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[ { "sents": [ { "text": "How I've practiced is I hold my left hand palm out, and I create a \"V\" between my ring and middle fingers with the plane or person between my fingers.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I then hold the mirror by my face and shine the mirror between my fingers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You should see the light on your hand to confirm you are shining in the right direction.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/13019/avanalfen", "score": 52 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A modern (Korean War era and later, at least) signal mirror has a hole in the center, and the hole is surrounded by a grid of retroreflectors.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You aim the mirror spot at something close by, then look through the hole.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The grid makes a very bright spot where the mirror's reflection is going.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You then simply tilt and rotate the mirror to put that spot on your target.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is a good photo of what it looks like.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As the comment in the image says, that hot spot is not the sun itself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's showing you where the reflected light from the mirror is going.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Just put that spot on your target and there you are.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Note that if sun-to-mirror-to-target bounce makes a fairly shallow angle, say more than about 135 degrees, the retroreflecting grid doesn't work and you have to use the methods given in other answers here.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Which are also, of course, useful if you don't have a real signal mirror.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the other good answers in this thread should not be ignored.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Image ganked from this flickr page .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As it says there, several companies do make \"signal mirrors\" that appear to have a grid around the hole, but don't actually have retroreflectors and don't make the bright spot.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(I can confirm this", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "; I bought one and was disappointed.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you buy a US signal mirror on eBay and it says \"Mark III\", it's the right thing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/11852/Jamie Hanrahan", "score": 25 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "This answer applies only to signal mirrors which are two-sided and have an aiming hole in the middle, which should be the case with any good signal mirror.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My answer will partially duplicate a prior, but will add some rough pictures and also give a description of the geometry behind how it works.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The process Stand facing roughly half-way between the sun and the object you want to signal.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hold the mirror up and observe your own reflection in the back of the mirror.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Move the mirror around until you see the shadow of the mirror on your reflection, and in particular note the little dot of light on your cheek due to the aiming hole.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Now, angle the mirror so you can see the target object through the hole, and also align the light dot on your cheek with the hole.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wiggle", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the mirror slightly so that the target sees a flashing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Why it works With mirrors, the idea is that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For us, we need the angle between the mirror and the sun (θ 1 ) and the angle between the mirror and the target (θ 2 ) to be equal.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We do this by making the corresponding angles on the backside of the mirror equal (θ 2A and θ 1A ), by aligning the reflected dot and the target object via the hole in the mirror.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/9109/cobaltduck", "score": 19 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Your signal mirror is likely polished on both sides, with a hole in the middle to help you aim it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Although the principle is simple, it's fiddly and takes a little practice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "With the mirror in roughly the right position, arrange for its shadow to fall somewhere suitable (e.g. flat rock)", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "so you can see the central spot of light.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Now, line up the hole with your target.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Angle the mirror", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "so you can see the shadow reflected in your (near) side of it and get the spot of light central.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When the mirror is aimed exactly at the target: the target is seen through the hole", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the reflection of the light spot is positioned over the hole.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can make a simple diagram of the transmitted and reflected light to convince yourself that this works (sorry, it's beyond my ASCII-art capabilities right now!). A CD, DVD or similar medium can be used as a makeshift signal mirror, and conveniently has a hole in the right place.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/11623/Toby Speight", "score": 15 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The sun isn't a laser, so you don't actually have to be very accurate.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The further away your target is, the less accurate you have to be as the reflection will spread.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/13034/Andrew Davie", "score": 6 } } ]

[ [ "With the mirror in roughly the right position, arrange for its shadow to fall somewhere suitable (e.g. flat rock). You aim the mirror spot at something close by, then look through the hole.. To practice, hold your left hand palm out, and create a \"V\" between your ring and middle fingers with the plane or person between your fingers. You should see the light on your hand to confirm you are shining in the right direction. The sun isn't a laser, so you don't actually have to be very accurate. The further away your target is, the less accurate you have to be as the reflection will spread.", "Aim the mirror somewhere close and look through the hole, you do not need to be that accurate and should see light shining through." ] ]

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[ [ "Aim the mirror somewhere close and look through the hole.", "Light should shine through, you do not need to be that accurate." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "I have tarped for most of my outdoor experience.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One year on a bet (be careful what you say at the pub...)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I spend a full year under a tarp in the bush near my home.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Right now I have a silicone coated 9x12 ripstop nylon tarp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Marketed as 'aquatarp' on Amazon.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But for a small weight penalty, the coated woven poly tarps you can get at Big Box Stores work.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They don't last as long, but if you are just starting out it's the way to go.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A long narrow rectangle is less useful.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I prefer a rectangle with proportions of about 1.33 to 1 (12 x 9)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "1.2:1 (8x10) is about the shortest I've seen.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Had a 9x14 one once.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(1.55:1)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That was several feet of wasted space.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Don't go too small.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You need a reasonable overhang of tarp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "8x10 is the smallest I would use for solo.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If my bag is roughly 2x6 feet this gives me 2 foot overhang at each end, and 3 feet on either side.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In actual use, I'm likely to be off center to have ready access to my pack.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "10 x 12 is good for 2 people.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When I helped run an outdoor program, we would use the cheap Canadian Tire tarps, and try to buy blue one year, then green or orange one year.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After a backpack trip, they came back with spark holes, tears, and usually a few missing grommets.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For the winter program they would still do.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And accumulated a lot more damage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The next fall they would be cut in half, and each pair of people would get one new tarp and half an old tarp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The latter they used as a ground sheet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The prevented two events: If they had two new tarps, both would have holes in them by the end of the week, as they wouldn't consistently use one for the roof.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Having a small tarp kept the whole tarp under the roof.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "More than one pair of kids has come to grief with all the water that landed on the roof, sliding down onto an exposed edge of ground tarp, and soaking them from underneath.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Site selection is different:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For a tent, you need a certain sized spot, fairly flat, generally about half again larger than the actual footprint of the tent to allow for guy lines.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For a tarp you don't have a bathtub floor, so you look for a spot that either has a very absorbent but is currently fairly dry -- big mossy patch, duff under a spruce tree, or you look for a spot that is clearly higher than the surroundings, or you look for material that has good drainage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Because it has so many ways to pitch, you can fit into camp spots that are impossible for a tent.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some of my preferred pitches: Clear weather, rain unlikely.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Support all 4 corners 4 feet", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "or so off the ground, with enough general slope that if you are wrong you don't have an overhead swimming pool.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Having a tarp overhead means less dew on your sleeping bag.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Variation:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Kite form: 2 kitty corners high, two low.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This sheds water better, but isn't as breezy on a hot night.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Typical pitch.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Mid point of a short side is tied to a tree about 5 feet up.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Opposite two corners are staked down.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This provides head room at one end.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Put the bags at the bottom end to hold tarp away from your bags.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tree wrap.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've used this one when caught by a snow storm in winter.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Take off the bottom few feet of dead branches off a spruce or fir.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tie the middle of the long edge to the trunk about 5 feet up, ABOVE the bottom tier of branches.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tie the opposite edge to either branches, or to shrubs away from the tree.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The branches support your tarp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Do NOT break twigs off the top of the branches, as these leave sharp bits that poke your tarp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/2157/Sherwood Botsford", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Going back to WW.2.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A shelter half as used by the US.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Army.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This would form a pup tent with 2 joined or a lean to with one.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sized right for a rain protector over cloths.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Kind of rectangle with a triangle at both ends.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Buttons & button holes at the top.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/12302/J Bergen", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A rectangular would offer the most choices.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I have used a 8x6 and 9x7 in a half-mid pitch above treeline in the Rockies.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Whether it is rectangle or square, which is also a rectangle, is insignificant since you could do the same pitches with either one assuming the sides are long enough for the coverage you desire.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You would need longer sides if you want to be fully enclosed unless you don't mind cramped space.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Where you run into issues is with shaped tarps that can only be done in 1 or maybe 2 pitches.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/11281/topshot", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "After a lot of thought, I don't think that there are any shape configurations that would be limited to just a square or just a rectangular tarp.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "However, when you are sleeping under a tarp, either on the ground or in a hammock your body is in a rectangular shape.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I use a 5ftx7ft tarp", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and if it was 7ftx7ft square tarp it would just be extra weight to carry.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/8794/Charlie Brumbaugh", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "When it comes to flat tarp shape, there is no right or wrong answer.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Both shapes can be used to make simple roof, lean-to-type or a fully enclosed tent-like structures.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "There is a ton of information about different pitches at: http://equipped.com/tarp-shelters.htm", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is also this question about tarps and wind:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What is a good tarp setup for very high winds above the tree line?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], 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[ [ "Whether it is rectangle or square is insignificant since you could do the same pitches with either one assuming the sides are long enough for the coverage you desire. Both shapes can be used to make simple roof, lean-to-type or a fully enclosed tent-like structures.", "Both shapes work well, though rectangular offers more options." ] ]

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[ [ "Both shapes work well, though rectangular offers more options." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Just because there are grasses ( Poaceae ) with edible and nutritious parts does not mean that this applies to all grasses.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "That is pretty common-place.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A quick Google search give you all the info you need: Many grasses are edible, in the sense that you can eat it; you simply won't get any energy/nutrients out of it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "They consist mostly of cellulose, and our digestive tract is simply not made to break that down (as opposed to, e.g. cows, which employ four stomachs for that purpose).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are however also grasses that are toxic.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "So when not discerning between actual species, the effect of eating grasses is somewhere between no effect and harmful.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/3602/imsodin", "score": 85 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Eating grass isn't smart because our bodies lack the enzymes to digest it, and because you never know if some animal came along and crapped on it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Don't eat grass.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/14336/Caleb Way", "score": 24 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "To add to the existing answers, depending on where the grass is growing, there can be all sorts of synthetic fertilizers thrown onto it which would be very harmful to humans.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You do not want to eat Scott's Lawn Fertilizer.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/14343/ClydeTheGhost", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Apart from the low nutrients issue, grass stems are covered in tiny silica spikes, which act as an abrasive on your insides.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "These spikes are thought to have evolved as a defense against being eaten ( Silica in grasses as a defence against insect herbivores: ) -- which clearly didn't work in the long run.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But anyway, if you don't have a tough lining like a cow has on its lips, esophagus and stomach, you'll risk feeling sandpapered inside or worse.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/13206/Elise van Looij", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A look through the veterinary literature can show you some further reasons not to just go out and eat grass.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Specifically, parasites like liver fluke, different species of tapeworm, and some nematodes can infect humans as well as sheep (or cows, or mufflons, or whatever lives on the pastures where you find your grass).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "So, in a real outdoors situation, experimenting with grasses is unwise, even if you are very hungry.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/506/rumtscho", "score": 10 } } ]

[ [ "Experimenting with grasses is unwise, even if you are very hungry. Even though there are grasses with edible and nutritious parts you simply won't get any energy/nutrients out of them. Apart from the low nutrients issue, grass stems are covered in tiny silica spikes, which act as an abrasive on your insides. We don't have a tough lining like a cow has on its lips, esophagus and stomach. Our bodies lack the enzymes to digest it, it may be contaminated with fertilizers or animal waste. Parasites like liver fluke, different species of tapeworm, and some nematodes can infect humans as well as sheep or cows.", "Do not eat grass, it can contain fertiliser, parasites and can be toxic. Humans do not digest grasses well and they have no nutritional value." ] ]

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[ [ "Don't eat grass, it can contain fertiliser.", "Grasses do not have nutritional content.", "Grasses can be toxic, contain parasites and humans do not digest them well." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "After looking around the internet, it seems that oils can be used to remove tape residue.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "So things like, Olive Oil Coconut Oil would be possibilities for removing the gunk and shouldn't hurt if it gets into cuts.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "They should also be good for your hands, especially if they are dry.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/8794/Charlie Brumbaugh", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Gojo Pumice Hand Cleaner.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If you've worked with grease, grime, or in a coal mine then you know what pumice hand cleaner is, it has silica sand in it to help scour away the gunk.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You use it without water on your dry hands, then after you've loosened all the gunk you wash off the cleaner with soap and water.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have used this stuff with open cuts on my hands, and it's not bad even when scrubbing the dirt out of your open wounds (small open wounds).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I remember being impressed with how gentle it was as far as stinging is concerned.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wetnaps and hand sanitizer are the devil on abrasions compared to this stuff.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I highly recommend it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/4148/ShemSeger", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Swarfega will remove anything from motor oil to tape gunk", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think the key is to avoid the gunk in the first place, or more accurately the second place.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I like the these tape gloves and the advice at the end.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "That advice is you can shave the back of your hands.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The tape gunk comes off bare skin much easier than when it is matted into the hair on your hands.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The second, and more important advice, is to reuse your gloves.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The second time you use them the tape it is much less sticky and you end up with less gunk.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/5836/StrongBad", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Any detergent-based soap will work best to remove things like oils and adhesives.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Gojo and similar brands are a reasonable choice, and the added pumice lets you scrub a bit harder.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Something like Dawn dish soap will also work, but require a bit more scrubbing.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Ultimately you're down to 1)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The adhesives drying out and falling off 2) mechanical removal (rubbing, scrubbing) and 3) the adhesive being stripped away chemically.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(detergent based soaps)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/14346/Monica Apologists Get Out", "score": 3 } } ]

[ [ "Swarfega, Gojo pumice hand cleanser, and even detergent based soap will remove tape residue. Oils can also be used, including olive oil and coconut oil.", "Oils, tape gloves, soap, pumice, Swarfega and Gojo are viable solutions." ] ]

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[ [ "Pumice, soap, Swarfega and Gojo can work well.", "Oils and tape gloves can be effective." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "On the right snow, you can ascend extremely steep (even if it probably isn't the most economical thing to do) -", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "so from that aspect, I don't see a problem.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Looking at the skiers center of gravity, it doesn't seem to be off by far either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I estimated the center of gravity at the red dot.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the weight was mainly on the back leg, the current orientation would make sense (vertical red line).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However the picture is shot in the moment before the left/back leg is pulled to the front", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(it is almost stretched, right/front foot rests on \"climbing assistance post\" (German Steighilfe)), so most of the weight will be on the front leg.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is an ongoing front motion, so being slightly behind the front leg might be fine, but not that much.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In conclusion I would estimate the angled red line to be vertical.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/3602/imsodin", "score": 24 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I agree that the mountains in the background look weird, but the crop is so close that it's hard to tell for certain without additional context.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This image appears to be from an article on skinning up steep slopes, and states that the skier is on a 34 degree slope: http://straightchuter.com/steep-skinning-technique/ Given that Chris Figenshau appears to be a very experienced skier and guide and also that a quick check with the ruler tool in photoshop gets a pretty similar number:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd say it's legit.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/14034/Ben", "score": 21 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It cannot be that the image is rotated, and that this rotation is the only alteration to the image.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The reason is simple: look at the straps of the backpack .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They are hanging vertically, and they are aligned with the vertical axis of the image.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Essentially, they give us a \"plumb line\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the image had been rotated, that detail would have to have been doctored also to conceal the ruse.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Ways in which this hypothesis might be wrong:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "there had been a headwind (somehow not shielded by the climber's body) which tilted the straps by a few degrees, allowing for the rotation to make them appear vertical.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the photo was snapped just as the climber made a forward lurch.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A momentary forward lurch would not only tilt the hanging backpack straps, but also foil the analysis of the body posture and center of gravity and all that.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In general, what we see as a static situation in a still picture may in fact be an illusion created by taking a snapshot of a momentary dynamic situation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Other than the straps, another detail we can look at in the image is the pattern of of snow accumulation on the crags in the background.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've enhanced the contrast over the lower left area:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is a pattern of cascading trails in the accumulated snow left behind by sliding powder suggesting that the picture is upright.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The inset duplicate of that detail indicates with red lines what I'm referring to.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/15001/Kaz", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I just wanted to give my input as an avid backcountry skier and general ski bum during the winters.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As mentioned above, the straps seem like a pretty good indicator that the picture is real.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Even if he was moving, skining up a slope is a pretty smooth movement that wouldn't disturb the straps much.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If there was any wind then there is a low chance that the two straps would be parallel with each other.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Posing for a picture like this would be pretty easy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Given grippy snow conditions, you could skin up an entire mountain at that angle.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Many people I know (including myself) prefer a steep skin track because it makes the Elevation Gain/Distance Traveled ratio higher.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Although I think it is technically more energy efficient to be at less of an angle.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Seeing as this was posted to an article specificaly about steep skining, and the ease of taking such picture.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I would say there isn't any motivation to fake it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/15008/Djames", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The picture in the answer to that question you referred to here doesn't have a source listed for attribution.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To me, however, it does look like the same picture as the one in the answer to the question that ShemSeger suggested as a duplicate .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That answer attributes the picture to a site called Straightchuter , which gives the name of the person who made this climb and the technique, called Steep Skinning, needed to do it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If indeed that is the same picture, then the picture you have would not have been altered.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a photo of Chris Figenshau skinning up a 34-degree icy slope in New Zealand with textbook perfect style.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These are the instructions he offers in order to make this climb.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Keep your back straight", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "– don’t bend/break at the waist", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Keep your skis as flat as possible on the snow to maximize the surface area", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Keep your skis as flat as possible on the snow to maximize the surface area Press through your heels (important) Plant your poles near to your toepieces – not too far forward or off to the side.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Stay off of your edges.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you need to move sideways, “crab” to the left or right by moving your entire ski instead of trying to edge.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Look up and forward, not down at your boots.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As the Bloodhound Gang song goes –", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“Lift your head up high and blow your brains out.”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Steep skinning may be painful until you get the hang of it, but it also gets you places in a hurry.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He concludes by saying: If you find yourself slipping, try lifting your big toe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is hard to do if you are leaning forward, (so lean back) and it will help shift your weight to the aft.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It’s like hitting the brakes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/5547/Sue Saddest Farewell TGO GL", "score": 6 } } ]

[ [ "The straps seem like a pretty good indicator that the picture is real. On the right snow, you can ascend extremely steep slopes. The angled red line can be considered to be vertical. The mountains in the background look weird, but the crop is so close that it's hard to tell for certain without additional context.", "It's hard to tell without more context, but if the image is rotated this cannot be the only distortion." ] ]

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[ [ "It's hard to tell without more context, but if the image is rotated this cannot be the only distortion." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Yes, you absolutely need to properly protect your food.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Proper food storage in the wilderness isn't just for you, it's also for the bears .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Even if your dogs or you are able to fend off a bear, you may in the process clue the bear in to the fact that where there are humans, there is food.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "And if you've inadvertently trained a bear to think that human campers have food, and the only thing between getting that food is to rumble, you've dealt that bear a death sentence, as well as signed up some other unsuspecting person for a heap of trouble.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Even if you make the bear think \"maybe next camp has better food?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" , then it clearly is aware that camps are places for food, and so you and everyone else who hasn't properly managed your food has failed to properly protect the wildlife and has failed that bear.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Always store your food well away from camp in a proper bear proof manner.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is no excuse for laziness.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/68/whatsisname", "score": 135 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You know, most black bears are probably going to be deterred by the presence of your dogs, but bears come in all sorts of personalities and degrees of desperation for food.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Your dogs might be able to take a bear in a fight, but that doesn't mean they won't get seriously hurt in the process.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Think about the possible consequences if deterrence fails: A needlessly dead or injured bear", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "An injured dog, far from medical care", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "dead dog", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I can't assign odds to any of these, but hanging your food", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "seems like such a minimal effort, I can't imagine not doing it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/4030/Charles E. Grant", "score": 47 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There are a couple of really good answers here.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But I feel like something is being overlooked.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You and the dogs are going to be asleep, when the bear comes walking through your camp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the food is hanging out of reach, the bear is just going to keep walking, in all likelihood you and the dogs might never know you had a visitor in the night.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The same is going to be true for, other forms of wildlife, like raccoons, opossums, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You should always keep food and food prep supplies out of reach of all wildlife; everyone will live longer, happier lives.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/4079/James Jenkins", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Do hang the food (or use a bear can, etc.)", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In my experience, wild animals are not deterred by dogs very much.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "A bear that lives close to humans might even be attracted to dogs: dogs frequently have dog food with them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not exactly on topic,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but I have woken up to deer approaching my camp, while my large dog was barking her head off.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They only stopped advancing when the human stood up.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/4310/Pepi", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It doesn't sound like you're thinking of carrying a bear canister either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A bear will just wait until it's quiet then come into your camp -", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "you may or may not be there.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you are there, then you will have real problems.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I wouldn't even prep my meals near my campsite.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand, bears aren't the only animals that want your food.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Consider whether the dogs will notice the mice getting into your backpack and food.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've seen a camper hang his food up without even noticing that a mouse had already hidden in it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He lost a lot of his food before he got it down to have a late snack.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd still recommend always hanging your food when you aren't actually eating it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "And, don't forget the long cord to hang it with!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/15087/Spencer Pratt", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Under the right circumstances, a black bear can kill a man (or a dog) with a single swat of its paw.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "While most back bears are timid and afraid of humans, due to 10,000 years of being hunted by Native Americans with bows, a few, a very few, have been know to kill and eat humans.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is a reason why the writers guide for The Outer Limits", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "said that each episode needed to have a dangerous creature or other frightening danger and described that as \"the bear\" instead of the wolf, the mountain lion, the wolverine, the fox, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You should want to do everything you can to avoid becoming the victim of one of those very rare aggressive black bears, and a good person should want to do everything he possibly could to keep black bears from associating humans with food, possibly leading to some black bears preying on humans.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If I cared for my dogs, I would take all possible bear precautions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One bear vs one dog is likely to be ten to one odds in favor of the bear, to use an arbitrary number.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Two dogs vs one bear would then be five to one odds in favor of the bear.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That is not good odds.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Avoid bear fights and avoid events that could result in bear fights.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You yourself, without any dogs, might be able to scare way a bear without a fight.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So you and the two dogs might be able to scare way a bear without a fight.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But if it comes to a fight, you and/or one or both of your dogs could be killed or badly wounded.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So if you love yourself, you will take all reasonable precautions to avoid interacting with potentially extremely dangerous wild bears.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And if you also love your dogs, you won't count on them to be your bodyguards against bears, but will take all reasonable precautions to avoid interacting with potentially extremely dangerous wild bears.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Avoid bear confrontations.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/15061/M.A. Golding", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Your food must be protected and it recommended to hang it or use a bear can when not eating. Proper food storage in the wilderness isn't just for you, it's also for the bears . You may clue the bear in to the fact that where there are humans, there is food, and if you've inadvertently trained a bear to think that human campers have food, and the only thing standing in the way of getting that food is to confront you, then you have given that bear a death sentence. This may also lead to causing a lot of trouble for someone else. Also, wild animals are not deterred by dogs very much.", "Hang the food or use a bear can, you need to avoid training bears to think that campers have food." ] ]

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[ [ "Hang the food or use a bear can.", "You should do this to avoid training bears to think campers have food." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Always remember that when you carry a backpack, it's the whole of your upper body that has to take the weight.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the weight is only on the shoulders, you will eventually end up with with a painful back or shoulders irrespective of how strong you are.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For this, the first thing is to make sure you are carrying your backpack properly.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Few things to consider: Wear a backpack that has a hip belt.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Offloading a bit of the backpack weight on the hip helps to reduce the strain on the upper body.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Pack the backpack such that the heaviest items are closest to you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The farther the heavier items from your body, the more the strain on you (the center of gravity shifts away from your body and thereby adding more strain on you).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tighten the straps such that the weight gets distributed properly beween your shoulders/chest and hips.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Do not overload any of these.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The straps should not be loose.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If your shoulder straps are loose, the bag will move away from your body and will pull you backwards.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Adding a lot of strain on your back muscles.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If your hip straps are loose, the bag will keep sliding down and will cause your shoulders to take all the weight.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Posture can be compromised either due to habit (eg sitting for long in front of a computer), or due to a wrongly fitted backpack.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So make sure you consciously monitor your posture while you hike with your backpack.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Having said that, some of the exercises that can help: Planks (engages your abs and glutes).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Crunches (engages your abs).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Leg raises (engages your abs and hamstrings).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Negatives/pull-up holds (helps your shoulders).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The idea is to strengthen your core (mostly your abs) to allow for your body to not offload the whole weight on the back.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/2066/Ricketyship", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "2 weeks is not alot of time to prepare.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Try to do squats and rows.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "And box-step-ups with a load on your back (gradually increasing).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My scheme looks like this:3 times per week I do 5 sets of 5 reps of squats, and every other training I do rows (5x5) or box-step ups (8x3, per leg).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/4220/Gudgip", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Core exercises.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Your abs are the bowstring to your back, if you have weak abs, you'll feel it in your back first.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Wearing a heavy bag puts added stress on you back, which engages you abs, but we as homo-sapiens are lazy by nature (which is why we evolved to walk upright), so when we put extra stress on our backs, we tend to compensate by adjusting our posture so our frame takes most of the load, instead of the muscles, this is especially true when we're tired from hiking all day.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When you go on your hike, make sure your bag is adjusted properly for starters, then while you hike, just be conscious of keeping you abs engaged.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Don't over do it, don't flex like crazy, just a little tummy tuck will be enough to spare your low back a lot of grief.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Planks and pushups are good exercises to help build core strength.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Posture.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you're suffering from upper back pain, then your posture is usually to blame.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Being hunched over watching the ground while the straps of your bag pull on your shoulders is one way to get a serious ache between your shoulder blades.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Again, make sure you bag is properly adjusted and that most of the weight is being carried by your hip belt, and ensure your bag is properly balanced so it isn't pulling you over backwards.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/4148/ShemSeger", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Not going to strengthen much in two weeks.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But you can get your back and shoulders used to weight and fit of the pack.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I would go for as many short to long hikes as you can and would not overload the pack as you don't want to strain your back.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Take a few short hikes with a full weight load at about the 1 week mark to see how things feel.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/6728/paparazzo", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Backaches are part of life with backpacking until you have a pile of experience.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Causes Compression.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You are carrying more load than you are used too.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This squeezes your vertebrae together.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This usually isn't the cause unless you are older, or you are carrying excessive loads.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Twist combined with compression.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The usual cause.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Back is very strong if you keep it in a straight line (for a somewhat odd value of straight)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're adding a load to your back.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This tends to pull your shoulders back, and arch your back in the opposite direction you are used too.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Your abdominal muscles compensate -- or try to.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If they succeed, you have sore abs, but no sore back.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If they fail you have really sore abs and a sore back.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Fixing it:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Work on your abs.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Situps, crunches, oblique crunches.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Two weeks is pretty marginal.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wear your pack with a facsimile of your load for the trip.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Try getting out for an hour a day.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "2-3 hours on weekends.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wear the shoes you will wear on the trip.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Practice walking as if with a stick up your butt.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This will reduce the twisting that happens on your back.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Preventing it:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Google 'making my pack lighter' If you can shave 10 lbs off your pack, you will enjoy your trip a lot more.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/2157/Sherwood Botsford", "score": 3 } } ]

[ [ "Do core exercises, including ab training, planks and push-ups. If you have weak abs, you'll feel it in your back first. Squats and rows are also helpful. Get your back and shoulders used to weight and fit of the pack. Always remember that when you carry a backpack, it's the whole of your upper body that has to take the weight, but you have to make sure you are carrying your backpack properly.", "Pushups and planks to build core strength, squats and rows as well as getting used to the backpack are all helpful." ] ]

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[ [ "You should build core strength with planks and pushups.", "Get used to the backpack to ensure proper carrying, do squats and rows." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Been there, done that, it's far more worrisome when you have to show them how to put the harness on and then have them test that it's tight enough.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And like you said, you really don't want to touch them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The simple solutions is to show them how you take your harness off, and have them mirror your actions and go through the steps slowly.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I will point to what they need to do, or if they have someone else with them, who they are more comfortable with like a sibling or parent, have them assist the person.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/8794/Charlie Brumbaugh", "score": 27 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I don't have anything to add for the specific requirement of removing ones harness, the live-demonstration/mirroring recommendations in other answers should do just fine.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I want to address a slightly more general point: [...] without touching them It should become blatantly clear from what follows (and shouldn't be a debatable point anyway), but to be safe: If anyone does not want to get touched, you don't.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However invading the personal space of your climbing partner is not optional .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Before climbing you always do a proper partner check and that involves checking manually that biners are locked, harness sits tight, ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's even true for top-roping.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If we are talking about leading (high first bolts) or bouldering, the need for touch becomes even more blatant due to spotting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the climbers hip gets above your shoulder height, the point of initial contact in case of a fall is the hip.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Is this potentially awkward?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sure.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Is it better than falling directly on your tailbone from ~2m?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think so.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The important point is to explain early and clearly", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "why and in what situation it is necessary to touch or get into the others personal space.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It needs to be abundantly clear that it is a safety necessity.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Then ask individually when the situation comes up .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The consequence is, that if someone legitimately feels uncomfortable about it, you either need to get someone else to do the partner check, or in case of spotting, you just can't do the climb.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In general if you can't bear your belayer to touch your harness and hold your behind/", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "back/", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "in case of a fall while spotting, you might want to rethink whether you want those persons to belay you - they do hold your live in their hands when doing that.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/3602/imsodin", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It is not really about instructing people how to take the harness off, but rather about respecting the personal space of clients.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I suggest having an instructor demonstrate the steps to take off the harness when the harness is put on and again when the client is about to remove the harness.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "This requires having a spare harness, but just like on the airplane, the instructor probably does not need to be wearing the harness and instead only needs to show the steps.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After demonstrating how to remove the harness, the instructor can then tell clients that if they are having problems, they can ask for help from either a friend or the instructor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the instructor is asked to help, he should explain the steps again and where he is going to touch the individual and then confirm that the client is okay with that.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For sit harnesses, the touching should be limited to the waist as most harnesses allow people to step out of the leg loops without loosening them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For chest harnesses, there may be a buckle at the sternum strap, but most I have seen have either a carabiner or a rope, neither of which should involve physical contact.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/5836/StrongBad", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It would take more time", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but when they are dry at the top have them remove the harness on their own for practice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tell them when they get to the bottom they should remove the harness when given the signal to do so.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If they need help an instructor is also at the bottom.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/6728/paparazzo", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "When you see them struggling ask for permission to help before touching.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "While helping try and maintain a professional distance away.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "There is a big difference between getting up close and personal to fiddle with the buckles and doing it at 3/4 armlengths away.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When handling the buckles around the waist and legs you can squat down which is less invading than bending over.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When you need to check the harnesses limit the actual touching to the tie off points on it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Emphasize in advance why it is important that the harness is checked properly, maybe with a bit of a horror story of what could happen if it's not properly fitted.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/15492/ratchet freak", "score": 2 } } ]

[ [ "The simple solutions is to show them how you take your harness off, and have them mirror your actions and go through the steps slowly. When you see them struggling ask for permission to help before touching. Emphasize in advance why it is important that the harness is checked properly and try to maintain a professional distance when helping. A sibling or parent may be able to assist.", "Show the person how to do each step, you must respect personal space." ] ]

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[ [ "This is important, but you must respect personal space.", "Show the person how to do this step by step." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Strip off.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Your skin is waterproof.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Assuming it's warm (because if it wasn't, you'd have proper gear, right?)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "then you're not going to freeze, especially if you're walking.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So take off everything you can afford to be seen without (because getting arrested for flashing is a downer) and stash it in your pack.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When the sun comes out again, you can air dry as you go, or you can sacrifice some item of clothing as an impromptu towel.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've done substantial amounts of summer walking in the UK wearing only a 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"label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some of these options will reduce your wetness, but not eliminate it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some of these are not quick solutions and wouldn't be fast enough to help for a quick downpour.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Therefore, you'll need to quickly consider your environment, and look for what is available.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The possibilities will differ greatly: City/Suburbs: alcove of a building, or hopefully you can go inside", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(you're probably not thinking of this environment, but for completeness) if there is a building, find the wall which is most out of the wind.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Stand against the wall, as flat against the wall as possible, and you will be out of the worst of the rain.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It will work with big trees as well, but trees mostly have branches which will either help or hinder (drops.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Forest: under an evergreen of some kind.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If there's lightning, be careful here.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Definitely avoid the taller trees in that case, but that may not be enough.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "a cave would be great a cliff might help, either because it's overhanging, or because the wind is blowing the right direction gather dead branches to build a quick wickiup, and cover it with leaves if it's a genuine survival situation, use your hands to break boughs from evergreens and make a shelter There will be environments where there's no good solution if you're caught off guard.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These might include open plains, desert, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/1942/Don Branson", "score": 19 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "My experience as a cyclist is that getting wet doesn't matter (because skin is waterproof): what matters is getting cold.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "So the goal is to stay warm enough.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Your warmth is affected by your exercise (producing heat) and insulation/clothing (retaining heat).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To keep warm, keep exercising: if you stop and take shelter (when already soaking) then you'll get cold[er].", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It may be better to keep on keeping on (even in the wet) until you reach an indoor shelter.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In dry weather you might keep your jacket unzipped (to stay cool and avoid sweating); if you're drenched in rain, staying cool and sweat-free is less important, instead you might zip up to keep warm.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/6365/ChrisW", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Get out.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You can quickly cool down when it's raining out, in particular when the rain is horizontal and it's 4°C outside.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You say there's no shelter anywhere near.", "label": 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three hours march.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The wet-cold spiral is real and bad for you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "P.S.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It amazes me how often I see people in England out in the rain without proper rain protection.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is England, it rains.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't recall seeing the same in Netherlands, Sweden, or Norway.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the USA too, right on the peak of Mt. Marcy, I remember seeing hikers without any rain gear caught out in heavy rain.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A sure way to catch a cold or worse.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/566/gerrit", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A waterproof map made of a rubber-like paper.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I keep one in my backpack for going to the library.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is very small and light-weight when folded and very big when opened up.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is much more durable than a garbage bag.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Trails Illustrated have them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They can also serve as something to sit on if really need to do so, and the area is wet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They dry fast, as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/14756/Planet.Megan", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "Getting wet doesn't matter (because skin is waterproof). What matters is getting cold - so the goal is to stay warm. Strip offf if necessary. Alternatively, you could use a waterproof map made of a rubber-like paper.", "Waterproof maps can be handy. Skin is waterproof and you should focus on staying warm." ] ]

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[ [ "Skin is waterproof, focus on staying warm.", "Waterproof maps are useful." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Bees are pretty sensitive to movements, so if you see some moseying around, then try to move slowly and smoothly and they should ignore you.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Swatting at them or waving them away will likely send them into Alarm mode.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Bees won't usually sting you out of pure spite.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The chances are that you accidentally hurt it or gave it cause for concern without even knowing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This could have been stepping on it, or squishing it in a fold in your clothing, or just batting it away.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Once bees release the \"Alarm\" pheromone , all you can really do is vacate the immediate area.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Alarm", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The complexity of pheromones in bees is illustrated well by the two types of alarm pheromone, which can be distinguished by which glands release the pheromone.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "From the Koschevnikov gland: This gland is near the sting shaft and is released when a bee stings.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The release of the alarm pheromone is a defensive reaction to alert nearby bees.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This alarm pheromone smells like bananas.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you are unfortunate enough to be stung, you may wish to leave the area as you tend to the sting, because alarm pheromones are being received by other bees.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "From the Mandibular glands", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ": This consists of 2-heptanone and is used as an anaesthetic and to paralyze intruders, after which bees remove the intruder from the hive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Note here the pheromone that's most likely to relate to you smells like bananas, so if you're eating one, it might be a good idea to drop/dispose it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 47 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It sounds like you got near a wasp nest.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These can be hard to spot, especially the ones that are in the ground.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The best way to avoid getting stung more is to move away, than can mean up to 10 meters, especially if you have already been stung.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some wasps and bees release pheromones when they sting, which alert others to the intruder and cause more of them to sting you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Again, there must have been a nest nearby.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can try to go back to the area you were stung and look for the nest.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Don't stand where you were stung.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hang back a safe distance and look for the bees/wasps buzzing around.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "After a few minutes, you should be able to visually follow the activity to a concentration point.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That could be a small hole in the ground, or a cavity in a tree.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It doesn't need to be a large obvious nest hanging from a tree branch.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The type of nest and location depend on the species.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/1854/Olin Lathrop", "score": 43 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I have seen plenty of science nature shows where bees are pacified with smoke.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, Usually bees die after 1 sting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They don't sound like bees, and I don't know if that works on anything else", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't know how you would produce", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "said smoke without carrying around one of the smokers that the professionals use.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(sounds inconvenient)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Don't wear blue.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have watched many science shows that demonstrate that they sting blue greater than 2x other colors.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A blue and white cloth on a stick was stuck into a hive and the blue one had many stings and white just a couple.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wearing a bee keepers outfit must prevent stings since they use it, but for normal people its probably impractical.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/13700/cybernard", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's difficult to know, without a picture of the offender, whether you were stung by a bee or a wasp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "While wasps typically look different, some (see Yellowjacket) are quite similar in coloring and shape, the main difference being that bees typically have fuzz, while yellowjacket wasps are smooth; not exactly an easy distinction to make in the moment.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Contrary to many of the other answers, most bees do not die after stinging.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In fact only Honey Bees, the most common species of bee, die.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is due to their stinger becoming detached, ripping out part of their digestive tract and muscles with it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Other bee species however can sting multiple times without issue.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's possible the bee you found were Sweat Bees ( Halictidae ).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This species of bee is attracted to perspiration (hence the name) and the bees could have been attracted by sweat if it was a hot day.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As others have said, the best course of action is to leave.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's possible you accidentally irritated the bee without noticing, e.g. by stepping on it, accidentally swatting it, or trapping it in your clothing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As a side note: If you know for a fact it was a bee, treat the sting with some baking soda.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Bee stings are acidic, and wasp stings are basic (alkaline), so baking soda will help with bee stings, while vinegar will help with wasp stings.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/16143/Skidsdev", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Bees feed on the sweet nectar of some flowers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So this bee could be attracted to fragrances that smell sweet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Watch out for your perfume or deodorant smell.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The shampoo or even air freshener for house/car that stuck to your hair or your clothes perfume might be irresistible for your new little friend.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/16133/onpre", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I grew up in a park.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Bees are attracted to flowers and bright colors.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Yellow jackets tend to be attracted to plastic cups,soda cans and the scent of sugars.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Bee keepers generally use smokers and Bee keeping suits but you seem to be asking for more practical tips.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Neutral none bright cloths, Maybe a leather jacket to cover your arms and upper body.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Spray scent neutralizers like what you would find in a hunting store to neutralize your body smell from sweet stuff like soda pops.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Neutralizing or None scented detergents to removes smells from your cloths.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Most things we use on a daily basis for our enjoyment are scented with fragrances that bees also enjoy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Vinegar mixed with water as a spray may also help.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "PS vinegar mix with rubbing alcohol can also help with poison ivy contact.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If all else fail try a bottle of OFF insect repellent.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I hope this helps you discourage them from visiting you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you don't like the scent odds are they won't either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/16155/Ernest Fultz", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Hang back a safe distance and look for the bees/wasps buzzing around. Bees are attracted to bright colors and flowers. They can be pacified with smoke, and a spray of vinegar mixed with water may help to repel them. Another alternative is OFF insect repellent.", "Bees are attracted to bright colours, hang back and observe. You can use vinegar spray, smoke and repellent." ] ]

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[ [ "Bees are attracted to bright colours, hang back and observe.", "Smoke, vinegar spray and repellent can work." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "As you said yourself: mud.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or cotton as Gabriel answered, or wood, or leaves, or bark, or anything that stops light from reaching your skin.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Is there any natural material that without any processing can be applied as a cream, is nearly invisible in the visible spectrum yet stops much of the UV-rays?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not to my knowledge.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Which is why we have to make it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But most natural materials will block most of the UV-rays.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is also one of the main reasons why there is no natural sunblock.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A tree is protected from UV light by its bark, it doesn't need to produce a near invisible cream that blocks UV-rays.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And since most natural materials block much of the UV light they will protect you from sunburn and skin cancer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Often better than commercial sun cream, as you probably already know from wearing clothes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They just don't do it while letting most of the visible light hit your skin and while letting you look like you're not covered by anything.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/12959/Monster", "score": 29 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The mucous from the marine animal mushroom coral , is a 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"label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/6411/ab2", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It depends on what level of processing makes you feel something is no longer natural.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Typical Sunscreens use Zinc Oxide as a UV blocking agent, as it is photo-stable and creates a nearly invisible layer (when using the highly-processed nanostructure form of the mineral).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Zinc Oxide is naturally formed as both the mineral Wurtzite, and the mineral Zincblende.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One or both of these 2 minerals could be powdered and rubbed onto the skin for a somewhat ineffective sunscreen.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Alternatively, you could look 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"sents": [ { "text": "Red Ochre Red Ochre is a natural earth pigment found in clays that are rich in iron.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It's been used for thousands of years by cultures around the world as a natural sunblock .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's also the same pigment used in ancient cave paintings.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Native American Indians \"war paint\" was often worn as a sunblock, and was made out of ochres.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Being a clay makes it easier to prepare it into an applicable paste, but it's essentially mud on your face.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/4148/ShemSeger", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Most white substances are usually good.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "As a bush assumption you can assume that reflectance in visible range means reflectance in UV range.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can grind rock against rock and mix with spit or water.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The active components of sunblock are usually pretty common minerals.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Rutile, Zinc oxides etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The organic ones have a tendency to be banned for toxicity after a few years after introduction...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/13536/Stian Yttervik", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A quick Google search reveals that carrot seed oil has 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[ [ "Most white substances are good sunscreens, including wood ash and the white dust on aspen tree trunks. Red ochre is another suggestion, as is mud. Carrot seed oil has an SPF of 40 and raspberry seed oil has an SPF of 30. The mucous from the marine animal mushroom coral is a natural sunscreen, which is designed to keep the coral itself from burning in the sun.", "You can use mud, wood ash, white substances, carrot seed oil and mushroom coral." ] ]

