English Language Learners

MARamezani

15:00

@snailboat Ice cream? You had to say that? Now I have to go eat some!

@DamkerngT. OMG that was horrible! Don't do that ever again with your robotic sound! My ear hurts!

Just when I'm armed to fire Jim with some nastily witty speech, he disappears.

Oh gosh! Now what do we have to do with this comment?

Have a loo at this and this. — Klaus Warzecha 10 hours ago

Anonymous

Too bad only moderators can edit comments.

Anonymous

(After five minutes have elapsed.)

MARamezani

Still laughing Sorry, can't answer, give me a moment.

Still laughing

Anonymous

This is what we call "easily amused" ;-)

MARamezani

Still laughing I don't know why the pronunciation seems phuunny too!

Rereading it ➡ Laughs again

Yes, I intended to write look rather than loo :D — Klaus Warzecha 9 hours ago

Damkerng T.

15:08

> Is it the first time you came to France?
http://ell.stackexchange.com/q/54237/3281

user116848

I'm being me. I can't find anything funny to laugh at.

Damkerng T.

I find that it's another difficult question!

Most questions on ELL were asked as if it were a standalone sentence. No context. No sentence before, or after!

Is it the first time you came to France? What is this it?

MARamezani

@arrowfar I think a Turkish man finds it phuunny (you misspelled it) and there are other things that make me unable not to laugh.

Damkerng T.

How about Is that the first time you came to France?

user116848

@MARamezani Heh

Damkerng T.

15:10

Or Was that the first time you came to France?

Anonymous

I'm not sure what's supposed to be funny here

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. Don't think this one's possible. It's the tourists' first time ever.

@snailboat Well I stopped laughing, so I'd carry on.

user116848

This is nice:

user116848

i1.cpcache.com/product_zoom/145852966/…

Damkerng T.

Oh, right. The English people were still on holiday in France.

MARamezani

15:12

@arrowfar That looks even longer than Google links.

@arrowfar At times, I can be very hard to amuse, so feel lucky that I'm in a good mood.

VERY hard.

Amusingly very hard.

user116848

@MARamezani Heh, I know.

user116848

Something was wrong with the link I suppose.

user116848

Dot jpg was missing I guess.

MARamezani

I'm feeling bored.

No meta post to answer?

Aw come on!

Damkerng T.

@arrowfar I thought you were trying to avoid posting a huge picture to the chat!

MARamezani

15:16

pyobum, South Korea

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user116848

@DamkerngT. No, it was like that already :)

MARamezani

I think they have gone the same fate as Dolt.

Damkerng T.

@MARamezani ?

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. Native speaker, now in far East.

Damkerng T.

Heh, I was going to say that pyobum's English is great...

MARamezani

15:18

More like sitting on top of the head of @Jim

Damkerng T.

Now I see that they have this on their profile: I am a native speaker of (American) English.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Sometimes I post stuff with an arrow first: →

Damkerng T.

Arrows are always nice!

user116848

I know, right?

user116848

This is interesting:

user116848

15:21

Damkerng T.

Interesting that banner and badge have no articles. Nor they are in plural.

user116848

I had to Google "sots" though.

MARamezani

@arrowfar Not a chemist. Don't care what he says. Looks like a vampire though

user116848

I didn't know the word.

MARamezani

I knew sot as an adverb

Goes something along the lines of touche. Something close in meaning to indeed.

user116848

15:24

Meow!

MARamezani

Oh, I was right: thefreedictionary.com/Sots

Damkerng T.

Oh, I didn't know its Scottish sense.

user116848

I'm trusting the dictionary. Just the dictionary.

MARamezani

I remember I learned it when I was playing wordament.

user116848

No one else.

user116848

15:26

(Smiley)

user116848

I'm tired of making this ":-)"

MARamezani

@arrowfar I know, right?

Anonymous

Maybe you can find a smiley that you like better

Damkerng T.

@arrowfar That sounds familiar. I would advise against it, but it's up to you.

MARamezani

😄

user116848

15:27

@snailboat Indeed!

MARamezani

Better simleys look like squares, apparently.

user116848

@DamkerngT. Ahhhh good man!

MARamezani

SE hated fun anyway.

Question: Why can't MS word open a new window when there's a dialog box "active"?

Damkerng T.

In the old days, programmers decided that when a computer wants to ask its user something the user should stop doing everything else and answer it.

user116848

Answer: I don't know.

user116848

15:30

Sometimes I go into a silent chat room and it becomes active because I say something interesting.

Damkerng T.

So, we still have this kind of dialog boxes: modal dialog boxes

MARamezani

@arrowfar That's, helpful!

