Language Overflow

Cardinal

05:21

I see. I did't want to insult any culture. It was my personal veiw.

In my normal, in fact

Damkerng T.

07:40

@snailplane Oh, I didn't know its name!

@JasperLoy Ah, video removed. Anyway, welcome back!

Damkerng T.

07:56

@CowperKettle Here's a double boat! :P

> canadianseaspray.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/dolly01.jpg

Damkerng T.

08:07

@Cardinal A couple of million Thais are Muslims. ;-)

Damkerng T.

08:27

@ColleenV There must be something about mustard. Some people use it in an uncommon way, like in the clip below!

Facebook Live: RNC Ketchup And Mustard Station

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Damkerng T.

08:41

Word of the Day: splurge

user227867

@DamkerngT. Yeah, I did not like the video, so I deleted it, but I made a new channel and it's here to stay. The link is in my profile now.

Damkerng T.

@JasperLoy I guess this SE account is new, too, perhaps, because you mentioned that you can't vote in this election.

user227867

@DamkerngT. Yes, it is pretty new, and hopefully here to stay.

Damkerng T.

Hopefully! :D

Hmm... I see small "Ja" before you name but can't see your avatar in this chat room!

Probably some CSS bug.

user227867

@DamkerngT. I bought the 4 main Nikayas of the Pali canon. Haven't really read them though. Yay!

Damkerng T.

08:52

@JasperLoy Yay! If they're near, you may read them sooner or later. :D

Crazy Ninja

Siza

Damkerng T.

Welcome, Sustainability Initiative of South Africa! :P

Crazy Ninja

I am the person who handles the team budget (which we collect some money monthly in our office room and buy some biscuits)

so, I am looking for a polite way to ask some senior people in the team to give the money

You have 100 rupees pending for the team budget. Can you please handover 100 rupees to me?

^Does this sounds polite?

Damkerng T.

Sounds too direct.

Crazy Ninja

ohh, well. then?

Damkerng T.

09:00

Do they know that you are responsible for collecting the money?

Crazy Ninja

yes.

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. Nice!

Damkerng T.

Okay. Have they shown any sign or made any promise that they will contribute?

@CowperKettle Hee!

CowperKettle

@snailplane I translated the march, well, the most of it, Snails! (0:

Sawasdee khrap, @DamkerngT.!

Damkerng T.

Sawasdee khrap!

Ah, I see. You used pending, so they must've already promised.

Crazy Ninja

09:07

Could you please handover the pending 100 rupees, please?

Damkerng T.

It's a clear message, but it sounds quite direct. I'm sure it doesn't work well in my culture. I'm not sure about your office.

Crazy Ninja

how will you write it in your work environment?

Damkerng T.

Maybe something like It's a new month again and our biscuit fund needs more money. We're looking forward to your donation this month! With gratitude.

(assuming that the office is not a very serious or formal place)

Crazy Ninja

I think this sounds perfect when the situation where I'm addressing the whole team

Damkerng T.

(Anyway, I don't think biscuit fund should be a serious matter! :)

Crazy Ninja

09:13

but in this case, I need to address only for 2 individuals

because they have 100 rupees remaining

Damkerng T.

@CrazyNinja Is it 100 repees a person a month?

Crazy Ninja

No, it depends

but this is not the money we collect monthly. I have to collect that one after 1 week from today

Damkerng T.

I see. I wouldn't mention the amount if they already know the amount.

Crazy Ninja

this is some remaining money that those 2 people have to give to me

Damkerng T.

But if they've already donated some, and we need 100 repees more, I guess I'd mention the amount as well.

@CrazyNinja Maybe stating the fact that everyone else but them has already made their donation, and trying to make it sound like just a reminder should work.

Crazy Ninja

09:17

I can see 100 rupees pending from you. Could you please handover it?

Damkerng T.

Hmm... apparently, asking for money is not my thing.

Crazy Ninja

hehehe....

Damkerng T.

How about something like: A reminder about our biscuit fund: Our biscuit fund is looking forward to see more money from you! Please feel free to contact me to make your donation any time. Thank you for your donation

Or something even more casual and sounds a little funnier: Our biscuit fund is waiting for your money! Please feel free to contact me to make your donation any time. Thank you in advance.

Crazy Ninja

09:37

nice. Thank you @DamkerngT.

Damkerng T.