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[ [ "Wood ash and most white substances, red ochre work well.", "Mud is effective.", "Carrot seed oil and mushroom coral mucous are effective." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Getting out is not the hard part.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is getting in and going again without getting wet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To get out: If the beach is large enough come in sideways, lean away from shore to as you beach.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "when the canoe touches bottom on the shore.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "sit upright and you should be well grounded and close enough to step from canoe to shore while staying dry.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the landing is narrow, move people as far back as practical, beach the front (bow) and then walk to the front to get out.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If two people, the one in the back stabilizes while the one in front gets out.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "then the when out the front person drags the front of the canoe farther on shore.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To get in reverse above, but as you are moving from stable shore to rocking boat, it takes a bit more practice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You might want to go to a local lake and practice before your trip.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Bring a change of clothes, just in case.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This skill is best learned where getting wet and cold is not going to have a huge impact on the rest of your day or trip.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Additionally, roll up your pant legs before getting in or out, to keep them dry.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Your bare leg dries faster then your pants.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I usually wear water shoes that dry quickly if they do get wet rather then trying to wear heavy boots that will stay dry.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Remember you may be swimming in whatever clothes and shoes you are wearing, so plan for both events.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I keep a change of shoes and socks ( & clothes & towel ) in my dry storage, in the canoe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the event that I need to walk out (and/or for camp)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have dry shoes and socks appropriate for land, that will be dry even if the canoe is capsized.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/4079/James Jenkins", "score": 35 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Aside from waders, there's not much you can do to guarantee your feet will stay dry.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "No matter how high your waterproofing goes it won't help when you fall on your side from a rock shifting under foot (it's a rare exception that it doesn't happen to somebody each trip, and you need to be prepared for that somebody to be you).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A method a lot of people employ is the wet shoe / dry shoe strategy, where you bring a pair of shoes that you plan on walking through water in and another pair that you only wear in the campsite.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I prefer quick draining athletic shoes for my wet shoes and warmer waterproof hiking boots for my camp shoes, but preferences vary.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One important consideration is the material your canoe is made from.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If it's a sturdier material like aluminum or fiberglass it might be acceptable to ram it onto the shore far enough that you can step out directly onto dry land, and launch similarly with a push start.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "With light weight canoes such as Kevlar you more or less have to step out into the water, as grinding the bottom of the canoe over any material risks leaving gouges in the hull.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course this is highly dependent on the type of shoreline you expect to disembark from, steep drop-offs make it easier to pull the canoe right up to the shore without any scraping.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/16686/kcazllerraf", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The guys in New Zealand make thermal underwear made from polypropylene - different material to the stuff that the fancy brands use.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's cheap, and it stays warm even when - not if - you get wet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Spent a couple of hours in a freezing NZ stream in a leaky wetsuit and two layers of that stuff: not a problem.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "James Jenkins is right about bare legs = good, and heavy boots = bad , as I found out walking in Wales (UK).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Boots are great until the water gets in - and it will - because then it can't get out", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and they take ages to dry.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/16682/WillC", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Adding to previous answers: If shore slope is shallow then beach head-on, otherwise come in sideways.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For head-on approach, keep weight back to lift the bow, then shift weight forward after beaching.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Use your paddle to give an extra leg of support, and use it as a push pole so that your walking forward doesn't un-beach the boat.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Walk forward staying in the middle (along the keel line).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You should be able to step onto dry land, then pull the canoe in a bit more and steady it so your mates can get out.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/16691/amI", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "What kind of environment is the trip in?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you can find straight shores designed for mooring boats getting in and out dry should not be a problem.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the shores are all shallow and beach like the simplest solution would be to bring some rubber boots that can get wet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It you can give any more details about what you're worried about, what your skill levels are, how many of you there are in what kind of canoe etc I can expand this answer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/12959/Monster", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "When a canoe has one end on shore,it's unstable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It helps if one person squats with knees on either side of the bow while the first person steps in.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "At the end, the bowsman steps into the canoe and pushes off at the same time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Approaching shore, try for a spot with few rocks, and hit the shore moving at about 1/2 speed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Bowsman steps out onto the shore.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Other trick I've used on very shallow shorelines: Put a sizable log in the water perpendicular to shore as a makeshift dock. Put one or more rocks as stepping stones into the water.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "These two techniques don't help landing, but when you are landing for camp, you will have a fire soon.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A third option is to get a pair of divers boots.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "These are neoprene -- wet suit material, with a reasonable sole.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Buy one size larger than your normal size and wear a pair of thick wool socks inside them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They will not keep your feet dry, but warm wet feet are quite tolerable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In Canada Mountain Equipment sells their own brand for these.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Start here: https://www.mec.ca/en/product/5021-652/Moque-Boots-Low .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Neoprene socks inside oversize runners also work.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/2157/Sherwood Botsford", "score": 2 } } ]

[ [ "On very shallow shorelines: Put a sizable log in the water perpendicular to shore as a makeshift dock. Put one or more rocks as stepping stones into the water. It helps if one person squats with knees on either side of the bow while the first person steps in. A lot of people use the wet shoe / dry shoe strategy, where you bring a pair of shoes that you plan on walking through water in and another pair that you only wear in the campsite. Another option is to get a pair of divers boots, but aside from waders, there's not much you can do to guarantee your feet will stay dry.", "Diver boots, waders, spare shoes, thermal underwear, squatting and logs can all be useful." ] ]

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[ [ "Squatting with knees on either side, using logs can work.", "Spare shoes and thermal underwear are useful.", "Diver boots and waders help." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Try to slice a piece of paper.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 3 ] ] }, { "text": "A good sharp knife makes a clean cut.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 3 ] ] }, { "text": "A dull knife makes either a ragged cut, or worse, just pushes the paper to the side.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 3 ] ] }, { "text": "I like this article: https://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/hunting/2014/08/paper-cut-testing-blade-sharpness#page-4 and YouTube", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "is full of videos of people showing off their knives via this test.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/9109/cobaltduck", "score": 41 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The back of a fingernail can be a good rough indicator while you're sharpening - see if it \"catches\" when you apply very gentle pressure at ~45 degree angle.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "This can also be a good way to check if the edge still has any dull spots.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/16788/tempest_col", "score": 36 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The best method in my opinion is one that must be learned, and involves moving your thumb across the blade, perpendicular to the blade not down it !", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "It's very difficult to describe the feeling", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but if you do it on enough dull blades and sharp blades you will begin to be able to tell the difference.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One other thing I will do if im sharpening a knife for a friend or coworker to display how sharp it is is shave a couple hairs off the back of my hand.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Lick your thumb, moisten the patch on the back of your hand and shave as you would with a straight razor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(You may want to wipe the knife clean after this.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sounds weird", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but i do it because your average joe will know its extrememly sharp if you can shave with it and be careful with it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One other test could be to attempt to very thinly slice a tomato, with and exceptionally sharp knife you should be able to get nearly paper thin slices with a light sawing motion.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/9054/Nate W", "score": 20 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Slice a tomato with very little pressure.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is almost always when I notice a knife needs sharpening, and the difference is profound.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Edit: I should have added ripe tomato; a sharp knife will slice it, whereas a dull one will smash it or rumple and tear its skin.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/17581/Oscar", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Generally I categorize sharpness into 3 levels: The tomato test - being able to slice through a tomato skin.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not use the pointy end to break the skin and then slice but directly slice the skin all the way through.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is sharp enough for cooking.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The paper test - being able to slice thin phonebook paper or magazine paper or newsprint.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 3 ] ] }, { "text": "For general carving knives I find some tearing after the knife has started a cut to be acceptable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If I really want sharp then it should be able to cut paper with zero tearing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The shaving test - you should be able to shave with it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "This is literally razor sharp (otherwise known as \"scary sharp\").", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've only been able to do this on some knives and I wouldn't want all my knives to be razors anyway.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/8914/slebetman", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Cheap, disposable sponges.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Unlike paper, they can be tested on while wet, which is a big advantage when sharpening with waterstones.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Don't use the scrubby side (some people like using it as a deburring aid, though) Something dull will not be able to cut into a sponge.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Something sharp will easily slice into it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Something d...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "sharp can push-cut into the corner of a sponge.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Something b...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "y", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "damn sharp can be laid on a sponge and pushed in (a razorblade easily will!).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/8657/rackandboneman", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If you're sharping the knife outdoors (where a tomato is not available), a good test is to wield it perpendicularly to a grass stalk and see if the knife cuts it off.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/7982/Dmitry Grigoryev", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You could just cut of some hair.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "No need to cut other resources and its safe because yeah its hair.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And for any type of baldness you can adapt the amount of hair you would like to test on.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/17612/Snickbrack", "score": 4 } } ]

[ [ "The tomato test is very common. Other tests include trying to cut grass or a cheap kitchen sponge, shaving, cutting hair, scraping the back of a fingernail or slicing a piece of paper.", "Try to slice a piece of paper, shave, cut some hair. You can use your fingernail or thumb. Slicing a tomato, using sponges and grass also work." ] ]

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[ [ "Sponges and grass can be used.", "Slicing a tomato is a good test.", "Shave, cut some hair or use your fingernail or thumb.", "Try to slice a piece of paper." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "As you are aware waterproof breathable fabrics can \"wet out\" reducing them to simply waterproof fabrics.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "That does not make wetted out waterproof breathable the same as waterproof non-breathable fabric.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Non-breathable fabrics tend to be cheaper, stronger, lighter, and in some cases more water resistant (i.e., a higher mm H2O rating) than corresponding breathable fabrics.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Compare the differences between the high end fabrics used in Z-packs non-breathable kilt (1.0 oz/yd2, 20,000 mm H2O, and 15.5 N puncture strength) and breathable rain pants (1.92 oz/yd2, 20,000 mm H2O, and don't look at it funny strength).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If weight or durability matters and either sweat is not a factor or wetting out is a given (e.g., sailing or prolonged wet weather), a non-breathable fabric might be desirable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sweat is heavily activity dependent and good ventilation can often mitigate the need for breath-ability.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For really cold weather activities the effect of sweat can be eliminated through the use of a vapor barrier, but you will still want a waterproof shell to keep snow melt from soaking your insulation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/5836/StrongBad", "score": 40 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You seem to have a specific outdoor activity in mind, like trekking or climbing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But what about water sports?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A sailing ship deck would be the most obvious place.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sometimes you won't move much, but you wish to stay 100% dry.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In my experience waterproof breathable fabrics are only water resistant.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also notice that fabrics like GoreTex deteriorate with time and lose their water repellent qualities.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A simple plastic trousers won't have this problem.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/3241/Quora Feans", "score": 21 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There are several uses, but regular strenuous outdoor leisure activities aren't really among them.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Breathable gear only goes so far - there comes a point when the best gear you can afford will result in getting very sweaty.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This point is a function of temperature, humidity, price and activity level.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you're consistently going to pass that point, non breathable gear is cheaper (much cheaper in the long term as membranes degrade) and still keeps the wind off.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They're often used by those working outdoors doing fairly light duties, such as directing traffic or otherwise mainly standing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These are often high visibility.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "More strenuous outdoor workers may well use heavy duty poorly breathable versions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They can be kept in a vehicle as emergency wear to keep in case of breaking down or worse.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These may never be worn so it's not worth investing in something expensive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They also seem more waterproof than at least cheap breathables if you're actually sitting or kneeling in water fixing something.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A similar use is car camping, when you may need to go out in the rain to tighten ropes or pegs, but would avoid going out in the rain otherwise.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the UK climate, and many other places, it's often worth carrying rain gear for even fairly gentle walks that take you more than a few minutes from shelter.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You'll be a lot drier and warmer in cheap waterproofs than none at all, which is why compact ones are widely sold in national park shops etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(I keep a pair in the van that were an emergency purchase in such a shop)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/2529/Chris H", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The non-breathable pants are usually considerably cheaper than the breathable ones.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "That can make them a better choice for activities that stand a good chance of ripping holes in the material, glissading down icy slopes for example.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Far better to rip your $25 non-breathable pants than your $125 Gore-tex pants.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/4030/Charles E. Grant", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The non-breathable cheaper wet-weather protection is useful for when you must sometimes go outdoors in heavy rain to do essential jobs, but not for very long.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Long enough that you would otherwise get soaked, but not long enough for the lack of ventilation to be a problem.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/17547/Weather Vane", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Non-breathable waterproof garments are basically polyurethane plastic at the surface.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This has one very big benefit in that dirt doesn't stick to it much, and what sticks will usually come off with just water.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So they're good for uses such as: Trekking in muddy conditions.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Just hang them overnight to dry and yesterday's muck falls off.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Children's use.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A high-tech fabric will not stand up to daily washes for very long.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Agricultural and other jobs where you'd get excrement on your clothes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After all, getting sweaty is a discomfort but it can be tolerated.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/15369/jpa", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As a cyclist, I expect to get wet if I'm riding hard in the rain.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But if I'm wearing something waterproof -- breathable or not -- the (cold) rainwater will be kept separate from the (warm) sweat, and I'll be warmer.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "And if I'm not riding hard, I'll be dry longer in the non-breathable stuff, because water vapor can pass through the breathable layers in either direction.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/17877/Dan", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "To ride a motorcycle, for example, you will never chose breathable fabric.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you have to wear rain pants, temperature is such that sweat is almost never an issue", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and you want your garment to be as waterproof as possible.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also, you want to be sure", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "not only water but also mud, grease, dust, etc. is kept off your under-layers, hence the use of a fabric as less porous as possible.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/17895/Steve Perry", "score": 4 } } ]

[ [ "Non-breathable fabrics tend to be cheaper, stronger, lighter, and in some cases more water resistant (i.e., a higher mm H2O rating) than corresponding breathable fabrics. The non-breathable cheaper wet-weather protection is useful for when you must sometimes go outdoors in heavy rain to do essential jobs, but not for very long. There are several uses, but regular strenuous outdoor leisure activities aren't really among them. They are good for trekking in muddy conditions,or riding motorcycles, for example.", "They are cheaper, good for trekking in mud, riding bikes and motorcycles." ] ]

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[ [ "They are good for trekking in mud, they tend to be stronger and lighter.", "They are good for riding bikes and motorcycles.", "They are cheaper." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Special devices: @imsodin is right in suggesting a GriGri.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For the method: The common trick is to have two \"belayers.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "One attaches the GriGri on their harness as usual.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The second person stands facing the primary belayer and pulls hand over hand on the rope (essentially pulling away from the primary belayer, through the GriGri).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The primary belayer can help by pulling slack down towards the GriGri from above.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This should let you belay most climbers quite quickly.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But, as always, if at some point there is a lot of slack between the belay device and the climber, the climber must slow down to allow the belayer to catch up.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Taking big falls on static rope with slack is dangerous for everyone.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some background:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The two-belayer-one-GriGri method was pretty common at local and regional speed climbing competitions in the US until 2018.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It was even used at IFSC comps until 2016.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In fact, USA Climbing Rule 7.2.1 stated that all routes must be belayed from below and this was the accepted practice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Following an incident in 2018 in which a speed climber took a bad fall that was attributed to this belaying style, USA Climbing removed this rule , allowing auto-belays to be used.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Similarly, the IFSC and USA Climbing both use special speed auto-belays for speed climbing competition.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I can't definitively speak to which is safer, and I'm not sure anyone can.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hopefully this doesn't need saying, but this should only be done indoors with express permission of the gym staff.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Note that some gyms double-wrap their ropes at the top of the climb--", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "don't speed climb with this setup as the friction is both annoying and creates more heat, which is bad for the ropes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/18067/jhch", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I'd very much recommend using a GriGri or one of the newer device with the same mechanism.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Reason being, the braking mechanism is not dependent on the position of the braking hand.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thus you can pull in rope in whatever way you want, as long as you have the braking strand in any of your hands at any point it's safe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This removes a lot of the stress as compared to e.g. belaying devices of the \"tuber style\" (ATC, Reverso, ...), where you need to make sure that your braking hand stays below the height of the device at all time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "With a fitting rope you can pull in rope really fast with a GriGri.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/3602/imsodin", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Ask them to slow down since their speed is affecting your ability to provide a belay.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Don't deviate from your standard belay method", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/18276/Rob Jarvis", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If they're top-roping (or when you need to pull in a LOT of slack lead belaying)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "you can take your hand off the load side and put both on the brake side.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Then you can pull hard and straight away from your hips while thrusting your hips backwards, which pulls in a solid 4+ ft of rope at once.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Then, you reset your hips and slide your top hand back up to the belay device, then follow with the other.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A cycle takes about half a second, and is very intuitive once you've done it a couple times.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This technique allows you to take in a lot of slack without bringing your brake hand over the belay device.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It does look kinda goofy, but it's better to look foolish than drop your partner.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I should also add, this is a little awkward to do at first, especially on lead.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Without your top hand, the belay device will want to drop down and hang at groin level unless the load side is already taut.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This makes it kinda weird to pull slack, especially during the reset section.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's not super difficult to do", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but it's worth yarding out some rope with both climbers on the ground to practice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/14346/Monica Apologists Get Out", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If someone is going quickly I prefer to alternate my brake hand.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "This way I don't need as much time to \"reset\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It also allows me to grab large amounts of slack at once.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You just need to be comfortable enough with your non-dominant hand on the brake side, which isn't an issue for most.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Steps: Pull slack with left hand and brake with right hand; right hand islow on the brake side.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(standard motion) Put left hand over right hand on the brake side, high up, just below belay device Put right hand on climber's end of rope high above belay device Repeat but opposite.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So pull slack with right hand a brake with left hand.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/18120/noah", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I am going to reiterate and expand on a previous deleted answer from a different user.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A hip belay can be incredibly fast and is a common technique in situations where falls are unlikely.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Many/most gyms do not allow you to hip belay, but many of those gyms also do not allow you to speed climb.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Outdoors you can obviously do whatever you want.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Another alternative is to progressively walk/run further away from the wall/cliff.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For lead climbing this is dangerous because the fall will pull you back towards the cliff face and there is a high likelihood of you losing control of the rope.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For top roping the angle of pull is different and the forces are reduced.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For climbs where there is no risk of hitting an obstacle/ledge on the way down (i.e., a climb that is well suited for speed climbing) this can be a reasonably option.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Again, most gyms will frown upon this (but not necessarily more so than speed climbing).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/5836/StrongBad", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "Don't deviate from your standard belay method. You could ask them to slow down, if necesary. A common approach is to have two \"belayers.\" If someone is going quickly, you could alternate your brake hand or use a hip belay. Using a GriGri or one of the newer devices with the same mechanism is recommended, allowing the rope to be pulled in very fast.", "Using your standard method with two belayers, alternating your brake hand and using hip belays can help. GriGri and similar devices can be useful as well." ] ]

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[ [ "Using your standard method and having two belayers helps.", "Alternating your brake hand and a hip belay can help.", "GriGri and similar devices can be helpful." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "I use a truckers hitch", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "it is easy to make and create and pull tight.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is not difficult to untie but does stay in place well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is a great knot when you need to cinch something down.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Image source https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TruckersHitchUsingAlpineButterfly2.jpg", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/4079/James Jenkins", "score": 33 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I agree that the trucker's hitch will certainly do the job.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "That said, if your special situation requires retightening if things start to sag, you might consider the tautline hitch .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a great knot for situations where you might need to take up slack due to stuff like rope stretch in the dark and rain (like, say, if you're using your line to make an A-frame shelter with a tarp), so you can get back under cover quick.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I wouldn't recommend this knot for situations where a knot slip might cause injury.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As always, right knot for the right job.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/18497/Scott Seidman", "score": 21 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As others have commented, Trucker's Hitch (with an Alpine butterfly) would be the best.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Note that it would be enough to do it on one side only; I usually tie an Anchor Hitch at the other side.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Another option, when you won't be loading the rope too much, would be to use an Adjustable Midshipman's Hitch .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "As a bonus, you could easily re-tighten the rope by pulling the adjustable knot.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I tried this last time to dry the clothes between the trees (just like in your picture) and it worked very nicely:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the rope was taut but when the wet clothes were put on it it sagged a little.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Then I just pulled the knot - et voilà !", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/14952/Alexander", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You don't need a knot, just add a few rounds of rope around the tree and the friction will make it more or less impossible to \"pull\" the rope and create sag (besides, a few extra rounds prevents the rope from sliding downwards).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Basically any knot will work after this although two half-hitches is a good option.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "An alternative to the extra rounds is to simply make a clove hitch around the tree.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "That can be done even under stress.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/15680/d-b", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If you're after getting tension into the line, I'd normally use a Truckers Hitch .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This uses a loop to create a pulley - and there are various ways to make the loop.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I tend to prefer either an Alpine Butterfly (as it doesn't get hard to undo after tensioning) or the loop of a slippery overhand knot (as it can be undone easily).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you have issues losing tension when tying off the truckers hitch, you can opt to use a \"wrap and re-wrap\" method.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not sure that's the right name.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Basically you pull the rope round the tree, round the taut line and back round the tree (back the way it came).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can repeat this, going back and forth round the tree, any number of times.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Then you tie off the loose end to the taut line.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This wrap and re-wrap method can be seen demonstrated about 90 seconds into this video: https://youtu.be/zdn1MlOUFuA?t=90 - albeit without doing a truckers hitch first.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/18063/Grhm", "score": 8 } } ]

[ [ "A trucker's hitch is widely recommended, although a clove hitch, an alpine butterfly, a slippery overhand knot or an adjustable midshipman's hitch could be used. Another approach would be to add a few rounds of rope to hold by friction followed by almost any knot.", "Alpine butterfly, Adjustable Midshipman's Hitch or clove hitch around a tree work well. Any knot or a few rounds of rope around a tree can work. A trucker's hitch works best." ] ]

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[ [ "A trucker's hitch is best.", "Alpine butterfly, Adjustable Midshipman's Hitch or clove hitch around a tree work well.", "Any knot will work, or putting a few rounds of rope around a tree." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "While those might mean the same for the laymen, from a medical point of view, there is a difference between illness and sickness.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Medical sociology has long made the distinction between illness and sickness.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Illness is the objective diagnosis that an external impartial observer is able to make based on the constellation of symptoms which the patient presents.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Sickness is the social role that the patient adopts as the patient and other concerned stakeholders, in relationship with the patient, interpret the meaning of the illness.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "From what I get of it, someone might see themselves as sick (with the social/role aspect of it) but not actually be ill (in a 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region to region, but in the USA, it is fairly common to use ill for longer or more serious issues, like cancer, and sick for more immediate things, like the nausea involved in cancer treatment.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Additionally, sick is used in some idiomatic expressions where ill would not fit native sensibility.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“I am sick and tired of X,” is used to mean that somebody's patience is worn out.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "No native speaker would ever say ill and tired in this case.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Likewise, if someone were to drink too much and vomit, one would say, “He got sick.”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To get sick is so strongly connected with vomiting that you can even say, “He got sick on his shoes,” or “She got sick last night,” for instance and there will be no ambiguity among native speakers in the USA.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Likewise, to fall ill is never worded to fall sick .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To us, that would be just odd.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Either word might be used to describe someone’s mental illness, such as “He is sick in the head,” or “He is mentally ill,” though the phrase “mental illness” sounds right to us, and you will probably not often hear an American, at least, use the exact phrase “mental sickness.”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/7/Ryan Haber", "score": 33 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Illness refers to a medical condition.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 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never call it 'chucking an illie'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To the question: the biggest difference is for definitions involving nausea in which case sick is used exclusively.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hence sicking up .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Additionally, the colloquial meanings (ie not strictly related to being unwell) tend to use sick .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, sick and tired (see Ryan's ans.); fully sick (meaning really good ); sick to death (worse than sick and tired); you make me sick (you are disgusting, obnoxious or offensive to my sensibilities).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/89/mcalex", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In Indian context both can be used interchangeably.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But there is a subtle difference between the two.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sick could be used if someone is annoyed by one's act or behavior.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He'd be rather sick than feeling illness by the deeds of that person.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Likewise if someone has done something wrong to me, then I'd be feeling sick.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Whereas ill means that a person has been acquired by the disease.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So it might be possible that, the person might be feeling sick(feeling frustration due to suffering).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So this is the difference between the two.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But I've seen that generally people conversing in colloquial language uses the both the terms interchangeably.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/902/Sudhir", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A native speaker would interpret them as having the same meaning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You could say \"I'm ill,\" or you could say \"I'm sick\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I'm ill\" could be classed as more formal language.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/12/Liam W", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Being ill refers to both long-term and short-term diseases or 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"\"The mother took care of her sick child.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "ILL has some other meanings :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(1) evil/wicked : Ill men conspire against him.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(2) morally reprehensible : It's ill to keep a lady waiting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(3) harsh/cruel : I dislike his ill manners.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "SICK has the following meanings : (1) in bad taste : That is a sick joke.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(2) tired of / annoyed with :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I am sick of that song.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(3) in poor condition : My job prospects are pretty sick.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/114137/Sandip Kumar Mandal", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "It is fairly common to use ill for longer or more serious issues, like cancer, and sick for more immediate things, such as nausea. Illness is the objective diagnosis that an external impartial observer is able to make based on the constellation of symptoms which the patient presents. Being sick can refer to actually throwing up or vomiting, but it can also be used for being generally unwell.", "There is a distinction medically. Sickness often means being generally unwell and illness is an objective diagnosis." ] ]

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[ [ "There is a distinction medically. Illness is an objective diagnosis.", "Sickness is a state of being, often refers to being generally unwell." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The sentence 'Time flies like an arrow', with or without context, is very unambiguous to the native speaker.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "'", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Time' is the subject, it metaphorically 'flies' as fast and without stopping 'like an arrow.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "But the phrase is often accompanied, either before or after, by Fruit flies like a banana.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "which is word-for-word parallel, but not exactly by part of speech.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The parallelism is both strange and funny on its own (it makes banana seem to fly, as a fruit, in the manner of the arrow), but also reflects on the pair 'time flies' (which are presumably a strange kind of fly).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Time flies like an arrow Time (Subject) flies (verb) like an arrow (prepositional phrase modifying 'flies')", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Fruit flies like a banana Fruit flies (subject) like (verb) a banana (object).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But with respect to the other sentence one could say Fruit (subject) flies (verb) like a banana (prepositional phrase).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is this sentence that is the most ambiguous.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "not the 'time flies' sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The latter parsing is not at all expected and so would not be understood naturally by a native speaker.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/37/Mitch", "score": 22 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Time flies like an arrow. is an old idiom that means time passes quickly, subjectively.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Hurry up with your life because it will end before you notice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Now the pun and the problem: Time flies like an arrow.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Fruit flies like a banana.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "No, there are no insects named \"time flies\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But there are very common insects called Fruit flies.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The tiny insects appear almost magically on any less-than-fresh fruit, and definitely speed up the process of rotting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Bananas, which go bad exceptionally quickly are one of their favorite foods.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(One interesting note:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They are also a favorite target of study of genetics, with a 4-day life cycle and a set of very distinct features.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/30/SF.", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The confusion in language processing comes because software might not catch the dual meaning of like in the full sentence ( Time flies like an arrow.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Fruit flies like a banana. ).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I am not a native speaker, but I assume most people would understand it unambiguously: something abstract, such as time, or a non-rational entity, like a fruit, can not \"like\" something.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are many possible - some rather contrived - interpretations of the full sentence, but most speakers would not have difficulties understanding it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/24/Renan", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Is it really so ambiguous?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are many possible interpretations of the sentence Time flies like an arrow.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here are some of the more obvious ones:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Time passes quickly, as an arrow flies quickly through the air", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You should time the speed of flies in the same manner as you would time the speed of an arrow You should time the speed of flies in the same manner as an arrow would time the speed of flies.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "You should quickly time the speed of flies, as an arrow flies quickly through the air", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "How would it be understood by a native speaker?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Time flies like an arrow would be understood by native speakers to mean \"time passes quickly, as an arrow flying through the air goes quickly\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This particular meaning is due (in my opinion) to these reasons: \"Time flies\" is a common idiom meaning \"time passes quickly\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Similes are a common part of speech, so \"like an arrow\" is a reasonable way to understand the second part of the sentence, especially given that arrows do indeed \"fly\" through the air.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Further, to say that something \"flew like an arrow\" is not an uncommon way of saying that something flew straight and true towards a target.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3976/starsplusplus", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "At the heart of English grammar is the relationship of subject + verb (or SV).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I suspect that native English speakers are primed to recognise and process that relationship until something else occurs which forces another understanding.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In 'Time flies like an arrow', 'Time' can easily be S and 'flies' can easily be", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "V. In 'Fruit flies like a banana', 'Fruit' starts off being S and 'flies' V, but then things go awry, forcing a re-evaluation: '", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Fruit' becomes a noun modifier, 'Fruit flies' a subject NP and 'like' the verb.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Now, 'Fruit flies' is just as much a subject as 'Time' is, but it takes (very, very slightly) more processing time to recognise it as such, so native speakers first prefer 'Fruit' as the subject, and not 'Fruit flies'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6938/Sydney", "score": 3 } } ]

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[ [ "Time flies like an arrow.", "Flies are fast like arrows when you time them." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "As with most things in English, no, there isn't a general rule.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some words in -er have feminine counterparts in -ress . 1", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And most words that end with -man can be feminized by changing it to -woman .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But for any given word, the only way to tell whether such a feminized version exists is to look it up in the dictionary.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In other words, you can't really go about creating feminine equivalents of random occupational words; you can merely use feminine equivalents, if they exist.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Note also that there is a tendency towards using one word for all genders.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sometimes, this involves using a genderless equivalent: police officer instead of policeman/policewoman , or flight attendant instead of stewardess , for example.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Other times, it involves using the traditionally-male word for all genders: for example, actor for both male and female, instead of actor for male and actress for female. 1", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some -er occupations (used to) become -ster, e.g. baxter = female baker, and brewster = female brewer (of ale).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These terms went obsolete so long ago that most people these days don't even know that baker once had a feminine version.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/50/Martha", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Words with distinctly feminine forms are usually old.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Words that signify an occupation that formerly was exclusively male, or didn't exist in earlier times, seldom have feminine forms, and indeed, the use of feminine forms (even if they do exist) is dying out.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, if a word does end in -ess, it almost certainly refers to a female occupation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some words ending in -ess, being generally associated with females, have no (or very rarely used) male counterparts, for example \"seamstress\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/39/barbara beeton", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I can't speak for other English speaking nations, but in 21st century America just making an effort to draw a distinction between genders is all too often considered offensive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That having been said, I find a certain charm to gender specific terms.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Guess I'm just 'old fashioned'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Unfortunately English, especially Americanized English, has a tendency to outright steal words from other languages so spelling in English isn't as easy as some more orderly languages.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Even so, here are a couple of pointers:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If it ends in \"-tor\" then drop the -tor in favor of a \"-trix\" So \"aviator\" becomes \"aviatrix\" and \"administrator\" becomes \"administratrix\" If the word ends in \"-ter\"then drop the -ter in favor of \"-tress\" So \"hunter\" becomes \"huntress\" and \"enchanter\" becomes \"enchantress\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "And if all else fails you can try just hanging a \"-ess\" off the end of the word:", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "So \"lion\" becomes \"lioness\" and \"author\" becomes \"authoress\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But these are not rules you can count on because \"protector\" can become \"protectress\" and don't even bother looking for \"actrix\" in your spell check dictionary!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are a few other suffixes that indicate female gender but the rules of spelling get even more obscure.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Such as \"farmer\" becomes \"farmerette\" and \"wolf\" becomes \"she-wolf\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What can I say- besides \"Good Luck!\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3003/Jay", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It isn't that important, and some words can't be feminised, such as the ones mentioned in the question.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "People would normally attempt to use, if possible, a genderless word so as not to cause possible offence,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/12/Liam W", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I read classical literature as a hobby.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here's my understanding of the suffix ess.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Prince is to princess.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Duke is to duchess.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Master is to mistress.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Emperor is to empress.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Baron is to baroness.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Count is to countess.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These are titles of British aristocracy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I, personally, would assume the suffix ess fits well with titles given to a person of nobility.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are some exceptions that I've read.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Lioness is the female lion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It probably comes down to what is pleasing to the listener.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The word actor is a gender neutral word that defines an occupation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I, personally, wouldn't feminize any words that are gender neutral.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Make any sense?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hope this helps.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3251/Giovanni", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "If it ends in \"-tor\" then drop the -tor in favor of a \"-trix\" So \"aviator\" becomes \"aviatrix\" and \"administrator\" becomes \"administratrix\" If the word ends in \"-ter\" then drop the -ter in favor of \"-tress\" So \"hunter\" becomes \"huntress\" and \"enchanter\" becomes \"enchantress\". However, some words can't be feminised, such as the ones mentioned in the question, and as there is no general rule, a dictionary is a good reference.", "Words with feminine forms tend to be old and there is no general rule. Suffixes can give an indication, but you should consult a dictionary." ] ]

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[ [ "You should check the dictionary, but suffixes can provide an indication.", "There is no general rule, words with feminine forms tend to be old." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "From here , they have no difference in meaning; but nope is more informal, only used in a sense of opposite to yes (or yup ).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also, nope is not used often in writing.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "You wouldn't say \"there were nope errors\", for example.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/24/Renan", "score": 72 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The first and most important point to note it that it's very informal (", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "more so than using contractions such as my it's there, for example).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The main reason for using it at all stems from that \"extreme informality\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It normally conveys a relaxed attitude on the part of the speaker.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Depending on context, it can be more or less emphatic than \"No\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You only use nope to mean", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[my answer is] \"No\" – it never replaces no in any other contexts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And you wouldn't normally use it where you want to be very emphatic (shouting \"No!\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "at the top of your voice).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Which example illustrates a defining characteristic – \"Nope\" isn't often followed by an exclamation mark!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Finally, I'd echo John Lawler's words: \"nope\" occurs only as a one-word answer to Y/N questions .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's to say, a written form such as: \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Nope", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't want to\" doesn't look right.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We expect a full stop (or at the very least a comma) after \"Nope\" because in real-world speech there always would be a pause there.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But that doesn't happen with: \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "No I don't want to!\" because it's perfectly possible to speak those words without pausing appreciably after \"No\" (without necessarily placing extra stress on \"don't\" , either; I just italicised it as one possible enunciation).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/126/FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica", "score": 27 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Nope\" is informal.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You wouldn't usually want to use it, for example, answering questions for a job interview, but it would be an appropriate answer to a friend's question \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Have you seen that movie yet?\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/39/barbara beeton", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In my opinion Nope is a dismissive and slightly rude version of no.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Nope should never be used in a professional context e.g. it should never be used as an option for web site or search engine users to select as a response to a question, because it makes the company using it look un-professional and rude to their customers.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "The use of the word nope by Google and others makes me cringe so much that I will never click on it in response to a question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10185/Richard Bell", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Nope is used informally, normally during chat where you want to give a quick, fluid answer to a question without halting it like 'No' would.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "They both mean the same thing, and 'Nope' is very rarely written.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/12/Liam W", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I agree with the person who says that nope is dismissive and slightly rude and I would add that a text nope feels rude to the recipient.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "It feels like a \"final\" no.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/47608/Audrey", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think the context has a lot to do with how the word Nope is perceived: Somebody asks you for something.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "- Will you do something for me?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "- Nope.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "<< Rude Somebody asks for information.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "- Is your name Sam?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "- Nope.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "<< Playful / informal Maybe the word Nope implies a casual, relaxed attitude, which in some cases may come off as dismissive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/55436/kreshnov", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Nope is an informal variant of one of the meanings No which is: 3 : not so —used to express negation, dissent, denial, or refusal (", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "e.g. no, I'm not going) Webster-Merriam", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That is why, we can only use it for Yes/No questions .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/12041/XPMai", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think there's another nuance in meaning beyond the informal vs formal.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For instance: You don't think I'm pretty.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If someone responds \"no\" it is because he is disagreeing with the statement - he actually does think the speaker is pretty.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If someone responds \"nope\" it is because he agrees with the implication - he really does not think the speaker is pretty.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a subtle difference, but one to note.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/26343/GrammarNerd", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "'Nope' is a variant of 'no' (exclamation).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "First known use: 1888 ( M-W )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Phonologically, pronunciation can explain where the P came from.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Suppose someone asked you a question", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and you said 'No'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You'd usually pause after saying 'No' (exclamation) with your lips already positioned to articulate a P,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "that's why most people articulate a P.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's called excrescent P .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Sometimes producing a little puff of air is for emphasising 'no' while leaving it unreleased indicates lazy and sloppy speech.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/106592/Wistful", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think there is a subtle difference between emphatic and dismissive or terminal.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And I think that nope is often used in the latter two ways.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Think of how the lips must close together and this gives nope its terminal feeling in a physical way.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Pursed lips.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Can't pry them open.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not going to change.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/22685/Foxhunter", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "They both mean the same thing, and 'Nope' is very rarely written. \"Nope\" is informal and may be considered dismissive and final. It should not be used in a formal context.", "Nope is informal, dismissive and slightly rude. It is very rarely written." ] ]

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[ [ "Nope is informal and very rarely written.", "Nope is dismissive and slightly rude." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "There's nothing in the language that requires you to characterize with a noun.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can frame your discourse much less awkwardly with constructions like: My friend Sidney?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "she'll be there, too ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have a friend, Sidney, her command of English", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "is amazing ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There's this girl, Sidney, friend of mine from school ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You know my friend Sidney, Ed's little sister ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My friend Sidney's pregnant ... Talk about the person, not the role, and Great Mother English will take care of you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus", "score": 152 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "My female friend is a perfectly acceptable and understandable way of putting it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "A slightly more awkward phrasing that I have also heard is", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My friend, who is a girl... .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/33/waiwai933", "score": 121 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In written English, you could use girl friend rather than girlfriend .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "According to Wiktionary, the former means a female friend, whereas the latter means a female partner.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/54/Andrew Grimm", "score": 50 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If you are a male, the phrase \"female friend\" works.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If you are a female, the phrase \"girlfriend\" is actually acceptable, though somewhat uncommon depending on region.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "But English speakers tend to be unspecific unless the conversation requires you to specify your friend's gender.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/53/Ken Bellows", "score": 30 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Probably the easiest and simplest way is to just call her your friend and refer to her with a female pronoun.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, \"My friend Sidney is helping me move.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She'll be here in an hour.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" \"Female friend\" or \"girl friend\" is grammatically correct, but it calls a lot more attention to gender, which can be awkward.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "(If you talk about your male friends as \"friends\" and your female friends as \"female friends,\" it implies that they're somehow a different kind of friend because they're female.)", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/119/Kelly Tessena Keck", "score": 21 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You might say \"my friend <her name>\", if her name is unambiguously female.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "That avoids the problem without being specific about her gender.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/39/barbara beeton", "score": 15 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's not unusual in this situation to dispel ambiguity by further specifying the origin or current context of your friendship.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This can be done with a simple compound of the context and the word friend (alternatively, 'partner' or possibly 'buddy' -", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "although this is more commonly applied to men).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Examples: family-friend school-friend drinking-buddy bridge-partner", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you wish to make gender obvious, then it's best to use a pronoun to do this.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5446/bruised reed", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "My platonic lady friend.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This states that you are just friends.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Platonic says your just friends and avoids lady/female friend being interpreted improperly.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As suggested by J.R. as well, you can say: She's a platonic friend.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here gender is shown by the pronoun she.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/67/Mark Robinson", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If it's just some girl you know, try: A friend of mine, her name is Hildegart.... or:", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Hildegart, a friend of mine... if it's your girl, use: My girlfriend Hildegart is giving the ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2109/ost as a guest", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A friend who is a girl may be either \"a girl friend\" or \"a girlfriend\" .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Girlfriend - sex = girl friend.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Girl friend :-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It means there is an empty space for someone more special.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Girlfriend :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "- It means there is no space for someone else to be more important.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The same explanation occurs with 'boy friend' and 'boyfriend' .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/114137/Sandip Kumar Mandal", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "If a distinction has to be made, you could say \"female friend\", \" or simply \"friend\" followed by her name or a female pronoun. \"My platonic lady friend\" has also been suggested. Girl friend could also be used, but may be ambiguous in spoken English.", "You can refer to them as your female friend and use female pronouns, or use 'girl friend', 'female friend' or 'lady friend'." ] ]

