Language Overflow

S.R.I

03:27

This is the first blog I came across that makes an attempt at reasoning through the annoying use of 'literally' :-)

linguischtick.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/…

CopperKettle

09:00

I wonder why this could be incorrect: "I have registered for 4 classes after I met my counselor. "

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Q: gerund and past simple

I saw that this sentence was not correct: I have registered for 4 classes after I met my counselor. but this one was: I have registered for 4 classes after meeting my counselor. 'met' and 'meeting' are both in the past so what is the difference? Both are single events (registered and ...

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle Hmm . . .

CopperKettle

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. What do these three rectangles suppose to mean, I wonder.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Since well, met is referring to a specific time, while the perfect implies that you're not specifying the time.

@CopperKettle Just spaces. They render weird on some devices since they don't render.

CopperKettle

ah

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Well, they're in different clauses.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle Connected by "after".

CopperKettle

09:05

Are you sure it's a no-no?

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Ya know, the sentence sounds off to me since that's not how I've seen perfect being used.

I don't know a why, hence I can't say for sure.

Where's @Snail when you need her?

CopperKettle

I have deleted my answer after I learned of your opinion.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. She needs sleep

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle I know, my nagging doesn't know.

@CopperKettle Still fishy.

CopperKettle

Yes, I'm looking through a COCA search output for "after I met", and there are no similar constructions yet.

Interesting.

So the prepositional finite-verb clause, serving as an adverbial of time, forces the temporary meaning of the whole sentence to "an event that happens in a specific timeframe".

Damkerng T.

09:33

IMHO, it's marginal. I think most people would think it's a little weird, and some may think it's ungrammatical.

Because it has after in the place of since.

CopperKettle

nods

CopperKettle

09:57

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Q: Does English have an equivalent to the Arabic "Far away from you"?

Arabic has an idiomatic expression which translates as "Far away from you". Is there something similar in English? If something low or contemptible is cited the expression usually immediately follows it in a sentence, to diminish the ignobility, impudence and lowliness in it or believed to be in...

idiom-requests saying

I recalled only "by your leave"

by your leave

Noun: by your leave ‎(plural by your leaves)

Request for permission.
1946, Konstantin Trenev, In a Cossack Village, and Other Stories
1986, Judith A. Jance, Trial by Fury

Jim Reynolds

This one is especially for @snailboat: What do you call a differently gender-identified elementary schoolchild with no arms and an eyepatch?

Damkerng T.

10:19

@CopperKettle I'm not sure if "by your leave" is right; I'm not even how I should understand "far away from you" in Arabic. I guess it's a fixed expression.

I can think of a few expressions in Thai, things roughly translated as "How unfortunate!" "It was my turn!" "Shit happens!" and so on.

Usually replied with "(Try to) think (of it as you've) paid it forward (so a more unfortunate event won't happen to you next time)". -- คิดซะว่าฟาดเคราะห์ก็แล้วกัน

CopperKettle

I posted pardon my French and excuse my language in the comments. I guess the Arabic version is highly culture-specific.

Damkerng T.

nods -- I think so, especially when the OP mentioned the typical reply.

Oh, maybe it's more like another expression in Thai: โชคดีที่ไม่ใช่นาย ("Good it wasn't you!")

CopperKettle

nods

CopperKettle

10:43

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Q: Meaning of "prove this otherwise"

The provision made at the end of cl 17 enables a purchaser, if he wishes, to prove affectation at the relevant date by production of the appropriate written statement, in the present case stating affectation at the date of contract by a proposal for siting of a road. If he wishes, however, he ...

phrase-usage legal

I cannot make heads or tails of this passage.

Damkerng T.

I haven't read the passage, but isn't the meaning he could prove this otherwise quite clear?

CopperKettle

Yes, it's quite clear. But "prove affectation"? LOLWUT?

Damkerng T.

Oh!

Is it a legal term?

CopperKettle

no, I looked in legal dictionaries - no such term

"If he wishes, however, he could prove this otherwise by evidence given directly to establish the proposal an affectation by it." - whaaat? O_o The whole clause is garbled.

Damkerng T.

