Language Overflow

1:28 AM

@CowperKettle It's nothing new. I mean to doubt the existance of god. Many people have done, is doing that. Many even wrote about it and got published. Remember the famous Times magazine cover story Is God dead?

It doesn't make sense that for writing something like that you get killed, or get dragged to court etc.

CowperKettle

4:13 AM

@snailboat I think their webserver ate the "=" sign.

But I can't understand why "and" equals "if"

Good morning, Snails, Damkerng!

@Man_From_India Yes, that is why (or "this is why") this case has concerned many here. That guy was merely trolling in a religious community in Vkontakte. That deserved banning, well, maybe a fine of a couple of thousands of rubles, but he has been subjected to psychiatric evaluation, staying in a hospital for a month, and now faces a real jail term.

This is just unbelievable, it's like we're in the 19th century.

@snailboat Poor ducks! (0:

tchrist

4:40 AM

@CowperKettle 17th

CowperKettle

5:05 AM

@tchrist century?

Lipogram

A lipogram (from Ancient Greek: λειπογράμματος, leipográmmatos, "leaving out a letter") is a kind of constrained writing or word game consisting in writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided—usually a common vowel, and frequently E, the most common letter in the English language. Larousse defines a lipogram as a "literary work in which one compels oneself strictly to exclude one or several letters of the alphabet". Extended Ancient Greek texts avoiding the letter sigma are the earliest examples of lipograms. Writing a lipogram may be a trivial...

Anonymous

5:26 AM

Well, then is there a call to stop answering questions in a comment? If one is too lazy or busy to provide a real answer that requires real effort, shouldn't they desist from posting a comment-answer? It is very often high rep folks that do this. — Wyatt 2 mins ago

Anonymous

This originally said:

Anonymous

> It is @snailboat and others of high rep that often do this.

Anonymous

Darn that comment-answering snailboat :-(

Damkerng T.

7:49 AM

I hope this comment of mine is not a comment-answer!

Speaking from experience, I think it takes about 3 hint-comments to make a good answer. :-)

Anonymous

Definitely not an answer.

Anonymous

in' is an interesting case, since the velar stop originally indicated by g is gone in the usual pronunciation of ng, and n' indicates a different nasal than ng rather than indicating something is actually omitted.

Anonymous

I wish I had an easy way to type IPA on my phone.

CowperKettle

9:03 AM

The World's Worst Business Babble Translated Into Human Speak

I searched for 'business babble' after reading this moronic piece of business babble:

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Q: what is the meaning of long-term enduring?

As Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh recently shared with me, “If employees weren’t happy, they would not make customers happy. If customers weren’t happy, we wouldn’t be where we are today. We believe that if we get the culture right, then most of the other stuff, like delivering great service, or building ...

meaning

Damkerng T.

9:14 AM

@CowperKettle Human Speak!

The word Human Speak makes me think that speaking is not what humans (people) normally do.

Hmm... Whiteboard it? That sounds a bit outdated. :P

CowperKettle

11:29 AM

What other tags that we can use exists in this site? — 박용현 6 mins ago

@DamkerngT. (0:

I wonder is there's a page with a full list of all the ELL tags.

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