Language Overflow

CowperKettle

03:46

@ColleenV Wow, a great song, thanks a million, Colleen!

@snailplane I stand corrected!

Rather, sit corrected and drink my morning coffee

@Cardinal Thanks! I'm thinking of bying an Intel SSD

> Someday they’ll thank us for the hell that we was givin’ em

A real country song, then! (0:

Student

@DamkerngT. Their dialects? Oh they are English Native Speakers :)

V.V.

04:02

They tell me Chicago’s a fool to the Panter packing-rooms.(Chicago 's nothing compared to...)@CowperKettle? Or just "not as clever"?

Anyway, it should be a comparison, right?

CowperKettle

@V.V. I don't understand this sentence. Maybe it is "They tell me Chicago loves the Panther packing-rooms very much"

"To be a fool for something" is "to love something to a state of distraction" (любить без ума)

V.V.

Morning

CowperKettle

Good morning!

V.V.

There's a meaning of "fool" as "fool gold" which glitters but not precious

Isn't precious

CowperKettle

nods

V.V.

04:12

And the preposition is "to"

CowperKettle

Yes, it's not "for". I missed this.

Then I don't understand this sentence at all. You might ask on the main site..

V.V.

No, it would be downvoted

CowperKettle

It might, but it might give you the answer. Your rep count will not suffer appreciably.

Post the question, get the answer, then delete the question. Voila!

BBL

V.V.

Thanks anyway.

CowperKettle

No problem. I'm reviewing my Anki glossary

What is АФИ? I forgot. (0:

It's "active pharmaceutical ingredient"

And so on.

or is it "I've forgotten"?

эталонные значения: reference range

pI: Isoelectric Point: изоэлектрическая точка

> the pH at which a particular molecule carries no net electrical charge in the statistical mean. The standard nomenclature to represent the isoelectric point is pH(I), although pI is also commonly seen

For some reason it's always pI in Russian documents

время выхода пика: retention time

отношение рисков: hazard ratio / relative risks (Russian sometimes uses a single expression to describe two different expressions in English, and you should pay attention to the context to distinguish them)

> Hazard ratios differ from relative risks in that the latter are cumulative over an entire study, using a defined endpoint, while the former represent instantaneous risk over the study time period, or some subset thereof.

ненужное зачеркнуть: delete as applicable

активный TBC лёгких: active pulmonary tuberculosis

буферный раствор для нанесения образцов: loading buffer (LOL)

it's a whole sentence in Russian and two words in English

V.V.

05:30

Yes, the sentence is a comparison.

CowperKettle

Заброшенная больница скорой помощи в парке Зеленая роща

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@V.V. Did you ask on the main site?

(the video is of an abandoned hospital in Yekaterinburg)

Lawrence

06:57

@CowperKettle howtogeek.com/187663/…

Damkerng T.

07:12

@Student Asking about their dialect implies that they're native speakers. :-) I'm just curious about their dialect because they seem to be comfortable with She lays on bed.

V.V.

One more riddle left. A remark." Confused noises without." Perhaps the same as "without confused noises ". With an emphatic inversion.

Damkerng T.

In some examples, people say things we wouldn't normally expect, like using learn to mean "teach", or lend to mean "borrow", or even She don't and such.

CowperKettle

@V.V. Probably "outside"

@V.V. Like in the Beatles song "Within and Without You"

"Inside you and outside you"

Damkerng T.

It's hard to believe that everyone over there is comfortable with She lays on bed, though.

V.V.

OK, I will check. It's nice to have you near.

Damkerng T.

07:15

@Cardinal Yay!

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. What is bad about that?

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle lays for lies, and on bed instead of in bed?

CowperKettle

The Beatles - Within You Without You

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@DamkerngT. Ooops

Anonymous

*On bed doesn't work. In bed is fine, but if you use on you'll want some kind of determiner: on her bed

Damkerng T.

That's what I mentioned, but Student said otherwise.

Anonymous

07:19

Of course, they mean different things, so they aren't interchangeable.

CowperKettle

"She lies on the bed" is okay

I always confuse the forms of "lie"

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle nods

CowperKettle

Sawasdee khrap, Dam, good noon, Snails.

Damkerng T.

Zdorovo and Sawasdee khrap!

Good localtime, everyone!

Anonymous

@CowperKettle Native speakers often acquire overlapping and confused sets of forms for those verbs.

CowperKettle

07:21

It is 00:20 in California. A 12-h differnce

Anonymous

Yes :-)

CowperKettle

(0:

Anonymous

Good localtime!

