Language Overflow

Damkerng T.

01:13

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other person's frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's shoes. == Etymology == The English word is derived from the Ancient Greek word ἐμπάθεια (empatheia), "physical affection, passion, partiality" which comes from ἐν (en), "in, at" and πάθος (pathos), "passion" or "suffering". The term was adapted by Hermann Lotze and Robert Vischer to create the German word Einfühlung ("feeling into"), which was translated by Edward B. Titchener into the English term empathy. Alexithymia...

Sympathy

Sympathy (from the Greek words syn "together" and pathos "feeling" which means "fellow-feeling") is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another human being. This empathic concern is driven by a switch in viewpoint, from a personal perspective to the perspective of another group or individual who is in need. Empathy and sympathy are often used interchangeably. Sympathy is a feeling, but the two terms have distinct origins and meanings. Empathy refers to the understanding and sharing of a specific emotional state with another person. Sympathy does not require the...

> Empathy and sympathy are often used interchangeably. Sympathy is a feeling, but the two terms have distinct origins and meanings.[2] Empathy refers to the understanding and sharing of a specific emotional state with another person.

Damkerng T.

01:31

The day before I learned about yogiisms; today I found popism!

Damkerng T.

02:48

Word of the Day: comptroller

Anonymous

05:21

@CopperKettle Wait, you left out a big chunk in the middle!

Anonymous

You can't do that. It changes the answer completely.

Anonymous

Plus, you've got to mark it with [...] when you do that :-)

CopperKettle

06:28

@snailboat My bad! So, it's perfectly okay to use the Present Perfect there, as I understand. (0:

CopperKettle

06:43

A breathtaking rendition on Poe's "The Bells". I heard it today for the first time. Beautiful.

Anonymous

@CopperKettle Oh, thank you!

CopperKettle

You're welcome!

Anonymous

He was a really talented guitarist.

CopperKettle

A read "bard", like Russia's Vyssotsky

Anonymous

08:01

I ate a plate of hot peppers and onion. My stomach feels funny.

Anonymous

Not bad exactly, but funny.

CopperKettle

@snailboat Bon appetite!

2

Q: performance of something vs. the performance of something

I asked my American friend to take a look at these three sentences and pay particular attention to how the word performance was used. To him, they all sounded fine. But what bugs me personally about the grammar in all three sentences is that in the first two examples we don't need a definite arti...

@snailboat is "onion" a mass noun?

I'm sorry for "bon appetite", clearly not the words to say to someone whose stomach feels funny.

I've just been typing away an answer to that question..

D'oh..

@snailboat Get well, Snails!

Anonymous

08:22

It's okay, I don't think I'm sick :-)

Anonymous

Thank you, though!

Anonymous

A noun which is typically used as a count noun in reference to a natural physical unit (one onion, two onions, three onions) can be used as non-count when it is construed not as referring to that unit, but to the substance that makes up each of these units

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Anonymous

When I say I ate onion, I'm treating it as a substance, which in my case consists of little bits of chopped onion. They weren't whole onions anymore when I ate them.

Anonymous

This is fairly common when discussing ingredients in food

Anonymous

Although it works in other contexts as well. For example, if I were to make an apple explode, and you got little bits of apple all over your clothing, I could just say you got apple all over your shirt

Anonymous

08:28

The key is how you conceptualize it—as a continuously measurable substance or as something to be counted with discrete units

CopperKettle

@snailboat I see! Thanks!

Anonymous

I really did feel sick from something I ate earlier, but I think I'm mostly better now! :-)

Anonymous

It had cheese and my body rejects cheese!

CopperKettle

@snailboat Great!

Anonymous

Is cheese popular in Russia?

CopperKettle

08:31

@snailboat Very much! Some people feel let down by the fact that it has become very expensive and some brands have vanished.

Anonymous

By the way, my word of the day is hematopoiesis

Anonymous

Which I learned before, but am re-learning today...

CopperKettle

@snailboat Oh, it's (that's) simple. hema for blood, poesis for "putting together"

Anonymous

Yes!

Anonymous

Thank you for breaking it down for me :-) I do that when I learn vocabulary in most any language, if I can

CopperKettle

08:34

You're welcome! (0:

Anonymous

I have to remember ποιεῖν

CopperKettle

Do you know some Greek?

Anonymous

Not really. Only a teensy bit. My mom would probably be sad how little ;-)

CopperKettle

"The performance of thread-related features—and particularly synchronization constructs—is key to writing multithreaded programs." - I wonder if this is okay

@snailboat She was a Greek scholar? My sister had a friend who was a Greek scholar, another Russian student girl. That girl eventually moved to the USA to study Greek.

