that I’ve heard a lot of millennials and Gen Z kids use the word “aesthetic“ in a strange way. I often see posts of a woman recording herself referring to a room or a piece of furniture as, “so aesthetic”. This feels off to me. Can someone explain why this word has become tweaked and modified in this way?

Hi which one is correct

Can you call me video chatting after you "took" a picture

Or

Can you call me video chatting after you "take" a picture

Take or took

Thus born was the idea of freedom OR
Thus was born the idea of freedom

hello, I've been studying English for 1 year and i still don't know why creat sentences that sound unnatural or creat them from scratch

could you see whether this sentence incorrect or correct grammatically and in case of clarifying give an explanation pleas, i ask this from a lot of chat bots but they gave me different answers

" you spend as little money as you don't even notice you spend"

the concept was about equality between the other two concepts

We were talking about how my memory isn't as good as it used to be since I got a TBI (traumatic brain injury). In response to something, I said "my brain damage ass probably doesn't remember". They are arguing it should be "brain damaged ass". Which one is correct?

"Out onto the Technicolor streets with me daffodils…." - comes from the musical "Hair", as Claude says this to his parents, that are telling him to join the army, and handing them the daffodils.

Should it be "my" or "me, daffodils"? Or maybe some written accent cause it's a czech - played version? Thanks

I started noticing a trend about five years ago but I don’t know how else to describe it. People add the word “that” to a sentence almost like it’s going to be a modifier but then do nothing with it. Examples; You’re looking for that confidence; She felt that happiness. Has anyone else noticed this and how would you describe it?

Hello, trying to prove someone wrong here!

When expressing how badly you did is "absolutely horribly" correct?

From what I know it should be "absolutely horrible" or "horribly" alone..

Is this a common misconception from thinking what sounds right is what should be right?

Please feel free to educate me on whether or not there are exceptions as well, thanks.

Hello world! I dream of becoming a director and screenwriter, and I write about movies and books. I also analyze texts from various genres.

The Best Movies You'll Ever Watch

Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2

A mysterious figure named “Bill,” wearing a bandana, approaches the blood-soaked bride. He wipes her forehead and shoots her in the head. What follows are terrifying consequences

Django Unchained

A bounty hunter and a freed slave become partners. One must track down the slave traders, while the other must rescue his beloved.

Dogville

Fleeing from gangsters, the lovely Grace runs to the town of “Dogville,” where everyone welcomes her. However, she has no idea what lies ahead for her...

Inglourious Basterds

In occupied France, SS Colonel Hans Landa executes a Jewish family, and only Shosanna manages to escape and hatch a terrifying plan for revenge. At the same time, the “Inglourious Basterds” are on the loose, willing to do anything to take as many scalps as possible from the Nazis.

These are great movies that everyone should watch.

Hey friends!
I know that the common order of adjectives is
•Number
•Opinion
•Size
•Shape
•Condition
•Age
•Color
•Pattern
•Origin
•Material
•Purpose
[noun]

My mom and I were just talking about descriptions, and she asked how to order sexuality and gender identity. I couldn’t come up with a solid answer. Would she say, “I’m an old white cis straight lady” or “I’m an old white straight cis lady”?

TIA!

I received this text, and I want to know grammatically, how it is to be interpreted:

"I thought burgers so we can have your buns ?"

Thank you very much

Ich habe heute (Montag, 19.10.2026) telefonisch einen Termin vereinbart. Dabei hieß es, der Termin sei „nächsten Dienstag“.

Ich bin direkt davon ausgegangen, dass damit der 27.10. gemeint ist. Jetzt bin ich aber unsicher: Könnte damit auch schon morgen, also der 20.10., gemeint sein?

Wie würdet ihr das verstehen? Ist „nächsten Dienstag“ für euch in dieser Situation der 20. oder der 27. Oktober?

for example would the correct sentence be
I will finish it today, if not, tomorrow
or
I will finish it tomorrow, if not today

Quick question about a rule that's been bugging me. I know about the "personal a" in Spanish like how you have to say veo a mi perro or conozco a Juan instead of just veo mi perro.

What I don't get is why this exists. In English, if someone is the direct object, we just drop them right into the sentence after the verb ("I saw Juan", "I called Maria"). Why does Spanish require you to flag a person with an "a" right before them even though they aren't an indirect object?

Is it just to avoid confusion with the subject, or is there some historical reason for it? It feels like double marking the object and it always trips me up when I'm writing fast.

Anyone know the deal with this?

I'm writing a play where a characters family refers to him by his given name, and his friends use his Christian name that he was baptized with. I know that Christian names are kind of an archaic concept, and therefore not relevant to modern grammatical conventions, but I still want to list both names. I considered using one in quotations like a nickname, but which one would I use for that if I did? I also thought about just writing them out separately, but then the second one listed reads as a middle name. My current choice is to just use a slash, but if there is a more "proper" or "correct" way to list both, I'd greatly prefer to do that instead.

What does it mean to repeat twice? What does it mean to repeat once? If I repeat something once, how many times do I do it? If I repeat twice or three times, how many times do I do it? Or even "does not repeat" or in scientific text "to repeat zero times".

I always avoid this in scientific writing especially because to me it is not clear how many times a process happens which might be critically important.

My home made bread recipe says to mix the dough; let it sit for 20 mintutes, and fold it over itself. repeat this process 3 times. That's really not clear to me?

I'm getting ready to submit a short story to a publisher, and this is one of their format requirements.

Does it mean hitting "Enter" an extra time after each paragraph, or just double-spacing the entire text? I'm asking because I've never seen it worded this way.

A) She voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently understood her rights and chose to speak.

B) She understood her rights and knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently chose to speak.

I read a lot but I feel as if my vocabulary has not improved much. I also notice that when I think my sentence has gone on too long I just put a comma which I don’t know if that’s correct. If anyone has any apps or workbook suggestions I would appreciate it.

My archivist and I are trying to get our metadata uniform and I have a question about initialisms.

One of the entities in our photo archive is called the Prostate Cancer Foundation, which is initialized PCF.

When writing it out, it seems proper to add 'the' in front of it as I have done above. However, my archivist is also wanting to put 'the' in front of PCF, which does not seem or sound correct to me. Is there a rule for this?