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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
11:00 PM
@snailboat Help me! I'm crawling. (Because School Food Punishment says "You may crawl".)
 
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Yay! You may! If you wish.
 
Anonymous
I like that song.
 
Anonymous
I'm going to listen to it again!
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Oh, I took it as an order.
 
Anonymous
11:11 PM
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Q: Exceptions of Parallelism

user11355Ok, it all starts with this we learned back in our elementary school that is called parallelism. What it basically says is that you can't compare a thing to a person and vice versa. But here is something I personally think is different from parallelism but am not so sure if it is. Is it correc...

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Anonymous
> What it basically says is that you can't compare a thing to a person and vice versa.
 
Anonymous
???
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
> Unlike a box, he can walk.
> Surely, he can walk faster than a box.
 
Anonymous
11:29 PM
@DamkerngT. I can walk faster than many inanimate objects.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Totally agree!
 
Anonymous
Right now my snails are asleep. They're not very animate at the moment.
 
Anonymous
But they're still higher in the animacy hierarchy than boxes.
 
Ice Boy
Ice Boy
how long do they sleep?
 
Anonymous
They usually wake up every night and snail around :-)
 
Anonymous
11:34 PM
I guess they sleep most of the day.
 
user116848
And boxes are more animate than boxes in vacuum. (Physics) :-)
 
Anonymous
@Arrowfar Oh, why's that?
 
user116848
@snailboat ha :-) I don't know, ask physicists :p
 
Anonymous
Oh! I thought you had a reason for saying so
 
user116848
Yes, I do
 
Anonymous
11:36 PM
What is your reason?
 
user116848
"Vacuum is space that is devoid of matter. "
 
user116848
So that makes a thing very stable in it
 
user116848
Like light, motion of an object etc.
 
Anonymous
Well . . .
 
Anonymous
. . . there's also gravity :-)
 
user116848
11:37 PM
Yes, that too :-)
 
Ice Boy
Ice Boy
but no collisions from air molecules
 
user116848
I forgot. It has been a long time since I studied physics :p
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
<-- surfing gravity waves in his room
 
Ice Boy
Ice Boy
<---surfing internet
 
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Aren't we all!
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
11:38 PM
Hee
 
Anonymous
(Why are we all in your room? Oh, right, because we're inside your computer!)
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Look out! The next wave is coming!
 
Anonymous
@Martha: I don't see what you mean. I specifically said they're approximately synonymous - but strictly speaking I think true synonyms either don't exist or are extremely rare. In practice, the main "meaning" of hypocoristic is probably the speaker/writer likes using rare words. But not all diminutives are hypocorisms, even if we just restrict ourselves to names. — FumbleFingers Sep 10 at 18:41
 
Anonymous
I like hypocoristic.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I wonder if an average non-linguist would know the word.
 
Anonymous
11:43 PM
You can solve that problem by using the word anyway and placing a gloss next to it.
 
Anonymous
Then they'll know the word! :-)
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Nice solution!
 
Anonymous
And if they don't absorb it, they'll have the gloss to go off of anyway.
 
Anonymous
I imagine if you use dictionaries you'll eventually run into it.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I don't like running into something much. It hurts!
 
user116848
11:45 PM
I don't understand your 'gloss' analogy
 
Anonymous
 
user116848
Gloss is like a shining substance, right?
 
Anonymous
> a short explanation of what something means
 
Anonymous
> "Some of the very technical words will need a gloss."
 
user116848
Oh, I was taking it in a (1) meaning
 
Anonymous
11:47 PM
You've used a glossary before, right? :-)
 
user116848
Yes
 
user116848
Of course. Every book has it.
 
Anonymous
It's that sense of gloss :-)
 
user116848
Yes, I figured now. Thanks!
 
Ice Boy
Ice Boy
The definitions in the glossary of a math book have been shined up and are ready to be memorized :-)
 
Anonymous
11:55 PM
Shiny!
 
user116848
@snailboat Is this sentence correct if I say: "Yes, I made sense of it just now"
 
Ice Boy
Ice Boy
yes, and slick
 
user116848
@snailboat context is same as before (just now when I was saying: "Yes, I figured now")
 
Anonymous
@Arrowfar "I figured now" is strange for reasons that are not clear to me
 
Ice Boy
Ice Boy
"Yes, I figured it out just now"
 
Anonymous
11:57 PM
Yes,
 
user116848
@snailboat So what is the correct construction?
 
user116848
@IceBoy thanks!
 
Anonymous
You can say "I figured" on its own, but "I figured now" seems strange to me. Why? I don't know. But Ice Boy's sentence is good.
 
user116848
And "Yes, I made sense of it just now"?
 
user116848
It is weird too?
 
Ice Boy
Ice Boy
11:59 PM
@Arrowfar no, it is good to
 
Anonymous
Maybe it's because "I figured" doesn't take place in a short enough span of time
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
> I ?walked to school now.
 
Anonymous
To be located in time at "now"
 
Anonymous
Stupid aspect. That stuff is hard.
 
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Nice example!
 
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