Close this question, please. I don't think anyone can response to this as this is a complex issue that I'm trying to write. I'll ask my developer friends to look at it.
@Cerberus all her mistakes sound -extremely- native to me. An NNS wouldn't have the fluency to make such boneheaded semantic misdirections. If you say it out loud and dont worry about the meaning, it comes across as general jargonese.
Do you see any particular colloquialisms that one would expect from an uneducated native speaker?
What also strikes me is how she is careful to use punctuation and capitals, and a quote box—which shows she is not being sloppy—and yet she makes such huge syntactic errors.
Native uneducatese is more like "Ima write this code and I was wondering about the word isseus cuz its not right but also not wrong and maybe theirs a fancyer therm".
What, are there people who try to send FB friend request to everyone in the world? I have some from people I've never met in Leeds, England and Stuttgart, Germany.
@Cerberus looking through her other SE (stackoverflow) posts, yes, she seems to make a few mistakes here and there, like a missing article or plural every so often. But it's not enough to given a foreign accents to me (doesn't sound like she -meant- them).
Yes, I am febrile, but this still sounds like postmodernista claptrap.
> Could someone explain either in model-theoretic, or implicature-based pragmatics, how nothing less than derives the meaning it does in the referenced quote?
OK, here's the real story. I didn't read the original close enough, and the edits made it look like gibberish at first glance. The edited version looked corehent enough. Well, chalk it up to ADD.
A noun is a person , place or thing and a adverb has a ly not all words with ly is adverb like lovely or supply.A proper noun is a Persons name like Lizzie , Michelle , Bryant , Jeff , Maggie ,Skyler, Haley , Lizzie.
@Cerberus You mean he was wanting to fix his mis-fired answer when it got deleted? If so, then I can see why he feels that he should have been given the chance to do so. But I do not want to be in the position of trying to explain anyone else’s actions.
I neither downvoted nor deletevoted his answer myself. But it appears that some folks felt that it was answering a different question. Again, I cannot explain others’ actions, only guess.
My daughter, who is in the 4th grade, was asked to answer questions about the following sentence:
What time can you meet us at the school on Tuesday?
She was asked questions about the usage of can and meet in the sentence. Specifically, she was asked whether the words were action, linking o...
@thavan Perhaps, don’t whine on about something or other?
@Robusto Thanks.
I just now realized that I had a “you forgot to file the right paperwork to drop out of this class before the drop date” dream this past weekend. Ug. Long time since I’ve been cursed with one of those monsters.
I am a non-native English speaker and I recently started noticing that most people do not do the correct agreement of the verb with the noun when saying "there is"/"there was"/"here is". They say, for example,
There's two things in my pocket
instead of
There are two things in my pocket...
I want to write that I have handful of somethings. Which of these is the correct form?
There is a handful of somethings.
There are a handful of somethings.
Are both correct?
People here are telling you that "there are" is right. In terms of any kind of Standard English, that is 100% true. When expletive-there + copula is used in the subject position, the copula verb is supposed to agree with the noun phrase to the right.
However, I suspect you are interested in al...
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@tchrist It's a shame that name changes don't get applied to postings where that person is mentioned. I'm not sure exactly when Rimmer turned into František Stanko, but by doing so, he's completely ruined Barrie's answer.
@thavan It means "don't continue that particular argument".
Oh, umm, lots of things. I spent almost all day with Emerik on Saturday. We went to his cricket game, then we played video games for a while, then I took him to see The Hobbit (in 3D).
I went to the mosque on Saturday evening for an exegesis session, and ended up spending several hours with a couple of brothers whom I hadn't met before. I got home at about 3am, which is something i haven't done for years.
I'm finding my job hard at the moment. Not because it's difficult. It's just that I'm short of energy and of motivation. Hopefully this will be different in the new year.
@Cerberus It depends what you mean by switching FROM Christianity. Lots of children are raised as Christians, then make their own decision when they get older, which turns out to be different.
Irreligion is not replacing Christianity as quickly as that graph suggests. What you see is an increase in honesty. It used to only be respectable to label oneself as Anglican. Now, it's more respectable to answer truthfully.
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… Graph showing trends in religious affiliation (or non-affiliation) in New Zealand according to the 1991-2006 Censuses. "Maori Christian" is included within the "Christian" total.
> The "Other" figure was derived by subtracting all the other figures from the total number of people with valid responses. This avoids double counting people with more than one "Other" religion, but excludes "Christian" people with another religion from the "Other" total. In 1991 and 1996, only a single religion was recorded for each person, so this problem does not affect those years.
My basic question is closed. I wonder what kind of questions are considered non-basic. Then I browse the "Questions" and find most of the questions are about what kind of questions should be closed. My question is :
How "closed" is related to English language & usage?
> for every person who complains about too many downvotes, there's another person who complains about every last crap immediately getting upvoted within three minutes of it getting posted. Frankly, at this point I see only two solutions: disable voting altogether, or collectively stop whining. I don't see either happening any time soon.
> Everyone votes for his own reasons, and everyone makes exceptions to their own rules. It is impossible to agree on an exact set of rules, and even if we did, there would be no way to enforce them.
@RegDwighт Rod monochromacy is exceedingly rare: it occurs in 0.00001% of the populace (1 in every 10 million people) irrespective of sex. However, it might also be protanopia, with missing long/red cones, causing the pink to seem grey and vice versa. This is still “10 times rarer” than common red-green colorblindness, occurring in 1.0–1.3% of males and 0.02% of females.
I read this morning about this guy who doesn't have colour vision, but has an implant that hangs across his face and screws into his skull (at the back) that turns hue and saturation into sound
Close this question, please. I don't think anyone can response to this as this is a complex issue that I'm trying to write. I'll ask my developer friends to look at it.
A noun is a person , place or thing and a adverb has a ly not all words with ly is adverb like lovely or supply.A proper noun is a Persons name like Lizzie , Michelle , Bryant , Jeff , Maggie ,Skyler, Haley , Lizzie.
My daughter, who is in the 4th grade, was asked to answer questions about the following sentence:
What time can you meet us at the school on Tuesday?
She was asked questions about the usage of can and meet in the sentence. Specifically, she was asked whether the words were action, linking o...
Possibly Related:
“There are so many” vs. “There is so many”
There is/are one or several apple/~s?
“Is there” versus “Are there”
“There is/are more than one”. What's the difference?
Should I say “there is a handful of…” or “there are a handful of…”?
Is “there're” (similar to “there's”) a corre...
My basic question is closed. I wonder what kind of questions are considered non-basic. Then I browse the "Questions" and find most of the questions are about what kind of questions should be closed. My question is :
How "closed" is related to English language & usage?
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