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EngFan

01:29

@user2684291 : In our country we call it balance.

Robusto

03:57

-2

Q: About the drive for help

I know this is off-topic, but I need to be reminded again, and I know no where else to ask. Answering people's questions is surely an act of love, care, and I daresay mercy. I grew up in a place where people are only concerned about their own interests. I know that I may have been rendered incap...

questions

Here's a question that needs to be guided to the exit ...

mike

05:49

Happy hump day :)

tumbleweeds blow past

:)

Joe Pinsonault

06:00

most people must be in bed around now. It's only 10pm tuesday, here

mike

06:17

the joys of being in the wrong timezone :)

though there are a few people here in a close enough timezone to me

M.A.R.

06:35

@mike Which timezone are you in?

mike

@M.A.R. GMT+06:30

M.A.R.

@mike Australia?

mike

@M.A.R. Myanmar

M.A.R.

O.o

@mike Never seen a Myanmarian dude before

Myanmari?

Myanmarese?

@V.V. That is the most badass smiley I have ever seen

mike

@M.A.R. - you still haven't - I'm Irish :D

M.A.R.

06:45

o.O

mike

people here still refer to themselves as Burmese, by the way :)

M.A.R.

It got even more mysterious. What are you doing there?

Teaching English?

We have a @JimReynolds thing that is a native Martian speaker (Apparently Martians speak English) and teaches English in Taiwan.

mike

Teaching, and I coordinate an English Dept. And software development on the side :)

Yeah - I've seen Jim here before - I figured he was a teacher. Seems to be a very interesting person.

M.A.R.

Not really -- I'm more interesting

mike

07:17

@M.A.R. - hehe - fair enough :)

I'll take your word for it

Jim Reynolds

08:06

@mike My team of psychiatrists think so.

CowperKettle

08:36

> On-going stability tests: 0, 12, 24, 36, 48 and 60 months for each other batch;

What does it mean, "for each other batch"?

One batch in two?

"every second batch"?

mike

@CowperKettle: each other batch sounds odd to my ear

every other batch sounds better

every other batch or every second batch

both are interchangeable

CowperKettle

Thank you!

The text was written by Italians

So it's "Mamma Mia!" in some places.

Anonymous

Is the author possibly a non-native speaker? The distributive determinatives each and every are hard to distinguish from each other.

Anonymous

Oh, you answered before I hit enter.

CowperKettle

Yes.. and they use the in "The results of the study are given in the table 1"

and so on

BBL

Anonymous

08:46

I was getting a page number for a reference. See CGEL pages 378–9 for discussion of each and every.

3

CowperKettle

Thank you, Snails! I won't have the time

Anonymous

You really won't have the time to read Tunstall's thesis then, but chapter four is a very nice discussion of each and every: The Interpretation of Quantifiers: Semantics & Processing (Susanne Lynn Tunstall 1998)

Damkerng T.

Downloaded it anyway!

Good hump day afternoon, everyone!

Anonymous

Good thing there's an edit button. I'm constitutionally incapable of spelling things correctly on the first try.

Anonymous

Merry Wednesday!

mike

08:50

roll on Fridayyyyyy

My working day is almost over, so technically I'm over the hump :)

Damkerng T.

LOL

Anonymous

Writing ÷ to express division seems better to me than writing /.

Anonymous

But casually on the internet, it seems perfectly normally to write, say, 1/x or 1/4.

Anonymous

I would read them one over ecks and one over four, though, whereas I'd read 1÷x as one divided by ecks.

mike

it's a case of practicality more than anything else

many of the operators we use today evolved form a time when keyboards were quite limited in the symbols they provided

Damkerng T.

08:52

÷ is kinda cute, IMO. :D

mike

it reminds me of division problems when I was a kid

:)

Damkerng T.

Hopefully, those problems weren't a problem for you. :D

mike

an obelus is almost always used in children's mathematics books in Ireland

Anonymous

@mike Yeah. And that's probably a large part of why people still use them so much.

Anonymous

@mike Same in the States.

Damkerng T.

08:54

Same here!

Anonymous

It's pretty universally known as the symbol for division, I think.

Damkerng T.

÷ looks a bit like the sun over the sea to me at the moment.

Anonymous

Oh, nice :-)

Damkerng T.

