Activity for Michael
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #291998 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: How did 'less than' semantically shift to mean 'if not'? Some cultures use "less" as a direct alternative to "minus," making it (in effect) a synonym of "except" or "without:" Five less two is three. It is not a wild stretch to imagine that these constructs are then equivalent to "X unless Y": - X except Y - X without Y - X minus Y - X less Y Lik... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290960 |
Post edited: Headings |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #282024 |
Post edited: Less -> Fewer. Some other proofing to make the edit worthwhile. |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290959 |
Thanks for explaining! (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #282024 |
Suggested edit: Less -> Fewer. Some other proofing to make the edit worthwhile. (more) |
helpful | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290960 |
Post edited: Specify the alluded Unicode error. Don't make people click to see it. |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290960 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Is it true to say that Lao script is a simplified version of the Thai script? Unicode The Unicode authors thought Lao was nearly-Thai. There are unfortunately some counterpoints against wholehearted acceptance of their expertise. Unicode was so Lao = Thai that they spaced out Lao letters to code-points mirroring Thai letters even if those code-points were not in alphabetical ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290959 |
Is crispness necessarily bimodal or does any fully discrete success criteria work? (Or does it not matter because "Capitalize all of letter 'S' _or_ all of letter 'D'" is effectively a single test on boolean logic?) (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #277562 |
Post edited: Fix markdown quote block |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #281965 |
Post edited: Countable nouns. |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #277562 |
Suggested edit: Fix markdown quote block (more) |
helpful | about 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #281965 |
Suggested edit: Countable nouns. (more) |
helpful | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #278583 |
@Moshi I strongly suspect that Jirka's answer is right. It's one of the harder things about Thai. English has classifiers ("How many _pairs_ of pants?" and "How many _lengths_ of string?"), though rarely obligatory and nowhere near as many as Thai. In addition to paired things, string-like things, an... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290089 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: How to say in Thai "There isn't a necessity to think in the pattern of X"? I am by no means a perfect Thai speaker, but I'd probably use > ไม่ ต้อง คิด แบบ X "ไม่ ต้อง" is very common for "you don't need (to)" or "one doesn't need (to)." "แบบ" works either as a noun for a template (muan bab: like [the] template) or as an adjective for a template being followed (t... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |