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MARamezani

13:00

:D

I even got a better one.

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Two tiny baby dolls of unidentified gender, made of hard, matte plastic, and wrapped in blankets of the same kind of plastic. Does the tiny baby mean "extremely small newborn"?

word-meaning

The guy got a "tumbleweed" for this.

Haha, Man-From-India has a tumbleweed too!

Damkerng T.

I think it's normal for most learners to misread a long noun phrase that way.

Wait, what? I didn't see him in that question.

MARamezani

Btw, what implication does a "tumbleweed" give to you?

Damkerng T.

I know what it means.

Not very nice, I'd say.

MARamezani

No, I mean the implication of yours about the guy who earned it.

I, myself, am :| about it.

Damkerng T.

Oh! Hmm... I've already forgotten its meaning as a badge.

MARamezani

13:05

Low views, no votes, no answers, no comments for a question for a week.

Damkerng T.

Aww

Sounds pretty much like your "Alone" badges. :-)

MARamezani

IMO tumbleweed badge is inaccurate.

Alone isn't

Tumbleweed earner could have actually asked something awesomely advanced, or something especially 'boring'. You can't tell which is which, unless you take a look at the question the guys have earned a "tumbleweed" for.

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Q: How is N to C ratio measured in forming austenitic stainless steel?

Nitrogen is the future hope of stainless steel industry; since in the production of austenitic steel it can even completely replace Nickel (which is relatively very expensive) in some cases and for another reason: It decreases the temperature at which carbides should form. As a result, there is a...

inorganic-chemistry computational-chemistry energy applied-chemistry alloy

:(

Damkerng T.

I think I can agree with that.

MARamezani

I got a "tumbleweed" for that one.

And I guess it's the most advanced question I've asked so far.

Damkerng T.

Though it would be surprising if an "awesomely advanced" is really overlooked by lots of members. It hints that something is wrong about that stack.

Or probably, the stack itself is decisively not for advanced questions.

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Q: 'inform' vs 'inform upon'

[Source:] Arguments that appeal to ignorance rely merely on the fact that the veracity of the proposition is not disproven to arrive at a definite conclusion. These arguments fail to appreciate that the limits of one's understanding or certainty do not change what is true. They do not inform u...

difference prepositions

Hmm... that's actually interesting.

MARamezani

13:16

"Wrong" is too strong about betas. I would say that answerers aren't challenged enough to bother themselves.

Damkerng T.

> They do not inform upon reality. That is, whatever the reality is, it does not "wait" upon human logic or analysis to be formulated.

I think I really don't like that upon. I mean, what is it doing in there?

@MARamezani nods -- Could be.

MARamezani

What is inform doing there? Oh, wait. Gimme a minute.

Damkerng T.

I wonder if the writer is a native speaker.

MARamezani

It's a wierd composition indeed.

I wonder if I did the best in that Q.

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Q: What does the phrase "listen to yourself" mean?

I was discussing something on another SE site(link). The discussion with full context is, I searched and found two recent mechanics questions which got migrated to Phys.SE, 1 and 2. Note that problem solving questions aren't allowed on Phys.SE, only conceptual questions are. So homwork quest...

meaning-in-context phrase-usage phrase-meaning idioms idiom-meaning

Damkerng T.

Wow, now it's a really long question.

MARamezani

13:25

I like the way they address me.

> Another thing that user Mar Amezani said is that 'even' gives the sentence some negative cannonation and if it is replaced by 'ever' then the sentence is okay. How is the sentence Do you even listen to yourself...? different from Do you ever listen to yourself...? Is the second version a continuous type action sentence or one-time type?

Mar Amezani.

Damkerng T.

:D

MARamezani

Actually my last name is Ramezani/Ramazani/Ramadani.

Damkerng T.

Why three of them?

MARamezani

All are possible.

My last name is derived from the Arabic month Ramadan.

But it's transliterated "Ramazani/Ramezani" in Persian.

Damkerng T.

That's interesting.

MARamezani

13:29

Nah, not as interesting as it sounds.

:)

Damkerng T.

So, you mainly use the one in Persian?

MARamezani

People rather call me "Ramezani", of course when referring to my last name.

Damkerng T.

nods

MARamezani

Though I'm also called (still referring to the last name): Ramez, Ramaz, Rami, Ramazan, "The name of Ramadan month in Turkish", Ramizan etc. I reckon I have more than a thousand nicknames!

