English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Matt Эллен

12:00

thanks :)

David Wallace

1 hour ago, by David Wallace

There once was a young Englishman
who could never get his limericks to scan.
His rhyming was fine
But at the end of each line
His number of syllables always overran.

Cerberus

Especially underWEAR and proBLEM.

Matt Эллен

lol

they rhyme the best

David Wallace

@Cerberus AABBA - it's not supposed to!

Cerberus

I mean how old bear "rhymes" with underwear.

And whatever's going on with on them / problem.

David Wallace

12:02

So what did you get in exchange for your broadband?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus my rhymes are prefect, just leik my spelling.

Gigili

@DavidWallace It went umm quite well, so they'll call me later.

David Wallace

Haha! I read that before I looked at who posted it, and thought it was a response from Cerberus about his neighbour! LOL!

Cerberus

@MattЭллен And like mu typing.

@DavidWallace Oh! I see.

Neighbourly love.

Gigili

@DavidWallace Yes, she is.

David Wallace

12:06

@Cerberus Um, that sounds almost biblical.

Cerberus

@DavidWallace It kind of is. Or Kantian.

Gigili

@DavidWallace seven and four years older.

Hum?

Cerberus

My neighbours are loving their "friends" every night.

Gigili

My love is friending neighbors.

David Wallace

I know of a three headed mutt
Whose ideas run chiefly to smut.
But he says them in Dutch;
I can't understand much;
But I know that he's quite off his nut!

Matt Эллен

12:11

My fiend was loving his neighbour
When another popped 'round for a favour
Of the sexual kind
But he didn't mind
In the end he got paid for the labour

KitFox

claps

David Wallace

@Gigili Why?

Matt Эллен

damnit. I can't spell

Gigili

@DavidWallace There's no why. Just accept it.

Cerberus

@Gigili I thought he was abroad?

David Wallace

12:21

@Gigili Please try to make that easier for me. What you're doing is very unfair.

Cerberus

Haha, very nice, both.

Gigili

@Cerberus Who?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus you're quite the inspiration :)

David Wallace

Good night everyone. I don't expect to visit this chat room again after tonight; it has suddenly become personally very difficult for me. Good luck everyone; it's been a pleasure getting to know you all.

Matt Эллен

CU @DavidWallace

Gigili

12:27

Umm, whut?

Good night.

Cerberus

@Gigili Your love?

KitFox

@DavidWallace Oh! Well, bye then!

Cerberus

@DavidWallace Wait, what!?

Don't leave me here!

simchona

1

Q: participate, be involved

He participated in the project yesterday. Does it mean a) he was involved in the project yesterday, or b) he became involved in the project yesterday?

meaning

Nortonn.

user19161

@DavidWallace Geezis.

user19161

12:29

@simchona How would you know?

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy oh pshaw, that's rich coming from you!

simchona

@jasper trust me.

usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/174997-participate.html is a broken link to the same question.

Mahnax

@DavidWallace Bye! I'm glad I popped in here and saw this. Good luck!

Matt Эллен

@simchona oh dear

Cerberus

What's going on? What did I miss? Why is David leaving?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

12:31

I was just going to ask if anyone thought the Chat the other day accomplished anything with Nortonn

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I don't know. It was very sudden. I hope it's nothing terrible

simchona

usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/174997-participate.html

Read the comments. Definitely him.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен I am shocked.

user19161

@simchona I see nothing there.

Cerberus

I completely did not expect this.

@room: Does anyone know anything?

Matt Эллен

12:32

@simchona I can't see the thread. I just assumed you were right :D

Mahnax

I have no idea.

simchona

@jasper I distinctly said it was broken.

Mahnax

Oh, Nortonn has used the name Mariner before, IIRC.

KitFox

coughs

simchona

Google didn't cache the whole page but the search showed that page had it

user19161

12:33

@simchona Where are the comments then? Must we have an account there to view them?

Mahnax

@KitFox Why are you coughing?

Frank Science

How can I respond the question What's up?

simchona

@jasper you're not reading. The comments are on the question I posted, then said "comments sound like him"

user19161

@Mahnax She is shocked.

Matt Эллен

@FrankScience "I'm good, thanks. How are you?"

KitFox

12:34

@Mahnax Choking on the scone I'm having with my tea.

Mahnax

@KitFox Aha. Well, I hope you don't die from it.

RegDwight АΑA

0

Q: What should a reply to "What's up?" be?

How should you reply to "what's up?"

word-choice conversation

Seriously. Folks. We have a site. Use it.