:D

Anonymous

Lots of conventions have been established based on what people have on keyboards.

mike

08:54

@snailplane - I would imagine so. Every calculator I've ever picked up uses an obelus to denote division

Anonymous

For example, people almost universally write Tokyo, not Tōkyō.

mike

True. Even when typing in other languages, many people omit accents unless typing on a dedicated keyboard - it's too much hard work :)

Damkerng T.

10:14

0

Q: Does "orange" rhyme with "cringe" in the UK?

Someone asked me why "orange" didn't rhyme with "range" and "strange", so I looked it up to have exact phonetics and show them the slight difference, but I found something weird. On WordReference the phonetics is /ˈɒrɪndʒ/. It didn't seem coherent (it sounds very different with other accents), s...

pronunciation

> On WordReference the phonetics is /ˈɒrɪndʒ/. It didn't seem coherent (it sounds very different with other accents), so I looked on other sites, and according to wiktionary that's only the British pronunciation. They give /ˈɒ.ɹɪnd͡ʒ/, which is a little more precise.

Interesting. I thought /ɹ/ would be associated with AmE.

M.A.R.

\o Dam

Damkerng T.

o/

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. /ɹ/ is just an alternate spelling of /r/.

Anonymous

Wiktionary uses it because they think it's less confusing using a more phonetically precise symbol, given that they have transcriptions of other languages alongside English.

Damkerng T.

nods -- I guess Wiktionary uses only /ɹ/.

Anonymous

10:20

Whereas most transcriptions use /r/ by the simplest symbol principle.

Anonymous

The idea is this: ‹r› is a simpler symbol, part of the basic alphabet, and we don't have a contrast between ɹ and r, so why not use the simpler symbol in phonemic transcriptions?

Anonymous

It's the same reason most dictionaries use /e/ instead of /ɛ/, although both refer to exactly the same phoneme.

Anonymous

Even though our English sound is typically closer to [ɛ] than [e], we consider ‹e› a simpler symbol and there is no contrast between them, and so many prefer it in their phonemic transcriptions.

Anonymous

However, if you present English alongside German, for example, you might think it's less confusing to transcribe it as /ɛ/, and there's nothing wrong with that, either.

Damkerng T.

Hmm... sounds like they have a good reason after all. :)

Anonymous

10:23

Most dictionaries of English use /r/, but using /ɹ/ is okay, too. It's just important that we be aware of these as notational conventions that do not represent a distinction in sound.

Anonymous

Everyone agrees that we just have one /r/ phoneme, and that it has lots of different phonetic realizations in different dialects and for different speakers.

M.A.R.

10:42

Found in the Periodic Table

Damkerng T.

Aww

EngFan

13:39

Hi

Damkerng T.

Hi!

V.V.

Not very high.

Damkerng T.

:D

V.V.

Hehe!

MAR's school

user2684291

14:03

@EngFan Maybe it can be called that. I'm sorry, I'm not very helpful... ask on the main site, I guess.

You can't run out of balance since it means a difference between two amounts, for my money. :>

Anonymous

Yeah, you can say your balance is running low, but you can't run low on balance.

Anonymous

At least, that's my personal judgment.

EngFan

14:25

@user2684291@snailplane : Thanks

" someone who gets easily influenced by others"

Or

" someone who easily gets influenced by others"

Is there any difference?

CowperKettle

15:21

> Condition the analytical column with mobile phase for about 30’

Does this mean "30 seconds"?

mike

' means minutes

" means seconds

it's not very commonly used though

I've seen it used for more often for coordinates - degrees, minutes and seconds

Prime (symbol)

The prime symbol ( ′ ), double prime symbol ( ″ ), triple prime symbol ( ‴ ), quadruple prime symbol ( ⁗ ) etc., are used to designate units and for other purposes in mathematics, the sciences, linguistics and music. The prime symbol should not be confused with the apostrophe, single quotation mark, acute accent, or grave accent; the double prime symbol should not be confused with the double quotation mark, the ditto mark, or the letter double apostrophe. The prime symbol is very similar to the Hebrew geresh, but in modern fonts the geresh is designed to be aligned with the Hebrew letters and the...

CowperKettle

@mike thank you!

The text is by Italians, maybe this notation is more spread there

*more common

M.A.R.

15:40

@mike It's very commonly used here though

user2684291

15:51

@EngFan I think there's little difference, and I'd prefer the latter.

user2684291

16:02

Uh.

Belay that, the first sounds better. "Someone who gets easily offended."

And by extension of the rule, "influenced".

mike

16:15

@EngFan: someone who is easily influenced by others perhaps?

