@ColleenV Not sure if you've seen this ell.stackexchange.com/questions/230706/…. I don't disagree with your comment above, but they might have taken it too seriously or something.
@snailcar Thanks. Because I mostly "picked up" English (as opposed to being taught), sometimes I'm not sure if what sounds "right" to me will seem that way to others.
@userr2684291 They have been asked more than twice to be more careful about spelling, punctuation and formatting. I wouldn't criticize them publicly for continuing to be sloppy in their own posts, but I don't want them messing up others' posts.
@ColleenV Of course, I merely didn't want them to feel like there's a conspiracy against them, or that people disrespect them, as they seemed concerned about that.
@rahuldottech Native speakers of English have picked up English (as opposed to being formally taught the language). Admittedly, not all of English is standard English, but most of it, by and large, is.
@userr2684291 It seems that any criticism of their writing, no matter how gentle or constructive, is a conspiracy in their mind. No amount of helpful advice seems to have an effect either here or on ELU. They are capable of writing a post with proper spelling, punctuation, and formatting if you look at the blog they’ve linked in their profile. They simply choose not to do that here for whatever reason. Respect is a two-way street.
Up until 5 minutes ago I thought imponderable meant "unthinkable, unimaginable". Like ponder, "think about (something)".
After googling the word I realized that that meaning of ponder comes from the literal one (assign weight to).
Essentially, it appears imponderable has retained the original meaning, with a slight metaphoric flavor (i.e. "unanswerable, inestimable"), while ponder is primarily used to mean "weigh carefully in the mind" (i.e. a fully figurative meaning).
We use the word ponder in my first language in technical contexts to mean "a weight, coefficient", and there it's also used as a verb to mean "assign weight to".
I'd never made the connection between that ponder and the English ponder.
Is it normal that I interpret almost every single verse differently than everyone else in the class?
I mean, some of it is incompetence, I obviously have interest but also a backlog and chemical things to read
But sometimes I just don't see why the teacher's interpretation any superior to mine, and we don't come at radically different conclusions, mind you, but this has always been my bane at literature classes.
> I visited a monastery and as I walked past the kitchen I saw a man frying chips. I asked him, “Are you the friar?” He replied “No, I’m the chip monk.”
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