@Cerberus I make typos a lot, but those more insidious think-os that you can't catch even on a second read, not as often.
I often say I am a better editor than writer, though, because it will take one of my coworkers an hour to produce some error-ridden thing that I can fix in another hour but that I would agonize over for like, four, the first time.
It's really a good thing all considered that I am paid mostly for getting rid of words and not producing them.
> In Barack Obama’s words, Steve Jobs was “brave enough to think different ly, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.”
@Jez wish you a Happy Birthday, i pray to god to give good health and wealth to you
@Jez: i want to share my problem to someone bcoz my heart feels very bad , on previous day i just talk to jasper regarding my probs , but i havenot told them fully, but today i got more tensed , man
@Jez mate i had joined in a new frim on the month of may, it is far away from my hometown , so i stayed with my new office mates , first time i m staying without my parents, initally my room mate doesnot talk to me , much , but nowdays he's teasing me a lot and also made an environment in office , such a way that others also teasing me , he saying that it's for fun , i also thought he is doing teasing , but he is my frnd , so i simile whenthey tease me , but nowdays i got irritated bcoz
he teasing me always, i got a feel that he playing with me like childrens playing with toys, he played in couple of occasion when i met problem , i m confused whether this guy stop teasing when i show angry face rather than smiling,
also i saw that guy sharing probs to other officemate not to me, but he's teasing me , donot know what to do
@Jez i asked him , he says that he will tease, and smile , i saw him sharing his probs to other and i had noticed that , he never tease anybody so far in office other than me , and also start teasing me in room too
@Jez: i m feeling angry , i was asking myself why he not understanding my probs, tell me how do i react i stopped talking to him , but he coming and talking to him , you know onething when i have no place to live in this new city , he came to me and ask me , if you have no problem then come to my room and stay with us
also is this english sentence's wrong or right, "Donot kid me?"
@Jez: are you here friend ? i m waiting for your replay
I hope you can enlighten me. I get varying answers in Google and I need to find out which is the correct grammatical structure for these sentences.
The rest of the staff is/are on leave at the moment.
The rest of my family is/are arriving late.
@Kitḫ well said i thought the same . bcoz he saying that teasing me is a pass time for me my dear friend , u know he always teasing my english comunication too, when i said donot kidd me , he said why you speak english wrongly
@Kitḫ recently i had cut my hair, he teasing me a lot , saying that Steve Jobs maight seen my new hair style so that he died , also he's saying that i m newbie which is by given god to tease , he also says he will bring his college frnds and ask them to tease me
@kith: most of time , i smile and left the place, but it was irritating when someone kidding you again and again
@SankarGanesh Well, then, it sounds like he is a bully. It is true that n00bs often get teased, but gently and politely in a way that builds morale rather than destroys it.
You should tell him to go to hell and then just ignore him.
Or every time he teases you, you could ask him nicely if he feels better now that he's put you down. Or if you want to be vulgar, you could ask him if his penis feels any bigger after he's mocked you.
@Kitḫ you in room , i stopped taking to him , but he came to me and start kidding me , without a\having any reason , like saying that i m looking like Titanic Hero and so on , and then telling that this guy wants to be titanic hero , LOL, he bringing other guys also, but he helped me twice in a problem , that's why i m confused , whether this guy can be good or bad , or he just playing, the main reason is he 's so rich and i came from poor family , my father is a farmer ,
Myeh. Hard to say. Maybe you are taking his teasing too personally. In any case, if you have asked him to ease up and he hasn't, then he's not being very nice.
Besides, he might have helped you with a problem to show that he knows more than you do, which makes him feel good.
@kith: So i donot know most modern culture, meanwhile his father is a business man who work all countries , so he aware of all things, you know i did saw hollywood movies , i saw very few movies , he usually saw hollywood movies and saying like that, one day he told me that i m doing like pink pather i donot know ant pink pather i searched google and came to know, always teasing me :)
Well, maybe you think it is bad because you don't know most modern culture. I mean, I don't think it's so bad to say that you would want to look like Leo DiCaprio. Who wouldn't want that?
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@Kitḫ Friend, he's saying like that and smiling and telling to others, that this guy look like a money but when i m saying Titanic hero , monkey also smiles, what a comdey
@Kitḫ first timei m seeing this type of person in my life , it's my fate, waiting for my time , so that i can move from here and get going , i lost my gud friend on jan in an accident in my hometown
@kith: i asked my teammate , what this guy want to do , they said why you taking his teasing serious , people stop it when you wonot care , so i tried not taking serious just smiling, he also said he's kidding just for timepass, so donot give priority for it , now my team mate realized and he stop teasing me with him , :)
@SankarGanesh My condolences. That is a very difficult thing.
