English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

12:31 AM

Because she’s a ¢@#!, I cannot tell whether this is more crap that shouldn’t be there:

-1 Completely unhelpful for the OP. Because old hat and not witty, not redeemed by being witty. Not nice. — Araucaria 12 mins ago

Your second answer is more likely to be said, but they're both grammatical. If you're a learner go with the second phrasing: it's important that you know that, generally speaking, main verb HAVE usually needs DO for negatives. [ Please don't be offended by any unhelpful answers here, they're just people trying to be funny about ESL terminology ] — Araucaria 10 mins ago

I’m pretty sure I gave the right answer that they both work but that the do version is more common.

Plus of course, she has by now deleted the original.

So I get nasty stuff in my inbox that nobody else gets to see.

> Your second answer is more likely to be said, but they're both grammatical. If you're a learner go with the second phrasing; it's important that you know that, generally speaking, main verb HAVE usually needs DO for negatives. [ Please don't be offense by any unhelpful answers that want to have a go at you because you're a language learner, and have learned a widely taught (not necessarily useful) label to help you learn a common form of a particular sentence.

> While your terminology might improve if you look at their answer, you won't have any further insight into the language! ]

That was in my inbox.

I came here to complain about the message I got, but it's no longer there because she deleted and reposted. Whatever.

Oh nice, her last three comments are on my postings alone. I guess she doesn’t stalk anybody else.

Cerberus

1:00 AM

Haha.

We have all experienced her sometimes abrasive approach.

tchrist

I hope she tires of her game. I certainly have.

I promise it was pure luck that the applicable conditionals’ Roman numerals, CXCIV and CCXVI, are anagrams of each other. I didn’t rejigger the listing to make it so.

tchrist

1:26 AM

Hypocrisy at its finest:

@edwin oh, but fun's allowed here! Btw, if you put an answer in, I'll delete mine. I think you should... :) — Araucaria 7 hours ago

Fun is only permitted for her answers, not for mine. How droll.

Can you begin a sentence with Apiece?

Meanwhile, I have somehow just managed to close the question, and I did not mean to do anything of the sort.

Voting to reopen. I left an oopsie message.

> We’ll take three apiece, please.

I don’t know that apiece can start a sentence.

Jasper Loy

2:09 AM

Hello @KitFox, I just woke up.

Jasper Loy

2:29 AM

Oh I guess you are not around, I am off.

Phonics The Hedgehog

3:51 AM

having a vertigo vs getting a vertigo

I'm having trouble deciding which one it is. :P

Jasper Loy

4:10 AM

@PhonicsTheHedgehog It seems to me that both are fine.

Phonics The Hedgehog

4:23 AM

@JasperLoy Jasper! How you've been?

Jasper Loy

@PhonicsTheHedgehog Bad. My mental illness worsened recently. The future is bleak. I am now trying to figure out how to make things better.

Phonics The Hedgehog

4:40 AM

@JasperLoy Is there any danger to... um, offing yourself? If I may ask.

Because, I won't be able to bear the guilt without at least trying to help. Is there anything I can do?

Jasper Loy

@PhonicsTheHedgehog No, I will try to live on and create a miracle for myself.

Phonics The Hedgehog

@JasperLoy Medicines do not help, I assume?

Jasper Loy

@PhonicsTheHedgehog You can pray for me, that I find a way to resolve my mental problems.

@PhonicsTheHedgehog I tried meds and therapy but they don't really work for me so I stopped, but I can always go back to them.

Phonics The Hedgehog

@JasperLoy Praying I can do.

@JasperLoy What did the doctors suggest on this topic?

Jasper Loy

@PhonicsTheHedgehog Of course, they suggest that I continue the meds and therapy. That is what they will always suggest, always.

Phonics The Hedgehog

4:44 AM

@JasperLoy In their defense, that's all they can think of, unfortunately.

Jasper Loy

@PhonicsTheHedgehog Yes, it's not wrong of them to suggest it, and it's also OK for me to decide for myself.

@PhonicsTheHedgehog I am going out now, maybe I will email you soon.

