For example: something , everything, anything, nothing ... special  someone , everyone , anyone,, no one ... special  somebody , everybody , anybody , nobody ...special
I want to better understand why the construction something + [adjective] makes grammatical sense. Background: I was recently reading a Washington Post article and came across the following sentence.  So if you fall in that category, [the movie] feels more like magic than repetitive.  (Note: I've copied the relevant spoiler-free sentence above; following the link to the article will open you up to movie spoilers! ) The phrase more like magic than repetitive struck me as odd, presumably because it was non-parallel (more like [noun] than [adjective]). I would have expected &quot;...more like magic than something repetitive.&quot; (Actually, that needs to be rewritten to flow better, but the point is that at least it appears to be grammatical.) Thus, one would have the noun phrase &quot;something repetitive,&quot; of the form &quot;[noun] [adjective].&quot; This got me to thinking about the use of adjectives after nouns. There is a great Stack Exchange article  that involves the characteristics of the adjective that indicate it should come after the noun. But I haven't been able to find examples of how the word &quot;something&quot; requires a postponed adjective. Consider the following sentences:  I want to buy something red. I am looking for something sweet to eat.  You cannot say:  *I want to buy red something. *I am looking for sweet something to eat.  But you can say:  I want to buy something (that is) red. I am looking for something (that is) sweet to eat.  So, my question:  Do the above examples mean that the &quot;something [adjective]&quot; construction is an example of the ellipsis of &quot;that is&quot;?  Is there something special about the word &quot;something&quot; that requires the postponed adjective? Note that I am NOT looking for details about adjectives that are postponed; I'm interested in the word that precedes the adjective (either &quot;something&quot; or similar words).   By the way, I am not interested in the following constructions, which are different:  I want to paint the house red. I tried to build the brick house taller.  Thanks in advance!
Background info: I am planning on making a filehost with which one can encrypt and upload files. To protect the data against any form of hacking, I'd like not to know the encryption key ($K$) used for a file, so the user will have to asymmetrically encrypt $K$ and send it as well. The reason for this double encryption is that you can still share (individual!) files with other accounts by encrypting $K$ with the public keys of those users, too.  My problem is: How can a user can get a public and private key without the server saving/knowing the private key and without the user having to remember a passphrase of 250 hex characters?  Question: Is there a way to derive a key pair from a password, like PBKDF-2 does for symmetric encryption? Suggestions on rearranging the cryptographic steps in an easier way are welcome, too.  Alternatively: It is also possible to encrypt the private key with a PBKDF-applied password and store it on the server, but I'd like to keep things 'simple'. ;)  Note: At this point I don't care if it requires RSA, ECC or an obscure cryptography scheme. "Have you seen her?" or "Did you see her?" I already knew that we use the present perfect for an action in the past with a result now. Consider the following questions:   "I'm looking for Paula. Have you seen her?" "I'm looking for Paula. Did you see her?"   Is there any difference between these two questions for this specific action (verb)? What is the result of "seeing" action which can't be represented by simple past? Can't find wifi drivers for 0bda:f179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp Although Ubuntu 16.04 release notes mention that:  The default VIM package has been built against python3 instead of python2.  Yet after I installed vim with the following command:  sudo apt-get install vim   And checked:  vim --version   It showed:  -python -python3   Is it a bug? How do I get vim with Python support? How do I change my update server in Ubuntu 18.04? The first thing I did after installing 16.04 LTS was to change my update server to Main Server. I can not find a similar option in Ubuntu 18.04.  How do I change it? Why does pressing a transform hotkey not display the axes on the selected object? I open Blender 2.80 (official release, not a beta or RC) and get the new scene with the usual 3 objects present (camera, light and cube). I select the cube, press 't' for the tools menu and click on the Move tool. The usual 3 axis glyph appears at the cube's origin as expected. But if I use the hotkey 'g' to activate the move transform instead of selecting the tool from the menu with the mouse this glyph does not appear. The exact same problem exists if I use the a hotkey for rotate or scale as well. Why? Is there some clickable checkbox setting hidden somewhere that could have disabled this? How to make a logo where a letter is made of particles of varying sizes? How can I make a logo in Adobe Illustrator like the AntiParticle logo below, from ?   