English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Mitch

02:00

what google knows about.

about me.

shocking

Mahnax

@Mitch If you e-mail about laundry, I'm concerned.

Mitch

revelation

Daniel δ

@JourneymanGeek The dent was probably my desk chair. Don't mind it.

Mitch

OK well it's about as interesting.

Have you ever looked at someone else's email?

um...that I've heard....

Cerberus

@Mitch Is it affecting your typing already? And, yes, they are omniscient.

Daniel δ

02:00

@Mitch My brother's

Mitch

never anything interesting.

really boring.

Cerberus

@Mahnax Dirty laundry.

Mitch

@Cerberus as in making it better? no not really.

Cerberus

Oh OK.

Daniel δ

@Cerberus Fun fact: The top thirty ELU users are bots from Google

Mitch

02:01

@Cerberus well, there you go, it's about the laundry that came out of the wash. so sort of underwhelming.

Cerberus

@Mitch Have you looked in the folder "misstresses & adultery"?

Daniel δ

@Cerberus Oops, I meant ten

You're eleven, right?

Cerberus

@Danielδ Tell me about it!!

Mahnax

@Danielδ Whew! Glad I'm not one of those.

Mitch

@Cerberus wha? that's exactly where I put my laundry in.

Cerberus

02:02

Soon, everyone will be bots from Google driving around in cars by Google.

Mitch

er...'laundry'

Cerberus

@Danielδ I don't know.

Mitch

just laundry.

Mahnax

Ack, once I drop off of page two, I'll have to start answering again.

Mitch

YOu should see what goes in the 'laundry' directory.

Cerberus

02:03

You put your laundry in a folder...

Daniel δ

@Cerberus OK, I just checked. You're eleven.

Mitch

by which I really mean

Cerberus

All right.

Daniel δ

@Mahnax Slacker.

Cerberus

...

Mahnax

02:04

@Danielδ Pretty much. Also, I find that I'm not interested enough to answer most of the questions these days.

Daniel δ

@Mahnax Wow, I remember when page 1 ended around 6K

@Mahnax Riiight.

Mahnax

@Danielδ I must've arrived after that.

Daniel δ

I haven't really been around recently.

@Mahnax Yeah.

Mahnax

@Danielδ In all seriousness though.

Daniel δ

@Mahnax Well, you're only 2 months after me

Cerberus

02:05

@Mahnax Yeah...but it has always been so.

Mahnax

@Cerberus Eh, for who?

Daniel δ

@Mahnax The pause was remembrance, not sarcasm.

Mahnax

@Danielδ Oh, I see.

Cerberus

@Mahnax For everyone? For me, at least.

Daniel δ

@Mahnax Do we need a sarcasm character? I've heard it proposed.

Mahnax

02:06

@Cerberus Ah, OK. There was a time when I wanted to answer a lot more.

Daniel δ

@Mahnax Same here.

I've stopped for other reasons, though.

Mahnax

@Danielδ Addictions run in the family?

Cerberus

@Mahnax Yes, same here...but it was rather because the system seemed fresh and new, making it more fun to answer mediocre/uninteresting questions, I think.

Daniel δ

@Mahnax How bethought you my kin?

Mahnax

@Cerberus Yep. I was so excited to just be a part of it all.

Cerberus

02:08

Hehe.

Mahnax

@Danielδ shrugs

Cerberus

I do like answering simple questions sometimes.

Daniel δ

@Mahnax ELU can be addictive.

Mahnax

@Cerberus Yeah, I answer far too many single-word-requests.

Daniel δ

It's true

Mahnax

02:10

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Q: Are there any words in English that have a plural with a separate derivation?

There are some irregular plurals in English (child/children, goose/geese), but all of the ones I know of share the same root word. In some languages, there are some irregular pairs where the singular form does not have the same root as the plural form, such as in Russian (год/лет, человек/люди)....

I think this one needs that final vote.

Cerberus

@Mahnax Oh, hmm. I never cared for those, but I like some ESL questions.

Mahnax

@Cerberus I don't like them either, but sometimes I can't help it for some reason.

Cerberus

It's OK.

Daniel δ

@Mahnax Who didn't vote yet?

Cerberus

A man has needs.

