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- What does I cant agree with you more mean?
"I cannot agree with you any more " means that I can no longer agree with you I agreed with you before, but that has come to an end "Anymore" is a somewhat controversial word which is equivalent to "any more", but does not substitute for "any more" in all uses: you would never write "I don't need anymore supplies"
- double negation - Is cannot not say standard English? - English . . .
9 "cannot not say" would only rarely be used in English, and only in very specific circumstances In particular, this is not a simple double negative "cannot not" does not mean the same as "can", it means "must" It also carries a connotation that not saying is the expected or default action
- I cant seem to vs I cant - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The use of seem to is usually a hedge, or a softener The examples above are suggesting that the person feels they should be able to do something but cannot find the right way to do it successfully The same person wouldn't say, "I can't seem to speak Korean" because they have no reasonable expectation that they should be able to speak Korean
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Even though most people will understand your intent, I'm not a fan of saying, "She cannot have a baby," because that can be taken literally to mean that she is not fit to mother Just because someone cannot conceive does not mean they cannot have a child through alternative means, such as adoption or surrogacy
- word choice - Cannot help but think vs. cannot but think vs . . .
It seems that "cannot help but" was ungrammatical two centuries ago, but it's been in use for the last 100 years, and now appears to be reasonably widely used See this Google Ngram So (2) is indeed older, as @GEdgar says
- differences - Get hold of, get ahold of, get a hold of - English . . .
The three variations of this expression exist and are acceptable The meaning actually depends on what follows of, so get hold ahold of someone means communicate with reach someone and get hold ahold of something means obtaining literally reaching out for something And I believe they convey the same meaning, with "get ahold of" being spoken English (apparently because it's easier to pronounce
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I'd say that if you can't understand because it's too soft, then inaudible is fine, but if you can't understand because they weren't articulating properly, you should use unintelligible The word mumble covers both situations
- Word for something difficult or nearly impossible to achieve
A ten-percent growth rate is an aspiration Aspirations are typically things that people or organisations want to achieve, think they can, but cannot guarantee that they will In business it's typically the best case scenario or outcome of a particular course of action A similar word is ambition In a more fanciful context, I would use dream
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