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OP already provided «Je comprenais pas avant mais maintenant oui» at number 6, just a little different: «Je ne comprenais pas avant, mais maintenant, oui.» Do you think the differences are significant, or is it more of a style thing? I'm just wondering why you wrote essentially the same thing.

I'm talking about borrowing into English.

Oops, sorry, you didn't say that either, you said "Terrace comes [from] Old French."

Why are you looking at a French dictionary for an English definition?

"You say terrrace is from terrasse" - I never said that. You said that.

"Look at the Montreal rules for them." - The Montreal rules don't talk about "patios" from what I can see. Am I missing something?

What do you actually mean by that? Like, good for who/what?

"It's not a good idea to mix French and English either" - I take great offence to that :P

@Lambie "Patios are generally enclosed on the sides, terraces are not." - Source?

@Lambie I just saw a similar page myself. I edited my answer to clarify the situation.

@Lambie That's odd... If you click through to the Black+Blue link, they exclusively use the word "patio". I guess "terrace" is used, but rarely.

@Lambie In your second link, "Terrace" is a proper noun. Read the body: "... outdoor Terrace restaurant ..."

@Mast ah ok, thanks!

Not at all! :) I meant the face like "that make me happy but I'm shy", cause I just show up here and you're heaping praise on me :)

I'm only here cause I remembered there was a hook for mentions of CR on SO and I wanted to check if it picked up everything or only links.

Thanks 😅

aw, thanks!

FR though, OP's new, so I'm trying to thoroughly point them in the right direction. Maybe it's a bit overbearing, idk :]

@pacmaninbw were you saying "picky picky" about me??? how dare you ;)

neat

neat. Does Duga send an automated message anytime CR is mentioned on SO?

thanks! Just wondering what this was after you mentioned it

@tell "America" means the USA in casual speech. If your native language is Spanish, then what you call "America", we call "the Americas" (north and south). For me, I'd be annoyed if you called me "American", cause I'm from Canada, not the US.

@WS2 'The expression "put paid to" is widely understood throughout the English-speaking world' -- Just want to mention I'm Canadian and also never heard it.

@ChrisA I assumed they didn't notice the edit

@Greybeard OP has updated the question and it's perfectly clear now.

There are multiple definitions on the page you linked, so which one do you mean? Please edit to clarify. I'm asking because I'm not sure what "painful to resist the gods" means -- like does it imply the gods are an unstoppable force, or that they're vengeful (so you might call them "pricks" in modern British English)? Plus the first few comments here are wildly off from how I first interpreted it. It might also help to add the KJV link Aakash posted.

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

@JoeW Right, you've said as much already. But now that I've explained the problem, do you see it too? I suggested multiple edits because they're all different ways of fixing the same problem. I should add too, I saw that you voted against my suggested edit on Aaargh's answer too even though it was clearly an improvement to the grammar. If you're taking this personally, you might want to take a step back. I have nothing against you; it's a great answer; I just want to clarify it.

@JoeW If you want to change as little as possible, you could change "the article" to "this article" and that would be a bit better at least. Or you could consider something like "... harder to track his flights. See this article: Reddit now ... . The start mentions ..."

@JoeW It's not really a minor edit. (I mean, I'm also suggesting a minor grammar fix, but that's secondary.) The way it's written now, it's not clear that "Reddit now has a subreddit ..." is a quote, so it sounds like you're the one saying it, which implies the link goes to that subreddit. So in the next paragraph when you say "the article", it's not clear what article you're referring to; I thought you meant one OP mentioned so I checked them but didn't see the quotes, and only when I came back to your answer and hovered over the link, I understood what you meant.

Yeah, I was going to do that after the third one, but you beat me to the punch

"you should not be making repeated edit suggestions" -- Don't worry, you told me to stop so I stopped. I was only persistent because I saw different, less drastic ways to fix the problem.

"I disagree with your supposed problem" -- Please elaborate. As I said, I had difficulty understanding what you were saying, and explained why I was confused. Do you not think that what you wrote is confusing?

@JoeW Right, you've said as much already. But now that I've explained the problem, do you see it too? I suggested multiple edits because they're all different ways of fixing the same problem. I should add too, I saw that you voted against my suggested edit on Aaargh's answer too even though it was clearly an improvement to the grammar. If you're taking this personally, you might want to take a step back. I have nothing against you; it's a great answer; I just want to clarify it.

@JoeW If you want to change as little as possible, you could change "the article" to "this article" and that would be a bit better at least. Or you could consider something like "... harder to track his flights. See this article: Reddit now ... . The start mentions ..."

@JoeW It's not really a minor edit. (I mean, I'm also suggesting a minor grammar fix, but that's secondary.) The way it's written now, it's not clear that "Reddit now has a subreddit ..." is a quote, so it sounds like you're the one saying it, which implies the link goes to that subreddit. So in the next paragraph when you say "the article", it's not clear what article you're referring to; I thought you meant one OP mentioned so I checked them but didn't see the quotes, and only when I came back to your answer and hovered over the link, I understood what you meant.

@Lambie Why does it matter what status English has in Bangladesh?

@Lambie Sorry, what are you trying to say? It sounds like you're saying dialects don't exist without official recognition, but obviously that's ridiculous. Are you trying to say that Bangladeshi English is really just Indian English? (Also, to be clear, the Caribbean is not a country, but I assume you mean the Caribbean Community.)

If you wanted to load it into Python, I could help you with that :P

no, sorry, like I said, I've only used it once.

Why are you talking to me then? That's a totally different topic

I gotta ask, why not just use the other answer instead?

although, again, why not just use the other answer instead?

oh, I've only used it once. You can ask on Stack Overflow if needed

@hago I'm not really sure what you're asking, and I don't have too much experience with low-level Linux stuff, but you might find the answer here: Are the major, minor number unique? - Unix & Linux

@hago You could probably use jq, but why not just use the other answer instead?

@hago "the major node type of a loop block device is 7"

@jamesqf I think it's originally American, though it's definitely used here in Canada too. It's very informal - like slang, bordering on vulgar. I mentioned an example in a previous comment, "Ugh, that party was a total sausage fest."

@jsw29 Informally, yes, like "Ugh, that party was a total sausage fest." Also note OP wrote "quite often used when you talk about a group ..."