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I see some references to status as uncountable as well, but that doesn't make much sense to me. | There are some cases "status" may be accounted of countable. | 2.6 | 700 |
If I understand you correctly, you are looking for a hypernym of inclusion and exclusion. | Inclusion is the act of including and exclusion is the act of excluding. | 2.6 | 701 |
Firstly, you should be aware that there are two different kinds of dashes: the en dash and the em dash. | Semicolon is used to join sentences that can stand alone, but are joined to emphasize their relationship. | 0.6 | 702 |
Pardon the brevity of this answer, but I would say "named" is preferred within the context of your example. | Named is preferred in your example, since you are formally giving a name to your method. | 4.4 | 703 |
In standard English, I think "don't got" has the same register as "ain't". | I'd say the expression I don't got... is generally rare in spoken AmE. | 2.2 | 704 |
The "more posh" words are usually Latin (occasionally Greek) in origin. | As Shinto pointed out, vulgar words exist in every language. | 1 | 705 |
I'm American, and I've never heard the bathroom referred to as St. John's. | In situations like these, I tend to lengthen out the phrase. | 0 | 706 |
The room used for defecation is almost always referred to by euphemism. | I'm English, and would probably use 'toilet' most of the time, and always in the context of a private home. | 1.6 | 707 |
I can only think of context using insofar as or insofar that. | The form insofar is American English; the standard form in British and other English is 'in so far'. | 1.8 | 708 |
As others have said, "ten of six", though not used in many English speaking areas, would be understood as 5:50. | "Ten of six" probably means 5:50 but I have not heard it before. | 3.8 | 709 |
Certainly many usage guides have advised against use of this "singular they" on various "logical" grounds. | Second one (for writing purpose), if I believe the "THEY/THEIR (SINGULAR)" article. | 3 | 710 |
This may be overly obvious, but in American English, saying "you're welcome" is certainly polite and standard. | I'm not sure how "Not at all" sounds in response to "thank you". | 1.4 | 711 |
Back in the day, "cable" was used to describe communications sent abroad. | The word "cable" has its origins in the days of the telegraph. | 3 | 712 |
Those expressions could have slightly different meanings especially when talking about finance. | I suspect the phrase originated in the habit of drawing the internet as a cloud shape on network diagrams. | 0.4 | 713 |
In the United States, jails are operated by cities and counties (or equivalent). | Jail is a municipal level, prison is on a state/federal/provincial/territory level. | 3.6 | 714 |
Yes, your sentence will be clearer if you write the actual word instead of the slash. | Most style guides recommend against using the slash in phrases like “X and/or Y”, as well as “this is hard/impossible to do”. | 3.4 | 715 |
If you understand yourself and your enemy, you will be far more likely to win any battle. | Another meaning behind this quote aside from probabilities of winning a theoretical battle is the importance of knowing/understanding others. | 2.8 | 716 |
There are a lot of push up variations you can do and they all stress different muscle systems. | There are several different pushup variations out there and most of them provide a unique advantage. | 4.2 | 717 |
You definitely do NOT want to be supporting your weight with your arms on the bike for normal riding. | No, don't support your weight on your arms Your hands simply aren't really made for supporting all that weight. | 4.2 | 718 |
Yes, you should stretch before running, but not the sit down and reach kind of stretching. | Neuromuscular Activation and Dynamic Stretching Here is an excellent video on a dynamic stretching routine for running. | 1.8 | 719 |
I feel your pain - I absolutely pour with sweat with any vigorous exercise, even in cool conditions. | Sweat rate is sweat rate, you can't really control it. | 1 | 720 |
Running downhill is the BEST way to strengthen your quad muscles. | Additionally often people will think a downhill marathon is easier, but in fact, is often harder than an uphill marathon. | 2 | 721 |
I recently stumbled on a great article that talks about protein consumption for the purposes of building muscle (recovery included). | Low reps with high weights don't add mass because the duration of the exercise is kept short. | 1 | 722 |
Rotate through square, lunges and calf raises doing each until you feel a little burn. | Air squats, forward and side lunges, sprawl, wall chair, and lots and lots of jump rope. | 1.6 | 723 |