Damkerng T.

Hehe!

Man_From_India

13:33

hello guys...how r u all doing?

MARamezani

Hi @Man_From_India. Just speaking about gibberish. :)

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India Hello! I'm doing fine. How are you doing?

Man_From_India

that's fine :-)

Damkerng T.

The text was added by an anonymous whose IP was 192.138.70.245 on 19 January 2011. For the difference between revisions, see: en.wikipedia.org/w/…. — Damkerng T. 6 mins ago

Anonymous

And now I'm awake again!

Man_From_India

13:35

@DamkerngT. I'm doing good too. thanks for asking...

Damkerng T.

Yay!

@snailboat Feeling better?

Anonymous

Can not can mean cannot in any dialect, but it has a potentially wider range of meanings, depending on the context

MARamezani

Hi @snailboat! I heard you were sick. Are you feeling alright?

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Not a typo?

Man_From_India

Hi @snailboat...how r u doing?

Anonymous

13:37

Not a typo

Anonymous

With cannot, the negation is of can. With can not, the negation is of either can or the following verb phrase, and not can receive emphatic stress

Damkerng T.

I only use can not when I say something like, You can not only ... but also ...

Nice to know that can not can be used for cannot as well.

Anonymous

An example courtesy of Zwicky: "A good Christian can not attend church and still be saved." Here, the scope is over the following verb phrase

Damkerng T.

Yes, that's typical for me. In fact, I'd say it's wrong to write cannot in there.

Anonymous

But "A good Christian can't/cannot attend church and still be saved" doesn't have that meaning

Anonymous

13:44

"I can NOT believe you ate all of my pudding" is an emphatic example where the scope is over can

Anonymous

One reason to separate not is for emphasis

Damkerng T.

Oh, in that case, I think I'd write cannot even if I'd also say "can NOT".

Should I change my writing style?

Anonymous

Cannot typically stresses can

Damkerng T.

Ahh... I see.

Anonymous

In any case, both options are available with that meaning, choose whichever you like

Anonymous

13:48

cánnot vs can nót

Anonymous

Of course, when separates not is a word rather than an affix, so "I can simply not believe …" is possible

Anonymous

That was supposed to say "separated"

Damkerng T.

I wondered that indeed!

:D

Anonymous

And no, I'm feeling worse, but the only way out is through, I suppose! :-)

Damkerng T.

Aww

I guessed that, too. Hope you will feel better soon.

Anonymous

13:53

I don't believe there is any basis to regard cannot as the correct spelling of can not

Damkerng T.

nods

Oh, it's interesting that Macmillan says, cannot: the negative form of can. The less formal way of saying and writing this is can’t

I didn't expect they'd write "the negative form".

MARamezani

Haha, fun fact: Out of fifteen newest questions at chemistry, 8 are closed. :O

Anonymous

It's clearly not: can't works too

Damkerng T.

Hah! What a closing rate!

MARamezani

I love it!

Damkerng T.

13:56

@snailboat nods

Anonymous

And that is a separate form. Even though they list it a moment later, the seems infelicitous

MARamezani

Is tomorrow, by any chances, international high school exams?

Anonymous

See Laurence Horn's Some Aspects of Negation for discussion of cannot vs can't

Anonymous

Oops, I meant to type can not

Damkerng T.

Hee

:D

Anonymous

13:58

I don't know of any single day for exams around the globe

Damkerng T.

Is it today? Oh, MARamezani just mentioned that.

MARamezani

@snailboat Maybe in some states in the US?

Come on! The number of homework questions say that! :)

Anonymous

But can not must be written with a space when not has scope over the following verb phrase

Anonymous

That is the rule we should all be able to agree on

Damkerng T.

nods -- I absolutely agree to that.

MARamezani

14:02

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Q: she would of been a good woman

"She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. This is an quote from the story A good man is hard to find by Flannery O'Connor. Is here "she would of been" a non-standard equivalent of "she would have been"? – And what abo...

meaning

That's new.

For me.

Damkerng T.

Oh, it must've been She would've been ...

I think this is just a typo. (writing would've as would of)

MARamezani

"Would of". Curious....

Typo? Maybe.

