📚｜english-questions

[tall anchor]

maybe happens naturally when u like b2 c1

[pallid dome]

English questions too

[tall anchor]

um what

[pallid dome]

Grammar

[tall anchor]

well my grammars pretty screwed too idk

[pallid dome]

Simple past

Simple present

[tall anchor]

nah dont learn that way

watch movies and stuff in english

u should pick up stuff over time

[pallid dome]

Ok man

Do you Learn english How long?

[tall anchor]

i dont really remember tbh

i never studied english

just picked up from media

english news books movies etc

video games really help btw

especially story based ones

[earnest lodge]

If someone wants to write and talk, dm to me. I want to improve my English skills.

[brittle whale]

Hello

[undone coyote]

Hi

How are you

[brittle whale]

I'm good bhu

[boreal ingot]

If you're going to converse, please go to a general-chat channel like #💭｜general, #🧊｜chill-chat, and #🫂｜beginner-chat

[deft jacinth]

Come

[flat rune]

Hi, This guy is a very enthusiastic and energetic person who likes to help friends very much. plz, dm me and try to be a native speaker.

[deft jacinth]

Dm

[supple holly]

Why do they call it "still life" (as in the genre of art) if the subject isn't even alive, but are usually inanimate objects? 🧐

[dusty gate]

Yes bro

[earnest lodge]

Check dm

[dense oasis]

Maybe cuz it doesn't move. Like still water

doesn't have the impression of moving, at least

Or maybe it's just dead but it's still life, since death is an inherent part of life?

[hasty yew]

Hi huys, I'm a teacher and a moderator told me only teachers can get access to conversation club and class stage

But he didn't tell me how to get the teacher role and whatnot, he couldn't find it

can anyone help me? I'm eager to start teaching!

[arctic ridge]

I can understand your messages, but I can't write them myself. It feels like I want to use many words but can't remember them, and this has been bothering me for a long time.

[placid dew]

ohh I feel you i have the same problem... like I understand messages and when someone talks but when I want to make sentences, I only use basic words...

[hasty yew]

can anyone help me?

[olive wigeon]

Hey, I would like to speak with someone so Is there anyone available?

[sacred dirge]

If I can help, I will. Just dm or ping 🙂

[sacred dirge]

Try to create examples. Use the new word as much as possible when you learn it by creating new sentences employing the words.

[lusty shore]

"my friend" sounds like a kid <- is this true?! i've been saying this everywhere while i'm not even a kid!!
I heard that friend of mine is used instead of it, but I'm wondering if it's super-weird to say "my friend".

[arctic ridge]

Thank you，I find a way that is talk with my car's AI voice robot,when I driving to and from work

[sacred dirge]

It's not weird. You can say it both ways.

"A friend of mine sounds like a kid." This one feels more vague

"My friend sounds like a kid." - this one feels more specific

[sacred dirge]

Oh nice, I'm sure that's helpful.

[lusty shore]

oh, thank you!

[valid mirage]

practice practice and practice

[valid mirage]

why the first sentence is vague?
it looks like a regular sentence, but it's elongated

[sacred dirge]

A friend of mine indicates a friend that isn't close (and is more formal), it's more vague because it just mentions connection, while "my friend" implies someone closer who may already have been mentioned in the conversation. The difference is really subtle

I think it's more open to interpretation than anything

Here are a few more takes on it:

Friend of mine or my friend

[night token]

I feel when you want to mention a friend doing sth for the first time to someone, saying a friend of mine is more suitable since you're saying one of your friends did sth whereas saying my friend might be used after mentioning your friend as the listener knows what you mean and whom you're talking about

And as mentioned before, both are grammatically correct, but I'm just saying how I feel about it and my opinion, I know nothing about semantics and pragmatics

[valid mirage]

so, "my friend" is more directly
" a friend of mine" is more distant

isn't it?

[sacred dirge]

Yep!

[valid mirage]

ok thank u

[sacred dirge]

You bet!

[sacred dirge]

Yeah. That is a good take too! I think that preference can be added into it too. Some people prefer to say things a certain way vs another way.

[night token]

Well preferance can do that

However I think if someone want to communicate truly he would use the way which he uses to communicate, if he want to sound distant or change the vibe a little

Which is also preferance I think

I think I wrote the word wrong twice

[radiant tree]

Where can I do an English test to know about my level

[night token]

Ahh this keyboard's always giving me a headache

[radiant tree]

Because I feel like I'm at B2 or B1 level but I'm just not sure about my real level

[night token]

Idk

You just want to know

?

[radiant tree]

Yeah

[night token]

In that case, you could try the big guys, like Oxford or Cambridge

But you should ask other people too

[radiant tree]

But I don't want to spend my money on buying a test like a duolingo English test because it's only used when I'm applying to go to a college and it costs 70$

[night token]

Since I don't take tests for my level

[night token]

I think they have an online free test

But idk

I'm not sure

Ask more people

Other than me

I'm a dumb dumb

[sacred dirge]

Words have power. Try saying "I am not familiar with this process." instead of what you did say. 😛

[weary adder]

Does anyone have some good recommendations for American English textbooks or dictionaries? Im looking to dive into the real deal American lingo

[sacred dirge]

I recommend the "The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, The Unabridged Edition".

It's great! 1960 pages (in fine print!, it's a really thick dictionary).

It also has a world atlas inside, history of the English language, some stuff about dialects, etc. Highly worth the $.

[boreal ingot]

There can be no doubt that the term 'Gothic' as applied to pointed styles of ecclesiastical architecture was used at first contemptuously, and in derision, by those who were ambitious to imitate and revive the Grecian orders of architecture, after the revival of classical literature.

What does 'orders' mean in the above quote? I am able to apprehend the general substance of the passage without knowledge of the word's exact meaning. However, I would like to have the ability to form a sentence independent of the passage, employing the word 'orders' in a like manner: I cannot do so as I find I am unable to truly grasp what is meant by the word. Might I ask that both an explanation and an example sentence be provided?

[sacred dirge]

Order in this case means a set of rules as it relates to Greek architecture.

Read more here

It's somewhat uncommon nowadays

Unless you are into classical architecture

[boreal ingot]

Oh, my many thanks! 💜

[astral pivot]

Hey everyone, I am Aravya from India. I am a boy looking for an english partner of B1 level so that we can practise english together. The partner should be of Indian or american assent. We can practise together at 6 AM time in India. My dms are open for you.

[flat rune]

hi, how many friends from America do you have?

[flat rune]

plz, introduce your friends who are English native speaker, if you do, you will get gift Nitro

[weary adder]

Sound like good i am needing friend who are American too

[flat rune]

we have it in common pretty sis. plz, feel free to DM me.

is there the best way to make it? lets talk over.

[weary adder]

I hard to find friends from American

Impossible

[sacred dirge]

Maybe it's because you're in an ICE discord server and it being terrible. Try taking that shit down and maybe people will talk to you.

[astral pivot]

Well I don't have any friends from America in particular

[weary adder]

You are shit people including foolish pointless stupidly

https://tenor.com/view/donald-trump-donald-trump-assassination-gun-gif-14423384363344909248

[night token]

I'm just saying a fact

[marble vessel]

Hi,am new here

[peak otter]

I'm also new

[shrewd perch]

Hey

[eager juniper]

Hey all!! hru?

[carmine copper]

What should I watch to reach advancement

😵‍💫

[drowsy sapphire]

Could someone fluent in English help me?

[flat rune]

Hello everyone

[flat rune]

To reach an advanced level?

[flat rune]

Here are some resources. https://youtube.com/@canguroenglish?si=mbfqD1C6s-UzkKnd

This guy is very amazing

https://youtu.be/k1uduN-i8R0?si=Gmx7fwtGe1jfrGnO

There are lot of ways to learn, practice or enhance your English. I'll say, speaking it with other people is definitely the best way to get better at it. Since, it is direct exposure (in contact with - having first hand experience/time with something or someone)

That way, people can tell you what to improve on, or help correct you.

For sure, studying and taking notes is very helpful. I recommend, taking notes on words or letters you're trying to improve on.

And everyday, make it a goal to use these words in your sentences or when speaking to others, so you can get familiar. Switch up the sentences too. Remember error and trial = improvement. In other words, practice makes perfect.

You can also use AI, to give you examples of sentences with these words.

[carmine copper]

Yeah
Thank you for the resources

Blessed efforts

[celest jetty]

can anyone help me? : she has said: I'm making a new documentary" change the following statement into inderect speech

should it remain the present tense because reporting verb is in present?

[magic arch]

Hello

[celest jetty]

Hello

[magic arch]

Where are you from

[celest jetty]

does it matter?

ok anyways

[magic arch]

Oh

Soryy

[celest jetty]

what should the answer be

[celest jetty]

dw

[magic arch]

I'm new to this platform

[celest jetty]

ah

you will like discord

since you are fluent, can you help me with my question?

[magic arch]

I don't speak English very well

If I made a mistake i apologize

[celest jetty]

don't worry

she has said: I'm making a new documentary" change the following statement into inderect speech

anyone?

not passive voice

the inderect speech

[magic arch]

what do you said

[celest jetty]

huh

[magic arch]

Is this a riddle

[celest jetty]

no dude

not like that cuz it would have been "she was"

[magic arch]

Does anyone here speak French or Arabic

[celest jetty]

but isbt the reporting word in the present?

[magic arch]

What is your goal

forget it

[flat rune]

We see here, the original sentence uses "present perfect tense"

Therefore, we will want to keep that same tense then.

Indirect: "She has said she is making a new documentary."

She= Abby
Someone is stating what Abby said, and since Abby said the original sentence in the present tense, we must keep that same tense.

So, She has said she is making a new documentary." It's not removing the fact that Abby is currently making a new documentary right now. All we are doing is repeating what Abby said, but indirectly.

Example me. I said "She has said she is making a new documentary." Indirect but still present tense.

[flat rune]

Yes yes, that's a good in depth explanation!

[boreal ingot]

Per standard grammars, that would become 'She said/She told me that she was making a new documentary'

The tense is back-shifted in reported speech

[flat rune]

But, in the original sentence provided, it is spoken in the present tense.

If spoken indirectly, it would remain in the present tense. No?

I was taught there is no back shift for the present tense. Which is why I answered with "She has said she is making a new documentary"

Which keeps the present tense, as it was seen in the original

Or rather, specifically "present perfect tense" as it's a continuous activity

[verbal heron]

Here the reporting verb is in the present perfect tho

[flat rune]

I forgot to add, that the original sentence is present tense, and falls under present continuous= "she is making"

It's still an activity that is currently going on, per your original sentence

[low zephyr]

Hii. How do you use to "play the devil's advocate" off the top of your head?

