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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Phrase to describe person who seeks 100% achievements in game by user66575 on english.stackexchange.com
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1:14 PM
I've seen livelier graveyards than ELU chat.
 
1:42 PM
Were they dancing, while you were there?
 
1:58 PM
Hello.
We could get something started, between the three of us.
 
You'd think Beyoncé could afford some pants
 
Maybe gold lamé is more expensive than gold.
 
I wonder if you can get dietary gold leaf from the local drugstore
 
You can get potable silver colloid.
 
@KitZ.Fox Really? behind the counter?
 
2:04 PM
Did you see the YouTube vid of the guy who had like an ounce a day of that stuff? He's blue.
Like literally blue.
 
@Cerberus Hey, can you think of some other ten-dollar Latinate English word having to do with something being squeaky clean other than nitidity? I feel like I'm forgetting one.
 
Seems weird...isn't silver ... sprinkles (?) used as an antibiotic in clothes? (I know all those sound weird together but I'm pretty sure I've heard them all together...sliver, clothes, antibiotic
@KitZ.Fox cyanotic
 
@Mitch Stephenson. Quicksilver. Phosphorous. King Solomon’s Heavy Gold. Apples falling.
 
it's a metal. won't that stay in your body till mental deterioriation or full body aneurysm?
@tchrist I only got to the part where they're about to travel through the Harz mountains and all the mines...and then work got in the way.
I wish I were younger and could blow hours of time reading one thing.
Instead I blow hours of time reading everything at once
 
Is there any term to explain this? "This event isn't weird, this happens sometimes for even me, this occurrence is kinda common"
 
2:10 PM
Oh very well: I suppose that namespace nitidity is illiterative enough.
I just feel like there's a less pedestrian term that's escaping me right now.
@Mitch Here let me send you a postcard.
 
@tchrist This comment is related with my comment?
 
@Shafizadeh No, to my own.
 
ah ok, sorry
 
@tchrist I love postcards! Picture on one side, few words on the other.
@MattE.Эллен You stick you tongue in a crucible of molten gold? Eww.
 
2:21 PM
Only once.
 
@tchrist Less pedestrian? I've never heard 'nitidity' before now.
 
So you're saying that you're one of the unshodden?
 
Do boots count?
Crows do. They're paranoid
Wait... sorry.. that was the daily mail...written for four year olds.
@MattE.Эллен Apropos of nothing, does the Daily Mail have a comics section?
Angela Merkel: 'Das geht nicht' - It's like she's trying understatement but unsuccessfully.
 
@Mitch No, really blue, not lacking oxygen blue.
 
user116848
2:45 PM
Evening guys
 
@KitZ.Fox wow
@Arrowfar hey!
 
Hi @Arrowfar.
 
user116848
Hi Mitch.
 
user116848
Hi Kit.
 
Joining the danse macabre with us?
 
user116848
2:47 PM
Of course.
 
user116848
:-)
 
user116848
So I tried to upload a little video of me speaking English on Youtube but the video wouldn't upload.
 
Aww.
 
@Arrowfar it was too much for youtube to handle?
 
user116848
I think so :)
 
3:06 PM
@Mitch no idea
@Mitch I think it's just gold leaf. it gets melty at human body temp
 
3:17 PM
bleh
 
user116848
It is very dusty here today.
 
you're getting grit in your eye?
 
user116848
When I go outside then, yes.
 
user116848
But better than the middle east.
 
@MattE.Эллен better than getting tories in your eye.
 
user116848
3:31 PM
 
user116848
Old pic btw.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 or whigs!
 
Is this conversation correct?
One: Happy birthday ..!
// some other text
One: @Two, I said happy birthday ..!
Two: oh sorry, I didn't see your comment, and thank you :-)
One: No prob, that's a common event, I say happy again ;-)
 
@Shafizadeh birthday is usually one word, and the last sentence is very unidiomatic.
 
ah tnx
 
3:34 PM
Are all clichés metaphors?
 
"boiling the ocean" "getting traction" "not enough runway"
 
they're probably all allusions
 
synergy
 
oh, I'm thinking of catch phrases
 
3:35 PM
that's a cliche that is just a fancy word
well those first three were sort of catch phrase-like
what catch phrases were you thinking of?
the worst is when someone says one of these cliches and you can't think of what a normal person would have said.
 
cliches in film aren't usually metaphors, are they?
 
like an ear worm.
but maggoty
@MattE.Эллен like cliche plot mechanics?
 