CowperKettle

@snailplane I'm afraid I wont

Nagendra

16:58

Hello! Is it who or whom in the sentence below? Various employees, whom/who we met, echoed the sentiments expressed by the CEO of the company. I think we have to use whom but the answer is given as "who". Is it right? Can you please clear my doubt?

M.A.R.

@Nagendra Where are you going to use that sentence?

EngFan

@Mike : I mean to ask if there is any difference between them

Anonymous

@Nagendra Whom is markedly formal. Both who and whom are acceptable here, though.

Anonymous

The long-term trend is for speakers to use who in all positions. Whom is now most often found when it directly follows a preposition as its complement: To whom am I speaking? But if you don't move the preposition to the beginning, people are most likely to use who instead: Who am I speaking to?

Anonymous

When you use whom in a position where it's acceptable but not required, it is a marker of formal style.

Anonymous

17:07

Most speakers rarely use whom.

Nagendra

@M.A.R. I'm not using it anywhere. I encountered it in a test.

@snailplane Thank you. You've been very helpful.

EngFan

17:55

Quintessence vs Quintessential?

Damkerng T.

Noun or adjective? :-)

Joe Pinsonault

Quintessence is a noun, quintessential is the adjective

user2684291

18:18

@JoePinsonault Why'd you use "a" with "noun" and "the" with "adjective"?

Joe Pinsonault

uh, because I'm lazy, sorry

it's morning here, I haven't had coffee =)

I have a linguistics question for you fine people. I've been thinking, are there any patterns in the phonemes of human languages that are semi-universal across languages? I don't mean specific sounds in a specific order, but some deeper patterns. For instance, if I presented you with a random list of "words" and their phonemes, could you analyze it or create an algorithm that could, with some reasonable accuracy, say if they were part of a real language, or just a random set of pointless sounds?

maybe a dumb question

CowperKettle

This just kills me

I cannot make heads or tails of it

Especially the first formula

I would apply severe obelism to this text were I an editor in that Italian company that penned it

Anonymous

@JoePinsonault Each language has a set of rules for how phonemes fit together, and these rules are called "phonotactics". The idea that there are shared properties in these rules across languages that come from natural properties (specifically, the way our anatomy for producing speech is shaped, and the properties our brains use to distinguish sounds) falls under the study of "phonological universals".

M.A.R.

@JoePinsonault each language allows and disallows a certain pattern of vowels and consonants.

Anonymous

For example, J. T. Wright found that the nasal vowel inventory of a language is never larger than the oral vowel inventory, and proposed a mechanism to explain that.

Joe Pinsonault

18:30

@snailplane thank you!

M.A.R.

@CowperKettle It sounds terribly non-native

@CowperKettle Using ''X'' for the multiplication sign makes me want to punch someone

Anonymous

@M.A.R. ×

Anonymous

×＿×；　←　Help, I've been punched!

M.A.R.

@snailplane Give it to the stupid typist who typed that stupid text full of stupidity

ARGH

Anonymous

Maybe they couldn't find the × key.

user2684291

18:33

I think it's a reasonable replacement.

M.A.R.

@user2684291 Not if it's a font that differentiates between them.

Well, more than the other fonts

Anonymous

@M.A.R. You know, there's a principle in software engineering that some people follow, and I think we can ~~misuse~~ repurpose it here:

Anonymous

> Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept.

M.A.R.

I just can't accept that though.

I mean look at it. It's obvious it's X.

To everyone.

You can't make it look like a multiplication sign by pretending, unlike ''X''

Joe Pinsonault

the real mistake was not using latex

you can tell that they just underlined the top line of that second formula

M.A.R.

18:38

@JoePinsonault What did they use, I wonder

Joe Pinsonault

microsoft word?

M.A.R.

You can't even make it like that with MS Word

user2684291

@JoePinsonault Yeah, and added a couple of underscores at the end. :>

Joe Pinsonault

@user2684291 you're right! haha

Damkerng T.

@JoePinsonault mama and papa, perhaps? :)

Anonymous

18:40

@CowperKettle I think applying severe obelism is fair.

M.A.R.

You can't make the spacing around the = like that with MS word

user2684291

IIRC, Word has its "Equation Editor", or some such.

M.A.R.

@user2684291 Yes, that's why I believe it's not MS word

Probably some other Office

Damkerng T.

@JoePinsonault The random vs. real language thing makes me think of that 1/N rule.

M.A.R.

