2016年8月23日 · Did you mean: indistinguishable. Princeton University's WordNet defines indistinguishable as: identical: exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different; "rows of identical houses"; "cars identical except for their license plates"; "they wore indistinguishable hats"

2016年9月28日 · The rule that you quoted actually reads, "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice", and is known as Grey's Law, though it seems recent in origin and there seems to be no record of a person named Grey saying it, nor any verifiable reference linking it to a person named Grey.

2020年1月10日 · I perceive "not indistinguishable" to be somewhere between "distinguishable" and "indistinguishable." Saying that something has been "never indistinguishable" sounds like many have believed the subject to be "indistinguishable" while it's being said now that it's at least not totally indistinguishable. More on the subject:

2011年8月17日 · So the likely pronunciation of "The witch's waiting outside" would be pretty well indistinguishable from "The witch is waiting outside", so we treat it as the latter always. The same applies to "this": "this's" would be indistinguishable from "this is" anyway.

For this specific scenario, the usage of "opposite to" and "opposite" is indistinguishable in resulting meaning. However, they cannot be used interchangeably in all cases. "Opposite" is utilized as an adjective in: Their house is opposite to the Red Cross Hospital. While it is utilized as a preposition in: Their house is opposite the Red Cross ...

2011年2月16日 · You could pronounce it [liŋq] with a uvular q like the "q" in Iraq. (Though to English ears the k and q sound is indistinguishable). Also C# should be called "see hash", since they insist on using the # (hash) symbol and not the ♯ (sharp) symbol. ;) –

They are certainly interchangeable, as you mentioned, but I would go so far as to say that their common usages are semantically indistinguishable. In point of usage, Ngrams shows a slight preference for What about you:

2012年5月18日 · Neither. This is a case (one of many) in which the two forms are equivalent in meaning. This is aided by the fact that in English the two sentences are pronounced identically, since the /vdʒ/ cluster in /ayvdʒəstə'rayvd/ I've just arrived is very difficult to pronounce, and is normally shortened to just /dʒ/, which makes it indistinguishable from I just arrived.

2015年7月8日 · It isn't that Johnson thinks that i and j are identical or indistinguishable. His introduction to the letter i is clear on the relevant distinctions as well as on the combined treatment: I is in English considered both as a vowel and consonant.

2016年9月17日 · Figurative uses of this sense (for example, quots. 1570, a1764) are often indistinguishable from the more pejorative senses 2c and 3a. ["mess, n.1". OED Online.