English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Sankar Ganesh

06:00

Hi

I would like to know the difference between You are employed out of country and You are Paid of a country(India)

thanks

RegDwigнt

11:30

This just in: secret Trump tapes!

user314159

12:29

How cheap!

RegDwigнt

12:48

and you ain't even seen the original version!
The above has been hastily photoshopped by the White House for obvious reasons.

tchrist

13:13

@RegDwigнt So it’s an upside-down French flag overlaid atop a right-side up Russian flag! French moles are taupe; what color are Russian ones?

I think this means that the moles are in distress.

RegDwigнt

13:25

@tchrist I think if you look at the French flag you will find it has a very specific shade of blue that has nothing to do with the one used by the Russians. Or the Dutchies. Or the Luxembourgeoix-

Of course the Trumps are the last ones to know that, so I'm guessing you are 100% right.

Matt E. Эллен

13:46

@RegDwigнt to deliberately include half of the SS insignia?

RegDwigнt

Meanwhile elsewhere RIP Roger Moore.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt The worst Bond evah.

@MattE.Эллен Not shown: the other half of the insignia on the other side of his neck.

@RegDwigнt But it pretty much works with the U.S. colors.

@tchrist If you're talking about molar quantities, I suppose his tie could represent one mole in a larger solution of treason.

Tonepoet

14:13

@RegDwigнt Donald Trump's tie looks like Laharl's scarf in that picture. I guess that shouldn't really come as any surprise to those of you who already likened him to a demonic overlord though. =P

RegDwigнt

you must play Horizon Zero Dawn.
Even if you only get to play five more games for the rest of your life, it has to be one of them.

With that out of the way, I am positively surprised that so far everyone in here has commented on only one out of the two things the White House have photoshopped out.
Jury's still out on whether that's due to everyone being exceptionally mature, or to everyone being exceptionally blind.

Sankar Ganesh

Any one here to clarify about my doubts

RegDwigнt

Only you can clarify your doubts, mate.

We can address them or otherwise help, but it's up to you to be the clarifier.

Sankar Ganesh

@RegDwigнt: I would like to know about the context of below sentence in the offer letter

Your employed out of Country (India)

RegDwigнt

Yes, what do you want to know about the context? And what is the context that you want to know about?

Sankar Ganesh

14:27

Let us say if someone receives an offer letter from an organization which is in abroad, saying that your are paid out of / your employed out of country

For Instance: A person who is japan receiving an offer letter from an organisation in India saying that , you are paid out of India / Your employed out of India

RegDwigнt

Wait. I am totally confused now.

Sankar Ganesh

I would like to know in this case, whether that the Indian organization would process the work permit visa for the japan person

RegDwigнt

Does the original sentence say "Your employed out of Country (India)", or does it say "You are employed out of Country (India)".

These are two entirely different constructions that mean two completely different things.

Please take a minute to check your spelling. It matters a lot.

Sankar Ganesh

Sorry the original sentence is You will be employed out of India office

RegDwigнt

Okay, thank you.

MetaEd

14:30

@Mitch A mind not merely twisted but actually sprained.

As a friend used to say.

@Mitch Nevertheless, February 28.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I'll give it a look.

RegDwigнt

Well, I am not quite sure how work permits work but from my layman point of view absolutely nothing about the sentence or its context suggests whether they will or will not process the work permit.

They just don't mention it at all.

Robusto

I do have a PS4, so I guess that would work for me.

@RegDwigнt: Have you played The Last of Us: Remastered?

RegDwigнt

Excellent story expertly told. And not as in, that's an excellent video game story. It's an excellent story, period.

Robusto

So far TLoU:R is my favorite game on any platform.

RegDwigнt

14:33

No. How does it differ from the original?

Robusto

Upgraded for PS4, otherwise the same.

Sankar Ganesh

@RegDwigнt: Thank You ,However I would like to know whether statement conveys that the employer hiring that person for India Office instead of Japan ?

RegDwigнt

Well then. I'm glad you bring up Naughty Dog, because that makes for a great comparison.

What they specialize in are run-of-the-mill stories, masterfully told.

So Horizon ends up one upping them.

Robusto

I loved the story, and the moral conflict inherent.

@RegDwigнt Then I'll definitely check it out.

RegDwigнt

Yes, and again, painstakingly crafted with great mastery. The point is, it's still predictable.

Like, there's nothing wrong with Nathan Drake just like there's nothing wrong with Lara Croft. But you can't call the twists and turns original, is my point.

Robusto

14:37

No, not original—what is there left to say about a zombie apocalypse, after all? But I did like the way the characters were handled, and the game play always kept me a little behind the curve, so I could never catch my breath and amass the skills and/or weaponry to get ahead of the game.

RegDwigнt

@SankarGanesh well, my understanding is you are an employee of that office, but you actually stay out of the country.

MetaEd

@Robusto I think St John the Revelator had the last word on that subject.

Or is that St John the Revenant. Probably I'm confusing him with St Thomas Covenant.

Matt E. Эллен

St. Jimmeny the Cricket

Robusto

@MetaEd Not going to get into eschatology with you. Suffice to say John never envisaged the heat death of the universe as one of the horsemen of the apocalypse.