Phonics The Hedgehog

@JasperLoy Outside? I bid you a safe journey.

Jasper Loy

10:17 AM

Hello @MattЭллен I just met two of my professors.

Matt Эллен

how did that go?

Jasper Loy

I told them about my mental problems and my plans, and told them to give me some more years to get well and apply to grad school. They told me to try my best to get well and they would still write recommendation letters for me.

Now, I will try to figure out what to do this year to get better.

@PhonicsTheHedgehog Topic is a weird word choice here. Maybe matter would fit better.

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy that's good news!

Jasper Loy

@MattЭллен Now the most important thing is to get well. You should check on me in chat to see if I am making progress now and then and advise me accordingly, lol.

Matt Эллен

lol. OK :D

Jasper Loy

10:28 AM

Anyway, do you think I should go back to meds and therapy?

Matt Эллен

I don't know. I know that therapy takes time to make a difference, but having a professional to support you is invaluable, in my experience.

I've never taken meds, so I don't know how they work. if they're anything like non-psychoactive medication, then you might not even notice that they're working, only regress slowly once you stop

how to sell maths to teenagers

Jasper Loy

Well, the truth is, someone who does research actually works all year round, thinking about problems.

It's like me. I work all year round, thinking how to solve my mental problems.

SmokeDetector

10:57 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Is RAGE DNA probably the most technically superior Muscle mass building dietary supplement by Peter Phillips on english.stackexchange.com

Matt Эллен

> If you're which has a serious wish to recover appearance, far more exercises in the gym and also acceptable intercourse living then you definitely must order this right now.

OK. Sure. I'll order right now

> Benefits of RAGE DNA
> - Retain an individual useful with mattress

yeah. OK. Who wouldn't want one of those?

Jasper Loy

11:53 AM

It's good to shout aaaaaaaaaa to release your emotions. When it's done into your pillows and mattress, it doesn't disturb the neighbours.

tchrist

1:07 PM

Matt Эллен

lol

is Benedict Cumberbatch so difficult to spell?

or was this written by one of the upset viewers?

tchrist

Can you imagine the schoolyard at age 10 for him?

Matt Эллен

it would have been bad

Mitch

@MattЭллен I've ordered that. It's all true. But don't have too high expectations; it doesn't come with a mattress. That was my only real disappointment. Otherwise well-retained.

tchrist

Sounds like a legal firm: Benny, Dickens, & Snatch.

Matt Эллен

1:20 PM

@Mitch oh. the mattress was what I was mostly interested in

tchrist

How best to navigate the traffic jams of Inner London circa 100 years ago:

Matt Эллен

so that's what Reg does for a living

tchrist

Because when you get stuck, just direct your river horse to the canals.

Or at least the Thames.

Matt Эллен

although I'm not sure the hippo could have survived the Thames 100 years ago. I think it was poisonous

tchrist

It isn’t now?

Matt Эллен

1:29 PM

not as bad, anyway...

> Fifty years after being declared biologically dead, the Thames has been hailed as an environmental success story.

although the main problem was in London

it would probably fair fine further up

tchrist

Did it catch fire?

Cuyahoga River

The Cuyahoga River (/ˌkaɪ.əˈhɒɡə/ KY-ə-HOG-ə, or /ˌkaɪ.əˈhoʊɡə/ KY-ə-HOH-gə) is located in Northeast Ohio in the United States and feeds Lake Erie. The river is famous for being "the river that caught fire," helping to spur the environmental movement in the late 1960s. Native Americans called this winding water "Cuyahoga," which means "crooked river" in an Iroquoian language. == Course == The Cuyahoga watershed begins its 100-mile (160 km) journey in Hambden, Ohio, flowing southward to the confluence of the East Branch Cuyahoga River and West Branch Cuyahoga River in Burton, where the Cuyahoga...

Matt Эллен

I do not believe so!

tchrist

> At least 13 fires have been reported on the Cuyahoga River, the first occurring in 1868.[12] The largest river fire in 1952 caused over $1 million in damage to boats, a bridge, and a riverfront office building.[dead link][13] On June 22, 1969, a river fire captured the attention of Time magazine, which described the Cuyahoga as the river that "oozes rather than flows" and in which a person "does not drown but decays".[14]

Matt Эллен

sounds like a great place to fish...

tchrist

They come pre-fried.

