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- hyphenation - multi-tasking or multitasking? - English Language Usage . . .
May I ask whether or not to use a hyphen after a prefix only depends on individuals' editorial style, but not that of British or American English? E g , multi-tasking or multitasking?
- What is the opposite of multitasking? - English Language Usage . . .
"Multitasking" is a commonly-used word in computer science and has a lay meaning as well What is the opposite of "multitasking?" I tried "unitasking" in a recently letter to a colleague and was
- Is there a word for a person who is able to focus on multiple tasks at . . .
I thought of the word 'multi-tasker' but is there a better word which can express focussing on multiple tasks with equal efficiency? For instance, it is said that Leonardo Da Vinci, a polymath, was
- Did the term multitasking come from the computer realm?
As a matter of fact, the word multitasking did originate in the computer realm, but it is older than you estimate According to the OED, the first citation of the word is from 1966, in a magazine called Datamation: Multi-tasking is defined as the use of a single CPU for the simultaneous processing of two or more jobs The more general sense of multitasking, then, arose from this computing term
- etymology - What was the idiom for multitasking before chewing gum was . . .
A colorful idiom for someone who can only do one thing at a time is he can't walk and chew gum at the same time Obviously, this only makes sense if you know what the heck chewing gum is Was ther
- predicate - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
@NigelJ ‘A hostage situation’ uses hostage as a noun adjunct, which is very similar to an adjective, but isn’t an actual adjective (for example, it can’t be used predicatively or be modified for degree) I don’t think it makes sense to think of hostage and fast as adverbs; you’re not being held in a hostage manner, but held as a hostage
- grammaticality - Pre-requisite vs prerequisite - English Language . . .
In short, prefixes with a hypen, e g "pre-" should be avoided unless it will not be clear to the reader what the word is This is even more the case if there is an existing word so, in your case, "pre-requisite" should not be used Interconnection -- not Inter-connection; Pre-workout -- not Preworkout Prerequisite -- not Pre-requisite Multitask -- not Multi-task Polymath -- not Poly-math
- unparseable vs. unparsable [closed] - English Language Usage . . .
What is the correct spelling of this word? See the discussion at (Codespell) false positive: unparseable
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