You're welcome!

Jim Reynolds

09:58

Nice answer, but by what authority do you define it "incorrect, in principle" not to backshift given the conditions you mention? If you don't stop, I'll kill you. There we have a future hypothetical and its consequence with no backshifting. Your answer suggests it's incorrect or less correct not to do so. Sometimes we use terms like "correct" in a general way, I know. But I think the wording can be important sometimes. If you don't drop it, I kill you right here. Is there anything incorrect there? — Jim Reynolds 1 min ago

Am I being ridiculous?

In other words, being Jim?

Damkerng T.

@JimReynolds Probably not. At least I see the good intention for learners.

In any case, saying that we backshift I will do something to I do something is odd to me.

It conflates two important concepts together, tense and modality.

Jim Reynolds

Yaaaay!

Those things can be tricky to disconflagerate!

Damkerng T.

:D

CowperKettle

10:23

Гей ви, Стрільці Січовії _ Ukrainian song

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I translated the first stanza. Now I have a fully rhyming translation..

..whew

Afternoon, @JimReynolds!

> When our riflemen pass by,
One, two, three
Girls attend with shining eyes,
One, two, three
Onward, guys, don't look behind you
Let no fear or sorrow bind you,
One, two, one, two, one, two, three
See the captain riding first
One, two, three
He will lead us through the worst
One, two, three
On his charger brisk and dusty,
What a gallant chap and trusty!
One, two, one, two, one, two, three

(first two stanzas)

> Captain, tell us what's the matter
One, two, three
Where did all our money scatter?
One, two, three
There's no bread and there's no butter
All we've had is air and water -
One day, two days, one, two, three.
When you look us in the eye
One, two, three,
We shall see through any lie
One, two, three,
Tell us, tell us, what's the matter
Why we have the empty platters -
One, two, one, two, one, two, three

(second two stanzas)

> In the tavern yesterday,
One, two, three
Did you come to drink and play?
One, two, three
We all know you're gipsy lover
Spill it cap, let's get it over
One, two, one, two, one, two, three
Mark it captains, be devoted
One, two, three
Lest you want to be demoted
One, two, three
Even very cunning guys
Cannot hide from solders' eyes
One, two, one, two, one, two, three

(final two stanzas)

Oh, but it's hard to translate such a jolly song.

"One, two, three" is "Raz, Dva, Tri", it is easily discernible. (0:

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle Nice!

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. I've had much fun translating it. (0:

Ukrainian is like Russian, but a bit "mangled", and this creates such a nice feeling in poetry and music. I mean when you listen to it and finally manage to understand the meaning of this or other word.

It sound like Russian baby-talk, as if someone changed the words this way.

I failed to translate a lot of good things there.

It's not "Lest you want to be demoted", it is "Lest your shoulder marks come a-flying"

Which means the same, but is much more figurative

But it's impossible for me to carry that across into English.

It's not shoulder marks even, but "collar", "Lest your collars come a-flying". I discussed this with a Ukrainian friend and we realized that in 1915 rankings in Austro-Hungary were placed not on the shoulder marks, but on collar marks.

Damkerng T.

10:45

@CowperKettle I think we wear insignias on both places, generally. (How long haven't I worn my uniform!)

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. I never served in the army. Have you?

Damkerng T.

Technically, I have, but I've never been in any real battle.

CowperKettle

That goes without saying, but you served for a year or half-a-year, yes? In Russia it is a year now.

In Russia all people try not to get recruited, because it's quite bad in the army.

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle I took another route. Let's see what it's called in English.

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. "Alternative service", in hospitals and construction teams? We have this, but this is very under-developed.

Damkerng T.

10:49

@CowperKettle Ah, it's called Reserved Affairs Center.

CowperKettle

Territorial defence student

Territorial defence students (Thai: นักศึกษาวิชาทหาร; rtgs: nak sueksa wicha thahan) are a military youth organization in Thailand under control of the Royal Thai Army. == History == Prior to World War II the Yuwachon Thahan (or "junior soldiers", Thai: ยุวชนทหาร) were established in 1934 by Field Marshal Luang Pibulsonggram. At the beginning of World War II junior soldiers were sent to fight troops of the Japanese Empire that invaded southern Thailand on 8 December 1941. At the end of the war the junior soldiers were disbanded, but Lieutenant General Luang Chatnakrop (พล.ท. หลวงชาตินักรบ) created...

