If you invent a new word, how do you go about getting this recognised as a real word in dictionaries?
is a typical example for , though it is said that long time no see has been accepted by the mainstream English speakers.  Recently, there is a  movement in the , and a few new Chinglish words have been invented to demonstrate the characteristics of the Mainland.  The most outstanding examples (in my opinion) are:   shitizen - a citizen without citizen rights freedamn - the freedom for shitizens (no freedom) democrazy - the democracy for shitizens (no democracy) smilence - the speeches under the freedamn of speech () z-turn - to make effort in vain ( (Pinyin))   Here are my questions. Has there ever been any neologism movement in the history of English? What are the criteria to adopt new words into English?
Very basic question here, I am afraid.  I have hundreds of shattered pieces of a mesh and I am trying to animate their visibility over the scene.  How can I animate the visibility and render visibility parameter for one piece, then copy/transfer to all the others? prove that if two real valued  functions are uniformly continuous on some interval $I$  and each is bounded on $I$ then their product $f\cdot g=f(x)\cdot g(x)$ is also uniformly continuous on $I$ . Is boundedness of each function  on $I$ is  necessary for the product How do I put an image texture on a material in Cycles? I am creating a model of a glass and I would like to put a drawing on it (a png picture).  I know how to do it using Blender Render, but not with Cycles Render. Help :) Prefix or adjective meaning "one and a half" Is there a prefix or adjective that means "one and a half", as "tri-" or "triple" is for "three"?  The exact usage I have is to describe "18" in terms of a dozen. Where I live they've started making 18-egg cartons, and the local grocer was wondering what name to give them in his computerised cash register, hoping for a single word.  Even slang, informal or invented term would do if there isn't such a term already. Prove that the square root of a positive integer is either an integer or irrational Is my proof that the square root of a positive integer is either an integer or an irrational number correct?  The proof goes like this:  Suppose an arbitrary number n, where n is non-negative. If $\sqrt{n}$ is an integer, then $\sqrt{n}$ must be rational. Since $\sqrt{n}$ is an integer, we can conclude that n is a square number, that is  for some integer a.  Therefore, if n is a square number, then $\sqrt{n}$ is rational.  Suppose now that n is not a square number, we want to show that the square root of any non-square number is irrational.  We prove by contradiction. That is, we suppose that the square root of any non-square number is rational. So $\sqrt{n} = \frac{a}{b}$, where $a,b \in Z^+, b \neq 0$. We also suppose that $a \neq 0$, otherwise $\frac ab = 0$ , and n will be a square number, which is rational.   Hence $n = \frac {a^2}{b^2}$, so $nb^2 = a^2$.    Suppose $b=1$. Then $\sqrt n = a$ , which shows that n is a square number. So $b \neq 1$. Since $\sqrt n &gt; 1$, then $a&gt;b&gt;1$.  By the unique factorization of integers theorem, every positive integer greater than $1$ can be expressed as the product of its primes.  Therefore, we can write $a$ as a product of primes and for every prime number that exists in $a$, there will be an even number of primes in $a^2$. Similarly, we can express $b$ as a product of primes and for every prime number that exists in $b$, there will be an even number of primes in $b^2$.  However, we can also express $n$ as a product of primes. Since $n$ is not a square number, then there exist at least one prime number that has an odd number of primes.  Therefore, there exists at least one prime in the product of $nb^2$  that has an odd number of primes. Since $nb^2=a^2$ , then this contradicts the fact that there is an even number of primes in $a^2$ since a number can neither be even and odd.  Therefore, this contradicts the fact that $\sqrt n$ is rational. Therefore, $\sqrt n$ must be irrational.  Is this sufficient? Or is there any parts I did not explain well? "I saw him crossing" vs. "I saw him cross" I saw him crossing the road.   I saw him cross the road.   Which one is correct and why? I couldn’t find any proof on the internet. I would appreciate an elementary proof , but any help would be appreciated!  Thank you. How can I reflect a transparent background? I'd like to make a glossy surface which reflects objects above it, but that also reflects a transparent background in the final render.  So in effect, the final render would contain only the reflections, not the surface itself.  Is this possible please? 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Remove spaces from std::string in C++ What is the preferred way to remove spaces from a string in C++? I could loop through all the characters and build a new string, but is there a better way?