https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/con-#Etymology_1 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pre#Etymology_1 is a car a motor bike ? yes no it is not is as dave says, it depends. you ask "can you provide me with (travel) 'serve' ? i say yes you may borrow my fighter jet because it travels far quickly. you say i want to travel cheaply so i give you my skateboard but you have to travel 5,000 miles. the relationship of the usage is scientifc as equally to the application of the interpreted meaning which is subjective in pronoun of collective culture. this is one simple reason why Artificial intelligence is a long way off.
having a cry in a thread for being caught red handed as a troll in another thread is not very attractive. you trying to build a little gang ?
Here's an English word for you, asshole: Cretin. But I seriously doubt your condition is rooted in endocrine problems.
He's not the first, and its not necessarily a bad thing. Many here are pretty certain the OP is a bot, or at least someone teaching a bot. I don't have a problem lousing up someone's plans for the AI takeover.
There's a subtle distinction, which many English speakers don't know. Usually when we "compare with", the implication is that the things being compared are broadly similar to one another to start with, whereas when we "compare to" the assumption is usually that the things being compared are different from one another in some important way. For example, guerilla warefare in Iraq could be compared with guerilla warfare in Syria. But guerilla warfare has a different character when compared to warfare conducted via a bombing campaign. The Oxford English dictionary quotes Shakespeare's sonnet: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" The lover this is addressed to is found to be "more lovely and more temperate", that is, quite different from a summer's day in an important way. On the other hand, when we compare the Australian separation of powers with the separation of powers in the United States, we find a lot of similarities (in part because the Australian Constitution was modelled in part on the US Constitution), but note that in Australia there is less separation between the executive and legislative branches of government.
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I always understood the distinction to be that you would use "compared with" when you were intending to highlight the similarities, and "compared to" when intending to highlight the differences. Not sure that's necessarily correct, though.
Not to detract from the fascinating conversation here. Maybe a little.. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Hasn't someone already asked for, and been given, an explanation of the phrase, "Beating a dead horse"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_to_an_end https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony
I think if you are posting here you need two things: a dictionary, and the rules of English Usage and Grammar Then you can parse your own question and think what it means to you. That being said, I'm going to peek at what others have written. done. Quicker than reading and responding to all those posts.