It takes a long time to adjust to such big changes.
You are far from home and in a new, very different place.
With very different kinds of people.
You should try making friends outside of work, and look for other people who are from farming villages or that kind of thing, so they understand you better.
Also, they can help you understand your new world, too, because it was new to them once.
@Kitḫ yes i understood this new world that guy is having jerk bcoz he wants to show that he is better than me and for his timepass he kidding me
I had worked with a US client and Uk client and also helped plenty peoples all the over the world , sofar None of the people had told that my communication is very difficult for understand them but this is the only guy saying like that, :)
@kith: Anyhave i just start teasing that guy very badly, if he teased me again
i m not slave for anybody , i m not so rich so i was not able to know more modern things in my childhood, but now i m working hard to reach that level and start kick off these people asshole, to prove none of the people are not down like you , am i right ?
@Kitḫ he says he knows kick boxing , swimming , i donot knew these things in my childhood , but i would like to go swimming , without going to Gym , how can i maintain my body fit, bcoz that guy telling me that he's going to be a body builder you donot know abt it, :)
Pshaw. You don't need to be a body builder. You can run for free. I bet your body's strong from working the fields. That's good, honest labor and not some paid-for machine that accomplishes nothing while making your muscles hard.
@Kith: yes walking is a good exercise and swimming is a best exercise , you donot need an special apart fro these, am i right, friend , ok i will wait for you.....
hey so I was inspired by @Hugo's musing about a radio alphabet that's confusing, like "P as in ptarmigan", and I started putting together a list but I'm missing some letters. Anyone know any words that start with these letters but don't sound like they do? a b f i l n q r s v z
This question is from a diagnostic test of one ESL school in Bangkok.
Ann wonders how much time she has to work on her assigned project. Her teacher says, “No need to hurry yet ________”
a) You hit the big team.
b) It’s night time.
c) Take your time.
d) In no time.
It's obvious t...
A friend of mine used to say "Q as in Cuba". Of course, it's a joke. I wanted to ask for some help from folks to complete or polish up my "alternate phonetic alphabet" that consists entirely of totally misleading words. :)
With the help/inspiration of various people such as @Vitaly, so far I have: edelweiss b sepia d igor ephemeral jeepers h aisle gaol caper element enemy aubergine p cuba argument esteem pterodactyl yukon v double-yukon extra white xenon
Please tag me if you feel like contributing. The single-letter items are giving me trouble in finding words that make that sound at the …
I can't think of anything that does start with f but doesn't sound like f, that's actually English words
a aitch, aisle
b bdellium
c cyclops
d djinn
e eunuchs, ewe
f
g gnat
h hour
i
j jalapeno
k knight, koran, knot
l
m mnemonic
n
o oesophagus
p pneumonia, pterodatctyl, ptarmigan
q qanat, quran
r
s
t tsunami
u unix
v
w whom, write
x xenon
y Yves
z
I can't think of any non i-sounding words, but what about "i as in iatrogenesis" or something where it makes the /ɪ/ sound at the start like "i as in indigo"
yes, it's permissible to combine a confusing one with its confusand. So you can say "a as in allusion and i as in illusion" or "a as in aisle and i as in isle"
for R, how 'bout picking a word from French or Spanish that we've pretty much borrowed? Like "r as in rouge"? (or does that not work because you would then Englishificate the pronunciation and make it back into our R)
@MrShinyandNew安宇 It was perfectly clear in context. I like it.
@Hugo all I can come up with for sounds alike for r is, like, "r as in radiated and i as in irradiated" which isn't quite the same. I have been playing too much Fallout.
(In which there is an item called the Wazer Wifle, also.)
Actually, a lot of those are terribly easy to mix up when spoken (it's easy to mishear them), but if you plan to write the alphabet it's not so funny anymore
"Your confirmation is number is P as in Peer, B as in Beer, three, zero, T as in three, Z as in zero, two, one, T as in tsunami, two three, D as in djinn"
also amusing would be if the radio alphabet words were all in the same theme. Like, alcoholic drinks. or euphemisms for masturbation.
maybe we need radio words for numbers too. "Three as in threesome". "Two as in tudor".
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Something we do in amateur radio is that when someone can't even get your callsign or exchange they will ask to confirm just a part, like the number, and you'll say, "no, that was three, one two THREE alpha merry land dee cee" (that's a Field Day exchange)
still don't have anything at all for L, R, V, and the ones for F, S, Z, N could be better
f (formation when used as "F as in-formation"), (four/five when combined with numbers)
s (six/seven when combined with numbers)
z (zero, when combined with numbers)
n (nine, when combined with numbers)
What's her accent here?
