Assorted Language Questions

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Between "it's not my place to say X" and "it isn't my place to say X" which one do you go for?

 

[Birdjaguar]

"it's not my place to say X"

is best.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Wait until you also hear him saying ree-diculous.

New question: what's the right verb for what an object with kinetic energy does with its energy when it hits an object (like a ball hitting the ground). "Disburses"? You physicists will tell me it's "transfers," I suppose. That would be clear if it were one billiard ball hitting another. You'll tell me it's true even if the two objects are of vastly incommensurate size. Still, I want a better verb, more common-sense verb, for what happens to kinetic energy in a collision.

Dissipates

 

[Gori the Grey]

Thanks, EE. Do you know that I have forgotten why it is I was even asking that question?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Thanks, EE. Do you know that I have forgotten why it is I was even asking that question? Still, I want a better verb, more common-sense verb, for what happens to kinetic energy in a collision.

 

[Arwon]

Between "it's not my place to say X" and "it isn't my place to say X" which one do you go for?

Both are valid, I can probably come with differences of intonation bringing slightly different meanings here. The latter feels slightly more conversational, the former more like an official statement? And not using either contraction probably feels more firm and definitive.

 

[amadeus]

Between "it's not my place to say X" and "it isn't my place to say X" which one do you go for?

“It’s not for me to say.”

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