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Man_From_India

1:01 AM

@CowperKettle good morning Kettle

Yesterday after thinking about it for a considerable amount of time, I also believe it's okay.

Elipsis is there. "...(nothing) as much (as) worth saying".

Damkerng T.

4:30 AM

@AraucariaMan: I'm not sure if I agree. In my dialect, "The house is sold" and "The house's sold" would sound identical, and I think it's only convention that you don't write the second. — Colin Fine 7 hours ago

I wonder if I can tell the difference between The house's sold and The house's old ...

Anonymous

5:23 AM

@DamkerngT. I was just staring at that comment!

Anonymous

Introspection about your own pronunciation is hard, but I keep thinking I pronounce them differently.

Anonymous

I mean, our intuition betrays us, and we tend to believe things about our own pronunciation that are not correct, so it's challenging.

Anonymous

But when I tried pronouncing them, I kept thinking I was pronouncing an /s/ in house in the former and and a /z/ in house in the latter.

CowperKettle

Good morning

Anonymous

Morning, Kettle o' Cowper! :-)

CowperKettle

5:26 AM

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Anonymous

How's life on the opposite side of the world?

CowperKettle

Not bad! I hope it's the same in Californy!

Anonymous

We could come up with a new unit of distance, analogous to the light-year.

Anonymous

We'll call it the postal-month.

CowperKettle

Yes (0:

CowperKettle

7:22 AM

Otto Warmbier

Otto Frederick Warmbier (born December 12, 1994) is an American citizen who is incarcerated in North Korea after having been convicted and sentenced to 15 years' hard labor for "hostile acts against the DPRK". He was arrested over the alleged theft of a political propaganda poster, on January 2, 2016, during a tour in North Korea with an independent travel company. Warmbier remains incarcerated in North Korea. It is unclear whether or not Warmbier will serve the full 15-year sentence. == Early life == Warmbier grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from Wyoming High School in 2013. At Wyoming...

Serves a 15 year term in North Korea for stealing a political poster

Anonymous

:-(

Anonymous

The world is a crazy place.

M.A.R.

@snailplane And it's only getting worse

You'd think humans should become more civil when they become civilized

Apparently, civilization introduces bureaucracy, and bureaucracy gives us more complicated reasons to act illogically and cruelly

CowperKettle

7:45 AM

> 1) Промышленность – нагревание угля с песком:
2C + SiO2 t˚→ Si + 2CO
2) Лаборатория – нагревание песка с магнием:
2Mg + SiO2 t˚→ Si + 2MgO

Magnesium and carbon are so different. And yet they both are used to reduce sand to Silicon

Interesting.

M.A.R.

Well, I wouldn't be surprised

M.A.R.

9:07 AM

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Q: Documentation: grammar mistake "Getting started with..."?

I noticed that in the Stack Overflow documentation the "Getting started with [name]" topic can lead to (unwanted?) grammar mistakes. For example, the documentation for "Python Language" becomes "Getting started with Python Language". Grammatically correct would be either "Getting started with t...

Is it necessarily wrong?

I think it might be headlinese, and hence, not wrong

CC @Dam

Hullo @QuokMoon

Anonymous

"Getting started with Python language" sounds strange to me.

QuokMoon

@M.A.R. Helloo

Anonymous

It also sounds rather improbable as a headline.

Anonymous

As a title, I'd expect "Getting Started with Python".

Anonymous

"Getting Started with the Python Language" also sounds okay.

M.A.R.

9:10 AM

@snailplane Sure, this one's obviously right

@QuokMoon Helloooooo. Can you heaaar me?

@snailplane Well, of course it's an automated thingy

I'm just trying hard to make it sound right in my mind

QuokMoon

@M.A.R. I think it's more I can see you.

Anonymous

@M.A.R. It does sound like a title to me, but not a headline.

M.A.R.

@snailplane Shrug I don

't want to enter the Docs realm

So I dunno

QuokMoon

http://www.amazon.in/Practical-English-Usage-Third-Paperback/dp/0194420981

I have started read this book and I would expect to put those into a practice .

M.A.R.

9:26 AM

@QuokMoon Nice

Anonymous

Oh, that's a good book :-)

QuokMoon

9:42 AM

@user178049 nice profile pic.

CowperKettle

10:17 AM

Word of the Day: Island of Stability

Island of stability

In nuclear physics, the island of stability is the prediction that a set of heavy isotopes with a near magic number of protons and neutrons will temporarily reverse the trend of decreasing stability in elements heavier than uranium. Although predictions of the exact location differ somewhat, Klaus Blaum expects the island of stability to occur in the atomic mass region near the isotope 300 120Ubn. Estimates about the amount of stability on the island are usually around a half-life of minutes or days, with some optimistic predictions expecting half-lives of millions of years. Although the nuclear...

user178049

Hey @QuokMoon. That's my lil sister :-)

Man_From_India

11:02 AM

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Q: "as much" vs "much"

While reading a book - "The Glass Palace" - I came across a sentence - He could think of nothing else to say, or as much worth saying. I understood the meaning of this sentence. And I believe there is an ellipsis at play there. So the sentence would look like this - He could think of n...

determiners noun-phrases

I don't know who I am.