Mahnax

02:11

@Danielδ I'm not sure. I've cast my NC vote.

Hey, Cerby, vote on that there question, will ya?

Daniel δ

@Mahnax All 4 are NC

@Cerberus NC

Cerberus

NC?

Mahnax

@Danielδ For good reason.

Cerberus

@Mahnax OK...

Mahnax

Not Constructive.

Cerberus

02:12

Ah.

Daniel δ

@Cerberus I want to see whether it will close before my eyes

Mahnax

@Cerberus Close it, Cerberus! You have the power!

Daniel δ

@Cerberus Well?

Mahnax

whines

Cerberus

@Mahnax Sorry, can't.

I don't want it closed.

Daniel δ

02:14

@Cerberus Remember, you can like a closed question.

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Mahnax

Bah.

Daniel δ

@Cerberus Be faithful.

@Cerberus Be true.

@Cerberus Hellhound though you be.

Mahnax

2 mins ago, by Mahnax

whines

Daniel δ

Well, one man's trash is another man's treasure.

And, I suppose, one man's pain another's pleasure.

One man's money's another man's measure.

And...

lemme think.

One man's labor is another man's leisure.

Cerberus

@Danielδ It seems fine to me.

Daniel δ

02:20

OK, that's not how I pronounce leisure

Cerberus

"Does English have nominal suppletion?" — Answer: "No, except perhaps person-people."

I understand your point, but what you are basically saying is that you think suppletion is a misguided concept, because "go" and "went" just aren't the same "word" to you". Whether not there are one "word" or not is open to (a not very interesting terminology) debate. In suppletion, what is meant is that you would use the pair "go"-"went" just the same way as "move"-"moved", i.e. the relation between each pair is very similar. The question is, does English have such noun pairs (or trios etc.)? The answer is: perhaps "person"-"people", but otherwise none that we can think of. Seems valid. — Cerberus 53 secs ago

Daniel δ

@Cerberus Now you know why there are so many closed questions. Eeek.

Cerberus

@Danielδ I know many people are close, happy, yup.

Daniel δ

@Cerberus Well, I drop all charges against you. You have acquitted yourself with honor, hellhound.

Mitch

@Mahnax it's so ..._easy_ somehow.

Mahnax

02:22

@Mitch Yeah.

Sometimes it's really just a matter of who gets there first.

Daniel δ

@Mahnax Yessir.

Mahnax

And if you get there first, it's like, hey! free rep.

Mitch

@Mahnax I don't see why it is NC

Cerberus

@Danielδ Thanks!!

Daniel δ

@Cerberus The question needs revising before it's worthy, though.

Mitch

02:24

By cerb's comment it's fine as is.

Mahnax

@Mitch Well, right off the bat, …this question will likely solicit debate…

Mitch

-all- questions elicit debate!

FF is really driving this with his...peevishness?

impertinence?

Cerberus

@Danielδ I don't know. You could add some linguistic terminology. But I don't see a problem with it.

Mitch

pedantry?

Mahnax

Basically, it's asking for a list.

Mitch

02:25

Is there a list? no. just the one example. done.

Cerberus

@Mahnax It asks "are there any?".

Yes or no.

Robusto

> “If God had intended for women to prostitute themselves he would have given them free will and a vagina." — Doug Stanhope

Mitch

@Cerb, it -is- implicitly asking for any of them and some examples which is pretty much like a list. but there are so few (one) that it is a very manageable list..totally constructive.

Cerberus

@Mitch Asking for a few examples is a list?

I disagree.

Robusto

Only one Stanhope. Stupid phone.

Cerberus

02:27

Asking for some examples of something that you don't understand yet, or of which you want to know whether it exists, seems more than reasonable.

Mitch

I think @Gigili has a phone should could lend you. I think it's broken though. Does that help?

@Cerberus I'm in agreement there.

Cerberus

@Mitch Oh, that was easy...

Mahnax

Well, I'm off for awhile.

Good day to you all.

Cerberus

Bye!

Mitch

But it is what I think other people think.. they think that asking 'are there any...' is really asking for a list.

later

Cerberus

02:30

Oh, could be.

Daniel δ

@Cerberus You are right.

Cerberus

I wish we never had to quibble about whether question x follows rules y and z...

