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Apr 5 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Feb 21 |
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Is this a proper use of a semicolon and the word “whom”? @TimLymington - "I wonder if it is formal enough to need with whom they work" - see the answers to this question. |
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Feb 21 |
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Confirmation that someone is listening to another person's speech Though the eye contact and occasional nod convey interest more strongly than any of the verbal interjections. One can say "uh-huh" while being completely preoccupied with some other task. |
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Jan 21 |
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Adjective for something that can be responded to +1 for explaining the "why" |
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Oct 15 |
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How should I phrase a question that must be answered with an ordinal number (e.g., the third prime)? The OP is looking for a way to prompt an answer in ordinal form. "2" is not in ordinal form. "Second" or "third" is. |
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Oct 15 |
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How should I phrase a question that must be answered with an ordinal number (e.g., the third prime)? But the answer will not be given in ordinal form. |
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Sep 3 |
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“How” vs. “that” in “You know how we have pizza on Thursdays, right?” Sentences ending with "right?" are usually rhetorical. The speaker is more likely to be reminding the listener of a fact, rather than asking if he knows it. |
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Aug 31 |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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Aug 7 |
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A word to describe setting-up (or preparing) the basic attributes of something By "set up" do you mean to find and gather the materials, or that work has to be done to the items to make them usable? |
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Aug 7 |
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What does “you will want to” mean? +1 You explained very well how the idiomatic meaning fits with the literal meaning. |
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Aug 6 |
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What is the antonym of “dependent”? Qualified answer |
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Aug 6 |
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What is the antonym of “dependent”? @tchrist - good point. Will qualify my answer. |
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Aug 5 |
answered | What is the antonym of “dependent”? |
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Aug 5 |
awarded | Constituent |
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Jul 27 |
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A word for something that is both useful and beautiful Even if the terms "elegant, well-designed" do connote items that "fall down on function" (with which I disagree), "acme, standout" and your other examples don't particularly suggest form and function. The OP specifically asked for words that are not general. |
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Jul 27 |
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A word for something that is both useful and beautiful "Perfect" sounds just as general as "great" or "superb." Yes, it does mean "great in every way," but it doesn't specify "form and function." |
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Jul 24 |
awarded | Caucus |
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Jun 15 |
answered | How to read “E = (mc)²” so as not to mistake for “E = mc²” |
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Jun 15 |
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How to read “E = (mc)²” so as not to mistake for “E = mc²” While this might not work for well-known equations where people anyways hear what they expect to hear, not necessarily what the speaker said, think of a more general case, such as differentiating between xy² and (xy)². |
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Jun 15 |
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How to read “E = (mc)²” so as not to mistake for “E = mc²” To me this sounds like (E = mc)² |
