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Damkerng T.

20:06

> "Such an uncommonly intelligent film does not often get made...which requires us to enter the lives of these specific quiet, sweet, worthy people"

> Roger Ebert, Metacritic (via: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_than_Fiction_%282006_film%29)

Not sure why I'm still awake. I should've been in bed 5 hours ago, but I got a late-night visit, so now I can't get myself to sleep!

I feel drowsy. Drowsiness can degrade my grammar, like, a lot. (Perhaps it's the same for everyone.) I feel drowsy, and yet don't feel like I want to sleep.

It looks like I'm in my own twilight zone...

A: Any difference between "school-aged" and "school-age"?

Either one works and they're very similar; most native speakers will probably not draw a distinction between them. "School-aged" refers to children aged to the point of attending school (and, implicitly, not beyond that); "school-age" refers to children of an age at which they should attend schoo...

Neat!

Hmm... maybe I should take a second look at pages from WHO websites again.

> HBSC
HEALTH BEHAVIOUR IN SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION COLLABORATIVE CROSS-NATIONAL SURVEY
http://www.hbsc.org/

Hmm.... It looks like they use school-aged children to mean school-age children.

> Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents
http://www.who.int/growthref/growthref_who_bull/en/

Same on who.int.

3 hours ago, by Damkerng T.

Maybe "school-aged children" was popularized by WHO!

I'm still guessing that. Don't know if it's correct.

chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/YouCouldLookItUp/…

Oh, CMoS clearly says it's school-age!

Catija

20:27

I still stand by my comment :P I prefer "school-aged"... but it's just a personal thing.

Damkerng T.

@Catija Ah, I thought you said both are okay.

Catija

@DamkerngT. They are both OK. That doesn't mean I can't prefer one. :D

Damkerng T.

Ahh... I see! :-)

> As regards the school aged phrase, I think there's no need of a hyphen since aged is already employed as an adjective.

> ell.stackexchange.com/a/63273/3281

This one is interesting too. I think it would be better with a hyphen, though I'm not really sure.

I wish I could do half an up-vote sometimes.

Q: Is my use of "naive" correct?

Sometimes I may use "naive" in sentences like I am naive in writing this type of articles To say "inexperienced" I would like to know how common this word is among native speakers of English, or in which situations they use it (through some examples please).

Still going strong!

(Funny that it has 2 close-votes. :-)

How long can a question be a HNQ? Can it be longer than a day?

Good answer. As a native speaker, I would add that I've never seen "naive in [something]"; it looks wrong to me. Naivete is a general condition. I don't think you can narrow it by field. — Kevin yesterday

Hmm...

> Hoping that the police would see the book in the front seat that I was going to read to the class and hear my heartfelt story relative to rushing to my son's school, I was naive in thinking he would have sympathy and not give me a ticket.

Catija

20:42

Well, Kevin's not really right... One very common use of "naive" is "Naive in the ways of the world".

Damkerng T.

@Catija Agreed. I think his point is valid.

Though his generalization has a loophole. :P

Catija

If you could replace "in" with "to", the use is OK.

I think...

Damkerng T.

nods

Catija

> "I was naive to think that he would have sympathy and not give me a ticket"

Damkerng T.

I wasn't sure which message I should star. I chose to start the latter. :-)

2 hours later…

Catija

22:58

@DamkerngT. @snailboat Thought you two might appreciate this:

i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/5850073344/hB13F7B63

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. Close votes age after 14 days.

@Catija I found out what's going on, I might even write a meta.SE Q about it.

Anonymous

@Catija Oh! Yes :-) A classic!

Catija

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M OOOh, do tell.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

It's gonna be confusing without screenshots. And I'm sleepy.

Anonymous

Q: How are the many meanings of "as" linked?

What underlying ideas or metaphors link all the meanings beneath? I can't see the "overall view" or the semantic changes. Thus, beneath, I chose only the broadest meanings, But to maximize "overall view", please include and explain the numerous other meanings only on OED. as = |adverb| 1. Us...

meaning etymology

Anonymous

23:11

This is very much like a LeP question!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@snailboat Seen the meta for that?

The guy indeed reminds me of LeP.

Anonymous

The user doesn't remind me of LeP, but the question reminds me of LeP's questions.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Maybe they're LeP version 10.0.0.1, compatible with android lollipop.

Anonymous

23:27

They don't usually ask LeP-like questions, and they don't ask with LeP-like frequency or tenacity

Anonymous

It's just this one question that's like an LeP question.

Catija

Is LeP the one who used to be Area 51-something-something-something?

Anonymous

Yes. He used to be Law Area.

Catija

@snailboat You should write that long comment on the "idiot" question as an answer.

Anonymous

Argh.

Anonymous

23:40

That's the problem with answering people's comments.

Anonymous

You get lured into writing an answer.

Catija

:D But it's such a good answer. :) Particularly as the two options are so awful.

Anonymous

I'll try to write a proper answer later

Anonymous

23:57

I started writing one, but I just don't have the energy to finish it right now.

Catija

I saw you deleted the comments :)

An interesting question on ELU:

Q: Does English have an expression like "nth day"?

In my native language, if today is 1st and Sunday and we want to refer to the next Sunday (on 8th) then we may say the "today's eighth day". Obviously the count 8 includes today. On the other hand if we excluded today then it'd have been the 7th day from today. Does English have an expression li...