You know when something can be either “or” or “and?” You may also say it is “and” and or “or”; “or” and/or “and,” if you will. That’s the inclusive or!...
While pronouncing xor as ‘ex-or’ makes sense, since the x stands for ex-clusive, most words in English that start with x make the ‘Z’ sound. Xenophobe, xylophone, xanax. But once again, the regular ‘or’ in English is already exclusive, so there’s no need to make a new word for it, but I admit it would be fun.
As a non-native speaker I encounter this phrase from time to time (in podcasts and such) and I’d like to understand the use (beside the literal meaning which is obvious)....
The em dash is called the em dash because on old typewriters it was as long as an M. Why do I feel closer to this punctuation mark than the others? It could be partly because I ignored it for so long that it is the last punctuation mark that I got to know, and when I found it, I learned that it could do the work of several other...
Filler words is the most correct answer because words like “like” do actually have meaning, but there is also something called embololalia (also spelled embolalia), the insertion of meaningless sounds/words into speech, which would include “uh, ah, mmm,” etc.
English needs a word for the inclusive or, and I'm down for committing robbery against one of our top victims.
You know when something can be either “or” or “and?” You may also say it is “and” and or “or”; “or” and/or “and,” if you will. That’s the inclusive or!...
Why would you say that?
As a non-native speaker I encounter this phrase from time to time (in podcasts and such) and I’d like to understand the use (beside the literal meaning which is obvious)....
My friend the em dash.
The em dash is called the em dash because on old typewriters it was as long as an M. Why do I feel closer to this punctuation mark than the others? It could be partly because I ignored it for so long that it is the last punctuation mark that I got to know, and when I found it, I learned that it could do the work of several other...
How do you call the words a speaker uses when he is nervous, like "um", "ah", "like"?
In my native language there’s a word for that kind of words, but I’m not sure how they are called in english.
Looks like it's happening! (lemmy.one)
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TIL: a 28-year-old woman went 45 days without pooping in 2013 (www.sciencefocus.com)
It's the 10 years anniversary of her poop 🥳🎉