Anonymous

Some people will write that can not has only that interpretation available, and so when can is negated it must be written without a space, but I believe this to be false

Damkerng T.

@snailboat I think I was taught by those people. Maybe indirectly.

Anonymous

It's not a typo—it's a non-standard reanalysis of the clitic form of have as of

Damkerng T.

14:05

Hah!

Anonymous

Usually considered a spelling error

Anonymous

For most speakers the two are indistinguishable in speech, so it's no surprise people acquire would've as would of, given how rarely have is uncontracted in natural speech

MARamezani

I see.

Chat is again populated.

See? I attract people. :)

Damkerng T.

:D

Anonymous

This is regarded as an error, of course, something to be corrected, but don't be surprised if a couple hundred years from now the standard spelling is of :-)

MARamezani

14:10

So, do Canadians use "eh?" a lot?

Anonymous

Stereotypically, yes

MARamezani

And, when do natives usually put the dollar sign?

Is it 3$?

Or $3?

Damkerng T.

I like the latter better.

MARamezani

I thought that was too trivial to ask in ELL itself.

Anonymous

But in reality, final eh is distributed on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border. I have final eh in my native dialect of Northern Illinois English, but many of my Canadian friends do not

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Damkerng T.

14:12

Oh, you got starred, eh? ;-)

Anonymous

"Native speakers" isn't specific enough to discuss how amounts of money are written. It depends more on where you live than whether you're a native speaker

Anonymous

Here in the US we write $3

Anonymous

In some areas, native speakers of English use a decimal comma rather than a decimal point

MARamezani

nods (learning from a robot just happened here)

Anonymous

So there's plenty of variation to go around

Damkerng T.

14:14

@snailboat Causes me a headache every time!

@MARamezani nods :D

Man_From_India

Here also we use ₹10, but we write 10 rupee.

Damkerng T.

Hmm... Is rupee like baht (that its plural is also rupee)?

MARamezani

@Man_From_India That's a wierd sign for an exchange medium!

Anonymous

I love that rupee symbol. I remember seeing it a few times, like when I looked up how much Swan's book cost in India

MARamezani

I would go with Rls.

Damkerng T.

14:17

₹ actually reminds me of Transformers. :D

Anonymous

There was a question tangentially related to thar on ELL at one point, too

MARamezani

Simple, elegant,... well, not so "nationalized".

Do you have that thing in your keyboard, huh?

Anonymous

I've always pluralized rupee as rupees

Anonymous

₹ looks like a tornado to me!

Damkerng T.

Hehe!

It looks like a tornado indeed!

Man_From_India

14:19

@snailboat he he...Swan book is cheaper, but CGEL is costlier here. Well, that sigh is a recent introduction, probably in the year 2008 or 2009. Can't remember exactly...it's derived from Devnagari Letter (ra) and Latin "R"

MARamezani

The thing reminds me of Ancient China teacups, if you ask me.

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India Aww... I was hoping it was in Cybertron. :-)

Anonymous

When I was a few years old we got a Nintendo, and it had a game called Zelda where the currency was rupees, and that's how I learned the word :-)

Damkerng T.

@MARamezani Hmm... -- trying to think of a teacup in that shape...

MARamezani

You have to be your best in imagination.

Anonymous

14:22

Ahh, I'm feeling a little better just at the moment

Damkerng T.

@snailboat But the game was made by Japanese people, I guess?

@snailboat Yay!

MARamezani

@snailboat That's the power of chatting.

Anonymous

Yes, it was. I think they took a few cues from both Indian and European cultures for their little invented world

Man_From_India

it's look exactly like hindi letter "r" with a middle cross

MARamezani

@Man_From_India Or a vase.

Anonymous

14:24

They put a character named Sahasrara in the game, a sage

Man_From_India

:-)

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India Oh, come to think of it, it doesn't look much different from Thai's "r" (ร) as well.

Nice name!

MARamezani

I'm looking for something in my keyboard to actually look like it.

Anonymous

So there are other references to Indian culture too

Anonymous

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahasrara

MARamezani

14:25

ط is the best I can come up with. :)

Anonymous

I can't type it from my phone

MARamezani

Guess Persian hates "vertical" alphabet.

Damkerng T.

@MARamezani Looks like a little Dino, or maybe a whale!

Man_From_India

but as far as i know iphone have support of rupee symbol...

