This is what happens when people fast for a few days and then meditate. Or smoke pot.

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@tchrist I've been pondering on an answer to that question actually. I also wanted to mention to @sumelic That as ideal as the abstraction may seem, it does not really work too well for words. The distributional method of categorizing words does not seem like it can work with full independence from semantic analysis, since you need to know what the word categories are first in order to relate them to each-other, and that dictionary definitions never perfectly define concrete nouns.

@Tonepoet The idea is that you start out with an impressionistic analysis, and then after figuring out the general categories you do more precise analysis with distributional tests.

@sumelic On what basis are these impressions made though?

@Mitch Interesting thing to hear from a poet.

Is there a context or situation where only one of suppress and repress can be used (except for overly technical senses)?

I'm having a hard time distinguishing between the two. I know they're very close, but maybe they have different feels about them?

As psychology goes: What is the difference between suppression and repression?.

Here's another analogy, which I'm not sure if I agree with.

My review of grammarist articles is 50/50. Sometimes there is ridiculous prescriptivist advice

Sometimes it's pretty damn good advice though

I haven't had much experience with them.

As per COCA, these are the nouns that post-collocate with oppress most:

For suppress:

And for repress:

I thinks that's enough to give me a general feel of each word.

@Tonepoet It's acceptable

@MetaEd You can't trust Benjamins

@Færd I'm a poet and I didn't know it?

@Mitch There are no poets here. We gave 'em all the P.O.B. slip long ago. =P

@Færd I don't think they're wrong, just they're missing more important things, like the conscious/unconscious distinction. Also 'oppress' is about one person inflicting things on other people, and suppression/repression is usually about a person holding certain things back from oneself.

@Færd nice method. very ... experiential. notice that there's some overlap between suppress and repress which is natural.

could anybody please suggest a few ways to write better in an exam?

@SBM There might be some experts at the Academia site online. Their general chatroom is The Ivory Tower.

I should've never written that answer yesterday. Now it's one of my most voted for answers and I'm not even sure if I agree with it anymore. XP

@Mitch Yeah.

@Mitch The overlap, the ordering, the frequencies, etc, they're all worthy of notice.

What term do Americans use when an employee might get more money from the employer, usually happening on a yearly basis? Wage review? Salary review?

or a more generic Annual review maybe?

Have you considered assessment?

Maybe that's somewhat too vague in comparison to review though.

yeah

and it doesnt emphasize money

I'm not an American but I think you are looking for the term "Employee evaluation" or "Salary evaluation".

Or "salary assessment".

or salary review presumably

@Jez annual review, yearly review, performance review.

i used annual review in the end

the salary review is implied.

salary may be adjusted at that time (as a cause of the review), but is usually not in the name.

@Jez yeah that's good. there are many ways to say it in the US. a reference to salary is usually not mentioned in any of them

Hello

I need help

ate

Does this mean, all the verbs after "did" should be in base form?

no

the verb directly after "did" should be infinitive as "did" is a modal verb

By itself it should be 'You ate your dinner yesterday"

but not all verbs after it

or "you will eat your dinner tonight"

Can you please help me with one more ?

I didn't think that you eat your dinner, and do the laundry, and call your father yesterday

ate, did, called

or would eat, would do, would call

remove all but the last "and"

or had eaten, had done, had called

More importantly...

> If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them? The question is neither capricious nor itself insane. However much we may be personally convinced that we can tell the normal from the abnormal, the evidence is simply not compelling.

Well, if you not so compelled, maybe you're just not paying good enough attention

It would've had to have been going to rain.

still unsure if I should take umbrella

That's insane. You should always take an umbrella.

In my example sentence, "did" only modifies "think" and nothing else, am I right ?

modify is probably not the most appropriate term. but, yes, 'did' and 'think' are closely connected in that sentence.

And rest of the verbs should be in the past form, right ?

if you want them to be in the past

they should all be the same tense. they could be conditional like I mentioned (using 'would')

they could be future

But not in the base form

future: were going to

I guess, I got it correct

Yep

Thank you very much

Have a great day

@Tonepoet So did you find any chocolate from an egg laid by a pink rabbit? I couldn't find a teleportation device at a moment's notice otherwise I would have sent you those whatever candies. =)

@Tonepoet Btw would you use otherwise or or in the sentence above?

@englishstudent Hmm, it seems fine at a glance.

Maybe "or else" would be preferable, if not only to have a conjunction in that spot.

I probably wouldn't have thought about it if you hadn't asked though.

And here I was thinking I was good at English. I can't understand this sentence from above: "It would've had to have been going to rain." I would appreciate it if someone could explain its meaning to me.