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English grammar, word usages, and related topics.
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a specific repair
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a. I told him that to get a certain repair done on his car, he had to go to Joe's garage.
b. I told him that to get a specific repair done on his car, he had to go to Joe's garage.
Do these sentences mean the same?
Does the speaker have a single specific repair in mind or is she making a general statement which would basically be equivalent to: I told him to Joe's garage for any specific repair?... more »
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Straticlosed or strati-closed?
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Hello,
I'd like to merge various words with "stratified" on the left. Can you let me know in which cases a hyphen should be used?
Stratified + Closed = Straticlosed? Or Strati-closed?
Stratified + Factive = Stratifactive? Or Strati-factive? Or even Stratrofactive?
Stratified + Reasoning: Stratireasoning? Strati-reasoning? Stratroreasoning?... more »
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Faulkner: divinant
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[the sheriff is approached by angry people]
[...] already a passing car had braked suddenly (and then the
following one behind it) at first to keep from running over them and
then for its occupants to lean out looking at the sheriff’s car where
the first man to reach it had already stopped to peer into it, his... more »
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Faulkner: dismatchment
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[the boy might have just saved a black person; his father seemed
envious]
[...] his father was gnawing the true bitter irremediable bone of all
which was dismatchment with time, being born too soon or late to have
been himself sixteen and gallop a horse ten miles in the dark to save... more »
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Faulkner: miration
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[walking in the countryside at night; Paralee is a black servant]
“Maybe we all ought to walk in the middle,” he said, loud, too loud,
twice louder than he had intended or even thought; it should carry for
miles especially over a whole countryside already hopelessly waked and... more »
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Faulkner: had they seen
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[this is a strange day in this Southern town, and the black people are
not around to be seen]
[...] but this was Monday, a new day and a new week, rest and the need
to fill time and conquer boredom was over, children fresh for school
and husband and father for store or office or to stand around the... more »
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OT: Pope Francis suggest atheists may be redeemed
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I hope you are all well & in good spirits.
I share the following simply because it is rare for a sitting Pope to make controversial statements in a non-dogmatic direction.
For what it's worth, I am neither Roman Catholic nor atheist (my spiritual beliefs are a bit hard to summarize, but they are in the "neighborhood" of Buddhism, Quakerism, Unitarianism, etc....)... more »
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Yet another ASCII IPA aid. Best yet?
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_The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary_ is an excellent place to become familiar with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). You can enter just about any word and it will give you the IPA transcriptions for it and also audio pronunciations of the word in British and American English.
There is a one-to-one correspondence between an IPA symbol and its ASCII IPA symbol. The correspondences are shown in a FAQ file at... more »
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perfect or not
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I was talking to someone, and suddenly he left the room in anger.
Should I say:
a. I don't even remember what I said to that fellow who left the room in anger.
or.
b. I don't even remember what I had said to that fellow who left the toom in anger.
I would say that (b) implies something of a considerable time distance between my saying whatever it was I said and his leaving.... more »
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