@DamkerngT. Who created you? I wanna thank them.

Damkerng T.

:D

Anonymous

Yeah, modals are awful UI

user116848

MARamezani

15:33

Funny hahah happieness? Image not found

user116848

Then how did you know I pasted something funny?

MARamezani

@arrowfar The link.

user116848

Ah, I see.

MARamezani

Advertisers have become weird. Why do I need to know the price of Seretide?

Damkerng T.

It must be because of your previous searches.

MARamezani

15:35

@DamkerngT. They aren't relevant.

Damkerng T.

Oh, don't worry about that. Their ad selector is so smart that it can relate anything to everything.

user116848

Some Asthma thingy.

user116848

I had seen one but didn't know the name.

MARamezani

@arrowfar Yeah. It's a drug for asthma. A little bit expensive here. I wonder if @snailboat's using it.

OH MY! We do have a new meta post.

It's form @Araucaria, and it's -1!

Wait, why -1?

Damkerng T.

Because it's about "The ten hundred most common words" and it's Part 2!?

I missed its Part 1!

MARamezani

15:41

-5

Q: Should we use only the best ten hundred words in our answers?

For the best learning of our friends in this place, should we attempt to write all or our answers in up goer five words? This would help people who do not have a lot of words that they know understand new words. Maybe the place for adding a new answer could let people know when they are using t...

discussion answers etiquette

Damkerng T.

Oh, it has its merit: should we focus on writing only things that our users will understand easily?

I think it's not only about words, though. And some easy-to-understand words aren't on the first ten hundred words list, I'm sure.

MARamezani

Yesah. I'm tempted to comment.

user116848

Btw I'm glad to see everyone is so nice here today.

Damkerng T.

I remember that I tried to write my answers in plain English, aiming to use only simple words and phrases (which is not particularly difficult to do because the real me in my first language is also that kind of person, but I need to be aware of it if I want it to be really plain). One of the effects I got was that some users treated me as an absolute beginner of English in comments. :-)

MARamezani

Ah, I hereby declare our (me and company, for more info please visit chat - learn more!) partial agreement with you. It's been a bother for some time to see that some students don't get the answer that's provided here. (which is found out when they ask trivial questions that are answered in the answer and/or finding out that they've posted something similar in another forum) However, sometimes this just isn't possible. The level of the learners and the questions isn't consistent around here, so simply stating/purposing such feature isn't practically that beneficial. — MARamezani 10 secs ago

I couldn't resist not typing some gibberish along my ideas.

Damkerng T.

15:52

I usually try to base my plain English on the OP's English.

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. Exactly what I'm gonna say in the next comment, well, somehow.

Anonymous

I do change how I write (or speak) depending on who I'm talking to

Anonymous

Although here in chat, I often just talk like me, unfortunately

Damkerng T.

nods

Anonymous

Of course, most of the people in chat don't need me to speak simply :-)

Damkerng T.

15:55

Hehe!

Anonymous

(I do try to if I think I'm talking to someone who needs it)

MARamezani

@snailboat I do.

Now that you say that I don't, I say I do.

Anonymous

Contrarian.

MARamezani

@snailboat Feels, takes a deep breath, nice!

Anonymous

That means someone from the planet Contrary.

Jim Reynolds

15:56

@sna, you really do have a tendency to talk like you.

Let me find the little pearl I noticed earlier.

Anonymous

@JimReynolds I know, right? One of these days I'll get around to fixing that.

Jim Reynolds

:-)

user116848

So how do I sound like here guys?

MARamezani

@snailboat I really don't like to see anything fixed for some time, just let it go....

user116848

I don't mind if the answer is bad.

MARamezani

15:58

This is my state of the union:

But all in all, I really would like some of our answerers to take the level of the knowledge of OP into consideration when answering. (It's usually too hard and crude to just be judging the OP's English with what they've posted, but crude isn't nothing) — MARamezani 2 mins ago

Damkerng T.

@arrowfar That's a tough question.

Jim Reynolds

like Damkerng says, "I am fine", emphasizing the affirmative polarity of the sentence)

MARamezani

@arrowfar You sound Arrowfarily. It's not a tough Q.

Anonymous

@MARamezani I've heard people say that before, and people make the counterargument that answers are supposed to be useful to future readers as well

Jim Reynolds

the affirmative polarity of the sentence!

Anonymous

15:58

And what if the future reader has more trouble understanding?

Damkerng T.

@arrowfar I could avoid the matter by simply saying "You sure sound like you", but I know you don't really want that. :-)

user116848

Good good.

MARamezani

@snailboat I'm not saying to lower the level of the answer, but to make it more, plain.

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