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user62015

18:07

@CopperKettle I have pasted three content on Lang-8. You may take your time and give me feedback when you are done. Please check all parts of writing for example written English and grammar etc. I know it takes a lot time but I am in need of it. I appreciate your help and time. lang-8.com/1059741/journals/… lang-8.com/1059741/journals/…

@CopperKettle lang-8.com/1059741/journals/…

Damkerng T.

Here is my rough edit:
This document consists of the functions, which are implemented in the current system used by the Cargills Bank, and also any problems, which are present and how we are going to overcome these problems with the proposed supportive system.

Our objective is to create a system, which is fully customizable and can be molded to any bank, which can use our system. Along with the functions which are present in the existing system of Cargills Bank, our web based system will include the features of :-

Strange, the message didn't ping @JudeNiroshan. -- Anyway, I'm sure that Tiny Giant's edit is better than mine.

Anonymous

It actually does ping, but since it's a multi-line message, it doesn't show the name of the user you've pinged

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. i don't compare anyone else edits. But both of these are 1000 times better than mine. Thanks for spending your valuable time on this

Damkerng T.

@JudeNiroshan You're welcome! Oh, it looks like I've included both of your original and my edit in the same message. I hope it's not too confusing.

Tiny Giant

I don't think either is better, they are both two different ways of conveying the information

Damkerng T.

18:12

@TinyGiant Ah! No worries. I sincerely do think that yours is very likely better than mine. :-)

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. thanks buddy! :)

Damkerng T.

:D

@JudeNiroshan It's not very often that I will edit anything, but it looks a bit like those documents that I've written before, so... :-)

Keep in mind that I mostly use English as lingua franca.

Jude Niroshan

how do you name the employees who are working under a manager? Co-workers ?

Damkerng T.

I may call them either co-workers or colleagues.

Or possibly, informally, my teammates.

Jude Niroshan

co-worker doesn't mean that they are in the same level in designation ?

Anonymous

18:17

Your coworkers are the people you work with. I think that tends to be people at roughly the same level you're at in the organization, although that doesn't mean people never use the word to refer to their managers.

Damkerng T.

nods

Anonymous

Especially in a more relaxed company where your boss isn't terribly boss-like, and it doesn't feel especially hierarchical.

Jude Niroshan

@snailboat I want to name the employees who are working under my division.

Damkerng T.

taking a peek at Tiny Giant's version...

Ah! Spotted one typo. The bullet list at the end is genius!

The typo: the methods we will ~~user~~ use to overcome

Anonymous

I wouldn't use coworker for the employees you're managing

Anonymous

18:22

Hmm. The members of your team? :-)

Anonymous

I'm not especially good at corporate speak.

Catija

OOOH, corporate speek? I can do that... sometimes.

What do we want to say?

Damkerng T.

7 mins ago, by Jude Niroshan

how do you name the employees who are working under a manager? Co-workers ?

Catija

@JudeNiroshan subordinates?

Jude Niroshan

@Catija great!

Catija

18:24

ldoceonline.com/dictionary/subordinate_2

Damkerng T.

Oh, yes. I thought of it as we're working under the same manager.

Catija

If I'm the boss, the people who work under me are my subordinates.

Damkerng T.

Informally, my team or my staff. :D

Catija

@DamkerngT. Or, even more cooperatively. Subordinates can seem really hierarchical, so if you're in a situation where you're trying to minimize the emphasis of "managers" team or staff can be better terms.

Damkerng T.

nods

Anonymous

18:26

@Catija Oh! I guess that's the word I couldn't think of! :-)

Catija

It's a good word.

Damkerng T.

@snailboat As for me, I misread the question (as usual :P).

Anonymous

In linguistics, people use the word subordinate all the time.

Anonymous

But superordinate only rarely.

Anonymous

Poor superordinate. Not so super :-(

Damkerng T.

18:29

Still super, but not common. Poor thing!

Tiny Giant

It is super, super rare.

Damkerng T.

1) Lately, Tanya _____ a little tired.
a. has been feeling; b. has felt; c. felt

I think a and c are possible, perhaps b too. Am I alone?

