Permit allow enable doing something | WordReference Forums As far as I understand, verbs enable permit allow are almost exclusively used in phrases like "permit somebody to do sth" Is the use "permit (etc ) doing sth" also acceptable? In my own language (Polish) the "somebody" part is only used if it _really_ matters This gives me problems translating
growing exponentially vs. growing explosively - WordReference Forums "Explosively" is a metaphor for sudden increase Exponential growth has a sharper definition, e g The number of infections is doubling every month An explosion could be a short spurt; the get equivalence, one might say, "a continuing explosion of cases "
on a night of your choosing | WordReference Forums A producer credit in all outward-facing publicity, plus free tickets to 5 Exponential shows on a night of your choosing I think it's a common phrase in those sorts of contexts
fresque du climat - WordReference Forums Climate Fresk encourages the rapid and widespread spread of an understanding of climate issues The efficiency of the teaching tool, the collaborative experience and the user licence have contributed to the exponential growth of Climate Fresk
123 followed by 27 zeros [how do you read this number?] It is unlikely that anyone would actually read or write this but: One hundred and twenty three octillion In English we write numbers in groups of three separated by commas Thus, 123,000,000 would be one hundred and twenty three million The original number could be written as 123 x 10 27 or 1 23 x 10 29
pronoun for the general public: it or they - WordReference Forums Hi all, should the pronoun for "the general public" be "it" or "they"? I'm inclined to believe that both are possible When thinking of "the general public" as a single group of people, "it" is appropriate When thinking of "the general public" being consisting of different people, "they" is
Why is Bulgarian considered an analytical language, when its really . . . By definition an analytical language has a low morpheme to word ratio, and makes little use of affixes As far as I know Bulgarian has a rich derivational and inflectional verbal morphology (something that analytical languages lack), the nominal morphology (although different from other Slavic