Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #280972 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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What is the origin of the missing "to be" in sentences like "the car needs washed"? I grew up in western Pennsylvania (US), where constructs like "the car needs washed" are common. I was taught (yes, in schools in that region) that correct formal grammar requires "to be" in this case: 'the care needs to be washed", and this is what I understand to be normative. (It's certainly wha... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280383 |
@Moshi we can create the category on request -- need a name and a short description (the text that appears at the top of the posts list). Some other communities have "challenges" categories, so consider that but don't feel bound by it if the approach here is different. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280305 |
I disbelieve the checks explanation. It's just as easy to add numbers at the end as at the beginning. I don't know how checks were written historically, but when writing checks by hand in the US in my lifetime, we don't write the symbol at all -- there's a place to write the number and another to w... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280305 |
$ before but cents symbol after, for extra chaos. (I don't mean $0.99, but rather 99c (where that's the symbol, which I don't know how to add here). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280135 | Question closed | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280041 |
I don't think it's intentional; we probably just overlooked a check there in the notifications code. You don't get a notification if you comment on your own post, right? (Please comment here and let me know if you got a notification.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279224 |
Post edited: trivial edit to test something |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279047 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279047 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279047 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279453 |
Post edited: Added different tag types after discussion in chat with OP. |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279410 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Who should the temporary moderators be? Please welcome your two new moderators, Moshi and Jirka Hanika. If the community wants more moderators later (or the existing mods want help), just start a discussion so the community can decide what to do. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279238 |
@JirkaHanika congratulations; you are now a moderator. Please see the "so you're a moderator now" topic in the help. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279244 |
@Moshi congratulations; you are now a moderator. Please see the "so you're a moderator now" topic in the help. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279282 |
No need to delete. It's part of the record, and the decisions are being made by humans not robots. :-) (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277071 |
@Conrado the vision will likely evolve over time, and we can adapt as the community's wishes change. There was discussion on the [proposal for this community](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276701), and now that the community exists, this Meta category is the best place to continue those discu... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279290 |
@Lundin no, authors own the *copyright*, and must grant SE an irrevocable *license* to use the material in the ways defined in their TOS. You're not giving up your ownership by posting there (or here). (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279290 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Bug or license issue with imported post from SE? Thank you for raising this question. This post didn't use Codidact's import script; it was manually copied here. If the person is the same user as on the other site, that's kosher -- you always own your own work and can repost it anywhere else without any licensing considerations. While not defi... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278822 |
Hello -- don't know if you've seen already, but you've been [nominated](https://languages.codidact.com/a/279236/279238) for a moderator position here. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279238 |
I don't think that ping will work, as Jirka hasn't participated on this question. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279236 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
Who should the temporary moderators be? As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing this as a stopgap, while communities are forming, so Codidact staff don't have to handle all the flags (... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279052 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Why do certain Hebrew letters have alternate final forms? Five Hebrew letters -- כ, מ, נ, צ, and פ -- have different forms when at the end of a word. I have heard that this is true for certain letters in Arabic too, though I don't know if they're the "matching" letters. My question is about Hebrew, though Arabic might be related. Why do any letter... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278875 |
Is the difference between the two "already"? (My high-school Spanish isn't good enough for this.) I don't see that in the Hebrew original, for what that's worth. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278797 |
And somebody from Germany is a German, i.e. the change removes rather than adds characters. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278158 |
Sorry, I meant that the rule might be "don't do it"; I didn't mean that as an example. :-) (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278156 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
Primary clause uses singular, subordinate co-reference is plural, what verb to use in English? I sometimes find myself writing sentences with subordinate clauses where there is number mismatch between the primary and subordinate clauses. For example: > The oath he swore, those words about serving all the people and not just the favored ones, (was | were) just fluff to him. The general r... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277562 |
Thank you for reminding me that contractions can begin words, too. 'tisn't might be archaic but it's not unknown. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277378 |
Oh, I forgot that we'd published that! Hazard of seeing lots of stuff when it's still drafts, I guess. :-) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277377 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Is posting links to commercial content as part of a resource post allowed? Speaking personally (I haven't consulted anybody else on the team), I don't see why this would be a problem so long as there's nothing sneaky or sketchy going on. Not all resources are freely available online; if a book is relevant, I think a link is more helpful than just a citation. Amazon migh... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277281 |
@user53100 let's see what emerges, and remember that we can create links where needed. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277281 |
@user53100 I was focused there on resource lists, but I don't see why the category couldn't have multiple posts per language if they're for different purposes. A list of resources for learning a language is different from a description of a grammatical element (like the system of *binyanim* in Hebre... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277278 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277285 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277285 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
How do I pronounce historical French correctly from times when the language was in transition? I sing in a choir that performs medieval and renaissance music in several languages I don't otherwise speak. When we are unclear about pronunciation, we look for recordings from reputable performers -- but this doesn't always work, and anyway I would like to better develop skill instead of just look... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277283 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277283 |
I don't know if my use of the historical-linguistics tag is correct here. (I was looking for "history" and that came up.) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277283 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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How were ת & ט pronounced historically? In Sephardi or Israeli Hebrew today, ט and ת are pronounced the same, at least to my non-native ear, something like /t/. In Ashkenazi Hebrew, on the other hand, sometimes ת is pronounced like ס (samech), /s/. Was there a pre-modern time when they were pronounced differently? If so, how? I'm wo... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277281 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
How should we customize the Resources category? I have created the Resources category, as requested. There are a couple customizations available that I have left blank for now: - The short description at the top of the list. - (Override of) help that is shown when someone starts to create a post. This should give guidance on how to write a r... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277260 |
@user53100 oh that's a good approach too; create the stub *as* the request. I'll create the category and then the community can experiment with this. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277260 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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