Language Overflow

CowperKettle

04:05

@M.A.R. (0;

!!define/polunochniki

It's polu-noch-niki

Those who are still not asleep when the clock strikes midnight

Jude Niroshan

05:45

Greetings!

I just asked for phone number from a strange beautiful girl in college. She rejected to do so. How to move forward with this?

CowperKettle

> Why did cats evolve their ability to see in the dark?
Because they are to small to reach the light switch.

@JudeNiroshan Give her a card on March 8

Give her a gift of chocolate

Or find another beautiful girl.

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Jude Niroshan

@CowperKettle what's so special on March 8?

CowperKettle

@JudeNiroshan oops

This is Russia-specific probably

we give women gifts on March 8 (International Women's Day)

Jude Niroshan

yeah. I googled it

But I don't know at least her name

and she is still stranger for me

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sometimes she might see me again

CowperKettle

I hope she does

Jude Niroshan

05:54

if that happens; should I go and talk to her? and what should I talk about?

something like this -> "Haven't changed your mind yet?"

CowperKettle

I dunno. (0:

CowperKettle

06:39

> First, take the slide with metaphase chromosomes mounted upon it and treat it with 0.25% trypsin solution for 6-13 seconds.

I'm not sure about the word treat here. Maybe some other verbs are used.

CowperKettle

09:29

> Once the observation period (14 days) is complete, remove the culture fluid from the test culture flasks and negative control flasks, and wash the cell monolayer 3 times with Hank's solution.

I wonder if this phrase is okay

@JudeNiroshan "a stranger". Someone starred your phrase because it looks a bit odd without the article (0:

CowperKettle

10:09

food prepared in School 135 of Yekaterinburg

Damkerng T.

That's so cute!

CowperKettle

Yep (0:

I suddenly want to eat

V.V.

1.3[predicative] Having run its full course; finished:
‘the restoration of the chapel is complete’@CowperKettle

Sawasdee kha,Dam.

Damkerng T.

Privet and Sawasdee khrap!

M.A.R.

Privet all

Damkerng T.

10:18

Hmm... this webpage is pretty good! mystudentvoices.com/…

CowperKettle

Thank you, @V.V.

Damkerng T.

IELTS, TOEFL, or CAE — which test is right for me? But I think it's probably Off Topic here, being essentially a matter of opinion + individual circumstances. — FumbleFingers 16 hours ago

V.V.

MAR, it's a question for a chemical about "treat"

CowperKettle

Welcome to the chat, @snailplane!

Anonymous

@JudeNiroshan Might be best to leave her alone then.

Anonymous

10:19

Hi, @CowperKettle :-)

M.A.R.

@V.V. Which?

@snailplane \o @Snail

Damkerng T.

Good evening/morning! @snailplane

M.A.R.

Good evemor!

Damkerng T.

Noice!

Anonymous

Good morning :-)

M.A.R.

10:23

I propose ''evemor'' to be a synonym of ''day''

Too bad language doesn't work this way

Stupid non-petaloso language

Damkerng T.

@snailplane How have you been?

CowperKettle

If I need to find the letter combination SOP in any position inside a string, what regexp do I use? .*SOP.* fails to work..

M.A.R.

@DamkerngT. She must have been feeling bad after all the suspending me in my dream

Damkerng T.

@M.A.R. Aww... I hope she's feeling better now. :)

CowperKettle

Ah, wait, it worked.

@M.A.R. after breaking your tablet?

M.A.R.

10:27

@CowperKettle No, that was me breaking my tablet

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle Actually, just SOP should work.

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. ah! Thank you

CowperKettle

10:44

@snailplane - I hope you do feel okay. I did not want to join the others and press you too much. (0:

Вертолет сел на дорогу чтобы спросить куда лететь

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A helicopter landed on road in a blizzard, the pilot ran up to the trucker and asked which way Aktyubinsk is

This is uber-weird

Don't they have navigation?

Damkerng T.

11:13

@CowperKettle It was broken, maybe?

user62015

Hi

One question @DamkerngT. Make haste _____ we shall miss the train.
(A) either (B) or
(C) else (D) lest Answer says B

I believe C

Damkerng T.

No, B) is correct.

user62015

Thanks.

skill patrol

Hurry up ____we shall miss the train.

"Make haste" sounds archaic to me.

B is correct.

user62015

Thanks @skillpatrol

skill patrol

11:25

Thanks for asking :-)

CowperKettle

11:40

> Researchers at the University of Georgia have shown that endurance athletes who swished -- but didn't ingest -- a sucrose solution several times during a time trial significantly improved their running times compared to those who swished with only water.