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[ [ "You can use 'girl friend', 'female friend' or 'lady friend'.", "You can refer to them as your friend and use female pronouns." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Both are correct , though there are some specific usages as pointed in another answer; Google Ngrams suggests that indices is slightly more used than indexes .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "For American English", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "we have (in both charts, indices is blue and indexes is red):", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For British English", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "we have:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/24/Renan", "score": 20 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "OED states : Forms : Pl. indexes (also 16 index's ) and indices /ˈɪndɪsiːz/ .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Etymology : < Latin inde , indic-em , plural indicēs , the forefinger, an informer, sign, inscription.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[...]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In current use the plural is indices in senses 8, 9, and usually in other senses except 5, in which indexes is usual.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And the respective senses are: (5):", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "index in the end of the book etc. ; (8): mathematical index, and (9): 9.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In various sciences, a number or formula expressing some property, form, ratio, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "of the thing in question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/56/theUg", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Both indexes and indices are correct .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "A question like this can be settled by checking a good dictionary.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I checked my answer by going to OneLook.com , a great starting point for many online English dictionaries.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/41/MetaEd", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Unfortunately, the problem goes far beyond this particular noun to pretty much all nouns of direct Latin descent.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As people study Latin less and less, the use of Latin plural forms is slowly eroding.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In general, the more a word has found its way into common usage, the more likely that the English plural has replaced the Latin.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, \"status\" is both the singular and plural form in Latin, but \"statuses\" is common even though it sounds awkward.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We all speak of \"an agenda\", when actually \"some agenda\" is correct in the Latin sense; one of a group of agenda is an \"agendum\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Similarly, one item of data is a datum, but we rarely say \"the data are on the way.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't see \"fora\" in place of \"forums\" except in forums that I would never join. :)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand, we generally say \"appendices\", I suspect primarily because \"appendixes\" sounds funny.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I see both \"curricula\" and \"curriculums\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Further, though, I never see \"genuses\", always \"genera\", and likewise for \"quantums\" vs. \"quanta\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1883/BobRodes", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Both are correct, though indexes is more commonly associated with the index reference of a book, while indices tends to be used with numerical symbols and ratios.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/107/Walrus", "score": 3 } } ]

[ [ "Both indexes and indices are correct although indexes is more commonly associated with the index reference of a book, while indices tends to be used with numerical symbols and ratios. OED states: Forms: Pl. indexes (also 16 index's ) and indices /ˈɪndɪsiːz/ .", "Indexes is used more in referencing, indices in numerical symbols and rations. Both are correct." ] ]

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[ [ "Both are correct.", "Indexes is used more in referencing, indices in numerical symbols and rations." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "I thought I'd add this as well, just for those who are inferring that \"Here Be Dragons\" is an inference on the illiteracy of the scholars during the middle ages.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've separated it out from the other answer because it's not a direct answer to the question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Anyway, \"Here Be Dragons\" is actually just an example of Old English (it is invalid modern English)- in particular", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it's just an inversion of a sentence in the Old English sentence ordering.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In particular Here Be Dragons Is an inversion of [", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "if] here, there Dragons are In much the same way that in Jack and the Beanstalk the sentence Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread is an inversion of the sentence [if he is] alive or dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread Now \"If here, there dragons are\" is a word ordering that is no longer valid (although the word order should be familiar to German speakers which has the same sentence structure as Old English), and that is why the sentence \"Here Be Dragons\" is no longer valid.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Note that the subjunctive form in English is still there, so we can construct our own sentences to show that this is still valid English so long as we shuffle the word order around:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I must insist that you be here by 9 am tomorrow for a debrief.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I agree with the recommendation that komodo dragons be here in the public part of the zoo where visitors can see them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So anyway, long story short is that \"Here Be Dragons\" used to be valid English, but no longer is.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Its use idiomatically is used to insinuate \"oldness\" rather than \"illiteracy\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/307/Matt", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I haven't been able to discover exactly where the notion arose that Ancient Mariners inscribed their maps with “Here be dragons”, “Here be demons”, “Here be treasure” and the like legends (the earliest use I've found dates to 1892, and clearly speaks of this use as an established fact).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "But I feel reasonably certain that Here be was not intended to represent illiterate speech but either period or regional dialect.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Be for all persons and numbers in the present indicative is supposed to be characteristic of West Country speech, and Devon in particular has strong traditional connections with sea-faring folk: “Drake, he was a Devon man”, and the stock “pirate speech” of Hollywood is the generic dialect which theatre people call “Mummerset”.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The same conjugation is found in 19th-century “historical” novels and mock-mediaevalism: ”This is a strange shaft,” said the lad, looking at the arrow in his hand.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "”Aye, by my faith!”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "cried Bennet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“Black, and black-feathered.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here is an ill-favoured shaft, by my sooth!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "for black, they say, bodes burial.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And here be words written.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wipe the blood away.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What read ye?”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "—Stevenson, The Black Arrow , 1888", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“I tell thee, Brother Nicodemus, thy offences are numberless as the weeds which grow by the way-side.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here be many who have much to say of thee :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "—speak, Brother Ulick!”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "—William Clarke, Three Courses and a Dessert , 1830", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In \"Here be dragons\", \"be\" is an archaic subjunctive plural form.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The subjunctive mood is a flexible grammatical instrument for expressing different gradients in thought when referring to events that are not stated as fact.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I.e.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"here be dragons\" means \"here are supposed to be dragons (as they say)\", not just \"here are dragons (a true fact)\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The grammar is perfectly legitimate for 500 years ago.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/20037/carsten", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Deliberate misspelling is very common in literature.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Cacography is deliberate misspelling intended to convey humorous sense or just exaggerating someone's illiteracy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See also Sensational spelling .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It has similar effect, but using literate, but rare or dialectal spelling of a word or phrase.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this particular case, it is ridiculing about pirates who were usually illiterate when they made maps of their treasures.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/27/bytebuster", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Here be dragons\" is an idiom used to denote dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of the medieval practice of putting dragons, sea serpents and other mythological creatures in uncharted areas of maps.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is only ever used in its grammatically incorrect form as an idiom meaning \"this is uncharted territory\", or somewhere that is unexplained and to be avoided, particularly in the context of a map or a place that is out-of-bounds or unexplored.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, this map is taken from XKCD (a online, English-language computer-related comic strip) which references the \"here be dragons\" idiom in the top right: Be careful when using this idiom.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is very informal, and can lead to offence in some circumstances.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(e.g. \"Don't talk to the people on the floor below -", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "there be dragons down there\" may cause offence to people from the first floor who overhear).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you intend to say literally \"There are dragons at this location\", you would use the grammatically correct forms There are dragons here.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or the active form:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Dragons 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[ [ "Some people claim that in \"Here be dragons\", \"be\" is an archaic subjunctive plural form. Others say it is an idiom used to denote dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of the medieval practice of putting dragons, sea serpents and other mythological creatures in uncharted areas of maps. Ancient Mariners are said to have inscribed their maps with “Here be dragons”, “Here be demons”, or “Here be treasure” , for example. This may have been due to regional or period dialect, which is no longer correct.", "This is an archaic subjunctive plural idiom. It is suggested that this could be deliberate misspelling or a representation of dialect." ] ]

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[ [ "This is an idiom in archaic subjunctive plural.", "It is suggested that this could be deliberate misspelling or a representation of dialect." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Or can be used to extend questions where there are other options not being mentioned that the respondent can fill in.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Generally speaking, it cannot turn a declarative statement into a question.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Examples of where it would be properly used are: Do you want to go to the movies, or ...?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "[the mall] Would tuna for lunch be ok, or ...?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[no, I'll have salmon instead]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is important to note that typically, or would only be used followed by a trailing ellipses.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "More common are yes and no , which can be used to turn declarative statements into questions, such as: She found $20 at the beach, no?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[\"didn't she\" is another acceptable alternative to \"no\" here]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He had lunch yesterday at McDonald's, yes?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Either way, whether you use yes or or or no , such usage is generally accepted in speech and in informal writing, but not in formal writing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/33/waiwai933", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A very common equivalent in English is right .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "For example: Aber das ist wahr, oder?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Is directly equivalent in English to:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But that’s correct, right?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/41/MetaEd", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "This doesn't doesn't sound right to me, a native speaker, and a native speaker wouldn't do this.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "A question can end in or , however that is used as a prompt to the answerer, asking if there could be another solution.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Other than that, this wouldn't be used this way.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/12/Liam W", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In speech, especially if the or trails off expectantly, this would be a fairly natural usage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It would imply that the questioner is open to some other answer as an alternative to the one implied in the question or context.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "t would never be used in formal writing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/7/Ryan Haber", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's possible, but the more natural expression would be ... or something?...", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "or what?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "as in Do you want to see a movie or something?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Is this correct, or what?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/68/Robusto", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "waiwai's answer is very good and detailed, but I have something else", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd like to add.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Judging from the question and some other comments, I'm thinking that the closest English construction to the original German is \"or not\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So she found the shell on the beach, or not?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As you said, the \"or\" in german is use to change a declarative into a question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So she found the shell on the beach\" is a perfectly acceptable declarative sentence; in English the \"or not\" is appended to the end to change it into a question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To use your original example, \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But that's correct, or not?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" would be a perfectly acceptable English construction.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It seems to me that the only difference is that in German the \"not\" is implied, whereas in English it has to be stated outright.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So that answers your question, or not?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ";)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As others have suggested, \"right\" can also be used in these situations, as can \"yes\" or \"no\" (", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "depending on whether the statement was positive or negative).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But this seems to be the closest construction to what you mentioned in the question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/289/WendiKidd", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "A very common equivalent in English is \"right\", as in \"But that’s correct, right?\" . An example of where it would be properly used is: \"Do you want to go to the movies, or ...?\", although the more natural expression would be \"... or something?\". In this context, \"or\" is being used to imply a question where there are other options that the respondent can fill in.", "Or' cannot make a declarative into a question, it can extend questions to unmentioned options. 'Right' is more fitting for this purpose." ] ]

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[ [ "Right' makes more sense than 'or' for this purpose.", "Or' cannot make a declarative into a question, it can extend questions to unmentioned options." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Language is always changing, and most often in the direction of simplification.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can even see the evolution happening before your own eyes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"All ready\" became \"already\" ; \"all right\" is in the process, through usage and repetition, of becoming \"alright\" (if not in fact \"a'ight\").", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is already accepted as an informal alternative to \"all right\" and I predict that it will supplant the two-word version altogether (!) except in the most formal writing (e.g., academic papers) within the lifetimes of many of us.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/68/Robusto", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I would say that yes, there are contexts where only \"all right\" is acceptable.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "As an example: Are any of the answers wrong?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "No, they are all right i.e., all of them are correct.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have found that alright seems to be following the example of all ready vs. already and all together vs. altogether.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "In both cases, as I did above, one could add the phrase \"of them are\" to each of the former terms and make it completely clear what is meant, whereas each of the latter terms have entirely different meanings.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Alright has come to mean acceptable, okay, and safe, as in \"the kids are alright\" - very much a comforting phrase if there has been some kind of accident or the like! \"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The kids are all right\" in that same context would have an extremely confusing connotation: the kids would not all be correct after an accident.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I would also like to point out that the way a word or phrase achieves acceptance and legitimacy is by usage, and \"alright\" certainly has this on its side!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2630/Warjna Waleska Kaztjmjr", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It seems that historically, all right was the only accepted version.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Alright is more recent, and can either be seen as a shortened form of all right , or can have a slightly different meaning.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Something that is all right is in order, and we are at peace with it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Something that is alright can be seen as simply satisfactory.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/25/Squazic", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I checked four dictionaries and they all agreed that \"alright\" is an informal equivalent of \"all right.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, informal doesn't mean wrong; it merely means informal.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thus, \"alright\" is perfectly acceptable in informal contexts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/80/Scott Severance", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Alright is technically incorrect, but common, and therefore, proper grammar.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is used informally, as well as in situations where space isn't abundant, for instance, on signs and Twitter tweets.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is also used in quotes within many stories due to its commonness of use.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/67/Mark Robinson", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "On top of answers of others — there are contexts where only \"all right\" is accepted, and I don't mean formal/informal.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "— Are there any left-threaded bolts in the bin? — No, they are all right.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/30/SF.", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "It seems that historically, all right was the only accepted version. Alright is more recent, and can either be seen as a shortened form of all right , or can have a slightly different meaning. For example, something that is all right is in order, and we are at peace with it. Something that is alright can be seen as simply satisfactory or OK. Alright is technically incorrect, but common, and therefore, proper grammar. Four dictionaries all agree that \"alright\" is an informal equivalent of \"all right.\"", "All right can mean everything is is in order, whilst alright is simply satisfactory/safe. Alright is a more recent development and can mean the same as all right. All right can also be meant in the sense of right/left." ] ]

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[ [ "All right can mean everything is is in order, whilst alright is simply satisfactory/safe.", "Alright is a more recent development and can mean the same as all right.", "All right can refer to right/left." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "What you are talking about is called \" Conversion \" in linguistics (turning one form of a word into another) and more specifically \"Verbification\" in the case you are asking about (changing non-verbs into verbs).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So specifically answering your question —", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Yes, you can Skype someone, but you won't likely hear \"chat someone\" in correct usage.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Even \"Skype someone\" is somewhat new and would likely only be considered acceptable usage in informal circles.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That is simply by convention simply because one came into common usage, while the other… hasn't.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Honestly, there are no rules that determine when a noun can become a verb.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is simply a matter of when it becomes common enough usage to become acceptable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can \"phone, fax, or text me", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" but you can't \"cell, smartphone, or iPhone me\" —", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Strange right?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wait, it gets crazier — You can \"bus someone\" across town, but you wouldn't \"plane someone\" across the country.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can \"gun someone down\" but you would not \"pistol someone down.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" You can \"hammer a nail\" but you wouldn't \"screwdriver a screw.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" You can \"milk a cow\" but you can't \"egg a chicken.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Fortunately, you can search the web to determine if something has become common usage , but be sure to use canonical or at least well-vetted sources (newspapers, books, articles, etc), not chat, street talk, or forums… which are more prone to slang and unconventional language use.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/48/Robert Cartaino", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "No, you cannot say I have chat someone.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "You could say I chatted with someone.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Using the term I've skyped someone is informal and I would only use it when communicating with friends, if even then.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/81/juergen d", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "One wonder of the English language is that any word can be verbed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can say: I [have] chatted [someone].", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's very colloquial, but will be understood.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "More correct would be:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I chatted with [someone].", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They have slightly different connotations.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have chatted Bob.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This suggests that you sent a chat request to Bob; he may or may not have responded, and a conversation ensued.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have chatted with Bob.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This suggests that you and Bob engaged in a mutual chat conversation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Another use of the word chat would be:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I chatted up Bob.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This would mean you spent a long time chatting to Bob, likely for the purpose of obtaining favor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Many people peruse bars to \"chat up the girls.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/69/Flimzy", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In my understanding, when you say \"I've skyped someone\" you are referring to the act of \"calling someone\", which then is understood as speaking with someone.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Chatting would be the act of speaking itself, so both are not comparable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Now, that being said, \"I've skyped someone\" is incorrect, but understood, as \"I googled this or that\" is.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I chat someone\" is both incorrect and senseless.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As others have mentioned, English does have a great tendency to change words into whatever part of speech is required, including verbification.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thus, the brand names Skype and Google easily give rise to the verbs skyping and googling , respectively.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, this tendency has limits.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Namely, the language tends to resist changing a word into something that already exists.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Successful coinages are successful because they fill a void; if there is no void, there's no point inventing a new word for it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Chat is already a verb, and has been one since long before computers were invented.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Therefore, there is no need to invent an awkward transitive", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I chatted him\" when there is already the well-established intransitive \"I chatted with him\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That said, not having a point doesn't always prevent people from inventing words anyway.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In a sense, googling is a pointless coinage, because there was already the perfectly good verb searching .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There's no rules or even predictability about this: some coinages take off, others inexplicably don't.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(And in fact you will sometimes find people using \"chat\" with a direct object, sometimes even with a different shade of meaning than it would have without a direct object.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's just that these usages have an extra \"that sounds wrong\" obstacle to overcome.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "All you can do, especially as a learner, is to follow established practice as much as possible: if you hear multiple native speakers use a particular expression, it's probably fine to imitate them, but it's generally best if you don't go around inventing usages of your own, at least not until you're very, very comfortable with the language.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/50/Martha", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Yes, you can say.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you say, for example, \"I have chatted to a few women on the Net,\" it means that you exchanged messages in real time over a computer network with one or more users.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/95/kiamlaluno", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Yes that is proper, but remember you must double the t at the end.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For instance: I chatted with my friend on AIM", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and he said \"hi\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However you must use \" with \", to be proper, as skyped isn't actually proper, but slang, but very common in informal usage.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/67/Mark Robinson", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Although \"skyped\" is common in informal usage, you would not say \"I chat someone\" You would say \"I chatted with someone\".", "I chat someone is incorrect, you can say I chat with. I've skyped someone is informal." ] ]

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[ [ "Skyping someone can be understood as calling them and is informal.", "I chat someone is incorrect, you can say I chat with." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "As mentioned, darn or dang are the closest approximations of damn , and crap also works, but other common alternatives include: shoot geez man!", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "what the heck!", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "(or hell , but that's closer to cursing)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/53/Ken Bellows", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "What you're looking for is a minced oath version of \"damn it\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You have many options.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you want to stay as close as possible to \"damn it\", just without the objectionable \"damn\" in there, you can use almost any single-syllable word that starts with D.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "The most common are: • dang", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it •", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "darn", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it • dern", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it If you just want an interjection you can use when things go awry, the possibilities multiply.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "• shoot (instead of shit ) • shucks (instead of shit ; though note that \"oh shucks\" has a different meaning than \"oh shit\") • heck (instead of hell ) •", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "gosh (instead of god )", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "• what the hey (instead of \" what the hell \")", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "•", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "oh my lord (instead of \" oh my god", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\")", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "•", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "fricking (instead of fucking )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "•", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "oh fudge (instead of \" oh fuck", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\")", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are also some expressions that aren't really a minced variant of anything more explicit, but are used in the same sorts of situations.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The one that comes to mind is \" oh dear \", but the stereotypical southern grandma could probably list a lot more.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/50/Martha", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "One could borrow expressions from fictional characters: \"Oh, bother\", from Winnie-the-Pooh \"Rats\", from Peanuts Spoken forcefully, they can express extreme exasperation, yet be fit for the ears of children.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Drat\" also works, though it is probably dated.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/39/barbara beeton", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Dang it\" is the exact same meaning, except less intense.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "As stated above you can say crap, but some might find that inappropriate (small children).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Furthurmore darn it is also useable.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Or for a similar meaning, you could also say \"Oh, No!\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/67/Mark Robinson", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Darn it is the less intense version of damn it", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": ".There's also crap , which is the less intense version of the s word.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/25/Squazic", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "'Bugger' is used a lot in this corner of the world (Australia/NZ).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is probably about the same 'politeness level' as damn it (and was even the running gag word in a nationally shown Toyota commercial ) -", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "though I expect this would be less so if people looked up the definition.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As the link shows, it is definitely used in the type of situations you describe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/89/mcalex", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "\"Dang it\" has the same meaning as \"Damn it\", but less intense. You could borrow expressions from fictional characters: \"Oh, bother\", from Winnie-the-Pooh, or \"Rats\", from Peanuts. You could also say \"Oh, No!\". Other more polite substitutions include \"What the hey\", \"shoot\", \"shucks\", \"heck\", and \"gosh\".", "Dang it and darn it are viable alternatives. There are numerous alternatives, though some are inappropriate for children. You can also use expressions from fictional characters." ] ]

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[ [ "You can use expressions from fictional characters.", "There are numerous alternatives, though some are inappropriate for children.", "Dang or darn it could be used." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The only difference between in spite of and despite is the ‘of’.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "You don't use \"Despite of the reason \".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You use \"Despite the reason \" Despite the pain in his leg he completed the marathon.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It seems to me \"in spite of\" is a slightly more elaborate form, to be used in more fancy, most formal writing. \"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Despite\" is not informal but not quite that elaborate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "edit: as mcalex mentions, \"Despite of\" (and even \"In despite of\") is not incorrect, it's just an almost dead archaic form .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/30/SF.", "score": 36 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"despite\" and \"in spite of\" are synonyms.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "As per this reference from Lawless English : \"Despite\" means \"even though,\" \"notwithstanding,\" or \"regardless of.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "\" It's the opposite of \"because of/due to,\" and can be used with a noun or gerund.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She had difficulty communicating in French despite all her years of study.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We lost the game, despite the fact that we practiced all week.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Despite not having an umbrella, I walked home in the rain.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In spite of\" means exactly the same thing and is used exactly the same way as \"despite.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She had difficulty communicating in French in spite of all her years of study.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We lost the game, in spite of the fact that we practiced all week.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In spite of not having an umbrella, I walked home in the rain.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, they can safely be used interchangeably.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You may notice that in all the above examples, \"despite\" has not been used with \"of\" but it can definitely be used in certain contexts such as this: A large number of ladies, both from this City and abroad, who had come out, despite of the driving rain-storm, were in attendance, and occupied seats in the galleries.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And again here, it is absolutely interchangeable with \"in spite of\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/92/Mohit", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "To me, while they, in many cases, can be used interchangeably, the choice of wording can imply a subtle shift in meaning.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In spite of has the connotation of doing something with a bit of rebellion or desire to irritate as a motivation.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "spite : Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So I would use in spite of in a case like: \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I went downtown to the party in spite of my parents' warning that it wasn't safe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In other words, use in spite of when your attitude is: Warning be damned, I'm doing it anyway.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I thumb my nose at your so-called warning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Despite doesn't seem to have that same desire to irritate or be contrary behind it, and can be used when an action is taken that may fly in the face of information which would argue against it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "So I would use despite in a case where I wanted to emphasize the decision rather than the motivation behind it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If I said instead, \"I went downtown despite my parents' warning that it wasn't safe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" I would be saying that I considered my parents' advice but concluded that either the risk was worth it, or that the risk was overstated or that the three friends I was going with were big enough to protect me, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/147/Jim", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "This has been covered in an EL&U question , which pertains more specifically to the sytax of the two, rather than the difference.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Basically, they mean the same (both options have been suggested as being the more 'formal'), and general usage says you should only use 'in spite of', or 'despite' (but not 'despite of').", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, the 'despite of' usage is not illegal, though it is fairly rare, and as they suggest in the EL&U answer, something that you only bring up when you get caught out doing it accidentally.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/89/mcalex", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I do agree that the two; 'despite' and 'in spite of', are \"interchangeable'.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "However, the \"subtle distinction\" mentioned earlier, in itself, makes it a matter of fact that they are not the same because not even the word 'interchangeable\" means \"the same\". '", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "in spite of', suggests a connotation to a degree of contempt or rebellion.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Where as, 'Despite' is usually more of a neutral contradiction within a circumstance.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Examples of proper usage: \"I'm going to marry him in spite of his extensive criminal record.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" \"Due to his extensive criminal record, we will not employ him despite his impressive resume.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"or simply: \"I will not marry her despite the children we have together.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I will marry him in spite of the amount of times he cheated\" 'in spite of' is a preposition to be used in front of a negative instancesand 'despite' is used when contradicting a positive instance.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These ought not be confused with the infinitive verb \"to spite\", which is meant as a direct rebellion: \"I punched him in the face to spite him.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8729/Swanful", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think the two words can be used interchangeably depending on the messege the user intend to send; the 'verb' here connotes the \"power\" of any fo the two.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Spite could mean rebellion in real sense but could also connote courage or boldness depending on the usage", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10916/Akila Bulus", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ " \"Despite\" and \"in spite of\", are synonyms and are interchangeable. However, some argue that \"in spite of\", suggests a degree of contempt or rebellion, whereas \"despite\" is more neutral.", "The two are subtly different. 'In spite of' is more elaborate and implies rebellion whilst 'despite' is more neutral and circumstancial." ] ]

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[ [ "The two can be used interchangeably and are subtly different.", "In spite of' is more elaborate and implies rebellion.", "Despite' is more neutral and circumstancial." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Yes, \"snows\" can be used just like this in English.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "A classic of English literature is Hemingway's story \"The Snows of Kilimanjaro\" .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/154/Mark Beadles", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "'Snow' is what is called a 'mass noun'.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Like 'water' or 'traffic', it already describes a collection of things (a mass) and so there isn't likely a number of such items, just some of it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "'", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The snow that fell overnight was deep' is correct. '", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The snows that fell overnight were deep' is incorrect (or poetic)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can however talk about multiple instances of water, 'the glasses of water' which can be said grammatically as 'the waters in those glasses' but that is a strange transformation, almost poetic, and surely to be avoided in speech and most writing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The same goes for 'snow'. '", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The snows that fell in each of the towns were deep.' works and occurs, but is a somewhat strange way to say it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One would more likely reword it to avoid the strange plural.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "'", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The snow that fell in each of the towns was deep.' or to emphasize that a snowfall occurred in a number of towns, and though the depth was different in each one, the amounts were all deep.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "'", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The different amounts of snow in the towns were all deep.'", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "sounds much better.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the answer is yes, 'snows' can be used as a plural noun but it is not common and is not natural sounding.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "So if you are translating from a language with plural snow, you should reword to avoid the plural.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "For a comparison here is the google nGram comparing 'the snow' and 'the snows' :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/37/Mitch", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Yes, snows may be used as a noun.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, when it is, it is not simply the plural of snow .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Snow is itself a \"mass noun\", meaning a singular form that refers to a large collection of small things.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The plural refers to episodes or events involving snow.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In other words, snows refers to several instances of \"snow falls\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The heavy snows on the north side of the mountain frequently cause avalanches.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A similar case is a word like sand , where the singular noun for actually refers to a large collection of grains of sand, but you could refer to \"the barren sands of Africa\" and people will understand various different deserts full of sand rather than just one.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/194/Caleb", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Yes, it is an English word.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is occasionally used in the way that Mark Beadles described.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However it is usually used in sentences such as, \" It usually snows between November and March. \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See Google Ngram Viewer: snows, it snows, the snows, of snows :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/94/ctype.h", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Most translations of François Villon’s poem, “Ballade des dames du temps jadis”, use snows in the refrain, where “Mais où sont les neiges d’antan” becomes “But where are the snows of yesteryear?”", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/141/tchrist", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Snows\" would be plural, and therefore a noun, when referring to INSTANCES of \"snowing.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Such \"instances\" may take place on separate days, \"the SNOWS of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday,\" or in different places, the SNOWS of New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1355/Tom Au", "score": 2 } } ]

[ [ "\"Snow\" is itself a mass noun, meaning a singular form that refers to a large collection of small things. So yes, \"snows\" can be used as a plural noun. Snows refers to several instances of \"snow falls\". ", "Snows' can refer to multiple instances of snow. 'Snow' itself is a mass noun and the plural is generally avoided." ] ]

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[ [ "Snow is a mass noun, you would usually reword to avoid the plural.", "Snows' can refer to multiple instances of snow." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, in", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Reader Over Your Shoulder , offer this “scale of approximate counting”: one or two, two or three, a few, several, a dozen or so, a score or so, a dozen or two, a score or two, a few dozen, dozens, a hundred or so, a few score, scores, a hundred or two, a few hundred, hundreds, a thousand or so, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So I’d think, abstractly, that a few might be three or four to six or seven.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Fewer than several .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But as Anderson Silva says, context is everything.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus", "score": 18 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Here, xkcd explains words for small sets.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Source", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/329/razpeitia", "score": 18 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "IMHO, there is no rule, it really depends on the context and what you are talking about.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example: A few people in a studium watching a show, there could be dozens, even hundreds of them, while a few things in a backpack could be just 3 or 4.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Another example: Quite a few students from our high school go on to college.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Would you say it is less than 10?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "IE, if it's not many , then it's a few .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hope it helps.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/290/Androiderson", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The way I always understood it was: For small amounts (e.g. less than 12) Where ONE was the number, then 'one' was the description.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Where TWO was the number, then 'a couple' (or even a 'brace') was the description.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Where THREE was the number, then 'a few' was the description.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When using this terminology, however, inexactitude was implied - therefore it could include FOUR or FIVE, but THREE would be the expected number.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I should note that where I am from (Ireland), the term 'a good few' would imply more again (even up to NINE or TEN) and indicate satisfaction with the number also.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This can be compared to the more generally used 'only a few', or 'few', which could indicate dis-satisfaction.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For larger amounts (e.g. stadia attendance) the rule of three could be adapted to fractions -", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "when only a third of the seats are filled, one could safely say the game was attended by 'few'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Obviously context is vital here, as you are still talking about several hundred - even thousand - people.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You are not so much referring to how many were there, as demonstrating verbally how many were not . '", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Few' in this instance is a negative term.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Another example of contextual usage would be in boxing or sparring, where someone would recieve or give 'a few' punches.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "No actual number is implied here - in fact, only a very general impression is implied - but suggests how well or poorly a fighter did over the entirety of the match.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Therefore, to answer your question, the actual numerical range indicated is only done so when dealing with already small amounts, and would generally be accepted to contain at least three, but allow for four or five.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "When using this term, inexactitude is a given and is indeed the primary implication when dealing with large numbers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/331/Eamonn", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's relative to the context.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "That context can be finite or infinite.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is intuitively more than 1 (a border-line certainty)It", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "is fewer or less than some or several, and definitely not many.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I would say,In a finite context, it is intuitively less than a tenth of a whole.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "in an infinite context, it is less than a tenth of what ever upper limit expressed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/328/Brett Caswell", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There is no exact quantification for the phrase \"a few\", since in general you are talking about a group, an amount of something", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "may it be big or small, the closest I think is, 50% of the average can cover \"a few\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But then again this is not mathematically proven..", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/342/mirageservo", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "It would generally be accepted to contain at least three, and a few may be three or four to six or seven. There is no rule, and it really depends on the context and what you are talking about.", "It depends on context, though the range may be between three and seven." ] ]

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[ [ "The range may be between three and seven.", "It depends on context." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "It's a sort of question, but not directed specifically at A; B is rhetorically playing out a question to himself.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Shall I go shopping?\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It might also invite input from A: \"I was considering going shopping ... unless you have a better suggestion?\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus", "score": 26 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It looks as if Person B is saying that he might go shopping, but that he is not certain.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It is common in very informal communication to append a question mark to indicate uncertainty.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In speech, this would usually be inflected as a question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/94/ctype.h", "score": 22 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's an open door, not a real question.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Person B is answering person A's question by a ‘suggestion’.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If person A has something to answer to that (“I can't stand shopping, why wouldn't we go …”, which is often what he has in the back of his mind when he asks for B's plans), then the question mark is welcoming him to express it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If person A has nothing to answer, then it's not a question for him, just a sign that person B is unsure about these plans.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "At least, that's the way I use that, and I do that very often.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/57/Nikana Reklawyks", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "B is putting forward a possibility in front of A which he himself is not sure of and sort of expects A to give him an answer which may or may not be a definite one.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Question mark in such a scenario would also indicate that B has a certain faith in A's judgement and that he expects that his answer will not be a futile one.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/92/Mohit", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I interpret this as B's question to himself, not to A, meaning \"maybe I should consider going shopping?\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "And it's probably not even a real question,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "although the vocal pattern is the same as for a question; when written, a question mark at the end is the only way to indicate that intonation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/39/barbara beeton", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It could mean B is not sure he would go shopping.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If the question were \"What should we do today?\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "or \"What are we going to do today?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" I would take \"Go shopping?\" as a suggestion for going shopping.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/95/kiamlaluno", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I use a question mark all the time, to me it means all of the above comments and to emphasize the point I'm trying to make and/or", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "hopefully the other person will give it more thought.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4776/Mike", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "This is an open door, or a suggestion, not a real question. It might also invite input in the conversation: \"I was considering going shopping ... unless you have a better suggestion?\". It might also be that the person is wondering if they might go shopping, but this is not certain.", "This is a suggestion inviting input." ] ]

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[ [ "This is a suggestion inviting input." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Wealthy and Rich are both synonymous in terms of money.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Both mean \"having a great deal of money and assets\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "So you can interchangebly use them to convey Bill Gates", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "is rich .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, you can see rich has various usages other than abundance of money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They can be found in the Oxford Dictionary hyperlink I have attached.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/91/Mistu4u", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There's also implications of social class in \"Wealthy\" that aren't as common with \"Rich\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In other words: If you say that Bill Gates is rich, you are saying he has lots of money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you say that Bill Gates is wealthy, you are saying that he is rich, & that he grew up with lots of money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A thesaurus at YourDictionary.com explains the difference as: rich is the general word for one who has more money, possessions, or income-producing property than is necessary to satisfy normal needs; wealthy adds to this connotation of grand living, influence in the community, a tradition of richness, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "William Safire, in a 1990 column , puts it as, \"a rich family has to wait until its money ages before it becomes a wealthy family.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/378/David Ross", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In terms of money, rich is used to describe someone who has a certain amount of money/liquid capital (it's relative, however much money makes you 'rich' in my eyes, might not necessarily make you 'rich' in the eyes of Bill Gates).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wealthy is also used in this way, however it is commonly used to describe someone who is beyond rich with just money alone (liquid cash, businesses, investments, etc) so to give an example, your favorite musician might be rich, but Bill Gates or Donald Trump would be considered wealthy.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/349/MDMoore313", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There is a big difference.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "When I was younger", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I thought they were the same, until Magic Johnson gave a interview.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He stated that there is a big difference between the two.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Even though I do not remember what he said word-for-word, I will always remember the gist of what he said.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To paraphrase: Wealthy is being able to provide for your family generations after your death (sustained money) and being rich is short-lived.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I am 33 years old", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have never forgotten that.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Me, personally, I want to be wealthy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Please GOD I have been praying and LORD", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I beg you make me wealthy, no matter what.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Amen", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8691/Jason", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There are some good answers here, but I'd like to point out yet another aspect.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wealthy may suggest a person who has enough money for their needs.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "At the same time, rich may connote someone who is demonstrating their money (sometimes, in an exaggerate way).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this regard, I would say, Bill Gates, who's spending a lot of his earnings to charity, is wealthy , while the person from an image below is rich .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/27/bytebuster", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It is also worth noting that \"wealthy\" is a much politer way of saying that someone has a lot of money than \"rich\" is.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Often, this is a topic that should be talked about with some caution.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So for example: He is rich!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ">", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is a slight air of disgust/jealousy perhaps; I am showing my opinion towards the fact that this person has a lot of money and it is slightly negative.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He is wealthy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ">", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I am simply commenting on the fact that this person has a lot of money, without showing my opinion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/101831/books4languages.com", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There is a difference between Switzerland without natural resources and Congo plenty of these resources (coper, titan..)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The first one is wealthy and the later is rich but poor", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/113359/Jean-Marie Mottoul", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Wealthy implies being able to provide for your family generations after your death (sustained money) and being rich is short-lived. \"Wealthy\" seems more polite and also has implications of social class that aren't as common with \"Rich\". Wealthy and Rich are both synonymous in terms of money. However, rich may describe who flashes their money, sometimes, in an exaggerated way.", "Wealthy has class implications and is more polite. Rich suggests that someone is demonstrating their money." ] ]

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[ [ "Wealthy has class implications and is more polite.", "They can be synonymous in terms of money, rich suggests demonstrating that you have money." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Doubtful may be used in several ways : Something that is causing doubt; A person who is unsure or expresses doubt; So, you can use doubtful in both contexts.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If you wish to be most precise, finding a synonym is easy: His experiments are questionable ( ambiguous , problematic ); His experiments are not convincing ; I'm skeptical about his experiments;", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/27/bytebuster", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I would say \"I am doubtful of his experiments.\" which has the opposite meaning of \"I am confident in his experiments.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/95/kiamlaluno", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It seems ok to me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But I'd use I'm doubtful about his experiments.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "And you could also use other words like questionable or unreliable :", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "His experiments are questionable / unreliable .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/290/Androiderson", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You might want to consider the word dubious for expressing your sentiments: His experiments are dubious .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "According to Macmillan , the word means: dubious ( adj. )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "not sure about the truth or quality of something:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm dubious about his ability to do the job. and Collins : dubious ( adj. ) marked by or causing doubt ⇒ a dubious reply of doubtful quality;", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "untrustworthy ⇒ a dubious reputation", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Indeed, the word is sometimes used to describe experiments:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In a dubious experiment, Leary had given psilocybin to hardened inmates in a state prison 1", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "An incomplete or less than certain theory becomes a \"model\"; a dubious experiment becomes a \"simulation\", and so on.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "2", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Remember, \"A dubious experiment can only beget a dubious result.\" (Glaucon) F O O T N O T E S 1 W.J. Rorabaugh, Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties , 2002. 2 L. Magnani & N.J. Nersessian, Model-Based Reasoning: Science, Technology, Values , 2002.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/113/J.R.", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Technically speaking, you could probably justify referring to doubtful experiments", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "where you mean you have doubts about any conclusions drawn from those experiments (for whatever reason).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But it doesn't sound very natural to me, and I think it's probably not a good idea.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Ordinarily, people are \"doubtful\" when they are \"full of doubts\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "By extension, we often say some specific statement of fact is \"doubtful\", meaning we doubt (don't believe) that it's true.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You might stretch that a little further and say that someone's argument is \"doubtful\", to mean the line of reasoning is flawed - but most people would simply assume you meant you doubted the conclusion was true, so it's not a very meaningful distinction.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When it comes to experiments , that distinction between the investigative process and the final conclusion suddenly becomes much more important.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I haven't looked into the matter too closely, but I note that on this Wikipedia page it says \"Contemporary knowledge concerning the manner in which the human body reacts to freezing is based almost exclusively on ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Nazi experiments\" .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What those Nazi \"doctors\" did is an extreme instance of what people normally mean when they refer to doubtful or dubious experiments .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's not that we question the truth of whatever the dubious experiment demonstrates - it's the morality of performing the experiment at all that we have \"doubts\" about.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I would advise OP to say he thinks the scientist's experiment is flawed, inconclusive, questionable, poorly designed, inadequately documented , or whatever other specific shortcoming he finds.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "An experiment itself isn't something that can be true or untrue, but it can certainly be [of] doubtful [ morality ] , and that's what I think many if not most people would understand if you described it using the word.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/126/FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Are you doubtful of his experiments, or just about results?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To be doubtful of the experiments suggests that you think his methods, or perhaps his presuppositions are faulty.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If you are doubtful only of the results, or the significance of the results, that's quite a separate matter.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For this reason, I would avoid saying \"I am doubtful of his experiments\" because it is ambiguous, and leaves the reader/listener wondering what you really doubt.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Be more explicit.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I am doubtful of his conclusions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I am doubtful of the methods used in his experiments.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/69/Flimzy", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "To be doubtful of the experiments suggests that you think his methods, or perhaps his presuppositions are incorrect. This means that the experiments are questionable, dubious or unreliable. Finding a synonym is easy. For example: His experiments are questionable (ambiguous , problematic); His experiments are not convincing ; I'm skeptical about his experiments.", "This may refer to doubting methods or presuppositions, but does not sound natural. Alternative options include questionable, unreliable and dubious." ] ]

