Generate the answer for a given question. The question requires common knowledge of English. Make sure that the answer is in detail, long, consistent with the context, and requires general knowledge of English. To be less repetitive, please vary your language for each question. Give a proper explanation to answer, and if necessary, provide the definition of various terms. And conclude your answer if it's long. If you have used other resources (e.g., Merriam Webster's.) to answer the question, include citations in your answer. You don't need to paraphrase the context of your resources, but make sure that your answer is consistent and complete.
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Question: Please tell the single word for 'to completely root out a disease'.

Answer: Eradicate. Etymology is from Eradicare. Eradicare, in turn, can be traced back to the Latin word radix, meaning 'root' or 'radish.' Although eradicate began life as a word for literal uprooting, by the mid-17th century it had developed a metaphorical application to removing things. Eradication is the reduction of an infectious disease's prevalence in the global host population to zero.


Question: Everybody deals with this phenomenon daily but I had my curiousity piqued when someone claimed that punishing the many for the actions of the few was just called 'group punishment.' Group Punishment is simply punishing a large group of people. Is there a specific word for when a large group is punished because of the actions of the few? Such as in the following: Little Jimmy wasn't happy when the entire class was forced to work through recess because of 3 kids getting into a fight yesterday.

Answer: Collective punishment is the formal expression: Penalty imposed on every member of a group without regard to his or her involvement in the group's actions and conduct. Related: collective responsibility. (www.businessdictionary.com) Is collective punishment fair in the classroom?: Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions collective punishment is considered a war crime. 'No general penalty, pecuniary or otherwise, shall be inflicted upon the population on account of the acts of individuals for which they cannot be regarded as jointly and severally responsible.' Unfortunately for our students they do not have rights as general citizens or even our war enemies and common criminals in society. They shed their rights as they enter the double doors of the school and us parents shed our ability to ask for fair treatment of our children.


Question: I've heard this joke several times, but I'm ashamed to say I really cannot understand it. It just doesn't seem to make any sense however I look at it. I have a suspicion that it is supposed to be rude, so I'd like to offer my apologies if it causes offence- that is not my intension. Here's the joke: Two nuns are in the bath. Nun1: Where's the soap? Nun2: Yes, it does rather. Edit: I understand the pun on 'where's'/'wears'. But what I don't understand is why that is funny. Several people have mentioned that there is a sexual inference, but I don't understand where it comes from.

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'Why is this funny?' may be one of the hardest questions to answer. Humor is subjective, circumstantial, and, not infrequently, ineffable. Personally, I don't think I'd ever encountered a nun joke before this, as I didn't grow up in a community with many Catholics and nuns didn't really seem relevant to our lives. Thus, like OP, I would never have understood the joke by myself. The other answers show that an understanding of the joke requires some basic cultural assumptions - here, that nuns are secretly lewd (and sometimes, apparently, lesbian). When the one nun asks, 'Where's the soap?', the other takes this as a declarative comment about her current (apparently masturbatory) use of the soap: 'Wears [out] the soap.' The guilty nun then affirms that 'Yes, it does, rather.' Why do some people find this funny? Because they already have a history of finding sexualized nuns funny, and this joke triggers their comic affection for that idea. There are innumerable jokes that similarly necessitate some level of preconceived notion for their humor to be apparent. Let's look, for instance, at this 'dumb blonde' joke: The waiter asked the blonde if she would like her pizza cut into six pieces or twelve. 'Six, please,' she said. 'I could never eat twelve!' Why is this funny (to the extent that it is)? Because its audience has been programmed (probably from a young age) to find the idea that blondes are stupid funny. The joke itself doesn't much matter in its details - it just has to trigger that automatic comic response. Examples abound - jokes about how Jewish/Asian/[insert modifier here] men have small penises, jokes about how 'you might be a redneck if...', and on and on. Ultimately, they're contextual, and no amount of explaining the context will make the joke funny (even if it makes it decipherable).


