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N1ng

04:38

Hello everyone :)

M.A.R.

@N1ng Hello

N1ng

A quick question: Which is better "Delete the files no need." or "Delete the files we don't need."?

M.A.R.

@N1ng the latter is correct and the former is grammatically incorrect. So a wild guess, the latter

N1ng

Thank you :) ~

M.A.R.

Anytime

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Anonymous

10:07

@Araucaria I wonder if you've ever read chapter 6 of A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative (Hidemitsu Takahashi 2012). The chapter is titled Conditional imperatives in English.

EngFan

10:44

Hello!! everyone

what does he crossed me mean youtu.be/mcuES1Uu5wQ ?

Anonymous

I can't see the video, but probably this: macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/cross_1#cross_1__19

EngFan

@snailplane: thanks :-)

Dawood ibn Kareem

11:35

@N1ng Did you consider "delete the unneeded files"?

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kitty

14:11

hello world

bye

M.A.R.

14:45

@kitty hello

Problem solving overflow

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Feeds

19:48

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