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| bio | website | english.stackexchange.com/… |
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| location | Canada | |
| age | 46 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 1 month |
| seen | May 17 at 13:38 | |
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Lapsed linguist and language lover.
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May 3 |
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Reference to word or phrase that has previously appeared in parentheses @EdwinAshworth - your example sentence is much better than mine. |
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May 3 |
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Reference to word or phrase that has previously appeared in parentheses Thank you Meta and @Cerberus. My example might be a weak one but my question applies to any situation in which content that appears only in parentheses is later referred to in the main text. Perhaps your suggestion, Cerberus, is what I'm thinking of -- that text "unimportant" enough (however defined) to appear in parentheses is also "unimportant" enough to appear in the main text. |
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May 3 |
asked | Reference to word or phrase that has previously appeared in parentheses |
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Apr 10 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Mar 28 |
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What is a gender-neutral alternative to the expression “man-days”? And since OP is asking about days, person-day is a term I've heard and used. |
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Feb 28 |
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When to choose em dash over parenthesis for parenthetical phrases? Great find. I think I remember reading this, or an article that quoted it, back in the mid-eighties. |
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Feb 28 |
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What is a person if they are described as a “wet hen”? So much like a wet blanket, then. |
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Feb 28 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Feb 28 |
reviewed | No Action Needed Stating facts that occured in the past |
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Feb 28 |
reviewed | No Action Needed Why are people from Sunderland called “mackems”? |
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Feb 28 |
awarded | Informed |
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Feb 27 |
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Why is the Yorkshire dialect called 'Tyke'? Thank you for this question. In Nick Park's animated short film, The Wrong Trousers (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrong_trousers), Wallace tells the thieving penguin, "I'll get you for this, you tyke." Nick Park coming from Lancashire, would this be an insult? |
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Feb 27 |
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What is the meaning of “greasing the pan”? +1 for the elaboration and for laying the foundation (and setting the stage :) ). However, I don't think "making the bed" and "planting the seed" are quite equivalent. For "planting the seed," something more like "tilling the soil" would work better, I think. Making the bed, as you point out, is a part of quite another expression: it means that you have created something (negative) and now you need to live with the consequences. |
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Feb 27 |
answered | What is the meaning of “greasing the pan”? |
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Feb 26 |
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Is the last comma in “A, B, and C, do X” correct? @ghoppe funny. You should develop your comment into an answer. I'll upvote it. |
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Feb 26 |
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What is the moon zenith called? @ghoppe I did not know that. |
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Feb 26 |
answered | Is the last comma in “A, B, and C, do X” correct? |
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Feb 26 |
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What is the moon zenith called? Surely it's 'midnight' -- really as close to 12am as noon is to 12pm. |
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Feb 26 |
answered | How should one make “man in the middle” plural? |
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Feb 22 |
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English proverb for when a solution comes too late I've also heard it as simply, "the horse is out of the barn." |