[boreal ingot]

Your question is a bit oddly phrased so some people think the original sentence was, in full

She has said "I'm making a new documentary"'

Whilst others think it is

I'm making a new documentary.

If you're speaking to Abby and Abby tells you how her friend, Lucy, told Abby that she's making a new documentary by saying

Yeah, I spoke to Lucy the other day, and she has said that she's making a new documentary.

Then you would only back-shift what Abby said:

I spoke to Abby, and she mentioned her friend Lucy. Abby said that Lucy had said that she was making a new documentary.

Here, since 'has said' is reported indirectly, it back-shifts to 'had said'. 'Is making' backshifts to 'was making'. Abby has already made a mistake, in the eyes of some, by not back-shifting 'is making' to 'was making' while reporting what Lucy said. This isn't truly incorrect since back-shifting is mostly optional, but it would lose you some marks on an exam. So 'is' is back-shifted.

This is an overly consulted example with indirect speech inside indirect speech. Most natives wouldn't strictly abide by this pattern of back shifting, especially with the final 'is making' (because generally if it's still ongoing, natives avoid back-shifting the present continuous. The optionality I spike of).

If the original sentence Abby spoke was

I spoke to Lucy. She is making a new documentary.

Only 'is' is back-shifted, optionally.

Abby told me Lucy was making a new documentary.

This all applies in indirect reporting. If you're quoting Abby, you would not change a single thing:

I spoke to Abby and she said 'she has said "I'm making a new documentary"' regarding Lucy.

This is a direct quote and not what you were asking about.

[flat rune]

Yeah, and you can still make it into an indirect sense, but they didn't provide more context which confused a couple people

And I'm not sure now what they are asking anymore

Though, as far as I can see, it is in the present continuous, so it is present.

[low zephyr]

I'd appreciate yall's input if it isn't too much to ask 🙏

[flat rune]

@celest jetty I am 99.9% positive the answer I gave is accurate, and that your original sentence is in the present tense: present continuous, so it's present nonetheless.

The rule is, you keep the same present tense, only making it indirect this time. You do not change the tense, you keep it

[flat rune]

I'll suggest, with everything provided to you, to do a quick read into this. Don't get overwhelmed.

Still, thanks, that was a good review and brain exercise

[boreal ingot]

My understanding is that the present tense is back-shifted optionally, depending on whether the action is still currently ongoing.

If someone said 'I'm eating ice cream' and you reported that a day later, it's would probably backshift.

She said she was eating ice cream when I saw her last.

If something is still happening, you may or may not backshift, but probably wouldn't

Many people are dying in fires all over the city.

The reporter said that many people are dying in fires all over the city.
(People still are dying right now.)

The reporter said many people were dying in fires all over the city.
(It's probably over. Maybe you're telling your kids about your childhood. No one is dying right now)

Again, this all only applies in indirect speech. Exact quotes do not shift tense

[flat rune]

I see. I gave my answer, just using what was provided to me by them. I see "is making" in the original sentence" I'll take that as present continuous. And so, as you said, the option to back shift is optional, and you don't have to at all, you shouldn't.

So I kept the same tense, and provided an indirect example with present continuous.

Yeah, you are right though. Thanks for your eagerness! Glad to meet you

[boreal ingot]

Be a contrarian to promote conversation or discourse

You really should stop playing the devil's advocate and just speak your actual opinion on the matter. This is serious, Michael.

Of course, I wasn't of such a belief and was merely playing devil's advocate.

[low zephyr]

Thanks, I think we're on the same page then. What do you think if I said "I don't mean to play the devil's advocate, but I think that... [introduces contrarian opinion]"

[boreal ingot]

Lovely meeting you!

[boreal ingot]

Here, I would interpret it as you wanting to discuss the contrary opinion theoretically, without causing anger or string up heated discourse. You want to put it on the table to see where people stand regarding this opinion, but are making it explicit you don't mean any harm and probably don't hold the opinion yourself

[low zephyr]

Exactly that, you hit the nail on the head. Thank you so much!!!!!

[blazing nymph]

Me 🥹, i really wanted tp speak english comfidently without brain freeze...

[small moth]

I'm making a documentary can anyone change the following statements into an indirect speech

[safe bramble]

What's the difference between beneath and below

[flat rune]

There is no real technical difference between the two words, "beneath" and "below"

Only that "beneath" is more formal than "below" and is used less commonly. You can use both of these words. If you want to speak/write with formality, you can use 'beneath"

[ember moth]

What's the difference between incompetence and unable?

[tardy minnow]

incompetence is when someone is not competent to do something, eg to idiotic or lazy, but if given opportunity they could do it with effort. unable means a person can not do that thing, eg. “if you cannot make scrambled eggs you are incompetent” and “i am unable to make scrambled eggs”

[dense oasis]

maybe I should also add that "incompetence" is a noun, and "unable" is... not a noun anymore. It's an adjective. Incompetence, incompetent. Inability, unable

you can be unable/incompetent, but you can not "be incompetence" or "be inability"

[wicked silo]

Hey

im going to participate in a high-level english contest that require c1 to c2 proficiency . Im fine with reading listening and writing but can i just gain more vocabs simply by reading more books or listening to more videos. I'm kinda objected to test doing, bc i find no use in that approach in terms of acquiring new vocabs. Can u pls consult

[visual umbra]

Incompetence means lack of knowledge, experience, mental or physical preparedness to perform a particular task. Mostly, incompetence is a quality of people and sometimes animals.

Inability means that a particular task or action cannot be accomplished for any reason. It may include incompetence, but not necessarily. A competent person may be unable to accomplish a certain task because he/she is ill, or grew too old, or there are some obstacles, or there is a lack of resources, or the task is too large for one person or a whole team of competent people. Inability may refer not only to people, but also to machines or any objects.

Examples.
Incompetence: A mechanical engineer cannot repair an electronic device even though he has the required physical and mental ability and all the necessary resources, like tools, measurement instruments and spare parts. But he is incompetent in electronics.

Inability: A crew of firefighters cannot extinguish a fire in a building. They have all the required competence, but their fure trick is broken, or access to the building is blocked, or the fire is too big, and the crew ran out of water and cannot get it from nearby sources.

Inability: A car cannot climb a steep slope exceeding 40 degrees because its engine and mechanical gear cannot produce enough torque to the wheels or the wheels do not have sufficient grip with the ground.

Inability: A beam of gamma rays passess through almost anything, but it cannot pass through a 1-meter-thick layer of led.

[visual umbra]

I am sure, you have already tried to memorize words and know that this does not work. You may memorize a hundred words, if you repeat them regularly. Maybe, you can memorize even a thousand words. But c1 and c2 levels require more than 10 thousand words, and you cannot repeat that many words until they stick in yor memory.

Besides, there are words that are used frequently, words that are used less frequently, and words that are rarely used. Such rare words may be frequently used by a particular group of people or in particular circumstances.

How can you accumulate many such rare words in your memory? Only by reading and listening a lot, and on various topics. There is no way to just download them into your memory; at least, so far.

Also, you have your passive vocabulary (words that you recognize when you hear or read them and know their meaning) and your active vocabulary (words that you may use when you speak or write without a significant delay on remembering them). Ycu convert your passive vocabulary into your active vocabulary by speaking and writing on topicse, for which you need such words.

[dense oasis]

one can accumulate way more than only 10k things in one's memory, this happens among, for example, medical students, who need to come up with many ways to do that. Like SRS, spaced repetition system, and Anki. But yeah... remembering is one thing. listening and reading is what fully builds one's skills at the end

if I don't have any intuition how to speak, I can't just recall words one by one and take 20 minutes to say 5 sentences or something

[gloomy oracle]

Guys do you have any advice on how to improve my vocabulary? My porblem is that i can unterstand so many more words that i actually use. i can e.g. wwatch a video, where advanced english is spoken and i undedrstand it. However when i have to whrite an essy for school, i often use just simple words cause the better words/ phrases just wont come up to my mind even if i should know them and their translation.

[tall anchor]

its your grammar lol not vocab

if u can understand

i have the exact same problem as u

[gloomy oracle]

why? is it bad in my first message?

[tall anchor]

ah no its just that if u can understand spoken english but cant write the problem must be your grammar

spoken advanced english

[gloomy oracle]

oh yeah i understand

[tall anchor]

oxford got some pretty good grammar course books

try advanced one

[gloomy oracle]

thanks i will look them up

[tall anchor]

now that i think again read more books (aloud if possible) that would help A LOT

[gloomy oracle]

i will thanks a lot🤝

[tall anchor]

[toxic roost]

You need to practise writing not grammar like keep an english journal and write short stories

[tall anchor]

wait really?

so im not regarded thank gods

@gloomy oracle aye

check that out

[gloomy oracle]

oh yeah thank u all i will try a bit of all the methods

[toxic roost]

There is a quote something like a sword only sheathed is left to rust and when battle comes will be unusable well your pen is your sword and make sure you unsheath it often

I recomend have a prompts list of random topics and each week pick something on there to write about

That is if you dont already have an idea in your head

[tall anchor]

tbh id get tired of it after some time

cant we summarize and try to rewrite already existing stuff in that topic

[gloomy oracle]

ohh yeah this is good

[toxic roost]

Im not sure what exactly you are tired of ?

Summarising is a good skill to practise but you also need to practise creating stories or journaling information from your own head this is what transforms your mind.

[tall anchor]

i get burned out easily tbh i will still try though thanks for advice

[toxic roost]

Well thats ok but thats an issue for you to work on outside of english class(sleep, food etc)

but lucky for you these activities i suggest are scalable

If a story a week is too much then you do a sentence every 2 weeks. Give yourself more time. Make the activity smaller but consistency is key and this will help you build resiliance to burnout over time as it becomes more rewarding : ) 🦕

[tall anchor]

omg i didnt pay attention to the part where u said once a week and thought u said every day lol mb mb

[tall anchor]

thank u kind stranger

[toxic roost]

Hahhah yeah... thats too much id never suggest that... but even once a week can be alot at the start busy life, jobs stress... all about little steps at a time

[tall anchor]

maybe im an unemployed hs student and have the time just not the attention span

tiktok screwed me up

[toxic roost]

This counts as well ... sadly many of us have been affected by these technologies you arent alone

Be kind to yourself learning languages is a good way to retake your brain from tiktok and gain new patience and connections. 🦕 🌱

[tall anchor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1347584254132883557/1466892905992949865/Hj__Hgm3PYolavWKObsX1tZvOKafvZAOfiZOgOYp0EQ.gif

thanks a lot

i hope u real and not ai cuz that would break my heart lol world needs more people like u

[dense oasis]

we are all artificial intelligence, matrix has you

don't let them catch you, neo

[toxic roost]

Thats very sweet of you, this was a very special message to recieve for me tonight.