@Mitch usually they wouldn't have said anything. a lot of chiches are just things people tack
 
redemption? father-issues?
 
@Mitch yes, or cliche characters
 
3:38 PM
@MattE.Эллен "things people tack"?
 
like tack onto a bulletin board?
or tack into the wind?
 
let me finish what I'm saying, goddamnit!
 
or
what
more interrupting words
 
just things people tack on
like "this is the plan going forward"
well, it can hardly be the plan going backwards
 
3:39 PM
oh. right.
 
so it's just the plan
 
but that's more filler cliche
per se
back in the day
that is very mild metaphor
or not really metaphor but figurative.
i think all figures of speech are a kind of metaphor (metaphor is already a kind of figure of speech)
@MattE.Эллен it could if it were a terrible plan.
 
@Mitch it would still be going forward (in time) unless... oh my god...
this must be how they invent time travel
come up with a plan so bad it affects the past
 
drafts construction plans
drafts terrible construction plans
hm...what is this closet like box that just appeared?
 
make an LHC that does create black holes
 
3:43 PM
drafts even worse plans
hm...the closet has knobs on.
 
user116848
I think some people where I live don't know how to use short forms in a sms/text.
 
user116848
It is very funny :-)
 
they don't use them, or they use them wrong?
 
user116848
They use them very wrong sometimes :)
 
@MattE.Эллен I think there are plans to make a star (which is much less ambitious than a black hole)
 
3:44 PM
@Arrowfar :D
 
user116848
So I know someone who is a very innocent girl but her English is okayish not very good. (only a classmate by the way nothing more :)
 
user116848
When she texts me instead of writing “come” she writes “cum” (to save time she says). The whole message gives me a good laugh sometimes.
 
user116848
How in the world can anyone not know that word?!
 
user116848
lol
 
@Mitch they should make a dyson sphere
 
3:45 PM
@Arrowfar what do they do "It is very funny smiley face"?
@Arrowfar no need to qualify. (if you hadn't qualified, there'd probably be a need, but since you did qualify, there's no need. Also, I didn't need to say that.)
@MattE.Эллен but really small. basically like basketball sized.
 
user116848
Oh god, did I just make a rated joke? <feels embarassed>
 
You'd still need lots of machinery around it the size of a warehouse.
 
@Mitch did that happen in Germany when they switched their fusion generator on the other day? I forgot to watch
 
@Arrowfar I don't know. What rating were you going for?
 
user116848
lol
 
3:48 PM
@Arrowfar You should tell her
Just as an aside
 
@MattE.Эллен ?? They did that? For real? I have to change news stations, all I hear about is effing SuperBowl and Trump. And that's on the serious news stations.
 
user116848
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yes I will definitely.
 
@Mitch put trump in a super bowl an then shoot protons at him until he is generating enough heat to power a light bulb. He wants to be in charge, that should be enough power to trust him with
 
@MattE.Эллен Trust? hm...
 
@Mitch if you can hold the charge to power a light bulb, maybe we'll trust with the charge to power a TV.
and then his face melts
you can make it into a reality tv show
 
3:52 PM
You know how a fuel pump works using the differential of two different heat sources (one hotter then the other)... we could use T as a truth differential. and create actual knowledge from it.
 
@Mitch rofl
 
@Mitch That's really interesting. I should write a story about that.
 
And the excess (lack of) truth entropy could be redistributed as reality TV shows..
wait.
Idea areadly taken and implemented.
@MattE.Эллен you had me at 'shoot'
 
user116848
:)
 
3:54 PM
see..that's a cliche that's not a metaphor
 
true!
it's an allusion, and a catch phrase
 
and not all metaphors are clishes
argh...that's the second time I did that.
stupid french
 
and a snow clone
 
a catch phrase is only for superheroes. what would the superpower be of the superhero whose catch phrase is 'you had me at X'?
 
clearly you've never watched "Little Britain". A show built on catchphrases
 
3:56 PM
@Mitch "Eat hot justice!"
 
'snow clone' is great, except it's not really a metaphor or anything. a 'stormy petrel' is a stormy petrel and a metaphor wrapped into a burrito covered in enigma.
@MattE.Эллен that's not so clear given that I have watched it.
 