CowperKettle

So my big Casio wall clock tells the right Californian time

Damkerng T.

The two of you could use the same wall clock to tell time! :D

CowperKettle

07:22

():

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. If Student heard native speakers say on bed, I assume it was a mishearing.

Anonymous

I don't know of any dialect where it's used.

Anonymous

But if there is evidence to the contrary, I'd be interested to hear it :-)

Damkerng T.

@snailplane Me too!

Anonymous

It would be new to me.

CowperKettle

07:28

@DamkerngT. - is it illegal to smoke electronic cigarettes in Thailand?

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle Well, it's not illegal to smoke real cigarettes here. Just don't do that in public places. :-)

CowperKettle

A Yekaterinburg man had to pay a $650 bribe to evade prison for vaping

@DamkerngT. The news report says it's 5 years for vaping

O_O

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle Maybe because the government owns a cigarette fatcory.

Anonymous

People here often smoke in places they shouldn't.

CowperKettle

How could this be? Vaping is harmless. Five! Years!

I often see vapers in the street

Damkerng T.

07:31

Well, that's how our laws work. The real wording is more like "not more than five years".

:D

CowperKettle

I'll take my holiday in Northern Urals

Damkerng T.

Oh, you mean five years over there?!

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. No, I mean it's a five year prison term in Thailand if you vape

Damkerng T.

Ah, I see. It's only five years maximum.

So, it'll be up to the judge.

CowperKettle

You mean, if the person vapes really bad? (0:

Anonymous

07:34

I don't know why it would be illegal, but it's not necessarily harmless…

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle I suppose the maximum is for the "big guys" of such importing activities. :D

CowperKettle

Wilful, deliberate and malignant vaping with aggravating circumstances

Anonymous

Well, I have asthma, and products with menthol can trigger it.

CowperKettle

The Russian tourist was just vaping in the street, and they said to him "you will get 2 years behind bars, or pay $650"

@snailplane Sorry to hear that. My grandma had asthma.

Damkerng T.

nods -- It looks like the laws relating to vaping was issued by our Ministry of Public, based on some health research.

Anonymous

07:35

But it's better than people smoking menthols.

CowperKettle

nods

Anonymous

@CowperKettle Mine isn't too bad. My sister has it bad because she smokes, which is of course not helpful if you're asthmatic.

Damkerng T.

Hmm... their research seems to say that vaping one e-cigarette equals smoking 15 real cigarettes!

Anonymous

In what sense are they equivalent?

Damkerng T.

@snailplane Aww... I guess she has quit smoking.

@snailplane It's unclear, but it seems to suggest something about the amount of nicotine.

CowperKettle

07:38

@snailplane Good to hear that it is mild!

I remember she used to have the inhaler close by.

Anonymous

I have to use my inhaler most often when people smoke at bus stops.

CowperKettle

> I've just heard from a member...he was on a motorcycle and stopped at a police checkpoint in Bangkok. They asked him to empty his pockets...when they saw his mod, they pulled out this "ruling" on a mobile phone and wanted to fine him Bt 40,000 (4x their judged value of the mod) or throw him in jail for 5 years!! Apparently, this ruling has been on the books for at least 30 years!

thailandvapers.com/threads/…

Damkerng T.

@snailplane Aww

Anonymous

It's illegal, of course, but they don't enforce it as far as I can tell.

Anonymous

Smoking at bus stops or on train platforms, I mean.

Damkerng T.

07:42

Oh, that one is by the Ministry of Commerce!

CowperKettle

@snailplane That's bad.. I'm shy of using my insulin syringe with people around.

Anonymous

I'm pretty sure people think I'm a goofy person. I am silly in public :-)

Damkerng T.

The one that's specific about vaping was only issued earlier this year.

CowperKettle

@snailplane (0:

Anonymous

I don't worry too much about what people think in public.

Damkerng T.

07:44

@snailplane That's good. The most important thing is what we think about ourselves. Very important. :D

Anonymous

If I feel like dancing, I dance :-)

Damkerng T.

LOL

CowperKettle

I'm not.. (0:

I'm not sure in my dancing skills LOL

But I love when people dance spontaneously to show their feelings

Anonymous

Some years back I made a little guitar fretboard I could carry with me everywhere to help practice, and no matter where I went, people made amused comments. Some people said they loved the way it sounded (it didn't make sound :-)

CowperKettle

(0:

Damkerng T.

