[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in username (91): If the teacher is good the students will respond positively to ______ by Alpha Prime on ell.SE

@ColleenV I might throw a tantrum for both of us. Please tell me that the following statement made by David Fullerton♦ “On Monday, October 7, we’ll be sharing a second draft of an update to our Code of Conduct with all moderators for feedback“ was not empty words. I don't want to know the contents of the 2nd draft, I just need to know that the moderators were shown this updated Code of Conduct. (she crosses her fingers)

@snailboat Thank you, so much.

> Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how we're able to understand spoken language so rapidly, and it involves a huge and complex set of computations in the brain.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190930161852.htm

> Scientists argue for a new model of language, involving the interaction of multiple brain networks. This model is much more complex than the classical neurobiological model of language, which was largely based on single-word processing.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191003141149.htm

@Colleen hi

Can anyone suggest me some good book on English, I am biginer in English, I mean which contain good grammar, tenses, and etc, any suggestions will help thank you.

@ColleenV Thanks a lot, I shall do that. :)

@yuvrajsingh My recommended approach is just picking one of the popular ESL books of your level. Accuracy doesn't matter all that much about languages, and you don't study them like you do natural sciences. Your best bet, if you're looking to get fluent in a language, is consistently and persistently using it. Listen, read, write, whatever you can do. Talk to your hat. Try to think in English.

@yuvrajsingh Hi, there is a thread on Meta that has a lot of good suggestions Resources for Learning English

Books are good in that they give you some direction, but if learning physics and math is eighty percent your own work, learning to speak easily and fluently in a language is ninety nine percent your own effort, other than the effort of the people trying to teach it to you.

@ColleenV Hey, I'm being deep here

@M.A.R. And you are giving excellent advice

@AIQ If you mean the reader would be able to connect them, they should. Your suggested wording is a bit weird, but my advice is going to be vague unless I know what those sentences are

I was in the middle of typing my drive-by advice so I just kept going...

@M.A.R. I was just trying to not piss people of here with detailed text. But here goes:

To restore fairness and equity in the Employment Insurance program, a single national entrance requirement needs to be established. The duration of EI benefits also needs to be revised to a single range that would only vary with the claimant’s employment history. And there should be a single invariable benefit calculation formula for all workers, which should not be linked to the unemployment rate.

so speaking informally: to restore equity, three things need to be done: (1) establish single entrance requirement (2) revise the duration of benefits, make it a single range (3) have one benefit calculation formula for all workers

But what I did not want to use in my writing was (1) (2) (3)

as in numbers or letters in parenthesis

@AIQ Oh hey now, we're not that grumpy.

Maybe @userr is.

@AIQ Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Because I find that much better to follow, especially if you want to emphasize that all three are requirements to be met.

@AIQ This version could use some improvement and fine tuning, but mostly the problem with it is it doesn't really convey to the reader the importance of all three requirements being met.

@AIQ why are you using “restore”? Did the program use to be more fair than it is now? Fairness and equity seem redundant to me ... do you mean “restore faith” maybe?

@AIQ When I had to write an English essay (a pros and cons one) on my final exam in order to finish high school, I had to learn so-called "linking words" (despite, moreover, etc.) which can be used to seamlessly connect sentences. However, what you have here looks like an introduction that'd naturally lead to expounding on each of the given suggestions later in the text. I'd write these as a bulleted or numbered list, if it were me, but the version with numbers in parentheses is OK.

@userr2684291 I think what you really meant to say is however henceforth moreover.

@M.A.R. Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän.

Nein

Still nein

@M.A.R. You said "I find that much better to follow ...". Do you mean the 1,2,3 version?

@AIQ Yep

@ColleenV Hi, yes the program used to be fairer before a major overhaul in 1996. Now the program works like a "postal code lottery". Whether you qualify for benefits, if you do, how much you get, and for how long you get, depends on the region you live in and the unemployment rate in that region.

You and your friend can be laid off from the same firm on the same day with identical work history and earnings - one of you qualify for $500 a week benefit for 20 weeks while the other does not because you guys live on the opposite sides of an arbitrary line. In the other persons region the unemployment rate is lower by 1%.

@userr2684291 Thanks for that, and yes I have used plenty of those in the main body of my piece. These 3 lines are actually the ending lines of the concluding paragraph of the chapter

Okay so I see both M.A.R and ColleenV are of the same mind that the "1,2,3" alternative form is better in conveying that the 3 things are equally important. In addition, that form will better connect to "To restore..."

Ahhhhhhhh.

Good bye.