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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

08:23

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The problem for me is the question: Which subjects did you opt for? Who would even say that? One would say: Which subjects did you choose? Which subjects have you chosen? — Lambie yesterday

SmokeDetector

08:53

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly non-latin answer, non-latin link in answer, pattern-matching website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, potentially problematic ns configuration in answer (213): Will and would for "has the capacity to" by مکس on ell.SE

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userr2684291

12:47

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I didn't link to that one, no, but that doesn't matter specifically. It's the two answers, which are conflicting.

The main question is answered, sort of, but that of idiomaticity isn't.

One (native) speaker says it's OK, the other two don't like it for some reason.

I have no issues with the expression myself.

I don't follow the argument that you can say I'd opt for math but not Which subject did you opt for?.

It just makes no sense. I don't see how idiomaticity can be questioned here at all. "Sorry, opt for can't be used in questions." (??)

Because that's what their thing boils down to (they admit it can be used in that context in a statement).

It's not actually clear which side user Jason Bassford supports there. Seems like they're representing their own, special side.

I should stop bothering...

3 hours later…

Hardik Sharma

16:14

Which one seems better over another :

What I happened to do was started talking to myself suddenly ? And what I happened to do was that I started talking to myself unexpectedly ?

Is there any other way of conveying the same thing which would indeed be better than the upper two ? Thanks in advance.

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

18:21

@userr2684291 It doesn't seem unidiomatic to me, but the choose option is what I'd opt for.

And bet you 14 million dollars it's way more common.

@HardikSharma The first one is unnatural. "What I happened to do was starting talking/to talk to myself."

@HardikSharma The second one is fine. I personally wouldn't use "that" but it's not wrong or unidiomatic.

@userr2684291 and learned to love the bomb?

userr2684291

18:37

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Dunno what you're referring to.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@userr2684291 google.com/…

userr2684291

I hope it's not a movie reference.

Haha.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yeah, it doesn't look unidiomatic.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@userr2684291 You agree with me. You must be a smart person

userr2684291

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I disagree.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Well that didn't necessarily mean I held a stance. I used a probability modal.

PSYCHE

Or syke. I dunno.

userr2684291

18:44

A probability model? Good bot.

Oh. Modal.

My days are numbered. I have around 53 to submit my thesis thingy.

I haven't started yet.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Haha I can tell

There's a noticeable air of desperation around you

userr2684291

Wth.

It is bothering me, though.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Well, not around you, around that sentence

userr2684291

I've started with... preliminary research into the field, though.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

And not desperation, but . . . I dunno, despair

userr2684291

18:48

The situation is grim.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@userr2684291 Did you make the Word document?

I always make the Word document first.

Then try to figure out if LaTeX can be better.

They had different names before, but in a few years, worry not, it will also called "thesis"

userr2684291

I don't exactly know if I translated it well; we call it "a work".

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Haha. Descriptive.

I feel like doing some soul searching. What does "Haha" with a period sound like?

Don't you dare make that a pun.

userr2684291

Haha.

It's two short "ha"s with the smile potentially remaining on your face.

Light chuckle.

Maybe the period does kill the possibility of that smile, though.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

So like HA. HA.

userr2684291

18:54

No.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

What is your thesis about? If it's not a secret

userr2684291

It's about AI and networking.

Robots communicating over a network (special protocol) and doing something "useful" (only academically, potentially).

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

HA. HA.

userr2684291

By "special protocol" I mean just that I have to upgrade one my professor has been working on for years. And he's in Kyoto right now, teaching or something.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I was talking to Siri. She. Is. Dumb.

Google is more smarter.

@userr2684291 I think a lot of people become professors for the somethinging

userr2684291

19:00

He invited a couple of us to go to Japan (everything would be paid for) if we decided to continue working in his lab / that field after uni.

But I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Not really into robotics / AI. I literally chose it because I didn't want to work with my previous professor anymore, and his door was next to this guy's.

(To be honest, they're all next to each other, but the topics for the theses sounded ~interesting.)

I'm still not sure what I want to do with my life.

Maybe I should switch and study medicine or physics or math. ):

Well, finish this one and then... hm.

I feel like I've never really known what I wanted to do (except those few years in kindergarten when I wanted to be an astronaut, I guess). I've always been interested in everything, though.

Have fun, @M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ.

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

20:35

@userr2684291 Try medicine, then make SciFi little robots that kill cancer cells.

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