Is conversate a word? Many people use it and some people claim it’s not a word but I found it on online dictionaries.
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Word in question: Conversate
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 by DwayneCTa long sentence with the verb “demand”
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 by John KohI want to write as follows, but it is confusing.:
This modern society, which is increasingly being globalized and opening to the world, demands the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world of students of this era.
The above ’s structure is as follows:
The modern society demands something of somebody.
Here, something is [the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world], and somebody is [students of this era]
The setence structure can be simplified as follows:
This modern society, which is increasingly being globalized and opening to the world, demands [the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world] of [students of this era].
I am not sure in such a case, how I should write it. One solutin may be this?
This modern society, which is increasingly being globalized and opening to the world, demands, of [students of this era], [the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world].
Please help me, thank you very much.
“It is one of his girlfriends.”
Thursday, May 7th, 2009 by karl B.Heard this in park:
Whose car is it?
It is one of his girlfriends.
If it were just: It is one of his girlfriend’s, or: It is one of his girlfriends’, it might be easier to interpret this sentence.
As it was said, there are several degrees of uncertainty involved. Can you guess how many?
Defining a proper noun
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 by miss massI'm trying to apply a consistent style to a teacher training website and am battling the Capital Letter Police on a few issues.
I've culled capital letters for nouns such as “teacher” and “headteacher” unless we refer it as part of a job title.
Now I am left with names of meetings and forms that have traditionally been capitalised, but I'm not sure they need to be. Should such things be capitalised if they are being discussed generally? Eg:
“You should undertake three observed teaching sessions each year and keep a record of the feedback received on a teaching feedback form.”
or
“You should undertake three Observed Teaching Sessions each year and keep a record of the feedback received on a Teaching Feedback Form.”
And:
“Download a teaching feedback form (link to PDF).”
or
“Download a Teaching Feedback Form (link to PDF).”
Any advice?
Texted
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 by Maggie FisherHow is the past tense of text PRONOUNCED?
“Texted”
It is said as “text-ed” in a bank's TV commercial and sounds so inappropriate to me. Why wouldn't it be pronounced “texted”?
Does anyone know the rule on this one?
Why would one say “they just text-ed me back…” sounds like ill use of the verb to me!
RSS Feed Fixed
Thursday, December 4th, 2008 by dyskeI wasn't aware that the RSS feed of this site hasn't been working since May! I just fixed it. Thank you, Martha, for letting me know.
Announcement
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 by dyskeOne of our regular contributors, porsche, informed me that submitting a comment redirects you to Microsoft's website. Sorry about that. I keep track of the IP addresses of Spammers, and I send all the spammers to Microsoft's website. I recently moved the site to a different server, and the new server was returning the same IP address for everyone, and I ended up listing that IP address as a Spammer's. And, so the site considered everyone who commented as a Spammer. That's what happened.
But that's a long, boring, technical story, and what matters is that it's working fine now.
Thank you, porsche, for informing me of this problem. If anyone ever experience any problems like this on this site, please let me know.
Inch vs. Inches
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 by RobI'm editing a technical manual. The engineers I'm working with have regularly typed amounts which are under one as “.05 inches” or “.67 inches.”
I've been of the opinion that this is to be typed “.05 inch” and “.67 inch,” as the amounts are less than one, but I can't find anything to support either opinion.
Please advise.
Orally Aural. Oh Really?
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 by BenI suppose these questions are frequently preceded by an argument between one regarded as a pedant and another who is one secretly. I'm the pedant. Are these words pronounced so similarly as to be only identifiable by their context? For instance 'a dentist works orally' or 'I am to give an oral presentation.' This can lead to ambiguity (if they are pronounced the same): 'I can only learn a language aurally/orally.'
I seek a word that means "more than daily."
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 by juttinThe closest word I can think of is “semi-daily,” but that is too specific. I'd prefer to describe, using a single word, the frequency of a particular event that happens more than once per day, although the number times is not significant and is not always the same.
If this is a rare opportunity for someone to make up a word, I welcome a suitable word from someone who is more qualified than I to create such a word.
Any ideas?