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01:37

@ʇolɐǝzǝɥʇqoq You came back! :-)

ʇolɐǝz ǝɥʇ qoq

02:28

@snailboat I did come back!

Damkerng T.

08:53

5

A: One word for body's intimate/private parts?

You probably have two options for this. In general conversation - regular to formal environments - you'll want to use "genitals": Please, stop shaking your genitals. If you're talking to little kids, though, or in a much more colloquial setting you can use "privates": Please, stop shaki...

Love it or hate it, we must admit that it's resourceful!

V.V.

10:56

@CopperKettle, look at my answer, please .

Damkerng T.

It's not quite correct. I'm sorry that I'm not CopperKettle.

Though it's not very far off.

CopperKettle

11:21

Yes, we're only several thousand miles apart, but in a grammar sense we're not very far.

SpaceX launches a rocket in 5 hours.

@V.V. It's a good attempt, but I feel there are some shortcomings that native speakers will not fail to notice..

In my comment, there's a link to a simplified explanation.

> The first sentence refers to the present :

-- not necessarily. the sentence might refer to the future (say, to today's evening).

SpaceX Rocket vs. Robot Boat, Round 4! Tune in Live to the Grudge Fight

Damkerng T.

And I was watching Robot Combat League this weekend!

Robot Combat League

►

V.V.

11:42

Thanks, you are right.

CopperKettle

@DamkerngT. Nice! An exoskeleton!

V.V.

But let there be different opinions and it's just a challenge. Let cleverer people correct, right?

CopperKettle

Yes. I find writing answers a good way to induce myself to read parts of grammar books.

(I correct myself. It wasn't an exoskeleton - it was a wearable gear allowing a human to operate a robotic figure.)

Damkerng T.

Ahh... some of my neat (probably not very neat) comments are gone.

CopperKettle

What comments?

Damkerng T.

11:55

@CopperKettle They used pure remote controlled robots!

In this deleted question: ell.stackexchange.com/q/78955/3281

CopperKettle

@DamkerngT. Yes.. that's a downer. I hoped these robots were AI-based.

@DamkerngT. Yes, I read this question.

Damkerng T.

@CopperKettle nods -- Just wait another 10 minutes. :D

CopperKettle

(0:

I'll be a fan of such TV-shows snivver they switch to AI. (0:

Damkerng T.

> ... the director and writer of the movie, Alex Garland, stated in an interview recently that the movie takes place “10 minutes into the future.”

> Movie Review: Ex Machina

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Nom nom eating bread™ & cheese

CopperKettle

11:58

Okay.. (checking Ex Machina as "to watch" on IMDB)

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Congrats with completed exams!

Damkerng T.

@CopperKettle Self-driving cars are so disappointing! Where are my autonomous butlers that will drive my cars?!

CopperKettle

(0:

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle The news of me blowing them up is striking every day. :/

Damkerng T.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. What bread was that? Why was it TMed?

CopperKettle

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Anyway! And congrats with the lifting of sanctions. (0:

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

11:59

@DamkerngT. It's a "traditional" bread.

Damkerng T.

Ah, and it's got TMed!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle Yay woohoo I'm not that excited actually.

CopperKettle

The Russian market has been tanking due to the lifting of sanctions these several days. (0:

Damkerng T.

I hope it's not permanent.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

What? The lifting of sanctions? :P

CopperKettle

12:01

@DamkerngT. I hope so too.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Transformers 4:The Score - Honor To The End

►

CopperKettle

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Iran is now free to send more tankers of oil to other coutnries, and this freeing of Iran's tankers sent the Russian market tanking. (0:

Damkerng T.

Lotsatanks!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle So tanking the tankers has tanked. Got it.

CopperKettle

(0:

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Yes. Hope that tanking won't leave us Russians with nothing but tank tops. (0:

Cause it's tankin' cold.

The upside of the tanking is that Putin will have less tanks to send to other countries. Let's raise our tankards to this.

Damkerng T.

12:06

Maybe some people are building some tankabots right now. :P

CopperKettle

Robotic tanks? I bet the US does it.

Damkerng T.

