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Susan
Susan
04:30
Hi, everyone
I am new here, and altogether new to ESL. I promise I'll read up on the meta section questions; perhaps in that way, I'll learn more about my role here. In the meantime, I was wondering if it was possible for who has been doing this a long time to check on an answer I gave to a user here. I think I went way overboard in my explanation. I don't want to insult anyone's intelligence.
If someone could check, and leave a comment where I can find it, I'd appreciate it greatly. Thanks so much!
Anonymous
04:56
@Susan I don't think you're insulting anyone's intelligence. Collins has a definition for -speak listed as "suffix forming nouns", which makes sense to me, although I think their definition is a little too narrow: collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/-speak
Anonymous
05:11
I was looking for some definitions to refer to, but I couldn't find ones that seemed 100% right
Anonymous
Personally, my opinion is that as long as you're trying to help, you shouldn't worry too much--people will give you feedback if they think you've made a mistake :-)
Susan
Susan
05:23
@snailboat - thank you, snailboat. That's a help and an encouragement. :-)
 
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Anonymous
08:33
There's something very funny about seeing the Frosty the Snowman hat on Samuel Johnson
DarkHorse
DarkHorse
hey, what's up man
 
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StoneyB
StoneyB
21:04
@snailboat Glad you enjoyed it. I thought it was sort of Christmassy to dress the most notorious depressive in English literary history as a 'jolly happy soul'.
@Susan I think it an admirable answer. I don't think you can give too much explanation to our audience. Any given learner may be having trouble with lexical or morphological or syntactical issues; you explain them all, and explain them in terms which will allow the reader to 'generalize' the answer, see how it applies in other cases.

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