Well if you ever want any tips on habits or english or your just having a rough day send me a message, im not always available but ill do my best

Also im native so if you ever want conversational practise let me know 🦕 (rawwwr)

[tall anchor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1347584254132883557/1466842158261862631/l93cbs749igg1.gif

[tall anchor]

no denial?

[toxic roost]

🌱 🦕 (rawwwrr)

Nvm i dont have gif permissons yet

[tall anchor]

holy f there a gif limit?

[tall anchor]

okei dokie kind dino

[dense oasis]

there is a limit for all images/gifs/videos, users can send them only once they send some amount of messages

[toxic roost]

Maybe there is a limit of how manu discord servers can exist and one day the limit will be reached and they all explode

[dense oasis]

This one I don't know about. But I know that they also limit how many servers one account can join. Unless someone pays for nitro, then the limit is higher

[toxic roost]

I never have hit the limit but i worry i might one day

[boreal ingot]

i believe it was 100 without Nitro, 200 with

[safe bramble]

Thank you for the explanation

[hollow bramble]

How do you analyze these structures?
“This is me working”
“This is my friend stressing again”

are these adjectival,adverbial telling when or gerund with their subjects

[exotic holly]

Hello 👋

[pliant holly]

“me working” / “my friend stressing again” = non-finite present participle clauses with explicit subjects, functioning as subject complements, not gerunds, not adjectival, not adverbial.

Is basically just telling what the subject is doing.

[hollow bramble]

are these like
“I met the man (who is) standing there (reduced relative clause)
“I broke my leg playing football (adverbial participle showing time answering when)
“I do not like you smoking (gerund “smoking” with its subject “you” answering “what”)

[pliant holly]

yes

[hollow bramble]

these are all different what do you mean "yes", youre supposed to pick one out

😬

[pliant holly]

Oh ma bad

if you want me to pick one of them.

I'd say none

is not a gerund, adverbial nor relative.

One of the example I can provide is "this is her explaining the problem"
her - subject of the -ing clause
explaining - present participle verb
her explaining the problem - non-finite present participle clause
Whole clause functions as a subject complement (identifies what “this” is)

[hollow bramble]

are u a native btw

[pliant holly]

not really, but ive spoken english since I was little

[verbal heron]

With whom?

With your siblings?

[pliant holly]

my whole family

[boreal ingot]

I believe 'me working' in 'This is me working' is an example of a small clause: a clause lacking a finite verb but displaying predication. It's a small clause whose subject is 'me', owing its oblique form to the fact that only finite verbs license the nominative in English, and whose predicate is 'working', a present participle acting verbally/eventively. It is functioning as a subject complement to 'This', a proximal demonstrative pronoun, through the linking copula 'be'.

The second sentence may be analysed the same way. You will often hear it dubbed a relative construction, but there is no null relativiser in this sentence, unlike in 'the man I saw'.

The analysis, of course, depends on the theory you're going by. But I'm honestly not well-versed enough in syntax to give you names of theories or different analyses

[hollow bramble]

small clauses can be the three options that i gave anyway

reduced relatives, adverbial modifier phrases, and gerundive phrases are all small clauses

im asking which one

[boreal ingot]

Small clauses are a predicative construction

This is a predicate

'working' and 'stressing' are acting as the predicate to the subject of the small clause. That's the relation

[pallid dome]

I took an English test and was quite disappointed with my vocabulary and grammar. I would like some help from you on how to improve very quickly in English, grammar, vocabulary, reading, etc.I would like fluent speakers to help me.

[late sail]

Do you think using contractions sounds more natural (in casual settings - while chatting, making comments)?

[boreal ingot]

Yes, they're basically always used in casual settings, even in slightly formal settings. Not using contractions can sound quite robotic

(unless you're adding emphasis)

[late sail]

Thanks a lot!

[sacred dirge]

Have a good week, everyone!

[fleet vale]

I have a very big question. Why is everyone trying to learn english?

[dense oasis]

there has been this country named england

and it has made its way, in let's say, not family friendly ways, to many parts of the globe

afterwards expanding its influence in so many ways that its language has spread like coronavirus

aaaaaand ultimately the brits, motivated to escape from british food and british women, have escaped

now we can all enjoy the "beauty" of through throughout though thorough thought

[polar cedar]

Does this group have a section for improving English speaking skills?

[peak sleet]

Hi guys, I’m learning English. Mind if I join

[visual umbra]

Scroll the list of channels. There are plenty of voice channels for different levels of English. Also, lessons and conversations are carried out by teachers periodically; just watch for announcements.

[visual umbra]

You have already joined. If you have questions about English, you can ask them here.

[visual umbra]

Depends on your purpose of learning English. If you learn it to communicate only with street people, then the street slang is better.

As for me, I think learning a foreign language is worth the effort if it is used to get access to the cultural, scientific and technological achievements of people speaking that language.

As for the street slang, I am fed up with it in my native language. It is not very fascinating to find out how much alcohol a particular speaker of the street slang drank yesterday and how bad he feels today because of that. Their stories are very similar.

[analog root]

Hi guys, how can I lose my fear of speaking English? I don’t want to feel embarrassed when I say something wrong (or write lol)

[visual umbra]

Most fears are irrational, so, you cannot lose them by persuading yourself that there is nothing to fear. You can overcome them gradually by exposing yourself to situations that you see as fearful to see that there is nothing to fear in them. In short, try to speak English. You are not likely to get killed or wounded, or just fined, for making mistakes.

Don't pretend you are an expert. Then people won't expect you to be absolutely correct.

Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Learning occurs through making mistakes. Keep making as many mistakes as you can, even when people laugh at you. Eventually, the number of your mistakes will reduce.

[quasi kayak]

Hey everyone!
I’m a Belgian communication student at HELHa (Haute École Louvain en Hainaut). For my English class, my teacher asked us to interview a native English speaker who works in the communication field (company, journalism, cultural projects, etc.), to ask a few questions about the job and get a better idea of what working in communication is really like.

I know this is kind of a message in a bottle, but hey, you never know!

So if you work in communication, or if you know someone who does, feel free to DM me!

Thanks a lot, and have a great day everyone !

[sacred dirge]

Out of most languages out there, it's somewhat the easiest to learn enough to communicate with. It is a bridge language for humans to communicate today. Before English it was French, sometime ago, it was Latin. Some other day it may be another, but replacing English will be difficult as, like I said, most learners can communicate effectively and quickly even in broken English, which isn't the case for a lot of languages out there.

[tall anchor]

"He did not care to talk of his father’s death" whats the difference between "care to" and "want to"

ill take a wild guess books playing me again?

also can someone dumb down meaning of "like as not"

ik it means probs but why it means that

my illiterate arse thinks of it as probably not

[vocal hill]

Hi

[boreal ingot]

'care to' is basically the same as 'want to'. However, it's slightly more formal and old-fashioned.
You might hear it more in polite requests and negative statements than in positive ones like 'I (would/do/ ) care to' or something of the sort

You would care to join us, perhaps?
Would you care to join us?
Would you care for some tea?

I wouldn't care to hear of it.

Normally used with 'would'

can also be used with 'do'

'Do' sounds a bit less idiomatic. Perhaps older. But overall still works

I don't care to go there.

[boreal ingot]

'Like' once could mean 'likely', 'probable'. If I were to say something is 'like to happen' in the 1600s to 1800s, that would have meant it was 'likely to happen'. Example from 1704:

Many were […] not easy to be govern'd, nor like to conform themselves to such strict rules.

So, let's rephrase it as 'likely as not'. This is a shortening of 'as likely as not', which is further shortened from '([it] is) as likely as it is not'. In other words, it expresses a 50/50 possibility, but has come to mean 'probably'.

Compare it to 'as can be' or 'as ever'

[raven kraken]

They mean nearly the same thing. However, "care to" is more significant tonally and used slightly differently contextually. "Want to" relates more to one's personal desires (e.g. "I want to go home"), whereas "care to" relates more to one's willingness/inclination to do something (e.g. "I didn't care to join you"). "Care to" is also, generally, more formal. Sometimes it's used to be exceedingly polite, whereas other times it's used in an imperious or dismissive manner.

[zealous apex]

Difference between which and what?

[raven kraken]

"Which" usually refers to a limited set of options, whereas "what" is open-ended. E.g., in the context of a restaurant menu, "which dessert would you like?" vs. "what is your favourite book?" That said, in informal speech, "what" is often used instead of "which" even where "which" would be the more proper word.

[low zephyr]

Hello, if you're debating someone, and you're winning, could you say "you have them on the ropes" to figuratively mean you're coming out on top and winning the debate?

[boreal ingot]

I've found both sports and debate examples

I've also found some examples with 'got [x] on the ropes'. Here is one:

It was fairly easy to find these. I imagine the expression is quite common

[low zephyr]

Thank you so much!! And sorry for asking, but did you use the " " command on google to find these? I think it may be helpful to find this out

@boreal ingot

[boreal ingot]

Yes

I Googled

"him on the ropes" "debate"

I also tried

"her on the ropes" "debate"

For one of them, I checked a dictionary for 'on the ropes' and ctrl+f-ed 'having', 'have' and 'has', until I found a quote that matched

For modern phrasings this method is quite effective

[dense oasis]

i guess I got something interesting for you, you can do site:.uk to filter only websites from the UK, and site:.us to filter only american sources

[boreal ingot]

That's interesting, I didn't know you could use the 'site:' thing to filter US/UK

[dense oasis]

site:.ca for canada

[boreal ingot]

I normally use it for, well, filtering by site

[dense oasis]

and site:.au to get australia

[low zephyr]

I knew that command (site) but no that use. So for example, would reddit be excluded if I were to type "site:.uk"?

[dense oasis]

well it depends what they got in their link. As far as I know, reddit uses .com, so you would not see it cuz it'd filter only specifically British sources

[boreal ingot]

Hmm, that's prolly useful for more offical stuff then?

