English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

A king was one day hunting in a large ____, and he chased a _ so __ that none of his could follow him, When it was , he _ his ____ and looked around him, and saw that he had _ his ____. He _ everywhere for some ____ out of the , but all in. At __ he saw an old _ towards him; but she was a , you ...

vocabulary

Is it all supposed to be the same word or can we put different words for each blank?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Why is that still open?!

Come on everyone. burninate!

oerkelens

@Mitch Oh my... that reminds me of my wife who did such an exercise in class...

Fill in the blanks in The Beatles'All you need is love

It has a line that read Love (9x)

and yups, kids complained there were only 8 gaps

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Why is there still only one close vote on that

claps hands come on!

Mitch

two

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 We're all still trying to fill in the blanks first.

oerkelens

three

Mitch

7:00 PM

go! go! go!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен maybe you can take care of it if you're around

Mitch

On the review page, there are 37 'close' suggestions. But 0 'reopen' suggestions.

Matt Эллен

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 what's up? I've not been paying attention

Mitch

There's a fire in the wastebasket right next to you.

2 mins ago, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

claps hands come on!

Matt Эллен

unzips fly

Mitch

7:03 PM

WTH? turns away

oerkelens

hey guys! get a room, will ya?

Matt Эллен

fire's out

Robusto

@JohanLarsson Of course. If you doubt me, you might consider asking about it on ELU.

Johan Larsson

I trust you of course.

Robusto

If you trust me, why did you have to ask?

Johan Larsson

7:08 PM

you could have slipped

Ice Boy

also curiousity?

Johan Larsson

yeah but harder to spell

Robusto

@JohanLarsson It's happened, of course. But not in the presence of Scandinavians. At least not thus far.

Ice Boy

:)

Johan Larsson

> I made a blunder once but it was a mistake.

Ice Boy

7:09 PM

you are cool

Johan Larsson

poor translation

> Jag gjorde fel en gång men det var ett misstag.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен Thanks!

Matt Эллен

np :)

Johan Larsson

Have you upgraded VS yet Matt?

Robusto

@JohanLarsson See, that's the difference between you and me. I once suspected I was wrong, but it turned out not to be true.

Johan Larsson

7:12 PM

yeah my approach is iterative

Matt Эллен

@JohanLarsson I don't make purchasing decisions at work. although that reminds me I need to set up some computers for an interview

Ice Boy

@JohanLarsson learning is a series of approximations

Johan Larsson

@IceBoy hmm not sure

I'd say approximations come after learning

Ice Boy

yes, during application

i'm taking about the process of learning itself

Johan Larsson

<TextBlock Text="{l:Static p:Resources.TranslatedToAll}" />

@MattЭллен what do you think about naming a custom markupextension StaticExtension?

It fools R# into giving intellisense.

Matt Эллен

7:18 PM

in xaml?

Johan Larsson

yeah only difference is x:Static / l:Static

I first had it l:Resource but then there was no autocomplete

Matt Эллен

that's pretty cool.

terdon

Stack Exchange

7:50 PM

Limerick Machine: There once was a small angry fly Who missed out on a large piece of pie It looked for some crumb …

posted on November 05, 2014 by sgdi

There once was a small angry fly Who missed out on a large piece of pie It looked for some crumb It didn’t find some So it hid in a corner to cry

Johan Larsson

4G is nice, really fast

Robusto

8:20 PM

@JohanLarsson Boolean works better for this situation: true or false?

Johan Larsson

8:30 PM

true

Robusto

Are you a person who only can answer "true"?

Ice Boy

false

Robusto

Then you can answer, true or false?

Ice Boy

perhaps

Robusto

Can't you answer my question? True or false?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:33 PM

file not found

Ice Boy

trueslaf

falseurt

terdon

Trew falls.

Ice Boy

true

Adjective: true (comparative truer, superlative truest)

(of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
(logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
Loyal, faithful.
Genuine.

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Adverb: true (not comparable)

(of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.
this gun shoots true

Noun: true

Truth.
1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O Russet Witch! in Tales of the Jazz Age:
1988, Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free, Baen Publishing, ISBN 0-671-65398-9, page 96:
1994, Bruce Palmer, How to Restore Your Harley-Davidson:

Verb: true (third-person singular simple present trues, present participle trueing or truing, simple past and past participle trued)

To straighten.
To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.
true (imperative tru, present tense truer, simple past and past participle trua or truet)

:O

Johan Larsson

@Robusto it evaluates to true

Ice Boy

false

Adjective: false (comparative falser, superlative falsest)

Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
(logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.

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Noun: false (plural falses)

One of two options on a true-or-false test.
false

Adverb: false (comparative more false, superlative most false)

Not truly; not honestly; falsely.

Verb: false

Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of falsar.
First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of falsar.
Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of falsar.
Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of falsar....

:D

Robusto

8:39 PM

@JohanLarsson I'm looking for a yes or no answer from you.

Johan Larsson

@Robusto ok

Robusto

8:54 PM

@JohanLarsson What, you think this is quantum computing? guess again.

Johan Larsson

I'm lost

how are deadlines?

Robusto

They're not live wires.

@JohanLarsson Same old shit. I'm going to quit this place, I'm pretty sure. Just got a call from an old boss who wants to talk, so . . .

Johan Larsson

move to Sweden?

Or Norway?

Robusto

They came to me last night with a problem. Seems like someone completely forgot the client wanted a certain kind of report in this build, so they are holding the production release for me to cobble something together. I shit you not.

Johan Larsson

sounds like the level of bs is unfixable

easier to go someplace sane and let them run the company to its ruin

Cerberus

9:12 PM

@Robusto Hah, who is that nice purple fellow?

Mitch

Argh!

oerkelens

@Cerberus What have you been smoking? And can I have some too?

Mitch

> Insulting other users is not acceptable and won't be tolerated on the site. I'm cleaning up the comments here

That was the important part!

So tantalizing. I want to see the deleted thread!

oerkelens

Mitch

Nope, that's not the thread.

oerkelens

9:19 PM

No, that is @Cerberus' fellow

I guess

or it could be this one

one never knows

Cerberus

9:32 PM

@Mitch Where was that?

@oerkelens There it is again!

@oerkelens And again!

What are all those purple elephants doing behind my buddy Pinky the elephant?

He's always there, but he has never brought so many friends.

Or any at all. He doesn't have any.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Thanks, Pinky! You've always been there for me.

►

Jeff Bridgman

10:17 PM

Is this question on-topic for english.se? "Dimension take the separate ideas of length, width, and height and wraps it up in a single word. Is there a word that does the same for dimensions as well as volume and weight?"

It kind of fits into "Word choice and usage", but to be honest it's a bit connected to "Naming, including naming programming variables/classes" which is off-topic (from the help on what's on-topic. Thoughts?

Mitch

10:42 PM

@JeffBridgman units? (that would be the scientific word)

@Cerberus Here

It's gone now but I have a screen shot...

KitFox

11:08 PM

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot. (no tags)

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