Conversation started Jul 25, 2015 at 19:00.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Jul 25, 2015 19:00
Goofy - Teachers Are People
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Oh, Goofy sure talks!
@snailboat Let's free Pluto!
Anonymous
Pluto is a better name than Goofy, too.
Anonymous
Lord of the Underworld.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
But Pluto is not a planet now. -- sad
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@DamkerngT. Nah, that means he was a "people" all along, whatever that is.
Heh.
I think you're more or less correct. However, parts of speech are important for many learners because without having some ideas about the PoS of English, it's almost impossible for learners to understand complicated sentences. Then again, the PoS that learners need to know, IMHO, don't have to be a very precise set, just enough to enable the learners to see sentence structures would be fine. However, in part-of-speech tagging tasks (computational linguistics), you may need to be more precise, and may need to force yourself to deal with ambiguous cases (e.g. what is here in They're here.) — Damkerng T. Jul 22 at 11:39
@Dam king's weird comment is the only thing in that question.
Anonymous
Wow, he pronounced Thailand /θaɪlænd/ at 3:49!
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Jul 25, 2015 19:03
Indeed!
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
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Q: "Misspelled" vs. "Mistyped"

AhmadIf I enter a letter incorrectly, for example vagetable instead of vegetable, then "a" is a misspelled letter or mistyped letter? What is the difference in general?

phrase-meaning
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Can't blame him, 'cause he's Goofy!
Anonymous
Well, it was 1952, and I think the name Thailand was new to English speakers
Anonymous
But in 2015, it'd be hard to imagine English speakers pronouncing it that way!
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Oh! I can't remember when we changed the name from Siam to Thailand.
Oh, 1939!
Anonymous
Jul 25, 2015 19:06
But
Anonymous
1939-1945 Thailand
Anonymous
1945-1949 Siam
Anonymous
1949- Thailand again
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Yes! That was quite confusing!
Anonymous
When I was growing up in the 80s, they told not to say Siamese anymore (but people still said it)
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Jul 25, 2015 19:08
Siamese is still fine for cats and twins, I think.
and probably a few other things. Not sure.
Anonymous
Actually, that's the main one.
Anonymous
Twins.
Anonymous
The politically correct term is conjoined twins.
Anonymous
People still say Siamese cats :-)
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
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Hehe! I like that name!
Anonymous
Jul 25, 2015 19:09
People still say Siamese twins too, but other people get grumpy about it.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
So, we've got both Siamese cat and Persian cat. :-)
Anonymous
Yay!
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@snailboat Oh, really? I didn't know that!
Anonymous
Yuh-huh. Conjoined twins causes minimal grumpiness.
Anonymous
I don't know any twins, conjoined or otherwise.
Anonymous
Jul 25, 2015 19:11
So it doesn't really come up very often in my daily life.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Talking Siamese Cat VERY talkative! She answers all my questions!
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Anonymous
There are twins in my (extremely large) extended family.
Anonymous
But I have so many relatives I don't know most of them.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
A Siamese cat that probably can speak English (sort of). :P
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
> Talking Siamese cat VERY talkative!
Anonymous
Jul 25, 2015 19:12
Aww :-)
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
That is one smart sentence.
Anonymous
That's an adorable cat.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@snailboat Twins are interesting. They seem to be very much alike their twins even though they're not living together.
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
I did not click on the link, but the cat looks like a camel.
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Yeah, twin studies are very common
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Jul 25, 2015 19:13
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M The cat has a typical Siamese cat's face.
 
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