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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
10:24
@MaulikV Can you check something for me?
I believe that it was possible for us to offer a bounty on any questions.
Now I think we cannot do that anymore.
It seems like the button "start bounty" was gone.
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Wait until the question has been up for more than two days.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@snailplane Oh! Thank you.
I wish I could have a reminder feature (to remind me the next two days). :-)
> Many people think that (the) beer they brew in Germany is the best in the world.
This one really bugs me. :-)
Maulik V
Maulik V
It's here for me!
Yes, tha'ts right
in fact it says...
question eligible for bounty after ... days
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I just couldn't find the button, so I freaked out! :-)
Thank you.
I think that "update" question is also interesting.
In fact, we can use almost all of them.
But for is definitely not my first choice.
Maulik V
Maulik V
hhmm OED suggests 'on'
as I stated there
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
10:33
I mean it pretty much depends on what was intended to say.
Maulik V
Maulik V
I mean update for is something you are talking to the document itself!
Hey document, there's an update for you!
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Different prepositions will give different meanings.
I think the sentence is really tricky.
> An update [for/in/of] the given time slots.
Maulik V
Maulik V
It's simple and straight to me. When there is an updated document and you want to notify someone
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
You can think that the document is nothing but the report of the time slots itself.
Maulik V
Maulik V
'on' will go naturaly
pretty natural
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
10:35
I would use on too.
Maulik V
Maulik V
<del>in</del>
ah...
--in--
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
But I think of, to, about, and for, even in are also possible.
Maulik V
Maulik V
grrhhh
I want to update you about ...goes easy. what say?
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
That's different. That update is a verb.
Maulik V
Maulik V
Oh, J.R.'s comment says everything
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
10:38
Looking...
Maulik V
Maulik V
There is no set preposition that goes with update: I have an update for Brian. We're waiting for an update on the school closings. An update to the software will be released next week. David has an update about the virus attack. Please visit our website for the latest update in the material. The physicists are working on an update in the latest theories
:P
But OED defined on
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Ah, as always, I can trust him. :D
Maulik V
Maulik V
so I put!
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I think on is the natural choice here. But this specific case is tricky. :-)
Maulik V
Maulik V
Crystal...
?
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
10:46
Gotta go. BBL
Maulik V
Maulik V
Okay... cya
Anonymous
Remember that the freely available Oxford dictionaries are not the OED.
Maulik V
Maulik V
Oh I see...
so Arent' they authentic?
But it reads 'From Oxford University Press'
Anonymous
11:46
Oxford publishes multiple dictionaries. The OED is the name of one specific Oxford dictionary, a large historical dictionary.
Anonymous
It's not a matter of authenticity.
Anonymous
For learners the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary might be more helpful--though of course you can consult multiple dictionaries, and that is just one possibly helpful choice
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
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Q: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 13

Appy   "You know how I think they choose people for the Gryffindor team?", said Malfoy a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for no reason at all." It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potter, who's got no parents, then there's the Weasleys, who've got no money –...

phrase-usage
Should I close it because it's a typo?
Maulik V
Maulik V
typo?
where?
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
It's "You tell him, Neville" not "You tell him Neville".
Maulik V
Maulik V
11:59
I see
You may not close this then.
Suggest it instead
 
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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
17:33
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A: A Few Notes on Generic Reference

Barrie EnglandI don’t agree with the premise. We can, with generic reference, say all of the following: The Italians are musical, but the British excel in poetry. Italians may be musical, but you can’t beat Germans for a good brass band. The Italian is musical, where the Frenchman is artistic...

Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
18:16
I believe that this will mostly depend on the material, e.g. nylon, linen. A few simple words I can think of are twine, yarn, and maybe thread. But a thread would be small. You picture makes me think of hawser. — Damkerng T. 8 mins ago
My keyboard is still be my keyboard. :-)
 
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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
21:58
Over the last few days, I can feel an increasing trend of weak answers.
Wait and see...
 
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Anonymous
23:51
@DamkerngT. I checked my copy and it had the comma, too.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@snailplane Yeah!
Anonymous
I thought it was worth checking because the U.S. edition changed a lot of things including punctuation. My copy is a U.K. edition (like the OP's, judging by the title)
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Answers on ELL have always varied in quality. That's true on every SE site I've used
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I was so surprised that we can explain so many things from only a single sentence "You tell him." :-)
@snailplane At least one thing is certain. We're having more users who are getting involved. And I think that's a good thing.
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Well, the site has been getting more and more visits.
Anonymous
23:54
The site will be a year old tomorrow. I joined the site when it was a couple weeks old, I think.
Anonymous
I'm not sure precisely when. But when I joined, the visits/day were closer to 150.
Anonymous
Now they're at 6500.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Wow! So tomorrow is our site's Happy Birthday!
Anonymous
Yes. Someone should write a meta post.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
^^
150 -> 6500. That's over 40 fold!
Anonymous
23:56
We've had a lot of turnover. Some very active early users are no longer here. But a lot of very helpful users have been here the entire time, like StoneyB for example, and I think we're lucky to have them
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Somehow I can feel that I'm a little more talkative today. :-)
nod furiously
Anonymous
Fold is never plural in that sense. You can talk about a forty-fold increase or say a number has increased forty-fold
Anonymous
I'd say it's not a noun but a suffix.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Oh! Thank you for your correction.
By the way, I just read it from somewhere about one Japanese proverb.
In English, they say "Two heads are better than one", but in Japanese, they say "Three heads are better than one".
I think that's a little strange. :-)
A little curious where Japaneses got that idea from?
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