Damkerng T.

Yes!

Then I was assigned to the Air Force.

Jim Reynolds

Battlebot

CowperKettle

Did you have to live in barracks, and how long?

Damkerng T.

@JimReynolds LOL

@CowperKettle Just about three weeks.

CowperKettle

10:50

Ah, nice!

Damkerng T.

:D

CowperKettle

When I was a student, it was 2 years of obligatory conscription service.

Then it was brought down to 1.5 years.

Damkerng T.

Nice! I guess they promoted you to some rank as well.

@CowperKettle It's actually optional over here.

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. I never served, due to my eye condition, an eye transplant. But I would have tried hard not to serve in any case.

Jim Reynolds

@CowperKettle Lest you want to be demoted is a great solution. I can't think of a way to make the metaphor fit, or find another metaphor that fits.

CowperKettle

10:52

@JimReynolds Thank you!

Damkerng T.

Hmm... that's tricky. Let's just say that for every man who didn't take any part in this kind of school, it's obligatory.

@CowperKettle nods

CowperKettle

In Russia, people pay bribes to evade service.

Damkerng T.

Oh, same here. :D

Jim Reynolds

SHOCKING!

Damkerng T.

LOL

CowperKettle

10:54

Because you can be beaten to death in the army. It's like in a prison, there's little real discipline.

Jim Reynolds

O.O

CowperKettle

Dedovshchina

Dedovshchina (Russian: дедовщи́на; IPA: [dʲɪdɐˈfɕːinə]; lit. reign of grandfathers) is the informal practice of initiation (see:hazing) of new junior conscripts, formerly to the Soviet Armed Forces and today to the Russian armed forces, Internal Troops, and (to a much lesser extent) FSB Border Guards, as well as the military forces of certain former Soviet Republics and whole the world. It consists of brutalization by more senior conscripts serving their last year of compulsory military service as well as NCOs and officers. Dedovshchina encompasses a variety of subordinating or humiliating activities...

If you're unlucky, you'll be mangled or killed and nobody will answer for this.

Damkerng T.

Three years in the defence school was quite rough, but I understand the purpose.

CowperKettle

> Many young men are killed or commit suicide every year because of dedovshchina.[2][3] The New York Times reported that in 2006 at least 292 Russian soldiers were killed by dedovshchina

Damkerng T.

(BTW, we spent only half a day or so every week in the school.)

Cardinal

10:56

Hi brothers :D

Damkerng T.

Hi!

CowperKettle

Hi, Cardinal!

Cardinal

Is it right to say "when is the last time .... ?"

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle That's sad!

CowperKettle

nods

Damkerng T.

10:57

@Cardinal Hmm... I'd say When was the last time ...?

Cardinal

We have compulsory military service, too

Damkerng T.

@Cardinal I suppose so!

CowperKettle

@JimReynolds I had a friend who served in Siberia. He broke a car's front window inadvertently while on service. He was told by his superior to go AWOL and steal a replacement.

And senior soldiers regularly used to send junior soldiers to beg for money or to get illegal drugs.

Cardinal

@DamkerngT. Is "is" wrong" ?

Damkerng T.

@Cardinal I'm reluctant to say it's wrong, but I know I wouldn't use it.

Cardinal

11:02

@DamkerngT. I feel the same, I 'm just wanna know that.

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle That sort of thing is kinda dark!

Cardinal

The worst division is border guard, thanks to Afganistan, Pakistan, and Iraq and PKK

Damkerng T.

Anyway, three weeks in service was quite lovely, mostly because we'd already gotten our ranks, so we were treated quite differently from when we had been just "students".

Cardinal

Life and Death is 50-50

Damkerng T.

@Cardinal nods -- That sounds too real, even. It's a bit sad that we need military almost everywhere in the world.

CowperKettle

11:07

@Cardinal Same was for Russian solders who manned the post-Soviet borders with Afghanistan after 1991 and until about 2001

Cardinal

@DamkerngT. Somehow, I don't think France and Swiss have such problems ! :D

Damkerng T.

@Cardinal :D

CowperKettle

Бой 12 заставы Московского погранотряда. Июль 1993.FLV

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A small Russian regimen held off a large force from Afghanistan that wanted to invade in 1993

These are those who remained alive

Damkerng T.

