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stack

00:25

I published a photo which was containing some hidden-interesting-points in a group. And I wanted of people to detect those interesting points. Someone detected all of them. Now which sentence is proper in this situation (to tell him)?
- Nice job
- Good eyes
- Well done
- Nice detection

Cerberus

01:23

@stack All of those sound appropriate.

Just add punctuation.

tchrist

Yay.

Cerberus

01:43

@JossieCalderon Hmm what is it that you consider ungrammatical?

It is a bit ugly, but I wouldn't call it wrong?

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SmokeDetector

07:35

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Derogatory term for inconcise writing by top essay reviews on english.stackexchange.com …

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RegDwigнt

12:14

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 a colleague just sent me this:

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Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

12:39

@RegDwigнt Nice!

Lego employees should all have phones like that on their desks

Lucas Gabriel

13:17

Hello, is there any one here? OR should it be "is there anyone here?"?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

13:35

The latter.

Mitch

13:48

No one's here.

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Shafizadeh

16:52

I said to someone edit your answer and replace something with something else. He did. Now which one is correct?
- why did you write that?
- why have you wrote that?

tchrist

Have takes a past participle; did takes an infinitive. Wrote is neither of those.

Shafizadeh

Ok these:
- why did you write that?
- why have you written that?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

they are both correct

Shafizadeh

Ah good :-) thx

tchrist

I would further say that not only are both now correct, it is difficult to tease out much difference between them. The one with have written has a small feeling of being closer in time than the one with did write, but this is not easy to pin down.

Have written has some connotation of being recent or ongoing. It is not completely finished. Maybe. In practice, these are mostly interchangeable.

Compare for example Did you eat yet? with Have you eaten yet?. Both are said, and no one takes one to mean something different from the other.

Hayjeechet?

(=Hey did you eat yet?)

Shafizadeh

17:13

I see

What's that word which is like "infinitive" but means "extra" and it is usually usable in the math ?

tchrist

17:27

Oh, I don't know.

Shafizadeh

Ok, take a look at this: 1, 2, 3, ... {what English word means a endless sequence} ?

user208178

"infinity"?

Shafizadeh

@Arrowfar that's the one. thx

Shafizadeh

17:43

Which one?
- Each user may have multiple rows into table above.
- Each user might have multiple rows into table above.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

17:55

@Shafizadeh may means permission. might means possibility. Either way is probably fine, but the "into table above" part is wrong. "in the above table" is probably what you want, but without context it's hard to tell.

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Saladin

19:20

I’m working on a visual graphic to have it displayed as life -size Panaflex poster within SOC room. The prepared design is still in its infancy and would take some before it is fit for final printing. My plan is to have the design professional made by Ms Sarah which does graphic work for MARS.
To reach that point of your maturity, I need your valuable input/feedback on this novice idea ; give your creative spin on the design and critique as you may, you will find me most liberal when it comes to design discussion. Please be known that this is low-priority-no timeline work so kindly review i…

Please review.

I want to improve it further

To reach that point of your maturity, I need your valuable input/feedback on this novice idea and please provide as much creative spin as you can on the design and critique as you may, as you will find me most liberal when it comes to design discussion. Please be known that this is low-priority-no timeline work so kindly review it at your own discretion and comfort.

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Shafizadeh

20:42

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I see. tnx