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"Correct me if I'm wrong"
I had always had the impression that when people say, "correct me if I'm wrong", their underlying meaning is not to ask for correction but to stress that, "I'm 100% sure of what I'm saying", especially during heated debates.
Is that so? Please…
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What do you call a plan that's an alternative plan in case your initial plan fails?
I think there's a word or an adjective for it, but I don't remember what it was. I don't want to say plan B, because that's too informal, but I remember there was a good word for it. I just don't remember it anymore.
For example:
The army was…
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Using present simple when talking about a past event in spoken English
Philip：So, you're an exchange student. Where do you go to school?
Alexandra：At the Bronx High School of Science.
Philip：Oh, that's a very good school. What are your favorite subjects?
Alexandra：Biology and mathematics. Richard tells me you're a…
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$2,000 worth of items: "two thousand dollar" or "dollars"?
How do say this in words?
A $2,000 worth of items.
If I put it into words: A two-thousand dollar/dollars worth of items.
Which is the correct way here?
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What is the meaning of "stool” in the context of getting a job?
A biography of David Hume says
David Hume left the University of Edinburgh around 1733. Hume chose the job as a stool in a merchant's office in Bristol.
What is a stool?
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What do you call or how do you describe this in English? overcooking the food? What do you call the black stuff?
In Persian, we say that (literal translation) the food has taken the bottom :D
What do you say when you want to say that the food in the pot was overcooked and something like the picture above happened to the pot?
Also, is there any specific term…
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Day vs 24h day?
In Russian (my native language) there are two words - "день" and "сутки". First means day, just a day, probably lightest part of it, second - 24 hours from 00:00 to 00:00. There is a strict difference between them. As I tried all of the dictionaries…
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"to fart" in child language
What is the appropriate word for "to fart" regarding babies?
As "to fart" is declared as impolite in the most dictionaries there needs to be another word for it regarding babies? Like "pupsen" vs. "furzen" in German.
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Difference between logoff, logout, signoff and signout
Is there any serious difference between logoff, logout, signoff and signout?
Websites seem to use the phrases interchangeably. Is this just a difference is style, or have they made a deliberate choice?
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I do not really understand the proposal: "Don't hate Monday. Make Monday hate you"
Please explain. I like to learn English. I do not really understand the proposal: "Don't hate Monday. Make Monday hate you". Help me to understand this sentence. I am very interested in this phrase.
It will be right or I not correctly think? "Do not…
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In “a so-called "HPACK Bomb" attack”, if "so-called" is not sarcasm then what is it?
I was reading this CVE describing a vulnerability in the implementation of a compression algorithm used in HTTP/2. The summary says:
A HTTP/2 implementation built using any version of the Python HPACK
library between v1.0.0 and v2.2.0 could be…
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What does it mean "to talk over someone"?
I saw this video where two policemen, in three different times tell citizens "Don't talk over me" (0:12) or "you are talking over me" (3:37 also 3:44). It seems that all of these mentions in the video are with the same meaning. Anyway I don't know…
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"Do never..." vs. "Do not ever..."
I am just arguing with my friend if the phrase "do never something" is totally wrong compared to the phrase "do not ever something". And is "never" a contraction of "not ever"? Is it okay using "Do" in the beginning to emphasize a word?
I am about…
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Difference between "pardoned" and "forgiven"
What is the difference between words "pardoned" and "forgiven"?
For instance:
After ten years in prison, Stephen was {pardoned/forgiven} and set free.
I found the definitions of both:
Pardoned - forgive or excuse (a person, error, or…
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Is there any difference between friendly and kind?
A music teacher is portrayed as follows:
“She talks to everyone. She always says hello.”
Thus, is she friendly or kind?
Cambridge Dictionary defines friendly as
behaving in a pleasant, kind way towards someone
Apparently, the word is…
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