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Mar 24 |
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Euphemism for “a person one really detests / hates”? You want to curse at someone without being vulgar? That's more like an art form I guess. I doubt it can be answered here easily without further information. |
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Mar 23 |
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“each day” → “daily”; “every other day” →? @tchrist Isn't that the whole "biannually" debate again? Yes, semiannually seems to mean "twice a year" for almost everyone. But biannually maddeningly means the same thing to many, while it means "every other year" for others. |
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Mar 23 |
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When should I not use a ligature in English typesetting? I had the feeling that this question should be linked: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42429/… It also contains a rather long list of words and it discusses how to suppress ligatures in TeX. |
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Mar 18 |
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Does “filling out” equal to “filling in”? @GrahamBorland Would you treat a questionnaire just like a form in terms of "filling in" vs. "filling out"? The reason I ask is this thread that paints a somewhat more complex and unfortunately less definitive picture than this discussion here. |
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Mar 15 |
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How many spaces should come after a period/full stop? +1 for the good and differentiated summary, even though I couldn't disagree more with your opinion. I find TeX's default behaviour most ugly and typing \frenchspacing is among the first things I do for a new document. |
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Mar 6 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Mar 6 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Mar 6 |
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“each day” → “daily”; “every other day” →? Sounds quite ok, despite being two words :) Thanks! |
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Mar 6 |
accepted | “each day” → “daily”; “every other day” →? |
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Feb 25 |
awarded | Critic |
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Feb 24 |
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“each day” → “daily”; “every other day” →? Oh, I thought I might get the answer "Sorry, there is no such word in the English language" which is not at all strange. If you read my question carefully, you might notice that I asked in fact for the very existence of such a word. I got downvoted nonetheless which I in turn find strange. |
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Feb 23 |
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“each day” → “daily”; “every other day” →? I don't think anything. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bidaily That word is already hard to find in dictionaries. "Semidaily" is almost nonexistent outside Urban Dictionary. You don't seem very sure yourself if I might say so. |
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Feb 23 |
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“each day” → “daily”; “every other day” →? @tchrist I'd very much prefer a one-word solution. And "every-other-day" isn't much help. "The every-other-day questionnaire" ... it feels really cumbersome. And it doesn't fit in a small table cell :/ |
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Feb 23 |
asked | “each day” → “daily”; “every other day” →? |
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Jul 19 |
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Why are movies so hard to understand (and what can you do about it)? @kiamlaluno Worst thing for me in American movies is that I often can't tell "can't" from "can". I just don't hear that /t/ and when watching with subtitles on I'm often totally surprised to read the exact opposite of what I thought I'd heard. I wonder if I'm missing some secret audible cue. How can a language even function if these two opposite words are so close? |
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Jul 19 |
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Why are movies so hard to understand (and what can you do about it)? Context is indeed very important. I find trailers much harder to understand than the actual movies. They just throw one-liners at you with virtually no context whatsoever and you have no time to process them because they are cut so quickly. No good. |
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Jul 18 |
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What is the meaning of “is must to ” fixed spelling, some grammar and punctuation |
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Jul 18 |
awarded | Analytical |
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Jul 18 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Jul 18 |
suggested | suggested edit on What is the meaning of “is must to ” |
