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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Sep 12, 2015 18:00

Please congratulate our great answerer - @StoneyB - for reaching 100,000 rep milestone!

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Anonymous

May 7, 2016 23:59

> Legendary buckers like Bodacious, who was known to head butt riders and was retired in 1995 because the cowboys believed he was too dangerous; and Little Yellow Jacket, who was retired last year after endearing himself to crowds by staying in the ring long after his rider was on the ground, are every bit as known as cowboys like Larry Mahan and Ty Murray.

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Anonymous

Apr 4, 2016 19:43

Aspect is how events unfold in time, or how they're organized in time, rather than where they're located in time: beginning, ending, repeated, ongoing, over in an instant.

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user116848

Jun 11, 2015 18:34

I am saying again guys: Accept my apologies if I ever wronged you here.

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Anonymous

Jun 30, 2016 14:05

@Cardinal In English, relative clauses generally have something called a "gap".

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PhMgBr

May 7, 2016 18:31

I remember I used to retype 100 lines of code just before realizing I missed a }.

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Usernew

Apr 30, 2016 10:17

India has 22 official languages. According to Census of India, the total number of mother tongues spoken in India is 1652. However, only around 150 languages have a sizable speaking population. The Indian census of 1961 recognised 1,652 different languages in India (including languages not native to the subcontinent).

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Anonymous

Apr 29, 2016 16:43

Geoffrey Pullum has a post about the passive here: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2922

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lekon chekon

Mar 25, 2016 18:18

You people invented the language.

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ArtOfCode

Oct 12, 2015 12:04

PUNY ~~GOD~~ MOD

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Oct 11, 2015 19:23

We're going to hold up a chat event to retag at least ~1.7k questions. What should its frequency be? e.g. once a week

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CopperKettle

Oct 3, 2015 09:00

Ah, it was just a bit of plain unadorned truth. The Sun is yellow, grass is green, Snails is an ardent grammarian.. (0:

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Jude Niroshan

Sep 29, 2015 12:20

I just wanted to say a big thank you for all your help in order to make a nice documentation for our group project which was just finished. @snailboat @DamkerngT. @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M @Arrowfar

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tchrist

Sep 22, 2015 12:47

Iran is awfully self-absorbed. When they get older, they will be known as Weran or Theyran or Yallran.

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Sep 18, 2015 14:01

Dear chatters, please cast your votes in favor of our community ad so it'd appear on the front page.

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StoneyB

Sep 11, 2015 22:07

My insurance rates have gone down thanks to my history of reckful driving.

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Anonymous

Sep 4, 2015 17:24

Verbs that participate in the dative alternation: give-type verbs (give, hand, lend, loan, rent, sell, ...), send-type verbs (send, mail, ship, ...), and throw-type verbs (fling, flip, kick, lob, slap, shoot, throw, toss, ...)

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StoneyB

Sep 2, 2015 15:16

A vote of thanks, by the way, to @bluefeet for being on top of this.

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Aug 24, 2015 23:08

Moderator election coming up! If you feel you can contribute more to this community than you now can, please do nominate!

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Anonymous

Jul 26, 2015 23:23

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Jim Reynolds

Jul 23, 2015 07:12

There is an .mp3 file in here: goo.gl/7XDwHM along with background and guidelines on how to give a rating. Any help would be appreciated!

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Anonymous

Jul 10, 2015 15:47

I vote that pictures of snails should be on-topic.

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Anonymous

Jul 9, 2015 21:42

Ideally, we want the chat to run smoothly with a minimum of conflict, without needing people to intervene.

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Anonymous

Jul 12, 2016 02:52

Syntax is one of my favorite things!

