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 Discussion on question by Edwardo: Wh…

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CJ Dennis
Jun 15, 2023 12:43
@Steve If only 90% of your code works as expected, then your tests will be wrong 18% of the time before you run them for the first time (2 x 10% x 90%). 81% will be right. Only 1% will have a bug both in the test and in the code. Once you fix the 18%, you're up to 99% correct code from 90% correct code. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather my code worked 99% of the time than only 90% of the time! I'm now only spending 10% of my previous debugging time on debugging.
 

 Discussion on answer by wrod: Why do …

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CJ Dennis
Nov 18, 2022 11:54
@wizzwizz4 Northern Ireland is not part of (Great) Britain; it's part of the United Kingdom. Great Britain is composed of the countries of England, Scotland, and Wales. The United Kingdom is composed of Great Britain and the country of Northern Ireland. However, people do tend to use England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom interchangeably, the way people tend to use Holland and the Netherlands interchangeably.
 

 Discussion on question by bittersweet…

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CJ Dennis
Nov 16, 2022 00:24
Nobody who wears corrective lenses needs them to see. They need them to focus what they're seeing properly. If I don't wear my corrective lenses, I can read just fine, but everything beyond about a metre is blurry. I can still recognise all objects, I just can't read at distance without my lenses. If I was capable of sword fighting, I don't see how not being able to resolve details of my opponent to less than 1 cm would affect me.
 

 Discussion on answer by Sola Gratia: …

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CJ Dennis
Aug 16, 2022 00:00
@PatrickStevens In the case of mathematics, why wouldn't God have also given the appropriate language to understand it instead of waiting for humans to invent/discover it in the 17th century? I mean, he's God! He has the ability to express himself clearly enough that anyone can understand him if he wants to!
 

 Discussion on answer by David: Have a…

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CJ Dennis
May 25, 2022 16:55
@SeanOConnor "Kind": a division wherever the YEC wants to put it.
 

 Discussion on question by 8vtwo: Why …

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CJ Dennis
Oct 8, 2021 18:26
The information is identical, but serverfault.com "seems completely normal" whereas you say "what's going on with" superuser.com. I don't get it.
 

 Discussion on question by Aadhavan: W…

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CJ Dennis
Jul 17, 2021 19:11
What is "better"? Who gets to decide what "better" is? What problems do you see in democracy as it is currently? You've asked people to fix a problem without stating what the problem is.
 

 Discussion between Sam Ruben Abraham …

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CJ Dennis
Jul 18, 2020 06:11
There are no guarantees on Stack Exchange. I have questions I asked years ago that still have no answer. I have other questions that get multiple answers in the first day. Be patient!
CJ Dennis
Jul 18, 2020 06:09
I'm not looking for "maybe" answers. I want someone who understands the question, asks for clarification if I haven't explained my problem well, and gives me an answer I can implement.
CJ Dennis
Jul 18, 2020 06:08
I would love to be able to answer ML questions, but I don't have enough experience. Be patient! Someone will come along and answer it if you've posted a question.
CJ Dennis
Jul 18, 2020 06:08
The derivative would still have wiggles in it.
CJ Dennis
Jul 18, 2020 06:06
If there are serious problems, I'll comment on it. If your answer solves my problem, I'll upvote it and accept it. However, it often takes a couple of days for other people to see a question and reply to it, so someone else might have a brilliant take that I haven't thought of. I'll wait.
CJ Dennis
Jul 18, 2020 06:04
Welcome! But I don't feel like coaching you on how to use the site when the help pages do a good job of that, plus meta. This isn't a forum, so I won't be responding to chatty messages. Comments are supposed to be used to clarify and improve the question/answers. I'm not being unfriendly, I'm just trying to be efficient.
CJ Dennis
Jul 18, 2020 06:04
To participate in the best way possible, please take the tour and visit the help center.
CJ Dennis
Jul 18, 2020 06:04
If you want to add to your answer, click "edit".
 

 Discussion on answer by bdb484: Can a…

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CJ Dennis
Jul 15, 2020 05:10
@Barmar If Alice's business was the first of its type, it's not her fault she has a monopoly. She didn't do anything anticompetitive to become a monopoly.
 

 Discussion on question by Trevor Mers…

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CJ Dennis
May 28, 2020 07:28
How would the programmer learn millions of instructions? A person with a good English vocabulary might know a few thousand words, far fewer than millions.
 

 Discussion on question by Mitsuko: If…

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CJ Dennis
Mar 31, 2020 19:52
You're not a layman (implicitly gender neutral) or a layperson (explicitly gender neutral)?
 

