When your 10-year old boy says “It’s meta,” what does it mean? In …
2011年11月17日 · This joke is meta. The humour comes from the barman recognising that he’s in a situation typical of jokes. It isn’t a joke about national stereotypes; it’s a joke about jokes. Similarly, english.stackexchange.com is a Q&A site for discussing English; meta.english.stackexchange.com is a Q&A site for discussing a Q&A site for discussing ...
What is the correct definition and usage of the acronym "ETA"?
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What does "very meta" mean? - English Language & Usage Stack …
2019年8月17日 · Here's the definition of meta - pertaining to or noting a story, conversation, character, etc., that consciously references or comments upon its own subject or features, often in the form of parody: A movie about making a movie is just so meta—especially when the actors criticize the acting. OR
Acronyms and Initialisms- Uppercase, Lowercase, or either
2019年3月27日 · The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition (2010) briefly addresses the question of whether the spelled-out form of an initialism or acronym should be initial-capped if the short form is capitalized, at 10.6 Capital versus lowercase for acronyms and initialisms:
Apostrophe s' or s's - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2019年11月28日 · On the use of so-called 'zero genitive', marked by a simple apostrophe in spelling ('), as opposed to the 's genitive, Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik specify in A Comprehensive grammar of the English Language (pp. 320 & 321) that:
meaning - "pseudo-", "quasi-" "semi-" and - English Language
2011年4月5日 · I was wondering about the meaning of "pseudo-", "quasi-" "semi-" and possibly other related prefixes, in general cases. Particularly, in engineering and science, there are quite a few terms named...
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"What about you?" versus "How about you?" - English Language …
I'd conclude that the Ngram shows them used "roughly equally." For one, the lines intersect in three places; for another, even the seemingly-huge lead in developed over the past 30 years equals a mere .00000985%, roughly - a barely detectable amount.
AM/PM vs a.m./p.m. vs am/pm - English Language & Usage Stack …
I used to think PM/AM was correct, but at some point, I switched to using p.m./a.m. for reasons I can't recall. I know that in practical, casual writing, people tend to use whatever form is most
When to use & instead of "and" - English Language & Usage Stack …
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