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12:15 AM
> As very often there is no reason
for the appearance of sudden smiles or tears.
I want to flight at once the glass of poison.
My deja vu with me for many years.

It’s my desired anguish and salvation,
when blurry pictures come to me from sky.
My past and future told of my causation.
I'm trying to catch the part of knowledge light.

My path has trampled and my feet are tired.
All life is woven of the choice, the sway.
I think sometimes about my acquired,
losses …. again the dark night follows day.
An English learner composed this
I edited it a little
> So very often there is little reason
Behind emotion, be it smiles or tears.
I’d want to take at once a glass of poison
To cease my déjà vu of many years

It’s my desired anguish and salvation,
When blurry pictures pour in from the sky
My past and future speak of my causation
Of shining knowledge glimmers I descry

My path is trampled and my feet are tired,
Life’s carpet is choice-woven, see it sway.
I think sometimes about my acquired
Loss, as yet other night surmounts a day.
 
 
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Anonymous
3:58 AM
Omitting the "on" is non-standard. You'll run across it in casual use, but there's no reason to emulate that; using the "on" will not mark your speech as formal or affected. — StoneyB 4 hours ago
 
Anonymous
Is the OP's example really non-standard?
 
Anonymous
If so, that's something I never managed to learn.
 
4:58 AM
One could say "depends in part on..."
 
Anonymous
@TIPS How is LanguageLearning.SE doing these days?
 
Anonymous
@skillpatrol That sounds good too :-)
 
Good Morning!
 
6:10 AM
"Man is 70% water. Cucumber is 90% water. It's easy to calculate that man is 65% cucumber"
Morning!
 
6:55 AM
@snailplane Not sure, not following much. Pro tems just got chosen.
 
7:10 AM
64
Q: Leaving Thailand after months-long overstay (can't pay fine)

belakI missed my plane after staying just a couple weeks in Thailand and stayed with my girlfriend. I ended up out of money and no ticket home. I keep hearing about staying a day over here, but nothing about a few months over. I have stayed here for 6 months, so over stayed by about 5 months now. I n...

Travel HNQ about Thailand!
 
 
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8:30 AM
0
Q: Where is 'anymore' word come from?

f_antoWe all have known there is 'anymore' word in english. But is there somemore or severalmore in english? why?

Quoth the coot: severalmore!
0
Q: Meaning of "feels begin and end the tears" in Browning's Childe Roland

CowperKettleFrom the Childe Roland: As when a sick man very near to death Seems dead indeed, and feels begin and end The tears and takes the farewell of each friend, And hears one bid the other go, draw breath Freelier outside, (“since all is o’er,” he saith, “And the blow fallen no griev...

I've got the results of additional tests. My potassium is high, and my cortisol is high. O_O
I can't find this combination on the interwebs.
You've got to have either this or that high, not both.
Another visit to a doctor heaves in sight.
 
 
1 hour later…
9:45 AM
Thank you very much. Assimilation is better. I still want to know if I used 'followed by the letter E,I or U' is that acceptable? 'One of the letters' sounds to me that there is one specific E rather than any E –
Why OP feels this way?
Seems some night owls are sleeping!
 
10:17 AM
good noon
 
@NeelamPrajapati welcome to LO!
 
10:54 AM
@StoneyB - feel free to post your answers as actual answers, you know that you possess unique knowledge of things literary and poetic.
It's an inversion: he feels the tears begin and end. Each friend weeps while taking leave of the dying man, but stops weeping upon leaving the room. "And still the man hears all, and only craves / He may not shame such tender love and stay." — StoneyB 33 mins ago
@NeelamPrajapati Namaste Neelam ji!
 
80% of @Stoney's comments are better than 90% of the answers on ELL, study says.
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nods
 
Anonymous
@CowperKettle High potassium!
 
Anonymous
My potassium is low.
 
Anonymous
Clearly you should share some potassium with me.
 
11:09 AM
This in any way has something to do with you guys?
 
Hi!
Good Evening!
:)
I'm just looking for a short n sweet name for a girl
her name is : Nipunika
 
Nipu?
 
that's what I had in my mind
anything else?
 
