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| 0 The Rules of Writing | |
| 1 Dear Stack Exchange, I am very disappointed in you - How to construct a strong opening line in a letter? | |
| 2 How do you write a Stack Exchange answer? | |
| 3 How to write a prompt email? | |
| 4 Whats the modern way to handle gender in tech writing? | |
| 5 How can I write about historical realities that readers mistakenly believe are unrealistic? | |
| 6 Using real words from a foreign culture feels like Calling a rabbit a smeerp | |
| 7 Do You Use Any Version Controlling Software/Methods As Writers? | |
| 8 Should an emoji come before or after a full-stop? | |
| 9 How do I translate into a gendered language where the gender would be a spoiler? | |
| 10 The Good, the Bad, and the Semicolon | |
| 11 The protagonist cant defeat the antagonist without the antagonist being stupid | |
| 12 How do I know if a concept is sexist or not? | |
| 13 How to overcome the fact that I cant write? | |
| 14 A critic made a comment that my female character sounds like she was written by a man | |
| 15 Is there a special software for writers? | |
| 16 How to avoid turning dialogue into Q&A session? | |
| 17 Avoiding racist tropes in fantasy | |
| 18 How do you communicate to people that writing is a job and prevent interruptions? | |
| 19 Is the hero guy saves girl trope misogynistic? | |
| 20 How to write a story without conflict, like My Neighbour Totoro? | |
| 21 Whats the least distracting method to inform editors Im a woman? | |
| 22 Is Wikipedia Trustworthy? | |
| 23 What kind of protagonist or writing style is Jack Sparrow? | |
| 24 Choosing character names is a constant difficulty | |
| 25 Sometimes a banana is just a banana | |
| 26 What are good reads about writing? | |
| 27 How do I write Show, Dont Tell as a person with Asperger Syndrome? | |
| 28 All of a sudden... ? | |
| 29 Traits of Bad Writers - Analysing Popular Authors | |
| 30 How to write a character that knows a lot about explosives? | |
| 31 How do I avoid the chosen hero feeling? | |
| 32 Should you use two spaces after a period, or just a single one? | |
| 33 How can I write an attention-grabbing first line? | |
| 34 How does one deal with world builders syndrome? | |
| 35 How to make the reader think that the *characters* logic is flawed instead of the authors? | |
| 36 How to trick the reader into thinking theyre following a redshirt instead of the protagonist? | |
| 37 How do I go from 300 unfinished/half written blog posts, to published posts? | |
| 38 What makes a poem a poem? | |
| 39 My kids first story | |
| 40 Killing the protagonist - should it be done? | |
| 41 Convincing argument about something I dont agree with | |
| 42 How to creep the reader out with what seems like a normal person? | |
| 43 The art of clickbait captions | |
| 44 I wrote a novel, now what? | |
| 45 Is there any good time-line software out there? | |
| 46 The Chosen One paradox | |
| 47 The flux capacitor--its what makes time travel possible. When to keep world-building explanations short | |
| 48 Is it a bad idea to have multiple bad endings and only one good ending? | |
| 49 If Im writing in US English, am I not allowed to use the metric system? | |
| 50 Avoiding spectacle creep | |
| 51 How to avoid mentioning the name of a character? | |
| 52 What are good places to post your work where it will be read by others? | |
| 53 How to make travel scenes interesting without adding needless plot diversions? | |
| 54 Why write a book when theres a movie in my head? | |
| 55 Help! Ive got Writers Block | |
| 56 Uh oh - My book stinks. Now what? | |
| 57 I have written my first novel and I think its ready. What next? | |
| 58 Do Writers Use LaTex/TeX for writing? | |
| 59 How unadvisable is it to flip the protagonist into a villain? | |
| 60 How to perpetuate the plot-driving riddle without frustrating the reader? | |
| 61 Im producing a play with a character who the audience isnt supposed to know is alive, can I credit the actor in the program? | |
| 62 What is the correct usage of P.S. in Emails? | |
| 63 Avoiding the not like other girls trope? | |
| 64 Averting Real Women Don’t Wear Dresses | |
| 65 What can a novel do that film and TV cannot? | |
| 66 How long can a fantasy novel stay in metaphorical Kansas? | |
| 67 What is a normal length for a chapter? | |
| 68 Do hard to pronounce names break immersion? | |
| 69 How do I recover my confidence after a harsh writing group? | |
| 70 Editors: Edit on first read, or read and edit on second round? | |
| 71 How do I say that a character said something without resorting to said Character every time? | |
| 72 Is it worth switching to Dvorak? | |
| 73 How do I hide Chekhovs Gun? | |
| 74 How do I convey that a relationship is platonic? | |
| 75 How can I explain my world if the character is technologically not yet capable of understanding it? | |
| 76 Is there a need for better software for writers? | |
| 77 How can I catch more errors when I proofread? | |
| 78 How often should I remind my readers of the setting? | |
| 79 How does one write a character smarter than oneself? | |
| 80 How do I keep the gender of my main character purposely ambiguous? | |
| 81 How can I portray body horror and still be sensitive to people with disabilities? | |
| 82 Is it expected that a reader will skip parts of what you write? | |
| 83 How do I construct a plot out of my many setting/character details? | |
| 84 Avoiding the as you know trope in exposition | |
| 85 Writing first programming book | |
| 86 Getting Inside Someone Elses Head | |
| 87 How do you avoid purple prose? | |
| 88 How to write a nice frame challenge? | |
| 89 How do I write LGBT characters without looking like Im trying to be politically correct? | |
| 90 Can I write a book of my D&D game? | |
| 91 Would readers feel cheated if the villain is successful in convincing the protagonist to change sides? | |
| 92 How to write strategy and schemes beyond my real-life capabilities? | |
| 93 How do you make characters relatable if they exist in a completely different moral context? | |
| 94 When is it okay to tell, instead of show? | |
| 95 Self Editing tips/tricks | |
| 96 Is it acceptable to use words like heaven and god when the narrator is agnostic? | |
| 97 What are the Pros and Cons of long names? | |
| 98 Protagonists race is hidden - should I reveal it? | |
| 99 Is it bad if I dont like the best books in my chosen genre? | |
| 100 How important is writing for games? | |
| 101 How does the 10,000 hour rule apply to writing? | |
| 102 Should software product release notes be in marketing voice or technical voice? (software documentation) | |
| 103 What is the balance between stating a problem clearly and Hemingways literary iceberg? | |
| 104 What is meant by purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous actions? | |
| 105 How to represent jealousy in a cute way? | |
| 106 How do I stop using the to start sentences so much? | |
| 107 How to prevent ebook piracy from stealing your livelihood? | |
| 108 Real people dont make good fictional characters. Really true? | |
| 109 How should I respond to a supervisor/editor who thinks my technical writing is too conversational? | |
| 110 How to show a character being bored for multiple chapters without boring the reader | |
| 111 How can I avoid a predictable plot? | |
| 112 Is it true that good novels will automatically sell themselves on Amazon (and so on) and there is no need for one to waste time promoting? | |
| 113 Is the first page of a novel really that important? | |
| 114 Are there advantages in writing by hand over typing out a story? | |
| 115 Want to write, have ideas, no story telling techniques or experience, feeling lost? | |
| 116 How do I find an agent? | |
| 117 Why do hardcover books retail for more than three times the cost of softcover books? | |
| 118 Should I use the words pyromancy and necromancy even if they dont mean what people think they do? | |
| 119 How to write female characters with agency? | |
| 120 My story is written in English, but is set in my home country. What language should I use for the dialogue? | |
| 121 Should I self-publish my novella on Amazon or try my luck getting publishers? | |
| 122 How to *show* a controversial reality without seeming like Im treating it as acceptable and without stating that this is wrong? | |
| 123 How can I answer high-school writing prompts without sounding weird and fake? | |
| 124 How do I spot an unintentional promise in my story? | |
| 125 Why does an author need an editor? | |
| 126 The psychology of starting a piece of writing | |
| 127 Where to draw the line between fantasy and reality in a story? | |
| 128 Is no religion a bad thing? | |
| 129 Would it be cheating to change the main characters name partway through the story? | |
| 130 How can you write when youre upset? | |
| 131 Do I have any control over the grammar of my novel? | |
| 132 How to manage getting depressed by what my main character goes through? | |
| 133 How much can a reader remember? | |
| 134 Decide on a theme/overarching meaning before writing a short story? | |
| 135 Im afraid of quashing the hopes of a new writer | |
| 136 Is it okay to publish a book at a young age? | |
| 137 How many characters are too many? | |
| 138 Should I write a novel if I havent read many? | |
| 139 How to get my book taken seriously as a teenager? | |
| 140 Evil plans - how do you come up with interesting ones? | |
| 141 An LGBT main character, but the book isnt about LGBT issues | |
| 142 How to write a sincerely religious protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview? | |
| 143 How can I convince my reader that I will not use a certain trope? | |
| 144 Writing a novel, can I do [this or that]? | |
| 145 How Much Can You Make From Writing a Book? | |
| 146 Writing a Super Intelligent AI | |
| 147 Using fake swear words without them seeming out of place to the reader | |
| 148 Are illustrations in novels frowned upon? | |
| 149 How to write dialogue for someone who is intelligent but barely speaks the language? | |
| 150 Is there such a thing as too inconvenient? | |
| 151 How do I tell the reader that my character is autistic in Fantasy? | |
| 152 Is it a bad idea to adopt an English pen name as an Asian American writer to reach a wider audience? | |
| 153 Is there a hemisphere-neutral way of specifying a season? | |
| 154 Pitfalls of writing a main character of different gender to the author, specifically first-person perspective? | |
| 155 How can I get into the mindset to write? | |
| 156 Fan Fiction: a crutch or a good start? | |
| 157 Writing a love interest for my hero | |
| 158 When blogging recipes, how can I support both readers who want the narrative/journey and ones who want the printer-friendly recipe? | |
| 159 How does a writer go about consulting experts? | |
| 160 Avoiding repetition when there are two unidentified individuals | |
| 161 Organizing your Universe? | |
| 162 Explicitly correcting yourself while writing - how appropriate is it ? | |
| 163 How can Santa keep his lists when the GDPR is around? | |
| 164 How would Facebook Sysadmins prevent the summoning of Cthulhu? | |
| 165 Tomorrow is Groundhog Day... For everyone. How does society respond? | |
| 166 How do you prove youre from the future? | |
| 167 Whats the smallest change to physics required to allow magic? | |
| 168 How to safely check if you are immortal? | |
| 169 Is there a single historic event which could be changed to cause the USA to use SI units? | |
| 170 Whats the most reasonable way to fit Monsters in your Pocket? | |
| 171 How can a Horror from Beyond Reason reliably communicate with mortals? | |
| 172 Im stranded on an alien planet. How do I measure an earth year without a clock? | |
| 173 How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000 years? | |
| 174 How do I protect my shop from teleporters? | |
| 175 How could dragons be explained without magic? | |
| 176 Humans are Gone: Do the Chickens Make It? | |
| 177 Russian Dolls - How do they reproduce? | |
| 178 You are an advanced AI that controls a smart house. How do you kill your master? | |
| 179 What is the least world changing reason why the government would pay for you to keep a llama during your 44th year of life? | |
| 180 If everyone in the world disappeared except 35 random people, how long would it take for one of them to realize theyre not alone? | |
| 181 Why fill a dungeon with puzzles? | |
| 182 Can a substance be more lethal in smaller doses? | |
| 183 Anatomically Correct Strange Women In Ponds Distributing Swords | |
| 184 How to best upgrade your Towel for military combat? | |
| 185 Would a bear cavalry be feasible? | |
| 186 If time travel is possible in the future, no matter how distant, why havent they come back to tell us? | |
| 187 The AI that fails to be evil | |
| 188 How to take down the internet? | |
| 189 Santa is Satan, but why? | |
| 190 You can control a Demon by knowing its True Name, but why? | |
| 191 What is the minimum human population necessary for a sustainable colony? | |
| 192 What single change would have given the best chance for the Axis to win World War 2? | |
| 193 A Most Subtle Magic | |
| 194 Why are there no toilets on the starship Exciting Undertaking? | |
| 195 How do Glass Ants create their tunnels? | |
| 196 Everything alive in the world dies this instant. Without bacteria to decompose anything, what happens to the remains? What does this look like? | |
| 197 Why would giant mechs use melee weapons? | |
| 198 How can I break down the task of creating a world into manageable chunks? | |
| 199 Everyone believes everything Joe says. How can he get around it? | |
| 200 What could people notice about someone who is two times as dense as a regular person? | |
| 201 How would I know if I were a 1 mm tall robot? | |
| 202 What cheap modern items can I use to bribe medieval people? | |
| 203 What vehicle would be the best one to start a >1000 km travel in a post apocalyptic zombie situation? | |
| 204 Releasing a T-Rex into a modern ecosystem wouldnt be that bad, right? | |
| 205 How can I ensure my Evil Tower is always stormy? | |
| 206 How can a banker successfully (and safely) lend money to an autocrat? | |
| 207 Why would characters spend time answering imaginary questions to fictional hypotheticals? | |
| 208 Could a planet made completely of water exist? | |
| 209 How can a Dragon keep humanity in check? | |
| 210 My carrier pigeons have been replaced by spoons: how can I send messages? | |
| 211 How does Santa protect himself from IP lawsuits? | |
| 212 In space, do shipping lanes make sense? | |
| 213 How many humans can I abduct without getting noticed? | |
| 214 How does a species who cannot distinguish left from right build their cities? | |
| 215 Which major solar system body could most realistically be artificial? | |
| 216 How far back in time would English be understandable to a modern speaker? | |
| 217 How long would it take to create a Windows 1.0 capable machine from complete scratch? | |
| 218 Could a Dwarven Civilization Exist? | |
| 219 In a medieval setting, how far apart should towns be? | |
| 220 What would make scientists realize they were on a flat world? | |
| 221 How can a race of eldritch abominations help humanity? | |
| 222 How would having multiple moons affect tides? | |
| 223 Would intelligent life evolve any other body plan than humanoid? | |
| 224 Who is spreading the rumour that Santa isnt real? | |
| 225 This sword is forged from meteorite iron - but how is that any good? | |
| 226 Why would a staff increase the magic power of a mage? | |
| 227 If our universe was a simulation, what could a bug look like? | |
| 228 What mechanism can prevent super-healing heroes from accidentally budding? | |
| 229 Truth Stone: Effects on the justice system, and criminal world | |
| 230 Would planets be cubic in my cuboverse? | |
| 231 How fast can I flood the Netherlands entirely and permanently? | |
| 232 How to build a trap to last the ages? | |
| 233 How to survive the heat death of the universe? | |
| 234 If 120 experts in 12 different fields were sent back 10,000 years, could they recreate the 21st century in 100 years? | |
| 235 If I went back in time, how could I handle being among the Black Death and survive? | |
| 236 Would relatively primitive people really confuse technology with magic? | |
| 237 What could make a star green? | |
| 238 A believable place for your secret lair | |
| 239 Would somebody from the middle ages be able to identify an atomic / nuclear bomb? | |