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[ [ "This may refer to doubting methods or presuppositions, but does not sound natural.", "You could use words like questionable, unreliable, dubious instead." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "No, not at all.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In fact, the word mate is quite often used in colloquial Australian and British English.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "G'day Mate (Good day Mate) Being one of the phrases quite often associated with Australia.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Mate in this context means \"friend\" or \"buddy\", and is not gender specific (used by both men and women to refer to men and women)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some other usages, that are fairly common: A mate of mine went to Sydney last week.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Are you alright, mate ?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What time are your mates arriving?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/42/Deco", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Think of mate as related to pair .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A pair is composed of two things that belong together, each thing in the pair is a mate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the short answer to your question is no.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To elaborate: One of my socks has gone missing, I'm looking for its mate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When you find the missing sock, you complete the pair; the sock you couldn't find is the mate to the sock you already had.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The two lions faced each other on the savannah, fighting over their potential mate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case the two male lions are fighting over a female lion, and whoever wins will be their mate --this is as you mentioned in your question, where a mate is the second half of a sexual pair.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(This can also be applied to humans and be grammatically correct, but it will sound odd.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Penguins mate for life.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Animals again, and obviously there's a sexual element there, but this is about the pairing of the two as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They're going to stay together as partners for life.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "John Smith was the pirate captain's first mate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As StoneyB commented, mate can also be used to describe officers on ships.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The first mate is the captain's right-hand man.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Good day, mate!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As others have mentioned, mate is also Austrailian slang used to refer to a friend.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So as you can see, there are many different contexts in which mate has different meanings!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/289/WendiKidd", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In my experience, mate as used to describe another human being essentially never refers to any kind of sexual activity or sexual partner.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Mate means different things, depending on the locale and dialect, for instance: G'day", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Mate 'lright, mate?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Uses the word mate to mean singular you in many dialects of English, particularly Australian English and Cockney and Northern British English.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Now look here, mate Is an intensified aggressive form of the word \"you\" in some dialects of British English Me and my mates are going to go out later for drinks", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What time are your mates going to get here?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Is an informal meaning of \"friends\", in many dialects of English, but particularly as spoken in Northern England.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Mate is also an older English title, meaning \"member\" or \"partner\" (in a non-sexual context), and this holds over in many seafaring and military contexts: Capitan Silver, this is First Mate Johnny Williams.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In this context, mate and first mate are naval titles.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You'll sometimes see this as well in the \"Pirate Vernacular\": Ahoy there, mateys!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case, \"mateys\" is an old fashioned (and no longer grammatical) plural of mate, and is an address to the crew.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It does not imply that the crew are either friends or sexual partners of the captain.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Finally, it is important to note that mate almost always does have a sexual context whenever the discussion is specifically about non-human animals.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case it can be either a verb or a noun.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We're flying in Kanga to Sydney zoo to mate with Zippy", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the Kangaroo who lives there.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Penguins mate for life Liara, the lioness at London Zoo is the mate of Rory the Lion As we can see, the peacock spreads its tail features to attract a mate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Do not use the word \"mate\" meaning a sexual partner in the context of another human being outside of the context of academic medical research.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Doing so is very insulting, because it suggests that the partner is almost in-human, and suggests a coldness or clinicalness to the activity that your listeners would likely find uncomfortable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/307/Matt", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In British English, you could say \"See you then, mate.\" without implying anything sexual; it is just an informal form of address between men, or boys.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It is also informally used to mean friend , as in \"I was with a mate.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In plumber's mate , mate means assistant .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/95/kiamlaluno", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I agree with Deco, with the added caveat that in Australian English mate can sometimes be used to express anger or aggression.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Listen here mate...\" or \"look mate...\" are often used to begin making a forceful point, or to tell someone to back off.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Furthermore, calling a stranger mate can in certain circumstances get a negative response, as some people don't like strangers being casual with them.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Only a skilled speaker should attempt to use this word on a stranger.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/454/jsj", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Like most British sayings it is derived from its Naval history.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Ship mates\"Americans say 'buddy'or 'dude'", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Spanish say '", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "amigo' Russians say 'droog' etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "British/Australians/New Zealanders say 'mate'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Nobody will take offence :)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/52102/Jack", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "\"Mate\" is not used in reference to a sexual partnet outside of the context of academic medical research. it is just an informal form of address between men, or boys, and derived from naval history.", "Mate is platonic and colloquial. It has roots in naval English. It can come across as aggressive or overfamiliar depending on context." ] ]

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[ [ "Mate is platonic and colloquial.", "It is derived from naval history.", "It can come across as aggressive or overfamiliar depending on context." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Here's a handy single word: flee .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You may flee a place or a person or a threat.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Since you are looking also for an 'expression', I would suggest: like a bat out of hell if you go somewhere like a bat out of hell", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": ", you go very fast", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He ran out of the building like a bat out of hell .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Ref. Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It always sounds a bit \"slangy\" to me, but a nice word for OP's context is... skedaddle - to depart quickly or hurriedly; run away . ...", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "another one I like (esp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "US usage, also somewhat informal, as are most apart from flee ) is... high-tail it out of here deriving from the raised tails of fleeing animals (as deer or rabbits) .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Similar terms include scarper, leg it, beat it, clear off .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/126/FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In Northern English (e.g. Manchester, Liverpool), this phrase is quite common When those guys showed up, we legged it .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In US informal English there's also \"skedaddle\": When those guys showed up, we skedaddled outta there!", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Perhaps more commonly you can always use an intensifier to impress upon the listener that you got out of there quickly:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When those guys showed up, we got the hell outta there!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/307/Matt", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You could use the verb bolt .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "NOAD defines it like this:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As a side note, in recent years, this option has been a very handy word for sports headlines .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/113/J.R.", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "(American) slang includes bail , scram , and vamoose .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Variations on get the hell outta there include get out of Dodge and get the hell out of Dodge .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Rats leaving a sinking ship is maybe not exactly what you are looking for.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/357/Scott", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Skip out\" can be used in the said contexts as in John was arrested July 22 after he skipped out on a $300 bill earlier at a local bar and ran away.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Macmillan dictionary defines it as a phrasal verb which means to leave a place quickly, usually because you do not want to be noticed or want to avoid paying money", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/92/Mohit", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Skedaddle, bolt, bail, scram, vamoose, flee, get out of dodge, scarper, leg it, beat it and clear off all convey the intended meaning. Going somewhere \"like a bat out of hell\" also has the same message. One may also \"skip out\" on a bill.", "Scarper, beat it, leg it, skip out and get out of dodge/like a bat out of hell can be used. You can also use skedaddle, bolt, bail, scram, vamoose and flee." ] ]

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[ [ "Skedaddle, bolt, bail, scram, vamoose and flee can work.", "Scarper, beat it, leg it, skip out and get out of dodge/like a bat out of hell can be used." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "As Wendi and Matt have indicated, break is probably the most common word to use when describing an unkept promise.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If you wanted an alternative, though, you might consider renege : Macmillan defines this verb as: to decide not to do something that you promised to do American Heritage uses the definition: to fail to carry out a promise or commitment Here are a few examples of the word being used in contemporary news stories: The stakeholders, who were in a one-day stakeholders workshop, said if the government and district assembly do not take up construction of roads in the area particularly commercial roads as a priority, they would renege in fulfilling their task obligation to the state.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It’s all about investing in jobs — and by the way, if that company decided to renege on its promises, it would have to return a portion of the state money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They paid it with the promise that the subsidies would help them recoup that money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Now Pence wants to renege on that deal.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It isn’t fair, and it shouldn’t happen.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's pronounced /rɪˈnɛɡ/ or", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "/rɪˈnɪɡ/", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "in American English, with a ‘short’ vowel in the stressed syllable; in British English it appears to be pronounced with a ‘long’ vowel, /rɪˈneɪg/ or /rɪˈniːɡ/.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Pronunciation information courtesy of StoneyB).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/113/J.R.", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I believe the expression you're looking for is \"broke his word / broke his promise\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In keeping with your example sentence: First he promised me something but later on he refused; he broke his word.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "or First he promised me something but later on he refused; he broke his promise to me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/289/WendiKidd", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "When you say that one has \"stood by their word\", you've implied that they've fulfilled a specific obligation or promise they made by virtue of their character.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, to say that one \"stands by their word\" it means that, in general, they can be relied upon to fulfill promises when they're made.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Others have addressed the negation of the first case, that is that one \"breaks their word\" or \"breaks promises\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, if one cannot be relied upon and makes promises that they may or may not fulfill, you can say that they \"waffle\" or \"vacillate\", or that they're \"wafflers\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These words are commonly used to describe politicians who make hollow promises to win the favor of supporters.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A \"waffler\" may or may not fulfill promises they've made.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Their making such a promise doesn't indicate any incremental degree of faith that they will follow up with action.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/523/AdamO", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The most common expression in my experience is to \"keep\" (meaning to stand by one's word) or \"break\" a promise (meaning the opposite), like so: I like Dave.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Dave always keeps his promises", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Joe promised to finish the document by 5pm, but he broke his promise", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I never break my promises", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/307/Matt", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In addition to some of the other answers, there are some idiomatic ways of saying this: If the speaker warned in advance that they would not be able to complete the deal, they are said to have withdrawn it or taken it back \"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I know", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I promised I'd help you move house on Sunday, but I'm going to have to take that back, sorry.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Today the government withdrew their promise to deliver a surplus.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However if there was no warning given, or if the person giving the promise had no reasonable excuse, you can say:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She promised me X, but then she went back on it", "label": [ 0 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[ [ "\"Breaking your word\" (or promise) is the most commonly used phrase. \"Renege\" is also used.", "The most common way of expressing this is 'break'. 'Renege' and 'withdraw' are possible alternatives." ] ]

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[ [ "Break' is the most common way of expressing this.", "Renege' and 'withdraw' are alternatives." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The difference between domestic animals and livestock , and whether any difference exists, depends on context.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In common usage, livestock refers to specific animals bred in an agricultural setting for food, extraction, or labor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some consider poultry to be included under livestock ; others would treat them as separate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Among laymen in Europe and North America, livestock has a strong association with large mammals, chiefly cattle, horses, sheep, goats, hogs, and mules and donkeys.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Domestic animal , perhaps due to association with household-related terms like domestic appliance or domestic worker , now strongly implies a housepet, especially dogs and cats.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is additionally the term domesticated animal , indicating animals which have been bred in human company for so long that they are dependent on humans for survival.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But not all domesticated animals are domestic (e.g. a dairy cow), and not all domestic animals are domesticated (e.g. a pet snake).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For official purposes, however, the two may be interchangeable: animals which are raised as agricultural or industrial assets.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, The terms \"livestock\" and \"poultry\" are used in a very broad sense, covering all domestic animals irrespective of their age and location or the purpose of their breeding.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Non-domestic animals are excluded from the terms unless they are kept or raised in captivity, in or outside agricultural holdings, including holdings without land.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Livestock or domestic (not necessarily domesticated) animals might include farmed fish, bees, silkworms, or alligators in different parts of the world.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Indeed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit noted in United States v. Park, 536 F.3d 1058 (9th Cir. 2008) that even dogs could qualify as livestock under U.S. law:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Ron and Mary Park own and operate a dog kennel, Wild River Kennels, on property along the Clearwater River in Idaho.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Their property is subject to a scenic easement that was granted to the United States, which prohibits commercial activity but permits livestock farming.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this appeal, we are asked to determine the unusual question whether dogs are “livestock.”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Despite a gut inclination that the answer might be “no,” resolution of the issue is not so clear, thus precluding summary judgment at this stage of the proceeding.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As it turns out, the term “livestock” is ambiguous at best and much broader than the traditional categories of horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/21/choster", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "No, not really.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Native English speakers would assume that a domestic animal means something closer to a pet, such as a dog or a cat, but that livestock refers more to animals reared on a farm, such as a cow, sheep or pigs.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Obviously there's some overlap in some circumstances, for example a pig farmer's daughter might have a baby pig as a pet, but in common parlance you should avoid mixing the two.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/307/Matt", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Domestic animals\" is a term that can have two meanings; one is very broad, the other is more narrow.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sometimes, \"domestic animals\" is used as a term that roughly equates to \"pets.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Other times, \"domestic animals\" has a broader definition, and refers to any animals that rely on humans for food and shelter, to include livestock and cattle.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here is a definition from Dictionary.com that leans toward the first meaning: domestic animal ( n. ) any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment Here is a statute from the United States (the state of Florida, specifically) that indicates a broader use of the word, referring specifically to horses, cows, goats, sheep, and pigs: \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Domestic animal shall include any equine or bovine animal, goat, sheep, swine, dog, cat, poultry, or other domesticated beast or bird.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A Canadian law website provides a definition that seems to refer to pets:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Domestic Animal A pet; dogs, cats or other tame animals or birds and which serve some purpose for its owner or others.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Yet Wikipedia's list seems much more inclusive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/113/J.R.", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As a technical term, \"domestic animal\" means the same thing as \"domesticated animal\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Both terms refer to animals that have undergone domestication .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This includes livestock, but it's a broader category including non-livestock such as domestic cats.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Because it's a broader category, it's not appropriate to use the two as synonyms.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That said, the term has another meaning, as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "People often use \"domestic animal\" in a more narrow sense, meaning \"pets such as cats or dogs\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Why?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have two theories, but I don't know if either is correct: If you want to refer to livestock, \"livestock\" is the most natural word.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you say \"domestic animal\", it's natural to assume you don't intend to refer to livestock, because if you did, you'd have said \"livestock\" instead.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Domestic\" can mean \"in or around the home\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Perhaps \"domestic animal\" has been reinterpreted to mean an animal that you'd have inside the home--in other words, a pet such as a cat or dog.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This narrower definition doesn't change the answer to your question, though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Livestock\" isn't the same as the broad or the narrow definition.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The answer is still no .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Livestock is a different term.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As an aside, if you want to communicate the technical sense of \"domestic animal\", you can say \"domesticated animal\" instead.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Otherwise, I think people might assume you mean the narrower sense.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Not quite when looking from a more technical aspect, even though they might overlap in some contexts (e.g. a farm, or someone can have a pet cow/horse/whatever).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Livestock are animals raised specifically for the production of food (and other byproducts, such as manure used as a fertilizer) or for doing work (e.g. horses), while domestic animals are mostly raised for companion.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "From Wikipedia : ‘Livestock’ are defined, in part, by their end purpose as the production of food, fiber and/or labor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/24/Renan", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "The difference between domestic animals and livestock , and whether any difference exists, depends on context. Livestock are animals raised specifically for the production of food (and other byproducts, such as manure used as a fertilizer) or for doing work (e.g. horses), while domestic animals are mostly raised for companion. A domestic animal means something closer to a pet, such as a dog or a cat, but livestock refers more to animals reared on a farm, such as a cow, sheep or pigs. Obviously there's some overlap in some circumstances, for example a pig farmer's daughter might have a baby pig as a pet, but in common parlance you should avoid mixing the two.", "Livestock is ambiguous as a term. It can mean animals raised for food production. Domestic animals carries a broader meaning and can include pets." ] ]

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[ [ "Domestic animals are a broad category that includes pets.", "Livestock is ambiguous as a term. It can mean animals raised for food production." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The term \"morning person\" can be used to describe someone who is not lazy in the morning.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Not a morning person\" refers to the opposite: being lazy in the morning.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "There's also the term lark and night owl , referring to people who get up early and go to bed late respectively.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/632/Pubby", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Although perhaps not a direct answer to the question, I'd just like to throw in the following phrase that specifically relates to feeling sluggish with perhaps a slight lazy or melancholy connotation, specifically relating to Mondays: Don't talk to Jeff at the moment.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He's got a bad case of the Monday blues With regards to being not being alert and at your best in the mornings, as Pubby suggests", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm not a morning person which is quite a common expression, meaning someone who isn't at their best in the Mornings - although as Barbara points out, that's not necessarily because of laziness, it might mean someone who just really doesn't enjoy mornings.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There's also a wonderful phrase to describe the opposite, i.e. someone who is always ready to go and enthusiastic in the mornings:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I love how our interns always arrive at work bright eyed and bushy", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "tailed meaning that the interns are always alert and enthusiastic when they arrive at work.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/307/Matt", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The term slugabed denotes “One who indulges in lying late in bed; a sluggard ”.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/146/James Waldby - jwpat7", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There's also the phrase \"rolling out of bed in the morning\" which specifically means that it was difficult to wake up and get out of bed, but is commonly used to describe any type of morning laziness or slow start to a morning.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It's usually used in the past tense such as \"I rolled out of the bed this morning\" or \"I was rolling out of the bed this morning\", but can also be used in future tense for situations where someone knows it will be difficult to wake up or get going such as \"I'm going to be rolling out of bed tomorrow morning because I need to wake up early to prepare for a presentation\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/15987/Steve", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The term Sleep Inertia describes reduced abilities immediately after waking up.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "However this is a somewhat technical term that may not be very widely known.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/15746/bdsl", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "\"Not a morning person\" refers to someone who is lazy in the morning. Lark and night owl , refer to people who get up early and go to bed late, respectively. \"Rolling out of bed in the morning\" which specifically describes people who find it difficult to wake up and get out of bed, and the term \"slugabed\" denotes “One who indulges in lying late in bed; a sluggard ”. ", "Slugabed, rolling out of bed and sleep inertia are different ways of understanding this. Also, larks and night owls/morning person and not a morning person can be used to distinguish people." ] ]

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[ [ "Slugabed, rolling out of bed and sleep inertia are different ways of understanding this.", "Larks and night owls/morning person and not a morning person can be used to distinguish people." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "I would go with", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a toss up between this laptop versus that laptop, because they are so similar.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This is an English idiom, meaning that there is a choice where it is difficult to decide between one solution and another.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/307/Matt", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Some informal idioms that come to mind are:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a wash", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It's six of one, half a dozen of the other Same difference", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "A phrase with a less informal feel is: The choices are comparable.", 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to take sides in a dispute; not to make a clear choice between two possibilities; to delay making a decision when you have to choose between two sides in an argument or a competition.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "( Origin: the image of someone straddling a fence, representing indecision. )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can read a few examples usages at this website .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sometimes the expression is used negatively, though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wikipedia mentions: \"Sitting on the fence\" is a common idiom used in English to describe one's neutrality, hesitance to choose between two sides in an argument or a competition, or inability to decide due to lack of courage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is done either in order to remain on good terms with both sides, or due to apathy to the situation and not wanting to choose a position they don't actually agree with.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Another word you could use instead is undecided , or torn : Which laptop are you going to get?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't know", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "- I'm torn .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Collins defines this word as: torn ( adj. )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "divided or undecided, as in preference ⇒", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "he was torn between staying and leaving The word torn implies a reluctance to choose because there are aspects of both possibilities that are equally appealing (or unappealing).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/113/J.R.", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I believe the most accurate word to describe that situation would be ambivalent .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "You would be ambivalent .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or, you would be experiencing or feeling ambivalence .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "From a quick Google search, the top definition gives: having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "example: \"some loved her, some hated her, few were ambivalent about her\" You might like some of these synonyms as well, however my opinion is that ambivalent is the superior choice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Synonyms: equivocal, uncertain, unsure, doubtful, indecisive, inconclusive,irresolute, of two minds, undecided, torn, in a quandary,on the fence, hesitating, wavering, vacillating, equivocating,blowing/running hot and cold;", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As an aside, 'Ambivalent' is one of my favorite words and I find that I use it often.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I hope this helps.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3598/MrWonderful", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Similar to \"toss up\" is the expression \"it's a coin flip .\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "(This is the expression from which \"toss up\" is derived.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1355/Tom Au", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"borderline\" or \"bordering on\" seems the right sense for me, or as a phrase \"a borderline case\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"My", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "laptop is generally OK, but for some uses it is borderline\" or \"...it is bordering on being too heavy / slow / ...\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9344/AdamV", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Verge.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A single word replacement for the word \"edge,\" when used to describe the emotional state or decisional position is used in the pseudo-prepositional phrase, \"on the verge.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/19255/James Bush", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "teetering teeter ˈtiːtə/Submit verb gerund or present participle: teetering move or balance unsteadily; sway back and forth. \"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "she teetered after him in her high-heeled sandals\" synonyms: totter, walk unsteadily, wobble, toddle; More", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/18590/SaturnsEye", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Bleeding edge\" technology is \"leading edge\" technology that hasn't been \"worn in\" yet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The \"edge\" is so \"sharp\" that it is likely to figuratively \"cut\" both its owner and the problems it is meant to solve.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Most people avoid purchasing \"bleeding edge\" technology, because: it tends to be expensive it often has serious problems it is often hard to make or get it is often hard to get repaired", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it often becomes obsolete when a different, easier or cheaper or safer technology is adopted instead.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9100/Jasper", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "\"It's a toss up\", or \"It's a coin flip\" can be used. \"Teetering\" is another word. More formally, one could use \"The choices are comparable\". \"It's six of one, half a dozen of the other\" or \"It's a wash\" mean there is no real difference. Other suggestions include \"Ambivalent\" and \"sitting on the fence\".", "Toss up/coin flip and teetering are possible options. As is sitting on the fence, it's six of one, ambivalent." ] ]

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[ [ "Toss up/coin flip and teetering are possible options.", "Sitting on the fence, ambivalent and it's six of one are possible expressions." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "I believe \"break\" is used metaphorically in \"broken heart\" and \"broken man\", and these metaphors have long since become fixed in language.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We're used to hearing them so much we don't even think of them as metaphors.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So why not \"broken feelings\"?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I believe it's simply a historical accident .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's plausible to me that the collocation \"broken feelings\" could have become just as common as \"a broken heart\", even though it never did.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In other words, I don't believe there is any real analysis to make of it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I could be wrong, of course.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But it's hard to say--we can't re-run history and see what different words and collocations we end up with, so it's not the sort of thing we can experiment with and determine empirically.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's just a matter of what makes sense", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "--and", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "what makes sense to me is that it's a simple accident.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I do not recall ever hearing a fluent English speaker say \"broke his feelings\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It is a common idiom to say that someone \"broke his/her heart\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Typically this is said if a wife or girlfriend or husband or boyfriend terminates a relationship.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is also commonly said if someone close to a person disappoints him in some extreme way, like \"When he learned that his son had become a thief and a killer, it broke his heart.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is also common to say that someone \"hurt his feelings\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is used for a disappointment or offense on a much smaller scale than \"broke his heart\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Like, \"When she didn't show up for their first date, it hurt his feelings.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"When he learned that his son had failed a history test, it hurt his feelings.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't know any logical reason why we say \"broke his heart\" but not \"hurt his heart\", and \"hurt his feelings\" but not \"broke his feelings\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But that's the nature of idioms.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some phrases just come to be commonly accepted, and others ... don't.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Regarding 25 million hits for \"break * feelings\": I checked out the first two pages and didn't see any that were \"break his feelings\" or \"break her feelings\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Rather, there were many other words in between, like \"When she broke up with him, it hurt his feelings\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Finding such a high number for that pair of words doesn't surprise me at all: People routinely talk their feelings when someone breaks up with them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/803/Jay", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "From Google Books: hurt my feelings 370,000 hits broke my heart", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "122,000 hits broke his spirit 65,300 hits broke my feelings 1 hit", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That single instance is actually the reported speech of a child, in a book with the equally \"ungrammatical\" title Nice on My Feelings (there are no relevant instances of broke his feelings ).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So one justification for Aarts saying \"this sentence is abnormal\" is simply the fact that people don't say it .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As regards the \"selectional restrictions\" justification, I would put it like this:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Your (real or metaphorical) heart is something that can be seen as whole and functional, so it can be \"broken\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Equally, with your spirit , it's a reference to your vivacity/determination - which can also be \"broken\", so it doesn't function properly any more.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But feelings are always there (in fact you'd probably have more of them if someone broke your heart); they're not sufficiently organised or functional to be described as \"broken\", no matter what happens to them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/126/FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Although \"broke his feelings\" is just as logical than \"hurt his feelings\" or \"broke his heart\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it is simply non-idiomatic.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1883/BobRodes", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Also, an interesting aspect in \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My colleague broke his feelings\" is that HE did it to HIMSELF.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the correct form is eg \"break one's heart\", I still can't break it to myself, but something must break it to me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Similarly, I suppose, we can't say \"I broke my spirit\" but have to say that \"something broke my spirit\" etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Am I right?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1003/Mirek51", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "I do not recall ever hearing a fluent English speaker say \"broke his feelings\". In 25 million hits for \"break * feelings\", there were no entries for \"break his feelings\" or \"break her feelings\" - it is simply non-idiomatic.", "This is non-idiomatic and is not used despite web hits." ] ]

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[ [ "This is non-idiomatic and is not used despite web hits." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "There's no infallible way of divining someone's gender from their name.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I once knew a woman named \"Robert\", not \"Roberta\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Evelyn Waugh, a British novelist, was a man.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Bela Lugosi was a male actor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm sure others can come up with far more names like this than I can.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are many \"unisex\" or \"androgynous\" names shared by males and females alike in the Western world.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Same goes for Chinese and even Japanese names.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's often possible to determine gender from a person's given name, but not always.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 19 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Short answer:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "you can't.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "There is no reliable rule that will cover all the various languages and exceptions and parents who name their daughter Maxwell and their son Andrea.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Longer answer:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The bad news is, the -a vs. -o ending rule has so many exceptions that it's useless.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Bella is female, but Bela (well, technically Béla ) is male; Andrea is male in Italy but female elsewhere; Luca is male in Serbia but female in Hungary; Consuelo is female; etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The good news is, there are some tools you can use.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some European countries publish lists of names that can be registered on birth certificates.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Most of those lists are gender-specific, as in parents are not allowed to choose a masculine name for their daughter or vice-versa.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thus, if you know what country a person is from, you can look up their lists of registerable names and figure out the person's gender.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "An image search can sometimes be useful: plug in the given name and check if the pictures that come up are mostly men or mostly women.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are baby-name sites (or books) and gender-guesser websites that will give a gender for given names.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Make sure to check a couple of different sites, though, because some of them can be very wrong.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, the bottom line is that even after all your best efforts and web searches, you simply will not be 100% correct, because Parents Are Crazy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And they're increasingly getting crazier - in the US, even traditional masculine mainstays like Charlie are starting to skew female.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the only foolproof method to determine a person's gender is to ask .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/50/Martha", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If the name begins with \"Mr\" it's a male, if it begins with \"Ms\", \"Mrs\" or \"Miss\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it's a female.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1115/QuentinUK", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's tricky.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In my opinion, we can't predict gender based on names alone, as the same names can be named for both genders at times.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "There are so many names that can be named for both genders.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "On many occasions, it's not possible to determine gender based on name alone.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1116/user1116", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In addition to the answers already posted, there is an extra spanner in the works.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Even if names were unambiguously male or female, and had an easy, infallible way to determine which was which, there is still ambiguity.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If their name is the name they were given when they were born, it would only represent the gender that a person seemed to be at the time they were named.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "With gender being the mental identity of a person, it doesn't have to match their physical sex.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Therefore, a person who identifies as female could have a name like \"Bruce\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Throw in the possibility of people legally changing their name and/or physical sex, and there is really no way it can be relied on for identifying the physical sex of a person.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This must be true for any language; not just English.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/974/AlbeyAmakiir", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There are many exceptions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Many names are used by both genders.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here is a list of male names and a list of female names .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The -o and -a rule is generally accurate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "From these lists you can see there are few, if any, male names ending in -a, while there are quite a few ending in o, and vice versa for the women.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This will not always be the case.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1053/Gaʀʀʏ", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "There's no infallible way of divining someone's gender from their name, as there are so many \"unisex\" names that can be named for both genders. It's often possible to determine gender from a person's given name, but not always, so the only foolproof method to determine a person's gender is to ask . Some European countries publish lists of names that can be registered on birth certificates. Most of those lists are gender-specific, and parents are not allowed to choose a masculine name for their daughter or vice-versa.", "You can sometimes determine gender from a name, some names are unisex and certain countries have gender-specific lists of names that can be registered. You should just ask." ] ]

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[ [ "You should ask as you cannot predict gender from the name alone.", "You can sometimes determine gender from a name, some names are unisex and certain countries have gender-specific lists of names that can be registered." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Probably this is the first question on this particular issue here on ELL, but it's been asked many times before on ELU.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That link is to the one kept open while duplicates are closed (about once a month!).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As the answers there will show, there isn't any \"natural\" way to succinctly phrase such a question in English.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Informally, people sometimes ask things like", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Obama is the how-many'th president of the US?\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"This question is the what'th on the subject?\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but they're not at all standard.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The best I can think of that remains strictly \"grammatical\" is... \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What is the ordinality of Obama among US presidents?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\" ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but I don't recommend learners bothering with that either, since not all native speakers would even understand you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Although it's not really \"correct\", most people would probably just ask something like... \"What number president is Obama?\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/126/FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica", "score": 20 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I don't particularly like the way this sentence sounds, but I think it's the clearest way to ask your question without being over-elaborate: What number president was Taft?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "So I suggest you say that.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But since I don't really like the sound of it, I'll discuss a few other ways to say the same thing: I like this sentence much better, but it's pretty ambiguous: Which president was Taft? . . .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "so we could probably clarify it a bit.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In informal speech, I might say the following: Which president was Taft, like the thirtieth?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thirty-first?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Less informally: Which president was Taft?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, was he the thirtieth president?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Since I gave examples of answers, it's clear what I meant.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can, of course, spell out exactly what you mean.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I avoided doing so because it's difficult to do so concisely .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We can write the following sentence, which is precise and acceptable: In the chronological sequence of Presidents of the United States, which position did", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Taft occupy? . . .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but it sounds unwieldy to me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You have your answer in the question itself!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Which position is Obama at on the list of American Presidents?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "And the answer is...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He's 44th on the list of American Presidents.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3187/Maulik V", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A simple way to ask this kind of question and a way that many speakers do opt for, is with \"How many\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "How many American presidents (did we have|were there|came) before Obama?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "-- He's the 44th president.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How many people were ahead of you in the customer service phone queue?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "--I'm third in line.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How many times has he been absent?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "--This is his fourth absence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you need more precision than that, then you're probably writing or speaking in a specialized domain where unwieldiness plays second-fiddle to precision: In which offset of the array was the string value found?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What is the item's position in the job queue?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10264/Tᴚoɯɐuo", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If I understand your question correctly, you mean position as in 9th, 10th, 11th etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If so you could say:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Was he the 10th president of the United States?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I would use this: At what number does Obama stand in the sequence of American Presidents?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Another option though not so good:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What is Obama's serial number among the American Presidents?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4977/Neil D'Silva", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "A simple way to ask this kind of question and a way that many speakers do opt for, is with \"How many\". Or \"Was he the 10th president of the United States?\" A more natural, but more ambiguos question would be \"Which president was Taft?\" Although it's not really correct, most people would probably just ask something like \"What number president is Obama?\"", "Which, many, position and ordinality are options. You can also ask what number." ] ]

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[ [ "Which, many, position and ordinality are options.", "You can ask what number." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The user can determine their name.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "According to an irreversible trend, use the universal their , avoiding the exclusive his and the clumsy his/her .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Cambridge Guide to English Usage says: \" their avoids gratuitous sexism and gives the statement broadest reference.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Just supplementing @Carlo_R.'s reply:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The following is from New Oxford American Dictionary", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The word they (with its counterparts them, their, and themselves) as a singular pronoun to refer to a person of unspecified sex has been used since at least the 16th century.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In the late 20th century, as the traditional use of he to refer to a person of either sex came under scrutiny on the grounds of sexism, this use of they has become more common.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The use of they instead of \"he or she\" is common in spoken English and increasingly so in written English , although still deplored by some people.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/833/hjpotter92", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "He was once acceptable when you wanted to speak of a person whose sex was not known, or stated.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Now, it is considered old-fashioned, and other alternatives have been used.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "/she Use he/", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "she", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "every time you are referring to a person for which the sex is not relevant.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "singular", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "their Use a sentence like the following: \"The user can determine their name.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Use the plural instead of the singular", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In your case, it would mean to use a sentence like the following: \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The users can determine their names.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Somebody still consider the singular their not acceptable, and they rather prefer using the plural, as in the last example.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary has the following notes about this topic: He used to be considered to cover both men and women: \"Everyone needs to feel he is loved.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" This is not now acceptable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Instead, after everybody , everyone , anybody , anyone , somebody , someone , etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "one of the plural pronouns they , them , and their is often used:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Does everybody know what they want?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Somebody's left their coat here.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I hope nobody's forgotten to bring their passport with them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some people prefer to use he or she , his or her , or him or her in speech and writing: \"Everyone knows what's best for him or herself.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He/she or (s)he can also be used in writing: \"If in doubt, ask your doctor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He/she can give you more information.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(You may find that some writers just use she .)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These uses can seem awkward when they are used a lot.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is better to try to change the sentence, using a plural noun.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Instead of saying \"A baby cries when he or she is tired\" you can say \"Babies cry when they are tired.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/95/kiamlaluno", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I am guessing his name refers to a user name (on a computer system), right?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Anyway you can turn the statement around (passive construction):", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The ( user ) name can be determined/specified by the user.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That avoids using possessive pronouns.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"His/her\" is not grammatically correct.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is a shorthand which used in a kind of abbreviated dialect of English that is found in instruction manuals and such.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A conjunction is required: his or her.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The user can determine his or her name.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Traditionally, male examples are used in English.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The example person is a \"he\" and that is that.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In English, the human race is traditionally called \"mankind\", a person fallen off a ship is \"man overboard\", tending to your job is \"manning your post\" and so on.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, that kind of speaking and writing tends to make women feel excluded.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So this is why we use he or she for some unspecified person, or they .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But here is another strategy you can use in writing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Simply use masculine pronouns in some examples, and feminine ones in others.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In some sections of the document, make the user female and use she and her (consistently: do not change the user from being a he in one sentence to a she in a related sentence): The user can determine her name.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Then in some other sections, make the user he .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This way you can avoid creating a sense that women are included, while avoiding repetitions of his or her , and without resorting to they and their .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Moreover, compared to using they , you create a more active sense that women are included.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Although using plural third person pronouns like they and their to refer to a single person is widespread and acceptable, it does not sound quite as good as using as singular pronoun for one person.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "At least, subjectively speaking, not to everyone.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/197/Kaz", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "The word they (with its counterparts them, their, and themselves) as a singular pronoun to refer to a person of unspecified sex has been used since at least the 16th century. Use the plural instead of the singular and the users can determine their names. The Cambridge Guide to English Usage says: \" their avoids gratuitous sexism and gives the statement broadest reference.\" The use of they instead of \"he or she\" is common in spoken English and increasingly so in written English.", "He/she' can be used but is deplored due to gratuitous sexism. Use 'they/their'." ] ]

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[ [ "You should use 'they/their'.", "He/she' can be used but is deplored due to gratuitous sexism." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "One definition of zero is 2", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the absence of a measurable quantity", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, this is a noun.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As an adjective , zero means not any or no Based on this definition, it is correct to use it to describe a mass noun to say there is none of it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've noticed that using \"zero\" instead of \"no\" is usually used to emphasize the lack of whatever it's describing.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/133/yoozer8", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "OED definitions include... Nought or nothing reckoned as a number denoted by the figure 0", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That is of the amount expressed by zero, i.e. none at all; in Math.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "also transf.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "applied to a value of a function corresponding to the value 0 of the variable(s).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hence ( colloq. )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "more widely as adj.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "in the sense ‘ no, not any ’.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[emphasis mine].", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's to say, by traditional definitions and usage", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ", OP is correct in saying that zero is a number - so it shouldn't be used as a quantifier , in contexts where you wouldn't use any other number.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But in fact it's commonly used that way colloquially (usually only in spoken informal contexts).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Having said that, there are restrictions on its use... ?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's zero good hoping people will accept this as a reasonable utterance, even in casual speech.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Actually, I suppose it's possible some native speakers (certainly not me!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ":)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "will accept that contrived example.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But I'm betting the vast majority wouldn't, so my advice to learners would be to avoid the form completely and always use no instead.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You'll never be wrong that way.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/126/FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's a rhetorical flourish.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The person who said zero courage is \"bending the rules\" of ordinary usage.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "To a native speaker, saying zero as a synonym for no is a reasonable variation from normal usage.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The ordinary phrasing is no courage ; that would have drawn no attention to itself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Saying zero courage is emphatic: it's like saying \"There was not even a little bit of courage in this verdict.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There was no courage at all. \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "While zero courage in this context doesn't sound ungrammatical or sloppy to most native speakers, there are very similar phrases that no native speaker would say because they break rather than bend ordinary usage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, nobody would say two courage .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That would be incomprehensible.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See FumbleFingers' answer for another good example of going too far.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You shouldn't take the example as evidence contradicting the principle that mass nouns cannot be enumerated.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's evidence that zero can sometimes be stretched into an intensified version of no .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is no precise general rule for when you can and can't do this kind of thing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You just have to get a sense of how far you can bend the language without breaking it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That can only come with (long) experience.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6700/Ben Kovitz", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "One of the possible meanings of zero is \"the lowest possible amount or level; nothing at all\"; one of the example phrases shown by the OALD is \"zero inflation.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\" The example is similar to yours, since both courage and inflation are uncountable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/95/kiamlaluno", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Some nouns like \"courage\" are quantifiable but not really measurable; one could describe Fred as having \"more\" courage than Joe, but there's no standard unit of courage that would make it possible to say that e.g. Fred has 2.7 more couragions than Joe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The lack of defined units, however, doesn't affect \"zero\" because zero doesn't require units .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If something is has a length of zero inches, zero centimeters, and zero angstroms, or zero miles, it has zero length; the units don't matter.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If something has a mass of zero ounces, zero milligrams, or zero tons, it has zero mass; again, the units don't matter.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That principle can be extended to things like \"courage\": it's not possible to specify any particular non-zero quantity of courage because that would require defining units, but since \"zero\" doesn't require units, it is possible to have zero courage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/419/supercat", "score": 2 } } ]

[ [ "As an adjective , zero means the lowest possible amount or level, or nothing at all. Based on this definition, it is correct to use it to describe a mass noun to say there is none of it. Using \"zero\" instead of \"no\" is usually used to emphasize the lack of whatever it's describing.", "Zero is the lowest possible amount and can emphasise a lack. Using it bends the rules of ordinary usage and is synonymous with 'no'." ] ]

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[ [ "Zero is the lowest possible amount and can emphasise a lack.", "Using it bends the rules of normal usage and is synonymous with 'no'." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "That internal area is called a \"compartment\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "(If it had a container that you could slide out to place your things inside more readily, that would be a \"drawer\".)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(A \"hole\" is too generic of a term, and would not be associated with the desk; a \"slot\" would be a long, narrow hole that allows you to insert, for example, an envelope into an otherwise closed compartment.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This desk has a (closed) drawer with a slot.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/87/Hellion", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I would use one of the following terms: • pigeonhole , “A nook in a desk for holding papers” • recess , “An inset, hole, space or opening” • cubbyhole , “A small compartment; a pigeonhole” • desk pocket , with pocket used in the sense of a receptacle, indention, or cavity", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/146/James Waldby - jwpat7", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The hole in that desk can be called a slot.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "See this definiton .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1425/Tristan", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "One could call the \"compartment\" a cubby , a cubbyhole , a pigeonhole (although a pigeonhole is usually smaller), or a recess , but the simplest, most common English word might be shelf .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/43789/Torsten", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Apart from anything else that does not look practical.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What would you put in there?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Paper?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Exercise books?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I would not describe that space as being a slot.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "A slot is a snug, tight hole, usually horizontal, and just enough space toslide something in.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A coin for example.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A slot machine, for exampleis another name for a fruit machine.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In that case the coin slot isusually vertical.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I wouldn't call it a hole.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "A hole tends to be round, not always, but if you were to ask someone to drawa hole in the wall it would be round shaped.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Personally I would call it an \"open drawer\" or a \"paper drawer\" or\"an open unit\" or a \"paper storage nook\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Google provided thispossibility: Open paper storage drawer", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The actual piece of furniture is called \"a four drawer open paper storage\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But admittedly it is a bit of a mouthful.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It would take you longer to say to a friend: \" Please put the book into the open paper storage drawer.\" than to put the actual book away yourself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Hole\" then would be fine, life's too short.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1694/Mari-Lou A", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "A hole in a desk can be called a slot, a compartment, a cubby, a pigeonhole, a paper drawer, a nook, or a desk pocket.", "You could call it a slot, cubby, an open drawer, compartment, pigeonhole or nook." ] ]