Anonymous

I've never learned to read a right-to-left script

Anonymous

14:27

Not counting Japanese, which is written right-to-left horizontally but less than 0.1% of the time

Damkerng T.

Oh, yes. It's written right-to-left. I wonder if it's handy enough.

MARamezani

It's no big deal @snail. I deal with 'em all the time. It's like writing with your other hand. :)

Damkerng T.

I remember that with my fountain pens, writing anything from right to left would result in lots of smear!

Anonymous

It's very commonly written in vertical lines which are arranged right-to-left, though, and books written this way read the other way around

Anonymous

When I first started reading Japanese, I got headaches from books that went right to left

Anonymous

14:29

But that went away after a week or so

Damkerng T.

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Q: sports VS. sporting

Sports shoes / Sports car a.Television shows sporting events. b.Television shows sports events. Having taken into account the bold parts, it would be appreciated if somebody possibly explain what is the different between a and b?

vocabulary

Oh, no! It's getting closed soon.

Anonymous

When Japanese is written horizontally r-t-l, the biggest difference I find is that I'm slower for lack of practice :-)

Man_From_India

i don't know why. but that is not a bad question, imo

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India +1

MARamezani

Easily answerable with a dictionary? I doubt that.

Damkerng T.

14:32

@snailboat It was confusing for me, too, when I started reading manga r-t-l.

Anonymous

Manga translated into English these days is no longer mirrored, as I understand it

MARamezani

But I like Nima's catch phrase: "Having taken into account something above". :)

Anonymous

But it used to always be, so, you remember Migii from Kiseijū? :-) in English, I believe they called him Lefty!

Damkerng T.

Hehe! Migii was actually quite a hero in that one!

Anonymous

I got the comics in Japanese after the cartoon started airing

Damkerng T.

14:36

> Migii

Anonymous

I'm surprised how different it is! Yet it tells the same basic story

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Yay!

Man_From_India

nice :-)

MARamezani

I never understood what Manga is supposed to be.

Anonymous

I don't usually read horror comics, or in fact watch or read horror anything, but this series seems like something special

MARamezani

14:37

No offence.

Anonymous

Manga means "comics" in Japanese

Damkerng T.

@MARamezani Story telling, I suppose.

Anonymous

The term was borrowed into English with the narrower meaning "Japanese comics"

Damkerng T.

With lots of visual attractions.

Anonymous

My iPhone hates me. It autocorrected sonething to sonethibg

Anonymous

14:39

Comics are a diverse art form in any language

Damkerng T.

:D -- You could try Siri, if it wouldn't make your throat worse.

Anonymous

I'm going to have to get out of bed just so I can fix all these typos :-)

Man_From_India

@snailboat Command it with your voice and it will type for you. Obedient Siri :-)

Anonymous

I'm afraid my voice isn't working so well right now

Man_From_India

did you catch cold?

Anonymous

14:40

I have an acute upper respiratory infection

Anonymous

Yes

Man_From_India

Oh sorry to hear that

Anonymous

It's nothing serious

Damkerng T.

Anything acute sounds quite serious!

Man_From_India

but still take care.

Anonymous

14:41

The most important part of being a moderator is being able to fix your typos more than two minutes after you make them :-)

Man_From_India

oh oh oh superlike

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Hail to the mod power!

Anonymous

Acute is as opposed to chronic

Damkerng T.

Ah, chronic doesn't sound good either!

Anonymous

If I went to a doctor, "acute upper respiratory infection" is the box they'd check on the insurance form

Anonymous

14:43

But normally no one ever says that phrase

Anonymous

Sometimes I say things most people don't, and I'm not really sure why. I guess language is one of those things where you can do what you want and not worry so much about what other people are doing :-)

Damkerng T.

I think in a way, we can say that each and everyone of us has our own language. A customized one. :-)

MARamezani

I starred that @snailboat! I perfectly agree!

Anonymous

Yay!

Anonymous

Now I'm sitting up, and I grabbed my laptop, so I can type normally and edit stuff if I like

Anonymous

14:48

Now where are all those typos …

MARamezani

I'm feeling jealous, again.

Damkerng T.

@snailboat --> Here

Anonymous

I fixed it!

Damkerng T.

:D

MARamezani

Guys, how do we search for questions with titles lesser than n characters?

Damkerng T.