Quibbling over word usage and punctuation is so much more fun!

Mitch

@Cerberus it seems that quibbling over what type a question is is easier to do.

Cerberus

@Mitch How is that different?

Mitch

I find in myself when I don't know the answer to a reasonable question I feel like attacking the question itself, then I feel stupid when somebody does come up with the (finally) obvious single word requested.

Daniel δ

02:33

@Mitch Tis good FF doesn't chat, or you wouldn't win.

Well, maybe you would

he seems a little remorseful himself on this one

@Daniel: I'm in two minds now as to whether I still endorse my original closevote. I personally don't consider am, is, were, are or go, went to be variants of "a word", so I guess I'm just stamping my foot a bit over the "wording" of the question. Disregarding person/people, I think with nouns the closest we have is things like cow/beef, pig/pork, sheep/mutton. The English peasants had their own "animal" words, but they ended up using the French equivalents solely for the cooked meat their Norman overlords demanded be served at table. — FumbleFingers 2 hours ago

Cerberus

@Mitch Sometimes it is indeed a sign that the question is bad.

@Danielδ He has been here a few times, a while ago.

Mitch

@Cerberus Or as a sign that I was wrong that it was a bad question ('How dare the unknowledgable OP ask an unanswerable question!') which turns out to be a great question ('Oh..someone else gave the obvious answer X.')

Cerberus

@Mitch Also a possibility...

When you think a question is bad, you think about why; if you can find a good, precise answer, you're probably right.

If not, then suspend judgement.

Mitch

@Danielδ what do you think of my comments to him directly on that?

(it seems by @Cerb's comment, that he is following the same tack as me)

Cerberus

Probably...haven't read the whole thread, to be honest.

Dag @Tom!

Mitch

02:46

(my comment is two above yours there)

Tom Wijsman

@Cerberus Hallo daar, best wel laat.

(But let's prefer English, although we probably should make a Dutch chat around here)

Cerberus

@TomWijsman Best wel een beetje!

Yes, we can throw around a few Dutch words when they least expect it.

Tom Wijsman

Gotta go sleep soon. Or Klaas Vaak (= Sandman) is gonna hit me...

Cerberus

You truly are a wijs man.

Hey, I heard someone knocking on my window...

I think a large part of the SE population is either sleep deficient or night owls.

Tom Wijsman

Hmm, someone else starred that, another Dutch speaker here? :D

@Cerberus Light DSPS in my case.

simchona

02:51

@TomWijsman Nah, just thought it was a good giggle

Considering I was about to ask if your last name were pronounced "wise-man"

Tom Wijsman

You figured out wijs = wise I suppose.

Cerberus

@TomWijsman This is the English room, they all have humongous talenknobbels.

Tom Wijsman

@simchona Pronounced wysman.

simchona

I was going to make a snark, but then I thought it might be misconstrued

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

No misconstruing simchona in this chat.

simchona

02:57

Thank you dahling

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Hey, did you know? if you squat in an unused chat room long enough, you can become its owner automagically

simchona

I stake this room in the name of the king

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Good luck, Reg is the #2 chatter in the SE universe and Cerb is #1.

So if Reg ever disappearededed then the puppy would win

But Kit managed to become owner of the Writer's chatroom

simchona

What happens to the old owner?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

they are demoted due to inactivity

and the room just finds a new owner by magic

simchona

02:59

Oh, I see

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

it's like those ancient artifacts that are too powerful to be left alone; when their master dies they latch on to a new master, no matter how random or inappropriate it might be

I'm trying to think of an example that y'all might recognize but the only one I can think of is the hourglass from Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series. It's kinda like that.

And I don't want to search for this trope on tvtropes or I might get sucked into a vortex

simchona

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Q: Flight arrived "in" or "at"?

Is the usage or or/in correct in following sentences ? a) Flight has arrived in Tokyo. b) Flight has arrived at Tokyo airport.

prepositions

So much context!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

It's a floor-wax! It's a dessert topping! Stop, you're both right!

