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Dec 15, 2024 17:21

Are comments being "moderated" (and deleted) more than before?

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Jul 26, 2023 20:10

@geocalc33 Nope. I mean correlation but using different mu's in the covariance

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Jul 26, 2023 20:06

Can somebody tell me the name of correlation but with/for adjusted means?

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Oct 16, 2021 09:26

What is problem 2 known as?

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Oct 16, 2021 09:26

English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…

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Dec 9, 2024 11:44

If you don't capitalise words like "the" and "and" and "a" in a book title, what should you do with a word like "during"?

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Jul 15, 2024 23:15

@Mitch I wasn't aware I could. Let me try.

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Jul 15, 2024 23:12

I can read an English UN, OECD, etc. website, but I can't ask how to pronounce it?

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Jul 15, 2024 23:10

Why close a question on pronunciation due to "opinion based"?

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Jul 15, 2024 23:08

Q: How to pronounce Türkiye in English?

So, for a few years now, the country that was formerly known as Turkey wants the be known as Türkiye. International organisations like the United Nations, the OECD, and the World Bank Group seem to oblige. Suppose we also oblige, how are we supposed to pronounce Türkiye in English? (Does it happe...

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Jan 6, 2024 16:29

"The new result is nearly identical to the old result, differing [by] less than 1%" With by or without by?

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Mar 1, 2023 17:52

Is this correct? "Bla bla bla should be on any house's roof. Not just the larger ones'." I am particularly wondering about the apostrophe after "ones".

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Feb 28, 2023 07:42

Q is closed for being opinion-based, which I think is weird. Possible answers could be: 1) there is this other investment guru Danny Buffet, or 2) Buffett changed his name, or 3) regular words ending in -ett are extremely rare. english.stackexchange.com/q/604030/42179

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Sep 13, 2022 18:15

Do Americans think that 'phenomena' is singular? Why?

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Jul 18, 2022 07:48

What's a good term for an (email) address that forwards email to a forwarding address? (I had preferred the term 'forwarding address' itself, but that seems to be used for the final destination.)

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Feb 13, 2022 07:48

Is it "X has seen its value reduced" or "X has seen its value reduce"?

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May 18, 2021 20:25

Or weird.

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May 18, 2021 20:24

Actually, looking at some dictionaries, I might be wrong. Or English is wrong.

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May 18, 2021 20:21

@Cerberus I don't know. I could be completely wrong, for all I know.

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May 18, 2021 20:18

@Cerberus Yes. Prove me wrong.

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May 18, 2021 20:17

@Cerberus It seems many people seem to think that the 'person' applies to themselves as opposed to the person/thing they are meeting. Like: I saw the new iPad in person.

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May 18, 2021 19:01

@Cerberus I hoped for a nice discussion, but that seems to settle it.

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May 18, 2021 18:55

Why do English speakers use 'in person' wrong?

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Apr 24, 2021 18:47

So, I'm looking for the word that means 'increasing something to get it just right'.

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Apr 24, 2021 18:45

And, if only used for reduction, what would be the antonym?

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Apr 24, 2021 18:43

Must 'trimming' mean a reduction if you are talking about a financial holding? Or can it be an increase as well (cf. sailing)?

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Apr 8, 2021 18:02

I know I can rewrite, but what if I don't want to?

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Apr 8, 2021 18:00

A or an? 'One of the leftovers was a, until recently, rather worthless piece.'

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Mar 17, 2021 20:14

Thanks

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Mar 17, 2021 20:11

@M.A.R. Well, that would be 1. But I wonder whether 2 is acceptable. 'He said there would be war'.

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Mar 17, 2021 20:07

'He said that that would be nonsense' or 'He said that would be nonsense'?

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Jan 20, 2021 18:50

I don't know, but these words make me hungry.

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Jan 20, 2021 18:48

@CowperKettle Oh, so 'onset of retinopathy'?

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Jan 20, 2021 18:45

@CowperKettle Maybe they mean 'post-retinopathy instauration'.

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Jan 19, 2021 21:00

@Cerberus I assume that has something to do with her teeth or laugh. In either case: unacceptable.

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Jan 19, 2021 20:57

In Dutch, 'hal' and 'gang' are distinct. The former being a more 'square' entry space, and the latter being more of a passageway.

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Nov 10, 2024 15:29

@WishPlay But Fumble was right about focusing on the pronouns. "Ik wel. [En dus: jij niet.]" Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a good antonym for "not" in English.

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Nov 10, 2024 15:29

Here's a another attempt. "Because I can − but my employer cannot − exert discretion and dignity."

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Nov 10, 2024 15:29

@DjinTonic Do you mean this? "Because I can exert discretion and dignity − as opposed to my employer." Note that with the Dutch "wel" or "wél", you wouldn't even need the " − as opposed to my employer"

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Nov 10, 2024 15:29

I (not a native speaker; hence, risky advice) think that including "do" could somehow work. "Because as opposed to my employer, I do have the capability to exert discretion and dignity."

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Jul 16, 2024 19:02

I found something. Right at the beginning of this video, youtube.com/watch?v=NmvxGglPf_w, we hear the person twice pronouncing Türkiye in English sentences.

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Jul 16, 2024 19:02

@WeatherVane So, your answer to the question would be that most English-speaking people wouldn't have a clue about how to pronounce Türkiye and would therefore default to Turkey? Which seems like a valid answer.

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Jul 16, 2024 19:02

@WeatherVane And presumably "Türkiye" is a translation of "Turkey" into Turkish. So, what's the difference? Why would you say "coat divor" but not "tjurkijé" or something like that?

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Jul 16, 2024 19:02

@WeatherVane If you don't speak Turkish and also not French (presumably), why would you say "coat divor"? That seems like an attempt at French.

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Jul 16, 2024 19:02

@WeatherVane You think it is more like a Bombay/Mumbai-thing than an Ivory Coast/Côte d'Ivoire-thing?

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Jul 16, 2024 19:02

@WeatherVane It seems more relevant than your Paris analogy.

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Jul 16, 2024 19:02

@WeatherVane Maybe we are getting somewhere. Many English speakers pronounce the name "Côte d'Ivoire" − when they read it − (somewhat) like "Côte d'Ivoire", not like "Ivory Coast". Now what about "Türkiye"?

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Jul 16, 2024 19:02

It appears to me that people are voting to close this question because they think the Turkish were unreasonable. That's not the question.

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Jul 16, 2024 19:02

@FumbleFingers That seems a bit harsh. In any case, I didn't ask about the spelling, I asked about the pronunciation (in English).

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Apr 27, 2023 20:01

If you are inside a black hole, could you detect whether the black hole is a rotating one?