(Eww... it could make future wars even scarier!)

@CopperKettle nods

CopperKettle

Russia has recently adopted the new platform called "Armata", which theoretically could be turned into a robotic tank.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

With this conversation we have contributed to the overall usage of the word "tank" in English.

CopperKettle

(Because the driving and aiming and firing is all done through automatic systems)

Damkerng T.

12:08

"Armata" -- That sounds almost like "immortal" in my first language!

CopperKettle

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Fugure generations will tank us for this.

T-14 Armata

The T-14 Armata (Russian: Т-14 «Армата»; industrial designation "Object 148") is a Russian 5th generation main battle tank based on the Armata Universal Combat Platform. It was first seen in public (initially with its turret and cannon shrouded) during rehearsals for the 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade. From 2015 to 2020 the Russian army plans to acquire 2,300 T-14s. == DesignEdit == Featuring a number of innovative characteristics, the T-14 represents a new generation of Russian main battle tanks. The most significant new feature is the use of an unmanned turret, with the crew of three seated in...

Damkerng T.

Maybe we need Human 2.0 :P

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle I feel tanked.

Damkerng T.

The "Armata" Universal Combat Platform -- that sounds cool!

CopperKettle

> The most significant new feature is the use of an unmanned turret, with the crew of three seated in an armored capsule in the front of the hull.

The turret works automatically.

Damkerng T.

12:11

Three? Hmm... I thought it was typically two. Perhaps it's mostly three nowadays.

CopperKettle

There was a nice cartoon about a AI-based tank that was able to read minds.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle Robot revolution on the way. Finally @Damkerng to be set free.

CopperKettle

Poligon.1977.XviD.DVDRip.avi

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(this is the cartoon, with English subtitles)

Damkerng T.

I think today's technology makes it possible that the commander can practically just shout "Fire at will!" and the turret will work automatically.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Me and my friends are gonna ____. <-- phrase-request

CopperKettle

@DamkerngT. I read that the US army has a system that detect incoming small arms fire, automatically turns the turret in that direction and fires.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

12:14

@DamkerngT. Setfried

@DamkerngT. revolutionationificationize

Damkerng T.

@CopperKettle It's a cartoon that's like no other!

CopperKettle

@DamkerngT. It's propaganda-laced, but the author had to instill Soviet propaganda into it to have it funded and allowed for airing. Otherwise, its brilliant.

@DamkerngT. One of the comments in Russian to that YouTube video reads "This is Armata".

Damkerng T.

Ahh

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

-3

Q: Shouldn't this be "showing" instead of "show"?

While browsing Stack Overflow, I saw this button ‘show interesting‘ and thought "well, if I click on this, it'll take me to a list of seemingly (more) interesting questions." But, it turns out that I'm already at the "interesting" section. I find this copy confusing, shouldn't it be rather "sho...

ELL.meta.SE O_o

Damkerng T.

It could be a good question for a UX stack.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

12:25

I doubt it'll get migrated.

Hey @Jims (ج)

CopperKettle

> (the client)- "Semyon Abramovich, God created the world in 7 days, but it took you a whole month to make this pair of trousers for me!
> (the tailor) - "But just look at this world, young man! And then look at these trousers!"

Damkerng T.

Something just dawns on me. I think I just realized the common misconceptions of language learning in many learners. I need some time to reformulate it, but it could be a good rant. :P

@CopperKettle Must be some sophisticated trousers!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@DamkerngT. That'd be one of the few rants I'd upboat.

CopperKettle

I'd even upship it!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

One thing learners shouldn't do is write "the colors are categorised".

CopperKettle

12:34

@DamkerngT. The original joke makes it clear that the tailor is not so hot about the world God created hastily. (0:

Now this is brilliant

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Q: Are there rules to create german words into english?

For example Rule 1) change "d" into "th" Rule 2) change "sch" into "s" Rule 3) change ending "en" into ending "s" Rule 4) change "ur" to "ru" etc. This it the german sentence "Der Mensch definiert sich durch seine Taten" Using these rules translating into english is simply and easy: D|er...

translation

Thank God I wasn't drinking coffee then I chanced upon this question.