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Freddy

May 8, 2016 16:18

Dashrath Manjhi

Dashrath Manjhi (c. 1934 – 17 August 2007), also known as "Mountain Man", was a poor labourer in Gehlaur village, near Gaya in Bihar, India, who carved a path 360 ft long, 30 ft wide and 25 ft high through a hillock using only a hammer and chisel. After 22 years of work, Dashrath shortened travel between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya town from 55 km to 15 km. == Early life and work == Dashrath Manjhi ran away from his home at a young age and worked at Dhanbad's coal mines. He returned to his village and married Phalguni Devi. While crossing Gehlour hills to bring him lunch, she slipped...

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Dawny33

Mar 16, 2016 01:34

So people, the Language Learning proposal is all set for a launch. Just in case someone missed to commit, here it is:

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Stephie

Feb 25, 2016 17:58

Love the new design!

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Anonymous

Feb 23, 2016 12:32

I can conclude this confidently from a sample size of one.

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Anonymous

Feb 21, 2016 15:50

All snailboats are currently occupied. Please stay on the line and listen to this extremely low quality recording of classical music fed through six different low bitrate codecs designed to be used exclusively on speech in series.

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Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Jan 23, 2016 14:43

It's really a giant in the Oragnochem textbooks in the world; but I was astonished to see that they wrote it in a way that a ten-year-old can understand, unlike stuff like March's Advanced Organic Chemistry.

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Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Jan 23, 2016 14:11

BTW @Dam if you're looking for something geeky/nerdy to study, I recommend Clayden's Organic Chemistry. I'm surprised and delighted at how much below the surface it starts explaining stuff.

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Anonymous

Jan 2, 2016 03:52

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. overleaf.com/3957755qbxwwj#/11470125

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Magsi

Dec 31, 2015 17:36

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Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Dec 28, 2015 10:36

@Magsi Hiding what you cheated doesn't mean cheating is allowed.

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Anonymous

Dec 23, 2015 17:28

I have had breakfast! :-)

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Anonymous

Dec 22, 2015 08:04

A: They say "Cu Kettle!"

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Usernew

Dec 21, 2015 13:26

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

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Anonymous

Dec 16, 2015 13:21

You should tell your school that your brain's got no more room for kung fu, 'cause you're a master of the ancient art of chabudai-gaeshi.

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Anonymous

Nov 14, 2015 09:13

There's The Rise of the To-Infinitive

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Anonymous

Nov 11, 2015 23:19

@DamkerngT. If only I could purloin such funds!

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StoneyB

Nov 8, 2015 19:59

Meta.ell has always been apathetic. Very few people care at all about most of the issues raised there; and since issues which do get people excited tend to arouse more heat than light, I think most people prefer to let sleeping dogs lie.

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Mamta D

Oct 30, 2015 05:15

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Anonymous

Oct 20, 2015 15:37

ncatlab.org/nlab/show/beable

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Anonymous

Oct 13, 2015 10:41

If I were going to call that something, I'd call it a progressive infinitive

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StoneyB

Oct 4, 2015 14:57

Yes. Writing examples and exercises and examinations is damnably difficult. You can't just write a sentence and insert the mistake you're interested in: you have to write a sentence with no mistakes or ambiguities except the one you're interested in.

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tchrist

Sep 21, 2015 14:08

How to migrate from EL&U to ELL

A discussion about the guidelines for migrating from EL&U to ELL

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tchrist

Sep 19, 2015 17:44

Four thousand three hundred seventy grammar tags on the wall,
    Four thousand three hundred seventy grammar tags,
    Take one down, pass it around,
Four thousand three hundred sixty-nine grammar tags on the wall.

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Sep 18, 2015 16:55

@tchrist There is nothing grammar does better than one of its sub-tags do.

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Damkerng T.

Sep 17, 2015 09:58

I just left the Title Editing room. I think we've made something happen. Title of new questions appear to be improved. Thanks go to the man behind the movement (yes, @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M, that's you!) and everyone who's helped edit the titles!

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Sep 12, 2015 12:46

TCE notes and tips

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ELL's Cabin

ELL's Cabin

How to migrate from EL&U to ELL