| 240 How to monetize uploaded consciousness? | |
| 241 Awesomeness powered magic - why would a group of awesome magicians want to keep their kryptonite near them? | |
| 242 Would a Moon made of water pose a threat to Earth during eclipses? | |
| 243 If the Romans found one working steam engine would they have been able to copy and use it? | |
| 244 The Challenge of Controlling a Powerful AI | |
| 245 A mosque on Mars? | |
| 246 Is there a scientific explanation as to why aliens should look similar to us? | |
| 247 How would it make sense that spellbooks or grimoires teach only one spell? | |
| 248 Great Old Ones Limited, or Why does Cthulhu need a Company? | |
| 249 How to keep humans pilots instead of AI in sci-fi future? | |
| 250 My time machine needs to know when it is | |
| 251 Why would vampires be incapable of entering a non-vampire human’s house uninvited? | |
| 252 What could an average modern human achieve in medieval times? | |
| 253 A poison that only works if you know it is there | |
| 254 How would society react if the existence of a god was scientifically proven? | |
| 255 Are there logical gaps in the periodic table in which you could insert a new mystery element for use as a fuel? | |
| 256 Would a submarine make a great spaceship? | |
| 257 Lembas bread (2000 Calories per bite) | |
| 258 How do you check if a room behind a door aboard a spaceship has an atmosphere/pressure? | |
| 259 Would a robot really need to use a heads up display (HUD)? | |
| 260 A list of worldbuilding resources | |
| 261 Effects of know before you vote political system | |
| 262 How to stop evil site moderators? ⦋quite firmly closed⦌ | |
| 263 Possible distance travelled by horse over 6 weeks? | |
| 264 Building a phone charger 500 years ago | |
| 265 For fiction purposes, are there any reserved or non-existent top-level-domains writers can use in stories? | |
| 266 My star will explode as a supernova. What can I do in order to ensure that my planet survives that? | |
| 267 Encrypting maps | |
| 268 Why would dead languages be the only languages that spells could be written in? | |
| 269 How to monetize free energy without revealing its existence? | |
| 270 Does a hive mind race need a written language? | |
| 271 0g pool: can I keep a big ball of water in space? | |
| 272 How soon can the first stars form? | |
| 273 How can a colony of teleporters make the most money while keeping their teleportation a secret? | |
| 274 What would be the best way to get clean, drinkable water in a medieval city? | |
| 275 Humans can now run 40 mph. How do I keep the stupid people alive? | |
| 276 Conquering a Metropolis with near-zero own casualties | |
| 277 Would a World Tree be feasible in real life? | |
| 278 Is it worth sending a manned mission to a black hole? | |
| 279 Are there techniques for creating alien or foreign sounding names? | |
| 280 Humans as Pets? | |
| 281 Tree Shape on a Tidally Locked World | |
| 282 How can I develop names for my fantasy land? | |
| 283 Can a casino system prove my (divine) luck as cheating? | |
| 284 How much mayhem could I cause as a sentient fish? | |
| 285 How can I build a door to repel a horde of zombies? | |
| 286 Whats the most likely post democracy form of political government? | |
| 287 How to protect shops in the medieval era against thievery? | |
| 288 How many cows would you need to drop on Mars to successfully terraform it? | |
| 289 Can stars that are not powered by nuclear fusion exist? | |
| 290 Random body shuffle every night—can we still function? | |
| 291 How many people can you feed per square-kilometer of farmland? | |
| 292 Could astronauts find their bearings in the Universe after being transported 6 gigalightyears from Earth? | |
| 293 Sword in the rock - make it last the ages | |
| 294 Must magic be tied to medieval tech? | |
| 295 Is it physically possible for a planet to have seasons of different lengths? | |
| 296 Plausible Reasons for usage of Combat Mecha | |
| 297 Is there any real reason for Dwarves not to have cavalry? | |
| 298 Which professions warranted travel in Medieval times? | |
| 299 How Long Could an Eternal Fire Last? | |
| 300 Is there something like Open Source Elvish? | |
| 301 Concealing my earth-changing invention | |
| 302 Spiders In Space: How to design a space suit for an arachnid? | |
| 303 How quickly and accurately should news travel in a rural medieval setting? | |
| 304 What (modern) weapons could be used to destroy skeletal enemies as completely as possible? | |
| 305 Slow teleportation | |
| 306 How can Santa exist when adults buy the toys? | |
| 307 How would an aquatic race develop computers? | |
| 308 How can a pacifist country protect itself? | |
| 309 If magic is real, can it be true that rational scientific thought should exclude it? | |
| 310 Why would a country make a declaration of war instead of just invading? | |
| 311 How could an apocalypse kill off all adults -- leaving only those under the age of 18? | |
| 312 How can I move a planet? | |
| 313 Can Average Joe reboot the nuclear power plant? | |
| 314 Why would a God of Murder be worshipped by a society? | |
| 315 Why would a decision making machine decide to destroy itself? | |
| 316 How does the government cover up alien crash landings? | |
| 317 The opposite to Worldbuilding: World Destruction | |
| 318 What would be the possible issues with an IQ based voting system | |
| 319 What is the fastest way for a robot with superhuman capabilities to make money? | |
| 320 If the insects declared war, who would win? | |
| 321 Why would society not cremate its dead in a world where necromancy is possible? | |
| 322 Im on the Titanic, what should I do to survive? | |
| 323 Would we find alien music meaningful? | |
| 324 What makes supervillains want to tell their plans to adversaries? | |
| 325 What questions should I ask myself when designing a legal system for a fantasy world? | |
| 326 Is there any job that cant be automated? | |
| 327 How would primitive peoples detect radiation? | |
| 328 Is using the Sun as a sort of garbage dump safe? | |
| 329 How can Elsas power fuel my Industrial Revolution? | |
| 330 How could an ancient race warn the future in a universally understandable way? | |
| 331 Anatomically correct XKCDius lethalissimus | |
| 332 Ugh, Im stuck in an orbital spaceport. But why? | |
| 333 How could we fake a moon landing now? | |
| 334 Could aliens colonize Earth without realizing humans are people too? | |
| 335 How to prevent tiny mistake in programmable language magic spell causing horrible disasters? | |
| 336 Are geographically typed planets realistic? | |
| 337 How would people in 17th century Salem react to modern day clothing | |
| 338 Can Communism become a stable economic strategy? How? | |
| 339 How do I keep my slaves happy? | |
| 340 Everything Joe says will become true. Can anybody notice? | |
| 341 How do I make an alien technology feel alien? | |
| 342 How can a single person with unlimited lifetimes and persistent memory affect the world? | |
| 343 Taxing the superhero industry | |
| 344 Do centaurs suckle from horse nipples or human nipples? | |
| 345 How would a dragon be used in a modern military? | |
| 346 What is the utilitarian purpose of artificial waterfalls? | |
| 347 What kind of weapons could squirrels use? | |
| 348 Designing an animal that wants to be eaten | |
| 349 What would it take for society reach a point where the time it takes to learn leaves no time to discover? | |
| 350 Can a human colony survive on a hot world? | |
| 351 How to harness Jupiters gravitational energy? | |
| 352 Start a coup online without the government intervening | |
| 353 Can you simply scale up animals? | |
| 354 How to give a rationality-inducing drug to an entire software company? | |
| 355 How can you possibly stop/kill a person who has the ability to stop time? | |
| 356 Humans are gone - what can I harvest from their cities 30M years later? | |
| 357 In what war would one modern military vehicle make a difference? | |
| 358 Why Would Aliens Enslave Humans? | |
| 359 Why would any interstellar starship still bother with streamline body design? | |
| 360 How to keep a military technology secret while using it? | |
| 361 Would a culture with magic consider it magic? | |
| 362 Being reborn with your memories - Knowledge is power, but how much? | |
| 363 How could a natural road form across a sea? | |
| 364 How to butcher your dragon? | |
| 365 Why should humans risk a robot apocalypse by modifying Asimovs laws? | |
| 366 How can an unimaginably huge life form reliably communicate with mortals? | |
| 367 How can powerful telekinesis avoid violating Newtons 3rd Law? | |
| 368 How can I prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union? | |
| 369 How would a war between immortals be fought? | |
| 370 Is it possible to make an alloy that melts at low temperatures and solidifies at high temperatures? | |
| 371 Is it possible to create a practical sword thats naturally toxic? | |
| 372 Eternal space battle around a planet. But why? | |
| 373 Mineral that explodes when cooling down | |
| 374 Would earthlike planets in other solar systems have well-known Earth gemstones such as rubies, emeralds and sapphires? | |
| 375 How do I drug a population in the most efficient way? | |
| 376 Any good way for an AI to prove that they are an AI? | |
| 377 How often must carnivorous grassland eat? | |
| 378 Is there a real life substance like movie acid? | |
| 379 In a world with very advanced computer science, how would people be taught sufficient programming skills? | |
| 380 What modern technology would be most revolutionary to ancient Greeks? | |
| 381 How do we tell if were living in a virtual reality world? | |
| 382 Stealth in Space: How realistic is it? | |
| 383 Charging phone in medieval times | |
| 384 What single change would have given the best chance for the Allies to win the Battle of France in early WWII | |
| 385 How to monetize magical mirrors in todays world? | |
| 386 Where should a galactic capital be? | |
| 387 What would be left of a civilization founded in dinosaur times? | |
| 388 Why does the Conjoined Alliance of Space Travellers keep producing red uniforms? | |
| 389 Help! Our merchants keep turning into villains! | |
| 390 Can humans interact meaningfully with the economy when robots are better at everything? | |
| 391 How would an astronaut conclude hes on Earth, but 600 million years in the future? | |
| 392 Are flying plants possible? | |
| 393 How could a language that uses a single word extremely often sustain itself? | |
| 394 Is it possible to kill all life on Earth? | |
| 395 Is a pig-mounted cavalry possible? | |
| 396 Architecture of the perfect zombie apocalypse refuge | |
| 397 How much steel armor can you wear and still be able to swim? | |
| 398 On a world with differently sized humans, how do I keep wages fair? | |
| 399 The first McDonalds restaurant on Mars | |
| 400 How does vampire-dad keep the masquerade to his daughter | |
| 401 Lets weaponize jellyfish | |
| 402 I duplicate the U.S. President. What happens? | |
| 403 How can I hide my island? | |
| 404 How do I justify spending time to create a world in the first place? | |
| 405 Dealing With Dragonslayers | |
| 406 How can a hive mind secretly monetize its special ability to make lots of money? | |
| 407 Would a full body diamond armor and sword guarantee survival and victory against a medieval battalion? | |
| 408 How could I have modern computers without GUIs? | |
| 409 How can I imprison a wizard who can walk through walls? | |
| 410 Could a disaster kill all (human) life on Earth but leave astronauts in low orbit alive long enough to return? | |
| 411 How would people living in eternal day learn that stars exist? | |
| 412 How to verify or establish identity where shapeshifters exist | |
| 413 How can the NSA capture Santa Claus? | |
| 414 Justifying why a trolls skin would turn to stone in sunlight | |
| 415 What would a Boeing 747 look like if it were left in a hangar for 5,000 years. Could it still be flown? | |
| 416 Why might wizards be unable to wear armour? | |
| 417 How to prevent superluminal traveling idiots from wrecking half of the universe? | |
| 418 Is there any plausible reason for a robots eyes to glow? | |
| 419 Ultimate Australian Canal | |
| 420 Ensuring an endless war, and an endless stalemate | |
| 421 How to make money from a browser who sees 5 seconds into the future of any web page? | |
| 422 Making a sword in the stone, in a medieval world without magic | |
| 423 I dont want to live on this planet anymore | |
| 424 What would happen if an alien race gave us a computer capable of 2^256 calculations per second? | |
| 425 The land grows evil and corrupted ... but why? | |
| 426 Is Cancer Biologically Universal? | |
| 427 Magic rules without logical loopholes | |
| 428 Mosquito Armageddon | |
| 429 How can I make my languages structurally less like English? | |
| 430 Where can I transform without being noticed? | |
| 431 What sort of problem would drive a near omnipotent civilization to seek an outside the box solution? | |
| 432 How to solve the old gun on a spaceship problem? | |
| 433 Other blood colors | |
| 434 How to enforce a Ban on Vegetarianism | |
| 435 How can waste from the body be removed without being expelled from the anus? | |
| 436 A 40km diameter alien saucer is floating 2km above the ocean for a long time. What are the effects on the sea ecosytem below? | |
| 437 Making the Master Swordsman fantasy realistic? | |
| 438 I travel back in time: how could I know when I landed? | |
| 439 An Earth-like planet is found in another solar system. What are the top priorities after landing in order to create a self-sustaining colony? | |
| 440 Why would people bury their dead in tombs when they might become zombies? | |
| 441 Are there any rules or guidelines about designing a flag? | |
| 442 A city to last ten million years: Construction | |
| 443 Physically, how do dragons grasp and *transport* the contents of their hoards? | |
| 444 Are there any ways to allow some form of FTL travel without allowing time travel? | |
| 445 What would a medieval war against an aquatic race look like? | |
| 446 Zero Privacy: Culture | |
| 447 Is there a credible way a shapeshifter could gain/lose body mass when changing forms? | |
| 448 Could an average person take over the world? | |
| 449 What kind of natural armor would stop bullets? | |
| 450 How would humanity enter a Dark Age? | |
| 451 Is it plausible to have two written forms of one spoken language that are so different as to be indecipherable? | |
| 452 How could a planet have a sky without stars at night? | |
| 453 What is the minimum radius of a circular corridor for the walls to appear straight? | |
| 454 How can I get my DeLorean to 88 miles per hour without a train? | |
| 455 Realistic Santa and Reindeer | |
| 456 Why would two species of predator with the same prey cooperate? | |
| 457 How can humans coexist with an intelligent carnivorous species? | |
| 458 Is there a more effective way to build a language than a word frequency list? | |
| 459 Would the human body support living on planets with a greater gravity than Earth? | |
| 460 Is there such thing as a one-person door? | |
| 461 How would a medieval city get cold drinks? | |
| 462 Why would technology dictate graphical interfaces to be rare on spaceships? | |
| 463 What would be the impact of a modern programmer and laptop being dropped into World War II, possibly breaking Enigma? | |
| 464 My perfect evil overlord plan... or is it? | |
| 465 How to find out a year Im in? | |
| 466 Modern warfare theory in a medieval setting | |
| 467 How would merfolk society dispose of their dead? And would disposing of the bodies in the ocean have any negative effect on marine life? | |
| 468 Whats the most entertaining way to prove to someone that they arent real? | |
| 469 What are the conditions in which a creature would evolve more than one brain? | |
| 470 What realistic way could limit an FTL drive to only travelling between stars? | |
| 471 How to Kill the Thought-Crime Killer | |
| 472 What would it take to build a ship capable of crossing the Pacific? | |
| 473 How would government change if everyone died by the age of 25? | |
| 474 How does Santa fit down the chimney? | |
| 475 How would I limit the amount of magical bling a person could wear? | |
| 476 Why cant spaceships go underwater? | |
| 477 How quickly will government realize that I am printing money? | |
| 478 An infinite train circling the planet that never stops | |
