thaumasiotes

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by thaumasiotes 5d ago
Try looking into the history. The explanation I gave is correct.
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by thaumasiotes 5d ago
That's only true for the rats. For the pigs and chickens (and rice), there will be fewer of them because they do not themselves have the capacity to exist at current population levels. The reason they're doing so well right now is
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by thaumasiotes 5d ago
> No. To be "in hospital" or to go "to hospital" means that you are a patient. To be "in the hospital" describes only location. >>> in UK English, not so much American English --- > Your analysis
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by thaumasiotes 5d ago
- For "the idea" and "the start", your usage is correct and changing it would be incorrect. - I don't think the explanation of "all cases" vs "all the cases" fully works. I agree with other comme
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by thaumasiotes 5d ago
> If you say "I am at school", it means you are a student, you attend school. If you say "I am at THE school", it means you are physically at the school building, without specifying whether you are a student. Both of
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by thaumasiotes 5d ago
> the best way for all other species to flourish is for humans to eradicate themselves right now That wouldn't do much for rice, pigs, chickens, or rats.
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by thaumasiotes 5d ago
> No, some is not an indefinite article, it is a quantifier word, just like "few" or "many". Quantifier words and articles are all the same part of speech. It's still true that the plural of a(n) is some . The
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by thaumasiotes 5d ago
> One specific practise I’d like to see banned is private equity buying companies with debt the company then assumes . It staggers me that it’s legal. What alternative are you imagining?
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by thaumasiotes 5d ago
That's easy to explain; U and V are the same letter.
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
> I'm going to the bank, the shop, the dentist, the pool - I have a regular one in mind and you may well also know which one I mean. Well, that would work for many uses of the , but it's definitely not a correct explanation he
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
Strictly speaking there's no causality in either direction. A word's gender determines what it takes for other words to agree with it, while the form of the word itself can be anything. A word can always be irregular. But not ev
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
There's an active gender distinction in English between people (using the relativizer who ) and everything else (using the relativizer which ). It is an area of current dispute whether the pronoun it can be applied to people or not
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
> In that case, it’s equally strange that other languages would make “one” plural imo. Why? It's very common in English: I don't want those ones. In this case the number has been repurposed as a placeholder noun, and the noun
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
The reason you say "our house has a pool" is not that you're not referring to a specific pool. It's that the pool you're referring to is not already present in the conversational context, and it needs to be introduc
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
> "They are vendors, not all vendors" is equally natural. No it isn't. For example, I am a native speaker, and I have no idea what you wanted that sentence to say. There is no available contrast between the emphasized
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
There's a reason your parent comment expected some to be "an article". It is the plural of a(n) . It's just that the term "article" was defined not to include it. There's a different word for the part o
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
> But then I realized, when you say the same sentence in plural - "they are doctors" - you don't have an article. You don't say "they are some doctors" (I had to Google, apparently "some" isn'
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
> I wonder if it was percentage based. That'd be one of the easiest mistakes to make. How would that be one of the easiest mistakes to make? There are no operations for working with percentages, nor is it a thing you'd want to
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
> What i dont understand is why does everything have to be so brief. The concept is to make things easier for people who are familiar with the language. Making things harder for that group is always counterproductive, because they are th
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/England Check sense 4, and the usage note. You can insist that everyone else in the world is speaking their own language wrong as much as you want, but no one will care.
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
Do you think siphonophores don't have organs?
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
You stated that the current headline informs you why the result is important. Why is that? Surely, given that the information was communicated to you, you can share it with me?
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonophore
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
> I'd have never clicked that headline nor understood why this finding is important. Why do you think it's important?
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
So, you disagree with my comment because you think I'm right? Those students he was reassuring, did they think math was nothing but proofs?
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
Interesting headline. It's interesting because, as far as I'm aware, the vast majority of people already believe that math is more than proof. A slightly smaller but still very large majority don't even include proofs in thei
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
> when the researchers compared complete genomes from 38 individuals across the Leopardus genus, the results showed that not only was L. tilcayo different from the other tiger cat species, but it had diverged from them around 1.4 mil
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
You seem to be completely unaware of... something. But you're not making it clear what. I'm confident you know that the ordinary name for the United States is "America".
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
So... you just didn't bother reading the second half of my sentence? According to you, there is no discourse about politicians using gerrymandering to give themselves safer seats.
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by thaumasiotes 8d ago
> Like yeah, result is that one group politicians are minimized and others maximized. Which groups are those?

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