The only grammatical 'rule' is to use 'whom' when it is governed by a preposition: to whom, from whom, for whom, etc. The rest is usage and personal preference, whatever the pedants may claim.
"This is part of the new field of sentiment analysis in which common words are categorised as positive, negative or neutral and associated with one of the eight fundamental emotions - joy, sadness, anger, fear, trust, disgust, surprise and anticipation."
Codswallop! This notion has been around for a very long time under the name of connotation. Giving something a new name and peddling it as a new concept doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the writer's competence or integrity.
Synonyms are only the tip of the iceberg: there are so many other problem areas. Collocations (words that 'go together'): we can say a 'tall boy', but not a 'high boy'; 'a large beer', but not 'a big beer'. Connotations (attitudes, feelings and emotions that a word acquires): compare 'a slim girl' with 'a skinny girl'. Idioms: 'hot potato' and 'red herring' cannot be translated directly into any another language. Add irony and sarcasm to the mix, class and regional usage, dialects, diglossia (for example, demotic and classical Arabic), puns and plays on words - the list goes on. Machine translation is a chimera.
Oh, wonderful! NSAKEY is an anagram of SNEAKY. This is almost on a par with the USA renaming its overseas information services ICA (International Communications Agency) many years ago.
Not only is 'penii' not a word (copulating or otherwise), but the offence is compounded because the correct Latin ending would 'i', not 'ii'. From the Oxford English Dictionary:
penis (ËpiËnÉs)
Pl. penes (-iËz), peni (erron.), penises.
'Erron', of course, is a contraction of 'erroneous'.
Why do so many non-native English speakers who write broken English are surprised and annoyed when people make them notice their errors ? Learn from your errors.
Practise what you preach. That should be:
Why are so many non-native English speakers who write broken English surprised and annoyed when people make them notice their errors ? Learn from your errors.
ThatsMyNick makes valid points; let me take them further. Here in Indonesia, come Ramadan there's always a mad rush for clerics and politicos to do an "I'm holier than thou" act. Draconian pledges and swingeing action plans that turn out to be mere wishful thinking thunder from the media and every soapbox in the country - but they're all chimeras, sops to the gangs of religious fanatics that plague Indonesia. In reality this is one of the most tolerant Muslim communities in the world, but the proverbial few bad apples spoil the barrel.
Indonesia is in the Internet stone age. The country is rated near the very bottom of Internet provision - way below many third-world and developing countries. Those of us who 'enjoy' broadband pay through the nose for a seriously flawed and inadequate service, and we're laughing out loud at the very notion that the muppets who run our IT services can filter anything other than their monthly pay cheques.
Tubes (or valves, as they were known in the UK) had one big quality advantaqe - noise level. A valve amplifer could produce dead silence: tranny amplifiers, even the best, had a faint but audible slushy hiss.
The dollar derives from 'taler', an abbreviation of the name of the place in Germany where silver was mined in the sixteenth century. Shakespeare plays on the words 'dolour' and 'dollar' in The Tempest.
It was indeed a nice semantics lesson! As an English teacher I really appreciate learning advanced meanings and lexical shift, so this is a little gem for me.
Manpower aplenty - but IT skills are at a premium in Jakarta, and my outfit can't even think about paying the salary a qualified network manager can command in the business sector. My school has a rudimentary setup: Internet access and shared printers is as far as it goes. Our IT department consists of one cheerful but unqualified guy who spends all his time firefighting basic problems. We're typical of our sector, and better than many. Indonesia's long years of IT stagnation and lack of investment in infrastructure and training have come home to roost.
Lucky you! If you have the financial, manpower and technological resources, more power to your digital elbow. But don't make the assumption that all schools are like yours. Mine is in Indonesia.
My kids may be in different ability streams, taking an optional subject, attending remedial classes, in a school sport team, on a community service project, on a field trip, in principal's detention, in the school clinic, etc. etc. Running a class and checking attendance in today's schools is a bit like trying to herd cats.