The sucrose solution, which was sweet-tasting but also provided a small amount of energy, is thought to boost endurance performance by stimulating "reward areas" in the brain related to motor control, researchers said.

Damkerng T.

Interesting! I'm not sure what they mean by swished. Just tasted the sucrose solution a bit?

CowperKettle

I also am unsure about that

I usually take a sugar cube in my mouth just before going to the jog

Sometimes I keep it there awhile, sometimes just swallow (0:

> As part of the study, 16 endurance athletes (nine men, seven women) between the ages of 18 and 45 completed a 12.8-kilometer (7.9-mile) time trial on an indoor track, swishing and then spitting out a solution eight times during the run.

Anonymous

Swishing is like what you do with mouthwash.

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Anonymous

You swish it around, and then spit it out.

CowperKettle

Ah!

I just though - what if they are told to imagine that they are swishing a sugary drink in their mouths?

Would that affect the performance?

> Imagine all the swishing,
While you run the race.
You may say I'm a swisher,
But I'm not the only one,
I hope someday you'll join us
And the swishing will be fun

Damkerng T.

11:57

LOL

CowperKettle

(0:

CowperKettle

12:14

> Determination of the number of transgene copies during the qualification of mammalian cell banks producing recombinant pharmaceutical proteins using real-time PCR

Real-time PCR-based determination of the number of transgene copies during the qualification of mammalian cell banks used to produce recombinant pharmaceutical proteins

I wonder which is better.

I cannot split the sentence: it's the name of a standard procedure in a document.

CowperKettle

12:45

> Convert the spectrophotometrically measured concentration (ng/µL) into a concentration based on the number of copies of the linearized plasmid per one µL using the following formula:

Should there be this a there, I wonder.

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle They're equally fine to me.

@CowperKettle I wonder if it's really okay without a.

CowperKettle

13:12

@DamkerngT. - thank you!

CowperKettle

14:23

The sign says "(village of) Timonovo (to the right)"

Someone added by hand "and Pumbovo"

Timon and Pumbaa are popular in Russia (0:

Araucaria

14:38

Fantastic question here:

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Q: "IT may have been her brother" When do we use "it" instead of "he" or she?

I read the following in English Grammar in Use book (app): Who was the man we saw with Anna yesterday? I don't know. It may have been her brother. Why do they use "it" instead of "he" here?

CowperKettle

14:58

upvoted

userr2684291

Noted.

V.V.

15:27

@CowperKettle Why using the same noun twice? Change it.

userr2684291

@JudeNiroshan There are a number of solutions: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_beverage

CowperKettle

@V.V. to what?

userr2684291

@CowperKettle I wonder what the formula looks like.

CowperKettle

ah, it's very simple

userr2684291

15:45

Great.

CowperKettle

16:21

Just too tired to make a cut, and it may contain some sensitive info.

And I've come across many more hard issues after that, so it's not that important.

CowperKettle

16:53

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Q: Why can't I get a good question?

Why can't I get a good question to ask? I want to have a good question.

sentence-construction

userr2684291

I think they're asking about "Why can't I get a good question to ask?".

M.A.R.

@CowperKettle Yessir. One good question coming right up

CowperKettle

17:26

> Place the gel on the surface of the gel documentation panel and measure the distance from the front of the well to the center of the enzyme band using the scale present to on the right and the left sides of the gel documentation panel.

I wonder if it is really called "the scale"

The series of notches that allows you to measure distances.

Anonymous

17:37

Is to there a typo?

M.A.R.

in The Periodic Table, 8 mins ago, by M.A.R.

@Cowp are you looking for ''band'', or ''dye front''?

DON'T KEEP POPPING IN AND OUT OF CHATS ARGH please

CowperKettle

I'm just busy translating (0:

@snailplane yes (0:

I changed my sentence mid-flight and forgot to fix it mid-sleep

Tea time

M.A.R.

18:14

@J.R. Good point! I understand the downvotes, but feel like people come to this specific SE site because they have problems getting the point across. I'd much prefer a comment to a downvote for really new posters. Perhaps it is not worth the extra effort -- but we don't know unless we ask. — Willow Rex 58 mins ago

@WillowRex You can both downvote and comment.

V.V.

18:33

"scale present to on the right " remove "to".@CowperKettle

@CowperKettle "the one"

CowperKettle

@V.V. Spasibo~!

It's interesting. The Russian expression "passing-through light" (проходящий свет микроскопа) is apparently "incident light" (of a microscope) in English.

O_O