@MrShinyandNew安宇 From what his statements in chat earlier implied, he feels "like an alien", an outsider, due to this event. I think it would work better if we had a more universal sign of us wanting him to stay
@Cerberus I would guess that he was abused and neglected by his father. He shows pretty clear signs that he is uncertain about what is expected of him as "a man" as though he lacks a good adult male relationship.
@Cerberus Also, the expression of his crush on Lauren and other ways he's talked about having relationships suggests that he has not seen a positive, healthy, normal relationship between two adults.
Whereas, "relation" generally doesn't get that connotation, for one reason or another. However, them having the same definition in Chinese is rather par for the course.
@Cerberus Some of these are easy to google, such as Guido van Rossum. And Linus is (I assume) Linus Torvalds, also quite famous. Richard Stallman. All of these are big players in the computer world, for various reasons.
And who ask questions like "What are all the different meanings of fuck?" and "What's a good synonym for fuck?" and "Do Australians use fuck like we do?"
A lot of universities already have grammar references online which cover some of the same ground that we do. If we could replace that for them, or complement it....
@KitΘδς Well, when I was in school, we learned nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, subject, predicate, and prepositions. I don't think we learned any of the other parts of speech and certainly not some of the more advanced stuff. I learned more grammar in French class.
@MrShinyandNew安宇 i learned absolutely nothing about any of this in public school. when i switched to a private school in 6th grade, i was suddenly overwhelmed, because they expected the students to already know most of that stuff, and i spent a few months frantically covering the grammar that i had never gotten in the previous 5 years
@Cerberus You understand the grammar implicitly because you are a fluent speaker, so when you study lit you focus on the deeper issues like meaning, word choice, etc.
@Cerberus I am on the fence about it. I would have liked to have learned English grammar at school, but I don't know that it is easy for teachers who are not linguists to teach because it is innate to us
@Cerberus Sometimes you are missing details. But often, for a native speaker, you can just write what comes naturally, and it will be grammatical. And you can read things that are grammatical and understand them. And you can work out things that are questionably grammatical (or simply over complicated).
@MrShinyandNew安宇 I don't know... I study the classics, and we refer to grammar all the time. Not because I am actually using rules when I'm reading, but as a tool for analysis.
I am not a native English speaker. Suppose, I wish to ask an audience whether they have ever had some particular drink (alcoholic)? How am I supposed to ask it? Is..
Have any of you drunk Carlsberg Beer?
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@MrShinyandNew安宇 I'm not saying it isn't possible (it is evidently possible); but it would seem more efficient if you were teaching kids to write to use grammar, instead of having them figure everything out from examples.
I am not a native English speaker. Suppose, I wish to ask an audience whether they have ever had some particular drink (alcoholic)? How am I supposed to ask it? Is..
Have any of you drunk Carlsberg Beer?
Is the above question grammatically correct? If not, can anybody correct me? How do I c...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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