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02:51
Good morning
+ 10 degrees here
And dark from overcast sky
 
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07:35
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer: Is there a special word for the numbers 11 to 19? by Dav on ell.SE
 
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08:57
@CowperKettle don't be so stingy. Send some cold here
09:25
@M.A.R. Hehe. Heat flows in the direction of decreasing temperature.
@userr2684291 what if it's cold that flows?
Heat is a myth.
@M.A.R. Don't forget also about the Dark Sucker Theory
@M.A.R. H = –kA × temp. gradient; the minus tells you it's that way.
Is the opposite of heat cold anyway, or coldness?
Both
Coolity
Coldation
Right, coolness might work, but in that case I propose swag, lol.
S = –H. Useful.
 
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11:13
@CowperKettle Interesting.
Well, I guess anything is when you're 3 hours in in a queue.
12:13
> One can also reliably state, with an accuracy to a single tryptic peptide, that the disulfide bond structures of the studied antibody samples are identical.
Is this the right turn of phrase?
Are there ways to say this more elegantly?
My sentence looks barmecidally clumsy.
I can't quite recall how to put this nicely.
12:36
@userr2684291 It's interesting that in Russian the word is vsyakom and in your language it's svyakom.
A curious letter shift, vs-sv
13:32
Hi....Everyone!!!
Хаюшки!
@snail
@cowp
Can I say "Write it in your copy."
Write in copy
I dunno.
What is the meaning of the phase?
13:50
I mean While giving homework to the students
@CowperKettle Yeah, it's svakom, there's no /j/. I've noticed this in Old Church Slavonic (or at least our recension) that we read in high school, too. This is also retained in Kajkavian, a dialect of Croatian, which can actually be considered a separate language.
Also, Kajkavski is very close to Slovene, and I think in Slovene, too, they use forms vsi, vsugd(j)e, etc.
^ Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe; I found it interesting.
14:05
@@snailplane could you help me ?
I've just closed all windows. Too cold.
@yubraj Then it must be fine
Sorry, I'm busy translating..
@CowperKettle The usual phrase is with an/the accuracy of.
> One can also reliably state, with an accuracy of a single tryptic peptide, that the disulfide bond structures of the studied antibody samples are identical.
Hmm...
But I'm not sure it's applicable there, and it looks as though you'd conflated accurate to and the above. I don't know how to rephrase it while retaining the introductory verb.
The authors basically say that not a single tryptic peptide is amiss. Maybe there are some differences on a finer scale, but as far as peptide configuration goes, the antibodies are 100% similar.
14:15
I know what you're trying to say.
One can also state that within a single peptide's accuracy the antibodies are identical. (?)
@CowperKettle That might work. How about with single tryptic peptide accuracy? A phrase like with millimeter accuracy is common.
@yubraj Write what?
Oh, I think I remember reading somewhere that copy is a common Indianism, so I don't know, it's your dialect.
Thanks!
14:44
Copy means note copy
15:44
Why are there so few google hits for "chromatograms of samples"?
> The processing of chromatograms of stressed samples revealed modified forms only in position 285 and only in negligible quantity.
My sentence.
I was unsure how to get rid of the second of, and started googling
16:06
> What a steed I used to ride -
One of troublemaker's stride,
Had a sword and gun beside me,
And a young enchanting bride.
Second stanza:
> After fighting Turks and Poles
Home I went on my bare soles
Now my gun is full of rust
And my girl betrayed my trust
I should rewrite it from scratch.
Anonymous
@yubraj Like Cowperkettle, I don't really understand what you're trying to say. Do you mean something like "Copy this down in your notes"?
16:47
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Q: Picture dictionaries with audio CDs

satobI am looking for picture dictionaries that enclose audio CDs (for my pre-school children). I checked the dictionaries listed below: "The usborne Picture Dictionary" (Usborne Pub): This dictionary has an audio CD but that CD contains only the headwords. "4000 Essential English Words with Answer ...

 
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20:51
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Q: Is this plain form "I requested her hand for marriage from her father" acceptable in general; as opposed to the idiomatic form?

Saleh FeekThe plain form which I feel more natural to my tongue: I requested her hand for marriage from her father As opposed to the idiomatic form: I asked her father for her hand in marriage Is the plain form acceptable in place of the idiomatic form; at least informally?


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