Anonymous

The choice depends on context.

Anonymous

All three are grammatical.

Damkerng T.

No context, as usual. It's a test on some website.

Tiny Giant

18:32

c is wrong, a and b are acceptable

c is contextually wrong

if you removed lately, then c would be fine

Damkerng T.

nods

Tiny Giant

a is the most correct

Damkerng T.

nods -- I think this is possible too (but it's not in the choices): Lately, Tanya feels a little tired.

Tiny Giant

Only if you remove lately.

Damkerng T.

Oh, it doesn't work with Lately?

Tiny Giant

18:36

feels is present tense, lately is past tense

Damkerng T.

Hmm... noted.

Wait, if lately is past tense, how can we use the present perfect progressive?

Anonymous

Do you know what "positive degree" is? — Catija 11 mins ago

Anonymous

@Catija No, I don't. I mean, I found it on Google just now, but...

Anonymous

Where's this term come from?

Tiny Giant

neither a or b is present in your examples

both are past

Anonymous

18:38

It's not used in H&P 2002, Quirk et al 1985, Biber et al 1999, McCawley 1998

Anonymous

It's not used in Swan's pedagogical grammar for learners

user62015

@DamkerngT. Hi!

Anonymous

What is it supposed to mean to "change this sentence into the positive degree"?

Anonymous

Just axe the comparative morphology and comparative phrase? "He is good"?

Jude Niroshan

Is this sentence correct? "Managers don’t know in prior when subordinates have taken leaves.
"

Anonymous

18:39

The question is unclear to me.

Damkerng T.

@JudeNiroshan I think I need more context, but it looks odd to me at the moment.

Catija

@snailboat I didn't either. But it makes perfect sense.

Anonymous

@Catija Well, if it makes perfect sense, what does the asker want? "He is good"?

Catija

It's another one of those things native speakers really don't learn but know inherently if you explain it to them. Does my answer make sense?

Tiny Giant

@JudeNiroshan Managers wouldn't know beforehand when the subordinates have taken leave

Damkerng T.

18:41

@snailboat I guess so, considering...

Catija

@snailboat That's all I can think of. There's no other way to make it into that degree.

Damkerng T.

John is a tall boy. John is taller than Ancy. John is tallest of them all. In the first sentence it explains only that, John is a tall boy. Here John is not compared with any others. In such cases, when adjective is used with out any comparison to other nouns we call it as POSITIVE DEGREE. In the second sentence the adjective is used for comparison between two people, such cases when adjective is used for comaprison of two person,thing we call it as COMPARATIVE DEGREE . In Comparative Degree use 'than' after the adjectives. taller than greater than In third sentence the comparison is b — user124234 10 mins ago

Anonymous

Oh! When I looked at the question a moment ago, I didn't see an answer.

Catija

@snailboat I just posted it.

Anonymous

A-ha!

Anonymous

18:42

"Positive degree" isn't a term I've ever seen used in linguistics.

Damkerng T.

Me either.

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. What i'm trying to say is, managers don't aware few days before when their subordinates have taken leaves

Catija

@DamkerngT. My first instinct is A, to be honest, but I could see them all as being OK.

Anonymous

Fun fact: better is the comparative form of not only the adjective good, but the adverb well as well.

Damkerng T.

@JudeNiroshan Is this about something that already happened, or a condition in your workplace, or something speculative?

Anonymous

18:44

I upvoted.

Damkerng T.

@Catija nods -- It looks like A is the best choice indeed.

Anonymous

I might fail that English test.

Catija

@snailboat That is true. I suppose that "He is well" could be an option, too.

But if I was saying that he's healthier, I'd likely say "he's doing better than his brother".

Damkerng T.

My problem with this kind of test is that the test seems to suggest that all other choices are incorrect, which is not true-true, imho.

Anonymous

@Catija I don't think you really need to mention that in your answer, I just felt like bringing it up in chat :-)

Jude Niroshan

18:45

@DamkerngT. something which is happening most of the time. So i wanted to write it as a point to my proposal

CopperKettle

"One day he got home late because he had gone to play in a football match." - I wonder if this would be an okay sentence.