I can't understand it if I treat it as plain English.

trying to search for it...

CopperKettle

10:48

I tried searching for "affectation legal definition", to no avail.

Damkerng T.

nods

CopperKettle

Yes, I copied it correctly. The purchaser is trying to rescind the contract by proving that the land he purchased was affected by the proposal by the Department of Main Roads to build a tunnel at the date of the contract. — Lee 34 secs ago

Damkerng T.

Australia?

CopperKettle

I dunno.. no kangaroos mentioned in the text, so it's hard to tell.

Damkerng T.

I don't think there are very many countries that have their Department of Main Roads.

CopperKettle

10:59

nods

Damkerng T.

> So long as people can demonstrate that they may be affected more than an ordinary member of the public, they can establish sufficient affectation to attract the protection of natural justice.

> books.google.com/books?id=mtvSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA213

CopperKettle

Oh, it's antipodean legalese.

Anonymous

@CopperKettle Seems ungrammatical to me, but maybe try inserting as or to be to make sense of it.

CopperKettle

"to establish the proposal an affectation by it" - where to insert to be?

Good afternoon, Snails!

Anonymous

Before an. But as might be better.

Anonymous

11:12

I don't know.

CopperKettle

Horrible legalese.

Anonymous

My SnailParser™ says the sentence doesn't work.

CopperKettle

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Anonymous

When and where was it written?

Anonymous

@JimReynolds Um.

Anonymous

11:14

Mostly armless?

Damkerng T.

@snailboat RLDD (Robot Language Detective Damkerng) thinks it's from Australia. Should be recently.

Anonymous

@jimsug What say you?

Anonymous

Does establish work that way?

jimsug

You rang?

Let's see...

Anonymous

I rang! :-)

jimsug

11:20

Where's the full judgement? It really does seem like a typo.

Damkerng T.

I wonder if the OP will let us know.

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Q: Meaning of "prove this otherwise"

The provision made at the end of cl 17 enables a purchaser, if he wishes, to prove affectation at the relevant date by production of the appropriate written statement, in the present case stating affectation at the date of contract by a proposal for siting of a road. If he wishes, however, he ...

phrase-usage legal

jimsug

They think they've copied it correctly.

Anonymous

This is a remarkably bad piece of drafting even by legal standards. — StoneyB 14 mins ago

jimsug

I think it works.

Anonymous

I don't know what affectation means in this context.

Damkerng T.

11:23

I can understand the meaning, but that use of establish is a bit too innovative for me, I think.

jimsug

If he wishes, however, he could prove this otherwise by evidence given directly to establish the proposal an affectation by [evidence given directly to establish the proposal].

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Ah, that's why I was rather sure that it was from Australia!

21 mins ago, by Damkerng T.

> So long as people can demonstrate that they may be affected more than an ordinary member of the public, they can establish sufficient affectation to attract the protection of natural justice.

jimsug

establish works for me, it's affectation that I'm not sure about... hang on, let me get my legal dictionary.

Damkerng T.

^From Modern Administrative Law in Australia: Concepts and Context

CopperKettle

@jimsug Now it works for me. It was just a mixed bag before your reformulation. Thank you!

Jim Reynolds

11:26

The condition of having been been influenced?

Something like that.

Anonymous

@JimReynolds You owe me a punchline other than 'mostly armless' :-)

jimsug

books.google.com.au/…

Jim Reynolds

I know! Can you do me the favor of citing my setup?

Anonymous

Too much effort. I'm on my phone :-)

Damkerng T.

I can help. Hold, please.

1 hour ago, by Jim Reynolds

This one is especially for @snailboat: What do you call a differently gender-identified elementary schoolchild with no arms and an eyepatch?

CopperKettle

11:31

@DamkerngT. There must be some slang term for a small kid, and this term might resemble a term for "pirate".

Jim Reynolds

Names!

Damkerng T.

I have no idea this time. "No arms, an eyepatch?" "..."

Jim Reynolds

Yes jimsug! Affect/effect has a deeper level of complexity underneath the oft-mentioned "common confusion". Rather Zen.

Damkerng T.

@JimReynolds The way it's used in the OP's text makes me think that it's an established use over there.