I hate preposition questions like this. On one hand, they are legit questions that are really hard for learners to know. There are no rules, only millions of cases that are subtle and nuanced. On the other hand, I don't think it's useful to try to enumerate all those cases here... unless there were just one question that covered it all, and we could close the rest as dupes.

simchona

But I feel like when you plunk down two sentences, and ask if they're correct, without any intuition of your own, then you're just asking to have it closed

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Perhaps

I'm of the school of thought that the ELL site + the Linguistics site + the Writers site leaves nothing for our site to cover, so I feel that a question like this should at least be closed as a dupe of the real question which we ought to have somewhere, though I can't find it because you can't search for prepositions in the db

Journeyman Geek

03:16

@Daniel from SU, I pop by here for some variety.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JourneymanGeek variety is just about the only thing you'll find around here

Journeyman Geek

yup ;p

nearly all my other channels have a strong IT bias

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Oh... most of the regulars here are IT people

Journeyman Geek

Ya, but the conversation isn't

besides, english is practically my first language

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

heh me too :)

Journeyman Geek

03:19

(embarassingly, i couldn't remember the spelling of a simple word in my native language, and had to ask dad)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

been there. I am slowly degenerating to illiterate in my first language.

and slowly generating to literate in my third language.

So it balances out, I guess.

Journeyman Geek

lol

I've been neglecting french

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

what other languages do you speak?

Journeyman Geek

no one to practice it at the moment, my last french penpalish person vanished :/

English and Tamil, fluently, a little basic french, but its rusty

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Cool

My French is rusty too, and that's the embarrassing part, because I spoke that first.

I should probably hang out in FLU instead of ELU

Journeyman Geek

03:23

XD

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

or CLU

simchona

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Isn't that a game?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@simchona Yeah, the three-headed dog did it in the chat-room with pedantry

Journeyman Geek

loves the michel thomas lessons for basic french tho

But i'm sort of at the point where practice would help, if nothing else, for vocab building and fluency

that and apparently my french sounds like a toddler.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JourneymanGeek I bet my chinese does too

Wow, this is an on-topic question for CLU?

Journeyman Geek

03:25

ugh

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

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Q: What is the name of this traditional Chinese character font?

The image below is from a book I bought while in Hong Kong (ISBN 957-14-4160-0. It's an edition of a work in classical Chinese, with an ancient commentary in classical Chinese, and a modern commentary in mandarin. The book is published in Taiwan. I have looked all through the book for any mentio...

traditional-chinese typefaces

Journeyman Geek

I NEED to learn that, but its too hard

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JourneymanGeek It's not too bad, esp in Singapore you must have lots of opportunity to practice

Journeyman Geek

lol practice, yes

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

but when it comes to reading/writing, be prepared for hours of flash-cards and drilling. That's the only way

Journeyman Geek

03:28

its just VERY different from anything else

I just need spoken, honestly

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JourneymanGeek Spoken is easy. But without at least trying to learn to read (never mind writing) you will find it difficult to advance because the learning materials all assume you can read.

Learning the grammar and vocab is not much harder than any other language. The only real problem is that you can't read to enrich your vocab. If you don't already know a word when you read it, you're basically screwed. You might not be able to continue parsing the sentence.

There is a good explanation about what makes it hard here: pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

Journeyman Geek

@MrShinyandNew: Too many charecters T T. I might look at classes after i finish my degree

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

> Now imagine that you, a learner of Chinese, have just the previous day encountered the Chinese word for "president" (总统 zǒngtǒng ) and want to write it. What processes do you go through in retrieving the word? Well, very often you just totally forget, with a forgetting that is both absolute and perfect in a way few things in this life are.

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I find that font really ugly actually.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

That part always makes me laugh. And also makes me think of Cerb

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

03:53

> Someone once said that learning Chinese is "a five-year lesson in humility". I used to think this meant that at the end of five years you will have mastered Chinese and learned humility along the way. However, now having studied Chinese for over six years, I have concluded that actually the phrase means that after five years your Chinese will still be abysmal, but at least you will have thoroughly learned humility.

So true

Journeyman Geek

04:17

lol

Matt Эллен

08:04

Gooten Morgen

General Reference:

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Q: Is it correct to say "It should look" or "it should looks"?

In third person, after the should auxiliary, should I use the the infinitive or the -s?

grammar verbs time

user19161

08:19

@MattЭллен Boo!

