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What is tripping you up?

@Isa I don’t know what you mean. The 🤰 is there just once as part of the triple for “born” on first line. Then there’s kind of second statement on the second line…

@Isa I was hoping that all you native math speakers would help me to tune this, to not include some majorly incorrect use of notation, that would be too distracting. But logical rigor and excessive formalism is not my goal here.

@Isa The translation is just a procrastination task I enjoy doing. I'm going for expressionistic translation: trying to invoke the ideas represented in Article 1. Using only Emojis proved lacking for expressing the relations, so I've expanded by Unicode palette used to include Math Symbols, too. 🤰 is a pregnant woman. I've used the 🤰➡️👶 triplet to invoke the idea of being born.

@Isa Why translate using emojis? For fun and profit: Unicode string benchmarking. Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the most translated document in the world, which makes it an ideal corpus (semantically equivalent body of text in plethora of languages and scripts). Emoji is a fast growing language independent script and testing the string processing performance on this subset is increasingly important.

OK. Thanks! I’ll wait for your feedback than…

@mkt I’ve rewritten my question with detailed description of what I’m trying to solve. I think this avoids the XY problem, but I’m a bit worried if other’s can learn something from it. It feels a bit like I’ve dumped my homework into public forum :-/ @Sycorax, @whuber Do I need to do something else to move the Q from “on hold” state?

@mkt Thank! I’m working on a rewrite.

@mkt Would it suffice to rewrite the filtering question with the explanation of why I think that’s a necessary step, which was in the comments?

The problem is, I basically had 2 bigger questions I wanted to ask and I’ve figured I’d start with a more limited one — asking about filtering data before computing statistics. But the Sycorax’s clarifying comments are steering that Q towards my other, yet unasked question about hypothesis testing.

@mkt Can you help me understand how to rephrase the question?

What is the right way to politely bring attention to a question on this site, without breaching the etiquette? I've asked a question some 4 months ago, it has received 1 upvote, and just 4 view total. I've noticed new people here burn up their whole reputations by putting up a bounty on their first question, get an answer and can't progress any further thereafter...

@JoelSpolsky Thanks for answering!

@JoelSpolsky You mean MicroSoft is still alive?

@JoelSpolsky Nice. I think I understand the difference in approach: SE is about building focused communities - one per site. Quora does internal segmentation by Topics. What about fragmentation of reputation?

@JoelSpolsky What about fragmentation? My questions are recently getting bumped all over the place. SO -> /* Programmers */... I was puzzled if my other question belonged to English or Writers...

@JoelSpolsky That's what I thought was the plan... but are there early data to confirm this as credible trend?

@JoelSpolsky I've read somewhere on the internets, that your franchise would hit it big time if you could successfully branch out of computerized professionals ghetto into law and medical professionals. Any thoughts on that?

Is this a chat room stress test?

@Brant Will they be notified of my acceptance, so that they know that they should create the account to get that rep?

I did not yet accept an answer, because there is only one at the moment. Would the answerer receive reputation points back on stack overflow if he has no account here on /* Programmers */ yet?

Hi! My question from StackOverflow just got migrated here...

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@Martha Thank you very much for your help!

@Martha Not a CV. Just short blurb on my personal page.

I'm not sure about proper English rules regarding this.

I'm writing description about myself in third person. I'm trying to avoid repeating "He [does something]..." in every sentence. In Slovak (my native language) it is fine to omit the pronoun, as long as the subject remains the same.

When is it OK to omit "he" from sentence? Several sentences are in same context.

@Martha OK, that is also what @RegDwight said. BTW are you also active over there?

@Martha Do you know where I could find help to review my short personal page (3 paragraphs)? I'm sure that, as non-native speaker, I have filled it with similarly questionable language.

@Martha Wow. Thank you! It really is better.

Is the comma in that ^^ sentence placed correctly?

I appreciate!

@Martha Thank you!

@RegDwight I did that, but I can only "flag for moderator"

Thier = their

@RegDwight ;-) Thier char rooms are deserted, and quick look at questions there does not support that notion...

OK, can you recommend a place, where would such a request be appropriate?

Hi! I'm not a native english speaker. I am writing short "about me" description for my personal page. Can someone help me review my text for correct English?