English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

You might look at it as a phase: for a while, there will be some degree of brain drain, but eventually things will turn around as the country develops.

Internal development always goes much faster than brain drain, so it won't stagnate a country's development, regrettable though it is.

skill patrol

But "internal development" needs teachers.

And the brains that have been drained away aren't those teachers, are they? @Cerberus

Cerberus

@skillpatrol Yes, but my suggestion was that more teachers are emerging than are drained, each year.

In other words, plenty of people stay, at least enough to fuel continuing development.

skill patrol

That depends a lot on the economy, no?

Cerberus

2:44 AM

It's all interconnected.

Rigor

True.

sumelic

7:15 AM

-2

Q: Plz find error in sentence

When deep sea diving, (1) / one should always take care (2) / that oxygen cylinder is (3) / tied to the back tightly.(4)/ No error (5)**

grammar

RegDwigнt

8:35 AM

@Mitch yes. Why are you telling me this? I know that. I can read signs.

Cerberus couldn't. But I can. Despite him living in a city full of just such signs, and myself not living in a city full of anything.

People sometimes get us confused, but then I tell them to count the heads.

tchrist

10:28 AM

@Mitch Alexander Nikolayevich?

RegDwigнt

10:42 AM

So I see Yoichi and tchrist have joint forces to troll us hard.

tchrist

11:01 AM

You said joint.

Smokey.

Mari-Lou wants a dinosaur selection discourse.

Tastes like chicken.

SmokeDetector

11:14 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Pejorative for a room of low quality (esp. prison cell) by Danny Rodriguez on english.stackexchange.com

RegDwigнt

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Q: How to use grammar in English?

how to use grammar in daily English.how to elaborate daily phrase in normal english and avoid grammetically

grammar

My ~~hovercraft~~ internet is full of ~~eels~~ trolls.

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: how to elaborate daily phrase in normal english and avoid grammetically (no tags)

Oh, it won't accept my tag.

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: how to elaborate daily phrase in normal english and avoid grammetically [learn-all-the-english]

Stupid character limit is stupid character.

terdon

11:55 AM

learn-all-the-englishes?

RegDwigнt

Nah, let's learn one the english first.

You have to start somewhere.

The remaining the englishes don't mind to wait.

Robusto

@terdon English can be a count noun or a mass noun. If you'd learned all the English you'd know that.

RegDwigнt

He is still stuck at learning all the Greek letter.

Robusto

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Q: Button up that frog, will you?

What is the etymology of frog? I'm referring to the elaborate braid fastenings often found on 18th and 19th century military costumes, not the amphibian. Wikipedia tells me Frogs and frogging became an important decorative feature on military uniforms from the 17th–19th centuries. This wa...

etymology loan-words

Yes, that's well worth 350 rep to figure that one out.

RegDwigнt

The etymology of frog is clear and inflexible.

Robusto

12:08 PM

Hey, buddy, button up yer frog.

All we need is Fumble inveighing against the "frivolous" title.

RegDwigнt

I will button up my frog when you pry it from my cold, dead hand.

Robusto

warm face warm hands warm feet / now wouldn't it be loverly

"MY FAIR LADY"/"Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" - AUDREY HEPBURN

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RegDwigнt

Wrong video. Frog was first etymologized by Peter, Paul, and Mary.

Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea,
and frog licked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee.

Robusto

I was just trying to warm your cold dead hand.

RegDwigнt

Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.

Robusto

12:13 PM

She gets her frog fixed?

RegDwigнt

Don't be fat, Robusto.

Robusto

You mean coitus?

RegDwigнt

I mean John's on.

Robusto

What do you need that for, Dude?

RegDwigнt

Yeah that's a good one. Cracks me up every time.

Sep 25 at 8:53, by RegDwigнt

@Cerberus as my father would put it, "damn stupid, but funny".

Robusto

12:15 PM

Do you have to cuss so much?

RegDwigнt

If you stop to think about it, it's completely out of character for Donny. So better not to think about it and just laugh.

Robusto

I am the walrus.

RegDwigнt

Shut the fuck up, Donny! Владимир Ильич Ульянов!

Incidentally, I only just realized where vi got its name from.

Robusto

Commie mutant traitors?

RegDwigнt

Vladimir ilyich iMproved.

Now with syntax highlighting.

Robusto

12:19 PM

Ours goes to XI. Yours only goes from vi to vii.

RegDwigнt

You mark that frame an eleven, you're entering a world of pain.

Robusto

It's a league game, Smokey.

RegDwigнt

Am I wrong?

Robusto

Eight-year-olds, Dude.

RegDwigнt

Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax.