Anonymous

Hmm, I think so...? It's usually best to evaluate articles in context since they're pragmatic signals

Anonymous

08:38

She had a classical education

Anonymous

Today she's learning Korean! :-)

CopperKettle

(0:

Anonymous

I don't know how many languages she's learned.

Anonymous

But she's 74 and still seems to be able to pick up new ones.

Anonymous

In fact, language is all she talks about.

CopperKettle

08:40

@snailboat That's cool! Maybe I should try to teach my mother some English.

@snailboat Does she do translations of literary texts from other languages into English?

Anonymous

I guess right now she mostly enjoys being able to speak and understand languages and isn't really doing anything like that.

Anonymous

Her health isn't so great right now.

Anonymous

Although her mom, who is quite old, is in great shape!

CopperKettle

@snailboat That is good news! She is probably moving towards a 100th birthday!

Anonymous

Last time I spoke with my mom (which is sadly not as often as I'd like) we spoke for hours about the differences in Chinese characters in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

Anonymous

08:47

I'm happy she's taken an interest in eastern languages these last ten years :-)

CopperKettle

@snailboat (0: Maybe she recommends you some or other book once in a while. (0:

Anonymous

My mom is the source of my book collection. She's given me over a thousand books :-)

Anonymous

Sadly I've lost some of them

CopperKettle

My dad is the source of the book deluge in our flat. We have a couple of thousand tomes, even a handful dating back pre-Revolutionary times. (0:

Anonymous

Oh, yay!

CopperKettle

08:50

Like Maxim Gorky's stories, etc. (0:

Anonymous

My dad always had books lying around while I was growing up, but not a huge number.

CopperKettle

With Old Russian orthography and quaint letters that were ditched by Lenin et al.

Anonymous

My mom collected lots of vintage SF

CopperKettle

@snailboat SF was very hard to get your hands on in Soviet Russia, but dad was always finding ways to get it. (0:

Anonymous

Wow!

CopperKettle

08:55

If you had boookshop sales managers as your friends, you could get rare books from behind the counter.

Such was the system in the USSR, all was tuned friendship-wise.

Good books were printed in small numbers and sent to faraway nooks so that people in the capitals don't get bad ideas into their heads. (0:

The upside was that the Soviet leaders could say "we have no censorship: look what titles we've printed"

People managed to get these books anyway. (0:

I read some Soviet SF, like this:

Aelita (novel)

Aelita (Russian: Аэлита) also known as Aelita, or The Decline of Mars is a 1923 science fiction novel by Russian author Aleksey Tolstoy. == Plot summary == The story begins in the Soviet Union, just after the end of the Russian Civil War. A lonely engineer, Mstislav Los', designs and constructs a revolutionary pulse detonation rocket and decides to set course for Mars. Looking for a companion for the travel, he finally leaves Earth with a retired soldier, Alexei Gusev. Arriving on Mars, they discover that the planet is inhabited by an advanced civilization. However, the gap between the ruling class...

And this one:

The Air Seller

The Air Seller (rus. Продавец воздуха) is a science fiction spy novel by Russian writer Alexander Belayev. It was first published in 1929, in several issues of Vokrug Sveta magazine. == Plot == Meteorologist Viktor Klimenko and his Yakut guide Nikola are investigating a strange wind anomaly in Yakutia, Eastern Siberia, when they are caught prisoner by a megalomaniac villain Bayley. With a gigantic air-sucking device, built by Swedish scientist Engelbrecht, Bayley is slowly stealing the Earth's atmosphere. The deeply frozen oxygen is stored in a vast cryogenic warehouse. Bayley plans to cr...

About a treacherous US ploy to suck up all the air (oxygen, really) from the Earth in order to sell it to people for money.

Heh

user62015

Hi!

Any one there who can help?

CopperKettle

Hi, @user62015! You can post your question and see if anybody's interested!

user62015

@CopperKettle Thanks. Should I post it here or on this website?

CopperKettle

@user62015 It's your choice!

user62015

Okay.

It is very simple and I think am also thinking the same thing which the writer has written.

It's from the novel: when dinner was cleared, the pots washed up and put away.

My question is as the pots are non-living things so they couldn't be washed automatically so it should have been written in the passive voice. I think it should have been "when dinner was cleared, the pots were washed up and put away".

And I also understand sometimes writers they miss some helping verbs as the style.

CopperKettle

09:14

@user62015 This is the case here. I'm not sure if was is a helping verb, but it is omitted before "washed up" and "put away". This would've been a nice question for ELL.

user62015

But I think as the subject is a plural so "were" could be used.

