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Congrats.

Hi Stephie. How goes it?

You too :)

Hello rumi and all. Thanks.

hi

ok cool. Thanks.

Well I can't talk about it here, not in public. It is nothing serious, just a problem I was facing in the past, so I thought I'd ask for your opinions.

@Stephie It is nothing food related heh, just a general topic that I thought I'd discuss with you if you have time. Well I pinged you because you have excellent people skills, like 10/10 and seem very level headed :)

@Stephie Stephie are you free? I need your advice about something.

Cowper came and left.

I hear cats are lactose intolerant too.

@snailplane snail you are lactose intolerant if I remember correctly right?

@snailplane by good you mean tasty?

Hello snail, cowper and jim

well, then I'll stick to Google search. It is pretty good anyway.

heh!

Oh. I see.

@Mick :)

Hello @snailplane what are your thoughts on this?

@Mick idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fair+to+middling. Nice phrase.

Hello @Mick @V.V. and @user2684291 how is it going?

@Abcd That's a different Cerberus there. Same name, different person :-)

@Mitch Well, my dilemma is always which news source to trust. They all have a certain spin etc. So I read one thing at different places but that confuses me sometimes.

Yeah. nods

@Mitch I see, I missed that. I haven't been following news closely lately. I'll Google etc. and take a look.

well, me personally, I am comfortable with any topic as long as the other person is level headed and possesses good people skills. Like you, you always get like 10 out of 10 in people skills from me, and seem very level headed so I never mind anything in your comments. But still I kind of stay back from some topics due to others. :)

@Mitch oh I know. I am perfectly comfortable with that. I meant to say I'm kind of reluctant to talk openly in (public) chats due to others. But since those discussions (politics etc.) are fun we can take them elsewhere, your call :) Here is fine too.

@Mitch I see, thanks. Yeah "at" is natural sounding, you are right.

Hello Mitch!

oh okay. nods

Well you have my email, let me know and I will send you the invite. I use that chat with friends sometimes, it is quite fun. But there is only one drawback on Gmail chat, there is no ping option there, so one has to kind of make sense what the other person is replying to.

@Mitch By the way, remember this discussion we had in the past about politics? I was kind of avoiding the question on purpose because you know politics and public chats don't go well together :) We can discuss that or anything like that on Gmail chat anytime if you are interested.

Laters.

@Mitch No, actually I was looking at a sentence a user asked here a few days ago here. I was looking for the instances of “jump into the first job offer” on corpus.

@Mitch Sorry for the late reply, this is the first time I’m popping in chats since yesterday.

@Mitch I see, thanks for the info.

I am kind of clueless at this point. I actually wanted to see the whole sentence "jump into the first job offer" but with "offer" there were no results in the corpus.

On Google I got 35 results, they could be from anywhere but still a huge difference, so how come COCA is known for statistical analysis and hypothesis testing, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules?

Well anyway, I logged in there to search for this little sentence "jump into the first job" and got only 1 result.

I'm logged in and have an account there but still.

well if ain't free then I would rather not use it, not interested in things like that.

On COCA I am getting this message after like every other query there. So all the users of COCA out there, do you just wait it out when you see this message?

thanks!

Yeah, I see your point. "simply as ways" makes sense there.

well anyway, ping me if anyone has something to say.

Like "as simply ways" should be "in simple ways" I guess.

yeah seems like there are some typos.

sorry, I didn't paste the whole thing eariler.

> I agree with all of that, but the broad criticism is doing its work as more people embrace intersectionality and multi-vectored descriptions of selves, as well as retooling their own self identity to include their descriptions as simply ways to describe their flavor of humanity rather than as their entirety.