English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

3:26 AM

> Schedule of audits planned for 2019–2020, with indication of completion status.

I wonder if this looks natural. The translator used the term "with notes on completion", which is a calque of Russian "с отметками о выполнении" (with marks indicating whether this particular audit has been completed).

4:10 AM

@CowperKettle Looks okay to me. So does the earlier version.

Did we find out if @tchrist is okay?

Biden says we don’t need “Neanderthal” thinking on mask-wearing.

Walk like an Egyptian, think like a Neanderthal.

RegDwigнt

5:08 AM

@Robusto yeah. Sometimes it's like. You know, like how if I eat a cake, you can't eat that cake anymore. It's like that. Every time I read a note, someone else can read one note less.

@Xanne Maybe someone has his email?

5:47 AM

Word of the day: mock recall

6:39 AM

@CowperKettle Interesting, I hadn’t heard about mock recalls before (one up and one down) and would have thought it was something like “Imagine you remember your fifth birthday.”

A word of the regulatory age.

6:57 AM

The pop music of the 1970s was not very good.

Chumbawamba - Pass It Along

7:34 AM

Moribund Music of the 70s

Pass it along by word of mouse
Save yourself, don't leave the house

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9:21 AM

From an article on the seasonality of coronaviruses, a wonderful sentence: “Human factors, such as behaviors and activities that are closely associated with proximity of humans to one another, may contribute in seasonal cycles in virus transmission “

I would have said “the proximity,” but in fact article use is variable.

Australia: very low cases, likely to increase as they enter winter months.

9:43 AM

@Xanne I came across the term only today

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Gigili

11:02 AM

@Cerberus Almost 60 percent of the list are Arab states, that says a lot.

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2:25 PM

What is meant by this statement,"Functions as technical advisor and consultant to the railway board."

@user586228 Some persons (not named in the sentence) works as a technical andvisor and consultant.

"He (or she) functions as a technical advisor"

What is meant by a teechnical advisor please explain me this.

@user586228 A person who has knowlegde in the technical aspects of some activity. Who knows the technology used in the railway business.

And consultant?

@CowperKettle

consultant

Noun: consultant (plural consultants)

a person or party that is consulted
a person whose occupation is to be consulted for their expertise, advice, or help in an area or specialty; a party whose business is to be similarly consulted

Verb: consultant

present participle of consultar

Adjective: consultant (feminine singular consultante, masculine plural consultants, feminine plural...

@user586228 You can look up the meanings of words in a dictionary

2:33 PM

ok..

2:45 PM

Word of the day: epiblepharon

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Full Album)

@Xanne I refute it thus:

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (Official Video)

W̲ish You W̲ere H̲e̲re - P̲ink F̲lo̲yd Full Album 1975

Journey - Lights (Official Video - 1978)

Van Halen - Dance The Night Away (1979) (Remastered) HQ

Matt E. Эллен

Bohemian Rhapsody came out in the 1970s, so I think that's case closed

The Cars - Just What I Needed (HQ)

Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video Remastered)

@MattE.Эллен Whoa, good one.

@MattE.Эллен And, like, just about all of Queen.

Matt E. Эллен

:D yeah

Rush - A Farewell To Kings (Official Music Video)

The decade was not entirely disco.

Accidents Will Happen

D̲avid B̲owie – A̲laddin S̲ane (Full Album) 1973

Armed Forces (album)

Armed Forces is the third studio album by British musician Elvis Costello, released in the UK by Radar Records and in the US by Columbia in 1979. It was his second album with the Attractions, and the first to officially credit the Attractions on the cover. The album had the working title Emotional Fascism. The North American version omitted the track "Sunday's Best" and replaced it with Costello's version of Nick Lowe's "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding," which had been released the previous November as the B-side of Lowe's "American Squirm" single. Initial pressings of the...

Whoa, here I am leaving out David Fucking Bowie ...

Bowie only had like a dozen iconic albums in that decade.

And even his "disco" sound (Young Americans) was hipper than disco.

So, @Xanne, the ball is in your court. I could go on, but I think this refutation will suffice.

Matt E. Эллен

3:11 PM

Johan Larsson

3:30 PM

wish you were here is a great song, long time since I listened to it

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Carole King - So Far Away (Official Audio)

4:43 PM

Sorry, can't help myself ...

Joni Mitchell - "Blue" (Full Album)

Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York (Audio)

Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years (Audio)

Superstition