Frank Science

@RegDwightАΑA Thanks.

RegDwight АΑA

))))

KitFox

Ah, Thursagen. Only two more years until we see him again.

@Mahnax I'm fine, thanks.

Mahnax

12:36

@KitFox Oh good.

Frank Science

Is How do you do commonly used now?

KitFox

@FrankScience Not in the US.

And speaking of sites, what's with having 17 upvotes on our top question on the ELL site?

user19161

@FrankScience I find how are you and its variants quite cliche.

RegDwight АΑA

24

A: Do you really answer "How do you do?" with "How do you do?"

As Cerberus wrote about 'U' English, replying to "How do you do" with "How do you do" used to be the case among some classes in England (at least), but it seems to be (sadly) nearly extinct. Kate Fox writes in the first chapter of Watching the English (which is about talking about the weather): ...

The last paragraph is especially of note.

Frank Science

@JasperLoy You meant that it's obsolete? It's taught in my first English class in preliminary school.

user19161

12:39

Well, to be honest, as long as someone is not posting crap, I am OK even if he creates another account druing suspension.

simchona

@jasper he posted smut two days in a row. What now?

Cerberus

@FrankScience It is still used in England, but it is rather formal. Not something younger people would ever use amongst each other anyway.

user19161

@FrankScience It's not obsolete. I just mean that I don't use it myself because it seems like a meaningless thing to say. It's just a greeting.

RegDwight АΑA

What I'm wondering, going by his comments in that room, Mr Nortonn has a firm grasp on prepositions and other words alike. So why does he ask all these questions to begin with? Not only are they useless to everyone else, they are also useless to himself, in point of fact.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA He might be crazy is many different ways.

KitFox

12:43

It's a game. Attention seeking.

Also, maybe he thinks they will actually be helpful to some people.

RegDwight АΑA

@KitFox well yes, at this point.

user19161

I will need to meet him in person to make a further diagnosis.

Gigili

@Cerberus Umm, well I was talking nonsense there. Yes, he's or was abroad.

RegDwight АΑA

But it all started off as a series of questions a pineapple would have.

Frank Science

@JasperLoy Greeting is sometimes used. When you wanted to ask a math teacher some math problem, did you started with Given that $\alpha$...? without Hello, teacher or something else?

user19161

12:44

@FrankScience I would just say Hello for instance.

simchona

@reg the URL on that forum link shows the original question was by the same user at Nortonn. Check out URLs by CoolSir or HomeLand.

user19161

@simchona Maybe we should all create accounts there to see what happens there!

simchona

usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/174930-count.html

They've been deleting his questions.

RegDwight АΑA

Yeah I also remember seeing at least one instance of him posting on SE and Yahoo Answers.

Cerberus

@Gigili Ah, OK, I understand.

user19161

12:46

I am thinking why he posts the same question again. Did he not get good answers?

Frank Science

Did you *start with

Cerberus

So @Gigili, do you have any idea what's up with David?

user19161

@Cerberus Er, why do you ask Gigili? Anyway I dunno. I am not following these things these days.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA Yahoo answers seems to be filled with badly written questions and answers.

RegDwight АΑA

@JasperLoy wait what, Yahoo Answers have answers?

Robusto

12:49

3

Q: "Open source" as a verb

I encountered a problem when I started to write a report including some notes on open source software. The problem I have is if I can use open source as a verb like: We open sourced some software product. How should this be written — I mean in one word or with hyphen, etc.? Is there a d...

verbs orthography hyphen

Surely this has been asked and answered. English can verb nouns. Period.

RegDwight АΑA

@Robusto yes, but this one's about orthography.

simchona

@jasper he calls it interrogation

user19161

@Robusto Surely Reg has said that evrey word can be any part of speech. Full stop.

RegDwight АΑA

Well at least that's the part that keeps it open.

user19161

@simchona I really think he is a bit delusional or might have split personality.

user19161

12:53

I see that Mariner has been merged into Nortoonn.

user19161

Soon they will all be merged into Thursagen.

simchona

So whats this new feature waiwai mentioned?

user19161

I seriously think that Nortonn should be suspended for longer than Thursagen, say 10 years.

user19161

@simchona No idea.

Gigili

@Cerberus Umm, no. I have no idea.

Robusto

12:54

@RegDwightАΑA Ah, you cheated by reading the whole question. Shame on you.

simchona

And why's David leaving

user19161

Also, don't push Nortonn too much. He might take a knife and stab you if he finds ouit where you live.

