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Recent Questions - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

Can I plight my troth to science?

Posted: 12 Jun 2021 06:53 AM PDT

Although an obsolete phrase, I want to use it rather dramatically to pledge my allegiance or loyalty to science. I'm unsure if it is grammatically correct or if it makes any sense at all.

For example: And that is exactly when I plied my troth to my affair with science.

Please let me know if this is correct or if there is some other phrase or word that I can use that convey a similar mood.

Can you help me with the meaning please?

Posted: 12 Jun 2021 06:21 AM PDT

Another way of looking at personality is the behaviorist approach. According to the behaviorists, the inner (1)............of the consciousness are not important. Instead they believed that our behaviors, and therefore our personalities are learned primarily through our experiences. The theories of behaviorism arose through experiments largely on animals in which behaviors were learned through carefully controlled (2).............

1_ facts, assumptions, matters, missions

2_stimuli, judgments, discriminations, conclusions

I know the answers for the blanks are " facts" and " stimuli", but I have no clue what they mean in this very contexts. I wanted to know whether they mean anything specific or what? Thank you very much for your help in advance.

Word for "something that looks man-made/ fabricated/ artificial"

Posted: 12 Jun 2021 05:55 AM PDT

I am writing about how the structure of a protein looks similar to previously lab-made proteins. But the subject of my work is of uncertain origin. So I am looking for a word that allows me to say something like:
The ________ structure of the name_undecided protein, leads me to think...

What is a single word for the feeling of being trapped in your own head?

Posted: 12 Jun 2021 05:40 AM PDT

I'm looking for a single word that basically means you're trapped in your own head. I've been doing all I can to stay active and happy but I'm constantly screaming for an escape in the back of my head and it just keeps getting louder.

I want to use it to title a painting I made.

Meaning of "got the hookup" [closed]

Posted: 12 Jun 2021 05:14 AM PDT

I'm reading The Sellout by Paul Beatty. It says:

And why? Because these white bitches got the hookup, that's why. The old girls' network exists, too, now, and it's no fucking joke. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. That's what my mama says, because racism's everywhere

What does "got the hookup" mean here?

How to say that I will work on some action item after meeting? [closed]

Posted: 12 Jun 2021 04:00 AM PDT

I am looking for a phrase that I can utilize to say that the item being discussed during the meeting can be assigned to me and I will work on it offline.

Can I say " I will take that point away" ?

'Broagcast' - the /d/ sound in English

Posted: 12 Jun 2021 06:57 AM PDT

I am referring to American English here, but this could also be applied to British English for all I know.

Is the "d" really just an alveolar "d" in words like:

  • "hi(d)e my"

and

  • "broa(d)cast"

When I try to pronounce these words like I would with the tongue position of "d" in "dog", a small plosive kind of sound occurs (of my tongue separating from the roof of my mouth) before moving to the next consonant, and it's noticable. But when I hear Americans say these words, there's no such sound after the "d".

I don't know if this makes sense or not but:

  • haɪd̚‿x‿maɪ

  • bɹɑd̚‿x‿kʰæst̚

The x refers to that sound of tongue leaving the roof. Try it yourself: put the tip of your tongue on the alveolar ridge and pull it downward, it's sort of like a click sound.

How do I avoid this sound?

A friend even told me that his "d" in "broadcast" is made with the tongue position for "k", so a bit like "broggcast".

how to describe times for reservation? [closed]

Posted: 12 Jun 2021 04:08 AM PDT

I have a question that I hope won't trouble you too much.

I work for a museum offering guided tour that is open for reservation every 20th of the previous month, starting from 10am and until it is fully reserved.

I now have to post the information on our website and seek your kind guidance on how to give a better description of the times for reserving our guided tours. I wonder if the abovementioned is idiomatic.

In addition, I will be pleased to know if I can call people who reserve/ book our tours as 'applicants'? In my context, I really cannot tell the differences between booking, reservation, and application for a tour.

I would be extremely grateful for your input!

Cheers.

We don't use any helping verb after "as soon as" but we use hv after no sooner at first in a sentence, so what is the sensible reason behind it

Posted: 12 Jun 2021 06:01 AM PDT

I have a question in mind since 2 years and even now I don't get a satisfied answer because nobody wants to think it deeply but now I hope you will who is reading my note My question is- (1) as soon as I reached the station the train left (2) no sooner did I reached the station the train left. In the first sentence we don't use any hv after "as soon as" But in the 2nd we used why

Do Britons say 'major' for 'main area of study' at university? [closed]

Posted: 12 Jun 2021 05:01 AM PDT

I was told the word 'major' is used in NZ, AUS, US and Canada but not UK. Is this true? If so, what do Britons call it? 'Speciality'?

Source: http://wikidiff.com/major/speciality
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