I am not a native speaker of English and I was having a casual conversation with my friends in the US. I asked them, “Where do you stay?” (which is pretty common in India, as far as I know) for which they gave me a surprised look and told me that people generally don’t use … Read more
Is this sentence grammatically correct: Non necessarily convex nor simply connected Answer Non necessarily Is probably a typo, and should be Not necessarily Other than that, the sentence is fine, especially if you add a comma before "nor". You can use "nor" without "neither" to connect two negative sentences. I haven’t travelled to Canada, nor … Read more
On Linux Mint 19, I have a Makefile with a command which should output a sentence: Target ‘distrib’ has to be run as normal user! in case the user has run it as / with the root user. Since I am not a native English speaker, I now hesitate if it would be better phrase … Read more
As a non-native speaker, I’m struggling to express correctly the sense of priority of a given population in a sentence. Is it correct to refer to “prioritary cities in the scope of the XYZ policy”, meaning “cities over which priority has been given in the scope…”? I don’t think so. I’ve found several occurrences of … Read more
The sentence is “I can’t picture playing without putting my middle finger on W” and I’m talking about playing video games on pc. Answer “I can’t picture” is an idiom meaning “I cannot imagine”. AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : user294774 , Answer Author : Hot Licks
I am looking for the right term for… well, like an air lock on a space station, but for an underwater station. You open the outer hatch, get in, close the hatch, water gets pumped out, you open the inner hatch. The German word for it would be “Schleuse”, but the English “sluice” seems to … Read more
It’s used in the app’s interface. I wonder if omitting there is/there are is not a grammatical mistake and sounds native (I’m not a native speaker). So, which do you think will sound better in a web app? There is no activity since a to b No activity since a to b Answer Since is … Read more
I am looking for some examples of words that, possibly due to their non-Latin origin, would have sounded offensive if they went through the English language rules. For example, if a specialty Bohemian medical practice sounded like “rap” then people practicing it would be “rappists,” like psychologists who practice psychology. Since that’s too close to … Read more
The person you follow can be a famous person or simply one of your family members who influences on you. The influence can be good or bad. I don’t know how to call that person. He is my model?! Not sure, this is what I get from looking up dictionary. Answer The person is your … Read more
I am a non-native English speaker. I was taught British English in my school days, but now I work in American English. The problem is whenever I try to write English there is a mix up of American and British spellings. I tried to correct this problem by learning the American English spelling whenever I … Read more