RegDwight АΑA

@Robusto that wasn't my intention at all, it's just that I fixed it earlier today.

Robusto

Anyway, gotta motor. CU.

RegDwight АΑA

Hab Spaß.

user19161

12:56

@Robusto Byes.

user19161

Nortonn can't stab me though, because I am NOTW. Mwahahaha.

Gigili

@Cerberus Umm, no. I have no idea.

Mahnax

@simchona It is painful for him to be here, apparently.

user19161

@Gigili Maybe he just left to catch the bus.

user19161

@Mahnax What happened?

Mahnax

12:58

@JasperLoy You know just as much as I do about that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox How could you banana this broadband? I am seriously trolling the cat.

user19161

@Mahnax I think you should reverse the I and you, but of course you were aiming for poetry.

KitFox

@MrShiny I knew you would come around.

Cerberus

@Gigili Could you ask him, or give him my e-mail?

user19161

@kit How is your story coming along? Are you gonna publish a book soon?

KitFox

13:00

@JasperLoy Slowly. Nope.

Mahnax

Well, I'm off to eat breakfast and then walk to school. Bye all!

KitFox

Later!

user19161

@Mahnax CU

Matt Эллен

bye @Mahnax

First David, then Robusto, now Mahnax. What's going on? People are leaving like flies

user19161

@MattЭллен I am always with you, even to the end of the world.

Matt Эллен

13:02

phew!

RegDwight АΑA

Flies are leaving like people. The ship have fled the rats.

Matt Эллен

imagine! people trying to leave and continually hitting the wall, and flies getting out of windows first time. it would be a topsy-turvy world

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I wonder why triangle me fraudulently whiskers. mango?

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 WHat???

RegDwight АΑA

@JasperLoy you have to read it backwards. Oh, and with a Russian accent.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

13:06

@JasperLoy I WONDER WHY TRIANGLE ME FRAUDULENTLY WHISKERS. MANGO?

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA Unfortunately, I know neither.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

first hear me sheesh time you didn't? the

RegDwight АΑA

Shouting "mango" is okay, that's the safeword of this chat. But "triangle"? Come on, duderette.

Cerberus

Durian.

RegDwight АΑA

Durian what?

user19161

13:08

Rambutan.

user19161

Have you people had rambutans before?

Gigili

@Cerberus Done.

Cerberus

@Gigili Oh! I didn't know that. Thanks again.

RegDwight АΑA

@JasperLoy I only know Rambu I through IV. Is Rambutan a working title of the next installment?

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA Before I say something, I want to say, I know that is a whoosh!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

13:13

@RegDwightАΑA First Rambusin, then Rambucos

RegDwight АΑA

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Rambusin carne?

That would have to be followed up with Rambucon, not Rambucos.

Matt Эллен

whiskers fraudulently wonder why mango I me triangle

no, that doesn't make sense

RegDwight АΑA

Yeah yeah. Talk to the hand.

user19161

Triangles remind me of teletubbies.

RegDwight АΑA

What about just one triangle?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

13:15

@RegDwightАΑA sin -> cos -> tan

user19161

One triangle? Depends on whether it is inverted. It could be male or female.

RegDwight АΑA

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yes, I know. Must I now explain mine?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightАΑA I guess cuz I didn't get it

RegDwight АΑA

Chili con carne

Chili con carne (chili with meat) or more commonly known as simply "chili" is a spicy stew containing chili peppers and meat. Traditional versions are made using chili peppers, garlic, onions, and cumin, along with chopped or ground beef. Beans and tomatoes are frequently included. Variations, both geographic and personal, may involve different types of meat as well as a variety of other ingredients. The variant recipes provoke disputes among aficionados, which makes chili a frequent dish for cook-offs. Chili is also used as an ingredient in a number of other foods. Origins and history I...

There is also chili sin carne. That is like chili con carne, except different.

Jul 16 at 19:23, by RegDwight ΒВB

This analysis has been brought to you by the Joke Decomposer.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I tried to google it but "rambusin" but all Google gave me was "rambus in the news"

RegDwight АΑA

13:17

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 well that's where he belongs, no?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightАΑA that is the piece I was missing.

RegDwight АΑA

Don't want a rambus in your foregarden, say.

KitFox

Oh, dude. Come on, don't be gross.