Damkerng T.

@CopperKettle Hehe!

CopperKettle

This should be saved for posterity. (0:

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Very smart, but language doesn't work that way. Sorry. — Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. 46 secs ago

Damkerng T.

I remember my first impression on software documentation written in German. I felt like I could practically read it! Because all keywords were pretty much like in English!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

I wouldn't know how to call a "Schrodinger" Englishman.

Damkerng T.

12:38

E.g., funktionale spezifikation, standardmodul (and lots more!)

CopperKettle

funniest examples of Wikipedia vandalism

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Buzzfeed (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Damkerng T.

@CopperKettle "2. We've mastered physics!"!

CopperKettle

(0:

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

CopperKettle

12:40

Yes, that is LOL. (0:

Damkerng T.

Physics, meet Fight Club!

CopperKettle

I liked the one about "Spot the Dog"

Damkerng T.

Wait, what? Hemingway?! :D

CopperKettle

(0:

Damkerng T.

The first step is to understand the idea. The next step is to form it with the rules of grammar. — NECIP 5 mins ago

"..."

If only we could translate one language to another just like that...

CopperKettle

12:44

@DamkerngT. A good approach. Maybe he'll end up writing the next edition of CGEL in 10 years.

Damkerng T.

:D

I give it one Unihope.

CopperKettle

Maybe he's just a kid, getting interested in grammar for the first time. Maybe Huddleston started this way. (0:]

Damkerng T.

Ah, that reminds me of Tolkien.

CopperKettle

early doors

Adjective: early doors ‎(not comparable)

(Northern England) Early, near the start or beginning

Adverb: early doors ‎(not comparable)

(Northern England) Early; at a time before expected; sooner than usual.

Noun: early doors

(Cockney rhyming slang, plural only) woman's drawers....

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

And you're understanding the idea by . . . essing the "sch"'s? Are you serious? — Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. 59 secs ago

Damkerng T.

12:55

0

Q: Is the sentence 'I have eaten lunch since I was really young.' grammatically right?

Is the sentence 'I have eaten lunch since I was really young.' grammatically right? Can this sentence directly/indirectly mean 'I eat lunch everyday'??

meaning

There's something about since for a lot of learners.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@DamkerngT. LOL

Damkerng T.

Many believe that if it's since, it has to be the present/past prefect.

How about "I know how to ... since ..."?

Damkerng T.

13:19

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@DamkerngT.

Damkerng T.

A walking proof that we don't have only one possible position to pronounce any specific vowel sound: ventriloquists.

Crazy Ninja

hi

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CrazyNinja \o

Crazy Ninja

are you all fine?

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

13:29

No, I'm MAR.

Here's Fine:

Colin Fine, England, United Kingdom

43.7k 38 113

grammar meaning word-choice grammaticality verbs prepositions etymology

Crazy Ninja

yes. you could read it in that way too :{

nice figures

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Actually I'm about to leave for school.

Er, I mean classes.

\o

Crazy Ninja

okay. Take care

when i write in my blog, i came up with this sentence

As for the reply received by the supervisor, we did this.

I think it is not up to the standard in writing language

can someone correct me?

CopperKettle

14:36

@CrazyNinja Looks okay to me.

> The authors found a strong correlation between a nation's happiness and the presence of the A allele in the fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) gene variant rs324420 in its citizens' genetic make-up. This allele helps prevent the chemical degradation of anandamide, a substance that enhances sensory pleasure and helps to reduce pain.

Genes may contribute to making some nations happier than others

Crazy Ninja

lengthy discussions & aggressive arguments made the meeting a success

CopperKettle

@DamkerngT. youtube.com/watch?v=EzgJWwAx8Mo

> In partnership with Yamaha, robotics developer SRI has created a humanoid that can ride an unmodified motorcycle. The goal? Beat the lap times of one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, Valentino Rossi.

zdnet.com/article/…

Damkerng T.

MOTOBOT!

So, maybe it's only 9 minutes, not 10, now. :-)

Crazy Ninja

15:04

@DamkerngT. hi

how are you?

are you an android fan?

Damkerng T.

