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CowperKettle

02:44

Apple tree alley in Yekaterinburg

> "Vet clinic: close to your house. Wide range of services. Kind doctors"

Found this glued to my porch

Man_From_India

03:32

It's really beautiful :-)

SBM

03:55

@CowperKettle so nice; Good morning

Man_From_India

2

Q: difference between "looking" and "looked" here-

It left the German Embassy looking as though it had been racked by an earthquake. It left the German Embassy looked as though it had been racked by an earthquake. Is the #2 a correct sentence? What is the difference between the two?

SBM

04:16

Hmm

Anonymous

04:56

@CowperKettle Hope you're well :-)

CowperKettle

05:21

😊у

SBM

Hope you both are well

CowperKettle

05:40

Im on a bicycle ride

SBM

@CowperKettle Stay safe and enjoy it.

Have fun

V.V.

Morning!

SBM

@V.V. Good morning

V.V.

"Women these days have to deal with too many intimidating physical role models as it is, what with those bimbos in the ads.". Don't understand that part after "what".

Can anyone help?

@CowperKettle, have a nice day!

CowperKettle

But do send me a get well card, Snails

SBM

05:55

@V.V. The sentence sounds a bit off I don't know why

V.V.

Marg

A Canadian writer, modern.

Margaret Atwood, very interesting.

SBM

Yes

www.dictionary.com/browse/bimbo

V.V.

What's that "what with" conjunction? No, I know all the words, can't understand the structure.

SBM

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/what-with

@V.V.

it seems like a phrase to use to describe bad situations

V.V.

Because of?

Because, I mean.

SBM

06:04

yes, seems quite similar to because

V.V.

Still can't get the sense

SBM

I guess it's more like what about here maybe

V.V.

"women have to deal with ugly models to follow, like those beauties in the ads"? correct?

SBM

I can't think.

V.V.

Can you give your version in simple words?

SBM

06:13

My version is quite similar to yours

V.V.

What with=as well as?

SBM

maybe

owing to

I think what with is like owing to

V.V.

Or rather "what to say about"?

Anonymous

I think what with is kind of like considering

Anonymous

More informal, though. I expect and all collocates with it.

V.V.

06:22

Aha, if we consider those bimbos in the ads?

Or if we look at...

SBM

hmm

V.V.

I like the connection "especially if we look at those bimbos in the ads". If It's not very far away from the original.

Thank you all! Snail, hugs. Hope I am not very far from the original text.

V.V.

06:52

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SmokeDetector

07:08

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V.V.

07:22

Wow! I have got a badge, quite unexpectedly.

CowperKettle

Congrats

SBM

@V.V. Congratulations!

V.V.

08:03

Thanks. A silver one. Civic duty.

I haven't done anything on the site except voting. And talking from time to time.

V.V.

08:28

It's cold today. It was only +4ºC in the morning.

SBM

@V.V. It's about 43 degrees here

in Celsius

CowperKettle

09:32

Its plus24 here

How do i insert an image from phone?

SBM

open the full site and upload?

@CowperKettle

CowperKettle

Too complex

SBM

oh; wait let me try spoofing

I'm on the mobile site from my PC

I see no way except for going to the full site or using an external link

@CowperKettle

you could use something like imgur maybe

@CowperKettle Alternatively you could use other image sharing sites.

See I'm on mobile site I had to go to full site to upload.

time to stop spoofing though @CowperKettle

SBM

10:31

Just checking

ArmaGeddON

10:47

hi

which one is correct?

"marks hardly matter" or "marks hardly matters" which one is correct?

SBM

@ArmaGeddON Your marks "hardly matter" to me whereas your scorecard "hardly matters".

ArmaGeddON

k, thanks

V.V.

11:41

Where is it 43ºC? Too hot.

SBM

@V.V. In the town I live at.

userr2684291

11:54

@SBM You mean a report card?

SBM

@userr2684291 yes a scorecard or a report card

userr2684291

@SBM I never heard it being called a scorecard in context of education.

Word of the day: bum steer

@ArmaGeddON We'd need the full sentence to answer that.

rubStackOverflow

14:28

When a person asks:
`What is the grammar of the above sentence?`
He/she wants to know if there are mistakes in a sentence?

V.V.

Not sure.

Can you give an example?

rubStackOverflow

What is the grammar of the sentence “There are 100 cents to a dollar”?

V.V.

Sounds weird.

rubStackOverflow

=)

SBM

@V.V. Can agree.

V.V.

14:37

People usually ask if the sentence is correct.

rubStackOverflow

0

Q: What is the grammar of the sentence "there are 100 cents to a dollar"?

What is the grammar of the above sentence? Is "to a dollar" a prepositional phrase?

grammar prepositional-phrases

V.V.

Aha, that's about the structure of the sentence and the terminology.

@SBM, I am sorry, I shouldn't have asked.

SBM

@V.V. Oh

rubStackOverflow

15:07

People here are merciless with 'bad' questions, downvote should be used in the last case.

Of course not everyone.

Man_From_India

15:26

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A: difference between "looking" and "looked" here-

It left the German Embassy looking as though it had been racked by an earthquake. The verb - leave - can license carious complements. Among them, this is quite a common and natural pattern - Complement (Subject) + LEAVE + Complement (Object) + Objective Predicative Complement. Example...

@snailplane please let me know if my analysis is correct here, when you are free and doing nothing ;-)

CowperKettle

16:51

Yay. Rode 90 kilometers today. (I wonder if we say "I rode X kilometers")

SBM

Great.

Man_From_India

17:07

Interesting, it never occurred to me to read the sentence as you are suggesting, I thought along the lines of "The car left the German Embassy looking as though it had been racked by an earthquake." — Peter 21 mins ago

The strangest sentence!

userr2684291

@rubStackOverflow I don't know what you're trying to say, but that question shouldn't be voted down; it's a straightforward question and it's clear what they're asking about.

Well, OK, it's kind of bad, but it's not nearly as bad as some other questions. However, I think that anyone who knows English grammar in detail will have a field day with that one.

I don't think I'd ever used the phrase have a field day (with), and I most certainly haven't heard it recently. How did my brain come up with it?

V.V.

17:48

@Cowp, how was it? Great?

CowperKettle

@V.V. Yes, I liked it ))

SBM

18:02

@CowperKettle good to hear. Bye

CowperKettle

John Lennon street, 128

In the town of Staropyshminsk

SBM

@CowperKettle do you stay in Russia?

CowperKettle

@SBM Yes

SBM

Oh quite fun to ride a bicycle @CowperKettle

CowperKettle

It was hot today

(0:

SBM

18:07

But, over here 90km on a cycle is unimaginable

CowperKettle

@SBM Why?

It reached +27 today, which is very hot for Yekaterinburg

There was a short rain (0:

SBM

@CowperKettle Because the roads are like super bumpy and unpredictable, it's hot and you can encounter animals like cows, bulls, dogs, any moment.

CowperKettle

@SBM That's too bad. I'm afraid of dogs

Bulls might be even worse

We do have bumpy roads, but one can draft the route in a way as to avoid them.. well, mostly

SBM

@CowperKettle if you're really unlucky you might meet an accident because of them, and there's only one good hospital in the entire district.

You can't avoid bumpy roads here.

Sadly.

CowperKettle

We Russians love to complain about the terrible state of healthcare, but compared with India we might fare very well.

The hospital I was in is very, very good.

And there are some nice roads, although beyond Yekaterinburg they deteriorate sharply

SBM

18:15

@CowperKettle I stay at a small town. In case somebody gets affected seriously, she/he needs to go to a bigger city at least 600 km away.

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