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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
10:12 AM
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Q: Made by vs made in.What is the difference between them?

user124234Made by vs made in. Examples: This film is made by India. This film is made in India. What is the difference between them?

prepositions difference
The question and the two answers made me think...
What do they really mean when they write "Made in <country-name>"?
For example, if on the back cover of a mobile phone is imprinted Made in China, should we read "This product (the mobile phone) is made in China" or "This product (the mobile phone) was made in China"?
I guess it'd be the latter.
In the context of filming, perhaps This film is made in/by India is unlikely, unless we are talking about an ongoing production.
About the made in part, I'm not very sure, but I think India could be used as a vague term to mean Indians in this context.
 
Araucaria
Araucaria
10:28 AM
@StoneyB She thinks half of them are adjectives (like many, for example). The others are pronouns. There's three left over the, a, every, which she says are articles. I think she's a bit half-hearted there, we could just classisfy them as obligatorily "transitive".
@StoneyB May well be the case!
@StoneyB I gave up on subordinators years ago and changed my PhD to conditionals!
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
11:22 AM
@Dam you here?
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Yes? (I'm not really here, but I'm here.)
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
The gist of do's is here:
> **Use quotation marks when you quote:**
**Your title should contain original words, not just one quote:**
**Your title should be separate from your question's body:**
**If you're comparing two phrases or words, your title should also contain what aspect you intend to compare:**
**If you're comparing how two aspects or tenses modify a sentence's meaning, you should include the varying phrase in the title:**
**A good title almost has all the (unique) keywords in the question:**
**Great titles usually demonstrate the heart of inquiry:**
I tend to remember, then forget some tips.
HALP!
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
That's quite a lot already!
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
I can/should at least write 5 more.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Most basically say the same thing.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
11:24 AM
Nope.
I narrowed them down, so . . . wait a minute.
> If your question is about meaning in a context, your title would greatly benefit from a general mention of the context:
@Dam do you think I should categorize the tips as "general" and "tag-based"?
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
You could categorize it however you think is practical.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
Now the only thing I'm worrying about is how to write a TL;DR for it.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Actually, a title is just another TL;DR.
But more concise.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
No, I mean how to write a TL;DR for my answer FAQ thingy.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I know. I meant you could think of your TL;DR as a title.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
11:37 AM
Gimme a moment . . . That was too philosophical . . . still digesting what you said . . .
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
It's like information folding and unfolding.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
What a mess.
There are some good questions that can be tagged with that, but not that question.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I really have no idea what s-form is.
So it makes sense only in that question.
 
Araucaria
Araucaria
11:47 AM
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M What you need to do in each and every case, if you're doing a post on this, is give a good and bad example of a question ...
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Note to self: 'Internet smart hazard' could be a thing...
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@Araucaria Of course that's what I'm doing during my whole post.
 
Araucaria
Araucaria
12:16 PM
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M gOOD STUFF!
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@Araucaria Do you want to read the draft?
 
Araucaria
Araucaria
12:45 PM
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M No thanks old bean. Bit busy
 
 
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Anonymous
1:59 PM
In this context "s-form" appears to have been used to refer to the third person singular present verb form.
 
Anonymous
3:00 PM
We might want to avoid the term "s-form" because it's not clear whether it refers (for example) to the plural form of regular nouns
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I think this was the first time I ever saw "s-form".
BTW, hello!
 
Anonymous
And folks do mix those two up enough already. People have written answers on ELL referring to the verb form in "he walks" as a "plural form" because it has an -s on the end. This kind of confusion is unfortunate. We should stick to more descriptive, less ambiguous labels in my opinion.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Indeed! I think to some people, walks is the plural form (because of the s).
BTW, I found this question while reviewing old ELL questions:
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Q: Collective noun + sing./pl. verb

SherlockIf one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? Why is the verb in the clause a whole set are teeth plural? Doesn't Aspinea's answer apply here, that it should be singular [a whole set is teeth]?

grammar sentence-construction subject-verb-agreement
 
Anonymous
It's true that "third person singular present verb form" is a bit of a mouthful. We can use the short form "3rd sg pres", but we have to be careful when doing so, since not everyone knows what that means.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I tried to figure who is the original author and when, but failed.
The best I was able to track was it was written by Alice Hess Beveridge in 1981, but that's probably not the real original
 
Anonymous
3:06 PM
Hello!
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
 
Anonymous
There's a long history of jocular irregular plurals formed by analogy
 
Anonymous
As I imagine you know, people say Unix boxen
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Hehe! True!
 
jimsug
jimsug
Made me think of this, immediately.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
3:20 PM
Aug 24 at 16:13, by Damkerng T.
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Q: with a decade more experience

Cookie MonsterExample (The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernigha and Dennis M. Ritchie): As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. We hope that this book will help you to learn C and to use ...

comprehension
It comes back, on the bounty!
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
Chat and its weird bugs . . .
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
What happens after showing Chrome's DevTools to my 5+7 year old daughters. http://t.co/p16XMW4jkI
Tweeted by chrisbentzel on September 7, 2015 at 12:52 AM
It's cute and scary at the same time what a 5yo or 7yo can do!
 
 
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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
5:53 PM
> He said I wasn't enough of a fanatic. He said that to be one of the great ones you have to be a tiny bit crazy. Touched. And he said I wasn't.
> --Harmony of the World, Baxter, Charles
 
StoneyB
StoneyB
6:41 PM
@DamkerngT. Considering they routinely master a skill which linguistic scholars have proved incapable of describing convincingly after 3,000 years of effort, nobody should be surprised.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@StoneyB See how we've responsibly raised the bar sounds perfect, yet I still have to figure out what Princesses eating poop butts means!
 
StoneyB
StoneyB
@DamkerngT. They've got morphology and syntax in their pockets -- semantics is just an ornament.
 
 
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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
9:05 PM
> 13th of July, 4:50 pm. I'm sorry. I know that means little at this point, but I am. I tried, I think you would all agree that I tried. To be true, to be strong, to be kind, to love, to be right. But I wasn't. And I know you knew this. In each of your ways. And I am sorry. All is lost here, except for soul and body, that is, what's left of them, and a half day's ration. It's inexcusable really, I know that now. How it could have taken this long to admit that I'm not sure, but it did. I fought till the end. I'm not sure what that is worth, but know that I did. I have always hoped for more f…
It was such a nice film.
There wasn't a lot of dialogue in the film, but Redford keeping silent while trying to deal with the situation solemnly was remarkable. His silence "talked".
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Q: What should I do after advisor got upset when I expressed "belief in evolution" and then said he couldn't add me to his research team?

user41235A bit of background: I am a graduate student working towards my Masters in physics. During this summer I signed up for some classes that are somewhat outside my main focus of study. For instance, biophysics; evolutionary physics and so on. The topics were very interestingly handled and I learned ...

advisor physics religious-issues
Ahh... that's a real problem. (assuming what they said is more or less true)
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@DamkerngT. Freak out?
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I think freak out is not the right word.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
Freak in?
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
It sounds a bit like harassment, a bit like discrimination, but it's not easy to make a case out of it, and both have so much to lose.
 
Catija
Catija
10:02 PM
Ugh. Why would you want a recommendation from a scientist who doesn't believe in evolution... particularly if that's the track you want to follow. Meh.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@Catija That's a big surprise for me too!
 

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