Strictly speaking "someone" rather than "someone else" could include yourself and it is quite permissible to say "I'm collecting this on my own behalf" so, yes, there is a difference. Most people would interpret the phrase without the word "else" in it as meaning someone other than yourself but, strictly, you should include it: "someone else's" also sounds more colloquial. I would include the ...
What's the word to describe someone who acts arrogantly and always disagrees with others unreasonably in order to upset people around him/her? [I'm not looking for adjectives like unpleasant, anno...
Is there a word to describe someone who tends to disagree with others ...
I wasn't looking so much to signify the person who does the job but for the action or process itself, the action (a noun not a verb) of doing someone else's job during his/her vacations, the same way as tenure and intership are nouns.
What do you call it when someone assumes the job of someone else who is ...
A pessimist is someone who always considers negative outcomes of a situation, whereas an optimist always considers the positive outcomes. Is there a word for someone who, in any given situation, doesn't care about the outcome at all?
I'm looking for a phrase that describes someone who's really bad at cooking, similar to 'green fingers' for someone who's good at gardening. There doesn't seem to be any such phrase from a Google s...
A person who attends the same college or university as you, from a more technical perspective, should probably be called your collegemate (college is more or less a general term for an institution of higher education, at least, in North America) rather than your schoolmate, but I wouldn't say that this term is common enough that you will ever hear someone actually say it in real life. I've ...