@userr2684291 I log in and out all the time, just a habit. I also start and shut down my computer many times a day. I do that when I won't be using it for a while, but most people just leave it on for a longer time.
I dont ise grammaf checkers rithef, but aometimss i spell defnense as defence and my american spellchecker on mg mavhine warns md of thag. However, if i wrote it by hanx, id spell it cordectly.
Well, you speak in a British accent, so why wouldn't you. I became enculturalized by the internet and movies, both of which are mostly in American English. No other reason.
@Jasper Yes, exactly. That's why I upvoted yours and downvoted their answer.
I watched the drama series Hindsight (2015) for two reasons.
One is that it stars Laura Ramsey.
Two is that the story really speaks to me. A lot of things went wrong in her life, and she magically went back to the past and then tried to fix the mistakes in life.
But guess what? The second season was not filmed because the company didn't want to continue it, and I am left with no ending after watching the first season.
@Jasper Technically you're right, but I wouldn't interpret it literally and proceed to only place my foot on the first step and then call her if someone instructed me to do so.
I don't know, you tell me what you'd say. In my first language I've heard people say (literally) "Climb the stairs and jump.", for example, and if we wanted the person to go to the top of the stairs, we'd be explicit.
Speaking of jumping, I do have a strange physical condition related to that, which I think is OK to share here.
Every time I jump and land from a high place, even a table for example, there is a sharp pain in my perineum which lasts for ten seconds. It is the most painful thing I have experienced physically.
I have seen many doctors about this but nobody knows what the problem is.
These days, I don't jump at all, so it's not really a problem for me.
‘George and Casper talk to each other a lot,’ my mum told me. ‘They do this wibbling thing at one another. Then, if they’re tired, they’ll sometimes go up to the bed and sleep next to one another.
When people don't know how to describe things/movements properly because of their unusual nature, they approximate it with something they recognize (X) and say this X thing.
So you can assume they make some sort of quivering movements.
@userr2684291 I asked my good friend about it who is a good doctor. He can't say for sure either, but thinks it is probably a tear not picked up by the scan I had long ago.
I am actually pretty happy with my integer and fraction digits answer. It would be nice to use myself one day if I had to write a book on elementary math.
It seems that edits take quite a long time to be approved on ELL. I guess there aren't many users doing edit reviews.
@userr2684291 Anyway, just to share with you, the textbooks I got for learning French, German, Italian, and Spanish are the Assimil X With Ease ones, and the grammars I got are the Routledge Reference Grammars, and the dictionaries I got are the full-sized Oxford bilingual ones. I believe this to be the best combination of books to learn these four languages.
@CowperKettle Thank you for faithfully posting a word every day, lol.
@Jasper I'm a pharmacology translator. I self-studied the school chemistry curriculum to take a university entrance exam this summer, but realized I would not have money to survive, and shelved the idea.
@Jasper Yeah, I'm a bit hasty with my voting; I'm a bad voter. Like, I downvoted the mantissa answer even though it might be useful if a small caveat were appended to it.
As long as you don't do this thing too often, or have a really bad reason to do it, they won't ban you. At most they will send you an email to tell you first.
So the people who get banned, well, they did really really naughty things lol
Chat is different. Maybe you say something and people don't like it and if it gets enough flags you will get suspended from chat for 30 min.
But 30 min passes very quickly, lol, so no problem there.
@Jasper I don't take those to heart, but someone did vote my first question here on ELL down. I really tried hard to make it good and generic, so it can be useful to other learners.
Also, how do you know your vocabulary is small? Because of that test? That test measures the size of your passive vocabulary. I know what terpsichorean means, but I'm never gonna use it.
Now there is a reason why some people might think my English is bad, but that is not a valid reason to me.
And that thing is that I often use words in unusual ways.
And why I sometimes write strange things is not because I don't understand the meanings of certain things, but because my thoughts are strange in themselves.
Yes. Both of those can be written using the Cyrillic script.
Croatian as well, but it never is. However, historically, we had three scrips. Glagolitic, Latin and a version of the Cyrillic script called Bosančica.
We're just not that poor to turn completely to religion, but not rich either to stop entirely identifying with it, as is the case with other developed European countries.
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