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SinNombre SinApellido

02:20

Hi, anyone here?

V.V.

06:03

Morning. How might taxation organization be called?

Tax office?

Tax inspectorate?

CowperKettle

Revenue Service (in the US)?

Revenue service

A revenue service, revenue agency or taxation authority is a government agency responsible for the intake of government revenue, including taxes and sometimes non-tax revenue. Depending on the jurisdiction, revenue services may be charged with tax collection, investigation of tax evasion, or carrying out audits. The chief executive of the revenue agency is usually styled as Commissioner, Minister, Secretary or Director. == Revenue services by territory == Albania - Drejtoria e Përgjithshme e Tatimeve / Γενική Διεύθυνση Φορολογίας / Albanian Taxation Office and Inland Revenue Argentina -...

Federal Tax Service (Russia)

The Federal Tax Service (In Russian: Федеральная налоговая служба, ФНС России) is a federal body of executive authority responsible for carrying out state registration of legal entities and natural persons as individual entrepreneurs and farmsteads. Formed in March 19, 2004, after the dissolution of the Federal Tax Police Service of the Russian Federation, whose functions were split between the new Federal Tax Service and the Taxes Crimes Department of MVD (Управление по налоговым преступлениям МВД). It is also a federal body of executive authority responsible for ensuring the presentation of claims...

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Q: "is just a recommended minimum" vs. "is just the recommended minimum"

At least two orthogonal studies should be performed to establish comparability. However, this number is just the recommended minimum, and is not optimal. Since the first sentence makes the recommendation, I think that it is okay to use the. At least two orthogonal studies should be per...

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V.V.

Thanks.

CowperKettle

You're welcome!

EngFan

06:49

Hello everyone :-)

"Would you care to reply my email" is this sentence grammatical ?

CowperKettle

07:03

> If the comparability exercise in the in vitro studies in step 1 is considered satisfactory and no factors of concern are identified in step 2, or these factors of concern do not block direct entrance into humans, an in vivo animal study may not be considered necessary.

What is the meaning of this "may not", @M.A.R.?

Is it prohibitory?

Or is it "optional"?

@EngFan "to my email"

EngFan

@CowperKettle : hello

"Would you care to reply to my email" is this sentence grammatical ?

M.A.R.

@CowperKettle It means that if those conditions are met, we should ideally not need an animal study. However, there might be other causes that necessitate animal study and if so, whether or not these conditions are met, it will be conducted

@EngFan Yes, it's grammatical

Anonymous

@EngFan You should add a question mark.

CowperKettle

@M.A.R. Thank you! So it's optional

Good noon, Snails

M.A.R.

@snailplane \o

EngFan

07:12

@snailplane: hello !! , sure

CowperKettle

07:24

I wonder if test panel is a term only relevant to diagnostics

Could it be used to describe a series of tests performed to assess the toxicity of a biosimilar drug?

Can we "perform a test panel"?

M.A.R.

''perform a panel''? O.o

CowperKettle

No?

How then to use it?

"Perform a panel of tests"?

M.A.R.

What's the whole sentence?

CowperKettle

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Q: Usage of the term "test panel"

Is the term "test panel" only applicable to the diagnostic process? Could it be used to describe a series of tests not intended to diagnose a disorder? Perform a panel of tests in a relevant animal model in order to determine the toxicity of the biosimilar drug product. Would this look oka...

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Namaste, @SreeCharan

Sree Charan

@CowperKettle Namaste.. Are you an Indian?

M.A.R.

07:32

@SreeCharan Nope, he just likes helloing in thirty different languages

CowperKettle

@SreeCharan I'm Russian

Sree Charan

@M.A.R. OK. I just checked his profile.

CowperKettle

Mera Joota Hai Japani - Raj Kapoor - Nargis - Shree 420 - Evergreen Bollywood Hits {HD} - Mukesh

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EngFan

@snailplane : does that sentence sound rude?

@CowperKettle : do u speak Hindi too???

Sree Charan

@CowperKettle are you a multi linguist?

CowperKettle

07:35

@SreeCharan No... no

M.A.R.

