Category Archives: English

What I learned about English writing, sayings, tips, etc.

Thesaurus collections 20090504

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http://thesaurus.reference.com is a good place to resort to about what words to use in English writing.

Today I found the current words very useful:

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When talking about tables:
XXX are listed in Table XXX
XXX are presented in Table XXX
XXX are shown in Table XXX
XXX are tabulated in Table XXX
XXX are placed in Table XXX

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When talking about bullet lists:
listed
enumerated

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Common statements and paragraphs:

detailed
briefed

stated
mentioned
pointed out

described
depicted

explained
manifested
specified
clarified

emphasized
highlighted
stressed
indicated
accentuated

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When talking about figures:

illustrated
demonstrated
presented
shown
displayed
plotted

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from the XXX point of view

from the XXX vantage point of view

from the perspective of XXX

in the sense of XXX

in the light of XXX

English little by little 20090419

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WORD: pertinent

context: Clearly, an error criterion like …, based on the local quality of the Taylor approximation, is not pertinent here. From << Winzer_2000_Accuracy of error propagation exemplified with ratios of random variables_RevSciInstrum.pdf >>

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

pertinent
adj 1: having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand;
"a list of articles pertinent to the discussion";
"remarks that were to the point" [syn: to the
point(p)]
2: being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the
successful copywriter is a master of apposite and
evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply" [syn: apposite,
appropriate, apt]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "pertinent":
a propos, ad rem, admissible, affinitive, appertaining, applicable,
applying, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, associative,
belonging, comparable, comparative, congenial, connective,
correlative, en rapport, fitting, germane, in point, involving,
linking, material, pertaining, proportionable, proportional,
proportionate, referable, referring, relating, relational,
relative, relevant, suitable, sympathetic, to the point,
to the purpose

Hollow legs

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Yesterday I learned a new way of saying: you have hollow legs:)

What this saying means is that no matter how much you eat, you are still in good shape–it seems that the stuff you have consumed were stored in your hollow legs.