Sometimes "short n sweet" is determined culturally.
 
@TIPS She is so kind and silent girl, with lot of shyness :D
 
11:19 AM
@CrazyNinja OK I see what's going on here
 
@TIPS :p (what's so happened to get rid from your chemical fomular?)
 
Nipun, with open-mid vowels like /ʌ/ or /ɜ/ could also work.
@CrazyNinja Happened? Whaddya mean?
Hullo @Neelam, welcome to LO!
 
@CrazyNinja niku is also sweet nick name
 
@TIPS your chemical name as your profile name
@NeelamPrajapati does it has some hidden meaning inside?
 
@CrazyNinja TIPS stands for triisopropylsilyl-, so it is a chemical name.
 
11:25 AM
@CrazyNinja not exactly.my frnd's name is nikita.and it means victorius.i used to call her niku.
 
@snailplane My potassium is your potassium!
 
@CowperKettle Have you gone bananas?
4
Q: Why does anki remove 'leeches'?

zefciuIn anki the strategy when a word is being continously mistranslated is to mark the word as 'leech' and remove it from future repetitions. In contrast - Memrise will offer a special cramming sessions to repeat such words. What is the reason for these differences? What should be the correct strateg...

 
@TIPS I ate some dried apricots, but that was several days before the test
 
Well, it is getting some useful language learning questions @Snail. ^
@CowperKettle Pro tip: Never eat anything bizarre a week before a test.
Also your cortisol is high?
Why? Is it because redox is hard?
 
@NeelamPrajapati ok
 
11:33 AM
@TIPS LOL
@TIPS people with keratoconus have disregulated hormonal activity, there's a fresh publication in Nature, and they have bizzare cellular reactions to oxidative stress, so you're not far from the truth
 
@CowperKettle Is that a dinosaur?
Do you have a dinosaur pet and haven't told us all this time?
 
@TIPS I wish it were.
Yeah, a Pokemon
 
> Rare
Fewer than 200,000 US cases per year
Holy damn that's rare. I'm so sorry for you Cowp.
 
Not very rare, 200 000 cases is two small cities' worth of people
 
In a country of thousands of cities.
What caused it?
Injury? :o
OK wait. Now what does this dinosaur have to do with hormones?
I mean, of course everything is related to the other in the body, but a hormone coming from somewhere in the top of the kidney for an irrelevant purpose doesn't have much to do with the eye, does it?
 
11:44 AM
In the body, everything is related
Hormonal changes in women sometimes cause abrubt degeneration of cornea during pregnancy
The HPA axis affects inflammatory reactions.
 
O_o
 
The hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis (HPA axis or HTPA axis) is a complex set of direct influences and feedback interactions among three endocrine glands: the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland (a pea-shaped structure located below the hypothalamus), and the adrenal (also called "suprarenal") glands (small, conical organs on top of the kidneys). The interactions among these organs constitute the HPA axis, a major part of the neuroendocrine system that controls reactions to stress and regulates many body processes, including digestion, the immune system, mood and emotions, sexuality, and energy...
 
OK now that makes sense.
So what do you use? Lenses?
Or glasses?
 
I have translpanted corneas
So I use glasses
 
Whoa cool a cyborg :P
 
11:46 AM
(0:
 
In 2030, half the population of Earth will be wearing glasses.
Even monkeys and dolphins.
 
11:57 AM
0
Q: sentence meaning of "they are looking for nurses to go out to Saudi Arabia.“

codygo out to: (move abroad) to travel to another country in order to live and work there. example: They are looking for nurses to go out to Saudi Arabia. those sentence from Longman dictionary, website link://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/go_1 I am not sure that example sentence meaning. The n...

This may seem easy at first glance.
But you need to look at it like a machine or an alien to appreciate the beauty of its ambiguity.
 
Looks at it like an autobot
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Q: Join us for the second MSE Town Hall on Wednesday June 22nd

AnaLast month we got together with many of you in the Tavern for our first Meta Stack Exchange Town Hall. Like we shared in my original announcement, amazing as meta is, we need to do more to keep lines of communication open with the users who work alongside us making our software great in the longe...

