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| location | Toronto, Canada | |
| age | 32 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 9 months |
| seen | May 19 '12 at 19:05 | |
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Feb 14 |
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What form of verb is “thank” in “thank you”? @Tor That's only performative in a metaphorical sense - typically. |
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Feb 11 |
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“Location” vs. “locality” I think that e.g. in the sense of computer science terms like "locality of reference", locality also has a meaning like "property of remaining localized", i.e. unmoving. |
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Feb 2 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Jan 30 |
awarded | Editor |
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Jan 30 |
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Can “intrude” be used transitively? A 'pr**o**position' is something quite different... |
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Jan 30 |
suggested | suggested edit on Can “intrude” be used transitively? |
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Jan 30 |
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What's the opposite of oxymoron? "redundancy" isn't quite an antonym for "contradiction", though... |
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Jan 30 |
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You are waking up the whole house I doubt that alliteration plays into it. See the example in @tenfour's answer on my comment. |
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Jan 30 |
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You are waking up the whole house Thanks for the edit, RegDwight! That's much more accurate. Anyway for the OP, 'whole' is just an intensifier, but it gives a bit of a clue to the metonymic usage as well... "the whole <container>" is sort of a set phrase. |
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Jan 29 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jan 29 |
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Why “out to sea”? I would say set out to sea, actually... |
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Jan 29 |
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“If we were to agree” vs “If we are to agree” It's not about the actual probability, it's about the speaker's attitude towards the probability. "If we were to agree" emphasizes the speaker's uncertainty. "If we agree" considers the possibility without judgment. |
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Jan 29 |
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How to answer “Is this John?” on phone Canadians, too. |
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Jan 29 |
answered | You are waking up the whole house |
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Jan 28 |
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“Increasingly XXX” or “increasingly more XXX” I would say that "increasingly more aware" instead implies that the fraction of the people whose awareness is increasing, is also increasing. |
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Jan 26 |
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“Reach eye care to rural areas” X can reach to Y, and X can reach Y, but X cannot reach Y to Z. |
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Jan 26 |
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Why is it “knife” in the idiom, “Before you can say knife” though there are many shorter words than knife? I've heard it with Jack Robinson a couple of times and with a million other things that were chosen to be appropriate to the situation, but never ever "knife". |
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Jan 26 |
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Why is it “knife” in the idiom, “Before you can say knife” though there are many shorter words than knife? I've never heard it with "knife"... |
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Jan 26 |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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Jan 23 |
answered | The origin of “been to” and “gone to” |