07:48

BTW, "The short version is that import and sales are illegal. Use (as of now) is legal." (a sentence in that thread). That's not true.

By using it, you have to "possess" it, right? And having it in possession is also illegal.

Anonymous

That kind of misinformation can be harmful!

Damkerng T.

Indeed!

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. Maybe you've just found it on the street, and decided to check it out?

Damkerng T.

I wouldn't expect anyone to really have to face a 5 or 10-year penalty, though, unless they are an importer or a distributor, and supposedly a rather big one at that.

@CowperKettle I wonder if we could get away with that claim. :D

Anonymous

It sounds scary, though.

Anonymous

07:53

@CowperKettle What if it's someone else's e-cigarette and you use it without coming into possession of it?

CowperKettle

@snailplane I think the laws are specificaly crafted to allow for police bribery, like in Russia.

There are vague laws.

Anonymous

Frown

Anonymous

While I'm sure we have police bribery here, I don't think it's as widespread.

Damkerng T.

Hmm... I think the real intent is to stop such activities. (It looks like they view it the same way they view other controlled substances.)

CowperKettle

@snailplane I mean in Thailand

Damkerng T.

07:55

But I think the loophole is real.

Anonymous

Oh, I know you do.

CowperKettle

I don't believe there is bribery in the US. It must be as rare as hen's teeth

Anonymous

I was just reflecting on how different things can be around the world.

CowperKettle

nods

In the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, it's even more different, I think. (0:

Anonymous

I expect there is bribery everywhere in the world, but much more commonly in some places.

Anonymous

07:57

Some countries seem to run primarily on bribery…

ffahim

hello there

Anonymous

When I think of police corruption in the U.S., I tend to think of police brutality and the way drugs always fall out of people's pockets at inopportune moments.

Damkerng T.

Hi! @ffahim Welcome to the room!

Anonymous

Hello! Welcome to ELL chat :-)

Damkerng T.

> http://topicstock.pantip.com/wahkor/topicstock/2010/03/X8973999/X8973999-4.jpg
Funny that on the box, the text reads:
Smoking is harmful for health
E-Smoking is good for health

Anonymous

08:01

Feel free to interrupt our off-topic chatter with on-topic discussions at any time :-)

CowperKettle

(0:

Damkerng T.

:D

Anonymous

We're talking mainly about ecigarettes at the moment.

CowperKettle

@snailplane And my poetry-prone brain recalls only this

Do Re Mi - Woody Guthrie

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Damkerng T.

BTW, talking about e-cigarettes and vaping makes me think of a recent ELL question asking about "a iPhone" (instead of using an). :-)

Anonymous

08:03

Oh, that's ungrammatical.

CowperKettle

(Woody uses the word "Do Re Mi" to hint at "Dough" = "money" (slang))

Anonymous

You'd have to insert an epenthetic glottal consonant there.

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle A sweet kind of prone! :D

CowperKettle

(0:

Damkerng T.

@snailplane Personally, I think the YouTuber titled it that way maybe to attract people.

CowperKettle

08:04

> Oh, if you ain't got the do re mi, folks, you ain't got the do re mi,
Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee.
California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;
But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot
If you ain't got the do re mi.

Anonymous

But we generally only do that when we haven't planned out our speech well enough to realize we need the allomorph an. It would still be considered an error.

Anonymous

Can you link to the question?

Damkerng T.

-6

Q: definite and indefinite articles

This is a pretty forward question that requires a straightforward one piece with no possibilities answer. I'm not a native English speaker or a dweller of an English speaking country, but I paid a hell lot of money to learn English from a native British nationalities in a fully certified learni...

CowperKettle

Minus six! That's a goal to strive towards! I've only got a minus three question.

Damkerng T.

> I Got a iPhone 7 Early

> Do NOT Vape from a iPhone

@CowperKettle I think the OP fixed some wordings a bit.

Anonymous

08:10

Still, if you do insert a glottal consonant, you avoid hiatus.

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Damkerng T.

Off-topic: Oh, no! I missed my opportunity to catch that expensive bird!

Anonymous

It won't appear in Standard English that way except as a speech error, but it does satisfy the requirement to avoid hiatus.

Anonymous

What bird?

Damkerng T.

A neighbor just lost his expensive birds (several hundred thousand bahts) and the bird just stayed in my garden some ten minutes ago!

Anonymous

Oh!

Damkerng T.

08:13

@snailplane I don't know. It's a big orange-black bird, with a loud cry!

