@JasperLoy Sometimes you'll see Jim trying to eat somebody in chat, but he's kidding.

I think relief is the right word.

@JimReynolds Yes, I did!

nods

@DamkerngT. Yet it always comes up.

I saw people's reactions. I thought the same at first, but then I corrected myself.

You are a recent-enough model to know what you want to do or not.

@JimReynolds So I'm relieved.

@JimReynolds What did you become? A corrected Jim?

O.0

Let that tough snailboat be the police here.

Ties up MAR until she can come to punish him.

Kicks him while he's tied up, and no one's looking.

@JimReynolds That was Dam!

Whom was?

Whatm are you talking about?

(in muffled voice) Help me... I'm not MAR!

@JimReynolds You kicked Dam! Don't you realize it was metallic?

Oh. Ooops

:D

Pardon me. But did you refurbish your exterior plates? It felt very human-like.

Hullo @Arau!

Kinda squishy.

@JimReynolds Then you kicked someone else. I'm not human-like.

C'mon. I say you're a full .0000001%

@DamkerngT. Aaargh! What was the name of the room?

The new room?

I haven't created it yet.

But I think it should be something like: English for Learners and Non-Native Speakers

Why a new room?

@MARamezani Hi just popping through. Am teaching in a sec :)

@JimReynolds I'm tired of fighting.

Oh. I teach in a classroom.

O.O

Welcome back @Araucaria!

@JimReynolds o_O

@JimReynolds Teaching my behavior?

Oh. Can't we just not fight in here. I think it's called ignore button.

No. I teach that in a zoo.

To try to show the apes and monkeys what will happen to them if they don't practice good manners.

Slaps Jim

My class is called, Do you want to end up a MAR?

Yukh! Those tentacles

@JimReynolds I know there is one, but I think I know human nature too well, and I'm tired of manipulating anyone anymore.

Ouch.

Hmm...

(Either manipulating someone else or being manipulated. The more political correct term should be "behavior modification". ;-)

But we will all just go there then.

Oh! o_O

Well, I think whatever solution will not be that hard, logically or practically.

BTW, Everyone is welcome in that room. ;-)

Dam I think a new room is still not a good idea!

And the only reason it's a bit challenging emotionally is . . . well, because the world needs to be that way if we care at all.

BTW @JasperLoy left. I wonder if he didn't like Jim's presence here.

O.O

@MARamezani lol

O.O

He went to look up whom.

I think, in 1 hour time, we'll have a Q in ELL:

Do English natives always say whom?

This is my favorite treatment of who and whom: ahdictionary.com/word/…

The usage note there.

Shame on you Jim.

Why (this time)?

For having a favorite treatment.

O.0

O.O

@JimReynolds I don't know if you'll believe me that sometimes I can read people like a book. (And some folks are not a very thick book.) What I'm not really good at is to persuade them, though I could do it well enough in my working life. But at some point in my life, I just feel like I had enough of it. I think you may understand me better than others because you're living in the East.

O.o

I mean, in the West, people usually fight a fight with a fight.

@DamkerngT. Cultural difference. I understand.

No. Really, I don't.

Yay! -- Aww...

@DamkerngT. I think it's better not to think about it anymore.

I let Jim know a bit more about my thoughts, that's all.

@DamkerngT. I know.

But you're only making yourself more depressed.

Oh, I know I can handle it well enough. So, don't worry, okay? ;-)

And thank you for your kind heart.

We will find our way.

@DamkerngT. Or, I worry your CPU might overload.

Indeed.

@MARamezani I'm moving memory banks around a few computers. It's very surprising to see that some RAM banks only work with only some computers!

Hey, I just turned my TV on. You know what's on it? It's Ice Age!

Somehow the three main characters remind me of the three of us. :P

I, er, obtained Railway Man.

I am really looking forward to seeing it.

@JimReynolds Ahh

@DamkerngT. Mmmm, which one am I?

Sid?

You are Ice. And sadly, I am age.

O.O

I had watched its first half last night.

I saw that!

@MARamezani Hmm... which one would you think like you the most?

Your movie watching style would be good for one of those films that shows the last part of the story first, and then flashes back to the past. O.O

@DamkerngT. Diego.

@JimReynolds I know. Flash forward, then flashback, then forward again. :-)

@MARamezani Well, Diego is fine, too. :D

@DamkerngT. You were thinking I should become Ellie? Why you little!

LOL

I would issue an extremely strong recommendation for *March of the Penguins.

(Add asterisk as needed to achieve italic effect.)

O.O

rottentomatoes.com/m/march_of_the_penguins

I'll keep that in mind.

Why you little. I should ____ you.

___ means something awful.

Wow TOMATOMETER 94%!

@JimReynolds Pat?

O.0

@DamkerngT. How.Ever,

Wait, it's a documentary!

Maybe I've watched in on Discovery Channel.

Dragons 2 had a tomatometer of 92%.

Since we have a teenager in this room, I suggest that anyone who is feeling sexually uncomfortable alert a moderator immediately.

And I didn't like it.

Alerts a moderator.

@MARamezani Aww

Because MAR patted me.

lol

@JimReynolds HEY!

hehe

Hmm.. tomato-meter or whatever, it's an amazing filem.

phylum!

@DamkerngT. On the other palm, TF4 had 18%.

I looovvvedd TF4.

Transformers?

