It’s a loan word. It’s an English word now, which means it get treated like all the other English words do, which means it gets a determiner stuck in front of it.
It’s a loan word. It’s an English word now, which means it get treated like all the other English words do, which means it gets a determiner stuck in front of it.
The difficulty there is that you often have to construct unnatural sentences to drop the article without it sounding bizarre... which is considerably worse.
Per the OED, Chicago, and Merriam-Webster, the article is standard usage in English.
So while language use is flexible and so on, and everyone can do what they see fit, the phrase hoi polloi doesn’t need a definite article before it, because hoi means ‘the.’
At least it didn’t ruin his hair.
Yeah, apparently his “Military Style High School” never explained the theory and practice of tariffs to him. Tariffs are either a sideways tax on your own citizens, or a bargaining chip with foreign governments to get them to do something you want them to do. Usually with unintended consequences.
The plan was, at one point, to tax Mexcian Imports. And that is as vague as it sounds; it was unclear if imports from Mexico would be taxed (meaning Americans would ultimately be paying through higher prices) or there would be some sort of tariff levied on American Exports to Mexico (at which point Mexico would just…
hobbits have very calm dispositions
Not enough of a fuss has been made about Ivanka going to Berlin for the W20 summit. She has no qualifications to work in policy, international law or norms, diplomacy, or women’s rights. She has no reason to be the representative for our country, other than being the daughter of the president. She is not a fucking…
The problem is not the visible mold, but the invisible heat-resistant toxins they generate. Not all fungi are toxic to us though, like the ones in blue cheese (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11271775)
“Is there anything though, like heat that would technically neutralize the mold? Like fuck you mold, but you dead now.”
Sure, lots of things kill mold, but the problem, like with bacteria in food, is that even if you kill the organism completely, the chemicals it produced while it was alive could still be present in…
The bottom picture is the literal demonstration of “they go low, we go high.”
I just worry that Kellyanne might stab you.
Don’t worry, it’s another Trump supporter mainstay of Whataboutism
Just a note regarding body odor (and I’ve made it my mission to say this on every semi-related Lifehacker article) - legitimately not everyone has it.
If she didn’t want to get raped she shouldn’t have gone out or worn a short skirt.
They didn’t know it was meth. They suspected it was something illegal, and likely drugs. In a sane environment, since they had probable cause, they would detain the kid and have the liquid tested, because that’s how the system is supposed to work.
This is the worst possible take anyone could have for this situation.
He was 16 and stupid. Didn’t deserve to die for it.
Yeah. All on his own. With two armed adults telling him to do so. Not coerced at all.