English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

12:00 AM

"Not tonight, honey. I have a headache." LOL.

Anonymous

12:44 AM

@JanusBahsJacquet As I’m sure you know, what you said about Japanese having no nasal phoneme in the coda, just a |N| archiphoneme that always assimilates, is also true of Spanish. However, what it assimilates to is broader in ES because of more possible types of consonant in the next syllable: all of [m, ɱ, n, ɲ, ŋ, ɴ] are possible assimilations. And if there is no next syllable at all, it nasalizes the vowel and leaves behind a faint [ŋ] you can might barely hear. Anglophones may (comically) hear an utterance-final pan as bung. — tchrist Oct 1 at 5:03

Anonymous

It has a pretty wide range of assimilations in Japanese, too

Cerberus

@Robusto Thank you for feeding Jasper.

As if he needed it...but still.

Anonymous

[ɴ] can be thought of as the basic pronunciation, occurring utterance-finally, with [m] before p, b, m, [ŋ] before k, g, ŋ, [n] before t, d, n,

Anonymous

And a range of nasalized vowels and semivowels before, well, vowels and semivowels :-)

Anonymous

I am too lazy to type all of them

Anonymous

12:47 AM

So some call it the placeless nasal

Anonymous

Others consider [ɴ] the basic pronunciation, as I wrote above

Anonymous

Oh, right, the relevant portion of Labrune 2012 is online: books.google.com/…

Robusto

1:59 AM

@Cerberus That wasn't my intention.

Mitch

@Cerberus In AmE, a strop is what you sharpen your shaving razor on.

So between the two of us, outlook not good.

@Cerberus You mean like a tie/cravat?

Cerberus

2:24 AM

@Robusto Some of the most basic words trigger a LOL...

@Mitch ...which you do all the time, right?

@Mitch Yes.

Damkerng T.

2:45 AM

> He has had a discussion with the result of having already made his mind become a mind with the state of having already had become the gate of having already had been open to the path of having already led to his serenity.

Please rate my sentence.

I guess my word processor will give it a pass.

clanking off the room... :P

Cerberus

@DamkerngT. Haha you meanie.

That is about 500% unreadable.

The earlier sentence was a mere 120% unreadable.

Damkerng T.

@Cerberus Ah, it was just for fun. :P

I like your rating! 500% unreadable!

Cerberus

I know, I know!

Anonymous

3:51 AM

@DamkerngT. ★★★★☆

Anonymous

The last star is missing its innards because my brain fell out partway through the sentence, and stars are kind of like brains

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Oh, no! -- trying to look for the part that fell out...

Gigili

5:35 AM

@Mitch And one of them is?

I don't know how to start it, if the recipient was unknown it would be "dear Sir/madam"... but "Dear Mr/Dr.XXX"?

> I've worked on your paper as the main goal of my master thesis with the purpose of modifying it with new ideas and getting different results. It would be awesome if you could share the code behind your paper with me, since .... (since what? how to ensure him that the code is safe?! how to convince him so that he easily shares his code with me? something like whispering in his ears " share your code with Gigi, share your code with Gigi...")

@Mitch

Andrew Leach

7:05 AM

@username901345 Bit late now, but the second clause is so far back it's out of sight.

"I have had plastic surgery and already my face has become an object of repulsion."

Already could be moved rightwards.

Or even towards the start of the sentence, but that would change its meaning.

user116848

7:20 AM

Hello Andrew and others :)

LWTBP

hellow @Arrowfar

user116848

@LWTBP hi!

LWTBP

smart joke:

Q: If my wife has hearing aids, will I get it?

A: Not if you have aural sex.

username901345

8:45 AM

are you a native?

LWTBP

9:17 AM

asking whom @username901345?

Jasper Loy

9:30 AM

What is a native? I am a native of the world. I am in this world, though I am not of this world.

I just went out for a meal and a short walk.

As usual I had rice, chicken, egg and spinach.

Jasper Loy

9:55 AM

I am going to take a nap.

LWTBP

oh the irony of having chicken along with its egg

sleep well jasper

@JasperLoy

Matt Эллен

10:18 AM

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Q: Call to action: fill in image descriptions

We had a request a couple of years ago to replace "enter image decription here" with some sort of generic text. I think this is a bad idea, as it doesn't add anything. Shog's comment on the proposal essentially articulates how I feel: I would rather it changed to something like, "Author hates...

