What is the meaning of axe in: "Axe me a question!"   Thank you for your time.
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I know the correct pronunciation (I think) of the words "ask" and "asked", but I quite often hear them pronounced as "ahks" and "ahksed" (almost like an "r" sound). I've heard it both in conversation and on television shows (both Australian and American).   Are these pronunciations due to dialect, or are they alternative pronunciations or incorrect pronunciations? If they are the correct pronunciation, should I use them or the "normal" pronunciation?
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Do we always have to use the question how do you do? fixed in greeting people? Can we ask it in other situations rather than greetings? Like when we are wondering how someone is doing the given task.  Do we always have to use the question what do you do? for asking about sojeone's job? Can we use it sonetimes instead of ** what are you doing?**
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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'm not a native English speaker, so I would like to have an explanation of that expression: "Where something/somebody at?"  Examples :      Where Brooklyn at ? (interlude in a Lonely Island album)      Where you at ? (seen on a game server, instead of Where are you, I suppose)   Are not they supposed to say "Where is/are ..."?
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I've seen the expression in some company names; for example , .  Is the expression "All things X" a parody of some other popular phrase, or does it have its own meaning? Or is it just a misuse of grammar?
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We always change subject and verb positions in whenever we want to ask a question such as "What is your name?". But when it comes to statements like the following, which form is correct?        I don't understand what are you talking about.   I don't understand what you are talking about.      Another example        Do you know what time is it?   Do you know what time it is?      Another example        Do you care how do I feel about this?   Do you care how I feel about this?
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How did the English language come to this?       The play was awful.     Is the complete opposite of     The play was awesome.   But if you break it down to awe followed by ful or some, it doesn't make sense at all. Can someone shed a light on this?  Is there a rule to this, or is it one of those things you need to just memorize?
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Basically, if I ask a rhetorical question, it's not really prompting for an answer.  Does that mean it should not end in a question mark?  Here are two examples:   "What's New" used as a title for a section. "Who wants to reinvent the wheel." This is meant to be rhetorical, so is a question mark correct?
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A user on SO, Abhijit, referred to the OP of a question, acpigeon, as "he" (and then Aaron) .  I didn't see the name on the question page, nor on . Is there a way to look this up that I missed? Alternatives are Abhijit knows acpigeon, or maybe Abhijit was just making things up.  I'm still relatively new to these sites, so I'm still learning my way around. Is there a way short of the two alternatives above to know the OP's name? If so, how?
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Is this the correct use of the question mark?  Should it be at the end outside of the closing bracket?  See example below     How do we deliver it? (to the learner)
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I heard this in  movie. It was my op. What does it mean? Googling gave me : 'Original Poster'. But that doesn't seem very meaningful.
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When some one is asked a question, sometimes if they are trying to avoid answering the question, they respond with something unrelated. What is the word for that response?  Eg. A: Why were you late?     B: This bagel tastes good.  What I am looking for is the name of that response, not the action.
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Is this sentence a question or a statement (or other). It ends with a question, so I used a question mark. (Just ignore the tech jargon.)     I get that this should show me the PID of the SIGTERMing process and I successfully   compiled it, but how do I use it?   Edit: Another question, should it be written as (which is correct and which is clearer?)     I get that this should show me the PID of the SIGTERMing process and successfully   compiled it, but how do I use it?
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There's an old play on words that goes like so:     Grammar: The difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse.    I've been told that it should instead be:     Grammar: The difference between helping your uncle, Jack, off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.    Is either of these correct? Why?
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My native-speaker's grammatical intuition tells me that:  There is a sleeping man under the tree.  is fine but  There is a fishing man by the river bank.  is wrong.  Why? Both  There is a man sleeping under the tree.  and  There is a man fishing by the river bank.  are fine. I've thought about this a little, and I've come up with some grammatical hypotheses, but I'd be very grateful if somebody could point me to a general reference on this matter. Addendum: Someone asked me what hypotheses I've come up with. I've identified two cases where an -ing modifier can come before a noun:  When the -ing acts to modify the noun (like an adjective), rather than describe an action being performed at that time, it goes before the verb.  E.g. flying fish, dancing girl.  When the verb suggests a sensory impression.  E.g. crying baby, shining light.   But there must be at least one more class to account for expressions like a sleeping man. Second addendum: I should clarify precisely what fishing man is supposed to mean.  It does not mean a man who fishes.  That would be taken care of by case 1 of the hypothesis above.  The intended meaning is a man who is fishing.  (Just like a sleeping man is supposed to mean a man who is sleeping rather than a man who sleeps.)
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Please look at the following  Source:       Nirmala questions rich nations.   This is a headline of an article from a newspaper, the link to the article I have quoted.  After reading the article, I didn't understand how "questions" is used. I want to know in what sense question is being used. Does it mean she expressed doubts?
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Someone introduced himself to us.  After that, when we look back and say what he said, which is right to say?     What did he say his name is?      What did he say his name was?   I think the first one is plausible because his name is always XX, but I'm not sure. Please tell me which is allowed.