@Kit I like how when you click the arrow on the left it highlights in bright yellow! The little arrow on the left that lets you see what it's linked to, that is. I did an edit... ooh edit history :)
Why did I even attempt to try to render Collins Thesaurus as a graph in Gephi? 11 thousand nodes, 130 thousand edges, it's taking it ages to compute the layout… %$^&.
@Vitaly Oh, my. We have an ongoing theoretical project here to convert Wikipedia to a spatiotemporal map of the world, complete with tectonic shift and climate change.
@Kit — I have read and heard “Как твоё имя?” (“How/What is your name?”) in Russian, which sounds archaic or dialectal. I have no idea whether it's in fact a recent development. It may be an elliptical form of “Как звучит твоё имя?” (“How does your name sound?”), though.
@RegDwight Is it on-topic to ask about English "What is your name?" construction compared to other languages, which seem mostly to ask "How are you called?"
@Jez I've never heard "Quel est votre nom?" but then I was taught standard French.
@z7sg Yes. “Как ваша фамилия?” (literally, “How/What is your surname?”) would be the usual form, I think. I cannot think of other ways to say that, except for the elliptical “Фамилия?” which sounds rude and might be asked by a policeman who is too busy.
in English, you very rarely say "what's your name?" generally it's assumed it will be volunteered early in polite conversation. if you forget, you might say, "sorry, i forgot your name" or "sorry, I didn't catch your name"
@Jez that's a good point - I was just watching a Demetri Martin bit where he runs away from a conversation because he's panicking about not knowing either of the guys' names despite having met them before
@aedia When we met, my husband and I decided that the convention should be to announce your own name upon shaking hands, rather than the other person's. Saves a lot of embarrassment that way.
The golden rule of politeness being to make other people feel at ease, you are supposed to endeavour to foresee their personal questions and answer them... in the limit of your own privacy.
If you're not use to that custom you sometime forget the name of people who have presented themselves spontaneously to you and that's considered an "impair".
@Kit The only time it doesn't work is when they don't respond with their name, but instead "That's right, IPU! We met at the party last week!" and I still don't remember meeting them...
@aedia That drives me crazy. If I give you my name, you should always give me yours, even if we've known each other for years. It's like hugging someone and not getting hugged back!
You are actually considered rude slash self-opinionated in Britain if you socialise too well without any clumsiness, as Americans do. “What is your name?” is a good example. It's clumsy not to ask someone's name, actually.
@Vitaly As a British person, this is news to me. Previously I thought I was a bit clumsy in social situations. Now you tell me I have Advanced Social Skills?
In chemistry, the homologous series for hydrocarbons uses the following prefixes:
Meth-
Eth-
Prop-
But-
Pent-
Hex-
Hept-
Oct-
Why is this so, instead of just using "uni-", "di-", "tri-"?
I looked up the prefixes, but there is no dictionary record of them. But I think "uni-", "di-", "tri-", w...
Can't be bothered to wait more. Colour-coded for modularity class (blue-green-yellow-purple gradient), nodes sized by betweeness centrality; nodes = words, edges = synonymities; force-directed layout; 11k nodes; 130k edges.
That huge purple blot in the centre between the nouns and the adjectives (turns out those are not verbs) is the word “close.” It appears to have a high betweenness centrality value—and its own “community.”
In chemistry, the homologous series for hydrocarbons uses the following prefixes:
Meth-
Eth-
Prop-
But-
Pent-
Hex-
Hept-
Oct-
Why is this so, instead of just using "uni-", "di-", "tri-"?
I looked up the prefixes, but there is no dictionary record of them. But I think "uni-", "di-", "tri-", w...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…