Matt Эллен

1:34 PM

:D

Mitch

Fire caught fire

The Thames is not south poisonous as diseaseful.

@MattЭллен I was hoping for the rage part of the DNA. Could come in quite useful in traffic disputes or disagreements over pub trivia answers

Wait...I think I already have some DNA.

Matt Эллен

you do? where do you keep it?

Mitch

Nope. That was on old tissue.

In my pocketses

Matt Эллен

ewwww

Mitch

That's what gollum should have answered. And no matter what pants I was wearing he'd have been right.

Even no pants

Wait..tissue in AmE is Kleenex for blowing snot out of your nose. Hopefully the same in BrE

Matt Эллен

1:49 PM

yes

plus the more medical meaning

tchrist

2:01 PM

There’s something you call tissue which we don’t, but I forget what it is.

Jasper Loy

Tissue either means skin tissue or tissue for the skin to me.

tchrist

Oh, it’s King-Kong Talk:

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Q: "Napkin" vs. "tissue"

I have suddenly found out that Chinese people use the word tissue instead of the word napkin. Before I checked that word in the dictionary I couldn't understand what they are talking about. Is there any reason to use one word or another in some situation? How are they different?

Jasper Loy

@tchrist Here in Antarctica, we use tissues and napkins too.

tchrist

“Women Having a Terrible Time at Parties in Western Art History”

Jasper Loy

2:16 PM

Yo @PhonicsTheHedgehog are you still here?

Matt Эллен

@tchrist the last one is my favourite

tchrist

@MattЭллен Note covert distance between circumjacent knees.

Matt Эллен

oh yes

tchrist

Sometimes there are giants in the picture whom no one notices, and sometimes there are dwarves.

A Beautiful Mind

2:43 PM

Hello @MattЭллен LOL. I changed my username to a brand new one.

Mitch

@tchrist 30 minutes of my life (laughing hysterically) just gone in a blink of an eye.

Matt Эллен

@ABeautifulMind brand new, you say? what's that?

I see. it's a beautiful mind

A Beautiful Mind

@MattЭллен I never used it before.

Matt Эллен

true

tchrist

3:21 PM

A few weeks ago somebody here posted an amusing vim keyboard map cheatsheat image. Anybody help me find it again, please? It’s for somebody else who needs it. That said, I think the image was posted as a jape.

Never mind, it's early on in google images.

Mitch

3:40 PM

@tchrist I use notepad

Matt Эллен

I use emacs

Mitch

By notepad, I mean post-it notes.

Matt Эллен

and what do you mean by post-it notes?

Mitch

I then phone camera them into Evernote.

Then I press 'compile'.

Matt Эллен

where is "compile" written?

Mitch

3:44 PM

@MattЭллен by post-it notes I mean 3x3 yellow pads backed with weak adhesive. What the SKU number is I don't know.

@MattЭллен It's in one of the evernote menus.

Matt Эллен

oh. oh well. I only wanted the mattress anyway

Mitch

evernote doesn't have a menu option for that

people have been asking for it integrated since version 1, but it's too complicated to be a quick fix, and too simple to be worth a version, so it always gets pushed back.

Also, why don't you use eclipse? There is an 'emacs' keyboard mode.

Which is in the uncanny valley... close enough to emacs that you can use some of the features, but just off enough that it screws everything up.

tchrist

@Mitch Mine come in different colors; is this a problem?

Matt Эллен

because eclipse is not what I use!

Mitch

@tchrist grinds teeth

@MattЭллен I sincerely like emacs better. not even xemacs. eclipse is a reasonable alternative. vi makes me want to gouge out my eyes with dull chopsticks.

Matt Эллен

3:57 PM

woo!

Mitch

@tchrist If it works for you. I like the fact that the almost fluorescent rainbow colors of them exist, but I personally don't like writing on them. like the bright blue, I just stare at that instead of the writing (not that I can read the writing in any case).

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