CopperKettle

It is omitted to evade repetition.

user62015

I agree.

Could I ask you something?

CopperKettle

@user62015 Yes, "the pots were washed up"

@user62015 yes

user62015

Did you check my new story on Lang-8.com. I request you please check this one and trust me it's the last one, and after this I will never ask you to read and give me feedback.

It is just a request.

CopperKettle

09:17

It takes too much time to proofread. You should proofread someone else's stories to make them interested in yours.

user62015

I just need grammar mistakes. And I agree as they take a lot time. But it's the last one and after that I will never ask you again. When you get time then you can check.

CopperKettle

If I have the desire I'll check anyway, you've no need to remind. (0:

Cya!

user62015

Thanks.

Damkerng T.

11:40

@snailboat Glad to hear that!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@snailboat Isn't this a lovely day?!

Damkerng T.

Hematopoiesis -- hmm... "poiesis"...

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I thought there was gonna be some drama about this in our meta:

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Q: Can we please stop closing non-basic questions on spelling, meaning, or pronunciation?

I think we have a knee-jerk reaction to close questions that look like they're about a word's definition. Anytime I see such a question, I attempt to look up the word in dictionaries myself. If I can find one quickly, then I post a link to the definition in a comment and vote to close. If I, as ...

discussion close-reasons

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M 15 hours already.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

What do you mean?

Damkerng T.

11:45

3 hours ago, by CopperKettle

@snailboat Oh, it's (that's) simple. hema for blood, poesis for "putting together"

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Since it was posted.

I wonder if "poetic" shares the same root.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. I think it does.

I have a vague memory of something I've read which was about it a while ago.

19 hours ago, by snailboat

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This looks really ugly in the star board.

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I don't see it on the star board now.

Oh, yeah! I know what you mean. (Just clicked "show more")

It's still cute anyway. :D

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Robotically cute.

Damkerng T.

:-)

Damkerng T.

12:04

in ELL's Cabin, 3 mins ago, by jimsug

*don't go together

It's curious that jimsug seemed to correct my "X and Y don't go well together" to "X and Y don't go together".

I'm fine with all alternatives: "X and Y don't go together", "X and Y don't go well together", "X and Y don't go together well".

Maybe it's dialectical.

Damkerng T.

12:45

> This is Berk. A bit trampled and busted and covered in ice, but it's home. It's our home. Those who attacked us are relentless and crazy, but those who stopped them - oh-h-h-h-h, even more so! We may be small in numbers, but we stand for something bigger than anything the world can pin against us. We are the voice of peace, and, bit by bit, we will change this world. You see, we have something they don't. Oh, sure, they have armies, and they have armadas, but we... we have...

> ...OUR DRAGONS!

> --How to Train Your Dragon 2

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I remember that. . .

Damkerng T.

For the best effect, read it in his accent. :-)

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

That annoying voice. . .

Damkerng T.

It's curious that one title is Game of Thrones, but the other is How to Train Your Dragon.

Oh, I messed it up!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Semi ngram of the day: books.google.com/ngrams/…

Damkerng T.

12:51

Oh, no! I messed it up by thinking that I had messed it up!

Oh, yes! Anything cast is another gotcha in English.

Have to admit I had to look up what "ghee" was... — user3169 8 hours ago

I admit the same thing.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I admit the same thing.

Hey how are we supposed to know the name of a butter in India?

Damkerng T.

Indeed!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

13:21

Edit reason of the day: chemistry.stackexchange.com/revisions/5565/3

Damkerng T.

"briefly explain your changes (corrected spelling, fixed grammar, improved formatting)"

your changes?

Ah, I see what happened! :-)

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Hahaha!

That's the weirdest edit reason I've seen.

Damkerng T.

:-)

Could be very funny if it was intentional.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

It's funny enough not being intentional.

Damkerng T.

True. :-)

I'm not very good at laughing at mistakes, though. Except for my own.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

13:28

Who knows it was a mistake?

Who says it's a mistake?

Damkerng T.

No one does.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I don't see it as a mistake, even if it was unintentional.

You can fill in the edit reason asdasdfasdsdasdasd.

Damkerng T.

I feel weird every time I type "no one".

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Me three. No one. Shivers

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Maybe it's different in different places, but if I did that unintentionally and someone pointed that out to me, I'd say it was a mistake.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M But noone is even weirder!

Damkerng T.

13:47

Word of the Day: brother in arms

(Just realized that it has a specific meaning, and probably better with hyphens.)

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I wonder what the relationship between catalyst and analyst is.

Damkerng T.

Catalyze came from analyze!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Did it?

