English thread. Why not?

[Ravick]

Hum... I didn't know this concept of "phonetic" language. I guess my native language, Portuguese, could be considered as one.
Thanks, guys.
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I got curious about the name of a curcubit fruit/vegetable I've seem in some vegan joke photos. What fruits is this one that appears to be a giant cucumber?
(There is one opened and 'eaten' with a spoon in the very first photo.)

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They look like some giant yellow flesh zucchini, or a green rind cassabanana.
Is it a fruit to be eaten raw, just like a mellow? What is its name?

I'm asking here because these photos are from U.S., so they must have a proper name in English.
I guess we don't have this fruit here, so I could not find the name in Portuguese.

Thanks in advanced!


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Edit: There is a "!" in the front of this post's label. Is it because of the using of the images? If so, should I remove them?

[Enjay]

No idea about the vegetable but you probably just accidentally selected the ! post icon then typing your post.

[Gez]

I think they're marrows. If they're used in vegan jokes, then this name would be part of it.

And yeah, they're also called zucchinis or courgettes when they aren't fully grown, kind of like the pickle/cucumber situation. English names that are actually Italian or French names. Did you know they're technically the same species as pumpkins? Cucurbita pepo is a very varied plant.

[Ravick]

No idea about the vegetable but you probably just accidentally selected the ! post icon then typing your post.

Phew! I was afraid I had done some do-not stuff with the img posting thing!

I think they're marrows.

They are quite different from the ones here. Maybe this is a local variety?
I've cropped zucchinis sometimes, but mines never get this big. And I didn't know they could be eaten raw as a fruit this way! Now I NEED to try it.

Did you know they're technically the same species as pumpkins? Cucurbita pepo is a very varied plant.

Oh boy! Let me show you some stuff I'm particularly pride off:

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These are my cross breedings between some varieties of pumpkin squash. The one alone above the others served as 'mother' variety, the second 'line' are the three 'fathers', and at the bottom lies the three 'children'. The 3th children, at the right bottom, was infertile (it was tricky to do, as its 'father' variety almost never have male flowers - and is actually a different species, C. maxima). I actually pollinate the plants the year prior, and plant the seeds last year, because south Brazil has cold winters and I cannot have two generations in the same year. =/


This was my harvest of red pumpkin squash in the same year I've pollinate the ones above:



This is my mediocre harvest this year. Only one of each type (except for tomatos and papayas, and cucumbers but they are not in the pic). I was expecting to harvest 10-20 times more, but my damn neighbor decided it was a good idea to throw herbicides by the fences, and the wind brought some here at my land...


But I got lots of gourds anyway. (They are not pumpkin/squash... but they are Cucurbitacea anyway. BTW, thats my daughter in law. :B


Oh, and these are two ripe fruits of Momordica charantia, another relative of pumpkins. I don't really crop them, they grow by the fences themselves... but I kinda
like the way they look like anyway... so I post they here too. :B


Ok, it was too much botany nerd stuff for a Doom modding forum. And maybe used too many pics for a post. I apologize to the other members. I've just posted it here because... uh... I rly like this subject, and, as Gez showed he knows about it, I guessed he'd may like to see it. XD

[Ravick]

Hi there.

Could you guys help me out with this one?
Using as an adjetive, what is the difference between pedant and pedantic? BTW, may pedant be used in such way?
I my mother language, "pedante" is the translation for both words. It seems that English has a more refined concepts for the word, and I could not figure out the difference.

Thanks in advance.

[Gez]

It's pretty simple: "pedant" is a noun, "pedantic" is an adjective.

[Ravick]

Hi there,

I got confused here: I want to say the there are 10 marines inside a ship, in various locations. Should I say that the marines are scattered around the ship? Or, maybe, scattered by the ship?

The first way kinda sounds just like the marines are outside the ship, around it. The second one sounds to me as if the ship was responsible for the marines to be scattered. o_õ
Or are both ways wrong and I should say it otherwise?

Thanks in advanced.

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BTW,

It's pretty simple: "pedant" is a noun, "pedantic" is an adjective.

Thanks!

[wildweasel]

"Scattered around" would be correct, actually. If one wanted to specify that they were outside, it'd be "scattered around outside the ship." I suppose you could also use "scattered about the ship," if you wanted to sound more UK English.

[Ravick]

Thank you!

[Chris]

"Scattered around inside the ship" would be a correct way to say it too, if you wanted to be clear they're inside the ship (depending on the context of the line, whether or not there may be an implication they could be outside).

[Gez]

I got confused here: I want to say the there are 10 marines inside a ship, in various locations. Should I say that the marines are scattered around the ship? Or, maybe, scattered by the ship?

"by" can be used to mean "near" ("the old house by the river") so in this case "scattered by the ship" would imply that they're outside of it, perhaps guarding it; however "by" also has a meaning of... authorship? responsibility? So "scattered by the ship" could be understood that the ship scattered them, somehow. Maybe there was a storm and it crashed on the marine camp, the impact throwing the hapless marines around.

For the meaning you're after, "scattered across the ship" would work, too.

[Ravick]

Thank you a lot, pals.

[chopkinsca]

Oui oui, l'masion et dan l'oseau

[Ravick]

So, kinda of a small question: I've just watched Archer's 11th season, and I heard his valet saying he has removed all the "armor plate" from Archer's bulletproof veste. And I remember that in Doom3 and Quake series games the things that go in a combat armors were called "armor shards". Are these synonyms, or is there a difference? How are the things that stop bullets in modern armors/bulletproff vestes called nowadays?


I tried to google it, but I got a lot of medieval knight stuff for "armor plate" and a lot of videogame/RPG stuff for "armor shard", I even found "shardplate" armors, and I admit it just got me more confused then I was before googling for it... o.õ

(Also... it'd be 'google it' or 'google for it'?)

Thanks.

[Gez]

Honestly I always took "armor shard" as a pure game-ism because it doesn't really make sense to use shards to refer to things that aren't broken fragments. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shard

"shardplate" is a pure fantasy term, coming from Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings book.

You want to use "plates" or "plating".

Also both "google it" and "google for it" work, the former is more the idea of just looking up a term while the latter seem more like trying to find a term by looking up similar notions and hoping to find it that way eventually. Like you'd google Doom by just entering "Doom" in the search engine, but you'd google for Doom by entering something like "old FPS with demons on Mars".