Kaz

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13h	revised	“Which Allow me” or “Which Allows me”? Oops, superfluous word.
13h	answered	“Which Allow me” or “Which Allows me”?
1d	comment	“To flow or cause to spread every part of the body”? Ambiguity! Is it "(to flow) or (to cause to spread to every part of the body)" or is it "(to flow to every part of the body) or (to cause to spread to every part of the body)"?
May 13	comment	What kind of noun is a picture? And also, there are information objects other than pictures. "My file" could mean a file about me (like in a doctor's office) or simply a file belonging to me: a file owned be me in a computer's filesystem, but not about me.
May 12	comment	Is it customary to call the former President George W. Bush “W.”, and Mrs. Bush “Bar”, in public? How about ecchi. How do we get ecchi? Well, there is the word hentai, and in the roman alphabet it starts with H, which is pronounced "eitch" in English. Haha, we don't have single-letter based innuendos in my language, indeed ...
May 12	comment	Is it customary to call the former President George W. Bush “W.”, and Mrs. Bush “Bar”, in public? Yes, you have all this stuff in your language system!!! Not only -kun and -chan nicknames, but also names getting shortened to the first kana. Akira could be A-kun to his friends, right? And then words in general get abbreviated by their first kanji. "sūji wa dokushin ni kagiru" became "sudoku", right? Celebrities have nicknames, like Kyon-Kyon instead of Koizumi Kyouko, or Kimutaku instead of Kimura Takuya, etc. Silver Fox is just a nickname given to Barbara Bush by her family members.
May 11	comment	Why does my spellchecker vindicate “floccinaucinihilipilification”? So in fact it's a neo-Latin word more than English.
May 11	comment	Why does my spellchecker vindicate “floccinaucinihilipilification”? The question is, what do people mean by "English" when they do not qualify the word? Maybe unqualified "English" extends to the Renaissance, maybe it doesn't. It depends on the context. For instance, take the sentence "I'm going to the USA on an exchange program, to improve my English". Does we understand that to mean Shakespeare's English?
Apr 22	comment	Does the use of “port” for one side of ship relate to the word “port” meaning harbour? Whereas Port tasted great.
Apr 18	comment	Terms used to measure (Height, Width & Length) Vertical bar & Horizontal bar? Width and height looks like it refers to the thickness of the vertical and horizontal bars, respectively, and distance might refer to the spacing between the bars and perhaps not their length, as you're assuming. The thickness of the bars is the same as the distance between them, but vertical bars are twice as thick (80 px) as horizontal ones (40 px). Although the length of an object is a kind of distance (often, the distance between points maximally far apart on the object), it would be unusual usage to call a length a distance.
Apr 18	comment	Terms used to measure (Height, Width & Length) Vertical bar & Horizontal bar? Requests for clarification should be directed to the instructor who handed out the assignment, or his or her assistants. Is a narrow situation that is unlikely to help future visitors.
Apr 17	comment	Opposite of “verbose” One-word answers should be allowed, just for this question.
Apr 17	revised	A word for milk that has not “gone off” added 1048 characters in body
Apr 17	comment	A word for milk that has not “gone off” I anticipated that objection. However it is only modern (or not so modern any more, rather) advancements like pasteurization and refrigeration which let us enjoy milk which is several days old, yet basically fresh. You only know that it's not new milk from the expiry date, or from remembering when it was bought. In a double blind taste test, you wouldn't know the difference. If you did know the difference, then it would be by detecting a funny taste: the milk has "gone off".
Apr 17	answered	A word for milk that has not “gone off”
Apr 16	comment	Where does “can't be arsed” come from? "All I arse of you is that you do what you're arsed." "Is Mr. Fotheringham there?" "That depends on who is arsing!" :) :)
Apr 14	comment	Can I use the word “milks” when discussing KINDS of milk Fish and fishes is irrelevant to milk versus milks, because fish is already singular as well as plural. One fish, two fish, three fish. "Fishes" is mostly used by children.
Apr 12	comment	“So long as” vs. “as long as” I seem to recall reading, years ago, in a very old edition of Word Power Made Easy, Norman Lewis prescribing that so long as is the high fallutin' distinguished usage, and as long as is junk used by phillistines. :)
Apr 10	answered	What is a single word for “Out of our control”
Apr 5	comment	Which is the opposite of pick pocket Your text rings very much like a Google translation from some other language, and inventing words won't help.