Like Kingsoft (haven't used it)

Or whatever abomination they use in Russia.

Joe Pinsonault

18:41

@DamkerngT. oh? What's that?

Damkerng T.

Not all words in a real language are equal.

Hmm... I can't remember the details; let me see if I can find it on the web.

Ah, it's called Zipf's word frequency law in natural language.

M.A.R.

Zipf!

Anonymous

Aww, you found it before I could say it.

user2684291

That rings a bell.

Anonymous

I want to be in the Zipf saying club.

Anonymous

18:43

Zipf!

Damkerng T.

Hehe!

M.A.R.

Zipf all around

Damkerng T.

Zipf's law

Zipf's law /ˈzɪf/ is an empirical law formulated using mathematical statistics that refers to the fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution, one of a family of related discrete power law probability distributions. The law is named after the American linguist George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950), who popularized it and sought to explain it (Zipf 1935, 1949), though he did not claim to have originated it. The French stenographer Jean-Baptiste Estoup (1868–1950) appears to have noticed the regularity before Zipf. It was also...

M.A.R.

Zipf Zipf Zipf

user2684291

Zipf it.

@M.A.R. They use Слово.

Anonymous

18:43

languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22743

M.A.R.

@user2684291 Should I read that as Choppo?

Anonymous

Slovo!

M.A.R.

Is it my turn to link to something Zipf? I wanna link to VSauce's video

Anonymous

Yes!

M.A.R.

@snailplane Close enough

user2684291

18:45

Slow-ah.

Anonymous

As a charter member of Zipf Club, it is your rapidly decreasing duty to post the link.

M.A.R.

The Zipf Mystery

►

CC @Joe

Anonymous

Also, I see in the "New feed items" drop-down at the top that we've just gotten a post titled "English Grammer".

Anonymous

And, well, that's specific.

M.A.R.

Heh, stop having such a normal name, Joe

Joe Pinsonault

18:46

Interesting! Thanks for the links

M.A.R.

@snailplane Aww, I dismissed it a bit earlier without checking the beautiful titles

Joe Pinsonault

weird, @Joe pinged me successfully

M.A.R.

@JoePinsonault It came after an edit

Why shouldn't it?

Joe Pinsonault

ah haha

user2684291

It's not weird.

M.A.R.

18:47

Oh, that you mean

user2684291

Three characters are enough.

M.A.R.

I thought your whole username is ''Joe''

user2684291

@joe

Anonymous

@use Ping!

Anonymous

How many people did I just ping? :-)

M.A.R.

18:47

2

user2684291

I wonder if that highlights all the "user"s.

M.A.R.

Last I checked

Joe Pinsonault

I'm surprised there's not another person named Joe

Anonymous

Yes, 2. Cheater.

M.A.R.

@user2684291 Only ones that have been in this room in the past 7 days

@snailplane Actually no, since it's a pain to type user2 every time instead of ''use''

A whole 2 characters

Joe Pinsonault

18:53

I feel like I should take some actual linguistics classes

Damkerng T.

Here's an interesting job for a linguist:

> gizmodo.com/…

:D

M.A.R.

@DamkerngT. But that's the wrong spelling of ''hoomin''

@DamkerngT. I gotta watch that movie

Does it involve aliens attacking?

Damkerng T.

I'm not sure, but they arrived.

M.A.R.

@JoePinsonault Nah, you should buy CGEL and Quirk et al. and start reading

@DamkerngT. Where were they all this time? It bored the heck out of me

Damkerng T.

(^_^)

CowperKettle

19:16

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Correct usage is "the biosimilar principle". The principle refers to biosimilars, which were previously mentioned and defined as "similar biological medicinal products". That is, it is a principle dealing with the objects known as biosimilars, and not a principle that deals with the property of ...

Would you deem this answer correct, @snailplane?

Anonymous

@CowperKettle I don't know enough about the topic to judge the answer.

Anonymous

I think the correct form, if there is in fact only one correct form, is probably whatever people in the field usually say.

Anonymous

But I don't know what they say.

CowperKettle

I see

"biosimilar principle" looks outlandish to me

Anonymous

I searched for "biosimilar principle" and "biosimilarity principle" on Google Scholar and found 0 results for both.

CowperKettle

19:21

because it's pharma-officialese, not research stuff

researchers rightfully hate all this officialese

So it would be hard to come by on Google Scholar

Anonymous

It does seem as though they're using biosimilar as a noun.

