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SinNombre SinApellido

12:03 AM

Can somebody help me?

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CowperKettle

3:04 AM

Good morning!

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CowperKettle

5:23 AM

I think that The is unnecessary in the first sentence

Anonymous

5:55 AM

@CowperKettle Maybe. It sounds better to me with it there, but I'm not really familiar with the technical terminology used in that field.

Anonymous

So I might not be the best one to make that judgment.

CowperKettle

6:06 AM

@snailplane If it sounds better to you with the, then I must be mistaken

I just thought that since it's a 'set phrase', it should not take the article.

Articles are hard

Q: What's the meaning of this sentence from MacDonald's "Lilith"?

"Ptolemy, Dante, the two Bacons, and Boyle were even more to me than Darwin or Maxwell, as so much nearer the vanished van breaking into the dark of ignorance." The sentence is from George MacDonald's Lilith. I don't quite understand the second half of the sentence. What's the metaphor here? Tha...

"vanished van"?

I don't understand this

> The foremost part of a group of people moving or preparing to move forwards, especially the foremost division of an advancing military force.

WOW

van can mean the forefront

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CowperKettle

7:59 AM

> These results were obtained during (the??) clinical trial No. ABD-945-1 titled "Assay of binding antibodies to the monoclonal anti-TNF antibody in human blood serum".

Do I need "the"?

There's a number, so I don't

There's a title, so I do

D'oh

CowperKettle

8:23 AM

> Store at a temperature of 2 to 8 °C, protected from light, in the original packaging.

Maybe it's better to write "in the provided packaging", or "in the manufacturer's packaging".

The Russian word is "obtained": "store .. in the obtained packaging". But the meaning is clearly "in the packaging supplied by the producer"

hmm... "in the supplied packaging"?

And.. is the word "packaging" better, or is "package" better?

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CowperKettle

11:05 AM

nerdist.com/…

wow

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Færd

12:13 PM

The phonemic transcriptions of industry and industrial in the M-W dictionary suggests that the u is pronounced the same in both words: \ˈin-(ˌ)də-strē\ and \in-ˈdə-strē-əl\ both have a schwa following the \d\. This is rather strange.
Do you pronounce them the same? I think the stressed vowel in industrial is not a schwa, or a different kind of schwa.

And is there no difference between the vowels in mother? M-W and ODO suggest that the only difference is the stress: \ˈmə-thər\, which, again, I find a bit surprising.

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