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1:29 AM

@DamkerngT. that makes me think too. I have seen adj + objective form of pronoun like poor them or poor he. But I have never known or seen any modifier attached with the pronoun in that construction. We can, however, write - They hate chocolates; poor them!

On the other hand it is also correct - it's them who need the refund.

But I'm not sure if we can can conclude from this if poor them, who hate chocolates. is correct.

It's a really interesting question @TIPS

1:50 AM

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Q: How to use the phrase 'For there to be'

I've heard the phrase' For there to be' can be used in the Sentences.But I've never seen such phrase written down. so, how to use this kind of phrase? Even if I don't know its usage , I've tryed to use it in a sentence below: For there to be a success, we need to struggle. Am i correct ? Ple...

Anonymous

2:31 AM

@Man_From_India Poor him! but not *Poor he!

Anonymous

2:46 AM

As you said, the objective form (also called the accusative form) is used there.

Anonymous

@Man_From_India I have a hard time making an intuitive judgment about that. Since people hardly ever say things like that, I'd be inclined to say it's not really part of how the construction is used, but I don't want to say it's explicitly ungrammatical either.

Anonymous

So if people asked, the first thing I would say is "People don't really say things like that very often".

3:22 AM

@snailplane sorry a typo :(

@snailplane exactly

Good morning!

Word of the day: snap gage (why not gauge?)

3:47 AM

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Q: "In section 2 of the text" or "in the section 2 of the text"? Articles and ordinal numbers

When we write a text and we mention about sections which one is correct? - "You can find smth in section 2 of the text" or "in the section 2" and why? should we rather use "you can find smth in the comments section" or "in comments section"?

articles numbers ordinal

How does one call a construction of the kind "section 2"? An ordinal number construction?

Bye, Snails!

A noun modified by an ordinal number?

Morning!

Morning, @CrazyNinja!

How do you do?

Procrastinating. How are you?

ohhh why?

3:51 AM

Okay. Now to work.

BBL!

ok

have a nice day@

Anonymous

4:19 AM

@CowperKettle Bye! Except I'm still here! :-)

Anonymous

So hi again! And bye again!

Morning!

Anonymous

Good morning :-)

:)

Some sunrays at last!

Anonymous

4:30 AM

Yippee!

Anonymous

It's dark here now.

It's night, right? I meant it was raining yesterday.

Anonymous

It is night.

Anonymous

It hasn't rained here in a while.

Anonymous

It typically doesn't rain here in the summer.

Anonymous

4:36 AM

It happens once in a while, though!

Imagine it's a time machine, It's dark there, morning here, afternoon somewhere else. And people're communicating.

Anonymous

Isn't it amazing that it's not amazing at all anymore? Talking to people across the globe.

Anonymous

We can do it every day, if we like.

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Q: missing preposition 'for' before time

When can we omit 'for' before time noun ? I found few examples missing 'for' before duration of verb. Like this In the afternoon we drive 20 minutes to the Eden Project. We work 5 hours a day. Walk 30 minutes every day. We are going to the town two hours from now.

prepositions for

This is interesting.

And difficult to explain

Have to work sometimes.

See you later

Anonymous

5:16 AM

Later!

Anonymous

Yes, there's some interesting overlap between preposition phrases and noun phrases functionally when they contain measure expressions.

5:49 AM

> Inside the house there's a cat lives

Will this be totaly ungrammatical?

Anonymous

@CowperKettle What's the rest of the sentence?

Anonymous

Or is that it?

Anonymous

Did you mean that to be a variation on:

Anonymous

> Inside the house, there lives a cat.

Anonymous

If so, yes, it's ungrammatical.

Anonymous

5:59 AM

If it's intended to be part of a larger sentence:

Anonymous

> Inside the house there's a cat [who] lives a life of luxury.

Anonymous

It's still ungrammatical in Standard English (without a relative pronoun), but there are dialects that allow relative clauses like that, I think.

Anonymous

So if that's right, then that could be grammatical in a non-standard variety.

Anonymous

> *Inside the house there's a cat lives.

Anonymous

This just doesn't work.

6:08 AM

@Man_From_India Should I ask something on the main site?

@snailplane Thank you! Then my poetic translation has a grave error.

6:50 AM

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Q: Is "Poor them, who hate chocolates" grammatical?