Jim Reynolds

You mean the legal definition of affectation?

Damkerng T.

11:37

No, I meant the use of affectation in our question.

Not the definition given by Garner.

Also, it's used exactly that way in the book I quoted a text from above (Modern Administrative Law in Australia: Concepts and Context): books.google.com/books?id=mtvSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA213

CopperKettle

I wonder if "In order to decrease the likelihood of this error" is okay, or it should be "In order to decrease the likelihood of this error occurring"

Damkerng T.

Melikes the former, but it sounds somewhat clunky. Just my ear, though.

CopperKettle

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A: Make something difficult to occur

I would phrase it thus: It must be noted that if a car drives along a bus route while exhibiting the same behaviour, the algorithm will define the vehicle as a bus and will try to detect its route and direction. In order to decrease the likelihood of this error, the number of the stops in ...

It seems to have passed by J.R.'s

Damkerng T.

Nice! :D

CopperKettle

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Anonymous

11:44

Wow, melikes!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Meyikes!

Damkerng T.

How about my back-formation of the day? :-)

Anonymous

Was it formed by analogy to methinks?

Damkerng T.

Yes! :D

CopperKettle

It's in the Urban Dictionary!

Anonymous

11:45

I suspected as much! :-)

CopperKettle

Pronounced: (Mĕ'lee'kĕ) Turkish female name meaning "Little Angel". Derived from the Turkish female name Melek meaning angel.

Anonymous

Those are just homographs :-)

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle (/¯◡ ‿ ◡)/¯ ~ ┻━┻

CopperKettle

(0:

A mellifluous name!

@CopperKettle "proposal an affectation by it" Ok, this was a typo. The actual sentence is "proposal and affectation by it". Sorry about the confusion. — Lee 26 secs ago

(/¯◡ ‿ ◡)/¯ ~ ┻━┻

Jim Reynolds

Thanks for your help, Dam. Did you get the joke (riddle), snailboat?

Anonymous

11:48

Methinks is pretty much unique at this point.

Anonymous

@JimReynolds No! Not at all.

Anonymous

Are you waiting for me to figure it out? :-)

CopperKettle

Medoubts that (0:

Damkerng T.

:-)

Anonymous

@CopperKettle *!

Jim Reynolds

11:49

I answered above: Names!

Anonymous

Okay, I'll read that again once I've had some caffeine and hope for the best!

Anonymous

Come on brain, find some morsel of sense in that pile of words!

Anonymous

Stupid brain.

Damkerng T.

I still can't figure that out! @JimReynolds

Was it supposed to be an acronym or something?

Anonymous

@CopperKettle Medoubts isn't part of the English language that English speakers carry around with them everywhere in their heads.

Anonymous

11:52

You can always form things by analogy, but I think it's pretty solidly nonstandard.

Jim Reynolds

I think it depends on cultural background knowledge, Dam.

CopperKettle

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Damkerng T.

nods -- When a robot gets confused...

Jim Reynolds

It may be interesting to explain/understand. Let's do it when I'm at a full-sized keyboard. I'm also handicapped on my phone ATM.

Damkerng T.

Thanks in advance. :D

Anonymous

11:54

-d

Damkerng T.

I blamed that on my fingers. :-)

Anonymous

:D

Anonymous

-d

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@DamkerngT. Thanks in advantage.

Anonymous

You probably want to say I blame rather than I blamed.

Damkerng T.

11:55

@snailboat But I blamed it on them before you typed -d. :P

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

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Q: Separated at birth?

It's uncanny! The handsome rugged features, the piercing gaze... could it be? :))

discussion

Damkerng T.

Does that make sense?

Anonymous

Still :-)

Damkerng T.

Ahh -- aktionarts can be a real pain...

@snailboat Thanks!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@DamkerngT. Aktionsart you mean?

CopperKettle

11:56

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Seeta and Geeta. (0:

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle Pita and Peta.

Damkerng T.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. I guess I'll never get this word right! :D

Anonymous

You can just say aspect, and lexical aspect when you want to talk about aspect as a trait of particular lexical items.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@DamkerngT. Don't worry. Typos are not uncommon in December.