RegDwight АΑA

Gross and Grachel.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightАΑA I don't want any kind of bus in my garden

RegDwight АΑA

13:18

Hex key

A hex key, hex wrench, Allen key, Allen wrench (also known by various other synonyms such as Inbus and Unbrako) is a tool of hexagonal cross-section used to drive bolts and screws that have a hexagonal socket in the head (internal-wrenching hexagon drive). The Allen® name is a registered trademark, originated by the Allen Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut circa 1910, and currently owned by Apex Tool Group, LLC. Its genericized use is discouraged by this company. The standard generic name used in catalogs and published books and journals is "hex key". Nomenclature The ...

What about this bus? It's pretty in!

KitFox

What about a rhombus?

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Except chiobus. A chiobu is a pretty girl in dialect here.

KitFox

Those are totally hip and fresh.

user19161

@KitFox Or a science omnibus for the kids.

RegDwight АΑA

Also, Unbrako is the most hideous word.

@KitFox No thank you. Last time I was in Rome, I preferred to take the underground.

user19161

13:20

Words are not hideous because they cannot hide.

RegDwight АΑA

Guus Hiddink

Guus Hiddink (; born 8 November 1946) is a Dutch football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of the Russian side, FC Anzhi Makhachkala. He is considered to be one of the best managers of his generation and was the best-paid coach in international football in 2009. His achievements include winning the European treble (Eredivisie, Dutch Cup and European Cup) with PSV Eindhoven; managing the Netherlands and taking them to the semi-finals of the 1998 FIFA World Cup; leading South Korea to a fourth place finish in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the first and only Asian team to re...

Cerberus

Ah, the Roman metropolitana.

RegDwight АΑA

This guy can hide.

Cerberus

@RegDwightАΑA Stop that.

No football.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy words hide all the time. For example, if you look inside the word "expunge" you'll find a hidden sponge

RegDwight АΑA

13:21

@Cerberus What football?

Cerberus

That one.

RegDwight АΑA

We are comparing people's hiddink abilities.

This guy wins. Is all.

Cerberus

I vote for Hyde.

RegDwight АΑA

Nice try, Jekyll.

user19161

Jinx.

RegDwight АΑA

13:22

Now go play in your Hyde Park.

Cerberus

hides in sack

RegDwight АΑA

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 well after email and ecommerce it was clear the esponge would follow.

(Pictured: esponge following after email.)

Gigili

Arms extendo.

Legs extendo.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightАΑA LOL I wasn't expecting that. Nearly coughed water all over my keyboard.

RegDwight АΑA

@Gigili Nin extendo.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 nöone expects the Squarish Inquisition.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

13:26

@RegDwightАΑA Nor Expunge-Bob, Square pants

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 One only coughs blood. Now one can cough water too?

RegDwight АΑA

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 True, true.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA False false = true true.

RegDwight АΑA

May 6 at 21:38, by RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

What will they invent next?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy er, what? you can cough anything that's in your lungs.

Matt Эллен

13:27

e.g. I cough poisonous fungal spores on my enemies

RegDwight АΑA

Very apropos.

user19161

Apropos sounds like ananas.

RegDwight АΑA

You sound like ananas.

user19161

No, you sounds like mu.

RegDwight АΑA

Aug 5 '11 at 15:24, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JasperLoy Eine Kuh macht Muh. Viele Kühe machen Mühe.

And we've come another full circle. Reboot the universe!

user19161

13:30

Eine Kleine Nacht Musik.

RegDwight АΑA

Mar 14 at 14:57, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

Just don't put them into a Klein bottle.

user19161

By the way, your AAA looks different in different places.

RegDwight АΑA

Tell those places to go shoot themselves.

user19161

In some places, the A in the centre looks shorter. In other places, they are identical.

RegDwight АΑA

Shorter? It looks longer to me on the main site.

(A typical complaint a doctor hears.)

user19161

13:31

Maybe we have different fonts installed.

RegDwight АΑA

Maybe we are just different.

user19161

Of course, I am NOTW. You are OTW. QED.

Gigili

Maybe you need to get your eyes tested.

RegDwight АΑA

Who you call Ottawa? Them's fighting words.

user19161

@Gigili You did not notice any difference?

RegDwight АΑA

13:33

@JasperLoy still two mistakes in there, BTW.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA Yes. The only reason I wrote that was because I remember the music teacher saying it.

Gigili

@RegDwightАΑA What are they? That night musics can't be klein?

RegDwight АΑA

Just use KV 525 instead.

Gigili

@JasperLoy Between?

