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Hahaha, thanks!
by metaweta 6y ago
Hahaha, thanks!
- hanniabu 6y ago> If you’ve got interesting technical analysis... FYI, not sure if english is your first language or not but this should be "If you have interesting technical analysis..."
- FroshKiller 6y agoNative American English speaker. "If you've got" like this is perfectly idiomatic.
- dantillberg 6y ago"If you've got" may not be formal "correct" English, but everyone understands it and it's used quite commonly in daily speech (and writing). I would wager that "if you've got" may actually be preferable to "if you have," in order to engage the reader at a more comfortable, personal level.
- andrepd 6y agoThe issue is, I think, "you've got analysis" vs either "you've got an analysis" (singular) or "you've got analyses" (plural). Still, pretty minor thing to nitpick about.
- wyattpeak 6y agoYou're misparsing the sentence: "If you’ve got interesting technical analysis [or optimization] problems". "Technical analysis" is an adjective, not a noun.
- andrepd 6y agoSo I am. I was reading off the GP's (incomplete) quotation it seems.
- Blake_Emigro 6y agoFYI, not sure if english is your first language or not but this should be "If you have interesting technical analysis..." I'm not sure if English is your first language, but this should be, "if you have interesting technical analysis..." Everyone can pick apart the mistakes of others, find mine!
- anyfoo 6y agoSo correct, that I distinctively remember learning it from school books in English class in Germany.
- dkersten 6y agoGermans tend to pronounce A's in English as if they were E's ("cat" is pronounced as "k-eh-t" instead of "k-ah-t" -- which I don't really understand since A in German is pronounced as "ah"), so I'm not sure if everything you learned in English class is correct ;-)
- jambalayaman 6y agoPerhaps it is the american accent they are taught, americans would say keht. I always thought it was strange football was fussball in german, yet they'd call in soccer in english.
- dkersten 6y agoExcept the American accent doesn’t say keht — maybe there’s a slight hint (cough accent) of it, but it’s very slight, while the German way sounds rather odd, I bet even to Americans. The soccer thing is pretty funny though. :)
- anyfoo 6y agoEnglish class in Germany told me to pronounce it the "k-ah-t" way because they were primarily teaching British English, but I think a lot of exposure to US Media brings people to pronounce it "k-eh-t" (and maybe overdoing it in trying to do so). That's another thing I distinctively remember from English class in Germany, being taught the British pronunciation that, at that young age, was much less familiar to me than American pronunciation, and some slight confusion around that.
- dkersten 6y agoDefinitely overdoing it! :) I’m a native (non-American) English speaker and the American pronunciation, to me, doesn’t sound like keht at all. (German was technically my first language, although English became my main language at an early age, so I’m quite used to German accents, so it’s definitely not caused by the native accents imho) I once (when I was ~15 or so) had an argument with a kid who simply would not believe me that the letters C-A-T aren’t pronounced keht
- samatman 6y agoNot only that, but in speech, the 've is often dropped entirely, like "Hey if you got a few more minutes can I ask another question?" I wouldn't write this, but I would absolutely say it, and it doesn't carry the rough affect of something like ain't.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoFWIW "you've got" seems very US American to me (native en-gb).
- wl 6y agoIt may not be formal English, but it's idiomic language that a native speaker would use. > Where have expresses a state rather than an event it is replaceable by the idiom have got. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, 2.5.6(c).
- nickysielicki 6y ago> If you’ve got the time... We’ve got the beer. Miller beer. https://youtu.be/k_HzThfudIk https://youtu.be/k_HzThfudIk
- tmountain 6y agoIf you’ve got the money honey / I’ve got the time. —Willie Nelson (American Treasure)
- Expeditus419 6y agoI saw this post and initially skipped it because I know how crypto threads go on HN. Then saw on LinkedIn it was from you. Can confirm, this gent is a great engineer and is actually a nice guy.
- metaweta 6y agoThanks!