> In the situation you described, it seems like there was a disagreement between you and CC regarding whether they were quoting someone or providing an example. It's natural to feel confused in such situations, as communication can sometimes be ambiguous or open to interpretation. To gain a better understanding, let's analyze the situation.
When CC said, "You're so stupid because you can't make friends," it appears that they were making a statement directed at another person. However, when you confronted CC about it, they claimed that it was an example. This led to an argument between the …
Please analyze why these examples of "such as" were grammatical — using Syntactic Theory, but in layman's terms? But why are they UNgrammatical to the Anglophones I polled in 2023?
I lighted upon these sentences here.
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This is a legitimate question, but the last line was, um, striking:
> I showed these examples to 3 Caucasian professors (of English descent), 4 White graduate students, and 19 undergraduates — all at a South African university's English department.
I think you may be using "grammatical" when you should be using "stylistic." There is nothing ungrammatical with using "such as" in these contexts. But if your question really is why certain persons you polled say it is so, then this question may be inappropriate here. — Robusto4 mins ago
@alphabet Your mention of the difference in the /k/ between keep and cool reminds me of the difference in the two /x/ phonemes in the Spanish city of Gijón, which is /xiˈxon/ phonemically but [xiˈχõ̞ɴ] ~ [xiˈχõ̞ŋ] phonetically. Notice how the /x/ changes depending on what follows it.
A monoglot English speaker might even think those start with /ki/. :)
Most people can manage a syllable-final /x/ in loch or Bach if they try a little, but the one at the start of syllable may be hard for folks who struggle with Van Gogh. :)
> Bengaluru-based startup Dukaan has laid off 90 per cent of its support team. The reason? It is now using an AI chatbot to deal with customer queries. Dukaan founder Suumit Shah talked about layoffs in his recent tweets, announcing that he has replaced almost the entire support team as the company's AI chatbot has not only helped in reducing the resolution time, but it has also reduced customer support costs by 85 per cent.
Today the temp has hit +40°C in Yekaterinburg, for the first time in its whole 190-year history of temperature records. e1.ru/text/summer/2023/07/11/72485264
> Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, called the 63-degree mark "an exceptional outlier" that is nearly 6 degrees warmer than the average of the last 12,000 years.
I was looking up the PTL Club (which -of course- is related to the 700 Club) and contrary to my vague memory, it really is an acronym for Praise the Lord. I had thought the letters hadd something to do with 'prosperity' or something like that.
@MetaEd I think the conversion rate is 1 SE rep point = 1/100 $
@Robusto Yes, it has shrunk a lot over the last few centuries, but for some reason it has managed to retain visibility. It's three times smaller than our start country, which is already tiny.
@alphabet I don't get what's strange about the quote. People who are white in SA are obviously colonists from NE or UK and very likely to be native (L1) speakers of Afrikaans or English, and those who are dark skinned very likely to have generations living there before 300 years ago and very likely to speak some Bantu variety (I'm still not sure I understand exactly what 'coloured' is, I had thought it was Indian but that doesn't seem right.)
Also I don't understand what you mean by "White South Africans are much more likely to be native speakers" ... -everybody- is a native speaker of their L1, right?
1) that's awful for the people who lost their jobs 2) Customer service is a loss for any company (it generates -no- money, they only do it because it feels like they should) so reducing head count there is a huge improvement for the company budget. 3) I hope they tested their chatbots a lot... I've never had a good experience with chat, always have to repeat the same info to a live person to get something done. 4) maybe all those employees who lost their job should move over to training chatbots
@Mitch It's odd because the asker didn't say "I polled native L1 speakers"; they said "I polled White people." It makes more sense in SA than it does in the US, of course, but it is an odd thing to say.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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