Kai Maxfield

@Standback Yep, you did a good job. It's too bad the revised version of the original question doesn't have any good answers now...

I think that I will go horizontal-ate, c u l8r.

Well @BESW thanks for everything! I'm not sold on the flat earth idea; it's definitely past bedtime here.

Maybe I'll hit that question with a comment before retiring

Okay; someone told me that mods could ping anyone.

@Standback From what @BESW tells me, it sounds like I shouldn't have questioned a moderator's advice after all. :) I'm headed to bed now, but I wonder if Randomations would like to be involved with the prospective posting of a subsequent, related question. is that something that would be good to ask in the comments under a Q, or by pinging him into chat, or not at all?

@BESW Okay, thanks!

@BESW Thanks, so it's okay to ask, "Here's what I want to do; how do I do it?"

Well, I'm going to hit the hay; perhaps I'll post a Q or two and see what happens.

@BESW This is all on-topic, right? I am writing about it after all.

Did you know that there is even a flat earth society?

What does it take to conceal a MAJOR detail in a novel without repelling the audience?

or

Is concealing major details viable in a novel?

Anywho, I was wondering if asking how to carry out this specific course of action (incorporating this plot twist) would be less helpful to others than a question like...

Remember my comment that if the earth were flat it would be the same time here as there? I guess I was wrong about that. :) As strange as it seems, our neighbor stopped in last week and told us that the earth is flat! Oh dear! Who'd a thunk?

@Standback Thanks for the advice! My view is that the question I have answered will be very unlikely to help anyone else. Would you agree?

I think you have an extra word in there though; it reads "...either make tell...", The "make" should go and the "either" could as well.

@Standback Hey, I was wondering if you could advise me about my answer to this question you revised (it looks great by the way). My answer wasn't stellar to begin with, but now it's not really geared for the question. Would you think I should revise my answer now?

Sorry I accidentally wrote everybody instead of everyone.

@sumelic english.stackexchange.com/questions/225/…

If singular they were really used, wouldn't it be "Everybody returned to their seat?"

Would it be safe to assert then that you are indicating a plural usage of the word "everybody" in this case? For if everybody were singular (e.g. everybody is, everybody's seat, etc.), the rest of the sentence should be singular, right?

Well, if "they" shouldn't be used as a singular pronoun to avoid confusion elsewhere, shouldn't it be avoided here as well for consistency?

@Sumelic Thank-you for pointing out the singular "you", which is conjugated differently than the singular third-person pronouns. In the singular form of you, the unusual usage of it doesn't affect the nouns in the sentence, whereas in many cases people try to pluralize the objects in a sentence when using "they". Am I wrong?

I'm telling my brother about this resource too, he's the one that got me started in German.

I'm leaving for a bit, but I have that link open in a tab, and I've just bookmarked it for future use.

Okay, thanks so much!

(I meant French figuratively, like the French that English speakers use.)

Okay, that makes sense.

Thanks for the clarification, are the earlier ones bad?

There is a lot of language that revolves around French anymore...

Oh.

Yes, that is my first choice.

I wonder if its being unknown in America has something to do with the fact that we can't even learn to speak English properly.

Cool, thanks!

Hmmm, I wonder why that is. How did you find out about it?

@Jasper Thanks!

@Jasper Thanks! I was using Duolingo, but became caught up in doing all sorts of other things about the time they changed the setup on me.

@Jasper I would like to learn, but saying that I am trying would be exaggerating the effort that I have been putting into it lately; I guess that I'm still working on my first language.

Sprechen Sie Deutsch @Jasper? Ich Fischen?

...This is KF7QEZ, out.

I think that I'll be stirring the pot later again with that singular use they thing later on, but for now...

Yes it is, although Kai is short for Kaidin; I generally go by Kai.

My initials aren't so exotic, they're rather bland.

I see!

@IͶΔ oh! Are those your initials?

@IͶΔ Iran! I would ask you what it's like there, but for comparison I should ask whether you've spent some time in the western US, since I've been hardly anywhere else. BTW, how do you pronounce your name?

Morning @Jasper! What time zone are you in?

Ha, you're right! It's a cheap phone anyway.