Poor them, who hate chocolates. – V.V. This message was posted a bit ago on Language Overflow, and proved to be more interesting than usual. I wonder if it's grammatical, strictly speaking. The "[P]oor them" part is grammatical, since the objective sense is used in these exclamatory constru...

grammaticality exclamatives appositive

7:03 AM

Posted CC @V.V. @Dam @Sina @Man @Snail @Cowp

1 hour later…

8:04 AM

> Beware the censor that inside you dwells
Look out for that unshaven rustic being
That by his homely, tricky elfish spells
Your conscience seeks to strip of any meaning
Little by little, softly, day by day
Will rob you of your inner self attempt he
Your heirlooms nip and icons pick away
And leave behind a carcass heaving empty

It is okay to use "beware" with a direct object, without a preposition?

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Q: Is "Poor them, who hate chocolates" grammatical?

Poor them, who hate chocolates. – V.V. This message was posted a bit ago on Language Overflow, and proved to be more interesting than usual. I wonder if it's grammatical, strictly speaking. The "[P]oor them" part is grammatical, since the objective sense is used in these exclamatory constru...

grammaticality exclamatives appositive

@CowperKettle I found this in Webster's Learners dic. The restaurant's food is excellent, but beware the chili if you don't like spicy food.

@Sina Thank you!

I combed my translation a little

> Customer: "I need one carpet, please"
Salesman: "Why are you so gloomy? Do you plan to wrap a corpse in it?"
Customer: "Two carpets, please".

@CowperKettle LOL

8:21 AM

> Will rob you of your inner self attempt he

There's a missing particle "to"

Too much poetic inspiration is bad for your grammar.

Where inspiration surfeits, grammar suffers.

Too bad it's not the other way around.

Or else our world with Shakepears would abound

Not only with unlettered mother___s

blushes

It's a stupid ditty, but it rhymes.

3 hours later…

11:09 AM

Guys, anyone?

What did we call the verb 'take' in the likes of 'take a shower'?

Anonymous

@TIPS A light verb.

Oh right!

@snailplane (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

Anonymous

It's semantically 'light' in that it doesn't bear much of the semantic load of the expression. Instead, the noun is semantically 'heavy', doing most of the work meaning-wise.

Anonymous

The term light verb goes back to Jespersen.

I remember I saved a paper that you linked to about them.

@snailplane . . . which is ten million years ago

Anonymous

11:15 AM

He coined it in this passage:

Anonymous

> The most usual meaning of substantives derived from and identical in form with a verb is the action or an isolated instance of the action. This is particularly frequent in everyday combinations as those illustrated in the following paragraphs after have and similar 'light' verbs.

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> They are in accordance with the general tendency of ModE to place an insignificant verb, to which the marks of person and tense are attached, before the really important idea—cf combinations with do, can, etc., he has written, etc., cf vol V 25.6 and especially 25.9.

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> Such constructions also offer an easy means of adding some descriptive trait in the form of an adjunct: we had a delightful bathe, a quiet smoke, etc. They thus in some way form a parallel to those with a 'cognate object': fight the good fight, etc., cf PG 137 f. and vol III 12.3.

Anonymous

In A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, volume 6, p.117.

Anonymous

Substantive here is an older term for nouns.

Anonymous

11:17 AM

He then goes on to give a large number of examples.

Anonymous

In all of which the semantically 'heavy' noun is derived from a verb, identical in form.

@Snail, can I ask a mod question?

Anonymous

What's up?

Anonymous

Anyone here speak Indonesian?

Is it common for serial voters you encounter on JSE to think of up- and downvotes as smiting sticks and candies?

Anonymous

11:25 AM

@TIPS I think some people do think of serial downvoting as a way to get back at people they don't like.

Someone on SO commented something like this today: The other day I voted 5 of your answers up because you were a good boy, but today I downvoted 1 because of your bad behave.

I wanted to see if such way of thoughts is common.

Anonymous

Oh, I see.

Anonymous

That's an unfortunate abuse of the system.

Anonymous

I haven't seen many people openly admitting to that sort of thing, but it does happen.

@snailplane You never know what you can find in SO comments, haha

Goes fine with the overly crowded city analogy.

\o @Dam @Cowp

11:27 AM

Good evening!

Mayhaps 16:00 counts as evening too

Ah, I forgot that!

UGT?

Good morning!

(then)

Anonymous

Good morning!