Robusto

11:07 AM

@MattЭллен I did the Japanese one for the "before-the-hair fixer-in-placer" product.

Matt Эллен

thanks!

I hope everyone who sees it knocks one off the list :)

Robusto

Japanese products are so strange.

@MattЭллен I did two, so you may not call me a slacker henceforth.

Matt Эллен

understood :D

which other one did you do?

Robusto

I've done three now. The Japanese one, the "flabbergasted" one, and the German term for a football pitch one.

Matt Эллен

ok, I see you've knocked it off yourself :)

excellent!

username901345

11:17 AM

hi

He is unsparing in his doling out of a stern variety of justice.

is this correct?

Robusto

It is not incorrect.

You could shorten it to: He is unsparing in doling out a stern variety of justice.

username901345

what is the significance of your double negative

mine is old fashioned?

Robusto

I mean it's not wrong, it's just awkward.

Ish.

username901345

i have seen this kind of phrase in shakespeare or something

thanks

is it ok to say, I am out, to mean I am going to sleep?

Robusto

No.

username901345

11:24 AM

why

Robusto

If you are out, you are not talking unless you're talking in your sleep.

username901345

oh

Robusto

"I was out like a light" means you fell asleep very quickly.

username901345

then how can I express it in a crisp manner?

Robusto

How about "I'm going to sleep"?

username901345

11:26 AM

but that's too simple

I wanna add originality

Robusto

You undervalue simplicity.

And if you want to add originality, why are you asking for other people's constructions? Craft your own.

username901345

wha about

"going to sleep, man. good night?"

"Going to sleep, man. Night."

Robusto

a piacere

user116848

11:46 AM

@MattЭллен I took the your test for BrE and got 5 out of 10 :(

user116848

From the starboard message that is.

Matt Эллен

@Arrowfar sounds good.

user116848

I was hoping for about 7-8 out of 10

Matt Эллен

then you've got something to work towards :)

user116848

Yeah :)

user116848

11:57 AM

Good thing it was in starred messages.

Matt Эллен

A challenge can be good if it's something you're interested in

user116848

Sure it is.

user08742

"he faced death with a serenity of attitude." is this correct?

Ice Boy

with a serene attitude

user08742

but there is this pattern

"with a tenuity of voice."

Ice Boy

12:03 PM

I'm not saying it's wrong, that is just the way I would write it.

user08742

I see. thanks

Ice Boy

np

your way sounds good too, the more I re-read it :-)

Anonymous

"A serenity of attitude" seems backwards

Anonymous

It doesn't make much sense

Ice Boy

one's attitude can have serenity when facing death

Anonymous

12:11 PM

If it were me, I'd try to figure out a way to rephrase it that makes sense

user08742

a serenity of attitude is like with a serene attitude

Anonymous

"An attitude of serenity" is somewhat better

user08742

then what about "a tenuity of voice2

the same thing

?

Anonymous

What makes you think it's the same thing?

user08742

Ice Boy agreed with me

of course the same.

What makes you thinkso?

Anonymous

12:14 PM

Yeah, but besides that

Ice Boy

we need more context

is this a poem?

user08742

I have seen him come out of his closet with a serenity of face

another example

Anonymous

Umm, that example isn't very good...

user08742

As this extraordinary sentence is executed with a serenity of temper peculiar to the Dutch,

Matt Эллен

I think that your usage has become less mainstream over the years. this ngram shows what I mean.

"His serenity of attitude is what made him such a easy man to believe in" is an acceptable sentence, but "The serenity of his attitude..." is more usual

user08742

12:27 PM

i see.

thanks

but mine is also acceptable in the canon of grammar?

Matt Эллен

Yes, I think serenity as a noun is still in use.

or, I should say, that use of the noun is still understandable

just about

user08742

thanks

for your insight

What about

"the suddenly tuneless prima soprano croaked out a raspy aria."

Matt Эллен

it is grammatical. the use of suddenly is a bit odd, since there seems nothing sudden about what is happening

user08742

but this soprano was the best in the company but now coz of the magic, is so tuneless

is this usage of croak out correct as well

Matt Эллен

Not having any of that context, suddenly seems odd.

@user08742 yes, that is fine

Mitch

12:37 PM

@LWTBP totally kosher.

