This is a quote from Franz Schubert’s diary, translated from German to English. Today I composed for money for the first time. Namely, a cantata for the name day of Professor Watteroth, words by Draexler. The fee is two florins. V.C. What I don’t understand is the end of the quote, V.C. I looked up, … Read more
As the title says, what is the correct plural form of regex? To my knowledge, regex is an abbreviation for regular expression. I see that some sources suggest regexes and regexen are both correct. The latter plural form sounds maybe German? Any suggestions? Answer This is domain-specific jargon (the domain being Information Technology), rather than … Read more
I’m working on a code review, I need leave a comment for the code. I’m trying to leave a comment the same as I left before it. I remember it might be “tilto” or something, but I forgot what exactly it is. Anyone knows anything? Thanks, Jay Lin Answer I think you are looking for … Read more
I came across this many times while I was conversing/texting mostly with native english speakers on something they want me to do and they would put the statement in a very polite way. For instance if he wants me to give a shot on installing some software, they would say I would give it a … Read more
As far as I know, the rule goes that ‘s is used to make possessive forms of abbreviations. But I’ve noticed some inconsistencies: … as it was announced that the Uefa’s Executive Committee had overwhelmingly voted to award… …a member of the UEFA’s HatTrick Committee. vs: Women to be represented on the UEFA board for … Read more
Please take a look at this screenshot: As I’ve highlighted, there are two column named “MV” and “Free” in the table. What are those two refer to? According to Wikipedia, MV stands for “Market Value”. Ok, but what does it mean? It means the average amount for a transfer in the session? Also, what’s the … Read more
Is it “J. Comput. Phys. X” or “J. Comput. Phys.: X” (with the colon)? There is a punctuation section in the ISO 4 standard definition (see Section 4.6 here), but the document is paywalled and I don’t have access to it. Answer Assuming that https://www.slideshare.net/agelsorin/iso-00004-1997 is accurate, section 4.6 of ISO 4:1997 reads: The punctuation … Read more
I recently asked someone why they had several instances of “&c” in their writing, to which they told me that &c is another abbreviation for et cetera. I have since looked it up and understand now where this comes from, with the “&” being more than just an “and” symbol, that written correctly it is … Read more
I am citing a verse from the Bible and attempting to refer to similar-meaning verses in the same parenthetical citation. An example is as follows: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble” (Proverbs 3:34, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5; see also Psalm 138:6, Proverbs 29:23, Matthew 23:12, Luke 1:52). In this example … Read more
It is said that XLAT is an abbr of translate. But I don’t understand how come it ends up like that? There is no site on internet would explain it but they’re all agree that XLAT is shorten of translate. I can get that LAT is in the end part of translate (LATe) but what … Read more