@CrazyNinja I'm not a real fan. More like a normal user.

Crazy Ninja

okay. Can you give some ideas to develop an android app or a game ?

just thoughts

Damkerng T.

I'm sorry. I'm afraid you may know better than me.

Damkerng T.

15:34

No they're not married yet, but I think Hardy is thinking they might have been married by now, so the feeling might have been that he is sending off his wife, however now he is faced with the prospect of never seeing her again if she doesn't forward her address to him. They still might get married in the future, but I think it is implied that it is an unknown since Hardy has not revealed his secret plan. Lots of longing in this scene by Hardy. You can tell he is very much in love with her by now. — Peter 4 hours ago

It's not easy to be a good writer.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Damkerng T.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. IE?

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@DamkerngT. Yah

Damkerng T.

> As happens often in stories of this type, the girl is about to leave and the guy is wondering what might have been, thus the changing of tenses from past to present and back again.

"thus the changing of tenses from past to present and back again"

I remember that F.E. mentioned that most (native) speakers aren't aware of tenses in narratives.

(Maybe not exactly "most", but I remember that he made it sound like a lot.)

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

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Q: Why is "build" spelt with a "u"?

I was just looking at build on Wiktionary and I noticed that in Middle English the word was bilden. Where did the u come from? I can understand why words such as guide have a u; it's to make the g "hard" (/ɡaɪd/) instead of "soft" like a "j": *gide (*/dʒaɪd/). In Modern English, changing the spe...

etymology orthography pronunciation-vs-spelling middle-english

Very good question with a stupid wannabe comment.

Damkerng T.

15:46

The first comment doesn't match the question, imo.

But "Because X" is grammatical nowadays.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Yeah, it's just a guy that wanted to look cool.

> You want science? Pfft, universe isn't logical.

Damkerng T.

@CJDennis: well, "buy" is currently"long i" and "build" is "short i," so the pronunciations pre–Great Vowel Shift would have been closer than they are now. And certainly "buy" and "bury" have developed differently in pronunciation from "build" in modern standard dialects of English, but the spelling could have been affected by other dialects. — sumelic 12 hours ago

buy /baɪ/ uses a diphthong: /aɪ/, while build /bɪld/ uses a monophthong: /ɪ/. I was taught "long i" vs "short i" in primary school and it is a very inaccurate way of describing the link between pronunciation and spelling! A "long i" is much closer to the monophthong /iː/ in /biː/, often spelt "ee", however, spelling this sound rarely uses an "i", as in believe. — CJ Dennis 12 hours ago

@CJDennis: it is inaccurate as a literal description of modern English pronunciation, but the basics of our spelling system date to before the Great Vowel Shift. I don't see a problem with using it when discussing the spelling. It's an abstraction, just like the phonemic vowel length you describe (actual phonetic length is affected by a variety of factors besides phonemic value, such as stress, tempo and the voicing of the following consonant). — sumelic 12 hours ago

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@Dam I see you're enjoying the thread

Damkerng T.

And I thought that "long I" and short I" are only recent (due to the introduction of the concept of phonemic).

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. :D

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

That guy is one of the few people who I saw ask questions on SE that know what they're talking about.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

16:55

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Q: My toddler calls me "Mommy", but I'm his father

It was cute and funny at first that both of us were being called Mommy, and I still don't really mind. My wife and I laugh and try to correct him, pointing to pictures, ourselves and repeating the correct words. My 21m toddler is just starting to talk, so it's probably normal to be confused a b...

toddler speech

LOL

Damkerng T.

17:12

We're witnessing a real case of language acquisition!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@DamkerngT. Did/Does your kid(s), if you have 'em/it/her/him/thy, also call you mum?

Nihilist_Frost

what is the past tense of "tread water"?

for me, I never conjugate it the same as "tread"

what would you prefer using?

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@Nihilist_Frost treaded water

Damkerng T.

17:29

trod sounds nice, too.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. I'm afraid I have no good answer to that.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@DamkerngT. NP

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

17:52

Hey @Stoney!

Araucaria

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. o/

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@Araucaria \o

Araucaria

@DamkerngT. \o

Damkerng T.

o/

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

|o

/o

Araucaria

18:04

How's trick, all?