@Cerberus Sharpening a razor is for wimps. I use an axe.

tchrist

Give that lady a fish and she’ll give you back a frog.

Matt Эллен

I'm not sure that's a good deal

user08742

thanks

tchrist

What do you expect of a tunaless soprano?

Matt Эллен

dress up in Martha's clothes

THWACK

gets redressed

Mitch

12:45 PM

@MattЭллен Yeah, she thwacked you because she's still in them.

@MattЭллен Wait...how do you do this? Do you have to edit the question or answer, and edit the ... the what?

Matt Эллен

@Mitch edit any post that has a picture where the description is inadequate

the <img> tag's alt text is set in the brackets of the link: ![enter image description here]

tchrist

Once Dame Judy was garlanded with tuna galore, she would always be ready to raspberry out a croakèd frog to save the day at the closing of her opera bufa in one of those classic rana ex machina endings.

Matt Эллен

so the ones that say that need fixing to say something useful

Mitch

@MattЭллен yay! I did one! (the beach windshield one)

@tchrist Dench?

Matt Эллен

@Mitch yay! thanks!

tchrist

12:51 PM

Yes, she and her toadies are doing opera bufa now.

s/enter image description here/something useful/

Matt Эллен

very droll

tchrist

s/enter image description/construct_random_markov_chain(current_posting->text)/egg

Matt Эллен

that would be interesting

Mitch

If one described the picture well, one would probably already have answered the question (which is usually "What do you call this?")

Matt Эллен

true. it can be a bit annoying that way

tchrist

12:58 PM

s{enter image description}{<i>ceci n’est pas une description, cabrón</i>}g

username901345

how would you express the sound of withered leaves crackling across the road, blown by the wind?

terdon

Rustling.

username901345

but that is so soft...

Matt Эллен

sounds like the right word to me

username901345

Not this kind dried up, shrivelled up quality to the sound

and the meaning

terdon

1:01 PM

@username901345 It's the exact sound used to describe leaves.

> 4.
to move or stir so as to cause a rustling sound:
The wind rustled the leaves.

username901345

rustling is also used for green leaves

not just dead leaves

tchrist

@terdon Or poached doggies.

username901345

dead leaves and live ones are different

LWTBP

rustling is the sound made by dead leaves or paper

terdon

@tchrist What do you call a little boy with no arms and no legs on a pile of leaves?

LWTBP

1:02 PM

i don't think green leaves make that sound

so crackling is Ok /

waits

@tchrist Russel!

Russel

sounds better

did @terdon just do a quick edit?

terdon

Got caught up in my own onomatopoeia there.

@LWTBP Who? Me? Never! That would suggest I had made a mistake in the first place. The shame!

LWTBP

1:05 PM

just making sure that my eyes are not deceiving me

tchrist

@terdon 1951 L. MacNeice tr. Goethe’s Faust 163 ― “One rustles cattle, one a wife.”

terdon

@LWTBP You can see I edited it by the little pencil symbol that appears on the left.

LWTBP

oh well... as it happens, today i am browsing at work with images deactivated. HAHA

tchrist

In Soviet China, all NSFC images are replaced by culturally appropriate ones.

terdon

My favorite was Bob, the little boy with no arms and no legs floating in the pool.

Huh? I did not say that last bit!

tchrist

1:08 PM

Ipse dixit.

Which is the past-masculine for Ipsa dicks it.

LWTBP

lol... bye again from "the bunch of letters"

terdon

@LWTBP I keep trying to work them into an acronym related to your avatar. Something like Lion Wants To Break Poodles perhaps.

tchrist

syal8talig8tr

LWTBP

hahahahaha

<real name> wants to be perfect

terdon

Ah! Well, good luck with that...

:)

LWTBP

1:10 PM

lol

tchrist

No evil it is to wage war against Good’s Enemy.

Cerberus

@Mitch How many of your heads have you chopped off accidentally?

Good morning, everyone!

tchrist

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@Cerberus Mind your décolletage, Monsieur @Mitch.

Cerberus

Ugh not happy people in the morning!

Matt Эллен

hippy pople

shinny hippy pople

tchrist

1:16 PM

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@Cerberus Omnia tempus habent et suis spatiis transeunt universa sub caelo.

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^^^^^^ Vide supra ^^^^^

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Shoot them!

@tchrist All things have time, and they go over everything under heaven with their spaces?

