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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
2:52 AM
This is funny
 
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Q: How & When to change tense in Reporting Speech?

user4084Father of a 16-year-old girl has alleged that her daughter was raped and impregnated by XYZ who promised to marry her. It is not clear from above NEWS that rapist promised to marry her before rape or after rape. Why reporter didn’t used past perfect tense to indicate that he had made the marri...

reported-speech
 
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
7:50 AM
@M.A.R. I remember some historian saying that in Ancient Greece an average man killed at least one another man in his lifetime. But I don't recall where I heard/read this, and whether, say, a hundred-year average of killings per man in the modern era would be better than the same measure in Ancient Greece
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
8:01 AM
Hi o/
Cardinal (TV series)
Cardinal is a Canadian crime drama television series, which premiered January 25, 2017, on CTV (in English) and Super Écran (in French). An adaptation of Giles Blunt's award-winning mystery novel Forty Words for Sorrow, the series stars Billy Campbell as John Cardinal and Karine Vanasse as Lise Delorme, detectives investigating the murder of a young girl in Algonquin Bay. The cast also includes Deborah Hay, Alanna Bale, Glen Gould, David Richmond-Peck, Gail Maurice, John McCormick, Kristen Thomson, Brendan Fletcher and Allie MacDonald. On February 28, 2017, CTV renewed Cardinal for a second and...
:))
Anyone knows what happened to my avatar picture?
Seems like the site does not have access to the picture file.
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
8:14 AM
> I was sitting in an open cafe when rain started falling. It took me three hours to finish my soup.
@Cardinal Good day!
 
Anonymous
8:26 AM
@Cardinal It seems to be there now. Did you re-upload it? If not, I guess the site just had a problem and is working again.
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
The avatar is fine
And is the same
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
8:51 AM
I guess it has something to do with the government stupidity.
I just changed my IP and everything became as normal as before.
 
 
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
11:21 AM
@Cardinal I didn't change IP and I can see your avatar well
Don't blame everything on censorship. Stuff fails sometimes
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
@M.A.R. I haven't had this problem with your avator!
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Mine is hosted on Gravatar, so different thing
As I said, stuff fails sometimes
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
@M.A.R. No. I already turned off the proxy and, again, I cannot see the Cowp's avatar as well as mine.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Yesterday, I couldn't enter chat without changing IP, but the site worked fine
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
However, I see the yellow square perfectly!
@M.A.R. Oh. I see.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
11:28 AM
DAMMIT, PROVIDE MORE CONTEXT, PEOPLE
I just consecutively closed five questions for lack of context.
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
:-)
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
11:42 AM
people are generally chary of context
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
12:06 PM
"chary", it's a good word. I always use the adj. "reluctant".
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
> Withal a meagre man was Aaron Stark,
Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose.
A miser was he, with a miser's nose,
And eyes like little dollars in the dark.
His thin, pinched mouth was nothing but a mark;
And when he spoke there came like sullen blows
Through scattered fangs a few snarled words and close,
As if a cur were CHARY of its bark.
a nice poem (0:
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
12:51 PM
@Cardinal Yeah, although an infelicitous choice in that sentence. @user178049 https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/127458/why-wheels-on-the-bus-and-not-wh‌​eels-of-the-bus I think this is more interesting. Well, I wouldn't say it's more, but it is interesting; especially the reason it was closed. That was a fair dinkum question, song or not, and the answer is outlined in the first comment. It's not as though a deep interpretation of the song is required; it's a simple choice of preposition.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
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Q: Stack exchange communities are different! How? Speech bubbles!

MithrandirWhen doing a Google search for 'stack exchange', you get this top result (at least I do): Under 'Stack Exchange: Hot Questions', we see the following line: Stack Exchange Q&A communities are different. Here's how: Speech bubbles. Expert communities. Each of our 166 communities is built by ...

bug google
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
@M.A.R. What's the difference between a declined and a disputed flag?
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
A declined flag is actioned upon, a disputed flag isn't
A declined flag is one a mod said you shouldn't flag this, disputed is "IDK"
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Q: What is the difference between disputed and declined flags?

saluceI'm looking at my flag count, and I see a couple 'declined' flags and a few 'disputed' flags, and I'm wondering: what is the difference between the two? I've had both disputed and declined flags where the action I expected from the flag was taken, so I can't quite nail down what they mean (other...

