Activity for Canina
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| Comment | Post #286821 |
While your first question is reasonably focused, though probably difficult to answer authoritatively, your second "question" (where the existence of multiple parts identified by you as different questions within a single question post is already a red flag) actually consists of a multitude of questio... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286821 |
For an example of where Aviationish differs from English, if you watch reenactments of aviation accidents or even read transcripts of radio communications in aviation accident investigation reports, there will be times where air traffic controllers ask the pilots for "number of souls on board". They ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286821 |
Not to mention that at least aviation checklists are hardly prosaic in the first place. Those might say "oxygen masks - don" or "spoilers - arm" or "pitot heat - as required". There have even been fairly high-profile aviation accidents that have cost lives where merely the complexity of individual ch... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286821 |
Aviation does not "forbid" the use of either "ascend" or "descend", or for that matter other similar-sounding words; there's no central authority that's going to issue a citation to a pilot who uses non-standard phraseology. (That said, if using non-standard phraseology might cause or even contribute... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285947 |
Are you working to any particular style guide (APA, MLA, Oxford, ...), or is your work more free-form? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284237 |
You might want to check out our [*Challenges* category](/categories/20). Don't be afraid to post something to an old one, either. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283855 |
Not my downvote, but I'm not sure how or whether this is a question about the process of writing; see [Writing's scope](/help/faq) for more details on the scope. Also, I have seen *plenty* of poor or unclear questions being closed, edited into shape, and subsequently reopened, so there clearly exist ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281074 |
While we do allow self-answers, it's really rather strange to post a self-answer suggesting a solution that one's own question explicitly disallows. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279019 |
The more I think about it, the more this feels like the way to go, as long as we can carefully apply the criteria also to answers to unclaimed/unimproved questions. Also, let's not forget that we can **selectively** import **specific** questions and their answers if desired. (This applies also to mor... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277206 |
@Mithical Part of my reasoning behind this challenge was precisely to get people to move a little outside of their comfort zone. Animals feature in a lot of creative writing in particular, but usually do so as, at most, minor side characters. For a lot of authors, putting animals front and center (wh... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276121 |
Hi Prahara. I edited the titles of both your questions to try to better summarize each question, as well as clearly set them apart. If you feel that my edits changed your intent in any way, by all means do feel free to edit further. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275866 |
Even in a more traditional `for(int i=0; i<N; i++) {}` for some value `N`, unless interrupted (e.g. by `break;`), the loop will run for `N` iterations with `i` counting from 0 through N-1 inclusive; but nothing about the language actually dictates this construct, and it is equally valid (though non-i... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275866 |
If we're going down that route, might as well point out that C-derived languages typically (if not always) use a loop termination *condition*, which may or may not have anything to do with a loop counter variable. For example, `for(int i=0; getch() != EOF; i++) {}` will terminate not when `i` reaches... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74968 |
This was very helpful. Thank you. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74957 |
This was very helpful. Thank you. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #29170 |
Another example to draw inspiration from could be Spock's attempts at using profanity in *Star Trek: The Voyage Home*. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #75027 |
You can even do away with a few more, if we allow adding a few words here and there. Just as one example, if before "I’m not going back through these accursed demon woods." we would insert something like "Don't be silly, Steve.", that can both tell us at least who that person is talking *to*, and als... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74979 |
Whatever you do, or whatever term you end up using, please don't fall into what looks like the common trap of thinking that "mobile first" means *desktop* can be an afterthought. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74906 |
I like the idea of being able to indicate (in a standardized form) *why* one thinks that (particularly) an answer is good or bad. This would be one way to do that. It would do much the same thing as comments associated with votes, but aggregate more easily. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74958 |
Regarding edits, a part of the confusion there is probably because there's no visible indication on a post that it's been edited, the way there is on SE. It's in the history, but not on the question/answers page itself. @MonicaCellio (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74854 |
There's a start date, but do we want to put a last date for "official" (as much as one can use that word in the first place) submissions? Do we submit our entries in answers to this question, or as separate questions under the Challenges category and then link from here? Remember: we don't *have* to ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39572 |
@Ooker In the published world, that would be considered an endorsement or a blurb. There's nothing inherently wrong with either. However, they are usually clearly separated from the work itself; in a book, they're often back-cover matter, for example. There's some expectation that they are chosen to ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #22281 |
Also mind the fact that abbreviations can have very different meanings in different contexts. For example, if you say to a pilot "using IMC can increase your audience response", they'll wonder what [Instrument Meteorological Conditions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_meteorological_conditio... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |