Skip to main content

Timeline for Is integrious a valid word?

Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0

10 events
when toggle format what by license comment
Jan 28, 2020 at 19:27 history edited Bao CC BY-SA 4.0
added 1 character in body
Jan 28, 2020 at 19:24 history edited Eddie Kal CC BY-SA 4.0
deleted 9 characters in body
Jan 28, 2020 at 18:38 vote accept Bao
Jan 28, 2020 at 18:22 comment added FumbleFingers My point about feeling of is essentially a stylistic choice. It adds nothing to the intended meaning, and it clashes with preceding "clipped" peer pressure (not hyphenated, just a shorter way of saying pressure from peers). You could say avoiding can hinder a person from remaining X is also just a stylistic choice, but that second one would probably be classed as "clumsy, awkward" by more people than would agree with me regarding feeling of. Both are "syntactically valid" - it's just a matter of whether they're "natural, idiomatic".
Jan 28, 2020 at 18:17 answer added Dan timeline score: 1
Jan 28, 2020 at 18:12 comment added Bao A thousand mention of gratitude for accommodating & accounting my query, as well as introducing me to a foreign word(felicitous)! But, if it's not too much to ask, ma'am, may I know the reason why it could be beneficial to disregard feeling of?
Jan 28, 2020 at 17:20 review Close votes
Jan 28, 2020 at 19:24
Jan 28, 2020 at 17:12 comment added FumbleFingers The full (subscription-only) OED has it marked as obsolete. But even if you replaced it by a more "current" term (such as honest, moral, decent), the sequence ...can hinder a person from remaining XXX would not be "felicitous". If you like the word integrity, consider something like ...can make it difficult to retain one's integrity or similar. And it's just the need to conform - forget about including feeling of there.
Jan 28, 2020 at 17:00 review First posts
Jan 28, 2020 at 17:29
Jan 28, 2020 at 16:56 history asked Bao CC BY-SA 4.0