| 479 Why would a Dystopian government promote education to its citizens, instead of ignorance? | |
| 480 Could extreme climate zones exist next to each other? | |
| 481 What would it feel like on the surface of a planet while it collides with another planet? | |
| 482 Does a grenade kill you the same way a gun does? | |
| 483 Safe way to eat zombies? | |
| 484 Dangerous pending task in world managing A.I | |
| 485 Why is this creature afraid of water but not of body or plant fluids? | |
| 486 From which point on would including a dragon on one side of a historical battle not be an instant victory? | |
| 487 How does the Booze-Rat fuel its defensive mechanism? | |
| 488 A Bird that Never Touches Ground | |
| 489 How would an AI self awareness kill switch work? | |
| 490 If reality were frame-rate based, how could we detect it? | |
| 491 Is space piracy orbitally practical? | |
| 492 Could a human engineer comprehend alien electronics? | |
| 493 What is the least expensive way to annihilate humanity? | |
| 494 How to Defeat a Precognitive Warrior? | |
| 495 Why would anyone build robots when they have human rights? | |
| 496 Could a submarine built during the cold war maintain pressure underwater for 50 years? | |
| 497 How do I make a space battle both realistic, with physics in play such as no sound and weird motion, but also very epic and intense still? | |
| 498 How Would a Post-Planetary Civilization Measure Time? | |
| 499 Galactic Law Enforcement - Handcuff Alternatives | |
| 500 What does Earth have to offer for an alien civilization | |
| 501 Why would there be any use for sea shanties in space? | |
| 502 Prehistoric messages to the future | |
| 503 Why is my Dark World so dark? | |
| 504 What impact would a dragon the size of Asia have on the environment? | |
| 505 How can there be different religions in a world where gods have been proven to exist? | |
| 506 What could a self-sustaining lunar colony slowly lose that would ultimately prove fatal? | |
| 507 How can a group of immortals hide in a modern society with extensive record-keeping? | |
| 508 Where in the solar system is the most viable place to put my colonists, after Mars and Luna? | |
| 509 How far away would an alien civilization need to be for us to not notice them? | |
| 510 How would someone hide an asteroid in the void of space so only they could find it? | |
| 511 How can Dwarves produce honey underground? | |
| 512 How would Muslims adapt to follow their prayer rituals in the loss of Earth? | |
| 513 Would it be possible for an Earth-sized world to speak a single language? | |
| 514 Million-year-old records | |
| 515 How long will an ageless person live? | |
| 516 Quenching swords in dragon blood; why? | |
| 517 Why would a civilization outfit buildings with separate portals for entering and leaving them? | |
| 518 Killing off Indiana Jones | |
| 519 Anatomically correct metalhead, part 1 - headbanging | |
| 520 Building a bridge to the stars | |
| 521 The Benign Apocalypse | |
| 522 Creating a realistic world map - Currents, Precipitation and Climate | |
| 523 Socialist country with good economy? | |
| 524 Would a fighter pilot with an invincible space ship be able to conquer the galaxy? | |
| 525 Is there a way to create a bomb to destroy a star? | |
| 526 What software is available for keeping and organising notes about your world? | |
| 527 If every star in the universe except the Sun were destroyed, would we die? | |
| 528 How do you power all the nanobots? | |
| 529 Would gorillas with human-level intelligence make effective soldiers? | |
| 530 How do spaceships determine each others mass in space? | |
| 531 I want to become a living god! | |
| 532 What is valid evidence in a world with perfect CGI technology? | |
| 533 FTL travel is impossible. How is interstellar trade possible? | |
| 534 How far is too far when worldbuilding? | |
| 535 Santa is broke. How much does it cost for someone else to be Santa? | |
| 536 How can an organ that provides biological immortality be unable to regenerate? | |
| 537 What circumstances could lead to city layout based on hexagons? | |
| 538 Can stone be recycled by melting and cooling it? | |
| 539 Build an impregnable fortress in the middle ages with modern technology | |
| 540 Why do people in Cryogenic sleep not wear clothes? | |
| 541 Is there a maximum size an ocean bound creature could grow to? | |
| 542 Military Tank drone, why are they not common yet? | |
| 543 Could a joke be funny enough to kill? | |
| 544 Is a man-eating plant realistic? | |
| 545 Plausible explanation for lack of reflection in a mirror | |
| 546 Explaining where energy comes from to power magic | |
| 547 Why would a civilization develop a taboo against a highly nutritious food that grows well in its climate? | |
| 548 How would people conceivably escape a planet too large for chemical rockets? | |
| 549 What would be the best way to fight a duel with lightsabers? | |
| 550 Selling the right to kill ones convicted abuser: how could an NGO make this profitable? | |
| 551 Would a castle built at the top of a mesa have unusual weaknesses? | |
| 552 Speedrun to the moon in one lifetime? | |
| 553 Hacking the universe | |
| 554 What sort of punishment would replace fines in a post-scarcity society? | |
| 555 Identify Batman without getting caught | |
| 556 Would charging unicorns survive the impact with a line of infantry? | |
| 557 If we put humans on planets with atmospheres different from Earths atmosphere, but still containing oxygen, would humans be able to breathe? | |
| 558 Are gunswords feasible? | |
| 559 Could a society use bullets as money? | |
| 560 How fast would a sword need to be to avoid getting blood on it? | |
| 561 Why would merfolk have hair? | |
| 562 Why would a race with high longevity but low numbers be aggressive and warlike? | |
| 563 What are the disadvantages of a long living race? | |
| 564 What could prevent players from leaving an island? | |
| 565 An environment where round beds are easier to build than rectangular | |
| 566 Can you shoot someone with a bullet... from orbit? | |
| 567 What skills would an early-1500s era ship captain need to learn to become a modern-day sailor (and eventually a captain again)? | |
| 568 How to subtly identify a weapon as powerfully magical? | |
| 569 Need to start a religion with a predefined self-destruct | |
| 570 What could cause sugary rain? | |
| 571 Infinite flat world | |
| 572 Crucial and unlikely discoveries in history | |
| 573 Why zero tolerance on nudity in space? | |
| 574 Plausible reason why my time machine can only go back a certain amount of time? | |
| 575 The 10,000 year skyscraper | |
| 576 Reasons why healthy people would intentionally want to get infected? | |
| 577 Are endothermic bombs possible? | |
| 578 Is roof-hopping through a city realistic? | |
| 579 How to introduce my perpetual motion invention to the scientific community? | |
| 580 How can a fish that explodes by itself prosper enough to reproduce on a grand enough scale to persist as a species? | |
| 581 Could two planets be tidally locked to each other so close they share their atmosphere? | |
| 582 Would a steam powered plane be able to cross the Atlantic ocean? | |
| 583 Most useful knowledge from the 30s to understand current state of computers & networking? | |
| 584 How do I defend an island nation from attackers with 15th century technology? | |
| 585 Farming after the apocalypse: chickens or giant cockroaches? | |
| 586 What could make an area of land be accessible only at certain times of the year? | |
| 587 Only the Swiss Are Left - Can They Survive? | |
| 588 Would a non-lethal military be effective? | |
| 589 Designing Hacking Arrows | |
| 590 Is it possible to have a planetary system with planets having perfectly synchronized orbits? | |
| 591 Realistic economic impact of a Hero | |
| 592 How would law enforcement be different if we could talk to the dead? | |
| 593 What technology would Dwarves need to forge titanium? | |
| 594 What if the speed of light were 100 times higher? | |
| 595 What US states are most likely to rebel? | |
| 596 If I travelled in time to 1979... would my smartphones gps still work? | |
| 597 How would exposing a female warriors (mostly) bare bottom help her in combat? | |
| 598 Create a world where Necromancy isnt considered as an evil type of magic | |
| 599 How would you bring wealth back to the past? | |
| 600 Wooden sticks are the only allowed weapons in a technological society - how far would these weapons have progressed by now? | |
| 601 How to be hidden from world for a year | |
| 602 Does my shipboard computer slow down as I approach light speed? | |
| 603 How could mushroom/fungi forests be possible? | |
| 604 Could dinosaurs breathe modern air? | |
| 605 In an atheist alien society where bodily functions (reproduction and waste elimination) are not taboo what would be used to curse? | |
| 606 What all stops working when I pause time? | |
| 607 How would an order of Monks that renounce their names communicate effectively? | |
| 608 What would an out-of-water submarine (for water-breathing mer-people) look like? | |
| 609 In a society of flying beings, would the wheel ever be invented? | |
| 610 Lifeform - resistant to gunfire but vulnerable to melee | |
| 611 Is there any organization to a shantytown of storage containers? | |
| 612 Implications of Newtonian universe | |
| 613 Planetary Scale Artworks | |
| 614 Creating a realistic world map - Landmass formation | |
| 615 How can I build a Nuclear Reactor in my backyard? | |
| 616 For how long after an apocalypse would modern cars remain usable? | |
| 617 How to completely destroy a city, without leaving clues for humanity 4,000 years later? | |
| 618 Is there an effective way to design a realistic religion for a world? | |
| 619 How long would it take to “domesticate” humans? | |
| 620 How can I provide reasons for racism? | |
| 621 What would induce a country to actively guard an empty wasteland? | |
| 622 Logical reason why my dystopian government exiles rebels instead of killing them? | |
| 623 What does the Minotaur eat? | |
| 624 If an FTL spacecraft entered Earth orbit, how long would it take for humans to build a FTL spacecraft? | |
| 625 Would a ring language be possible? | |
| 626 Reason for an exterior control panel on a space ship | |
| 627 If a large space ship crashes on a planet, what could kill passengers without obliterating the ship? | |
| 628 Creating a realistic world map - Coastlines | |
| 629 Assassinate a semi-omniscient crime lord | |
| 630 What possible scientific reasons could there be for a vampire to only be killable via wooden stake to the heart? | |
| 631 Shapes for an infinite animal? | |
| 632 How would an independent, illegal and secret group of assassins accept assignments? | |
| 633 Why was 1984 set in 1984? | |
| 634 How do we know Humpty Dumpty was an egg? | |
| 635 Snoopy can balance on an edge atop his doghouse. Is any reason given for this? | |
| 636 What is Hobbes? | |
| 637 Has copy protection ever been used in physical books? | |
| 638 Did Arthur Conan Doyle code Holmes and Watson as a gay couple? | |
| 639 Where did the idea of a true name come from? | |
| 640 Why is The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy referred to as H2G2? | |
| 641 Why was The Call of the Wild banned? | |
| 642 What is Tom Bombadils importance in The Lord of the Rings? | |
| 643 Does Dr. Manhattan have free will? | |
| 644 Why is there so much technical detail of whaling included in Moby-Dick? | |
| 645 History of Spoilers | |
| 646 How did Wonkas Golden Ticket sweepstakes ensure that children would win? | |
| 647 What message is Bradbury trying to convey in Fahrenheit 451? | |
| 648 Why does Watchmen use the 9-panel grid? | |
| 649 Was the title The Lord of the Rings picked on purpose to be ambiguous? | |
| 650 Did Gaiman and Pratchett troll an interviewer who thought they were religious fanatics? | |
| 651 Why is a raven like a writing desk? | |
| 652 The author of a literary work disagrees with critics about meaning—whos right? | |
| 653 Should I read The Silmarillion before or after reading The Lord of the Rings? | |
| 654 Does Snape talk in code? | |
| 655 Meaning/translation of title The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett | |
| 656 Is there anything that definitely confirms that Svidrigailov actually committed murder in Crime and Punishment? | |
| 657 Was there a reason Victor Hugo chose 24601 as the number for Jean Valjean? | |
| 658 Did Shakespeare write his own stage directions? | |
| 659 In 1984, why did OBrien wait so long? | |
| 660 Is Judaism represented in the Narnia books? | |
| 661 George Orwells 1984 banned for contradictory reasons? | |
| 662 Why has Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) been retired for so long? | |
| 663 How many of Poes stories are interconnected? | |
| 664 Why do many Korean folk tales start with back when tigers smoked? | |
| 665 Why is Aragorn so weird to Pippin when they make their final farewell before going back to the Shire? | |
| 666 Did H. G. Wells use an emoticon in “The Time Machine”? | |
| 667 Is Babar an African or Asian elephant? | |
| 668 Has the phrase Elementary, my dear Watson ever truly appeared in a Sherlock Holmes book? | |
| 669 Is there any textual evidence to support that Dumbledore was gay? | |
| 670 What is the symbolism of Atticus killing the mad dog? | |
| 671 Why is Snape so fond of Malfoy? | |
| 672 What does Mark Twain mean by cheers and a tiger? | |
| 673 Did Lenore merely leave or is she dead? | |
| 674 What is the pun in Kiplings poem The Three-Decker? | |
| 675 How could sixty cents of $1.87 be in pennies? | |
| 676 Why did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle decide to kill off this character? | |
| 677 Are there any recorded discrepancies between The Odyssey as oral tradition and The Odyssey as Homer transcribed it? | |
| 678 Why dont Mr. Bennets daughters get to inherit the Longbourn estate? | |
| 679 In Brave New World, what caste is Lenina Crowne? | |
| 680 Was Odysseus considered unfaithful to his wife in the Odyssey? | |
| 681 Are quote marks used selectively in The Handmaids Tale or do I have a bad scan of the book? | |
| 682 Whats it called when a short quote appears at the beginning of a chapter? | |
| 683 Why does Mr. Poe cough so much? | |
| 684 English short story where a wife makes an investigation officer eat the murder weapon | |
| 685 Why are haiku usually of 17 syllables? | |
| 686 Is Sherlock Holmes religious? | |
| 687 Did Poe plagiarise someone elses work when writing The Raven? | |
| 688 Isnt Gríma Wormtongue a very revealing name? | |
| 689 What were the parts of each of the six Seuss books that ceased publication in March 2021 that were problematic? | |
| 690 Did J. K. Rowling base platform 9 3/4 on the Gump? | |
| 691 Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth? | |
| 692 What characteristics are unique to English (or at least rare among language as a whole)? | |
| 693 Why did early Indo-European languages seem to be morphologically complex? | |
| 694 When should one use slashes or square brackets when transcribing in IPA? | |
| 695 Why do we have interest in (dying) language preservation? | |
| 696 Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound? | |
| 697 Do unschooled people use cases correctly, e.g. in Germany and in Russia? | |
| 698 Is there a linguistics term meaning its grammatically correct, but nobody says that? | |
| 699 Why do English transliterations of Arabic names have so many Qs in them? | |
| 700 Why do most words for mother, across languages, start with an [m], and for father with [p]/[b], but not vice versa? | |
| 701 Could the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been deciphered without the Rosetta Stone with modern tech? | |
| 702 Whats the difference between syntax and grammar? | |
| 703 Is there any language that uses different pronouns for we depending on whether the spoken to person is included in the group? | |
| 704 Whats the difference between phonetics and phonology? | |
| 705 How do linguists place the vowels of a language precisely on the vowel trapezoid? | |
| 706 Is English tonal for some words, like permit? | |
| 707 What is word order used for in free word order languages? | |
| 708 Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions | |
| 709 Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to? | |
| 710 Why is there (almost) no variety to the Hebrew accent in Israel? | |
| 711 Why isnt Ive a proper response? | |
