Mitch

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native speaker of American English (AmE)

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7h	comment	Does the word “simpleness” actually exist? You don't want to use it instead of simplicity; that would sound uneducated or inarticulate.
1d	comment	Would you say “wanna” when you want something? "I wanna popsicle for dinner"
1d	comment	Would you say “wanna” when you want something? "I want a new" -> "I wanna new" not "I wanna a new"
1d	comment	Would you say “wanna” when you want something? I'm getting two messages here. "No don't use it" and "Here's how you use it".
2d	comment	FCE exam's troubling transformation sentence ELL is a better site for this question.
2d	comment	What is the correct capitalization of code examples when beginning a sentence? You don't want to start a sentence with anything that is not 'English'. Use an intro just like 'The variable `links`...' It is not at all silly. You're overthinking it as a technical thing.
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2d	comment	Counting stops without ambiguity @batpigandme: Also, with planes it is different, you have layovers, which don't count the goal. For example: "How many layovers do you have on you way to LA?" "Two, one in NZ, and another in Hawaii."
2d	comment	Counting stops without ambiguity @batpigandme: I can't tell if this is a universal (all languages do my answer) or if there is variation (like what number floor above the ground floor, 1st (Europe) or 2nd (US), or what's your age at 18 months, 1 year (most languages) or 2 years (Chinese). As to your tourists, it could just be being thrown into a foreign land that forces overthinking and doubt.
2d	comment	Usage of “I'm sorry” and “thank you very much” outside of obvious settings First sentence, "I'm sorry" is very weakly apologizing for and introducing a possibly negatively charged statement. "Thanks you very much" at the end could be just a plain thank you, or it could be a bit snarky/presumptuous/marking the statement as a contradiction of the desire previously stated by someone else.
2d	comment	Can one feel claustrophobic? No. 'I feel (adj)' is actually the more common, just like 'I am (adj)', 'I remain (adj)'. "I feel blue", "I feel strange". 'I feel (generic noun)' is less common (but sounds a little off here: 'I feel claustrophobia' almost gives that fear a palpable, objectified existence, like you sense the entirety of all claustrophobia, the true essence of claustrophobia, rather than what is intended, which is just that you get anxious in a tightly closed spaces, and this is better stated as "I feel claustrophobic".
2d	revised	Counting stops without ambiguity formatting
May 18	comment	what sounds idiomatic Those are all good suggestions that work in principle, and I'm sure a thesaurus would offer more. The best would be to actually get some high-school English teachers to answer, but I think they're spending all their time right now reading students' essays and making remarks on them.
May 18	comment	Who verbally uses the title “Miss” with a female's first name (regardless of the female's correct title) and why? The question is unclear. Do you want to know the regional variety that does this? Or do you want to know the relation that says this? (boss, employee, someone in lower or higher, very close friends, only relatives, people who are neither friends or relatives, students, what?). Or something else?
May 18	revised	Counting stops without ambiguity extra minor explanation.
May 18	answered	Counting stops without ambiguity
May 17	comment	A specific word that describes a feeling or thought There's a word in German for it.
May 17	comment	What does 'trout-shouldered' mean? Sounds Wodehousian. It means 'having shoulders like a trout', which one could infer that it means having weak to nonexistent shoulders, therefore slouching and ineffectual. You know, lacking fortitude or the wherewithal to face a new day with vigor and a jutting jaw, a manly stride, to take on the trials and that what's it, the you know what to trample down the slings and et cetera, et cetera, and a little more too... Also, fish-faced = no chin, ibid.
May 17	comment	Is “more optimal” correct grammar? I'd quibble with 'meangless' because certainly it evokes -some- meaning. It is a mathematical solecism but in casual speech 'better than the best' implies that you have a new best. It is not preferred in more formal speech because of the logical problems.
May 17	comment	What does this sentence mean: “Cologne, with its seven and seventy evil savors, was a posy-bed to it.”? What is the original language? 'Cologne' is both the name of a big town in Germany -and- a kind of men's perfume (that actually smells nice).