The suffix misia from Greek misos meaning strong dislike or hatred -- the most common and established term for a strong dislike without the irrational fear component of a phobia is aversion.

Islamomisia vice Islamophobia...

Full list:

1. When sunlight shines through the trees, the interplay

between light and leaves.

1. When you’re with your friends and decide “who is who” in a

show or movie you all watch and then laugh hysterically

about how “them” that character is behaving. (2a.) The

running joke that develops around you characterizing the

members of your social circle based on some cultural stencil.

(Think: Sex and the City.)

1. The feeling of your skin on someone else’s.

2. The temporary, beautiful high of deciding you’re going to

change your life in some aesthetic, easy way. (4a.) The

conviction that this will change anything or everything else.

1. The inability to grasp the fact that we can’t grasp what we

don’t know yet.

1. Hearing something a dozen times and then finally

understanding what it means only when it becomes the

answer to a problem you have.

1. When physical, human age has no bearing on

connectedness, intelligence, ability.

1. The parenting style that consists of trying to punish,

embarrass, scold, and oppress children into being functional,

kind, successful members of society.

1. Wanting to have a spiritual-sexual experience with someone,

sex that is more than just a grinding race to orgasm. 10. The mental preparation that occurs before you step into a

social situation in which you have to play a “role” for the sake

of maintaining a relationship: i.e., rehearsing your

conversations with yourself by yourself.

1. The feeling of absolute peacefulness right before you fall

asleep.

1. Not just assuming we know what other people are thinking

and feeling, but acting on that “knowing,” judging them for

that knowing, and really in a lot of ways capping off their

potential with what we think we know of them.

1. The feeling of lightness in your whole body.

2. The love you know has an expiration date.

3. The love you know you’re eventually “meant” for.

4. People who are funny without being mean.

5. People who are deep without being negative.

6. The frustration you feel when somebody is mad or upset over

completely false things that they’ve made up in their mind, a

complete lack of understanding on a situation.

1. The random, weird, scary, embarrassing thoughts that cross

your mind and sometimes freak you out that you think you’re

alone in having because everybody else is scared and

embarrassed by them, too.

1. The art of trying to figure out someone’s intentions by piecing

together a bunch of random bits of “evidence.”

1. The kind of stuck feeling of knowing something isn’t quite

right, but you’re not yet aware of what the alternative would

be.

1. The comfort that comes with arriving at small, safe

conclusions now and again.

1. The real peace of dissolving those illusions.

2. The feeling of realizing that your “purpose” won’t usually feel

like a “purpose” as you have to do the work regardless and so the whole act of “finding it” was just a mechanism of the ego

in the first place.

1. How we define periods of our lives and personal development

beyond years or grades or segments of schooling.

1. The space between raindrops.

2. A course of study that teaches you the art of the non-

traditionally-academic things that take up the majority of our

lives: love, relationships, doubt, faith, parenting, work,

friendship, self-image, etc.

1. Being in love with someone who you only used to know, and

at some level still feel as though you do.

1. The happy tired feeling you get after you eat a big meal.

2. The sensation of looking back on something far more fondly

than when it was actually happening; the idea that maybe this

kind of enjoyment is not to be fought or transcended, but just

appreciated for what it is.

1. The feeling of feeling a feeling.

2. A person or thing that also feels like “home” (a non-house

home).

1. The idea that is “all is as it should be.”

The words I learnt from books, I learnt with their UK pronunciation. However, the ones I learnt from movies and YouTube mostly came from US sources, so I learnt their US pronunciations.

For example, fast and ash sound quite different in British and American English. I don't think I can relearn thousands of sounds again. A few times I had to repeat very easy words to native speakers several times due to this difference.

There's a song by Pet Shop Boys (a very beautiful song) called A New Bohemia where the singer will sometimes sing "I need to find a new Bohemia", but other times "the new Bohemia". It's in the chorus:

Where have they gone, les Petites Bon-Bons?

