Parts 1 and 2 covered marijuanaâs brain mechanism and seven short term effects. Now weâll explore marijuana's long term effects on the brain. Even if you werenât familiar with the brain mechanisms, the short term effects were probably familiar to most readers. The long-term effects, however, are probably less known and certainly more contentious.
A: Well, the phrase âin close proximityâ isnât very graceful (weâd prefer ânearâ or âclose toâ), but we donât consider it redundant, as weâll explain. The Oxford English Dictionary defines âproximityâ as ânearnessâ or âthe fact, condition, or position of being near or close by in space.â. So theoretically the noun âproximityâ should need no help from an adjective like âclose.â. But theory is one thing and fact is another. In reality, there are degrees of nearness, so itâs reasonable to indicate how near with the use of an adjective like âclose,â âcloser,â or âclosest.â.
The noun perimeter refers to the border of an enclosed space. The perimeter of a house is its property line. For a country, it would be that countryâs borders. Parameter is a limit that affects how something can be done, and perimeter is the outline of a physical area. Both words have special meanings in math, but they take off their pocket protectors and relax their definitions when they join the rest of us. Continue reading...