Having hiked in the White Mountains with a small group for 6 days, it sounds like the leader of this group underestimated a mountain range containing Mt Mansfield, where the coldest wind chill has ever been recorded.
Just because these mountains aren't any taller than 7000 feet doesn't mean it isn't one of the most rugged in the world. The Jet Stream is particularly low in this part of the world which is the reason of the extreme cold.
Mt. Mansfield is in the Green Mountains of Vermont. You're thinking of Mt. Washington, the tallest point in the northeast and largest of the White Mountains, which are in New Hampshire.
Congratulations -- you've just joined the club of people who've learned that programmers, extraordinarily aware of computer program syntax and having a desire to tune code endlessly, are almost all paradoxically hostile toward any attention paid to their broken English prose.
I would love if when I typed a post into a text box such as this one or on Reddit, when I hit reply/submit spelling and grammar mistakes were autocorrected immediately before the post.
A wise man once said: If you want something done, ask the laziest person in the room how to do it.
The individual words may be comprehensible, but the sentence as a whole is very ambiguous and unclear. The most direct interpretation of it is contradictory, and beyond that it's pretty much nonsensical.
I don't think that anybody expects perfect English from people who may not have English as their first or primary language. That doesn't excuse sentences as broken and incomprehensible as the one in this case, however.
And it certainly is not "derogatory" in any way to point out writing that fails to convey whatever idea it was intended to. If anything, that's the best thing that can be done for the author. It's better for him or her to know that their writing has problems and cannot be understood properly, rather than not knowing this fact at all.
Did you really parse the sentence as "The service has nothing but its own advantages or disadvantages over ???other" with no need to backtrack?
I'm sure that if the author of that sentence doesn't master English yet, (s)he's pretty aware of it, and knowing that no matter what people can more or less understand really helps ensuring that (s)he will try again.
When learning a new language it is often difficult to master the little details. Swap out 'has' with 'have', 'its' with 'their', 'other' with 'others' and it changes to:
"All the services have their advantages and disadvantages over others"
Each of these differences may appear significant to a native speaker, but the basic meaning of each word is almost the same.
Thanks again. I'm reading through your tutorial now and will setup an environment to do this as well. I'm not very advanced at this stuff, but your writing level is at a level where I can just barely grasp enough of how to do it (I hope :) much appreciated!
Hey There,
I'm in a bit of a similar situation to you. I enjoy studying Web Design in my spare time. I also really like helping nonprofits and small municipal organizations. I've taken some first steps to turning this into my profession, and the key to this was two-fold:
1) The nonprofit I worked for in the summer had a terrible website. I made a portfolio website that showed what I could do, sent it to the director, and asked her if I could redesign her website. She agreed, and we went for it. Things went well, but one thing about starting your own business is you really work closely with people, and if they are very difficult people, you have to find a way to deal with them.
2)So I had my first success at an opportunity I found by leveraging my current connections. How to proceed from there? Offer to volunteer your services. I reached out to a local Americorps worker offering to volunteer my web design skills. We emailed back and forth for weeks and just recently say down for a meeting of 4 people in a small municipal government office. We are currently putting together a proposal to update the current website and if it goes through, I'll have my second client.
I'm not where I want to be yet, but I've started to get some traction and very hopeful that I'm on my way.
I'd love to talk to you more and see if we could help each other if we can find similar interests.
In addition to contacternst I would say that you maybe that thinking freelancing to small organization and some other thing like that. Feel free to share your personal portfolio I'll go visit it and give you my opinion ;)
Can you provide any evidence at all to this point? I understand that you're just providing a possible potential benefit of porn, but it seems totally unfounded to me.
In truth, no. I've heard this stated by various people, among them Tim Pritlove, who said it in one of his podcasts (I think it was NSFW, but I'm not sure). Nobody I've heard it say has pointed to evidence. It is one of those things that appears plausible to a lot of people from personal experience. This of course means, that it might be wrong.
There seem to be some people trying to collect data about the correlation between availability of pornography and the level of some crimes, but I'm still waiting for something conclusive.
Not that it's easy. Quantitative sociology is, due to the interconnectedness of the system in question, a mess.
Just because these mountains aren't any taller than 7000 feet doesn't mean it isn't one of the most rugged in the world. The Jet Stream is particularly low in this part of the world which is the reason of the extreme cold.
Sometimes, vanity can be deadly.