Happy New year to All !!!!

New Happy Year!

The first sunrise of the new year is in one hour

What's the name of the treatment house where mentally illed personare live together? Is there any common namefor it ?

Or It's just Luinatic asylum

?

Happy new year

Good morning

Good afternoon ;)

Happy New Year!

@QuokMoon I think "know about" would be more natural.

Happy New Year, @snailplane

@QuokMoon "insight" would be too fancy

@KenGraham yeah, thanks.

@DamkerngT. Happy new year!

Morning .

Morning! It's 1 pm here

Eleven a.m.

@Cardinal Happy New Year!

Buon anno tutti "Happy New year everyone." Yes, I admit it. I'm here to get a hat, BUT I really do wish everyone on ELL a happy new year. ☺☻☺☻

@DamkerngT. Ok.

@Mari-LouA ในศุภวารดิถีขึ้นปีใหม่ ขออำนาจสิ่งศักดิ์สิทธิ์ทั้งหลายในสากลโลก โปรดดลบันดาลให้ท่านและครอบครัว ประสบแต่ความสุขเกษมสำราญ และสัมฤทธิ์ผลในสิ่งอันพึงปรารถนาทุกประการ -- It's a rather typical New Year wish in Thai (^_^) -- Happy New Year!

And thanks for the hat! I was wondering if I might miss this hat. Hehe! :-)

@CowperKettle oh.. I think "know about" is more usual than "insight".

@DamkerngT. Grazie e prego (Thankyou and you're welcomed)

@DamkerngT. С Новым годом, Happy New Year!

(^_^)

@V.V. Happy New Year!

Новым годом

@yubrajsharma There are a number of names for a mental hospital, but it all depends if you are looking for a derogatory or a clinical term. A psychiatric hospital is probably the most neutral term.

Snailplane still has about 40 minutes to wait

Let's hope 2017 will be a more peaceful and happier one for everyone. Planet earth definitely needs it. :)

The Year of Rooster is going to be better than the Year of Monkey! (I hope)

@V.V. no, it is already 00:14 in Los Gatos

> In a Rooster Year, all of the Chinese animals can reap great rewards by tapping into Rooster traits. Loyalty, commitment, hard work, family values, and top-notch appearances are just some of the characteristics that will be rewarded this year.

I wish I were a Chinese animal

I have loads of these values

Everyone is one. :-)

@DamkerngT. At least that's what the Chinese think (0:

It depends on your year of birth in Chinese zodiac.

@CowperKettle Yep! :D

I see. I'm a horse

Me too.

> Horses should beware injury from metal objects in 2017. Also, take special care of your respiratory system, heart and blood vessels, stomach, and urinary system.

Oh! Huh? That doesn't sound like a real prediction!

I should abstain from bicycling

Ah, but it is!

Or buy a wooden bicycle

LOL

(0:

Lol

BTW, you should count the years according to Chinese New Year.

It's not a new year until it's in early Feb, usually.

> If you don’t notice any good candidates for marriage, you should ask female seniors to introduce someone to you and this will result in a good outcome.

I'll go outside and ask some babushka to introduce someone to me

> If you are married, keep your distance from any third party, so as not to be caught up in a love triangle.

Now this is a wise piece of advice

(^_^)

Does that include the Communist Party, I wonder

Very nice! Thanks!

Beautiful

You're very welcome.

\o/

> People born in a Year of the Horse will be very confident in their career during this Monkey Year, and they will be able to make great progress when they get the opportunity. However, they will be distracted by something and will be unable to fully concentrate on work, making it hard for them to reach the expected outcome.

Those wise Chinese

In short, I should get a wooden bicycle, and abstain from Stack Overflow.

LOL

(0:

We must endure what we cannot cure. (Begin : What....)

Can it be What cannot be cured must be endured by us.

I shall go if he invites me. (Begin : Unless)

Unless he invites me, I shall not go. (Is this correct?)

We are few but enough for them . (Begin : No matter)

No matter how few we may be, we are enough for them. (Correct?)

Sure, why not?

All of them ?

But that doesn't mean that they are very idiomatic or usual.