If you're doing a full body workout 6 days a week, you absolutely need the rest week. | There are both physiological and neurological reasons to build in rest. | 2.6 | 724 |
I've noticed a remarkable difference when I run on the treadmill vs when I run on the road. | A treadmill won't prepare you for the impact of running for real. | 3.2 | 725 |
Google search for Travel WODs has whole lots of results which you can use. | As @Sarge says, this is for a doctor to diagnose properly. | 0.4 | 726 |
Since you're being kind of vague here, I can only give you a vague answer. | In general, warming up your muscles only requires performing the movement with lower weights. | 0 | 727 |
First of all, as a general matter of fact you suppose to change your workout routine in every 3-4 weeks. | You can mix those, but in my experience, it will be very difficult at first. | 0 | 728 |
Properly executed weight training will increase, not decrease, your flexibility and mobility. | I've seen guys that are still very flexable while lifting weights. | 2.2 | 729 |
I think it is still feasible to store seeds until the next year. | I haven't tried storing tomato seeds myself, but I have tried to store pepper seeds (and they are closely related). | 1.5 | 730 |
It is not recommended to use greywater on vegetables that you will eat directly. | Adding soap to water allows the water to dissolve oils. | 0.6 | 731 |
Yes, you can add coffee grounds with their filters to your compost pile. | Absolutely ok; we have incorporated coffee grounds into our plant food and many of those grounds included the paper filter. | 4 | 732 |
There are no post-emergents that specifically kill crabgrass without killing lawn grass. | I brought an Ace product that kla crab grass and you can use it below 90 degrees. | 1.8 | 733 |
Pick them as soon as they are as ripe as you want them. | I live in Delaware and have already harvested my jalapeno and chili peppers. | 0.6 | 734 |
Thistle is classified as a noxious weed in most places and must be controlled. | I've got the same problem, where there are fields of dandelions just beyond the borders of my gardens. | 1.6 | 735 |
Support is good for eggplants as the fruit may become heavy and can even break the branches. | Some support won't hurt, especially if it is a large fruited variety. | 2.4 | 736 |
To paraphrase a common saying, "One man's weed is another man's lawn". | First, let me say I've no experience doing battle with Bermuda grass. | 1 | 737 |
Just about anything can be grown indoors without natural sunlight. | We have quite a few people here who have grown peppers and small tomatoes indoors and in pots. | 2 | 738 |
Chances are picking the seeds once it's gone to seed isn't going to actually encourage new growth. | The longer you can leave the seed-heads on the plant the better (IMHO). | 1.6 | 739 |
So you know, I do not have personal experience with this. | Since you've already accepted a nicely sourced answer, I'll contribute some unsubstatiated tradition (i.e. | 0.2 | 740 |
In the past it has grown almost like a weed in our pots on our deck here in North Texas. | Additional to the other answers, basil famously doesn't like to be damp overnight. | 0.2 | 741 |
There is a very full description of the various types of hormone rooting compound here. | It is meant to stimulate root growth - in particular to stimulate the creation of roots. | 2 | 742 |
I found it difficult to mark just one answer as correct because all are. | I reccomend "Monkey Grass" because it is like a slow growing weed that reproduces slowly and looks nice! | 0 | 743 |
Simple answer is yes, flower shoots on lettuce is a sure sign of bolting. | It appears as though it has likely started to bolt. | 3.2 | 744 |
Dirt can mean pretty much anything, from good to poor quality soil. | Use coco peat - It's an organic soil derived from coconut husks for garden vegetables and plants which is Eco-friendly. | 1 | 745 |
If you can get over the "ick factor," you have an easily-applied source of organic nitrogen fertilizer close at hand. | The NPK numbers on the fertilizer represents the percent, by weight, of Nitrogen, P2O5 and K2O, respectively. | 2 | 746 |
The point of aerating your pile is to get oxygen to the microbes that break down the organic matter. | Your pile will compost without turning it, but it goes faster if you turn it. | 2.4 | 747 |
I bought a book, which talks about this, so here's an answer to my own question. | Well I wouldn't risk it, not in a cold compost system. | 0 | 748 |
Aloes, like most succulents, are very hardy and will withstand considerable neglect . | Some of the guys at my office have potted aloe plants. | 1.6 | 749 |
This looks a lot like an invitation to a No True Scottsman argument. | I concur with @T.E.D; the question is a "no True Scotsman" bar bet. | 3.8 | 750 |