Damkerng T.

Thx! :D

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

11:58

@CopperKettle STOP EDITING THAT GODDAMMIT

I mean stop editing that.

CopperKettle

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Why? I fixed the name of the movie. (a terrible Indian movie with dances at each turn)

Anonymous

Linguistics has a lot of loanwords, and some of them are rather challenging for people to remember.

Anonymous

Dvandva compound, for example.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle Since I just got 3 billion pings.

CopperKettle

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. I see. I won't. Do. This. Further.

Anonymous

11:59

Really, a lot of the terminological landscape in linguistics is rather unfortunate.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle （ノT＿T)ノ＾┻━┻

Jim Reynolds

People should stop pinging @Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Damkerng T.

@snailboat So true!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@JimReynolds Hey.

@JimR how are you?

CopperKettle

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Damkerng T.

12:00

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Ho!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@JimR I wonder if we should ping you a lot.

@JimR how've you been?

Anonymous

I don't think the difference between accomplishment and achievement is at all easy to remember. The words are almost interchangeable in normal speech, so why give them opposing technical definitions?

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@JimR what time is it?

Anonymous

And linguistics has far too many words that begin with 'p'.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@JimR who moved my cheese?

Jim Reynolds

12:01

Time to ping @Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ., Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.?

Anonymous

Frankly, it's ridiculous that adposition and apposition are completely different things, and that postpositions and postposition are likewise different concepts.

Anonymous

What about phrasal verbs? Then down the road, you run into a paper that talks about phasal verbs and you think it's a typo!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@JimReynolds Yes.

@JimR I mean no.

Damkerng T.

@snailboat My favorite: predicates (What is it, exactly?!)

Jim Reynolds

And inhalation and exhalation? It's exhausting o.O

Anonymous

12:03

@DamkerngT. A difficult question, as the subject-predicate relationship is rooted in semantics, but is now often used to describe a type of syntactic relationship!

CopperKettle

HappyHolidays

►

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@DamkerngT. It's an italicized word.

Damkerng T.

@JimReynolds How about wax on, wax off. :-)

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@JimReynolds Excredible?

Damkerng T.

@CopperKettle Haha!

wondering where I can get one of those...

Anonymous

12:06

@JimReynolds Why is the hypernym of inhalation and exhalation respiration rather than plain ol' halation? :-)

Anonymous

"What are you doing?" "Just haling, in- and ex-."

CopperKettle

@DamkerngT. On the military black market, probably. (0:

Damkerng T.

Hehe! A closer look at their cousin: youtube.com/… -- Must be a great shopping companion.

"Fido, would you mind carry this for me?" "My pleasure, sir."

CopperKettle

Meet the cat ISU vets outfitted with very rare prosthetic legs

►

Anonymous

Aww

Damkerng T.

12:09

If only she(?) could get a pair of those legs!

Jim Reynolds

Haling taxis?

Anonymous

Did I mention a second hamster girl has become a member of our household? :-)

CopperKettle

@snailboat Nice! (0:

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@snailboat Yes.

21 secs ago, by snailboat

Did I mention a second hamster girl has become a member of our household? :-)

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Oh! Congrats!

CopperKettle

12:11

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. No, in that deictic time (Td; the time of rendering the sentence) there was yet no prior mention of that. Read Huddleston and Pullum. (0:

Anonymous

@JimReynolds I don't like it when it hales. Raining cats and dogs I can handle, but haling taxis? That seems a bit beyond the pale.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@snailboat So you're two hamsters, three snails and two people who don't know who to look after right now?

Anonymous

A lot of animals live outside here, too, but not as many thanks to the drought.

Anonymous

It's been raining a lot lately, though!

Anonymous

We have a new family of squirrels here. They're black squirrels.

CopperKettle

12:12

It's been snowing cats and dogs here for days.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle No, a weird physicist said "the future exists now".

Jim Reynolds

We should have Dam program this chat to limit the numner of concurrent topics!

CopperKettle

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Alas, Huddleston and Pullum are not weird physicists but plain linguists. Otherwise, their book would've been funnier.

Damkerng T.

