"The katholikon was decorated in 1527 by the famous painter from Crete, Theophanes Strelitzas, who probably was a monk those days. At the lower part of his paintings he used to write his monogram Ch.M. The decoration of the katholikon of the St. Nicholas Anapafsas Monastery is the first work bearing the signature of this great artist who was the leader of the Cretan School."
But I don't see the Ch.M.
On the other hand, the high res image seems to have been cropped.
Greetings, guys. I really want to start writing articles and stuff. So, I've been penning down my thoughts to get an idea of how good I am. I think I suck, but I'm biased because I'm me.
@Nick: Greetings! I noticed the paragraphs are very short. I would reword your third sentence to "What *will the strong ones that survive be like?" It sounds better to me to use the future, since it is referring to a hypothetical future event. If you do this, I guess you should also change the "would" in the first sentence to "will."
You shouldn't say that artificial elimination of weak mosquitos is part of natural selection. The terms "artificial selection" and "natural selection" are usually opposed to one another. The food chain example is very vague. It looks like a placeholder, where in a later revision you'll insert an actual example of how mosquitos are useful in the food chain. The phrase "human affecting diseases" is awkward; you can just say "human diseases." I also would avoid saying "prevent from existence."
Also this: "While we, for obvious reasons, can't let ourselves get carried away and try to make mosquito bites seem like sweet kisses from Marilyn Munroe, we can however curb the threats they cause us." Marilyn Monroe isn't spelled right.
@Nick The sentence structure is also awkward. I'd suggest simplifying it and splitting it like this: "For obvious reasons, we can't let ourselves get carried away trying to make mosquito bites seem like sweet kisses from Marilyn Munroe. We can, however, curb the threats they cause us."
@rahstame Hello! "Dumjobs" seems like an unfortunate name.
@sumelic :) Dumjobs is Dum for Dumaguete (place) + jobs. I accidentally edited my previous post. Here is my old post: I am planning to create an press release about my job website, called dumjobs.com. Dumjobs has reached 2 years already on being a job portal website. This is the title: "Dumjobs Continues as a Free Job portal for Local Employers and Applicants in Metro-Dumaguete"
@rahstame: I wondered. Since it is in the Philippines, the connotations for native English speakers may not be important at all. There is a well-known Persian soap called "Barf."
Barf (from Persian: برف [bærf], Tajik: барф, meaning "snow") is a product line of soaps made by the Paxan company of Iran.
The Barf line includes:
Powdered laundry detergent
Scouring powder
Shampoo
Dishwashing liquid
== External links ==
Paxan Company Website
Paxan products webpage...
@rahstame: Did you want feedback on the press release? I would capitalize the word "Portal" to make it match the other words.
@sumelic Thank you for the input and the link. Basically here's my story. I created this website as an advocacy to help local employers and job seekers. This PR will be published on local new papers to prove to the GOVERNMENT that this is really free. They won't trust me and its been two years that I've been operating on my own.
Now, If I can do this PR correctly then I can have a chance to have a partnership with local gov.
I wanted to know @sumelic if the title is grammatically correct and newsworthy.
Based on my title the "Continues" word seems not trustworthy for me, like seems I can change the free to paid anytime. I want to assure on my title that this is totally free forever
@rahstame I agree that the word "continues" should maybe be replaced by something else. If you want to make it clear that it is free forever, perhaps put something like that in? ""Dumjobs Job Portal for Local Employers and Applicants in Metro-Dumaguete: It's Free and Always Will Be"? I don't know. Are there any special requirements on the title, such as a length restriction?
@rahstame Neither of those work as verbs here, unfortunately. You could use a past participle "Guaranteed Free," but I'm not sure how to combine it with the rest of the sentence. Sorry, I have to go to bed now. I hope your press release goes well. By the way, I forgot to say this earlier: congratulations on your work on the site!
