Testing ell.stackexchange.com/q/102760/9161

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There we go

@ColleenV Congrats! :D

:)

@CowperKettle If you keep the commas, you're saying that it's a "recombinant trispecific antibody", including the full generality of that term. If you remove the comma after that term, you're saying that it's just one specific type of that antibody (one that has specificity against the things listed).

In the former, the list after the comma can be considered to explain why it's called a "recombinant trispecific antibody". In the latter, the list restricts the kind of "recombinant trispecific antibody" it can be.

@Lawrence Yes, I need the restrictive phrase there. That was my point.

Thanks for the comment

@CowperKettle You're welcome.

The translator I was editing should seriously consider changing their murphorientation.

@Arrowfar Hi!

@CowperKettle On second thought, my argument would be stronger if the original used "with" instead of "having". Removing the comma before "having" might render the sentence ungrammatical. This tends to bias the interpretation towards being interpreted as if it were the comma version, even when the comma is absent.

Whoa, @MAR isn't pingable even here? Anyone know where he's gone to? :(

@ShadowWizard @MAR is @DEAD

I mean, he changed his nickname to @DEAD

@DEAD you can't escape my pings! And that's a crappy last message to have...... :-P

Strangely, it does not auto-fill

@CowperKettle because he wasn't in the room for 7 days

Ah!

How time flies.

lol

I hope he enjoys the un-connected world

Hope he's having fun, wherever he is. ;)

nods

waves

I wrote an answer instead of my code (as I should have!). :P

(Then again, I still can't think my code through. I still can't tie up some loose ends.)

@ShadowWizard o/ back!

A car went by, blaring Dire Straits over the whole street

:D

> HMS Terror: Sir John Franklin's doomed ship found after 168 years underwater

independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/…

Nice!

"did not want people not to believe him"

That's quite a weldment of a phrase

Oh, our lovely guests went. Such a lovely family they are. I miss them!

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@CowperKettle :-)

I was reloading the PC, trying to make Trados accept a large Word file

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> The monkeys testing the technology had been trained to type letters corresponding to what they see on a screen. For this study, the animals transcribed passages of New York Times articles or, in one example, Hamlet. The results, which are published September 12 in the Proceedings of the IEEE, show that the technology allows a monkey to type with only its thoughts at a rate of up to 12 words per minute.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/…

@Arrowfar Salam! :-)

Me? No.

I wish I had the talent for teaching English. I would have given lessons.

*are

@Arrowfar Going very well! :-)

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@CowperKettle Have you ever tried?

@Avicenna Yes, but I should have tried more. A woman asked for lessons via Skype. She is a very talented self-study person.

I should try again sometime.

@CowperKettle A very good idea!

Hi @Arrowfar

I attended translation courses and really admired how some women teach English, how they handle the whole class and make everyone busy.

@CowperKettle We have such power!

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Same here. But my sister attended courses with a male teacher from the UK

He visited our flat and we chatted about some stuff, like philosophy and music

A nice guy

Once I taught 3 retiered teachers. 2 Persian literature teachers and one math teacher. It was funny. They were really attentive.

Ninja came and went

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@Arrowfar My students hate reading. Bad new generation!

@Avicenna But they read social networks?

@Arrowfar They are very different. But we have lots of Persian words.

I think all generations might be affected.

@CowperKettle In Persian yes, but no one can force them read English stuff!

@Arrowfar I don't. I can read it and somehow understand it, that's about it.

@CowperKettle I loved to read English books, and newspapers if I could find any!

@Avicenna I also loved to read English books. I took them from a local English library

The first book I took was "To Kill a Mockingbird"

I wonder if the library still exists

I gave them 2 or 3 books

Donated

They were quite happy

@CowperKettle Wow, I love books smell, and the feeling of keeping them in my hands. Especially English ones!

@Avicenna I still remember the branch painted on the cover of the Mockinbird book

@CowperKettle :-))

@CowperKettle Sure you lived it!

@Avicenna Did you read it?

No, but I love to. It's beautiful!

It is a very good book

People wondered why she did not write books after that

I am reading it :-)

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weird

Both usages have declined.

Bye, Avi.

Back to translation..

@CowperKettle Not only that, but this, too! books.google.com/ngrams/…

@CowperKettle \o

Is there a difference between bounce and bounce off? When I translate it to my first language it shows the same thing.