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I'd like to ask what forme is correct:

(1) What does an average day look like?

or

(2) How does an average day look like?

or maybe simply:

(3) What is the average day like?

This is a question from a job interview.

Are you guilty of saying “wait, what?” when you hear something surprising?

What about jumping on the trend of “asking for friend” when everyone, including yourself, knows it’s for you ( Read more... )

To the memory of Vladislav Illich-Svitych.This is just to bring attention to something very ‘Nostratic’ (far beyond ‘Indo-European’ languages - which as a term itself is very outdated ( Read more... )

(Somewhat prompted by watching the Olympics.)

Why is that silly redundancy there in "three one-hundredths of a second"? Nobody says "two one-thirds of a second", or "four one-tenths of a second"; what so special in 100 as the denominator ( Read more... )

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