intangible/inanimate subject

Hello everyone,

In my learning English APP, I found the following sentence:
Rumors have it that the mayor demanded a bribe.

In Japanese, there are few way of saying like the above that intangible (inanimate) subject is used
As my mother tongue is Japanese, I am unfamiliar with such expressions.
Whereas, I feel these are very English-like expressions, so I would like to expand my vocabulary like this "Rumor has it that..".

It would be appreciated much if you kindly tell me anything about phrase of intangible/inanimate subject.

Thank you,

interrogative sentence Meaning of "你有没有狗" and "你有狗吗" are completely same ? Or is there any difference of nuance ? (I somehow like the former, because 有没有 or 是不是 looks/sounds rhythmic and forms symmetry.)

How to say "I'm not OK" I suppose "还可以" means "I'm OK." . Then, how do I say "I'm not OK." ?

style practice by 三国演义 (making introduction) 我是劉玄徳 你是曹孟徳 他是関雲長 他们是黄巾 她叫蔡文姫 I wonder what is difference between 是 and 叫..... 丁原：他是呂奉先 董卓：奉先,你好！ 孫策：他是谁？ 張昭：他是于吉老师 周瑜：她是谁？ XXXX：她是小喬

Question about not words but gesture, About flipping off: I often see someone gives someone the finger in U.S. movies. (Emma Stone does it to Ryan Gosling in the beginning of LA LA LAND). It is a familiar sight in a sense. Whereas, I have heard it is an extreme provocative action. One of my acquaintances from U.S.A said "You are shot if you do it." Other said to me "You don't have to take it so seriously." How is it actually ?

Translation of my favorite paragraph We fall down, not because we have lost war, but because we are human beings and we are alive. However, we cannot keep lapsing eternally because our mind is not firm enough like steel against distress. Human beings are pitiful, weak and stupid. It is too weak to fall down to the end. （Ango Sakaguchi) 戦争に負けたから堕ちるのではないのだ。 人間だから堕ちるのであり、生きているから堕ちるだけだ。 だが人間は永遠に堕ちぬくことはできないだろう。 なぜなら人間の心は苦難に対して鋼鉄の如くでは有り得ない。 人間は可憐であり脆弱であり、それ故愚かなものであるが、堕ちぬくためには弱すぎる (坂口安吾　堕落論)

How to operate Pinyin on the PC Would you let me know how Chinese learners (whose OS is not Chinese version) input and display Pinyin with tone marks on the PC, not on the smart phones ? Thank you in advance.

(written) notice When you see or write the sentence alike following, "You may terminate this XXXX with 30 days prior notice." You interpret this "notice" includes e-mail ? And if it writes, "You may terminate this XXXX with 30 days prior written notice." This "written notice" includes e-mail ? I know it should be determined by legal contexts, but I would like to know how people/consumer generally think to see such "notice"/"written notice". Thank you,

Qustion about structure of a sentence from actual novel The following is one sentence of the novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". And I don' t totally understand the structure of this sentence ! I would be happy if you kindly teach me it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Before this sentence, there are conversations of "How much?" and "Not at all") By a curious coincidence, "None at all" is exactly how much suspicion the ape-descendant Arthur had that one of his closest friends was not descended from an ape, but was in fact from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from Guildford as he usually claimed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------