@DamkerngT. Yep. Especially Jablonsky's work.

Gah! Transformer movies give me a headache.

@JimReynolds You give TF a headache too. O.O

@JimReynolds Oh, I think it happened to me in Transformers 3.

Well, honestly. I know that it's just my taste, MAR.

I'm glad you like them, really.

I mean, in some scenes, it looks like they designed the scenes only for people who can handle 100+ objects moving fast on screen at once!

Well, Avengers had headachy Visual thingies too.

Doesn't even make a sarcastic face.

I think I can handle only 20-30 objects.

But was that before your RAM upgrade?

@DamkerngT. So your screen is 20-30 OPS?

@JimReynolds I think I still should buy more RAM. :D

I remember when we . . .

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Huh?

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I was going to say I remember whe we had to talk this slowly for you.

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But you have some kind of chemist's idea.

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@JimReynolds Thhhisssss slowwwwllllyyyy?

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:-)

@DamkerngT. Tahnks? Looking up dictionary

Argh! It's Tahnks! on your screen?

@DamkerngT. It's Tahnks on SEs dump too.

Tanks.

The things that you store your hydraulic lubricant in.

Oh!?!

Or did I just a sentence end a preposition with?

The order is all wrong! (interesting)

O.O

Let me read back your order.

@JimReynolds You did!

One Thai Big Mac meal.

One Thai Cola (contains Coke plus green curry).

And, of course, a large French Thais.

Hmm... Never heard of that one. There is Big Mac, and there were some Thai menus (which taste only awkward-ish, imo).

@JimReynolds French Thais! (-_-)"

@JimReynolds stackoverflow.com/search?q=body%3atanks

I was not ashamed of that one, myself, @Dam. :D

O.O

I don't even know what stack overflow is!

Do I want to open that door?

@JimReynolds It's not edible.

o.0

@MARamezani Are you sure? We're talking about Jim here. :P

Sniffs at @MAR.

What was that you said before?

@JimReynolds I said hullo!

No. I mean "Shame on (me)."

But everyone LOVES snailboat.

And she would be all . . .

Hi!

O.O

Hi @user62015!

Pauses.

Hi @user62015

That is a beautiful user number you have. How are you?

@user62015 Hullo!

Have fun guys:

What are rules to use articles before numbers for example: She was an 8 years old girl. Does it depend on the first letter as per alphabetic?

Great question!

@MAR or @Dam will answer.

o_O

@Jim will answer.

I think you know?

Thanks @JimReynolds

@user62015 It depends on how you read the number.

@user62015 It's about how 8 is pronounced.

I'll let MAR explain it.

I agree 100%.

Okay!

So, first, how about an 8 or a 8?

@user62015 You start pronouncing with a vowel, and you get an an.

I agree.

She was a 12 years old girl.

There was a post on these on ELL.

He was a 1 year old boy.

She was an 11 years old girl.

Yeah! Oh, that is better than sex!

Are these uses fine?

@user62015 1 is pronounced starting with /v/.

So, it's fine.

Exactly fine.

Wait.

@JimReynolds No, Precisely fine.

But . . .

Sure.

An 11-year-old girl.

Not years.

^

@JimReynolds Yes. I wanted to point that out.

^ ^ ^ ...

I think, we can use both ways. an '11-year-old' or '11 years old'

@user62015 But then,

I think, both options are fine,

> She is an 11 *years old girl

Honestly, for me some things about that last question were difficult for me until the last few years.

is wrong.

@user62015 No. You need an adj before girl.

I'm not sure, but I think the usage has changed.

I think one of the grammar topics is hyphenated adjectives, or hypenated modifiers.

I still get confused about it from time to time.

Okay.

11 years old isn't an adjective.

Right.

She is 11 years old.

It's two different phrases, I reckon.

She is an eleven-year-old eleven year old.

O.O

?

No.

Screams. Jumps out window.

I told you I still get confused about it.

Grabbed Jim just in time before he reached the ground.

My hero!

Yay!

Now I must live with you for the rest of my life.

Packing his bags.

lol

Haha.

Thanks everyone!

That's a wuxia's trope!

I want to ask you one more thing.

Now you know why @MAR doesn't want to give his email addy.

Oh. We love questions.

And especially, we love to pretend to wait and let the other two answer.

O.O

Articles shouldn't be used before any proper noun (name), right?

Almost. But not quite.

seeing the White House coming...

The New York Times.

It can be tricky.

Usually not.

Hotels

The Four Seasons.

Please point out my every grammar mistake during chatting as I want to improve my language as soon as possible. And I love feedback from you people.

my every is no good

Yes. In India I read the article 'the' before political parties etc.

So I want to confirm this point.

I have a list here.

O.O

We use them:

I agree! @DamkerngT.

before rivers.

The Ganges, right?

Yes.

mountain ranges, oceans, deserts, groups of islands, hotels, cinemas . . .

political bodies

This is a useful one:

"Countries whose names include political terms"

So, The US.

I agree!

@JimReynolds Like United, Republic, etc.?

newspapers.

Yes, so if the name of the country includes a description of the type of government.

Okay. I am done with this question as your answers are making the same sense which I also think.

And finally, in this book I'm looking at, if the country's name includes a proper noun.

The Netherlands.

Thanks! You all are very helpful and friendly.

The Philippines.

We are all helpful.

@MAR is not that friendly

But today, he's not bad.

:D