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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
03:01
Thanks!
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
03:39
Notorious question
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Q: Are the to infinitives, gerunds and bare infinitives objects?

BoSsYyYAre the to infinitives, gerunds and bare infinitives objects? I see that everyone says different things. For example: I agreed to give him the money Some people will say that here "to give" is a catenative complement to "agree". Other people will say that "to give him the money" is a to-infinitiv...

grammar
 
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Anonymous
09:31
@Jasper Say is irregular in speech, but not in writing. Say is /seɪ/, but says is /sez/, not */seɪz/. I kind of like sez because it reflects the irregular pronunciation in an irregular spelling :-)
Anonymous
Sez has a history as something people call "eye dialect", an attempt to represent (what is portrayed as) uneducated speech through non-standard spelling, often reflecting non-standard pronunciation. Of course, in says, /sez/ is actually the standard pronunciation! So sez in writing as a marker of uneducated speech is silly.
Anonymous
But I don't use it that way. I use it in my own informal online writing, just once in a while, 'cause it's fun.
Jasper
Jasper
10:04
@snailplane Wow, I did not expect another grammatical discourse from you resulting from my silly comment. =)
@CowperKettle Hi, I don't think I will join vk.com, but you can email me if you want. My email is in my profile. =) I just watched all your youtube videos. =) Who is the guy singing, is it you or just a performer in the club?
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
13:39
@Jasper Singing?
The woman singing. I
It is Anna Gerasimova, known as Umka
I am attending her concert on the 24th this month
Word of the day: entitation
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
16:40
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Q: Land recultivation? Land revegetation? Land reclamation? Land rehabilitation?

CopperKettleI'm translating a Russian text about the recultivation (рекультивация) of land formerly used for open-pit mining. The process of 'land recultivation' in Russia involves three general stages: Preparatory stage: a feasibility study, justification of investment, development of working documentatio...

terminology landscape-ecology
I have an entitation problem over there
Too many entities, too little me
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
16:55
I'm translating horrible officialeze
> The project jointly implemented by UNDP/GEF and the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment of Russia and titled "Mainstreaming biodiversity conservation into Russia’s energy sector policies and operations" has demonstrated that when it comes to making Russia's largest coal mining companies understand the biodiversity conservation issue, it's possible to "move the needle" by engaging a wide spectrum of representatives belonging to the business sphere,
> the governmental sphere, as well as the scientific and environmental communities in a constructive dialog.
Lawd have mewcy
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
17:24
Lawd failed to hear me
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The signing of this agreement became a starting point towards unifying previously disjointed efforts for finding optimal methods of landscape and biodiversity restoration, and also towards their subsequent adaptation for use by coal mining companies of (**THE??**) Kemerovo Oblast.
Should there be the?
Anonymous
17:45
I don't think so? Looks like it's usually just Kemerovo Oblast without the. I can find some attestations with the, but they're in a minority.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:40
Thanks!
17 English words that came from Japanese
Word of the day: skosh
Never heard of it
It was not part of my entitation
Word of the minute: refugium
Just came across it in my Russian text I"m tarnslating
Refugium (population biology)
In biology, a refugium (plural: refugia) is a location which supports an isolated or relict population of a once more widespread species. This isolation (allopatry) can be due to climatic changes, geography, or human activities such as deforestation and overhunting. Present examples of refuge species are the mountain gorilla, isolated to specific mountains in central Africa, and the Australian sea lion, isolated to specific breeding beaches along the south-west coast of Australia, due to humans taking so many of their number as game. This resulting isolation, in many cases, can be seen as only...

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