 
12:31 PM
@TRomano I have a mixed feeling, reading your comment. I'm sure that you know when you'd use take a look at and when you'd use look at, but that's because you know it. For someone who doesn't, such as the OP who is a learner, this answer and your generalization in the last comment could be misleading. Then again, this matter is not that trivial that we can simply say, "yes, they're the same" or "no, they're different". Counterexamples are commonplace (but we could go into arguing what are "look", "examine", and "inspect"), e.g. "Take a look at this *" or "Did you look at her when/as *"Damkerng T. 20 secs ago
Not sure why I thought I had to post that.
 
@DamkerngT. The tone looks like someone's who's trying to defend feminism gender equality.
 
Maybe because the answer had gotten another upvote and TRomano's comment got one, too. But above all, TRomano is a high-rep native speaker on our site.
 
And a knowledgeable one at that
 
nods
Which gives quite some weight to whatever he says and writes, in comments or answers.
I don't think my comment will make much impact on him or the answerer or even the OP. But I hope at least it could be some sort of a warning for the future reader.
If many of our learners are confused by They are looking for nurses to go out to Saudi Arabia, how could we expect them to know the nuances of look at and take a look at by just reading that answer or looking it up in a dictionary?
 
@DamkerngT. You can never account for everyone.
 
12:53 PM
 
LOL
I can't recall that wuxia, though.
A flying dagger is quite a popular theme, actually.
I'm not sure if this one is the first of this theme: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaoli_Feidao
The Little Li Flying Dagger (小李飛刀), Li Xunhuan, was ranked as the third best, but when the story concluded his was actually the best. (The second seed, the Flying Hoop, forced him to fight to the death. The first seed, the Heaven Club, died earlier than that.)
Some quotes from the wuxia (translated from a Thai translation):
> "There are such things that, even knowing you can't do, you cannot not do."
> "Once someone asked what this flying dagger of Little Li was like." "What about now?" "Those who asked are already dead."
(Most quotes in wuxia are a bit Zen-ish!)
(BTW, his dagger was never poison-coated, but it never missed.)
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A: What does "they are looking for nurses to go out to Saudi Arabia.“ mean?

TRomanoGrammatical analyses (object, complement, modifier) aside, go out to {some place} reflects the speaker's attitude that the place is remote. A speaker in New York City might say: They are going out to Alaska to live closer to Nature. We are going out to the country for the weekend. Rem...

Hah! +2!
Now an ELL answer that doesn't answer the question gets more votes than ones that try to!
 
