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I'm a native speaker of American English, in case you're wondering.
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May 12 |
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Provenance of 'deprecated' (in the programming sense) The term was in established use by ANSI language committees by 1984, as shown by a passage reporting on ANSI Fortran standard status in a Cray User Group paper (Oct 1984, p.23): "... features will be marked as deprecated. Deprecation implies that the feature could be removed from Fortran 9X." |
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Feb 13 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Feb 12 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Nov 1 |
answered | How do you disambiguate phrases like “killing doctors” when you can't use an article? |
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Oct 4 |
answered | “Request sample documents for which to follow” vs. “from which to follow” |
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Jul 24 |
awarded | Caucus |
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Jun 8 |
awarded | Caucus |
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May 27 |
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“through any vehicles” is this an idiom? It is such a usage, but is incorrect because the plural is used; it should be singular. The preposition through is a bit odd. A more conventional usage would be something like get in touch using any vehicle. |
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May 27 |
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“Man” is to “womanizer” as “woman” is to what? One problem with vamp is that a significant part of the meaning is that she is using her sexuality to gain non-sexual benefits. |
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May 22 |
answered | How do I punctuate the phrase “final final exam”? |
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Feb 13 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jan 28 |
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Singular or plural verb form where subject includes a “parenthetical” element I find the first example, despite lack of commas, correct; the second I agree is wrong. The only further examples I found, from a Google web search, were "The title as well as the tone of this article dimishes the seriousness of what occured" and "The title, as well as the tone of the entire article, suggests that the copyright office is ...", both of which treat the subject as singular. |
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Jan 18 |
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How to say that food is hot (temperature) without the listener thinking that I mean “spicy”? "The food is still too hot" is a common instance of this this type of expression. |
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Jan 16 |
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How to use “critical” without it being mistaken for “crucial” OP asked "How can I structure or add to the phrase to avoid" the confusion, or for "a better word to use". The latter might need to be an adjective, but the former wouldn't. (And "I would like to describe" doesn't exclude all forms of expression other than adjectives in my view.) So in place of "this is a critical process" my answer is suggesting "this is a process of criticism", which I still see as a reasonable way to "structure the phrase" as OP was requesting. |
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Jan 16 |
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How to use “critical” without it being mistaken for “crucial” @FumbleFingers: Umm, critical seems to be listed as an adjective in all the dictionaries I've looked at. |
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Jan 16 |
answered | How to use “critical” without it being mistaken for “crucial” |
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Jan 2 |
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What is the right phrase describing a meeting in school with parents? To my U.S. ear, "Monday 9th" sounds odd, although clear (if the month is obvious). "Monday, the 9th" would be more typical. |
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Jan 1 |
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Precise definition of “wear [something] lightly” wanted replace uncommon abbrv sth in headline |
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Dec 25 |
awarded | Guru |
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Dec 24 |
answered | What does “Paramour in waiting” mean? |
