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- Approach to vs. approach for - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
approach to something: Two approaches to particle-size analysis were employed approach to doing something: Psychologists have taken many different approaches to studying perception approach for doing something: A common approach for adapting to the new economic environment was to globalize business activities
- word choice - Approach to or approach for - English Language . . .
The reason to ask this question is an argument with my friend: what's right, approach to caching or approach for caching? (Caching in the software engineering sense) (But I'd like to hear more general answer )
- Is there a term for someone who can see multiple perspectives?
A colleague of mine is trying to describe herself as "capable of seeing a situation from multiple perspectives" or "able to look at the big picture from various viewpoints" I feel like there must
- Wholistic vs holistic - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
This reference states: The two words "wholistic" and "holistic" have very different meanings, but there is some confusion and they are often used in an incorrect manner The two words have very
- writing style - Emphasising that a date is near - English Language . . .
What is a good way to emphasise that a particular date is near or coming very close? For example, suppose today is the 22 of May and there is the submission date for a project is on the 25 of May I
- Equivalent of former and latter for more than 2 items
Former and latter are valid only when there are two choices If I have a list of more than two items, is there an elegant way to say the first one or the last one?
- What is the usual form of Please do the needful?
Close equivalents might be "please do the required" or "please do what is needed" or "please do the necessary"; all imply a certain background knowledge of the situation, i e that you know what do to and don't need it spelled out I'm not sure that "do the needful" isn't entirely inappropriate, though (I'm in the UK) In that way that certain archaic phrases are used in a slightly jocular
- What is the difference between phonetic and phonemic?
Phonemics, or Phonology, is the study of the distribution of sound systems in human languages A Phoneme is a particular set of sounds produced in a particular language and distinguishable by native speakers of that language from other (sets of) sounds in that language That's what "distinctive" means -- the English phonemes n and ŋ can be told apart by native speakers of English, because
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