Most social media don't use .us and .uk afaik

[low zephyr]

Ah, so it may filter out some british sites too, the only thing that it takes into account is the ".com/.uk/.us"

[tall anchor]

ohhh i didnt think that way yea makes sense lol

[boreal ingot]

[tall anchor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1347584254132883557/1466899801919590574/6D8959CAD1BDC6D438C95CBF20EA964C_202x203.gif

[tall anchor]

i knew books play me

i finished first book of game of thrones today only four to go

[boreal ingot]

It even blocks out pubmed cuz that ends in .gov even though iss us 😔 Very sad

[boreal ingot]

yayyy!

Good job, good luck :3

I've not read any of them yet. I'm super slow with reading books and very lazy lol

[tall anchor]

what kind of books do u read lol

[tall anchor]

i too am pretty lazy tbh i just have less hatred for books than math

[dense oasis]

no, because not only governments use country specific domains

commercial websites too

[dense oasis]

true

[dense oasis]

https://www.cats.org.uk/help-and-advice/home-and-environment/cats-and-warm-weather

an example

of .uk

some canadian guide

https://www.purina.ca/cats/cat-breeds/collections/long-haired-cat-breeds

[boreal ingot]

I mean, mainly older fiction books. Like, 1800s is my preferred. The thing is, I start books and never finish them. I've got through a large chunk of the Sherlock books (late 1800s). I read a couple of chapters of Robinson Crusoe (early 1700s). I've read a chunk of the first edition of History of the English Language by Thomas Reynsford Lounsbury (late 1800s), thas non-fiction though. I've finished Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (early 1900s, translated 2011, sadly), which I found quite linguistically dull, and White Nights by Dostoevsky (mid-1800s, translated early 1900s), which was slightly more interesting linguistically (yes, how much I enjoy a book depends on how linguistically titillating it is to me).

I really haven't read a lot. The majority of my reading has been snippets here and there. I struggle to really keep reading one thing, so I've jus read a lil bit of a few random old books, poems, or epigram collections. Jus scattered titbits here and there

[remote prawn]

Hello,

I already know english

i just joined for study club !

Thanks !

[dense oasis]

you've never told me you tried Kafka before

I'm a fan ngl. He was czech-german, and I was raised on the polish-german border, very similar area we grew up in

both me and Kafka were raised like, 90-100km from each other

[tall anchor]

my 5 min attention span could never

[tall anchor]

does it feel like reading an academical book?

because of the heavy language and stuff

[stable flame]

Hey, I'm new on this thing
How does this thing work help me out 😭

[tall anchor]

so um were the "thing" here and we help u with ur stuff

[languid citrus]

What is your favourite short story? Mine is the The lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov.

[vocal prawn]

Hi guys! 👋 Hope to been spending a great day.
Since you´re talking about books.
Have you read any personal growth book? Or self help book?

[trim summit]

@tidal pendant do u have a moment?

[trim summit]

@tidal pendant

I really need your help

Can u check on him?

[weary marlin]

Hello what is the question

[trim summit]

Can you come in the voice chat?

[weary marlin]

Wich one

[tidal pendant]

who are you

[silk scroll]

is the word 'you' pronounced as iu/yoo or chu?
like, 'Im looking at you' is it 'Im looking at cho'? or just yoo?

[boreal ingot]

And both of you happen to be depressive as fuck. How fascinating

[boreal ingot]

Yeah, I bet I'd like his writing more if it weren't in such a modern translation that I read it. I really liked the story, but the language was quite dull

[boreal ingot]

Oh no, I've read academic texts, they employ very different diction from that of the books of yore

And even then, older academic texts have a different quality from modern ones

[boreal ingot]

There is this phonological rule, yod-coalescence. Without using formal notation, it states that clusters of [j] (y sound) preceded [s, z, t, d] become [ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, dʒ] (sh, zh, ch, j) respectively. This occurs in many dialects, in many positions. Some dialects do it to a greater degree than others. The thing about it is that, unlike yod-dropping, the cluster yod-coalescence affects may span a syllable boundary. So, though 'ed yu keit' (educate) splits the cluster into two syllables, the sound change still occurs, and it becomes 'e ju keit'. When a combination of words is spoken quickly enough or on of the elements is weak enough, they may be perceived as a single word and undergo such sound changes as a word might

What you -> whatyou -> ty cluster spanning a syllable boundary -> ch - > whachou

As you -> azyou -> zy spanning syllable boundary > zh -> azhou

Some of them are very common and you'll see them represented in spelling (like wachu/wacha), others aren't so common, so you might hear them but never see them written (like azhou).

In your example,

at you -> atyou -> ty -> ch -> achou/acha

'you' still makes a y sound (written [j] in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in several languages), it's just that in certain positions, the [j] of 'you' is merged with the sound before it to form a new sound

[dense oasis]

Lmfao. Nah, that's not cuz of that. It's just because he happened to have a very similar backstory to me in terms of human relationships, let's say

[wise laurel]

It's pronounced yoo, like "boo!".

[low zephyr]

Off the top of your head, how do you use "in and of itself"? I can't understand it use in sentences, any help is appreciated

[tall anchor]

how do our scientists suck

what does wont mean? not "will not"

[boreal ingot]

'on its own, without additional things', 'considering it alone'

It in and of itself cannot do harm, but, combined with whatever, it's quite lethal

[tall anchor]

[boreal ingot]

'wont' (without an apostrophe) means regular habit

It's my daily wont to drink coffee before I eat my breakfast

[visual umbra]

"in and of itself" is a more emphatic version of "in itself". Both indicate that what is said about something is its intrinsic property.

For instance, somebody cannot accomplish a particular assignment. But the assignment is simple in and of itself. It was just given to someone who is not ready to such assignments.

Here, you can use "in itself" instead of "in and of itself" to make it less emphatic.

[tall anchor]

"as the Targaryens were wont to do" "The color of the ice was wont to change with every shift of the light" i mean here

i assumed "tend to"

[tall anchor]

ohh

[boreal ingot]

Yes, that just means usually tends to, is accustomed to doing

If it is one's habit, part of one's wont, one is wont to do it

inclined to, you can even say

[tall anchor]

confusing

understood tho dw

[boreal ingot]

oh alrighty

[tall anchor]

well i didnt knew this one lol

u learn something new every day

[low zephyr]

If you take, for instance, the sentence "the book in and of itself is quite interesting" I guess here the meaning is that you don't need nothing else but the book for you to find it interesting, eg, signatures, extra books, films, voiceover (like an audiobook), and whatnot

[boreal ingot]

I see you're doing some reading. This is quite uncommon outside older books 👀

[tall anchor]

second book of game of thrones

i get bored in school

[boreal ingot]

Yes, the substance of the book alone is interesting, without any additions, such as what you've listed

I tend to use the phrase when making a comparison to something else, but I suppose you can use it in such a manner as you've explained (to emphasise how it's interesting)

[boreal ingot]

nice :3

[low zephyr]

So far at least to me, it's a way to emphasize something is good or also has an effect, negative or positive, that stems from one thing alone and no additional factors are involved for this

Or if you please could elaborate further?

[boreal ingot]

The book in and of itself is a treasury to those fond of arcane words.
In this case, I would say the phrase is needless; it is simply emphatic.

'In and of itself' means 'inherently', 'by itself', 'alone'. Typically, when one decides to mention that [x] is an inherent quality of [y] so emphatically as by using the phrase 'in and of itself', one intends to clarify that nothing further is needed to attain [x]. [x] is already an inherent quality of [y]. Or, one intends to break the expectation that nothing more is possible, and announce that [x] is now/will be/could be all the greater in [y].

The last model was in and of itself so fast that none could match it! How ever do you expect me to further improve it?

[so fast that none could match it] is an inherent quality of the last model by itself/all alone. It can't be improved upon.

Or,

The last model was in and of itself so fast that none could beat it, but (the breaking of the aforesaid expectation) with my new modifications, it's all the more speedy.

Here, the expectation that it can't be better is broken and contradicted.

When one says a quality is not inherent, likewise, one generally tends to introduce a caveat.

In and of itself it is not lethal; however, do not mix it with anything .
Or leaves the warning unspoken:
There is no harm in masturbation in and of itself.
(The 'however' is unspoken. The details are left unsaid.)

I believe I've seen it more often used in that second meaning, but the first does not seem absurd to me, though it is odd

@low zephyr

[low zephyr]

I don't think I could have deduced that myself. So it is a sort of hedged way to mean "already" ("The last model was already/inandofitself so fast that none could match it! How ever do you expect me to further improve it"). That was the use that was making me so confused, and you explained it perfectly actually!!

||Especially when dictionaries listed it as a synonym for "inherently", I couldn't figure out it meant "one intends to clarify that nothing further is needed to attain [x]"||

[celest schooner]

Hi

[boreal ingot]

Quantitative analyses can then be conducted to better understand links between the production of argumentative elements, the effectiveness of these elements, and ratings of quality. These analyses can provide information on argument construction and efficacy that inform classroom practices. Additionally, computational modeling of argumentation and argumentative quality may provide opportunities for learning platforms to provide students with granular feedback on writing quality which in turn could lead to more deliberative practice and writing development.

'Granular feedback' means the feedback is highly specific and specially oriented to the student, yes? My current understanding of the phrase is that it communicates that the feedback reckons with many fine points of data and several factors, is this correct?

Also, what is 'deliberative' practice? I assume they mean classroom conventions, that is, teaching conventions by the word 'practice', but what does it mean for these conventions to be 'deliberative'?

[raven kraken]

Honestly, the use of deliberative here strikes me as highfalutin. Although, it's possible it is esoteric language that is meaningful to someone other than me.

[trim hamlet]

I haven't read it yet.. But yeah the author is famous one 🙂

[tall anchor]

how do u describe a situation where u no longer find something funny?

[raven kraken]

It looks like you already know how to describe such a situation. You can simply put it as you have in your question. "I no longer find this to be funny."

If you want something more concise, you might say it is "played out", but I can't think of just a single word that quite captures your intention (i.e. that the situation is not funny but the speaker formerly found it to be so).

[tall anchor]

[tall anchor]

i was looking for a word but alr

[raven kraken]

This is maddening. There must be a word. Perhaps "jejune"? It might be used, contextually, to make clear the implication that the thing possessed a former humour. Or perhaps "fusty"? Fusty relates more to freshness rather than hunour, but it does imply a former freshness at least, so one might draw meaning out of it by analogy. N.B., jejune is known well enough among English speakers, but fusty is archaic to the point of obscurity.

