Mark Wallace

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Jul 14	comment	Why do we say that a plane is “en route”? @GEdgar: Yes and no. The Académie doesn't just say "Thou Shalt Not!", but puts forward (where possible) alternatives that can be used. Since the alternatives are preferable to a lot of people, they get adopted.
Jul 14	answered	'Depend upon' or 'depend on'
Jul 14	comment	Is there a term I can use for a boss's favorite employee? @Rachel: again, metaphorical usage.
Jul 14	comment	What does “Every once in a while, however, you’ll find yourself crafting ” mean? I've learned something new! :) Can I do it with bits of old power tools?
Jul 14	comment	Is “girls” a suitable complementary term to go along with “guys”? Well, if you say it while you're staring at their chests and drooling, don't expect less than a slap upside the ear-hole.
Jul 14	comment	Is there a word for “umming”? Both variants get lots of hits from on-line dictionaries -- which is not surprising, because it's an extremely common thing, so there should be at least two ways of expressing it.
Jul 14	comment	“Uncapable” or “incapable”? Usually, they're mis-association of things that are common in other words. A great example is "inflammable" (= can catch fire), where large numbers of people assumed that the "in" was a prefix of negation, and used it to mean fireproof. The thing is: if enough people get it wrong, there's a chance that they're right to, and the word needed improvement. (That doesn't stop me hissing and spitting when it happens, though.)
Jul 14	answered	Is there a word for “umming”?
Jul 14	answered	How does one pronounce “nihilism”?
Jul 14	answered	What does “Every once in a while, however, you’ll find yourself crafting ” mean?
Jul 14	answered	Antonym of 'to request'
Jul 14	answered	What's the inverse of “scalable” — capable to be broken down further and further?
Jul 14	comment	“Uncapable” or “incapable”? I've heard both frequently, but only use "incapable" myself. I dare say that someone will invent a (spurious) rule for the difference, one day, based on his personal preferences. That's how it usually works.
Jul 14	comment	Is “girls” a suitable complementary term to go along with “guys”? Perhaps, and perhaps it's different geographically, but here, anything that implies a woman is young is generally a good thing.
Jul 14	answered	Is “girls” a suitable complementary term to go along with “guys”?
Jul 14	answered	Is there a term I can use for a boss's favorite employee?
Jul 14	comment	Comma Splice? “I'm curious, what is the time?” A colon would be more appropriate.
Jul 14	comment	Volitional sentence vs. imperative sentence Sure, but, because there is no accepted syntactic/semantic definition for English of "volitional sentences", the OP has to tell us what he means by it (it's different in Chinese and Japanese, and is just a simple adjective-noun combination in English, which could mean many things). How can we tell the difference between two things when we don't know for sure what one of them is?