11:30 AM

Someone is on a mass adding meaning-in-context spree.

@snailplane I wonder in what tune you sang I'm aliiiiive〜♬. :-)

In the "what do you want" tune.

Jersey accent.

@TIPS In my bookmarks, it would be just reading-comprehension.

@TIPS Hehe!

@TIPS Could be in Celine Dion's song's tune. :D

(Somehow feeling a bit weird after saying two 's's in a row.)

zszszszs

@CowperKettle The likelihood of salesman surviving the conversation: 0.01

:P

11:35 AM

These days I'm really lost about what to do with ELL questions.

They sound really bizarre to me.

90% of the time I'm thinking, "why the hell is that what you're asking about?"

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. D, D A～!

Could someone superping this ARYF dude? His edits are both substantial and incomplete and that's getting on my nerves.

I hope his edits are over now. I feel exhausted already.

Editing on ELL is like stepping in a dark room full of needles on the ground.

@snailplane Hehe! I've gotta pop my GarageBand open to hear the tune!

@DamkerngT. It would've sounded like an SE ping though.

@TIPS It makes me wonder about our learners. Some, not all.

12:02 PM

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12:38 PM

In the city of Perm, a robot ran away from the exhibition site

Went across the city until his batteries gave up

THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END

I always wanted to say that. ^

Could be just a viral ad

> In a Review published June 14 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, researchers from Google DeepMind and Stanford University update a theory originally developed to explain how humans and other animals learn -- and highlight its potential importance as a framework to guide the development of agents with artificial intelligence.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160614133609.htm

Now this is some real stuff

12:54 PM

Oh, no! They're interested in a multi-system system now.

1:05 PM

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Q: Do sandwiches taste better when someone else makes them?

I'm a bit skeptical about the claim in this poster: Click for a larger version. It's apparently fairly widespread. The New York Times and Forbes are at least two sites mentioning this. Forbes links to two relevant studies; one is behind a paywall and the other (which seems to have contained t...

nutrition taste

My first question on Skeptics.

1:35 PM

i.imgur.com/5JUXCCD.jpg .

We should make more of those. ^

Anonymous

@TIPS careymorewedge.com/papers/ThoughtforFood.pdf

@snailplane O_O. Why did it work this time?

@snailplane Oh, the personal part!

Haha let's wait and see if anyone finds this out.

@snailplane Very interesting. May it not increase food consumption in the long term, due to the person's brain getting accustomed to thinking about cheese?

I don't want to hurt my getting upvoted spree.

@CowperKettle Seems so.

Anonymous

@TIPS Because I gave you a different URL.

Anonymous

1:42 PM

Let me upload the other one.

@snailplane Yeah, you removed personal information.

Gosh sometimes the pun is JUST RIGHT. i.imgur.com/8MhZ3kz.png

Anonymous

@TIPS Here is a temporary URL to the other paper. I won't keep it online, so it's probably best not to edit it into the question: quarplet.com/papers7/…

Anonymous

But you should be able to save a copy.

@snailplane Thanks you

I just pocketed it.

Anonymous

@CowperKettle I remember reading a fair bit a year or so ago about imaginary eating.

1:46 PM

I'm not touching the question unless asked to @Snail. New user and tiptoeing and nervous stuff and all.

@snailplane Really? You're interested in psychology?

Anonymous

What? Yes :-)

Anonymous

I love psychology.

Nice! I like reading about neuropsychiatry

Anonymous

I'm interested in psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics.

1:48 PM

Psychology wise, I read some stuff, from William James and further. (0:

@snailplane Oh, that branch of psychology!

I know that (0:

It's something that I never read about though. (0:

Anonymous

Say, have you ever read Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow?

Anonymous

I always recommend it to everyone :-)

Anonymous

I don't know much about neuropsychiatry.

@snailplane This name is familiar.

@snailplane No, never.

1:50 PM

I'd love to learn psychohistory, not the real one, BTW. :-)

(0:

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@TIPS Nothing happened.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Oh, I didn't know there was a real one!

@snailplane I could have listened to an audiobook. I've listened to a heap of audiobooks.

Some of them were about this kind of stuff.

1:51 PM

@snailplane Me either! Not until today when I checked its spelling!

Anonymous

@CowperKettle There is an audiobook, but you'll have to refer to the illustrations included with it from time to time.