Anonymous

@CopperKettle had gone, perhaps?

CopperKettle

@snailboat yes!

Anonymous

Had went is part of my dialect of English, but it's non-standard.

CopperKettle

"One day he got home late because he had been playing in a football match."

(this is probably better)

Catija

18:46

@snailboat True. :) Thanks for the vote.

I hope it's clear to the OP.

CopperKettle

@snailboat Californian or Great Lakes dialect?

Anonymous

@CopperKettle Well, draw the isogloss where you will―I'm from the west suburbs of Chicago.

Catija

@CopperKettle I like this one better, yes. :)

Anonymous

I don't think I've ever heard had went in California.

Damkerng T.

@JudeNiroshan Are you writing use cases?

Catija

18:48

@snailboat Ugh, that sounds so horrid. People actually say "had went"?

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. i'm talking about a negative point of view about managers. Cos they are not aware of when their subordinates applied leaves beforehand

Anonymous

And where I grew up, even though people talk that way, it's a decided non-prestige form. It's highly discouraged.

Anonymous

So people learn not to talk that way.

Tiny Giant

@CopperKettle "One day he got home late because he went to play in a football match."

Anonymous

And yes, people really say it.

Jude Niroshan

18:49

@DamkerngT. nope. project proposal + presentation slides

Damkerng T.

You can try Tiny Giant's suggestion, in that case, I think.

CopperKettle

@TinyGiant Thanks! Would this be the most natural sentence?

Tiny Giant

In CanE yes, maybe not everywhere.

Catija

I think this is how I'd say it: One day he got home late because he'd been playing in a football match.

CopperKettle

@Catija Can we say "One day he got home late as he'd been playing in a football match.", I wonder.

Jude Niroshan

18:51

@TinyGiant thank you for this!

Tiny Giant

You could also say "One day he returned home late because he played a game of football"

Damkerng T.

I wonder if the writer really meant "a football match".

Anonymous

Consider rewriting the sentences around it.

CopperKettle

@TinyGiant Thanks! Or probably just "because he played football"

Damkerng T.

An unplanned match?

Tiny Giant

18:52

Yes

Anonymous

One day he stayed out late playing football. When he got home, ...

Tiny Giant

@JudeNiroshan You're weolcome

He played football one day, as such he returned home late.

CopperKettle

@DamkerngT. The writer wrote as follows: "John was eleven. He lived with his family. One day he got home late as he went to play a football match. When he came back home his father was very angry with him because he had gone without informing his dad."

Damkerng T.

Oh, I remember that. :D

Catija

@CopperKettle That sounds very British.

CopperKettle

18:54

@Catija Kudos to @user62015

user62015

@CopperKettle Yes, I am here.

Catija

Are you editing that long block of text from yesterday? And I think it's spelled Kudos.

user62015

Please go ahead.

CopperKettle

@Catija Thanks for "kudos", I always misspell it.

Tiny Giant

An eleven-year-old John, who lived with his family, came home late one day because he played a football match, his father was very angry with him for going out without asking.

Catija

18:57

@CopperKettle Anytime. :)

HarryCBurn

Hullo!

Tiny Giant

'Ello guvnah!

HarryCBurn

Yer' wat mate? I'll do you in fam!

Catija

@TinyGiant I'd make that into two sentences, broken after "match" but it sounds good to me, otherwise... oh, and you can remove "an" at the beginning. "Eleven-year-old John, [...]"

HarryCBurn

Don't even beef it cuz, you're well out of order.

Tiny Giant

18:58

You could, but it makes more sense to include it.

Catija

Am I somehow back in the late 1800s?

Tiny Giant

Yessuh

Anonymous

@HarryCBurn You're so American, Harry C. Burn.

user62015

@CopperKettle I must leave now. It's too late to sleep so going to bed. See you soon. Have a great day. Bye.

Anonymous

I have proof, too.

Anonymous

18:59

21 hours ago, by HarryCBurn

God bless America.

