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| visits | member for | 1 year, 1 month |
| seen | May 3 '12 at 20:17 | |
| stats | profile views | 12 |
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Apr 20 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 3 |
answered | Why is window “tinting” not window “toning” or “shading”? |
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May 3 |
comment |
“The existing and proposed manuals” vs. “the existing and the proposed manuals” Unfortunately the "the" issue in your example sentence is the least of its problems. A far more serious difficulty is the debilitating framework, "A comparison between...manuals is as follows." Stylistic formality may forbid you to use contractions and personal pronouns to produce a natural-sounding introduction such as "Let's compare the proposed manual to the existing one, point by point"; but if so, I urge you to consider recasting the sentence along the lines of "Here is a detailed [or "general," as the case may be] comparison of the proposed manual to the existing manual." |
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May 3 |
revised |
“Will graduate” vs. “will be graduated” vs. “is going to graduate” edited body |
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May 2 |
answered | “Will graduate” vs. “will be graduated” vs. “is going to graduate” |
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May 2 |
comment |
What is meant by “the passive voice remains 'an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver'”? Yoichi Oishi--I liked your question because it raised a secondary issue that I had never considered--namely, why do people (like Ms. Hale) speak of "arrows in a quiver" as though each arrow had a different specialized application, when the most common image we have of "arrows in a quiver" involves someone (like Robin Hood) pulling them out rapidly and indiscriminately in order to fire them as quickly as possible? Thank you for asking about this idiomatic usage. |
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May 2 |
answered | A word for someone always defaming people whilst constantly trying to affirm their own uprightness |
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May 2 |
answered | What is meant by “the passive voice remains 'an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver'”? |
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May 1 |
answered | Can “of” be followed by “between”? |
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May 1 |
revised |
“Email” or “e-mail”? I didn't like "unique" in the phrase "three unique characteristics"; "distinguishing" seems more accurate. Also, I added "bee-keeper" as a second example of a cited nonce word because, unlike "soft-ware," it is a (hyphenated) double-noun compound. |
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May 1 |
revised |
“Email” or “e-mail”? added 30 characters in body |
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Apr 30 |
answered | “Email” or “e-mail”? |
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Apr 28 |
answered | Why Obama's “spiking the bin Laden football” was replaced with “highlighting with bin Ladin's death”? What's wrong with the former expression? |
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Apr 28 |
answered | Where did “wired” come from? |
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Apr 23 |
comment |
What's the meaning of “bitching”? "[Joe] Pepitone refuses to take the field if his uniform isn't skintight. Phil Linz used to say that he didn't know why, but he could run faster in tight pants. And I understand that Dick Stuart, old Dr. Strangeglove, would smooth his uniform carefully, adjust his cap, tighten his belt, and say, 'I add 20 points to my average if I know I look bitchin' out there." Since Stuart's major league career stretched from 1958 to 1969, and his last good year was 1965, the quotation (if accurate) probably dates to the first half of the 1960s. |
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Apr 23 |
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What's the meaning of “bitching”? Okay--I spent all weekend rereading Jim Brosnan's Pennant Race and The Long Season (1960), only to realize that the quotation comes from Jim Bouton's Ball Four. Here is the quotation, dated March 3, 1969: |
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Apr 20 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Apr 20 |
awarded | Editor |
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Apr 20 |
revised |
What's the meaning of “bitching”? deleted 7 characters in body |
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Apr 19 |
answered | What's the meaning of “bitching”? |
