@RegDwighт is that for testing hunting weapons used on humans?
@RegDwighт some humans are getting away?
@RegDwighт Oh and ping-ty-ping-ping...why did you change your name. It's so annoying, being able to so easily ping you. even though it was easy to do before.
@RegDwighт I just copyedited it into oblivion, and clarity. I hope he isn’t upset with me. I smoothened quite a few other infelicities, too. He doesn’t seem to have a handle on how to use punctuation in standard written English.
I know German sometimes uses commas differently than English does. Perhaps that’s all it is, but it wasn’t the normal thing, that you find with German. [sic]
@Mitch Well, if you simply cut all outside lines and scramble + prosecute everyone who opens a satellite connection...? They are already scrambling certain satellite connections.
@Cerberus they;re already pretty open right now. to cut all ties, to plug all holes will be a gargantuan task. Also, How will they now about earthquakes around th world except for access to an -internet- earthquake server?
@Mitch Of course the government will have its own special line! Yes, it is open now; but, if you just cut the few international cables (how many would there be? 10?), you have your own closed intranet.
physical cables? 10 humongous ones for a developing country I can imagine. But it is satellite dish city over there (right Gigili?). And everyone has them.
I need your help to set all rules for extracting names/concepts from a phrase. for example, in the phrase "in toshka, it's always sunny" the name/concept here is toshka, which is a place in Egypt. i found it because it's a Preposition followed by a Noun What are other rules for finding entities...
and it's not some internal polie state where everybody is turning everybody in like East Germany. Even conservative people want to watch 'housewives of new skankville'.
@Mitch Heh. But I think perhaps you underestimate how easy it is to cut all cords. You just need your own DNS servers and some fairly simple infrastructure, right? The main thing holding them back is people's reliance on foreign websites/servers/services, including the government itself. But they already have this government/military intranet operational where they supposedly don't need the Internet for basic communication etc. We cannot be sure that it actually works well, though.
I need your help to set all rules for extracting names/concepts from a phrase. for example, in the phrase "in toshka, it's always sunny" the name/concept here is toshka, which is a place in Egypt. i found it because it's a Preposition followed by a Noun What are other rules for finding entities...
@Mitch There was that error or whatever it's called right after every message posted here which wasn't posted 11 hours ago, clearly. I think it was a bug, one of those cute insects.
Chat is not particularly formal. So it's hard to say what is right. All sorts of crap is allowable in chat. Frankly, 'You know' or 'I mean' is too many letters to type in chat to bother. — Mitch3 mins ago
I was wondering about something.. if we consider the pronunciation of the following words in British and American, what is the typical differences?
Lily
Better
Would be greatful to get some help with this one :)
"The unicorn is a mythical beast," she said, and turned her back on him. The man walked slowly downstairs and out into the garden. The unicorn was still there; now he was browsing among the tulips. "Here, unicorn," said the man, and he pulled up a lily and gave it to him. The unicorn ate it gravely. With a high heart, because there was a unicorn in his garden, the man went upstairs and roused his wife again. "The unicorn," he said,"ate a lily."
@RegDwighт I missed a question. The man was in the breakfast nook when he saw the unicorn. Really, that's not a particularly salient detail of the story.
you are absolutely correct tchrist, this IS an NLP research, the problem with NER is that it cannot recognize outside what it's taught, the example above failed with every NER engine i tried.
i'm not looking for a complete solution, just a bunch of rules like the one i mentioned, preposition after a noun, Verb, 3rd ps. sing. present followed by noun, etc... — Omar Gamil57 secs ago
I was right: he is doing NER. Good luck with that.
@Roaring: I wrote that one for you, Roaring Fish. Colin's post snuck in somehow. If you learn to read well, you will see that I don't make any claim that merely starting with a "U" requires or implies the definite article, only that "some countries [-- all of which start with the word United, by the way --] that begin with the letter "U" are generally referred to [i.e., it's an old habit] using the definite article." That's true. But that "Uruguay and Uganda" (they also begin with a "U") aren't. That's also true. Where's this alleged argument? Do you know what an argument is? — Bill Franke1 hour ago
From what I'm reading here, it's somewhat similar to the reason y we call all gelatin JELLO; all cotton swabs QTIPS; all bandages BANDAIDS.