Anonymous

So it wouldn't be that odd to have biosimilar principle, once that noun is established.

Anonymous

If we're just going by what our gut says, I think TRomano's comment might be the best answer.

Anonymous

I think biosimilarity principle sounds better.

Anonymous

I think Teacher KSHuang's comment is an incorrect answer-in-a-comment. They've failed to take into account that biosimilar has clearly been used as a noun in the preceding text.

Anonymous

19:28

@CowperKettle I read your latest comment, but I don't see the problem with biosimilar principle in terms of meaning.

Anonymous

The semantic relationship between an attributive noun and a head noun is almost entirely unspecified.

CowperKettle

I don't understand what it means.

Anonymous

Really, it's hard for me to see a distinction between biosimilar principle and biosimilarity principle in terms of meaning, when I read through the PDF you sent.

CowperKettle

The same with me

I cannot get the difference

So "biosimilarity" looks better

Anonymous

Since a biosimilar is something which has the quality of biosimilarity, right?

CowperKettle

19:29

yes

Anonymous

So the meaning shouldn't really differ.

CowperKettle

it is a drug that has the same biological effect as the originator drug (which was placed on the market first)

Anonymous

@CowperKettle That's my personal opinion. I am not very knowledgeable about the field you're translating in.

Anonymous

But it seems to be TRomano's opinion too.

CowperKettle

neither am I

neither are 99% of translators

It's impossible to be knowledgeable in everything

Anonymous

19:31

Honestly, if I could just be knowledgeable about zero coordination, I'd be happy :-)

CowperKettle

So in personal communications 99% of fellow translators say that they are at a loss each day in this or that bit of text

Anonymous

Even that seems like too big a topic to master.

CowperKettle

(0:

Anonymous

It's too big, and it's literally zero!

Anonymous

Maybe I should take up the study of negation.

user2684291

19:34

No?

Haha.

Anonymous

Aww.

Anonymous

Guess I'm headed for a non-affirmative context.

Anonymous

Hopefully I can find a red cent while I'm there.

user2684291

Can I interpret "if I do say so myself" as "though it's I who says so"?

M.A.R.

@user2684291 Huh? How do you interpret ''if'' as ''though''?

user2684291

19:50

@M.A.R. The sentence is similar to this one I found online: "I even had a face that wasn't too bad to look at if I do say so myself."

I should've said "though it's I who say so", or "though it's me who says so".

Joe Pinsonault

It's an idiom that kind of means "I'd like to brag a little bit, but be humble at the same time"

so I think your interpretation is right

silly idioms, using old fashioned constructions

user2684291

Alright, thanks. That's congruous with the discussions I found online.

M.A.R.

@user2684291 Wow, that's a lot different from the normal ''if I do say so myself''

Hmm, I've used similar constructions in meta posts I think

It's basically just standing on ceremony

user2684291

@M.A.R. Hm?

M.A.R.

@user2684291 The sentence I was thinking about when you said that is something like ''Don't do anything even if I do say so myself''

user2684291

20:05

@M.A.R. That sentence makes little sense to me.

M.A.R.

@user2684291 Why?

Joe Pinsonault

because it's so old fashioned sounding, and is only used as the stock phrase, it's hard to interpret it as "Don't do anything even if I say to"

It just looks like "don't do anything even [completely unrelated phrase]"

M.A.R.

@JoePinsonault Yeah

I was thinking about the most direct interpretation

It didn't occur to me that it was a fixated expression taken out of the sentence.

user2684291

@M.A.R. There isn't one... you'd phrase it differently.

As Joe did.

Joe Pinsonault

@M.A.R. yeah, I just thought it was interesting how jarring it was to see it used that way

because it makes perfect sense if you don't know about the fixed expression

M.A.R.

20:12

@user2684291 I would, doesn't mean a speaker in some cornet of the universe would

I've become very passive after joining ELL, so sometimes even ungrammatical or awkward stuff seems normal to me.

Joe Pinsonault

yeah jeez, how come you don't know everything already? =)

M.A.R.

ʕ ⊃･ ◡ ･ ʔ⊃︵┻━┻

Back to procrastinating studying. And Dilbert

Joe Pinsonault

I'm in my first few months of learning japanese, and I just feel like a child. At least with spanish I could call on all the french vocab in english to try to piece things together

M.A.R.

Japanese is too Greek to me

user2684291

Wiktionary says "take the meaning" means "interpret someone's argument". It, however, lists "get the meaning" as a synonym, which I think means (just) "understand". Who's wrong?

