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6:00 PM

@TIPS I should compose a joke about a table flipping chemistry enthusiast Iranian

Hmm... do you mean that saying We got along or We got on is incorrect? (An example from a novel: Mum was surprised when we got back home so early. 'What happened?' she asked. 'Didn't you get on with Bruno?' Alice smiled at her. 'Oh, we got on just fine,' she said. 'We got on so well that we're meeting him again tomorrow morning.') — Damkerng T. 2 mins ago

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Q: "they get on like a house on fire"

Those two met last Saturday at the party, and because they were both into juggling they get on like a house on fire. This is an exemplary sentence explaining the idiom "get on like a house on fire". I would like to ask why the present simple is used in second part of the sentence ("get on like…...

present-perfect

> Those two met last Saturday at the party, and because they were both into juggling they get on like a house on fire.

Apparently, this sentence was made in 2006.

en.wiktionary.org/w/…

19 March 2006

Then it got its way to all over the web.

I think these alternatives would sound better:

> a) Those two met last Saturday at the party, and because they are both into juggling they get on like a house on fire.

> b) Those two met last Saturday at the party, and because they were both into juggling they got on like a house on fire.

I have no idea what dialect of English Dangherous used, though.

@CowperKettle Good idea! :D

I'm going to flip a table!

(ﾉ＾◡＾)ﾉ︵ ┻━┻

flipped :-)

user image

:D

6:15 PM

@TIPS Hi!

\o

Hi everybody

Hi!

@TIPS You know ho I found this web? I was searching for an expression for خروس بی محل

And I didn't find a good equivalent!!!

@Sina Thank you for the kind words

6:18 PM

@TIPS Your welcome.!

@Sina Trying to remind myself what that idiom actually meant

I didn't mean you.

Worried, I wasn't slow this time of the day

U don't know!

I did

Now I can't remember the meaning of that in Persian.

You can ask a question on ELU @Sina. They love foreign idioms.

6:21 PM

I asked! My very 1st question here!

Oh OK, that's why I didn't remember it.

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Q: Expression request for a person who says things unrelated to topic being discussed

Is there any expression in English about a person who tells things unrelated to the topic being discussed? E.g., when you are talking about grammar, she suddenly starts to talk about a party she has been to.

Any info that goes on ELL goes out of my mind.

Sometimes I forgot what I write in my answers.

Damn

@TIPS :D

@Sina So many words there, none of them answer the question.

I used to know something else.

It doesn't ring any bells at the moment.

And it wasn't a single word.

6:24 PM

They rocked the boat, perhaps.

No not that

But that's a good one indeed.

Once one of my students told it. But the forgetful teacher forgot it:(

Very close in meaning

@Sina Yay for double amnesia

LOL

She's not my student anymore. Good old days! She was one of my bests!

@TIPS :D

6:27 PM

@Sina Hmph, I've been a teacher's favorite in many lessons.

Providing that the teacher bothered to find good students.

@TIPS sure you were!

I remembered my best Prof. Dr. Ahmad Jamali

Some teachers didn't remember a student's name at the end of semester.

My favorite teacher is . . . d'oh . . . my chem teacher.

Sadly I have never been fond of my English teachers at school. :(

But a couple o' institute teachers were cool people.

ca.linkedin.com/in/ahmad-jamali-98861498

I don't teach at school!

Oh! I installed SE app. I don't like it! Mobile version is way better.

Aww

@DamkerngT. no edit options. No star. No chatt room!

6:40 PM

@Sina Oh! No chat!? That's the worst!

@DamkerngT. nods

I wonder "is it the right app?"

@Sina It might be.

There's a big bad upvoted Q on meta.SE asking for a chat addition.

@DamkerngT. Yes

@TIPS I wish I could up vote it!

Oh, @Sina! I just recalled another funny expression, "interrupting cow". :D

It doesn't exactly mean your rooster, but I think it's understandable in context.

@Sina If you create an account . . . @Dam haha . . . on meta.SE, you'd have the privilege to upvote because you'd have the association bonus.

6:56 PM

They are both into juggling... yes. or "they got on.." — TRomano 5 mins ago

@DamkerngT. :D :D...:D

@TIPS Right!

Yay! I was on the right track!

@Sina :D

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Q: Is here the punctuation use correct?

It intends to say , 'hence, spring force will increase'.Is it a wrong way?There should be an oxford comma as ' ,and the system will '.Shouldn't there be?

