For example, why signage in national parks says "it's unlawful to feed wildlife" instead of illegal?
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I often hear an unlawful act, so what is an illegal act? Dictionary.com defines the words as:    forbidden by law or statute.  contrary to or forbidden by official rules, regulations, etc.     not lawful; contrary to law; illegal   so it appears they might be synonyms. Is there some nuance that I'm missing?
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UK only, just wanted to check if it's actually legal. The area I'm living on is deadly on the roads, so want to know about riding on pavements (sidewalk/pedestrian walkways) instead where there is no bike lane (half of the roads have bike lanes around here and suddenly they disappear...).
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As my opinion, "no smoking is allowed" must be correct , because it's "passive voice" . Then I saw a title on 9gag.com that was "NO penguins allowed". So what grammar point is here?
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A variation of the old (really old) Twitter logo is being used in various places on Area51 when sharing is involved:        This goes against  (which have been in place for at least 4 years now), which state:     USAGE GUIDELINES / IT’S A BIRD, NOT A PLANE      The Twitter marks represent the core values of our brand, from meaningful connections in real time to simple amplified expression. Please don’t present the marks in a manner that suggests sponsorship or endorsement by Twitter, or confuse Twitter with another brand. Always use our official and unmodified Twitter logo to represent Twitter.            Don't         ...   Use older versions of the logo, previous logos, or any marks that may be confused with the brand
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In 2008, :     A long time ago, it became fashionable, even recommended, to disable   menu items when they could not be used.      Don't do this. Users see the disabled menu item that they want to   click on, and are left entirely without a clue of what they are   supposed to do to get the menu item to work.      Instead, leave the menu item enabled. If there's some reason you can't   complete the action, the menu item can display a message telling the   user why.   That's an interesting idea, but I wish he'd elaborated on what he meant by "display a message telling the user why."   Has anyone actually followed this advice? Are there any examples of menus that display a message instead of disabling a menu item -- perhaps something you designed yourself, or something out of Fog Creek?  I'm curious about the mechanism by which the message would be displayed and whether anyone has experience (good or bad) with showing a message instead of disabling a menu item.
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I have been in many scenarios where people try to obscure/reduce the intensity of a seemingly bad or immoral act using grammar. E.g. Assuming Thomas killed a dog, you could hear something like:     There's essentially nothing wrong about palliating the miserable life   of a despondent being. If there was any issue here, I'd say it's not   consulting a veterinary doctor first but I've come to understand that some people are just straightforward.   How does one react to the above mumbo jumbo? I think there are similar situations also found in law courts. What can this be referred to as? Grammatification, obscure tactics?
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On the , some of the interchange symbols have little lines and half-circles in them. They're a bit small to read on some maps, but if you zoom in they get a big clearer:    Are these suggestions for where to change depending on the direction you're going + changing to? Or do they have some other meaning?  .  Bonus marks - Assuming I am right that that these are direction interchange suggestions, what does it mean if it's an empty circle, or a "T" in one?
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I have had a debate with one of my friends about this little game:  "1 rabbit saw 9 elephants while going to the river. Every elephant saw 3 monkeys going to the river. Each monkey had 1 tortoise in each hand. How many animals are going to the river?"  Answers:   4 - if you could rabbit and monkeys (which are described as "going to" the river)  10 - if you are counting tortoises in monkeys' hands 19 - if you assume all   my argument is that the tortoises are not "going to", but are being either "taken to" or "move towards" river. That's what I would say if someone holds me and goes to the river.  my friend's argument is that because they move towards the river, they are "going to" the river. he gave example of me being in the car.  Me: If I don't intend to go there, I'm being "taken to", even if in the car.  Question: does "going to" implies intent of the subject ?
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As someone who has watched a lot of subtitled Japanese animation, it seems odd to hear a word such as ninja (used in the plural) in the dialogue and see it transliterated as ninjas.  It somehow seems better to me to treat ninja just like antelope, bison, buffalo, caribou, deer, elk, fish, grouse, quail, reindeer, sheep, swine, etc., which are both singular and plural.
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Why the disparity? And why use 'No.'? Is it from the French?  And the hash or pound sign seems a weird choice too, is there a history or any reason involved?
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I'm a bit confused about this. Which expression is correct?     You can't just do that.    or      You just can't do that.   I'm trying to say:     You can't just bash an ideology because of what someone has said/done.
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I was recently surprised to see  because his flight was overbooked.  He was reportedly a doctor who needed to see patients the next morning, so he did not really want to get off, justifying the use of force.  I knew that airlines could overbook flights and deny boarding to some passengers, but I thought that kind of boarding denial would happen at the gate and that once folks had been let on, those denied boarding would be those arriving later to the gate.    Why or in what conditions is this kind of forcible removal considered OK?    Clarification following close votes from people who think this question is primarily opinion-based: By "OK" I mean the sense of "legally OK," "officially accepted," "instantiated as policy," "sanctioned by authorities," or "OK according to the regulations and policies and laws and whatever other formal rules govern forced removal from flights due to overbooking." Whether or not you personally consider it socially acceptable does not matter as an answer, unless you have formalized that into a citeable adopted form that governs what happens and want to explain the reasoning behind that rule.
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Looks like a text inconsistency to me:   Spam flags are Helpful Other flags are helpful
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I'm looking for a couple of good coined phrases that I can use in front of business people, apologies if the one I had in mind offends anyone.   I'd use "can sleep at night" but I want the phrase to imply legal liability if we don't do something.
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Is it allowed for user to post question proposing some protest actions against SE site/network? For example propose to avoid using it on concrete date or misuse/overuse some of the rules to explicitly show its inadequacy. Actually not sure if we can join these cases, so if they differ, I'd like to find some kind of border between them.  If yes, are there special requirements for such kind of posts? If no, how should such questions be handled: just close as offtopic or close and delete? If some of them are allowed and some are not, where is a border?
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The favicon is used in various places around the Stack Exchange (SE) network, to identify the site. Currently, Earth Science has  for main and  for meta. The problem I see is that these are awfully similar (i.e. exactly the same, as demonstrated here) to those for Spanish.SE, which are  for main and  for meta. The larger versions offer slight differences, but it's still hard to tell quickly which is which. Power users on this site, did you guess right, even after some time to think about it? (Answers under spoiler tag).   for main and  for meta.  for main and  for meta.    The first one is Earth Science and the second is Spanish.  Should SE visually distinguish between the two very different sites?
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I saw two less than signs on this Wikipedia article and I was wonder what they meant mathematically.    EDIT: It looks like this can use TeX commands. So I think this is the symbol: $\ll$