@DavidWallace I find songs to be the most convenient way to learn a language—that is, it takes very little effort, because it's fun, provided that you like the song.
I used to go very frequently to a Turkish restaurant. The owner, Hasan, didn't know my name, but he knew what I liked to order. So instead of writing down my order, he would write down the word enışte. I found out that this means "brother-in-law", or more generally, a male relative by marriage. But I figured there must be a hidden meaning to it, or he wouldn't have used this word to mean me.
But you will envy us less when we are stuck in the middle of nowhere with a dead cell phone and locals who only speak a few words of German in a horrible accent.
-1 Just can't see what the fuss is all about. Contrary to what the grammar subreddit comment says, what you have here is neither 'My-wife-and-I' nor is 'My wife and I' the name of an obscure music album, in which case the apostrophe would be understandable (pardonable, actually). In the present case, the phrase is a set of standing alone words leading to the ungrammatical I's. The title of that post is patently incorrect beyond question. The OP's question is without substance. — Kris5 hours ago
That's on a two-year old Good Question with a Good Answer by Kosmonaut, mind you. puzzled
If a person is being looked for in some place and he doesn't work and live there, the possible ways to write about this are:
Nobody by that name works and lives here.
Nobody works and lives here by that name.
Could the second version be bad, because "by that name" is too far from "nobod...
I am from India . I do not say that I am from the India . But some one from USA would say "I am from the United States of America ". Why you need to use the extra "the" in the second case ?
I get the idea that NS asks 3-5 new questions out of a new sock every 2-4 days, such that the Mean Time Between NS Questions is just about exactly one day.
But yes, it seems daily now, which was my point. I am sorry for the work he puts you through, but I haven’t thought of any solution. And I have thunk on it.
Anybody know what ultimate purpose SE hopes to make of the machine-learning contest to predict questions most likely to be closed? Seems like a cheaper way than hiring an expert to write it for them, which is really all they’re doing by masking it as a contest.
I think I have the NS feature-vectors down pretty well by now, but I am not willing to write them here where they are subject to search and review by blackhatted folks.
@Mitch It's just weird — I could see this response if the question hadn't been answered yet. It would still be ignorant of the facts, but it would at least make sense....
Instead, he doesn't even attempt to address what was written in the answer.
Dang it, I found a similar X to Y weirdness writ in differentness.
Let me unroll my edit first.
> Imagine an editor with multi-language support. You're able to open multiple documents at once and the language of each document, of course, can be different to the other documents.
Imagine an editor with multi-language support. You're able to open multiple documents at once and the language of each document, of course, can be different to the other documents.
First of all, the editor itself does have some general settings which affect all documents, independent of the lang...
@its_me 'future plans' are not likely parts of any kind of story/history/biography/autobiography. An autobiography is not realy a record of ones thoughts (which include future plans) but of what one has done colored with ones internal motivations. 'Future' things are the domain of fiction writers.
@Mitch But the comment-responses are in NS’s style.
Why does this use of correlate seems off?
> These settings, at the first glance, are correlated to the whole editor again (that is all documents) but they aren't.
I think it should be more like: “These settings, at the first glance, are applied to the whole editor again — that is, to all documents —but they aren't.”
Am I the only one who thinks that “document” is an offally officious word for a file?
@Mitch Yes, but it is too hard for me to track down his deleted things. If I were really writing a proper machine-learning application for it, I might request a set of URLs from the dev/mods. I still couldn’t seen separately-deleted comments, but I bet those are rare. I could at least find the deleted ones more easily than I can now.
I have myself deleted perhaps 6–10 NS questions, so I know there are plenty of those.
The thing is, that they got deleted is a very good feature-vector property.
It isn’t worth the effort to figure out, but it is amusing to try.
The daily caretaking by mods of his questions is many orders of magnitude less work than writing a machine-learning app that assigns an NS percentage to postings.
@its_me Most people are writing their auto-biography towards the end of their lives and so not very likely to have substantive future plans other than 'call laundry service; call realtor for summer vacation rental; call to schedule doctor's appointment'.
Robert Graves famously wrote his autobiography in his late 20's (because he had quite a bit to write about). But he didn't really talk about his future plans. A bit presumptuous, don't you think? Now if you wrote those plans -as though they had happened- that would be an artistic achievement itself (which one would write about in the next volume of autobiography.... ) (extra paren added for @Gigili, but not one here
If a person is being looked for in some place and he doesn't work and live there, the possible ways to write about this are:
Nobody by that name works and lives here.
Nobody works and lives here by that name.
Could the second version be bad, because "by that name" is too far from "nobod...
I am from India . I do not say that I am from the India . But some one from USA would say "I am from the United States of America ". Why you need to use the extra "the" in the second case ?
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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