[verbal heron]

Like "corny"?

[tall anchor]

no i was looking for something to describe the feeling

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1347584254132883557/1466892905992949865/Hj__Hgm3PYolavWKObsX1tZvOKafvZAOfiZOgOYp0EQ.gif

[boreal ingot]

jaded?

[verbal heron]

😭

"this joke is overused"

[tall anchor]

this ones the closest i think

[tall anchor]

too formal tbh

[verbal heron]

"It's been used way too much"

[tall anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/man-praying-black-man-praying-black-man-praying-and-crying-man-praying-and-crying-gif-23376408540985609

[boreal ingot]

not really that formal. People say that all the time

[verbal heron]

Is it used like that

[boreal ingot]

If you've experinced something so often that you now find it dull, you are 'jaded'

[tall anchor]

i meant doesnt sound like something u would say to a friend

[boreal ingot]

I imagine that was what Astar was asking?

Apologies if I misunderstood the question

[tall anchor]

not really for example when u dont find an inside joke funny anymore

[verbal heron]

Oh 😳

Like you used to find it funny?

Hm

[tall anchor]

yep like maturing but not really that too

i was thinking growing out of it

but that not what im looking for too

[verbal heron]

Maybe there's no word to describe that feeling?

[tall anchor]

probably

sucks

[verbal heron]

What will you do if there's no word for that

You'll invent one

[tall anchor]

i was just daydreaming and was talking to someone and needed to describe that feeling

i didnt actually need that word

[tall anchor]

talking to someone in dream

[boreal ingot]

the joke dulls, you become jaded to the joke, the joke becomes unfunny, the joke feels overused

these are what you'll mainly hear I think

[verbal heron]

Why not phrase it

[tall anchor]

i thought there would be a word

[tall anchor]

that works i think

[verbal heron]

Do you have a word to describe that feeling in your native language tho

[tall anchor]

i guess

that could be the reason

i dont think in my native language most of the time though

[verbal heron]

Wow

Does that mean you think in english most of the time

Or is there another language you're fluent in

[tall anchor]

kind of yea

tho im still not fluent in english

my inner voice is mixed ig

[verbal heron]

Nor am I!

[tall anchor]

REALLY?

i really got brit vibes from u

[verbal heron]

Yeah

[verbal heron]

😔

[tall anchor]

whats ur level

[verbal heron]

I've never taken a real exam

[tall anchor]

on a scale scale of 1-10 how fluent are u

[verbal heron]

So idk

[verbal heron]

5-6

[tall anchor]

ohhhh

id say the same

u think in english too?

[verbal heron]

Not really

I think in the other languages I speak

most of the time

[tall anchor]

thats cool

[verbal heron]

Unless I am writing something

Or talking to myself

While taking a stroll

[tall anchor]

what language is your dreams

[verbal heron]

Sorry I got a call from my friend

[tall anchor]

all good

[verbal heron]

Well it's funny. Lemme tell you everything. During the covid lockdowns I wanted to learn so many languages. So I started multiple courses on duolingo. Just after learning a few words of a language, I'd jump to the next language. Like one day I was doing French, the next I'd be doing Portuguese. The next day you'd find me learning Italian. Well japanese, chinese, latin, greek, german, dutch and whatnot 😂

[boreal ingot]

[verbal heron]

[boreal ingot]

Coffee

Kahvia

[verbal heron]

Kahvia?

[boreal ingot]

Heck yea

Finnish for coffee

[verbal heron]

Are you still learning finnish

[boreal ingot]

I jus really like their word for coffee, it sounds cool

[boreal ingot]

Not really

Wanna

But lazy

[verbal heron]

😆

[tall anchor]

i tried that too lol switched about every 5 days and started learning another

fyi i forgot them all

wonder why

[verbal heron]

Well we can't focus on one language 😔

[tall anchor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1347584254132883557/1466899801919590574/6D8959CAD1BDC6D438C95CBF20EA964C_202x203.gif

https://tenor.com/view/man-praying-black-man-praying-black-man-praying-and-crying-man-praying-and-crying-gif-23376408540985609

[verbal heron]

Not English

[tall anchor]

did u learned anglais at least

from experience notebook studying doesnt do anything

[verbal heron]

Hm?

Maybe I did

who knows

[tall anchor]

i mean from that notebook

i can see that u did

[verbal heron]

Right. Looking at the front cover of a notebook helps

[verbal heron]

[tall anchor]

welpers do i watch movies and stuff with subs or without subs

[alpine fog]

cool name😋

[dusty portal]

Hi welcome, I am using this application for the first time and I want to learn English and practice it with the people of the language can anyone help me how to do it on this application

[tall anchor]

[boreal ingot]

[shy plume]

When I speak I use a lot of uh's and um's basically filler sounds and take brief pauses. How do I eliminate this?

[tall anchor]

read books aloud improve your writing

keep a journal thatd help i thinks

[verbal heron]

Yeah

Noodles --> snoodle

[quick pumice]

how do i overall talk better and stay with it?. Because ive tried a word of the day for a few weeks now. Its not helping me really at all.

[delicate tinsel]

How do I get an C1 level ?

[solemn meteor]

suffering from the same problem 😭 im trying to write essays and learn words that have more precise nuance

[dense oasis]

what about... both

I mean, the way I went about this was just sometimes watching stuff first with subs then without subs, and sometimes first without and then with

And

I feel like the first way, so first with and then re-watch without, is way easier and just less effort intensive

But if you have never even watched or listened to this thing before, and start without subtitles, then you're probably putting more effort into understanding stuff. Because you don't know what's going on, you need to think and focus and understand

I just used both of these approaches, alternately, back and forth this and that approach

Most of my understanding did not come from movies or stuff, it mostly came from YouTube videos and podcasts on Spotify/Podbean/Google podcasts. I have watched movies as well, and it also feels great, but I feel like YouTube and podcast platforms are packed with speech very very very tightly and this trains you more

In terms of noting down new words or expressions, I used Anki with its built-in SRS (spaced repetition system). Whenever I felt like I really want to note this down and not forget, I relied on this one. And I still do, sometimes, you always see some new things sometimes. Nowadays I study german, at least as a lil bit of a hobby, and I just re-apply the same approaches I used before to help myself with english

These are my experiences, so maybe it sounds interesting, maybe not. I'm glad to have shared them, though

[boreal ingot]

What is the difference between to resect and to ablate?

[delicate tinsel]

Yhhh that’s annoying

And does anyone want to chat with me for learn English each day and I can teach u my language

?

[tall anchor]

youtube maybe but i dont have the patience to rewatch movies

[languid citrus]

Resection (surgical removal) and ablation (destruction) are both effective, often comparable, first-line treatments for small tumors. Resection offers better long-term tumor control, while ablation is less invasive.

[dense oasis]

i can not imagine a situation in which something is being done by itself, without someone's patience. So yeah... lol

[tawdry latch]

Hi guys, I need help to paraphrasing this paragraph and please guys don’t use any AI because my doctor side any body use AI I will give him zero

Inside the job, projects and problems can be time-consuming, and it
depends heavily on multiple factors like the team management, size of the
project, deadlines ( not usually the case), and the engineer’s overall efficiency, but
in general, the project may takes from 6 months up to 1 year even in rare cases it
could get up to 2 years, so in conclusion, it takes a big chunk of your time and
that’s totally normal for an electrical engineer, in terms of technology, electrical
engineering have been evolving in a lot of areas, and more specifically with the
rise of Artificial Intelligence, for example, NVIDIA’s H100 Tensor Core GPU (IMG1),
are chips that allow computers to practice Artificial Intelligence way faster and
more effectively than ever before, it is by far the most advanced piece of
equipment in the hardware industry (3), these technologies are widely used
in different fields and its crucial for different situations, given some examples:
self-driving cars, they are also used in medical scans to help find and detect if the
patient has any cancer tumor. It just shows how the technology of a hand sized
piece of metal can save thousands, if not millions of lives of the upcoming
generations

[woven loom]

What's your language?

[delicate tinsel]

French

[visual umbra]

There are many issues with your text. Here are some, but not all.

in general, the project may takes from 6 months up to 1 year
the project may take – not “may takes”.
Usually, numbers from 1 to 9 are written as words, unless it is a scientific or engineering text.
I suggest
"from six months to up to one year"

even in rare cases it could get up to 2 years, – I am not sure what you want to say. I think, it is better to replace this with
‘and sometimes up to two years”

***so in conclusion, it takes a big chunk of your time ***
There is no conclusion here. Lasting of a project says nothing about how much of your time it takes. This depends on your involvement in it. You may work on the project for two years, but just one hour a week. But it does take up a part of your life. Besides, you wrote about some abstract electrical engineer, and then suddenly, it’s “you”, not a random engineer.
I would replace this with:
“in short, a long-term commitment is required”

...electrical engineering have been evolving...
This should be “has been evolving”.

...and more specifically with the rise of Artificial Intelligence
There is nothing specific about this. Also, it's artificial intelligence, without capital letters. I suggest:
“especially with the rise of artificial intelligence”.

…are chips that allow computers to practice Artificial Intelligence way faster and more effectively than ever before.
Computers do not practice AI. They perform computer programs. I suggest:
“…are chips enabling way faster and more effective implementations of artificial intelligence systems than ever before.”

I do not have time for all corrections. And English is not my native language. Maybe, somebody else will help you more.

[echo epoch]

what does it mean by saying “she is trying to ego me”?

[rocky arch]

Hey, does Ireland usually require IELTS or TOEFL for English proficiency?

[tall anchor]

for what

ielts is the standard but u can take toefl too if u want

not much of a difference

tbh im lowkey dumb might want to get a second opinion

"“I highly doubt that.” She crosses her arms, but the effect is ruined by the rapid swelling of her eye." what happens here exactly

[dense oasis]

well, if something swells, then it grows in size. that's usually medical, as in, if you get stung by a wasp or bitten by a mosquito, then your skin swells so you see this big, wide bump

[tall anchor]

ohh so her pupils get bigger

like a cat

or like her eye in general?

