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Man_From_India
Man_From_India
00:42
@userr2684291 I'm sorry for late reply. I saw your msg, but was in the middle of something so couldn't reply you back that time. Well, I mostly agree with what you said there except that portion where you said "happy" and "hungry" are not the same.
Good morning guys.
And girls, too :-)
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
00:59
One serious confusion. Yesterday (and earlier also) I copied here a whole section from a book protected by copyright. Is it violating rules and such actions to be stopped? @Catija
And I'm not alone. I see portion of books are copied in questions/answers.
 
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SBM
SBM
05:08
Good morning
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Shubh prabhat
SBM
SBM
05:24
@CowperKettle suprabhat. Have a good day
Anonymous
@ColleenV I wrote an answer. I'm not sure if that'll help or not :-)
Anonymous
In the interest of brevity I sidestepped the question of be's auxiliary status in and out of the progressive construction, as well as the argument of whether the progressive construction should be analyzed as a stativizer.
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
06:37
Nice answer there @snailplane I think it's after a long time that you wrote an answer on ELL.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
07:47
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Spent the night searching for Dima Peskov, a 4 yo boy who got lost on the banks of the Reftinsky Reservoir
To no avail
Today is the second day of the search
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Man_From_India
Man_From_India
This reminds me of a popular novel by Nicholas Sparks The Rescue.
Hope you all get the kid soon.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
I'm not taking part in the second day of the search. But I do hope they find him.
There are hundreds of participants
Cardinal
Cardinal
08:05
word of the day: wax and wane
Anonymous
08:37
@Man_From_India I wrote one like yesterday or the day before too :-)
userr2684291
userr2684291
09:23
@Man_From_India Ah, I see. Well, I'm now confused as to why I chose happy. I wanted to use mean. "Why are you being mean?" sounds okay to me.
Anyway, thanks for your comment.
That was such a bad attempt of "analysis" on my part. As snailplane says in her answer, it's definitely about volition, not the moment of speaking.
Attempt *at.
Anonymous
09:45
"Like yesterday or the day before"? My sense of time seems to be slightly off :-)
Anonymous
Looks like it was Wednesday.
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
10:06
Hmmm you seem to be so engrossed into something that you lost track of time :P
V.V.
V.V.
10:41
Some people think a woman's novel is anything without politics in it. Some think it's anything about relationships. My surprise is "anything ". Why not "something "? Is this "anything " meaningful?
nbro
nbro
"important to understand" or "important to understanding"?
I would usually use the first, but the tool "grammarly" claims that after the proposition "to" "understand" by require the gerund...
In which cases do I use one or the other, and why?
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
11:07
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A: They kill as many people as not: what words are omitted?

Luke SawczakIn this kind of sentence, "as not" means "The verb takes place or doesn't take place about equally as often." They kill as many people as (they do) not (kill). A similar if not exactly the same omission might be this: — "Don't worry, Anne, you don't have to visit Mrs. Lynne if you don't...

> Oh, I'd just as soon see her as not!
Strange sentence!
@V.V. "something" is fine. But "anything" adds a "free choice" meaning to it.
Yes it's meaningful. You can see it this way: "women's novel is X without politics". Here X is a variable. You have a free choice to assign anything to the variable.
 
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ColleenV
ColleenV
12:23
@snailplane It helps me a lot - Thanks! I think for ELL those issues are fine to gloss over. If we were on ELU I think maybe folks would be interested in that argument (or maybe a certain someone would take exception to you not having a cut-n-paste snippet from some other site as a reference).
SBM
SBM
13:06
good evening
Lawrence
Lawrence
o/
@V.V. I think anything works better there, though I'm not sure precisely why.
@V.V. If the two sentences are juxtaposed the way you have them, anything ... something would make "it" refer to the first sentence as a whole, while anything ... anything would make "it" refer to just the novel.
(By "it", I meant the instance in the second sentence.)
There are times when you can use either - e.g. "Is anything wrong?" vs "Is something wrong?". Even there, they aren't completely interchangeable. The something version seems more urgent.
 
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V.V.
V.V.
15:58
Thanks@Man_From_India, @Lawrence. I should think how to translate it properly.
 
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Man_From_India
Man_From_India
17:17
@V.V. translating into Russian? In that case Copperkettle could help you.
@SBM good evening. Or whatever remains for tonight.
Where are you from by the way? I think I forgot.
V.V.
V.V.
18:13
"I want to be stroked between the eyes, one way." This isn't an idiom, right? Just a metaphor, I think.
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
18:24
No idea. And its midnight here. Have to go sleep now or else tomorrow I'll be late for office :(
Good night.
 
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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
19:41
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: "responsible of" vs "responsible for" by goty on ell.SE (It's been taken care of)
 
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Lawrence
Lawrence
22:59
@V.V. If you're alluding to pet cats, I'm more familiar with the negative version: rubbing someone the wrong way.

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