1:52 PM
 
2:22 PM
Let's recap, in case TRomano chooses to discuss it here.
> No, they are different!
take a look is an idiom which means "to observe or examine someone or something."
On the other hand, looking at someone is merely an act of seeing someone. The purpose of the former one is different.
You look at some product as a normal physiological gesture but if you 'take a look' at the same product, you have a purpose to study/observe it.
http://ell.stackexchange.com/a/93794/3281
^The answer
+1. My car's been acting up, so I'm going to have the mechanic take a look at it. — TRomano yesterday
Considering the fact that this question is exactly the same question asked on ES, Can this post be a duplicate? see here: english.stackexchange.com/questions/22827/…Cardinal yesterday
@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. yesterday
@Damkerng T. No, I was simply corroborating Maulik's answer about "study and observation", giving a typical scenario where the phrase is used, and a sentence that helps to show its informal register. — TRomano 24 hours ago
@TRomano Phew! -- Maybe I was wrong, but when I read this answer, I saw "No, they are different!" and then "On the other hand, looking at someone is merely an act of seeing someone. The purpose of the former one is different.", and then I saw your +1, so I thought you might've been thinking that way. — Damkerng T. 24 hours ago
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 21 hours ago
@TRomano I have a mixed feeling, reading your comment. I'm sure that you know when you'd use take a look at and when you'd use look at, but that's because you know it. For someone who doesn't, such as the OP who is a learner, this answer and your generalization in the last comment could be misleading. Then again, this matter is not that trivial that we can simply say, "yes, they're the same" or "no, they're different". Counterexamples are commonplace (but we could go into arguing what are "look", "examine", and "inspect"), e.g. "Take a look at this *" or "Did you look at her when/as *"Damkerng T. 2 hours ago
@Damkerng T. I don't see what is misleading about my mechanic example. Care to elaborate how it misleads? Care to give me a counterexample, where "take a look at" simply means "turn one's gaze towards" with no implication of "briefly examine" or "quick, cursory perusal"? Looking and examining are quite different. There's no splitting of hairs there. — TRomano 40 mins ago
@TRomano That's what I meant by 'we could go into arguing what are "look", "examine", and "inspect"' (or as said in this answer, "study/observe"). How can we turn our gaze towards something without looking at it, or in your choice of words to discern this difference, without taking a look at it? And how brief is briefly? I don't think it's that cut and dried, and by decisively saying that there are only two shades of grey as this answer (or perhaps three or four shades as in your comments), it's misleading for the learners, IMHO. (For a longer discussion, chat rooms are better, I believe.) — Damkerng T. 5 mins ago
I did a mistake in there. I meant "Did you take look at her when/as *", not "Did you look at her when/as *".
Come to think of it, I think this is probably illogical.
> where "take a look at" simply means "turn one's gaze towards" with no implication of "briefly examine" or "quick, cursory perusal"?
Isn't it more or less the same for "look at"?!
Can one take "Look at her!" to just mean "turn your gaze towards her" but don't "briefly examine" or take a "quick, cursory perusal"?
One possible answer to this part, "I don't see what is misleading about my mechanic example", could be it's misleading because it sounds like a generalization. I'm pretty sure that most learners will read it as a generalization when they read [ 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". ]
This point is also reinforced by the implication in the last comment: [ Care to give me a counterexample, where "take a look at" simply means "turn one's gaze towards" with no implication of "briefly examine" or "quick, cursory perusal"? ]
 
2:45 PM
you may want to wait for a while before accepting an answer. For more details, see Not so fast! (When should I accept my answer?)Damkerng T. 2 hours ago
Argh! Why does sometimes the system remove @OPname, from my comment, but sometimes it does not?!
 
 
@CowperKettle Ugh! -- (I just watched the last episode of 'The Walking Dead' season 4, and the first two of its season 5. Reading 'Meat Eaters' makes me feel weird in my stomach right now!)
(The last line in its S5E2, "You taste much better than we thought you would."!)
Um, actually, that's a good example sentence of real-vs-unreal thoughts!
(Trying to change the subject.)
Hi! @tofro -- Welcome to the room!
 
3:16 PM
@DamkerngT. I whatched 4 seasons and then stopted. It was getting repetitive and worse. If you follow it, kindly tell me what happens in the final episode, of cource when they rleased it.
 
@Sina Did you get to the end of season 4?
 
1
Q: Can we use the word "sportsman" to refer to a person who engages in sport activities? Sportsman vs. Athlete

CowperKettleI came across this discussion on a translators' forum, and some people there say that Uh uh, NEVER use sportsman to mean athlete. Messi and Mayweather are athletes, not sportsmen. ) and A sportsman in actual usage (not in Wiki cut-n-paste lol) is someone who partakes in outdoor activit...

American English: sportsman <> athlete. A sportsman could have a big beer belly. — TRomano 3 mins ago
So it's always an athlete in the US
 
hey.
all.
 
@DamkerngT. I don't remember properly! I wathched until Beth died or the episode in which that city with walls around were invaded by walkers.
 
Dam.
I need help.
This time, with perfect pasts.
I was listening to this song the other day, and listening to its lyrics kinda reminded me of how my childhood had been.

I was listening to this song the other day, and listening to its lyrics kinda reminded me of how my childhood was.
 
3:27 PM
@CowperKettle Their dictionaries say so!
 
copperkettle's not here anymore, I think.
 
@Sina You probably haven't reached the Terminus part yet. Which is good for you!
 
and he's back.
 
@CowperKettle Strange. But if they say so!
@lekonchekon I would be okay with either tense.
 
