@SamBC Sometimes people just aren’t getting enough out of participating on ELL for what they’re putting in. Sometimes completely washing your hands of something can be a big emotional relief. They can always start a new account if they want to try again.
Interacting online is hard. I would rather see folks disengage themselves before things go really sour than spend too much time having a bad experience. It’s worse for everyone when someone rage quits and does destructive stuff.
@userr2684291 - I'm more than thankful to you for your concern about my question by bringing it out here. But that also doesn't mean that I don't recognize the current answer and "comments".
Also, I would like to thank whoever got rid of the two downvotes on each of my recent two questions. I'm wondering when this "hit-and-run" approach would come to an end. For real, leaving feedback on a deserved-to-get-downvoted question is more helpful than marking it as a bad one.
@TasneemZH Np. Don't worry about downvotes; people have their various reasons for downvoting, and not infrequently do they clash with what downvotes are supposed to represent.
But ya, if 5 people downvote you, chances are, you're doing something terribly wrong.
@TasneemZH Speak in is used as follows: Could you speak in German / a British accent? – it's not asking whether you generally can; rather, it's closer to "assume" or "affect" in meaning, except normally without (perhaps not entirely) the flavor of pretending you know the language. I would say Please speak in German now is felicitous (if unlikely) even if you know for certain they don't know a word of German.
Well, sorry, I initially added please to the first sentence. As written, it might refer to a general ability, but even then it carries this connotation of "assume, affect".
The problem is, you can always say you're speaking a certain language when you're speaking in it.
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