CopperKettle

@user62015 Bye!

user62015

@DamkerngT. @snailboat Have a great time. Bye.

Anonymous

Later, user bunch of numbers!

Damkerng T.

@user62015 Good night! Have a good sleep, and see you soon!

A-ha! That test (Lately, Tanya has been feeling a little tired) is based on Raymond Murphy's English Grammar in Use.

Catija

Meh, now I feel like a meanie.

Anonymous

19:01

One of my friends tried to do a British accent (I'm not sure what sort) all day one day last week.

Anonymous

Oh, I didn't notice any meanness.

Catija

@snailboat When I went to England I sort of adopted an accent (badly) in an attempt to fit in... my mom pointed it out after a few days and I tried to stop... it was difficult.

Anonymous

@Catija Well, you know, people do that naturally without realizing. Usually it's more gradual than an intentional attempt, though.

Catija

@snailboat My last comment on the answer. He just kept asking the same thing over and over... and I don't really see that it's possible to do what he wants.

Tiny Giant

Try living in texas for a few months, I couldn't believe how much I sounded like a redneck.

HarryCBurn

19:03

@snailboat Nope!

Catija

@snailboat Oh, this wasn't intentional... at all... I didn't realize it was a natural thing, though.

CopperKettle

"He was upset as his father shouted at him, but the reason which made him much upset was his father didn't give him a pat on his back as he had won the football match and he was also assigned the captain of his team." - seems like as is widespread in Indian English

HarryCBurn

Just brought up in a certain area.

Anonymous

That might depend on where you stay in Texas :-)

Catija

@TinyGiant I'm from Texas, TYVM. :K

Tiny Giant

19:04

I was in Dallas, TX

Anonymous

People talk different in Grapevine and Austin

Tiny Giant

@Catija I saw that, I was making a funny :P

Catija

@TinyGiant I think Dallas people talk like LA people. They don't really have much of an accent. Now a days, you have to go out in the hill country to find strong accents, really.

Anonymous

I dated someone from Dallas for a few years, and our accents weren't especially different

Anonymous

Even though I've never lived in Texas.

Tiny Giant

19:05

Maybe it was because I was living with my dad, who is a redneck

Catija

@TinyGiant I figured. :D I'm from San Antonio, which is a huge military city, so no one there has accents, either. Austin is pretty neutral, too.

Damkerng T.

BTW, Austin City Limits is one of my favorite shows on the web. :-)

Tiny Giant

My dad's third wife was from san antonio

Anonymous

A linguist would say everyone has an accent.

Tiny Giant

I don't have no accent, eh.

Anonymous

19:07

Imagine how we all sound to poor Harry C. Burn :-)

Catija

@DamkerngT. Really? Hmmm... I've never watched it, to be honest... though I've been in the studios where they do the tapings. Before they moved to their new studio, they shot it in one of the buildings where I took classes at my University.

Anonymous

Our way of pronouncing words indicates, in at least a very broad sense, where we're from.

Anonymous

Stuff like don't have and eh are matters of dialect rather than accent.

Catija

@snailboat He didn't talk in his video, so I have no clue what he sounds like :P

Anonymous

@Catija Well, I'm under the impression that he is a young Englishman.

Damkerng T.

19:08

It's one good thing about the Internet, 'cause I can watch some of the Austin City Limits events here: video.wpt.org/program/austin-city-limits

Anonymous

The weather hates me, by the way.

Catija

@snailboat Did we talk about エート and アーノ at some point?

Anonymous

I finally wanted the sun to be out, and it suddenly hid behind clouds for two days straight.

Tiny Giant

Shit Canadians Say, Eh?

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Anonymous

@Catija I don't believe so

CopperKettle

19:09

@snailboat Same here. Cloudcover and + 13C.

Catija

@snailboat It was just funny - in my Japanese class, they would get mad at us for saying um, or uh... they made us say エート or アーノ instead.

Damkerng T.

