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Is it appropriate to write RIP for expressing grief?
I came to this question after I saw a Facebook post about someone who passed away with everyone posting rip as a comment. Wikipedia tells me the following about the abbreviation of RIP:
"Rest in ...
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Fact in Fiction [closed]
Is a fact implied within fictional literature still a fact actually?
Imagine this real-life conversation:
Person 1: "Does Deadpool have better healing abilities than Wolverine?"
Person 2: "I ...
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Does the word “catching” apply to people?
If we can say "I am running to catch the train", is it also appropriate to say that "I am going to the office early to catch the boss"?
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What is the primary sense of “evidently”? [closed]
I have just looked in three dictionaries (American Heritage, Canadian Oxford & OED) for the word evidently and all three give "obviously, clearly" as the primary definition, whereas "it would ...
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Do we compile the source or the binaries?
When programming, we usually write text files in some programming language. These source files are fed into a compiler that compiles them into binary files.
My question is whether to say:
we ...