| 712 Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages? | |
| 713 Is there really a difference between agglutinative and non-agglutinative languages when spoken? | |
| 714 Were ancient languages as sophisticated as modern languages? | |
| 715 Why do the Romance languages use definite articles, when Latin doesnt? | |
| 716 Are there languages that dont have this kind of ambiguity? | |
| 717 Are there languages with other spatial deixis besides here, there and over there? | |
| 718 Why is “ß” not used in Swiss German? | |
| 719 Why are certain there-sentences infelicitous in English? | |
| 720 Why the prevalence of ph in transliteration? | |
| 721 Why do Japanese people have difficulties in pronouncing English? | |
| 722 How do I format an interlinear gloss for HTML? | |
| 723 Is the connection between right in the sense of direction and concepts like correct limited to Indo-European languages? | |
| 724 Can Modern Hebrew be considered an Indo-European language? | |
| 725 Is there any evidence to support the claim that English grammar is unusually straightforward? | |
| 726 Why is the word war in Romance languages predominantly of Germanic origin instead of Latin? | |
| 727 What languages lack personal pronouns, and why? | |
| 728 Can you rhyme words in sign language? | |
| 729 What are the fundamental differences between Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics? | |
| 730 Is there a difference between an affricate and a plosive+fricative consonant cluster? | |
| 731 Is it hard for software speech synthesisers to handle IPA? If so, why? | |
| 732 Is future tense in English really a myth? | |
| 733 Why do English verbs inflect so little, especially in regard to person? | |
| 734 Why does English not have a cognate of words like heter, in Swedish, or llama, in Spanish, etc? | |
| 735 Is it unusual that English uses possessive for past tense? | |
| 736 Articles before the name of a person | |
| 737 What meaningful distinction is there between morphology and syntax? | |
| 738 Why do so many core Romanian words with Latin roots come from different roots than in the other Romance languages? | |
| 739 Is there a language where there are personal pronouns for the first or second person that have gender? | |
| 740 Is there a technical name for when languages use masculine pronouns to refer to both men and women? | |
| 741 Lists of linguistic resources | |
| 742 Why is English classified as a Germanic rather than Romance language? | |
| 743 Why dont you get back the original text when you use translation software to translate something into another language and then back into English? | |
| 744 Do the Khoisan languages resemble the worlds first language? | |
| 745 English text corpus for download | |
| 746 Is there a list of mutually intelligible languages? | |
| 747 What do you call an IPA symbol that lacks a name (e.g. ɲ)? | |
| 748 Do some languages have articles besides the definite and indefinite articles? | |
| 749 Is there a language without gender in third person pronouns? | |
| 750 Why did English lose declensions while German retained them? | |
| 751 The relationship between orange the colour and orange the fruit | |
| 752 American English : are [ə] and [ʌ] different phonemes? (schwa vs. chevron) | |
| 753 Is the seeming relation between the sound /n/ and negativity purely coincidental? | |
| 754 Are consonant mutations in Indo-European languages specific of the Celtic group? | |
| 755 Which Romance languages have reflexes of the Latin nominative in nouns? | |
| 756 Is it common to use the minor third for calling someone? | |
| 757 What are the historical origins of terms for north, south, east and west? | |
| 758 Are there any languages or cultures that have genderless given names? | |
| 759 Are some languages inherently harder for children to acquire? | |
| 760 Whats the origin of Youre welcome? | |
| 761 Fourth person (in Slavey language) | |
| 762 Are there any non-Indo-European languages with go-periphrasis? | |
| 763 Why was מֹשֶׁה transliterated as [moʊzɨz]? | |
| 764 What has NLP/CL brought to the table of pencil-and-paper linguistics? | |
| 765 Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages? | |
| 766 Can Someone Identify This Diacritic? | |
| 767 Why do languages not share a root for butterfly? | |
| 768 Animals’ names change when we eat them: is that universal? | |
| 769 Why is constituency needed, since dependency gets the job done more easily and economically? | |
| 770 How did Korean become a language isolate? | |
| 771 Was there a Semitic influence on Proto-Germanic? | |
| 772 How do field linguists begin to study an undocumented language which they cannot speak? | |
| 773 Deciphering a handwritten script | |
| 774 What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar? | |
| 775 What did the Greeks and Romans believe about language relationships? | |
| 776 Are there grammatical analyses of languages that are extremely different from IE grammar? | |
| 777 False-belief verbs | |
| 778 Is there a language whose writing is 100% phonemic? | |
| 779 Whats the difference between a false cognate and a false friend? | |
| 780 Does Japanese have determiners? | |
| 781 What is the origin of non-natural grammatical genders in Indo-European languages? | |
| 782 Why do some Indo-European languages have genders and some dont? | |
| 783 Is there a linguistics equivalent to Turing completeness? | |
| 784 Why do Polish and Belarusian have an atypical greeting if compared to other Slavic languages? | |
| 785 What is case? | |
| 786 In languages with grammatical gender, how do they determine the gender when a new word has been created? | |
| 787 Connection between right (opposite of left) and right (legal term)? | |
| 788 Do onomatopoeias resist sound change? | |
| 789 Why do different languages have different amounts of unique words for numbers between 10 and 20? | |
| 790 How do linguists distinguish between case endings and postpositions, especially in languages which have both and/or have no traditional grammar? | |
| 791 Why did some Hebrew words beginning with Yod become transliterated into Latin as hi? | |
| 792 Is double positive meaning negative a common phenomenon? | |
| 793 Is Yiddish a creole language? And if not, what is it? | |
| 794 Do any languages mark social distinctions other than gender and status? | |
| 795 Where did Spanish get its /x/? Arabic influence? | |
| 796 Is there a single origin for the connection between time and weather? | |
| 797 Is the schwa sound consistent? | |
| 798 What is the name for a placename that contains what the thing is in a different language? | |
| 799 Reversal of kinship terms when speaking to a child | |
| 800 Is the Dené–Yeniseian hypothesis widely accepted, and has it led to further research? | |
| 801 Paucal number without singular | |
| 802 Why was korea able to remove kanji but japan wasnt when both languages use homophones? | |
| 803 Why is /h/ called voiceless vowel phonetically, and /h/ consonant phonologically? | |
| 804 Do absolute synonyms exist? | |
| 805 When does copula absence occur in African-American Vernacular English? | |
| 806 How are languages deciphered? | |
| 807 Why 11 am + 1 hour == 12:00 pm? | |
| 808 How does the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop... joke work? | |
| 809 Canonical Post #2: What is the perfect, and how should I use it? | |
| 810 How should I refer to a friend who is a girl but not a girlfriend? | |
| 811 Why grand theft auto, not grand auto theft? | |
| 812 “GOD is real, unless declared integer.” | |
| 813 Is there any difference between “which” and “that”? | |
| 814 Why do we say I love cake but I love cars? | |
| 815 What does the line So long and thanks for all the fish! mean? | |
| 816 Is there any difference between being ill and sick? | |
| 817 How can native English speakers read an unknown word correctly? | |
| 818 Free as in free speech, not as in free beer | |
| 819 How do you say 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 in words? | |
| 820 What is the difference between “nope” and “no”? | |
| 821 Why does the i in naïve have two dots? | |
| 822 Should I say She is in the park or She is at the park? | |
| 823 As following vs as follows | |
| 824 Does a couple always mean two? | |
| 825 Whats the difference between center and centre? | |
| 826 Once, twice, thrice,..., what comes next? | |
| 827 Why is 7 the most feared number? | |
| 828 firstly ... secondly ... or first ... second ... ? | |
| 829 Why should we say play the piano instead of play a piano? | |
| 830 Whats up with the pun (not) intended thing? | |
| 831 (In, On or At) GitHub? | |
| 832 Meaning of respecting in no law respecting an establishment of religion | |
| 833 Difference between Do we have a blog? and We have a blog? | |
| 834 If potato chips come in contact with humid air, they become what? | |
| 835 Is there any more respectful word than beggars for these wonderful guys? | |
| 836 Shouldnt it be Nobody touch him! | |
| 837 Why do native speakers say Come on in rather than Come in? | |
| 838 Why is the correct spelling eating and not eatting? | |
| 839 Two thousand seventeen VS twenty seventeen: What is the rule for year pronunciation? | |
| 840 Why can low become lower and lowest, while up cant? | |
| 841 Wow, what a car! - Is it okay if I say Wow, what the car! | |
| 842 What is the right word to refer to a black person, when you dont know their name? | |
| 843 Why is a Japanese offensive? | |
| 844 How do native speakers guess the pronunciation of the letters in a word they see for the first time? | |
| 845 Is series Plural or Singular? | |
| 846 Can I write nonsensual data for data that makes no sense? | |
| 847 What do you call the act of drinking a whole bottle of, say, water in one go? | |
| 848 Is it OK to mix American and British English? | |
| 849 Whats the meaning of bee in hand and beauty in eye? | |
| 850 Conveince: A word commonly used in Pakistan having to do with transportation but no English person knows about it | |
| 851 Great Expectations [is written vs has been written] by Charles Dickens | |
| 852 Is I was had standard English? | |
| 853 Difference between illegal and very illegal | |
| 854 What does Although the Second Amendment people mean? | |
| 855 [I]t literally scared her to death - Why is I in brackets? | |
| 856 What does the Twelfth mean in Article 7 of the US Constitution? | |
| 857 In and on: How can I decide which one to use for vehicles? | |
| 858 What is the correct pronunciation of the? | |
| 859 Use him or her in this sentence about a hypothetical gender switch? | |
| 860 When a girl mentions her girlfriend, does she mean it like lesbian girlfriend? | |
| 861 Why is Zika capitalized and chikungunya and yellow fever are not? | |
| 862 Meaning of sesquiannual? | |
| 863 Why is Mary told the cake to be cut by John ungrammatical? | |
| 864 Whats the meaning of break your legs? | |
| 865 How do I avoid misspelling receive as recieve? | |
| 866 Im being corrected I had a headache yesterday vs I have had a headache yesterday | |
| 867 Usage in spite of and despite of | |
| 868 Why are nice picture/gif/video about foo called foo-porn? | |
| 869 The college in Electoral College | |
| 870 Explain why Who is she playing the piano? is incorrect | |
| 871 Is cops (= police) a slang/derogatory term? | |
| 872 Whats the difference between last and latest? | |
| 873 What does viewer discretion is advised mean? | |
| 874 Meaning of Sue me | |
| 875 Can I say fingers when referring to toes? | |
| 876 Ice cold vs. ___ hot in a professional context? | |
| 877 To death vs to the death | |
| 878 In the sentence: Drinking and driving IS dangerous, why does the verb to be need to be singular? | |
| 879 How it works? vs. How does it work? | |
| 880 Better way to say No bulls--t | |
| 881 What does call BS mean in the sentence We call BS? | |
| 882 Ask away - what does away mean? | |
| 883 What is explain like Im five? | |
| 884 Do all native English speakers actually pronounce the th sound? | |
| 885 How many meanings does I am in have? | |
| 886 IS or ARE? The only thing that I want you to hit right now IS/ARE the books | |
| 887 I demand that he leave or leaves? | |
| 888 What is understood if I say Im an English teacher? | |
| 889 Does the English language have a word explaining a song in your head that you cant stop singing? | |
| 890 How to understand I had two try | |
| 891 Using very to emphasize a noun where emphasizing is NOT possible! | |
| 892 “I had a flat in the centre of town, but I didn’t like living there, so …” | |
| 893 What do we call ketchup, cheesy dip , oregano and things like that collectively, as they arent side dishes? | |
| 894 What is the meaning of prairie-dog in this sentence? | |
| 895 What does it mean? I cant people today | |
| 896 A boiled egg in the morning is really hard to beat - explain the pun please | |
| 897 What does the expression seven for seven thirty mean? | |
| 898 When is the past perfect exactly needed? | |
| 899 Agnostic vs Atheist | |
| 900 Why do people, incorrectly, begin a sentence with the word But? | |
| 901 The Jesus who said - why is there a definite article before the proper name Jesus? | |
| 902 Why did he reject my thank you? | |
| 903 What is the difference between me neither and me either? | |
| 904 Help to do something or help do something? | |
| 905 Do you really answer “How do you do?” with “How do you do?” | |
| 906 Is she dont sometimes considered correct form? | |
| 907 How do I say “±” in English? | |
| 908 Husband is dead: He and his wife {are/were} great scientists | |
| 909 I hate red color or I hate red: why exactly is the first option ungrammatical | |
| 910 Do native English speakers notice when non-native speakers skip the word the in sentences? | |
| 911 Do native speakers still use ought to? | |
| 912 What is mom-pkin? | |
| 913 What is the difference among Sign up, Sign in and Log in? | |
| 914 Is it rude to say Id appreciate if you could reply as soon as possible? | |
| 915 The difference between Older and Elder | |
| 916 Plural of thats my boy | |
| 917 How to say something like my company without sounding like I own the company? | |
| 918 I cant login or I cant log in? | |
| 919 Can you please explain this joke: Im going bananas is what I tell my bananas before I leave the house? | |
| 920 Photo Vs. Picture Vs. Image : What is the difference between them? | |
| 921 An hour or a hour | |
| 922 What does Nailed it mean? | |
| 923 co-worker vs. colleague | |
| 924 Is Negro an offensive word, or do some people just take offense to it, and why? | |
| 925 Possible responses to thank you | |
| 926 He borrowed me some money.; right or wrong? | |
| 927 How can you recognize if an uncle is fathers brother or mothers brother? (Is there any default option? ) | |
| 928 Why is iron pronounced EYE-URN but not EYE-RUN? | |
| 929 as rich as him, as rich as he or as rich as he is | |
| 930 What does `s` mean in What CPUs will it run on?? | |
| 931 The first time I met my wife I knew she was a keeper. She was wearing massive gloves - Alun Cochrane | |
| 932 What is the basic unit of a chain called in English? | |
| 933 Who is frowning in the sentence Daisy looked at Tom frowning? | |
| 934 Whats the meaning of Can it, will you? | |
| 935 Whats the meaning of Ordinary shampoos need not apply! on a shampoo bottle? | |
| 936 Should nouns after any be singular or plural? | |
| 937 What is the difference between IMO and IMHO and IHOP? | |
| 938 Why is aircrafts bad English, while crafts is okay? | |
| 939 Bathroom or Restroom | |
| 940 Didnt use to get or Didnt used to get? | |
| 941 Whats the opposite of the phrase pay under the table? | |
| 942 How can one differentiate between who and whom? | |
| 943 Whats a polite way of asking who are you? on the phone? | |
| 944 What is the difference between do you like and would you like? | |
| 945 Why is a ph or gh used instead of an f in commonly used English words like Elephant and Enough? | |
| 946 What is the brown cardboard covering coffee cups called in English? | |
| 947 Can fluent English speakers distinguish between “steel”, “still”, and “steal”? | |
| 948 How can I get rid of my Indian accent and sound more neutral/native | |
| 949 Can I say: When was your train leaving? if the train leaves in the future? | |
| 950 Can I say Call it a project similar to Call it a day | |
| 951 What do you call this way of stacking rectangular objects on each other? | |
| 952 Why did my seldom get corrected? | |
| 953 What would natives take for Today is so yesterday? | |
