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userr2684291

00:15

@snailboat Honestly, had to do a triple take. (Dishonestly – I understood it immediately.)

userr2684291

00:25

What was that expression... there must've been a fancier way of saying you re-read something because you didn't understand it at first (...in that article about speed reading). Like recursion or something? I had to recur a couple of times. Nah. Reiterate? Loop a few times.

Regressions.

"About 10% to 15% of the time, skilled readers make regressions, moving backward in the text to a previous word. Regressions are different from return sweeps – eye movements that go from the end of one line of text to the beginning of the next." (There's also saccades, or "quick, ballistic eye movements" between locations (words).)

I regressed all the way to that article.

But I regress... (ha).

skullpetrol

lol

as opposed to "digress"

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Man_From_India

@snailboat Sorry it was a mistake. I edited my answer. Thank you for spotting it :)

@userr2684291 it was a mistake. I mixed it up :'(

userr2684291

00:40

It's fine, I upvoted your answer regardless (it was kinda sad to see it sitting at –2).

Man_From_India

I used Huddleston's terminology. It was a mistake on my part :)

@userr2684291 thanks for the up. But vote count doesn't matter much. All it matters is this sort of discussion about how to improve the answer and the faults in the answer. Remember, I too am a learner :)

userr2684291

Yeah, I know, but I don't think what you said is wrong, and people trust vote counts.

The mixup notwithstanding.

Otherwise your effort goes to waste.

Man_From_India

I do agree. nods

skullpetrol

Link please.

Man_From_India

@skullpetrol which one?

CowperKettle

00:54

I've prepared a book I will give as a gift to Olli today, my friend Olya Vlasova. It's "Great Expectations" by Dickens in Russian. I've just composed this dedication ditty.

I like it - not very oleaginous.

> Would you accept this little gift,
And read it at your leisure –
When you are off from working,
Bicycling, hiking or boarding shift?

Man_From_India

@CowperKettlei had the original book written by Dickens himself. No translation or modification. But I really couldn't read it. Because most of the time the expressions didn't make sense.

CowperKettle

Ah!

It's a great book.

Man_From_India

I however read the Bengali translation of his A Tale of Two Cities. Superb.

CowperKettle

Yes, the two great books by Dickens.

Man_From_India

Oliver Twist is also there.

CowperKettle

01:00

I liked some pieces from the movie Oliver Twist, but I did not like the book as much as these two books.

Oliver! 1968 Movie Clip Consider Yourself

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Man_From_India

I couldn't read the other two books.

@CowperKettle i expected something more romantic from a poet that you are :)

skullpetrol

Have you retried to read them?

CowperKettle

(0:

Man_From_India

@skullpetrol nope. I abandoned them after my brief abortive attempt at my childhood :)

skullpetrol

Classic novels require many rereadings.

CowperKettle

01:06

@Man_From_India A couple of years back I wrote a more romantic poem to her

While we were hiking by a lake

> Dear Olya, you're a master cook -
Your meals taste better than they look.
And you're the smiliest of friends,
Who dances till the music ends.
And you can knit a sock or two -
I bet there's nothing you can't do!
You can do anything, my dear,
I wish I always had you near.

Man_From_India

@skullpetrol nods but the expressions there didn't make sense. Some words used in a different way than u would normally expect them now. I kept wondering if those words botany old meaning. Etc.

@CowperKettle now this is nice my friend :)

CowperKettle

01:30

My friend in NY has just send me this critique which I don't understand

She's a retired teacher of Russian but a native speaker of English

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Anonymous

07:46

@userr2684291 In speech it would have been fine, because intonation and rhythm would let you know that if you are a developer was a supplement. I feel like in writing it's difficult unless you add some sort of marking, something like: and you – if you are a developer – most likely do not run average hardware.

Anonymous

I'm not sure how much I really like that, but it's at least easier to read. The whole thing seems a bit better if we just move it over one word, though, doesn't it?

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userr2684291

10:14

@snailboat Yep, that's what I thought. Punctuation takes away some of the charm of the original, lol. I do like the original because I can imagine it being said and I don't see any issues with it.

My first thought when I read that was that the person who wrote that isn't used to writing.

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Man_From_India

13:28

Q: Verb (as adjective) + subject vs subject + verb

Which one is correct or seems more natural? Please, walk on the path provided. Please, walk on the provided path. I've looked it up on google and the former seems more common than the latter, but I can't see much difference between them.