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11:55 AM

@YasashiiEirian And say tomorrow's match, not tomorrow match.

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1:00 PM

I am not a bot.

You'd expect a bot to say something like that.

Would you expect a bot to say that?

reminds self to program question asking into bot script

Yasashii Eirian

@Cerberus Thanks. :-)

which one?
- the word of "is" exists and the word of "test" doesn't exist
- the word of "is" exists and the word of "test" isn't exist

Gigili

Both are wrong

:-(

and what's the correct?

Gigili

The word "is" exists and/but the word "test" does not (exist)

Demisemihemidemisemiquaver

1:15 PM

Ah ok thx

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:08 PM

@Gigili The word "is" exists but the word "granzleflorb" does not exist.

Gigili

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I does not existing.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

you does?

2:37 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Maybe not for you

2:47 PM

disappears in a puff of logic

3:29 PM

@MετάEd pops back into existence from lack of studying logic

3:41 PM

@Mitch Dammit. Reincarnation AGAIN?

@MετάEd Death sucks. And then you're reborn.

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4:47 PM

@Mitch Too much Game of Thrones for you!

Hi, @tchrist.

Hi.

I'm writing you an answer now.

Thanks.

I was afraid you'd caught me skipping the disputed ones. :)

@Shafizadeh Exist is an infinitive. The verb be is never used with an infinitive, except if it's to + infinitive. So isn't + infinitive is not possible.

4:56 PM

@tchrist Ha, no.

Do/does is often used with an infinitive, especially in questions and negations (like no/not/-n't).

That's why it's doesn't exist.

To the meta question? I just posted one.

@MετάEd Thanks.

Done.

5:17 PM

@tchrist I haven't seen Game of Thrones. (is that TMI?) Is that what happens there, popping back to life, or failing to study logic?

@Mitch Yes, the “popping back to life” part — but not necessarily life as we know it, Jim.

@Cerberus Ah I see

Somehow reincarnation took me there.

That's the third reference to The Metamorphosis in three days.

Some kind of synchronicity going on.

@tchrist "Fascinating"

@KitZ.Fox That happened to me once too. Except it wasn't Samsa, it was Beulah.

I've never heard of it since.

5:32 PM

@KitZ.Fox It's a very recent panel. Maybe other people saw it?

Well, one was a reference in the fourth book of the All the Wrong Questions series by Lemony Snicket.

So not that one. The other one was on Facebook though, so that seems possible.

5:56 PM

Is this sentence true? "it never isn't zero."

It is unusual, but possible.

"Is it zero?"
"It never isn't zero."

alright

6:25 PM

What about an SLA written by high rep (native speaker) user? Are their answers exempt from deletion because they are native speakers? If the answer is "correct" but consists of a single line that has no reference, no source but the user's experience. Should that answer still be deleted? Or do we make exceptions? Ack... slippery road, suggesting to delete all SLAs, even if they are an answer. — Mari-Lou A 15 mins ago

No good can come from answering that, and so I won't.

I replied.

Thanks. I feel the question is a setup for a tu quoque bullshit argument, and I just don't want to deal with that.

Well, there's bait under the question as well.

I'm not touching that.

I saw that.

6:45 PM

@KitZ.Fox here's a devil's argument: what's so bad about these SLAs? Just leave them, how do they hurt the site? You look at them and vote if they're terrible.

I'm having trouble coming up with legitimate counter-arguments beyond 'they don't follow the rules' (Of course that may be well enough

@Mitch It's the same grudge I hold against SWRs. They're crap.

Lazy crap.

Also... that's why I put most of my 'answers' in comments. Because the answer I were to have given should have been deleted as VLQ.

@KitZ.Fox except when they're 'just right', the one word makes everybody think 'yeah, that's perfect' and then get upvoted like crazy and upvoted sort of has justification for living.

Just right is still lazy.

but essentially a tip of my tongue thesaurus service

thay that fatht

@Mitch and you don't complain on Meta when they get deleted. You are a good person.

6:50 PM

Wha?? You deleted my comments?

I had no idea.

checks history

Take it to Meta.

...

takes question to main for more expletives

haha

Wait... I can't confirm in history because they're gone.

Really?

6:52 PM

blasphemes

Interesting.

Well, I really haven't checked so I'm guessing

I wonder how the several dozen complainers knew to make complaints.

good memories?

long heated conversations in comments that really meant a lot to them?

shrugs

We had at least one complaint about moving comments to chat.

6:54 PM

My ELU behavior? Wake up in the morning, can't speak, can barely eat breakfast half moving, but can operate phone, looks at ELU, oh there's a dumb one I can answer in comments, done.

"What do you call that thing you stick an electric thing into?" "Comment: do you mean an electrical outlet or plug?"

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NVZ

8:08 PM

Can I have your attention, please? meta.english.stackexchange.com/q/8044/50044

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10:10 PM

Is this correct? "Not a family-friendly photo. just gives me a creepy feeling ..! ugh ..!"

As a comment under an image ^

@Shafizadeh Looks fine to me. But the capitals seem inconsistent.

And I would use three dots and no space before the dots.

And the expression gives me the creeps is very common, so I would use that instead of gives me a creepy feeling, even though the latter is not wrong.

I see. Just what do you mean "capitals" ? "ugh"? Actually I'm trying to picturing puke

N = capital

j = not a capital

Yes, the u too.

Ah ... got it, thx

Is the word-ordering correct? "wall damagor termite" - I want to point out to those termites which damage the walls.