Is locality an illusion?

It slows me down a lot and takes up time.
And, because you are selfish, you would much rather everyone else take up their time, slowing them down in order to translate your posts. Now and again, you'll stoop down to our level and decide to post something in English, sort of slumming it with the locals. Should we call you, "Princess"?

And of course, you lied about it. It seems so easy for you to lie.
 
And, because you are selfish, you would much rather everyone else take up their time, slowing them down in order to translate your posts. Now and again, you'll stoop down to our level and decide to post something in English, sort of slumming it with the locals. Should we call you, "Princess"?

And of course, you lied about it. It seems so easy for you to lie.
В основном я пишу на английском только для этого английского сеньора. Потому что у него древний комп, как я понимаю, и в нём нет переводчика. У остальных переводчик есть, и никаких проблем с переводом у них нет. Хотя, гугл переводчик, конечно, ужасен по сравнению с Яндексом. У меня тексты переводятся автоматически с любого языка. Я даже не заморачиваюсь с определением того, какого именно.
 
And of course, you lied about it. It seems so easy for you to lie.
I don't think she was lying about finding translation really slow on her software platform. It seems like members here have mostly tacitly accepted the one extra button push (if they are using Chrome), on the understanding that Olga would be very limited in her answers and level of participation if she had to cut/paste everything through a translator. (it also helps if I visualize her as Lara Antipova, played by Julie Christie in Dr. Zhivago) ;)
 
I don't think she was lying about finding translation really slow on her software platform. It seems like members here have mostly tacitly accepted the one extra button push (if they are using Chrome), on the understanding that Olga would be very limited in her answers and level of participation if she had to cut/paste everything through a translator. (it also helps if I visualize her as Lara Antipova, played by Julie Christie in Dr. Zhivago) ;)
Теват, почему у вас в школах не учат русский язык? Ну, или хотя бы китайский? Разве образованный человек не должен знать хотя бы один иностранный язык?
 
I don't think she was lying about finding translation really slow on her software platform. It seems like members here have mostly tacitly accepted the one extra button push (if they are using Chrome), on the understanding that Olga would be very limited in her answers and level of participation if she had to cut/paste everything through a translator. (it also helps if I visualize her as Lara Antipova, played by Julie Christie in Dr. Zhivago) ;)
Не угадал, Теват. Я брюнетка, вернее, очень тёмная шатенка, если присмотреться. Темноволосая, и темноглазая. А ваша Джули Кристи - блондинка, как я понимаю.
 
Tevat, why don't they teach Russian in your schools? Or at least Chinese? Shouldn't an educated person know at least one foreign language?
Absolutely. They do require one foreigh language in US schools, generally. I took French and later German, and Spanish was also offered. I stayed a summer in France when I was 16, so the French was useful. Some schools do offer Russian as independent study, and I studied a little bit of Russian in high school - there was some Russian blood on my father's side of the family. I still read Cyrillic but have forgotten most of the little vocabulary I had. Grustnyy ...
 
What is the illogic?
Non sequitur means: what you said does not follow from anything exchemist said.

It is as if you had said "If that's true about wave functions, why do waves on the ocean change colour?" It's just a nonsensical followup.

It's you in the States where secondary education is backward,
An odd thing to say, considering English is the global language of business, and as close to a universal language as we have.

It seems to be de facto un-backwards.
 
Non sequitur means: what you said does not follow from anything exchemist said.

It is as if you had said "If that's true about wave functions, why do waves on the ocean change colour?" It's just a nonsensical followup.


An odd thing to say, considering English is the global language of business, and as close to a universal language as we have.

It seems to be de facto un-backwards.
У вас на Западе все бизнесмены? Ну, тогда начинайте изучать китайский - язык первой экономики мира.
 
Non sequitur means: what you said does not follow from anything exchemist said.

It is as if you had said "If that's true about wave functions, why do waves on the ocean change colour?" It's just a nonsensical followup.


An odd thing to say, considering English is the global language of business, and as close to a universal language as we have.

It seems to be de facto un-backwards.
Ну так в чём же у вас распространяются волны, Дэйв?
 
Absolutely. They do require one foreigh language in US schools, generally. I took French and later German, and Spanish was also offered. I stayed a summer in France when I was 16, so the French was useful. Some schools do offer Russian as independent study, and I studied a little bit of Russian in high school - there was some Russian blood on my father's side of the family. I still read Cyrillic but have forgotten most of the little vocabulary I had. Grustnyy ...
Мне тоже нравится французский, хочу его выучить.
 
Absolutely. They do require one foreigh language in US schools, generally. I took French and later German, and Spanish was also offered.
Living in Texas, I found Spanish to be the most useful second language to learn. I still hear Spanish spoken every day. Russian wasn't an option and wouldn't have been useful.

Edit: Damn it, I'm getting pop up ads in Russian again!
 
Living in Texas, I found Spanish to be the most useful second language to learn. I still hear Spanish spoken every day. Russian wasn't an option and wouldn't have been useful.

Edit: Damn it, I'm getting pop up ads in Russian again!
А что рекламируют? У меня вообще никакой рекламы на этом сайте нет.
 
Are you all businessmen in the West? Well, then start learning Chinese - the language of the world's number one economy.

"English is widely considered the primary global language" - Google

"English is the foremost, and by some accounts the only, world language." - Wiki

"English as a global language has been used by people in the world as a first language, a second language and a foreign language."

"English is widely used around the world in computers and all other technological equipment ... the English language is dominant in the world of science as well."

"English is a global language today and is spoken by almost 2 billion people all over the world." - IELTS



Chinese isn't even in the top half dozen contenders.
 
"English is widely considered the primary global language" - Google

"English is the foremost, and by some accounts the only, world language." - Wiki

"English as a global language has been used by people in the world as a first language, a second language and a foreign language."

"English is widely used around the world in computers and all other technological equipment ... the English language is dominant in the world of science as well."

"English is a global language today and is spoken by almost 2 billion people all over the world." - IELTS



Chinese isn't even in the top half dozen contenders.
Это пока ещё он не входит. Такими темпами он скоро захватит весь мир, и вашим внукам придётся учить китайский. А английский разделит судьбу латыни.
 
We observe wavelike behaviour, for example diffraction patterns, in beams of entities that appear at a detector as discrete dots, i.e. as if they are particles. Whether we can speak of a medium or not has nothing to do with that.
I thought you were going to tell me about the fields.
 
I thought you were going to tell me about the fields.
Well you were wrong, then :) .

That's QED and QFT, which you do not need in simple QM itself.

As a matter of fact it is not at all clear to me that the fields of QFT can be thought of as a medium for the square-root-of-probability, mathematical, wavelike things that Schrödinger's equation describes. I would need to study a bit of QFT to answer that. I am doubtful that that would make sense, though it is not a silly question, by any means.

(We chemists did not cover QFT at university, just QM, which is all you need for chemical applications: chemical bonding and kinetics, spectroscopy, properties of matter like refractive index and magnetic behaviour, etc.)
 
I don't think she was lying about finding translation really slow on her software platform. It seems like members here have mostly tacitly accepted the one extra button push (if they are using Chrome), on the understanding that Olga would be very limited in her answers and level of participation if she had to cut/paste everything through a translator. (it also helps if I visualize her as Lara Antipova, played by Julie Christie in Dr. Zhivago) ;)
What "one extra button push (if ... using chrome)"?
 
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