| 954 Why do we not use the definite article in Where can I find the room 401? | |
| 955 What is the difference between wait and await? | |
| 956 Is it I or me in Keep Tom and I/me updated? | |
| 957 Is Let us = Lets? | |
| 958 What is the correct term back-end, back end or backend? | |
| 959 What does the very next day mean? | |
| 960 Why is The Chinese have invented the printer wrong? | |
| 961 How should I reply when I answer some question on Stack Exchange sites, people thank me and say it helped? | |
| 962 Is says you grammatically correct? | |
| 963 When you tell a joke and nobody laughs | |
| 964 Does unbuild in Unbuild your Legos before putting them back into the box sound natural? | |
| 965 Why is wine made from grapes, but tables are made of wood? | |
| 966 Is thru for through acceptable? Tho for though? | |
| 967 Important to me or Important for me | |
| 968 What does resp. mean in these sentences? | |
| 969 Possible meanings of IN CASE OF FIRE, DO NOT USE ELEVATOR. | |
| 970 Are the terms girlfriend and boyfriend limited to some age in the spoken language? | |
| 971 Is there an English equivalent for the Italian saying Its another pair of sleeves? | |
| 972 Why is science in Bachelor of Science singular, whereas arts in Bachelor of Arts is plural? | |
| 973 What does two-by-four mean in this context? | |
| 974 Why are south and southern pronounced with different vowels? | |
| 975 Whats the meaning of phrases that include ship, shipping, when there is a conversation about the heroes of TV series? | |
| 976 How to understand throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks? | |
| 977 What does have a pop-up feel mean? | |
| 978 Why would you say it changed me instead of it changed myself here? | |
| 979 Why is the t in often silent? | |
| 980 Your English is better than my > | |
| 981 Why are the pronunciations of bicycle and recycle so different? | |
| 982 Working in / for / at? | |
| 983 Differences between mandatory and compulsory | |
| 984 How do native speakers say the light bulb has stopped working | |
| 985 Grammatical gender of the word child | |
| 986 “When did you born?” | |
| 987 What is the difference between robbing and stealing? | |
| 988 Explanation for a joke about a three-legged dog that walks into a bar | |
| 989 Usage of they / them / their when the persons gender is not known | |
| 990 English equivalent of a Spanish expression that translates to iron fist, crystal jaw | |
| 991 What is the official criteria to measure current level of English? | |
| 992 Is until inclusive or exclusive? | |
| 993 Does one call regular men Sir in the UK? | |
| 994 What is the difference between can and could in Can/could you please explain this to me? | |
| 995 Is the language of The Economist artificially complex? | |
| 996 What does He has insurance, but Christ mean? | |
| 997 What does IKEA-like mean? | |
| 998 What does this will date me mean? | |
| 999 How do Americans respond when asked for their names? | |
| 1000 When is it acceptable to omit the subject I? | |
| 1001 Pronunciation of beaches and bitches | |
| 1002 What does chrome mean besides the metal? | |
| 1003 What is the difference between feet and very feet? | |
| 1004 Indefinite Article: Why a agreement rather than an agreement? | |
| 1005 a ten years old boy or a ten year old boy | |
| 1006 What is the name for these keys on a computer keyboard? | |
| 1007 How to write a plural form of ex (ex girlfriend..etc) | |
| 1008 One of THOSE days vs one of THESE days | |
| 1009 What do we call the half closing of eyes? | |
| 1010 What does on a day with no y in it mean? | |
| 1011 Not funny ha-ha, what does Siri mean? | |
| 1012 What is the cover of the head of a pen called in English? | |
| 1013 Do native speakers distinguish well the pronunciations of L and R? | |
| 1014 What does M.C. in M.C. Esker mean? | |
| 1015 What does it mean by my days-of-the-week underwear only go to Thursday in this context? | |
| 1016 When you Frankenstein a team together... - Is Frankenstein a new verb? | |
| 1017 Whats the English phrase to describe men who are standing next to each other, facing in opposite direction),? | |
| 1018 Does the question mark mean this is a question? | |
| 1019 The grammar of Stop Asian hate | |
| 1020 How can I negate or confirm a question tersely using negation? | |
| 1021 What is the correct way to write 1.5 hours? | |
| 1022 “file doesn’t exist” or “file doesn’t exists” | |
| 1023 You can contact me on/over/by Skype | |
| 1024 Word for someone who says yes, then no, then yes | |
| 1025 Do native speakers use ultima and proxima frequently in spoken English? | |
| 1026 Is there a word for the unutterable feeling when listening to a beautiful song? | |
| 1027 You prefer to eat soup or drink soup? | |
| 1028 Why is the W silent in sword but not in swore? | |
| 1029 Should I use a or an when I abbreviate a word? | |
| 1030 2 for 5 (bucks) vs 5 (bucks) for 2 | |
| 1031 Follow me, and your urologist will be buying himself a new yacht | |
| 1032 Is Whom a deprecated word? | |
| 1033 Why is for a tortuous three days singular even though days is plural? | |
| 1034 How is double negation interpreted in English? | |
| 1035 Whats the accepted way to use criterion, criteria, criterions? | |
| 1036 What is the difference between hug and embrace? | |
| 1037 Do digits after the decimal point have a specific name? | |
| 1038 My son/daughter or Our son/daughter? | |
| 1039 What is the word for the metal things on boots where the laces go? | |
| 1040 How many flies does it take to screw in a light bulb? | |
| 1041 Idiom request for describing a situation in which people pay attention to their minor problems rather than the fundamental related ones? | |
| 1042 I often buy fruits when I go to the supermarket – illogical? | |
| 1043 Whats the word meaning “normal-temperature” water? | |
| 1044 What do you call the things inside a fruit? | |
| 1045 Why is wont used instead of doesnt sometimes? | |
| 1046 scissors cut/cuts paper, which is correct? | |
| 1047 What does Scary-lookin fing, inee mean? | |
| 1048 Why is letter not plural in two letter words? | |
| 1049 Are there any solid reasons for the -st, -nd, -rd, and -th suffixes for numbers? | |
| 1050 Verb tenses when asking a question | |
| 1051 Why is the adjective for mutate not mutatable? | |
| 1052 Who decides whether something is standard English or not? | |
| 1053 Do we say - in the meeting or at the meeting | |
| 1054 I am cumming or I am coming | |
| 1055 Thank you in advance - how to replace? | |
| 1056 What do they mean with Hi, how are you doing? | |
| 1057 Which is the correct question (Who has vs Who have)? | |
| 1058 Is there a polite, formal way to say sh!t happens? | |
| 1059 Is She is under the shower a proper English sentence? | |
| 1060 What does go blue mean here? | |
| 1061 Sarcastic Idioms for being slow to notice something | |
| 1062 What do we call the gesture of hitting each others fists gently? | |
| 1063 What do you call an action that is less serious than a crime (that is not illegal, just against rules)? | |
| 1064 How do I respond to my Professors email, wherein he has mistaken my gender? | |
| 1065 Why are beef and pork and mutton used to refer to the meat of cows and pigs and sheep? | |
| 1066 Plastic part on the tip of a shoelace | |
| 1067 Why is “deal 6 damage” a legit phrase? | |
| 1068 Does the English language have a grammatical gender? | |
| 1069 Whats wrong with Most people in the country would like to own their house some day.? | |
| 1070 Whats the meaning of youre being G.O. Sixteened.? | |
| 1071 How to answer a negative question? | |
| 1072 I dont get this joke Massive Attack On Pentagon Page 14 News, can anybody explain me its meaning? | |
| 1073 Keeping my mouth shut, referring to avoiding weight gain | |
| 1074 Was twelve pronounced as TPELF? | |
| 1075 How are silent letters important? | |
| 1076 Why do we pluralize congratulations when we say it? | |
| 1077 Are some offensive words always masculine? | |
| 1078 When should I use thaw and melt? | |
| 1079 Why is it correct to say We should go see a movie, but not We should have gone see a movie? | |
| 1080 What is the meaning of Brown-Bagged it? | |
| 1081 Why cant I contract it has sometimes? | |
| 1082 Uses of the definite article (the) in generic noun phrases | |
| 1083 Does red apples and bottles mean the apples are red and the bottles are red or only apples are red? | |
| 1084 In how many ways can something not be right? | |
| 1085 dogs, not cats -> why not? | |
| 1086 Allow (to) + infinitive, substantive, verb+ -ing | |
| 1087 Difference between in time and on time | |
| 1088 Why is it If I were you and not If I was you? | |
| 1089 Is rain is falling entirely wrong? | |
| 1090 A user is it or he/she? | |
| 1091 Was it impolite for me to say Thats alright when someone ran into me? Are there any better expessions? | |
| 1092 quite vs pretty | |
| 1093 What does at 19.45 hours mean? | |
| 1094 What would you call someone who sneaks into and stays in places where they have to be signed up, e.g. classes/country clubs | |
| 1095 Verb for just opening a bit a window or door | |
| 1096 “I’m too tired to drive”: Why does removing too make this sentence ungrammatical? | |
| 1097 I have a doubt about whether this phrase is acceptable English | |
| 1098 Why is it correct to say me busy.? | |
| 1099 Why it is called Black Friday? | |
| 1100 Whats the meaning of be broker than the Ten Commandments? | |
| 1101 Whats the name for non-bribe payments taken forcefully and illegally? | |
| 1102 Is there a verb for listening stealthily? | |
| 1103 How to get rid of mistakes in spoken English? | |
| 1104 What is the Kool-aid reference? | |
| 1105 Why is it crouching tiger hidden dragon but not crouching tiger hiding dragon? | |
| 1106 Is there a verb that means to accept doing something unwillingly just to make the other person stop nagging? | |
| 1107 What is the document called that parents have to sign so their underage children can take part in something? | |
| 1108 “The,” “a” or no article: “See you in _____ court.” | |
| 1109 I cant imagine John is driving a car | |
| 1110 Whats the child doing in this picture? Is it called tongue twister? | |
| 1111 Difference between where are you from and where do you come from | |
| 1112 There is a lot vs. There are lot | |
| 1113 Two consecutive gerunds? -ing -ing? | |
| 1114 Meaning of the On guard! exclamation | |
| 1115 How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? | |
| 1116 Is plugging out electronic devices an American expression? | |
| 1117 coronavirus - Why no c capital? Why is there no space? | |
| 1118 Is Raining Cats and dogs still used nowadays? | |
| 1119 What do Americans call a person when they cannot remember the right name? | |
| 1120 What is the sports hall in schools called in English? | |
| 1121 Transgender versus the obsolete term transgendered | |
| 1122 Call yourself God | |
| 1123 How to deal with unknown genders in English? | |
| 1124 What are the correct pronouns for referring to someone whom I have never met in person when the gender is apparent? | |
| 1125 What does One CPU is going to smoke another CPU mean? | |
| 1126 Crashing at the Y What does it mean? | |
| 1127 Why do native speakers use the present continuous tense when talking about people in a picture? Why not the past continuous tense? | |
| 1128 An (obvious) problem or a (obvious) problem? | |
| 1129 Why dont we use articles for variables in math problems? | |
| 1130 Assigned to a job I know nothing about it - is there an idiom for that idea? | |
| 1131 What is the word for a property no more necessary but still present in a object? | |
| 1132 Youve earned the Nice Answer badge vs. Youve earned a Nice Answer badge | |
| 1133 Canonical Post #1: When to Trust Your Grammar Checker | |
| 1134 The summer training or (just) summer training | |
| 1135 Dates and times: on, in, at? | |
| 1136 Can you reply you too to wishes such as Good luck? | |
| 1137 When a word ends in s or x, do you add s or just an ? | |
| 1138 Is no more used to mean dead in English? | |
| 1139 Why is He knows to swim incorrect? | |
| 1140 Is there a word for losing something in order to gain some other thing? | |
| 1141 What is a non-vulgar synonym for this swear word meaning an enormous amount? | |
| 1142 Thanks, but no thanks OR No, thanks. Isnt thanks in the former redundant? | |
| 1143 Is the SVOMPT word order necessary in creating a sentence? | |
| 1144 what is the difference between yet and still? | |
| 1145 Whats the polite way to say I need to urinate? | |
| 1146 He is 80 years young | |
| 1147 What is the filling of the stapler called in English? (picture attached) | |
| 1148 What is the opposite of picky? | |
| 1149 Greeting with Ho | |
| 1150 Can any time on clock be spoken as it is in numbers only (hour + minutes)? | |
| 1151 Asking the position of a person in a sequence | |
| 1152 The female equivalent of dont break my balls | |
| 1153 Why doesnt the couple want to eat the dessert in this comic strip? | |
| 1154 What do we call English with dots and dashes? | |
| 1155 When to say I need money as opposed to I need the money? | |
| 1156 Is there any difference between temporary and provisional? | |
| 1157 What is the meaning of Dog ate my car? | |
| 1158 A pro and a con at the same time | |
| 1159 What does mean to get to the nuts and balls of something? | |
| 1160 The antonym of diss | |
| 1161 Why is New York often said with the word City in English? | |
| 1162 Why should are be used here instead of is? | |
| 1163 Meaning of 8 going on 48 | |
| 1164 No more Hiroshima or No more Hiroshimas | |
| 1165 I get “the” train and “a” bus | |
| 1166 Terms to refer uniquely to each of the grandparents | |
| 1167 (Noun) the sh*t out of this — What nouns work? | |
| 1168 Why there are two weres in one sentence? | |
| 1169 a joyous and restful three days -- a three days? | |
| 1170 What is the expected response to Whats up? | |
| 1171 When to use drank and drunk | |
| 1172 Hi there! -- What does this there mean? | |
| 1173 Which pronunciation of either is preferred? | |
| 1174 My lady, Your honour, Your grace, how to decide whether to use my or your? | |
| 1175 Does this have two meanings: how do you like your coffee? | |
| 1176 I did my best vs I did the best I could | |
| 1177 Difference between One to One and One on One | |
| 1178 Rollbacked or rolled back the edit? And what about double-click? | |
| 1179 What should I say if someone from the opposite side of the earth says “good morning”? | |
| 1180 Theres vs There are | |
| 1181 An adjective for a woman showing lots of skin? | |
| 1182 What is the difference between you are being and you are? | |
| 1183 Whats the difference between words number, count, amount and quantity? | |
| 1184 Add-in salt to injury? | |
| 1185 How would a native speaker understand Time flies like an arrow? | |
| 1186 Is hello followed by ! or .? | |
| 1187 Does I have a daughter mean I have one daughter? | |
| 1188 None of the kids were hungry Or None of the kids was hungry | |
| 1189 Back in 2000 vs In 2000 | |
| 1190 What does Rabbit hole mean? | |
| 1191 What does meat mean? | |
| 1192 How to pronounce Gradle? | |
| 1193 What does ima mean in ima sue the s*** out of em? | |
| 1194 Why do Russian names transliterated into English have unpronounceable ks before hs (e.g. Mikhail instead of just Mihail)? | |
| 1195 Hard work never hurt anyone Why not hurts? | |
| 1196 I dont have the time to cook or I dont have time to cook? | |
| 1197 Do native speakers pronounce found the remark without the the? | |
| 1198 Whats the difference between vanilla and plain when talking about yogurts? | |
| 1199 We missed the bus, which made us late for school - erroneous use of which? | |
| 1200 When is me used as a possessive pronoun, instead of my? | |
| 1201 Sorry for your loss. But why? | |
| 1202 Should cooking and cleaning be taken literally in ...two men at once. One cooking. One cleaning. | |
| 1203 Unusual meaning of wet | |
| 1204 Specific word to describe someone who is so good that isnt even considered in say a classification | |
| 1205 How much should I trust Wiktionary? | |
| 1206 How can I describe being temporarily stupid? | |
| 1207 Why do you say air conditioned and not conditioned air? | |
| 1208 Four is better vs Four are better. Which one is correct? | |
| 1209 Why is He is the kind of person who, if he had lived ..., people would not have been able to categorise him. ungrammatical? | |
| 1210 Why can populace be used as an adjective in most populace cities? | |
| 1211 What are the differences between to talk and to speak? | |