Critical thinking is the victim of a broader malaise. Ranking institutions in glorified league tables, rating schools by examination results, valuing qualifications in terms of future earning potential, forcing higher education in the UK to become a consumer-funded commodity, are the roots of the rot in education.
Good points. And there's another dimension, that hasn't been picked up in this discussion yet - modality of learning. Second-language learners may be visual, kinetic or audile types (or combinations of these, though there's usually a dominant mode), and successful learning depends on a teacher recognizing a mode and adopting an appropriate methodology. I've also observed that some learners have an affinity for one language (or language group), and experience difficulty getting to grips with other language groups. Another thing I've noticed is that, until the age of nine or ten, youngsters may have a separate 'language' for each of the people close to them. This is often seen in marriages where the parents have different mother-tongues and a child attends a playgroup or nursery school in a third language. Acquiring a language by analysis and conscious learning strategies usually kicks in around eleven or twelve.
The best alternative to the ribbon I've found is 'Classic Menu for Office' from www.addintools.com - both ribbon and classic menu are instantly accessible. Guaranteed to save time and sanity.
I did bother, which is precisely why I set up a mail forwarding routine. You seem to have missed the bit where I said that I reverted to my Dreamhost POP3/IMAP account - nothing to do with Gmail. As to export, what I'm getting at is that if you don't set up a job to forward incoming mail as it's received, you can't bundle it all up at a later date and export it en masse.
When I started using Gmail I checked to see if there was any 'export messages' facility. There wasn't, so I set up an auto-forward to my alternative (Dreamhost) mail account. Last week I pulled the plug on Gmail and reverted to my pop3/IMAP account. Anyone who relies on Gmail as their prime email account without a non-Google backup is making themselves a hostage to fortune.
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"Both "admissible" and "admissable" are correct according to the OED."
Really? Go back and check the OED - you'll find that the only spelling is "admissible".
The only grammatical 'rule' is to use 'whom' when it is governed by a preposition: to whom, from whom, for whom, etc. The rest is usage and personal preference, whatever the pedants may claim.
Codswallop! This notion has been around for a very long time under the name of connotation. Giving something a new name and peddling it as a new concept doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the writer's competence or integrity.
Synonyms are only the tip of the iceberg: there are so many other problem areas. Collocations (words that 'go together'): we can say a 'tall boy', but not a 'high boy'; 'a large beer', but not 'a big beer'. Connotations (attitudes, feelings and emotions that a word acquires): compare 'a slim girl' with 'a skinny girl'. Idioms: 'hot potato' and 'red herring' cannot be translated directly into any another language. Add irony and sarcasm to the mix, class and regional usage, dialects, diglossia (for example, demotic and classical Arabic), puns and plays on words - the list goes on. Machine translation is a chimera.
Oh, wonderful! NSAKEY is an anagram of SNEAKY. This is almost on a par with the USA renaming its overseas information services ICA (International Communications Agency) many years ago.
Not only is 'penii' not a word (copulating or otherwise), but the offence is compounded because the correct Latin ending would 'i', not 'ii'. From the Oxford English Dictionary: penis (ËpiËnÉs) Pl. penes (-iËz), peni (erron.), penises. 'Erron', of course, is a contraction of 'erroneous'.
could care less --> couldn't care less
Why do so many non-native English speakers who write broken English are surprised and annoyed when people make them notice their errors ? Learn from your errors. Practise what you preach. That should be: Why are so many non-native English speakers who write broken English surprised and annoyed when people make them notice their errors ? Learn from your errors.
"Just like people like Ribbon now" Personal opinion presented as a fact doesn't really contribute much to the discussion.
ThatsMyNick makes valid points; let me take them further. Here in Indonesia, come Ramadan there's always a mad rush for clerics and politicos to do an "I'm holier than thou" act. Draconian pledges and swingeing action plans that turn out to be mere wishful thinking thunder from the media and every soapbox in the country - but they're all chimeras, sops to the gangs of religious fanatics that plague Indonesia. In reality this is one of the most tolerant Muslim communities in the world, but the proverbial few bad apples spoil the barrel.
