@M.A.R. @snailplane what is the difference between vote to close, and flag? I VTC a question, and it says flag submitted. And it's counted as a flag or vote?
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Why do they prejudge content when they haven't seen it in use?
@haile, we need to see some dictionary effort on your part. Many of your questions could be answered by a few minutes of effort of your own. The actual problem with the sentence you quote is that the yields are not traded. As I mentioned a few questions ago, business writing is largely crapola. — Tᴚoɯɐuo38 mins ago
When I was being adopted from an orphanage my mom claims that on several occasions, when calling for my little brother I called him by a nickname. I don't know how to spell the word or what it means I just know how to say it. I would call him something along the lines of Sideosha. That's the only...
Which one sounds better: "mostly for informatics students" or "especially for informatics students"?
and, in the general case, what's the most appropriate way to say that something was created is exists for certain people...?
to me, it sounds ok/good to say "mostly for someone/something"
but I could be wrong, and I would appreciate native English speakers to give their opinion, not people that consider themselves proficient in English without English being their mother tongue
@nbro do you think only native speakers are qualified to teach you English. I know lots of illiterate native speakers who themselves are dumb and know nothing about grammar.
@user178049 Though I agree, I think it sounds a bit harsh. -- @nbro If no non-native speakers can answer that, there's no point in learning English, right?
To judge which one sounds better, we would need more context, especially the meaning you want to convey. Both especially and mostly have their own meanings.
Hmm... "something that was created, which exists for certain people"?
What does this created mean? Did you want to refer to creationism?
@user178049 No, I don't think only native speakers are qualified for that task, but I'm more interested in this case in the opinion of a native speaker, even though it may not be the best possible according to "god"
@DamkerngT. No, I didn't intend anything really directly related to creationism... let's say something was conceptualized and designed with certain people mind
@user178049 the reason is simple, a native speaker, no matter how he/she talks, it's very unlikely that another native speaker does exchange it for a stranger/foreigner
@DamkerngT. Hmm.. I just have my panties in a bunch. But I think it's a lil bit unfair. Because you yourself is top user on this site, and you're not a native speaker.
@DamkerngT. Example. Suppose I decide to create a piece of software with computer scientists in mind, i.e. my target is computer scientists, not all scientists, but it could also be used by other scientists, say biologists... in this case, I would say: this software was created mostly for computer scientists...would it sound bad?
@nbro Just my advice, many folks here are not native speakers of English. So if you are waiting for native speakers to respond, it might take some time :)
@user178049 but my English, I think, isn't that bad, at least from the grammatical point of view... I have problems more in terms of vocabulary and how to express certian notions, like the concrete problem I'm sharing with you
@nbro The error in your thinking there is that native speakers can't always explain why something is the way it is or understand your questions because they've never had to think about it that way.
@nbro I understand you but sometimes native speakers aren't as good as what you expect they are. At any rate, it's just your choice, I'm nobody to judge :-)
@DamkerngT. I'm not judging by accent or, better, asking help to native speakers only because of their accent, but, I think, no matter how a non-native speaker strives for perfection while speaking or writing, it will never acquire, e.g. all the common saying.
I'm saying this because I also learned another language as my second language and, even though I'm very proficient in it and I probably even know the rules from that language better than the rules from my mother tongue, I will never be able to acquire the naturalness of a native speaker
I don't know if this ever happened to you (I mean everyone, by the way), but I think it happens to everyone of us, in our own language. Sometimes you have to meet people from entirely different backgrounds, completely out of your comfort zone, and suddenly you feel like it's not as easy to speak, in your first language.
@nbro Yeah... that's not true. It sounds really weird to hear someone with an accent using super idiomatic phrases... particularly slang and informal speech.
@Catija that's my point, I don't want to speak too formally, but formally or informally enough to make native speakers (and, again, also non-native speakers) feel comfortable with my discourse... of course when writing the story is different
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