14:53

Sounds like you need the data analyzer. (Or something sounds sort of like that.)

MARamezani

I wanna use the SE search bar, nothing more.

Anonymous

More on Canadian eh: homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/actes2004/Gold-CLA-2004.pdf

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Anonymous

The built-in SE search is largely useless. I very rarely use it

MARamezani

Nice article!

Anonymous

I might be biased since it is more or less literally useless for Japanese and Chinese, and it's not quite as useless for English

Anonymous

14:55

Stack Exchange nonetheless has launched Japanese Stack Overflow without a usable search

Anonymous

(We on Japanese.SE are used to using Google to search)

MARamezani

How can I do that with a Google search?

Anonymous

What precisely would you like to do? Get a list of short titles?

Anonymous

I don't think you can do that with Google, either. Damkerng's Data Explorer idea sounds like it could work

Anonymous

Another way would be to grab the data dump from archive.org and do your own processing

Damkerng T.

14:57

Ah, it's called Data Explorer!

MARamezani

Hmm, let's try the idea.

Anonymous

archive.org/details/stackexchange

Anonymous

You can grab the data here and process it in whichever way you wish

Damkerng T.

data.stackexchange.com/ell/query/277632/…

Anonymous

There you go!

Anonymous

15:00

We were racing! You won

Damkerng T.

Just a quick hack, though. :-)

It's actually by sam.saffron.

MARamezani

Thanks, robot! I'll see what I can do. But the thing was about chemistry, not ELL.

Damkerng T.

I think you can try the "Switch sites" button.

Anonymous

My quick hack was different :-)

Damkerng T.

@snailboat show me, show me, show me... :-)

Anonymous

15:05

perl -lne 'next unless m/PostTypeId="1"/; use HTML::Entities; m/Title="(.*?)"/; $title = decode_entities($1); if (length $title < 20) { m/Id="(.*?)"/; print "http://ell.stackexchange.com/$1 - " . $title };' Posts.xml

Damkerng T.

Hah! That's pretty awesome!

Anonymous

A quick one-liner hack which commits the sin of parsing XML :-)

Damkerng T.

Wait, we have to download the data dump first, I think.

Anonymous

Yes

Anonymous

I did that

Damkerng T.

15:06

I see. Looks cool anyway!

Anonymous

It would be better if I used XML::Simple or something

Damkerng T.

HTML::Entities works just fine, I think.

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Q: How to get a solution

I have a science project, I am stuck at this point that I need to mix TITANIUM(IV) OXIDE, ANATASE, and SILVER IODIDE. I don't know how to mix them and get a liquid form. I don't know the amounts of each that I'll need to mix and how much water.

solutions

That's one of questions with a short title on Chem.SE. I wonder why the downvote.

Anonymous

Well, the data dump doesn't use '

Anonymous

I tend toward quick and dirty solutions like that if I'm doing them on the spur of the moment and don't intend to save them for the future

Anonymous

Since a maintainable or readable solution takes more time

Damkerng T.

15:15

@snailboat If that's dirty, I don't even have a word for my own code on my whim!

How about grotty? :-)

user116848

Hi all

user116848

@snailboat Feel Better!

Damkerng T.

Hi!

> Who gave this son of a bitch his green card?

Said 9 hours ago at Oscars. :-)

user116848

Where is Copperkettle these days?

user116848

I kinda miss him.

Damkerng T.

15:28

I gather that he still reads the chat log, but only comes in here occasionally.

You could try @ him. :-)

user116848

He is using the StayFocused thingie I read.

Damkerng T.

Is it software?

user116848

I don't know. Looks like one, definitely.

Damkerng T.

Looks like a good tool for people whose work is not related to anything web thingy.

user116848

This is very amusing:

user116848

15:32

in Mos Eisley, Jan 26 at 18:43, by Richard

@JackBNimble - Precisely. If you visit this site, it explains how to turn your rep points into dollars.

user116848

I like the song!

Anonymous

@Farooq Thanks :-) I'm okay, though, really

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I recommend an alternative that selectively blocks so you can use other web thingies :-)

Anonymous

I don't know how StayFocused works―perhaps the same way

Damkerng T.

Sounds like something similar.