Damkerng T.

Google says so.

(Or whatever database Google uses)

etymonline.com/index.php?term=catalyze

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Whatever Database isn't reliable IMO.

Damkerng T.

13:55

> catalyze (v.)
1890, back-formation from catalysis on model of analyze/analysis. Related: Catalyzed; catalyzing. Probably influenced by French catalyser (1842).

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

But their meaning is highly O.o

That it speeds up reactions is catalyst.

Damkerng T.

> catalyst (n.)
"substance which speeds a chemical reaction but itself remains unchanged," 1902, formed in English (on analogy of analyst) from catalysis. Figurative use by 1943.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

What is the relation?!

Damkerng T.

> catalysis (n.)
1650s, "dissolution," from Latinized form of Greek katalysis "dissolution, a dissolving" (of governments, military units, etc.), from katalyein "to dissolve," from kata- "down" (or "completely"), see cata-, + lyein "to loosen" (see lose). Chemical sense "change caused by an agent which itself remains unchanged" is attested from 1836, introduced by Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848).

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Word of the day: Porosity

Ow!

Damkerng T.

14:02

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M City of pores! :P

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Yeah well, I'm studying why Platinum is such a good catalyst.

Damkerng T.

15:09

@snailboat Good emorning!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Reaction of the day: Heck reaction

CopperKettle

Good evening, @DamkerngT.! G'morning, Snails! Hi, Muhammad!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

o/

\o/

Damkerng T.

@CopperKettle Evening!

user62015

@CopperKettle @DamkerngT. @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Hi! I have a question and it's driving me crazy.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

15:13

Good! I'm all about crazy!

Damkerng T.

Oh, no!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

SEND HIM IN!

Damkerng T.

:-)

user62015

It's a question of Indirect speech.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Oh my ponies.

Damkerng T.

15:14

My advice about indirect speech is to see that there is no indirect speech. :P

(currently in Neo mode)

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

That. ^

@DamkerngT. Dock! Shoots

user62015

Please wait, I am typing and it will take a few minutes.

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Bullet time!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Darn! I can't answer the question and I'm going nuts!

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M You can't answer the question because you can't see the question. :P

CopperKettle

15:17

(0:

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. Not that one, the chem one:

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Q: why platinum/palladium are such a good catalyst?

Platinum and Palladium are great catalysts. At the same time, other metals of the same family are not. What is the atomic level reasons for this?

metal catalysis

Damkerng T.

Oh, right.

CopperKettle

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M A good question. Is it because these are "noble" metals and hence inert..

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

That has little to do with it.

It's more likely because H/O adsorbance is way easier and more efficient on a Pt/Pd catalyst.

Or adsorption.

But why o why?

Because they're highly porous?

Damkerng T.

Porous, full of pores, pores are us.

user62015

15:23

Champa told me, "Your plane will leave if you do not go at once."
Champa told me that:
A - her plane would leave if she did not go at that time.
B - her plane would leave if I do not go at once.
C - my plane would leave if I do not go at that very time.
D - my plane will leave if I did not go at that time.

@DamkerngT. @CopperKettle @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Please have a look.

Damkerng T.

A is the most sensible choice.

Wait, no!

CopperKettle

D is also nice

I mean C

user62015

@DamkerngT. But please check the subjects in the option A.

Damkerng T.

D could be the only sensible choice.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@user62015 I won't since you mentioned me in the end of your list.

user62015

15:26

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I am so sorry. It was not intentionally.

Damkerng T.

This kind of test usually asks you to drop your IQ some ten points.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@user62015 I'm yanking your chains man!

CopperKettle

@DamkerngT. Oh no! All the way to 140?!

Damkerng T.

LOL

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. I take that as a 100?

CopperKettle

15:26

(0:

Damkerng T.

I mean drop it low enough that we can't understand how the real world works.

CopperKettle

I'm not a boddhisattva to understand that.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

OK.

CopperKettle

(0:

user62015

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M @DamkerngT. @CopperKettle What about the answer?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

15:28

I say none of the options make sense.

Damkerng T.

I'm pretty sure that Kaplan and similar test preps agree with me. :P

user62015

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M But answer is A

Damkerng T.

See, that's how this kind of test works.

:P

user62015

@DamkerngT. @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M @CopperKettle But the subjects don't make sense

Damkerng T.

@user62015 Yes, but the tenses work.

Back at the computer...

CopperKettle

15:30

Yeah, sense it not the main thing in English. If the tenses are okay, the sentence's okay.

user62015

@DamkerngT @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M @CopperKettle But it doesn't make any sense. As Champa told someone else. But in the answer "her plane"?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

How many mes are there?