Anonymous

So you'll get confused if you listen to those parts with audio only.

@snailplane I found out it's a joke before clicking on it, then clicked fast anyway.

There is great interest in this part of human psychology nowadays.

Hmm... I think I just heard an Australian speaker pronouncing assume like "uhs-shoom".

1:57 PM

The coolest fly in the world

Hellooooo everyone!

\o

Hello!

@DamkerngT. What? Haha

Ushoom?

I think there were both "s" and "sh" sounds.

1:59 PM

Australian is alway strange!

It's the Pacific.

Too much ocean smell

@TIPS not a good answer yet! Poor them, who....

On my nerve!

Mhm. :/

I'm waiting 4 uncle @StoneyB to come up with a good answer!

Yes, Australian English has its peculiarities

"Home and hosed" and "Home and dry" (0:

2:06 PM

@TIPS My mom always says, 'You r a better cook than I!' And I always enjoy her cooking much more! Mybe they r right!

I'll be the guy and say "we need credible resources."

@TIPS I'm not credible enough Tips?!

:D

I'm not to decide such matters.

@Dam is way better at robot talk.

Robot talk!

????

than I and than me could lead to a dispute.

2:11 PM

@DamkerngT. Fatal processing error, you mean.

@DamkerngT. in qaloquial both. In standard "I", don't u think so?

@Sina Both should be acceptable. Personally, I'd avoid writing than I without a helping verb.

@DamkerngT. You write than I less than I, o' great Dam.

I'll only use than I from now on.

Nods. But it takes time!

I'm also more of an e-promise breaker than I.

2:15 PM

My natural choice for that one would be than myself.

@TIPS But@DamkerngT. Can use almost 17 "I" refering to himselfe!

@DamkerngT. In Persian, such construction is more ungrammatical than I.

Huh?

@Sina Probably more, because he can speak more than one language. :P

So u will lose the match

He can refer to himself by other means than just pronouns as well!

2:18 PM

@DamkerngT. this is the same with @TIPS

nods

And also other language!

@TRomano I hope you didn't mean to say that I asked the mechanic to look at my car doesn't mean I asked the mechanic to take/have a look at my car! — Damkerng T. 26 secs ago

But why do we need to have that many questions about light verbs in the same day?!

@DamkerngT. Look at the OP's of the questions.

(On is probably a better choice, but my intuition strongly favors "in the same day" because it's "within". Will think about that later.)

2:25 PM

Jackie's best story

Huh? He was in Enter the Dragon?!

@TIPS happen to know how is Tabriz university for English Teaching M.A.

The guard.

@Sina Nah sorry. I'll know that in about two years or so.

@TIPS Even then. That's something new for me!

Well tell you what. It was new for me too.

2:27 PM

@TIPS OK! 2 years before your Konkur?

> "Jackie Chan is my childhood hero, which makes Bruce Lee my great-childhood-hero."

@Sina I just finished 11th.

LOL

@TIPS Haha!

I don't know why this perfectly normal sentence sounds funny to me! "I'm gonna keep it safe and sound ... right here on my person."

(said by a boy, and "it" was a box of chocolate he just found)

2:33 PM

@DamkerngT. chocolatiiiii days we have here!!!!

Hehe!

Which part is funny 4 u?

Please don't say the chocolate part!

@Sina Probably because he said "right here on my person" while clinging his face on the chocolate!

It looked funny!

@DamkerngT. I should've known it's about choco...:D

On my person is odd to my ears!

Means by myself?

Through with the first chapter of A study in scarlet. It's about two expressions I want to enquire. 1. Was alone ever a verb? Coz I found this - just let me alone. 2. what feeling does the speaker supposedly has when he says - how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan? (another line from that story).

2:41 PM

Hi @Man_From_India out of the blue!

@Sina you mean my second question?

@Man_From_India It certainly can be in slang.

I mean your sudden entrance!

@Man_From_India An extreme feeling, either surprised or annoyed or worried depending on the context.

Ah got it. It's there in Cambridge dictionary. I should have looked at it.

2:45 PM

@Sina Basically, it means "with me, on myself".

@Sina he he

@TIPS thanks mar got it.

@DamkerngT. Thanks!

I hope u r mar because u have a chemistry symbol as ur dp.

No problem

@Man_From_India I'm not mar.

I'm MAR.