What is that about?

tchrist

@Cerberus Happy people in the morning.

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Cerberus

Haha bah!

tchrist

There is a time for everything under the sun.

Robusto

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tchrist

1:26 PM

’Tis they.

Robusto

Hearkening back to an earlier, simpler time.

tchrist

@Robusto Cat Stevens, Hair, the Byrds: ya think?

Robusto

My link was a meta comment on that.

tchrist

I’m still trying to find one to suit pre-matinal @Cerberus.

Robusto

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Poifect.

sleep was what I wanted, you know what I got / wide awake, stayin' up late, wishin' I was not

dogs have it made / layin' round in the shade / never have to worry about gettin' there on time

Cerberus

1:30 PM

@tchrist I am long past prematinal!

Robusto

@Cerberus But are you matutinal?

tchrist

What’s the Zep tune about tie-dyes waitin’ for the sunrise?

Cerberus

@Robusto I wish that were true...

@Robusto Haha no!

I skip mornings.

I am inherently postmatinal and postmatutinal.

Robusto

@Cerberus Well, you're frequently seen layin' round with the shades . . .

tchrist

Wait, we need something in stile antico for him. This should do:

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Robusto

1:32 PM

Lemme guess ... a barbershop quartet.

Cerberus

@Robusto With or in?

Robusto

@Cerberus Depends on your preference, I guess.

Cerberus

Tsk.

tchrist

@Robusto You shall be surprised.

A madrigal madrugando.

Robusto

Haha, well played. The barber pole was a ruse.

tchrist

1:33 PM

’Twas.

I did say stile antico after all.

Cerberus

A barber pole, is that what that is?

Robusto

But barbershop quartets are stile antico from our current viewpoint.

@Cerberus Yes.

Cerberus

What is it for?

Robusto

Barber's pole

A barber's pole is a type of sign used by barbers to signify the place or shop where they perform their craft. The trade sign is, by a tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, a staff or pole with a helix of colored stripes (often red and white in many countries, but usually red, white, and blue in the United States). The pole may be stationary or may revolve, often with the aid of an electric motor. A "barber's pole" with a helical stripe is a familiar sight, and is used as a secondary metaphor to describe objects in many other contexts. For example, if the shaft or tower of a lighthouse has...

Cerberus

I remember seeing such things in pictures.

Matt Эллен

1:34 PM

polling barbers

Robusto

To announce the shop of a barber.

tchrist

@Robusto You’re using the weird Japanese we-exclusive again.

Robusto

Or maybe just for Polish barbers.

Cerberus

Funny.

We do not have such a thing here.

tchrist

Shoeshine guys at the barbershop.

Cerberus

1:35 PM

Maybe scissors. But they can also mean it's a tailor.

Robusto

In the land of the Supercuts drive-thru, we don't see barber poles much either.

Cerberus

You even have drive-through barbers?

Robusto

Joke.

user08742

can I say, "a red lizard scrabbled up the wall quickly"?

Robusto

You have my permission.

tchrist

1:37 PM

@Cerberus It is the ancient sign of the Guild of Barbers and Chirurgeons. How can you not have it?

user08742

what do you mean?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus google.co.uk/maps/place/Barber%27s+Shop+Just+for+Men/…

that one has pretend poles

Cerberus

@tchrist I don't know: never seen it here.

> The origin of the red and white barber pole is associated with the service of bloodletting and was historically a representation of bloody bandages wrapped around a pole.[2] During medieval times, barbers performed surgery on customers, as well as tooth extractions.
The original pole had a brass wash basin at the top (representing the vessel in which leeches were kept) and bottom (representing the basin that received the blood). The pole itself represents the staff that the patient gripped during the procedure to encourage blood flow.

Lovely.

tchrist

How else would the unlettered find their neighborhood cosmetologists?

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Huh funny.

I would probably not have made the connection seeing that.

tchrist

1:40 PM

Ours are helices in motion turning their endlessly rising screws towards heaven’s door.

Cerberus

Perhaps that shop has a foreign owner?

@tchrist *their bloody bandages

tchrist

No need for Mr Bowdler here, sir.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus it's the only one in Amsterdam with such decorations! well, probably. of the several I've checked

tchrist

@MattЭллен What, they do decollations too? I thought we already went over that this morning.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Hmm cool!