Robusto

12:44 PM

I sure as shit don't roll on shabbas.

terdon

@Robusto I can assure you I know all the Engliiii.

Robusto

> I will be assured I may, and that I may be assured,
I will bethink me. May I speak with Antonio?

RegDwigнt

You can speak with a Tonio.

Robusto

> If it please you to dine with us.

skill patrol

@terdon shouldn't that be "Englishiiii? :-)

RegDwigнt

12:57 PM

To dine, perchance to sleep: aye, there's the rub.

Robusto

There's the rhubarb.

skill patrol

Stop rubbing yourself in chat.

RegDwigнt

Never dine a mite.

@skillpatrol we have to shuffle off the mortal coil.

skill patrol

Mere mortals?

RegDwigнt

I prefer the first cuarto anyway. It's hilariously funny.

And mentions no coil.

> To be, or not to be, I there's the point,
To Die, to sleep, is that all? Aye all:
No, to sleep, to dream, aye marry there it goes,
For in that dream of death, when we awake,
And borne before an everlasting Judge,
From whence no passenger ever returned,
The undiscovered country, at whose sight
The happy smile, and the accursed damn'd.

William Shakespeare, ladies and gentlemen!

Hamlet Q1

Q1 of Hamlet, or the "First Quarto" as it is also called, is a short early text of the Shakespearean play. The intended publication of the play is entered in the Stationers' Register in 1602 by James Roberts, but Q1 was not published until summer or autumn 1603. It was published by the booksellers Nicholas Ling and John Trundell, and printed by Valentine Simmes. Roberts later printed the "Second Quarto" (Q2). The other two early printed texts of Hamlet are the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604) and First Folio (F1, 1623) (subsequent quartos over the period 1604–1623 are all, at least in their substantive...

terdon

1:07 PM

@skillpatrol No, no, no! One English, two Engliiiiiiiii. Obviously!

skill patrol

Oh, of course, but still I think "grammetically" is misspelled in the room description, no? @terdon

terdon

Oh, yes, it's missing an m.

@RegDwigнt That's interesting, he seems to be spelling aye as I:

It could also be ay and not aye at all. As in ¡Ay Caramba!

RegDwigнt

It could also be the German Ei.

Ei

Das Ei ist ein System, das in einem frühen Stadium der Entwicklung (Ontogenie) eines eierlegenden Tieres (Ovipars) gebildet wird. Es besteht aus einer weiblichen Keimzelle, auch Eizelle genannt, Nährstoffen und schützenden Hüllen („Schale“). Das Ei entsteht während der Oogenese, und in ihm entwickelt sich aus der meistens befruchteten Eizelle der Embryo. Viele Eier sind wegen ihres hohen Nährwerts eine begehrte Nahrung für zahlreiche Tierarten und auch den Menschen. Als Reaktion haben sich zahlreiche Strategien zum Schutz des Eis und somit zur Verbesserung der Überlebensfähigkeit der jeweiligen…

skill patrol

Or the Russian Da.

RegDwigнt

And the Russian da.

terdon

1:18 PM

nobly resists urge to make a yo mama joke

skill patrol

And/or

But not or/and

For that^ would be inclusive :-)

RegDwigнt

@terdon careful, yo mama so fat, if you resist the urge to make a joke while standing behind her, it's in ten years at the earliest that astronomers will be able to notice.

terdon

Now you know why I resisted.

RegDwigнt

Yes, but again, only thanks to your not standing behind her.

skill patrol

Inquiring minds what to know.

To stand or not to stand that is the question

Duh, there's the point

RegDwigнt

1:24 PM

The rub really tied the room together.

skill patrol

Indeed.

Misuse of the technology tag:

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Q: How can I keep my cat off my keyboard?

This is a common scenario when typing: When the family assembled for Sunday dinner, With their minds made up that they wouldn't get thinner On Argentine joint, potato^DR&FTGYB`kuhadrggoy867rt98wouth4bfgdhjlkhdsfghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhf This happens beca...

technology pets

RegDwigнt

Oh.

So that's how you get 540 reps for uploading a picture of your cat.

That really is a useful lifehack!

skill patrol

That is the rub.

RegDwigнt

Rub Allah, ding dong, Rub Allah, ding dong.

I got a girl named Rub Allah, Rub Allah Ding Dong.

Of course the Boppers are lying to us. Rub Allah is not a girl, it's a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 km (6 miles) north of Jerusalem at an average elevation of 880 meters above sea level, adjacent to al-Bireh.

Mitch

1:55 PM

@tchrist Exactly. The study shows that as you age, you actually peak in performance at age fifty for the left hand piano

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Careful you don't get rubella.

