Etymonline has the origin of "quantify:" quantify - c.1840, as a term in logic, from M.L. quantificare, from L. quantus "how much" + facere "to make." Lit. sense of "determine the quantity of, measure" is from 1878. Who first added the "-er"

I was just reading the post by mobde3a where he or she said (some typo errors changed): “when u said that cause of 11/sep. case .... could i ask r u sure that muslims did really that??? u r not quite sure ...know why ?? cause bn laddin u were

Gonghai, you need to organize things more logically and not repeat yourself so much, both in English and in any other language. Don't give yourself permission to repeat things unnecessarily by saying "in conclusion" or "in short." Good writing is

My feeling is that in conversation they would usually be equivalent, but on a posted sign or in a public announcement, the second form would be more restrained and hence more polite. Putting the "only" closer to the beginning of the sentence

I didn't know that English women were regularly called English rose, but I did notice one time when I was travelling that, despite the diversity of modern England, young people with noticeably pink cheeks seemed to be especially common in that

It seems to have something to do with whether the target location is conceived of as one-dimensional or two-dimensional, and whether we are thought to be able to penetrate the target or not. For example, we have no idea what it would mean to be

That is a very good ambition to have. (I assume you were not expecting someone to write a textbook for you on this Forum.)

I saw an interesting article in the popular magazine Psychology Today one time that showed that Americans of whatever race doing business-related job interviews with black candidates tended spontaneously to lower the level of their English usage,

I was just reading a review of a book called Serendipity, and the reviewer quoted someone's humorous definition of this word: Serendipity is when you're looking for a needle in a haystack and the farmer's daughter comes out! Change that to the

"Some idea" unifies all your reflections into an overall sense or gestalt of what the author is of the text you're studying is doing. You could also say that you get, or more usually, were able to come up with some ideas, that is, some