RegDwight АΑA

@Gigili I thought you knew things about German.

user19161

13:34

OK where I saw the middle A being shorter was on the main page on the right of posts.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightАΑA Great Scott! Five hundred twenty-five kiloVolts!

Cerberus

RegDwight АΑA

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 you misspelled Giga.

Cerberus

This is the navigation for a forum thread on a certain kernel for the Galaxy Nexus, opened in November. Insane.

user19161

But now I have less fonts installed, so the three A's are the same.

RegDwight АΑA

13:36

They call that navigation? No wonder the galaxy is still much unexplored.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

How am I gonna generate that kind of power? It can't be done, it can't! I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drug store, but in 2012, it's a little hard to come by.

Cerberus

*1984

RegDwight АΑA

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 oh I have a marvellous plan. How about you just go back in time?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightАΑA I need 525kV

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 ZAP

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

13:37

@Cerberus Are you trying to suggest that Back to the Future takes place in 1984?

Cerberus

There you go. Feeling better now?

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 What happened in that year in history?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus I need it in the flux capacitor, dummy

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Oh, is that what you were referring to? Haven't seen it.

Gigili

@RegDwightАΑA Don't forget me.

RegDwight АΑA

13:37

It ain't called Back to the 1984 for no reason.

Cerberus

Oops.

RegDwight АΑA

@Gigili okay, here goes.

Eine kleine Nachtmusik

' (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German title means "a little serenade," though it is often rendered more literally but less accurately as "a little night music." The work is written for an ensemble of two violins, viola, and cello with optional double bass, but is often performed by string orchestras. Composition, publication, and reception The serenade was completed in Vienna on 10 August 1787, It is not known why it was composed. Hildesheimer (1991, 215), noting that most of Mozart's serena...

Zwei Anfängerfehler. Jeder sollte imstande sein, sie als solche zu erkennen.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Gah, here I was about to scold Jasper for trying to take part in a BTTF discussion when he hasn't seen it, but then Cerb comes in and pineapples it all up too! yeesh

You two should go see the movie.

RegDwight АΑA

Seriously. That dog has seen Sex and the City 2.

2

Matt Эллен

Or just read all the memes relating to it

RegDwight АΑA

13:39

And he hasn't seen Back to the Future.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA I also know ich liebe dich by the way. I see it at McDonalds where they try to have different languages for saying I love you.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy whoa, you trust a commercial in one country to get a foreign language from a different country correct?

RegDwight АΑA

Seriously, not having seen Back to the Future is a crime against humanity. The Geneva Resolution is exceptionally clear on this.

user19161

I am not seeing BTTF because I am busy inventing the time machine you see in BTTF.

Matt Эллен

how will you know what it looks like?

user19161

13:43

I will post the machine in this chat when I am done. Then we can all go BTTF.

Matt Эллен

:D

user19161

Seriously, the things that are starred are not funny at all.

3

user19161

علي باراس

16 2

past-tense present-perfect-tense pronouns

user19161

How can we ping this guy?

RegDwight АΑA

The starred things are not supposed to be funny.

You totally misunderstand what starring is for.

@عليباراس like this?

user19161

13:46

@RegDwightАΑA Yeah that's what I thought, but I think it will have no effect.

RegDwight АΑA

Well not if he doesn't show up, no.

Matt Эллен

even if he does, he can't chat yet

RegDwight АΑA

Besides he'd need another 4 reps.

Jinx.

Matt Эллен

Gigili

@JasperLoy We're not jesters.

RegDwight АΑA

13:49

@MattЭллен what kind of coke is that?

user19161

@MattЭллен Is Vario the new Cola?

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightАΑA it's Vario Collar

RegDwight АΑA

Jinx!

Gigili

Next time you complain about my stars, I'll flag you. Seriously.

user19161

Also I prefer Pepsi, which is what they have at KFC.

RegDwight АΑA

13:49

Next time you flag a message, I'll star it. Seriously.

MetaEd

restrains his star hand with difficulty

Matt Эллен

retrain my tar hand

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

hands out restraining stars

Matt Эллен

While retraining my hand to tar
And restraining my hand from the star
An error in grip
My hand it did slip
And tarred up the stars near and far

Gigili

14:06

I'm lost.

Actually I'm not lost. I'm geographically challenged.

No, I'm confused.

Whatever.

The most interesting thing I've done today was joining team Umizoomi.

Matt Эллен

why is it so hard to stay awake, today?

MetaEd

wakes up Whaa?

Matt Эллен

zzzzzzzzzz

RegDwight АΑA

Gigili

Nice ugh shoes.

