so you come to ELU to start voting on qns and answers whose titles sound interesting.
you read the title quickl, then the question quickly
then an answer and the thread....
and the answer just seems kinda like a bunch of keywords were found in the questino, and then an answer made up based on those keywords...
so that if you're not ppaying attentino, it looks like a great answer, with references , and extra examples and nota throwaway couple of lines.
but then you're interested and you start reading closer...
and you reread the question again...
and then the answer..
and you realize. "FFS, this answer is totally irrelevant, like a question about how to feed a sick cat gets answered with where the name of 'siamese cats' comes from".
and this doesn't happen once in a visit, but two or three times.
and despite not wanting ti downvote in general, I want to rage downvote the last one and go find the other ones to downvote...
except then...
I realize...
... they're all crappy answers by the same author .
(no, I don't realize that they're mine...thanks Reg!)
A polyglot is a person who is fluent in many languages, but what do we call a person who is fluent in only 2 or 3 languages.
Is bi-glot a proper term for this ?
I don't think the word Bilingual fits the bill.
so now I wonder if I downvote in close succession for the same author, if those votes will be auto-removed for suspicious behavior. I sincerely want those downvotes, but I wasn't consciously singling out one author.
Why is the following answer being converted in comment?
"See the FAQ" someone said to me; but in the FAQ I found nothing!
Can anybody express a possible explanation?
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Prepositions pose more communication problems for learners of English
as well as for native speakers than any other par...
@simchona bilingual makes you think that they are -fluent- in the two languages. polyglot makes you think that you can get by in many languages. he wants a word for when you can get by in only 2 or 3 languages.
Why is the following answer being converted in comment?
"See the FAQ" someone said to me; but in the FAQ I found nothing!
Can anybody express a possible explanation?
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Prepositions pose more communication problems for learners of English
as well as for native speakers than any other par...
@simchona Pardon my being devil's advocate again, but his meta answer, though strictly only comment worthy, is pretty fair game for meta. He is not giving an ostensible answer, just addressing the issue behind the specific question. He's not giving a solution to how to write preposition questions better, just to allow them.
I was being serious. And "no matter what the rules he has agreed to" sounded negative. And everything about it implies that I always do this. But it doesn't matter, it's not an important thing. I just didn't like it at that moment.
Is there some rule governing the following, or similar, subject-auxiliary inversions (*"Rarely they do see the light of day", *"Never I have been so insulted")?
In fancy sit-down restaurants, you can order a large meal and halfway through the main course, take a little dead cockroach or a pie...
@Cerberus Yes and no. FF is a continuation of the Mozilla Browser code, i.e. the same rendering engine, which was a rewrite of the Netscape Communicator code.
@Cerberus When the app has new permissions, it gives you an update notification, and you have to go to market to click "update" and it shows you the changed permissions, which you have to "Accept"
@DavidWallace Did you laugh at them? I would have.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yeah, that's nice; except that the bloatware doesn't really bother me, and there is nothing at the moment that I feel I need that my phone can't do yet. Or is there?
@Robusto A "custom rom" of Android. It's basically Android Open Source Project code plus a few enhancements. They support dozens of devices.
Once installed it's like plain Android with no crap.
I have two nexus devices, so they are well-supported but CyanogenMod (CM) doesn't add much that stock Android doesn't already have, so there isn't much benefit (still, when CM 10 comes out, I might install it on the Galaxy Nexus).
But for a non-Nexus device, with all the crapware that comes pre-installed, CM lets you remove everything (even Google apps) and start clean.
like, on ICS, it adds the ability to customize the number and destinations of lock-screen-swipe-to-unlock shortcuts. So you don't just unlock to camera. You can unlock to facebook. etc.
So I put shortcuts on my home screens. All the games on one screen. All the chinese-language-learning apps on one screen. All the frequently-used apps on one screen.
Clock widget on the main home screen because touching that is the fastest way to get to the "alarm" feature. Calendar widget on one screen because it was unused. A few "shortcut to dialing the phone" widgets.
@Cerberus yeah. Like, there is a "Reader" widget that shows how many unread feeds you have in Google Reader. Except it updates so infrequently that I may as well just launch the app.
Or a weather widget that was always hours out of date.
A polyglot is a person who is fluent in many languages, but what do we call a person who is fluent in only 2 or 3 languages.
Is bi-glot a proper term for this ?
I don't think the word Bilingual fits the bill.
Why is the following answer being converted in comment?
"See the FAQ" someone said to me; but in the FAQ I found nothing!
Can anybody express a possible explanation?
--
Prepositions pose more communication problems for learners of English
as well as for native speakers than any other par...
Is there some rule governing the following, or similar, subject-auxiliary inversions (*"Rarely they do see the light of day", *"Never I have been so insulted")?
In fancy sit-down restaurants, you can order a large meal and halfway through the main course, take a little dead cockroach or a pie...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…