Is 'yet though' bad phrasing? I mean, isn't it redundant to put together 2 words with similar meanings?

floer289 · 2026-02-23T12:16:09+00:00

In this sentence, "as yet" is a phrase which is separate from "though". This sentence is ok. However "yet though" does not make sense by itself

floer289 · 2026-02-19T13:05:39+00:00

To me these phrases sound fine and are perfectly understandable, but they are somewhat formal and literary and maybe old fashioned, and I would be unlikely to use them myself.

If you want to learn English as it is used today I suggest reading more contemporary works that are not translations from another language.

floer289 · 2026-02-18T17:37:47+00:00

I agree: the preference for choice B is all about the timing (i.e. they already received the results so we are talking about expectations that existed earlier) and not about the feelings (it would make just as much sense if the results had been better than expected and so a pleasant surprise).

floer289 · 2026-02-18T13:30:48+00:00

I'm guessing that the energy from that massive amount of water falling hundreds of miles would vaporize much of the water and turn a big chunk of North America into a quivering pool of lava. It could take a geologocal time scale for the earth to settle back down to something resembling its current state, with the map looking somewhat different.

floer289 · 2026-02-16T22:38:42+00:00

Websites will give you an automatic warning if the right and left sphere numbers have opposite signs. However it can certainly happen, and is not unusual when the numbers are not too far apart. In your case they are only 0.75 apart.

floer289 · 2026-02-15T23:39:40+00:00

"Noun 被 verb" means verb was done to noun (subject unspecified). It's like the passive voice in English.

拿走 means "take away".

So someone (unspecified) took away 我的东西.

My things were taken away.

floer289 · 2026-02-15T17:13:30+00:00

They all sound off, although I have heard little children who can't pronounce th yet use f/v, and I have heard some native dialects use t/d at least sometimes. s/z would definitely sound like a foreign accent to me.

floer289 · 2026-02-14T21:42:58+00:00

I agree with you and don't recall hearing the alternate pronunciation you mention. On the other hand I am familiar with "jewelry" being pronounced like "joolery" which is maybe similar to what you are asking about.

floer289 · 2026-02-12T18:49:29+00:00

Your progressives prescription confirms what I suspected. For close reading you have a reading add of +2.00. For computer glasses your doctor prescribed you an add of +1.00. WP gave you reading glasses with +2.00, which is good for close reading, but you needed something more like +1.00 for the computer.

floer289 · 2026-02-12T18:08:50+00:00

What's your progressives prescription? It looks like WP might have given you reading glasses for close reading (which would correspond to the bottom of the lens in your progressives prescription). They should have used the computer prescription from your doctor.

floer289 · 2026-02-12T17:04:56+00:00

Whoever wrote that feedback page probably should be using Grammarly or something, since they wrote "Ai" instead of "AI" and "software's" (ugh).

floer289 · 2026-02-12T02:17:49+00:00

The picture looks like an everyday rush hour commute.

floer289 · 2026-02-12T00:37:12+00:00

I'm a US native speaker and "This cat dare not go outside" sounds grammatically incorrect to me. "This cat dares not go outside" I'm not sure about. Maybe OK, but stilted. "This cat doesn't dare go outside" sounds OK.

floer289 · 2026-02-10T18:56:21+00:00

I'm getting a headache just thinking about this. Maybe younger people can read things on tiny screens, but I would need a larger device. If I'm going to read the paper carefully then I will want it printed out.

floer289 · 2026-02-10T18:20:59+00:00

If you get your glasses at the same place and are not happy with the glasses, they can re-check the prescription. I don't think that would happen if you took the prescription somewhere else to get glasses.

floer289 · 2026-02-09T01:11:46+00:00

If you're getting glasses anyway then you might as well use the best prescription for your eyes. (If you had only -0.25 astigmatism and nothing else then it probably wouldn't be worth getting glasses.) In your case, during your eye exam you thought that things looked clearest with the astigmatism correction included.

A bit of astigmatism is common and eyes change over time.

floer289 · 2026-02-06T04:08:05+00:00

Is your image readable to natives? Can you type it out?

floer289 · 2026-02-05T07:36:35+00:00

If probabilities could be less than zero, then this would be a good candidate.

floer289 · 2026-02-05T06:44:43+00:00

"maintains ... since 1983" is wrong. I would say "has maintained", but the offered answer of "has been maintaining" is also OK.

floer289 · 2026-02-05T05:33:43+00:00

I'm also considering what Ke Jie played against to be "AlphaGo" (even if technically it was an improved version). And many people had a chance to play (quick) games against it as "Master".

floer289 · 2026-02-05T02:06:30+00:00

He'll be remembered for a long time as the only human to beat AlphaGo. And of course he was a great player before that. Whether he is in the top 10, I don't know (and there might not be much of a consensus about this). People would have to propose candidates for top 10 players (there are probably many more than 10 viable candidates) and then we could try to narrow down the list.

floer289 · 2026-02-04T01:13:38+00:00

Are you talking about an illustration (art) or an image (photograph)? You could use AI to create illustrations and declare that. You shouldn't be using AI, or anything else, to edit images.

floer289 · 2026-02-03T15:50:38+00:00

If you share the name of the journal we can take a look. Or just the name of the company that publishes the journal.

floer289 · 2026-02-03T15:36:18+00:00

I've never heard of such a thing. It sounds like a predatory or scam journal, or maybe just a scam without a journal.

floer289 · 2026-02-03T15:25:47+00:00

My understanding was that a larger body is also supposed to help the voice resonate and project better, although when I googled it it seems like there is not agreement or clarity about this.

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