It is a large number circles of different, varying sizes, which form the shape of a text character. Differences between /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin I have six directories with command files. These are /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin.  What are the differences between these? If I'm writing my own scripts, where should I add them?    Related: How to know whether Lagrange multipliers gives maximum or minimum? On the nature of the collapse of the wave function The collapse of the wave function by measurements is one of the most mysterious properties of quantum mechanics.    At what scale does the wave function collapse? What are the conditions for a collapse?  Can it be made precise?  Does the collapse happen instantaneously, or is it spread out in time?  What is the precise equation for the collapse?  Why is the collapse time-asymmetric, and can this explain the arrow of time? Biblatex: submitting to a journal Suppose that I moved from BibTeX to biblatex. With BibTeX I just copied the content of .bbl file into final version of my paper before submitting it to a journal. What should I do at same stage having .bbl file produced by biblatex? It is of quite different format. On this link (Sentinel1  for a SLC product), the resolution is written as a range from the highest corresponding to low incidence angle, to the lowest resolution corresponding to high incidence angle.  My question is how is the resolution related in general to the incidence angle? And if they are really related, why is the resolution affected by the change in the incidence angle? How can I vertically center a "div" element for all browsers using CSS? I want to center a div vertically with CSS. I don't want tables or JavaScript, but only pure CSS. I found some solutions, but all of them are missing Internet Explorer 6 support. &lt;body&gt;     &lt;div&gt;Div to be aligned vertically&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt;  How can I center a div vertically in all major browsers, including Internet Explorer 6? What does it mean to say "a divides b" I am not a number theorist and I am learning about relations.  I encountered a relation that says      $a \leq b$ if $a$ divides $b$   Can someone clarify what it means to a number to divide another number?  Does it mean what I think? $a$ divides $b$ if $a | b \in \mathbb{Z}$?     So given a set $S = \{a, a^2, a^3, \ldots\}$, with relation $a | b \leftrightarrow a \leq b$, does the relation hold   going from left to right or right to left? i.e. $a|a^2, a^2|a^3, \ldots$ How to align two images side by side if one label has more lines I have two same sized images and want them side by side with a caption under them.  My code looks like this:   \begin{figure}[H] \centering \begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}   \centering     \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{3}     \caption{label1}   \label{fig:test1} \end{minipage}% \begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}   \centering     \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{4}     \caption{label2}   \label{fig:test2} \end{minipage} \end{figure}   which works fine until one of the labels has 2 lines, than it looks like this:    and I woud like to prevent it to look something like this:    How can it be done?  Thanks New global preferences: keyboard shortcuts and sticky topbar Following a global preference for , as of now, the preferences for enabling keyboard shortcuts and disabling the fixed topbar are network-wide* as well.  If you had either checked off on any site in the network, that setting has been preserved and applied to the whole network for your account already. Future changes will also apply to all* Q&amp;A sites.  Find them in their usual spot as previously on the  pages.    * With the exception of , which will support the fixed topbar after the . Center-align the verbatim environment Is it OK to add [Solved] to the title of a question? I was confused when I saw this Question with [Solved] in its title where I couldn't find a solution: .  Then I found out that the "[Solved]" part was put there by someone else through editing like these:       I was feeling that this was not how it's supposed to be done and searched meta to find, that it is indeed discouraged to do so:        But on the other hand, the user who did the edits has a whole lot of reputation so I might me missing something here. So what's the correct thing to do? Should those edits be reverted? Prove that all 2x2 orthogonal matrices can be expressed as Rotation or Reflection Show that a matrix $A$ is singular if and only if $0$ is an eigenvalue. I can't find the missing link between singularity and zero eigenvalues as is stated in the following proposition:  A matrix $A$ is singular if and only if $0$ is an eigenvalue.  Could anyone shed some light?