 Discussion between CJ Dennis and WXJ9…

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CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:59
My advice is: turn your specific problem into a general problem. Search (several times with different words if necessary) for the general problem. If you don't find the answer or the answer is confusing, ask on ELL. Read a few different explanations if you can find them before posting here. If you find a site that has answers you can consistently understand, try that one first.
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:39
From your link I clicked on "Nouns, pronouns and determiners" > "Noun phrases" > "Noun phrases: dependent words" then scrolled down to "Nouns acting as premodifiers". This is not obvious if you don't already know what you're looking for.
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:36
See: Nouns acting as premodifiers
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:36
The Cambridge site also has some information on it, but it's much harder to find. dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/…
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:31
^ the answers to the linked question.
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:31
The linked question also mentions "attributive noun" and "noun adjunct" which are the technical names for this.
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:30
I did an internet search for "noun as adjective" and the first non-ad result was englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-adjective.htm
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:30
Firstly, your question was much too specific. Is "eye disease" grammatical? Someone else could ask the same question about "eye protection", "eye glasses", "dog house", etc. What you really wanted to ask about was using a noun as an adjective.
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:23
The linked/duplicate question fully answers your question. If you like, I can explain why. I really am here to help you, despite how it might seem to you.
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:22
ELL is not a "I can haz teh answer plz?" site. It feels to me as if you're using this site as your primary method of learning English. ELL is a supplement to your learning elsewhere.
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:15
Downvoting a post because you have a disagreement with another user is unacceptable behaviour.
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:14
Dictionaries define "most" and "controversial". If you are confused after looking them up, then ask a question.
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:14
I made an observation, then asked you a clarifying question. You interpreted that as starting an argument. It seems from your question that you've never encountered two nouns in a row before that sentence. Have a look on this page and see how many you can spot, e.g. English Language Learners.
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:14
I would start a chat room to discuss this, but it's only possible with users who have previously used chat. Please don't edit your question to be controversial.
CJ Dennis
Mar 30, 2020 00:14
I notice you ask a lot of very basic questions, most of which are answered by taking English lessons or looking in reputable references and many of which are already answered here. Why did you think "eye disease" was not grammatical? What research did you do beforehand to discover the answer yourself?
 

 Discussion between CJ Dennis and Geo …

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CJ Dennis
Mar 16, 2020 22:21
I'm also curious that you're implying that you speak 1950s English in 2020. Unless you have been completely isolated since the '50s, you also speak 21st century English.
CJ Dennis
Mar 16, 2020 22:19
Mathematical logic is concerned with axioms that don't have to make sense in the real world. Indeed, if only real world examples were allowed, there would be many things you couldn't do in logic.
CJ Dennis
Mar 16, 2020 22:17
You're conflating the logic part with what the meanings of the individual words. No real world robot loves (yet). However, if you changed the statement to: "no two men love the same woman" you have another real world problem in that often two men do love the same woman.
CJ Dennis
Mar 16, 2020 22:14
@GeoGraphy "no two robots love the same cat" means "each cat is loved by exactly zero or one robot".
CJ Dennis
Mar 16, 2020 22:14
How do you think "no two robots love the same cat" has different meanings? I can't think of any English variant where it would be different. I speak Australian English, so you would think that any difference that existed would be greater.
CJ Dennis
Mar 16, 2020 22:14
Do you want to ask about how English has changed across different times and places, or about "logic sentences"? These are two unrelated questions and should be in separate posts.
 

 Discussion on question by Rattler: Is…

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CJ Dennis
Mar 13, 2020 00:23
You seem to be saying "since we can't embed audio here, I don't need to provide it". This question is unanswerable without the original audio, and there are ways around the technical limitations of this site.
CJ Dennis
Mar 13, 2020 00:23
@Greybeard If Trump actually said "one in the same" it should be transcribed the way he said it. There are (too) many questions here. 1. Is it a bad transcription? 2. Should the article have written "one and the same" ignoring the source? 3. Is "one in the same" ever correct? 4. Why do native speakers get it wrong?
CJ Dennis
Mar 13, 2020 00:23
If such audio existed, you could still link to it, even if you couldn't embed it. Yes, it would be great if audio could be embedded. But that doesn't avoid the question of "is there publicly available audio of what Trump said?"
CJ Dennis
Mar 13, 2020 00:23
We would need the original (presumably) audio to answer this. Are we sure it wasn't from a Tweet? I'm guessing there is so much news and it's written so quickly that they don't have time to check all grammatical errors.
 

 Discussion on question by TheEnvironm…

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CJ Dennis
Feb 21, 2020 14:13
@GdD "No plan would survive very long." - "Mr. President, there's an asteroid heading this w..."
 

 Discussion between CJ Dennis and aesking

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CJ Dennis
Feb 18, 2020 22:43
I assumed that Sven was the manger until 2006 and that Steve was the manager from 2006. From all of that, I assumed there was only one possible author of that letter. Sorry if I jumped to too many conclusions!
CJ Dennis
Feb 18, 2020 22:43
Yes, I did make a lot of assumptions. When The Times said "A letter to the new England football manager from his predecessor", I assumed they were being truthful. I assumed that August 02 2006 referred to the date it was published. I assumed there is only one England manager at any one time.
CJ Dennis
Feb 17, 2020 20:40
The irony is that you attacked information coming from Wikipedia when you based your question almost entirely on Google search results!
CJ Dennis
Feb 17, 2020 20:39
It's from 2017 and he still speaks good but less than perfect English, and still has a strong accent.
CJ Dennis
Feb 17, 2020 20:38
SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON ON ENGLAND REGRETS, TURNING DOWN CHELSEA & DONALD TRUMP
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CJ Dennis
Feb 17, 2020 20:38
If you doubt that Sven-Göran Eriksson was the manager of the English national team and that he is a nonnative speaker, watch the following video: