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5:13 AM

it turns out a word composed of multiple words with hyphens placed between them and functioning as a adjective is called a compound adjective.

Can a question regarding English usage with math or physics contents be asked in English site?

I'm afraid that kind of question can't be understood.

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scaaahu

6:38 AM

To those who wondered where scaaahu is these days. I am just back from hospital. I had internal bleeding. My Hemoglobin dropped to 6, less than half of normal level. I was hospitalized 9 days, received numerous transfusions and finally back to 10 and then the doctor released me.

Wrzlprmft

@scaaahu ouch. I hope you fully recover.

You missed some first-class drama over here.

scaaahu

I used Academia SE as the home page, I forgot to logoff when I was sent to hospital by ambulance. That's why my login showed up when my wife used the computer.

@Wrzlprmft First, congrats! I wish I had the chance to vote, but I didn't. I saw some messages about SSimon, didn't pay too much attention. It's over now, right? Hope now we can go back to peace life.

Wrzlprmft

@scaaahu It's over now, right? – The election is over, but the drama continues.

Discrete lizard

@CaptainBohemian It can. The English is decent populated with academics, so unless it is purely a terminology of some field, it is probably on topic and answerable. Be sure to check the help center for whats on topic first, though.

@Wrzlprmft Really? I haven't seen much drama since 3/4 of the election. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right places.

scaaahu

Well, I am going to leave for while. My wife is calling me to take some food and drugs. Talk to later.

Wrzlprmft

6:47 AM

@Discretelizard Take a look at the questionnaire.

Discrete lizard

@Wrzlprmft [ctrl+f: ssim] Ah, I see. So that is the appropriate talking venue. What a curious case. I'm afraid (based on past and previous behaviour) there's only one person who can help that user (themselves) and I hope that user 'recovers' soon from this 'stuff'.

Massimo Ortolano

@scaaahu Welcome back! I wish you a quick recovery!

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Magisch

9:13 AM

@Wrzlprmft Gratulations to a well earned victory :D

Wrzlprmft

@Discretelizard So that is the appropriate talking venue – well, depends on what you’re talking about.

Captain Bohemian

9:36 AM

@Discretelizard every time I want to ask a question in Englishsite, I rack my brain to think how to replace a sentence in the contexts of math and physics by a sentence without these professional jargons, because I am afraid people versed with English language, like linguists, can't understand me.

These days I am bombarded with a lot of linguistic jargons in English Language & usage, feeling quite headache.

I hope there is someone, like linguist, who can explain to me what those jargons mean.

Wrzlprmft

@CaptainBohemian Well, you can always ask on Linguistics or ELU itself, provided that you can elaborate why a dictionary/encyclopædia did not help you.

Captain Bohemian

9:53 AM

well, sometimes, I just feel different posts in ELU don't use some linguistic jargons consistently, but I don't know how to ask about this.

Wrzlprmft

@CaptainBohemian Well, elaborate your confusion and tag it terminology

Captain Bohemian

How do I ask? I just post in ELU saying I am confused by xxx (an English jargon) because xxx (a post in ELU) and xxx (another post in ELU) don't use it consistently? Can I post this way? That sounds strange. I have never seen anybody posting this way.

Wrzlprmft

@CaptainBohemian Not exactly. A fictive example: “Are adverbs a subset of adjectives? – My dictionary tells me […], which is inconclusive to me because […]. On this site, there are post like […] which I understand to claim that adverbs are adjectives, but there are also posts like […] which I understand to claim the opposite. In English linguistics, is there some general agreement whether adverbs are adjectives? If not, what are the arguments for or against this?”

Captain Bohemian

10:20 AM

@Wrzlprmft Sound like a decent way of asking a question. I'll try to see if I can compose a question like that way.

But I find people in ELU seem to be generally versed with those linguistic jargons. Sometime I am afraid they may tease how naive I am in asking that kind of question.

StrongBad

11:16 AM

@scaaahu glad to hear you are doing better.

@CaptainBohemian one can only hope they won't and if they do that the mods will step in. If they do, then you have simply found yet another bad Internet community and you move on.

Discrete lizard

@Wrzlprmft Well, it is at least the venue that has been used as such ;)

@CaptainBohemian Yeah, just do what wurzepromft says. Also, terminology is sometimes more appropriate on the sites related on the field, e.g. you can ask what 'FPT' means on Computer Science.

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