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Are subtitles of good quality here?
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There's no way to verify the accuracy of the transcripts without listening to the corresponding words. Are you really asking us to...
Yesterday at 11:30 PM
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Is it okay to use "two was's" in a row?
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Thanks @Amigos4. Typo corrected @5jj.
Yesterday at 2:02 AM
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Is it okay to use "two was's" in a row?
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Yesterday at 2:00 AM
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the political status U.S. and Ukraine’s other sources of aid
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It needs the words "in the" before "U.S.", and "feel" should be "feeling". It looks like the article hasn't been proofread.
Sunday at 11:29 PM
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the political status U.S. and Ukraine’s other sources of aid
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My reading is that the writer's used "status" to mean "situation" or "state of affairs". The word "status" can mean that, though it's...
Sunday at 11:28 PM
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Why you dey vex?
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Pidgin seems an apt description to me. It makes no sense in standard English. Why dey vex? = why are they vexed? Why you dey vex? = why...
Sunday at 2:25 PM
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a word for someone from the same town as you
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You could consider townsfolk. Click here for examples.
Saturday at 10:44 PM
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a word for someone from the same town as you
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For a town, yes.
Saturday at 6:22 PM
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a word for someone from the same town as you
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You might use "homies" as a plural of homey, but that word is largely confined to black Americans. In mainstream English I think @Barque...
Saturday at 5:29 PM
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Can the word "pair" be used for two items that are not exactly the same in appearance?
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Yes. A pair of shoes are not exactly the same. If they were, they'd only fit one foot.
Friday at 11:48 PM
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Full Metal Jacket (film)
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I'm on board with Skrej's interpretation (post #11). Military training turns soft men into fully hardened killing machines. Gustav...
Friday at 3:21 PM
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He began/started crying/to cry.
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You can often express an idea in more than one way. That's true of various other languages too, not just English. Yes. No.
Friday at 4:04 AM
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Key binding or key bindings? (technical term)
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No. A key binding is where a key or combination of keys is assigned to perform a task, such as ctrl-c to copy and ctrl-v to paste. You...
Thursday at 2:50 AM
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Key binding or key bindings? (technical term)
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I've never heard or seen it used. Why not just say something like "press the spacebar while holding down the ALT key"?
Thursday at 12:01 AM
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How do they compare?
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We used to be given prompts to "compare and contrast" two things. That is "how are they alike, and how do they differ?"
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