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Anonymous

01:04

@CowperKettle Finally got around to writing an answer to your question: ell.stackexchange.com/questions/135913/…

Anonymous

I wonder if it'll be at all controversial.

CowperKettle

01:16

Wow

Thank you Snailplane!

I've just woken up. It's 6 am

And I noticed your answer

I'll read it now!

CowperKettle

02:14

> A month before they are born, fetuses carried by American mothers-to-be can distinguish between someone speaking to them in English and Japanese. Using non-invasive sensing technology for the first time for this purpose, a group of researchers has shown this in-utero language discrimination.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170718084600.htm

6 hours later…

CowperKettle

08:40

user62015

09:29

The power tariff had already (a)/ been increased twice in (b)/ the last 15 months and the Electricity Board had also levied additional monthly charges to consumers. (c)/ No error (d) @snailplane please help me

6 hours later…

userr2684291

15:30

I'd personally say levied on, I think, but maybe to can be used as well. Who knows.

1 hour later…

M.A.R.

16:48

@snailplane is it common in transliterating Japanese to use the o with a bar? ō I mean. What does the bar indicate? That the vowel is longer than usual?

CowperKettle

17:06

I have a table which lists the operation of a bio-layer interferometer. The last column is named in Russian "step repeats" and contains only numbers 1 (in each cell of the column). Which means that each step (each operation of the equipment) was only done once, without repeats.

I wonder how to name this column in English

M.A.R.

Number of trials?

CowperKettle

If I just carbon-copy Russian "step repeats" some may think that the step was actually repeated once, resulting in two similar steps

Each step is very simple, like "Equilibration of temperature"

Which means that the machine brings the temperature of the samples to say 30 degrees.

M.A.R.

Number of trials

CowperKettle

Hmm.. I would call "trial" the totality of the steps.

M.A.R.

Number of steps?

CowperKettle

17:08

"Replicates" maybe.

M.A.R.

Steps taken?

CowperKettle

"1 replicate" would mean that this particular step was only performed once

> In the case of experiments with a single replicate, we do not have enough observations to calculate the error sum of squares. (Found on Google)

M.A.R.

Replications?

Or "number of replications"?

CowperKettle

"No. of repeats"

okay.

How are things going in Iran?

M.A.R.

Pretty boring.

I think you know more about Iran news than I do

CowperKettle

17:13

I know that a famous woman mathematician died. That's all I know. There are a lot of local news. I should stop reading news.

M.A.R.

Well yeah, about a week ago

I didn't even know her name

And she didn't get any mentions when she was alive, heh

C'est la vie

And suddenly everyone is all "Oh Em Gee, what a great loss"

CowperKettle

We will be having an election of our Governor soon. Sverdlovsk Region governor. The Kremlin barred the leading candidate (the city mayor) from participating, because he is not pro-Putin.

And the pro-Putin candidate is looking at you from every billboard. A huge billboard right near my house.

He has the face of a swindler

Basically everyone scorns him

He was never elected.

Appointed by Putin for being an asslicker

(0:

M.A.R.

Image not found but I can imagine a pig

I know the feeling of seeing something you hate everywhere

CowperKettle

Really, even the rare pro-Putin people I know dislike him. The regime is trying to bury itself with its actions. It's so interesting to observe.

Okay, need to translate some

V.V.

18:03

Where is the bus going?

@Lawrence, for you.

userr2684291

18:38

@V.V. I know it's not for me, but even if we exclude all the trick question interpretations and assume it's an actual moving bus on Earth, we still need more context, such as its location, and whether it's driving forward.

CowperKettle

@V.V. налево, я думаю, потому что все двери остались на той стороне (0:

I answered in Russian to hide my opinion from others ^_^

userr2684291

Heh, I understand all of that.

M.A.R.

I can't see the image so the message sounds cryptic to me even after Google Translate processing it

So you're probably safe

V.V.

18:59

Big L asked me a question in comments on ELU. His comment was to my answer dated by the year 2015, I believe. The question was about Russian logical problems. The OP couldn't understand the sentence.

english.stackexchange.com/questions/280248/…. Enjoy.

Anonymous

@M.A.R. Yes, it indicates a long vowel. kōkō 'high school' koko 'here'

M.A.R.

@snailplane nice, thanks for confirming

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