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Should the sentence "He became a true Goon making GBS threads his pants at every opportunity" have a comma after Goon? Or maybe a semicolon? Or just nothing?
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Xenoborg posted:Can anyone recommend me an app/website for finding restaurants?
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May 8, 2024 16:04
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I would put; a semicolon.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Should the sentence "He became a true Goon making GBS threads his pants at every opportunity" have a comma after Goon? Or maybe a semicolon? Or just nothing? It'd be either a colon or some kind of dash.
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May 8, 2024 16:05
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"making GBS threads his pants at every opportunity" isn't really an independent clause so i think you want a colon and not a semicolon leaving it with nothing implies that the noun is "Goon making GBS threads his pants at every opportunity" rather than "Goon" e: i think in common grammar you'd usually just see a comma there, the comma splice rule is not observed or noticed among the general population but i don't think it'd technically be right Flournival Dixon fucked around with this message at 16:12 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 8, 2024 16:08
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YggiDee posted:we had a thread for stage musicals but was comically low traffic and I can't find it in my bookmarks any more, either. I'd say just make a new one. Thanks for that. Looks a bit movie-focused given the subforum and OP, which is not ideal, but better than nothing! I'll have a little read.
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May 8, 2024 16:11
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Should the sentence "He became a true Goon making GBS threads his pants at every opportunity" have a comma after Goon? Or maybe a semicolon? Or just nothing? I think an em dash could also be appropriate for that sentence. "He became a true Goon— making GBS threads his pants at every opportunity"
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May 8, 2024 16:15
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:Thanks for that. Looks a bit movie-focused given the subforum and OP, which is not ideal, but better than nothing! I'll have a little read. 
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Flournival Dixon posted:"making GBS threads his pants at every opportunity" isn't really an independent clause so i think you want a colon and not a semicolon It depends on the meaning of the sentence - a comma means that because he was a goon he was making GBS threads himself constantly, a semicolon would imply that because he was making GBS threads himself constantly, he constituted what makes a goon. The two mean roughly the same, it's just: goon therefore shits vs. shits, therefore goon.
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May 8, 2024 16:16
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Flournival Dixon posted:e: i think in common grammar you'd usually just see a comma there, the comma splice rule is not observed or noticed among the general population but i don't think it'd technically be right
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May 8, 2024 16:17
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Xenoborg posted:Can anyone recommend me an app/website for finding restaurants? My city has an app that lets you check all of the restaurants near me for health inspection records, which satisfies 1 more fairly than yelp/equivalent would. Which is a little bit silly but it does sometimes tell me that a restaurant is finally open before the various other avenues I have available to me to check. Also lets me know which ones are worth trying and which ones are not without having to suss out intention from a review. I don't think you'll be able to find one that does all 3, but at the same time I've never bothered to track those sort of things myself. Google maps seems to have the best review search but its only a matter of time before it becomes useless like everything else.
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May 8, 2024 18:39
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I think on Google maps you can still overlay custom map pins on top of the default map. Your pins can include whatever info you want, have different icons, colours, etc. It's a bit fiddly already and it seems like it's been neglected for a while too so we'll see how long it actually lasts.
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May 8, 2024 19:08
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by the traditional rules of grammar, a semicolon would be completely wrong; semicolons are supposed to connect two related, but wholly separate and complete, ideas. a comma would be what you want here. but also you can do whatever you want who cares someone awful. fucked around with this message at 19:27 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 8, 2024 19:21
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Grammar chat reminded me of something I've been wondering: I recently heard that the French language and its rules are formally set in stone by their government. Are there any other languages in the world like that?
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The modern korean writing system (Hangul) was set in place by government fiat as recently as the 20th century. It had existed before (created by a korean king in the 1400s, so yet another government act!) but was a weird niche thing for a long time, as the primary writing system was still Chinese characters / Hanja.
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May 8, 2024 19:37
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El Jeffe posted:Grammar chat reminded me of something I've been wondering: I recently heard that the French language and its rules are formally set in stone by their government. Are there any other languages in the world like that? Yeah the French also maintain the physical standards defining international units of measure like a kilogram (SI units), which is kinda analogous to a language.
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Dutch has an official prescriptive spelling and I think a descriptive official grammar to base what is taught in schools on.
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May 8, 2024 19:57
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Lawnie posted:Yeah the French also maintain the physical standards defining international units of measure like a kilogram (SI units), which is kinda analogous to a language. Not anymore, they're all just tied to universal constants now.
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May 8, 2024 20:12
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Lawnie posted:Yeah the French also maintain the physical standards defining international units of measure like a kilogram (SI units), which is kinda analogous to a language. fwiw all of the physical standards are deprecated and are now based on natural constants
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El Jeffe posted:Grammar chat reminded me of something I've been wondering: I recently heard that the French language and its rules are formally set in stone by their government. Are there any other languages in the world like that? Spanish has a network of 'Academies' (like the Academie Française) for all the countries, with Spain itself still having outsized influence, even though there's way more speakers of Latin American Spanish and two or three Latin American countries with larger populations than Spain
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May 8, 2024 20:37
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dupersaurus posted:fwiw all of the physical standards are deprecated and are now based on natural constants They still have the physical things though. I also seem to remember that they made a few versions of the kilogram, all of which have slightly different weights because making a metal ball with an exact and constant weight is hard. Anyway, Denmark has an official spelling and comma policy, which public institutions are obligated to follow and everyone is expected to. But we as a nation also enjoy licking their boot. And Iceland has an agency that's in charge of preventing loanwords by inventing Icelandic alternatives, and they're quite successful at it too.
