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Repairable vs. reparable vs. irreparable vs. unrepairable The one difference I would suggest is that repairable and unrepairable generally refer to things which are broken; reparable and irreparable (as commonly seen in the phrase "irreparable harm") generally refer to the damage that has been done to those things Examples: - My client's reputation has suffered irreparable harm - I dropped my phone in the toilet; it's basically unrepairable
Is it acceptable to drop the comma in Thanks, John? The main difference between lying and not using a comma in "Thanks, John", in your analogy, is that lying is a deliberate act of deception that often has negative consequences for the person being lied to, whereas dropping that comma is unlikely to have any negative consequences for the reader and is often not done deliberately It's a poor analogy
Object pronoun: me and John, or John and me? [closed] It is formally correct to say 'with John and me' or 'with me and John', but the first one is the preferred style in print or in school (as Peter and John said) 'with me and John' sounds informal because of this style choice Also 'with John and I' is formally incorrect (prepositions in English take the accusative case), but there is a tendency nowadays for people to say it because, by
What is the difference betwwen the 80s and the 80s? Strictly speaking, "the 80's" is wrong Apostrophes are used to denote possession or contraction (as JonHanna points out in the comments, apostrophes have other uses, but these are the only two that we need consider as possibly being relevant here) The contraction here is from "1980s", so the correct form of the contracted version is '80s 80s, without the apostrophe, can be seen as a less
abbreviations - What is the rule for shortening peoples names? (E. g . . . In general – and I cannot stress this enough: you asked for general, so I'm giving you general – multisyllabic names are often shortened to the first syllable (s) Hence: Jon (Jonathon), Rob (Robert), Will (William), Mike (Michael), Dave (David), Tom (Thomas), Doug (Douglas), Chris (Christoper), Alex (Alexander), Sue (Susan), Chris (Christine), Meg (Meghan), Nance (Nancy) Sometimes, a
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