| 1212 Why do my How to questions often get renamed to How do I? | |
| 1213 Should always use uppercase I? | |
| 1214 Why is there a p in assumption but not in assume? | |
| 1215 Toward vs. Towards | |
| 1216 Does It snowed hard Monday require an on? | |
| 1217 my vs mine (adjectives vs. possessive ) | |
| 1218 at which time vs. at what time | |
| 1219 Out of curiosity means Im not curious at all. Isnt it? | |
| 1220 Is there a word or slang word to call a girl who loves brand products? | |
| 1221 Glass vs Cup - differences in usage | |
| 1222 Would saying who is this in normal tone be rude in an occasion not on the phone? | |
| 1223 very unique - Is it wrong? Why? | |
| 1224 What is this type of road called in English? | |
| 1225 What defines a native English Speaker? | |
| 1226 Phrases that express afraid of wife in English | |
| 1227 Is the term Invalid applicable for human beings? | |
| 1228 I dont give a rip! Whats a rip? | |
| 1229 Correct me if Im wrong | |
| 1230 to fart in child language | |
| 1231 Is calling a woman madam offensive? | |
| 1232 The meaning of half woman, half girl | |
| 1233 Is it good to call someone Nerd? | |
| 1234 She dressed like/as an owl. Which is correct? | |
| 1235 What are these holes in sinks and tubs called? | |
| 1236 a most talented writer - why not the most talented writer? | |
| 1237 Should I say: She is no student or She is not a student? | |
| 1238 Is there an idiom that means that you are in a very strong negotiation position in a negotiation? | |
| 1239 Does take a second mean take a second look? | |
| 1240 What is this mop-like tool called in English? | |
| 1241 What does Yes, you can. But you may not. mean? | |
| 1242 Why is a road incorrect in this test? | |
| 1243 Syntactical problem? Musks tweet I Am Become Meme, Destroyer Of Shorts | |
| 1244 Plurality of verb depending on plurality of list elements | |
| 1245 Are you an English? Are you a British? | |
| 1246 An idiomatic expression for the situation when a punisher in fact punishes himself rather than the one he intended to punish | |
| 1247 Is Ram married his daughter ambiguous? | |
| 1248 When people brag about their abilities and belittle their opponents before a battle, competition, etc | |
| 1249 Is it proper to use broke in Broke his feelings? | |
| 1250 Whats the pun in Clowns divorce. Custardy battle.”? | |
| 1251 To Google something: capitalize or not? | |
| 1252 The bass drop is so sick!... - What does it mean? | |
| 1253 The girl I love hates me or The girl who I love hates me | |
| 1254 Why write does instead of is What time does/is the pharmacy open? | |
| 1255 Term for bed sheet that embraces and partially encapsulates the mattress | |
| 1256 Can I say I speak Chinese as well as Spanish? | |
| 1257 What does Bless you mean in this context? | |
| 1258 must vs shall - are they the same, or is one a softened version of the other? | |
| 1259 Using present simple when talking about a past event in spoken English | |
| 1260 What does the word though mean and on which occasions can be used? | |
| 1261 Which one is correct, in the USA or in USA? | |
| 1262 fits or suits my needs? | |
| 1263 Difference between nice to see you and nice to meet you | |
| 1264 When is seems to be used instead of seems? | |
| 1265 Difference between fast food and junk food | |
| 1266 Double zero, double zeros or double zeroes? | |
| 1267 If something seems too good to be true, it probably is (not?) | |
| 1268 Difference between uptown, downtown and midtown | |
| 1269 The correct capital G and J in cursive | |
| 1270 Stuck writing a sentence because tea is a beverage and water is not! | |
| 1271 Are dude and man disrespectful words? | |
| 1272 Do never... vs. Do not ever... | |
| 1273 English equivalent of garam (warming) food? | |
| 1274 Can I use Dress for mens wear? | |
| 1275 $2,000 worth of items: two thousand dollar or dollars? | |
| 1276 Why cant we say snakes crawl? | |
| 1277 What is the English name for the palms spots of the working hands? | |
| 1278 What do you call or how do you describe this in English? overcooking the food? What do you call the black stuff? | |
| 1279 Why does the phrase drop dead gorgeous mean very gorgeous? | |
| 1280 Is there any difference between friendly and kind? | |
| 1281 Im baffled at this expression: If I dont talk to you beforehand, then...... | |
| 1282 What do you call a plan thats an alternative plan in case your initial plan fails? | |
| 1283 What do you call the imprinted pattern left behind a car in mud? | |
| 1284 I do not really understand the proposal: Dont hate Monday. Make Monday hate you | |
| 1285 Can he and man refer to all genders? | |
| 1286 I broke my arm vs my arm was broken | |
| 1287 You better did - is this acceptable? | |
| 1288 In “a so-called HPACK Bomb attack”, if so-called is not sarcasm then what is it? | |
| 1289 What is the meaning of stool” in the context of getting a job? | |
| 1290 it was backwards in heels | |
| 1291 Difference between ignite and kindle | |
| 1292 Why is it come and not comes in it is important that he come...? | |
| 1293 Do most Americans pronounce months as mons, and clothes as clos? | |
| 1294 Does upset victory mean a victory that people are not happy about? | |
| 1295 What does cap mean in this football (soccer) context? | |
| 1296 What is the name for this sarcasm-like form of words? | |
| 1297 Day vs 24h day? | |
| 1298 Any chances spell means pronounce? | |
| 1299 First, second and third conditional | |
| 1300 Best regards vs. Best Regards | |
| 1301 Aim vs Goal whats the difference? | |
| 1302 What do M, G and B buttons mean in an elevator? | |
| 1303 Can we use former and latter for plural nouns? | |
| 1304 Why do people say I am broke instead of I am broken? | |
| 1305 What does it mean to talk over someone? | |
| 1306 If “I woke up at 10” is okay, what about “I slept at 10”? | |
| 1307 Pretty versus quite | |
| 1308 How to parse these crazy sentences | |
| 1309 Can we call a divorced woman single? | |
| 1310 What is the plural of octopus? | |
| 1311 What does aye mean in this context? | |
| 1312 What do we call the small towel that we use only for hands | |
| 1313 What is the word meaning people who sell something in forceful way on the street or places? | |
| 1314 What do you call the bunch of hair you grow long on the back of your head? | |
| 1315 What would be a word for a product that is below the expected level of quality? | |
| 1316 Difference between pardoned and forgiven | |
| 1317 Is there any difference in pronunciation between the words fiancé (a male) and fiancée (a female)? | |
| 1318 What does my name was down for Eton mean? | |
| 1319 I immediately got her with child? | |
| 1320 a dollar and change. What does change mean? | |
| 1321 Does Excuse him. make sense? | |
| 1322 One of my friends OR friends wife? (My friend has only one wife) | |
| 1323 What do you call candidates in elections who dont actually have a chance to win and only create an illusion of competition? | |
| 1324 Does 49er mean A 49-year-old man? | |
| 1325 How to understand dont code today what you cant debug tomorrow? | |
| 1326 What does web-mistress imply as a job title | |
| 1327 What do we call these squeezed papers? | |
| 1328 Is tin foil for aluminium foil deprecated? | |
| 1329 I bought this shirt offline. Is this correct usage of the word offline? | |
| 1330 Do kidnappers only kidnap kids? | |
| 1331 What is the spelling of `~`? | |
| 1332 Which is correct, and why? My friend hasnt / hadnt been in church in two weeks | |
| 1333 Is mating only used with males? What if I use it with females? Is it incorrect? | |
| 1334 What is the word for searching for leftovers in a destroyed minimart in a zombie infested world? | |
| 1335 Why was not were in Nearly £20 was taken from my bank account | |
| 1336 Is there a special word for the numbers 11 to 19? | |
| 1337 Is The life is beautiful incorrect or just very non-idiomatic? | |
| 1338 Why has strangely been used instead of strange in the sentence Harry felt strangely? | |
| 1339 Why should rip a man apart like a rag doll be read ... like [it can rip apart] a rag doll instead of ... like a rag doll [can rip apart a man]? | |
| 1340 Whats the hidden joke/meaning behind Dont drink and park - accidents cause people? | |
| 1341 Idiom for not doing something that makes oneself look more awkward in an already awkward situation? | |
| 1342 Isnt charge a fee redundant? | |
| 1343 What is the inner cover of the winter shoes called in English? | |
| 1344 When do we use no women instead of no woman? | |
| 1345 How to pronounce the s in apples in English and American English? | |
| 1346 What does there lived here then mean? | |
| 1347 In cartography, what do you call the line that separates land from water? | |
| 1348 What is the meaning of the so-called pregnant chad? | |
| 1349 In-depth explanation of the difference between will and going to? | |
| 1350 Is it necessary to use commas in lists before the conjunction? | |
| 1351 How can I remember the difference between lay and laid? | |
| 1352 Hope this help or Hope this helps? | |
| 1353 What preposition is correct sleep on the bed or sleep in the bed | |
| 1354 In the morning VS on the morning | |
| 1355 Talking about inanimate objects in plural: they or it | |
| 1356 What does How come mean? | |
| 1357 it VS. this Vs. that | |
| 1358 Most of something is plural or singular? | |
| 1359 Too many tos? I am not able to come to office | |
| 1360 Tap, faucet, spigot - what are the differences? | |
| 1361 What does I have straight As. mean? | |
| 1362 Why do you get in a car but get on a train | |
| 1363 He likes swimming or He likes to swim? | |
| 1364 to versus in order to | |
| 1365 Is it correct to say I have class? | |
| 1366 What is wrong with have put in I have put the water in the freezer? | |
| 1367 Each others / each others | |
| 1368 What is the difference between look, see, and watch? | |
| 1369 What does “stop by my desk later” mean? | |
| 1370 What does I made him a cake mean? | |
| 1371 What is the drop in music? | |
| 1372 How do I invite a friend on my expense? | |
| 1373 Who is/are they? | |
| 1374 She does homework every day vs She does her homework every day vs She does the homework every day | |
| 1375 Word for a small burst of laughter that cant be held back | |
| 1376 Is uncle really limited to siblings of parents or their husbands? | |
| 1377 How to pronounce GB? | |
| 1378 Using at a jail vs. in a jail | |
| 1379 Wealthy and Rich, whats the difference | |
| 1380 I can downplay. Can I upplay? | |
| 1381 Is snows ever used as noun? | |
| 1382 According to Grammarly, this sentence is incorrect. But is it really? | |
| 1383 Is I do not want you to go nowhere a case of DOUBLE-NEGATIVES as claimed by Grammarly? | |
| 1384 How do we read 1906 in this text? | |
| 1385 Large, huge or big communities? | |
| 1386 Is it common to use gonna in written English and even in business English? | |
| 1387 All the beach bodies were sold out? Can a body be sold? | |
| 1388 Is there a single word for native English speaker? | |
| 1389 Why blame the Australians? | |
| 1390 Its and its - how to remember? | |
| 1391 You must wear a suit TO an interview vs You must wear a suit FOR an interview | |
| 1392 What is this opened cube called? | |
| 1393 What does this joke mean? | |
| 1394 is Ill correct as a short answer? | |
| 1395 Whats the meaning of shaves in Jesus saves, Bart shaves? | |
| 1396 How do you pronounce 2×4 (board) | |
| 1397 What do you call this when cats hunch their backs and their fur stands on end? | |
| 1398 A superlative form of right | |
| 1399 Why is it that when we say a balloon pops, we say exploded not imploded? | |
| 1400 Is it really OK to use because of? | |
| 1401 the wife instead of my wife, are there any other contexts where a possessive pronoun gets replaced by a definite article? | |
| 1402 Just because people dont talk doesnt mean they dont think | |
| 1403 What does it sound like vs How does it sound like | |
| 1404 What is the meaning of the phrase tack against? | |
| 1405 Why is crime story more correct than criminal story? | |
| 1406 Whether Vs. If | |
| 1407 you can just move on in -- isnt the wording strange a little bit? Why not just say you can just move in? | |
| 1408 What does the believoisie mean? | |
| 1409 Can I be mobbed by only one person? | |
| 1410 The vs. a: Surprising use of the | |
| 1411 the exact time of evening and night | |
| 1412 When to use is vs. does when asking a question? | |
| 1413 Is it less than or lesser than? | |
| 1414 Difference between logoff, logout, signoff and signout | |
| 1415 Plural form of brother-in-law when a possessive case is involved | |
| 1416 “I have little money” vs. “I have a little money” | |
| 1417 Whats a word for something you do, but you dont like to mention it? | |
| 1418 Same word used multiple times in a sentence | |
| 1419 Should you use a plural verb if you refer to a fraction? | |
| 1420 What do the British call the dish which is called pudding in the US | |
| 1421 How is better off different from just better? | |
| 1422 What is the difference between behavior and behaviour? | |
| 1423 What is the difference between thanks and thank you? | |
| 1424 is them only used for people? | |
| 1425 Does word someone refer to both an animal and a human being or only human being? | |
| 1426 Is the phrase suit yourself offensive? | |
| 1427 Are sort and order interchangeable? | |
| 1428 Man proposes and God disposes. | |
| 1429 Why do the British use the word flipping for emphasis? | |
| 1430 Why say Wait your turn but Wait FOR... everything else? | |
| 1431 Slang word for working overtime without being paid | |
| 1432 Why do we use an in the phrase an only child? | |
| 1433 Do you say “2 Byte” or “2 Bytes”? | |
| 1434 severe as a verb: is it acceptable usage? | |
| 1435 My boss was furious with me and I have been fired vs. My boss was furious with me and I was fired | |
| 1436 I wish to speak WITH a British accent or I wish to speak IN a British accent - is there a difference? | |
| 1437 She speaks an impeccable English vs She speaks impeccable English | |
| 1438 What to answer to this: youre too kind? | |
| 1439 Can marriage be used as a verb? | |
| 1440 What is the English equivalent of the Russian word тормоз which is used for very slowly working software? | |
| 1441 Is bananas is possible by any chance? | |
| 1442 What is the meaning of taking in each others washing | |
| 1443 Is it words in a song, words to a song, or words of a song? | |
| 1444 What does to be painted shut mean? | |
| 1445 difference between came along and along came | |
| 1446 Whats the English saying for That the ancestors are successful is inferior to that the descendants are successful? | |
| 1447 I wouldnt vote for Clinton if you paid me: what does this mean? | |
| 1448 Its them as should be sorry! grammar | |
| 1449 How can one wish someone a good night when they sleep during the day? | |
| 1450 What is the meaning of you know, be the pie? | |
| 1451 Why isn’t the third person singular used in “The Lord bless you”? | |
| 1452 What does the author mean by What did he there? | |
| 1453 Why is university not capitalised here? | |
| 1454 Can someone explain this joke about the Primer movie | |
| 1455 The origin of feed in line feed | |
| 1456 Big garden is incorrect? | |
| 1457 What do native speakers think of word roots? | |
| 1458 When should a and an be written in a list containing both? | |
| 1459 The victory, within four days, was just reward - why not was just a reward? | |
| 1460 Is ending a sentence with a preposition acceptable? | |
| 1461 Can vehicles sell themselves? Shouldnt it be passive voice? | |
| 1462 Articles: When do I use a, the, or __? | |
| 1463 the set of elements >whose each< pair is ... - Is this acceptable? | |
| 1464 Michael is a New Zealander or Michael is New Zealander? Article before nationalities? | |
| 1465 in/at one fell swoop(=at one time) Whats fell here? | |
| 1466 How should I construct a question from a sentence containing used to? | |
| 1467 soft as : why not underneath only? | |
| 1468 Can zero be used to describe uncountable nouns? | |
| 1469 Thank you for your continued support or continuous support? | |
| 1470 How should I answer Happy New Year? | |
| 1471 Responding to It was nice to talk to you | |
| 1472 I got a cold versus I caught a cold | |
| 1473 which one is correct Cost or costed | |
| 1474 How do I use also in a sentence? | |
| 1475 Whats a preferred alternative to the phrase do the needful? | |
| 1476 Most simple or Simplest | |