> Can we use the word “sportsman” to refer to a person who engages in sport activities? Sportsman vs. Athlete
Is it okay to say "who engages"?
Or should it be "who is engaged"?
@V.V. just said me that it should be "is engaged"
 
3:30 PM
@DamkerngT. Come on! What happens?
 
@Sina C'mon!
or Come on
 
@Sina Um, people at Terminus are (spoiler alert) cannibalism!
 
@CowperKettle thanks!
 
@DamkerngT.
Okay.
Would it be right to say, you take both the sentences to be correct, because one describes accurately how your childhood took place (obviously) before you listened to the song. Whereas we could just use our common sense to figure how your childhood took place before you listened to the song.
right?
 
Oh, I should've said were, because only a few remained after a big fight in S5E1.
@lekonchekon For me, they're both correct because they are just two different ways to look at the same thing.
 
3:33 PM
@DamkerngT. I saw sth! They were eating a leg. And have imprisoned rick, Glen...
Disgusting
 
@Sina Ah, yes! It was hard to watch!
 
I was listening to this song the other day, and listening to its lyrics kinda reminded me of how my childhood **has been**.
ah, so I see the two stars don't work over chat.
anyway.
what about this one?
 
@lekonchekon It's arguably possible (as an experiential present perfect), but it's not quite felicitous, IMO.
 
The black man was bitten by walkers and was happy they were eating rotten meat!
 
Episode 3 is coming up tonight. I'm not sure how it will affect them.
 
3:37 PM
@DamkerngT. Good luck!
 
LOL
 
@DamkerngT. I see.
Remember how you asked me to read through the pages of "Practical English Usage".
Would you say its topics on past perfects, and simple pasts will be enough to rid me of my doubts?
 
@lekonchekon It might, but you have to read it closely (like every letter) and probably several times.
 
I didn't like the episode Beth died in!:(
 
I shall then.
If you have the ebook, and some time, could you tell me what sections I should read?
@DamkerngT.
 
3:39 PM
So it probably won't, because in real life, it's easier to understand something more deeply by looking at it from several perspectives.
@lekonchekon PEU?
@Sina It was sad!
 
IIRC she suicided!
 
yes.
 
@lekonchekon Hmm... you'll want to read several sections, I think. Review all entries that have "perfect" in the titles.
 
okay then.
And I have a really stupid question.

If we use past perfects to describe things that took place before some other think place.
took place*
then.
 
That'd be fine.
 
3:44 PM
He had walked into my room, and was telling me what had been happening in his life recently.

He walked into my room, and told me what had been happening in his life.
When we arrange how the events took place, do we still use perfect pasts?
 
It's somewhat like one person may say, "It's all right," while another person may say, "I think it's all right," and yet another persona may say, "It's quite all right." None of them break any grammar rules. They just think a bit differently.
But it's not big of a deal to most learners because grammar books don't discuss this kind of thing explicitly.
 
He called me, we talked on the phone a few hours, one thing led to another, and in 30 minutes, we were again yelling at each other on the phone.

He had called me, we had talked on the phone a few hours, one thing led to another, and in 30 minutes, we had been yelling at each other on the phone again.
 
@lekonchekon Does your first language has particles? Something that you may or may not include in your utterances, but a skillful speaker would know when to use them and when not to.
 
I don't know.
I know how to speak my language right, but it'd be a lie, if I said I know how its technicalities work.
 
(A quick search gave me "In Hindi, there are three common particles, भी, ही, and तो, which are emphatic particles." -- Sorry if your L1 is not Hindi, but I guess there must be something similar in your L1 as well, even if it's not Hindi.)
 
3:49 PM
Hindi's not my first language. :p
bengali's my first language.
 
Ahh... does it have any emphatic particles?
@lekonchekon The latter sounds a bit like it's hanging in the air. It should be fine in an appropriate context, though.
> Bangla has, next to the emphasizers –i and –o, a range of particles, e.g. abar, ba, go, je, jEno, na, poi, re, to, tObe/tahole, Ta, that are found especially in spoken language. They are called “discourse particles” or “modal particles” because they have special discourse-oriented properties.
I don't know how true that is. (I'm not even sure if Bengali and Bangla are the same language!) But it may be useful in our discussion.
 
but so far as i've read in most pages, they usually recommend you never to compare the language you're studying with your mother tongue.
Like they recommend you not to thinksomething in your language, and then merely translate it to English.
they're the same language.
 
