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Bookmark or Share- Is being "low on the totem pole" good or bad?CPU does not scale down at high temperatures and overheats Children's novel about dolls with black eyes and black watch faces to mind control children Confusing usage of 「これ」 (with an unclear referent) and 「の」 (which could be possesive or appositional)
- Words for ordinal 5-point scale from normal to severeIn my opinion, it is fine. Also, if you make a quick Google search about "mild, moderate and severe", you will find many examples of them used to describe different degrees of severity when talking about diseases. I would say that, by adding "normal" and "extreme", you are just adding two additional levels, one at each end of the scale.
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?However, as in the second and third examples, the rd & st simply come from the right-end of the word for the ordinal number: 3 rd: thi rd. 301 st: (three-hundred-) fir st (shouldn't that be 301 th?, I'm not going there).
- How does the hyphen change the meaning in expressions like "high ...As you say, high is simply an adjective and performance is simply a noun which high modifies. In the second pair, high is again an adjective and performance is a noun functioning as an adjective and together they modify computing. The question to ask is whether the absence of a hyphen between high and performance creates ambiguity.
- How should rhetorical questions be punctuated? [duplicate]Personally, I'd low-end the punctuation: The question is, what are we going to do about it? Or. The question is, what are we going to do about it? While the quotation marks may seem necessary, this is a common enough construction that they really aren't required unless you are writing something extremely formal.
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