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The way to remember which -able/ible or -ance/ence or -ant/ent is to first consider which if any Latin conjugation it came from. There are exceptions, but far fewer than which fit the rule.

And Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and somewhat French, all work, too.

I don’t know why this isn’t taught to English speakers. I guess because they tend to be unromantic.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:26 AM

Sorry, boyfriend was getting naked. Had to supervise. How's that for romantic?

tchrist

Pix or it didn’t happen. :)

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

^_^

I swear I knew it was irreverent.

I don't know what happened.

hands over EL&U card

tchrist

I need to be off to bed, and you definitely need to be off.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1 min ago, by cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

^_^

Not until he's out of the shower. But yes. And good night.

tchrist

I fear no conflation of be-passives for get-passives.

Good night.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:29 AM

poof

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Resulted.

tchrist

10:56 AM

They just caught a pair of idiot-burglars here because the man left his cell phone at the burgled home — and the woman left her purse containing her ID there, too! reference

MετάEd

11:13 AM

@tchrist "idiot-burglars" is mostly a tautology.

tchrist

Sorry, I’ve a bit of stutter.

These sorts of property crimes, especially the really dumb-ass ones, are apparently often driven by some sort of drug habit/problem.

How many different cultural groups do you think I’ve managed to simultaneously offend with my comment to this subcontinental question on politesse? :)

I’m afraid this is not really a very good question for the StackExchange format, because it does not lead to a clear, best answer. For example, just because I might think that a gentle reminder sounds less like you’re leaning on someone than a friendly reminder might, others might have just the opposite reaction, and there is no way to judge one above the other. This is also extremely culturally-biased, so what is considered eminently polite and non-threatening in say New Jersey might seem like brutal enforcement by a crime syndicate in say Japan. :) — tchrist 2 mins ago

It appears that Colorado’s prisons chief was assassinated on Tuesday. Gosh.

He’d only been here a year or so, having a three-decade career in Missouri. It is very hard to solve these.

iHungry

11:41 AM

Hello guys good evening you all

tchrist

Thu Mar 21 05:42:36 MDT 2013

iHungry

Thu Mar 21 05:15:10 pm 2013 IST

tchrist

You’re both behind me, and ahead.

iHungry

Ohk

tchrist

$ date +"%A, %d %B %Y, at %r %Z (%z)"
Thursday, 21 March 2013, at 05:47:07 AM MDT (-0600)

Did you know that IST can be any of Irish Summer Time (+0100), Israeli Standard Time (+0200), Iran Standard Time (+0330), and Indian Standard Time (+0530)?

iHungry

11:50 AM

Indian Standard Time (+0530)

tchrist

Oh, that was clear.

Or you’re in Iran with a clock that’s two hours wrong. :)

iHungry

ok

-0600 means you are from eastern coastal zone from America ... Right?

tchrist

Nope.

I am in Mountain Daylight Time.

iHungry

ok

tchrist

Very far from the continent’s east coast.

iHungry

11:54 AM

USA has so many timezones

tchrist

Yes and no.

We have either 4, or 6, or 11, depending on how you count them. Most people count them as 4 and neglect Alaska and Hawaii.

And the Virgin Islands.

And Guam.

&c&c&c&c

iHungry

ok

tchrist

It is complicated by the fact that not all areas for a given timezone observe summer time.

iHungry

Similar situation also in Australia, there have 4 time zone's

Yeah its very complicated. I faced lot of problem while i creating iOS application on time zone and holidays

tchrist

So I’m in Mountain Daylight Time, which means Mountain Standard Time with a one-hour summertime adjustment. But Arizona to my immediate southwest is in Mountain Standard Time year round because they hate the summer heat. Similarly, Hawaii and the Virgin Islands also do not observe DST.

@iHungry The continental span is similar.

@iHungry You have too many holidays. :)

I’m forever having to work around my Indian colleagues’ holidays.

iHungry

11:58 AM

Yeah its correct

tchrist

And I am not referring to the Navajo Nation, which has its own timezone BTW.

iHungry

hahaha ok

actually in my country having so many festivals for different religions and culture that why government must give holiday for people to enjoy festival

My office give me just 12 days holidays for 12 festivals only.

tchrist

What misers they are!

St John of the Cross

12:24 PM

@tchrist I think you were ten hours out.

tchrist

1:16 PM

I wonder whether she has a coin release?

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Q: passive auxiliary verb or progressive one?

Uncle Vernon made another funny noise, like a mouse being trodden on. (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) Is ‘being’ a passive auxiliary verb or a progressive one?

auxiliary-verbs

@Robusto is right: it will surely take her till hell freezes over for her to be finally done with asking us useless, confusing, and wholly unhelpful and unuseful Harry Potter questions.