Though I’m not sure whether this question is suitable to EL&U site or not, I’m glad if I can get any input on the relationship of the vocabulary and comprehension of English language, or if you can suggest me other suitable site that I can post this question.
I recently read the book, titled...
@ChairOTP (at @tchrist's behest), you probably know that the normal way of stating this is "Do you have any money?" However, in some dialects (chiefly British, I believe), the verb to have can be used without do-support even when it is used as a main verb and not an auxiliary. In these dialects, "Have you money?" is a grammatical utterance.
@ChairOTP the lack of "any" in the sentence is somewhat more puzzling, however, and suggests that the source might be non-native, though it's hard to say from only three words.
@JSBձոգչ You don’t have to look far in American books over the last 30 years to find examples like “Have you no shame?” Yes, I was surprised.
> Have you any skills or knowledge not fully utilized in your job? If so, what are they and how could they be used? [2008]
> Have you any questions? [2004]
> Have you any idea what happened to her after that? [1992]
> Have you any claim of any kind against anyone? [2002]
> Have you any comments to offer on the slow pace of technological advancement in our country? [2002]
> Have you any other assets of any kind not already shown on your statement of affairs? [2008]
> "Have you any preferences?" She watched Jerry's face brighten, then dim as doubt overtook him. "Its all right, sweetheart, anything you want. Then we'll have something to paint on the chair," she said. "Labrette," whispered Jerry into his chest. [2005]
> 'I have no idea,' answered Marius. 'What are you going to do?' 'I have no idea.' ' Have you any money?' 'Fifteen francs.' 'Do you wish me to lend you some?' ' Never.' 'Have you any clothes?' 'What you see.' 'Have you any jewellery?' 'A watch.
Speech and the written language differ in many ways. Speech developed before writing and we learn to speak before we learn to write. For a long time there was no written language at all, and there are languages that have no written form. That is not to say we can say what we like and hope to be understood. Speech has its rules. In English, we must say, ‘Shut the door’ rather than, ‘Shut door the’ or ‘Shut of door’, and we must say ‘streets’ rather than ‘street, street’ when we mean more than one. Anyone who applies such rules consistently speaks correct English. The only people who don’t are those who have yet to learn them: infants and those who are learning English as a foreign language. …
Actually I'm in the southern hemisphere, and I'm assuming just like you, our academic year does coincide with the calendar year, however, university also allows the northern hemisphere system.
Oh, OK. I had forgotten that there were parts of your country that were south of the equator. So your universities allow you to start in September (like northern hemisphere universities) or also in February/March (like southern hemisphere universities)? Or did I misunderstand you?
Right! My university always started in March. I don't know why I thought Northern Hemisphere universities mostly started in September. I have clearly lived under a rock.
Maybe they do, I'm not quite sure. We start one or two months earlier since we get a longer break on Christmas, as you can see, Northern Hemisphere has a break of only one or two weeks (I think), whilst we have approximately two months.
Usually engineerings try to focus the first semesters on the theoretical part and enhance previous knowledge, the latter semesters are focused on the experimental part.
If there were better high schools, you could possibly skip those theoretical subjects. But unfortunately, it's not possible for now.
Well subjects such chemistry and physics are linked to experiments as well in first semesters, but they're basic if you know what I mean. For example next semester, I'll be taking Crude oil and water laboratory, which is way more specific.
Talk about Baader-Meinhof. Yesterday we wondered if my local KFC was still alive, and this morning I saw a billboard for them on a street corner right in the very city centre. And it doesn't look like they put it up there overnight.
Well, why downvote? I can't ask the question in ELL - if I could travel in time and go to the future, I would have asked there, but I can't ask questions there right now. — Magnetic_dud2 days ago
But in that case his question is perfectly on-topic. On Yahoo Answers. Why the tears?
@Magnetic_dud: that line of reasoning makes no sense, sorry. The question hasn't been closed because it's on-topic elsewhere; it has been closed because it's off-topic here. And what's off-topic here today is off-topic here today. Astronomy & Astrophysics or Stack Overflow in Spanish are not live, either. That doesn't mean you can go ahead and ask their questions here on ELU. — RegDwighт8 mins ago
The one thing that annoys my bollocks off is the people who delete their question once someone has given them an answer. I always want to scream "I didn't answer just for you, a***hole; I'm not your personal oracle".
The OP publishes their question under a license. As soon as it's up, it no longer belongs to them. Even if it's deleted, anyone could repost it verbatim and sign it with the original poster's name. In fact they have to sign it with the original poster's name. So really, it's cheaper to just undelete.
I'll have a look which question it was. I think it was something off-topic or bikeshedding? That was getting downvotes or closevotes? In that case we usually accept OP's pleas for deletion.
Yup. No answers, three votes to close. Lots of comments. A rather strange vote as dupe... I don't even get that one.
Yeah, that's why the OP can't delete their own question as soon as they have an answer. But for some reason they made it so the answer has to be upvoted.
Which here on ELU usually happens within minutes or even seconds, but elsewhere you create a gray area.
There is a Muslim prayer room in an office building in Central Wellington. There are a couple of offices on the same floor, that share the same kitchen and bathrooms.
Sometimes, When I asked some question, I see this answer at the end of answer sheet.
What is the meaning of "This question will be closed."
please give me the anser.
So, yesterday lunchtime, someone was cooking bacon in the kitchen.
So I was trying to concentrate on my prayers, but thinking "mmm, that smells good", then wondering whether it was a sin to be thinking that.
And it occurred to me that I was probably the only person in the room who knew what the smell was, as all the others would have been born Muslims, rather than converts.
While listening to audio book, I hear the sound ‘Erised stra eruha oyd ube cafru oyt on woomsie.’ instead of the sentence in the book, ‘Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi’ http://k.daum.net/qna/view.html?confirm=true&qid=50gPZ
Does the narrator pronounce differently from the book?
Those hieroglyphs are really just composed of several letters each.
So, very simply put, they have an A and a C and an R and a D, just like us, but when they write CAR or CARD, they arrange letters not in a single line, but group some of them together. Kind of like digraphs or ligatures.
And they are arranged from left to right and top to bottom.
(Except for the stupid formatting of multiple spaces.)
This as opposed to hanzi or kanji, where being composed of a "ma" and a "tsu" and a "hi" doesn't tell you jack about how the whole thing is pronounced and what it means. It might as well read "sorofu".
"Bansal is very famous Engineering Entrance coaching center in Delhi. Bansal students had a chip on their shoulder, even though they weren't techincally even in a college"
@RegDwighт Spanish-speakers always ask that question because in Spanish, the default case is nominative, making yo a normal answer. Whereas English uses me in the same default place (or French, moi), which confuses the Spanish-speakers.
In the above sentence I understand **"Chip on their shoulder" means a form of physical challenge, inviting opponents to knock the chip off and so provoke a fight
Contextually it means Bansal students are very alert to face any kind of question/ puzzle related to Engineering Entrance
How ever I could n't make out why author added the clause even though they weren't techincally even in a college
Does it mean only college students have to pocess that attribute or what?
you need to have a place, somewhere where all computers of all nations can visit, international you might call it, where content can be shared across the network. Maybe you could call it The International Network. There would be no political boundaries, because that shit doesn't make sense, and people could access the content wherever they were.
Though I’m not sure whether this question is suitable to EL&U site or not, I’m glad if I can get any input on the relationship of the vocabulary and comprehension of English language, or if you can suggest me other suitable site that I can post this question.
I recently read the book, titled...
Sometimes, When I asked some question, I see this answer at the end of answer sheet.
What is the meaning of "This question will be closed."
please give me the anser.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…