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1. AS OF would mean "at a certain time onward". AS AT would mean "at a precise time of event". AS FROM would mean "at a certain time onward" just like AS OF, but I still don't quite get it. That leads me to go back and use SINCE. Much simpler and people use it in writings and speeches.
Apr 6, 2011 · @Fumble, I don't know why someone would laugh at "insecure device". One possibility is that they thought of the emotional meaning (not self-confident). That construction sounds normal. You're right that the exact phrase is pretty rare, but very similar constructions (insecure software, insecure computer, insecure system) are more common.
What about you? requests a statement about you in general, while How about you? requests a response about your manner, means, or condition. This leaves room for lots of personal preferences, presumptuous proscriptions, and zombie rules, to say nothing of actual sociocultural variation. – John Lawler.
Sep 9, 2015 · As to the difference between FYI and JFYI, I'm not sure there is a big one. The former is more conventional and JFYI seems to indicate that giving the information is something of an afterthought or may not be very important to the recipient. The "just" seems to indicate that you are giving the information merely for the information's sake, and ...
a suffixal use of wise - in adverbs denoting manner, position, direction, reference, etc.: counterclockwise; edgewise; marketwise; timewise. To simplify this definition, you can think of -wise as "in the direction of", "in the manner of" or "with regard to", depending on the situation. The sentence you provided falls obviously in the third case.
Jun 22, 2015 · 1. In English when someone says "from your end" they mean, from your side of the communication, referring to you communicating with the Russians in your specific example. Before cell phones, there were land line phones and older communications that were not wireless but required wires to connect two people in conversations.
Nov 3, 2015 · The meaning you give for renter is possible, but unlikely. Until I read what you had written it never occurred to me (native English speaker) that that was a possible meaning of renter: I would always assume it meant the tenant unless the context strongly overturned that assumption. –
Oct 21, 2010 · First of all, Etymonline agrees:. 1909, from common pronunciation of "that's the boy!" a cheer of encouragement or approval.
Aug 28, 2017 · 1. The origin of the term comes from Github and his mascot, the octocat. The word acrually is a combination of octopus and fantastic, such words are called portmanteaus. It appears to be an invented term to increase the awareness about science, octopuses in particular.
Feb 11, 2011 · In statistics, the meaning of orthogonal as unrelated (or more precisely uncorrelated) is very directly related to the mathematical definition. [Two vectors x and y are called orthogonal if the projection of x in the direction of y (or vice-versa) is zero; this is geometrically the same as being at right angles.]