Anonymous

15:35

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use common::sense;
use XML::Simple;
use XML::Entities;

my $maxLength = 20;                   # Find titles 20 characters long in SE data dump
my $site = "ell.stackexchange.com";   # Which site? The name of the site isn't in the XML, so we need it here

my $data = new XML::Simple->XMLin("Posts.xml");
for my $post (@{$data->{'row'}})
{
    # Search for questions only
    next unless $post->{'PostTypeId'} == 1;

    # Search for questions with titles of $maxLength or less
    my $title = XML::Entities::decode('all', $post->{'Title'});

Anonymous

Indentation successful! :-)

Damkerng T.

Oh, is it public-domain? :-)

MARamezani

I took a look. Disappointed. Our titles are pretty much "summing-it-up". :)

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Oh, well, sure, why not? :-)

Damkerng T.

copying... :D

Anonymous

15:39

This is the same thing, but with fewer corners cut

MARamezani

The solution question is just a someone-wondered-how-to-do. The answer would've gotten the downvote, as a sign of respect to the question. :)

Man_From_India

I am reading a poem by W. B. Yeats

> Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;

There is a line "if it seem"

I am wondering why the "s" is missing :-O

Anonymous

'Cause the subjunctive doesn't change form to agree with third person singular subjects

Man_From_India

Oh it's subjunctive!

And that "it" refers to?

"if it seems certain that the women are passionate", right?

Anonymous

Love

Man_From_India

15:45

ahh got it...

thanks

Anonymous

          Indicative      Subjunctive
         Past    Pres    Past     Pres
1st sg  seemed   seem   seemed    seem
2nd sg  seemed   seem   seemed    seem
3rd sg  seemed   seems  seemed    seem
1st pl  seemed   seem   seemed    seem
2nd pl  seemed   seem   seemed    seem
3rd pl  seemed   seem   seemed    seem

Anonymous

As you can see, the subjunctive is quite difficult to master, what with all those forms being different from one another

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Hehe! -- The trick is to know when to use the subjunctive.

(I'm not saying that I know.)

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. The above is a traditional chart, of course. Modern linguists (e.g. H&P) don't necessarily analyze it that way

Damkerng T.

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Q: Manhunt for a gunman

Some time ago, Paris police launched a manhunt for three gunmen. But, what if there are three women who carry guns, shoot and escape, is it still appropriate to say "manhunt for three gunmen"? Will it have to be "womanhunt for three gunwomen"?

word

Man_From_India

15:50

@snailboat that's so true

Anonymous

They take the simpler approach of having seem, the plain present form; seems, the third person singular present form; seemed, the preterite form (a fancy word for "past tense form")

Damkerng T.

I find this one somehow cute!

Anonymous

And the plain form seem, which is used for infinitival and subjunctive constructions. It would be used for imperatives too, but I'm not sure imperatives are possible with that particular verb :-)

Anonymous

Maybe they are: "Hey, you! Seem cute!"

Anonymous

Seems iffy. :-)

Anonymous

15:52

Hey, you there! Yeah, you, the sentence I just typed! Seem un-iffy!

Damkerng T.

That you is cuting up!

Anonymous

It doesn't seem to be listening.

Anonymous

Of course, seem also has the -ing form, like every non-defective verb; and the past participle form, which, as for all regular verbs, is the same as the past tense form, seemed

Anonymous

Six forms, of which there are only four unique forms: seem, seems, seemed, seeming

Anonymous

I'm glad English inflection got so much easier over the centuries. It's too bad about our syntax getting more complicated to make up for it :-)

Anonymous

15:54

@DamkerngT. Hmm. Gunman doesn't sound gender-neutral to me in the least.

Anonymous

I wouldn't be surprised if someone had used it for women at one point or another.

Anonymous

But we have the gender neutral term gunner, which may not be a perfect fit but is probably good enough

Damkerng T.

Oh!

nods -- Like those snipers.

Anonymous

Manhunt, on the other hand, sounds gender-neutral to me

Anonymous

elpasotimes.com/news/ci_27306187/…

Anonymous

15:57

nation.foxnews.com/2015/01/10/…

Anonymous

These are google results for manhunt with female reference

Anonymous

You can also find a few results for female gunman, as it turns out―that runs counter to my intuition

Anonymous

But I'm not searching corpora, just Google, so I can't tell how frequent one use or the other is

Anonymous

My intuition says female gunman is exceptional

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