@SreeCharan multilingual

Haha, that'll teach you to ''Namaste'' people next time @Cowp

CowperKettle

I just spend too much time in chats, and my time zone is the same as the time zone in New Delhi so..

I picked up several words

M.A.R.

@CowperKettle OK, pop quiz

@CowperKettle What's ''entrepreneurship'' in Hindi?

Sree Charan

@M.A.R. OK. I thought of multilingual. But when I googled the word multi linguist, a dictionary showed this collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/multilinguist

user62015

@Hi @M.A.R. Could you help me please?

@DamkerngT. @snailplane Please help with this question
He was conferred (a)/ to his bed (b)/ by illness.(c)/ No error(d)

Sree Charan

07:44

@M.A.R. I think is dhamdha or vyavasaay.

M.A.R.

@SreeCharan Fair enough, but then you shouldn't put a space between ''multi'' and ''linguist''. It's one word

Sree Charan

@M.A.R. When I typed, multilinguist, it showed a red line. So gave a space. Does SE follow American english?

M.A.R.

@SreeCharan Forget the spell-checker.

That's the spell-checker in your browser that highlights spelling errors.

CowperKettle

@SreeCharan dhamdha sound nice

Sree Charan

@CowperKettle dhamdha is used more by natives in India.

@M.A.R. Disabled it.

M.A.R.

07:50

@SreeCharan I don't disable it, because I find it useful for avoiding typos.

But when you're sure a word exists, it's usually the spell-checker that is at fault

Sree Charan

ok.

Anonymous

@SreeCharan Spell checkers just match things against word lists. Multilinguist isn't a common enough word to be in the lists used by most spell checkers.

Anonymous

But it should not be written with a space, because multi- is a prefix, not an independent word.

Anonymous

This is unrelated to the question of American versus British English.

Sree Charan

@snailplane. Hello. OK.

Anonymous

07:52

@user62015 Confer seems like a strange choice of verb.

Anonymous

Perhaps they're testing you to see if you can tell the difference between confer and confine.

CowperKettle

yes

confer is odd

> to compare views or take counsel

I never knew of this sense

M.A.R.

Time for an avatar change!

CowperKettle

> During the clinical development programme, patients are normally enrolled commensurate with the level of evidence obtained from preceding steps which support comparability.

I don't understand this sentence at all

who is commensurate?

what is commensurate?

ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/Scientific_guideline/…

enrollment is commensurate?

or patients are commensurate?

if the level of evidence is high enough for step 1, then patients are enrolled for step 2?

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Q: Meaning of "patients are normally enrolled commensurate with the level of evidence obtained from preceding steps which support comparability"

From this Guideline: Comparative clinical studies between the biosimilar and reference medicinal product should always be conducted. The number and type of studies might vary according to the reference product and should be justified based on a sound scientific rationale. A stepwise approach ...

sentence-meaning

M.A.R.

08:10

@CowperKettle Patients are normally enrolled, commensurate with the level of evidence obtained from preceding steps, which support comparability

@CowperKettle Yes

CowperKettle

@M.A.R. ah, then the official Russian guideline, which really a mish mash of translations (including from this document) has it wrong.

They should have hired me to translate that into Russian.

M.A.R.

@CowperKettle Enroll E. Commensurate was a scientist.

@CowperKettle CURSE THEM!

CowperKettle

Bless them, for I'm now proofreading a back-translation to English

Some money for me

this backtranslation goes like this

> During the clinical development programme, enrolled subjects should correspond to the level of evidence obtained from preceding steps.

which stumped me

M.A.R.

Heh

I remember the Bad translator site

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08:33

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Q: "being there such differences" - is this an acceptable turn of phrase?

All studies should be directed at identification of potential differences between a biosimilar drug and a reference drug, and on assessment of their significance (being there such differences). Is this an acceptable phrase? I would have written "when such differences are detected" or "should...

grammaticality conditional-constructions

yubraj

08:51

Hi! Is it illegal to share an e book to someone after buying?

M.A.R.

Not illegal, but perhaps unethical

yubraj

Nods...

Why some good books are available free and some has to be bought ? I was searching for a book by Dominic o Brian.