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[ [ "You could call it a slot.", "You could call it a cubby, an open drawer, compartment, pigeonhole or nook." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "You could say the buses are due every hour on the hour from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This is a set phrase, so you should memorize it as a single vocabulary item.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That said, you can break it into two pieces to understand it better: every hour means \"each hour\"; on the hour means \"at the beginning of the hour\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In other words, this refers to a time ending with o'clock or :00 .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When you put these two together, you get a phrase meaning \"at the beginning of each hour\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane", "score": 38 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "snailboat's answer is very good, but if you are specifically looking for a specific single-word term to describe the \"every hour on the hour\" pattern, the word you want is hourly .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "e.g., Buses arrive hourly from 5am to 11pm.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/53/Ken Bellows", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Let's focus on the context of the example.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Try", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Buses go on the hour between 5am and 11pm.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Why did I pick \"go\"?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Because that's when it leaves .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Go\" is perfect because every non-native speaker will understand it (airport context), and it has a convenient and accurate double meaning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Arrive\" could be confusing because someone might think the bus arrives at the destination at that time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "About other answers: Buses aren't normally \"due\", in conversation or formal texts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They \"run\", \"arrive\" or just \"come\" (or, in England, should come!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ";) )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and they often \"go\" or \"leave\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I believe various spoken and written language usage corpii will back me up here.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As an English native, and teacher, I've never heard \"at the top of every hour\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"every full hour\" is confusing, \"hourly\" isn't specific enough, we're stuck with \"on the hour\" even if it's not so intuitive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My second pick was \"each hour\" because it suggests more than \"once per hour\", but there's something unnatural about it...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1744/techturbulence", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think there is not a single-word term which describes the succession of exact time like 1, 2, 3 o'clock, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, we do have a couple of phrases of common knowledge in this context, which are as follows: On the hour .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The phrase is indicative of both every hour and exact time as mentioned above.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So when we say \"trains leave for London on the hour\", it specifies not only every hour but also the exactness of time; that is 1, 2, 3 o'clock, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Every hour on the hour is also correct.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Even if we drop every hour , it will give the same required sense.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In fact, the words \"every hour\" are emphatic here.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "At the top of the hour .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't think this phrase fits in this context.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sometimes,we hear on TV that we'll have a news update at the top of the hour.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What does it mean?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It means that we'll have a news update at the start of the next hour of time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It does not mean every next hour.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In addition, this phrase is not much in use.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9259/Khan", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I would say \"buses arrive every top of the hour\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1640/user1307540", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I would use every full hour .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are some hits in the net: SE:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "JavaScript:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How to do something every full hour?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Linguee", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "with a lot of examples.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm no native speaker, it may be a German 'false friend'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It would be fine if somebody could confirm the term is right.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/38/knut", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "\"Every hour on the hour\", \"hourly\" or \"every top of the hour\".", "Every hour on the hour works well. You can also use hourly and at the top of the hour." ] ]

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[ [ "Every hour on the hour works well.", "Hourly and top of the hour are options." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "I suggest the phrasal verb storm off , which encompasses the idea of leaving with anger.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I find the use of lope to be at odds with the need for anger in the motion, since a lope is \"a long, easy stride; a leisurely canter\"; ease and leisureliness are not compatible with anger.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As StoneyB says, I don't think you can get everything all into one word or even one phrasal verb; you will need additional description for the part where others are treated disrespectfully.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Other options for that portion could be elbowing people aside , barreling through the crowd , or even heedless of the people in his way .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/87/Hellion", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Stomp", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "I think you'll find 'stomp' perfect for use in this context.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3598/MrWonderful", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "None of these words will fully serve your purpose.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Stride includes the notion of long steps .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Swagger and strut both include the notion of pride, but this is more an exaggerated regard for oneself than any direct disrespect for another.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "None of these words includes the notion of anger.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I doubt that any one English verb will convey all these notions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You will have to pick a verb which conveys the most important one, and add modifiers which convey the others.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "For instance: He paced angrily forward; his humiliated followers could only scurry behind, unable to keep up with him.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "He raged up and down in long strides, shouldering aside anyone who stood in his path.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He sneered and loped off in evident anger.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "One could plough through a crowd, angrily or not.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "One might barge past some onlookers - to barge implies rudeness or indifference.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "see also \"he barged into the room, uninvited\" I could also bull my way through the crowd", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My ex-wife often stormed away in her anger at me and I would storm off in a fit of fury.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you do so loudly, you might be said to thunder through or thunder past the startled onlookers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A sense of *Charged angrily\" would work too: In a fury, he charged through the crowd.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hope it helps.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5823/TedEwen", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I don't know of a single word in my American dialect that quite captures it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But He stormed off works pretty well if your person is leaving a room, or a group of people in a huff.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's frequently used in that context.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Stride\" suggests a person walking quickly, but doesn't imply anger.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "A silly woman leaving a situation in anger over something trivial, who wants everyone to see her leaving angry, can \"flounce\" away.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But dignified people don't flounce, and men don't either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3860/swbarnes2", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think that stalked is the perfect word….i.e. stalked across the room", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6147/MsKisha Monet", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "\"Stalked\", \"paced\", \"stormed off\" or \"stomped\" convey the intended meaning.", "Stride, stalk and stomp work. You can also use phrasal verbs such as storm off." ] ]

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[ [ "Stride or stalk can work.", "Phrasal verbs such as storm off can work.", "Stomp works well." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Sure, in the air can mean to hover – if you're talking about a helicopter, a hummingbird, or a biplane.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But consider this more metaphorical usage, listed in NOAD: in the air – noticeable all around; becoming prevalent : I smell violence in the air .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I suppose you could use hover, if you wanted to, but it wouldn't be used to replace in the air .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Instead, you might say: A sense of mystery hovered in the air.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think that's an improvement over the original, simply because hovered is a more interesting verb than was .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are plenty of other ways to say it, though, too.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Besides Fumble's hung in the air suggestion, there's also:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A sense of mystery clouded the air.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A sense of mystery darkened the air.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Because these are transitive verbs (and not intransitive, like hovered ), we eliminate the preposition in .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/113/J.R.", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Hover and be in the air are only distantly synonymous, and only within a narrow range of reference.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hover means to remain stationary over a particular place", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Police helicopters hovered above the square.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "OR to maintain a position over a particular moving object Her mother hovered over her like a suspicious vulture.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It often implies that the subject is poised to drop or pounce on the place or object.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Be in the air means to be present or sensible wherever one goes .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It usually implies that the subject is sensible to and has an effect on everyone; often it means specifically that the subject is a universal topic of discussion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Spring is in the air.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Rumours of war were in the air.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In your case: ✲ It hovered a sense of mystery is unidiomatic.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "A sense of mystery hovered adds senses of threat and locational specificity which are not present in the original, and removes, or at least attenuates, the sense of great extension and effect.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can use hover ; but it won't mean the same thing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's definitely not appropriate to rephrase using hovers .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Unless you're a highly creative writer, but that has no relevance here on ELL.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A credible alternative to the verb to be when referencing a sense of mystery might be...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A sense of mystery hung in the air", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm not sure it makes sense to try and explain why a sense of mystery wouldn't normally \"hover\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They're all metaphorical references anyway; some are used quite often, others rarely or never.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Who can say why a sense of mystery is far more likely to pervade rather than permeate ?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(it never penetrates or saturates ).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/126/FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"In the air\" here is an idiom.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The \"sense of mystery\" is not literally a physical object that is floating above the floor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In general, you cannot substitute words that by a dictionary definition are synonymous for an idiom.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That makes it no longer an idiom, so people think you mean the words literally.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are many jokes about someone trying to learn the language who tries to substitute such synonyms and leaves native speakers confused about what he means.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's just not how the language works.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As I write this, I'm thinking of all sorts of idioms that would lose all meaning if reworded.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Like: \"I don't know the answer off the top of my head.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" I don't have that information readily available.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But, \"I don't know the answer falling from my hair.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not a clue what that means.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Sally is a dog.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" Sally is ugly. \"Sally is a canine.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She is literally the four-legged animal.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Differential equations are over my head.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The subject is too difficult for me to understand.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Differential equations are upstairs.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" The class meets on the second floor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"We're going to go to the ball game and have a blast!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" We will have a good time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"We're going to go to the ball game and create an explosion!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" We are planning a terrorist attack at a public event.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One could play this game forever.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/803/Jay", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "float ?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There was a sense of mystery floating in the air.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "or use \"around\" instead of \" in the air\" There was a sense of mystery floating around.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1795/Derfder", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "\"Hover\" is not appropriate in this context. \"In the air\" here is an idiom. Use \"around\" instead of \" in the air\", as in: \"There was a sense of mystery floating around\". ", "Hover is unidiomatic, in the air is idiomatic." ] ]

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[ [ "In the air is an idiom.", "Hover is unidiomatic." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Lets take an example here: You login to your Facebook account and post a comment.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How Facebook updates this comment to your Facebook wall and your friends wall & also the time delay will determine the update mode.(although there are other parameters also).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "1.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Real Time- Comment is updated online and delay is less than 2 seconds.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "2.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Near Real Time- A delay of 2~10 seconds is expected, however, exact definition depends on SLA between the involved parties.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Facebook works on near real time mode.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "3. Offline Mode or Batch Processing-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The data is updated via files to the database, exact definition depends on SLA between the involved parties.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In general time delay is in hours (in every ~6 to 12 hrs).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Offline or batch processing is answer to your question.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1092/Ankit", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Deferred could definitely be used to denote what is not real-time in appropriate contexts.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "For ex: Deferred is already used by Oracle as a part of a term Deferred Processing which is a feature that allows long-running tasks to be handled by background engines instead of in real time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "More here .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/92/Mohit", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If it's not real-time , it's non-real-time .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Other terms may be useful to describe something which is non-real-time, but that is nonetheless the correct term.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In computer science, real-time is used to describe a characteristic of reactive systems, those have a constraint on the delay between the event and the response to the event.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(It is often subdivided in hard --- when missing any deadline is a failure --- firm --- when missing some deadline is allowed at the cost of reducing the quality and missed responses are of no utility --- and soft --- when having a late response is better than having none).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I know of no word describing non-real-time systems in this sense.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Batch or offline systems are just systems which are working alone, as opposed to online systems which interact either with the world (the reactive systems ) or users (the interactive systems ).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As usual, definitions tend to vary a little depending on authors and their purpose (especially the division between interactive systems and soft real-time one is more one of intend, context and tradition than anything else).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Notes: Real-time is also used informally to describe interactive systems for which the interaction is quick enough that it doesn't suffer from the response time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Non-real-time systems in this sense are just called slow .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Online/offline is also used to describes systems needing or not needing a network connection.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/658/AProgrammer", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If you are looking at \"age\" and \"operability\" of business data, you might consider \"historical\" vs. \"real-time\" data.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8361/Greg Chase", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "These aren't exact antonyms, but I think they would work in certain contexts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My use case is: \" realtime games vs ___ games \".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You could emphasize the difference in length of time with: extended, ongoing, or long-term .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You could emphasize the broken quality of time with: discontinuous, periodic, fragmented, or intermittent .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/57351/skibulk", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Offline or batch processing is the opposite of real-time processing. Deferred could denote non-real-time. One might use \"historical\" vs. \"real-time\" data, or time could be considered to be discontinuous, periodic, fragmented, extended, ongoing or intermittent.", "Real-time and non-real-time are helpful distinctions. You can emphasise the difference with extended, discontinuous, deferred, offline or batch processing." ] ]

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[ [ "You can emphasise the difference with extended, discontinuous, deferred, offline or batch processing.", "Real-time and non-real-time are helpful distinctions." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "I'd say the phrase ' one-on-one meeting ' sounds much more natural.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The term ' one-to-one ' is more often used in the with any of the following: one-to-one relationship one-to-one function one-to-one mapping", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2219/p.s.w.g", "score": 17 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "one-on-one is used to talk about meetings between two people.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "When there is a discussion we can call it a one-on-one discussion ; as an alternative for a face to face confrontation and in interviews (quite often political ones on TV).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "one to one (with or without hyphens) is an expression often used in teaching.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "When students are paired in class; and in teaching one to one , i.e. a teacher with a private student (a client) or an individual student as opposed to a class.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is used in the campaign: \"one to one computing\" which promotes a computer for every student and teacher.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In BrEng one-to-one (with hyphens) is used in the following: one-to-one discussion ; one-to-one talk ; and one-to-one interview as in \" Interviews will be on a one-to-one basis. \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Finally, one-to-one in Mathematics: \"Maths characterized by or involving the pairing of each member of one set with only one member of another set, without remainder.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1694/Mari-Lou A", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "One-to-one is used to describe transfer and mapping.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In mathematics, a one-to-one function is a function where every element in the range corresponds to one element in the domain.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "One-on-one is used to describe meetings between two individuals, as per your question.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2220/Andrew Ng", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's more appropriate to say One on One.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "One to One sounds more like a technical term to denote mapping between two elements.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Both could be used interchangeably.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "However,'One-to-One' indicates a more formal tête-à-tête whereas 'One-on-One' refers to a confrontational situation between two people.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "A 'One-to-One' meeting definitely sounds more appropriate.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "One on one would be the appropriate use here.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "When you are having a one on one meeting or discussion, typically it is a informal conversation or a touch base if you will.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One to one would signify a relationship between two entities.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/24449/nykc", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Some people claim that 'One-to-One' indicates a more formal tête-à-tête whereas 'One-on-One' may imply a confrontational situation between two people. Conversely, others say that one-on-one is used to describe meetings between two individuals. Therefore, both can be used. one to one (with or without hyphens) is an expression often used in teaching.", "One-to-one is more technical and is indicative of a relationship. It is also used in mathematics. One-on-one is more natural for meetings." ] ]

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[ [ "One-to-one is more technical and is indicative of a relationship. It is also used in mathematics.", "One-on-one is more natural for meetings." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "I'm not sure if it's overly simple for your needs", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but I would always say: ...can be found from page x onwards", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1219/Ste", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Your first example is perfectly fine because \"pages\" isn't necessary.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "You've already stated that you're referring to pages when you say, \"found on page x\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I assume that you want to spell out this information particularly instead of using the ff.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "notation: \"... can be found on page xff.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" which means the same thing. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ff .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2349/Rhonda", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Not “page 42 and the following”.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The adjective following calls for a noun.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It looks like you're using “the following” to mean “what follows the current point in the text” or “something that follows” or “the next few lines”.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“Page 42 and the following pages” sounds correct.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "This could be shortened to “page 42 and following pages” (since you aren't specifying the exact number of following pages, it's some following pages, so the null article works), or perhaps even to “page 42 and following” (without the", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ", it doesn't look like a noun is missing any more).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In practice, you would normally not spell this out, but use the abbreviation ff.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The word page becomes plural since it now designates not just to the first page but to the whole sequence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(…) can be found on pages 42ff.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/233/Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I'd say one of the following: • ... can be found on page x and following • ... can be found on page x", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "et seq.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "• ... can be found on or after page x", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/146/James Waldby - jwpat7", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Even in an academic paper, I think you can avoid esoteric notation like ff or et seq .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Or perhaps especially in an academic paper.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Contrary to popular opinion, you don't win points for making a paper hard to read.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can express this simply, and I would do so by writing \"starting on\": [...]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "can be found starting on page 153.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "There are some good alternatives in the other answers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Just make sure that however you choose to express yourself, it's clear to your intended audience.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Your second example is better than your first example, IMO.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You could say \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[...] can be found on page x and on. which would mean the same thing (although \"and on\" could possibly be taken to mean \"until the end of the book\").", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Saying \"after page x\" is confusing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It probably would not include page x, but it is ambiguous enough that someone would probably have to ask for clarification.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1402/Daniel", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Suggestions include \"can be found starting on page 153\"; “Page 42 and the following pages”; \"can be found from page x onwards\"; or \"can be found on or after page x \".", "You can say can be found starting on/on or after page x. Also, page x and following/onwards is appropriate. " ] ]

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[ [ "You can say can be found starting on/on or after page x.", "Page x and following/onwards is appropriate. " ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Use of the word “google” to mean “perform an Internet-based search (for)” is an example of genericization .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wikipedia has a list of terms that have entered the language this way .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some may surprise you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wikipedia also has a helpful page on the topic , which includes commentary on the phenomenon itself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you're looking for a more general term that covers words entering the language that are not necessarily trademarks, I recommend neologism .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2274/Tyler James Young", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"How to term those words which are not by default English but added by time?\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That seems to me difficult to answer since all English words were not by default, but added in time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You may consider, depending on context, terms such as neologism, loanword or calque.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "As for Google, this is a type of trademark name that became a common word.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Other such examples are: cornflake (from Cornflakes@), tabloid, zipper, aspirin, escalator, jacuzzi, ping-pong, and one of the most-known, xerox.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[1]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/14/Theta30", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As per the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, google is a transitive verb.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is a word rather than just a usage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2495/Sweet72", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Whilst a lot of the other answers to this question seem to be focusing on whether google has entered the dictionary, to me that sounds like a question for ELU.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My (ELL) take on it", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "is that it is a word - regardless of whether a dictionary believes it to be so - meaning to \"search the web (esp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "using the Google web-search product)\" because native speakers use it for that purpose .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Whether or not it is in a dictionary is somewhat besides the point.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is well understood, routinely used and widely accepted word in everyday ordinary English.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is certainly very informal, so I'd avoid using it in essays and graded assignments, or in formal letters and emails.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And I'd avoid using it in books and marketing material too, since Google is a trademarked term.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But yes, for all intents and purposes, google is a perfectly valid word, used and understood by native English speakers: Let me just google that for you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm not sure.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'll google it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course I know that zebras aren't just stripy horses!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I googled \"zebras\" earlier, and it said they were entirely different species!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/307/Matt", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Verbing\" is what happens when a noun or adjective starts to be used as a verb. \"Genericizing\" or \"genericization\" is what happens when a trademark (such as \"Google\") starts to be used as an ordinary word (such as \"googling\").", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Usually the trademark is capitalized, and usually the genericized word is not capitalized.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also, most trademarks do not take prefixes or suffixes (other than using a plural suffix to talk about more than one instance of the trademarked item), but genericized words do.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Coinage\" or \"coining\" is what happens when someone makes up a new word (or phrase) and starts using it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The new word or phrase is a \"neologism\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Borrowing\" is what happens when a foreign language word becomes an English language word.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9100/Jasper", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "\"Borrowing\" is what happens when a foreign language word becomes an English language word. \"Verbing\" is what happens when a noun or adjective starts to be used as a verb. \"Genericizing\" is what happens when a trademark (such as \"Google\") starts to be used as an ordinary word (such as \"googling\"). \"Coining\" is what happens when someone makes up a new word. \"Neologism\" is a more general term that covers words entering the language.", "Verbing and borrowing are possible, also genericization, coinage, neologism, loanword or calque are options. " ] ]

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[ [ "Verbing and borrowing are possible.", "Genericization, coinage, neologism, loanword or calque are options. " ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "There are a couple of difference idiomatic choices depending on what subtext you wish to convey.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here's a selection you can choose from: If you want to describe someone with implied criticism in a single word: John is work-shy .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "John is indolent .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "( not particularly common)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "John is a do-nothing .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "( not particularly common).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "John is very apathetic towards work.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Or using an idiom:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "John is somewhat of a nine-to-fiver .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "John does enough to get by at work.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "John does the bare minimum in his job.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "John isn't living up to his own potential at work.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "John is just scraping by at work.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "John is not pulling his weight in his job.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The following may also apply: John is very unmotivated in his work.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "John has no passion for his work.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "John is fairly indifferent towards his work.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "John is very lazy .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand, you might want to give John's lifestyle a positive spin: John has a good work life-balance .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/307/Matt", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "For what it's worth, I think slacker is, in fact, the right word for this.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You're describing someone who doesn't totally fail to show up, but puts in the minimum effort.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Putting in the minimum effort is slacking.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you wanted to describe this in a more \"politically correct\" way, you might say the person is not very industrious .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2634/Andrew", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A goldbrick : a person who shirks responsibility or performs duties without proper effort or care.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Originally... The term has come a long way from its roots in the nineteenth century; along the way it got progressively further and further away from gold, or indeed bricks [...]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Incompetent officers appointed from civilian life at the start of the First World War with only minimal training were likewise called gold bricks by enlisted men (in the case of second lieutenants, this was probably provoked by their rank insignia, a gold rectangle)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "At some point during that War, the term was extended to refer to anybody not pulling his weight, a malingerer or loafer", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1694/Mari-Lou A", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "He's a clock-watcher .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Only interested in when it's time to go home.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9469/Steve Holden", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Some other words that would work:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "John has a [casual, lackadaisical, negligent, disinterested, uncaring] approach to his work.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Some words that would also imply that the quality of work suffers from his approach would be slipshod, slapdash, unmeticulous, careless, and haphazard.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can find more by consulting a thesaurus.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1883/BobRodes", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Here are a couple more: John is a malingerer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "John is a clockwatcher.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "From Google: malingerer : one who feigns illness in order to escape duty or work clockwatcher : an employee who is overly strict or zealous about not working more than the required hours", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1355/Tom Au", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I like \"John's work is slapdash\" Since this describes his work, rather than John himself, it is more subtle than some of the other examples.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2609/Biglig", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "What about John is a sloven or slob .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This means Schlamper in German, which is a person who fulfills his job but the outcome is of such a poor quality.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2670/Kai Mysliwiec", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "One might say that he is a clock-watcher; a nine-to-fiver; doing the bare minimum; just scraping by; not pulling his weight; very unmotivated; lazy; indolent; apathetic; disinterested or indifferent. You could also use slacker.", "Clock-watcher, slob, indifferent, slacker and do-nothing are viable options." ] ]

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[ [ "Clock-watcher, slob, indifferent, slacker and do-nothing are viable options." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "A Cheap person is someone who doesn't like to spend money.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Cheap also means showing a lack of honesty and moral principles.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Someone who is \"cheap\" is a person that is reluctant to spend money.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a negative way to describe a person.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some people are reluctant to spend money and can be called \"cautious\", that is a more positive way to describe a person.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, you have bills to pay so decide to cook instead of going to a restaurant.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is positive because it's responsible to be careful with your money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A \"cheap person\" is a person that is ungenerous with their money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, I want a pair of $50 Nike shoes, but my mom buys me FAKE Nike shoes that cost $15.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Yes, the fake Nikes are cheaper, but their quality is poor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Most people would prefer paying the extra money for the Nikes because they are of higher quality and will last longer, but my mother doesn't care about that.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My mother is cheap because the only thing that matters to her is to spend as little money as possible.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Someone can be rich, but be cheap.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, billionaire Donald Trump buying his wife a Ford when she preferred (and he can afford) a BMW.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/36820/Mar", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It can mean different things depending on context: cheap (from urban dictionary)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A reference to one of the following:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "An individual who is extremely careful with money An individual who is easy to have sex with An individual who uses the same tactic/tactics to win An object that is worth very little 1.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That guy's cheap \" 2.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She's real cheap \" or \" He's", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "real cheap \" 3.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're cheap ! \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" Man, that's cheap \" 4.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Those jeans are cheap! \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2468/user49727", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There are a couple of meanings you can take from the word cheap used in this sense.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It could, as @Benyamin Hamidekhoo said, mean that they are reluctant when it comes to spending money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Synonyms include tight and tight-fisted.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the sense of the article you referred to though it means easy to please, or easy to win over.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Someone who is cheap doesn't want much and is a bit of a pushover in that sense.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The article is saying that the man had only physical affection for the writer, and that was the only reason they would even talk to them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Cheap certainly doesn't mean poor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That would be referring to the actual value of a person in economic terms, rather than their personality and individual wants.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A \"cheap person\" is usually a person who doesn't like to spend money, especially someone who doesn't spend money in situations when he can and should.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "A slang term for such a person is \"cheapskate\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Googling \"cheapskate stories\" reveals this succinct little gem:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My grandparents have a lot of money but get mad if you don't use paper towels twice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If they've only been used to mop up water, they have to be set on the counter to dry and are used again.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is a very fine example of a cheap person.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1883/BobRodes", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "One of the uses of 'cheap' is to describe that a person is of little worth.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It is a reference to his character.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "From Longman: cheap (adj): showing a lack of honesty, moral principles, or sincere feelings, so that you do not deserve respect", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Example goes like:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You’re", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "lying, aren’t you?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You’re so cheap.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/60954/user60954", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Not exactly poor .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But we generally used to call a person 'cheap' because of his or her activities.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It means if someone does not have good behaviour - or we can say that if someone is a bad person then we call him a cheap person.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "A cheap person is someone who doesn't like to spend money, even though they can and should. Cheap can also be used to describe someone with a lack of honesty and moral principles, or someone of little worth. However, in this article, it means easy to please, or easy to win over.", "Cheap can mean lacking in principles, low worth, easy to please. A cheap person is reluctant to spend money, especially when they should." ] ]

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[ [ "Cheap can mean lacking in principles, low worth, easy to please.", "A cheap person is reluctant to spend money, especially when they should." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Sure, you can say life is repetitive .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "There's nothing wrong with that.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It does sound like a general statement, though, and not a description of specific things we do over and over again.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So how do we describe things we do regularly, over and over again?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can talk about your daily routine .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That means something you do every day, though you can also use it to describe things you do only on weekdays, in which case you might say weekday daily routine or daily routine on weekdays .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Some people skip over this detail and just say daily routine .)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can also talk about your habits .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Do you make it a habit to clean for ten minutes every day after you get home from work?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Then you can use that word.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you don't exactly form the habits on purpose, then you might say you're falling into a routine .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And any activity you engage in on a regular basis can be called habitual .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course, habits can refer to both good habits , like brushing your teeth regularly, and bad habits , like smoking.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you're getting bored of doing the same things every day, you might describe it as tedious , or as a noun, tedium , as in the tedium of daily life .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You might say that things are getting old , or that you're getting tired of doing the same things day in and day out.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you really want to change, you might say that it seems like your life is standing still , but you want to move forward .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(This, of course, is a metaphor.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Another good alternative, suggested by Mistu4u, is monotonous .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This word usually has a negative connotation, much like boring or repetitive .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can say that your life has become monotonous, or if you like the \"life is...\" formulation you started with, it certainly works there, too:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Life is monotonous.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Again, that would sound like a general statement about life, though you can apply the word to individual activities:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Work has been so monotonous lately.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course, there are a lot of ways to talk about things like these, so I suggest you wait around to see if anyone else posts an answer :-)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They might have a term or a phrase that you like better.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In addition to \"routine\" and \"habit\" you might say that you are \"stuck in a rut\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "(That is a reference to a wagon whose wheels only go straight because of the rut in the road.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Turning the wagon is difficult as is changing one's routine.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1811/TecBrat", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "High-level English users sometimes borrow the French word quotidien, an adjective meaning \"everyday\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can also, of course, use the adjective \"everyday\", but remember that it's not the same as saying \"every day\" (indefinite pronoun + noun meaning something like \"each day\").", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9933/Deirdre", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In reference to the original question, \"Is there any word to describe things we do regularly over and over again?\", if you were to ask me how things are going, I might answer, \"Oh you know, same old, same old.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case, \"same old, same old\" refers to things that are done regularly over and over again -- all mundane, monotonous, and humdrum things indicating that someone is stuck in a rut.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/56720/Pat Hanham", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The second example in your question: Another example would be when two lovers spend too much time together, and fall into a pattern of always doing the same things over and over; nothing appears to change.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "reminds me of another word: humdrum ( humdrum = boring because nothing new or interesting ever happens).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here is an example from The Everything Guide to Writing Your First Novel: All the tools you need to write and sell your first novel by Hallie Ephron: Bridges of Madison County is a literary romance in which Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson, stuck in her routines and a humdrum marriage, meets a handsome photographer who turns out to be her soul mate, and must choose between true love and her family's needs.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3281/Damkerng T.", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "One way of describing a welcome routine is tradition .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Although we often think of this word as referring to old customs, it can also refer to more small and routine things.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Macmillan lists one definition of the word as: tradition ( n. ) an activity that happens regularly and has become the usual thing", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, one author wrote: He pushed the hall door open and, as was his tradition , let it slam behind him .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Jinna Dodds, Light Song )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5630/Krystal Young", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think the word you’re looking for is “mundane”.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Mundane adjective 1. common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Source: dictionary.com definition of “mundane”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/15333/Redink", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "One of the words that comes to my mind is- monotonous : not changing and therefore boring", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You can use it in such conditions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Say... a monotonous job or life...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3187/Maulik V", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I found the perfect idiom, which I happened to read just now in the early edition of Anne Frank's diary (still in print and being sold on Amazon or Adlibris) transl.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "by Mooyaart... \"the common round\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is 2-3 pages in, where Anne complains that she rarely departs from the usual routines of talk with friends, but can now truly confide in someone -- her diary!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Note: I could not find this phrase in any online dictionary, but it seems the perfect thing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If Mooyaart coined it, then she has just enriched the English language.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/49069/Nicholas L", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "CONSISTENTadhering to the same routine, as in \"makes delicious coffee ever time.:or \"always comes to work with a smile on her face.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/89535/SpindoctorUSA", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Ritual (of an action) arising from convention or habit. \"the players gathered for the ritual pregame huddle\" (Lexico)", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think this word has more of the depth and connotation the asker is looking for rather than the simplistic words like repetition and habit.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/107446/Carrie ", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Suggestions include: repetitive, monotonous, routine, habit, stuck in a rut, tradition, same-old-same-old, ritual, and mundane.", "Monotonous, repetitive and mundane are options with a negative meaning. More positive expressions are tradition, ritual and same old." ] ]

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[ [ "Monotonous, repetitive and mundane are options with a negative meaning.", "More positive expressions are tradition, ritual and same old." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Morning is a common English word, as you know.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Forenoon , on the other hand, is so rare that I'm not sure many native speakers of English will even recognize the word.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "How rare is it?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To find out, I searched the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) for both morning and forenoon .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here are the results I got: Search term Number of results", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "-------------------------------------------", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "morning", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "128954 forenoon 16", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That makes morning roughly eight thousand times more common than forenoon .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It's safe to say you should stick to morning and avoid forenoon entirely.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But wait!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Is it possible forenoon is only used in dialects of English other than US English?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To find out, I searched the Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) , which contains samples of English from twenty countries.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And in none of those countries was it substantially more common than in the US; the numbers in every country were less than one occurrence per million words.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And the few results that I do find are mostly in fiction.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So yes, it is safe to say", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ": avoid forenoon .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Use morning instead.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane", "score": 19 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's not exactly obsolete, but forenoon is at the very least a \"dated\" usage...", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Any native speakers would understand forenoon , but most people wouldn't use the term themselves, and they'd probably notice and classify it as a \"minor mistake\" if they heard a non-native speaker using it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/126/FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "More broadly than the other answers, forenoon is one of the time-of-day terms that has become much less commonly used over the last century or so, possibly as a result of the widespread use of artificial lighting.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In earlier times, it was common to see the day divided into much more specific segments, but now only the terms in bold are in common usage for describing the time of day:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "dawn twilight (morning) sunrise morning forenoon midday afternoon evening sunset twilight (evening)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "dusk night", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As a fan of the Aubrey–Maturin series , set in the early 1800s, I'm quite familiar with the nautical term \"forenoon watch\", but I can't ever recall having seen \"forenoon\" used in a modern setting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2536/chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I grew up on a dairy farm in Dover, PA.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My family, as with most folks in the region, are influenced by PA Dutch (not Dutch as in from Holland but Dutch Anglicized Deutsch/German) dialects.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm not surprised it doesn't show up in Internet searches as I don't know that I've ever actually written the word but have used it commonly among my family and others from the region in conversation regularly.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10630/Kate Rauhauser-Smith", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I am a British, native speaker of English, living in Denmark.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I like the word 'forenoon' and sometimes use it, particularly in writing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I do not regard it as archaic, but I may however be influenced in this by Danish, a language I speak every day and fluently.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In Danish, we distinguish between 'morgen' (morning) and 'formiddag' (forenoon).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We say 'God morgen!'", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Good morning!), but only up until about 09.30 or 10.00 hrs.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After that, we switch to 'Goddag!'", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Good day!).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have always regarded 'forenoon' as a word much more used and favoured in Scotland than in England, and I admit that it is generally speaking far more used by older people than younger ones. '", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Forenoon' has a nice ring to it, I feel. :-)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/25569/Peter T", "score": 3 } } ]

[ [ "Although forenoon is not exactly obsolete, its usage is at the very least \"dated\" and much less used over the last century. It is so rare that many native speakers of English may not even recognize the word. It is much more used and favoured in Scotland than in England, and generally by older people.", "Forenoon is rare and dated usage, it is more likely to be used by older people." ] ]

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[ [ "Forenoon is rare and dated usage, it is more likely to be used by older people." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The word \"can\" does not imply please.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is nice to say please", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but please does not always mean someone is being polite.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Usually the word \"please\" might be added to a simple sentence like that because the person asking may feel like you are not doing X fast enough, that you normally wouldn't do X, that X is doing them a favor...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I personally like not hearing the please because it usually means that everything is running smoothly.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I would hate to think that someone would feel they need to say please to get me to do something.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Fundamentally, \"can you please do...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" is a request , while \"can you do...\" is a question (albeit one with an implied request attached).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Can you pass the salt?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Literally, this is asking whether the salt shaker is within your reach, and thus whether you have the capability to grab it and pass it along.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, there is also an implied request, namely if you are capable of doing it, then you should do so.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This does not mean that there's", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "an", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "implied \"please\" in there; this is definitely the lowest on the politeness scale.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Can you please pass the salt?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is no longer asking about capability; you are assumed to be able to reach the salt shaker and pick it up.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As a request, it's polite enough for most purposes, but we can do better.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Could you pass the salt?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is also an outright request; capability is assumed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Where it belongs on the politeness scale is somewhat debatable, but I would say it's about equal to \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "can you please...\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Could you please pass the salt?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is the proper, polite form of this request.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We have both the conditional and the \"please\" in there, so the request has been softened about as far as it can be without resorting to overblown false humility", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(\"I was wondering if I could possibly trouble you to do me the immense favor of please passing the salt\").", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That all said, the politeness (or lack thereof) of a request depends greatly on the tone. \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Can you pass the salt?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" said without any particular emphasis would be much more polite than \"Can you please pass the salt?!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\", because the latter, with the emphasis on the please and the exclamatory tone, implies frustration rather than politeness.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To address something from the comments: Could you please just pass the salt?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here, we've blown right past politeness and into exasperation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This would only be used if you've already asked for the salt, and instead of being passed the requested spice container, you were given a long story about how salt is bad for you and how it's impolite to ruin the spicing that the chef has so carefully achieved and really, don't you think the stew is already salty enough?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/50/Martha", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "These are two different sentences - understand why by replacing 'can' with 'could'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Could you do this?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(do you have the capability?)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Could you please do this", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(will you do this because I am asking you to do so?)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4904/lonstar", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Can does not imply please.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "When speaking informally, many people omit please ; but when you are in a formal situation, it's impolite to not say please.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2963/Giambattista", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Both are proper to ask.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "They both convey the same kind of request.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The first is more direct and can be used in normal day to day business, casual, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "conversation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The second is a little more polite but caries the same meaning.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "If I were speaking to my dad, I'd use the second.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If I were speaking to my office college or a friend, I'd use the first.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That said, please is not implied in the first.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/601/Noah", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "Both are proper to ask and they both convey the same request. However, the word \"can\" does not imply \"please\" and using \"please\" makes it a little more polite. On the other hand, some people reported that they like not hearing the please because it usually means that everything is running smoothly.", "Please' is not implied by 'can'. 'Please' adds politeness. Both convey similar requests." ] ]

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[ [ "Both convey a similar request.", "Please' is not implied by 'can'. 'Please' adds politeness." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Originally, everyone spelled it centre , but because of Noah Webster's spelling reforms , people in the US started spelling it center , particularly in the last century.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Although the revised spelling center has been adopted internationally to varying extents, centre is still more popular in most regions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But regardless of how you spell it, it's the same word, so it has the same meaning either way.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "To get a clearer picture of which spellings are used in which countries, I turned to the Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After searching for both terms, I took the raw data and created a chart of percentages using the formula center /", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(center + centre) , which I sorted in descending order.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here's what I found:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Percent of the time center is used rather than centre , by region United States 92.2% Philippines 87.5%", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Pakistan 54.0%", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hong Kong 51.8%", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Bangladesh 51.2% India 43.8% Tanzania 42.5% Singapore 40.7% Kenya 40.3% Jamaica 40.3% Nigeria 39.1% Malaysia 35.1%", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Ghana 34.4%", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sri Lanka 33.8%", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Canada 33.0% New Zealand 24.2% Ireland 20.1% South Africa 19.8% Great Britain 19.4% Australia 18.1%", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As you can see, center is more popular in the US, while centre is more popular in the UK.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Many regions fall closer to the center of the spectrum, with India favoring centre only somewhat, and Hong Kong using both spellings in roughly equal proportions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Overall, centre is more popular in international English.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Which should you use?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Well, if you're required to follow a style guide, use whichever spelling it suggests.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you have a choice, and you're writing in a region like the US or UK that strongly prefers one spelling, I suggest you use that spelling.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(I don't think either spelling is ever \"incorrect\", but it's possible that the person grading your test might disagree with me!)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Otherwise, you can spell it however you like.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Finally, I'd like to add one note about the percentages above.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The tendencies at the top and bottom ends of the chart are likely to be stronger than the percentages indicate, primarily because spellings are usually respected in proper nouns regardless of region.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you talk about the Capital Centre , for example, you're likely to spell the word centre rather than center regardless of which region you're in.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But since most uses of this word are not in proper nouns, the percentages should be roughly accurate, particularly toward the center of the list; it should be enough for you to decide how to spell the word.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane", "score": 101 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Centre is correct in international and British English.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Center is an alternative spelling used mainly in American English.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The meaning is the same.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3008/mikera", "score": 25 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I'm Australian, so the following refers to British/Australian/New Zealand spelling and also for most Commonwealth (ex-British Empire) countries too.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The spelling of these two words is different depending on", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it's meaning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If it is referring to the middle of something, such as the middle of a circle or in fact any shape, then the spelling is CENTER.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "An example is \"I walked to the center of the circle\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the word is referring to an organisation or a building, then it's spelt as \"CENTRE\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "An example would be \"I started my new job at the Australian Centre for International Relations\" or another example would be \"the music score was deposited at the University Music Centre\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As for \"meter\" vs \"metre\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the spelling is also different depending on what it's referring to.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "An instrument of measurement is spelt \"METER\" - example: the gas meter or the water meter.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If it's referring to distance it's \"METRE\" - example: \"the 100 metre sprint\" or \"the steel pipe was 20 centimetres long\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also the metric measurement of volume is spelt \"LITRE\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The United States spells it as \"liter\", everybody else (I believe) spells it as \"litre\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the US the spelling for both \"meter / metre\" is just \"meter\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I hope this is of some help!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6897/NitroNick", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I don't see any difference between the two forms except the spelling.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Center is commonly regarded as an American spelling, whereas in Britain, people tend to spell it as centre .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This is similar to some words like meter and metre , color and colour , etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2986/dennylv", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The spelling centre is standard in UK English.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In Canada it is typical in proper names, e.g. Toronto Centre for the Arts, but \"center\" is also commonly used otherwise, e.g. shopping center , center of town .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Both spellings can be encountered even in the same text, e.g. in NHL hockey where there are many Canadian and US teams, reference might be made to the \"center\" forward position and a \"centre\" where a game is played. From Wiktionary .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6751/Sheharyar", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "They are two ways to spell the same thing: centre is the UK spelling for center .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "center is the US spelling for centre .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Source:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Cmabridge dictionary.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/12430/Judicious Allure", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "Center is an American spelling, whereas in Britain, people spell it as centre . It is the same word and it means the same thing. Originally, everyone spelled it centre , but because of Noah Webster's spelling reforms , people in the US started spelling it center , particularly in the last century.", "Both carry the same meaning. Centre is UK English and center is US English." ] ]

