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12:02 AM
@Robusto I don't want them to be identical. That would be awful. I just see no reason why they should be relevant for anything not directly related to sex.
 
@terdon You don't think there are differences not "directly related" to procreation? That there aren't things about how each approaches the world that are far from the same?
I am kind of surprised to hear a biologist say that.
 
Of course there are! I never said there are no differences.
I said I don't want gender to be relevant for things it has no business being involved in.
 
That's kind of a squishy statement. Can you define your terms a bit more narrowly?
 
I am not claiming the sexes are not different.
I am basically saying that I don't see why gender should be relevant when hiring someone or choosing a driver or a friend or pretty much anything but a lover.
What is important is personality. Yes, certain personality traits are more often found in one gender or the other but that doesn't mean that we should make choices based on gender. Gender shouldn't be considered an indication of personality traits.
 
@terdon I agree for the most part. But I think it is hard for men and women to be friends without sex messing with that equation just a little. Not impossible. Hard.
 
12:07 AM
@Robusto I disagree muchly there. Most of my best friends have been women. Yes, sometimes the lines got blurred but not always, not by a long shot.
 
I don't think you could possibly disagree muchly. I said ". . . just a little. Not impossible. Hard."
 
OK, fair enough.
But this is a long conversation and I'll have to bail on it. It's 3am and I have a job interview tomorrow morning. Night all.
 
Good luck!
 
12:33 AM
@tchrist: I don't understand the last part of this at all, with "me tiene mosca." Feels like an idiom of some kind: . . . hubo un encuentro entre ambos, ya desterrados, en la corte del rey Antí­oco que me tiene “mosca”.
 
12:50 AM
This (spontaneous-photograph) is a dupe, but I can't find it. It was something about taking pictures of joggers running over a bridge or something.
 
@Robusto Was mosca quoted that way?
 
1:04 AM
@tchrist Yes.
 
I don't know what it would mean.
There are verbs moscar and mosquear, and nouns like mosca and muesca and mosquito.
 
Yeah. The words don't string together in any fathomable way, it seems.
 
I don't know what it means to have fly for somebody.
 
yeah, and I tried looking it up online, no luck.
 
I did, too.
 
1:47 AM
@Robusto Well, I have an electronics degree. I don't use it.
Except when I make noise boxen, I guess. But not at work.
And I guess it interests me. The trouble with it has always been that my position isn't hands on.
Hands on a keyboard, sure. I'd prefer hands on some central office equipment.
 
Flagged.
Down-pizza'd.
 
If you flag it for abusive, we can zap it well.
It will poof.
 
Good thanks.
 
 
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7:25 AM
This "single-word-request" idea is a mistake, I think. It's like asking for the single Chinese character for any concept. Mostly there isn't one. There are compounds, which are much more common, and there are constructions, which are vastly more important than single words (or characters). — John Lawler Jan 7 '13 at 15:53
 
 
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11:44 AM
@Mazura I have looked through "photograph", "photo" and "picture" questions and there are no matches. Nor are there any matches with answers that contain "candid".
 
 
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1:45 PM
@MattE.Эллен We eat candid sweet potatoes with Thanksgiving dinner.
 
I eat frank fries at McD's all the time.
 
2:11 PM
Hello all!
Could you tell me if the following sentence is correctly written? "I dare to say that if I train myself a month (not more), attending English only, at the end of the month I write better than you in English"
Someone said I should write "I will write".
 
Certainly.
 
That sentence has other problems, though.
You might try for something simpler.
 
@tchrist Is it wrong not to use will? But I specified at the end of the month.
 
@Chris'ssistheartist I think it is wrong, yes.
 
2:16 PM
And "attending English only" falutes very high for the level of statement you're making.
 
We use the present simple for something scheduled or arranged: - See more at: learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/…
 
Trust me.
 
^
 
One can say "We have a lesson next Monday." or we can say "We will have a lesson ... ." Am I wrong?
Next Monday points out the future thing.
 
"If I train myself no more than a month using English only, at the end of that time I will write better English than you."
 
2:19 PM
@Robusto It sounds better indeed.
 
Do you see what makes it better, though?
 
You suggest though that the examples from the link I gave are not trustful?
1. When we know about the future we normally use the present tense.

