English Language & Usage

Mr_Green

4:50 AM

!!/>c "hello"

Caprica Six

@Mr_Green Invalid command />c "hello"

Mr_Green

you are everywhere

Mahnax

Except in the hangman room, apparently.

its_me

Hello. How'd I put "Request for an interview with (someone)." to actually mean I want to interview that person rather than myself being interviewed by him?

Mr_Green

"Invitation for an interview with me( your name)"

I am not good in english but I hope this is what you mean. :)

its_me

5:06 AM

Hmm... but I want to be sure it's right.

Mr_Green

Then I suggest you to wait for a while.

Cerberus

@its_me How about this: request to interview Lord Howe

TemporaryNickName

youtube.com/user/HowToBasic?feature=watch

this guy smells like a typical bogan in Australia or new zealand

Cerberus

The verb is unambiguous: if you interview someone, you will be asking the questions, and he will be giving (longish) answers.

Is this the title of a letter/e-mail?

Or are you going to use it in a sentence?

its_me

@Cerberus Yeah, I know this simple sentence. But I want to clear the confusion wrt this, "Request for an interview with (someone)."

@Cerberus Email subject

Cerberus

5:11 AM

@its_me Then I would probably write Request to interview x.

@its_me This is a bit ambiguous in itself, but I think it's usually fine, because usually there is only one option: you request to interview someone.

its_me

@Cerberus So, this kind of sentence framing "Request for an interview with (someone)." should be used only when requesting someone to interview me for a job or something?

Cerberus

@its_me Umm I would say you can use it either way, as long as the context makes clear who's the interviewer and who the interviewee.

its_me

@Cerberus Yeah, but I actually sent an email a few years ago, I got a reply from the PR department stating that they have no job offers at this time. :D

ok

Cerberus

@its_me While instead you wanted to interview this person?

That is...funny.

its_me

@Cerberus yeah, I also told 'em that I am a blogger, and all that. I felt really embarrassed.

Cerberus

5:15 AM

Didn't you make it clear in your e-mail that you wanted to interview him?

its_me

I did. At least I think so.

Cerberus

@its_me Haha, I understand.

TemporaryNickName

test

guys, if one of your friend is living in the trailer park, would you make fun of him (like in South Park)?

Cerberus

@its_me Perhaps that guy's secretary just didn't read your e-mail properly. Very, very sloppy and rude of him/her.

@TemporaryNickName No, that's not very nice, even if it's a joke.

But, if that secretary didn't really read your e-mail, he/she might as well misread your title even if it's unambiguous, like "Request to interview Mr X".

its_me

@Cerberus I guess. The company is Hostgator. :-/ Their PR team is close to non-responsive to emails. Thank you for clearing it up! :)

Cerberus

5:17 AM

@its_me PR teams are the lowest of the low, horrible entities that shouldn't exist!

TemporaryNickName

i watched a south park episode where Cartman made fun of Kenney because he brought a butter sandwich while other kids are eating burgers and fries. It was so funny, but I wouldn't make fun of anyone because he/she brought a butter sandwich

its_me

@Cerberus I didn't expect that someone replying to my email wouldn't actually read at least part of the message.

hehe! agree.

Cerberus

@its_me And you were right not to expect something so absurd. But, alas.

its_me

Yeah.

Cerberus

So in summary, "request an interview with Mr X" can be ambiguous, although normally the context makes it clear. Besides, when you're looking for a job, you normally don't request an interview with a specific person! You just ask the company to consider you or something.

its_me

5:21 AM

right... but to be on the safe side, from now on, I'll go with "Request to interview (someone)", like you suggested.

Cerberus

Right. Although someone as stupid as that PR person might as well misread that title...but, yeah.

its_me

Was just thinking the same. :D

Cerberus

Heh.

Okay, it's bed time for me.

TemporaryNickName

we should stop mental masturbating

Cerberus

Buona notte!

its_me

5:23 AM

Well, I'll do something like this, "Media Request: To Interview (Someone)"

TemporaryNickName

answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100326005952AAAmXqc

its_me

@Cerberus ok, good night!

Cerberus

Bye!

TemporaryNickName

Do you think redditors / 4chan people are bunch of mental masturbators or intellectuals?

Mahnax

I think that's an incredibly stupid question.

Generalizing across such a large audience is pointless, because it's going to be inaccurate.

"Redditors are a bunch of ______."

That blank could only be properly filled with words like "humans" or "internet users".

Not "mental masturbators" or "intellectuals".

Mr_Green

5:46 AM

!!c> "hello"

Caprica Six

@Mr_Green "hello"

Noah

Hi

TemporaryNickName

Ocaml is a quite difficult language but interesting too.

Noah

Question

TemporaryNickName

yeah, what is your question?

Noah

5:53 AM

It's about it vs. that

We can use the voting feature of the system to up vote or down a particular task. For example, to evaluate our design, we can use it/that to streamline our selection process.

@Cerberus

@KitFox

TemporaryNickName

hell ye

KitFox

10:32 AM

@Noah What can I do for you?

Caprica Six

11:18 AM

@Mien Correct! The word is plundering.

@Mien You people suck. The word is pun

Matt Эллен

@Zirak why is your bot announcing the hangman result in here?

@Noah it

Caprica Six

@Mien Correct! The word is hermaphroditically.

Noah

11:39 AM

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Caprica Six

12:03 PM

@Robusto Correct! The word is indistinguishableness.

Robusto

Weird. We play the game in Hangman chat and get our results here?

Caprica Six

@Robusto Correct! The word is circularise.

Mien

Don't mind me. I'm here for the hangman game.

Caprica Six

12:20 PM

@Robusto Correct! The word is counterrevolutionaries.

Zirak

12:33 PM

@MattЭллен Sorry, stupid bug. I'll upload the fix in a minute

ok, should be fixed

Mien

I'll test it

@Zirak it is indeed fixed

Bye.

Zirak

Neat

MετάEd

12:54 PM

Tomorrow is Towel Day. Be sure you know where your towel is.

@Cerberus There is no such thing as a bright object at an infinite distance. Such an object isn't bright because its light hasn't reached you (and never will).

Cerberus

1:39 PM

@MετάEd It will reach you in an infinite time!

MετάEd

@Cerberus Exactly. It never will.

Cerberus

That's not the same thing...

And what's towel day?

MετάEd

2:51 PM

Towel Day

Towel Day is celebrated every year on 25 May as a tribute to the author Douglas Adams by his fans. On this day, fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their appreciation for the books and the author, as referred to in Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The commemoration was first held in 2001, two weeks after Adams' death on 11 May 2001. Origin The original quotation that explained the importance of towels is found in Chapter 3 of Adams' work The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The emphasis on towels is a reference to Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe by Ken Welsh, which...

Cerberus

3:18 PM

@MετάEd Ah. I see.

Mitch

18

Q: What is the word for a path that is made naturally by the action of people walking?

I remember one day, when I was supposed to be at school, hanging out at a friends house and watching an episode of Call My Bluff and there was a word that meant something like: A path that is made (e.g. across a field) by people consistently walking along the same way For example something ...