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Bookmark or Share- What are some nice words to describe a very old age of a personYou might say they are long in the tooth which is a slightly nicer way of saying "old".. Alternatively you could talk about long life as a more positive way of referring to old age (although I'm struggling to think of a good example of doing this), or do away with talk about age altogether and say something like "How amazing to have five generations of your family together at the same time!"
- Should there be a space before a percent sign?Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
- Why do you say "friend of mine" instead of "friend of me"?Obviously, I can't stop thinking about this. Maybe, "friend of mine" differs from "my friend" mainly in terms of definiteness.
- Appropriate dash to use when attributing a quotation?@Boris It is, but I question that decision. They use U+2014 EM DASHand U+2009 THIN SPACE.The problem is these code points have infelicitous Unicode character properties, ones far better served by U+2015 HORIZONTAL BAR and U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE.
- "my", "of me", "of mine" - when to use these possessive constructionsAn object can belong to me, but it would never be of me, unless you are a pirate, or you were trying to state that the object came from your body (i.e., a piece of me), which isn't truly a possessive phrase.
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