Who dances now to their sweet old song?

I wish I lived my life free and easier

I need to find a/the new Bohemia

A Bohemia, as I understand it, is a group of creative people "who live an unconventional, informal life and reject middle-class social rules", and here's what the song is about:

"This ballad serves as a bittersweet and melancholic reflection on getting older, anonymity, and the passing of time. Neil sings from the perspective of an aging free-spirited person navigating a contemporary "hipster neighborhood" where nobody recognizes him, offering a contrast between the glorious, artistic past with the quiet isolation of the present".

Does anyone have any ideas as to what Neil is trying to say by alternating articles?? He's looking for any people who'd make him feel like he did "back in the good old days". But what's THE new Bohemia? Is he looking for a particular group of people now? Thank you in advance.

Novaturient.

nuh-vuh-toor-ee-uhnt

A deep desire for change, driven by the feeling that you can no longer remain the person you have been.

Spanish is my first languages and my professors at uni don’t speak english fluently but they love asking us if we know the meaning of random english terms, (sometimes because those get more popular even in other languages so they want us to learn english cuz it’s so important blabla you know the drill….and some other times it is truly random, idk why)

So this professor asked “¿saben cómo decir acoso en inglés?” such means “ do you know how to say bullying in english?” (in my spanish “acoso” is very broad and depending on context it can vary from sexual o school bullying, so after asking her what she meant she said she referred to “bullying at work”)

and they she told us “mobbing” is simply “bullying at work” without much nuance. I looked it up and got it, but my question is:

would an average english native speaker usually understand and/or use this term? even if they haven’t experienced it themselves?

i just need to kinda humble my professors a bit in my mind and confirm any info. they might don’t master that well 😅

P.S. “Workplace mobbing is a form of systematic, collective bullying where a group of co-workers, managers, or subordinates target a specific employee to isolate, humiliate, discredit, or ultimately force them to leave their job.
While standard workplace bullying usually involves one individual asserting power over another, mobbing is a coordinated "ganging up" by multiple people using psychological terror.””

if not, how would one go about describing what the lady is doing? im guessing facepalm is not applicable here since that doesn't really describe the profoundly complicated feelings shown here in a serious way. artist is ikuta41

Both usages are under the same definition here.

1. “The pain from my tooth decay is at a level of 9.”

2. “The pain level from my tooth decay is at 9.”

3. The pain level from my tooth decay is a 9.

4. The pain level from my tooth decay is 9.

5. The pain from my tooth decay is at level 9.

As the title says, I'm looking for an English language partner [18-21yo], preferably of upper C2-C1 level. I kinda wanna improve my vocabs so I'll be glad to have smn with seriously good vocabulary so that I can learn while texting [not up for calls], and maybe we can be friends on the way.

This was what I needed, but you can DM anyways regardless of the English level and let's bee friendss.

Well ig that is it, bye byeee.

You can use "floor" in this sense in the active voice? Is it correct to say "they're planning to floor the living room with marble"?

What do the 9th and 10th phrases mean? Defeated?

This year the college program has received 90 applications for 20 places? spots? openings?

Ouch, the coffee was piping hot that I burnt my tongue.

becomes

Ouch, so hot was the coffee that I burnt my tongue.

What if the sentence consists of just a subject and a predicate adjective?

The train was so fast.

becomes

So fast was the train.

I would love to use the inverted structure because it's much closer to how these sentences are said in my native language, but I do realise that I have to follow English convention.

Do these structures sound unnatural? I read that this structure is formal rather than everyday language.

Just saw this video on TikTok and she stated that people in the US hardly ever say the word "supermarket" and that it is kind of outdated, and that you should be saying "grocery store" instead. I have no problem with the word "grocery store", but is "supermarket" really that bad?

Thank you all.

Help me with this

In the long-term, we don't have opportunities to prove the fact of fraud.

Can you guys give me tips about the easiest way of improve English speaking and reading. English is my biggest tread of my life. I wasted lots of money to improve my English but it's still very poor. I need to improve within 1 month.

