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: What are the different levels of detail or depth of an article based on its focus? After spending hours/days on this, I need your help. I'm trying to create 4 names or categories to describe
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: What do you call a quote that is a modification/derivation of another quote? There is the quote, "The truth will set you free". And then there are the quotes, "The truth will set
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: Words use to describe racing heartbeat I think that it is too simple just to use "my heart pounded." I prefer something a little bit more elaborated. What sentence can I use besides
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: What pronoun to use for a sentient, self aware AI? I have a sentient AI in a story. He sentience aspect is mostly an unexpected result and some characters in the story do not believe it.
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: Saying that someone is lying in a response to a court I was accused by a neighbour of some things that I can easily prove were not caused by me. I told her many times she's wrong, emailed
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: How widely-used is the term "omnibus?" I know "omnibus" to be a term describing multiple novels put into a single book, but I've never really heard or read the term anywhere else.
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: Struggling with using correct tenses, please help! I am writing my first book, which I am very passionate about, but there are small details in the art of writing that have me second guessing
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: Self Congratulation I am looking for a positive connotation of self-congratulations. It's a part of a write-up where I wanna emphasize that we should take pat ourselves on the back for our achievements
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: A phrase similar to murmurs of laughter I am writing an essay and one thing I am talking about is that I hear small laughs among the crowd while I nervously give a speech. I used the phrase
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: Ways to write a person crying without using words like "sniff", "boohoo" etc There is a specific kind of scene that I want to write, where the protagonist has just killed his brother and he
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: How are the limits of regional vernacularism/slang should be employed in a novel that is true to the area and time? What's an acceptable amount of non-standard English that can be used to depict
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: Will a copyeditor refine both dialogue and plot? I am a big-picture kinda guy. I have ideas and I love details, but I hate to get stuck up in the microscopic level grunt work - managing
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: Phrases used to refer to “a large number/amount of something.†How do you choose one among many others? I always ask myself, when writing, which word or phrase to use to describe a large
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: This is a PREREQUISITE of that, so that is WHAT of this? Anyone have a sensible word to finish the title above? I'm creating a semantic web, and some of the flip-sides to directional relationships
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: Use of "set down" in a formal document I was recently asked to translate a Spanish letter of recommendation into English. Not being an English native speaker, I was bound to make a few mistakes.
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: Aside from judging by ear, when should repetitions (he, she, they, a character's name, etc.) be excised? In a recent issue of the London Review of Books, a professional translator of French
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: "He laughed a laugh." It seems correct to use a noun as a verb in the same sentence but should you? I'm struggling with the title question in some of my current writing, so should you? Or
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: Can one of my POV characters have the last name Thibodaux and get published? I live in Louisiana, and names with french origins are very common here. So we all know how they're pronounced.
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: When writing a piece that will be published in multiple languages, are there any concessions a writer should make in tone, word choice, or style? The piece in question aims to be accessible,
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: Mentioning time span in a thesis (from 2019 to 2020) I would like to know if there is a need for the word "year" in this part of the sentence: "..., that took place from the
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: Similar words/phrases random generator I recall using a website where a user could input a set of words or phrases and the website would generate similar words or phrases, which "felt like"
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: What name should I use? I am writing about my local airport which has had two other names which name should I use through out the writing about it? An example is JFK in New York was originally
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: How to refer to a crowd of many different species? How could I say the equivalent of "A pouring wave of humanity," when there are more than one species in the scene being described?
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: How to list main ideas in a conclusion chapter without being repetitive with the wording? In the conclusions chapter of my book (technical, non fiction writing) I want to go over the main ideas
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: What is a good name for my fantasy species that's not too long? I made a fantasy species,a dragon. It's based off of a Siberian tiger, a bearded dragon, and a fruit bat. But the trouble
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: Looking for a better word than "Yikes" I'm trying to find the right word to use in a (serious) comic I'm writing. The character is an eighteen year old American girl, talking to some older
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: Using "her/him" twice in a sentence I'm an English learner, and I had a question about writing "her" twice in one sentence. For example, what would sound better for formal writing? (This is
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: How to "show" a "Yes" head confirmation How can I "show" that my character is saying "yes" as a respond from a question? The only thing that comes to my mind is Mike moves his head,
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: How can I make this formal paragraph more exciting, engaging and friendly? Text: "Your order has been received. A digital proof of your personalized item will be sent to you via Etsy Conversation
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: Software or Softwares It seems to me that softwares is incorrect. I am of the opinion that software is partitive. I try to use some software or piece of software. Do you think it is incorrect
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: Ordinal form of an unknown value In some science and engineering literature, it is common to right the ordinal form of an unknown number m as mth. While the ordinal form of number 1 is first,
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: Searching for a word about a particular feeling I'm trying to find a very specific word for a very specific feeling, and have had zero luck other places on the Internet with finding even a
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: How do I define smells I have never experienced? I am a lifelong writer, who was also born without an ability to smell. I have been trained to engage the reader by applying the five senses,
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: What's the rule on revealing something to the audience, but not the characters? This is a common problem I have writing fantasy. Most of the trouble comes from revealing a monster, but for
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: What word would people with outdated technology make up for a plane? In my story, my characters live in the wilderness, and they have no modern technology. They do see ruins from the past
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: Will I use "the" in that instance or leave it with no article? If I'm given a choice, to put "the" or leave the word with no article, what's the better answer? The world helps in boosting
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: How to refer to siblings who are friends? Two of the MCs in the novel I'm working on are half-sisters, and also great friends. Currently, when referring to them, I alternate between using "sisters"
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: How to use the word "Dysphoria" in a sentence to show distress and sadness? I'm writing a sentence which goes like this: I could sense the dysphoria setting in her voice even through a
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: Referring to machines and sensors as "knowing" I'm editing a technical text about autonomous systems. I feel the following sentence is anthropomorphizing a machine and also introduces some confusion
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: Finding the right insults As a non-native Anglophone, it can be a bit more of a challenge to do creative writing in English. Thesauri have helped me a lot, improving sentences like "Sokka caught
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