Damkerng T.

So you've got this dilemma: whether to try to think if her plane and your plane was the same plane...

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

But I'm a male molecule!

Damkerng T.

or whether the plane is still there at the time you're taking the test.

user62015

15:31

@DamkerngT. Making sense.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@user62015 Welcome to the Realm of Shtoopid Questions TradeMark.

user62015

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M @DamkerngT. @CopperKettle Do you think I should post it on this website?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

No.

Damkerng T.

I agree with MAR. I mean inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

The answer is clear: You have to accept it's A because they say so.

Don't post it on ELL.

I'm pretty sure that's enough IQ corrosion for one day.

user62015

15:33

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M @DamkerngT. @CopperKettle So I should just focus on the tenses as in some cases subjects don't make sense.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Yes, seems to be the case with this examiner.

Damkerng T.

@user62015 In other to test this kind of test, you have to assess the expected IQ the test is aiming at first. Probably related to that of the test designer.

user62015

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M @DamkerngT. @CopperKettle But I think we should also take people's suggestions.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

People's suggestions?

user62015

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Yes, what they have to say.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

15:36

What people?

Damkerng T.

@user62015 How should I put it? ... How about, I believe that you won't run into this kind of question in respectable proficiency tests/exams.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

This examiner is an idiot.

user62015

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M We can have a lot native-English speakers, so they can tell us what they think of it.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

And is not the first idiot I've seen.

user62015

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I agree.

@DamkerngT. @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I got confused when saw these four options and after checking the answer it drove me crazy.

Damkerng T.

15:38

@user62015 Where did you find that test question?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@user62015 I joined ELL because I wanted to confirm that my stupid English teacher is an idiot asking us questions about the points behind a punny funny anecdote. Unfortunately, I reduced my IQ to -200 and didn't get what point he was trying to make. And my question got a -1 with no answers, so I say no.

user62015

@DamkerngT. In a book and it's written by an Indian writer.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

The native speakers are there to tackle with real questions; this ain't a real question, period.

user62015

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I agree.

Damkerng T.

Ahh... unfortunately, some of these books aren't very reliable, imho.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

15:39

@DamkerngT. Don't you say that. . .They're FLAWLESS.

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M They might've used another name for their series.

FLAWLESS could've been TMed.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@user62015 If you agree, you must agree that bringing it up on ELL is a waste of time, unless you be really witty in asking it.

user62015

@DamkerngT. @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M But I think they ask this type of questions to make the paper much tough.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I agree.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@user62015 That's what they think they do. People typically have good reasons for what they do.

Damkerng T.

You may find questions related to indirect speech in other tests too, but the choices would be better than what you got.

user62015

15:42

@DamkerngT. I am with you.

Damkerng T.

Looks like I'm not ready to come back to my desk...

@user62015 Writing tests and exams are quite similar to writing in general.

It seems very easy. Too easy that everyone thinks they can do it.

user62015

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M @DamkerngT. I have to leave now as I have to solve more than 200 question before I go to bed.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

G'luck!

Damkerng T.

See you around.

user62015

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M @DamkerngT. @CopperKettle Thanks for your time and @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M did you notice I have mentioned you at first?

Bye

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

15:47

I still can't find a decent answer to that chem question. ⋋_⋌

@user62015 (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

Damkerng T.

LOL

user62015

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M @DamkerngT. I got something that will definitely make me mad.

Let me post, please wiat.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Please waits

Damkerng T.

Because you've already gotten it, you should already know whether it drove or drives or can drive you mad or not. :-)

Unless its content is hidden under its cover or something.

user62015

Umesh asked me, "Have you read that novel?"
Umesh asked me:
A- if he was reading that novel.
B- if he had read that novel.
C- if I had read that novel.
D- if I was reading that novel.

Damkerng T.

15:55

Trying to look for a quote about the Esperanto language... Something about that test question reminded me of that quote...

@user62015 C

user62015

No, it's not about the exam, it's all about English.

Damkerng T.

No, it's not about English; it's about another kind of English.

user62015

@DamkerngT. What if I say the answer is B!

I would love to post this on this website. I think, we should have a proper reason behind this kind of questions.

Damkerng T.

@user62015 Well, the author of the book can believe whatever he or she wants to believe.

@user62015 It's not really useful for the site if you know that the answer is incorrect.

Hmm... can't find that quote, but I remember that it was along that lines that the fluent speakers of Esperanto should teach themselves to become fluent first.

user62015

@DamkerngT. I also chose the same option which you have chosen but when I checked the answer I laughed on myself.

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