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That's how I see it.

Lord give us wisdom by which we differentiate between mis- and disinformation.

An ellipse.
My young nephew called an ellipse "Annie lips".
Call your Mom.

Hi Stevenloan,
What was A's response when B said "cheers" to him?

Thank you Phil.

Phil, what is elliptical, and are there any other geometry-terms used to describe expressions?
Of course, anything one can write is "grammatical"; I guess "grammatical" means "grammatically-correct".

What did A do in the movie?

There are times when the use of quotation-marks helps to clarify; f. might read, The message was to "call your Mom". The punctuation may help the reader to understand it as, The message was [for you] to "call your Mom". Technically, the sentence, if it uses quotation-marks, would include the quote v...

Pairs come in them.

From childhood is the TV memory "Letter flicker!" which was always shouted just before a movie or cartoon.
I have since figured it out: it means "Let her flicker!", as in "Roll the tape!"

"Carcass, is (as it were) the Skelleton of an House, before it is Lath'd and Plaistered."
While we're at it, cabinetmakers don't make just little cabins.

"I answer to both" sounds natural.
"Either will do" is correct; "Both will do" sounds technically like you want to be called JimmyJim.

circumappelatice

trolley wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 05, 2018 6:54 pm

We call those upper cabinets and lower cabinets, or just "uppers and lowers" (if we're already discussing cabinets).

Most apropos when dentil-moldings are present.

We say kar'-kis but write carcase since the reference is to a case-piece. Are you sure? About case-piece? Yes, I'm sure that, in furniture-work, carcase is a reference to the basic structure of a case-piece. It's not like the term gets thrown around the shop a lot...but use of carcase is my habit. ...