ELL's Cabin

5:54 PM

Prolly!

You can't learn or master any language without practicing it

we are just doing that

Yes you can.

Hehe! Good point!

You have to be a Damkenovian.

And yes. I realize coining a word like Damkenovian is very beneficial to our English.

I was talking about this jon

5:56 PM

Whatevs.

Let us add Damkenovian word officially in English

I hereby declare the scientific finding of a Community known as Damkenovians. Oh wait. It ain't as easy as that.

@DamkerngT. we need your help for this

About adding the word?

Yes. Call daddy.

6:00 PM

Yes, we need to define it.

Or do robots prefer papa?

Some even stick to creator.

:D -- Damkenovian is nice enough.

Damkenovian is a community known for inventing robot called Damkerng which was 20 years ahead technology point of view.

This community favors English and pets.

Anyone have tried movie "boyhood"?

6:08 PM

@Freddy I plan to watch it when it comes to my cable TV!

I am planning to start that from an hour...

@Freddy 20 YEARS?!!!!!

yes

movie starts with one of mine favourite song "yellow" by coldplay!

@DamkerngT. Hagu still hangs with that poster?

I took that picture the same day I did the other one. That fish-shaped package is cat food.

@MARamezani I think wandering around is more like it. :D

Q: The yet adverb and its meaning

6:20 PM

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I was a little confused by the meaning of the adverb in here: And yet he hesitated before taking his first step toward his destiny. I expected still instead of yet in that sentence. Does it have the same meaning here?

meaning

Oh, that reminds me that I should add the feeds to the room.

Hello @Araucaria!

The OP's still stuck with that sentence? It's two days now.

Two days?

Maybe I missed his question the first time.

Feeds

Damkerng T. has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

Yes. The last question he asked had my newest answer.

It was about a but, meaning only.

@DamkerngT. What the heck are you doing there?

6:23 PM

I added ELL feeds to the room.

@MARamezani Oh, I remember that one. But this one is yet, right?

Oh, that's fancy!

@DamkerngT. That one I answered using a Google search directing to a dictionary.

I don't like the way OP's asking because he doesn't really do any research.

I think sooner or later, every learner will do this thing I call "hacking the language", more or less.

It's something like this:

@DamkerngT. I bet.

I call myself a hacker.

> Hey, I'm reading this sentence:
"And yet he hesitated before taking his first step toward his destiny."
I wonder if I can replace 'yet' with 'still'.

If I get what you mean.

6:27 PM

It can go so wild, because virtually we can replace anything in a sentence with something else.

@DamkerngT. Oh, I thought you meant something else.

What were you thinking it was like (the "hacking" thing)?

Ah, do you mean coining new words?

Yep.

I see. I think playing with words is fun!

Hacking is also fun, but it could be harmful, imho.

For example, still using the same sentence: I wonder if I can remove 'And'? I wonder if I can use 'has hesitated' instead? What about 'is hesitating'? Should it be 'was hesitating'? How about 'has been hesitated' or 'had been hesitated'?

And that's only the first 4 words of the sentence.

@DamkerngT. You mean hackificationisticizism?

6:32 PM

Someone could even try to replace 'he' with 'they'!

@MARamezani Prolly, depending on what it means!

> I wonder if I could replace hello with hullo.

This is a very sane sentence.

:D

@DamkerngT. Prolly, yeah, prolly, you're right. Prolly.

So, actually, we can say that for each typical sentence, we (non-native speakers) usually have to choose one out of possibly thousands possible alternatives!

Which is why learning a second language is challenging.

@DamkerngT. I wonder if I could replace challenging with fun.

6:37 PM

I think you can!

Quick! VTC as primarily opinion-based!

o_O

@DamkerngT. I wonder if I could replace can with should.

You can, I guess! if you think you should!

> She gave up her ..[contact, connection, estabishment or attachment].. to feminist ideas
http://ell.stackexchange.com/q/55109/3281

@DamkerngT. I wonder if I could replace if with If.

6:41 PM

Sometimes I wonder why a textbook is full of exercises like this!

@MARamezani LOL

I wonder if the OP will ever use that sentence in the rest of their life.

I wonder if anyone else will ever use that sentence in their life. Dammit. Aaargh!

I hate English Exercise books.

Apparently, there are 5 hits on the web.

> dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/attachment

contact, connection, establishment or attachment Hmm, none of the @#$#@#$ words are fit in that hole IMO.

Well, at least, because of that to, I think attachment works.

Which means connection doesn't.

According to a Chinese website (which is one of the 5 hits), "This text is taken from Close to home, which was published by the Boston Globe Newspaper Company/Washington Post Writers Group in 1979."

Establishment isn't used that way.

@DamkerngT. Maybe somebody ran into the sentence in their life after all.

6:48 PM

It's about a newspaper columnist, Ellen Goodman.

@MARamezani Oh, I'm sure someone has really used it. I just wonder how likely it is that the OP will ever use it.

And contact just doesn't make sense. The only thing that made it a candidate is its beginning with a C, I guess.

Hmm,

Arguably, I can write a novel and use any of those choices in my novel. :-)

It's like those math questions, which are quite popular among some teachers. It goes like this: What is the next number in this sequence: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ___.

I wonder if I could replace :-) with :)

@MARamezani You sure can!

I remember I once replied to a teacher, whatever number you like. She didn't believe me.

Hehe! Not common robot logic I'd say.

6:53 PM

No, I really meant it (I wasn't a student, by the way). Any number can be a good answer.

Robots usually go like solving integrals and matrices and etc. to get the answer.

It's just that 21 is the most reasonable one, from human's point of view.

On their main screen.

@MARamezani Hehe!

But wait, 21 can't be correct because the methyl group can't be on the main chain's first branch and then.... Oh, too much IUPAC nomenclature.

6:55 PM

LOL

Hi

Hi!

Hullo!

How is everybody

I guess we are good enough. How are you?

7:01 PM

I'm fine...in case having a literature exam tomorrow is included.

You?

I am fine, Thanx

@MARamezani Ah, a lit. exam tomorrow?

Tanks. You misspelled it.

@DamkerngT. I rather a litter. exam tomorrow, but yeah.

litter "3 a substance like small stones that is put in the container that a pet cat goes to the toilet in"

I have a question, the question is about how to use "accumulate" word ?

is it correct to say, the Bank will begin accumulate interests on your debt?

7:03 PM

Anything can be made cat-related in here!

or the interests will begin accumulate

I'd like to recommend discussing that in another room next time.

ok,but where

I think the problem in your sentence is not really about accumulate, but begin.

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but there is no one there:)

ok but I will ask itthere

7:18 PM

I'd better go test something...

Q: Modifications of consonants

9:36 PM

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Could you help me to figure out one thing? My task is to comment on the modifications of consonants by the neighbouring sounds(assimilation,ellision). But there are some words in the task where I don't see any modifications of consonants: bright [braɪt] great [ɡreɪt] duty [ˈdjuːtɪ] bea...

phonetics consonants

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