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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
06:26
@snailboat Request has expired (ﾉ；；)ﾉ~┻━┻
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
10:16
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ ┬──┬ ︵ /(.□. ）
(In keeping with my current smiley practice.)
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
12:03
Word of the day: shear pin
> an easily replaceable pin inserted at a critical point in a machine and designed to break when stressed to excess. First use of the term: 1931.
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
yup, when an excessive shearing force is applied to it
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
12:18
@userr2684291 Wow, so not only are you looking at the wrong direction when you're smiling, but upside down too?
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
12:37
Anti-handling device
An anti-handling device is an attachment to or integral part of a landmine or other munition e.g. some fuze types found in general purpose air-dropped bombs, cluster bombs and sea mines. It is designed to prevent tampering. When the protected device is disturbed, it detonates, killing or injuring anyone within the blast area. There is a strong functional overlap of booby traps and anti-handling devices. == Purpose == Anti-handling devices prevent the capture and reuse of the munition by enemy forces. They also hinder bomb disposal or demining operations, both directly and by deterrence, thereby...
I was reading this article and came across shear pin there
\o, Muhammad
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"Protests in Yekaterinburg", the events of May 2019 by a local artist
There indeed were hundreds of policemen in heavy gear
I spent three nights there until 2 am.
userr2684291
userr2684291
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Ya, you can't see it, but (: is actually flipped around the x-axis as well.
 
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Man_From_India
Man_From_India
13:40
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A: Meaning of the then king

Man_From_India The then king It is a Noun Phrase (NP) with the head noun being king, The preposition then along with the head form a Nominal. The structure of the NP is like this: DETERMINATIVE (realized by a DETERMINER + [Pre-Head MODIFIER (realized by a PREPOSITION + HEAD (realized by a NOUN] Th...

 
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Cardinal
Cardinal
14:45
word of the day: Binge Watching
2
macmillandictionaryblog.com/binge-watching
 
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New Meta Question
New Meta Question
16:18
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Q: "I love everyone until they criticize me or be arrogant." Or "I love everyone until they criticize me or become arrogant."

Ahsanul Irfan "I love everyone until they criticize me or be arrogant." Or "I love everyone until they criticize me or become arrogant." Which one is correct?

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
16:43
@NewMetaQuestion Heh. I began reading the title and I thought it was going to be a rant about downvotes
@Man_From_India Man I don't have time to read the whole thread but the votes might be because you addressed one of the OP's questions only. (Just the grammar. Not the meaning, usage OR OP's proposed variants)
 
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Man_From_India
Man_From_India
18:36
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ may be or I suspect that it has to do with analyzing then as preposition and that too in a NP structure as pre head modifier of the head noun.
userr2684291
userr2684291
18:53
@Man_From_India What else could it be?
Isn't determiner a function, while determinative is a lexical category?
userr2684291
userr2684291
19:07
Not trying to knock the wind out of your sails, but in my view, heavy use of terminology and formal analysis isn't very instructive given that the asker presumably isn't familiar with the rest of the framework.
@Cardinal Amusingly, you didn't capitalize word, but you did capitalize the words in question.
Me: screams.
 
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Cardinal
Cardinal
20:15
@userr2684291 :)) Yeah, you are right pal!
 
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Anonymous
22:33
It’s actually pretty confusing, because Quirk et al switched them around and made determiner the part of speech label.
Anonymous
If you don’t have enough context to know which terminological universe a speaker resides in – assuming they use words in a coherent fashion at all – then you can’t be sure what they mean by those two words.
Anonymous
> You are not your end-users, and you if you are a developer most likely do not run average hardware.
Anonymous
I thought that was an interesting location to interpolate if you are a developer. I’m curious if anyone has difficulty reading it.
Anonymous
22:58
@Man_From_India It does look like you have determiner and determinative swapped, like Quirk et al do, but then you use nominal in the way Huddleston defines it, so at a glance it seems like you’re mixing different sets of terminology.
Anonymous
Is that on purpose? I know some prefer to use determiner as a word class label since it’s more familiar, but then using Huddleston’s novel definition of nominal doesn’t seem like it would make sense.
Anonymous
Ultimately you can go with whatever labels you like, but the important thing is that readers know what you mean by them.
Anonymous
By the way, if you choose to distinguish category and function (and I recommend doing so), there’s a nice little convention you can use: capitalize functions, like Determiner.

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