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Man_From_India
Man_From_India
00:10
@V.V. no I don't know his surname :( I tried FB, but it is no help. I wish I knew something more about him.
ColleenV
ColleenV
@Cardinal Why would you say un-extra-ordinary when you can just say "ordinary"?
Or even better mundane or pedestrian?
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
00:30
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: how to say "everything done before has become vain now"? by m_susan on ell.SE
Anonymous
Thanks, Smokey.
Anonymous
COCA has 7 results for unextraordinary. It doesn't make the list of the top 60,000 most common words in the corpus.
Anonymous
Words that do make the list include ranula, laparotomy, eduldamer, rille, teosinte and recision. In other words, unextraordinary shows up less often than any of these exotic-sounding words.
Anonymous
Eduldamer, for example, comes up with 42 search results on COCA.
Anonymous
So although unextraordinary is made up of ordinary-sounding parts, it's rather more nonunextraordinary than you might expect.
Cardinal
Cardinal
04:57
@ColleenV I don't, user2684291 said.
@Cardinal Yes, you could say that, but it's rather unextraordinary. The shorter the better, the more effective. — userr2684291 10 hours ago
 
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kitty
kitty
07:08
What is Join Stack Overflow in Standing Up for Net Neutrality?
I saw it just after log in
I thought my account was hacked
hello?
someone here?
nope?
bye
Yasmika Saubhagya
Yasmika Saubhagya
07:24
Hello @kitty , I'm here
'to-infinitive' verbs in sentences are confusing me. Can anyone tell me how we can turn this sentence into 'passive to-infinitive'?
- I'm glad to have studied English (to have studied is in perfect infinitive)
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
07:40
"Staying Alive" in Yakutia
 
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V.V.
V.V.
09:19
I also saw that advert.
userr2684291
userr2684291
09:49
@snailplane I'm not sure what I'm to educe from these data, though. There are 0 results in COCA for conformant, even though to me it seems plain. And I wonder how many hits we'll get for ovipository.
The word I recently heard, slave(-)driver, comes up with 25 total search results on COCA.
@Cardinal Ah, I overlooked a comma there.
userr2684291
userr2684291
10:13
@YasmikaSaubhagya That looks like an XY problem. The perfect infinitive replaces the appropriate perfect or past tense, which is what you should try to figure out.
Feeds
Feeds
10:37
0
Q: Talking about the same meaning in the context of their ("recently"/"lately"/"of late" and "so far"/"by now") usage (Present Perfect)

Anthony VoronkovIs "of late" used as equally as "recently" or "lately" in the Present Perfect tense? I mean, would it be acceptable to use the 1st aentence as well as the 2nd or 3rd if I wrote the following: I've made a great strides recently. I've made a great strides lately. I've made a great strid...

present-perfect
 
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user8469759
user8469759
12:15
Hi guys
is there a good book you can suggest where I can find the topic "prepositional phrases"?
I have the "Longman advanced english grammar"
but it doesn't seems to me there's anything about it
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
14:29
@user8469759 Yeah, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, or the abridged, light version: A Student's Introduction to English Grammar.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
15:11
Hi @user8469759, welcome to our chat
Anonymous
@userr2684291 Well, it is a technical term, so you wouldn't expect many results in COCA.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Hey @Man
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
Hi @M.A.R.
After a long time
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Hi @Snail
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
How r u doing?
Anonymous
15:12
Good morning :-)
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
Good morning @snailplane
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Morning good!
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Stop getting in together
Hi @Cowp
Anonymous
@CowperKettle Yay!
Anonymous
(You can't tell, but I subtly reversed the order of the words in the sentence "Yay!")
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
15:13
I'm really late today. It's 20:45 here, and leaving office :(
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
I am on an extremely slow device that keeps pushing me to my limits
Anonymous
Ohh, I see. Have a good evening!
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
:-)
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
So I'm like @snail's snails now
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
Hope ur snails r doing fine :-)
Lawrence
Lawrence
15:30
@kitty As I read it, it seems to be about keeping the internet uncensored. There's something called Type I and Type II, where companies are allowed to intentionally block sites in Type I but not Type II. The internet is now in Type II, but there's some push to move it back into Type I. They also say that this is troubling for Stack Exchange because it relies on open access for its success. Anyway, that's just what I got from a quick skim of the article. I might have missed something.
kitty
kitty
15:40
hi Yasmika
Sorry that I didn't see you here
hi guys
bye
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Hi everyone
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Word of the day: mamzer
mamzer
Noun: mamzer (plural mamzers or mamzerim)
  1. a child who is born out of wedlock, from an incestuous or adulterous relationship or from parents of different faiths; a bastard
  2. a contemptible person, a jerk...
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@kitty who's Yasmika?
Catija
Catija
@CowperKettle As a native English speaker with a (I think) relatively good vocabulary, I've never heard this term before.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
16:34
@Catija I've just come across it on Facebook, in an English-language comment written by a Russian-speaking Jew from Israel under a post written in Russian by a Moscow-based opposition politician. It's complicated.
 
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Cardinal
Cardinal
20:19
Why it's wrong to say "It's often to hear such rumors these days"?
@Cardinal it's grammatically wrong. Simplify your sentence to To hear is often and try to figure out why. You might post a question about it in the English Language Learners forum if, after researching it, you can't figure out why, but I think you can with modest effort. — Brillig yesterday

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