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it is not a "job ad" ??

Seraphin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:07:14 GMT

A job ad (or so I think) was sent through a university listserv to members of the university.

It's a position in a law firm.

I responded to it by calling them, below is the rough recap of the conversation.

"Is this ***, I saw the job ad for the position of a scientific analyst in the firm. I wonder ..."

(I got cut off)

"Oh, we don't do ads. We put the postings through the school"

I am curious if there is ANY difference between "ad" and "the posting" ?

Or is the HR just trying to throw me off ??

Re: "dialogue", "talks" and "parleys"

Mr Wordy — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:24:19 GMT

Abil
In my view, there is a difference between "talk" and "talks". For example:

I had talk with him (personal conversation).

The rebels held talks with the government (formal discussion on specific agenda).

A couple more meanings for the noun:

"Talk" (uncountable) can mean verbal communication in general, sometimes extended to written communication: There's been a lot of talk about the economy recently.

"Talk" (countable) can mean a speech or presentation: I gave a talk on plant breeding; I've given several talks on plant breeding.

Re: "dialogue", "talks" and "parleys"

Abil — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:08:19 GMT

Thanks Mr. Clive, Mr Wordy and GG.

In my view, there is a difference between "talk" and "talks". For example:

I had talk with him (personal conversation).

The rebels held talks with the government (formal discussion on specific agenda).

Re: What's the difference between these words?

Mr Wordy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:17:33 GMT

"Maybe" is more conversational and less likely to be used in formal writing, but other than that the two words are very often interchangeable -- as they are in all your dictionary examples. There might be some expressions in which only one of "maybe" or "perhaps" is idiomatic, but none immediately come to mind.

John is not a engineer, maybe a technician.

This is not very good English. You could say John is not a engineer; maybe/perhaps he's a technician. or John is not a engineer; he may be a technician. In ordinary conversation John is not a engineer ... maybe a technician. is a kind of shorthand, but I wouldn't punctuate it with a comma.

Perhaps/maybe, but I'm not sure about that.

Fine.

Perhaps, I may have a car.

I'd punctuate this as Perhaps I may have a car (unless you actually mean Perhaps. I may have a car.). Strictly you don't need both "perhaps" and "may", but in ordinary conversation it's the kind of thing one would say. Actually, to answer my own question, when the sentence (redundantly) also includes the word "may", it would sound odd to use "maybe". For example, Maybe I may have a car is strange (while Maybe I'll have a car is fine).

Re: help for re-organize paragraph

Mister Micawber — Sat, 31 May 2008 13:27:09 GMT

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The focus on âfeeling" in design text is a distinctive turn from the prior focus in design research on understanding design text, which has heretofore emphasized semantic meaning.

Semantic meaning is the subject matter of design text. Broadly speaking, the subject matter of design text is about design project (product), design process or design team (people). Semantic meaning has been a principle concern of research in understanding design documents.

Ascertaining the subject matter of design text and the purpose of understanding the subject matter has been approached in different ways. For instance, Segers created WordGraphs to stimulate architects into thinking about related concepts using semantically similar words. Initially, the system selected single words as input for two existing words. To compose WordGraphs, the system searched the semantic relationships between them and inserted a new word which could connect them. The researchers selected only those WordGraphs which could interest designers for further observation and found that the designers preferred to use those intermediary words in subsequent design activities.

Hill examined a design team's shared understanding by adopting latent semantic analysis (LSA), a matrix computational method, to reveal design document similarity. In LSA, documents are represented by a word-frequency document matrix X with n (rows) words w1;w2; :::wn and m (columns) documents d1; d2; :::dm. The semantic meaning of a given word is represented in the matrix by labeling its frequency of appearance in the corresponding documents. By applying a series of computations to the matrix, the similarity of two documents is measured by the cosine of their document vectors in high-dimension space sense.

Dong used the same approach to study the cohesiveness of design team communication and mapped the results over time to provide an intuitive way of understanding. Dong explored the relationship between the designer's individual mind and design concept formation with the use of another computational linguistic method, lexical chain analysis or LCA. Dong adapted LCA to reveal the role of language in forming and representing knowledge in design and examine the grammatical structures associated with representing knowledge and knowledge accumulation.

The difference between LSA and LCA is the way in which they express semantic meaning. Semantic meaning is carried in individual words themselves in LSA, while it is expressed by statistical co-occurrence of words across larger bodies in LCA. Dong uses LCA to reveal the semantic connections of nouns or concepts between two utterances within an utterance window. Semantic connection (lexical chains) between nouns or concepts is derived from dictionary databases such as WordNet. The analysis of these lexical chains is applied to examine how designers format their concepts and how they focus on the same topic in their conversations.