Anonymous

@Sina I agree. I don't understand why the mobile app exists.

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@snailplane It thinks, therefore . . .

7:02 PM

Isn't this some sort of proofreading?

Profreading?

@snailplane nods

We don't read your professors for you

@TIPS Please bear with me on my device. :-)

@DamkerngT. Bear? Are you inside the Revenant movie?

7:03 PM

@TIPS Bare is fine, if you'd like. :P

@TIPS Watching GoT, BTW.

@DamkerngT. Should I watch it?

I found your advice even wiser than those of critics.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Should be bear :-)

@TIPS I think you'll like it!

Oh? It has chemistry inside?

@snailplane I think so, but if TIPS wanted it that way ... :D

@TIPS It has good music!

7:06 PM

Wondering if that counts

@TIPS you mean...? I just miss him. As he is not here anymore!!!!!!

@Sina No no, I was just playing around @Dam's typo.

:D

@TIPS Right:)

Pro tip: If you don't understand MAR the first minute, you'll more likely end up misunderstanding what he said.

@Dam needs a bigger keyboard, I need a bigger chatting lobe on my brain

7:08 PM

@TIPS This is very confusing for the reader who doesn't know TIPS is MAR!

Very confusion!

LOL

DU Autocorrect!

@TIPS I was kidding :D

Now you're skidding?

Who knew word play is so fun? ʕ ⊃･ ◡ ･ ʔ⊃︵┻━┻

@TIPS I was kidding :D

@TIPS I was kidding :D

7:11 PM

Dear Autocorrect, I'm sorry that I said that. You're awesome. Please help me whenever you can. Best. Your robot.

@TIPS I was kidding :D

@DamkerngT. Technically, isn't AC another bot too?

Bots together strong

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Q: Reaction of Iron(III) with hydroxide ion

The observations: 1) Treatment of a 0.05 M $\ce{Fe(NH4)SO4}$ solution with excess 1 M $\ce{NaOH}$ results in the formation of a rust-colored red-brown iron-based solution with many suspended particles in the solution. These particles match the description of $\ce{Fe(OH2)3(OH)3}$. This is the via...

inorganic-chemistry acid-base colloids

@Cowp @Cowp you heart that. ^

Is that a cat?

Yah. It even had a name

and I forgot 'cause I read its name in The Periodic Table's transcript some months ago.

It's a disagreeing cat!

BTW, @snailplane, have you tried the latest Puzzle of the Day? I wonder what you'd think about it.

@DamkerngT. what puzzle?

7:17 PM

Oh, the primate one.

@Sina Look at the pinned message on the star board if you're on desktop

This one! (It's on our starred board)

Jun 10 at 14:51, by Damkerng T.

Puzzle of the Day 20160610 (What did he say? What phonemes did he use?): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8KKQ0fwLEZ9VTBmdHFtU2NFZmM/view?usp=sharing

Don't look at anything if you're on Android

@DamkerngT. No Star-Red board. Just star board

@TIPS Okay, starboard it is!

@DamkerngT. Thou art forgiven

@DamkerngT. got it! Thanks.

@TIPS thank you too!

7:22 PM

ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

ʕ ⊃･ ◡ ･ ʔ⊃︵┻━┻

(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

Be back in 10

OK that's mysterious.

10 seconds? 10 minutes?

10 hours?

10 years?

10 centuries?

10 o'clock? If so, 10 UTC, or 10 (Bangkok time)?

Exactly 10? 10:15?

10:30?

10 centenaries?

10 decades?

10 Angstroms?

@TIPS What?

@CowperKettle Watt is joule per second.

I meant the chem question.

My brain is tuned out of chemistry today. Reading exciting stuff about pipe production industry, pipe types, pipe fittings..

I never knew there was such thing as Fe(NH4)SO4

Iron Ammonium Sulfate?

Ammonium iron(II) sulfate

Ammonium iron(II) sulfate, or Mohr's Salt (named after a German scientist Karl Friedrich Mohr) , is the inorganic compound with the formula (NH4)2Fe(SO4)2·6H2O. Containing two different cations, Fe2+ and NH4+, it is classified as a double salt of ferrous sulfate and ammonium sulfate. It is a common laboratory reagent. Like the other ferrous sulfate salts, ferrous ammonium sulfate dissolves in water to give the aquo complex [Fe(H2O)6]2+, which has octahedral molecular geometry. This compound is a member of a group of double sulfates called Schönites or Tutton's salts. which form monoclinic crystals...

a hydrated sulfate even

Fe(OH2)3(OH)3 - basically Iron hydroxide (III), hydrated?

