What did I do wrong here that the questioner had to rollback? I believe the tags could have been wrong, the ones I changed into. But what was wrong with the title? Seriously! I just tried to make it more accurate and unique.
While the answer is correct, I am not sure if the reasoning is something that a non-native (who is already struggling with the basic "what/if/whether" choice) would understand ... I mean those are some heavy words in the answer ... Someone who knows the meanings of those words, wouldn't be asking that question ...
> While the answer is correct, I am not sure if the reasoning is something that a non-native (who is already struggling with the basic "what/if/whether" choice) would understand ... I mean those are some heavy words in the answer ... Someone who knows the meanings of those words, wouldn't be asking that question ...
But I feel like I am not innocent in that regard either. I have that tendency too. I guess that's why I have a penchant for answers from snail, BillJ, araucuria (did I butcher this?), stoneyB
I am partial to those people's answers because I've learned a lot from them
For instance, you might understand what he wrote because you know what those terms mean, and of course, because you are a native speaker ... but I for one, am not familiar with many of those technical terms
> requires as complement a subordinate interrogative clause (embedded question) introduced by one of the interrogative subordinators
Parents native speakers, but I grew up in places where English was not spoken. So the only contact I had with English was at home. Up until a certain point.
This is a follow-up to my earlier question about using bread flour instead of all-purpose flour in a banana bread recipe. The consensus was that using bread flour would yield a denser, chewier loaf, which could be undesirable (or perhaps desirable, depending on the eaters' preferences).
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I am surprised at seeing ColleenV back. The first time I saw her was when I was a week into here (ELL). Then I discovered last month that she was once a moderator. I rarely saw here the past few months. And now I can see here editing the posts. Glad she is back!
Just a query, Colleen is a girl's name, am I right in thinking so? I am very poor with judging gender by seeing name.
@Tsundoku Oh I knew that. I was just responding to @EddieKal's question about whether Bengali literature and Bangla literature were the same thing. In certain contexts, they're not. In LitSE, they are. I'm not arguing about that; I really don't care either way.
There is a Bangal/Bangla distinction which is an Eastern Bengali/Western Bengali split. Bangal or Eastern Bengali is the vernacular of Bangladesh and also the Indian state of Tripura. It is considered dialectal; Western Bengali, the language spoken in the Indian state of West Bengal, is considered standard.
Ah, I see. Thanks. As for "plenty of good answers", well, I was working on the big election and it's all over but the shouting, so I have time on my hands now. π I also just got lucky that the topic challenge was Tagore. I grew up speaking Bengali (albeit as a third or fourth language), plus Tagore is out of copyright, so that makes poking around the interwebs to find the requested answers much easier. Not that I needed to poke around to recognize the language of "This Dog" πΆπ
In decreasing order of fluency: - English (speak, read, write natively) - Hindustani (speak, read, write more or less natively in the Hindi register; can't read the Urdu register but can hold my own in conversation) - Marathi (speak and read with near-native fluency; write with some hesitation) - Bengali (speak, but very out of practice, and come across now as a non-native speaker; read only with difficulty; can't write, can type) - French (read pretty easily, write passably, can't really converse)
@EddieKal There is a certain level of debate about this. Some say Bangla is Bangladeh's language, owing to the fact the name was coined from it. Some say the other way round.
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