@TinyGiant Hehe, that's reminds me of Shit My Dad Says. :D

Tiny Giant

lol

Anonymous

I'm from the northern US, and I grew up with final eh

Anonymous

On the subject of Canadian final eh, though, see: homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/actes2004/Gold-CLA-2004.pdf

Catija

19:11

@snailboat My friend is from Chicago and we like making her say "bag" and "Maytag".

CopperKettle

@Catija How does she pronounce "bag"?

Tiny Giant

Do you say "soda", "soda pop" or "pop"?

Anonymous

@Catija My dad deliberately rhymes bag with vague and dog with vogue

Anonymous

He's from central Illinois.

Anonymous

So it's not really part of his native accent, but he does it anyway.

Anonymous

19:11

I think it amuses him.

HarryCBurn

Any more votes on the new description?

CopperKettle

@snailboat Dawg?

HarryCBurn

4 hours ago, by HarryCBurn

> 1) "Dunno, but it's kinda like a sticky thingie if you step in!"
2) "The pen is mightier than the sword, but not as durable as the learner who wields it"
3) "Official ELL chat where you can talk about language or anything (else)"

Tiny Giant

@CopperKettle Dogue

Anonymous

No, he says /doʊɡ/, not /dɔɡ/

CopperKettle

19:13

@TinyGiant Nice! Like brogue

Catija

@CopperKettle It's very nasal.

Anonymous

@TinyGiant Always soda. My dad says pop. I grew up thinking soda pop was the actual term.

Anonymous

@CopperKettle Yes, that's right!

Catija

@TinyGiant I don't drink it at all, so I don't really say the words much, but my first instinct is "coke". :P

CopperKettle

Tim Finnegan lived in Watling Street
A gentleman Irish, mighty odd;
He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet
And to rise in the world he carried a hod.

Anonymous

19:14

I use the word soda. Sometimes with the collocate evil.

CopperKettle

@snailboat I remember "barley pop" from one movie

Anonymous

@CopperKettle Is that a kind of beer?

Damkerng T.

@TinyGiant Would be a moose -- might be a deer doe, eh? :-)

CopperKettle

@snailboat Yes, a slang for beer (0: A movie about a coutnry singer (0:

Tiny Giant

You gotta go to AA eh?

CopperKettle

19:15

"Toss me another of those barley pops, willya"

Anonymous

When I moved to California, my sentence final interaction particle eh was replaced with the particle huh

Tiny Giant

lol

Anonymous

That's just how the people around me spoke, so I started speaking that way.

Anonymous

Now I hardly ever use eh.

Tiny Giant

It's a proven fact that northerners are most accustomed to soda, southerners drink pop and in the middle is a mix but closer to soda pop

Anonymous

19:16

Except on occasion in a very deliberate way :-)

Damkerng T.

@TinyGiant And me call it coke. :P

Tiny Giant

Oh yeah, eh?

Anonymous

Oh, where do you fit coke drinkers on that map?

Tiny Giant

But what if it isn't a coke?

Anonymous

Doesn't matter. Coke is genericized for those speakers.

Damkerng T.

19:17

Let's say coke is ambiguous to me. :D

Tiny Giant

Then wherever you happen to be :)

Anonymous

Not for me. I'd never call something a coke if it wasn't Coca Cola.

Tiny Giant

There's weirdos everywhere

Damkerng T.

True!

HarryCBurn

@snailboat Ditto that.

Anonymous

19:19

There are lots of dialect differences you wouldn't suspect.

Catija

@snailboat Yep... Exactly, particularly in Texas, where Coke reigns.

Tiny Giant

When I was in dallas, everyone said pop

They made fun of me when I asked for a soda.

Anonymous

In most places, tea is hot tea. If you don't want it hot, you say iced tea (or ice tea, depending).

Catija

@TinyGiant Ugh. As a Texan, I would never say "pop".

Anonymous

In some places, tea is iced tea. If you want it hot, you've got to say so.

CopperKettle

19:20

@snailboat Maybe in hot places..

Catija

@snailboat In Texas, if you ask for Tea, you get iced tea, with the added question "sweet or unsweet?"

Anonymous

@Catija Yeah, and some places there's even "unsweet tea" :-)

Tiny Giant

If you're in italy and you ask for a latte, you get a glass of cold milk.