[dense oasis]

well maybe, but idk... personally it sounds kinda odd to me. I have not encountered this stuff phrased this way, like someone's pupils may dilate or widen, but swelling sounds weird here

[tall anchor]

thatd makes more sense that way i thinks

[dense oasis]

usually pupils "dilate"

that's the specific word for them

that they grow bigger

[tall anchor]

oh i didnt knew that one

crazy

[dense oasis]

there's also dilute, like you can dilute your juice with water so that it tastes more like water

but yeah that's not related to dilate

just looks close

[tall anchor]

i thought it was called thinning

thats blood specific ig?

[dense oasis]

nah thinning is fine too

[tall anchor]

u can thin ur orange juice?

[dense oasis]

but like yeah it's not to dilate

yeah

you can thin

something

[tall anchor]

now im confused

they synonyms?

[dense oasis]

to thin, to dilute, are related
to dilate is not related to them

like this

[tall anchor]

[tall anchor]

to thin and to dilute

[dense oasis]

yeah

i mean yeah in normal speech

unless it's some scientific context like chemistry or something then maybe different but everyday it doesn't really sound different

some random context with these words

notice that the author writes "to make it thinner" just like "to dilute it"

So yeah

That's the point

[visual umbra]

Have you seen someone who is ready to cry or is already crying? Their eyelids somewhat increase in size (swell) and become reddish because of increased blood circulation - a physiological reaction preceding crying.

"She crosses her arms" - this is a pose of defense, she tried to look strong and ready to fight or defend herself.
"but the effect is ruined by the rapid swelling of her eye" - she was ready to cry, which is not a sign of strength. Thus, the effect of the strong and defensive posture was ruined by her readiness to cry.

[silk oar]

hello everyone, im currently learning english vocabulary and I was wondering if there's a website or dictionary that tells you whether a word is formal or informal. For example, the word "jaded," I have looked in the Cambridge dictionary, Oxford, WordReference, etc... and nothing indicates whether it's formal or informal. Thanks in advance.

[tawny saffron]

I'm used to saying "hit up the mall", but I wanna mix it up a bit this time. Which one actually sounds more like something a native would say: "headed to" or "headed out to"?

A: How was your weekend? Did you do anything fun?
B: On Saturday, I didn't really do much, just chilled at home. But on Sunday, I ............... the mall with my family. We grabbed a bite there and then hit up the arcade for a bit. After that, we did some grocery shopping and then just called it a day and headed home.
A: Was it fun?
B: Yeah, it was a blast.

[latent reef]

I feel like I would use the "headed out to" if it was a longer journey to the mall. If it is quite short than just headed to

[boreal ingot]

What word would natives use to describe white hair from ageing? I can only think of 'rime', but I'm not quite sure how frequently used that word is

Further, what would be the term for one hair of the aforesaid sort?

Put more simply, with what words might one replace [x] and [y] in the following?

Rime/[y] has begun to take over my once black hair.
I can't help but pluck every [x] I spot; their gray is quite salient in that sea of black upon my head.

[tawny saffron]

Thanks a lot 🙏

[tall anchor]

OHH

YES THAT MAKES MOST SENSE

[tall anchor]

tysm

[limpid obsidian]

Oh I see.

Sure thing then. I'll send you a friend request.

Let's see how it goes.

[stoic mauve]

I have a question about the second conditional. At the end of the sentence, do I still have to use the past simple? I'm asking because some translators change it to the present simple, which seems weird considering the entire story is an unrealistic/highly unlikely one so I think I should be consistent with the tense in here.

The sentence(s):
if I didn't watch my calories now, I would gain weight and my girlfriend would leave me. And when I asked her why she was leaving, she would say she** didn't (doesn't) **want to live with a fat man.

Same goes to this one: "If I hadn't gotten this job, I would be broke, and my parents would say that I’m (was) a loser.

[dense oasis]

what about "senility"

it itself does not mean hair but

it'd be a bit, indirect, then

figurative

[dense oasis]

the sentences you provided are not in the second conditional

"If I didn't watch my calories now, I would gain weight and my girlfriend would leave me" it is the second conditional, yes

"If I hadn't gotten this job, I would be broke" this one is a mixed conditional

but

your question is about the other parts of your sentences

"when I asked her why she was leaving, she would say that she didn't (doesn't) want to live with a fat man"
and
"And my parents would say that I'm (I was) a loser"

the parts I highlighted are not parts of your conditionals

these are just other sentences

let's say, normal, sentences

so you do not have to apply the rules of conditionals to them

I underlined, with these red lines, all the verbs you have in these conditionals. So for example "I didn't watch" then "I would gain". And that's it. That's your entire conditional

The same thing in other sentences, one verb, then I found the other

when I asked -> she would say

if I hadn't gotten -> I would be

That's the entire conditional

The rest of your sentences does not have to follow the rules of conditionals anymore

[dense oasis]

now, we already know that these last parts are not conditionals. So what are they? You have this "Someone would say" part in every sentence at the end, right? Yeah. So that's called "reported speech", it's used when you mention what someone else said

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech.html

[dense oasis]

the correct answers, if we know what "reported speech" is, are:

1. ... she would say she didn't want to live with a fat man
2. ... my parents would say that I was a loser

You can just try to search for "reported speech English" in your native language online, and look for it this way, if all of this sounds confusing to you right now and you just can't really understand why

I hope I helped at least slightly

[floral jacinth]

i need someone who can help me my english for activity plss

[limber dagger]

I mean tell em what exactly u need help with tho TT

[zinc phoenix]

https://klipy.com/gifs/the-rizzler-black-panther-1

[tall anchor]

how does one know when to substitute "that" with "as"

"It wasn’t him **as **killed your father" like this

[thorn condor]

not to nitpick, but it's not the second conditional:

if I hadn't gotten this job <- an imaginary situation in the past
I would be broke <- an imaginary situation in the present
they call them mixed conditionals, because you're mixing together the third and the second conditionals.

and my parents would say that I were a loser. <- was is acceptable in informal speech, otherwise, I'd stick with were

[thorn condor]

I don't think they're interchangeable at all. since and as or that and who work, but not that pair

[tall anchor]

whuts but george r. r. martin does that

if he can why not me

[thorn condor]

are you sure about that? I read the whole game of thrones, but I can't remember him doing something like that

[tall anchor]

this quote is from a book of him

a clash of kings

fml

[verbal heron]

Write a book, aster 😉

[tall anchor]

first chapter if u wanna look up

[verbal heron]

That doesn't make sense man

[verbal heron]

Maybe you read the books in the past

[thorn condor]

he actually did it lol

[verbal heron]

Remembering every word~

Bro

[tall anchor]

YESSSS

now i need a helper to explain

[verbal heron]

The name of the series is "A Story of Fire and Ice" right?

[tall anchor]

song of

i thinks

but yep

[verbal heron]

^

[tall anchor]

@boreal ingot milady

[thorn condor]

can it be some archaic use of the language? like when they use for instead of because

[tall anchor]

i thought that too

but i want to understand the logic behind it

so i can use too

[verbal heron]

But sometimes it does appear in formal English

[tall anchor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1347584254132883557/1466899801919590574/6D8959CAD1BDC6D438C95CBF20EA964C_202x203.gif

[verbal heron]

And in scientific writing too

(though because is the preferred word)

[boreal ingot]

That is archaic.

[dense oasis]

Meow

[boreal ingot]

@tall anchor

[tall anchor]

but if i want to use it how do i do that

can i use as instead of that everywhere

[boreal ingot]

Now we mainly use it for comparison: 'same thing as that' and 'words as those we find immoral'

[thorn condor]

why would you want to use that tho? in a casual conversation, it would sound weird

[boreal ingot]

it mainly means 'like' now

[boreal ingot]

It's fine to want to learn about older English

[tall anchor]

i just want to

[tall anchor]

what are the rules of it

[boreal ingot]

I honestly have no idea lol. I'll see what I can find

[tall anchor]

thanks lol ilysm

[thorn condor]

I'm not saying it's not fine 😄

[tall anchor]

dont u think older english sounds cool asf

i would love to keep my journal in that

[thorn condor]

it sounds bizarre at times and there is something in it. I can admit that

[tall anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-holding-head-cat-sad-cat-rahh-wahhhh-gif-11843610789762008433

[jovial locust]

yo

[thorn condor]

I tried to find examples with this usage in dictionaries, but apparently, it's such a rare quirk, so they didn't even bother to mention it

[boreal ingot]

I've found many examples, but no explanation of exactly how it differs from 'that'

I believe it truly is only a dialectal thing

I've also noticed a pattern of modifying pronouns with it, which we're not very inclined to do with 'that' and 'who'

[keen tree]

Hello! My english teacher just gave me back 3 essays at once, and I feel like some of the mistakes she corrected weren't actual mistakes, but I wanted to hear it from someone who actually speaks the language for a long time (or ideally native). So the sentences are: (me): "exercise scientists are looking to optimize (their) muscle and physique gains." or (my teacher):"exercise scientists are looking how to optimize their muscles and physique gains." Which one is correct? Or are both wrong or right? She put a "how" before the "to" and put "muscle" in plural. Both just sounds so wrong to me.

[tall anchor]

ouch :< thanks a lot though

[trail slate]

What's the difference between foliage vs leaf/leaves?

[visual umbra]

The word "foliage" is usually used to indicate not just a single leaf or all leaves of a tree, but rather a phenomenon of having/producing leaves. Also, this word is more common in scientific (botay, biology) and industrial (agriculture) context rather than in everyday speech.

[still crescent]

Hello

I have a question :D

[tall anchor]

what

[still crescent]

the differences between "Organization" and "Isolation"

And is Organization is a form of Isolation?

[tall anchor]

theyre very diff stuff no?

[still crescent]

I searched but didn't find answers, so I think I need someone who is a Teacher or English helper

I'd be glad

😃

[still crescent]

Wdym

[tall anchor]

milady seems busy hol on

ill warrant she'll help u soon

[ashen tide]

in standard british english, how do you pronounce the t in youtube? with the phoneme /tʃ/?

[boreal ingot]

I've found a little more. 'As' is generally not used in sentences like 'the man whom I talked about' and other ones involving a preposition at the end (when 'who' is an oblique)

The man as I talked about/spoke of/etc. has come.

Wouldn't be used.

You will see it most commonly when the man is doing whatever it that's being done (when 'who' is acting as the subject within the relative clause):

The man as comes here often has died.

Further, you will see it more commonly in cleft sentences: 'it is him who' becomes 'it is him as'

You also never use it non-restrictively. A restrictive relative clause is one that is important for the meaning of the sentence. ('The Lady who came here often was annoying. You know her: Emmy.' vs 'The lady, who came here quite often, was annoying'. In the second, the meaning does change much without the relative clause. It's like a parenthetical comment. [Wikipedia describes restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses fairly well. Just look it up].)