I read here that the baber's pole used to be common here but mostly disappeared in the sixties.

Now some barbers are importing them again from America, oddly...

Matt Эллен

1:44 PM

@tchrist no, no: hair cut

This is where I get my hair cut

Cerberus

Another source says the barber's pole had almost disappeared from Holland and Friesland around 1905, but it was still in use in Antwerpen.

tchrist

@Cerberus Damned hippies.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Nice.

@tchrist I am not sure it was they...

tchrist

@Cerberus To avoid cutting their hairs.

Cerberus

Ohh haha.

Right!

Dirty beasts.

tchrist

1:55 PM

Here’s an even antiquer stile version of Enas Verdes Ervas, the one about dancing amongst the green eels, starting at 2:00:

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And no, I did not just say antiqueer.

Enas verdes ervas
vi andá’las cervas,
   meu amigo.

Enos verdes prados
vi os cervos bravos,
   meu amigo.

E com sabor delas
lavei mias garcetas,
   meu amigo.

E com sabor delos
lavei meus cabelos,
   meu amigo.

Des que los lavei
d’ouro los liei,
   meu amigo.

Des que las lavara,
d’ouro las liara,
   meu amigo.

D’ouro los liei
e vos asperei,
   meu amigo.

D’ouro las liara
e vos asperava,
   meu amigo.

Eu esperando o meu amigo.

I guess the troubadours did a lot of esperando.

Or aspettando if they were of a more Italic bent.

> Na lírica medieval galego-portuguesa uma cantiga de amigo é uma composição breve e singela posta na voz de uma mulher apaixonada.

Well, there you have it.

That explains the flutter in her voice.

Except that’s in the wrong language, damn it.

> Na lírica medieval galego-portuguesa unha cantiga de amigo é unha composición breve e sinxela posta en boca dunha muller namorada.

Muito better.

I wish they would just write uña and be done with it.

Maybe it’s because they’re reserving that one for one’s fingernails.

> A cantiga de amigo é un xénero poético de orixe autóctona, cuxas raíces máis antigas non nos é posíbel determinar. Responde ao modelo da canción de amor feminina, un tipo de composición común a todos os pobos indoeuropeos e que nos distintos territorios de Europa deu lugar a produtos peculiares.

> Na Península Ibérica, a cantiga de amigo emparenta directamente coas Kharxa mozárabes, case contemporáneas e con características formais e temáticas moi semellantes. A cantiga de amigo é, polo tanto, un xénero pre-trobadoresco, se ben as mostras máis antigas que conservamos son da mesma época cás cantigas trobadorescas.

Ok, pre-troubadour then.

Leading into the troubadour era proper.

@Cerberus See where cujus turned into cuxas? That’s the x like twice in plush cushions.

The Argentines actually pronounce it the same way, but spell theirs cuyas. Go figger.

There’s a nice “personal infinitive”: non nos é posíbel determinar means “not possible for us to determine”.

Or some other weird grammatical construct which though common enough to English is to this day found in exceedingly few Romantic places — and none at all at far remove from the one awaiting those medieval peregrines who undertook the Camino de Santiago.

goto \&work;

Matt Эллен

2:47 PM

dirty beasts -> stary bedsit

Andrew Leach

3:03 PM

Ah. Watery Fowls. Except there's a T left over.

Anonymous

@Cerberus We fixed it! :-)

Anonymous

Or at least worked around it.

Anonymous

Unrelated to the above: code.google.com/p/word2vec

Jasper Loy

How do we know if the answers here are correct? It takes faith. Sometimes, I don't have faith in them.

I have two issues I need to sort out, other than my mental problems, to solve my mental problems. But perhaps they may be considered as mental problems too.

Anonymous

@JasperLoy Is there something in particular you want to ask about?

Anonymous

3:17 PM

Or are you thinking about the problem in general?

Jasper Loy

@snailboat Just in general.

George Pompidou has vanished from this chat. Also, only 1 more month before simchona loses her mod status, assuming the rule is 6 months of not logging in.

I think I should aim to get 2k and then retire from this site.

Robusto

4:05 PM

4

A: Opposite of buyer's remorse

The way you described the blender scenario, I would consider it customer satisfaction. 😊

Is there a rule about emoticons in answers?

Jasper Loy

4:29 PM

@Robusto I don't know of any rule, but I think they should be deleted. But only edit a post if there are other things to edit too, and not just to remove the emoticon.

