Description : Opposite term for "Helicopter parents" or "Helicopter parenting"?
Last Answer : Long Leash? Tough Love?
Description : What are your thoughts on "helicopter parenting" vs "free-range parenting"?
Last Answer : I think a combination of both is good at an early age. A balance of both never hurt anyone when used correctly.
Description : What does helicopter parenting mean?
Last Answer : Helicopter parenting means that you are over involved in your child's life. This expression comes from when a parent hovers over their child both literally and figuratively like a helicopter hovers over the ground.
Description : Is there a term for the act of changing the spelling of a word, to force it to rhyme with another?
Last Answer : Oh loli! It’s prolly…Neoligism.
Description : Is "borrowing" the most appropriate term when used to subtract one number from another?
Last Answer : When I was younger, the term “carry” was used. For me, borrow sounds a bit odd.
Description : "The Okay-ish Barrier Reef". Can you change the adjective great in famous sayings/names to another one?
Last Answer : Alexander the Meh. Ivan the meanie.
Description : How do you learn another language?
Last Answer : Watch Spanish Sesame Street and other YouTube and TV channels.
Description : Can you lurve in another language?
Last Answer : You mean this?—-> ルーブ！ルーブ！
Description : Does it bother you if people have conversations in another language in front of you, and only speak English when you are spoken to?
Last Answer : Can’t say I’ve ever had that experience.
Description : Did the Japanese start making juice after learning about it from another country?
Last Answer : answer:I found out that “juice” comes from the Middle English jus, juis, from Old French jus, jous, from Latin jūs (“broth, soup, sauce”). Source So, not from Japan I guess…
Description : What is another way of saying "getting your groove back"?
Last Answer : back in the saddle again
Description : In sparking a new catch phrase, is this just a coincidence, or yet another example of the Hundred Monkey Phenomenon?
Last Answer : I don’t think it’s a coincidence or even 100th monkey. Nowadays the great shortener seems to be just that, the most convenient first syllables. But, speaking as an O-Wo I’ll let you guess which one :-P I kinda like it!
Description : I'm bored, so I think I'll learn another language. What do you recommend?
Last Answer : Perhaps it would be good to work on your spelling and grammar in English. I decides? towered? Wright?
Description : (Another Rosetta Stone question): Is there anything you wish you had approached differently when using it?
Last Answer : Andrew; Essayez de poser la question on français, svp. Pouvez-vous parler, écrire, lire et comprendre avec la mëme aptitude? Les details sont importants, comme en anglais.
Description : Should a patient be relieved about the medical term ''grossly unremarkable''? See detail.
Last Answer : Yes, particularly when we’re older. I got a summary of “regular guy” from my MD once. I was mostly relieved, but slightly disappointed. I don’t think I’ll ever live up to my pediatrician’s comment to my mom once that he didn’t think he’d seen such a healthy child before.
Description : Is the term "half-assed", the term to describe something done without the appropriate care, just a malapropism of "haphazard"?
Last Answer : No – I don’t think so. I think it evolved separately. Although I don’t really know why we would say something was done in a “full-assed” way.
Description : What term other than "the faithful" would you suggest to refer to people who belong to some religion or participate in a religious event?
Last Answer : Members of religious denominations.
Description : In the interest of sophistication should we avoid glorifying the term 'Fake News'?
Last Answer : Sophistication aside, media/free press is one of the most important parts of a healthy/functioning democracy. Invalidating the media is a tactic of a dictatorship. I would add that very few things ... . Similarly, you use small easy words for Trump supporters, and speak slowly with frequent pauses
Description : When do you use the term tab and when do you use the word link ?
Last Answer : Tab has 2 meanings. It is the typewriter command to advance forward on a form or on a piece of paper. It is also the name for a page in an internet browser. Right now, I have 2 tabs open in my internet ... I can click on and go to another page of the internet. A link is also a place to play golf.
Description : Why does the search term disappear and check mark come back just because you change the language?
Last Answer : answer:Servers generally only operate effectively with 1 language per user at the same time. It makes the code easier. Although you may just have invented a really cool website! I wouldn't try to ... pain. Anyway, in answer to your question Never question a geeks coding format. Just walk away.
Description : In your opinion, is the term "chinaman" extremely offensive?
Last Answer : answer:I'm not Chinese, but to me, it rings about the same level of archaic and offensive as Negro. It's a term from another era. If used for a Chinese-American, it is racist in the ... who look like they might be descended from anywhere in East Asia. Oriental is used along the same lines.
Description : What is a grammatically correct term for "ya'll"?
Last Answer : y’all
Description : Where did the term "batshit crazy" and its' various derivations come from?
Last Answer : Think it came from “bats in the belfry”.
Description : When Americans use the term 'world famous' what exactly does this mean?