I thought it was a passer-by, so I didn't think anything much.

Anonymous

I hope the birds come back…

Damkerng T.

Now everyone is looking for it!

The bird is gone now. I don't know where it went.

Anonymous

Does it fly?

Damkerng T.

Seems so, because it was on a higher branch of a big tree in my garden when I found it.

I wouldn't know it was there if it didn't cry. Maybe a warning cry.

I suppose I will try looking for it for a while. :D

See you after some while.

:D

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. Poor bird, I hope it manages to fly away from Bangkok

Anonymous

08:21

Do you think it doesn't like it there?

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Good luck! :-)

CowperKettle

@snailplane I think it prefers freedom to the cage. (0:

BBL

Anonymous

I wonder sometimes if my snails would rather be free to snail about outside.

Anonymous

But they're safe here, and they get food and water every day, and I keep them away from extreme temperatures :-)

Anonymous

So I hope they're as happy as snails can be.

Damkerng T.

08:43

@CowperKettle I guess it couldn't fly as far as Yekaterinburg, though. :D

@snailplane I'm sure they're happier staying with you. :-)

Apparently, nobody knows where the bird is at the moment. :D

Damkerng T.

08:58

1

Q: Which should I use: music band or music group?

Which one sounds better? Music group, or music band? Then group/band is of cuban hip-hop, in case the style of music matters. Thanks

expressions

Another Hemingwayian! :D

CowperKettle

09:09

> For long-time storage of the producing cell line in liquid nitrogen-filled cryovials, we use a 1:1 mix (vol/vol) of conditioned/fresh media with a final dimethyl sulfoxide concentration of 10%. (is this an okay expression?)

@DamkerngT. (0:

> Since I'm too old to start afresh , and my teenage/young-adulthood rebellious nature prevented me from taking advantage of the education I received, I'm trying to make up for lost time, and have some fun along the way, and so I study mathematics mostly by myself with the vast resources that life gives me, namely the internet.

This is more like Faulkner than Hemingway

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle :D

@CowperKettle The article is fine with me. I wonder if we should use of or at or nothing before 10%, though.

CowperKettle

Oops, it's "long-term storage".

Damkerng T.

@Avicenna Yes, I can see you in the chat room.

I wonder why you're blocked from the chat!

Sorry to hear that.

CowperKettle

Is she blocked from the chat?

Damkerng T.

Hi, I have a question: can you see my avatar in chat? I cannot chat because I am blocked. I want to know what happens when someone is blocked. Actually I am enjoying it. Lol — Avicenna 7 mins ago

CowperKettle

09:20

Have someone blocked Avi from the chat? O_O

Damkerng T.

I have no idea!

CowperKettle

We should report the bug to an admin

@DamkerngT. How do you know she is blocked? I see no special marks

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle @Avicenna wrote a comment to me on the main site.

CowperKettle

It happened in Islam chat. I talked against Holocaust and a mod didn't like it we had a discussion and I am blocked! :D I don't care at all. :D — Avicenna 39 secs ago

Ah, so she cannot comment in that chat, but still can talk here. Phew

CowperKettle

09:39

I hope I'll get unblocked soon, Avi.

But I should be translating.

CowperKettle

10:45

The parcel has "arrived at Russia's border". In 3 days. Last time it took 10 days.

CowperKettle

11:16

> Fig. 1 shows a schematic representation of the antibody.

Can I say just "schematic", without "representation"?

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle I guess not. I think it's used as a noun more often in engineering, though.

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. Thank you!

Damkerng T.

No problem!

Also possible is "I think it best that one be well-prepared for the exam". — Peter Aug 17 at 7:06

CowperKettle

I translated "Рис. 1" as "Fig. 1" and Trados asked me to apply the translation to several dozen such units (Fig. 2, Fig 3)..

Damkerng T.

What?!? (on reading the comment)

@CowperKettle :D

CowperKettle

11:21

@DamkerngT. Subjunctive

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle But "I think it best ..." not "I think it's best ..."?

CowperKettle

shrugs shoulders

Damkerng T.

The question was just bumped up by Community.

CowperKettle

in Islamic Evangelism, 7 mins ago, by goldPseudo

@CowperKettle It should say right on her profile.

But it says nothing on her profile

Anonymous

@CowperKettle Did you check her chat profile or main site profile?

CowperKettle

11:29

@snailplane Ah, there's a separate profile!