Mitch

or rubeola

Robusto

@Mitch I didn't know there was a left-hand piano. Are the treble notes on the left, then?

Mitch

no need, you just turn the keyboard around

RegDwigнt

@Robusto no probs, I'll just cure it with gum arubic.

I have a rubic cube just for that.

Robusto

1:57 PM

Or turn it upside down, the way Paul McCartney plays his bass and Hendrix played his guitar?

Mitch

like with lefthanded horn players, instead of blowing they just suck

Robusto

@Mitch You jest, but that is the etymology of suck right there.

Mitch

@Robusto or you play in front of the guitar, with your back to the audience.

@Robusto If it were true it would be funny

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Paul McCartney never played anything. He's been dead the entire time.

Mitch

and because it's funny, it must be true

Robusto

2:00 PM

@Mitch Back in the bebop jazz era, a good trumpeter or sax player would be said to "blow a good horn" (and variants). It got shortened to "he blows." Then when people wanted to say he blows a bad horn, that got shortened to "he doesn't blow, he sucks."

Mitch

no shit

RegDwigнt

Oh he does suck shit alright.

Mitch

@Robusto or if he doesn't do heroin they say he's got corners.

skill patrol

If you're gonna ride, ride the white pony.

RegDwigнt

"He doesn't blow, he sucks" is so gay, it explains the etymology of gay.

Mitch

2:08 PM

he's got corners because he's square

you know uncool

I get all my jazz slang experience from doing heroin backstage at the jazz clubs.

Which by "heroin backstage at jazz clubs" I really mean reading children's books by Daniel Pinkwater.

Those books are pretty racy

The one with the polar bear who plays jazz. I mean you can see where that train wreck is going.

etymonline.com/index.php?term=gay

spends a lot of time on that one word.

RegDwigнt

jazz hands

Mitch

"As a teen slang word meaning "bad, inferior, undesirable," without reference to sexuality, from 2000." is both wrong and wrong, because it is a synonym of 'lame', and ws used as such in the seventies

RegDwigнt

You're so jazz, you really think this song is about you, don't you, don't you.

skill patrol

Don't you?

~~really~~ probably

Crowned the ultimate song of the 70s?

officialcharts.com/chart-news/…

The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha ft. Busta Rhymes

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RegDwigнt

2:51 PM

Top 5 bad words in Russian (16+)

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Not entirely accurate, or really not too accurate at all, but that's sort of the whole point.

Great fun.

skill patrol

3:23 PM

0

Q: Can one moderator cancel or reduce the suspension given out by another?

I was wondering if this is even discussed anywhere in the policies of this network?

discussion

RegDwigнt

I never suspend, cancel, or reduce, so I don't know shit.

MετάEd

@RegDwigнt Do you map?

RegDwigнt

If I mapped, I'd have to reduce, so no, Dave, I can't do that.

I once mapped the Soviet Union, and it was immediately reduced to Russia. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Robusto

4:28 PM

@RegDwigнt But welcome to The New Soviet Union: Now with Syria!

Matt E. Эллен

Fool you three times, then what?

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен Fool him once again, naturally.

Or unnaturally, depending on your preference.

Matt E. Эллен

naturally unnaturally

skill patrol

5:14 PM

unnaturally natural

Robusto

5:30 PM

0

Q: Which is correct title for my blog: "Professor Message" or "Professor's Message"?

I have asked a question related to this. But now, I need final clarification to remove the confusion to name my site's title.

grammar vocabulary

omfg

Damkerng T.

5:55 PM

For a sec, I read the first alternative as Prof. Massage.

skill patrol

6:28 PM

Freudian slip pal ;-)

Robusto

7:37 PM

What, only two close votes for Professor Message? Y'all ain't half tryin'.

MετάEd

8:18 PM

And now, a massage from the Swedish Prime Minister.

Johan Larsson

I don't get it.

MετάEd

Massage from the Swedish Prime Minister

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Johan Larsson

ha

crl

10:12 PM

We can't say "I feel badly" right? We would say "I feel bad", although we don't say "I ran bad" right? Instead we say "I ran badly", so I'm confused, when to use bad as an adverb, when to use it as an adjective?

In French it's simpler "mal" is both adv. and adj.

Robusto

@crl I feel bad means you feel ill or sick or otherwise under a certain expected level.

I feel badly would mean your sense of touch was not up to the mark.

Robusto

10:31 PM

"I feel bad that I didn't do well on the test."

"I did badly on the test, so I don't feel good about that."

MετάEd

10:42 PM

I feel badly about that answer.

Robusto