but PR is not updated somewhy
Did he just make up a new word? :)
I get what it means though, pretty easily: somewhy = for some reason
(by non-native English speaker)
but PR is not updated somewhy
Did he just make up a new word? :)
I get what it means though, pretty easily: somewhy = for some reason
(by non-native English speaker)
I don't think "disprefer X to Y" is a mistake, but I do think it is almost always more awkward-sounding to me than "prefer Y to X", and the meaning is equivalent.
The most important nontechnical use of 'disprefer' (for me) is to say that among a sea of choices to which I am largely indifferent, there is some choice that is particularly my least favourite—I may not have any legal, moral, or other objection to it, I just don't like it. I wouldn't say I use this all the time, but I certainly use it regularly when it's appropriate.
Not preferring is not the opposite of preferring, but rather the absence of preferring.
Referring to how "dis-" might imply it's the opposite.
I can see their point,which I think is that "To favor or prefer (something) less than the alternatives." simply makes it not your maximum preference (so in that sense, it would merely be the absence of the state of being the maximum), not necessarily your minimum (least favorite) rated/preferred choice.
But I think it can actually mean the opposite of preferring. To me, to disprefer something is nearly the same as if you show a distaste for something.
are correctly set up:
transitive verb
It's hard for me to see the difference between the transitive and intransitive forms of this verb.
Is that the transitive form can/must be used with a noun following it, like "presume something", while the intransitive form cannot be followed by a noun, but can (and often is) followed by a prepositional phrase, "presume that something"? Pretty subtle difference, but I guess it's there...
as a native speaker I'd probably tend to refer to his drug dependency, but his dependence on drugs (maybe because I see one as a problem he has, and the other as something he's doing, I don't know).
And as others have pointed out, there is potential for ambiguity: if A is dependent on B, then a dependence or dependency (relationship) exists; but referring to either A or B as the dependency demands context.
"demands context" :)
There are certainly cases where you can use dependency and cannot use dependence: for example "The UK's overseas dependencies", or "This software releases has dependencies on Unix and Java". So if the dependent things are discrete and countable, it should definitely be "dependency".
it's not asking anymore of you than to just enjoy
set up
Checkout
Replace 'log' with 'clock'; do you think it should be "clockin" because you aren't "clocking" anything? Plus, if 'login' was a verb, you'd not be logging in, but logining. Eww. Or, you'd have just logined instead of logged in.
I feel very happy about them indeed because they take me to the destinations they promise (they're all nouns). Login doesn't take me to my login, which makes me sad. It does take me to a place where I can log in, however.
"you can verb any noun". :) Though, comparing "ssh into a workstation" to "login to host.com", where "log in" exists, it's a bit like saying "entrance the building" when "enter the building" already works
Login is a noun, the same as breakup (suffer a breakup), backup (keep backups safe), spinoff (a Star Wars spinoff), makeup, letdown,
You're set up!
depending on how the role is set up
Cleanup the code
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which are passed onto controller actions.
onto => on to
Setup
Set up
checkout
Here's what 20 seconds of googling turned up: University of Rochester Grammar Style Guide oh hey look, a stackoverflow thread The truth about grammar: bailout versus bail out and there are so many more...
I think the conjugation is particularly helpful to see why it should be two separate words: "log in" -> "logging in" -> "logged in"
I have to mark up the pages
mark up
source | edit | rollback | link
I can see (here) another reason people might incorrectly spell the verb roll back as "rollback": because they are including it in a list of other single-word words separated only by spaces. If one were to include the space in "roll back" as it should have, then it would "break" this meaningful-whitespace design/layout.
set up
This is the past participle of the verb "to set up".
Also: do a web search for "be set up" vs "be setup".
The verb set up, on the other hand, is usually found as an open compound (two words, no hyphen) in both American and British English.
It’s a “bug” and you “fix” it - so properly, in English, it’s a “bug fix” - but very often it’s shortened to “bugfix”.
sign out
sign in
user.timedout?(30.minutes.ago)
timeout
The exception, again, is the New York Times, where the one-word form is rare even on the blogs.
the spelling "Web site" (and the less questionable "web site") is an anachronism from the 1990s that is still in use by the NYT and some other conservative print media in the US while most others (including the online sections of the NYT!) today use "website".
English tends to build new compound nouns by simply writing them as separate words with a blank. Once the compound is established (and the original parts somewhat "forgotten"), it's often written as one word or hyphenated. (Examples: shoelaces, aircraft...)
Web site / website seems to be somewhat in a transitional stage, being seen as an "entity" that web page hasn't reached yet. Depending on which dictionary you check you will find web site and website, but only web page, not webpage.
A website (also written as web site)
confront
Repetition of "confront" perhaps change to one of the following: contemplate (critically) examine scrutinize reflect on