Bob

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Mar 21	comment	Is there a single-word noun for an overwhelming feeling that uses “overwhelm” as its root? to quote an old hymn, "..'Neath the whelming flood...." If you simply say "whelming" it carries the "over" meaning with it. So go to the root: An "overwhelming" feeling is in fact a "flood" of feelings.
Dec 20	comment	How do you define broke and broke into? Just my impression, but I think using the phrase "broke into (x region)" comes not so much from breaking into a physical location as it does the aviation term, "breaking into" as in "We broke into clear air above 4,000 ft..." Like a plane "breaks into" a new stratum, so the speaker "broke into" the six figure stratum...
Oct 8	answered	Why does “klick” mean kilometer in US military slang?
Oct 4	answered	Expression regarding a periodic task
Sep 28	answered	OK to use two “there”s in a sentence?
Sep 6	comment	Use of “good” and “well” @StoneyB I agree. You done good in your comment!
Sep 6	comment	More than 1000 gallons of paint is/are sold each day To say otherwise is to ignore the reality that paint is sold in discrete-unit containers.
Sep 6	comment	More than 1000 gallons of paint is/are sold each day It's true that most liquids, in most contexts, are of infinitely variable quantity. But reference to gallons of paint being sold is a special case. Paint is essentially never sold in variable quantities. It's sold in discrete units, such as spray cans, hobby cans, quart cans, gallons, or five-gallon cans. And the smaller quantities are not additive: If you sold 4 pint-cans and 2 quart-cans of paint today, you wouldn't say, "I sold one gallon of paint today." You'd say, "I sold 4 pint-cans and 2 quart-cans." Because the OBJECTS (the cans of paint) are what we're selling.
Sep 6	revised	More than 1000 gallons of paint is/are sold each day added 107 characters in body
Sep 6	comment	More than 1000 gallons of paint is/are sold each day I disagree. Perhaps in the context of paint manufacturing the paint would be a mass noun. But in the selling of paint, a "gallon of paint" is an object, and my local paint store has many of them. Yesterday they may have sold more than 1000 of them
Sep 6	comment	More than 1000 gallons of paint is/are sold each day +1, as I agree to your point that the singularity/plurality depends on the context. But I would point out that the role of the word gallons in fact depends on that context: It's either a modifier of more, or it is a noun, the subject of the sentence.
Sep 6	comment	More than 1000 gallons of paint is/are sold each day I disagree. Perhaps in the context of paint manufacturing the paint would be a mass noun. But in the selling of paint, a "gallon of paint" is an object, and my local paint store has many of them. Yesterday they may have sold more than 1000 of them.
Sep 6	awarded	Critic
Sep 6	answered	Use of “good” and “well”
Sep 6	answered	More than 1000 gallons of paint is/are sold each day
Sep 6	comment	“View data” is to “observance” as “control data” is to what? In this sense I disagree. While "manipulation" in general has a Machiavellian overtone, in the strict sense of computer data, it's merely the corollary to "observe/view". If you take even one step away from the raw data itself, as in "manipulating a report of computer data", then the evil connotation returns. But at the level of setting or reading bits/bytes, "manipulation" is merely the act of setting bits as opposed to reading them.
Sep 4	answered	Express a phrase as compound
Aug 31	answered	“View data” is to “observance” as “control data” is to what?
Aug 20	comment	Curious about the type of humour employed by Twitter's @AntiJokeCat? My personal favorite: The Pope, President Obama, and a boy scout walk into a bar; and the bartender says, "What is this, some kind of joke?"
Aug 20	awarded	Editor