@Cerberus Yes, I would have written it higher up but that's what my keyboard produced. That said, it's really quite rare these days. More so than the English semi colon I'd say.
@Mitch By the way, there is an app called discord app you can use that too to practice different languages like French, Spanish, etc in texting format if you like texting. It is basically for gamers but learners also use it, I don't, but I have heard a lot about it.
@MattE.Эллен Different layout. That's where it is on Greek keyboards. But both Greek and English layouts use the same unicode symbol. Just like they do for the full stop.
Or the numbers and whatnot.
Doesn't make much sense to have multiple glyphs for the same actual symbol.
@MattE.Эллен Yeah, very few people probably have. It was a nonprofessional effort and there could only be like, fifty people on it at a time at the most and it would cause incredible slowdown. The creator essentially abandoned it too.
In English which is more correct or common: “I’m not interested in ‘a’ and neither am I interested in ‘b’” Or “I’m not interested in ‘a’ and neither I am interested in ‘b’”
looking at Google books, I see "Neither I am" from Shuja Alhaq and Santosh Kalwar. Santosh is Nepalese, Shuja is Pakistani. Perhaps it's a remnant from colonial English.
Could someone else have a look at the link @englishstudent posted please? I'd like a second opinion since this looks to be an official page. I think it was written by non-native English speakers.
@Mitch That reminds me, tone is missing here. In text sometimes a little message sounds terse or rude but when I am on Skype, voice works its magic. So text can be tougher sometimes I guess especially when we have never the person we are texting, like here for instance, or anywhere.
One's an insane vampire from the northern hemisphere of Mars, and the other is a sane drunkard from the left of Venus. But you don't know which one youre talking to. What three word question can you ask to tell which fork the road you should take?
@englishstudent Coördinating conjunctions, such as and, or, nor, can be used between clauses or between nouns. The inversion doesn't happen when the conjunction is used between nouns that are also the subject.
@englishstudent I'm a strange case. My father's American and I grew up speaking English but I grew up in Greece. I then spent a few years in the UK and many more years speaking English with non natives. At this point, my idiolect is all over the place.
When you use neither [noun group] nor [noun group] or [noun group] and [noun group], there can't be anything in between the conjunction and the noun groups.
If inversion would force neither [noun group] nor [verb] [noun group], then the inversion is not applied. This happens when the second noun group (and hence both noun groups) are the subject of the verb of the clause.
@Cerberus It's the is/are that we're disagreeing on. I assume all of us agree that "I communicated [. . . ] neither by [. . . ] nor [. . . ]" is clumsy, at the very least.
But Kit and Matt seem to be OK with Neither Nova Scotia nor New Brunswick is involved in the project. while I recoiled immediately and Mitch first accepted, then upon reflection, rejected.
@terdon Ok right, so I'm going with "Neither my friends nor I am interested in modern art" because well I would say it like that because it is easy on my mind somehow. Thanks for the help though. Much obliged.
I'm not used to saying "nor I are" although it could be right, I agree, but still tough to remember I reckon.
But I hear some people can give erm shitty advice there, like for example if someone comes with a relationship problem people sometimes say something like "Oh just dump him/her and let it go" so I'm not sure.
Or the usual "Cut all contacts, delete facebook and hit the gym" advice that is common around the internet lel.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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