Seriously, that's what I've done. I set up a folding table so that I could sort everything, and never took it down. It's been up for almost a year.

Right now everything is semi-sorted onto bins on the shelf, but then my play area is the middle of the floor. I'm not as young as I was when that used to work for me.

Haha.

Funny people.

I am actually thinking of getting a taller table.

it's a tad low for me to work on standing up.

I have that problem with my main work area too. My current folding table is in commission there right now while we decide if my better half is really going to get around to building a slightly taller table or I should continue the hunt for the perfect short person standing desk. It's harder to find than you would think.

Zomg the natural gas people might finally be here! afk

OKay

I had a question and it got lost in the midst of all the chatter here.

You may questions to member of the team

to me the to part sounds a bit strange.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Any idea?

You may direct your questions to the members of the team.

@badass I don't want to rephrase this. My question is about this particular usage of to. I got this in an email and I want to know if its okay to use ask with to like this.

sounds awkward to me

To me too.

@Cerberus What do you think?

There is no content verb in that phrase.

Sorry

You need a verb.

It's left out. You may ask questions to any member of the team

Ah.

I would say no.

Use direct, as Badass says.

You may question any member of the team

Maybe it's possible in borderline cases, but it sounds off.

@badass Or that.

@Noah This sentence is not grammatical to me.

Or: you may ask any member of team a question.

You may question (a member, any member, members) of the team.

You may ask a question of a member of the team

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 You may ask questions to any member of the team

You may direct questions to a member of the team

@Noah No, I don't think you ask questions to someone.

I thought it would be better to use from

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yeah, that's what I thought.

Hi Cerberus. Do you remember my text and my questions? I have some questions about it yet Can I ask you?

@Noah I wouldn't use from either

also "to member of the team" is wrong.

What would you use?

Because you can ask from people.

@IceGirl Sure.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇

@Noah Can you give me an example?

@Noah it needs an article or qualifier.

@Noah You ask a favour from or of someone, but not a question as in a request for information.

I asked many questions from him.

A question does not count as a favour.

@Noah I wouldn't use that. I'd say it's ungrammatical.

> I asked him many questions.

And so is the version with *to*>?

> I asked for many answers from him

Like the menfolk, they fretted about money, they scrimped and made-do. But when the pay stopped coming in, they were not the ones who had failed.

@Noah Yes. They are both wrong.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Why would this be correct then?

From they until made-do?

@Noah because you are asking for (something from someone)

Interesting.

coming in=receive it?

but when you ask a question, you don't ask to a person. You ask the person.

@IceGirl You can interpret it almost literally. They pay (money) is coming in (to the household).

Can we say, I asked for many things from him?

@Noah yes. but "things" is what you want, not what you ask.

so you can't say "I asked for many questions from him" unless you expect him to give you questions.

@IceGirl Have you looked up "scrimp" on dictionary.com? It means "to economise, to be frugal". To "make do" means roughly the same thing, to "use the scarce resources that you have".

Yeah, you are right.

Yes. I used it.

And one more thing. Can Dilivery be used for shipment as in : I had these items being shipped in two separate deliveries. @Mr.ShinyandNew安宇

Yes.

I'd leave out "being", though.

Even if they are on their way? @Cerberus

@Noah Yes, but as cerb says, "had... being" is weird and probably wrong.

> I had these items shipped

They were not.......failed?

> I have these items being shipped

@Noah At the moment you "have something shipped", it is not yet underway. You're talking about this moment, in the past.

What if you want to tell the user that they are on their way. @Cerberus

@IceGirl The women were not the people who had failed (it was the men who had failed, because they had lost their jobs and their income).

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 What if you want to say that in the past.

@Noah You could say "these items are being shipped"?

If you say "I had these items shipped", you leave open whether or not they are still underway.

I think the answer is, "Macarena tiene un novio que se llama de apellido Vitorino, y en la jura de bandera el muchacho se metio con dos amigos".

@RegDwigнt Can we have this as the room description?