12:44 PM

Hello, @DamkerngT. Let me know about the sentence.

Are you enjoying it?

Is this grammatical correct?

@snailplane Can you please help me in this sentence?

Man_From_India

1:40 PM

Yes this sentence is correct @Idon'tknowwhoIam.

M.A.R.

2:05 PM

@Idon'tknowwhoIam. Yes, it's correct

I don't know who I am.

2:20 PM

@Man_From_India please explain it to me.

@M.A.R. please let me know about the reason!

Man_From_India

@Idon'tknowwhoIam. This is an interrogatolive sentence. The declarative sentence is

> you are enjoying it.

Subject + verb + object

Can you please tell us what seems odd to you in this sentence. It would help us understand your confusion, and present you with a better explanation.

I don't know who I am.

2:35 PM

@Man_From_India Can we use the word "enjoy" in ing form?

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Q: Preposition - 'Good luck' with indirect and direct objects

I would like to know which of the following is the most natural construction to use when wishing someone good luck if both the direct and indirect objects are included. 1) Good luck to his finding a date. 2) Good luck to him finding a date. 3) Good luck to him on finding a date. 4) Good luck ...

grammar sentence-construction

I don't know who I am.

Do you enjoy it?
Are you enjoying it?
What is the major difference between them?
@Man_From_India

Man_From_India

> Do you enjoy eating crab?

I think I'm hungry, that's why thought of food came to mind :P

> Are you enjoying the ride?

Can you differentiate this two quoted sentence?

I don't know who I am.

2:56 PM

No, I can't define them but let me its grammar. I want an explanation. How to motivate the others by letting know about the word 'enjoy'?

CowperKettle

The Russian textbook I was referring to confidently stated that it only reacts with hydrofluoric acid (HF). — CopperKettle 1 min ago

Can I use "hydrofluoric acid" without the?

user178049

Hey @AraucariaMan. I notice that our answers got downvoted. So I downvoted the other two answers that are more misleading than mine and yours.

I downvoted the answer that says do is a modal verb, and the answer and says do followed by present tense. But I got dvoted twice, what is going on O..O

user178049

3:19 PM

@AraucariaMan I don't think your answer is misleading, btw.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: Help to do something or help do something? by user54259 on ell.SE

Man_From_India

@user178049 which question?

V.V.

@M.A.R. smoke detector

M.A.R.

@V.V. yes, thank you

It caught a spam.

Please flag it

yubraj

Hi All of you!

Nice to meet you again

M.A.R.

3:33 PM

Hi

user178049

@Man_From_India here ell.stackexchange.com/q/127416/35026

Hi

Man_From_India

Thanks.

You wrote a good answer there, indeed. +1 from me.

V.V.

3:50 PM

@M.A.R.I just remembered you know what to do. I don't.

CowperKettle

Word of the Day: eutectic (Gr. "easily melted"; about a mixture whose components melt simultaneously)

user178049

@Man_From_India Thanks :D

M.A.R.

@V.V. Flag the answer as spam

It's gone now

V.V.

@user178049 don't get upset. Cheer up. The sun is stiill shining.

Arrows don't work. That's bad.

user178049

4:07 PM

@V.V. Yep, I'm actually fine with downvotes

M.A.R.

Downvoting @User178

V.V.

Then forget what I said.

M.A.R.

Downvoting @user178 a million times

Without comments

Becomes the top voter on site

Runs in a mod election. Wins

user178049

Damn 😂😂😂

M.A.R.

@user178049 Well, you're fine with downvotes

user178049

4:14 PM

@M.A.R. Yes, I'm fine. Go, downvote me. If you dare.. 😏

userr2684291

5:45 PM

@user178049 I believe the catchphrase you're looking for is Go ahead, make my day.

user178049

6:05 PM

@userr2684291Yeah, sounds cool. But I'm used to saying "f*ck it!"

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Q: Should I use past perfect or past simple in the condition clause?

Description: We had been in the hiking travel for 3 weeks and I suggest about having any water as a possession. Sentences: If we had no water we would die (imagined situation because we have water- second conditional) OR If we hadn't had any water we would die (condition clause e...

conditional-constructions

userr2684291

ell.stackexchange.com/questions/127502/… This is a good question and I'm pondering the difference myself.

Feeds

11:04 PM

1

Q: Past perfect (could've been) meaning in context

Does in this sentence: Once the objectives of the project were determined, the initiation stage was completed. Therefore the work could have been directed to planning the execution. the phrase "could have been..." indicate that the aforementioned enabled the work to be taken to planning the...

past-continuous

user178049

11:24 PM

ell.stackexchange.com/q/127458/35026 I think this is more interesting.

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