@Robusto Hmm, she is quite cute, lol.

Robusto

On the internet, nobody knows if you're a dog.

Jasper Loy

Aww, you are too sceptical.

Robusto

I am just skeptical enough. No more, no less.

Jasper Loy

4:52 PM

It is true though that a photo can give a very wrong impression of what a person really looks like, especially with things like Adobe Photoshop, lol.

Freddy

@JasperLoy I am going to read "4 major Nikayas."

I will borrow it from my brother

Anonymous

@Robusto I'm in favor of them! Smilies everywhere. That way we can tell all the answers are happy.

Anonymous

:-)

Jasper Loy

@Freddy It's 4 books, not 1 with that title. They are not too expensive if you get them from amazon. Published by Wisdom.

Freddy

@JasperLoy I m ordering it, but it's not by Wisdom. it's by some Indian publisher

Have you heard of Dharamshala

Jasper Loy

5:45 PM

@Freddy No, I think it is cheaper, but maybe the Wisdom ones are better translations.

Freddy

@JasperLoy Can you send me Amazon link, if Possible?

"Dharamshala" Is not not publisher!!

It's a place

Jasper Loy

amazon.com/Long-Discourses-Buddha-Translation-Teachings/dp/…

amazon.com/Middle-Length-Discourses-Buddha-Translation/dp/…

amazon.com/Connected-Discourses-Buddha-Translation-Samyutta/dp/…

amazon.com/Numerical-Discourses-Buddha-Translation-Anguttara/dp/…

@freddy see above 4 links. The heart of Theravada Buddhism.

Freddy

Thank you

I will get 1st one within week

@JasperLoy BTW Dharamshala is The Dalai Lama's residence in India, about which I was asking to you.

Jasper Loy

@Freddy I do not like Dalai Lama. I do not think he is wise.

Johan Larsson

in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 25 mins ago, by Sofffia

> I recently decided to sell my vacuum cleaner, all it was doing was gathering dust.

in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 2 hours ago, by Jerry Coffin

@R.MartinhoFernandes If it ain't broke, you can usually fix it 'til it is.

Freddy

5:55 PM

I have read his one book it was nice. But don't know too much about him.

Jasper Loy

Always go back to the Buddha himself and not his disciples.

2

Mitch

6:13 PM

@Gigili In general sounds good, English -wise. I'd use 'extending' instead of 'modifying' just because it sort of implies there's nothing wrong with the existing ideas, you're just creating more rather than fixing old ones. 'Awesome' sounds a little too enthusiastic, but that's probably the right level here.

"It would be awesome if you could share the code behind your paper with me, since..." -> "It would be awesome if you could share the code behind your paper with me. That would give me a head start in trying out my new ideas. Of course, if this leads to non-trivial improvements I'd be more than happy to author a paper with you."

This is probably a good question to ask at academics.SE. Really, now in the 21st century, any academic paper should publish, along with the text of the paper, any accompanying artifacts that would help with the reproduction of the results of the paper (raw data, extracted data, code, samples (like a survey text), specs (for machines used), etc, etc).

Kabir

Hi Mitch

Mitch

Most authors should not only by nature ("Holy crap someone is interested in my research, I'll show them exactly what I think!") be open to this, but also by academic culture ("everyone else seems to do it so I guess I'm supposed to too.").

@Kabir Hey!

@JasperLoy Sometimes that works. Sometimes not. Galois's stuff? Totally incomprehensible.

@JasperLoy He's really full of himself, always humblebragging.

@Cerberus <= one. It's a very close shave. Like pulling away a bandage real fast, doesn't hurt as much if you do it fast.

@tchrist My suotiens-gorge would have to hold more than my gorge.

@Cerberus and drive thru lawyers. For afterwards.

@Robusto Blank verse? What's the next line?

Damkerng T.

6:42 PM

@Mitch I wish it would be true some day in the near future. Sadly, some papers are prohibitively expensive nowadays.

Cerberus

@tchrist Right, the Galician messaging application on my phone has mensaxe.

@snailboat How did you fix it, what was the cause?

It's not the first time I have seen misplaced combining characters.

@Mitch Haha always moar lawyers!

Dissertation — hr. M.A. Davidsen - The Spiritual Tolkien Milieu: A Study of Fiction-based Religion

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