@Mitch past tense man?
 
@MattE.Эллен yeah...can only go backwards in time.
 
@Mitch ah. computer says "no"
or as Bruce Forsythe would say "Nice to see you, to see you [cup ear with hand]"
 
@MattE.Эллен so the shorter dude in little britain looks a lot like the large young australian woman Rebel Wilson, right?
 
3:58 PM
@Mitch lol
 
also why little britain? I thought the racist thing was little england.
 
Matt Lucas
 
also, capitalization can go to hell.
 
because I'm ... well I'm a superhero who's to bored to tell you what my superhero name is but will go on at length avoiding something that could have been done already in a couple words
 
4:00 PM
uncanny
 
@MattE.Эллен exactly. they have to be related.
@MattE.Эллен ha ha ha
wait...I don't get it.
 
user116848
So recently I found out that "sparrowfart" is the only word in English that has my whole username. Dammit!
 
TIL!
@KitZ.Fox do it!
 
@MattE.Эллен 'stellerator' .... nice word. better than 'tokomak' which sounds like a funny hat.
 
@KitZ.Fox yeah, go for it.
intercognitor overdrive
well, we can work on the title.
@MattE.Эллен Stalin was overrated
 
@Mitch pity they didn't realise before the Gulag
 
@MattE.Эллен в точку
Oder 'genau'
o exactamente
no o díreach
I could play with google translate all day. and never know how close to reality it is.
@MattE.Эллен wait... that was a thing well before the revolution.
 
4:26 PM
> The Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems during the Stalin era, from the 1930s until the 1950s — Wikipedia
@Mitch all I ask is that I'm not last against the wall, OK?
@Mitch They make me think of that Jack Kerouac quote “A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.”
 
4:44 PM
Katorga (Russian: ка́торга; IPA: [ˈkatərgə]; from medieval Greek: katergon, κάτεργον, "galley") was a system of penal labor in the Russian Empire. Prisoners were sent to remote penal colonies in vast uninhabited areas of Siberia and Russian Far East where voluntary settlers and workers were never available in sufficient numbers. The prisoners had to perform forced labor under harsh conditions. == History == Katorga, a category of punishment within the judicial system of the Russian Empire, had many of the features associated with labor-camp imprisonment: confinement, simplified facilities (as...
 
Katarungan is one of the 44 barangays of the municipality of Ubay, in the province of Bohol, Philippines. The barangay's total land area is 409 hectares (1,010 acres). According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 1,524. In the 2013 election, it had 898 registered voters, meaning that 59% of the population are aged 18 and over. Katarungan celebrates its annual fiesta on 30 May in honor of their patron saint. == Location == Located in the west central part of the municipality, Katarungan overlooks Camotes Sea to the north. To the east it is bounded by Tipolo, to the south by Bood and to the...
 
GULAG was simply a the administrative name for the Russian exile/penal system to Siberia continuing the Katorga system.
 
Katarungan has some of the same letters as Katorga
 
== Origins == The article says: "'Kawagoopa' meant 'good', and 'kawabonga' meant 'bad.'" As I remember it, "kawagoopa" was the expression used by Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring (of the Tinka-Tonka tribe) and "kawabonga" the one used by Chief Thunderthud (of the Ooragnaks). They both seemed like fairly all-purpose expletives, often meaning something like "golly!" Kostaki mou 02:57, 2 February 2007 (UTC) == Bart == I noticed someone removed the reference to Bart, and while I'm not sure if he ever said it on the show (except for the "Behind the Music" type episode where he read it as part of a...
 
@Mitch I think Stalin kinda exploited it to the max, though, hence why people know what Gulag is, but noöne knows about Tortuga
 
4:47 PM
I'll grant that the Soviet system was more efficient.
But it didn't pop out of nowhere.
Like Matt Lucas and Rebel Wilson.
 
so not only did Stalin kill millions of his own people, he also wasn't original. I can't believe they ever voted for him.
 
I know!
Thanks Obama
 
Barak Ulyanov Obama
 
Vladimir Jefferson Putin
 
4:51 PM
The similarities are uncanny
 
2 mins ago, by Mitch
Like Matt Lucas and Rebel Wilson.
 
like the X-men
@MattE.Эллен Jinx!
 