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[ [ "Centre is UK English and center is US English.", "The two mean the same thing." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The critical question here is How does your teacher pronounce intervocalic", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "/r/?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In some quite prestigious dialects—including the Stage British", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I was taught—/r/", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "falling between two vowels is pronounced as a voiced tip-flap.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That is, the tongue does not curve backward toward the roof of the mouth but touches the back of the upper teeth, or the alveolar ridge immediately above that point, once, very briefly.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The sound which this produces is virtually indistinguishable from the alveolar flap which most Americans use for intervocalic /t/, as in beautiful .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Indeed, I am not at all confident that these are two different sounds.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The alveolar flap is notated in IPA with the 'fish-hook r', /ɾ/ . Wikipedia notes—I have no idea whether this is directly relevant to your situation—that This sound is often analyzed (and therefore transcribed) by native English speakers as an 'R-sound' in many foreign languages.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, the 'Japanese R' in hara, akira, tora, etc. is actually an alveolar tap ∗ .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In languages where this segment is present but not phonemic, it is often an allophone of either an alveolar stop ([t] or [d]) or a rhotic consonant like the alveolar trill or alveolar", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "approximant.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "∗ Note Wikipedia's assertion that “The terms tap and flap may be used interchangeably”.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "What your (NS) teacher reportedly said does not reflect standard English pronunciation - the one that is usually taught in an L2 setting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, Wells 1984 reports a similar phenomenon in the same intervocalic position but between words in", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "northern (UK) dialects:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1096/Alex B.", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Beautiful is traditionally pronounced /bjuːtɪfʊl/ ( link ), but native English speakers often replace", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "/t/ sounds with /d/", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "sounds, so it often sounds like /bju:dɪfʊl/ .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "With further elision due to omission of the glottal stop in some accents, this can sound like /bju:ɪfʊl/", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "or even /bjur:ɪfʊl/ - especially in the southern states of America and some North Eastern parts of England and Cockney English in London, which is possibly what you're hearing in this case.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That said, in my experience, most English speakers will pronounce beautiful as /bju:dɪfʊl/: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oofSnsGkops#t=048 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe1wtkkt9-E#t=54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAfyFTzZDMM#t=053s", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/307/Matt", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Your teacher is mistaken.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It is pronounced with the \"T\" sound rather than the \"R\" sound.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3190/Zachary", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It is also possible that the pronunciation is where the 't' is a merely a glottal stop (common in British English, especially in the London area) rather than having been transformed into a 'd' sound (which is more likely the American version).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2542/toandfro", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Here is another video of a large number of AmE native speakers using the word beautiful.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Give it a try!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "From the mouth of babes... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHWPYJuDuZQ", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11216/Wichita Steve", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It depends what language you're learning from as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The way Americans pronounce the T in this word actually sounds a lot like a Japanese/Spanish (I'm guessing there are more)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "R.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It works if it's got that slight roll.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The English would pronounce it like a simple T though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/34393/Synai", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Your teacher is mistaken. It is pronounced with the \"T\" sound rather than the \"R\" sound. It is also possible that the pronunciation is where the 't' is a merely a glottal stop (common in British English, especially in the London area), or where it has been transformed into a 'd' sound (which is more likely the American version).", "It is pronounced with 't' rather than 'r'. Sometimes a glottal stop is used." ] ]

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[ [ "It is pronounced with 't' rather than 'r'. Sometimes a glottal stop is used." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "You would say \"in the USA\" (although it's worth pointing out that you would say \"in America,\" not \"in the America\").", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "As chrylis pointed out, the word the is linked to the word States .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, to answer the question, \"Where was this car made?\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(assuming the car was made in Detroit), one could say any of the following: It was made in the United States.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It was made in the States .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(somewhat informal, but acceptable, esp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "conversationally)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It was made in the USA.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It was made in America.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It was made in North America .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(less specific; refers to the whole continent, but still a valid answer)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It was made in the Americas .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(even less specific, refers to two continents, plus Central America, too) Getting back to your original question (when to use", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the when referring to a nation), that happens when one of the key words in the country's name requires an article.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This could be because of a word like Kingdom or Republic :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I bought this in the Republic of Korea .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(but: I bought this in South Korea. )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I bought this in the Dominican Republic.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I bought this in the UAE .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "or because of plurality:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I bought this in the United States.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I bought this in the Philippines.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I bought this in the Bahamas .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Be careful, though!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not all countries ending with \"s\" are plural:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I bought this in Honduras .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/113/J.R.", "score": 19 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"In the USA\" is correct.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0, 0 ] ] }, { "text": "We put \"the\" in front of the names of some countries, though for most we do not.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Basically we use \"the\" in front of names that are \"descriptions\" rather than simply a name, like \"the United Kingdom\" and \"the United States\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We don't use \"the\" in most cases where it's plain name, like \"France\" or \"Latvia\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some countries have \"long forms\" of the name that add descriptions and so call for \"the\", but also have a short form where we do not use \"the\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, \"I visited China\", but \"I visited the People's Republic of China\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Note no \"the\" in the first case but we do use \"the\" in the second case.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are a few countries with names that don't sound like descriptions but that do use \"the\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Examples I can think of off the top of my head are \"the Bahamas\" and \"the Philippines\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We used to say \"the Ukraine\", but I understand that nation has said that it prefers to simply be called \"Ukraine\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've heard both \"Gambia\" and \"the Gambia\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You just have to learn these special cases by rote.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/803/Jay", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"In the USA\" is correct.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0, 0 ] ] }, { "text": "America is composed of states and 'states' is a noun.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can address it as America.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, you can say that \"ABC lives in America\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But to be more specific, ABC lives in the United States of America", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "looks more complete.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3579/Devendra", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "USA is an abbreviation for United States of America , and the is used because the proper noun is a noun phrase whose main noun is the ordinary noun States .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The definite article is also used in other country names (and their abbreviations) that are phrases made from ordinary nouns, such as the United Kingdom or the People's Republic of China .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Other languages have similar usage; the official name of Argentina in Spanish is la República Argentina (the Argentine Republic), and the country is referred to in Spanish as la Argentina .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2536/chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Although other responses are correct, if we want to decompose the word USA into its meaning, I would say that \"USA\" is a designation of \"The United States of America\" like \"BMW\" is a designation of a unique name.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "So you can say \"Made in USA\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But it's just my opinion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3595/kamil", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "\"In the USA\" is correct - as in \"In the \"The United States of America\". However, you would say \"in America,\" not \"in the America\".", "In the USA is correct." ] ]

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[ [ "In the USA is correct." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "According to the Harvard Dialect Survey (click to see the map), route (as in, \"the route from one place to another\") a. rhymes with \"hoot\" (29.99%)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "b. rhymes with \"out\" (19.72%)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "c.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I can pronounce it either way interchangeably (30.42%)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "d.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I say it like \"hoot\" for the noun and like \"out\" for the verb.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(15.97%)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "e.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I say it like \"out\" for the noun and like \"hoot\" for the verb.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(2.50%)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "f. other (1.40%)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(11137 respondents)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3281/Damkerng T.", "score": 17 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "This, and several other, pronunciations, are influenced by spelling, and not from ancient variations in the pronunciation (contrast the marry/merry merger) and hence we don't expect it to be tied to one region.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This map confirms this, although there do seem to be some tendencies: http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_26.html", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3488/hunter", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I am from Buffalo like \"out.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wife from Cali \"root.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Causes family problems anytime the topic comes up like today watching drag racing at Route 66 Raceway.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/21325/outlawadventures", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In England and the rest of the UK, route and root are pronounced the same and rhyme with the words loot and moot .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1425/Tristan", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I'm Aussie", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and I'd prefer 'rowt' version of route as not to confuse it with 'root' in the bedroom, so to speak.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "You get stupid comments when saying something similar to 'I'm taking this route (root) to the woods today' like 'Great, who is she?'", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/48542/Lynx318 therealone", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I am from Massachusetts and we have always pronounced it \"root\" - not matter what you are referring to.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As I paper route, route 1, what route you're going to take.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's all pronounced root.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "But I have realized that most people outside of New England pronounce it route with the \"out\" sound.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "And most times when you hear it on tv", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it's pronounced that way too.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But us New Englanders like being different :)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/51722/Wickedgood", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I'm no professional, but my teacher told me that \"route\", when referring to a way/path taken (eg Route 10 in Pokemon), is pronounced sounding like \"hoot\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The sound which rhymes with \"out\" is only used in \"router\", as in the networking device.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3667/Eugene T", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "In England and the rest of the UK, route and root are pronounced the same, and rhyme with hoot. However, people also pronounce route with the \"out\" sound.", "It depends on region and could be pronounced 'root' or 'rowt'." ] ]

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[ [ "Root' is the correct pronunciation.", "Rowt' may be the pronunciation depending on region." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "\"their money was not earned easily\" may not be a commonly used set phrase, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If you were writing very formally, however, the more common \"was hard earned\" might be better.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2748/nxx", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There are two main ideas that you want to convey: your parents were not well paid (or underpaid ), and their money was hard earned .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To rephrase your sentence to be more idiomatic, here is one possible way: When I was young, my parents were not well paid.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I knew that their money was hard earned, so I rarely ask them ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3281/Damkerng T.", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Their money was not earned easily\" is not a commonly-used phrase, but it is perfectly clear what you mean and I think it is well said.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Yes, you could say, \"They had a low income\", but that's not as colorful.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/803/Jay", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As OP has discovered, money isn't earned easy (or easily ) is not a particularly common turn of phrase.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "There are no written instances of either of those exact forms in Google Books, but there are hundreds of instances of money doesn't come easy (and easily ).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Far more common (Google Books claims about 11,200 results ) is... money was hard to come by ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "which I think focusses more on the fact that there wasn't much money, even if you worked hard .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/126/FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Just to point out, you already provided a better idiom: \"I knew that their wages were low .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So I rarely asked them for an allowance to buy candies or toys.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, some others may be more popular:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "they didn't make much money, we were poor, we didn't have much money, they didn't have much money, they were underpaid", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I suppose any of those could work, depending on what you want to mean and the \"voice\" you want to use.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3796/CoolHandLouis", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "Their money was not earned easily is not a commonly-used phrase, but it is perfectly clear what you mean and I think it is well said. Alternative suggestions include: they didn't make much money, we were poor, we didn't have much money, they didn't have much money, or they were underpaid.", "This is not common but not incorrect either. Didn't make much money, were poor are alternative renderings." ] ]

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[ [ "This is not common but not incorrect either. Didn't make much money, were poor are alternative renderings." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Walk through the tunnel\" means to enter the tunnel on one end and emerge out the other end.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Walk across the tunnel\" could mean the same thing, but only if the context establishes that.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It could also mean to enter the tunnel through a side entrance, and exit out another side entrance (i.e. the short way, not the long way); or it could mean to go across the top of the tunnel (e.g. if it's underground and the road goes over it); or variations on those themes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In general, \"through\" implies entering the middle of something and then going out the other side, whereas \"across\" implies crossing the middle, but not necessarily going in the thing you're crossing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/50/Martha", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Across is used with surfaces, places, flat objects/areas, or things that you are \"on.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Across is also used if it's important to mean \"on the other side of\", or \"moving over\" something like a river, hole, bridge, etc.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Through X is used if you are surrounded by or \"in\"/\"inside\" X.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "So you go through a tunnel, but not across it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you say you went across a tunnel, it would mean you somehow went over and on top of the tunnel (likely perpendicular to it) and avoided going in it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You might go through a tunnel to get across a mountain range, though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5144/LawrenceC", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Both of these words are used to indicate a movement from one place to another.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Using \" across \" is somehow like using on .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "We usually use across to talk about moving from one side to the other, usually on the surface.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is used for a two-dimensional and open space (across a wall, city, sheet of paper, road and ...).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We took a boat across the river.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Looking out across the ocean, he saw land.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Using \" through \", however, is somehow like using in or inside .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Imagine a place which is surrounded by something (for example a tunnel or a forest which is covered with tall trees).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When we want to move from one side of this surrounded place to the other, we use \"through\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Through is used for a movement in a three-dimensional and covered place.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I am driving through the tunnel.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She loves walking through the forest.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "About grass and lawn, if we are talking about a place which is covered with tall or long grass, we should use \"through\": When my dog runs through long grass, it’s difficult to find him.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but if we are talking about a field covered with short or small grass or lawn, we should use \"across\": Tomorrow at this time you'll be chasing peacocks across the lawn.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/48965/helen", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If it's something enclosed , such as a tunnel or passageway, you would usually be said to walk (or pass, or drive) through it from end to end.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0, 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If it's something more or less open (but still distinctly separate from the surroundings), such as a bridge, you would usually be said to walk (or pass, or drive) across it (and the act is crossing it).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Something like an ordinary ground-level road or sidewalk you would walk (etc.) along or alongside .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you are not moving from one end of this thing (e.g., road) to another, but only briefly occupying the same space, you would usually be crossing the road.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To cross a tunnel would usually mean that it's buried and you're above it, not within it at any time, although it would be possible to cross a tunnel from another, intersecting tunnel.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4789/Phil Perry", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "To move through something, one must be able to be inside it either literally or figuratively .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0, 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Usually a container or the notion of a container is invoked.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Walk through the tunnel Drive through a rain storm Run through the forest Walk through the streets of London in each case a container is established: tunnel , rain storm , forest , the collection of London streets Across usually implies a position of being over or on top of but may mean close by , and may, but not necessarily refer to movement .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Referring to movement Walk across a bridge Fly across the country Run across the street Referring to over", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The bridge goes across the river Hands Across America Referring to close by Sit across from somebody The building across from the station From your examples, one walks through a tunnel is correct walk through the tunnel across to the other side", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/26439/Peter", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Through is used to cross a three-dimensional place or enclosed object: like a tunnel, forest or jungle.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0, 0 ] ] }, { "text": "A forest is a three-dimensional place as it is covered with full of tall trees.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In contrast, an open field is usually empty, does not cover with trees, which is act like a two-dimensional place.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The man is walking across the field.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The man is walking through the jungle.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Credit goes to this video", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/12274/Ahmad Sharif", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Both of these words are used to indicate a movement from one place to another. If something is enclosed, such as a tunnel, forest or passageway, you would usually be said to walk through it from end to end. \"Through\" implies \"inside\". If something is more or less open (separate from the surroundings), such as a bridge, you would usually be said to walk across it. Across is used with surfaces, places, flat objects/areas, or things that you are \"on.\" ", "You walk across an open surface that you can walk on, such as a bridge. You walk through an enclosed space such as a tunnel." ] ]

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[ [ "You walk through an enclosed space such as a tunnel.", "You walk across an open surface that you can walk on, such as a bridge." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "since your/her takes are!!!!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think this is an example of students having learned some \"rules\" by heart which aren't rules.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Your is the possessive of you, and you can be singular or plural.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The main point is that the subject of the verb is name , or if you address multiple people, names If you are addressing a single person, you can say: What is your name ?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you are asking a group of people to give their name s , you ask: What are your names ?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But the conclusion that \"your\" takes \"are\" is absurdly and wrongly oversimplified.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2992/oerkelens", "score": 15 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Who are you?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" would be correct, because \"you\" is the subject of the sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But \"What is your name?\" is different: \"Name\" is the subject of that sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is modified by the adjective \"your\", but that doesn't change the subject.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Because of that, your student is correct.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The sentence you mentioned is talking about the person's name, not the actual person.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's what makes the difference.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4234/The Spooniest", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "No.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"What IS your name?\" is correct.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The subject of the sentence is not \"you\", but \"name\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Name\" is singular.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A common error in English is to confuse the subject of the sentence with modifiers on that subject when selecting the appropriate verb.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example: RIGHT: \"The girl with the cats is here.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "WRONG: \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The girl with the cats are here.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Cats\" is plural, so if \"cats\" was the subject of the sentence, the correct verb would be \"are\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But \"cats\" is not the subject of the sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The subject is \"girl\", which is singular.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the correct verb is \"is\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Similar thing here.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Your\" is not the subject of the sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is an adjective modifying \"name\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This case is a little easier than my example because \"your\" is an adjective, not a noun, and so can never be the subject of a sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Unless you are talking about the word itself.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You might say \"You are ...\", but you would never say \"Your are ...\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It must always be \"Your X is/are ...\", where X is a noun.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Or some more complex sentence, of course.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/803/Jay", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "After thinking it through, I think the best response of the teacher (you!)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "for this particular student once he or she asked, I think we should say \"what are your name?\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "since your/her takes \"are\"! is probably, Because name takes \"is\" !", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And if he or she looked confused, then you could add,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's because name takes \"is\" , so you should say, \"What is your name?\" , or \"What are your names?\" .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If your course is about conversational English and it doesn't emphasize grammar, perhaps this is the best way to go, in my opinion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is no grammar terminology in the reply.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Please note that I avoided even using the word \"either\" intentionally.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My point is your reply should match your student .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's obvious that this student understands the word take , and he or she could formulate questions and at least understand simple answers, and yet still couldn't tell which word is the main word of a phrase, indicating his or her unclear understanding on common English sentence structures.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, if your course also includes grammar, then you can take it as a good opportunity to discuss with your student(s) the concept of singular vs. plural in English, and the possessive form of you (which is your ) and other pronouns, and how to find the main word in a noun phrase, and sentence structures in English, and so on.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3281/Damkerng T.", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think it is correct to ask \"What is your name?\", and also correct to ask \"What are your names?\", depending on the way you are using it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If you are asked what is your name, you are expected to reply with your name and your surname e.g Adelaja Adebisi, which is a compound name making it singular.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand, if asked what are your names, and you give your names as Adelaja Adebisi Tolulope, then, the Tolulope added to it makes it plural so it is correct.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/15699/user15699", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "It is correct to ask \"What is your name?\", and also correct to ask \"What are your names?\", depending on the way you are using it. ", "What is your name?' is generally correct, you can also ask 'what are your names?'." ] ]

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[ [ "What is your name?' is generally correct, you can also ask 'what are your names?'." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "There is a common expression in the US that goes", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You learn something new every day.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The usage goes back to at least the mid 1800s and has risen in popularity since the later 20th century.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/351/bib", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I've found a saying that seems to be related to the meaning described by you: Live and learn (Wiktionary): An exhortation to gain knowledge from living experiences.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Commonly used after an accident or misfortune to indicate a moral lesson.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is also mentioned as You live and learn", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(The Free Dictionary)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ": something that you say when you have just discovered something that you did not know.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There's a sample sentence:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I had no idea they were related.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Oh well, you live and learn .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "P.S.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In Russian, we have a saying \"Live for a century and learn century through\" (Век живи, век учись - Vek zhivi, vek uchis').", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or, \"one lives through one's life and learns all through one's life\", since the word век has an antique sense of 'human lifespan'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is used to be said exactly in the manner of \"live and learn\", after one has discovered something previously unknown.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sometimes the contemplative ending \".. and still one dies a fool\" is added.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2127/CowperKettle", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Similar to @PeterBagnall's answer, a related expression in English is: Even old dogs can learn new tricks.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Interestingly, there is a related, opposite expression in English: You can't teach an old dog new tricks.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This negative expression apparently dates back to 1534 - and started as a literal rather than figurative assertion, also one that underscored difficulty rather than impossibility .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Both expressions have many modern variants, but all with which I am familiar include \"old dog(s)\" and \"new trick(s)\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Using the positive or negative (variants of these)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "expression(s) reflects a speaker's general optimism or pessimism about learning as people (figuratively) or dogs (literally) age.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4797/J0e3gan", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You're never too old to learn Which also has a connotation that you're never too old to start something new.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4786/Peter Bagnall", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "An oft-heard sentiment at commencement ceremonies is: Graduation is not an end, but a beginning.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Then there's:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The more I learn, the less I know.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "That ageless paradox goes back a long time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've found these quotes online, attibuted to Socrates:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "“The more I learn, the more I learn how little I know.”", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Einstein is said to have said: “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.” while the music group Kansas famously sang: “", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know.”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My dad was fond of quoting this Dutch proverb:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We grow too soon old and too late smart.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These three are not necessarily well-known sayings, but they are related quotes worth mentioning:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Julia Child)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“I am learning all the time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The tombstone will be my diploma.”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Eartha Kitt)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Henry Ford)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/113/J.R.", "score": 3 } } ]

[ [ "Suggestions for equivalent sayings include: You're never too old to learn; The more I learn, the less I know; You learn something new every day; Live and learn; and The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.", "Live and learn, the more I learn the less I know, the more I learn the more I learn how little I know, you learn something new every day are all possible phrases." ] ]

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[ [ "Live and learn, the more I learn the less I know, the more I learn the more I learn how little I know, you learn something new every day are all possible phrases." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Here's how I interpret it:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My fantasy is having two men at once.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This has a very obvious sexual meaning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One cooking.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One cleaning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This makes you reinterpret the earlier sentence with a non-sexual meaning:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My fantasy is having [one man cooking for me while another man cleans for me].", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This subverts your expectations, which may be funny to you (depending on your sense of humor).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think it retains some of the overtones of the original sentence, however.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane", "score": 50 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Neither of the words \"cooking\" nor \"cleaning\" have any sexual connotation whatsoever.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "That's the joke.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "By attaching such mundane activities to a fantasy , one that starts with such an obvious sexual tone, it becomes a turn of phrase meant to make you laugh.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a PG-rated joke.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd like to add one small thing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Even though it is becoming less so, cooking and cleaning are still considered tasks that fall to women.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So in this case, a woman fantasizing about two men performing those tasks is a play on gender-roles and her wish to escape them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm a heterosexual woman, but I often joke that what I really need is a wife.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The joke in question has a similar play on traditional gender roles.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4686/Jolenealaska", "score": 26 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's a joke.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "When you read the first sentence -- \"My fantasy is having two men\" -- you immediately think that she's talking about sex.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Then when she says \"one cooking, one cleaning\", she is saying that it's not about sex at all, it's about housework.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's why it's a joke.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She starts out making you think she's talking about sex, then pulls the rug out from under you when she makes it apparent that she's NOT talking about sex.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(I think this joke is originally from Rita Rudner.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Personally I thought it was pretty funny.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/803/Jay", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Jay is 100% correct.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The humor lies in the overturning of expectations in the set-up line from the word “having,” which, in English, has a clearly sexual connotation.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This joke works well in English because the language is compact — in this case, all the punch-line words are Anglo-Saxon, rather than Latinate, and therefore more efficient from a timing and syllabic perspective.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Think how awkward this would be in French, in which language you can’t just say “having two men,” without violating the grammatical rules of L’Académie Francaise: J'ai deux hommes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "L’un qui fait la cuisine et l’autre qui fait le ménage .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Somehow, this lacks the punch (by the way, French perfection is not guaranteed).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4923/Red Howler", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Despite how ruined I've become thanks to the internet, I don't think this one is a sexual joke, but a common joke that is not limited to English language only.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In my interpretation, the tweet describes a situation where a woman has two lovers who do some of her housework.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As a male, let me tell you that cooking a full course meal for even a small family and washing all the dishes afterwards takes a lot of time and is very exhausting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You could swap the sexes and get a joke about how a man wishes he could have all his house work done by two women.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And in some countries this isn't a fantasy or even an uncommon scenario.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2558/user1306322", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I don't think that it's meant to be sexual in this instance - it's a fairly straightforward joke.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Some alternatively-minded people might read it as sexual, though: 'cleaning' is one word used to refer to a person giving oral to a female (can be male, but more often female) after she has had sex without a condom.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4902/Macheleon", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "While just about any word can be given a tone of sexual innuendo in the right sentence,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "e.g. I took the guy I met at the bar home with me and he really cleaned my clock!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the whole point of this joke is that the meaning is not sexual after an opening that implies something sexual will follow.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a common enough interpretation of gender stereotypes that men fantasize about sex and women fantasize about having a man to take his share of the domestic burdens.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/30533/arp", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "It's a joke. By attaching such mundane activities to a fantasy , one that starts with such an obvious sexual tone, it becomes a turn of phrase meant to make you laugh. Neither of the words \"cooking\" nor \"cleaning\" have any sexual connotation whatsoever.", "This is a joke. Neither of the words have sexual connotations." ] ]

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[ [ "This is a joke. Neither of the words have sexual connotations." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "It depends on whether you can stand up or are seated outside when being carried by a typical example of the transport in question, on its size, and if it is enclosed.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Cars and the typical small helicopter typically don't really allow a person to stand up and are enclosed, therefore one is \"in\" them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand, early open-cockpit aircraft and later passenger aircraft, buses, bicycles, motorbikes and ships all allow their users/occupants to stand (or the occupants are seated outside), hence one is \"on\" such transport.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Small boats are a mixed case; One can be \"in\" or \"on\" a small, boat.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the one hand it is small and may be enclosed, on the other hand, one can stand when aboard one (however foolish it may or may not be to do so), and one is seated outside when sitting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If we have an imaginary vehicle, eg a \"snarfblagger\", if it is small, enclosed, and doesn't really allow a person to stand within it, a person using it is probably \"in\" it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand, if the \"snarfblagger\" is ridden like a bicycle or a horse, or is large enough to stand and walk around inside, then a person using it is \"on\" it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5283/Monty Wild", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Here's a jumble of thoughts, because I'm not sure if there is a definitive answer here:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I believe you would use \"on\" in any situation where you could ever describe yourself as \"boarding the [vehicle]\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You can use the verb \"to board\" with train, plane, or boat.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Once you have boarded the plane, you are on board the plane - or just \"on the plane\" for short.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You would not board a car, though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also, to be \"on the car\" would mean to be sitting on the roof of the car - so perhaps we do not use \"on\" with \"car\" because it would have a different meaning than the one we intend.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can board a helicopter, and", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think you could therefore say \"on the helicopter\", though I think more people would say \"in the helicopter\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[Maybe this is because being \"on\" the helicopter, as with the car in the above point, would be extremely painful if the rotor were moving :P]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/123/hairboat", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You get on a train because you can move around from car to car and walk around from place to place, you get in a car because you must remain seated in a single position inside the car and do not have the option of moving around.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5284/anonymous", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think you're right in saying it is involved with the size and the nature of the vehicle.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I have no history to back me up here, but I believe it goes like this: You cannot physically get on top of a train in any normal environment.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You stand on a platform and then you get onto a train.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It may have originated from the days before platforms, where you would climb up to reach the train, thus getting 'on' it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is similar with both buses and boats.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You tend not to get on the roof of one.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You also tend to stand on buses and trains, and may consider the floor of the vehicle as what you stand 'on'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A car is different.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They're not all that big, so standing on one is different to being in one.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You don't stand up in cars.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You always consider being in a seat instead of on a platform.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A car is smaller, so you feel more claustrophobic, and definitely inside .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4587/MMJZ", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's because of the location of the thing that moves the vehicle, the size of the vehicle, and its height.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "On a train, the tracks are below you, and you typically must use a small set of steps to climb up to the height where the people and cargo are. \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In\" also works for a train, but it isn't as common because a train is very large.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In a helicopter, the rotor blades are above you, and the vehicle is typically quite small with a very small payload capability, comparable to a car.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On a jet or in a jet both work.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On bus, in a bus both work.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For most road vehicles, only the biggest ones work with \"on\", like buses.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In a boat and on a boat both work, but \"in\" is more commonly used for very small boats, and \"on\" is more commonly used for big boats.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5287/badon", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I don't think it's particularly strange or illogical if you think about it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Like others have mentioned it implies nuances regarding the subject vehicle.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "With a car being a small motor vehicle", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the in implies the movement of lowering your arse to the seat immediately as you enter.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A train or bus being larger vehicles require the patron to step on to a platform or step through the doors first before taking a seat.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The same applies to ships, planes and trams.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is the same with board as in to board a train I presume", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "you know it's not usual to board a car .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5302/Lee", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "You get on a train because you can move around from car to car and walk around from place to place, you get in a car because you must remain seated in a single position inside the car and do not have the option of moving around. It depends on the size and the nature of the vehicle. You would use \"on\" in any situation where you could ever describe yourself as \"boarding the [vehicle]\".", "On' is used in any boarding situation. Otherwise this depends on the size and nature of the vehicle." ] ]

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[ [ "On' is used in any boarding situation. Otherwise this depends on the size and nature of the vehicle." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "When you are asking a question about how to do something, the preferred way to ask would be to use \"How do I...\" (or \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How can I...\", or \"Where would I...\"): How do I plant flowers in my garden?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How do I transpose flute music for clarinet?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How can I get my two-year-old to stop misbehaving?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Where can I get more information about asking questions in English?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If I am answering such questions in written form (say, on a blog, or in a book), a good way to summarize this information in a concise title is to use \"How to...\" (or \"Where to...\"): How to plant flowers in your 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], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tutorials are often called How-tos because they don't ask questions but answer them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This module teaches you [how to do X].", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How do I do X?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "is the corresponding question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is marked as a question by subject-auxiliary inversion, made possible with do-support (the use of do to supply an auxiliary where one is needed).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This works just fine as a title, too.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Practically anything works as a title.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This matter has been often been treated here; here is a very early question on the subject.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "†", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Technically, a free relative clause or fused-relative clause .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some linguists go even farther and distinguish this as an embedded question or open interrogative when it plays the semantic role of a question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In English, questions are indicated in various ways, including word order.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In these cases, the question would be formed by switching the order of the subject and the verb but since they lack an auxiliary 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"score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I notice that you have a number of questions on your network profile that are \"How to\" with a question mark.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "e.g.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How it's better to invoke gdb from program to print its stacktrace?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How to use git diff --color-words outside a Git repository?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How to get parent PID of a given process in GNU/Linux from command line?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is ungrammatical, because \"How to\" is not a question .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are two ways of correcting this: either remove the question mark, or change it to \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How do I...?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In other words, both How to use git diff --color-words outside a Git repository and How do I use git diff --color-words outside a Git repository? are fine.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Your editors could have chosen either option but they happened to choose the latter.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Personally, I think \"How do I...?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" sounds more appropriate for the title of a question .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"How to\" is a declaration and suggests that you are going to tell people how to do whatever it is.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So \"How to\" sounds more appropriate for the title of an answer to me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(This is also why tutorials are called \"How tos\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "- they are telling you how to do something.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, that's a personal preference, and as J.R. points out , you can use either - both would be grammatically correct.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3976/starsplusplus", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "People often use \"How to\" rather than \"How do I\" in Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange questions, because the word \"I\" gets a scary warning about the question being subjective and may be closed. https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/69769/38765", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Note: I deliberately used bad English in the last paragraph of the question)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As a side note, in general, please don't rely on Stack Overflow content as examples of high quality English!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/54/Andrew Grimm", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A better title for this question would be: When do I write \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How to\" instead of \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How do I\"?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ":D", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { 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[ [ " \"How to...\" is not a question, so if a question is written this way the easiest change (if there is no auxiliary verb) is to insert the necessary \"do\" and form the question in reference to the asker (referred to as \"I\"). In other words, both \"How to use git diff --color-words outside a Git repository\" and \"How do I use git diff --color-words outside a Git repository?\" are fine.", "How to is a noun phrase that behaves like a noun, it is not a question." ] ]

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[ [ "How to is a noun phrase that behaves like a noun, it is not a question." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "IMO It is rare that police arrest people without adequate suspicion.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "OR Police rarely arrest people without adequate suspicion.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The adverb rarely generally modifies a verb or a form of a verb, as in: We rarely walk.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "We prefer to take a car .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3187/Maulik V", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As this NGram shows, OP's specific construction is rarely used these days...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My guess is that many of the (relatively few) instances in recent decades will either be citing older texts, or they'll be things like [but]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it is rarely that [simple] , which isn't quite the same usage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The adverb/adjective issue is a sterile debate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Indeed, as OED specifically says under rarely (phrase)... it is (very) rarely that : = it is (very) rare that Having said that, as the above chart implies, and this one makes crystal clear you should stick to the more \"regular\" adjectival form in this specific construction today.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A similar usage shift involving adverb/adjective forms has occurred with it is well that vs it is good", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "that .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's not that the older form was (or even, is ) \"wrong\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's just gradually fallen out of favour", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/126/FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The sentence: It is rarely that police arrest people without adequate suspicion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "is an example of it-cleft .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Clefting is a construction by which a single sentence is broken up into two clauses so that the clause moved to the front receives more emphasis.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Let's see how it works in your example: Police rarely arrest people without adequate suspicion. and imagine we wish to emphasize how rarely this happens, then we would write:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is rarely that police arrest people without adequate suspicion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Imagine, however, that we want to emphasize people without adequate suspicion , then we would write:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is people without adequate suspicion that police rarely arrest.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Regardless of the explanation above, as Fumble Fingers clearly shows, you're better off if you stick with:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is rare that police arrest people without adequate suspicion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "More on the grammar regarding this question can be found here at ELU.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4559/Nico", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "We have two rules of grammar that can apply here.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The first is that an adverb modifies a verb, and to be is a verb.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The second is that a \"predicate adjective\" can modify a subject, using a \"linking verb\" such as \"be\" (feel, look, seem, appear, etc. would be other examples).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Since both rules can apply, which one is actually applied is a matter of habit and/or style, and therefore a challenge for a non-native speaker.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As FumbleFingers has touched upon with one of his examples, it would seem that we are moving from using the first rule to the second one.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It would also seem that we haven't quite moved all the way there yet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, \"the pie tasted well\" is quite old-fashioned by now, having been pretty much entirely replaced with \"the pie tasted good\" in the 20th century.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand, \"I don't feel good\" and \"I don't feel well", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" both occur regularly, while \"I feel good\" is much more common than \"I feel well.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Furthermore, \"I feel poorly\" is a midwest-US colloquialism, meaning the same as \"I don't feel well\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(\"I feel poor\" would have the unrelated meaning that the person didn't feel rich.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, clearly, there's an inconsistency in usage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Clearly \"it is rarely that\" is antiquated.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, it is well/good to keep in mind that if another noun is provided for the verb to act upon, the adjective will revert to an adverb: It is rarely the case that police arrest people without adequate suspicion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One further point is to avoid confusing action verbs with linking verbs, and thereby using adjectives where adverbs belong.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These are all considered incorrect grammar (although they are often used, especially in the US):", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't hear good.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't see good.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I did good on my exam.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1883/BobRodes", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It is rarely that police arrest people without adequate suspicion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is a it-cleft sentence, and it applies a stress on the rare occasion of police arresting people without adequate suspicion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In other word, without giving any stress it could be written like this - Police rarely arrest people without adequate suspicion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this sentence rarely is an adjunct.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a frequency adjunct.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We can consider it as a form of time adjunct.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And so it can correctly occur in the focus position of an it-cleft sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hence the following sentence is correct - It's (very) rarely that police arrest people without adequate suspicion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(OED has an entry for", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it's (very) rarely that... )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "An adverbial can be divided into four categories - adjunct , subjunct , disjunct and conjunct .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But it's only the adjunct , and not other adverbials, that can occur in the focus position of an it-cleft sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In negative or interrogative all adjunct can occur in the focus position of an it-cleft sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But in positive sentence not all adjuncts can occur in the focus position.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some need modifiers, and some can occupy the position without the use of any modifiers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's the manner adjunct and degree adjuncts that takes modifiers - It was very carefully that John cut the cake.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It was carefully that John cut the cake [INCORRECT]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The time and place adjuncts can occur in that position without the help of any modifiers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's frequently that he looses money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's very frequently that he looses money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[I will try to update it later with more info]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3463/Man_From_India", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "One might say \"It is rare that police arrest people without adequate suspicion\" OR \"Police rarely arrest people without adequate suspicion\". The adverb \"rarely\" generally modifies a verb or a form of a verb, as in: We rarely walk.", "Rarely' can act as a modifier, as can 'it is rare'." ] ]

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[ [ "Rarely' can act as a modifier, as can 'it is rare'." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Thanks to\" works for both positive and negative consequences.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can correctly say \"Thanks to X, the project succeeded\" and \"Thanks to X, the project failed.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or another dimension is you can say \"No thanks to X\" if X did not help in any way (or hindered the project),", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "versus saying \"thanks to X\" because X did help in some way.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4796/relaxing", "score": 22 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I can't think of a specific way to do what you're looking for, so instead I'd suggest a set like the following: Positive outcome, positive contribution: \"Thanks to X, Y\" Positive outcome, negative contribution: \"In spite of X, Y\" Negative outcome, positive contribution: \"In spite of X['s hard work/good effort/etc], Y\" Negative outcome, aligned contribution/causal link: \"[In part] due to X, Y\" For example: \"Thanks to Paul, we got all our TPS reports done on time.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In spite of Dave's colossal screw ups, we did manage to get all the gold we needed for the pyramid.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In spite of Imhotep's amazing invisibility, the heist was foiled by police.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" \"Due to Grontar's enormous left foot, the ritual circle was ruined.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2453/Aesin", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Yes there is.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Look at this...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Damn!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The cricket match is cancelled and it was the final match.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "All thanks to rain!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We are just being ironic there.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here, thanks to would mean due to/or because.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Similar thread here .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3187/Maulik V", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Since you don't want to sound ironic try \"In spite of\" or \"despite\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5645/user5645", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In the UK, \"no thanks to\" is a common opposite.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As in: I made it to work on time, no thanks to the weather! or Andy Murray got through to the final, no thanks to the doubters, and went on to win.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5650/Guest", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A suitable counterpart of \"thanks to\" would be \"because of\":\"Thanks to X, the project succeeded\"\"Because of X, the project failed.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5648/Mint", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Because of ...\", \"as a result of ...\" or \"due to ...\" They assign responsibility but without a positive or negative connotation, whereas \"thanks to ...\" implies a certain amount of happiness about the situation (unless it's used ironically).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5669/Mike Ross", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I'm a spanish speaker and we say \"por culpa de\" which would be literally \"by fault of\" which makes sense to me", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but I have seen it just a few times really.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "A suitable counterpart of \"thanks to\" would be \"because of\", \"as a result of\" or \"due to\". \"In spite of\" is often used, and \"Thanks to\" can be used ironically.", "Because of' is a negative counterpart, though 'thanks to' can work positively or negatively." ] ]

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[ [ "Because of' is a negative counterpart.", "Thanks to' can work positively or negatively." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "This word has no clear semantic antonym.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It has a grammatical antonym, of course, which is simply the word non-default : the non prefix is used, usually with a hyphen.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "undefault is strange as an adjective, and indefault or adefault completely so.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The un prefix can be used to negate the participial adjective", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "defaulted , which is derived from the verb to default .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If a financial loan is in good standing (payments are being made) we might say that it's an undefaulted loan.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The question is, what does non-default mean: see the bottom of the answer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A given parameter in a system can be either undefined, system-defined (default) or user-defined.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sometimes there is no system-defined state: a value for the parameter must be supplied, or else it is undefined.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Initial values that occur by fluke, and are not documented, are not defaults.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For instance, if the value 42 occurs in RAM location 500 when power is applied to a device, isn't a default, even if it appears to be reliable on every power up.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is no documented guarantee, and the value may be different in another device from a different production run where a different memory chip was used or whatever.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Defaults are predictable, documented initial values which are defined by the system (operating system, programming language, application, ...).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In some systems, parameters can begin in an undefined state, and there is an initialization procedure which sets them to default values, which can be further configured (\"overridden\", \"customized\", \"tweaked\", ...).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In some systems, when values such as variables are defined, they never have an uninitialized state; if no initial value is supplied, there is an implicit one, and that constitutes a default.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sometimes there are multiple levels of defaulting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A programming language might default global variables to zero.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, a program written in the language might define some variables with non-zero values.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To the language, these values are non-default values, but to the user of the program, they are documented as that program's defaults.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is not clear whether the initial, undefined state is the \"opposite\" of the default configuration, or whether the overridden states are the opposite, and this becomes even less clear if there are multiple levels of defaulting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A user who only sticks with the default values will probably regard the uninitialized state as the opposite: the opposite of the configured (default) state.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(\"Order versus chaos.\")", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A user who doesn't think about the uninitialized state, but", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "chooses between default and customized configurations might regard those two as opposites.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(\"My choice versus someone else's.\")", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The meaning of the non-default grammatical antonym of default tends to lean toward the latter definition.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It would be strange to refer to a nonexistent or uninitialized value as non-default (even though, strictly speaking, that is true); non-default usually refers to a well-defined alternative to the default.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/197/Kaz", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I know a bit of programming.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And, it's surprising (I confirmed it with a profound programmer) that an opposite word to default value (strictly in computer science) is defined", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some programming languages take default values unless you define them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The moment you define them, they are overwritten.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, I think in your context, not default is defined.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Other good alternatives, as said by Damkerng are customized, user-defined, specific .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3187/Maulik V", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "custom: Hit [Enter] to select the default value, or type your own custom value.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3796/CoolHandLouis", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You may use customized as the antonym of default .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "From a programming perspective, I would say that a non-default value is either assigned or manually assigned .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/84507/Regular User", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "There is no clear antonym. However, \"non-default\", \"custom\" or \"manually assigned\" may be used.", "The grammatical antonym is non-default, defined also works in context. Custom, customized, manual and assigned can also work." ] ]

