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Permit allow enable doing something | WordReference Forums As far as I understand, verbs enable permit allow are almost exclusively used in phrases like "permit somebody to do sth" Is the use "permit (etc ) doing sth" also acceptable? In my own language (Polish) the "somebody" part is only used if it _really_ matters This gives me problems translating
growing exponentially vs. growing explosively - WordReference Forums "Explosively" is a metaphor for sudden increase Exponential growth has a sharper definition, e g The number of infections is doubling every month An explosion could be a short spurt; the get equivalence, one might say, "a continuing explosion of cases "
fresque du climat - WordReference Forums Climate Fresk encourages the rapid and widespread spread of an understanding of climate issues The efficiency of the teaching tool, the collaborative experience and the user licence have contributed to the exponential growth of Climate Fresk
bunch of crock crock of shit - WordReference Forums But the solo ngram for "bunch of crock" shows its growth since inception to be exponential The grammatically correct phrase, given the definition of crock as an earthenware container, would be "bunch of crocks," no?
pronoun for the general public: it or they - WordReference Forums You wouldn't say, "the individual malignant cells that make up the tumor are multiplying and growing at an exponential rate" (at least if you're trying to be concise) You'd just say "the tumor is getting bigger " We treat a tumor as a singular collective, even though the word "tumor" is exactly that—a collective noun
340 trillion, trillion, trillion - WordReference Forums Well, around here, most people are almost illiterate regarding the exponential notation of numbers, so not many (really very few) would understand your 340x10 36, although I think that many more would understand "340 sixtillones"
Why is Bulgarian considered an analytical language, when its really . . . By definition an analytical language has a low morpheme to word ratio, and makes little use of affixes As far as I know Bulgarian has a rich derivational and inflectional verbal morphology (something that analytical languages lack), the nominal morphology (although different from other Slavic