support flags
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
@M.A.R. Shoot, I might even get barred from flagging, lol.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Nah, that rarely happens
You need to get >25 % of the flags declined to get a flag ban for 7 days
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
1:00 PM
Good, good.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
There's an additional past X flags criteria, but don't remember
Either way, the bar is set too high/too low for you to ever reach
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
@M.A.R. I was being cheeky and flagged this comment (among the six raised flags in total in that discussion, five of which were helpful).
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
You need to make weird mistakes, be extremely unlucky, or be flat out not paying attention
@userr2684291 I have refrained from flagging comments on ELL, because mods are too indecisive about them
 
Fawad
Fawad
@M.A.R. I starred it believing mods will look at star board
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@Fawad Not all mods come to chat
The ones that will see it are the ones that already agree with me
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
1:09 PM
@M.A.R. What will happen if I star all replies?
 
Fawad
Fawad
@userr2684291 nothing until your reach say limit (20)
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@userr2684291 Why would you do that?
 
Fawad
Fawad
@M.A.R. troll?
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
@M.A.R. My mouse slips?
:>
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
That's not called trolling
@userr2684291 ROs and mods can cancel stars
HAHA IN YOUR FACE
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
1:10 PM
@M.A.R. Sure but how long is it gonna take for them to do that for all those useless stars.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Not long
Because yeah, you can't star infinite messages
20 or 40
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
I'll test the limit in the Sandbox.
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
1:26 PM
@M.A.R. The limit is 20, even if the reply I starred gets deleted.
 
 
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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
2:51 PM
@Idon'tknowwhoIam. What @Man_From_India said. :-)
@snailplane It's hard to non-native speakers as well, because we have different phoneme boxes. If you look at transliteration of English words in Thai, you'll see some counter-intuitive choices for b-p and d-t-th-s. :-)
@M.A.R. For me, though Getting started with Python sounds more idiomatic than Getting started with the Python language. Maybe idiomatic is probably not the best word. Maybe common is a better word.
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
@DamkerngT. I agree. The Python language is the ugly expanded form; the same with the English language and simply English, although I think some books have the English language in their titles so it's more acceptable to my ear, whereas the Python language is unheard of. :>
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Absolutely agreed :)
Oh! Looks like I dropped the second part of my thought. :-)
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
(:
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I think I was gonna say "both are acceptable".
Not sure how acceptable it is, though. :D
 
yubraj
yubraj
3:35 PM
Hi All
How to control the students of lower class
Of 2,3,4 ?
In the classroom?
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
@yubraj We've discussed this matter before.
There are a lot of ways to deal with the issue: the ones that involve inflicting pain, and the ones that don't work.
 
 
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V.V.
V.V.
6:23 PM
@yubraj I know some secrets.
 
V.V.
V.V.
6:33 PM
"I mouthed the words the other grandma." I don't understand this sentence. If anybody can explain it, I 'd be grateful.
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
ell.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/55783 Was it wrong to edit out the immaterial part of this answer?
mouth
Noun: mouth (plural mouths)
  1. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
  2. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
  3. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
  4. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
  5. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
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Verb: mouth (third-person singular simple present mouths, present participle mouthing, simple past and past participle mouthed)
  1. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
  2. He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
  3. Hare
  4. mouthing big phrases
  5. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
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@V.V. Oh, I misread that. The sentence probably contains a typo, and it should read "I mouthed the words to the other grandma." or something similar.
@Catija Thank you.
 
Catija
Catija
Sure.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@userr2684291 No, it was pretty right
It's not uncommon for OPs to reject edits they don't like
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
6:49 PM
I misused typo there. Golly!
Actually, you know what, it might've been a typo. When I use the touchscreen keyboard on my phone, the autocorrect often replaces two words that were joined with a letter instead of a space with a single word, so a single typo might've caused it. Phew!
 
V.V.
V.V.
7:05 PM
My fault. I didn't notice that two last words "the other grandma " were in italic. When I copied the text, it disappeared.
Thanks. Then "without sound" should do, right?
 
userr2684291
userr2684291
@V.V. It could be with or without sound.
I'd assume the latter, but more context would help.
 
V.V.
V.V.
7:22 PM
Thanks anyway. I should be more attentive while copying.
 
kitty
kitty
7:47 PM
hi there
bye
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@kitty Hi
@kitty Raises eyebrows
 

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