I'm not trying to compare them to learn English. I'm trying to convince you to look at language learning from a different perspective.
 
okay.
I see.
I need to head out to grab a smoke.
But before I do, I have one more question.
 
Yes?
 
4:01 PM
Suppose you were something today morning. Like TODAY MORNING.
And now it's 9 30, and you had a friend come over to your place at 8
And now, I want to know whether the person that came over at your place at 8 knows what you were doing this morning.

What do I ask?

Did you tell her what you had been doing today morning?
Did you tell her what you were doing today morning?
9 30 and 8 in the evening/night
 
Either is fine.
My natural choice would be Did you tell her what you were doing this morning?
Or maybe just what you did, depending on how I think of that activity.
 
exactly.
when there's no ambiguity concerning what's being talked about, when the other person knows what you're saying, there's no need to use the past perfect, right?
 
Yep.
But in writing, we may want to give our reader more clues. Then again, it's style rather than grammar.
 
the books i read, like i was reading THE THIRD RESIGNATION, if my mind serves me right, by javier garcia marquez, and it's filled with past perfects.
And it's the same case for most of the books I read these days, so, i suppose it's probably because of that that i'm so concerned about past perfects.
 
I haven't read that book (actually I didn't know about it!), but 3.75 at Goodreads is not bad at all.
 
4:12 PM
Are you reading anything currently?
 
Some writers use the past perfect more often than others, AFAICT.
@lekonchekon Outside my work, I'm reading a couple of movie novelization novels.
 
Okay.
If you find yourself having enough time on your hands, give this a read
 
^Some of my Kindle books! :D
 
yes. :D
Nice.
I wish I had a kindle. :|
Btw, when you say "Outside your work", what do you mean?
 
@lekonchekon Thanks for the recommendation!
@lekonchekon Well, I guess we all have to read a lot in our work, right?
 
4:16 PM
i don't work. ._.
what work do you do? :p
 
If you're a programmer, you've gotta read lots of programming stuff (books or not books), if you're -- Oh! :D
I used to be a programmer. I run a small programming house. :D
 
I've just graduated school, and haven't had myself enrolled in a college yet.
I have all the time in the world. xD
GREAT!
 
I see! Good for you!
 
You could help me with programming related stuff.
 
LOL
 
4:18 PM
I was thinking of developing an app, maybe we could talk about that sometime.
 
Probably :-)
 
Okay.
I should seriously take off now.
I'll come here again soon.
I need to talk about past perfects more.
 
See you around!
 
You too.
 
4:45 PM
Okay.
I'm back.

Remember how I asked you questions about whether it's necessary to use the "as", constructing sentences like "He came off (as) rude" or "He came off (as) a bit rude"?
If my mind serves me right, you said it's necessary to use the As in the first example, and it's not necessary to use it in the second one.
check page the link will take you on.
 
5:35 PM
@lekonchekon Probably not with me.
@lekonchekon Also note that all of those words after come off in your definition are adverbs (if I'm not mistaken. I've already closed that window.)
 
Hi guys. May someone please help me to know weather this sentence is correct? "I hope this is a nice start for our contribution and friendship!"
 
5:54 PM
@lucas Should be okay, but I can't see why you'd put contribution and friendship together.
 
@DamkerngT. I want to say welcome to someone who is new in a place.
 
Ahh, I see.
 
@DamkerngT. May you suggest a better sentence please?
 
@lucas Hmm... I think it's different in different cultures.
How can I suggest any better sentence when I'm not in your shoes? ;-)
 
@DamkerngT. I want to use that sentence in a SE site here.
 
6:01 PM
Oh, I thought it was in you office.
So, they're a new what? A new user, a new moderator, a new SE employee, or what?
 
A new user.
 
Your sentence is quite good. It's direct. It's warm. It's sincere. I like it the way it is.
I might use of instead of for, but that's probably all.
 
