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Nov 2 |
answered | What's the meaning of boilerplate in programming? |
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Nov 2 |
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Meaning and acceptability of “One fifty” when speaking of dollars This is true, and in fact the dialog supports this because the immediate response is a request for clarification. |
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Nov 1 |
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Term for a bullet hitting a bystander in a gunfight The number of combatants is not relevant. Crossfire in no way implies an accidental shooting. In fact crossfire is the main purpose of the 4 Fs (find, fix, flank, finish). Stray bullet is a far more suitable choice for the stated question. |
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Oct 31 |
answered | What is an easier word than “serendipity” with the same connotations |
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Oct 24 |
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What does “be at it” mean? Is it an idiom? @BarrieEngland: wouldn't it be more correct to call "at it" the idiom? @ YoishiOishi: "They were at it again. They started arguing yesterday and they have been at it ever since." Same usage. |
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Oct 24 |
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Different Meanings of 'Jumper' (Transatlantic embarassment) @Ina: Where I am from (AmE), a jersey is a cotton shirt with short or mid-length sleeves |
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Oct 24 |
answered | What is the difference between remember and remind |
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Oct 24 |
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“going to” vs “will” Can one neglect a rule which one did not even know existed? |
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Oct 19 |
answered | Hypernym for “boys only”, “girls only”, and “co-ed” |
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Oct 12 |
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Multiple “in”s in a sentence @Carlo_R.: is that what zairja said? I understood his/her comment to mean that it is certainly grammatical, but unpleasing. |
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Oct 12 |
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Gentle scratching I concur with J.R.: "she scratched his back" evokes pretty much what you are describing without any further context. "She scratched his face" would need further context to be sure, but one would expect this to be violent. Perhaps because the back is an inconvenient place for the individual to reach himself (?) |
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Oct 10 |
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What is the right word for converting slides into pictures? I've been a graphic designer for more than 20 years. As you well know, a PPT file is only a PPT file on the disk, and is rasterized the moment it is rendered to the screen. The term is far too generic and frankly, unresponsive to the question as asked. Anyone who knows what rasterizing means will have to ask what the desired result is, and the OP is left to explain all over again. |
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Oct 9 |
answered | What is the right word for converting slides into pictures? |
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Oct 9 |
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What is the right word for converting slides into pictures? From a technical perspective, this is incorrect and would lead to more confusion, resulting in the same explanation given in the original question. |
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Oct 9 |
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Is “the girls are want to gossip” correct? I personally use "wont" often enough, but precisely because it is slightly archaic. |
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Oct 3 |
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What's wrong with this sentence? I think they chose green because it is not a "stop" error. The odd thing is that in cases where it might be ambiguous, they already have the "blue" option. Grammar is a very difficult thing to codify in programming however. To be accurate in some cases would require enough CPU time to introduce a perceptible delay in response to typing. It would be variable as well, so it would drive people crazy. |
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Oct 2 |
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Equivalent of “false alarm” in a positive context I think alarm being negative is begging the question a little. Technically, my alarm clock is not warning me of impending doom or danger, and Googling "false alarm" "surprise party" brings up real world usage of false alarm in a positive context as I understand it from the question. |
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Oct 2 |
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Does use-mention distinction warrant breaking conventions? @cerberus: (as someone who sets type) when dealing with corrections I do not want ambiguity and I do not want to decide what to do. "Serious Option" is a judgement call, and typesetters should be making them as little as possible. So tchrist is correct: in the context of things where string literals exist (such as copy editing and programming), one does not insert extra information into the data. |
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Oct 2 |
answered | Grade vs. Grades when modifying a range |
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Sep 28 |
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What is it called when you stay at hospital? I don't think Peter Shor is incorrect, especially when encountering the phrases without context, but in my opinion (US), "I was in a car accident, so I am staying overnight at the hospital" is perfectly clear and unambiguous, and I would not find it even odd that one used "at" instead of "in." |
