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Says who

Smokey's the first.

They don't count.

ALWAYS the first.

@Mitch *sheit

??

@Mitch Some people told me it's a he, some said it's a she, and technically, it's an it.

?? What are you talking about?

His unicorn avatar selfie looked masculine though.

@Mitch Determining which pronoun to use regarding Smokey

@Arrowfar people too busy?

@TIPS OK. but what is 'sheit'? That makes no sense.

@Mitch s(he)-it

right. I can parse that. but it doesn't make sense.

Of course it doesn't make sense. If it did, someone would've coined it before me.

also during and after

@Arrowfar Meh, what is meant to be exciting? Chat is just where you go to talk. It's not supposed to be a thriller.

but what about the blood stained shoes sticking out from behind the curtain?

Hello yourself! And I'm fine, thanks

@terdon are you in CET (timezone)?

@Mitch EEST

@terdon Only an hour and half away from me.

Or maybe I'm away from you.

And a half? I didn't know there were increments of less than an hour.

@terdon nice. EDT here

@Mitch Top o' the morning to yeh, then!

@terdon Some countries do this.

Bangladesh time is 45 minutes away, actually.

They're mostly in Asia.

"'Scooby Snack' Added to Oxford English Dictionary, Presumably After Bribe of Scooby Snacks"

@Arrowfar I guess this is fine.

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"refactor" isn't an English word? eh..

urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=refactor

@crl Who says it isn't?

@Mitch

@MετάEd Yes, this answer is speculative but a speculation as to why. It is difficult to know what is in other peoples heads (which is often what a 'why' question is, and makes them somewhat unsuitable for ELU). The other existing answer doesn't even try to answer why, and in addition does not provide facts.

Someone familiar with the controversy ought to be able to find a few good examples of people writing that they refuse to use the term "allopathic", and why.

So the (currently) -1 downvoted answer tries to answer the question (why do people not use allopathic), and the +10 upvoted says things about the definitions which is relevant but not answering the question.

There are a number of high profile bloggers that deal with the word.

@MετάEd I disagree. People can just turn up their nose and not bother.

@MετάEd as usual I'm not bothering myself with spending energy looking for facts.

Then again, those bloggers are presumably just giving their opinion, which is not a survey of the opinions of everybody.

Respectful Insolence, for example, or Pharyngula.

Rereading his answer, the tendentious parts could be removed and then become factual and reasonable.

@Mitch I take your point, data is not the plural of anecdote, but even one public refusal to use the word would be better than 0.

That answer?

and people who agree with it?

haha yes I see the problem

also he misspelled a word. that is unforgiveable. except when I do it, then it's an understandable misteak.

Right!

Also, data are the plural of anecdote. That was a test. You failed.

what's the icon for? Isn't there a canadian holiday?

I told our Canadian boss to be back at work Monday, I'd see him on Tuesday.

@MετάEd "data are" You've successfully made my skin crawl.

Heh heh heh.

alol

@MετάEd so did pharyngula say 'allopathy is a dumb word because we just use 'medicine'"?

Is there any, considerable, reason someone might use "Editors-In-Chiefs"

?

Plural editor and plural chief

@Mitch No, but somebody did, more or less.

More less than more.

I suppose if the editors were in the chiefs.

Physically?

Sure. In two or more of them at once.

I think that's a different situation, altogether...

For example, I'm an editor, and I'm in my boss and my boss's boss.

I'm an editor in chiefs.

@user3306356 Definitely.

How did you get in there

My nose didn't get brown just sitting at a desk.

Applause

@MετάEd I'm rereading it, and I think the gist is correct, but it would take too much work to remove all the scorn and leave it objective. First they came for the allopaths and I said nothing. Then they came for the bone saws and bone chisels, and I squirmed a little, but still said nothing. Then they came at me with their nasal sinus lavage hoses and that just gives me the willies.

@user3306356 too many cooks spoil the broth

especially if one is sweet and the other savory.

@MετάEd What if an upstart underling placed a dollop of shoeshine underneath the pull-out writing surface, and you then wiped your nose with your hand?

Depends, I suppose.

Some editors might like to be in Chiefs

Simultaneously

or maybe it is a possessive, the editors-in-chiefs boardroom, and since they're all in the boardroom, no one checked the copy for misplaced apostrophes.

No I think, joking aside, someone wanted to say: editors in Chiefs: John smith, Jane doe, Arnold Anderson....

anteaters-on-chef

Just wanted to make sure it was completely wrong, as I felt

@user3306356 that's just wrong. the plural of editor-in-chief is editors-in-chief.

Right. Thanks.

well established in EFL (and junior high school English)

Jokes were nice tho

Unless wrong I am

@MattE.Эллен That makes me think things.

Like that particular chef is so unhygienic as to allow 1) ants to be on himself, and 2) anteaters to be present. Unless of course this is a manner of feeding anteaters to fatten them up for a christmas feast.

of anteaters-on-chef

@Mitch Nobody saw that.

@Mitch And enforced by attorneys general.

and sneered at by mothers-in-law

@Mitch like everything

@MattE.Эллен not their own child. the in-law is just not good enough.

true :D

bai!

l8r

ooh a new one...

lVIIIr

or lbār

@Mitch That's just rviiis.

hahahah. what?

how's that?

I'm sorry, that was probably ixive.

Oneelevenfivee?

@Mitch Oh .. that's exactly my question. I'm impressed :-)

Also you should say 'What (the hell) is that supposed to mean?"

ah ok :-)

@Shafizadeh yes. just googling you question (which I did) found your answer. The internet is cool like that.

yeah it is

@Mitch Except when the environmental controls fail. Then the Internet is HOT.