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Web designer since 1997. Further interests include embedded systems and static program analysis.
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reviewed | Reviewed “Ineffectual” vs “ineffective” |
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“Ineffectual” vs “ineffective” edited body |
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Meaning of “as it was” in context added 1 characters in body; edited title |
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Usage and spelling of “wordlength” and “bitbreadth” added 26 characters in body; edited tags; edited title |
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Which one is grammatically correct? Why? deleted 4 characters in body |
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Which one is grammatically correct? Why? added 1 characters in body |
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Which one is grammatically correct? Why? deleted 1 characters in body; edited tags |
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If a room cannot be escaped, it is inescapable. What if a room cannot be entered? @Trevor that the word has a secondary meaning, is irrelevant. You yourself just used two dozen words that are ambiguous in and of themselves. But nobody said the word must work in and of itself; in fact a whole lot of context is provided by the OP. In that context, accessible will be crystal clear. You are trying to find a word that will work without any context whatsoever. Not only is that futile, but you end up with something unnatural. Even if I agreed that "this room is exit only" is English, which I likely won't, it is certainly a very backwards way of saying that it cannot be entered. |
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answered | If a room cannot be escaped, it is inescapable. What if a room cannot be entered? |
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what sounds idiomatic Your grasp of the language is poor. But there are any number of equally valid answers to this. |
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reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Is it “extreme” or “large” diversity for endophytic microorganism subject? |
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Is “more optimal” correct grammar? Optimal has no meaning other than the one we give it. If we start using it to mean "orange cat", then that is what it means. And certainly no one can object to "more optimal" if they don't object to "semantically meaningless" in their very own writing. |
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Is “more optimal” correct grammar? Customers who liked using "more nearly optimal" or "better optimized" instead of "more optimal" also suggested killing people to prevent them from being robbed. (And anyone who states that "more optimal" is incorrect grammar instantly disqualifies himself as not knowing what grammar even is, and should start by reading a dictionary.) |
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Are the rules regarding absolute modifiers too absolute? added 6 characters in body |
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Plural of “uh-oh” and “oh-no” I've also seen the plural of cat use an apostrophe. That does not mean anything. Plurals in English do not use apostrophes, period. The only exception is when you are building a plural of a highly unusual word, such as a single letter, and it could be confused with a different, well-established word. So for example you'd write A's to distinguish it from as. (Though even that is a matter of style; some style guides will tell you to go ahead and use As anyway.) Uh-ohs cannot be possibly confused with anything, however, so there are absolutely no excuses left to throw in an apostrophe. |
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Plural of “uh-oh” and “oh-no” added 4 characters in body; edited tags; edited title |
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Reading dollar amounts deleted 206 characters in body; edited tags |
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Reading dollar amounts I removed your second question because it had nothing whatsoever to do with the first (and was a duplicate of an older question to boot). Please do not post several unrelated questions as one, and please search the site before posting. Thank you. |
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Is a ships biscuit a biscuit or a cake? deleted 8 characters in body; edited tags; edited title |
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When to use “a” vs “an” Please do search the site before asking. This is the single most frequently asked question here. We literally have hundreds of previous questions on the subject. It's in the "frequent" tab under "questions", it's the top question in the indefinite-article tag, and we even have a blog post. |
