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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: "I like to do cycling" or "I like to go for cycling" - which is correct? by bena23 on ell.SE

Anonymous

02:28

@V.V. I don't know the specific context, but when people read domain names like stackexchange.com out loud, they say "Stack Exchange Dot Com".

Anonymous

Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, people commonly referred to internet companies as "dot coms" because most of them had businesses with domain names under the .com top-level domain.

Anonymous

So when people say "DotGov", it sounds like a reference to the .gov (government) top-level domain.

Anonymous

And in fact, the .gov registration service is called DotGov:

Anonymous

dotgov.gov

Anonymous

That's a site for registering domains under .gov (domain names for the United States government).

Anonymous

02:31

So perhaps the "DotGov database team" refers to the people running that site.

CowperKettle

CHUMBAWAMBA: WWW DOT

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I listened to this a lot in 2000

Good morning (0:

V.V.

02:47

Morning @snailplane, thank you very much. Trying to understand what's that all about.

I thought it was an abbreviation of some departments, Department of Telecommunication or Transport, etc.

The site wouldn't open for me.

CowperKettle

Word of the Day: exhaust plenum (выпускной короб)

This use of the word "plenum" is very odd to the Russian ear

Morning, V.V.!

V.V.

O-o o o!

Anonymous

03:07

@V.V. Let's say you were setting up a new U.S. government service, like the Department of Snail Feeding. You might want to make a new website at www.snailfeeding.gov and to do that, you would have to go to the DotGov website and register the domain with them.

Anonymous

Perhaps since it's a U.S.-only website, it's blocked for visitors outside the U.S. I'm not sure.

V.V.

03:22

So if I say " you haven't made a request to the team of the gouvernement site which registers all sites of the country, I mean in translation, will it be correct?

Cardinal

07:08

@M.A.R. Good luck.

> Is it your first time that you are in Paris?
> Is it your first time that you have been in Paris?

Which one is correct?

I think both are valid.

V.V.

07:28

Perfect is correct.

M.A.R.

08:36

@V.V. sure, just less imaginative, and misspelled

Anonymous

08:59

I'd probably say something like Is this your first time in Paris? or Is this the first time you've been to Paris?

userr2684291

09:54

@M.A.R. Are you stalking me?

I've just joined the chat, haha. What's up?

M.A.R.

@userr2684291 I don't think my attention span is that good. WAIT A MINUTE. Are you stalking me?

userr2684291

@M.A.R. I joined maybe a second before you did.

M.A.R.

How can you prove you don't see the future? Huh huh?

userr2684291

@Cardinal Use the present perfect after the first/second/etc. time. Of course, in snailplane's first sentence, there's no verb, so that works too.

@M.A.R. That's a tough one.

@snailplane It's not, I can access it.

CowperKettle

10:40

hugs @M.A.R. tightly

I hope you passed the exam with flying colors

userr2684291

@V.V. "...registers all sites of the country" – this is ambiguous.

@V.V. From the website: Sec. 102-173.30 Who may register in the dot-gov domain?
Registration in the dot-gov domain is available to official governmental organizations in the United States including Federal, State, and local governments, and Native Sovereign Nations.

Sec. 102-173.35 Who authorizes domain names?
Domain names must be authorized by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the requesting or sponsoring governmental organization. For Federal departments and agencies, the General Services Administration (GSA) will accept authorization from the CIO of the department or agency. For in…

CowperKettle

I've got to run

M.A.R.

Cowp is RO? Noice

userr2684291

"Official governmental organizations in the United States" is the term that might be useful, though. Take note of the spelling of the word government.

V.V.

11:21

Thank you, guys! Glad to see you both.

userr2684291

12:18

No worries.

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Q: Found a question that needs a better answer? Why not offer a bounty?

So we currently only have one featured question, but we have more than a thousand positively scored questions with one or zero answers. If you have earned enough reputation to access all the privileges you're interested in, why not look for a question that you think could use more detailed answer...

I mean, why not try to answer the question ourselves first?

I ain't gonna pop open my rep jar that easily. Besides, I'm close to having godlike editing abilities.

M.A.R.

You haven't reached that point where gaining rep becomes boring and you want to try something new so bad that you offer a bounty

userr2684291

@M.A.R. By the way, haha, I did offer a bounty not a while ago.

Ahmad

hi

I want to send a message to a user (P.E.Dant) who is commented one of my question, but my response and his comments were deleted by moderators; can I send my response via chat?

M.A.R.

@Ahmad he doesn't seem to be pingable unfortunately. You can comment under one of his posts and invite him to a chat but then you have to remember to delete it when he sees it

Ahmad

thanks

userr2684291

12:33

@M.A.R. And not for a low amount like 10 or 20 (I know these aren't valid bounties, but still), 25, or even 50 miserable reputation points, but for the whole one HUNDREDTH of a TEN THOUSAND reputation points!

M.A.R.

Even tangentially worse than rep loss from a downvote

userr2684291

@M.A.R. I feel that when you reach 25k it's as though you've been given the Gold Codes.

M.A.R.

When I reach 25k, I'm gonna buy a car

Also bribe mods so they bribe ELU mods so they would stop all migrations.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three wrongs might.

userr2684291

@M.A.R. On my profile page it says I've cast 1808 votes. However, I have only 202 downvotes and 1504 upvotes.

Also, one deletion vote and one undeletion vote. (:

But that still doesn't add up.

Could it be that 100 of those questions have been deleted? Exactly one hundred?

M.A.R.

12:48

Maybe one includes votes on deleted posts and the other doesn't

userr2684291

@M.A.R. Could you check whether your numbers add up?

Cardinal

13:29

@snailplane exactly, that's why I said "Is it your first time that you are in Paris? "

I read before that that+be+prepositions can be reduced.

in other words., I think:

> Is it your first time [that you are] in Paris?

Am I right?

@userr2684291 I just felt there is no problem with using that "that-caluse" in simple present.

M.A.R.

@userr2684291 wait, which accumulated number do you mean?

Cardinal

Word of the day: imperious

userr2684291

Swan says: We use the present perfect in sentences constructed with this/it/that is the first/second/third/only/best/worst etc.: This is the first time that I've heard her sing. (NOT ~~This is the first time that I hear her sing~~.)

Cardinal

@userr2684291 I know, I just think it's different when using prepositions.

userr2684291

@Cardinal What?

Cardinal

13:36

I said above, I think:

> Is it your first time [that you are] in Paris?

the inside of the bracket can be omitted.

In fact, snail's proposed sentence is the reduced form.

userr2684291

@M.A.R. When you go to your profile, in the Activity tab, where it also shows the number of flags and edits.

@Cardinal I don't see what omitting it or not has to do with the structure.

M.A.R.

@userr2684291 oh. Then mine add up on Chem. Lemme check on ell

Cardinal

@userr2684291 Fine, let's suppose that my opinion on the deletion is valid. Now, why the reduced form is right while the full version wrong?

userr2684291

@Cardinal How do you know what's been deleted? Maybe it's that you've been?

Cardinal

@userr2684291 I see. that's the reason I guess.

userr2684291

13:51

@M.A.R. Remember to multiply by τ cubed at the end!

M.A.R.

Oh, forgot to say, they add up on ELL as well. @us err

Cardinal

I have read before that we can reduced "that + be + preposition".

M.A.R.

Oh whatever autocorrelation, I'm not gonna edit that

userr2684291

@Cardinal How does be govern the tense be's to be in?

Cardinal

@userr2684291 hmm, I see.

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