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probus reacted to 5jj's post in the thread Need Help Understanding the Term "One-Up" Mentioned on JRE with
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probus reacted to emsr2d2's post in the thread Need Help Understanding the Term "One-Up" Mentioned on JRE with Like.
Please don't make try to force us to listen to something if we don't need to. Simply write out the full sentence you're referring to and...
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It's a military movie, and that term is a military term. That's enough for me. (You had the verb in the wrong place.)
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probus replied to the thread Full Metal Jacket (film).Is a title is even intended to reflect the movie's content? I suggest that titles are chosen with nothing more than marketing in mind...
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probus replied to the thread Full Metal Jacket (film).Typo repaired. Thanks @Amigos4.
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Hollow points or similar "soft" points which are designed to mushroom out and cause a larger wound cavity are actually banned under the...
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probus replied to the thread Full Metal Jacket (film).I may be wrong about this, but here is my best guess. Some bullets are called soft-nosed or hollow point. These are designed and...
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Two suggestions were made over at Unilang. The first, by a non-Dutch speaker, was that he was maybe trying to reference the English...
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You are off to a good start, BayramOzalp. Your first post contains a few errors but emsr2d2 has pointed you in the right direction! Keep...
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probus reacted to emsr2d2's post in the thread "It's very hard to hear "the schwa sound"; when I check dictionaries for the pronounciation of words like mother, father, never etc, I sometimes..." with Like.
It depends what accent you've been listening to. In most BrE regional accents, the final "r" is not pronounced. The words sound like...
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probus replied to the thread Is "devoiding" a real word?.Hello @andyasker and welcome to the forum. "Devoid" is usually an adjective, but according to dictionary.com it is also used as a verb...
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probus reacted to SoothingDave's post in the thread what color is the exterior of this building? with Like.
Looks like what is called "yellow brick."
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probus reacted to 5jj's post in the thread I thought the picture was able to/could be taken as the source. with Like.
I see nothing there about a picture being able to do anything.
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probus reacted to Tarheel's post in the thread I thought the picture was able to/could be taken as the source. with Like.
Well, a picture doesn't have the ability to do anything.
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probus reacted to teechar's post in the thread Can you please review my curriculum vitae? with Like.
Hmm. You said all those were in the past and were tied to particular roles you had in specific employment positions. Otherwise, how...
