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Jan 30 |
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White-orange or orange-white? Which color comes first? @Jaydles is "green-orange" really a modifier? It's just two of the same class of thing together, like "square-triangle" or "three-one". So any order is domain (engineers, electricians, plumbers..) specific not language specific. Fex, the answer for network cables, the color of the insulation itself goes first, followed by the "painted on" color would be identical in French, German, Mandarin, etc. |
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Jan 29 |
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White-orange or orange-white? Which color comes first? @jaydles OK, but what does that have to do with the English language? It's completely off topic. |
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Jan 28 |
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White-orange or orange-white? Which color comes first? @Jaydles I don't agree, the 'domain' is relevant to the discipline where the wire is used, not the English language. That is, "electricians usually.." or "when sysadmins.." |
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Nov 26 |
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Words for sounds made during intimacy you'll need to be much more specific, because with this little information there's nothing to do but guess or make a poll: blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/02/lets-play-the-guessing-game |
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Oct 28 |
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What does “a mission to make the 1 percent 100 percent able to indulge in car elevators” mean? Is there any reason you were unable to look up "car elevator" in Google? google.com/search?q=car+elevator the number 1 result is titled " Car Elevators Are The Latest In Luxury -- Just Ask Mitt Romney." Dated June 2012. |
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Oct 21 |
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What are meant by “August pick, October pick, and January pick” in the Presidential running mate selection? @J.R. thank you for the excellent clarification; note that I used your explanation, verbatim, in my summary of the question at the start of my answer. The pin-up metaphor is particularly relevant because the Vice President has no real political power and thus correctly implies "chosen just for looks". |
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Oct 19 |
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What are meant by “August pick, October pick, and January pick” in the Presidential running mate selection? it can and should be, because regardless of the context, the English language construct "Mr {month}" means "selecting a person who drives public interest in whatever particular agenda they have in that month". I suppose it also helps that Vice Presidents don't contribute anything of significance politically, but that strengthens the pin-up connection in my mind -- they're just for looks. |
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Oct 19 |
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Framing a question to which the answer is an ordinal number @badp not quite up to a bajillion yet, I guess our theory that nobody reads the help text is proven. |
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Oct 18 |
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What are meant by “August pick, October pick, and January pick” in the Presidential running mate selection? I already knew that a greengrocer is someone who sells "green" grocery items like fruits and vegetables. But when you combine the word "terms" with it, what do you mean? Can you provide an example of "greengrocery terms"? I'd like to research and contribute an answer that is more about the patterns of English language and less about politics, but I'm not clear what is being asked for here. |
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Oct 17 |
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What are meant by “August pick, October pick, and January pick” in the Presidential running mate selection? When you say "I am totally ignorant of political affairs in the U.S." do you mean the referenced article lacked sufficient context, or that you are seeking answers which explain this part of the political process? If the latter, I don't believe that's an appropriate use of EL&U. |
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Oct 17 |
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What are meant by “August pick, October pick, and January pick” in the Presidential running mate selection? The last paragraph of this answer is excellent; this is the only answer that gets to the root of the English question at hand, kudos for that! |
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Oct 17 |
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What are meant by “August pick, October pick, and January pick” in the Presidential running mate selection? Can you explain what you mean by "greengrocery terms"? both google.com/search?q=greengrocery+terms and google.com/search?q=greengrocer+terms do not produce any useful results for me, and I've never read that phrase before anywhere in 41 years on the planet as an English speaker. |
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Jul 30 |
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Professional term for “useless: should be omitted” did you attempt to look "useless" up in an online thesaurus before asking? What did you find there? Why did it not meet your needs? |
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Mar 26 |
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Word for something difficult or nearly impossible to achieve We're really trying to avoid using this site for "single word requests." If you have a particularly interesting problem to solve, all we ask is that you include a bit of background and context for asking the question, instead of just repeating the title in the question again. See: meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/1654/… or meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/2160/… |
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Jan 11 |
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Etymology of “sh**hole” @meta this is the policy; titles need to be censored, but the bodies (and comments) can be explicit as necessary. If you find this policy unacceptable, please refrain from participating on this website. |
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Jan 2 |
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What does a person “with about two dollars to one’s name” mean? isn't the meaning rather obviously clear from the context? "You can’t get much further apart on the socio-economic ladder" -- here is a very rich man, and here is a very poor man. |
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Dec 30 |
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What is a verb for “the usage of an angry tone of voice”? @mar there's no objective reality here; we are guessing as to whatever the op feels is "best" which is why the accepted answer is ... a list of guesses. Adding more guesses isn't improving the Internet for anyone. In fact the accepted answer is basically a thesaurus entry... That is not what we want English.se to be. |
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Dec 30 |
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What is a verb for “the usage of an angry tone of voice”? @mar well, a list of words as the accepted answer is strong evidence of an opinion poll, as specified in the text of the close reason. "we don't know what you want, try any of these on for size!" Even the best of these charades questions are still not good. |
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Dec 30 |
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What is a verb for “the usage of an angry tone of voice”? @martha while I agree there is a bit of context provided in the question and I have certainly seen worse, the answers demonstrate that the question is still little more than a thinly veiled game of charades that can be judged only by the asker; it's darn near a poll. How would you objectively determine which answer is correct? For example, the accepted answer is a list of possible words. |
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Dec 30 |
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Does one run or stand for election? why are your results so different than alcas answer? |