@JimReynolds Current max. number of concurrent topics: 42

Jim Reynolds

Snow in winter in Russia? I had no idea!

CopperKettle

12:14

@snailboat We've usual brownish squirrels here. Lots of them in parks across the city.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@JimReynolds Me neither. Who knew?

CopperKettle

@JimReynolds (0:

Anonymous

Can brown and grey squirrels breed with black squirrels?

Jim Reynolds

Haha. Max topics < # tabs Dam has open!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Must be global freezing.

Jim Reynolds

12:15

Lol MAR

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@JimReynolds Let's prove that wrong.

CopperKettle

Global freezing was this summer, the average July temperature was 15C.

Damkerng T.

@JimReynolds See how modest I am. :P

CopperKettle

@snailboat Why not?

Jim Reynolds

:-)

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

12:15

@CopperKettle Black eats other colors.

Anonymous

Oh, interesting! Black squirrels aren't a separate species, apparently.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@snailboat They're just old.

Charlie Chaplin old.

CopperKettle

"Red and grey squirrels are different species (Sciurus vulgaris and Sciurus carolinensis, respectively) and are not reproductively compatible." (Sciencefocus.com)

Damkerng T.

Hah! They're incompatible?!

Anonymous

What sort are black squirrels?

CopperKettle

12:18

@DamkerngT. Yes, at hardware level..

Damkerng T.

Maybe we should rename one of them.

CopperKettle

Black squirrel

The black squirrel occurs as a melanistic subgroup of the eastern gray squirrel and of the fox squirrel. They are common in the Midwestern United States, eastern Canada, and parts of the Northeastern United States and the United Kingdom. == Habitat == As a melanistic variety of the eastern gray and of the fox squirrel, individual black squirrels can exist wherever grey or fox squirrels live. Among eastern squirrels, grey mating pairs cannot produce black offspring. Gray squirrels have two copies of a normal pigment gene and black squirrels have either one or two copies of a mutant pigment gene...

No interwikis at all for this article

Damkerng T.

I think those guys in my garden are brown ones, but are they really squirrels? I don't know.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Guys just so you know, I'm gonna answer this question:

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Q: nonellipsed forms: "to glory" vs. "to hell" - Is there a rule?

To glory! I've come across the bizarre (is it?) question that's asking me to write the complete form of this exclaiming 'sentence'. I came along the sentence below as the nonellipsed expansion: [Let's go] to glory! However, it gets a bit hilarious if you want to apply the same to "to h...

ellipsis

Damkerng T.

Go for it!

Anonymous

12:22

@DamkerngT. One interesting thing about learning languages is the set of animal words you learn.

Damkerng T.

@snailboat nods -- It could be tough too!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@snailboat I don't even know animal words in my mother tongue.

CopperKettle

In Russian, "squirrel" is belka (sounds familiar?)

Anonymous

Different animals are common in different areas. Squirrels are not that common in Japan, for example.

Anonymous

Whereas I had no idea what a cormorant was until I started learning Japanese.

Anonymous

12:23

Of course, you can chalk that up to my general ignorance, if you like :-)

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle Hmm . . . Where have I heard that before?

CopperKettle

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Soviet Space Dogs, Belka and Strelka

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Chalking that up to @Snail's general non-existent ignorance

@CopperKettle Oh I didn't go that far.

Damkerng T.

Hmm... cormorants look like pelicans! (Cormorant is a new word to me.)

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. They're called u in Japanese.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

12:25

To me too.

I still don't know what it is.

Damkerng T.

@snailboat How convenient!

Anonymous

They're cute!

Anonymous

CopperKettle

Yes.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@snailboat Wow, that's . . .

Damkerng T.

12:26

Oh, this little guy doesn't look quite like a pelican.

My inner thought: A bird! It must be a bird!

Anonymous

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. It's a considerably shorter, simpler word :-)

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@snailboat Microcarbo_melanoleucos_Austins_Ferry? Hmm, the name looks like that of an evil virus that will end life on Earth some day.

Damkerng T.

Having both Austins and Ferry in it makes it sound quite friendly, imo.

