Robusto

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I want patience and I want it now.

Also, I find that nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Laziness is what gets me out of bed in the morning.

正宗で大根を切る。

言い出しっぺ。

Some of the smartest things people have ever said:

No language makes perfect sense. — John McWhorter

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. — Carl Jung

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. — George Santayana

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. — Savielly Tartakower

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision — Bertrand Russell

Every good thing that happens in your life is a gift. — Yours Truly

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Jun 14	comment	“There is X” vs “There is a/an X” @FumbleFingers: I do think it bespeaks a degree of particularity and specificity more than abstraction.
Jun 14	comment	“There is X” vs “There is a/an X” @FumbleFingers: "He was possessed of a wisdom that was like nothing seen before or since."
Jun 14	comment	“There is X” vs “There is a/an X” @FumbleFingers: I don't see a problem with "a wisdom": He was possessed of a great wisdom. I'm sure I've read that exact sentence before (and others like it) without being tripped up.
Jun 14	comment	“There is X” vs “There is a/an X” FWIW, I think it actually does boil down to style.
Jun 14	comment	“The thing is, is that…” I was just about to ask this same question in a general sense, but this answer nails it. Kind of what I expected, actually. +1 and a badge for you.
Jun 6	comment	What did Charlie Sheen mean when he used the phrase “banging 7 gram rocks”? @user6751: Would that that were true.
Jun 4	comment	What “a man who is happy to lie in the gutter, and watch while other climb mountain” is like? @Fumble: I don't read Jeffrey Archer, and absent any extra-textual information how is one to say that Somerset is meant to represent Rupert Murdoch?
Jun 4	comment	What “a man who is happy to lie in the gutter, and watch while other climb mountain” is like? It means, simply, that such a person has no ambition and is not troubled by that fact. The success of others does not move him to achieve anything himnself.
Jun 1	comment	Is it ok to use “Why” as “Why do you ask?” @AhmedMasud: What?
Jun 1	comment	Is it ok to use “Why” as “Why do you ask?” Why? can most certainly be a sentence all by itself.
May 20	comment	articles in English A is what I would call a parallel hypothetical. B allows that there may be more than one consequence, and "oversupply" is spoken of in a general context, not a specific one. In C, CEEPUS is acknowledged to be one among a host of international agreements, and in D "students" may be referenced earlier (but the article is not necessary) and the is used before "essential insights" to link them necessarily to the verb of the sentence.
May 19	comment	What does 'trout-shouldered' mean? @FumbleFingers: My estimation of you as a person of taste and refinement has been reinforced—nay, elevated—now that I see you are a fellow Breaking Bad junkie. Side note: The actor who plays Jesse's friend "Badger" was asked what was his favorite thing about being on the show. He replied that it was because fans of the show actually get mad at their friends if they don't watch it. ^)^
May 18	comment	What does 'trout-shouldered' mean? @FumbleFingers: Come on, not even you could mean that. Have you ever watched Archer?
May 18	comment	Litotes: Always for Emphasis? Used for Non-committal Hedging? Any Authoritative Source? +1, but did you really mean to use "gourmand" here, especially considering that litotes tends not to red-line the gusto meter?
May 17	comment	Jukebox - I know what a Box is but what exactly is a Juke? You can look it up and sort it out.
May 17	comment	Is “emptiest” a logically correct term? You can warp your mind into all kinds of contortions over binary interpretations of adjectives. Take "wet" for example. One could argue that a thing is either wet or it isn't. Yet there are varying degrees of wetness just as there are of blueness, universality, or emptiness.
May 14	comment	What is the difference between “I've been to China” and “I've gone to China”? @TrevorD: The fact remains, however, that there is nothing ungrammatical about "I've gone to China on several occasions"; moreover, I find the term "correct English" to be somewhat lacking in imagination and flexibility.
May 7	comment	Should the words “much needed” be hyphenated or not? @MετάEd: So you'd write "sorely-needed" in front of a noun? In AmE we usually leave the hyphen out unless it is sorely needed for clarity.
May 7	comment	Should the words “much needed” be hyphenated or not? Sorry, but much is not functioning as an adjective in this sentence, but an adverb. You would not write "This is my very-green sweater," would you?
May 7	comment	Should the words “much needed” be hyphenated or not? A hyphen is not normally required for adverb-adjective combinations, but you see it a lot anyway.