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6:06 AM

> put on hold as unclear what you're asking by macraf, Sjiveru, Blavius, Amani Kilumanga, snailboat♦ 13 secs ago

Wait a minute, that's not the reason I gave.

So I guess my vote got bunched up with the majority.

Anyone know if that is the case? If there is a majority close reason among close votes, that gets shown as the close reason.

What if there is no majority...

choco

@AmaniKilumanga 確かにw

どうなるんだろう

choco

6:29 AM

@AmaniKilumanga なんでかな、リンクに飛べない

つうかリンクじゃない、字が黒い

Amani Kilumanga

6:42 AM

リンクを入れたほうがよかったですね。

1 hour later…

choco

7:45 AM

Choose the right answer from the options given と、
Select the correct answer from the choices given と、

どう違うんですか？

choose vs select

right vs correct

options vs choices

どれ使ってもおｋですか？

(テストで。)

Find~から始めてもおｋですかね

Amani Kilumanga

8:06 AM

@choco "Select" has a bit of a technical ring to it. Maybe it is appropriate if the user is using a GUI of some sort.

"Choosing" also implies some finality, as in, you can select something, but not necessarily choose it. E.g. select a character in a fighting game to see its avatar, but ultimately choose another one.

"Correct" sounds more formal/technical than right

2 hours later…

Flaw

9:58 AM

@choco I don't feel any difference. To me it feels like we're trying to avoid saying "choose the right answers from the choices" or "select the correct answer from the selection"

it sounds weird to me to say "choose from choices"

2 hours later…

oals

11:50 AM

Does something like 旅行をするのも、映画を見るのも好きです。 make sense as an answer to DeLaCruz's question?

(I kind of think that the verbs muddle the thing and it could be shortened to 旅行も映画も好きです though)

And then I think that も requires that these options must have appeared before in conversation...

やっぱりだめかな

1 hour later…

choco

1:12 PM

@AmaniKilumanga ありがとうございます

@AmaniKilumanga へえ

@Flaw ありがとうございます

@Flaw あなるほどね

@oals そういう言い方もできると思います

「旅行をすることと、映画を見ることが好きです。」ともいえるかな

「旅行をするのと、映画を見るのが好きです。」でもいいのか

@oals そう考えると

「旅行と映画が好きです」とか「旅行や映画が好きです」とかもいけそう

@oals あ、そうなのかな・・・

「も」は、ちょっと、コンテクストが限られてくるかもしれませんね・・

「旅行に行くことや、映画を見ることが好きです」ともいえるかも？

oals

1:45 PM

I sometimes forget that you can nominalise with こと too.

choco

1:57 PM

この米印はどういう意味ですかね

Flaw

2:08 PM

maybe the user was using the markdown for italic text

Anonymous

So they wanted to highlight the sentence with three はs?

oals

Sounds plausible.

I consider it two sentences with three はs though.

subject は, contrastive は, subject は

Anonymous

Well, if you equate clause and sentence you could say that…

oals

I don't even notice when a sentence has multiple は's any more but I guess some do.

Anonymous

But traditionally it would be one sentence.

oals

2:22 PM

sentence A から sentence B.

Anonymous

Also, that's a new way of categorizing はs

oals

It is?

Anonymous

Yes

oals

Is there a prize given out by linguists for something like that?

Anonymous

Haha

Anonymous

2:26 PM

Some generative linguists (e.g. McCawley) use sentence and clause interchangeably.

oals

「俺は猛威科内」、 suggests my IME

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