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- Ideas on vs. ideas for - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In the same way, using "for" in ideas on improving the team means you support improving the team while using "on" doesn't necessarily mean so It's all connotation and subconscious language use and effects
- What is the word when people come up with the same idea independently
Suppose Darwin and Wallace independently come up with a similar idea It's like the idea has entered the social consciousness at that time What is the word for this called? Kind of the tipping po
- phrase requests - Is there a word to describe one who distils complex . . .
Complex concepts distilled into simple ideas could be described as pithy, or full of concentrated meaning Also, one who expresses oneself in a pithy manner could be described as pithy
- Whats it called when someone imposes his own beliefs and ideas on . . .
There's a concept which I am not yet familiar with When someone forces his own ideology, beliefs and thoughts on someone else and not allow them to think for themselves? For example: when a head
- a better way to express an idea thought suddenly came to me
What are some grandiloquent, or simply better, ways of expressing "an idea thought suddenly came to me", or "an idea thought struck me", or "I was struck by an idea thought"?
- etymology - How did spitballing originate - English Language Usage . . .
I find the word 'spitballing' very interesting I am curious to know how this word originated What is the logic behind the use of this word to mean "tossing around ideas?" Oxford English Dictionary
- Why is idea sometimes pronounced as idear?
I know that idea is pronounced as aɪˈdiə , but I've meet several people in real life who put an 'r' at the end of the word How come?
- Is there a word for “making two conflicting elements coexist together . . .
The conflicting elements are integrated into a system, but their conflicts are not really resolved Instead they are somehow made to coexist with some hackish way Example: Hypocrisy, both as a self
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