Let's speak English!

[Квас]

BTW, Искандер, why do you use U+02BC 'modifier letter apostrophe' rather than U+2019 'right single quotation mark', the latter being the Unicode standard apostrophe?

[Искандер]

BTW, Искандер, why do you use U+02BC 'modifier letter apostrophe' rather than U+2019 'right single quotation mark', the latter being the Unicode standard apostrophe?

U+2019 åas too far in the table. Also, U+02BC is a letter, and U+2019 is a punctuation mark, so the first will not break the word when in the middle while the second will.

[Квас]

Sometimes I wonder if I really should use all these non-ASCII symbols. Perhaps there may be other points of view. For example, like in TeX: one conventionally puts ' as the apostrophe and gets a perfect apostrophe in the output.

Do you think it's very important to use 'right symbols' in plain text?

[Искандер]

Do you think it's very important to use 'right symbols' in plain text?

I think itʼs good when it looks like it have to look. When we take a book, some well-published book, we see «ʼ», not «'», when apostrophe and «'» when feet.

[iopq]

I've long given up on him

Вот кстати ни один фразеологический словарь не помог распарсить.
Что-то типа «Мне глубоко забить на него» — ?
Не надо на меня забивать, я на самом деле хороший.

give up - сдаваться

типа я уже сдаюсь, he is a lost cause

[Искандер]

типа я уже сдаюсь, he is a lost cause

Certainly I should hit you... Iʼm aggrieved.

[Квас]

Do you think it's very important to use 'right symbols' in plain text?

I think itʼs good when it looks like it have to look. When we take a book, some well-published book, we see «ʼ», not «'», when apostrophe and «'» when feet.

On one hand, you seem to be right. On the other hand, the outlook of a text is the question of typesetting and not of encoding. It just occurred to me that in certain situations a conventional use of symbols might be more convenient.

I don't know quite well what I want to say.

[Karakurt]

What odd language is it, that people started to use on this forum recently, and that mocks English?

[Квас]

Never mind. It's a local variety of English. Would you like to write a descriptive grammar?

[autolyk]

It's a local variety of English.

Meseems it's an individual variety of English.

[Karakurt]

Have you noticed that they change the English adjectives on -ive into -if? My eyes!

[Искандер]

Have you noticed that they change the English adjectives on -ive into -if? My eyes!

Who do that?

[Karakurt]

Those who write Bien sur instead of Well sure!

[Sudarshana]

Who do that?

Those who love conjugation.

[Karakurt]

Let's say to them: "Let's speak English!"

[autolyk]

Who do that?

Froggies do.

[Sudarshana]

Let's say to them: "Let's speak English!"

We do. When we're too lazy to think

[iopq]

типа я уже сдаюсь, he is a lost cause

Certainly I should hit you... Iʼm aggrieved.

You mad?
Come at me, bro

[Искандер]

You mad?
Come at me, bro

Actually Iʼm really alittle mad.

[Maksim Sagay]

Guys, what do you think about unusual usage of the Present Continious? As we all know there are three main and simple ways to let someone know that an event or action takes place in the future:
1) using the Future Simple: he will work
2) using the structure "is/are going to +verb": he's going to take you home
3) using the Present Simple: he comes tomorrow noon
But how about cases like this?  "I'm not moving from here until I'm satisfied the hunt for me is over" или "he's coming here tomorrow night to talk to you"

[Искандер]

It will be quite normal in Swedish. But I canʼt say anything about English.

[Квас]

Future meaning of present tenses is not uncommon in the Germanic languages. The Present Continuous indicates that there is a plan. If I'm not mistaken, the Present Simple is not so widespread.

[Borovik]

But how about cases like this?  "I'm not moving from here until I'm satisfied the hunt for me is over" или "he's coming here tomorrow night to talk to you"

check your grammar book. This use of pr cont is explicitly described

[autolyk]

But how about cases like this?  "I'm not moving from here until I'm satisfied the hunt for me is over" или "he's coming here tomorrow night to talk to you"

The present progressive is used for future events resulting from a present plan, pogramme, or arrangement:
We're inviting several people to a party.
Next they're playing a piece by Schubert.
We're having fish for dinner

Like be going to, this construction (especially when there is no time adverbial) often suggests the near future.

[Pedro]

Hi, amigos! (offtoping-rubbishing)

And I think, that it's like a rubbish.

rubbish is not a countable object

Thanks. And... is the word "police" a countable object?