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Concerning the usage of “eyeballs” in place of “viewers”
I read, in an article in Psychology Today, the following:
There are pornographers who do constantly seek out "new, harder themes"--Evil Angel has purportedly found great success with anal gaping ...
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“The number (or numbers?) of potatoes they each peeled would be recorded.”
The sentence is as follows:
The number of potatoes they each peeled would be recorded.
I know that something plural like "have" should go after "they each", but why not numbers in this case? If "...
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Question about a sentence by Graham Swift in “Waterland”
I still have a question about the sentence "whose need of stories is matched only by the need adults have of children to tell stories to" from the novel "Waterland" that was written by Graham Swift.
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The difference between “irony” and “paradox”
What is the exact difference between irony and a paradox? I've tried looking this up and I seem to have a vague idea about it, but it'd be great if someone could illustrate with an example or two.
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Decision making or decision made
In this sentence "A great question had to be answered, a momentous decision made."
Can "decision made" be replaced by "decision making"?
Are these two phrases both OK?
I would like to write it as "...
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Referring to a group or community of people of older age
I am not a native English speaker and need to ask for advice.
In formal English, is it polite or OK to refer to a group of those who are older as "old people"? If not, what would you suggest instead?
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Is there a single word for “lack of communication/coordination”?
Example:
The accident happened due to a lack of communication (or coordination) between the parties involved.
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Could you please share (or xyz task) with or without question mark
This sentence most of the time comes with sense of an order not a request and so people have stopped using using question mark at the end of sentence.
Another context, your Boss (or other respected ...
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Which of these is smaller in size: minuscule or tiny?
The edges of the area, where it merged with normal skin, was deep violet and crusty, with hundreds of (?????) dry speckles.
I want the speckles to be as small as possible, without having to write an ...
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Is there any word for referring to expired and/or voided subscriptions?
I'm modeling a service and I want to name expired and/or voided subscriptions (by either side, publisher or subscriber). Terms like "expired subscription" or "invalid subscription" didn't satisfy me. ...
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How should I start a Gothic/ horror story?
I really enjoyed reading texts of Edgar Allen Poe and I wish to write similarly. Most of his stories consisted of madmen being protagonists and that is how I have approached my story. I require assist ...
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“in” or “from” before an industry sector
At a "Your Weekly Address" of White House on Aug.13, I found the following sentence in a message by President Obama:
And carbon pollution from our energy sector is at its lowest level in 25 years, ...
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converse in secular German
Does "converse in secular German" in the following sentence mean "to speak German which was a secular language then"? And does "secular" mean "nonreligious" here?
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As one of the ‘wise men’ ...
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Popularity of questions regarding the terminology of food and other aspects of gastronomy
I have noticed that many questions, answers and comments on this site involve the popular and specialized terminology of food, restaurants and gastronomy. I have also noticed that some are deemed off-...
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Meaning of the phrase “in terms of impact”
From IELTS Reading Test:
This allows us to simulate experiences, but we tend to imagine the outcome of one scenario (for example, passing an exam) as being radically different from another (...