Anonymous

You should be able to see it here: chat.stackexchange.com/users/207500/avicenna

CowperKettle

> This user has been temporarily suspended by a moderator and cannot chat for 6 days.

Now I see

Anonymous

I see you've already talked to the moderator there. I don't have anything to add. (I don't have access to the messages she was suspended for anyway, as they've been moved to a private room I don't have access to.)

Anonymous

The suspension is chat-wide but should not affect her main site ELL account.

CowperKettle

nods

Anonymous

11:36

@Avicenna Please don't use the ELL comments section to discuss your chat suspension. If you'd like to leave comments on ELL, please make sure they're on-topic. Thank you :-)

CowperKettle

> The element marked in light brown is a humanized VHH domain derived from llama that is specific against IL-17A and IL-17F. (D'oh. Llama is not specific to anything..)

> The element marked in light brown is a humanized VHH domain derived from llama, and it is specific against IL-17A and IL-17F. (better..)

Damkerng T.

12:25

BTW, operation Bird Finding still fails miserably!

@CowperKettle Oh! The two sentences suggests two different things indeed!

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. Yes, the second is better in terms of getting the meaning across

Damkerng T.

nods

I wonder if they'll be happy with this bird instead. :P

(The colors sort of remind me of the way I saw it on my tree. :D)

I don't know much about birds, but I guess they aren't like cats and dogs when it comes to finding their ways back home.

Cardinal

13:01

@CowperKettle That's great.

> Maybe mentioning a personal experience can help me to get the point across.

Is it OK to use the sentence above before mentioning an example in a essay?

Damkerng T.

In an essay, I think it's better to delete maybe and can and simply use may instead.

Or might, or perhaps can.

Word of the Day: eponymous

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. As in Epona, the eponymous horse.

Anonymous

(Okay, maybe not :-)

Damkerng T.

:D

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I wonder how confusing it would be if you actually named an album Self-Titled.

Anonymous

13:13

Another word of the day: mawkish

Damkerng T.

@snailplane I guess it could sound a bit like the album named itself!

BTW, I know the word Trekkies is used for Star Trek fans, but what's the word for Star Wars fans?

Anonymous

There is a war between the Trekkies and the Trekkers.

Anonymous

I think.

Anonymous

Hold on, I have a relevant comic.

Anonymous

basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2016/8/30/…

Anonymous

13:27

> Scott: I love Star Trek!
> Friend: So, you're a Trekkie.
> Scott: No, I'm a "Trekker."
> Friend: What's the difference?
> Scott: One "Treks." The other "gets Trekked."

Damkerng T.

Oh, that makes me curious, which one is which?! :-)

Anonymous

Oh, who knows? :-)

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I hope it's not Warsers.

Anonymous

Warsies isn't much better.

Damkerng T.

I guess a Trekker "Treks", perhaps.

@snailplane I found Wookie, bit it's a bit too goofy! ;-)

Anonymous

13:30

I certainly hope that not all Star Wars fans are Wookiees.

Damkerng T.

:D

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I have a joke to share. Would you like to hear it?

Damkerng T.

Yes!

Anonymous

This Fibonacci joke is as bad as the last two jokes you heard combined.

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Damkerng T.

Hah!

Cardinal

13:49

@DamkerngT. Thank you dam dami

Damkerng T.

@Cardinal No problem! :D

Cardinal

I wonder whether it is contradictory to so say "rejecting the fact that"

I see on google a lot of results for the phrase.

CowperKettle

> Выпущено таможней (Passed customs control)
16 сентября 2016, 09:42 190977, Санкт-Петербург (St. Petersburg)
Прием на таможню (Accepted for customs control)
16 сентября 2016, 09:41 190977, Санкт-Петербург (St. Petersburg)

It took 1 minute.

Cardinal

Good evening @CowperKettle and @V.V.

CowperKettle

Good evening, @V.V.!

And Cardinal!

V.V.

13:59

Good evening all.

CowperKettle

> The Fc region of the immunoglobulin consists of the CH2 (orange) and CH3 domains. (or "domain"?)

Word of the hour: homotrimer

V.V.

Plural, if it's countable

CowperKettle

Thanks!

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle Nice!

Lawrence

15:28

@Cardinal It's not contradictory. But rejecting facts might deem a person contrary.

Hello.

Hello?

Goodbye. :)

Damkerng T.

15:41

Hello!

user62015

Hi! @DamkerngT.

Damkerng T.