@sumelic As you can see it's /bærf/. :-) But that made me wonder, do you read my screen name as /färd/? ('Cause I don't want it to sound like fart!) I realize that I know so many /är/s in English, but almost no /ær/s, except maybe in marriage and carriage and maybe other words that have a vowel after /ær/.
@Fard I'm struggling to come up with a spelling that would have the effect you want. The word "fair" comes close but it's /ɛ/ not /æ/. So "faird" would almost work.
It just occurred to me that writing reäl with a diæresis is useful for indicating the pronunciation /rɪəl/ rather than /ri(ə)l/. Are there any occurences of this in litterature? (Is there a freely available corpus of English lit. that will settle this?)
@MattE.Эллен hmm.. maybe that's the key. His inner voice is bolding things and he wants his writing to reflect that. My inner voice is telling me that he's a dick.
@tchrist Yes. I've noticed that I don't notice spelling. I find I have a hard time with "its" and "it's" now when very recently I'd get really upset. I blame (seriously) autocorrect.
They're so vain that continuing to encourage their vanity implies that they need encouragement, implying they need the encouragement, implying they're not as good as their vanity says they are. And that's wrong. So stop admiring me.
Hey English speakers! When you say enjoying or employing etc, is there an evident [j] ('y' sound) between [o] and [i]? Or it gets smoothed out between the vowels?
This and the 'w' sound in going, blowing, etc really bug me. I don't know how clearly I should pronounce them.
I just saw a relatively new user with the "marshall" badge for raising 500 helpful flags. In my ~2 years here, I've raised less than 150. Am I lax? Should I be on the lookout for things to flag, or just do it when something strikes me as needing attention? I don't want to be seen either as lazy or overzealous (or burden the mods).
If you see things that need flagging, flag it. Just do me a favor and don't use the VLQ flag, and only use "not an answer" if it is really not an answer.
And also, don't flag for dupes or closes, just vote instead.
I only want to delete bad (i.e. non-) answers. Questions can just get closed and the system can wash them away, either explicitly or through the obscurity of the dustbin of history
there's a quasi-famous short story, I think classified as sci-fi, whose title I can never remember (The Lottery, maybe?) where the deal is you can run for office, and you get to implement your ideas, but at the end of your term, you get decapitated
I tend to find the site civil from a "personal offense" perspective. There are spats, and things get heated, but I don't see a lot of vulgarity or overly-personal attacks.
Though that's probably 'cause of your (and the other mods') policiing
@KitZ.Fox good to know. I've always felt that the flag queue is invisible to non-mods, and the regular edit queue is long enough when there are lots of people looking at it.
Usually the community can take care of the VLQ and NAA flags themselves; just sometimes when there are conflicting opinions does a mod need be the decision-maker.
@KitZ.Fox I think stoning would be the worst, because the crowd might not be big, and not everyone would be into it, so you'd sit there for a long time in pain.
@KitZ.Fox how do you go home after that? (I mean the multiple executioners) "Hi honey! how was your day?" "It was OK. Mostly... I gotta go wash my hands though"
@Mitch Yeah, though one thing actually dying offers that you can't get at any other people in life, which may offer some kind of salve, is the ability to actually contemplate your own impending death
but given the pain involved, maybe you're right it'd just be best to drink oneself into a stupor and let them have at it
in a dream I had once where I was trapped on the subway tracks, and couldn't move without being hit by a train, and was so situated that I was going to be hit by a train within a few minutes if I didn't move, I kinda sat there and thought "this is an unexpected way to go!", and then started thinking about what it meant to die
@DanBron The guy I tandemed with once explained that if I didn't pull the cord, and if he couldn't reach the cord, there was an altitude below which he was no longer my friend and he had a cord for that too.
It just occurred to me that writing reäl with a diæresis is useful for indicating the pronunciation /rɪəl/ rather than /ri(ə)l/. Are there any occurences of this in litterature? (Is there a freely available corpus of English lit. that will settle this?)
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…