Matt Эллен

Hi @JasperLoy

user19161

@MattЭллен You're always here at the same time.

Matt Эллен

am I?

user19161

Yes, it's called British morning time.

Matt Эллен

:D it's a good looking morning today!

user19161

08:29

I thought this chat room should have shut down by now given the meta post yesterday.

Matt Эллен

what? Nah, the post was looking for rooms beset by inappropriate content. This room's content is often appropriate

mostly, I'd say

maybe we need a meta EL&U chat room chat room where we chat about the chat room

"we heard you like chat, so we made a chat room for your chat room so you can chat about your chat"

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user19161

@MattЭллен I wonder what the questions will be like if and when ELL exists.

Matt Эллен

08:45

well, a lot will get migrated

we will have fewer here

an unimaginable number of questions will appear at ELL

way more than we get here

over here, we will initially be educating users how to tell if their question is suitable for ELL

but then we should settle down into a more academic site, with one or two questions a day, that are actually interesting.

Matt Эллен

09:00

@Jez what is your question about? It's not clear to me why you think "gave at the office" is a special phrase.

RegDwight ΒВB

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A: Is "if any problem, please call me" grammatical?

I am yaseen from Pakistan(city Lahore) I am here to Inform you that I have no money To pay you before I reach your country for job and after This I will pay all your expenses that you Afford for me in Installments you can contact me +92-302-8979266 soon because I am the deserving Person. I can...

Jez

@MattЭллен it's a special phrase because i haven't heard it much :-)

maybe a bit like an American would understand "rat-arsed"

Matt Эллен

but rat-arsed is idiomatic. "I gave at the office" is just plain English.

I must be missing something

is it the context of the person saying this that's weird?

Jez

hmm

i guess in hindsight it's obvious

:-)

i always just thought of it as an opaque phrase. people don't always say it in response to charity

it's more generic now

"help me with my homework" "i gave at the office"

Matt Эллен

David Schwartz agrees with you

@Jez really? That sort of use I've not heard. In that case, that's a better example than charity

Given that the charity the company I work for supports is quite prominent in the local community, I can imagine people saying that they "gave at the office" when out in town.

Jez

09:19

i'm just wondering when they started saying it

did people say it in the Victorian era?

is it a modern Americanism?

Matt Эллен

So, people use "gave at the office" to mean "I've already helped", or "I've helped you enough"?

If so, you should probably put that into your question, otherwise more people like me will get the wrong idea :D

user19161

Doesn't gave at the office simply mean you gave something away at the office?

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy this is my interpretation, but I'm getting the impression it actually has another meaning

user19161

@MattЭллен And where does this impression come from? From dear Jez?

Matt Эллен

Yes, and David Schwartz

Jez

09:24

dear me, i'm dear.

@MattЭллен done

Matt Эллен

Thanks! +1

user19161

@MattЭллен Sometimes, the wrong idea is the right idea.

Gigili

09:36

@JasperLoy What the hell ...

high-ho.

Matt Эллен

high-ho.

It's off to work we go

With a shovel and a pick and a walking stick

high-ho

Gigili

I always eat some cheese with tomato

high-ho

Matt Эллен

lol

►

Gigili

Oh, snow white

Matt Эллен

indeed!

when I was 6 years old, the school I was at were putting on snow white, as a play, and I had to understudy Dopey.

I had one line to learn. "There's smoke coming from the chimney!"

Gigili

09:56

You went to school at 6?

Matt Эллен

I think we start at 5 years old here

maybe younger

RegDwight ΒВB

And look where it got him! He's chatting on the Internet! Woo-hooo!

Matt Эллен

I know! My parents are so proud

RegDwight ΒВB

Haha, your Freudian slip is showing.

Matt Эллен

:D

Jez

10:02

Dopey's understudy. that's a position to aspire to.

Matt Эллен

lol

user19161

@RegDwightΒВB Sometimes I don't understand what you are thinking.

user19161

@Gigili I usually neither eat cheese nor tomato.

RegDwight ΒВB

@JasperLoy my thinkings are most very super advanced. Get an expert to help.

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user19161

Just now I had a thought. Maybe when ELL starts, half the questions here will get migrated. After a while, there won't be any questions there. And then all those questions will get migrated back when it shuts down.