I don't even have credit card. Next, The book is very expensive to buy.

CowperKettle

09:24

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Q: can we omit "the" in "The primary objective of (the) pharmacokinetic studies performed to support a MAA .."

From an EMA guideline: The primary objective of the pharmacokinetic studies performed to support a MAA for a biosimilar is to show comparability in pharmacokinetics of the biosimilar with the reference medicinal product in a sufficiently sensitive and homogeneous population. This is expected ...

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Anonymous

09:50

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's about programming culture, not English in general, and we can't guarantee good voting on answers. — Nathan Tuggy 14 mins ago

Anonymous

But then wouldn't we have to close lots of questions? For example, everything on grammar . . .

Anonymous

We can't guarantee good voting on answers on lots of topics on ELL.

M.A.R.

@snailplane I think what he meant is that it's gonna derail into opinionated answers and passionate programmers fighting?

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Q: Why is there only one vote button?

Why doesn't an answer have two vote buttons, one for the effort and one for the accuracy? You know some people spend some time to answer questions and probably they answer the wrong way. So, why give them only down votes?

feature-request voting user-interface

You are my hero. — Teacher KSHuang 28 mins ago

Heh, this guy is sooo dramatic

Sree Charan

Can anyone recommend a good movie?

M.A.R.

10:18

Sure

Which director?

Which genre?

@SreeCharan Do you like dark and grim movies, psychological movies, action movies, scientific movies, drama, or what?

Sree Charan

@M.A.R. Not specific about director(I barely know the names of them). comedy, drama, socio-fantasy.

M.A.R.

Interstellar is a nice sci-fi and scientific movie.

Hmm, comedy you say? Unfortunately, IMO the worst movies are comedy.

But hmm, what about ''Why Him?''

That's an OK comedy

''The Other Guys'' is an action-packed film with a lot of funny scenes

''Anchorman'' and ''Anchorman 2'' are supposed to be among the best comedy movies @Sree, but I didn't find them worth watching.

I grew tired almost in the middle.

''Megamind'' is fun. @Sree do you watch animated movies?

Sree Charan

@M.A.R. Yes i do. I have watched it.

M.A.R.

Oh, good.

Have you watched ''Inside Out''?

I find Disney Pixar's animated movies more watchable than most movies.

''Toy Story 3'' is just fantastic.

Sree Charan

@M.A.R. No. I watched toy story series. I like them.

M.A.R.

10:34

@SreeCharan You should definitely watch all of Pixar's animations except Cars.

And Cars 2

WALL-E is magnificent

Sree Charan

@M.A.R. Unfortunately, I have watched both.

M.A.R.

@SreeCharan Depending on whether or not you also like to watch movies that make you think hard, I can recommend some movies. Do you like such dark movies?

Well, not dark per se.

I'm not talking about horror.

Sree Charan

Dark means? example?

M.A.R.

Like ''The Dark Knight''

Gawd, the best movie in all the worlds

Sree Charan

@M.A.R. Keep them coming. I'll note down.

M.A.R.

10:37

OK.

Basically, everything that Studio Ghibli of Japan and director Christopher Nolan have made are amazing and awesome to watch.

Insomnia

Memento

Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises

Inception

The Prestige

Interstellar

Those were Nolan's movies.

There's also one coming to cinemas in July.

It's called ''Dunkirk''

Spirited Away

Princess Mononoke

Ponyo

Those are the best Studio Ghibli movies.

There are also movies from other awesome directors like Scorcese, Kubrik and Spielberg that I like.

Munich from Spielberg

Shutter Island from Scorcese

The Revenant from Gonzalez

Pulp Fiction from Tarantino

The Hateful Eight from Tarantino

A beautiful Mind by Howard

Dawn of the planet of the apes by Reeves

Also Rise of the planet of the apes

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Bookmarked just now by M.A.R.

@Sree I made a bookmark, so you can access the list whenever you want.

Sree Charan

10:54

Thanks a lot @M.A.R.

Araucaria

11:32

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A: "Whether he met them (IT) is not clear." Do I have to insert an 'it'?