Anonymous

In Illinois, tea defaults to hot.

Anonymous

In Belgium, Ice Tea is a brand name owned by Lipton.

Catija

19:21

@snailboat Which is what I drink... because the calories in sweet tea are worse than in sodas.

Anonymous

@Catija The only liquid calories I drink are in protein shakes.

Catija

@snailboat Well, it's grammatically incorrect, anyway, so they can have it. I have seen some really harsh arguments about "ice tea" vs "iced tea".

Damkerng T.

@snailboat That makes me wonder whether Lipton spells it "ice tea" or "iced tea" over here.

Anonymous

@Catija Well, most of them aren't speaking English to begin with most of the time, so I guess that's okay ;-)

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. No D.

Catija

19:22

@snailboat I don't generally drink calories at all... I'll have some booze occasionally, but not anything else.

CopperKettle

@Catija Why is "Ice Tea" ungrammatical?

Anonymous

It's actually grammatical. Ice is an attributive noun, a pre-modifier of the head noun tea.

Catija

@CopperKettle Well... if you take it from the point of view of "milk tea", I guess it's fine, but, in my head, it's "tea that has been iced", so "iced tea" is correct.

Damkerng T.

@snailboat True!

An image of a can of Lipton Ice Tea: thai-food-online.co.uk/images/products/drinks/…

Anonymous

I prefer iced tea too.

Damkerng T.

19:24

Somehow I've never noticed that!

Catija

"Ice tea" sounds like something that should be ice cubes made with tea instead of water.

Anonymous

But when you pronounce iced tea, the /d/ and /t/ are only distinct in extremely careful pronunciation. Generally, the cluster gets simplified, so you can't tell whether it's ice or iced in speech.

Anonymous

Which allows people to interpret it the way you didn't intend it :-)

Tiny Giant

I'm actually unable to have much sugar, but for an odd reason. It makes me nauseous.

Catija

@snailboat What's that Japanese tense that doesn't exist in English... it's some form of passive voice, I think... I was thinking of it because of this: ell.stackexchange.com/questions/61545/… and I remember it was funny because it sounds so absurd when you try to turn it into English.

@snailboat Yep. Which is why I usually just say "tea".

Anonymous

19:27

@Catija Hmm, well, tense refers to a grammatical (usually morphological) form that locates a situation in time. Both English and Japanese have exactly two of those.

Anonymous

But if you mean more generally "form that a verb can take"

Catija

@snailboat Ok, so... um voice? I don't know what it's called.

@snailboat Sure, let's go with that.

Anonymous

Voice is the system of passive and active (and sometimes middle, etc.)

Anonymous

In Japanese, the ～(ら)れる thingy is what you'd call passive.

Anonymous

But it's used very differently than in English.

Catija

19:29

It's like "I was eated by the monster". I wish I could remember what it was called. We did a video on it at one point.

Anonymous

There's a so-called "suffering passive".

Anonymous

Also called adversative passive or indirect passive

Anonymous

In this use, an extra party is added to the proposition, and this party is (usually) adversely affected

Anonymous

There's another adversative form, which is ～てしまう (often contracted to ～ちゃう via ～ちまう)

Anonymous

If you got eated by a monster, I guess you'd probably use ～ちゃった :-)

Damkerng T.

19:31

Ah, it's Japanese hour!

oerkelens

@DamkerngT. Since it's Japanese here, I'm pinging you here about the other room :)

Damkerng T.

:D

Catija

Can you see this:

Bad Day

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oerkelens

You seem to be talking to yourself there, but at least it's about English :P

Anonymous

Another thing you can do with verbs in Japanese but not English is put imperatives in the progressive

Anonymous

19:33

Haha, wow! :-)

Damkerng T.

@oerkelens Yes. The very first few messages of that room may be helpful (to understand the room a little more). :-)

Anonymous

I like that you personified everything.

M.A.Ramezani

Hey I'm back.

(Oh no!)

oerkelens

I read through them quickly :) (I RTFM :) ) Interesting idea :)

M.A.Ramezani

Hullo @Oerkelens!