Some1 felt the pie w/ ice cream was fashionably delicious and gave it the name pie à la mode. It sounded cool n it stuck. I think it wasn't meant to mea...
He tends to rant. Not always, though, and sometimes makes good contributions.
@MετάEd I confess I can’t be bothered to edit a lame answer that just meanders through the user’s pull-from-their-butt opinions. Contrast this with this.
The many postulations and subtexts were surprising within a previous such question, as was the fact that no one addressed the flaw within the question.
Instead, would we not "get INTO a bus" or "get ONTO a bus," given that we are referring not to the act of BEING on the bus ALREADY but to the ...
pustule /ˈpʌstjuːl/. Also 6 puscull, -cle; 6-8 pustle, 7 pustel. Etymology: ad. L. pustula blister, pimple, pustule. Cf. Fr. pustule (13-14th c.). 1. A small conical or rounded elevation of the cuticle, with erosion of the cutis, inflammatory at the base and containing pus; a pimple; formerly, sometimes, a blister.
Etymology: ad. late L. pustulātiōn-em, n. of action from pustulāre: see prec.
The action of pustulating; formation of pustules; sometimes, also, blistering.
1875 H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 155 ― Peculiar burning or tingling pain, which is very shortly followed by pustulation. 1876 Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 540 ― The pustulation of the chest with croton-oil or tartar-emetic ointment is rarely if ever justifiable. 1899 Allbutt’s Syst. Med. VIII. 610 ― It is often necessary to await the healing of the pustulation.
@MετάEd @Robusto \N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL J}\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL U}\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL S}\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL T} \N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL T}\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL R}\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL Y} \N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL H}\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL A}\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL R}\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL D}\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL E}\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL R}. \N{SMILING FACE WITH HORNS} \N{EN DASH} tchrist 1 hour ago
@tchrist Ah. Might I suggest italics markup will be much more widely useful at least for now, and that reusing mathematical symbols for plain characters is not such a good idea anyway?
macbook# uniprops 200b feff
U+200B ‹U+200B› \N{ZERO WIDTH SPACE}
\pC \p{Cf}
All Any Assigned InGeneralPunctuation C Other Case_Ignorable CI Cf Format Changes_When_NFKC_Casefolded CWKCF Common Zyyy
Default_Ignorable_Code_Point DI General_Punctuation Graph Print X_POSIX_Graph X_POSIX_Print
U+FEFF ‹U+FEFF› \N{ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE}
\pC \p{Cf}
All Any Arabic_Presentation_Forms_B Assigned InArabicPresentationFormsB C Other Case_Ignorable CI Cf Format
Changes_When_NFKC_Casefolded CWKCF Common Zyyy Default_Ignorable_Code_Point DI Graph Print X_POSIX_Graph X_POSIX_…
Darn things are not spaces.
They have other properties. Hm.
First has Line_Break=ZWSpace, second has Line_Break=Word_Joiner.
First has Word_Break=Other, second has Word_Break=Format.
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Origin/reason for the expression “on the bus” instead of “in the bus”
I want to know when to use " get in the bus." and " get on the bus."
I will thank you If you give me the right answer.
The many postulations and subtexts were surprising within a previous such question, as was the fact that no one addressed the flaw within the question.
Instead, would we not "get INTO a bus" or "get ONTO a bus," given that we are referring not to the act of BEING on the bus ALREADY but to the ...
Are both expressions equally proper grammatically? Or, is one preferable? "I like it more." I like it better."
One would suggest that I have more liking for the thing than for the other. The second would suggest that my liking of it is perhaps of a better quality?
When people like something more than something else, it's common for me to hear them say they like it better than something else. Is this proper English? I've always thought the word more fits better, but I'm not sure whether or not use of the word better is wrong.
I feel like NS gets what he’s after despite all efforts, and this annoys me. But that presupposes I know what he’s after, which is anything but proven.
Scrap my previous thjng. I don't mean that everyone will have 10k, what I really mean is that having 10k on SO doesn't mean you understand the first thing about how the site's supposed to work.
@tchrist Right. Rep helps guide people who are basically wanting to contribute. To protect a community from a destructive person takes different tools.