We can use clauses as Subjects in English: [That she refused your offer] is not surprising. [Whether you like it] is not important. In the sentences above we see a declarative clause and an interrogative clause functioning as Subjects. However, sentences like these are not very common in E...

Ha ha. I'm back on chat again ... :-)

Man_From_India

12:20

@Araucaria welcome back :-)

yubraj

12:32

What kind of books we are supposed to request for ? Is this sentence correct grammatically?

Good Evening All!

CowperKettle

I think this comma is in the wrong place

after 'justified'

> The following factors impact on the strategy of designing PK evaluations.

Is it okay to use the word "following" and not end the sentence in a colon?

Good evening, @yubraj

"for" is out of place there, @yubraj

Araucaria

@Man_From_India Hi!

@yubraj You don't need for. "We are supposed to request [what kinds of books]?" --> "[What kind of books] are we supposed to request?"

CowperKettle

evening, @Araucaria

Araucaria

@CowperKettle Evening KC!

CowperKettle

A man from Yekaterunburg pictured today. Drinks coffee, reads Shopenhauer

A lot of my friends went ice bathing but I have no time

Damkerng T.

12:49

@CowperKettle I love this guy!

He must really love reading!

Good evening, everyone!

Araucaria

@M.A.R. Why so old bean? It doesn't seem to be any different from sharing a physical book ... (and often the e-books are more expensive than the physical ones!)

@CowperKettle oops, CK, sorry!

SinNombre SinApellido

13:18

Hi

What's the difference between (The next is only a descrption of something) "Opens home menu" and "Open home menu"

Who is the person of "Opens", It?

I'm not english

yubraj

@CowperKettle Nods..

@Araucaria Thanks

SinNombre SinApellido

@yubraj Can you help me?

:(

I will kill myself

yubraj

13:43

Oh!

Why?

He, she, it=opens

I, we, they=open @SinNombreSinApellido

Araucaria

@SinNombreSinApellido Can I help?

SinNombre SinApellido

Yes! :)

Araucaria

@SinNombreSinApellido Di me

SinNombre SinApellido

I readed a description like that:
Red button - Opens something

But is that correct?

yubraj

Yes

Araucaria

13:49

@SinNombreSinApellido Looks good to me!

Learn How To Be Transparent

@SinNombreSinApellido i think not. Red button - Closes something.

SinNombre SinApellido

xD

Thank you all

Araucaria

@SinNombreSinApellido De nada!

SinNombre SinApellido

+Araucaria - Muchas gracias jaja! :P (Thank you so much)

yubraj

Wellcome

SinNombre SinApellido

13:51

Thanks again :P

yubraj

Ok

SinNombre SinApellido

I will back when I have another question

Baaaay guyyssss

Araucaria

Bye!

yubraj

Can I say 'Hi guys' in formal context? @dem @snail

Araucaria

@yubrajWhat Not in any very formal context, no ...

Learn How To Be Transparent

13:56

@yubraj this may help you

in JavaScript on Stack Overflow Chat, 35 secs ago, by Oliver Salzburg

@LearnHowToBeTransparent In a formal context, it is preferred to say "Whaddup"

yubraj

As we are chatting here in this chat box, isn't a formal context ? I think It's. In my opinion, "guys" refers to both man and woman.

Araucaria

@DamkerngT. @snailplane @Man_From_India @mike @M.A.R. Any chance of helping to reopen this question:

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Q: This question needs reopening, please

This question here: 'She was shot by police yesterday' or 'She was shot yesterday by police' was closed as a duplicate of this question here: Where is the correct place to place adverbs in sentences? The first one is about Adjuncts/Adverbials and the second is about adverbs. However, Adju...

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Learn How To Be Transparent

@yubraj this is not a formal context.

Araucaria

@yubraj Yes, what Learn just said ... It's not formal.

yubraj

Oh!

I'm not sure yet @Araucaria @LearnHowToBeTransparent

Learn How To Be Transparent

14:00

@yubraj disclaimer: i am not a native english speaker

Araucaria

@LearnHowToBeTransparent I am, you're right ... :)

@yubraj Anywhere where people regularly use abbreviations like "btw" or "thanx" isn't formal :) Also anything that is considered chat is definitely not formal. Chat specifically means informal, relaxed and casual speaking :-)

yubraj

Nods...