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BonHair posted:They still have the physical things though. I also seem to remember that they made a few versions of the kilogram, all of which have slightly different weights because making a metal ball with an exact and constant weight is hard. IIRC even if you managed to get exactly the same number of atoms of your stable isotope of whatever metal into each sample of the standard kilogram, they'd still "drift" relative to each other over time due to random environmental factors. Spontaneous radioactive decay happens to everything no matter how stable it is, for example. And there's always the minute chance of a cosmic ray interacting with one of the atoms and knocking it around a bit.
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Truly a small / stupid question: Besides "Escape (the Pina colada song)" and "Only Human", what are some songs that have twist endings?
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:Thanks for that. Looks a bit movie-focused given the subforum and OP, which is not ideal, but better than nothing! I'll have a little read. Be the change you want to see in the forums! Start a (stage) musical thread, I'd read it. It's literally my profession.
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May 9, 2024 02:00
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regulargonzalez posted:Truly a small / stupid question: Besides "Escape (the Pina colada song)" and "Only Human", what are some songs that have twist endings? Kentucky Avenue by Tom Waits
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dokmo posted:Kentucky Avenue by Tom Waits Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis, by Tom Waits
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regulargonzalez posted:Truly a small / stupid question: Besides "Escape (the Pina colada song)" and "Only Human", what are some songs that have twist endings?
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regulargonzalez posted:Truly a small / stupid question: Besides "Escape (the Pina colada song)" and "Only Human", what are some songs that have twist endings? "it is not meant to be" by tame impala edit: the lyrics, idk if there's a video kalel fucked around with this message at 05:02 on May 9, 2024 |
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May 9, 2024 04:58
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hooah posted:It'd be either a colon or some kind of dash. Well, a colon would certainly be involved
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regulargonzalez posted:Truly a small / stupid question: Besides "Escape (the Pina colada song)" and "Only Human", what are some songs that have twist endings? Memphis by Johnny Rivers! e: Maybe Reba's The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia? artsy fartsy fucked around with this message at 08:55 on May 9, 2024 |
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May 9, 2024 08:47
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regulargonzalez posted:Truly a small / stupid question: Besides "Escape (the Pina colada song)" and "Only Human", what are some songs that have twist endings? Stan by Eminem?
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May 9, 2024 13:39
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Box of Candy and a Piece of Fruit has a sort of twist ending I think
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May 9, 2024 13:40
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I'm the Urban Spaceman by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. The penultimate line is literally "here comes the twist".
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Ironhead posted:Be the change you want to see in the forums! Ooh nice. Was thinking of a thread for musicals and theatre in general, if I can overcome my social anxiety enough to create one. What subforum would make sense for that though? No More Drake (as it's currently called) sprang to mind, but doesn't feel quite right, especially if it's for plays as well as musicals. Hobbies, Crafts and Houses (as theatre going is kind of a hobby in my view) sprang to mind, but it's mostly physical hobbies.
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You could probably stick it in PYF or Ask/Tell (or CSPAM) as they're just general purpose forums? Also, podcast guy, I just remembered we have a whole subforum for that stuff, here's a thread
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:Ooh nice. Was thinking of a thread for musicals and theatre in general, if I can overcome my social anxiety enough to create one. What subforum would make sense for that though? I don't see why it shouldn't be in no music discussion
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A friend who recently moved here was mentioning to me that a lot of the therapists in the area are licensed social workers instead of having psychology degrees, and then I saw a denigrating comment about social workers acting as therapists in Louisiana after they passed a recent law; is social workers acting as therapists a problem? Googling seems to bring me to a lot of garbage that is hard to dig through for what's the truth.
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Social workers are going to be acting as de facto therapists to some extent regardless, because the people they work with are typically extremely short on resources and often mentally ill. A social worker can't (or at least, shouldn't be able to) prescribe medications or in general perform medical work, but they can talk to someone and try to help them cope with day-to-day life. If Louisiana social workers are empowered to write out scripts for psychiatric drugs, or other licensed medical work, then I'd be raising my eyebrows pretty drat hard.
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Ham Equity posted:A friend who recently moved here was mentioning to me that a lot of the therapists in the area are licensed social workers instead of having psychology degrees, and then I saw a denigrating comment about social workers acting as therapists in Louisiana after they passed a recent law; is social workers acting as therapists a problem? Googling seems to bring me to a lot of garbage that is hard to dig through for what's the truth. It may depend on the state but my impression is that "social workers acting as therapists" might be misleading because people who have LCSW or similar credentials are specifically trained as therapists. It looks like in Louisiana the other option for a normal therapist would be an LPC credential which also isn't a "psychology degree" specifically (it requires a masters in counseling). mystes fucked around with this message at 00:52 on May 10, 2024 |
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Can't speak for Louisiana specifically, but therapist is a pretty broad term that can mean a lot of different things. If you think of therapy as like Dr. Melfi in the Sopranos, that is a person holding a doctorate level degree. But that kind of therapy isn't really accessible to most people, and there aren't exactly a ton of people practicing at that level. In schools and prisons, you'll have people ranging from the completely untrained doing the best they can to master's degreed social workers and counselors. Hospitals will have a mix of associate's degreed therapists (LCDC's) and master's level therapists (LPC's).
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