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[ [ "The grammatical antonym is non-default, defined also works in context.", "Custom, customized and assigned/manual work." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Do is a transitive verb.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "—it requires a direct object.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Consequently, have + the past participle done is a present perfect construction, a verb, and this is not a complete sentence:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have done... What have you done?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "—you have to tell us: I have done the report.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have done the dishes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have done what you told me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But when you use the past participle done with a form of be there are two interpretations.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One is that the result is a passive construction.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This report was done by me =", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I did this report.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Ordinarily, however, a passive I am done =", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Somebody did me doesn’t make any sense.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Consequently, we interpret done as a predicate adjective: I am done (with this task) =", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I am finished (with this task), I have nothing more to do (with this task).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This use of the past participles done and finish is called a deverbal , a verbform which has lost its ‘verbiness’.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This cannot be done with every verb, but some other verbs this has happened to are interest , (“I am interested in science”), drink (“John is drunk”) and lose (“I think we’re lost”).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"To be done\" is idiomatic and means \"to have finished\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, \"Have you written that email yet?\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Yes, I'm done.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"To be done with something\" (or \"to be", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "finished with something\") to get rid of something or stop using it for good.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I'm done with email!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It takes up so much of my time.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But \"To have", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "finished with something\" means to have finished using it for now.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Can I use the computer now, please?\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Sure, I've finished with it.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"To have done\" is the present perfect of \"to do\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Have you ever sent an email by mistake when you meant to cancel it?\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Yes, I've done it hundreds of times.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4468/David Richerby", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "With \"almost,\" as you specify in your question, you would normally say either: I am almost done.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "or I have almost finished.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5807/chapka", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Both can be correct: I'm done with this assignment.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I've done this type of assignment in the past.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5985/Gary's Student", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It depends on the context.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "They mean different things.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I'm done\" means \"I am done.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"\"I've", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "done\" means \"I have done.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6002/pixiesquisher", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Both are correct depending upon ,what matter or subject are talking about.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If someone is doing some work and he/she has completed that .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "so can be said that i have done.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And if someone has done some work earlier & and now that particualr work is being discussed as a task to perform at that time that person who has already done it can say that i am done.or someone is eating and other person is offering more then can say i am", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "done.means dont want more at this time can not say i have done.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/33274/unknown", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Both are correct depending on the context. They mean different things. \"To be done\" is idiomatic and means \"to have finished\". \"To have done\" is the present perfect of \"to do\".", "To be done means to have finished. To have done is present perfect of 'do'. Both are correct, a lot depends on context." ] ]

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[ [ "Both can be correct, it depends on the context.", "To be done means to have finished. To have done is present perfect of 'do'." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The verbs fear and scare reverse their object and subject, like the verbs learn and teach .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The fox scares the rabbit.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The rabbit fears the fox.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The rabbit is scared of the fox.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The fox is feared by the rabbit.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Using feared of to mean scared of is not standard English.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "However,some dialects use feared of to mean scared of : I never was feared of Flint in my life, and by the powers, I'll face him dead.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "— Treasure Island , by Robert Louis Stevenson.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This kind of reversal of subject and object is not uncommon in languages.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, in some dialects learn can also mean teach :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Why, she tried to learn you your book, she tried to learn you your manners, she tried to be good to you every way she knowed how.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "— Huckleberry Finn , by Mark Twain", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These uses of feared of and learn are not standard English.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In fact, the verb fear is not used with the preposition of in standard English.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Note that in the dialects that use these non-standard forms, there is little chance of confusion with the standard meanings; the prepositions distinguish feared of and feared by , and learn means teach only when it has an indirect object.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/262/Peter Shor ", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Consider using \"afraid\" or the more formal \"frightened\" instead of \"feared.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm not afraid of you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm not frightened by you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"frightened,\" unlike \"afraid\" and \"scared,\" is not normally followed by of", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "+ pronoun .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or, using the rather informal \"scared\": I'm not scared of (sometimes by ) you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6525/Elian", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Simple answer: \"I am not feared of you\" simply cannot be used that way.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Correct would be \"I am not afraid of you\", which would be (mostly) synonymous with \"I am not scared of you\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "read the explanations given by others and remember these two sentences and it will clear your doubts:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I am scared of people.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I am feared by the people.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "you will then notice the difference in their usage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/7965/vickyace", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Scare vs fear is like borrow and lend give and take provide and receive eat and be eaten", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "He fears my antics.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My antics scare him.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My antics are feared by him.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He is scared by my antics.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She lends me money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I borrow money from her.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The money is lent by her.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The money is borrowed by me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She takes the food they give.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We receive help provided by the welfare department.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They eat rabbits.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Rabbits are eaten by them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "People don't normally say feared of , but we normally say feared by .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "His fear of my antics is driving him nuts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My antics scaring him is driving him nuts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/12020/Blessed Geek", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "Using \"feared of\" to mean \"scared of\" is not standard English. The verb fear is not used with the preposition. \"I am not afraid of you\" would be correct, meaning \"I am not scared of you\". The verbs fear and scare can be seen as similar to borrow and lend, or learn and teach, for example.", "The verbs fear and scare reverse subject and object. 'Feared of' is not standard English, use 'afraid' or 'frightened'." ] ]

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[ [ "Feared of' is not standard English.", "The verbs fear and scare reverse object and subject.", "Use 'afraid' or 'frightened'." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "All of these are acceptable as well as some", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm sure I missed:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I ate enough burgers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have eaten enough burgers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have had enough burgers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've eaten plenty of burgers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't want anymore.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've had my fill of burgers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6277/meer2kat", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Simpler to say: \"I have eaten enough burgers today.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5985/Gary's Student", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I would say: \"I have eaten my fill of burgers today.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6525/Elian", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As other people have indicated, there are several different ways this sort of thing can be said, but it's worth noting that some of them can have slightly different implications or impressions on the listener.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I've had enough of (something)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" generally means that you've experienced so much of something that even thinking about it brings up bad feelings for you now.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example: I've had enough of eating burgers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't want to eat another one as long as I live!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand, saying something like \"I've eaten enough burgers\" or \"I've had enough burgers\" is a less strong statement, and might just mean that you're satisfied with the amount you've eaten and don't feel a need to eat more right now:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've eaten enough burgers recently.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think I'll have something else for dinner.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "or I've had enough burgers today, but if you really want to go to the burger place, I suppose I could eat another one.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6310/Foogod", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Saying you already ate a food today is a common way of saying you don't want to eat any more.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I already ate burgers today.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "People often use this construction with yesterday as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The meaning is the same, since the speaker ate burgers yesterday the listener knows they probably don't want any today either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is too soon to eat the same food again.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I had burgers yesterday.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The construction you used \"I have had enough of eating burgers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" is correct, but has a different meaning!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That sentnece means that you ate burgers so often (maybe every day for a year) and now you can't eat any more.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They don't taste good to you anymore.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4301/Phil", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I'd say I am fed up with burgers for today", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/79638/Gio", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "Alternative ways to say this include: I already ate a burger today; I am fed up with burgers for today; I have eaten enough burgers today; or I have eaten my fill of burgers today.", "I have eaten enough/my fill, being fed up, saying you already ate something are all appropriate." ] ]

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[ [ "I have eaten enough/my fill, being fed up, saying you already ate something are all appropriate." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "If you wish to imply that they always think they are right, yet are not always right... know-it-all smarty-pants smart aleck If you wish to imply that they always think they are right, and are indeed always right: genius polymath Einstein sage guru", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4184/tobyink", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There could be many including tobyink's options.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, the closest after know-it-all (or know-all)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I can think of", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it is... opinionated - someone who is opinionated has very strong opinions that they refuse to change even when they are clearly unreasonable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3187/Maulik V", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Someone who thinks they are always right but are, in fact, not right is often described as being cocksure .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Completely confident in their own ability or knowledge but with no justification.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4376/Chenmunka", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "3rd vote for \"know-it-all\" as an all-purpose term that can be used somewhat politely.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In addition to answers above, \"smart ass\" and \"wise ass\" are more vulgar, but quite common.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The more polite alternatives are \"smart-aleck\" and (the rather outdated) \"wise-acre\" (or \"wiseguy\" which can also be slang for a joker or a mafia member ... depends on context).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "A \" pedant \" is someone who makes a point of correcting others and showing off how much they know.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Also, whatever my wife & coworkers decide to call me that day... ;)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8285/mc01", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If someone thinks that they are always right, then they are wrong , for someone who is always right is infallible and certainly I have never come across or heard of anyone in history who has been such.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Infallibility has, of course, been claimed as an attribute of the Pope but in recent years it is my understanding that even that personage has not tended to claim such an attribute.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Most respondents and the questioner seem to understand this question to refer to a person who claims, asserts or believes themselves to be right all of the time, even though they are not.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are many words, some of them already given, that express the manner in which others might see a person who makes such a claim: opinionated", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "is perhaps the best I've seen, though even that falls short for someone can be opinionated about some things but accept their lack of knowledge or mistaken thought about others.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Leaving aside the derogatory terms such as, know-it-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "all the purpose of which is to deride rather than define, and seeking only to define the characteristic of a belief by someone that they are \"always right\" suggests that although words such as delusional , foolish , misguided etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "certainly may be appropriate to the description of someone who believe they are always right, they may, as readily apply to someone who doesn't have that delusion but who demonstrates behaviours or characteristics that befit the use of the particular adjective.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Try as I might, therefore, I have been unable to find any single word in the English Language which specifically defines a person's belief that they are always right.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My conclusion is thus that, as infallibility defines \"never being wrong\" and as delusional defines having an unrealistic belief , then an appropriate term for a person who believes that they are always right is: delusionally infallible .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/31964/mikisdad", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Dogmatic Dictionary definition: Adjective, definition:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"he gives his opinion without trying to be dogmatic\" synonyms:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "opinionated, peremptory, assertive, insistent, emphatic, adamant, doctrinaire, authoritarian, imperious, dictatorial, uncompromising, unyielding, inflexible, rigid... In life we make choices all day long which influence how we act, how we think and how we interpret and view our world....", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course, we all believe we have made all the correct choices... because if we didn't then we wouldn't have made them..", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Being \"dogmatically assertive\" is one of the three primary motives (how we think, act and respond to stimuli) of a human.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The other two primary motives are desire for property and desire for personal pleasure.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However none is as dominant as being assertive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/33151/Jaylee", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "pompous - affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "pretentious - attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "condescending - having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Source: Oxford online dictionary", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/47086/Ryan Zell17", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I can't find the right word either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Narcissist is almost there", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but I think they are more delusional with the idea of themselves.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I know someone who I call an absolutist (absolutism).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not sure if it works as a person.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And most references to the -ism are political in nature.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This person (which I love) is absolutely right every argument and preachy and very crafty at sculpting the conversation back on to me for being too young or not listening well enough .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It drives me nuts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She is terribly smart but not reflective on herself like she is with the world around her.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/31344/Blaine", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Someone who thinks they are always right may be described as pompous, self-important, pretentious, condescending, a know-it-all, smarty-pants, smart aleck, cocksure, wise-acre, wise-guy, or pedant. If that person is always right, then they may be described as a genius, a polymath, a sage, a guru, or Einstein.", "Pompous, pretentious, condescending, smart aleck, cocksure, wiseguy and pedant can be used." ] ]

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[ [ "Pompous, pretentious, condescending, smart aleck, cocksure, wiseguy and pedant can be used." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Note that in some sports, notably tennis, there is a division in which \"match\" occupies a higher place.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For instance in tennis, the players engage in a match, which consists of multiple sets, which consist of games.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Game and match mean the same thing when this hierarchy doesn't apply: when a single game is considered to be a match.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Which one is used depends on the region:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "both the region where the sport originates, and the region from which the speaker comes from who describes it as either a game or match.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One-game-match sports from Britain tend to attract the \"match\" terminology.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See also: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/34105/what-determines-whether-a-sporting-event-is-a-game-match-contest-or-something", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/197/Kaz", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Something of a generalization, but if you're calling it soccer", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "then you're most likely in the USA, or a place whose English is influenced by American English (since the USA is by far the most populous English-speaking region in which \"football\" means something else).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So team sporting events are generally called \"games\", soccer included.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But MLS does use \"match\" at least sometimes, so I suspect US soccer fans do likewise sometimes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you're speaking British English then formally it's pretty much always a \"match\", even if for some reason you're calling it \"soccer\" rather than \"football\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Football itself is \"a game\" (\"the game of football\", \"the beautiful game\"), but a particular fixture is \"a match\" (\"did you see the match?\", \"I'm going to the match\").", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The word \"game\" is also used when talking about the event in a less formal way (\"he had a great game\") and for variety.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Quoting a BBC news report that I'm watching that just reminded me of this question: \"A capacity of 79 thousand people will be in there, watching the game, but around the world would you believe something like a billion people all over the planet will watch this match on television\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "By the way, it's not exactly incorrect to call it \"soccer\" in British English (AFAIK the term was coined in England", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "meaning \"asSOCiation football\", as distinct from rugby football).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But it's unnecessary to specify, and \"football\" is preferred by almost everyone.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Calling it \"soccer\" suggests that you refer to something else as just \"football\", which means you're either some kind of foreigner or really devoted to rugby.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't know what happens in Australia, where \"soccer\" would often be used to distinguish from Aussie rules football.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If I had to guess, they would call it a \"soccer match\" there.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4535/Steve Jessop", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Either is valid, although I'm sure you will notice regional differences as to which is used.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In the Midwest of the US, I almost always hear game rather than match.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3175/michelle", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think that match is used in sports in general like in wrestling (no game), but game is more like with friends or with sports with several players.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also note that the FIFA games use match like the official page.but at the end they are equally intercheable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2132/Weapon X", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "For what it's worth, FIFA's Laws of the Games, Law 7 refers to 'The Duration of the Match'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6938/Sydney", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Game or match?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This depends on what you mean.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I hope this adds a bit on your understanding of the two words...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When you say game, it could mean the game itself, not necessarily played, being played or about to be played.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is simply the sports with the rules/regulations/etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When you say match, it means a game that was played, being played or about to be played by competing teams.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Examples:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I love playing the soccer game in my PS Vita.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The game itself", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I love the soccer match between the X and the Y in my PS Vita.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here the game was played", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The soccer game was played by the X and the Y. - Here the game was played so now you could say it is a match.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The soccer match between the two teams was great!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Again, this means the game was played", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10703/jim_nr", "score": 2 } } ]

[ [ " If you're speaking British English then formally it's almost always a match. However, either is valid, and there may be regional differences. For example, in the Midwest of the US, you almost always hear game rather than match.", "This varies regionally. In the UK it's generally 'match', whilst in the US it's 'game'." ] ]

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[ [ "This varies regionally. In the UK it's generally 'match', whilst in the US it's 'game'." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Either \"himself\" or \"herself\" is most accepted by prescriptive grammarians.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Herself\" is increasingly used by itself in academic writing to counterbalance the sexist implications of assuming that everyone is male (by using the male form as the generic for all people).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Themselves\" is probably most common but (practically speaking) could be considered more casual.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I do not believe I have ever seen \"themself\" and would personally consider it the least appealing of all possible options.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A native speaker might use it to make a point or promote language change, but in an obviously non-native speaker it would almost certainly be taken as an error.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If I were you, I would go with \"him or herself\" or \"themselves.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8389/Tiercelet", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Almost all English speakers and writers use \"themselves.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "This question was studied in 2009 by Collins Dictionaries for the Committee on Bible Translation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The conclusion is that the plural generic is almost universal and increasing, against masculine generic and other alternatives.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "http://www.niv-cbt.org/information/collins-corpus-report/ 1.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Generic pronouns and determiners", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This part of the study considered the types of pronouns and determiners that are used to refer to indefinite pronouns (such as someone, everybody and one) and non-gender specific nouns (such as a person, each child and any teacher): A. masculine (he, his, himself, etc.);", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B. feminine (she, her, herself, etc.); C. plural/gender-neutral (they, them, one, themselves, etc.); D. alternative forms (s/he, him or her, his/her, etc.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In all the varieties of English analyzed, plural/neutral pronouns and determiners account for the majority of usages.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Between 1990 and 2009, instances of masculine generic pronouns and determiners, expressed as a percentage of total generic pronoun usage in general written English, fell from 22% to 8%.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "e.g. ‘…when a person accepts unconditional responsibility, he denies himself the privilege of “complaining” and “finding faults.”’ Instances of ‘alternative’ generic pronouns and determiners fell from 12% to 8%.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "e.g. ‘Any citizen who wants to educate himself or herself has plenty of sources from which to do so.’", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Instances of plural/neutral generic pronouns and determiners rose from 65% to 84%.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "e.g. ‘If you can identify an individual who metabolises nicotine faster you can treat them more effectively.’", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Figures for the other corpora analyzed in the study are broadly comparable with figures from the general written English corpus both in overall magnitude and in the general trend over time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8519/Dave Burt", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There is no universally accepted \"correct\" answer: whatever you choose, himself or herself or themselves or themself , you are going to annoy some of your readers.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If you care, the only solution is to find another way of saying it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Anyone can find the answer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Anyone can find the answer without help.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can find the answer yourself (and", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "so can anyone else).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The answer is left to the reader to find.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "—and so forth.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I would go with \"themself.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Singular", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "they/them has a long history in the English language, and has come back into style with a lot of mainstream publications as a way to avoid inserting gender into general statements like the one you're making.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3464/wordsmythe", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Himself\" or \"herself\" are both correct.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Themselves\" is technically incorrect, but has found common usage lately due to concerns about sexism.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The most practical advice is to avoid the idiom, e.g. with something like", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Anyone can find the answer without help.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(slightly changes the meaning)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"One can find the answer oneself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" (rather formal) \"One can find the answer on one's own.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(still kind of formal)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Anyone can find the answer using only common sense.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(getting casual and changes the meaning somewhat)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8511/John Wu", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "There is no universally accepted \"correct\" answer. Himself, herself, themself or themselves are all valid. \"Themselves\" is probably most common and technically incorrect - it could be considered more casual but has found common usage lately due to concerns about sexism.", "Himself/herself/themself are all correct. While technicallyincorrect, themselves is widely used." ] ]

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[ [ "Himself/herself/themself are all correct.", "Themselves is widely used but technically incorrect." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The term I'm familiar with is 'biracial.'", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8501/Obfuskater", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Sometimes, if one of the two racial backgrounds goes back many generations (i.e., is considered to be more or less homogenous), we might self-identify as", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm half ~~~~~~.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For instance, someone might want to describe themself as half-Chinese or half-Lithuanian.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I use the latter for myself, because it is true.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Half-American does not work, because American is not a race in this sense.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But a lot of people might wish to refer to themself as (for example) half-Irish , half-Greek , half-Italian , half Japanese , half-Cherokee , etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I am talking about people referring to themselves.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For someone to self-identify as half-something is usually a sign that they value that racial or genetic component of their background.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In other words, it is a term that is used positively.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "People can also refer to others as half-something, which may or may not be true, and may or may not be intended as a kind statement.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Cautian: We have the term half-breed , which also refers to someone who is considered (rightly or wrongly) to be half something.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is an offensive term, a racial slur, and pretty much no longer used in today's English.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But it is encased in our popular culture, largely due to cowboy-and-Indian movies , where you might hear the term half-breed used to describe someone who is half-American Indian and half-something else.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the 1970s television show, Kung Fu , the main character is half-Chinese and half-Caucasian American.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Here we say mixed ethnicity.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The term mixed race,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "although implied, would not be used officially in a multicultural society since it might offend.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8608/doc", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You can use the term Eurasian for someone who is half Asian, half European.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6472/Dangph", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The term dual heritage is also used in public services to describe someone with two ethnicities.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11561/Harry", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "Mixed ethnicity, biracial, dual heritage can be used to describe someone with two racial backgrounds. The term Eurasian can be used for someone who is half Asian, half European.", "Biracial and mixed ethnicity can work, as well as dual heritage. Eurasian is one example." ] ]

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[ [ "Biracial and mixed ethnicity can work.", "Dual heritage can be used, Eurasian is another example." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "I'd go with \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Them's my boys!\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It is not \"grammatical\" but it preserves the casual and dialectical feel of the original, as well as the prosodic features.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8389/Tiercelet", "score": 35 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I'd feel fine saying or hearing \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's my boys!\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\"That's my boy!\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "is literally a prideful expression of the exclaimer's relationship to a single boy which also implies some degree of personal responsibility for or shared ownership of the boy's success which prompted the exclamation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"That's my boys!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" implies the same degree of pride and personal connection as it sounds similar to the well-known singular form.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, its literal meaning is different: it's more like an abbreviation, e.g. of \"That's [how] my boys [do it]!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\", or \"That's [what] my boys [can do]!\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These statements emphasize the ease and regularity with which said boys perform successfully.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I find that the singular form can actually be exclaimed with this meaning in mind as well (e.g. \"That's [how]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "my boy [does it]!\").", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This pluralization of the phrase has the benefit of also fitting the phonetic pattern of the singular form as it has the same number of syllables and can be exclaimed with the same sing-songy inflections in pitch.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8718/talrnu", "score": 32 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You can just try : \"My boys !\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8716/StackFeed", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If the questioner is using \"That's my boy\" to indicate that a certain action or behaviour, such as a comment, which has just taken place is highly characteristic and representative of the male person to whom it refers then more appropriate than \"those\" or \"them's\" would be \"That's my boys\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"That's", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "my boys\" effectively says \"That's typical of my boys\", \"That's the way my boys are\", \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's how it is with my boys\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It should be noted that in this scenario the phrase may not actually refer to the speaker's child, in the same way that \"Go on my son\" is often used between male friends.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "An example conversation where such use of the phrase would fit well might be where a woman hears from a friend that her husband and son were seen returning from a football game, cheering victoriously and waving their scarves.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The thought of this scene is one that amuses and touches emotionally - and seems both familiar and unquestionable - so the women smiles and says \"Ahh yes...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "that's my boys!\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8721/dingles", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If the intended sense of \"That's my boy\" is \"Well done young man!\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ", then a colloquial plural version, certainly in the UK, would be \"Good lads!\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The problem with \"Them's my boys\" as a plural version is that it only makes sense if said to someone other than the boys in question, whereas with the singular \"That's my boy\" is typically used as praise to the boy in question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand, if the intended sense of \"That's my boy\" is \"That person there is my son\", then a plural is simply \"Those are my boys\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8719/tkp", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I don't think any sprachgefühl is lost when you make it plural.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I can't say I've heard someone exclaim \"those are my boys\" as much I have heard \"that's my boy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" I think the feeling that is usually conveyed by this expression is one of boastfullness.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Is that the sprachgefühl you were going for?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "By the way, sprachgefühl is a very cool word--", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "thanks for introducing it to me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm going to have to integrate it into my lexicon.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8501/Obfuskater", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think it worth mentioning that this particular idiom is paralleled, at my guess is preceeded by, \" attaboy \".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This, in turn is from Titus Andronicus saying, \"That's my boy\" as a reference to his son.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In that context, it would probably be more accurate to say that the plural is \" that's my boys.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That said, the common modern (American?)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "plural is either \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Those're my boys!\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "or \"Them's my [or me] boys\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Strictly speaking, though, when you move from singular to plural, the original would have been, \"that's my boys\" or perhaps, \"there're my boys\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Again, though, in SAE, \"Those're my boys!\" is a perfectly acceptable plural.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8750/cwallenpoole", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If you're telling someone that the young men in question are your children, then \"Those are my boys\" sounds right to my Midwestern ear.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you're telling someone that you are proud of the achievement(s)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "or accomplishment(s)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "of these young men", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "then \"That's my boys!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" would sound right.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If addressing the young men directly, though, I'd probably use \"Good job, boys!\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4943/Bob Jarvis - Reinstate Monica", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"That's my boy!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "is an expression probably loved as much at the boy himself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Learn it, love it and keep it in your armoury of English idioms to be used at some precious moment.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You modify these things at your peril.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the answer is \"no\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Alas, there is no a plural of this phrase that preserves the sprachgefühl.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "-But", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I bet some of the smart people on Stack Exchange can come up with something you mean -but using entirely different words.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8608/doc", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "\"That's my boys!\" or \"Them's my boys!\" ", "You can say 'that's my boys' or 'them's my boys'." ] ]

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[ [ "You can say 'that's my boys' or 'them's my boys'." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The \"into\" says something about the path the rocket took. \"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "At\" only says something about how they were aiming.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\"in\" would not be appropriate, since that would imply that Russia fired the rocket from Ukraine.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"at\" would not be appropriate, because they weren't aiming at Ukraine: they were aiming at some more specific target within Ukraine.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To hit that target, the rocket must go into Ukraine.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The article is emphasizing how Russia crossed the border with their rocket.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Of course these accusations are at the moment not proven, but this is about English, not politics or news.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4204/Phil Frost", "score": 50 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Firing a missile at something would mean that I am firing at a target .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Unless Russia is firing very powerful nuclear weapons, it would be strange to think that it is aiming at \"Ukraine\" as its target.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It would be hard to miss, but it would certainly not be a big feat either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case, what is meant is that Russia fired missiles at targets that are somewhere inside Ukraine.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The wording is chosen to emphasize the fact that Russia did not move into Ukraine to fire, but that they are firing from within Russia to a target within Ukraine.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Obviously, the actual targets are either unknown or deemed unimportant to be mentioned in the headline: the main message is not that some target was fired at, but that a country that denies all military involvement in this conflict is now said to have fired missiles that crossed the border of what is internationally still regarded as an autonomous country.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2992/oerkelens", "score": 21 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Not at all a poor use of a preposition.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Perhaps it's somewhat idiomatic, but into is a commonly-used preposition when talking about rockets and missles, whether those are being fired into space, into the ocean, or into enemy territory.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Commercial and military satellites are frequently fired by rockets into orbit Source: Peter P. Wegener,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What Makes Airplanes Fly?:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "History, Science, and Applications of Aerodynamics , 1997", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We build huge bridges and concrete dams and send mammoth rockets into space Source:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "E.J. Hearn, Mechanics of Materials Volume 1 , 1997 Von Braun recognized that shooting rockets into the heavens could arouse fear and religious anxiety Source: James Gilbert, Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science , 1997", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Four Turkish F-100 fighter planes buzzed concentrations of National Guardsmen and fired rockets into the sea Source: Andrew Faulds, 1988 Lebanese terrorist groups lobbed rockets into Israel's northern settlements and tried to penetrate the border Source:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Ira Sharkansky, Policy Making in Israel: Routines for Simple Problems and Coping with the Complex , 1997 Against von Braun's fervent hope that this would not happen, German military forces launched more than thirteen hundred V-2s at targets in England, and more than sixteen hundred V-2s into Belgium and France Source: Stuhlinger & Ordway, Wernher von Braun, Crusader for Space , 1994 The preposition at is common when specifying a particular target, but into is frequently used to indicate that a missile or rocket landed inside a particular region or country.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/113/J.R.", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Russia fired rockets at Ukraine\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The missiles went from Russia in the direction of Ukraine, but they did not necessarily get as far as Ukraine.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "People would read this to mean that they did not in fact reach Ukraine, since otherwise they would have used a different preposition to make it clear that the missile had reached the Ukraine, which makes a more shocking headline.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Russia fired rockets in Ukraine\" Someone associated with Russia, perhaps Russian soldiers, while inside Ukraine's borders, fired a rocket.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Russia fired rockets into Ukraine\" Missiles were fired from Russia, and the missile did end up inside Ukraine's borders.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4947/Kai", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You are quite right that logically you would fire at Ukraine since Russia aimed to attack Ukraine, however, being English myself I know that this is actually valid and correct English (to say \"into\").", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It is more of a local quirk (I am currently studying Arabic where I have to compare quirks between my own language and theirs) within the English language; that when talking about vast areas/entities like this, i.e. regions/countries (Ukraine being a region and an entity), you are more likely to say \"into\", irrespective of what armament was used.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However if you were talking about something smaller and more specific, say, a plane then \"at\" should be used.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Another example of specifics would be \"firing at Ukrainian soldiers\" which of course the quote you see in the title later refers to", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(I read the story earlier today).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9067/Sammaye", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "This seems fine in American 4th grade.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, ' and ' seem to imply that someone may have stated this phrase in other press.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Are there any cited names listed in the rest of the article other than the reporter?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Being on that mobile os is that your cache and/or news results may be poisoned by another running app.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've seen this before on android.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9089/kris", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "You are quite right that logically you would fire at Ukraine since Russia aimed to attack Ukraine. \"Into\" refers to the path the rocket took. \"At\" refers to how they were aiming. However, in this case, it means that Russia fired missiles at targets that are somewhere inside Ukraine.", "Inside' refers to the rocket's path, 'at' refers to how it was aimed." ] ]

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[ [ "Inside' refers to the rocket's path, 'at' refers to how it was aimed." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "You could also use aiming .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here's the HTML", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "we're aiming to generate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1423/user3169", "score": 21 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Here's the HTML we would like to generate.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\" \"Shooting\" in this case means \"trying\" (i.e. if you shoot at a target, your are trying to hit it, but you may not).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "By \"shooting\" for a goal, you are trying to reach it, but are not certain you will (\"I'm shooting to leave here by 4:30, but the boss may ask me to stay late.\").", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case, there may be some reason the person believes that the goal may not be accomplished.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or they are just using poor phrasing to mean \"This is the HTML we are expecting to generate\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9175/Anaksunaman", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In the case the meaning is \"Intending\" I wouldn't use \"shooting\" in this case.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Here's the HTML we're intending to generate.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\" would sound better.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8330/brentwpeterson", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's a malformation of the apparently American Idiom: \"shooting for\" .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've never heard it phrased that way, but I have heard \"shooting for\" in Canada and the western US.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9197/Chris Conover", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I am a native speaker from the UK with a lot of exposure to US English (work in IT) and I have never heard this expression before.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I would guess it is either a typo or a slip of the tongue.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The person could have English as a second language and 'shooting' in his/her language could be a standard phrase.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have experienced that a lot in my time I Germany.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "German phrases will be translated directly into English and used as if it were the Queen's English ;-)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As another poster suggested, 'aiming' might be a better word but 'shooting' conveys a different meaning", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and I could only guess what was really meant.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It could be that 'shooting' sounds better than just 'aiming' - more pro-active!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See comments below", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here's the HTML", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "we're planning to generate...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9172/paul", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "To be strictly pedantic/semantic, aiming and shooting are two different things.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Aiming is only targeting, shooting is targeting and pulling the trigger.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the context of the tutorial, the author is not only aiming or intending, he's actually trying to help the reader make the attempt.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are actually two cliches in the that paragraph (\"rubber meets the road\" and \"shooting to ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\").", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The author adds cliches elsewhere, like \"I know this isn't rocket science\" and while I admit, it does make for interesting reading, in the end, to be clear in a tutorial, cliches are probably best replaced with concise instruction, especially if the target audience is not all from the same cultural background.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9198/Wyrmwood", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Shooting (other than indescriminate) requires that you are aiming at something", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "and that's exactly what the phrase means and can also be said in English", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "- You're aiming to generate the HTML.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case aiming", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4717/Michael Durrant", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "In this context, \"shooting\" means \"aiming\" or intending\", as in the American idiom of \"shooting for\".", "Aiming and shooting are different things. This is a malformed idiom. You can instead say 'aiming' or 'intending'." ] ]

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[ [ "You can say 'aiming' or 'intending' instead.", "Aiming and shooting are different things. This is a malformed idiom." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "You are going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, aren't you ?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1423/user3169", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "They are called question tags and are generally used with declarative questions.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've been told by native speakers not to use it the way I used to and the way you think!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In India, the commonest way to make a question tag is to add no!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You like it, no ?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "-This is incorrect.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Now, You like it, right?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "may be okay but", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "not a proper way to form a question tag .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The proper way to form it is...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You like it, don't you?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "OR You don't like it, do you?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Your example, as stated by user3169 You are going tomorrow on [sic] the 1130 flight, aren't you?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Good read is here on About.com.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3187/Maulik V", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Are you going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Is it that you are going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you won't mind telling me, are you going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6832/ʇolɐǝz ǝɥʇ qoq", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I tend to use 'correct' instead of right.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's is still used at the end of the sentence, but sounds a little more refined.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Your flight is at 11:30, correct?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9239/L1nks", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Here are some options:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, right?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, is that right?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, correct?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, aren’t you?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here are a couple subtleties: Phrasing the last question in the negative", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "indicates that you expect a positive answer (confirmation).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That is, “aren’t you?”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "implies that you expect that the person is going on the 11:30 flight.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, this doesn’t apply to questions that are just forms of “right?”.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“Is that right?”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ", stress indicates whether you expect a positive or negative answer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“Is that right ?”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "indicates that you expect a positive answer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“Is that right?” and “Is that right ?”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "indicate surprise or doubt.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, yes?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This works, but can make you sound like a foreigner: You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "no?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here are some more options, which might be perceived as more formal or in some way accusing or challenging the other person, though they can also be used neutrally, depending on your intonation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Even the very typical options above can be made to sound challenging with the right intonation.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, is that not right?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, is that not correct?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, is that so?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, is that", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "not so?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, are you?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, true?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, is that not true?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, is this right?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, is this not right?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, is this so?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, is this not so?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And here are some other ways to ask for expected confirmation, which are familiar and commonplace but convey a distinctive emotional attitude toward the expectation:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're not going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, are you?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're really going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Are you really going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight— are you kidding?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight— are you joking?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight— are you serious?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To get a feeling for how all the various alternative forms affect the tone, you’ll just have to notice the contexts and intonation when people use them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you're a beginner and want to play it completely safe, just use the four at the top of this message.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Notice that “that” is the most ordinary way to refer to the proposition.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“This” also refers to the proposition but sounds formal.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, “it” would normally refer to something else, and it sounds clumsy or mistaken to use it to refer to the proposition in question", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(“You’re going on the 11:30 flight, is it right?”), at least in American English.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6700/Ben Kovitz", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It came to my attention that you are going on the 11:30 flight tomorrow.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Could you please confirm that?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "or I heard that you are going on the 11:30 flight tomorrow.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It better be true!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4605/OutFall", "score": 2 } } ]

[ [ "\"Correct?\" can be used instead of \"right?\". \"Aren't you?\" or \"Don't you\" can be used. For example: \"You like it, don't you?\", or \"You are going tomorrow on the 11:30 flight, aren't you?\"", "Don't you' and 'aren't you' work well. You can also use 'correct?'." ] ]

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[ [ "Don't you' and 'aren't you' work well.", "Correct can be used instead of right." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The question needs more clarity.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also, it's one of my colleagues .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We use plural after one of X. To me, it seems that you know that he's single but asking him the experience of marriage and not the status .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Especially your words any marriage experience!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This brings up the probability of asking whether the answerer has married at least once in his lifetime. :)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Are you married - you are asking the status and probable answer (in that single case), could be No", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ", I'm not.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I also agree with Lascivious Grace that No, I'm divorced works", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but then you want to ask the experience of being ever married in past.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd ask... Have you ever been married?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And the answer could be, No, not yet!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Yes, once", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but I'm divorced.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is just my opinion though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Natives might have something in their bags. :)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3187/Maulik V", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Your first sentence isn't a common construction.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The only way I'd say \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Did you X before?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" is when the order of events is part of the question:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I went for a run\" \"Did you stretch before [that]?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" (or more likely \"Did you stretch beforehand?\" or \"Did you stretch first?\")", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So choosing between your two questions", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I choose the second, but that's because the first is pretty much wrong.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You should be choosing between \"Did you ever get married?\" and \"Have you ever been married?\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The former gives the impression that you're asking about the process of getting married (i.e. weddings) and the latter gives the impression that you're asking about married life.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So although the answer to either question is the same, you might want to signal which one you're interested in, to help move the conversation along.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4535/Steve Jessop", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The correct thing to ask here would be Have you ever been married?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Judging from the question, you seem to know for sure that the person is currently single, hence this sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3578/Stark07", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"To get married\" is the action of going through the actual wedding ceremony.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you ask, \"Did you get married before?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" it sounds to me like an incomplete sentence, because you are asking if the wedding took place before an event, such as, \"Did you get married before the holiday?\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However \"to be married\" is the state of being married, not the action of the wedding, so I think what you want to ask is \"Have you been married before\", as you proposed, or \"Have you ever been married\", as others have suggested.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9675/user151841", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I sometimes find it easier to sort this out by checking in the present tense.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Directly converting your two options, you get Do you get married? and Are you married?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "#2 clearly makes more sense here, so \"have you been married before\" should work better as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Have you ever been married\" works well too, though the two behave slightly differently: \"ever\" | \"before\" |-------+----------+------------------------------------------------ TRUE | FALSE | Currently married, never been married before TRUE |", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "TRUE | Married to someone in the past, and currently married to another TRUE | TRUE | Married to someone in the past, not currently married FALSE | FALSE | Never been married", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You'll note that someone who is currently married for their first time would respond that they've never been married before, while if you ask if they've EVER been married, they'd probably say yes (because \"ever\" includes the present tense... though depending on context someone might assume you're asking about their past -- for example, if you know they're currently married they could assume you're not counting their current marriage).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9130/Doktor J", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "The correct thing to ask here would be Have you ever been married? ", "It would be correct to ask if they have ever been married." ] ]

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[ [ "It would be correct to ask if they have ever been married." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "In this case you are talking about the option you choose in a game.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You could read the sentence as The option scissors cuts the option paper or, abbreviated, Scissors cuts paper", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "So while \"scissors\" is plural and you would always say \"scissors cut paper\", in this case the word refers to an option within the game (singular) rather then the actual item.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Compare with \"scissors are better than .....", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" if you are a fan of sharp metal things, but if you are talking about the game you'd get \"(the choice of) scissors IS better than ...\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8530/Nanne", "score": 32 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The reference is to the US tv show 'The Big Bang Theory', and to one of its main characters Dr Sheldon Cooper.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He speaks excellent if highly idiosyncratic English.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I listened carefully to a video and he does say 'cuts'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "While grammatically 'scissors cut paper' is correct, explanations on the internet of the standard game 'rock-paper-scissors' and the Big Bang Theory game 'rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock' (which Sheldon attributes to 'the internet pioneer Sam Kass') vary between 'scissors cut paper' and 'scissors cuts paper'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Possibly the use of 'cuts' is influenced by the fact that all the other choices in the game are singular, and therefore use 'cuts' eg 'paper covers rock'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6938/Sydney", "score": 17 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A few words, though singular in nature, are made of paired items and generally treated as plural: scissors, pants, trousers, glasses, pliers, tongs, tweezers, and the like.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Many are often used with the word pair as in pair of pants or pair of scissors.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Tricky Plurals)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the correct version in your case would be \"scissors cut paper\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think, the reason for confusion is: scissors cut paper, whereas, a pair of scissors cuts paper.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9880/anishsane", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I agree with Esoteric.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the game \"scissors\" is a choice in the game - a title, if you will.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "So, you might say \"the choice of scissors\" cuts the choice of paper.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Choice\" is singular, so you use \"cuts\" Maybe more clear if you enclose scissors in quotes, as such:\"Scissors\" cuts \"paper.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you are talking about the tool made up of 2 scissors, you would say \"scissors cut paper\" because \"scissors\" is plural.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I know this because I never say \"This scissors is sharp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" I always say \"These scissors are sharp.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the tool is made up of two things, two scissors, and they cut.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They don't cuts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have seen the same question come up with bands such as \"The Ramones\" and \"The Replacements\" and \"The Bare Naked Ladies\" The Ramones rock !", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or \"The Ramones\" rocks !", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Depends on if you are talking about a singular band called \"The Ramones\" or multiple Ramones.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Multiple Ramones definitely rock.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But the band called \"The Ramones\" rocks.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "SoThe Ramones rock.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But\"The Ramones\" rocks.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is no doubt, however about The Cure, which is a singular name.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "With or without quotes, The Cure sucks.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9874/Dave S", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think the correct point in this is that scissors do cut paper.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "But when describing the action happening now a way of saying scissors are cutting the paper is 'scissors cuts paper'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When you play the game and scissor and paper comes up then then the scissors cuts (the) paper.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9871/user9871", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "The correct version in your case would be \"scissors cut paper\". In the game, \"scissors\" is a choice, so you could read the sentence as \"the scissors option cuts the paper option\" - hence \"scissors cuts paper \". Another source of confusion may be that scissors cut paper, whereas a pair of scissors cuts paper.", "Scissors cut paper' is correct." ] ]

