there's no reason to be anxious. If you have never traveled outside the hemisphere before, you might want to obtain a guide book, read tourism websites, and the like to put your mind at ease

Typically, someone with a U.S. passport can enter Schengen and remain there for up to 90 days without a visa. travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/…

We probably don't have a question for your specific scenario because it is pretty straightforward.

@deltree What is your citizenship, and how long do you plan to visit?

@NeanDerThal meta.stackexchange.com/questions/328642

rm -rf

I leave for 3 months and somehow come back with +398 points? The rich getting richer? Am I going to be hunted down by a Marxist horde?

english.stackexchange.com/a/509208/16052 seems to be spam

I wonder, if you have 2 votes to migrate, 2 votes to close as off-topic, and 1 vote to close as opinion-based, is that sufficient for the migration to go through? All five closevoters are relatively experienced, so I can't imagine all five thought ELL was someplace this should be

Yep, I see that now

I hadn't seen any activity from him in some months, but he might have been visiting and just not answering/commenting

Hey, Edwin's back (or, I'm just noticing that Edwin's back)

Yes, I would, at least

hoistenificationified

hoistenated

@Mitch it's hoist with his own petard, not hoisted

Yep, it's healthy, but not healthful

I will have a stroke in five years if I continue to use Facebook, and the death certificate will say the cause of death was stress brought on by a "good" education

Disinterested becoming synonymized uninterested is the trend I notice most. Also, just desserts, hoisted by his own petard, and baited breath jump off the page at me

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I do pass silent judgment on other things

I had a "good" education, but it goes to show how bad attitudes about use of the language become ingrained, much in the same way that while I acknowledge that there is no grammatical reason at all why sentences should not end with a preposition in English, I still tend to word my writing so that they do not

Yes, that's my point. "May 14th" is perfectly acceptable to most. But the good folks at McGraw-Hill said "14th of May" or "May 14" were acceptable, but "May 14th" was a sign of illiteracy

My advice on such matters is to follow your boss or your editor's advice, or if writing for yourself, to choose a style manual and be consistent in its application

For that matter, there isn't anything inherently wrong with "May 14th" for a U.S. audience, but I was taught throughout elementary school that this was incorrect (as defined by the textbook publisher), so it bothers me to see it. Other people, of course, used different textbooks and have no trouble with it

For a U.S. audience, I might write "14th of May" or "May 14," but "14th May" would be deemed incorrect by most, and "14 May" would look "foreign"

@Diaa There is wide variation on what is accepted for the representation of dates, not just country to country but organization to organization

Security officials are given some discretion to stop suspicious people and items everywhere, and they have no incentive to be lenient. This is hardly a phenomenon limited to DXB, whose operations I would place against any in that part of the world.

@ispiro Perhaps I don't understand how you would use the expression. This is why we require word and phrase requests to include a sample sentence for how it woul be used. There is no implication of a romantic interest simply for saying a certain discussion is out of your league.

I think you are overthinking this. If a business contact mentions her company is bidding on a certain govnerment contract, and the typical winners of that contract are companies which are much larger and more sophisticated than hers, saying the contract is out of your league is hardly going to be interpreted as a romantic reference. If you're talking about a perceived mismatch in a platonic friendship, I think the deeper question would be about what you value in a friendship.

"Is it rude" depends on quite a lot—tone of voice, conventional terminology in your circles for other kinds of service workers, your locale. Outside of any context, I don't understand why you would see a problem with it (native AmE speaker).

A pint isn't the same in the US and UK—it is 16 US fluid ounces in the US system (473 mL) and 20 Imperial fluid ounces in the Imperial system (568 mL). Canada follows the Imperial system here, but because pint glasses are largely made in U.S. sizes, you might order a pint in Canada but actually get a sleeve of 16 Imperial fluid ounces (455 mL).

@johannes Even without a sign on the bus, most Americans will have at least ridden in a school bus at some point, and will understand that buses will make such stops. When I was in kindergarten, the school bus driver would not just stop, but hold her hand up for everyone to be silent, and open her window and the front door to listen for oncoming trains. This is probably a more extreme measure than average since we lived on the outskirts of the city in an agricultural area, but stopping before crossings is "normal."

@MSalters The technology may be 19th-century, but the economics is 21st-century and all-other-century. The New World has very low population density compared to the Old; Texas, median among the U.S. states, has about 40 people/km², a full order of magnitude below England or the Netherlands. It seems a crazy extravagance to me to put sensors and warning signals and crossbars in the middle of nowhere, where only a few vehicles may cross daily. Canada is a full order of magnitude below Texas.