Some villages had histories and thus names going back to Ancient Roman times. | Many towns and villages took their name from the ruling family, the owners of the village. | 1.2 | 751 |
The USA is the world's strongest country because of its military force. | The United States is one of the five largest countries in the world by area. | 2 | 752 |
Nearly all countries grew quickly in the 1950s and 1960s for pretty much the same reasons. | The USSR growth rate during the 50's was not exceptionally high. | 1 | 753 |
While Queen may refer to both Queen regent (sovereign) or Queen consort, the King has always been the sovereign. | There is a very good reason not to refer to the Queen's spouse as "King" - because they aren't the King. | 2 | 754 |
To no extent at all is the wars in the middle east caused by trade making the area heterogeneous. | They had a treaty beginning in 1941, after a few skirmishes along the area in question. | 0.6 | 755 |
"What I am really looking for is an estimation of the Muslim population..." @ThanosK and @T.E.D., an overall, general population estimation f.e. | The following is taken from my dog-eared copy of the New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History. | 0 | 756 |
In Hinduism and Buddhism there is message of peace and an encouragement to not be materialistic. | This relates to the "discovery" of Asian, and other non-European cultures by Americans. | 0 | 757 |
I guess those are greek tickets (εισιτηριον) for excavation sites or museums. | That is indeed Greek Looks like a Ticket to a museum or field. | 3.4 | 758 |
These are tickets to the archaeological sites of Epidaurus (which includes the still in use theatre) and Mycenae. | I guess those are greek tickets (εισιτηριον) for excavation sites or museums. | 2.6 | 759 |
Looks like you've rediscovered Jaspers's concept of the Axial Age. | There was no influence from China to the culture of Greece. | 0.4 | 760 |
Yes, I can tell you from personal experience that they certainly did whistle. | It is true that bombs in World War II would make a whistling sound as they fell. | 2.8 | 761 |
By the time that Qin had totally collapsed, Xiang Yu was China's hegemon. | The Han Dynasty came after the Qin Dyansty, after the government under Shi Huang Di collapsed. | 2 | 762 |
There were indeed some serious issues surrounding Kennedy's election in 1960, one of the closest elections in History. | As per your original question: The Wikipedia section does not claim that Joseph P Kennedy bought John F Kennedy's victory. | 1.6 | 763 |
"The grass family is one of the most widely distributed and abundant groups of plants on Earth. | As noted on the Wiki page, grass seed was imported to the new world to improve pasturage for livestock. | 1.4 | 764 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Delhi#Early_history shows that the city was called Delhi (or Dilli) at least since the 12/13th century. | I am not exactly sure but I remember the media (in India) addressing Delhi as "HASTHINA". | 1.2 | 765 |
Dominus, plural Domini, in ancient Rome, “master,” or “owner,” particularly of slaves. | A greek-speaking slave (δούλος, doulos) I think would call his master κύριος (translit: kurios; lord, master, sir; vocative form: κύριε). | 2.2 | 766 |
The bulk of India then was not controlled by Porus, but by the Nanda dynasty, centered at Pataliputra. | I believe Alexander lost heart after his horse, Bucephelus, died from a wound received in the battle against Porus. | 0.6 | 767 |
Yes, this is true and yes, in most cases indefinite articles indeed developed from numerals, as @MGN already said. | Indefinite articles developed from numerals, and the definite articles developed from demonstratives. | 2.6 | 768 |
Preserving grammaticality and preserving meaning of the sentence are two different things. | In fact, you can remove pretty much and preserve grammaticality if you don't care about preserving meaning. | 3 | 769 |
In some nowadays Indo-European languages you can still see rests of base-20 numeral systems. | Modern Englishes, and many other well-known languages, use base 10 (ie decimal) systems of numerals. | 2.2 | 770 |
The difficulty arises not from the various linguistic properties of the language pair as many here suggest. | It depends on generally syntactic structure of two languages and -yes- some pragmatic issues. | 1.8 | 771 |
In English, certainly the most common use of do is Do-Support. | In traditional grammar, the word doing is a participle in all your examples. | 0.6 | 772 |
A caveat: I'm experiencing the tail end of a three day migraine. | I agree with the commentators that your question is a little confusing. | 0 | 773 |
The reason for this is that Russian is a much more tonal language than English. | Although I am quite fluent in Russian, I wouldn't say English sound particularly 'cold' to me. | 1.6 | 774 |