We use the present simple for something scheduled or arranged:

We have a lesson next Monday.
The train arrives at 6.30 in the morning.
The holidays start next week.
It is my birthday tomorrow.
- See more at: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/talking-about-future#sthash.oObN0Ogi.dpuf
 
The problem is, you're trying to shoehorn that lesson into somewhere it doesn't belong.
> El “Chapo” Guzmán ofrece 100 millones de dólares por matar a Donald Trump.
No, no, no. That is exactly the wrong tack to take. That just bolsters his racism and xenophobia.
 
Did he really?
 
I just read it.
See if you can read it here.
Not only that, but it turns Trump into a sympathetic character. "The drug cartels are out to murder him. He must be doing something right!"
 
2:25 PM
> Y como respuesta justa, el Donaldo ofreció 1,000 millones de dólares por matar al “Chapo” Guzmán.
 
Yeah, try to collect.
 
The drug cartels are out to murder a lot of people. They can't all be doing something right.
 
No, but I think you get my point.
Think Fox News talking points.
Well, maybe not Fox News.
Trump is a demagogue in the worst possible sense. We don't need a non-issue like this propping him up in the polls.
 
We cannot control the riffraff.
 
Maybe these are the rules in English but they (well, some of them) do not seem logical to me.
No need to use will when you specify the time when things happen.
 
2:31 PM
That isn't true.
 
@Chris'ssistheartist Welcome to English. It is not logical. It is not math.
 
@Chris'ssistheartist Logical that's a math thing
like p => q
 
jinx
 
Jinx?
 
jinx!
 
2:32 PM
Triple jinx!
 
Why to use will in that context, give me a logical explanation. It's a loss of time.
 
Apr 17 '11 at 2:00, by Robusto
@RegDwight — The rules of Jinx are clear and inflexible.
Read there.
@Chris'ssistheartist Because that's how people talk in English.
Period.
 
@Chris'ssistheartist you wont have one, just like you wont have one as to why you choosed a particular trick in computing a tough integral
 
11 mins ago, by Robusto
The problem is, you're trying to shoehorn that lesson into somewhere it doesn't belong.
 
@Chris'ssistheartist Use will or be going to when you wish to indicate the future.
That's the rule.
Everything else is an exception.
And nearly always an optional exception.
 
2:35 PM
@tchrist Agree with your point, but I don't see the logic in it.
 
I'm guessing your language does not have a future tense.
 
@Chris'ssistheartist The logic is that there's no logic, simple. Period.
 
That's probably the problem here.
 
@tchrist I can use either present tense or future to express the future.
@user153330 OK
 
Using the present to indicate the future can sometimes be done, and is, but it is safer not to try, as this demonstrates.
 
2:37 PM
@tchrist I mean in Romanian language like in Italian language you can simply use the present tense together with a reference for future.
 
> I see the doctor in a month.
I will see the doctor in a month.
 
@tchrist Yes.
 
> After I have waited for a month, I will finally get to see the doctor.
The third must use will.
 
@tchrist In my language I simply use present tense only (in both sentences).
 
That's strange.
 
2:40 PM
Or I can use other variants.
 
I don't think other Romance languages accept simple present for the third.
> Después de esperar durante un mes entero, por fin podré ver al médico.
Something like that. You would not use the simple present of "to be able to" there.
 
 
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4:43 PM
That's how you end a sentence. Period.
 
5:24 PM
Full stop!
@Robusto That is very interesting. Why does he care about Trump so much?
 
5:45 PM
@Cerberus Because Trump called Mexicans "rapists," among other things.
 
Really, is that it?
Haven't many others said the same thing?
 
Apr 28 at 14:55, by Robusto
@RegDwigнt You have to state your punctuation in words, period.
@Cerberus Not for publication.
> They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.
His exact words.
 
Right.
Neither racist nor "xenophic"; just discriminatory and xenophobic.
No strange snakes involved.
Perhaps Mr Drumpf should be sent back to Germany.
 
And to the 1930s.
 
 
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I did this thing jsbin.com/topevi/edit?js,output but have a little problem
I was plotting the version of a library, but '1.9', '1.10', '1.11' becomes 1.9, 1.1, 1.11 hen I convert them in number
I guess I need the scale the secondary version number to [0,x] into [0,10]
but then when plotting it it will give this weird modified value, so I'm sad, ideally I'd be able to plot the modified value but still label it with the true value, but not sure I can, ok sorry I bored annoyed you
 
Not sure I can help you :{
So trailing zeroes are truncated?
 

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