Sankar Ganesh

@RegDwigнt: Okay fine thank you for the support ,:)

RegDwigнt

14:40

@Robusto I am 80 hours into Horizon and I still don't have the slightest idea of what the fuck is actually going on. There are at least four separate layers to the story, plus whatever smaller stories I choose to write myself on the side. The amount and gamut of lore is insane.

Matt E. Эллен

is "heat death of the universe" a subcontracted out part of death

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Like I said, I will give it a try. I've been looking for a decent console game lately. Fallout 4 was a major disappointment and, worse, boring.

RegDwigнt

I am jealous of those fucking Dutchies' writing skills. I truly am. I marvel and cry tears of envy.

Mitch

St Leonardo the Caprient

MetaEd

The immanentization of the eschaton moots the heat death of the universe.

Mitch

14:41

Oh yeah?

MetaEd

@Mitch Yeah, that's the guy.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Don't let @Cerberus see you crying.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен God smoking in bed

again

Matt E. Эллен

will he ever get the message?

Robusto

@Mitch What, he smokes after sex?

Matt E. Эллен

14:42

that's the last time we call the fire brigade

Mitch

shudders

Cerberus

Hello.

Horizon, is that the shooting-game?

Robusto

Someone asked me if I smoke after sex. I responded that I was too tired to look.

MetaEd

RegDwigнt

I spent the last three months playing Breath of the Wild. Got a Switch just for that one game alone. Then I had to get a PS4 to play Horizon.
Obviously I expected both to be at least somewhat good. But I never expected either investment to have more than paid off after just 6-7 hours of playing. And I certainly never expected *both* investments to do that.

Robusto

14:44

Uh-oh, things are hotting up. I'd better put thee behind me and get out on the bike. Laterz all!

RegDwigнt

CU

Robusto

@RegDwigнt OK, stop selling. I'm going to try it. Will let you know. Laterz.

Mitch

@Robusto pedal faster to avoid heat death

Just work with me here but why aren't there more games like Portal?

Where you work out a problem with someone else?

And are just trying not to die, rather than kill lots of others?

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Okay, I am happy for you.

@Robusto Bai!

RegDwigнt

Put your medal to the petal.

englishstudent

14:50

@MetaEd What does this line mean?

When I ping to a specific message I write "this", some write "that". I guess both are correct.

Mitch

It's so obvious

englishstudent

Yeah.

Mitch

It's pretty obvious that the immanent is a generalization of the determinant and permanent of a matrix

a weighted sum over permutations of indices of matrix entries

It all starts to make sense when you realize they are just homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.

englishstudent

Oh come on, you are using difficult words Mitch. Let me open Websters.

Mitch

(of course if you monodromize the motivic cohomology group of the moment generating function)

englishstudent

15:01

Let me write complex words in my native language here, and then you try to comprehend them.

Mitch

oops...sorry... thinko... I meant the Schur function

Uygar Uçar

Does the sentence have a meaning?It feels that it is true.

"Modelling touching an object like pen to the object that is to be modeled"

maybe this is a complex sentence for all languages :)

Matt E. Эллен

it doesn't seem to make sense. what is "modelling touching"? for example

Mitch

15:35

@MattE.Эллен I think he wants to model the action of touching an object

Matt E. Эллен

oh I see

Mitch

or I could be wrong

englishstudent

If someone is shifting their house can I say "How is your shifting going?"? Or is it not natural sounding?

And are two question marks above okay. This part: "... shifting going?"?

Mitch

15:55

in AmE, 'shifting' sounds like the house itself is physically being shifted over a couple of feet. In AmE what is meant by changing one's residence is 'moving'.

That said "How is your moving going?" is perfectly natural. A little more likely to use an explicit noun sounding thing like "How is your move going?"

MetaEd

16:17

Immanentize the eschaton

In political theory and theology, to immanentize the eschaton means trying to bring about the eschaton (the final, heaven-like stage of history) in the immanent world. It has been used by conservative critics as a pejorative reference to certain projects such as Nazism, socialism, communism, and transhumanism. In all these contexts it means "trying to make that which belongs to the afterlife happen here and now (on Earth)". Theologically the belief is akin to Postmillennialism as reflected in the Social Gospel of the 1880-1930 era, as well as Protestant reform movements during the Second Great...

@englishstudent ^

Mitch

17:03

@MetaEd so sorta like the rapture but where you make a handful angels come down to earth, and everyone in heaven is wondering 'What the hell'

!!rimshot

user314159

Ba dum tss

MetaEd

17:46

@Mitch Weird stuff people believe.

GarouDan

18:27

Hi guys, someone knows where can I find a list of the most used english words (sort by its usage)?

And a list about idiomatic expressions too

Mitch

18:39

@GarouDan googling for it quickly finds....

Most common words in English

The list below of most common words in English cannot be definitive. It is based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus of over a billion words, and represents one study done by Oxford Online, associated with the Oxford English Dictionary. This source includes writings of all sorts from "literary novels and specialist journals to everyday newspapers and magazines and from Hansard to the language of chatrooms, emails, and weblogs", unlike some sources which use texts from only specific sources. The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists claims that the first 25 words make up about one-third of all...

googling for most common idiomatic expressions gives different sets on each link. Whether some phrase is idiomatic is very vague and opinion based, so hard to decide

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