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@trick how're you doin'?

Damkerng T.

@Araucaria Same old, same old. :-)

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Pretty good.

Araucaria

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Oh, same old, same old too! ;)

StoneyB

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.,@Araucaria,@DamkerngT. Yo, folks.

Araucaria

18:07

@StoneyB Yo!

@StoneyB I wanted to ask you the other day, hve you written any books?

StoneyB

@Araucaria Nope. Plays, but no books.

Araucaria

@StoneyB plays that we can read? - Or are they Top Secret?

StoneyB

Not that you can find anywhere. They were all nonce-commissions for theatre companies -- adaptations of novels, ballads, &c

And they mostly go back to days before computers, so they only exist in typescript.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Cooooooooooooooolllll

CopperKettle

It is cool. Writing plays.

StoneyB

18:15

It beats working for a living.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

StoneyB

18:27

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. sorta 3D emoji

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@StoneyB As long as it's cute and self-descriptive, why not? :)

CopperKettle

all systems go, SpaceX launch in 10 minutes

Jason-3 Hosted Webcast

►

StoneyB

Am I the only person around old enough to remember Apollo 11?

CopperKettle

My father remembers it. (0:

My mother rembers the flight of Gagarin and how everyone celebrated on that day.

I hope it lands safely on the drone ship. That would be historic.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@StoneyB Was that launched in 1069? :)

StoneyB

18:37

Fersher. I remember the announcement of Спутник-1

CopperKettle

@StoneyB Yes, Sputnik was great! (0:

StoneyB

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Nah, the Normans were in control back then.

CopperKettle

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. The Doomsday Book project was launched at about that time (0:

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle I got the date right.

StoneyB

@CopperKettle For the next week we all went out on the front lawn to see it pass over.

CopperKettle

18:39

@StoneyB Was it visible? O_o

It was tiny!

T minus 3 minute mark.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle Immortals have good eyesight apparently.

CopperKettle

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Oh. (0: As a kid, I remember seeing a moving dot in the night sky, and was told it was the MIR station. I dunno if it was possible to see it even as a dot.

StoneyB

@CopperKettle Very faintly, and only in deep night. I was a small-town boy, so there wasn't a lot of light pollution.

CopperKettle

The Aurora Borealis was cooler to see in any case. (0:

T minus 30 seconds..

The space.com's translation is better.

StoneyB

@CopperKettle I've never seen the aurora.

CopperKettle

18:48

It's nice. (0:

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@StoneyB Dude, he's trying to make you jealous.

CopperKettle

I'm watching this SpaceX and trying to understand what on earth the people in the Pod Bay chat are talking about.

StoneyB

Linky?

CopperKettle

Jason-3 Hosted Webcast

►

space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html

the pod bay

Even Alexey Navalny is doing retweets of SpaceX. (0:

The folks in the chat say the first stage has crashed. D'oh.

NASA's webcast is breaking up on me. (or "breaking down"?)

StoneyB

"breaking up"

CopperKettle

19:00

It was a nice chance to use the phrase from Damkerng's answer.

Damkerng T.

I had a hunch that someone mentioned my name! :P

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@Damkyoon

CopperKettle

I taketh not thy name in vain! (0:

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

I think that you could leave the article out since the verb is in the past tense, but I would have put it in, myself. Another case of language hammering in a point as much as possible. — modulusshift 16 mins ago

Huh?

CopperKettle

> seas were extremely choppy so if they had stuck the landing it would be simply mind blowing

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

19:05

"leave the article our since the verb is in the past tense"?

CopperKettle

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. I also failed to understand that, although usually ModulusShift's answers are good

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@CopperKettle They're good, not linguisty good. Maybe we miss something they miss?

CopperKettle

May be.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

I feel we should have a @Snailboat-like entity in this chat all the time.

Damkerng T.

Ah, modulusshift must've meant that computers back then were unlike computers nowadays.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

19:07

Since vehicles like @Snail usually have lives to live and can't be here, I suggest @Dam download her main mainframes so we could download free linguistic stuff 24/7.

