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Imagine you’ve grown up with The Lord of the Rings , and then someone tells you it was all made up. Sure, there was Sauron, they say; and yeah, he was defeated and all the orcs disappeared. There were no hobbits, though, and no rangers or riders or Nazgûl. There was no Gandalf and there was no Ring....

If you look closely you can see that that guy is actually the Death Dealer’s more socially adept brother, the Zucchini Skewer Dealer.

So your understanding of implying and inferring is kind of like the two people in the conversation, one implies something and the other infers the meaning what what was implied? Yes, exactly. Implying is suggesting something, and inferring is picking up a suggestion. In this sense "imply" and "infe...

Implying is saying something without quite saying it. Inferring is hearing something that wasn't quite said. It's true that "affect" is usually a verb, and "effect" is usually a noun. If you affect something, then you have an effect on it. Unfortunately there are some more seldom-used words with som...

I was thinking of children younger than ten, like two to six. By ten I think most kids do have a lot of moral awareness. Some are mean and some are kind; some have lived in circumstances that make one or the other of those easier to be.

Hmm, the condensing dryer probably does take longer. We run it overnight, or in the day while we're at work, so it has plenty of time. A lot of our clothes we hang to dry, over a day or two, because we don't want them getting slowly shredded into lint by any dryer. That seems to be common practice h...

Children, especially young ones, are often selfish, impatient, and inconsiderate. It's not really their fault that they're that way. They don't know any better. They feel their own desires and injuries strongly, and don't really understand that other people have needs and feelings as well. So I gues...

As I understand the history, Smith didn't really think he was going to be killed until the mob was there at his cell door, at which point it was obviously too late to try to save himself by recanting anything—it was too late for any words to do anything. Smith may have made some grandiose statements...

Do people in North America use condensing dryers? These are models that don't vent their hot, damp air to outdoors, but instead let it cool in a radiator to condense out the water into a little tank. If the tank is full, the dryer will show a warning light and not run, so you normally empty the tank...

"NeueLicht" is hard to read because Licht is a neuter noun. You can have das neue Licht or you can have neues Licht . I don't think a native German speaker would pick that name. Maybe they would, for some reason I don't know. I don't have native-speaker instincts about German genders. I have the ins...