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[ [ "Scissors cut paper' is correct." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Fast food is served at a fast food restaurant, such as Mcdonalds, &c; while junk food a specific type of food such as chips, pop, &c. Obviously, junk food could be served as fast food.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Essentially, the adjective: \"fast\" modifies the noun \"food\" in describing how long it takes the consumer to get the food ready to be eaten, that is the food will be ready very soon.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The adjective: \"junk\" describes the quality and nutritional value of the food.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here \"junk\" is considered as that which is not usable, i.e. garbage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Therefore to answer your question, different aspects of the food are being described. preparation time quality", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1081/skullpatrol", "score": 22 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Fast food refers to the assembly process.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Usually, fast food is obtained at a restaurant, where the entire restaurant is designed to get customers their food in matter of a few minutes.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The classic example is the McDonald's hamburger.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Junk food refers to the food's nutritional value.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Junk food is typically processed, containing high amounts of sodium, calories, and/or fat, with little nutritional value, such as bag of Doritos chips, or a candy bar.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is some overlap between the two terms.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If a hamburger is put together at a fast food restaurant using, say, 70% lean beef, a lot of salt, and a cheap bun made from bleached flour, that burger could be regarded as both fast food and junk food.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, not all fast food is junk food, and not all junk food is fast food.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Many fast food restaurants, responding to criticism about health concerns and obesity issues, have put healthier choices on their menus in recent years.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A related term is convenience food , which is not generally sold in restaurants, but in supermarkets.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's designed to be easily prepared or consumed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Again, there's a lot of overlap between junk food and convenience food, but the two are not necessarily synonymous.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, baby carrots that are sold prepeeled and prewashed could be considered a convenience food, but they wouldn't be considered junk food.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/113/J.R.", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "They may refer to the same thing, but I think the distinction is that fast food refers to the way the food is prepared/served, whereas junk food refers to the kind of food.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Fast food was introduced as opposed to traditionally cooked (slow) food: instead of someone preparing a large quantity of food in advance before serving it to people, or people ordering a meal and having to wait for the whole meal to be prepared in a traditional way, fast food was prepared in a quick way (all the ingredients being ready at hand and the classic burger being fried the moment you ordered it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Junk food can be prepared as fast food , but it simply means food that is not adding any really healthy nutrients to one's diet.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "So I could very well prepare “slow” junk food.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2992/oerkelens", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Fast food may be thought of as convenience food .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is quick.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It can be, but is not always, junk food .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Junk food is food that is not nutritionally-dense, or, put another way, is calorie-dense for the nutrient content.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The confusion comes thus: these terms are sometimes used as synonyms, while they are not.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is because there is not complete overlap between the two sets: the set of fast food can include a quick green leafy salad with a light oil-and-vinegar home-made dressing, while the set of junk food does not contain the same salad.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Expanded in full, with respect to these two sets:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are foods that are only fast food: a quick salad made with dark-green vegetables; There are foods that are only junk food: a corn-starch custard topped with meringue; And there are foods that are both: a store-bought hamburger topped with wilted, nearly-white lettuce; Finally, there are foods that are neither: a duck confit served with a side-salad topped with candied walnuts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Therefore, we see that these two terms do not describe the same item , although they are mistakenly often used as synonyms.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10141/Chris", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A freshly made salad from top quality in season locally produced products can be fast food served in less than 5 minutes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Junk food is food that people “look down” on, e.g. it has lots of fat, or is low quality etc.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is often but not always served quickly.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So you can have a “take a way” that takes 1 hour to arrive, but is just a ready made source added to cheap cuts of meat, cooked badly in lots of fat.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5301/Ian Ringrose", "score": 2 } } ]

[ [ "They may refer to the same thing, but a distinction is that fast food refers to the way the food is prepared/served, whereas junk food refers to the kind of food. Fast food is obtained at a restaurant, such as McDonald's, where the entire restaurant is designed to get customers their food in matter of a few minutes. Junk food describes the quality and nutritional value of the food. Junk food is typically processed, low quality and not nutritionally dense.", "Fast food refers to the assembly process in restaurants. Junk food can also be fast food, it refers to food's low nutritional value." ] ]

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[ [ "Fast food refers to the assembly process in restaurants.", "Junk food refers to food's low nutritional value. It can also be fast food." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "In colloquial spoken language some people use me neither in place of", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "neither do I. A-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't like getting up in the morning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Neither do I. /Me", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "neither.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the US some people will also use me either in that case: A-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't like getting up in the morning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B- Me either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But this is very informal and not to be used in a learning environment where I would stick to", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "neither do I .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You could find \"me either\" used in a sequence in a sentence like: A-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This does not seem very clear.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It doesn't seem clear to me either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To answer subsidiary question asked in comment about the pronunciation of either and neither: The letters [ei] in both words can either be pronounced /aɪ/ or /i/ .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And to my knowledge this is not a UK vs US difference, although I think /i/ is more frequent in the US, /ˈaɪðə/ and /ˈnaɪðə/ can both be heard in the UK.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The question was asked a few years ago on ELU with lots of detailed answers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2818/None", "score": 35 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As stated in the other answers, “Me neither” can be used instead of “", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Neither do I” or “Nor I”.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's the equivalent of “Me too” or “So do I”, but used after a negative sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's used to change the subject of a sentence to the speaker.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In most cases, “Me either” isn't a phrase in its own right.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Usually, the two words are separated by a comma or pause.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“either” works like “also” and “too”, but again is used with negative sentences.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a discursive marker.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“Me neither” can also be considered equivalent to “I don't, either”.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here are some examples: A: I don't like her.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Me neither. and A", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ": She doesn't like me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ": She doesn't like me, either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If B says “Me neither.”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "in the last example, they are at risk of sounding as if they are saying “I don't like you, either.”.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Probably, the sentences that use “I” to replace the subject (“neither do I”, “I don't either”) are safer to use for an English learner than those that use “me” to replace the subject (“me neither”).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The opposite rule goes for replacing the object.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5094/James Wood", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Either and neither are very similar and very different at the same time.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Either and neither both give option between two choices (ie.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I can take either this cookie or that cookie.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Neither of the cookies look tasty).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The big difference is that neither is the negative form of either .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Where either is inclusive, neither is exclusive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Imagine it like this", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(I will borrow from one of the other comments for the examples):", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't like getting up in the morning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Neither do I. /Me", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "neither.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case the statement is negative for the narrative (No I don't like getting up in the morning).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Additionally you can look at it as exclusive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You are excluding yourself from the group of people who like getting up in the morning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't like getting up in the morning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B- Me either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case me either is colloquially correct but technically wrong because the statement is negative A-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This does not seem very clear.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It doesn't seem clear to me either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Statement A here is positive because you can agree (yes, it does seem to be not clear)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case either is correct because you are including yourself in the people who think \"this\" does not seem very clear.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/13720/Bradley Scott Memmott", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There's not a huge difference – they both mean about the same thing and can be used interchangeably in most circumstances.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "A look at the Google Ngram results for them", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think shows that their history is closely tied together between they pretty much mean the same thing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "While usage varies between speakers and regions, of course, generally if the statement being agreed with is a response to a question or request, me", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "neither is used: Question: Terry:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Would you like coke or pepsi?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Alex: Neither, thank you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Kris:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Me neither.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, if the response is in agreement to a negative statement, then me either is more common, generally.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Negative statement: Terry: I didn't like the movie last night.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Alex: Me either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9911/dantiston", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I am English and prefer to say \"me neither\" because it is much more logical than me either.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The N in neither indicates \"No\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think it sounds better", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but this is what I have been used to living in England for 57 years.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/82897/Alana Stone", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The response \"Me either\" seems incorrect to me.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It's makes no sense as a negative response.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, in this scenario: Terry: Would you like coke or pepsi?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Alex:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Neither, thanks.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Kris: Me either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If I were Terry I would be serving Kris either a coke or pepsi before they could say anything about it!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ";-))", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/19055/Neil Gibson", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Me either\" should be slapped out of someone's mouth, if using the same way as \"me neither\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It may be more common in some places than in others, but that doesn't make it correct, OR acceptable!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The comma example would be an acceptable exception; even though it would still sound weird.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I.E. \"Would you like a Coke or a Pepsi?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" \"Me, either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" Still seems it should be separated into \"Me?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Either.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/99556/Steve K.", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I have learned that you should use \"either\" when there is already a negation in sentence.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "E.g. \"I don’t like it either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" Don’t is a negation so either would be used.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand if I want to say a shorter version. \"... me neither.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" You convey negation with the word \"neither\" as there are no other elements in your sentence with the negation of your statement.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That is the one simple and logic explanation in grammar that always stuck to me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/106068/Juan", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "English people would say \"me neither\" because it is much more logical than me either. It is said that you should use \"either\" when there is already a negation in sentence. The big difference is that neither is the negative form of either . Some people consider them to be interchangeble. Others beleve that \"me either\" is simply wrong.", "Me either' is incorrect and can only be used in this way when there is already negation. It's best to use 'me neither'." ] ]

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[ [ "Me either' is incorrect and can only be used in this way when there is already negation.", "Me neither' is more appropriate even though the meanings are similar." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "I would write this as: I have four identical books, each in its own bag.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/368/John Koerner", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Normally you would say: I have 4 bags, each containing the same book.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10292/Lewis Heslop", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Maybe you could write, \"I have four copies of the same book, each in a bag.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course, this only implies that you have four bags.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you need to directly mention the fact that you have four bags, you might write something like, \"I have four bags, and each has a copy of the same book.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In any case, using the word \"copy\" might help, since, as @ssdecontrol noted, the construction is pretty cumbersome.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sorry you can't just leave them as two sentences! :-)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I have the same book in each of these four bags.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "(subject)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I (verb) have (DO adjective) the same (Direct Object)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "book (prepositional phrase) in each (prepositional phrase) of these four bags", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10575/JakeANISC", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Three notes: First, your original sentence has the wrong article.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Second, your additional sentences aren't using same properly (it's a weird word).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Third, there are a couple ways to make this one sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See below.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "First, note that the constructions you're using use the definite determiner/article ( the ) on books .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, instead of: I have 4 bags.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In each bag, there is a same book.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "One would say I have 4 bags.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In each bag, there is the same book.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is because the books have been mentioned before (in the first sentence of the example).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See the Wikipedia page on definiteness .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Secondly, with your second sentence, the syntax of counters in English can be weird.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For instance, the following is good :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have 4 books.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But this is not good :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have 4 same books.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is because words preceding same require of the :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have 4 books.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have 4 of the same book.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have ten dolls.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have ten of the same doll.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Note also that nouns modified by of the are singular (book vs books)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Third, as you note, your original sentence sounds weird because it is strange to say something simple like it in two sentences.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As others have pointed out, you could say something like:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have four bags, each with the same book", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, this is also somewhat weird because you're emphasizing bags without discussing the book much.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The bag sounds more important because it is first, but there isn't much about it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, if the book is more important, I would say something like:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have four copies of the same book in each of these bags.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have four of the same book with each in a bag.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have a copy in each of these four bags.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I would expect to hear", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have four bags, each with the same book at a convention or something similar where people are getting free books in bags, and each bag might have a different book.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, if you're emphasizing you have four bags, but complaining", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "you have the same books, then this sentence would be used.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9911/dantiston", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As a native (UK) English speaker I would say that you have a number of choices:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have four copies of the same book, each in a separate bag.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Places the emphasis on the 4 books and clarifies that they are stored in separate bags.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As does: Here are four copies of the book, bagged separately.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "While:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have four bags each containing a copy of the book.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Emphasises the bags and assumes that the specific book is already defined in context.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This might be used at a book launch to describe the door prizes and does not preclude there being other bags that contain other things nor there being other things in each bag.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10577/Steve Barnes", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I would prefer", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have 4 same books each in", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "bag A, bag B, bag C,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "bag D respectively.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "or this can be written as", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have four same books each in four different bags.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8255/A. Prasad", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I have 4 identical books in 4 bags.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have 4 similar books in 4 bags.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have 4 bags, each contains the same book.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I have 4 bags, each containing the same book.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8254/Mohamed Hamza", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "I have four bags each containing a copy of the book. I have 4 bags, each containing the same book. I have four copies of the same book, each in a bag. I have four identical books, each in its own bag. I have four copies of the same book, each in a separate bag. ", "Multiple expressions are possible, including 'I have four bags, each contains the same book'." ] ]

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[ [ "Multiple expressions are possible, including 'I have four bags, each contains the same book'." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "I'm afraid not.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is actually a ‘fossilized’ expression with a long and complex history, summarized by OED 1 as follows: In the idiomatic I, we, you, he, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "had better , the original construction was me, us, etc. were betere (or bet )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "= it would be more advantageous for me, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[...] The dat.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "pronoun was subsequently changed into the nominative,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I, we, were better (perh.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "because in sbs.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the two cases were no longer distinguished).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Finally this was given up for", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the current I had better =", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I should have or hold it better, to do, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Mr. F. Hall has shown that in these changes better followed in the main the analogy of liefer and rather .)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "†", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is really pretty hopeless to try to force this idiom into the straitjacket of conventional syntax, much less try to rephrase it with conventional transformations.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It is what it is.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "†", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Mr. F. Hall is the 19th-century philologist Fitzedward Hall , an obsessive scholar of whom the OED ’s first editor wrote that ‘When the Dictionary is finished, no man will have contributed to its illustrative wealth so much as Fitzward Hall’.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "His essay ‘On the Origin of “Had Rather Go” and Analogous or Apparently Analogous Locutions” , American Journal of Philology , II.7 (1881) is delightful reading, not merely for the substance and copious documentation but chiefly for its wickedly acid remarks on attempts by earlier grammarians to make sense of this construction.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Did you mean to change it to a question, or to ask if the following is sensible?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd be better to get a quart.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you said that to me I could respond by making a quizzical face and say: \"I'd be better to get a quart?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(...as a challenge to the fact that I didn't understand what you just said, because it sounds weird.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Yet it could pass for old-timey pirate language, as a sort of short-hand for \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd be better off if I were to get a quart.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "first mate: \"Cap'N,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "would you like me fetch ye a gallon of skunk whiskey?\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "cap'n:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Arrr, nay!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd be better to get a quart of yonder Basil Hayden.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you spoke like that people would know what you mean (and that you were a pirate).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But it's not normal speech, and you should go with", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I'd better get a quart.\" ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "assuming you live in a place where people know what quarts are.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9598/HostileFork says dont trust SE", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I agree with HostileFork, especially the pirate comment, but if you feel a burning desire to use \"be better\" you would say: It would be better to get a quart.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That is, it would be better {for me and all concerned} to get a quart.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Someone who knows how much your friends like to drink might say: You would do well to get a quart, not a pint.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10264/Tᴚoɯɐuo", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"I’d be better to get a quart\" does not sound natural to my (American) ear.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I'd be better off getting a quart\" does sound natural to me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In both of these examples, \"I'd\" is short for \"I would\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9100/Jasper", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There's a bit of difference in meaning between the 2, and I don't think the 2nd is something you'd be likely to hear.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd better get a quart.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's preferable that I get a quart under the given circumstances (whatever they happen to be).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This may prevent some unforeseen negative consequence in the future that could affect anybody.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I’d be better to get a quart.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It would personally improve me and make me better if I got a quart.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This version doesn't really make sense and sounds incorrect.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I’d be better off getting a quart.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd do better to get a quart.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These are both equally acceptable options, though again the focus shifts from the situation to the speaker.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd be better off with a quart because of the positive outcome for me, or the aversion of a negative outcome for me 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[ [ "I’d be better to get a quart does not sound natural. There's a bit of difference in meaning between the 2, and I don't think the 2nd is something you'd be likely to hear. It is really pretty hopeless to try to force this idiom into the straitjacket of conventional syntax, much less try to rephrase it with conventional transformations.", "This idiom does not fit with conventional syntax, the two differ slightly." ] ]

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[ [ "This idiom does not fit with conventional syntax, the two differ slightly." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "It's very common to use a get -passive with married :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My wife and I have been living here since we got married .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Most passives use be , but other verbs are possible as well: Pullum lists come, get, go, have, hear, make, need, and see .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Most of these are relatively uncommon and each one has idiosyncratic rules for when it's appropriate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case get is appropriate because of married .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Your active version (\"since we married\") sounds less common but I think it's also acceptable.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Your perfect be -passive version (\"since we have been married\") doesn't sound idiomatic to me, and I would avoid it in this case.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane", "score": 18 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Traditionally in the English speaking world, marriages started when a official presiding at a wedding married a couple.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So most people, when referring to the state of being married say 'since we were married' (by the official) rather than any of the forms which imply they were the active party.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here's an n-gram showing a few variations, which points to 'were married' being the most common.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9024/Pete Kirkham", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Yes, you should write \" Since we married \" because \"Since\" always followed by the past simple tense or the beginning time of the verb.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8254/Mohamed Hamza", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Since , when used to indicate a duration, must be followed by a point-in-time reference; something has happened from that point in time until now.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "We have been married indicates a duration rather than a point in time, so it is not suitable for being used with since .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Idiomatically speaking, I would suggest the phrase \"since the day we got married.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/87/Hellion", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Since\" needs to be followed by an event (something you could describe by a single time and date).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"We have been married\" is a period of time (which you'd describe by a range of times/dates).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You need to change the latter phrase to describe a point in time, not a period.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Since we got married\" or \"since we married\" would both work.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10611/Dave", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The most natural sounding phrases to a native english speaker are: \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My wife and I have been living here since we were married\", and \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My wife and I have been living here since we got married\" The phrases with \"since we have been married\" and \"since we have married\" are grammatically incorrect.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The phrase with \"since we married\" is grammatically correct but awkward sounding.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10621/Magooda", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Magooda's answer is the best here.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What I would have said is \"since we were married\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Since we got married\" also sounds natural. \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Since we married\" is quite unnatural.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It sounds like something only a non-native speaker would say.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The rest just sound wrong.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You could say \"since we have been married\" with some other kind of phrase, though, e.g.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"My", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "wife and I have lived here since we've been married\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But not \"My wife and I have been living here since we've been married\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10624/blah", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Idiomatically speaking, \"since the day we got married\"; \"since we got married\" or \"since we married\" would work. Since should be followed by a point in time reference. \"Since we have been married\" indicates a duration rather than a point in time, so it is not idiomatic and perhaps should be avoided. ", "You can write 'since we married' or 'since we got married'. Avoid 'since we have been married'." ] ]

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[ [ "You can write 'since we married' or 'since we got married'.", "Avoid 'since we have been married'." ] ]

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a/an has a subtle effect on the meaning of the sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Below are my thoughts on your question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I have little money\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "- It means you hardly have money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I have a little money\" -", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It means you have some money.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10703/jim_nr", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The other answers are all correct, but they omit one detail that might clarify the usage: \"a little\" is a shortened version of the full phrase \"a little bit of.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Therefore, the phrase \"I have a little money\" is in fact an abbreviation of \"I have a little bit of money.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hopefully this will make it more clear as to why it is a positive amount: it means you may not have much, but you do in fact have some.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You have a bit (syn.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "portion or amount) of money, you just have \"a little bit.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10822/Nerrolken", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "So complicated! a little = some little = not much", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/22852/Melaniejane", "score": 0 } } 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[ [ "A little = some. Little = not much. \"A little\" is a shortened version of \"A little bit of\". \"I have a little money\" implies that while the sum in question might not be big (relatively speaking), it's good enough. \"I have little money\" implies you have a very small amount of money, and usually less than you'd want to.", "A little' is positive and means some. 'Little' is negative and means not much." ] ]

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[ [ "A little' is positive and means some. 'Little' is negative and means not much." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The use of elder is restricted to compare human beings, mostly in family relationships.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The one who is elder is the one who was born first.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This is my elder sister Betty.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You cannot substitute elder for older at all times.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Elder can only be used for people, when used for things, it is meant as a special figure of speech involving personification, so to be used with extreme care.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You cannot use elder with \"than\" (even if it is implied, as in sentence b) ): a)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is my sister Betty, she's older than me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(and not elder) b)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is my sister Betty, she's older.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(and not elder)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is my sister Betty", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "she's the elder of us two.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We do not use elder after get or grow :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You'll understand when you get/grow older.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The restrictions in the use of the superlative eldest are the same.", "label": [ 0 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the adjective elder seems practically antiquated.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Eldest is still common, e.g. as in \"the eldest son\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Even the noun elder , i.e. when referring to the older people in a person's life (\"their elders\"), is common.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The adjective elder , however, is generally left out of normal speech and writing in favor of the almost perfectly-synonymous older .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I only ever see or hear elder used as an adjective in fantasy where the word's nature as a nearly-forgotten lingual relic makes it seem almost foreign and exotic, lending to a setting's mystery and age.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8718/talrnu", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Elder can be used to indicate someone or something of higher rank or greater influence.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The elder member of a group may not always be the oldest member of that group.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Older and elder both imply having greater age than something or someone else.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10816/AwsomeMoss", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As stated in the other answers, \"elder\" means \"older\" but is usually only used when comparing a group of people who are in some way related.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It also comes up in some idioms such as \"elder statesman\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is one slight subtlety: consider the siblings John (15), James (17) and Mary (19).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Mary might talk about \"my elder brother, James\" to mean \"My brother James (by the way, I also have another brother who's younger than him)\", whereas James might talk about \"My older sister\", meaning \"My sister Mary who is older than me.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4468/David Richerby", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Used as an adjective, \"elder\" is used when comparing the age of two people.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The person who was born first is elder.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's used often for siblings, as in, \"I have two sons.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Charlie is the elder.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "John is the younger.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "While this is correct, in every day speech, most people use \"older\" instead of \"elder\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"My older son, Charlie, is coming to visit today.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Older can be used to describe things as well as people.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"My house is older than yours.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" Elder cannot be used in this way.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3175/michelle", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "They are almost completely interchangeable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They are basically synonyms.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, 'elder' sounds more formal than 'older'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The comparative and superlative forms of old are older and oldest.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "E.g.:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My sister is older than me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's the oldest castle in the city.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I agree with @Michelle, elder generally should not be used to describe things.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10749/Misti", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"older\" is the normal comparative, the use of the variant \"elder\" is limited to a few cases.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Oald has it very clearly: http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/elder_1?q=elder", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4159/rogermue", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Older and elder both imply having greater age than something or someone else. They cannot always be substituted. Used as an adjective, \"elder\" is used when comparing the age of two people, mainly among relations. Elder can be used to indicate someone or something of higher rank or greater influence. The elder member of a group may not always be the oldest member of that group. However, the adjective elder is quite antiquated and formal.", "Elder is a comparative way of saying older. In US English, it is considered antiquated and formal." ] ]

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[ [ "Elder is a comparative way of saying older.", "Elder is antiquated and formal in US English." ] ]

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however, \"Eat like a pig\" might be understood to mean \"eat a lot,\" as opposed to \"eat in a sloppy fashion.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "(But it's not wrong to use it the way you did either.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You mean \"crumbs,\" not \"crumbles.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3488/hunter", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There are at least four distinct possibilities here: \"He always eats like a pig\" means that, when he eats, he always does it messily and/or to excess; \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He is always eating like a pig", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" means that he eats all the time and, furthermore, he eats messily and/or to excess; \"He is always eating, like a pig\" means pigs eat all the time and so does he; 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[ [ "This can be understood as eating a lot as well as eating sloppily." ] ]

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}, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Retrieved October 10 2014 from http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/have+too+much+on+plate", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He's got too many irons in the fire.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Fig. to be doing too many things at once.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tom had too many irons in the fire and missed some important deadlines.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's better if you don't have too many irons in the fire.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "S.v.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"have too many irons in the fire.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Retrieved October 10 2014 from http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/have+too+many+irons+in+the+fire", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/6494/Frank", "score": 27 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "One idiom relates to hats.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When someone has two jobs, we sometimes say they have two hats: When I'm wearing my programmer hat, I'm a programmer.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "When I'm wearing my musician hat, I'm a musician.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Macmillan Dictionary defines it this way and gives the following examples: (informal) one particular aspect of someone's duties or responsibilities", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She has to wear several different hats", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(=have various responsibilities) in her position.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course, when I say this, I'm wearing my teaching hat.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So you could say he's wearing too many hats .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "He has too many balls in the air, see: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/too_many_balls_in_the_air", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10991/jahoo", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Another for you: \"He's in over his head.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5118/njahnke", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You could also say that somebody is \" spinning too many plates \" or \"trying to spin too many plates at once\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1532/JMK", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If you can imagine someone trying to put up wallpaper with only one arm/hand, you'd say \"Busier than a one-armed paper hanger\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or there's always \"Busier than a one-legged man in an a**-kickin' contest!\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or that old-time favorite \"Busier than a cheap whore when the fleet's in!\" Share and enjoy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], 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[ [ "When someone has two jobs, we sometimes say they have two hats, so you could say he's wearing too many hats. Alternatively, \"he's got too many irons in the fire\", \"trying to spin too many plates at once\", \"he's got too much on his plate\", \"he's bitten off more than he can chew\" or \"he's in over his head.\"", "Too many hats, too many irons in the fire, too many plates, too much on their plate are all options. Biting off more than they can chew, in over their head are possible." ] ]

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[ [ "Too many hats, too many irons in the fire, too many plates, too much on their plate are all options.", "Biting off more than they can chew, in over their head are possible." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "I'm in the school.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Means I am in the building (but I may not be a student).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm in school.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Means I am attending school", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(I'm a student).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2992/oerkelens", "score": 21 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The is used to refer to someone or something that has already been mentioned, or a context that has previously been established or easily understood.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm in", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the school This sentence is generally understood to refer to a physical location at a particular school .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"In the school\" means you are inside the building, \"at the school\" means you are on school grounds.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"The school\" makes sense if the school's identity is clearly known or obvious.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"The school\" difficult to understand (or plain nonsense) if the school's identity is unknown or unclear.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm in school", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This sentence is not specific to any school, therefore the is not used.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this sense, \"school\" is understood to mean schooling , or the process of receiving an education, rather than a physical school.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To be \"in school\" is to be in attendance at a non-specific school.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One would specify a school this way:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm in school at", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "____", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "_", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "_", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "_", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "_", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "_", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "__", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Which is an informal way of saying:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I attend school at", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "____", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "_", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "_", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "_", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "_", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "_", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "__", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11327/Substantial", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "We do not use the definite article \"the\" with the words church, bed, college, court, hospital, prison, school, university when we refer to the purpose for which they exist .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "e.g. Sally went to school\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(She's a student.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But: \"Her father went to the school to see her teacher yesterday.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(He went to the school as a visitor.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4858/Vic", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I am in the school and I am in school are different in meaning.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "When I talk about being in school, it means I am a student there.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "When I talk about being in the school (school building), it means I am not a student there.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Maybe I am in the school to look around the school building or to see my father who is a teacher there.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9259/Khan", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As others perfectly explained the differences between the two sentences, I'd like to state when to use which sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When someone asks you, Where are you?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You could say, I'm in the school.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and if someone asks you, What do you do?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You could say, I'm in school.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3612/chaitanya89", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "I am in the school and I am in school are different in meaning. When I talk about being in school, it means I am a student there. When I talk about being in the school (school building), it means I am not a student there. We do not use the definite article \"the\" with the words church, bed, college, court, hospital, prison, school, university when we refer to the purpose for which they exist .", "Being in school means you're studying. Being in the school means you are in the building." ] ]

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[ [ "Being in school means you're studying. Being in the school means you are in the building." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Imagine a fly buzzing in your ear.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is annoying.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Now imagine you are sitting in your room trying to read, and something is bothering you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After some time, you notice your neighbor's stereo is on, and you realize the bass vibrations were bothering you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It was vaguely annoying, but you couldn't pinpoint it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Now imagine a speaker who is telling you all about how to fix your life.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some of what they say makes sense.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some of what they say is good advice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some of what they say is helpful.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But for some reason, you find them annoying, and you aren't quite certain why.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They are vaguely annoying.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3175/michelle", "score": 19 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Vaguely annoying\": annoying but only just noticeably so.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In a [x] kind of way\": In a similar manner to [x].", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Over-enthusiastic\": enthusiastic to the point that it becomes annoying. \"Motivational speaker\": someone who gives lectures about how to motivate yourself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So they are comparing the the way the dancer talks to that of an over-enthusiastic motivational speaker.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/23/Matt Ellen", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"Vaguely annoying\" would be understood to mean \"annoying, but you cannot say exactly what qualities of the thing are irritating you\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Something about it rubs you the wrong way.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See 2b here: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vaguely", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10264/Tᴚoɯɐuo", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The sentence in concern has too many adjectives and that might have confused you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Starting dancing this way could be vague and he invited everyone to join,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "that's even strange.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But try to group those adjectives and the sentence might look better.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Okay, that’s [vaguely annoying] in an [over-enthusiatic motivational speaker]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "kind of way, but...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Let's not judge", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the event", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but what it means is the dancing and invitation both was done in a way some over-enthusiastic motivational speaker would do.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not exact", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but this could be something like... You dance in an MJ way.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "means you dance the way MJ danced.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Said that, this is vaguely annoying.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In a way some over-enthusiastic motivational speaker would speak.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Edit after OP's comment: Here, vaguely means slightly.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It was a bit strange and so slightly annoying that he was about to dance that way by inviting people.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3187/Maulik V", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It basically means that the person was annoying, but there was nothing specifically annoying about them.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Their character was generally annoying.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is described as being a bit like a motivational speaker, who tend to be overly positive, hyperactive and use too many buzzwords etc.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "These habits are tolerable when a person has one or two, but the whole package is often abrasive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can easily infer from the choice of words, \"vaguely annoying\", that it was still pretty minor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "People who're seriously upset, know exactly what they're upset about.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/2057/Carl Smith", "score": 2 } } ]

[ [ "\"Vaguely annoying\" would be understood to mean annoying, but you cannot say exactly what qualities are irritating you. The person might have been annoying, but there was nothing specifically annoying about them. This is described as being a bit like a motivational speaker, who tend to be overly positive, hyperactive and use too many buzzwords, etc.", "Vaguely annoying means annoying for reasons you cannot pinpoint. It may be about over-enthusiasm." ] ]

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[ [ "Vaguely annoying means annoying for reasons you cannot pinpoint. It may be about over-enthusiasm." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "In what/which country is Mount Fuji?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11291/tunny", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Don't be afraid to end a sentence with a preposition if that's really the most natural way to construct the sentence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You could certainly ask, \"Where is Mount Fuji?\", but if you're specifically wanting to know the country, \"What country is Mount Fuji in?\" sounds most natural.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4686/Jolenealaska", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Where is Mt. Fuji situated?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In what country is Mt. Fuji situated?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4159/rogermue", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Where is Mt. Fuji?In what country is Mt. Fuji?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "\"What country can Mount Fuji be found?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" Is missing the word \"in.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11472/M. K. Hunter", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In what country can Mount Fuji be found?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "As Kim points out, the original question is explicitly asking for a country.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is no context that implicitly asks for a country, so the question must use the word \"country\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the question were changed to \"Where\", someone could answer \"Honshu\" or \"Asia\" or \"Earth\", instead of \"Japan\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is usually possible to convert a full-sentence question into a full-sentence answer by changing the word order.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The original post's question can be correctly answered by: Mount Fuji can be found in what country Japan.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Note that the word in needs to be included in the sentence, in order to make the sentence be grammatically correct.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Changing the word order back to that of a question, we get: In what country can Mount Fuji be found?", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Because the list of countries is short enough that we could select the correct country from a list, it is also grammatically correct to use \"which country\" instead of \"what country\": In which country can Mount Fuji be found?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9100/Jasper", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "To all who are using \"Where is Mount Fuji?\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is NOT correct.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Given that we do not know the circumstances given the question we must be authoritative to the original post.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Example: 2 people are examining a distant landscape painting, named \"Mount Fuji Landscape\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the questioner asks \"Where is Mount Fuji?\" instead of \"In which country is Mount Fuji?\" or \"What country is Mount Fuji in?\", then the answer is no longer guaranteed to match the original question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I.e. The responder could just point to Mount Fuji in the landscape painting and say \"There!\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "Options include: \"In what country can Mount Fuji be found?\", \"What country is Mount Fuji in?\", \"In what/which country is Mount Fuji?\", \"In what country is Mt. Fuji situated?\" or \"Where is Mt. Fuji situated?\"", "You can say 'In what/which country is Mt. Fuji situated?'" ] ]

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[ [ "You can say 'In what/which country is Mt. Fuji situated?'" ] ]

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I have fair hair, not dark hair.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I am a woman.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My hair is short, not long.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I am wearing __ , etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After five sentences, ask students to guess who the person is.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[...] Main activity Give each student an envelope containing a set of picture cards .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Students then play in their pairs.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Student A puts all their pictures face up on the table.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tell Student B to choose one picture from their own envelope and look at it without showing it to Student A. Student B pretends to be the person on the picture.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The phrase “... on the picture” as it is used is grammatical in its context.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is short for on the picture card .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The author has omitted card from the sentence because it was mentioned in the instructions: a set of picture cards There are other cases when using on with picture , or image would fit in a teaching environment.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Focus students' attention on the picture.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Student B should focus on the image, and describe it to their partner.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Student A sticks the animals where they want on the picture.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Student B secretly draws a house on the image.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Although \" in the picture\" would be more idiomatic)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/1694/Mari-Lou A", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The normal thing is \"in the picture\" as In the picture we see Edinburgh Castle.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In English a picture is seen as a space; and a landscape, in fact, depicts a space and consequently you say: \"In the picture we see a hilly countryside with a river and green meadows with sheep and in the background there is a little village.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In other languages a picture or painting may be seen not as space, but as an area, and \"on the picture\" is used in German.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/4159/rogermue", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In the picture could be an idiomatic phrase.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It simply means that someone/thing was/wasn't concerned at all.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Say...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Do you think I'm responsible for their break up?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is not so.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I was not in the picture at all.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand, on the picture means someone has drawn or there's a photo of a person and Student B has to be that person.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3187/Maulik V", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "When describing the people or things which appear in a picture, we use \"in the picture\". For example: In the picture we see Edinburgh Castle. If you were to use the phrase \"on the picture\", it would most likely be to describe something that was not part of the picture originally, but is now on it.", "On the picture' would refer to something not originally part of the picture. 'In the picture' is more idiomatic." ] ]

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[ [ "In the picture' is more idiomatic.", "On the picture' would refer to something not originally part of the picture." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "It's a tricky question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Generally, we travel by vehicles.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thus, \"I came by car\" , even though you are in the car.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For most public transport such as trains and buses, we do things on them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That is - '", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We read books on trains/planes'", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In your question, the medium of transportation is a train and thus, it'd take on as a preposition.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "She has been oversleeping on the train and missing her stops.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, in is possible if you further describe the location in the train.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She has been oversleeping in the train", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "compartment and missing her stops.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3187/Maulik V", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In British English we travel/go by most vehicles (train, bus, car, plane)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but we sit, stand, read books, etc, on the train, bus or plane (but in the car)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[see Swan, Practical English Usage (2005.81)].", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We would therefore normally (over)sleep on the train.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11291/tunny", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Thinking about aircraft, I fly on a large aircraft, in a small one.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The difference is whether I can stand up inside; equivalently, whether I walk aboard or seat myself from a standing position on the adjacent ground.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The same is applicable to boats.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Trains have room to stand up, so one is always on them, even when asleep.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These are the usages that feel right to me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11563/Ronald Davis", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As long as you use \"on\" for a bus, train, plane to travel, it means in/into.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It doesn't necessarily mean its roof.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Keep it in mind that you get on a bus, plane or train; similarly, when you are travelling, you are on it).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Please see Macmillan or Oxford in this connection).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the correct sentence is \"She has been oversleeping on the train and missing her stops\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9259/Khan", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In addition to the other answers, as a native speaker (of American English), the preposition \"on\" in this context makes me think of travel, as in \"on a journey\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If I was sleeping in a train car that was sitting on some land, rather than train tracks, for example, I would use \"in\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I believe the reason is because it wouldn't be a vehicle in that case.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/8397/James", "score": 1 } } ]

[ [ "The correct sentence is \"She has been oversleeping on the train and missing her stops\". The medium of transportation is a train so it takes on as a preposition.", "On' is the correct preposition as the medium of transport is a train." ] ]

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[ [ "On' is the correct preposition as the medium of transport is a train." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The most idiomatic and common way to phrase this would be “I use Linux.”", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If you need to keep the “Work ... Linux” phrasing, you would say “I work with Linux.”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But without more context, this sounds like you are a programmer who modifies the Linux operating system.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It would be an unusual way to say that you just use Linux on a regular basis.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It could be understood that way if you are having a conversation about whether Windows or Linux is better, for example.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/5702/Karen", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I want to say that i work using OS Linux.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The answer is in your question!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's just a matter of phrasing: \"I work", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "using bananas\" would normally be said", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I work with bananas\" , or \"my work involves bananas\" .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm a sysadmin and would introduce myself with \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm a Linux sysadmin\" , but", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "if I want to draw attention to Linux, I say \"I work with Linux\" , but it's important to note that's all", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I do, 40 hours a week.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I also use Windows to support my Linux work.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "At home, I use MacOSX.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And there's the distinction: what is your actual role?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I work with software and electronics engineers who work on Linux:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "their main claim is \"I'm an electronics engineer\" or something like that.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They might add \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I do my work on Linux\" , or more simply", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I use Linux\" .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Say what your role is, and it might be easier to answer your question!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11620/Rich", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Perhaps your intent is: I use Linux for work.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "This would indicate that when working you use Linux.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It conveys the idea of a Linux user (not a system's programmer, etc.) and that the usage is work related.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You would likely say I use Linux at work if you work at a location (not from home).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11623/Gary Walker", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"I work on Linux\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You run your applications ON top of the Linux kernel, so in-effect you are working on Linux.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "At the same time this might imply that you are working on developing the Linux kernel.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the grammatically correct statement would be \"I work with (the) Linux (OS)\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/3406/Kent Pawar", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think the most unambiguous and still ok for spoken English is:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I use Linux at work.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11630/Neolisk", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "We would say work with when referring to a complete product, such as an operating system or application, for example: I work with Linux", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I work with Photoshop", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is comparable to someone saying they work with children, or work with animals.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But, idiomatically, we say work in (or write/program in) when referring to a programming language, for example: I work in Java", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I work in SQL", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is comparable to an artist saying they paint in oils.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/66325/Astralbee", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "The grammatically correct statement would be \"I work with (the) Linux (OS)\". \"I use Linux at work\" is an option, but the most idiomatic and common way to phrase this would be “I use Linux.” ", "I work with/on Linux can work, as can I use Linux for/at work." ] ]

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[ [ "I work with/on Linux can work.", "I use Linux for/at work is appropriate." ] ]

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information and less uneasy .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, there is another pattern where there appears to be no noun or adjective:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The more you think the less you feel. which may have led you to say the less you feel uneasy .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However this pattern is best understood as The more [stuff]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "you think the less [stuff] you feel.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "so again more and less are qualifying nouns.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That said, what you originally wrote is 100% understandable, and would pass unnoticed in ordinary conversation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11527/xris", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"less\"/\"more\" can qualify an adjective like \"uneasy\" or a quantifiable noun or \"information\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, it's not possible to use it with a verb construction such as \"feeling uneasy\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here, \"(to) feel\" gives the term its meaning, and actions cannot as such be quantified or qualified.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They happen, or they don't.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The less uneasy you feel is correct because \"less\" can actually have an influence on the adjective \"uneasy\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The less you feel uneasy is not grammatically correct, but as a colloquialism, it implies that you can quantify the act of feeling.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My guess would be, by regarding it as equal with the feeling itself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is understandable, but it leaves this tiny notion that something is not quite right here.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Too tiny to make it an issue in a normal conversation ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ";)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's just how colloquialisms work, I guess.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/10070/Sir Jane", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"The more information you have, the less you feel uneasy\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think the PO should accept his friend's advice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'll not say that his sentence doesn't make sense, but it doesn't even seem correct grammatically.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We can not say \"Less", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I feel uneasy instead of", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I feel less uneasy\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's unjust to divorce less from uneasy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Actually, we use such phrases when we want to refer to an event or action that happens continuously or repeatedly, with a particular result at the same time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When we use such expressions, we must see to it that the word forms should be parallel in each of the expression.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the correct sentence is \"The more information you have, the less uneasy you feel\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/9259/Khan", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Your original sentence can definitely be improved.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Whether the suggested improvement is optimal depends on what you are trying to say.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is usually best to put modifiers as close as possible to the words they modify.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This reduces the odds of misunderstandings about which modifiers go with which words. \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[T]he less you feel uneasy\" in your original sentence leaves some ambiguity as to whether you refer to a lessening of the intensity of each instance of uneasiness, or if there's an implied word (such as \"often\") missing right after \"less\" meaning that the frequency of your bouts of uneasiness will be reduced, but the intensity of them is unchanged.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Closing the gap can be done either by rearranging the words as suggested, or by including the implied word.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Which one to choose depends on which meaning you originally intended.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11758/Perkins", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "\"The more information you have, the less you feel uneasy.\" -> for what it's worth, this would be considered 100% incorrect where I come from and to me it sounds very awkward.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "There are lots of references to \"parallelism\" in the answers above", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but this is a specific form called (amongst other things) the comparative correlative - link .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd recommend you stick with the second form, especially if you use English in a formal business setting i.e. \"The more information you have, the less uneasy you feel.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "ell.stackexchange.com/users/11764/tiktok", "score": 0 } } ]

[ [ "I'd recommend you stick with the second form, especially if you use English in a formal business setting i.e. \"The more information you have, the less uneasy you feel.\" In your sentence, less qualifies the adjective uneasy , so putting these two words next to each other does make good sense. ", "The first option is incorrect, the second works better." ] ]

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[ [ "The first option is incorrect, the second works better." ] ]