To me it just means "to lead someone to a certain location". You'll see "over" used like that with other verbs, like in "come over", "bring over" and "send over".IpseDixit wrote:What does "lead someone over" mean?
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To me it just means "to lead someone to a certain location". You'll see "over" used like that with other verbs, like in "come over", "bring over" and "send over".IpseDixit wrote:What does "lead someone over" mean?
IpseDixit wrote:Does the adjective "either" imply an inclusive disjunction or an exclusive disjunction? Or does it depend on the context?
For example: "he might make either cake for your party", does this also include the possibility that he could make both cakes?
linguoboy wrote:IpseDixit wrote:Does the adjective "either" imply an inclusive disjunction or an exclusive disjunction? Or does it depend on the context?
For example: "he might make either cake for your party", does this also include the possibility that he could make both cakes?
I would say no. To express an inclusive disjunction, you'd need to say something like "He might make either cake for your party, or both" or "He might make one or both cakes for your party".
Well, I guess I'll start with the "much"es. They belong to two separate constructions. "Anybody much" is a phrase meaning "many people". Parallel phrases are "anything much" (many things), "nobody much" (not many people) and "nothing much" (not many things). The second "much" is part of "much less", a conjunction that means the following phrase is more extreme or unlikely than the preceding phrase, which is itself implied to be unlikely. For instance, imagine you're afraid of heights and someone asks you to go skydiving. You could say, "I can't jump off a diving board, much less an airplane."IpseDixit wrote:I need help with this sentence:
"It's only since the rise of scientific thought that anybody much has been inclined even to question such a statement, much less disbelieve it."
I'm not sure I get the meaning of it, in particular I'm not sure how this "much... much..." thing works.
"Play for me in a joking manner"? It sounds stilted. Do you have a context sentence?IpseDixit wrote:Also, what does "make joking play for me" mean?
"Play for me in a joking manner"? It sounds stilted. Do you have a context sentence?
Dormouse559 wrote:Hmm, okay. I haven't encountered that phrasing before, so I'm not totally sure, but I think it's a variation on "to make a play for", which can mean "to flirt with, to hit on". So the sentence might be, "And she kept, oh, sort of jokingly flirting with me."
IpseDixit wrote:I've never been sure whether I should use "as" with the word "pronounce".
IpseDixit wrote:Acqua is pronounced ['ak:wa]
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Acqua is pronounced as ['ak:wa]?
IpseDixit wrote:I pronounce acqua ['ak:wa]
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I pronounce acqua as ['ak:wa]?
Dormouse559 wrote:Hmm, what's the sentence before that? "Another" generally needs to follow something else, like an antecedent or "one", to work properly.
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