Right. But I want to add the progressive in there.

People don't always get what they want!

what does it mean? That seemed to me a blessed fact. blessed=used to express annoyance or very enjoyable or desirable

Your example is for the present and I want to shift it to the past.

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: i what to know th mean of this would Assim tambem so quero amizade gosto de ter novos amigos (no tags)

@RegDwigнt Lovely. Good luck to you, future visitors, in trying to figure out how that makes sense.

@IceGirl Very desirable.

@Noah The items were being shipped.

We might need to obfuscate it a bit, don't wanna get accused of bullying poor ananasses.

But now I have to go AFK.

Lators.

later

@RegDwigнt That is indeed a dilemma. Bai!

(But it's so funny...)

@Cerberus I had these times that were being shipped

By comparison with the narrow?

What if leave the that were out?

@Noah That means you already have them while they are underway...a bit strange.

@Noah Doesn't work for me.

Both of them?

@IceGirl I think we have already talked about the "narrow" bit?

There might not be a tense that adequately encapsulates all of the times and status of the parcel delivery life-cycle from every observer's viewpoint.

By comparison with the, ironclad days of fathers,there was an expansiveness,....

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 shocked

But I don't understand

@IceGirl I have already explained that part, yesterday or the day before. Search the chat history.

Ok.I want to know there was an expansiveness

Read the lines from there.

And from there.

@IceGirl The women did not have to work according to a fixed schedule (the men did, in the factories).

Thanks so much. tomorrow my teacher asked me about this text I read and wrote all of the things that you told me

Cerberus are you sad?

@IceGirl "Tomorrow...asked"? Tomorrow is in the future, asked is in the past? Did you mean "this morning"?

And do you mean that the teacher gave the same explanations as the ones I gave you?

Oh,my God. sorry. Yes I'm sure

OK cool.

No. she will ask me tomorrow

Ah.

cool??????

When you said "yes" I thought you confirmed what I said.

Ah

Can I ask some questions about your personality?

Umm I don't think that would be a good idea.

Ok.

I do apologize

Many thanks

Goodnight

Bye!

@Cerberus True fact: Until I was in college I thought dilemma was spelled dilemna. Don't ask me why. Dyslookseea or something. But there's something elegant about dilemna, I think.

I like it too.

@Robusto Until college, that's not so late?

A dilemna could be...a set of twins from the island of Lemnos.

Exactly.

And we all know from what island come a dilesbia.

Lesbians are diatomic molecules. Or diatonic. Or something.

They are certainly not always one.

Have you seen La vie d'Adèle? It's full of long, lesbian sex scenes.

I have not seen it.

There's also one very brief penis in it.

just kidding

But mostly female organs.

I can't find a trailer with any sex in it. So silly.

np, the wikipedia article told me all i needed

Heh.

pictures a brief penis

Alas, she spurned that fine young man.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Hasn't Anthony Wiener sexted you with that yet? If not, you must be the only woman in America who hasn't got the memo.

@Robusto no ._.

@Robusto That was an epic response!

@Andy "It takes time"?

"It needs time to get used to x" sounds wrong.

Unless you're this guy.

@Rob do you have Sunken Condos?

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 are you ready for some footbaaaaall?

@badass high school? It bein' Friday and all.

I wonder how we will fare against the Robert Griffin IIIs.

You got the Chargers?

Is it football season?

I never know what time of sports it is.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 this is the time of the year when the cream rises to the top!!!

Those poor Oilers Texans.

and the pretenders^ are separated from the contenders

@aediaλ yes'm

everybody is bettin' on a patriot-seahawk superbowl

@Cerb There you go: almost not variation at all. Is that more like what you’re used to? :)

Wait, here’s the French version:

That's cold!

is that your temperature?

Four degrees C is indeed very little between day and night.

And why the jagged curve on the second day?

Actually, the different between this afternoon and tonight is only 1 degree here...

Yes.

I think it is simply jagged by day and smooth by night.

@tchrist But the late afternoon / evening is also smooth.

From here.