Last Answer : answer:I interpret the term as meaning as one of the must see places if you visit a city/country. In Seattle Pike Place and the Space Needle are the two must visit places. Same as The Empire State ... NYC and the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Opera house in Sydney. And Pike Place is really awesome.
Description : When did the term hoodie get popular, and do you use it?
Last Answer : Yeah.. It has been used by my friends and I since high school. So that would at least put it in the late 90’s.
Description : How did the term "panhandler" come to be?
Last Answer : http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/panhandling
Description : What would be the female and/or gender-neutral equivalents of the term 'ballsy' when applied to, apparently, brave things people do?
Last Answer : Ovarian? Genitacular?
Description : Do you ever find the term `dude' mildly insulting?
Last Answer : No, dude and bro’ are as interchangeable as babe and sweetheart to me. They’re all just terms of affection/friendship.
Description : What is the term for 'of or relating to goats'?
Last Answer : NO idea, but ursine = bear, taurine = bull, vulpine= fox, ovine = sheep; if logic followed, which it doesn't, word would be caprine. Latin for goat is caper, I think.
Description : What does the latin term "amor mundus" mean?
Last Answer : Love the world
Description : What's the point of learning languages when you have all kinds of translation gadget?
Last Answer : Most of them don’t work worth a shit.
Description : What's the word for all the words that involve hate, plus the toilet/potty related ones?
Last Answer : expletive
Description : What's your culture? What culture do you identify with and why? Do other people identify you with that culture?
Last Answer : answer:Post Hipster. I guess it was a long a varied road before that though. New Wave Scene. Punk Scene, Thanks to my skate rat days. Atlanta Queer/ Kink/ Crossdresser/ Club Kid Scene. Performance Honda/ Import Scene. 4 ever.
Description : What's your favorite euphemism?
Last Answer : If by favourite you mean most reviled, it would be “department of defence”. It is a war department. Fucking admit to it.
Description : What's the funniest spoonerisms you've ever heard or said?
Last Answer : Our Father who art in heaven, Howard be thy name.
Description : What's the funniest experience you've had trying to speak a foreign language?
Last Answer : answer:I named my cat what I thought was the word for kitten in Hungarian. I know a Hungarian guy and I was telling him about it and he said that the way I pronounced it, I was saying “boobies” instead of Kitty. He thought that it was pretty funny!
Description : What's the best comeback that you've ever heard/used?
Last Answer : Yeah, slavery is hilarious.
Description : What's the fastest and least expensive way to learn Italian?
Last Answer : I hear pimsleur is an amazing program and its pretty cheap too.
Description : What's your opinion of women who swear?
Last Answer : Rather un-lady like IMO
Description : What's the best way to study and retain Chinese characters?
Last Answer : Flash cards
Description : What's the difference between the definition of "organization" and "company"?
Last Answer : A company is almost always for business purposes, ie for profit, whereas an organization is not.
Description : What's the differences between North American dialects?
Last Answer : answer:In Minnesota, we emphasize our o sounds, like they do in Swedish and Finnish, and we also have long a sounds, presumably also similar to the vowel sounds in Northern European ... The conclusion I would draw from this is that our accents are heavily influenced by who settled where.
Description : It's what's in between the ears that counts.
Last Answer : Meaning- it’s brains not braun that win the day. Good response- Person A- ‘It’s what’s between the ears etc’ Person B- What, air?
Description : What's a good, non-awkward thing to say when being introduced to the significant other of your co-worker/boss when your co-worker/boss has said mainly less-than-nice things about them?
Last Answer : Just say “It’s great to meet you” Nothing more.
Description : What's the best of these titles for a CD: Icons, Pictures, or Images?
Last Answer : I would be much more likely to buy Images. I wouldn’t buy Pictures and I probably wouldn’t buy Icons. Images sounds just about right. Especially as when we think of evocative music, the word we normally use is that it evokes an image. Not an icon or pictures.
Description : "Oh no you di’nt!" What's going on here?
Last Answer : I’ve always seen “Oh no you di’int” in response to an action the speaker is angry about: it’s a sort of mock-disbelief to emphasize the improper or impolite nature of the action in question. “I saw Bill checking out your wife the other day—maybe he thinks he can slip one by you.” “Oh no, he di’int!”
Description : What's the proper pronounciation of the word "haute"?
Last Answer : haute ryhmes with oat click on the bullhorn symbol to hear it
Description : What's your take on multi-culturalism?
Last Answer : I think from a purely evolutionary standpoint it should be a good thing. socially I also think it’s good, I mean what harm can it do? at the very least it helps people become less narrow minded.
Description : What's up with the "Proust questionaire" in every issue of Vanity Fair?
Last Answer : answer:From George Loper: “The young Marcel was asked to fill out questionnaires at two social events: one when he was 13, another when he was 20. Proust did not invent this party game; he is simply the most extraordinary person to respond to them.”
Description : What's a B&S?
Last Answer : blood and sand