So 'Trump, as is the president of the USA now, was ...' would be incorrect. It has to restrict the meaning of the noun, not add inessential information. It would have to be some other relativiser

Most of the info is from Tanja Herrmann's dissertation, Relative Clauses in Dialects of English. A Typological Approach

It's dialectal now; it's mostly used in the Midlands

[boreal ingot]

Yeah, that is correct. Sometimes it will be a 'ty' (if it's an older speaker)

[ashen tide]

Alright, thanks for your input. preciate it

[rugged agate]

Does anyone know how to diagramm sentances in English Grammar because I am in the 8th grade lowkey stuck on it

[boreal ingot]

Could you explain what you mean by 'diagram'?

[rugged agate]

like the words are on different likes and stuff not written how a normal sentance would be written

i would send a picture of what it looks like but pictures are dissabled

[boreal ingot]

Do you mean syntax trees?

[rugged agate]

could i just dm and show you a picture

[rugged agate]

im not sure what that is

[boreal ingot]

8th graders typically won't be dealing with those

[rugged agate]

its not that i dont think

[boreal ingot]

Sure thing, send it

[rugged agate]

not that

[rugged agate]

you have to friend or send me a message first or else it says i cant send a message to yo

@boreal ingot dm me

[trail slate]

Got it, thank you

[boreal ingot]

I think your teacher wasn't aware of the meaning of 'look to' that you used. She thought you meant 'look (for) a way to [x]' (with bad grammar: 'look how to [x]'). So, she is incorrect on that account. Here it means 'plan to' or 'seek to' (which I would personally prefer), and you used it correctly. She is incorrect. Her pluralisation of 'muscle' is a very odd choice. Perhaps she's not aware that one can coordinate noun adjuncts? (i.e., have two nouns modifying another noun at the same time independently of one another) Regardless, her modification changes the meaning from 'optimise muscle gains and physique gains' to 'optimise physique gains and muscles'. She is grammatically correct but has changed the meaning needlessly; you had had no mistakes prior to her modification. I will say, however, that it would be best if you didn't say 'physique gains' at all. 'Muscle gains' is a common collocation (more typically, it's phrased as 'muscle gain'), but 'physique gains' just sounds odd. I'd change your sentence to

Exercise scientists are looking to optimize their muscle gain and physique.
or
Exercise scientists seek to optimize rates of muscle gain.
or, really, given that the topic is scientific:
Among exercise scientists' goals is the maximisation of muscle hypertrophy.

It would also be useful to specify if you mean the rate or extent, or if you mean muscle gain generally, also

[trail slate]

What are all the meanings of "fever dream" ?

[boreal ingot]

'Organisation' (spelt 'Organization' in American English) is the state of items being properly ordered ('The child displays a liking for a high level of organisation when it comes to their toys.'), the action of putting items into such a state ('The itemes are scattered everywehre; therefore, organisation thereof will be quite difficult.'), or the degree to which they are in such a state ('This is miserable/awful/great/wonderful organisation.'). 'Organisation' has a second common meaning: a group of people working together for some goal (a business, a company, an institution, a corporation) ('The organisation assisted us.').

'Isolation' is the state of being separated from general human contact ('She lived in isolation.'), the action of putting one in such a state ('You social isolation of your child is a crime.'), or the degree to which one is in such a state ('She lived in extreme isolation.').

[boreal ingot]

A fever is when one has an abnormally high body temperature and the symptoms that come with that. In particularly extreme cases, vivid, odd, confusing, nonsensical dreams (which might also be scary) may be experienced by the sufferer. These are fever dreams. Their nonsensicality has caused the expression 'fever dream' to come to be an idiom meaning 'a very strange experience or situation, usually a bad one, that seems like a dream rather than like something that would really happen' (as per the Cambridge Dictionary).

[still crescent]

'Isolation' is the state of being separated from general human contact
I have searched and what I came up with is isolation refers to the state of being separated from others, which can occur physically or emotionally, so isolation can means something else depending on the context, not necessary in the human means, ... meanwhile the definition you gave can be only applied in the social context

Also this did not answer my question here:

And is Organization is a form of Isolation?

Sorry there were a typo.

Read the question again.

[boreal ingot]

It's most commonly used in social and emotional contexts, but it can be broader. I was too focused on the commonest sense. Sorry for that.

As far as I'm aware, isolation isn't a form of organisation. Their meanings are distinct from one another (and I have explained them)

[still crescent]

You need separation and isolation to organize something in the correct or arranged order, am I wrong?

[boreal ingot]

Ah, wait, I see what you mean. If the proper order is to separate a particular item from the rest (to isolate that item), then to have done so is to have properly organised everything. Therefore, in this context, indeed, isolation is an action involved in organisation of things. However, isolation isn't formally or definitionally a form of organisation; it simply happens that in the context, isolation is required to reach the 'proper order'

If your proper order requires some things not be at all near one another, then, yes, isolation is a step in your organisation process. Whether that makes it a form of organisation would be more about how you define the relationship between something and its forms

[boreal ingot]

Could you link to an instance of it meaning 'producing leaves', if I may ask? (I'm not being all 'citation needed'; it's just that I can find nothing on the meaning, but I find it intriguing). Just to be sure, this means one could say 'this species rate of foliage is [x]'?

[still crescent]

Make sense.
Thank you for your time, Scella!

[boreal ingot]

Most commonly, outside of botanical contexts, upon which I cannot speak, 'foliage' simply means 'the collective body of leaves in some area', and sometimes it will be synonymous with 'canopy', where it refers to all the leaves of a forest or such together. Commonly, it's discussed how dense the foliage is ('The dense foliage overhead almost blocked out the sun'; 'Dense foliage blocked the path.')

From what few botanical example sentences I've read, it could probably also be defined as 'leaves', to be honest. They speak of pine foliage as food and of separating foliage from spikes

[visual umbra]

Deciduous trees are characterized by abundant foliage in summer, but they shed their leaves in the late autumn.

[keen tree]

Thank u sm

I have another question. Which sentence is correct: (my version): “the man is trying to get out from under the elephant.” Or (my teachers version): “the man is trying to get out under the elephant.”

[keen tree]

Are u a native speaker or since when do you speak English? You used quite a few words I’ve heard like once or twice before in my lifetime xD

[boreal ingot]

Yours, lmao

[boreal ingot]

I've been learning English for 9 years or thereabouts (passively for much of that period)

[low zephyr]

Hello. If you say there is a mishmash of people in a room, does it carry a negative connotation that is offensive, or is it more similar to saying there are people from many walks of life, or how would you interpret it?

[chilly jasper]

smart question mate . well firstly the word mishmash does mean a mixed-up combination of different things
in the context rather than a diverse group of people . how ever this word mishmash have the sense of randomness
the word it self is not offensive it’s not insult but it carries the sense of negativity because it suggests that this group of people is messy mix a better alternative is a wide range of people. and that’s all i could say thanks for the question and keep up your learning reach for the stars mate good luck

[sage wyvern]

Hi
Can anyone recommend english book for beginner that are useful or enjoyable novels ?

[hexed plume]

idk your interest. but give a shot to Encyclopedia brown: boy detective. its 69 pages.

[hexed plume]

Its a great start for beginner level english.

[sage wyvern]

Is this novel a detective story?
I’m more interested in mystery and crime books and novels

[hexed plume]

its a mystery one

[hexed plume]

I think you will not regret by reading it.

[sage wyvern]

Thank you for your recommendation

[tall anchor]

i think i get it now thanks a lot

[ashen tide]

Apropos to this, when you say the d in words like "due", "duly", is it pronounced with the phoneme /dʒ/ in SBE?

[trail slate]

What does "this is peak" mean?

[candid cloak]

it is another way of saying "this is the greatest"

[boreal ingot]

Yup

That's called yod-coalescence

Wikipedia has good sections on yod-coalescence and yod-dropping

Also, check this out: #📚｜english-questions message

Dr Geoff Lindsey also has a good video on this

Gimme a sec

I think it was this one
https://youtu.be/RRs103ETh2Q?si=ozquQamLJBFq3tn9

[boreal ingot]

Here's the yod-coalescence one, but I really suggest reading the whole Y-cluster reductions section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_consonant_clusters#Yod-coalescence

[tall anchor]

if bear and boar is interchangeable why is it always boar meat and not bear meat?

[cedar pike]

It might be easy to rise a boar than bear, and the boars are omnivorous, so their meat is tastier

[tall anchor]

wtf they different animals?

istg i had no idea

[real fractal]

Hi there. Is there any english person that I can improve my british accent. If there is, feel free to text me.

[boreal ingot]

Bears are very different from boars girl

A boar is like a wild pig

this mf

[tall anchor]

i always thought it was an archaic word for bear

[tall anchor]

doesnt look tasty

[boreal ingot]

lmfaoo

[boreal ingot]

yea

[tall anchor]

too much books does stuff to me u see

[boreal ingot]

[tall anchor]

u ate a boar before?

[boreal ingot]

nop

[tall anchor]

understandable lol

[dense oasis]

boar meat is eaten in many countries, in my native there's even a special term for it, "dziczyzna", so literally "the wild meat"

you can even get it via home delivery

but depends on the region of the country, in mine it'd be tough, that's usually available in northeastern poland

You can have it fried, smoked, even packed into a jar and sold as a normal commercial product like some ham

The taste is kinda similar to pork from normal pigs, but kinda different. And usually it's expensive cuz to even hunt wild boars, you need special permissions that limit how many you can hunt -> its meat becomes expensive due to low supply

[ashen tide]

Thanks for the input. Appreciate it! Do you reckon some British people from London pronounce due as do? I only heard it from Americans so far, maybe you know off the top of your head

[boreal ingot]

Yod-dropping is very common in East Anglia, but I think Cockney and Estuary (spoken in London) really favour coalescence over dropping. Regardless, I wouldn't be too surprised if a younger Londoner yod-dropped, since a lot of Americanisms are slipping into the speech of the youth

From what little reading I've done, I also saw some source claim that older more traditional Cockney yod-dropped occasionally. I'm not sure if that is the case, butm regardless, whether it be true or not, that accent is fairly rare nowadays

Excuse my typos I haven't slept in like 30 hours

[tall anchor]

theyre not really consumed in my country since vast majority of our population is muslim lol

thats why i was confused

[boreal ingot]

:0

are you indo

[tall anchor]

indian?

