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1:02 AM

This may not be a true duplicate, but it sounds very very familiar. Perhaps @Reg recalls the related questions.

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A: Is there any reason for saying "he is good-looking", instead of "he is well-looking"?

The reason one says good-looking is because someone looks good. This is just the same reason why it’s nice-sounding for sounding nice, sweet-smelling for smelling sweet, good-tasting for tasting good, bird-watching for watching birds, acid-producing for producing acid, bear-baiting for baiting ...

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7:38 AM

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Q: "Looks really well" or "Looks really good"?

Which of the following sentences is correct? Could you use both? Why is this? "That dress looks really good!" "That dress looks really well!"

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Q: What is the difference between "good" and "well"

Most of the time, I use good and well interchangeably. However, on many occasions I would find well or good a misfit. Please suggest the proper usage.

Neither is an exact match.

Language is not an exact science :-)

8:14 AM

Limerick Machine: allyson-wonderlnd: flashthepremium: allyson-wonderlnd: I...

posted on August 30, 2014 by sgdi

allyson-wonderlnd: flashthepremium: allyson-wonderlnd: I don’t know who did all these, but I tip my hat to them. Aragorn is an Avenger now, apparantly. It’s not stated that he is. Marvel never stated that he *isn’t*

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9:44 AM

@AndrewLeach I was thinking of something that had to do with compound words involving verbs and objects, and how the object comes first. I feel like the matter has come up before here, although I am not positive it was directly posed as a specific question.

@tchrist doesn't ring a graham, I don't think I was there for the occasion.

Maybe it was in chat or my dreams.

You know, graham crackers (well, he was a Scot after all) were the only junkfood out of a host of many presented by an American to a Brit that he didn’t find positively appalling. I posted the link here once. Rather amusing.

Of course, the revulsion worked both ways: marmite.

People keep talking about marmite, like I ever tried it, or ever would. I don't think they grok the first rule of marmite club.

Yes, well. I've not had it t'either.

Limerick Machine: I’m interested in lots of things I’m in a tent where they make rings Later...

posted on August 30, 2014 by sgdi

I’m interested in lots of things I’m in a tent where they make rings Later I’ll see About pis raspberry Last night I sold ale called Tring

9:54 AM

But I get the idea that it’s like if you have of those jars of concentrated veggy soup stock.

It's just that the word is a meaningless placeholder to me. Or rather, when people say "marmite", I picture this

user image

awwwww

Yeah. I'm not eating that.

Not to be confused with

I do use the jars of thick concentrated mushroom stock and such. Adds um "weight" to the flavoring without having to go through a lot of bother.

Is that my picture?

Looks very much like ones I have taken.

It's by one inklein.

> A marmot seen on top of Mount Dana, Yosemite, CA, USA. The road in the background is Tioga Pass Road.

9:57 AM

Ah, I see.

Here was the Brit-eating-Merikan food one:

That scene IIRC is Cheeze-Whiz.

My goodness.

There's a link to the complementary one feeding British food to a Merikan.

> American Vs. English Food Challenge

No offense to anyone, but that's a lose-lose situation.

I just had this conversation.

A couple of the people on my new team are Brits. We were at a Chinese restaurant and dippy veggie springrolls in daubs of that rather powerful Chinese mustard.

And the Brit was asked why it was that all British food is notoriously somewhere between bland and insipid, save for the mustard alone, which would curl every hair on your body, especially the ones you had forgotten existed.

His laconic response was something like “We’re just tough like that” or some such. I forget what word he used for tough.

But yeah, it's not like all over the world you can just wander out to the local British-food restaurant venue and have your fill of greasy crap.

Subordinate.

Inobstreperous.

Inrecalcitrant.

10:04 AM

😀

Irrecalcitrant, and you know better.

Irmutinous.

Unrebellious.

Stop that.

I am imstoppable.

Immaterial.

Immiraculous.

10:05 AM

😎

Immitigable

So anyway. That video was fun, but I was expecting more diverse stuff.

Unimmitigable.

With the exception of the awful yellow thing in the can, it was basically all just sugar with sugar.

And the worst part is, it wasn't even sugar. Just HFCS.

That's like you get addicted to heroin, on purpose, and then find out it's not heroin but marmite.

Haven’t watched it for a spell, but I’m wondering which stuff that was. Not Cheez-Whiz, that’s not HFCS but some petroleum by-product.

checks

I seem to recall that that version was the mildly funnier of the pair.

Twinkies? No, not jar.

IIRC, Sam managed to duck out of a lot of the evil Merikan stuff by “virtue” of being vegetarian.

10:10 AM

Oh right.

I didn't think of that.

Which is how I always avoided all the pigflesh in Germany. I also thereby avoided food altogether in more than a few instances.

I must be off to the showermobile and then France.

Thanks to the latter, the former is optional.

But I will stick to the order just for giggles.

Ick.

Don't forget to leave your toothbrush behind.

I too must shower and fly. This time, literally, homewards to Coloradadado.

Free market at work: French pharmacies a mile away have the exact same stuff for 6 Euros that German pharmacies half a mile away sell for 20. Yes, more than threefold.

Have fun in your colored land. I'm off.

10:27 AM

And I.

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2:01 PM

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A: What is the difference between "good" and "well"

Formally speaking, good is an adjective and well is an adverb. So in formal speech or writing, you would want to maintain this distinction. Informally, English speakers can often use an adjective in place of an adverb. This is especially clear for words that take an -ly suffix to form an adver...

When in doubt, consult Kosmonaut.

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3:50 PM

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5:43 PM

@GnomeSlice Too good.

Now Listening

Chat is dead.

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8:55 PM

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: Rare and fully dressed (no tags)

9:28 PM

don't give me that "blank" look @KitFox :-)

9:40 PM

@RegDwigнt Random downvotes, eh Boß?

Yeah what the actual what.

Wuz weerd.

I only came on here between two movies, and graced a random stranger with wisdom, but then this.

Biting feeding hands never clever.

Go back to you movie. At least there something moves.

Hello guys

9:43 PM

hi

Yeah that's a good idea.

Hello everyone, bye everyone.

later

I asked a question here: philosophy.stackexchange.com/q/15503/1316

I don't understand the last line of the answer given: "Also people don't stand for prolonged durations just because it causes the desire to sit down, followed by the joy of finally sitting down." Could somebody please rephrase it for me?

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11:29 PM

Limerick Machine: My limericks are out of sync Not for the reason you think I’m out having fun No time …

posted on August 30, 2014 by sgdi

My limericks are out of sync Not for the reason you think I’m out having fun No time to write one You might as well just blame the drink

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