| 1477 What is the difference in meaning between A majority of and The majority of? | |
| 1478 What can I say when someone has dialed the wrong number? | |
| 1479 Which is the plural of forum: fora or forums? | |
| 1480 Thanks for sharing this - why isnt it Thanks for having shared this ? | |
| 1481 What does 80-odd mean? | |
| 1482 Difference between Trip, Travel, and Journey | |
| 1483 Does the word God get the pronoun it or he? | |
| 1484 learning the ropes should be followed by which prepositions? | |
| 1485 Whats the differences between get it right and make it right? | |
| 1486 There IS/ARE rice, meat and tomatoes on my plate | |
| 1487 What does rogue killers mean? | |
| 1488 What comes after tertiary? | |
| 1489 Is indices or indexes the plural of index? | |
| 1490 The meaning of baggage vs luggage | |
| 1491 She wants to poop -is that okay if used for humans? | |
| 1492 Is it sleeting? | |
| 1493 Is the phrase a bottle of water something a native English speaker would say? | |
| 1494 Triple negation: what does This aint no place for no hero mean? | |
| 1495 How to read this formula aloud: f(x) = x²? | |
| 1496 Why is there no plural s after hundred or thousand in cardinal numbers? | |
| 1497 How do native speakers say I have completed all the missions/levels in the game? | |
| 1498 What is the opposite of star (celebrity)? | |
| 1499 Is there a specific term to describe time 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 etc | |
| 1500 Difference between stomach and uterus | |
| 1501 Why are there so many specific words for groups of animals? | |
| 1502 Is this food a bread or a loaf? | |
| 1503 Whats the correct unit for homework? | |
| 1504 How many items are actually a few items? | |
| 1505 Would Americans say: He sat down 9 feet from me. or He sat down 3 yards from me.? | |
| 1506 Why does this documentation use or instead of =? | |
| 1507 What do you call something that goes against the spirit of the law, but is legal when interpreting the law to the letter? | |
| 1508 What does the proverbial middle finger mean? | |
| 1509 Can I say: “The train departs at 16 past every hour“? | |
| 1510 Is it common to use not at all as a no? If so, is it rude? | |
| 1511 You cant spell Slaughter without Laughter | |
| 1512 What is the meaning of Jump into the bridge? | |
| 1513 Are concur and agree exact synonyms? | |
| 1514 An English word describing a pseudo-job | |
| 1515 A word for getting colored? | |
| 1516 Even vinegar, once youve gotten it for free, tastes sweet: Is there an English equivalent for this saying? | |
| 1517 Is learning English with the Bible a good idea for ESL people? | |
| 1518 Proper term for hiring fewer people than required | |
| 1519 “Since the train was delayed for more than an hour, passengers were given a full refund.” – Why is there no article before “passengers”? | |
| 1520 How often do native speakers use the word to scathe? Is it OK if I use it instead of to injure? | |
| 1521 Me vs my [pronunciation] in British English | |
| 1522 Meaning of “we’ll cut him down as for the border he rides” | |
| 1523 Sentences containing refused to close his bar because | |
| 1524 verb describing stomachs singing | |
| 1525 Why sister [nouns] and not brother [nouns]? | |
| 1526 What do you call a group set up to undermine a political argument? | |
| 1527 The indefinite article with an amount modified by an adjective: It cost a mere 20 dollars. | |
| 1528 Is The two men Savchenko, an Iraq war veteran, was convicted of helping to kill were . . . grammatical? | |
| 1529 What do I call the ′ in mathematical formulae? | |
| 1530 Why is “others” used here? | |
| 1531 How to pronounce ll after ll? | |
| 1532 Can you please vs. Could you please | |
| 1533 What does Re: in a business letter mean? | |
| 1534 Difference between wont and will not | |
| 1535 Havent {eaten / ate}? | |
| 1536 Should I say what does it means or what does it mean? | |
| 1537 How to use the that being said | |
| 1538 Which time is 9 | 8c? | |
| 1539 Could you please help me vs Could you help me please | |
| 1540 When to treat Police as a singular noun and a plural noun? | |
| 1541 Furthermore versus moreover | |
| 1542 anyone vs someone. Which one? | |
| 1543 What is the term for music without singer voice? | |
| 1544 Usage of Rain check | |
| 1545 What do you call someone who attends the same university as you? | |
| 1546 How to improve or get rid of an Indian English Accent? | |
| 1547 Is it wrong to say You are smarter than me? | |
| 1548 Who is you – not are | |
| 1549 What do you call someone who likes to pick fights? | |
| 1550 When can an article be omitted? | |
| 1551 Im not afraid vs I dont afraid | |
| 1552 Meaning of Give a man a fire and hes warm for the day. But set fire to him and hes warm for the rest of his life. | |
| 1553 How is “any more than” used to compare two different situations? | |
| 1554 How do you address a policeman on duty? | |
| 1555 Is rendezvous pronounced like run-they-who? | |
| 1556 Which way: One and one ARE two? One and one IS two? | |
| 1557 Can I say Oh boy to a girl? | |
| 1558 Can things grow smaller? | |
| 1559 How do you read these mathematical expressions aloud? | |
| 1560 Flee from vs flee | |
| 1561 How to pronounce friends? | |
| 1562 What is the meaning of check out in a programming context? | |
| 1563 Why do they use small van in van Gogh? | |
| 1564 Can staff ever be pluralized? | |
| 1565 A tin of biscuits vs A biscuit tin | |
| 1566 When is using the past perfect tense not necessary? | |
| 1567 If I found two $5 bills on the ground, would it be acceptable to say $10 are on the ground? | |
| 1568 Man goes with Woman to ensure she is safe on her way to home | |
| 1569 Does You little liar mean You tell small and not so serious lies or just You tell lies in general? | |
| 1570 What do you call this thing? bag? | |
| 1571 Is there a rule that prohibits us from using 2 possessives in a row? | |
| 1572 Is it standard to add please after a question? | |
| 1573 Why is it necessary to add the of in approved of ? | |
| 1574 The baby cries this morning | |
| 1575 why American-born, not America-born? | |
| 1576 Meaning of pound in felt a fury that was not his own pound through his body | |
| 1577 Help me understand the word Doggo in this image | |
| 1578 What do you call this thing that comes with any Apple product | |
| 1579 What is it called when at university there are two subjects being held at the same time? | |
| 1580 Russia Fired Rockets INTO Ukraine - BBC | |
| 1581 What does a hairline crack where the grip meets the graphite shaft on my 3-wood mean in this English joke? | |
| 1582 Why does the spellchecker think this sentence is wrong? | |
| 1583 Grammar behind Whatever what is is is what I want. | |
| 1584 Can adjectives modify a pronoun like rich they, poor you and beautiful I? | |
| 1585 Is the sentence pay some in cash understandable? | |
| 1586 Why in shops do they put “B sold here” instead of “B sells here”? | |
| 1587 Usage of Pet in Pet Peeve | |
| 1588 What is the root word of Refactoring? | |
| 1589 Difference between if + present, will + infinitive and if + present, would + infinitive | |
| 1590 What do you call a table that is unstable? | |
| 1591 Why is of dropped in as X (of) a something? | |
| 1592 Use of without in the howling of wolves without grew louder... | |
| 1593 Why are there three pronunciations for the plural -s? | |
| 1594 These look like fragments. Help me to understand why they are okay to use | |
| 1595 Meaning of “Bulldog drooled courses through his jowls” | |
| 1596 Conditional in the past -- If Vietnam *would* fall... | |
| 1597 Past tense: learned/learnt, dreamed/dreamt? | |
| 1598 Would saying if in place of whether be a big mistake? | |
| 1599 Exercises for pronouncing I | |
| 1600 Whats a professional synonym for would love to? | |
| 1601 Difference between two years old and two-year-old | |
| 1602 Does *first of all* always go with *second of all*? | |
| 1603 What does just so you know mean? | |
| 1604 Could you clarify when to use Though at the end of a sentence? | |
| 1605 This is a good news. This is good news | |
| 1606 I am hurting in the meaning of I am hurt? Why? | |
| 1607 How can I tell whether c should be pronounced like s or like k? | |
| 1608 What is the plural of who? | |
| 1609 When to use wherein instead of where? | |
| 1610 What is the difference between hear and listen? | |
| 1611 Difference between “little”, “few”, “a little” and “a few” | |
| 1612 How is this called vs What is this called? | |
| 1613 Differences between the USA, the US and the States | |
| 1614 I did a few mistakes vs I made a few mistakes | |
| 1615 In simple words, what is the difference between possible and probable? | |
| 1616 What is the term for a person whose job is to place products on shelves in stores? | |
| 1617 differences between dependence and dependency | |
| 1618 What does the slang word hammered actually mean? | |
| 1619 SB and STH in dictionaries | |
| 1620 Do I have to use “do” in any “wh-” question? | |
| 1621 Whats the difference between replication and duplication? | |
| 1622 Ways to say get smaller, decrease in size in one word | |
| 1623 How to pronounce the schwa sound | |
| 1624 How can I say a period of four months in one word? | |
| 1625 I told you DON´T go vs. I told you NOT TO go | |
| 1626 Is I know appropriate or rude in conversation? | |
| 1627 How to distinguish between American Indians and Indian Indians in native English (language) parlance? | |
| 1628 “...than I am” vs. “...than me” | |
| 1629 If God bless someone/something; is it positive or negative? Same with All the best? | |
| 1630 Is there a word or phrase that means use other peoples wifi or Internet service without consent? | |
| 1631 Why is it “Cat in the Hat”? | |
| 1632 said as an adjective | |
| 1633 What does the expression Happy is as happy does mean? | |
| 1634 How do English-speaking kids loudly request something? | |
| 1635 The cow OR a cow OR cows in this context | |
| 1636 Word that includes food, alcoholic drinks, and non-alcoholic drinks? | |
| 1637 Why do we pronounce the university as thuh university rather than thee university? | |
| 1638 17 billions of bottles VS 17 billion of bottles | |
| 1639 How can knowing a root word help me? | |
| 1640 Clumsy vs awkward? | |
| 1641 Is it OK to respond to thanks with sure? | |
| 1642 What is wrong in Its quite often to hear such rumors these days.? | |
| 1643 I got a stomach flu or I got the stomach flu or I got stomach flu? | |
| 1644 Actual meaning of After all | |
| 1645 What word can be used to describe a bug in a movie? | |
| 1646 What is the difference between self-evident and self-explanatory | |
| 1647 Is Can I help you a suitable expression for offering help to a stranger? | |
| 1648 Spelling a word with two Us in a row out loud | |
| 1649 Singular or plural with zero: The temperature will drop to zero degree(s) | |
| 1650 In the USA, do you say my car runs on LPG gas or just my car runs on gas if your car runs on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)? | |
| 1651 I am [the / an] owner of a bookstore? | |
| 1652 Why does money take the in all the money in the world? | |
| 1653 What is the word that expresses both Clock and Watch? | |
| 1654 The difference between extra chair and spare chair | |
| 1655 Is dont mind if I do old-fashioned? | |
| 1656 Is there a simple and clear way to explain the difference between past simple and present perfect? | |
| 1657 What is the antonym of to friend? | |
| 1658 What does lickered up mean? | |
| 1659 What is the term for a......a.....a... in speech? | |
| 1660 Grammaticality: Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something | |
| 1661 English equivalent to the German zig | |
| 1662 Is the word like a preposition or verb in You made me like this. | |
| 1663 Work in a power plant, work on a power plant or work at a power plant? | |
| 1664 What is Latin Grammar? | |
| 1665 Can we use dare in this way? | |
| 1666 Why is the definite article used in I live in the city? | |
| 1667 What do blacks and missions refer to in this context about Australia? | |
| 1668 What does Stands the wind in that quarter mean? | |
| 1669 Meaning of the word bromide in an additional charge for special presentations (e.g. bromides) | |
| 1670 Regarding a metaphor Old Nick is not just lurking in the small print, | |
| 1671 Does a code snippet compile? Or does it get compiled? | |
| 1672 Why do dictionaries write /p/ instead of /pʰ/ for pie in the ipa? | |
| 1673 Why not Indian fisherman? Article headline: India fisherman killed as Pakistan navy opens fire | |
| 1674 When this battle will be finally over - shouldnt it be When this battle is finally over? | |
| 1675 Is there a missing definite article before caliph in the groups leader, XYZ, as (the) caliph? | |
| 1676 What is the saying to use when someone has long worked for an accident to happen? | |
| 1677 Why the schoolboy instead of a schoolboy in this sentence? | |
| 1678 Im born or I was born, which one to use | |
| 1679 How to write just so you know politely in formal letters? | |
| 1680 When should I use didnt instead of havent? | |
| 1681 Is people a countable or a non-countable noun? | |
| 1682 What is the difference between being and having been in this context? | |
| 1683 What does the word Print mean on a form? | |
| 1684 I work {on/with/in} a team? | |
| 1685 What does things went south mean? | |
| 1686 The USA versus USA | |
| 1687 What is a plural of To-Do? To-Dos or To-Does? | |
| 1688 Is Bunch of people a valid phrase? | |
| 1689 complete or completed | |
| 1690 Differences between hatred and hate | |
| 1691 Why is `enjoy to [verb]` incorrect | |
| 1692 What is the difference between dont & wont in the given sentences? | |
| 1693 Can I say copied-and-pasted? | |
| 1694 If you agree, you nod; if you dont agree, you _________? | |
| 1695 How to say person who invites another person with one word? | |
| 1696 What is the meaning of Redonkulous; is it an English Phrase? | |
| 1697 Is any difference between speak English and speak in English? | |
| 1698 On one hand vs on the one hand. | |
| 1699 Singular or plural for seconds | |
| 1700 How is pwned pronounced, and what does it mean? | |
| 1701 Usage of eyeglasses and glasses | |
| 1702 Can which be used with plural antecedents? | |
| 1703 Why a user instead of an user? | |
| 1704 Is it grammatical to say according to the law instead of according the law? | |
| 1705 What is the difference between I still use vs I am still using in this sentence? | |
| 1706 Why are baked and naked not pronounced the same? | |
| 1707 When you dont understand a joke right away | |
| 1708 Strange words people say when leaving | |
| 1709 Is forenoon commonly used? | |
| 1710 What do we call glasses with thick lenses | |
| 1711 What does its in the game mean? | |
| 1712 Should I say There are (a) very few animals there with an article or not? | |
| 1713 What does put on ones hat mean? | |
| 1714 Draw or tie in sports | |
| 1715 The meaning of already in the sentence Lets go already! | |
| 1716 How to say give your seat/place to somebody on transport? | |
| 1717 What do you call the main part of a joke? | |
| 1718 Are English consonant sounds [p], [t], [k] aspirated before another consonant? | |
| 1719 Can you use understand in progressive constructions? | |
| 1720 Is it not correct to say I have the brown eyes instead of I have brown eyes, and why? | |
| 1721 What do you call the process of filling up an electric kettle and turning it on in one verb or phrasal verb? | |
| 1722 What is the meaning of Put a bullet in something? | |
| 1723 What does Gringo Price mean? | |
| 1724 How do you describe a nut which does not tighten | |
| 1725 Is there a general rule how to create feminine words? | |
| 1726 Whats a lot of money {out of curiosity}? | |
| 1727 What is the verb for describing the movement of a cats paw when it is trying to hit something with it? | |
| 1728 A controversial GRE verbal reasoning question | |
| 1729 Is there an idiom that says not to change a perfectly good thing? | |
| 1730 Spelling/pronunciation of gross different from moss,floss, loss, toss etc | |
| 1731 What do we call a person who seems to always correctly predict unfortunate things? | |
| 1732 Stephen Hawking believes that the earth is unlikely to be the only planet ____ life has developed gradually | |
| 1733 Animals which lay eggs are called birds. and Animals that lay eggs are called birds. What is the difference between these two sentences? | |
| 1734 Are words ending in -ly adverbs? | |
