Talk about giving with one hand and taking away with the other.
See this question for an explanation of the issue in detail. I thought it was only for the blog site, but apparently it involves hats, too.
Seriously, this is getting tiresome. I'm close to 100K rep among the various SE sites I bel...
Is it correct to say, "soda" or is it "pop" or is it "Soda Pop"?
My friend and I are going back and fourth between the two, he says Soda is "Soda ash" (Sodium carbonate) and pop doesn't sound right (eg. "A loud POP", or the type of music POP)
So what would be the correct grammar usage, would I ...
If you agree with the closings, stop complaining. If you disagree with them, then lobby for removing our ability to close questions. Or go vote to reopen. Or actually bother to answer them before they get closed. But don’t contribute to the bitching.
Talk about giving with one hand and taking away with the other.
See this question for an explanation of the issue in detail. I thought it was only for the blog site, but apparently it involves hats, too.
Seriously, this is getting tiresome. I'm close to 100K rep among the various SE sites I bel...
@tchrist Here is another case where I am needlessly confronted with a negative exchange of words between the OP and a criticaster when I just want to answer a question:
Normally, you are free to either omit or repeat to in an elliptical, parallel construction like this. However, in this case the word first stands between to and the infinitive, and so you cannot repeat to while omitting first in the second branch. Repeating both to and first, however, sounds a li...
Well, it is almost two centuries old. They had forgotten how to print Greek by then, apparently. I bet two more centuries older they might have had a better Greek font there, or at least, one better paired with the Latin one.
@Cerberus Is nitidiora referring to being too picky?
It's conventional around here to consult a standard reference such as a dictionary first, and then ask us about any residual confusion. If you don't do this, the question is likely to be closed until you do. If you don't mind, I'm going to edit your question to show you what we prefer it to look like. (Well, actually, I'm going to do it whether you mind or not, but you can always edit it back.) — StoneyB1 hour ago
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Which is correct: “soda” or “pop”?
Is it correct to say soda, or is it pop, or is it soda pop?
My friend and I are going back and forth: he says soda is "Soda ash" (Sodium carbonate) and pop doesn't sound right (ie, "a loud POP", or the "pop" music).
Merriam-Webst...
@tchrist sure, it's a dupe, but that's not the point. the first comment is basically saying you're dumb cuz you didn't check a dictionary. And it is not a dictionary question.
@tchrist there's the 'Alice in Wonderland' problem here also. There's the thing, there's the name of the thing, there's what you call the thing, there's what you call the name, etc. etc.
That is, if you go in the grocery store and you want a root beer, you'll ask for the aisle where all the soda/pop/cokes are (your choice). but if you order in a restaurant, you'd say 'can I have a root beer'.
> The book's last line, "Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus" translates approximately as "Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names". The general sense, as Eco pointed out,[5] was that from the beauty of the past, now disappeared, we hold only the name.
@Nur If you want to browse old chat lines, go to the top of this page, click "full transcript". But you can only go back day by day, so it will take a lot of clicks and waiting if you want to go back a month or so. In that case, it is probably better to use Google, because the entire transcript is indexed by Google.
Who wants to guess how much I spent on clothing in 12 months?
@Cerberus @tchrist Figured it out! When you search each result has a link at the very beginning so you click on that and it loads that particular conversation! Many thanks.
I'm trying to translate my acquaintance's cartoon to cite it in an article written in English. For the subject of the article it is important that the translation will be direct, thus very vulgar (very offensive).
Is there a vulgar way of saying he killed himself in English meaning that someone ...
Here.
Really, this is descending into madness. ELU has 10, 50, perhaps 100 times the question closure rate of other SEs. You can tell this isn't because of unusually bad questions, because with the exception of some exact duplicates, the closure votes are drawn from at most ten high-rep members....
The question was not constructive. And @Rob is right.
OK, according to my Polish-speaking colleage, Zajebał się means "He fucked himself." I voted to close because I don't think we want this kind of polling-for-vulgar-expressions question hitting the multicollider. — Robusto9 hours ago
It is a poll question. It has no answer. It is by definition not constructive. And it makes us look bad.
What more do you want?
Basically, it comes to this: we are going to be held at gunpoint on meta every fucking day until we stop closing questions.
The fact that only 5 people are needed to close a question no matter how many users we have means that an increasingly small minority has the power to shut down questions.
But, if you feel that only queue-visitors should be allowed to vote, then take away the privilege from all the people who close-vote in passing without going through any queues.
Is it correct to say, "soda" or is it "pop" or is it "Soda Pop"?
My friend and I are going back and fourth between the two, he says Soda is "Soda ash" (Sodium carbonate) and pop doesn't sound right (eg. "A loud POP", or the type of music POP)
So what would be the correct grammar usage, would I ...
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