Why I said 'chat' is formal here is because this chat box is for all the ELL users. We all are being polite here. It's something like formal.

IMO

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Q: This question needs reopening, please

This question here: 'She was shot by police yesterday' or 'She was shot yesterday by police' was closed as a duplicate of this question here: Where is the correct place to place adverbs in sentences? The first one is about Adjuncts/Adverbials and the second is about adverbs. However, Adju...

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Araucaria

14:18

@yubraj Formal, polite and friendly aren't the same things. They're very, very different ...

CowperKettle

14:30

> It should be taken into account that the pharmacokinetic profile of the product may not correspond to the changes in the profiles of PD markers produced in response to the drug product administration.

I wonder if this is natural.

user62015

Thoughts about the (a)/ slaughtered children (b)/ is uppermost on my mind.(c)/ No error(d)

Section A shows an error but I am not sure what is the error?

CowperKettle

are

Thoughts are

Thought is

user62015

Thanks.

but do you think thoughts about is fine?

or we must omit about here?

CowperKettle

you cannot omit 'about' here

user62015

14:45

Thanks.

CowperKettle

Maybe "The thought about the slaughtered children is uppermost on(in???) my mind"

I'm not sure about in/on

user62015

Yes. I agree.

Araucaria

15:07

@yubraj So we can be formal but be rude and we can be formal and be unfriendly. We can also be very informal but polite and friendly! :-) [For example think about smileys/emoticans. They're very, very informal. But we use them to be friendly and polite!]

CowperKettle

15:43

> In particular, the invention concerns the use of such antagonists to treat autoimmune disease in a mammal who experiences an inadequate response to a TNFα-inhibitor.

is this a generic noun phrase?

CowperKettle

16:18

> Percentage of patients achieving clinical response based on the American College of Rheumatology's 20% improvement criteria.

Do I need the possessive 's here?

EngFan

16:52

What does "true to it's reputation" mean?

CowperKettle

its

It means the person (or thing) is exactly as people believe it to be

EngFan

@CowperKettle :oh !

Yup "its".

And "true to my senses"?

Haven't heard it before.

V.V.

17:26

Well, I will die ignorant. Nobody answers my question. Lol.

EngFan

@V.V. : We are in the same boat .😆 LOL

M.A.R.

18:35

@Araucaria Eh, dunno

M.A.R.

19:00

Do we have a tag for preposition stranding?

CowperKettle

Ah, you're serotonin now

V.V.

19:22

For the umpteenth time...what a nice phrase!

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CowperKettle

19:34

> For example, those in the north-eastern states (such as Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and New York) were more likely to swear whereas people were less likely to in the southern states (South Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi).

sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170117105107.htm

Damkerng T.

Hah!

And I thought people from the south swear more often!

(Like, they're tough men. :)

CowperKettle

no, southerners in the US are considered more "gentlemanly"

I read about it some time ago

M.A.R.

19:55

Word of the day: Ostinato

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Damkerng T.

I had no idea what that means!

BTW, you've got a new avatar!

M.A.R.

yep

@DamkerngT. I was reading what Zimmer said about how he composed ''Interstellar'''s soundtrack.

Damkerng T.

A-ha!

Makes sense. It sounds like something he would say. :D

M.A.R.

Italian is the language of music.

CowperKettle

21:07

> A Northwestern University team developed a new computational model that performs at human levels on a standard intelligence test. This work is an important step toward making artificial intelligence systems that see and understand the world as humans do.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170119110935.htm

> While Forbus and Lovett's system can be used to model general visual problem-solving phenomena, they specifically tested it on Raven's Progressive Matrices, a nonverbal standardized test that measures abstract reasoning. All of the test's problems consist of a matrix with one image missing. The test taker is given six to eight choices with which to best complete the matrix. Forbus and Lovett's computational model performed better than the average American.

Araucaria

23:51

@CowperKettle It would be very odd in an academic register to use who for mammals there (although it shouldn't be, imo). You probably want to use which ..

@CowperKettle No, but it does no harm ...

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