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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Sep 9, 2015 19:08

Dear chatters, a title clean-up event will be coming in 3 days. Please see the title cleanup chatroom if you have any questions about it.

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Sep 8, 2015 20:14

@Catija No, people vote for pro tem crew, and then by rep.

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Sep 8, 2015 20:02

Election results are out. Please congratulate our new mods: J.R., Maulik and WendiKidd!

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Aug 31, 2015 20:15

To any mod position candidates that visit the Cabin: Have you written your response to the election questionnaire? Please do so!

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Anonymous

Aug 31, 2015 17:25

A moderator is also a regular user

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StoneyB

Aug 30, 2015 23:11

Yeah, let him rant to empty space. Eventually Elvis will leave the building.

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J.R.

Aug 24, 2015 23:18

I hope we get at least 6-8 strong candidates to run. Voting should be a little hard.

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Aug 19, 2015 17:24

Everyone, good news! ELL will be the next site that will be officially graduated!

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Catija

Jul 30, 2015 01:22

I did a personality quiz one time... it was "What kind of punctuation mark are you"... I got "ellipsis".

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Anonymous

Jul 29, 2015 20:17

Even if your answer were correct, that wouldn't give you license to be rude. Please Be Nice. — snailboat 1 min ago

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Anonymous

Jul 29, 2015 03:27

I think that different speakers contextualize out-of-context utterances differently when they try to rate them as acceptable or unacceptable. Sometimes a sentence can seem unacceptable until someone thinks of when it would be used.

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Anonymous

Jul 27, 2015 00:32

> conditional (adj./n.) (cond) A term used in grammatical description to refer to clauses whose semantic role is the expression of hypotheses or conditions. In English, these are introduced by if, unless, and a few other conjunctions (e.g. if John asks, tell him…).

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Anonymous

Jul 16, 2015 07:05

You know, when I plug in my phone to charge it, I always think of it like I'm feeding my phone electricity. "Here you go, little phone! Eat until you're full!"

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M.A.Ramezani

Jul 11, 2015 11:09

ELL's cabin is now the official ELL chatroom. For more info, jump off a cliff, and ping M.A. in the air.

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M.A.Ramezani

Jul 9, 2015 22:07

@TinyGiant Hey I thought of something; as soon as you get outspoken here (I hope we gained you as our chat reg) I'll make you an RO; whaddya say?

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Anonymous

Jul 9, 2015 21:59

Okay, Arrowfar, MAR, HarryCBurn, TinyGiant in favor of freezing. Let's do it.

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Doorknob

Jul 9, 2015 20:29

Be Nice—we have a policy. Please follow it.

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M.A.Ramezani

Jun 24, 2015 14:05

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Q: AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE

No more re-typing the same comments over and over! This script adds a little 'auto' link next to all comments boxes. When you click the link, you see a popup with 6 configurable auto-comments (canned responses), which you can easily click to insert. This script was inspired by answers to thi...

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Damkerng T.

Jun 14, 2015 15:51

> No one thinks like me.

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user116848

Jun 11, 2015 18:35

I never mean to hurt anyone, like never.

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StoneyB

Jun 9, 2015 16:07

It's a subject-oriented predicate complement.

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Man_From_India

Jun 7, 2015 14:07

@Freddy And in offices and places where hindi and that place's native language is not know to the speaker :-)

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M.A.Ramezani

Jun 6, 2015 11:51

The Spirit of English = @Snailboat = Crystal

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Araucaria

Jun 1, 2015 08:08

We have a tradiition called "a pinch and a punch for the first of the month" where for some reason it's socially acceptable to give your friends or siblings a pinch and a friendly punch on the first day of a month. However, you need to follow this up with "and no returns" otherwise they can get you back ...

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Anonymous

May 22, 2015 01:30

Linguists have been doing a famous job of pretending it doesn't exist

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Damkerng T.

May 8, 2015 10:45

May 3 at 13:41, by Damkerng T.

@user62015 In case you might want to evaluate your listening skill level, try transcribing this clip (it's about 80-90 words long): http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/01/20140129_me_hr_2_return_029.mp3

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Anonymous

May 6, 2015 00:59

I think the each is what H&P call a quantificational adjunct

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Anonymous

May 5, 2015 21:01

@DamkerngT. It's fairly complicated. The basic rules, if I recall them correctly off the top of my head, are ① a relative with a gap in subject position cannot be bare in Standard English (though it can in some dialects); ② in stacked relatives, only the first can be bare; ③ subordinate clauses preceding the matrix predicator must be marked

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Damkerng T.

Apr 29, 2015 23:35

Puzzle of the Day (What does she say?): dropbox.com/s/3lxyk8lw5dt9zss/…

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StoneyB

Apr 23, 2015 18:46

"You've learned something. That always feels like you've lost something."

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MARamezani

Apr 22, 2015 19:00

I just became the room owner in chemistry's chat.

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MARamezani

Apr 17, 2015 16:34

I'm the first poster. MWAHAHHHHHA!

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Anonymous

Aug 28, 2016 18:44

→ Please visit Language Overflow. That's the new general-purpose chat room for English Language Learners. ←

Anonymous

Jun 19, 2016 22:54

@Cardinal It's not entirely clear, but when we discuss language, it's generally best if we separate meaning and form.

CowperKettle

May 26, 2016 06:18

uh..

Damkerng T.

May 13, 2016 04:00

Which is why I don't think it's strictly about the situation, but rather information delivery.

Nicolas Raoul

Mar 28, 2016 09:02

Can't wait for Elevators.SE to reach public beta.

Anonymous

Mar 3, 2016 00:38

So please, ask away :-)

StackExchange

Feb 25, 2016 18:55

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Q: Bookmark in favicon is small and the circle blends into backgrounds too easily

I double-checked, and the favicon didn't make it into the design preview, or I would (hopefully) have commented on this earlier. But the bookmark is about the only thing really visible on most backgrounds in notifications, site switcher, and so forth: the gray circle just blends in, making it loo...

feature-request design

Anonymous

Feb 21, 2016 15:19

If anyone thinks a question on ELL needs protecting, feel free to ping me on chat :-)

Matt E. Эллен

Feb 18, 2016 16:35

in English Language & Usage, 3 hours ago, by tchrist

@AhmedKamal Dear English Learners: Here are five things you should really, really know about the word “dear”

Damkerng T.

Feb 18, 2016 13:18

Then how can we be sure that you can understand any of our explanations?

StackExchange

Feb 16, 2016 16:08

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Q: Formatting Sandbox -- Please test stuff here

What the title says. Use this for testing stuff and gosh I can't believe we didn't have this till now.

discussion formatting

IͶΔ

Feb 16, 2016 14:57

@Rath just remember to keep your possible future discussions constructive.

Damkerng T.

Jan 23, 2016 13:39

I wish we looked tougher in answers.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Jan 9, 2016 10:42

@DamkerngT. I don't understand why are people arguing over it. A user has all rights to ask all their accounts to be merged.

Damkerng T.

Jan 9, 2016 08:46

Moderator @Maulik: Did I say that I wish to get it back as it has more reputation? I want it because by keeping it I can notice the progress of my learning process. It is also easier to track the questions I have posted. — Student 18 hours ago

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Jan 7, 2016 08:16

Hover over a message, it's on the right. (Your right, not the computer's)

StoneyB

Dec 30, 2015 23:11

@Catija MAR has heroic ambitions: slay the dragon first, then worry about the cockroaches.

Anonymous

Dec 26, 2015 19:43

That's what's important. The more you use English, the better you'll get.

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