Ahh

CowperKettle

Out of 48, 25 died.

The mujaheedin wanted to invade Tajikistan

Probably to smuggle drugs, really.

Cardinal

11:11

@CowperKettle The interesting point is that the border line along Afganistan is much more secure than Pakistan. There are two different types of threat. In Afganistan they are mostly smugglers, but in Pakistan there are terorists with religious intentions.

However, I think CCCP is the reason of all this. They invade Afganistan

Afgan was on the right track before engaging in a war between west and east

Taliban is founded by USA and Berzinsky

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (/ˈzbɪɡnjɛv bʒɛˈʒɪnski/ ZBIG-nyev bzheh-ZHIN-skee; Polish: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf kaˈʑimʲɛʂ bʐɛˈʑiɲskʲi] Polish pronunciation ; born March 28, 1928) is a Polish-American political scientist and geostrategist, who served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966–68 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977–81. Brzezinski belongs to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman. Major foreign policy events during his term of...

In fact, East and West destroyed the Middle-East so as to reach to their ambitions

It is not acceptable.

CowperKettle

@Cardinal Nah, nobody specifically created the Taliban. It was the side effect of leaky funding by the US of the war against the USSR.

There arose a network of madrassas in the border regions of Pakistan. These regions were hard to control from the start, so it's kind of started brewing there.

Cardinal

Yes, I couldn't edit it; US supported that. I meant Al-Aqaeda

CowperKettle

The Taliban were like Russian Bolsheviks, they wanted to radically return Afghanistan to "pure" Islam.

But there's so many enthnicities in Afghanistan that it was impossible, especially since the Taliban were mainly Pashto

Cardinal

A powerful tool for opposing with communists ?!

CowperKettle

The Taliban only arose after the USSR went away.

Damkerng T.

11:23

PSA: Room topics alert. Chatting about any stuff in general should be fine, but trying to avoid getting too deep into the topic is a good idea.

Cardinal

@CowperKettle I see

ColleenV

Good morning y'all. It's only 6:30 AM here so much too early to talk about the Middle East. I loved your song translation @CowperKettle

Damkerng T.

Good morning!

ColleenV

I think it must be challenging to capture the rhythm of that type of song in a different language

Cardinal

@ColleenV Good morning

Damkerng T.

11:27

nods -- Translating lyrics for meaning is hard enough already. Trying to keep the rhythm and rhymes is much harder!

CowperKettle

@ColleenV Thank you, Colleen! Good morning!

ColleenV

The video of some guy putting mustard in his water bottle is more my speed before my first cup of coffee :)

Damkerng T.

:D

It must be his secret technique! :D

ColleenV

You have to wonder what he wanted to put mustard on that he didn't want to carry to the station.

Damkerng T.

I still can't figure out why he put mustard in his water! :)

ColleenV

11:36

I can't remember if I shared this link on Lipograms with y'all - I found it quite impressive: phrontistery.info/lipogram.html

The author completely avoids the letter e

for paragraphs and paragraphs. That's tough to do in English

Damkerng T.

Whoa! IIRC, e is the most frequently used letter in English!

BTW, I think it's funny that the ad on the page 'A Loquacious Location of Lipograms' is by Lufthansa. Not sure if it's intentional. :-)

ColleenV

Oh that's an interesting coincidence. I don't see that one. I don't allow flash to run on most pages so I don't see a lot of ads.

Anyhow I have to get my butt to work (and presumably the rest of me should go along for the ride) Hope the rest of your day is awesome (And sorry if I interrupted your conversation @Cardinal)

Damkerng T.

11:52

@ColleenV Have an awesome day! :D

Cardinal

@ColleenV you interulted nothing. Have a nice day

CowperKettle

12:18

If I write on the document "Variation 1", will that mean "the original document", or will that mean "The document after it has been changed for the first time"?

Initially I translated as "Revision No. 1", but a fellow translator said that in her agency she translated it as "Variation No. 1"

But isn't it the same basically?

Will "Amendment No. 1" look okay?

ColleenV

12:36

Revision 1 is how I normally see it. Or Initial Revision

CowperKettle

I mean "Variation" and "Revision" are almost the same, but "Revision No.1" is better because it lets the reader know that the document was changed for the first time.

@ColleenV Thank you! I'll edit it back to "Revision".

