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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
05:22
> Russia has already convicted a blogger for mocking Christianity with Pokemon Go. Now a Russian student is facing potential prison time for a meme likening Jesus Christ to a character in the massively popular television show Game Of Thrones.
rferl.org/a/…
The horrible thing is, the Trumps and Sarkozys of this world still go to Moscow and shake the monster's hand after such news.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
10:07
If a house stands on the shore of a lake, do I say "House on lake Such-and-such", or "House at lake Such-and-such"?
> The younger buddy of mine, Doyle, would have me and my date drive his date and him to the family lake house on Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs for a weekend with parents' permission.
Ah, "on" is okay
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
12:05
Word of the day: to age out of smth.
> Youth who age out of foster care show higher educational attainment
Araucaria
Araucaria
12:42
Reflexive pronouns:
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A: Why would you say "it changed me" instead of "it changed myself" here?

AraucariaThe Original Poster's Japanese friend has a very good reason to ask this question, and if we don't understand what this is, then we cannot fully answer the question. We usually need a reflexive pronoun when two noun phrases in a clause refer to the same being or entity: Bob(i) kicked himself(...

CowperKettle
CowperKettle
12:53
+1 for pipping me to the post. That puts you past 50 rep - you have comment privileges now. Congratulations. :) — Lawrence yesterday
Word of the hour: to pip someone to the post.
user2236
user2236
tsk tsk
@snailboat that's one of my favourite words along with minuend
you can't have one without the other
Anonymous
13:18
@user2236 Thank you, I love it! Let's make that a word of the day, too.
Anonymous
Word of the day: minuend
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user2236
user2236
:0)
 
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LawrenceC
LawrenceC
16:35
We need a stack exchange for English perfect tense.
 
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ColleenV
ColleenV
18:09
@LawrenceC and a separate one for articles ;) Perfect constructions in English are hard
 
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ColleenV
ColleenV
19:41
@Lambie I forgot that as a mod I could superping you - this is probably the easiest way to show you what I meant by “main chat”. Snailboat and I are here often enough that you should be able to ping us and we will see it.
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
23:33
For the first time I feel grateful there's a huge spider on the wall adjacent to the bed. Hopefully it catches the blood sucker in its web (and turns me into Spider-Man).
Hm, Mosquito-Man doesn't sound that scary. Skeeter-Man ... too generic-sounding. Mansquito, though...

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