Hey, I got a hat!

Hip, hip, hooray :D

Hi!

Hi

Please wait for a moment.

I was reading news on an online website and read a sentence. Which did not make sense to me so I had to land here to get some help on it!!!

From the website: "The alleged terror plot, mentioned in a conversation between Australian terrorism recruiter in Syria, Mohammad Ali Barylei and Azari, involved selecting a member of the public at random, beheading them and then covering their body in a flag."

I think, the writer should have used "their bodies" instead of "their body".

Because there were many bodies not one body.

In that case the writer would have used "his body".

Please wait. Let me read it out again and see if I could make sense.

As per me it should have been "beheading him and then covering his body"

I am sorry, but not able to get sense. Could you please explain it to me a little bit?

But people were more so how could be one body for all.

Yes.

Yes.

Thanks. I like these feedback.

Does it (as per me) sound like a commanding order?

Or they are not grammatically right?

I will take it like "as per my order this work should be done".

Yes. I am from India. And it comes from Hindi.

Okay.

Okay. Sorry for that, let me go back to the topic.

Yes. I agree.

We were at "This member of the public has only one body."

I do not understand "their with a single body ".

Let me give you some examples. Please be with me for a moment.

Here I am making two small sentences and the situation is "I went to my friends home". For the first one I went to my friends home but both were living in the same house so I can use "I went to their home". But now "I went to my friends home" and both lived at different places so "I went to their homes" Does it make sense? In my case this is what I think.

Could you please give me any other example of the same situation? So I may understand it.

I have to leave now. But I hoping to get the answer!!!

Bye for now. See you soon.

@snailboat An interesting secret hat you have!

why would "a goodly rotten apple" be in any way offensive? I just don't get it

Because it alludes to "bad apple", I think.

ah, so it applies to being spoiled I guess?

I think so. (Sorry, my browser just crashed, again. :-)

@snailboat This one. The one you're wearing. :D

Ah! Oh! That's nice to know!

I've seen a lot of users turned into Spock today. :D

in a video gag a girl says "Are thy calling my father a goodly rotten apple?", citing something from Shakespeare.. but it sounded confusing, as it's mixing positive with negative words

got it! thanks :)

speaking of this, anyone knows some online tool for "translating" modern English to Shakespearean?

yeah, makes more sense now, especially with the last line

@snailboat Oh, isn't there a proverb based on that!?

Hmm... probably not in English.

Oh, a downvote is a hat now?!

Oh, ricochet reminds me of that song.

Sadly.

LOL

Weill, I edited my profile. Waiting for a hat. :D

Yay!

It looks like a simple question, but I think there are no good hard and fast rules.

@snailboat You mean we have to star messages of 10 different people?

I don't know. I haven't taken a look at the info page of this Winterbash yet.

Oh, how can I rotate my hat?

Thanks! Silly me!

@snailboat Oh, from this room?

Oh, great thinking!

This is very tempting! I might upgrade my iOS. :-)

Ah, no?

Ahh

True!

I think conservatively, "While I was talking with John, the telephone rang" indeed sounds better than "When I was talking with John, the telephone rang".

@snailboat Ah, I expected it to be more feature-rich.

I think I could try SE's Android app. (Don't know if an old Android 2 can run the app.)

@snailboat Thanks :D

@DamkerngT. Thanks :)

Hi!

Is anybody in?

Great.

I had asked a question but I could not find it here anymore. Could you help me out.

I was chatting with you that time.

Yes.

We are on the same track.

You guys are very helpful.

-:)

May I ask you something?

What kind of green cap are you wearing?

-:)

Hahahah. Sounds good.

Does this sentence look good? "When we keep a piece of ice out it melts."

It also:The Sun rounds the earth.

Okay.

But sometimes I have seen people use the capital S for the Sun.

Yes.

I was about to ask the same.

Thanks.

"What do we actually do in typical proficiency tests?" "We test ourselves to see if we can get to the same results the test makers had arrived at in their best opinions during the time they designed the tests."

I bet!

Oh! In what way more? More ambient noises? Or more spontaneous (less or no context)?

Ahh

It's the adverse conditions!

I usually have a lot of noises all around. (Like fans, A/C, computer fans, pumps, chatting in the background, and so on. Sometimes I listen to my iPad while the TV is on.)

@snailboat Ah, mine are noise generators!

I wonder if they do generate something around 13k!

I'm looking for a new fanless computer.

I think it's the CPU's fans and the power supply's fans that make a lot of noises.

HDD, not so much.

nods

I think fanless computers, by design, should also consume less power.

Air, perhaps.

I mean, I want to replace my server, which is always on.

I'm using an AMD 64-bit lower power consumption PC.

It was very quiet at first. Now everyone can notice the noises it makes.

Yay!

Interesting.

Though not very surprising.

I've experienced this kind of thing when playing badminton.

Beginners and intermediate players usually don't know how to deal with players who have higher skills.

So, everyone who is better than them looks the same.