@Andrew: "What percentage of questions on other SEs are closed by the five most active closers?" is the question I am asking you. Since it is you who are so eager to compare us to other sites. Do keep in mind that there are only about 150 people on this site who have the right to vote to close at all, and not all of them have visited in the last two days — and 5 stops looking like a tiny number, let alone 34. Also, never forget that all these people also can vote to reopen. If even just one person closes everything singlehandedly, and 149 do not vote to reopen, that's saying something. — RegDwighт1 min ago
But they've been told just that. Just the other day. By yourself.
@AndrewLazarus It's a community. Gain enough rep within the community and you can vote to re-open closed questions (and the closers cannot re-vote to close). — Andrew Leach6 hours ago
@RegDwighт But surely that is just what beseech is: a fancier word for ask or request. Why not ersuchen? Too mindlessly cognate to fit, or with some other connotation?
@AndrewLeach almost. The first pronoun (you, second person plural) and the second (you, second person singular, as opposed to thou) do not match. And mich and das are flipped around.
@RegDwight: The top individual votes to close approximately ten percent of all questions asked, not counting any that yet remain open for want of allies. I haven't found any other site with anything resembling this behavior (Physics is closest, still only ~1/4 as much). There might be more high-reputation users here if there were more interest in the questions—less in closing them. In fact, I've been interested in answering 3 closed questions with a significant debate over re-opening. Think I'm going to hang around long enough to accumulate 3K rep? (I realize that may be a feature not a bug.) — Andrew Lazarus35 mins ago
StoneyB, Lass, and Wright have outlined the recent history of initial WR simplification. The ancient history of how they got that way is interesting, too.
I checked the American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots and found, to my surprise, that all the words beginning with WR in the Ame...
And we all know the reason is that everyone who speaks, is learning, or has heard of English thinks they can ask a question about English, while the same is not true about Physics or Math or computer stuffs.
I noticed I had updates the other day, and was surprised to see that my phone (Droid X, Gingerbread) was downloading Alice in Wonderland. I did not ask for this book, and I don't want it on my phone taking up disk space. When I checked, I saw it had also downloaded Dickens' Great Expectations and...
using logic of its basic physics; "gasoline" the liquid which is also a gas,,
therefore "gasoline" can be derived directly as
1. "gas or liquid" ,, "line" short for liquid with "ine" suffix,
or
2. "gas" "ol" "ine" with the "ol" from oil derived substance and "ine" used in some liquids ;-)
-ine...
The noun I hear most often to describe cheap junk that is poorly made is crap:
crap n
4. Cheap or shoddy material.
as in
That web site he made for me is pure crap. Nothing in it works right, and it's way too slow.
@Robusto that's pretty odd. Still, they could probably at least put the hats on the chat-room membership list or something. Chat is the only place I want the hat.
For the verb 'claim', the present tense could be used instead of the past tense, if the information revealed by the act of claiming is current. So the following:
He claims that there was an accident.
would mean that the fact of there having been an accident is current information.
...
@Robusto in the blog chat room there is a link in the description. click the link. once you're there, go back to the chat room and ask waiwai to give you permission to post.
Literature review is a big part of my life. I usually use “XXX conducted a research using data from” to state a previous study.
Do you have recommendations of other verbs to use? I am tired of keeping using conduct (and I am not sure whether it is correct) and really want to diversify.
On looking up the "X" query, particularly in respect of American pronunciation, I am afraid I only find myself more and more infuriated at the American misuse, destruction and misspelling of The Queens' English. Exaggerate is pronounced " eX(ks)aggerate " NEVER eggsaggerate. Colour is ...
@JoshCaswell: Uhhh... No. The bowtie, colorful spinner hat, and cupcake are secret hats. Unless you've earned them, there is no way to find them on the winterba.sh main page. Look for the cupcake outline on your page, it's not there. — Manishearth15 hours ago
My eldest is a beginning reader. Yesterday we read one of my favorite books, The Wreck of the Zephyr. He pointed at wreck and asked me why that one looked like it said "wuh-reck." I explained that spelling is funny like that sometimes.
This didn't satisfy my curiosity though. Silent w is not unc...
Forget hats, we should all have leitmotifs. Like when you see our gravatar, you hear a musical phrase of some kind indicative of a mood or personality.
StoneyB, Lass, and Wright have outlined the recent history of initial WR simplification. The ancient history of how they got that way is interesting, too.
I checked the American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots and found, to my surprise, that all the words beginning with WR in the Ame...
using logic of its basic physics; "gasoline" the liquid which is also a gas,,
therefore "gasoline" can be derived directly as
1. "gas or liquid" ,, "line" short for liquid with "ine" suffix,
or
2. "gas" "ol" "ine" with the "ol" from oil derived substance and "ine" used in some liquids ;-)
-ine...
For the verb 'claim', the present tense could be used instead of the past tense, if the information revealed by the act of claiming is current. So the following:
He claims that there was an accident.
would mean that the fact of there having been an accident is current information.
...
Literature review is a big part of my life. I usually use “XXX conducted a research using data from” to state a previous study.
Do you have recommendations of other verbs to use? I am tired of keeping using conduct (and I am not sure whether it is correct) and really want to diversify.
On looking up the "X" query, particularly in respect of American pronunciation, I am afraid I only find myself more and more infuriated at the American misuse, destruction and misspelling of The Queens' English. Exaggerate is pronounced " eX(ks)aggerate " NEVER eggsaggerate. Colour is ...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…