2:46 PM

:O ah ha

@TIPS :D

@Man_From_India First time I've heard deuce used this way!

@DamkerngT. Bet the writer was looking for something unique-ish.

@DamkerngT. same for me. Might be older usage.

It's Sherlock Holmes story, so it's a bit old text.

@Man_From_India Oh! My hero!

2:50 PM

About "let me alone", it probably helps to think of a similar example, "let me down".

Not that "let me down", but you know what I mean.

@Man_From_India Let sb alone= leave sb alone

leave somebody alone, let somebody alone old-fashioned to stop annoying or interrupting someone:
Look up a word starting with D or S for samples of headword or sentence pronunciations on the LDOCE CD-ROM'Leave me alone!' she screamed.

ldoceonline.com/dictionary/alone

You know, we r not supposed to always use a verb form after "let"

Anonymous

@TIPS I didn't expect anything to happen because my monitor isn't a touchscreen. I did tap on it anyway, though. :-)

Anonymous

@Sina Is that dialectal?

@snailplane No matter how much scientific we get, we still believe in magic.

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3:07 PM

@snailplane I have no idea! Longman dic. says old fashion.

@snailplane haha

@TIPS I don't know why, but I prayed for u to become an accomplished person, one with a rewarding job!:-)

@Sina (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

NASA released some posters

3:20 PM

@TIPS The Blue Fairy is more believable than Skynet, even. ;-)

A restaurant story

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> Assassin cat strategically blocks both his victim's airways while crushing the windpipe with its body.

imgur.com/a/m4VhF

LOL

3:39 PM

@TIPS OMG!

3:58 PM

Amazon Dash has been with us two years already (in the US). Has anyone here used it? Does it work well?

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@DamkerngT. Nope!

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Q: "It is important to know different perspectives to be reflective" what does it mean exactly?

This sentence made me confuse. I think it means that we must use the perspectives in our actions. Is it right?

engtry.com/toefl/speaking/81.html look at task 2

The sentence seems odd!

Anonymous

Which sentence?

In OP's question!

It's important....

I guess the writer wanted to say, knowing about different cultures makes you think.

4:23 PM

@snailplane Aww... I thought it would've been quite popular. :-)

It could happen when there was "It is important to learn about other cultures." in the instruction.

Anonymous

4:38 PM

I don't understand why this got an upvote:

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A: What does "following by" mean?

Your instruction should be correct to be Name the file with your last name followed by title of the image. and would heave the syntax LastnameTitle

Anonymous

It's confusing, misspelled, ungrammatical, and I don't really like the corrected version of the sentence :-(

@snailplane Probably a +1 that comes together with the acceptance.

We grow what we reward. In other words, we reap what we sow.

Anonymous

Oh, that does seem most likely. I just noticed the timestamps on the two are only seconds apart.

I wish our OPs avoided voting any answers to their questions, but the reality is probably the opposite.

Anonymous

4:48 PM

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A: Do+verb or just verb?

Both sentences are correct They matter a lot. They do matter a lot. "do" is an intensifier.

Anonymous

Now I have to stop looking through this user's answers.

Anonymous

And turn my attention to something else.

Which makes me think that it's even more true that a lot of comments on ELL are more valuable than an average answer.

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Q: Is "now as well" correct?

I just had a discussion whether it is correct to say: This issue should be fixed now as well. I had the impression that as well always goes at the end of the sentence but the person I was talking to argued that statements regarding the time must be the very last item in the sentence. Is th...

Hey, that reminds me of something I read on ELL last week!

looking ...

Jun 6 at 8:25, by Damkerng T.

Has anyone ever heard of "the basic structure of a sentence: WHO > WHAT > WHERE > WHEN > HOW > WHY", BTW?

Huh?

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7:19 PM

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A: What does this sentence mean exactly?

The phrase be reflective is used to describing thinking about something considering something In a reflective moment, he thought about his childhood. Your passage means that it is better having different viewpoints (perspectives) to think about something.

+4!

Quite often, I don't understand our votes.

@DamkerngT. AGAIN

Who voted a given answer? Why did they vote? Why did they think the answer is useful? But because they cast their votes, I guess it's safe to assume that they think the answer they cast their votes on is useful.

@TIPS IDK

> Being reflective means keeping an eye on yourself while you’re doing what you’re doing. It’s as if you’re holding up a mirror and evaluating your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors even as you’re going about everyday life.