@DamkerngT. Thanks very much:-)
 
You're welcome!
BTW, welcome to the room!
 
Word of the day: alidade
 
6:09 PM
@CowperKettle A nice instrument!
 
6:33 PM
"N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-O!"
My record is 7 N's per second. I can't do any better. :/
 
Anonymous
> Ælfric, the least fun-having of all the Anglo-Saxons
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Anonymous
What a title!
 
a really knurled title
 
I guess we probably have a pseudo version of an old version of any language.
 
6:43 PM
I never knew Aelfric was such a desultory moggie
 
(I always doubt the dialogues that are supposed to be "old Thai". They mostly don't sound authentic to me; they just sound "different.")
@CowperKettle Haha!
1 star for "desultory moggie"! :D
 
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. English and Japanese tend to be the same :-)
 
7:38 PM
@CowperKettle Being curious, I started a few searches (while doing something else in the background), here is the first article I found: independent.co.uk/sport/general/….
 
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Q: Does Aragorn wear pants?

DVK-in-exileBack when I was reading LOTR in Russian, I remember fans arguing over the issue of whether Aragorn wore pants (or rather, using the British term, trousers), or not - what I later learned was a major topic of discussion in Soviet Tolkien fandom. The typical argument for "not" was that the book tex...

 
@DamkerngT. thanks!
I'm reading about feeler gauge sets, really
 
@CowperKettle My pleasure! I was just curious.
 
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Q: "a feeler gauge set no. 4" vs. "a no. 4 feeler gauge set"

CowperKettleMy translation: Pipe straightness inspection Sufficient manufacturing compliance is generally enough to ensure pipe straightness. In questionable cases or when it is required by the regulatory documentation, the actual straightness of the pipe is checked using a 1 m straightedge tool and...

 
7:40 PM
@CowperKettle LOL
 
@CowperKettle I wonder the same thing about Peter Pan, too!
Does Peter Pan wear his pants? :P
 
@DamkerngT. I believe he wears tights
 
A-ha! I think you're right!
 
They are pants. (0:
 
7:41 PM
Nah, men in tights sounds about right! :D
Wait, he's a boy!
@CowperKettle I'm curious about the answer, too!
 
@DamkerngT. I used to wear tights as a boy, in USSR there were male tights, not the showy stuff, but for keeping warm. You wore them under your shorts or under your trousers
I found a page on Soviet clothing for kids
 
Living in a warmer climate, I've never worn any tights!
 
Hmm... but maybe I did when I was in Frankfurt (my friend lend them to me.)
 
7:45 PM
This way, under your shorts
 
Hehe!
That's hilarious!
 
yep
> By analogy with the verb «to oversalt» the Russian verb "переборщить" (like «to overborsch») was invented. This verb can be translated as: to overdo, to go overboard, to go too far, to overdose.
[pere]solit = to put too much salt in your food; 'pere' = over
[pere]borschit = to generally do something to excess
from the word "borsch"
Borscht is a tart soup popular in several East European cuisines, including Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Romanian and Ashkenazi Jewish. The variety most commonly associated with the name in English is of Ukrainian origin and includes beetroots as one of the main ingredients, which gives the dish a distinctive red color. It shares the name, however, with a wide selection of sour-tasting soups without beetroots, such as sorrel-based green borscht, rye-based white borscht, cabbage borscht, etc. Borscht derives from an ancient soup originally cooked from pickled stems, leaves...
 
I know Bosch! (but that's a different thing!)
Beetroots are very healthy, from what I've heard.
 
yes, they contain vitamin B something
"Hair of the dog" is a colloquial expression in the English language predominantly used to refer to alcohol that is consumed with the aim of lessening the effects of a hangover. == Etymology == The expression originally referred to a method of treatment of a rabid dog bite by placing hair from the dog in the bite wound. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): "In Scotland it is a popular belief that a few hairs of the dog that bit you applied to the wound will prevent evil consequences. Applied to drinks, it means, if overnight you have indulged too freely, take...
There's a whole nostalgia movement called 76-82 in Russia, for those who was born in that timeframe (1976-82)
 

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