ColleenV

Normally my documents have a revision history

Which lists each version starting with 1 and what change was made

CowperKettle

nods

Clearly "Variation 1" would mean "the barebones original document"

ColleenV

Variation to me means that you have several equal things that are slightly different from each other

and revision is more sequential

Like "variations on a theme" in music

is several piece of work exploring an idea from different perspectives

but revisions are version 1, version 2, etc

CowperKettle

nods

ColleenV

12:41

I think that works also

Version 1

Cardinal

I didn't see you already mentioned that

nods

ColleenV

For some reason I feel revision is more formal

Probably because of versions in software

CowperKettle

Another translator said "Amendment 1", but I don't think so.

Cardinal

Revision 1 strikes me as it has already been amended

I mean there is an original file and a reviewed file

CowperKettle

So, "Revision 1" would mean that the document is changed for a second time? O_O

Cardinal

12:43

I would call the reviewed version "Revision 1"

@CowperKettle No, I think "Revision 1" means that the document has been changed one time

CowperKettle

Ah, nice then!

Cardinal

The original file
The Reviewed file number 1
The Reviewed file number 2
....

CowperKettle

The warmest summer ever.

Mean summer temperatures in Yekaterinburg since 1880

August beat 5 all-time records.

It's + 29C now

Last summer, it never was above +26C

It's like Africa here now

Cardinal

WoW,that is really worrying

@CowperKettle Here is 31 , at the moment

CowperKettle

My cat is lying in the corridor, near the door where the air draft goes through

Cardinal

12:49

the south of the country is almost 39

@CowperKettle Natural Air Conditioner

ColleenV

We are usually around 38 C in the summer here

at least there is a breeze

Cardinal

Temperature in the south of Iran sometimes reaches to 45 0C

ColleenV

That's just brutal

Every time I think about complaining about the weather, I try to remember what shoveling snow is like :)

I can't really complain in central Texas it gets hot but nowhere near 45

Cardinal

Yes, I think it is even worse in the countries located in the south, KSA, Qatar, ..

ColleenV

and we have maybe one ice storm every 2 years

There are parts of the western US that get very hot because of deserts

Cardinal

12:54

nods

ColleenV

I've only visited as a tourist though, so I enjoyed them

some desert plants are really beautiful

Cardinal

I think I saw a documentary about a desert in Arizona; I am not sure

But, wherever the sate was, the desert was very hot and dry.

ColleenV

There is a lot of interesting land in Arizona - the Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, pine forests, red rock formations

California also has Death Valley

I think that's the hottest place in the US

Cardinal

nods

I got to go right know

ColleenV

nps.gov/deva/index.htm

Cardinal

12:58

Have nice day

BB

ColleenV

Alright I should stop procrastinating and work :) Catch you later

Anonymous

13:48

@DamkerngT. « guillemets » !

Ming Wang

Hello every one!

Anonymous

Hello :-)

Anonymous

Welcome to ELL chat!

Ming Wang

Is this room for english beginner like me?

Anonymous

Sure. Although not everyone here is a beginner, beginners are welcome.

Anonymous

13:55

We chat about English, and about other languages as well, and sometimes we go off-topic :-)

Anonymous

If you'd like to practice English here, feel free.

Ming Wang

It's very kind of you!

I have a question:

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Q: "got somebody something" vs "have got somebody something" "got something" vs "have got something"

In a movie, a man says: I got you a present. Why don't he say: I have got you a present. In another movie, I saw some sentences: Who's got champagne? Huh? I've got champagne. Why don't they say: Who got champagne? Huh? I got champagne. I'm confused by these sente...

word-meaning

I'm confused by 'got something' vs 'have got something'.

Anonymous

If you say "I got you a present", get means 'acquire'. Most likely, it means you bought them something from a store.

Anonymous

Have got is an idiom that means 'have; possess'.

Anonymous

> Like most people, I've got two eyes. = I have two eyes.

Ming Wang

14:02

I get it, thank you!

Are you a native english speaker?

Anonymous

I am.

Anonymous

I speak American English.

Ming Wang

I'm learning AE

Anonymous

We have a mix of native speakers and learners in this room. :-)

Ming Wang

I really hope I can think in English one day like you!

Anonymous

14:06

(Although some second language speakers are so advanced, they might prefer not to be called 'learners'!)

Ming Wang

I saw a twitter user whose name is snailplane, is that you?

