Questions tagged [phrasing]
Questions about how something should be put into words in order to express a certain meaning.
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"Closed Now" or "Now Closed"?
Hello all,
We just added a new feature to our site where a status bar auto updates based on the Library hours, so we had to add an alternate state for when it's closed. I'm confused as to how the ...
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I do like a green tie/ a man in a tuxedo
I've scoured the internet but couldn't find anything on this. Why this particular way of phrasing? Is there any difference between using the singular and using the plural, that is? For instance " I ...
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How to indicate that something happened at the same time as a prolonged event (a war) but not as part of that event
The U.S.S Pueblo is a US ship that was captured by DPRK forces in 1968, at the same time that the Vietnam war was going on. I wrote a comment about the time of the event on a question on Skeptics.SE ...
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Word for compound event: "At least one of these events will happen"
Over on Math.stackexchange I was discussing probability jargon. Typically the events considered in probability theory are constructed from other, simpler events by a series of unions, intersections, ...
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How to correctly create a transition from a phrase to an unintelligible scream?
I'm trying to create a transition effect in a situation when a character suddenly finds himself falling, and his last word, which ends in '-y', is transitioning into an unintelligible scream.
However, ...
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Different phrasings for "analyzing of all possibilities in the list"
I'm currently writing a paper in mathematics.
In the beginning of the article I present a big list where each line consists of a sequences of numbers. Through the rest of the text I discuss whether ...
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Ambiguity in assigning a clause to one of the two preceding clauses
Consider the sentence:
We use a transmitter to communicate with a device that is placed in the package using a new technology.
Here, the part "using a new technology" applies to "We ...
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Examples of people that have really low name recogniton?
Not exactly sure how to phrase the title, but here's the sentence I'm asking about:
Our job? Somehow get XXXXX, (a candidate with less name recognition than _____ ) to the top of the polls.
I was ...
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How can I construct phrases only to work with one of Given, When, or Then?
I think the following is a problem which falls firmly between two stools, so please forgive me if this is the wrong place, but I think it's more of a linguistic question than a computer question.
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Wording for post-graduation plans
I am sending announcements about my daughter’s graduation from college. I want to include a sentence about her post-graduation plans. Originally I wrote,
Rose will pursue her master of ...
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Does "One example of that would be it's trophic cascade" make sense?
I'm trying to write a paragraph for a question for my biology class. The question is "How are organisms (and non-living things) interconnected within Serengeti National Park? He wants us to include "...
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Placement of "ever" with "have"
I'm having a hard time telling if my wording is correct or not. In the following sentence,
"...a job like that would be the first of its kind I will ever have worked,"
does it make any difference ...
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Wording a sentence for "A, B, C, D, or E" with inclusive and exclusive "or"
In my papers, I often need to formulate disjunctions textually (for example, when providing conditions for the fulfillment of a statement).
Let's see two examples:
When you eat (a) apple, (b) pear, (...
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What ways do you describe changing from existence to non-existence?
In a paper, I need to talk about things "coming into and leaving" existence multiple times. I feel this phrase is clumsy and there are definitely better ways of saying it that I just can't think of ...
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'There is an argument" vs "there is argument"
Hi everyone I'd like guidance as to whether it is ok to say "there is argument that" versus "there is an argument that' - is the shorte still correct?
Also 'there is need to' versus 'there is a need ...
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