Hi!

user62015

What does it (The miser does not part ——— money .
(A) in (B) by (C) on (D) with) mean? I am not able to understand the question

CowperKettle

What part of speech is "part", @user62015?

user62015

@CowperKettle I am not able to understand it completely?

CowperKettle

15:53

@user62015 The word "part" - what do you think it means?

user62015

Spend or share

Answer is D

Damkerng T.

Strange! I lost my internet connection for a few minutes!

@user62015 That's correct!

user62015

@DamkerngT. Thanks.

Damkerng T.

CowperKettle seemed to try to suggest you to, first, guess its part of speech, and then, look it up in a dictionary. :D

Which is good advice. :D

Cardinal

@Lawrence Hello Lawrence and thank you

Lawrence

15:57

@Cardinal Hi! And you're welcome. :)

@DamkerngT. Welcome back. :)

Damkerng T.

@Lawrence Thanks!

Lawrence

I think I see @JimReynolds around as well.

Damkerng T.

Now that I'm back I can see you're a big El now. :P

CowperKettle

@user62015 Yes, "part" is "to give away"

It is not used often in everyday speech

Lawrence

@DamkerngT. Yes, I wanted to know what people thought of it. :)

Cardinal

15:58

@CowperKettle I think that sentence requires "part with"

CowperKettle

@Cardinal yes

Damkerng T.

@Lawrence Well, it's an "el". That's what I think. :D

Lawrence

@DamkerngT. The system was playing around with my gravatar but left the one in my actual profile alone. Then today it changed that as well, to one I didn't particularly like. I had one alternative picture to choose from, which I also didn't particularly want. So I made my own. :)

It's a little basic. Ok, very basic. :)

Damkerng T.

@Lawrence It's clear and simple. I think in that way, it's elegant. :D

Practicing looking at space like Zen folks would do. :-)

Cardinal

@Lawrence Are you from US or UK? :-)

Lawrence

16:02

@DamkerngT. Thanks. :P

@Cardinal Why do you ask?

Cardinal

Just want to know the dialect

< In general >

Lawrence

@Cardinal Ah, I see.

Sep 6 at 15:38, by Lawrence

@DamkerngT. I favour BrE, but I'm familiar with several, including AmE to some extent, and AuE, as well as some Asian versions of English, though not InE in detail.

Cardinal

Nice

Lawrence

:)

Damkerng T.

@Lawrence I guess I could say this to you then ... How are you going? :)

Lawrence

16:05

@DamkerngT. I'm fine, thank you. :)

Damkerng T.

Hee :D

Lawrence

My personal dialect is a mixture of most of the above now. Perhaps that's why I get that question so much.

For example, I prefer BrE spelling most of the time, but I like the look of "center" more than "centre".

Cardinal

:-)

Anonymous

16:32

@user62015 You should memorize the phrase part with X.

Damkerng T.

Millie Bobby Brown's Fears: Sharks, the Dark, and Bungalows

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What does babe mean? :D

Next question: What does lit mean? :D

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I was seriously surprised to learn there were dialects where that was a valid utterance.

Damkerng T.

@snailplane It's language anyway. :D

Anonymous

@Cardinal Good question! It does seem like you'd want to use a noun that doesn't suggest, well, factuality, unless you really do believe it's a fact and you're talking about someone who disagrees with you rejecting that fact.

Lawrence

@DamkerngT. It means there's a light shining on the subject. :)

Obviously, I'm not a teenager. :P

Damkerng T.

16:45

LOL :)

Hmm... Listening to the clip again, I think she said, What does Be mean (not sure about the spelling), rather than Babe mean?

It matches her gloss better, too. ("Before anyone else")

Cardinal

16:59

@snailplane Thank you

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. bae

Damkerng T.

A-ha! Thanks!

Oh, it's an acronym!

Anonymous

Yup. :-)

Anonymous

esquire.com/lifestyle/news/a29423/where-did-bae-come-from

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Damkerng T.

Bacon And Eggs? -- LOL :)

Cardinal

17:28

Can I use "raise the condition of" instead of using "improve"?

Damkerng T.

But condition of what?

Cardinal

condition of the society for example

raise the condition of the work place, ...

Damkerng T.

Hmm... it doesn't sound very good to me.

Anonymous

18:18

What exactly do you mean by that phrase?

CowperKettle

rais the conditions to a new level

oops "raise"

I should go to the bed

Goodnight

Cardinal

18:44

@snailplane I mean improving the quality of something.

Cardinal

19:11

@CowperKettle Good Night

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