I keep receiving information from different sources that she was born and grew up in the USA. I don't know, but the way she pronounces "love", "do to me", "magical", "lyrical" sounds kind of unusual to me.
A common English expression of consternation (roughly equivalent to "for God's sake!") is "Gordon Bennett!" Where did this expression come from; was there ever a person called Gordon Bennett?
@MrShinyandNew I just found my old list! How do I paste it in like you did?
test
test
Aye
Bee
Cue city choir
Double+u
Eye ewe eich eff el em ess ex
Four five
Gnu gnat gnarly
Hay hors d'œuvre
Inn
Jose
Knee know
L
Mnemonic
N
Oevre
Ptarmigan pneumatic
Quixotic
Rorscharch
Tsar tsunami
Urmm
Vexillologically
Why Wagner wring wry
Xenophobia
You
Zeus
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498.html:
We can found no scientific discipline, nor a hearty profession on the
technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and, mainly, one
computer manufacturer.
I'd always thought that words after "can" should be in pre...
How are these Brazilian (Portuguese) names pronounced in (U.S.) English?
João Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto
Bebel Gilberto
Vinicius de Moraes
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Vivo Sonhando
It's a bird. It's a plane! No, it's the Supermods! Nohat is just a normal hat-wearing-guy, when, what's that, it's trouble brewing in the ELUs? Phone booths don't exist anymore, but no worries: he takes off his hat for the perfect disguise! With mighty wings and talons of judgment his owly companion swoops in, and here comes his trusty sidekick, the boy wonder himself! And as quick as you can say voiced palato-alveolar fricative they're on the scene.
What do you really want to say? "I need your help to make the system better?" "I need your help to test the system, so that it works better for everyone?"
Are you asking them to tell you what they have problems with in general, or are you using this as an intro to something more specific like "here's the questions I want feedback on"?
If you just ask for general feedback you won't hear from the average person who can muddle through. You will hear from one or two vocal users who are very angry that you chose blue instead of purple and that you didn't use the wording they like.
Meanwhile the real problem is that no one understands what the whole menu is for.
@Kitḫ If watching them use the system is out of the question then I think it helps to give your audience some sort of framework or prompts to consider. "Think about these things as you start to use the system and let us know how it was for you. We need your help to make the system better!" kind of thing, even if it's just a bulleted list of tasks they might be doing for the first time or something like that.
@Kit I'm not sure if I'm helping, but I sympathize; we "value" usability testing which means that we do it far, far less than I would like and only on very high-profile, public things.
Once, I introduced it at the paper prototype stage for something internal, and brought to light so many issues (that people had previously glossed over and seemed to think their solutions would address or that we would deal with when we got to building the thing) that I think it was kind of my fault the project died, because everyone realized it was hard, not just me.
♫♬♪♩ Tonight I'm leaving Though I'm bleeding ♫♬♪♩ Now you know me as Dirty Spaceman, yeah ♫♬♪♩ Tonight I'm leaving ♫♬♪♩ Got that spaceman head and ♫♬♪♩ Now I'm leaving (now I'm leaving) ♫♬♪♩
Angel Mouth ate my Jedi Jello ♫♬♪♩ Now she feels the burn (now she feels the burn) ♫♬♪♩
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Wasn't it though? I particularly liked that he used the word palanquin and that the Seraphim felt simultaneously ancient and alien, as well as accepted and familiar.
I hope you can enlighten me. I get varying answers in Google and I need to find out which is the correct grammatical structure for these sentences.
The rest of the staff is/are on leave at the moment.
The rest of my family is/are arriving late.
This question is from a diagnostic test of one ESL school in Bangkok.
Ann wonders how much time she has to work on her assigned project. Her teacher says, “No need to hurry yet ________”
a) You hit the big team.
b) It’s night time.
c) Take your time.
d) In no time.
It's obvious t...
A common English expression of consternation (roughly equivalent to "for God's sake!") is "Gordon Bennett!" Where did this expression come from; was there ever a person called Gordon Bennett?
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498.html:
We can found no scientific discipline, nor a hearty profession on the
technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and, mainly, one
computer manufacturer.
I'd always thought that words after "can" should be in pre...
How are these Brazilian (Portuguese) names pronounced in (U.S.) English?
João Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto
Bebel Gilberto
Vinicius de Moraes
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Vivo Sonhando
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…