7:36 PM

A challenging puzzle! A couple of months ago, I had sth to transcribe. It was full of these puzzles. + British, about cars, I know nothing about them, to make it worse in an exhibition full of bothering noises!

@CowperKettle Exciting?

@TIPS yes, with air finger quotes

Aww... time flies.

@DamkerngT. Now it's 10?

...like a banana

7:39 PM

It's 16, according to my computer.

I hope haven't deleted it. Then you can use it for your future puzzles @DamkerngT.

@Dam puzzle-request make the next puzzle out of Top Gear's show.

We need to improve our British ear.

My puzzles aren't usually about noise.

Or maybe ears.

My silicon is my ear.

I'm aiming at a different kind of challenge in listening.

@TIPS You've got an e-ear!

(If that's a thing!)

@TIPS Top Gear is not on my cable, or my regular watch list, but I think we can do Britain's Got Talent sometimes. :-)

7:42 PM

I'm not a thing. If that needs to be a thing it shouldn't be a thing to fit nothing so it's not a thing 'cause things can't be nothings.

o_O

@DamkerngT. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRING

You sound philosophical today.

I watch Chemicals got talent

Hah! Hmm...

Let's see what's on my BBC channel.

7:44 PM

I can stand on one isopropyl. Like right now.

How 'bout Rachel Allen's Cake Diaries?

or Ramsay's Hotel Hell?

It should preferably be something I have watched.

Teletubbies is on one channel, but I've never watched it!

If you haven't watched something, there's the 98.6572819% chance that I haven't either.

Aww... Teletubbies are quite popular, I've heard.

7:51 PM

@DamkerngT. One reason I don't and wouldn't watch it

The science channel seems to be mostly either American or Canadian.

I wonder why they exclude the BBC Entertainment from my package while including it in a much cheaper package.

British is lovely but weirdly difficult, difficulty wired for my ears!

A British accent can be easier to understand, but it depends on which British accent it is.

4 me, no difference! It's difficult!

Good night:)

8:07 PM

Good night!

8:30 PM

Hmm ... looks like chem.se is colonizing ell.se. Should we mobilize the ELLLF (English Language Learners Liberation Front)?

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8:57 PM

This is not an answer to the question. (You can ask it as a new question, but FWIW, lyrics are not exactly sentences and they have their own conventions. I believe that if you add a comma after victorious, you'd need to add a lot of punctuation marks, like in the lyrics on this page: telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/1571287/…. On the other hand, you can go minimalistic like in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Save_the_Queen.) — Damkerng T. 13 secs ago

I wish I could do better, but this is probably the best I can reasonably do in a limited period of time.

9:24 PM

The question is surprising to me, considering that you seem to know how to use If and know the meaning of each of there be/is/are/was/were/has/have/had been/can/could/will/would/shall/should/may/might/ought to/must/etc. be/have been. — Damkerng T. 23 secs ago

I might've missed a lot of possible patterns in that comment.

@Araucaria @StoneyB and everyone, would you like to help the OP?

9:44 PM

@DamkerngT. It's not clear that OP needs any help with the topic of the question, though the spelling and idiom are a little shaky.

nods

And OP's grasp of SE etiquette is deficient.

I have no idea about their learning method. It's just odd.

And if they simply wanted to teach a machine to understand English, it just didn't sound right.

I wonder if yubraj sharma is working his (I think that's a male name) way hrough an intermediate English textbook.

Hmm... that's quite possibly, come to think of it.

9:51 PM

He seems to fling out questions in clusters on the same topic.

Things seem very quiet. Think I'll go make a salad and make my family eat it.

@StoneyB Bon appetit!

10:09 PM

Word of the Day: bubbly

10:40 PM

In Wisconsin a drinking fountain is called a 'bubbler'.

@DamkerngT. As in "containing bubbles" or the term for champagne?

@Catija As in someone's personality.

11:14 PM

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Q: Hard to understand song lyrics

I need a favour. Can someone transcribe at least this little part from here: 0:35 https://youtu.be/qKCv3JJ2VNY?t=35s to here https://youtu.be/qKCv3JJ2VNY?t=1m1s Thank you.

Shawn Smith - The Life You Saved (see description)

Oh, man! It's actually a pretty good song. Why has it got only 199 views?!

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