| 1735 Haha over lol -Do natives consider hahaha as an offensive gesture? | |
| 1736 A joke about owls playing pool | |
| 1737 Is there a word for a gel turning into liquid? | |
| 1738 Is PC used as an English expression for a computer in English speaking countries? | |
| 1739 What does it mean to dine off something? | |
| 1740 What exactly is the word there in an existential construction? And related questions | |
| 1741 Are double contractions formal? Eg: couldntve for could not have | |
| 1742 What does “kilo-stones” mean? | |
| 1743 What does Trump mean here with They don’t need more as they are going up for the shot.? | |
| 1744 Do some people call all horses “Pony” and if so, why? | |
| 1745 Idiom for blaming a bad act on the devil | |
| 1746 All languages are interesting. Every language is interesting. Do they mean exactly the same thing? | |
| 1747 Why is help you save money wrong if the subject was plural? | |
| 1748 we women, you women, they women, we men, you men, they men | |
| 1749 What does I never stopped to think of it mean? | |
| 1750 Which is the most acceptable numeral for 1980 to 1989? | |
| 1751 Does nor he mine make sense here? | |
| 1752 How should I correct my spoken error? | |
| 1753 Slang from Fresh Prince from Bel-Air S01E03: Vacuumed, Cheese Dog, Harley, Fly for Me | |
| 1754 Can I use they to refer to my own skills? | |
| 1755 “I talk dog talk to the dog.” | |
| 1756 Golden spoon or Gold spoon -if the spoon is made of gold? | |
| 1757 Is the particle up redundant in phrases like to pick *up* berries? | |
| 1758 Is Tweety suitable as a persons name? | |
| 1759 Going up in smoke vs. going up in flames | |
| 1760 Why doesnt adolescent take any articles in listen to adolescent agonising? | |
| 1761 How to understand cupping backsides is taken as seriously as cooking books? | |
| 1762 How to pronounce scorpionll, Jimll, etc | |
| 1763 Is the sentence “Im not doing that because I hate you ambiguous? | |
| 1764 When is what used for living beings? | |
| 1765 A * doesnt a good * make | |
| 1766 the US. or the US | |
| 1767 What is the meaning of officially here? | |
| 1768 He gave the order to abandon ship. - why no article? | |
| 1769 How does the grammar work in here be dragons? | |
| 1770 in 60 seconds or less or in 60 seconds or fewer? | |
| 1771 meaning of the phrase play humans? | |
| 1772 Simple present for speaking about the future the way natives do | |
| 1773 In those days, you could have been (could be?) killed for any trifle | |
| 1774 Singular or plural when indicating something unique owned by many | |
| 1775 How can I explain to a non-native why the plural of a noun isnt used adjectivally? | |
| 1776 Is the sentence This whiteboard wont erase grammatically correct? | |
| 1777 Is it disappointed with, in, or by? | |
| 1778 I and John vs. John and myself vs. John and I -- Which is the acceptable way to refer to myself and my friend? | |
| 1779 Is the use of one of the correct in the following context? | |
| 1780 Did you watch this movie? or Have you watched this movie? | |
| 1781 at vs in (the hospital) - What is different? | |
| 1782 In the past few years Vs Over the past few years | |
| 1783 Which is correct: on foot or by foot? | |
| 1784 If anyone knows or Does anyone know? | |
| 1785 On the market or In the market? | |
| 1786 Differences between till now, as of now,yet, up till now | |
| 1787 What is the weather today? or How is the weather today? | |
| 1788 police are or police is | |
| 1789 How to politely ask someone to repeat what they said after theyve already repeated it once? | |
| 1790 Can all be used with both singular & plural verbs? | |
| 1791 How do you use the term running late? | |
| 1792 How can I say can in the future form? | |
| 1793 Personal circumstances? | |
| 1794 Using Contain vs. Include vs. Consist of appropriately | |
| 1795 couple versus couple of | |
| 1796 Everyone has their own stories vs Everyone has their own story - which one is correct? | |
| 1797 Suggest me or Suggest to me | |
| 1798 Do decades ever get apostrophes? | |
| 1799 Executer vs executor | |
| 1800 How to properly ask for store hours on phone? | |
| 1801 Addressing a group of women as you guys | |
| 1802 What does period mean in this conversation? | |
| 1803 English native speaker vs. Native English speaker | |
| 1804 especially vs. particularly | |
| 1805 Which word is correct, existed, existent or existing? | |
| 1806 Think of versus think about | |
| 1807 Why is it not correct to use 2 conjunctions in a sentence? | |
| 1808 help you learn vs. help you to learn | |
| 1809 Whats the meaning of there you go? | |
| 1810 Is the global in global pandemic redundant? | |
| 1811 Is it thumb is up in thumbs up? | |
| 1812 Arab vs. Arabian vs. Arabic — what are the differences? | |
| 1813 If something was vs If something were | |
| 1814 American equivalent of British takeaway | |
| 1815 Can it be used to refer to a person? | |
| 1816 She is at the dentists now | |
| 1817 What is the difference between gerund and infinitive? | |
| 1818 On a bus or on the bus? | |
| 1819 miss call or missed call when it is yet to be missed! | |
| 1820 Does Until when sound natural for native speakers? | |
| 1821 Is there a vs is there any? | |
| 1822 Why should the T in T-shirt be capitalized? | |
| 1823 What is the correct word for turn off lamp for a non-electric lamp? | |
| 1824 Mobile homes in American and British English | |
| 1825 How common is it to use the word bitch for a female dog? | |
| 1826 When can I use thy instead of your? | |
| 1827 The meaning of I’m very cheap? | |
| 1828 in order for I to do something -- for I? why not for me? | |
| 1829 When can you respond with affirmative? | |
| 1830 Official wife or Formal wife? | |
| 1831 Too expensive for me to afford it why ungrammatical? | |
| 1832 Is This brought me an idea correct English? | |
| 1833 Using THE before some countries | |
| 1834 What does join the dots mean? | |
| 1835 Dog can mean something of an inferior quality. What animals do we use, if any, to describe the opposite? | |
| 1836 What does it gets old pretty fast mean in these sentences? | |
| 1837 Last night at 9 PM, I ate dinner -- Does this sentence mean that it began at 9 or finished at 9? | |
| 1838 What does dont have a baby imply or mean in this sentence? | |
| 1839 If Olympics is singular, why does it use were? | |
| 1840 Is it correct English to write John he is my husband, or, Mary she went to the store? | |
| 1841 Does breakfast in Lets have breakfast denote an activity or a collection of edible items? | |
| 1842 A sentence in Present tense was understood as future tense | |
| 1843 What does the nutshell in “in a nutshell” stand for? | |
| 1844 What does Get a damn room! mean? | |
| 1845 When do we double the consonant before -ing affix? | |
| 1846 Word meaning: arguably | |
| 1847 The name of this part of a spoon | |
| 1848 Can Nightmare be seen? | |
| 1849 A word or a phrase for riding a bicycle on only one wheel | |
| 1850 What do you call the action of describing events as they happen like sports anchors do? | |
| 1851 What does a the prefix a- mean in a-changing | |
| 1852 100 apples are/is considered as a large number of apples | |
| 1853 Plural subject + Linking Verb + Singular predicate nominative | |
| 1854 Contrary of As its/their name indicates | |
| 1855 Why is there no article after no in I have no car | |
| 1856 Would it be went to sleep at one yesterday or ”...today? | |
| 1857 What does eating your hat mean? | |
| 1858 Word for something that is only noticeable when it goes wrong? | |
| 1859 Starve to death Vs. Starve to the point of death | |
| 1860 The US/UK word for Turkish sandwich filled with meat, salad and sauce | |
| 1861 to be jealous Vs. to envy - what is the difference? | |
| 1862 Whats the meaning of You get that much because that’s how much you get? | |
| 1863 How to pronounce the slash sign | |
| 1864 Die hard phrase meaning | |
| 1865 When to say dog, and when to say hound? | |
| 1866 Can do somebody mean imitate somebody in spoken English? | |
| 1867 Its time ... verb/verb-ed ... | |
| 1868 Parsing I was in the soup now good. | |
| 1869 What would you call, for the lack of a better way to put it, benign nationalism? | |
| 1870 A verb for proceed with difficulty | |
| 1871 What does the expression go to the vets mean? | |
| 1872 Why is a coat of arms called so? | |
| 1873 128-bit vs 128 bits | |
| 1874 Is the expression very worth proper English, and if not, what are some alternatives? | |
| 1875 When I say, they will get married, will it be fully understood as they will become a couple? | |
| 1876 Introductory word meaning considering what was previously said | |
| 1877 Do you know wheres Linda? vs Do you know where Linda is? | |
| 1878 Difference between alright and all right? | |
| 1879 What does Heaven mean here | |
| 1880 Whats the word for asking someone to deliver their promise? | |
| 1881 Physicians writing - to scribble like a chicken with claw | |
| 1882 Multiplication: names of some mathematical symbols | |
| 1883 Manhunt for three gunmen vs womanhunt for three gunwomen | |
| 1884 What would you call this weird metallic apparatus that allows you to lift people? | |
| 1885 We are aware of that we are short on time | |
| 1886 Flammable or Inflammable | |
| 1887 Youve spoiled/damaged the card | |
| 1888 They are Australian vs They are Australians | |
| 1889 How do you convey the effect of a poor phone connection? | |
| 1890 Debuggable - Is it correct? | |
| 1891 Why does spell sound like |sbel| while in dictionary it is |spel|? | |
| 1892 the police conspiracy vs. the polices conspiracy | |
| 1893 Why is hanged for this correct but not hung? | |
| 1894 What does to mean in A Complete Guide to...? | |
| 1895 How can I remember the difference between loose and lose? | |
| 1896 Is there a word for immediate future just like just for immediate past? | |
| 1897 What is the meaning of TV anchor words “scores of Russians? | |
| 1898 Cthulhu Fhtagn - is there a rule how to pronounce artificially created words? | |
| 1899 Is it wrong to hyphenate a phrasal verb like log in or is it a matter of style? | |
| 1900 What does capital L signify in labour? | |
| 1901 Can I use chance as a future-tense verb? | |
| 1902 Whats the name for the string attached to a zipper to help close or open a bag? | |
| 1903 Using the pronoun we when Im not a part of it! | |
| 1904 The use of an article before a possessive proper noun - The late Michael Jacksons old home | |
| 1905 Using south when referring to the southern part of a place | |
| 1906 Strong presence, but ________ absence? | |
| 1907 Does the notion of check word exist in English? | |
| 1908 Why is it Here you are! but Here comes the teacher.? | |
| 1909 When does lack need an article? | |
| 1910 Can you use plague as a general term? | |
| 1911 Meaning of I wont let a flat tire get me down, Tom said, without despair | |
| 1912 What is the grammar of the sentence this is not some science fiction movie come to life. | |
| 1913 Whats the meaning of has by? | |
| 1914 How to pronounce router in English | |
| 1915 A sentence with listing items: How to remove the ambiguity? | |
| 1916 Zero tolerance for walkers, or them to be. -- grammar, meaning? | |
| 1917 What do you call the walking lanes in lecture rooms? | |
| 1918 What does the phrase building hopping chop mean here? | |
| 1919 Can ‘is’ and ‘are’ be used in the same sentence? ‘The conclusion is both are harmful.’ | |
| 1920 What is the nuance of Pick yourself up a copy!? | |
| 1921 When to use some instead of a | |
| 1922 Saying for distracting someone with other activity? | |
| 1923 How to express that instructions (i.e. a recipe) should be followed precisely? | |
| 1924 Why do we say something is The same (using the article), but we say something is different (no article)? | |
| 1925 What should a language learner know about political correctness? | |
| 1926 Is there a general rule for Verb + Preposition/Particle idioms, such as come across? | |
| 1927 Is there a standard technique for practicing the th phonemes? | |
| 1928 Might vs. may. Whats the difference? | |
| 1929 Noun for people not yet confirmed as alive, or dead | |
| 1930 Do these two sentences convey different meanings? | |
| 1931 In a letter, what is the most polite way to ask for a quick reply? | |
| 1932 study in or study at (some university)? | |
| 1933 Information or Informations? | |
| 1934 Which of Question on, question about, question regarding, question related to is best? | |
| 1935 I am finished vs I have finished | |
| 1936 Here you are & Here you go | |
| 1937 Yours faithfully vs Yours sincerely | |
| 1938 “experience in” VS experience with | |
| 1939 What does she look like? vs. How does she look like? | |
| 1940 If twins are always plural, how do I refer to a single twin, or how do we count twins? | |
| 1941 Why do you say, see A doctor, but go to The doctor? | |
| 1942 fall into a category vs. fall under a category | |
| 1943 What is the difference between look at and look to? | |
| 1944 Help explaining Where am I? vs ...where I am | |
| 1945 What is the soft part of the palm called in English? | |
| 1946 What does if not mean in the given sentence | |
| 1947 When describing a ratio, should between or of be used? | |
| 1948 Why is many a man singular while many men plural? | |
| 1949 Difference between across and through | |
| 1950 Can either be used for more than two items? | |
| 1951 Its an interesting topic for me versus Its interesting to me: Does it really matter? | |
| 1952 I didnt know or I havent known? | |
| 1953 Capitalization of first letter after a dash | |
| 1954 Do once a year and once in a year mean the same thing? | |
| 1955 he leaves for New York tomorrow. vs. he will leave for New York tomorrow | |
| 1956 Is saying I figured it out! (past tense) correct usage? | |
| 1957 When is h silent and when is it not? | |
| 1958 What is the difference between general and generic? | |
| 1959 I look forward to hearing from you or looking forward to hear from you? | |
| 1960 Correct plural usage for hundreds and thousands | |
| 1961 Difference between fat chance and slim chance? | |
| 1962 Are double negatives like hes never not been in the family grammatically correct? | |
| 1963 Be yet to do vs have yet to do | |
| 1964 Living by himself vs Living on his own | |
| 1965 Is or Are with OR? | |
| 1966 Create vs. Generate vs. Make | |
| 1967 Can we say Yes, I would if someone asks Would you mind buying me a drink? | |
| 1968 Analysing the kind(s) of problem(s) are [ones]/[to be] construction | |
| 1969 A customer is someone who buys but what is he if theres no purchase made? | |
| 1970 Whats the difference between used to like and liked? | |
| 1971 What is meant by grammar? | |
| 1972 English equivalent of French quiproquo | |
| 1973 consists of or consists in? | |
| 1974 Word for searching through someones possessions without permission | |
| 1975 What is the difference between “do” and “make”? | |
| 1976 Difference between raise and lift | |
| 1977 An appropriate term for an overly by-the-rules person | |
| 1978 What is the difference between revenge and avenge? | |
| 1979 Do native speakers use so-so? | |
| 1980 What does scaredy mean in Dont be a scaredy cat? | |
| 1981 Meaning of doesnt even begin to cover it | |
| 1982 stairwell or staircase | |
| 1983 Why cant we say **What job** are you? instead of What is your job? to ask ones job? | |
| 1984 Is what the hell considered offensive? | |
| 1985 Can I say I was born in a place but bred in another place instead of using born and bred in pair? | |
| 1986 A secretary with ____ good knowledge of English: a or no article? | |
| 1987 Can domestic animal be used instead of livestock? | |
| 1988 He is honest (9 out of 10). How to construct a phrase in which a persons honesty is scored on a scale? | |
| 1989 Where you going is right? | |
| 1990 what do you call the edge that goes along ironed trousers? | |
| 1991 I wish I ate meat | |
| 1992 How long does an owl live? | |
| 1993 half of pound or half of a pound or half pound | |
| 1994 using next to days of the week | |
| 1995 Whats the word for a student who doesnt register but goes to a class anyway? | |
| 1996 I left them (at) home | |
| 1997 Should bring a plate be taken literally? | |
| 1998 Are mist and missed really pronounced exactly the same in English? | |
| 1999 Does Ive temporarily suspended mean that I did it? | |
| 2000 Is Vague the opposite of Vivid? | |
| 2001 The phrase to the Right of Attila the Hun | |
| 2002 Can I say I Java, or does it have to be I do Java? | |