[boreal ingot]

no lol

indonesian

[tall anchor]

ah no im turkish

[boreal ingot]

ohh I see

[tall anchor]

u indonesian right

[boreal ingot]

nop lol

I jus have several indo friends here so I thought you might be indo as well :p

[boreal ingot]

meow

[tall anchor]

meow sis :3

[boreal ingot]

How much wood would you reckon a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[tall anchor]

woodchuck cant chuck wood? 😮

[boreal ingot]

as far as I know they can't :p

they're more commonly called 'Groundhogs'

[tall anchor]

skill issue

[boreal ingot]

iss jus a famous tongue twister

[boreal ingot]

Like not knowing how a bear and a boar are different?

[tall anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/man-praying-black-man-praying-black-man-praying-and-crying-man-praying-and-crying-gif-23376408540985609

[indigo stag]

Hey guys

[verbal heron]

💀

[dense oasis]

"Anglia"? Interesting. That's just England, generally england not any specific region inside of it, in polish

nowadays Anglia is even used to refer to the UK generally here

and the english language just becomes "angielski" in polish

[dense oasis]

turkiye turkiye turkiye turkiye 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

ataturk

[tall anchor]

atam atam sen kalk ben yatam

[boreal ingot]

In English, 'East Anglia' is the three counties Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire in the east of England

I believe they were one kingdom during the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy

[rose field]

Hello everybody I need help 🙏🏻 my level language is A2.1 so I need some shorts books you recommend it to help me to improve my En , I like Action, Comedian and detective books 📚

[dense oasis]

I don't know what this means, I'm not Turkish lol. I'm just a history nerd, that's why I know ataturk

[dense oasis]

Cambridgeshire, very nice, I approve of this name, almost as long as polish and finnish

[boreal ingot]

German villages be like: Oberwarmensteinach

[tall anchor]

something like o father (my ancestor) may you rise and i lay in (your grave)

[stoic mauve]

Here are two similar sentences:

1. If I say this word, I'll wish I hadn't said it (in the future).
2. People should think carefully before chasing their childhood dreams so they won't wish later on that they hadn't done so.

My questions are if the two sentences are grammatically correct and if they sound natural. Is it better to use 'regret' or either construction can be used and the sentences still sounds OK?

The context for the first sentence is the person saying it is afraid to say something and will get them in trouble later, like a swear word or something.
The other one, let's say, is the kind of warning that says that not of all people's childhood dreams/goals are reasonable so you may not want to spend time going after them.

[dense oasis]

Chrząszczewoszyce

Both Poland and Germany wasted their chances of naming the largest cities with some long names. Like german Köln is one of their large cities, yet, that's just Köln, not some epic Feuerwerkerüberwunderschönermaschinenstandt

[dense oasis]

well there is one thing that I want to point out. Expressions like "So that (someone) (in the future)..." usually don't use future tenses. Let me give you some examples:

I am going to feed my dog right now so that I don't have to do it anymore today.
She'll tell him about her love affair tomorrow so that he knows and they can simply break up.
He wants me to do the dishes right now, so that I have more time later.

you do not have to say "so that I will not have to", "so that he will know", "so that I will have"

it's okay if you don't use will/going to there

[hearty shuttle]

what's magazines?

[keen tree]

whats better to write in an essay (which doesn't use the highest form of english): "animals are being hunted illegally" or "animals are being illegally hunted"

[scenic flax]

OR… The legalities of Animal Hunting

[boreal ingot]

I believe both are equally acceptable

[jaunty wadi]

What is the difference in usage between "amount" and "great deal of"?

[boreal ingot]

great deal of = really big amount of

The only difference is in how much there is

'amount' is much smaller than 'great deal'

'amount' is the much broader term of the two. You can have small amounts, or large amounts, or insufficient amounts, etc., but 'a great deal' is always just 'a lot'. It's very commonly used in complaints, also, while 'amount' isn't really confined or found more in any particular context. It is just the most basic word for the concept

[hollow plaza]

Hi, guys can someone help me

I tried with a dictionary but I so got confused

[still crescent]

dumb question nvm

[night token]

This is so confusing, whoever made this doesn't know how to communicate properly

I guess donation comes with impression

Since the thickened parts are identical in sound

And I think hiss goes with chance, both end in a sss sound
And also buzz goes with qualifications

Maybe charge goes with joke

I think troops goes with neighborhood

Maybe tedious goes with feelings but I'm not sure on this one

Yell goes with used

I don't know but maybe comfort goes with cut short

Put off goes with revolution

And we are or at least I am left with impressive which I guess goes with mortgage??

This is my guess

Plz ask other people

[tall anchor]

what does pigeon in pigeon english mean

i mean i understand that it means poorly spoken but how is it used

[keen tree]

thx

[boreal ingot]

Firstly, it's 'pidgin', not 'pigeon'. The latter is a bird.

A pidgin isn't just a simplified form of a language; it's the form of a language that arises when two or more languages are in repeated contact, resulting in a dialect-like language that mixes their lexicons and simplifies their phonology and syntax. It's most common when two groups are trading. Pidgins normally have no native speakers and are merely learnt through repeated use, but when a pidgin is spoken commonly enough and children are born in the community, it can become a language, which we call a 'creole' (the line is blurry though)

In the case of 'English pidgin', that means English mixed with some other language(s). It's not specified which here. You could say 'Malay-English pidgin' and would be referring to Manglish (which I've seen called both a pidgin and a creole). But normally you have to either use the language's name or the names of all the languages mixing. You will hear stuff like 'English-based pidgin', but that's more to say that English is the primary source of much of the lexis, but could refer to several different pidgins if the other language isn't specified

[verbal heron]

Where did you even come across "pidgin english" btw lol

[boreal ingot]

buzz
hiss
tedious
impressive
troops
put off
comfort
donation
charge

The last one can only be 'yell', but ⟨y⟩ in 'yell' represents /j/, while ⟨u⟩ in 'used' represents /ju(ː)/, which aren't the same sound

[night token]

Nuh uh

Maybe they meant j generally

Like as a semi vowel

I mean as a diphthong it's different

Depending on how they define or want it

These kind of stuff you have to deal with in exams

Guess what the teacher/professor want

[boreal ingot]

The task is to match the sounds of the bolded letters. 'Socially' had 'o' in bold, 'know' had 'ow' in bold, both make the /oʊ/ sound. 'u' makes /ju/ in that word, while 'y', makes /j/ in 'yell'. They really are different, but, since there has to be an answer, we can arrive at 'yell' simply through elimination of the other options, even if logically it doesn't make sense for that to be the answer, as 'u' doesn't only make the approximant/j/ but represents two phonemes

It's just a badly designed question

I'm guessing they wish to teach students that orthography won't always have a one-to-one correspondence with phonology

[night token]

That's every professor's favourite thing

[boreal ingot]

indeed lol

[night token]

I mean I feel most of them are random english teachers that just teach elementary or sth

I think communication that is visual or via sound or any other way, needs to be taught

So clear communication can be achieved

[verbal heron]

The learner has to grind anyway

[night token]

I mean depending if they want fluency or not

[verbal heron]

Otherwise they won't remember anything the next morning

[night token]

The only languages I want to be fluent in is English and my mother tongue languages Arabic, anything besides that is not that important to me

[verbal heron]

As in speaking?

[night token]

Every aspect

[verbal heron]

Why do you want to be fluent in your mother tongue

[night token]

Imagine remembering everything you read see hear? It would be extremely good for learning languages

[verbal heron]

That's not even possible

One can only imagine it

[night token]

You don't expect someone to speak a language natively and doesn't know how to spell words correctly

Or the opposite

Or both

[verbal heron]

Haha

The first one is odd

[night token]

Except babies

And kids

[verbal heron]

But I agree with the second one

[night token]

And Arabic has dialects, and there's the modern standard Arabic or MSA for short

I feel I need to understand the complex grammar and meanings and vocabulary that are indirect and no one uses in the modern day

[verbal heron]

I prefer the one with the adverb placed at the end
(Though both are correct)

[night token]

Just say there's poachers

Or they're poaching

[verbal heron]

Every language has dialects

It's not just arabic

[verbal heron]

For what exactly

[night token]

Yes but our dialects are at least 50% different from the standard one

[verbal heron]

Is there any reason

[night token]

And the Moroccan dialects are a nightmare

[night token]

To feel fluent

[verbal heron]

Do you feel non-fluent

[verbal heron]

ah

[night token]

For modern day? No

[verbal heron]

Then?

“To feel fluent”

[night token]

Like rhetoric devices and knowing a lot of vocabulary

Poets know these

I want to be like a poet but not write any poem

[verbal heron]

Why don't you wanna be a poet

[verbal heron]

Nothing wrong with that

[night token]

I want to major in graphic design I don't care about writing or making poems

[verbal heron]

But you'll have to read a lot

[boreal ingot]

[night token]

Bro they're like a different language

[verbal heron]

You wanna be a graphic design major with a humongous lexicon

[night token]

That's for speaking and communication

Graphic design doesn't have anything related to it

[verbal heron]

Unnecessary for communication

[night token]

To you?

For me it is

[verbal heron]

Yup, use formal, fancy words

that people do not even know

for effective communication

[night token]

Charming, attractive, convincing words**

So they feel like they're talking to a genuine genius

Or a psychopath

[verbal heron]

Haha

Not bad

at all I'd say

I mean, we all tend to feel that way at one point in time

[night token]

You tend to suddenly feel the urge to study calculus at 3 am?

Me too

I do

[verbal heron]

I do!

[night token]

My twinnn

[verbal heron]

But rarely

[night token]

Brother in blood

[verbal heron]

Haha

[night token]

XD

[verbal heron]

Btw do you read books

in Arabic

[slate cairn]

I received a medal and it meant a lot to me. ) is this sentence Correct ?

[night token]

Wdym

Ofc

[night token]

I think so

@verbal heron

Your opinion?

Want to parse it?

[verbal heron]

Nice

[night token]

Oh yeah, we parse Arabic a lot in school and college

[verbal heron]

Sounds fine

[verbal heron]

Great then

[night token]

A sentence takes a paragraph

[verbal heron]

XD

[verbal heron]

But do you read any books apart from your textbooks

[night token]

The Bible? Besides that, no

[verbal heron]

You want to expand your vocabulary right

You'll have to read books

like novels

[night token]

No like

Archaic vocabulary