M.A.R.

20:26

@user2684291 I also thought ''get the meaning'' is just ''understand''. Considering it doesn't and can't ever have a ditransitive meaning, I think this is a mistake on Wiktionary's part. I can't say for sure though before checking a couple of dictionaries.

And I'm too lazy to do that, so

Joe Pinsonault

I think "take the meaning" has the flavor of "I understand your argument, and consider it at least somewhat valid", or "I understand your argument and why you're making it". It's used in the context of a debate more often than "get the meaning"

M.A.R.

macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/get#get__112

user2684291

@M.A.R. Yeah, but I think we might be mistaken.

M.A.R.

@user2684291 I usually am

user2684291

@JoePinsonault What about "get the meaning", is that idiomatic with the meaning of "take the meaning"?

M.A.R.

20:28

Now I feel like we're splitting hairs

user2684291

I don't think we are. It's listed on Wiktionary for a reason.

SinNombre SinApellido

Hi guys, why is "try not to laugh" instead of "try DON'T to laugh"?

M.A.R.

@SinNombreSinApellido Welcome to our chat

user2684291

@SinNombreSinApellido Would you say: "Try do to laugh."?

V.V.

Good point

SinNombre SinApellido

20:34

try don't laugh?

M.A.R.

@SinNombreSinApellido Because it's not needed. The default is not that the ''do'' exist, it's that it not exist.

V.V.

Don't try to laugh

M.A.R.

@SinNombreSinApellido Nope

user2684291

@V.V. I reckon that's an inadequate analogy, eh.

M.A.R.

@SinNombreSinApellido When you say ''try not to laugh'', the ''not'' is for ''laugh'', not for ''try''.

@user2684291 Me too. I remember I read something somewhere about some other thing that debunked this very thing you wrote.

But I don't remember it for the life of me.

user2684291

20:37

@SinNombreSinApellido Look up imperatives in English.

SinNombre SinApellido

Ok, I thought that as "laugh" is a verb then that would be "Don't laugh"

user2684291

It is a verb...

SinNombre SinApellido

Ok, thank you all guys

I know it

M.A.R.

@SinNombreSinApellido It is a verb, but the role it plays there is not just the role of a verb.

SinNombre SinApellido

but I meant for the "don't"

M.A.R.

20:38

The main verb there is ''try''

So you get a ''don't'' before ''try''

V.V.

You have aV+ to inf., Don't + a verb, but "not" "before "to inf ".

user2684291

@M.A.R. You can always say stuff like: "I do like it.", so I suspect it's not completely wrong.

Joe Pinsonault

@user2684291 actually I think I might be wrong. I was thinking of "take the point". like "I take your point, but I think you misunderstand the situation". Not sure about take the meaning

M.A.R.

@user2684291 Well, high-level linguistic arguments (snail-level) are only so ridiculously consistent along all possible constructions.

user2684291

@JoePinsonault I've heard/seen "take the meaning".

M.A.R.

20:41

@JoePinsonault I have never heard or seen ''take the meaning'' except in some post from a non-native Englisher from meta.Somewhere

Which actually was supposed to be ''get the meaning''

SinNombre SinApellido

Ahhhhhhh, nice now I understand it

user2684291

@JoePinsonault And then it was employed with the meaning given by Wiktionary.

M.A.R.

@SinNombreSinApellido Don' that feel better

SinNombre SinApellido

Yeaaah

Thanks!

M.A.R.

google.com/… -- Not promising

user2684291

20:43

A native speaker of American English said it.

M.A.R.

Shouldn't a combination with such common words be used more common?

I'm thinking it's just an inferior ''get the meaning''

user2684291

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M.A.R.

Which pops up because ''get'' and ''take'' are breadwinners in everyday conversations.

@user2684291 Do you have access to them? Can you talk to them?

user2684291

Unfortunately, the answer to that is "no".

M.A.R.

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user2684291

21:00

I also have a bunch of sentences with "take your meaning"; how is that different from "take the meaning"?

user2684291

21:10

I think it means "If you get what I mean."

Joe Pinsonault

I take your meaning, if I do say so myself

user2684291

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Joe Pinsonault

21:24

I've thought about the words too much now, and they've lost all meaning

user2684291

@JoePinsonault You should take a break and listen to this nice old song: youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

Joe Pinsonault

haha I love that song @user2684291

It's just a good song, regardless of it being gibberish

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