Indonesia is in the Internet stone age. The country is rated near the very bottom of Internet provision - way below many third-world and developing countries. Those of us who 'enjoy' broadband pay through the nose for a seriously flawed and inadequate service, and we're laughing out loud at the very notion that the muppets who run our IT services can filter anything other than their monthly pay cheques.
Tubes (or valves, as they were known in the UK) had one big quality advantaqe - noise level. A valve amplifer could produce dead silence: tranny amplifiers, even the best, had a faint but audible slushy hiss.
The dollar derives from 'taler', an abbreviation of the name of the place in Germany where silver was mined in the sixteenth century. Shakespeare plays on the words 'dolour' and 'dollar' in The Tempest.
The notion that people join the military because they're bloodthirsty savages is completely out of touch with reality.
This is so true. The bloodthirsty savages join the legal profession and become lawyers.
It was indeed a nice semantics lesson! As an English teacher I really appreciate learning advanced meanings and lexical shift, so this is a little gem for me.
"instantiate"? This horrible word doesn't mean what the writer thinks it does: it means "represent as or by an instance" (OED).
Manpower aplenty - but IT skills are at a premium in Jakarta, and my outfit can't even think about paying the salary a qualified network manager can command in the business sector. My school has a rudimentary setup: Internet access and shared printers is as far as it goes. Our IT department consists of one cheerful but unqualified guy who spends all his time firefighting basic problems. We're typical of our sector, and better than many. Indonesia's long years of IT stagnation and lack of investment in infrastructure and training have come home to roost.
Lucky you! If you have the financial, manpower and technological resources, more power to your digital elbow. But don't make the assumption that all schools are like yours. Mine is in Indonesia.
My kids may be in different ability streams, taking an optional subject, attending remedial classes, in a school sport team, on a community service project, on a field trip, in principal's detention, in the school clinic, etc. etc. Running a class and checking attendance in today's schools is a bit like trying to herd cats.
Critical thinking is the victim of a broader malaise. Ranking institutions in glorified league tables, rating schools by examination results, valuing qualifications in terms of future earning potential, forcing higher education in the UK to become a consumer-funded commodity, are the roots of the rot in education.
Good points. And there's another dimension, that hasn't been picked up in this discussion yet - modality of learning. Second-language learners may be visual, kinetic or audile types (or combinations of these, though there's usually a dominant mode), and successful learning depends on a teacher recognizing a mode and adopting an appropriate methodology. I've also observed that some learners have an affinity for one language (or language group), and experience difficulty getting to grips with other language groups. Another thing I've noticed is that, until the age of nine or ten, youngsters may have a separate 'language' for each of the people close to them. This is often seen in marriages where the parents have different mother-tongues and a child attends a playgroup or nursery school in a third language. Acquiring a language by analysis and conscious learning strategies usually kicks in around eleven or twelve.
The best alternative to the ribbon I've found is 'Classic Menu for Office' from www.addintools.com - both ribbon and classic menu are instantly accessible. Guaranteed to save time and sanity.
I smell a rat. How does this story square with China's 'one child' law? Looks like an urban myth to me.
I did bother, which is precisely why I set up a mail forwarding routine. You seem to have missed the bit where I said that I reverted to my Dreamhost POP3/IMAP account - nothing to do with Gmail. As to export, what I'm getting at is that if you don't set up a job to forward incoming mail as it's received, you can't bundle it all up at a later date and export it en masse.
When I started using Gmail I checked to see if there was any 'export messages' facility. There wasn't, so I set up an auto-forward to my alternative (Dreamhost) mail account. Last week I pulled the plug on Gmail and reverted to my pop3/IMAP account. Anyone who relies on Gmail as their prime email account without a non-Google backup is making themselves a hostage to fortune.
The Brotherton at Leeds University is also a copyright library.