Damkerng T.

19:34

LOL -- Accent is something we can't really hide. :D

Catija

@M.A.Ramezani Wilkommen?

Damkerng T.

(watching the clip above...)

oerkelens

@M.A.Ramezani hullo :)

M.A.Ramezani

@Catija Milkowwen.

Tiny Giant

All I could understand out of the video, is the guy likes falling down?

Anonymous

19:34

My housemate is a natural mimic, and she can do accents out the wazoo.

Anonymous

Me, not so much.

Catija

@TinyGiant If I remember correctly, it says "I was tripped by the rock".

Tiny Giant

I thought it was "I like falling"

M.A.Ramezani

@snailboat I've mimicked my teachers so much, I've lost my natural Turkish accent.

Tiny Giant

He's not very good at faking things

M.A.Ramezani

19:35

Which was also mixed up.

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani Oh, no!

Catija

By the way, that is my voice... though I intentionally made it sound funny. I don't think it's normally quite that high-pitched.

M.A.Ramezani

Oh yes!

@Catija Oh, that you in the video above?

Damkerng T.

@Catija I'm used to high-pitched speech in Japanese, though. (Blame it on those anime!)

Catija

@snailboat We tried to have some fun with it. I made the animations. There were four of us in the group working together. There are actually a couple of other videos but the girl who was in them didn't want them on the web.

@DamkerngT. Well, that's part of why I was doing it. :P

Anonymous

19:37

@DamkerngT. Well, female Japanese speakers do pitch their voices somewhat higher than English speakers tend to. Which is not to say that people talk like anime characters, but there's a measurable F0 difference nonetheless.

Damkerng T.

Got it!

Catija

@M.A.Ramezani Not the guy running. That's Carmichael-san.

M.A.Ramezani

I haven't seen the video yet.

Catija

I think our professor said there were a couple of errors in it but we still had fun making it.

Anonymous

My favorite character is ishi-san.

Anonymous

19:38

Mr. Rock.

M.A.Ramezani

My favorite character is Tom.

Catija

@snailboat :D I'd forgotten that I'd made them all "people". Fortunately, I was in the film program, so you get those very high production values ;)

... and that was sarcasm, because the video quality on the cameras they gave us to use was crap.

Anonymous

Haha! No worries, it was more fun to watch than the videos I made in school :-)

Anonymous

What a fun video.

Catija

@snailboat Aww, thanks :D

M.A.Ramezani

19:45

@Catija Oh, is it a video made in Austin Terrifying Xenophbia company production?

Catija

@M.A.Ramezani Yep, that's me. Here on ELL trying to get past my debilitating Xenophobia.

M.A.Ramezani

@Catija You never told me what TX was. :P

Catija

@M.A.Ramezani Someone did and you opted not to believe them, so I assumed it wouldn't matter if I told you the same thing. TX means Texas.

M.A.Ramezani

I know, just playing.

Catija

:D

Anonymous

19:49

It sometimes means transmission

M.A.Ramezani

Or T-rex.

Among fans.

Tiny Giant

Or, ThromboXane.

M.A.Ramezani

Ahan.

Anonymous

I like dromiceiomimus

Catija

Did you see there's a new horned dinosaur?

Anonymous

19:54

Oh really?

Catija

io9.com/…

Tiny Giant

Or, Tax, Thanks, Therapy, Transfer, Transmission, Transaction, Taxi, Turkmenistan, Treatment, Transmit, Transmitter, Transformer, Transplant, Telex, Thoracic, Theta Xi, Thromboxane, Tungsten X, Terminatrix, Talk Xbox, Technology Exploitation, Track Transmit, Tank, Expansion/Contraction and Torpex

M.A.Ramezani

@Catija Oooh I was a dinosaur fan for some time.

Damkerng T.

@TinyGiant Whoa, that's quite a list!

M.A.Ramezani

I remembered I went crazy when I saw a triceratops fighting a T-rex.

Tiny Giant

19:58

Copy-pasta works wonders.

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