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M.A.Ramezani

18:00

Then the in someone part is ellipsed?

Maybe possible.

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani That was what I thought. I'm only familiar with faith in.

[have] faith that (corpus.byu.edu/coca/?c=coca&q=40468654) 199 results

> It's like I have faith that, you know, they're going to do the right thing.

> But readers like Mary McDonald of Arlington, Virginia still have faith that amidst the nation's troubles, Obama is the right man for the job ...

> We all have faith that it will be around forever.

Looks like it works in English.

M.A.Ramezani

Ha!

Damkerng T.

But it's more like trust than hope.

(At least it seems so to me.)

M.A.Ramezani

Yep.

Damkerng T.

18:18

Making an attempt...

Hope is wishful thinking. Faith is trustful thoughts.

M.A.Ramezani

Ouch. I dunno if you're right or not, but you're right.

Anonymous

18:39

Faith and hope don't seem very similar to me. Though I think they're often mentioned near one another.

Anonymous

I'm sure you could say they belong to the same broad semantic class.

Anonymous

But the details don't seem very similar.

Anonymous

They're also both female names.

M.A.Ramezani

Yes.

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Oh, yes!

Anonymous

18:41

nameberry.com/list/373/Virtue-Names?all=1

M.A.Ramezani

books.google.com/ngrams/…

That's a surprise to me.

I've seen oh no a lot more than oh yes.

Anonymous

They aren't quite mirror images of one another, I don't think.

M.A.Ramezani

Right. . . It should be oh yes vs. sey ho.

user62015

@DamkerngT. Hi!

Have you seen Copper around?

Damkerng T.

A few hours ago.

M.A.Ramezani

18:54

@user62015 Take a look at your charger adapter.

Anonymous

I'm happy Copper Kettle has been around lately. I know he's busy, though :-)

Anonymous

Q: Why is 'The Chinese have invented the printer' wrong?

In the textbook by by Raymond Murphy, Intermediate English Grammar, 2nd edition, on page 26: "The Chinese invented printing." Raymond Murphy says that we can't use the present perfect here. I question why? According to Murphy: "We can't use the present perfect if there's no c...

user62015

@M.A.Ramezani hehehhee

Anonymous

I still think this is possible in the right context.

M.A.Ramezani

@snail can self-learner be awarded more than once?

Damkerng T.

18:57

I concur.

@snailboat I think Murphy has to simplified the concept like you mentioned earlier today.

13 hours ago, by snailboat

A 95% accurate theory usually takes more pages to describe than a 90% accurate theory

M.A.Ramezani

I still think this is possible in the left context.

Damkerng T.

"We can't use the present perfect if there's no connection with present." is not in exact words as it is in the book, but it's essentially the same thing.

Anonymous

@M.A.Ramezani Iunno.

Damkerng T.

@M.A.Ramezani Heh! Like copyleft?

M.A.Ramezani

Life leftuous.

1 hour later…

Damkerng T.

20:20

For tomorrow: Recently, Lately: englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfectcontinuous.html

M.A.Ramezani

Thank Cu!

Damkerng T.

Related: ell.stackexchange.com/q/54540/3281

M.A.Ramezani

What's with all the italic?

Damkerng T.

thinking to himself...

I mean, it's for my thinking to myself. :D

M.A.Ramezani

Word of the day: Tash

Damkerng T.

20:22

What does it mean?

M.A.Ramezani

Check it up!

Damkerng T.

According to UD: A name given to someone who is: -Extremly wierd -Unique -Random -Spontaneous.

M.A.Ramezani

It also means mustache.

Damkerng T.

A-ha!

M.A.Ramezani

@DamkerngT. Me? Tank you!

Damkerng T.

20:24

For tomorrow (it looks like fun, but later): www-personal.umich.edu/~jaylemke/papers/hypermodality/…

M.A.Ramezani

Oh crud.

That's as bad to my ears as hyperconjugation is.

Damkerng T.

Hehe!

I'm cleaning up my tabs, so... :-)

M.A.Ramezani

So I'm screwed.

Again.

Damkerng T.

Eh?

M.A.Ramezani

Ya always explode my brain with the flow of knowledge whenever you're cleaning your tabs.

Damkerng T.

20:38

Hehe! Sorry 'bout that! :D

Actually I have more, but opted to keep them in tabs in the meanwhile.

M.A.Ramezani

Phew I escaped that word play. . .

Damkerng T.

Oh, I think I typed cleaning when I meant clearing.

M.A.Ramezani

Oh I have a surprise for you guys. . .

Damkerng T.

drum rolls...

M.A.Ramezani

Of course, it's a cached chat.

You gotta wait.

Be patient.

Damkerng T.

20:43

A new avatar?

M.A.Ramezani

No.

Damkerng T.

curious

M.A.Ramezani

C'mon now, don't fail me chat!

@Dam in the mean time, you could check my ELL profile.

Damkerng T.

Oh, I can't read your name!

M.A.Ramezani

Hah!

Damkerng T.

20:47

I mean, I can but it looks like I'll need a mirror. :P

M.A.Ramezani

My surprises tend to be small - I care for your heart. . .Erm, I mean CPU.

I wonder how it'd look like in chat.

Damkerng T.

How can I type your name now? :-)

M.A.Ramezani

Try @in.

Damkerng T.

The room still prefers your before-now name.

M.A.Ramezani

Burn you room!

Damkerng T.

20:49

Hehe! Please don't hurt the room. :D

M.A.Ramezani

@Dam I remember there was a grace period before the name change.

That must be the reason for da delay.

Damkerng T.

Maybe several hours.

For tomorrow (or the day after): Back to the basic: What is tense?

(See also: ell.stackexchange.com/q/61586/3281)

Anonymous

21:52

Here's the definition I gave yesterday:

Anonymous

A tense is a grammatical form that locates a situation in time—for example, past, present, or future. — snailboat 24 hours ago

Anonymous

@M.A.Ramezani I've heard stache a lot, but never tache

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Nice. Thanks! :-)

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

22:55

@snailboat Well I randomly Googled, and found it.

Oh my! I looks really cool with the new username.

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