Yoichi Oishi

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I'm living in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo, Japan. I worked in both local and international advertising agencies for 40 years. After retiring ad agency, I studied Chinese (now almost forgotten) in a Beijing university one and a half year. Then coming back to Japan, I worked as a marketing consultant. I'm now entirely free from business. I still keep learning English and reading English news papers everyday to be abreast with trends du jour. I like travel and photographing. I'm living with my wife as an empty-nester.

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May 5	comment	What does “Lose the whiny entitled air” mean after the sentence “Say, ‘could you warm the soup up,’ Not, ‘How dare you serve me cold soup!’”? @tchrist. I know the idiom, ‘put on airs / assume airs,’ but I’m somewhat uncomfortable with the verb “Lose” used in an imperative form here. Although there are extensive usages of ‘lose’ as a verb – OALED registers 12 different usages – I take ‘lose’ basically for an opposite to ‘gain.’ If “Lose the whiny entitled air” means ‘Don’t put on the whiny entitled airs,” or “Don’t assume arrogant airs,” isn’t it better and more natural to say so rather than using the verb, “lose,” though it utterly belongs to a freedom of the writer’s choice.
May 4	comment	What does Pope Francis “called out him (Pope Emeritus Benedict) on it” mean? Question. If “call sb out” means “3. (archaic) challenge someone to a duel” as OED defines, what does the word “totally” mean here? Does it mean ‘decisively’ or ‘outright’? Is the word, 'totally' necessary?
May 3	comment	What is the students’ jargon or abbreviation to mean a report made up by only putting data downloaded from internet together in English, if it exists? @Alex. Kopipe could be an imported and transformed form of ‘Copypasta,’ though I’m not sure.
May 1	comment	Is “ill at ease” perfectly interchangeable with “uncomfortable”? Well. That's why the author said I'm "always" ill at ease when ....
Apr 30	comment	What does “typed-out paralysis” mean exactly? So, ‘talked-out conversation,’ ‘discussed-out meeting,’ ‘studied-out project,’ ‘paid-out debt’ ‘drunk-out party’ and 'sung-out song'are all acceptable?
Apr 28	comment	What does “E!” mean in the phrases, a show “makes the debut Sunday E! sets in motion,” and “premiers on E! April 21”? Cont. Please don't behave like a stalker. It's unconstructive, and terribly bad for mental health for both of us, and peer users.
Apr 28	comment	What does “E!” mean in the phrases, a show “makes the debut Sunday E! sets in motion,” and “premiers on E! April 21”? Kris. Thank you for chasing after every my question meticulously. I know you are the 'close and down vote' enthusiast. But be aware that there are 276 viewers who wanted to read this question bona fide besides you. I know you don’t like all of my questions, or hate me as a non-native English speaker, if so, why don’t you stop wasting your precious time in sticking around my questions just for the purpose of booing and closing and down-voting.
Apr 28	comment	What does “E!” mean in the phrases, a show “makes the debut Sunday E! sets in motion,” and “premiers on E! April 21”? If "E!" isn't an English onomastic, is it Chinese, Russian, Greek, Arabic, or Martian language?
Apr 28	comment	Is it customary to call the former President George W. Bush “W.”, and Mrs. Bush “Bar”, in public? Kris. This site is not a substitute for grammar books, or a cheap dictionary. If a grammar book(s) and English dictionary(ies) can solve every question, I don’t need to join this community. I‘ve been greatly benefited from the wide scope of questions, even from the questions you think silly, corresponding answers and comments. I value flexibility, width, and depth of input available from my peers, and am thankful to those who provide me valuable answers instead of simply booing. I don’t think this community is for only select few of English language scholars and maniacs.
Apr 28	comment	Is it customary to call the former President George W. Bush “W.”, and Mrs. Bush “Bar”, in public? Cont. I don't think this site is a simple substitute for a shallow grammar book or a dictionary that I search for the origin of words.
Apr 28	comment	Is it customary to call the former President George W. Bush “W.”, and Mrs. Bush “Bar”, in public? I'm not asking neither grammar or etymology. It's not my intent at all in this question. I'm asking the usage, custom, meaning, and choice of words (W., Bar, silver fox) that we don't have in our language system.
Apr 27	comment	What does “E!” mean in the phrases, a show “makes the debut Sunday E! sets in motion,” and “premiers on E! April 21”? Gee! I missed that Russell Borogove already told me that the 'y' turns into a 'dj' sound in his comment. So please neglect the above question.
Apr 25	comment	What is the difference of nuance between the statements: “Why had they not already killed their hostage? and “Why didn’t they kill their hostage”? @dotsamuelswan. What does 'experience an unfortunate coffee drought' mean just for my curiosity? Is it something like a hangover?
Apr 25	comment	What does “E!” mean in the phrases, a show “makes the debut Sunday E! sets in motion,” and “premiers on E! April 21”? Correction: 249 users, not 258.
Apr 25	comment	What does “E!” mean in the phrases, a show “makes the debut Sunday E! sets in motion,” and “premiers on E! April 21”? To those who voted for closing this question: Please have in mind that besides four of you 'close voters,'some of them are habitual, there are 258 users right now who were perhaps interested in reading this question and don’t feel the need to close it. Isn’t it unfair if only 4 -5 (2%) votes should control the rest of 258’s (98%) options?
Apr 25	comment	Is the phrase, “a bloody altercation” an accurate way to describe the Officer’s killing at the MIT campus? If the word, ‘altercation’ is applied to the events of ‘the gun doing the noisy talking,’ all the stories of cowboy pictures are about (bloody or not-bloody) altercation,’ and heroes played by Gary Cooper and John Wayne are 'experts of altercation,’ aren’t they?
Apr 24	comment	What is the difference of nuance between the statements: “Why had they not already killed their hostage? and “Why didn’t they kill their hostage”? Isn't it an argument for 'simple past' versus 'past perfect' tenses?
Apr 22	comment	What does “E!” mean in the phrases, a show “makes the debut Sunday E! sets in motion,” and “premiers on E! April 21”? Urban Dictionary defines ‘jeah’ as ‘a cool way to say "yeah" or "yes", but is being hijacked by Olympian Ryan Lochte to mean anything." But it doesn’t show its pronunciation. How do you pronounce ‘jeah’? ji:ə, yi:ə, or otherwise?
Apr 21	comment	What does ‘a man with 20/20 vision' mean other than ‘a man with a normal sight? The answer of p.s.w.g who says 20/20 vision is considered ‘the lower limit of normal vision’ and Bradd Szonye’s comment – 20/20 vision refers to ‘perfect vision’ confuse me. Is the word, ‘a man with 20/20 vision’ praise for a brilliant and highly respectable person who has a sharp insight, or just a description of an average person with normal sense?
Apr 20	comment	Does the word “skyfall” (or “sky falls”) exist in English? Your advice, ‘Your safest bet is to always use an article with singular nouns, unless you know it is an exception’ is a handy guide to alleviate my headache. However, do you mean the definite article (the), or infinitive article (a, an), or either of them by “use an article”?