Matt Эллен

10:09

OFF TOPIC

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Q: I'm glad it helped

I want to express: Me alegra haber podido ayudarte Is I'm glad it helped the equivalent?

grammar translation

RegDwight ΒВB

@JasperLoy it's called Russian mountains, or American mountains, depending on whether you ask on FLU or RLU.

RegDwight ΒВB

10:24

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Q: I'm glad it helped phrase

Is the phrase I'm glad it helped grammatically correct? And if it is, does it express correctly that I am more than happy that I could help someone? And what would be other ways to express it?? Note: I'm a Spanish-native speaker, please do not migrate my questions to the Spanish site...

meaning word-choice grammar

> I'm a Spanish-native speaker, please do not migrate my questions to the Spanish site...

Tee hee. I don't think he understands.

Matt Эллен

:D

Mahnax

Good morning, folks.

Matt Эллен

hello @Mahnax

RegDwight ΒВB

Goeiemorgen.

Mahnax

We're having a thunderstorm here.

RegDwight ΒВB

10:29

Nais.

Matt Эллен

we had a thunderstorm last night! it only lasted a few minutes, though :(

Mahnax

It's calming down now, but I've had my bedroom throughly lit up by bright flashes a bunch already.

RegDwight ΒВB

Daylight savings!

Mahnax

Haha.

shakes fist at weather

RegDwight ΒВB

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Q: I have no place to ask these questions! So I have to come to here to ask! May you be patient!

I extremely want to know that men in west how to think about these!Men in west means Americans and Europeans! These questions are that when you, Americans or Europeans, see someone who sweat armpit into wet, how do you think about these? I am thinking that I really love George W Bush president!...

american-english british-english

Best title ever.

Matt Эллен

10:35

lol

this is not no place.

RegDwight ΒВB

It is the Time Cube guy?

Mahnax

Nah, he's not Asian.

Matt Эллен

possibly, but wouldn't he call us stupid?

Mahnax

Perhaps his cousin, though.

Matt Эллен

> how do you think about these?

If I were meaner, I'd send him to Cognitive Sciences

Mahnax

10:38

@MattЭллен Ooh, good idea.

Matt Эллен

oh dear :D

Mahnax

I think the people there would have a lot of fun with the Timecube guy.

Don't worry, the question is gone.

Matt Эллен

super question:

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Q: Can critical thinking be taught?

Critical thinking is central to the scientific method and believed to be essential to a successful democracy. Recently, the 2012 Texas Republican platform voiced the party's opposition to the teaching of critical thinking skills in public schools. This stance raises many controversial questions o...

educational-psychology

This is the sort of question I wish I could answer

Mahnax

Same here. It's neat.

Matt Эллен

or ask, even!

Mahnax

10:44

But now that the thunder has mostly stopped, I'm going to sleep again.

Bye!

Matt Эллен

sleep well

Matt Эллен

11:41

not constructive?

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Q: Find tense of given words on online website

I'm looking for website to know the all tense of the particular given words. Any website is there? for finding tense of words. if it is, pls let me know.

verbs conjugation online-resources

maybe it's OK? I don't know.

RegDwight ΒВB

He is looking for a dictionary of his choice.

Matt Эллен

fair enough

RegDwight ΒВB

There aren't that many forms in English anyway. And only two of interest, simple past and past participle. Those are listed literally everywhere. Wiktionary, Cooking.SE, Fox News, everywhere.

Matt Эллен

and it's not often someone would cite Fox News as a reliable source

user19161

@MattЭллен This is the sort of thing I have been thinking about the past ten years.

RegDwight ΒВB

11:49

But have you been thinking about it critically?

Gigili

Is that you, Reg?

There is no need to create a new account.

user19161

@Gigili You are very funny today.

RegDwight ΒВB

Hm. That's a neat idea actually. Try and merge people with me.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВB My thoughts are too deep for mere mortals to fathom, so I shall not say more.

RegDwight ΒВB

What if I'm an immere immortal?

user19161

11:52

@Gigili I will merge them now.

Gigili

@JasperLoy Thank you. Actually you can close him as NC, but merging would also be OK.

Is it on-topic? If so, I'd write an answer.

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