Re: help for re-organize paragraph

kinhong — Sat, 31 May 2008 12:17:59 GMT

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The focus on âfeeling" in design text is a distinctive turn from the prior focus in

design research on understanding design text, which has heretofore emphasized semantic

meaning. Semantic meaning is the subject matter of design text. Broadly speaking

the subject matter of design text is about design project (product), design process or

design team (people). Semantic meaning has been a principle concern of research in

understanding design documents. Ascertaining the subject matter of design text

and the purpose of understanding the subject matter has been approached in diÂ®erent

ways.

For instance, Segers created WordGraphs to stimulate architects thinking about

related concepts using semantically similar words. Initially, the system selected single

words as input for two existing words. The system searched the semantic relationship be-

tween them and inserted a new word which can connect them to compose WordGraphs.

The researchers selected only those WordGraphs which can interest designers for fur-

ther observation, and found that the designers prefer to use those intermediary words

in the following design activities. Hill examined design teams' share understanding

by adopting latent semantic analysis(LSA), a matrix computational method, to reveal

design documents' document similarity. Dong used the same approach to study the

cohesiveness of design team communication and mapped the results over time to provide

an intuitive way for understanding. Dong explored the relationship between designers'

individual mind and design concept formation with the use of another computational lin-

guistic method (lexical chain analysis, LCA). Dong adopted LCA to reveal language's

role in forming and representing knowledge in design, examine the grammatical structures associated with representing knowledge and knowledge accumulation.

The difference between latent semantic analysis (LSA) and lexical chain analysis

(LCA) is the way they express semantic meaning. Semantic meaning is carried in in-

dividual words themselves in latent semantic analysis (LSA) while it is expressed by

statistical co-occurrence of words across large body in lexical chain analysis (LCA).

In latent semantic analysis (LSA), documents are represented by a word frequency-

document matrix X with n (rows) words w1;w2; :::wn and m (columns) documents

d1; d2; :::dm . The semantic meaning of a given word is represented in the matrix

by labeling its appearing frequency in the corresponding documents. By applying a se-

ries of computations on the matrix, similarity of two documents is measured by the cosine of their document vectors in high-dimension space sense.

Dong uses the lexical chain analysis (LCA) to reveal nouns or concepts' semantic

connections between two utterances within an utterance window. Semantic connection

(lexical chain) between nouns or concepts is derived from dictionary databases such as

WordNet. The analysis of these lexical chains is applied to examine how designer format

their concept and how they focus on the same topic in their conversations.

Re: One more help please

Mister Micawber — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:07:13 GMT

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     - Bill of Lading â the consignee requests this document to release and collect the goods.
     Please contact us again if any point is unclear.

3. To recap our conversation, your US office missed stamping the company seal on the document. Could you please help to add it on and return it to us?

4. Is there any update? Please confirm.

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Re: how to explain the usage of the ergative verb?

Grammar Geek — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:37:31 GMT

Okay, several points here.

Yes, employee turnover is something we try to avoid. If you recall, one of the reasons to use the passive is when you don't want to identify the agent - in other words, stupid management decisions. Avangi's example was perfect.

Next, while employee turnover is a bad thing, inventory turnover is a good thing!

Through an aggressive marketing program and retailer incentives, inventory turnover was increased by 20%.

There's nothing wrong with that.

I think the "rule" in your grammar book is wrong, and you can say simply that your conversations with native speakers affirmed your belief in that. What they need to work on instead is understand the difference between the transitive and ergative aspects of some of these verbs, and make sure they are using them the right way for their intended meaning.

Re: Difference between Say and Said

Mister Micawber — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:26:18 GMT

Tom says that.....yesterday. Why says not said?

Does yesterday refer to Tom's speaking or the event of which he speaks? Your example is unclear.

Regardless, in conversation, we often uses 'Tom says' (though he actually said it yesterday) when the fact stated by Tom is still true today:

Tom says that his apartment is expensive.

We also use 'Tom says' as a sort of narrative technique, to bring the action into more immediacy for the listener:

Tom says you should clean your room!

Re: Difference between Say and Said

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:41:04 GMT

Hi Sir,

Thank you so much for your taking time to help me and may God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, bless you greatly..

Sir, what is the proper verb to be use here? Why is it that even if it did happen in the past (the conversation, I mean) I can read a lot of them using the present tense "say" Like: Tom says that.....yesterday. Why says not said?