Damkerng T.

Thanks to The End of Eternity, I came to know that sense of Computer. (It was capitalized in the novel, iirc.)

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

It's actually better than a search engine too, since the info usually comes when we're not even searching for it.

Damkerng T.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. LOL

Wow, hunting for something people made about 20 years ago is no fun, and to no avail!

CopperKettle

> We came in as expected -- on target -- however a landing leg broke... We are not standing upright," according to @SpaceX officials.

Damkerng T.

@CopperKettle Oops!

CopperKettle

19:12

I have a hard enough time landing upright when I jump out of bed in the morning, so I give @SpaceX some slack here.

Tweeted by planet4589 on January 17, 2016 at 7:11 PM

Damkerng T.

Good point!

Damkerng T.

19:48

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Q: Non-perfect Tense with Since

Most of the time, the simple or progressive present tense is not used in the main clause, when there is a since clause: Correct: I have been here since morning. Correct: I have been waiting here since morning. Incorrect: *I am here since morning. Incorrect: *I am waiting here since mo...

tense

I wonder how long they'll have to wait before getting an answer.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@snailboat Beautiful work. Would've donated, but . . . :/

Damkerng T.

20:05

(cont.) One assertion the OP made in the question is that a) is more appropriate/natural/common than b):

> a) You are the first student to get an A from that teacher since 2010.
b) ?You have been the first student to get an A from that teacher since 2010.

I can't say for sure, but I think "You are the first student ..." is less common. The more common one should be "You're the first student ..."

I'm sure that to most learners (implying all non-native speakers who learn English as an adult) "You are" and "You're" are no different.

Though I think there may be some differences, like "There is" vs. "There's".

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@DamkerngT. Does that mean I'm an adult? :>

Feels like a grown-up

Damkerng T.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. I'm not sure which basket I should put you in. :D

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@DamkerngT. Eggheads?

Damkerng T.

Hehe!

I usually think of "adult" as someone who is 18 or above.

Perhaps you're a young adult. :-)

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Unborn adult

Damkerng T.

20:10

LOL

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

BTW @Dam it's gonna be my first time to vote! \o/

Damkerng T.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. In the election this year?

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Yeah

Damkerng T.

Yay! That's pretty exciting!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

I vote for @Stoney

Damkerng T.

20:14

Hah!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Honorable mention of

Damkerng T.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. You made it just now, I suppose? :D

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Nah, it's Shog's artwork.

in 2015 ELL Moderator Election, Aug 26 '15 at 14:40, by Shog9

Oh crud.

Hides from @Stoney

StoneyB

Coming in sideways (but with authority).

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Damkerng T.

Haha!

Why can't I drag things around on my desktop with my mouse?!

StoneyB

20:31

They're too heavy? Get an ox instead.

Damkerng T.

I guess I'll need to reboot my desktop soon, but I still have something running in the background. This is not fun.

@StoneyB Hehe! I wonder if I can drag an ox around more easily!

StoneyB

No, no ... it's the ox that does the dragging. You just direct it.

Damkerng T.

Why didn't I think of that?! :D

StoneyB

Mice are notoriously feeble. Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beasties.

Damkerng T.

Cows and oxen are quite tame over here. Perhaps they're more or less the same everywhere.

If they were about the size of a cat or a dog, I guess they would make good pets.

StoneyB

20:41

Something like this, perhaps?

Damkerng T.

Eww... so cute!

Is he (the cow!) full grown?

StoneyB

Yup. That's a Highland, bred back to what is believed to have been the original size.

Damkerng T.

Looks like they'd prefer cold weather.

StoneyB

Yeah, sorta shaggy.

Damkerng T.

21:30

Well guys i highly recommend to go to YouTube look for mr skype lessons about prepositions he's a great British teacher and you gonna find all your answers — user155776 2 hours ago

Hmm...

Does the comment fit our site or SE's guidelines?

Then again, the answer kinda discredits the teacher a bit.

(My motto: one good way to know how good a teacher is is to look at his or her students.)

Oh, yay! I can drag things around again! It must've been VirtualBox that messed up my mouse.

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