Anonymous

No, I'm afraid not.

Anonymous

I didn't know there was a Twitter user with that name.

Anonymous

I only use this name on Stack Exchange.

Damkerng T.

@snailplane Guillemets in guillemets!

Word of the Day: deadbeat

(I just ran into it in a series, and I guessed its meaning wrong, or at least not very precisely.)

Ming Wang

14:16

I wonder how long does it take to be capable of thinking in second language.

If you refer to someone as a deadbeat, you are criticizing them because they try to avoid paying their debts

Damkerng T.

@MingWang Probably not very long. The question is, though, is that second language the same as the second language other people use? :-)

@MingWang Yes, but I hadn't heard it before.

Anonymous

I think it might be a little more complex than that, too. For example, if you study a technical field in English, I imagine it might be easier to think about that topic in English than your native language, but the opposite might be true of another topic!

Damkerng T.

(Sorry about the edit. We haven't talked before. So maybe you can't guess my typos, :-)

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I wonder where the word comes from.

Damkerng T.

BTW, welcome to the room, @MingWang!

@snailplane I have no idea! :D

Avicenna

14:20

Hi all. I am in class again, and a question just formed in my mind. Is OK used to move a conversation to a new phase. What about for changing the topic of the conversation. I know we can use all right and so to do that, but I am not so sure. I may not be anle to answer your comments on my question at the moment, if you do me a favor and post any, of course.

But thank you in advance.

Ming Wang

@D

@DamkerngT. Thank you

Damkerng T.

@snailplane I think you're right!

Anonymous

@Avicenna I suppose it could be :-)

Ming Wang

@DamkerngT. I don't understand what 'The question is, though, is that second language the same as the second language other people use?" means.

Damkerng T.

@MingWang Maybe it's easier if I quoted it properly, like this: The question is, though, ”Is that second language the same as the second language other people use?"

I'm a slow typist, so I usually keep my sentences short, and even so, I have lots of typos, unintentionally omitted words, etc.

Ming Wang

14:24

not the same

Damkerng T.

nods -- I guess it's pretty unlikely.

Anonymous

The version of Japanese I think or speak is not the same as that of a native speaker.

Ming Wang

@snailplane You mean that our thought always relys on the language by which we learn the thing we are talking about?

Anonymous

But! In consolation, I might point out that everyone has their own personal version of the language(s) they speak :-)

Anonymous

@MingWang I think that tends to be true.

Ming Wang

14:31

I tried to think in english, but vocabulary is always a barrier for me. I need to learn so many trivial words.

Damkerng T.

@MingWang Simple words are more difficult, right?! :-)

Ming Wang

You know me so well!

Damkerng T.

'Cause we're in the same boat! :-)

Into the room will come a unicorn is really subject–dependent inversion. In this example, the subject a unicorn has switched places with into the room, a dependent of the verb; the subject hasn't actually switched places with the verb. See The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, starting on page 1385. — snailplane 22 mins ago

Thanks for the comment! @snailplane

Cardinal

14:46

I am wondering whether or not we think by using languages?

Ming Wang

We may not think only by using languages.Maybe it partly relies on language.

CowperKettle

Good evening all! (0:

@MingWang Try the software called Anki

Ming Wang

I used Anki last month

CowperKettle

How did you find it?

I mean, did it help you?

Ming Wang

It's a good software ,but maybe it doesn't suit for me.

CowperKettle

14:51

Did you try it consistently over a month, each day?

I've been using it for 50 days, and missed about 10 days.

Ming Wang

Now I'm using an online markdown blog consistently instead of using Anki. I prefer customizing a learning software for myselft. :-)

CowperKettle

> - How to start your own business?
- You need a capital. A small one will do: a starting capital.
- But where do I get a starting capital?
- You need a pistol. A small one will do: a starting pistol.

Cardinal

@CowperKettle How do you treat words that have several definitions and usages ?

CowperKettle

@Cardinal I use commas

Cardinal

LoL

I meant, do you put all the definitions in Anki?

CowperKettle

14:57

"All"? No, I only put the definitions I need.

Як за дальнім небосхилом (Ukrainian folk song)

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I'll try to translate this.

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle Ugh!

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. It's a Russian joke from the early 1990s

Cardinal

@CowperKettle I see, but a learner (like me) may need to all of them

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