Palatalisation of /k/ before front vowels happens all over the place: Russian, Greek, Turkish, Persian etc. | Sinhala, one of the languages spoken in Sri Lanka has a four way deixis system. | 0.8 | 775 |
All the same methods of analysis that are used with spoken languages apply successfully to signed languages. | One idea that's been going around at least since the 80s is that you can distinguish between Holds and Moves. | 0.2 | 776 |
Newspeak, a "deliberately impoverished" language designed to prevent people from communicating and thinking about subversive ideas. | Every language is permeated by the cultural values in which it is immersed. | 1 | 777 |
In Russian, for example, animacy is not clear-cut in the distinction animate/inanimate. | As in Russian, Polish marks animate masculine nouns by having a genitive-accusative vs. the nominative-accusative of inanimate masculines. | 2.8 | 778 |
As you can see from this map on the Wals.info site, there are many. | This is an example I always find is helpful for first year. | 0.6 | 779 |
Zipf’s law, as I understand it, is not really about languages, but about statistics and probability. | As with all natural laws, Zipf's law is an approximation. | 2.8 | 780 |
A part of the question thusfar unattended is whether the concept of phoneme has always been contentious. | "Phoneme" is a theoretical construct which probably can't go away. | 1.6 | 781 |
If you arecomming from the non-linguistics environment, the best book is to start with Is Fromkin, Introduction to language. | This is what they recommend at Oxford as introductory textbooks to students starting a Masters' in Linguistics. | 1.4 | 782 |
From what I'm seeing it's generally accepted that most English speakers have a vocabulary size of 15000 to 20000 words. | According to a statistical estimation I know roughly 7000 words in English. | 1.4 | 783 |
A tent may give you slightly more protection than sleeping out in the open, but not much. | No, a tent will not give you any protection from bears that want what's inside. | 3 | 784 |
A few points to add here: Coyotes are not know to be aggressive towards humans. | In general they are not considered dangerous because they rarely attack humans. | 3.2 | 785 |
Nylon dries fast, is resistant to ripping and tearing, and fairly breathable. | Nylon, among other synthetics, is an ideal material for clothing for most outdoor pursuits for several reasons. | 2.8 | 786 |
GPS (wikipedia) is based on orbiting satellites and so is accurate worldwide. | GPS systems can, and do, work everywhere you can get satellites. | 3.4 | 787 |
Different parts of California have different wildlife, so you should probably narrow the region. | American black bears They are somewhat common in some wilderness areas of California, mostly in the mountains. | 2 | 788 |
So it's important to have a basic understanding before you even get on skis. | Skiing is a sport where taking lessons pays off very quickly. | 2.8 | 789 |
In a gym, the toprope will be wrapped over a cylindrical bar. | Alright, there are several different issues here that we must be sure to address. | 0 | 790 |
I visit AZ every summer and include some hikes in the desert when I'm there. | Apart from what has been said, your need of water also depends on what you eat. | 0.2 | 791 |
A wonderful woman I know has the Habenera bag by REI (link). | If you can settle on purple Nunatak and Feather Friends have good sleeping bags in those colors. | 0.8 | 792 |
An embolism in a medical context refers to any large moving mass or defect in the blood stream. | Here is an interesting article on wikipedia to give overview of pressure related injuries. | 0 | 793 |
It would be unusual for a snake to attack a stationary person. | I'm no herpetologist, but in my experience, snakes are in the "you don't bug me, I won't bug you" category. | 4.2 | 794 |
As I wrote above, it's hard to rate this wall. | Unlike others, I think the route is pretty well described. | 0.2 | 795 |
Once you open it up to toxins, the answer is clearly no, boiling is not enough. | Boiling eliminates only a certain class of contaminants that can make you ill. | 3.2 | 796 |
Different parts of California have different wildlife, so you should probably narrow the region. | You can get a rough estimate from using an online calorie estimation website. | 0 | 797 |
If you wear a bear bell on your backpack, your fellow hikers will kill you for being annoying. | The above advice is quite good, just wanted to add on thing to consider regarding food in bear country. | 0.6 | 798 |
Oh friend, I have been down this miserable road just like you. | Yes, it is accepted practice to wash new Semi-Static rope (or Single Rope Technique/SRT Rope as it is known by cavers). | 0 | 799 |