wow just went for a walk at 1 am ... it's a ghost town here.

Saw a cat roaming around

I crossed to the other side of the road

@snailcar Thanks.

> My bow is a rarity, crafted by my father along with a few others that I keep well hidden in the woods, carefully wrapped in waterproof covers. My father could have made good money selling them, but if the officials found out he would have been publicly executed for inciting a rebellion.

@snailcar What do you think about the use of found (out) and would have been executed there? Do you think this is a mistake, and that the first part should've been written as had found (out), or that it's a mistake and the second part should've been written as would be executed? (:

I'm not sure whether it's describing an unreal situation or not (in the past).

ell.stackexchange.com/questions/232754/… This has been cited it to me as evidence of AmE being sloppy about it, which I know is generally true about anything, in any dialect, in any language, but I don't think this is what Swan had in mind with the examples the same user commented above.

> Sometimes a simple past tense is used with if where a past perfect would be normal. This is more common in American English. 1. If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake. 2. If I had the money with me, I would have bought you one. 3. If I didn't have my walking boots on, I think I would have really hurt my foot.

I think in all of these we're talking about preference within an allowed scope of options.

I've just memorized 10 pages from the dictionary and learned Next to Nothing.

That's what Ben said ... I think that's what Ben said ...

Hi, where is everyone?

Well, my friend memorized 5000 words for their GRE.

I was only able memorize 2500.

Flash cards are so effective

I don't know about reading an entire dictionary, but I enjoy reading entries in their entirety on Merriam Webster's site

and connecting each word with someone you know

making the words sound funny

but I think it was one of the best things that I did. My vocabulary improved a lot.

I thought the GRE is no longer about vocab

Why?

I don't know I sat for it in 2016 - don't know what happened in these 3 years

But it was hella tough

memorizing the words was the easy part I would say

The GRE has undergone a lot of changes, or so I heard

the hard part was actually doing "sentence equivalence" and the comprehension

Perhaps, because people don't do so well in the English part

They have this extremely convoluted passages from Literature

My friend prepared for it for 6 months, and I prepared for it for 2 months

8 hours a day

That sounds pretty intense

8 hours outside your normal study/work?

Nope

I was working full time then

so I had to go home after work and then study GRE

Yeah that is what I mean. In addition to work you had to work hard for the GRE

And my friend is just a robot

They did nothing apart from studying - school work and then home and GRE

Oh yes yes

Well, no other way to get into grad program for us

Well standardized tests are indispensable I think. I think the SATs and the ACT are being overhauled in the past two years. I don't know how much the GRE is changing

But without them the selection process is near impossible

Yes. Agreed.

I learnt useless words too.

lol

like what

like "iconoclast"

Lady Gaga, in challenging what it means to be clothed, is an iconoclast for wearing a "meat dress" to a prominent awards show.

haha

That throws me back to my first Bible study group in college

yeh lol

a pastor starts talking about how Jesus was an iconoclast

lol

And some interesting ones, like "haughty"

And I told myself, "All hot girls are haughty"

wow $400 for a 5 day cruise ship tour

sounds too good to be true

I have never been on a ship. Ferry yes, but not a ship ship.