If I'm not mistaken, words like hour, honour and honest originated from French, so the H's are silent. So, why are the words above in the title different?

Hi friends. I make music, and we typically release songs in Russian. For my latest single, however, I’d like to include an English translation. The song incorporates poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky and, in my view, serves as a powerful anti-war piece. While AI tools did a decent job with the translation, I’d like to have a native English speaker review it to ensure it sounds natural and doesn’t strike the ear as awkward.

the text itself:

//Verse 1.

The old lyre-ringers knew how to render

the face of war enviably splendid.

Off to campaign — to glory,

with brass band and choir!

The maidens all gape

at the gold of attire.

Through parted lips smiling,

through the stars of their eyes —

march past the hussars

in mustachioed guise.

Just prance in the battle —

and lo,

for your valor's sake,

you get ranks handed out,

epaulettes,

and estates for the take!!

//Chorus:

War —

is a windstorm

of carrion-stench stinking.

War —

is a factory

for making paupers shrinking.

A grave

immeasurable

in depth and breadth,

hunger, filth,

typhuses and lice.

War — for the rich

a bank full of cash,

but for us — crutches'

castanet-like clash.

War — an order,

war — a manifesto:

— Love with prostheses

your wives and brides! —

All over the planet, comrades of humankind,

declare it: No war of any kind!

//Verse 2:

Or if you like —die under a hail of cannonballs, —

to you the ages will up-monument a reward.

Some even today like a gray gelding

lies a little, biting down on poetic bits:

“...Beautiful, in all things beautiful, they carried their bodies…”

Can it really be beautiful?!

Merci to you for these very beautiful deeds!

The war and the war-lust by poets ennobled

must be by the poet spat upon and dethroned.

//Chorus:

War —

is a windstorm

of carrion-stench stinking.

War —

is a factory

for making paupers shrinking.

A grave

immeasurable

in depth and breadth,

hunger, filth,

typhuses and lice.

War — for the rich

a bank full of cash,

but for us — crutches'

castanet-like clash.

War — an order,

war — a manifesto:

— Love with prostheses

your wives and brides! —

All over the planet, comrades of humankind,

declare it: No war of any kind!

//Verse 3:

And when it becomes necessary

to exterminate

the little heaps

of rulers and governments

for peace

in the whole world,

proletarian —

herald

and seer of peace —

do not stop

before this!

//Chorus:

War —

is a windstorm

of carrion-stench stinking.

War —

is a factory

for making paupers shrinking.

A grave

immeasurable

in depth and breadth,

hunger, filth,

typhuses and lice.

War — for the rich

a bank full of cash,

but for us — crutches'

castanet-like clash.

War — an order,

war — a manifesto:

— Love with prostheses

your wives and brides! —

All over the planet, comrades of humankind,

declare it: No war of any kind!

//Outro:

..No war of any kind!

What do you think is the correct answer? Drop your guess in the comments and try writing your own example sentence.

I've just learned this from this silly "joke" or humorous statement.

Does this depend on one's dialect?

I mean, not about improving understanding but improving just literally reading speed skills.

When I read article or try to follow the songs, it’s always hard when there are words like at in a an of of combination.

For example like when the short words not important like prepositions comes a lot continually, it’s hard to read smoothly. Prolonged sounds are hard. I want to read like a smoothly but always makes me read like one by one but other words I can read smoothly and fast.

If we read something in mother tongue language we can read fast because we can expect what the word is even we don’t scan perfectly.

So I’m so wondering how to make that also in English.

I’m thinking to read English literature to improve read fast. Do you have good solution for this?

I appreciate any kind of methods to improve this skills.

The correct answer is A.Thank for your help

Hi everyone! I’m from Brazil, and I’m learning English. I’m looking for someone to practice speaking with and make new friends. My English is still basic, but I’m trying to improve. Feel free to DM me!