Anonymous

I'm sure there are a lot of people who've never studied Japanese who know the word cormorant. There are a lot more animal words in English than I'm familiar with, though.

Jim Reynolds

@Dam is reproductively compatible with . . .

CopperKettle

12:29

@snailboat do you know the word kine?

Anonymous

I've mentioned this before, but another bird word I learned while studying Japanese is plover. They're called chidori (lit. 'thousand birds') in Japanese.

Anonymous

And they are adorable!

Damkerng T.

shudders!

Jim Reynolds

A BMW!

Anonymous

Damkerng T.

12:30

Hah!

CopperKettle

@snailboat These are cute.

Jim Reynolds

Cute!

Damkerng T.

Oh, oh! I like this guy!

CopperKettle

In Russian, such a bird is called Rzhanka

Jim Reynolds

Very beak-coming.

O.O

CopperKettle

12:31

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Damkerng T.

I remember that I went crazy trying to take as many photos as I could when I saw them in Germany; my friend laughed asking me "Haven't you seen any bird?" :-)

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle Er, how should I pronounce that?

CopperKettle

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. ru.forvo.com/word/%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0

/rjanka/ -- the a ending makes it a female noun

Jim Reynolds

If you pronounced it cotrectly, MAR, your spleen would eject from your throat.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

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Q: Poll: Retag questions with the "grammar" tag, or not?

We've discussed this issue finely in Is This Tag Useful? Episode 1 - The Big Boss (grammar) and A proposed solution to the "grammar" dilemma -- Please contribute your answers to the "what is grammar" post. However, a recent question came up with the tag, which was initially locked. It made me rea...

discussion tags

Rim Jeynolds please go vote.

RIGHT NOW

Jim Reynolds

12:33

Ok

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@JimReynolds What . . . What did you do to me?

Jim Reynolds

Ha! Heaven only built Russian people to pronounce it without injury.

CopperKettle

Why? It's not that hard to pronounce. (0: Polish has a lot more such combinations.

Damkerng T.

I think there must be some good name for this concept: when some people (me! for example) simply call everything that flies and looks like a bird a "bird".

Could be related to language learning. I mean, we generally don't have to use the most precise word all the time.

CopperKettle

thingamajig

Noun: thingamajig ‎(plural thingamajigs)

Something that one does not know the name of.

Damkerng T.

12:38

LOL

CopperKettle

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Jim Reynolds

Chalk it up to ... I was just thinking recently: Do kids today know what chalk is?

Damkerng T.

Oh, I just got a couple more ideas for TheBook's question!

> It must be noted if a car drives a bus route with the same behaviour, the algorithm will define the vehicle as a bus and try to detect its route and direction. But to impede this case, the number of the stops in the history table to define producer's behaviour as a bus of the Verkehrsbetriebe Halle (Halle Transport Authority) can be raised.

> a) ~~But~~ to keep the number of this case low/at the minimum, the number of the stops ...

> b) ~~But~~ to reduce the number of this case, the number of the stops ...

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@JimReynolds Yes.

This kid does at least.

CopperKettle

@DamkerngT. Feel free to post a new answer!

Damkerng T.

12:46

On the way! :D

CopperKettle

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Anonymous

@JimReynolds The kids next door went outside and drew on the sidewalk a few months ago.

Anonymous

They probably know what chalk is :-)

Anonymous

Does McDonald's have unhealthy food all over the world?

Anonymous

12:50

Look at the challenge set (top). It's like 2500 calories in one meal!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@snailboat Actually it really is something like that.

Damkerng T.

Lately, I order only orange juices when I go there.

Anonymous

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Yes, it is, I wasn't exaggerating :-)

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Crocodiles eat averagely once a month. McDonald wants to turn humans into crocodiles.

If a croc gang gets so lucky to catch a buffalo or something, some of them go without food for up to six months.

If a python eats a zebra, it'll go without food for a year.

Damkerng T.

I wonder if it really can eat a zebra!

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12:54

It spends the first month primarily trying to digest the zebra. So you can think of it as covering the zebra with snake skin.

Jim Reynolds

Did "chalk it up to . . ." come from from to write (up on the board?) in chalk?

Anonymous

I don't know.

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