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- How to ask about ones availability? free available not busy?
Saying free or available rather than busy may be considered a more "positive" enquiry It may also simply mean that you expect the person to be busy rather than free, rather than the other way round Saying available rather than free is considered slightly more formal, though I wouldn't worry much about usage cases
- You can contact John, Jane or me (myself) for more information
Me Myself is reflexive: it denotes that the person (me) is doing something to that person (myself) and no other It's not correct to use a reflexive pronoun unless the recipient of the action is the person doing that action You can't mix you with myself You can talk to me I can talk to myself
- In the sentence We do have free will. , what part of speech is free . . .
"Free" is an adjective, applied to the noun "will" In keeping with normal rules, a hyphen is added if "free-will" is used as an adjective phrase vs a noun phrase
- etymology - Origin of the phrase free, white, and twenty-one . . .
The fact that it was well-established long before OP's 1930s movies is attested by this sentence in the Transactions of the Annual Meeting from the South Carolina Bar Association, 1886 And to-day, “free white and twenty-one,” that slang phrase, is no longer broad enough to include the voters in this country
- Word that means [doing something] free from expectation?
As in, an expectation-free hug with your partner Doing something without expecting anything in return, but not necessarily selfless I hoped "nonexpecting" was a word, but it seems reserved for
- meaning - Release, free, or delete allocated memory? - English . . .
release the allocated memory free the allocated memory delete the allocated memory What are the differences between them?
- What does There is no such thing as a free lunch mean?
I had always understood 'there's no such thing as a free lunch' as a expression to demonstrate the economics concept of opportunity cost - whereby even if the lunch is fully paid for, one loses the opportunity to spend that time doing anything else
- meaning - Is it proper to use the word bandwidth as it relates to . . .
Lacking bandwidth is generally interpreted as lacking resources In your case, you mean time, but this is not a given, so it is likely to cause confusion Also, "lacking bandwidth" is a term the programmers in my group use to derisively describe folks with diminished processing capabilities I would have interpreted this statement to mean that you were too technologically (or cognitively
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