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is there a unix word list with IPA pronunciations? there is the moby word list (or is it CMU?) but those are multi letter, but could be fixed to have single char per phoneme.

tchrist

2:22 AM

@Mitch Well, I have the OED as SGML, but in general, I don't think so.

If we could only get people to write /traj/ for try, or as Kenyon and Knott, and Lawler do, /tray/, then /ˈtrajæd/ or /ˈtrayæd/ would be much more sensible to folks.

Sum fixed this one: english.stackexchange.com/a/374441/2085

skill patrol

I'm just curious @tchrist are you working on any new books?

tchrist

Not to my knowledge.

Robusto

3:25 AM

My mother-in-law was in one of those camps. And looks like we're headed in that direction again.

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Matt E. Эллен

11:26 AM

"two mini doughnuts" lol

languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/…

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SadBunny

1:03 PM

hi all

looking for a user list

any native speakers in here?

I'm a Dutch guy (Dutch native speaker too) looking for a certain word that just won't come to me

It's the (or a) word for setting something up to do a certain thing in a certain situation

like, setting up a race car to blow a tire in the third round of the race

or, in my case, setting up a java class mock to throw an exception when a certain test value is offered

would anyone know the verb that describes an act like that?

pre... something nice...

not preparing, something more specific

not prepending, presetting, prefixing, predefining... I know there's a verb that fits this situation better :/

maybe I

maybe I'm stuck on that "pre" prefix though?

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MetaEd

2:16 PM

@SadBunny I got nothing.

SadBunny

2:27 PM

aww too bad

thanks anyway

englishstudent

2:38 PM

@SadBunny I would use the word "prepping". prepping

I have a general question for you too, why are you a sadbunny, why not a happybunny?

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M.A.R.

6:33 PM

Can a machine be taught to flag spam automagically?

Can someone please pin that? ^

MetaEd

SmokeDetector now automatically casting spam flags: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/291301/…

M.A.R.

Thanks

MetaEd

Was just reading all about that.

M.A.R.

BTW, it's our accounts that actually cast the flags. Smokey just automated it

So if flags get declined, it counts as ours

MetaEd

Yes. I considered linking my account for that because this seems like a worthy project, but probably I shouldn't link a mod account.

M.A.R.

6:40 PM

@MetaEd Don't worry, there is no automation for sites you're a moderator on

So for instance, Undo, a mod on SO, doesn't get to autoflag on SO

MetaEd

This is perhaps the first good reason I might have for creating a sock puppet.

@M.A.R. So that's a special exception in the code?

M.A.R.

@MetaEd There are a lot of mods somehow related to Smokey, and they either manually or automatically are exempt from autoflagging in the site they're a mod on to ensure that there will be always at least a human involved in nuking stuff

in Charcoal HQ, 39 secs ago, by Undo

Right

Actually, there are more mods involved in this Smokey project than regular users

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key_asdfg

10:34 PM

I saw this sentence: "You can change this view by either clicking on the appropriate button at the top of calendar window" Would it have been weird if the last part was written with additional the like "at the top of the calendar window?"

The sentence is from here: howtogeek.com/237949/…