English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Carlo_R.

8:00 PM

Yes, Will, but for now we must stay where we stay.

For having voyages in the future there is not enough tecnology.

The problem is that the earth is certainly destined to be eat from the sun.

user19161

@Carlo_R. Yes, you are right. I subscribe to the big bounce theory. The expansion and contraction of the universe.

Carlo_R.

Yes, but the bing bounce will happen after the sun has eated the earth.

Our specie have to find

The way to go off the earth before.

user19161

Well, I think that when the time comes, we just need to end our lives painlessly when it gets too hot or cold.

user19161

I am thinking what life would be like when that time is near...

Carlo_R.

I pose to me the same question, but that is OT on ELU and I cannot ask.

However nuclear problem will resolve all the things.

Human being will destroy itself more before that time.

6'000'000'000 of people now, 10'000'000'000 of people in 2020 is no longer sustenible.

Every day each people want more energy.

But energy create geopolitical problem. And someone will push the button.

RegDwighт

8:13 PM

> You are wrong. I guess you speak American English which is considered the lowest form of English anyway. — catherine 3 mins ago

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user19161

@RegDwighт Hahaha, wait till she hears Singlish.

Carlo_R.

@Reg The sun will eat you too.

RegDwighт

I need people with pitchforks. Many.

Carlo_R.

However, I hope to be (of being?) understandable when I write in this chat.

RegDwighт

Where's everybody anyway?

I'm back to LDD. Cheers.

user19161

8:18 PM

@Carlo_R. Your sentences are understandable though they are filled with errors.

Carlo_R.

Will, thank you. I'm aware of that, but I'm happy to be understandable.

user19161

@Carlo_R. I am glad to know you. Although you upset some people now and then, I think you are an interesting fellow.

Carlo_R.

If I am understandable, then I can communicate with you and I'm happy for this.

Johan Larsson

When writing technical documentation, a button can be 'pressed' and 'unpressed?'

aiming at a not tech savvy reader

user19161

@JohanLarsson Maybe use "checked" and "unchecked"?

Johan Larsson

8:23 PM

@WillHunting yeah, that is good but suits a checkbox/radiobutton better imo. But i expect to be wrong most of the time in this chat :)

user19161

@JohanLarsson How can one unpress that button? Isn't it just pressed?

Johan Larsson

Maybe bad pic, that one is up/down

@WillHunting I think unpressed feels wrong too, but I don't know English

user19161

@JohanLarsson How about just ussing on/off? If it is a switch.

Johan Larsson

That is maybe the best. It was when writing documentation for using a GUI the question was raised. I could not think of a complement to pressed that felt ok. Pressed felt natural. Do you agree on pressed by the way?

if not using on/off

user19161

@JohanLarsson I guess one could say "pressed" or "not pressed".

Johan Larsson

8:29 PM

or I phrase it like this, in a vacuum, which one is best pressed/on

@WillHunting Yeah, i actually like that, clean and simple

RegDwighт

Buttons cannot be checked. What nonsense, @Will.

Buttons can be pressed. And unpressed, too. But beware of depressed buttons!

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Q: Why is the term "depressed" often used to describe a button which is pressed?

In several books that mention GUI, keyboard, or mouse buttons (e.g. the book Programming Windows by Charles Petzold), the authors refer to the state of a pressed button as depressed. Why is this term used instead of the word pressed, which has a simple and intuitive meaning? Some alternative te...

user19161

@RegDwighт Check your pants to make sure it is zipped.

Johan Larsson

@RegDwighт nice, ty

RegDwighт

@WillHunting Oh I see. We are talking about buttons that look like my pants. Still, in that case people don't check them. They check them out.

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