Language Overflow

« first day (731 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (2808 days later) »

CowperKettle

03:30

> The meaning of a word is enough to trigger a reaction in our pupil: when we read or hear a word with a meaning associated with luminosity ("sun," "shine," etc.), our pupils contract as they would if they were actually exposed to greater luminosity. And the opposite occurs with a word associated with darkness ("night," "gloom," etc.).

sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170615084852.htm

1 hour later…

Anonymous

04:54

Q: "which may causes" Is forming phrase correct?

I'm just practicing passage reconstruction. Here i've formed a phrase "Organic former usually use natural pesticides and fertilizers instead using chemical pesticide which may causes economic damage to agricultural productivity." for respective phrase from a passage "Organic farmers use natural p...

Anonymous

We get a lot of questions which boil down to "No, only the first verb can be finite".

Anonymous

They should probably mostly be closed as duplicates, but I'm not sure of which question.

Anonymous

@CowperKettle Ooh, very interesting.

Anonymous

If I say words like "thirsty", does your throat feel just a little bit dry?

Anonymous

If I say "yawn", do you suddenly feel the urge to yawn? :-)

CowperKettle

05:00

Yes, quite interesting.

Good morning!

I tested my Freetime ISIS 3 tent (0:

One-wagon train (0:

Just win baby

05:30

(0:

CowperKettle

05:50

> A negative control (silver nitrate) was used in all experiments and all conditions were tested in five replicates.

Does this mean that five measurements were made?

Or does this mean that 2 by 5 = 10 measurements were made?

Just win baby

06:36

The control must be run for every replicate. So I'd say 10 measurements were made.

Man_From_India

07:02

@snailplane it's happening with me now :D

@CowperKettle looks like made in 3D modeling software :D

Btw nice clicks.

3 hours later…

CowperKettle

09:43

(0:

CowperKettle

10:39

"When I too long have looked upon your face,
Wherein for me a brightness unobscured
Save by the mists of brightness has its place,
And terrible beauty not to be endured,
I turn away reluctant from your light,
And stand irresolute, a mind undone,
A silly, dazzled thing deprived of sight
From having looked too long upon the sun.
Then is my daily life a narrow room
In which a little while, uncertainly,
Surrounded by impenetrable gloom,
Among familiar things grown strange to me
Making my way, I pause, and feel, and hark,

2 hours later…

CowperKettle

12:32

> To assess the robustness of the procedure and the need for revalidation in case its parameters are changed.

I wonder if it's okay.

Maybe I should use "in case of changes in its parameters".

Feeds

CowperKettle has been automatically appointed as owner of this room. (What does this mean?)

2 hours later…

CowperKettle

14:57

> The street-lamps burn amid the BALEFUL glooms,
Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
The silence which benumbs or strains the sense
Fulfils with awe the soul's despair unweeping:
Myriads of habitants are ever sleeping,
Or dead, or fled from nameless pestilence!

2 hours later…

kitty

16:29

The last message was posted 2 hours ago.

Does this mean there were not anyone here for the last 2 hours?

How to make a smile sybmol here?

^_^

Anonymous

16:42

@kitty I like ^_^, that's a cute one. I usually type :-) in English but I see the ^_^ style a lot online

Feeds

snailplane has added Man_From_India to the list of this room's owners.

snailplane has added snailplane to the list of this room's owners.

Cardinal

@CowperKettle It generates a special atmosphere. Somehow, it reminds me of Sting's song "Tomorrow We'll See"

Man_From_India

Thanks, it's a great honour to be this room's owner. Thanks Snail.

CowperKettle

@Cardinal Yes, a great poem

Somehow the sonnet meter suits English very well

And suits Russian very poorly

Cardinal

@CowperKettle What do you mean "sonnet meter"?

V.V.

16:58

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_(poetry)#/issues

Man_From_India

17:13

@V.V. ah it opened for a brief second then only a msg nothing else :O

It's raining here. Ligtning making long random doodle across black sky. At times it's flickering like dying bulb!

Dinner had, lights off. Hmmm what about a spooky audio story? This seems to be a perfect companion in this weather :-) audio story because my grand mom is no more, it's been years, and I've grown old to have bed time stories from granny. But I long for|

CowperKettle

@Man_From_India Great idea

Man_From_India

Hehe

2 hours later…

kitty

19:11

Hi snailplane. Do you know Japanese language? Sometimes I saw you were helping people on Japanese Language site, you are great!

bye

1 hour later…

Cardinal

20:20