Suppose I use "the person who is talking to you" instead of "I", you wouldn't think it's incorrect, right?

(I'll be back Please leave your comments I will read them) @DamkerngT. Then please tell the right / more usual way .

The person who is talking to you thinks the examples the person the person who is talking to you is talked to are all right.

@Abcd By the way, you might want to consider asking about those alternatives on the main site.

Gotta go. See you later! o/

Wow! It looks almost like a scene from Star Wars!

It is St. Petersburg, Russia

@CowperKettle Quite futuristic! :-)

:D

They call this stadium Death Star

Haha! For a very good reason!

Because it has been under construction for 10 years, and they have spent 3 times the projected amount

Oh! For many good reasons, then!

So people joke that maybe there's an underground section where all this money goes

A Siberian joke

But universal humor!

(0:

What's the difference between the meaning of 'tip' and 'top' ?

At the tip of the root of tree or at the top of the root of tree ?

@yubrajsharma A tip is a projecting end or a point, the top is the part that is "highest". The tip of an iceberg can be at the top of the ice berg, but the top of a box is not the tip of a box.

You can say "He poked the pile of leaves on the ground with the tip of his walking stick." but you wouldn't say he poked it with the "top" because that's not the part that would be highest.

Hi all ^-^

Hi!

How can they forget people whom they live good moments with? @mick @DamkerngT. Is this sentence correct?

Hi!

@Hanaa It's grammatically okay. :-)

@Hanaa It is okay. (0: And no, they cannot.

I know some people who have.

But the majority of people will remain grateful for those moments

@Hanaa oh, I would use lived

Since this living of moments is in the past

And I thought this over a little and I think you're right, Hanaa

@CowperKettle oh lived yes.

Thanks @DamkerngT. :)

Hmm... or have lived, perhaps, depending on the intention.

@DamkerngT. The intension meant a past event.

I didn't try to think about the sentence much because I wouldn't phrase it that way anyway, personally.

@DamkerngT. I'd like to see your way of phrasing . :)

If you don't mind.

Well, the first couple alternatives came to my mind were spent their life with or shared good moments with.

I think my natural choice of tense would be the present perfect in this case.

Because it refers to someone's life experience.

But language aside, I think I value people who went through tough time together even more.

> She speaks German very well.

> She can speak German very well.

Detect any nuances?

@Færd Very little, perhaps.

Of a native German speaker, I'd prefer to say the first. Wouldn't you?

Oh! A native speaker? I would say neither!

I'd simply say "She speaks German", if I wanted to say something similar.

Or something else entirely.

Well, what if you're at gunpoint and can chose only between these two?

It could come off a bit rude, IMO, either of them.

Huh?

How?

> She has a German father and an English mother. She grew up bilingual. She can speak / speaks both German and English very well.

Try to tell someone who looks Asian but was born and raised in the US, "You speak English very well", and see the feedback. :-)

Of course. Or if you say it with a condescending tone.

I don't agree with the impoliteness of the wording.

But I'm having second thoughts about the nuance I thought there was.

You're in the wrong: in the context with the Asian person, it's an excellent way to come off as racist.

By providing additional context you add something to the original sentence. It's not rude in and of itself.

I concur.

You conquer.

Can is used to describe ability and possibility. Speaks alone to describe a habit.

Or a fact regarding the ability.

For me both are not wrong.

@Færd I'd say "She speaks English and German." or put it in parentheses after "bilingual".

@user2684291 Hmm. Perhaps that's better. What I thought was that there was a faint whiff of 'effort' in can, which does not become someone who speaks the language with utmost fluency.

@CowperKettle Oh I got it. Thanks.

@Færd Looking at your original sentence again, the version with "can" sounds better.

Why?

I don't know.

I mostly rely on my ear when I decide which version is correct. For some reason, when there's no pause between the sentences, like this: "She's bilingual, she can speak both German and English.", "can" works better. But maybe if I stare at the other version, it's also gonna look OK to me.

I mean, "more OK".

Well, they say valuable impressions are lost after too much thinking. ;)

Which may've happened when I told you which sentence I preferred, but who knows.

Thanks for chipping in.

No worries.