What does NOOT mean? - English Language & Usage Stack …
网页2016年12月26日 · It depends on context, is your case it probably means " nonsense ": “ Noot Noot ”: is the sound made by the titular character from the British-Swiss children’s TV series Pingu. Due to its frequent utterance throughout the series, the soundbite of the catchphrase has been incorporated into a variety of pop music mash-ups and photoshopped ...
grammar - Should we use "not to" or "to not"? - English Language ...
网页6. The words "to not learn" in this context constitute something called a "split infinitive" - that is, the words of the infinitive "to learn" have been separated (sorry, @Barrie, I disagree with you on this). Traditionally, people were taught to avoid split infinitives; but sometimes, it's more natural to split an infinitive than not to.
grammaticality - "Whether or not" vs. "whether" - English …
网页It depends. Quotes from Times’s stylebook (explained here): Often "or not" is redundant after whether, but not always. The phrase may ordinarily be omitted in these cases: • When the whether clause is the object of a verb: She wonders whether the teacher will attend. (The clause is the object of wonders.)
idioms - What is a possible equivalent for *not worth the paper it's ...
网页2014年11月18日 · ChrisW’s answer referring to pixels is quite good and frequently used (waste of pixels especially).If we compare them as directly as possible, though, the pixels are what is used to make the visual representation of the contents, which in a print analogy would really be closer to ink than paper.
"The point is moot" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
网页2013年1月3日 · 1. A "moot point" or saying a point is moot, as a phrase, is frequently misinterpretted. It is frequently used to mean a point is irrelevant, not up for debate, not worth debating, or the speaker simply doesn't want to argue anymore, all of which are incorrect. The ancestral meaning, regarding moot court, may still be …
Interpreting "not bad" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
网页Northern British for good/great. “Not bad” is used to acknowledge things could be a lot worse without giving away that everything is actually fine. There’s an element of machismo mixed with a touch of cynicism. Culturally the phrase does not translate much further south than the Mersey/Humber line in Britain.
grammaticality - Is the phrase "for free" correct? - English …
网页2011年8月16日 · The term 'for' must be used with a commodity. The use of a commodity, such as 'five dollars', can be correctly phrased, "for five dollars". It's an amount. But the term 'free' denotes the ABSENCE of a commodity. 'Free' denotes amountlessness. The only phrase that comes close, and is in fact correct, is: for nothing.
"won't" vs. "wouldn't" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
网页As Kieren has commented, won't is short for will not whereas wouldn't is short for would not. They're not interchangeable. e.g. you wouldn't write I won't do that if I were you, you'd write I wouldn't do that if I were you. If you're not going to be at a party you might write I won't be there and not I wouldn't be there.
grammaticality - Is "aren't I" correct grammar? - English Language ...
网页2011年7月15日 · The NOAD reports that aren't is the contraction of are not, and am not; in the latter case, it is used only in questions.
word choice - What is the opposite of Optimal? - English …
网页2014年6月17日 · exact opposite of "optimal" is "non-optimal". Share. Improve this answer. answered Jun 18, 2014 at 11:48. indian. 31 1. 14. Thanks for your input indian, but Non-optimal means not optimal, even a tiny point off of optimal can be said to be non-optimal so non-optimal isn't the opposite of optimal. – CLockeWork.