RegDwight АΑA

14:16

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Q: The best I have ever seen, best i ever saw

Not a native english speaker so bear with me: Which one of the following is correct - if both, what is the difference? That kitten is the cutest I ever saw. That kitten is the cutest I have ever seen.

past-tense present-perfect-tense

Not this again.

Matt Эллен

is a dupe?

this is related:

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Q: 'Did see' and 'Saw'

The blog post here uses the title ` "Isn't this just the cutest thing you ever did see?" ` I am sure this is correct, but my question is, but what difference it would have made had he used "Isn't this just the cutest thing you ever saw"?

word-choice verbs do-support

but I can't find a dupey dupe

OIC

RegDwight АΑA

@MattЭллен still waiting for someone to add that one to ELL. We have tons of emphatic-do questions.

Anonymous

14:52

Hello

cornbread ninja

@MattЭллен indeed I am! It is terribly informative.

Matt Эллен

Glad to hear it :)

MetaEd

@Anonymous Hello.

RegDwight АΑA

15:11

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A: When should I choose "had come" over "came" in the following sentence?

I don't think sent should also needs had along with held and decided, and I feel represented should be turned into was representing. Other than the first two sentences which states something, the others relate everything in the past.

Nice try, @Jasper.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA There are at least two more JLO's in my high school, all in different years though.

Gigili

No need to register as a new user to answer such questions.

user19161

@Gigili I am using him as a sockpuppet. People would not suspect me in that way.

Matt Эллен

> I don't think sent should also needs had along with help and decided...

what?

I can't begin to figure out what Jasper is trying to say

Gigili

@JasperLoy Then I suggest that you go out to eat.

user19161

15:21

@MattЭллен It might be Jasper from Twilight, lol.

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy or maybe it's a talking rock!

user19161

@MattЭллен Yeah, maybe it's a manifestation of my extra consciousness.

Matt Эллен

or at least a rock that can get online and post on SE

RegDwight АΑA

The first part of your first sentence doesn't make sense. — Matt Эллен 3 mins ago

KitFox

Or an entire town in Wyoming!

Matt Эллен

15:22

RegDwight АΑA

Are you saying that the second sentence does?

> Other than the first two sentences which states something, the others relate everything in the past.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightАΑA I can read it and extract meaning from it

RegDwight АΑA

Please extract some meaning for me. I'm thirsting for it.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightАΑA the first two sentences state something. the others relate everything in the past

it might not make a lot of sense, but at least I can read it

RegDwight АΑA

Well if you throw away words like that, then the first sentence makes just as much sense.

Gigili

15:24

@RegDwightАΑA A glass of extracted meaning, sir?

RegDwight АΑA

> I don't think sent should also needs had along with held and decided, and I feel represented should be turned into was representing.

Throw away a couple words and you get

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightАΑA I'm not throwing away words, I was giving my interpretation

RegDwight АΑA

> I don't think.

Matt Эллен

lol

RegDwight АΑA

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Q: See, Count, Present Tense

Suppose somebody in some current situation give me a box of apples and he claims there are 5 apples in there, but there are only 4 apples when I look into the box: 1 "I can see only 4 apples." 2 "I see only 4 apples." 3 "I can count only 4 apples." 4 "I count only 4 apples." It se...

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HAHAHAHAHAHA

Matt Эллен

15:25

@KitFox they've only got one computer between them, poor things

RegDwight АΑA

Now he's terrorising Writers.

Matt Эллен

oh dear. poor writers.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA You mean Nortonn?

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy yeah, the question was cross posted (but is now inaccessible) over at UsingEnglish.com

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Only one thing can help us now

2 days ago, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

user19161

15:32

@MattЭллен So that's how you guys know it is him. Seriously why post all over the internet?

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I think we may need the Interpol.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy Interpol is probably not interested.

Matt Эллен

the internet's not serious business for interpol

KitFox

Lunch. Later!

Matt Эллен

have a good one!

RegDwight АΑA

15:35

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 pink ponies?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightАΑA no, "one thing", so, "pink pony"

user19161

@MattЭллен After that, have a big one, lol.

RegDwight АΑA

Poof!

Matt Эллен

sock puppet follows suit

user19161

When did Reg start saying poof? After Matt started saying toodles?

Gigili

15:46

This kind of lol-ing is new to me.

simchona

@JasperLoy He's been terrorizing UE for over a year, I think

user19161

@simchona He seems to have a lot of energy doing that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Sex assault victim being charged for naming her attackers

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