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means
 
X-men? I saw a couple of the moves so I think I know what I'm talking about
 
Imagine Ox-Men
wereboves
 
4:54 PM
@MattE.Эллен slow and lumbering but very strong
 
you have to keep them in a maze
or is it that you have to feed them corn?
 
I wonder why we have werewolf myths but not so much werebears, werehorse, werebird, etc.
 
probably because wolves interacted more with people, than bears did, and are more scary than livestock
 
Mornin.
 
5:07 PM
@MattE.Эллен keep them in a corn maze. problem solved
A corn maze or maize maze is a maze cut out of a corn field. The first corn maze was in Annville, Pennsylvania. Corn mazes have become popular tourist attractions in North America, and are a way for farms to generate tourist income. Many are based on artistic designs such as characters from movies. Corn mazes appear in many different designs. Some mazes are even created to tell stories or to portray a particular theme. Most have a path which goes all around the whole pattern, either to end in the middle or to come back out again, with various false trails diverging from the main path. In the United...
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 You've brought up a very important question plus many more, like "Does 'th' final get voiced when pluralized?"
eg "How many nonwolf were-mydhs are there?"
Also, "What is the Unicode for 'eth'?" or rather what is the Unicode for 'eth'?
 
@Mitch U + 0053
I didn't know you had a lisp
 
@Mitch dammit. I knew the answer to this before I read the question, and now that I've read the question, I no longer know it.
 
5:15 PM
I'll have to forget the question, stop thinking about it, let my natural pronunciation come out subconsciously, then hear myself say it, then recall the question.
 
nice.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I can ruin your answerability further by saying that I think it should be voiced but all I hear are people saying it unvoiced. It annoys me like people saying the 't' in often.
@MattE.Эллен ?? that's not the same as 0053, is it?
 
@Mitch no 0053 is S
 
Hello, How are you all?
Please suggest me how to improve my talking power?
Whenever I speak to someone my tongue turns I mean it slips, and I forget at the moment that what to speak, and how to use words?
Would you like to share your views please?
 
5:32 PM
@Idon'tknowwhoIam. to learn a language you have to be prepared to make mistakes
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇. I make a lot of mistakes, but I am very interested in improving my English.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇. Is there any other way to polish my English please?
I joined this room so that I might acquire something new from experienced people.
 
Well, you need to practice. That's all there is. Speak to English speakers, especially native speakers. Write as much as you can.
Read even more.
It's most important to watch how people say things, to see what words they use and what words they don't use.
 
Is there any native speaker here?
 
@Idon'tknowwhoIam. Most of the regulars are native speakers or are fluent enough to pass as native.
 
5:47 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇. Are you a native speaker please?
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇. Would you like to have companionship with me please?
@DamkerngT.
 
@Idon'tknowwhoIam. Yes?
 
@DamkerngT.How are you?
I want to make new friends.
 
Sure, we can be chat friends. We all here are.
 
5:56 PM
@DamkerngT. Do you know who I am.
 
How could I?!
 
@DamkerngT. I am Magsi.
 
I see. :D
 
@DamkerngT. Khehehehe.
 
:-)
 
5:59 PM
@DamkerngT. Aren't you a native speaker?
 
No, I'm not.
You could say that I'm a native speaker, but of another language, not English. :D
 
@DamkerngT. What is the scope of Geology in our life?
 
I suppose it would mean a different thing for each of us. So, its scope for you would be whatever you think it would be.
 
@DamkerngT. I am getting bored today, that's what I am asking you fruitless questions today.
 
Aww... sorry that I cut it short. :D
 
6:06 PM
@DamkerngT. You are such a nice person, and you understand me pleasantly.
 
@Idon'tknowwhoIam. If you're asking if we can be friends, that's not the normal way of putting it.
 
@Idon'tknowwhoIam. Thanks!
 
And we don't need to make any kind of formal links here. We just chat, with whoever is around.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇.What should be the way?
May I know please?
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇. I'm also around you.
That's why let us chat.
Anyway,sorry for that.
@FaheemMitha.
 
6:54 PM
@Idon'tknowwhoIam. Just chat. Take part in the conversations that are going on. We're an easy-going bunch most of the time. Also most people aren't always available even if they're in the room, which is why I took so long to reply.
 
7:16 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇. Thank you for your response.
 

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