> sharecare.com/health/personality/…

I got that with just a quick, simple search.

(But, really? "Will being more self-reflective help me avoid being automatically nice?" makes "nice" or "being nice" sound like a bad thing!)

@DamkerngT. No, some people feel obliged to upvote.

I know I felt that way when I was just getting started with this system.

All that being-the-nice-guy and paying-it-forward-since-they-at-least-tried attitude has gotta be common among people.

Hullo @Marcin! Welcome to LO!

7:38 PM

The mechanic could say, "Park your car in the lot tonight, and drop your keys through the after-hours slot. I will {take a look at it|look at it} tomorrow." While "look at" can mean either "direct one's gaze towards" or "examine in a brief or cursory manner", "take a look at" never means simply "direct one's gaze towards". It always means "to examine, to size up or assess". If you take your car to the mechanic because it's making a noise and ask him "to take a look at it", you don't expect a bill for $1500. You want a quick opinion of what might be wrong, not a full-blown investigation. — TRomano 2 hours ago

This comment is a better answer than the answer itself. I think I agree with most of it, but I wonder if it's always so about this part:

> "take a look at" never means simply "direct one's gaze towards". It always means "to examine, to size up or assess"

Of course, I would agree with him in the mechanic context, but I'm not sure if he meant it in general as well.

> Did you take a look at her as you passed ? — No, we never took notice of her. Neither going nor coming back ? — No, I merely saw her lying there.

> Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1867

Rotating the molecule isn't the big deal. It's the discovery that is. I'm not entirely sure what you're asking here. Discoveries in 21st century aren't all meant to be mind-blowing break-throughs. Human makes great unimaginable achievements by these seemingly simple discoveries. If this isn't a great deal, you could've been saying less about Kepler's rules about how a bunch of very large stones orbit a shinier larger one. — TIPS 11 secs ago

Surely, the inspector didn't mean "Did you examine her as you passed?".

(Hmm... well, we could say that it's "examine", technically, I think.)

(One could argue in court that "direct one's gaze towards" can also imply "examine", though I don't think that's typical for most speakers.)

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A: Is "now as well" correct?

The expression as well can appear anywhere in a sentence and is not limited to the end of a sentence As well as taste good, it's good for you! It tastes good as well as being good for you! It's good for you and tastes good as well!

One WHOLE answer without bolding.

He's improving

I try to avoid that question on my tabs.

Current status of this window: 1747 tabs

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7:47 PM

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Q: Getting he/she intuitively right if native language has only gender-neutral pronouns

At times I can speak English fluently enough. The biggest issue bothering me is that when not carefully speaking, I mix 'he' and 'she' pronouns randomly. Example: "Jane's not here today. He's on a holiday." When writing, I don't have this problem. The reason for this issue is that my native lang...

learning personal-pronouns

I wonder if it's better at LL.SE.

It is.

Please make more of these wonderings.

But I was hoping that some users on our site might've shared the same problem and know how to overcome it.

Actually, it would be a better-than-average question for LL.

@DamkerngT. Persian and Turkish have only gender-neutral pron.s.

@TIPS Oh! You may know the answer, then!

I don't have any problems. Even with singular they.

7:50 PM

@TIPS For all persons? (1st, 2nd, and 3rd)

@DamkerngT. Even fourth

(@Sina and I discussed the 3rd person pronouns yesterday.) -- Haha!

@DamkerngT. Oh. Gets ready for controversy

@TIPS Huh? Why a controversy?

"Sina just told me that blah blah blah. Is it true?" "Nope." "Then you two have to settle this amongst thyselves."

7:54 PM

Oh, the information agrees this time, though.

But I didn't know about the 1st and 2nd pronouns (that they're gender-neutral), so it was a little surprising for me.

I would add that you can't locate adverbs (i.e. now) in a way that interrupts one of the elements of the sentence. This is grammatical: This issue now should be fixed as well. but this is not: *This now issue should be fixed as well. — TIPS 12 secs ago

@DamkerngT. Are they not, in Thai?

@TIPS Thai has all kinds of pronouns, basically.

It doesn't have many things (like articles, tenses, etc.), but it has lots of pronouns!

Our language is so 2016, it doesn't assume people's gender.

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@TIPS LOL.

That reminds me of this recent quote:

> “And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love”

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