( you are one of the few people I still remember their names from primary school ) is this correcte sentence ?

@FaheemMitha I'd call that a shower room, as would most BrE speakers.

@ZeRubeus "You are one of the few people whose names I still remember from primary school."

@AndrewLeach - I just missed you. Are you available?

@anongoodnurse You should have had a ping from elsewhere. Only for a few minutes (it's 12:50am here).

Can we discuss something in private? (I didn't get the ping.) It doesn't have to be immediately.

sorry, my mistake.

@FaheemMitha Depends on where you are. In Australia it's just called a bathroom.

@Rathony Thought I'd just say that you're good at finding duplicates, so thanks, it makes it easier for the rest of us!

@sumelic Thanks for the tip!

@MετάEd Sorry for being late to the party - I missed your discussion from several days earlier. The current reopen process places more load on reviewers than on the OP. Consider this question in the reopen queue. I need to reread the whole thing + edit trail + comments to even start to work out whether the OP is trying to improve anything, let alone whether the improvements justify reopening. ...

Giving the OP a meta space to do that makes it easier to see what's going on, to consider the attempted improvements and to dismiss unintentional reopen queue entries.

Here's a link to the question in case the link into the review queue disappears.

Regarding the 'appeals' question on meta - the original idea was simply to make the reopen process transparent. However, the current policy being to appeal on meta, this would also tend to increase the number of meta questions related to reopen requests. No one has said they like that. I haven't seen any better suggestions regarding process or the people aspect of the close/reopen process regarding both (potential) voters and OPs, but do let me know if you've come across any.

EDIT: ^^^ No one has said they like that ... and some have said they don't.

@Lawrence I'd much prefer that. Each solicitation for reopen votes should be made in a new question.

@curiousdannii Thanks for voicing your opinion on this. Here's the feature request on meta. Can you share your thoughts in a new answer, please? The single-page version is almost ready to trial, but I'd like to have the separate-meta-question option documented and discussed. NB: the single-page version is only a trial, so if enough people (5 non-mods or 1 mod) don't like it, it can be terminated by closing the meta question (how ironic :) ).

@Lawrence TBH I don't understand why so much effort is being spent on this. The status quo is fine.

I already downvoted that meta post. I'm not going to bother making an answer. People can do what they want. If they want to use a general question for all solicitations then okay. If other's want to make new posts, then okay.

And they can ask in chat too.

You only need to solicit one reopen vote for it to appear in the queue, after which the process will continue naturally.

@curiousdannii It's part of the messy process of making things neat :) .

The point about the status quo is addressed in comments on the question page and in my reply to MετάEd. In brief, it's about the people, not the mechanics of the review queue.

@AndrewLeach Ok, thank you. I might use that.

@curiousdannii Ok.

Anybody in?

NM. I got my answer.

Hey @Curious.

Also hullo @terdon

Dammit

@IͶΔ What?

What what?

@curiousdannii Could you do me a favor?

@IͶΔ what do you want?

@curiousdannii Could you take a screenshot of the "should go to ELL" close reason?

@IͶΔ ... why? Can't you do it?

I don't have CV superpowers on ELU.

Ahh

So you mean in the close vote dialogue window? It says the exact same thing in the flagging window

Oh, then nevermind. Thanks for the help

@curiousdannii Just checking, is it this one?

Or that's your GR?

That's your GR.

No one thinks about the children

If not now, when? If not here, where? If not ... for this particular reason, why?

the bombing starts in 5 minutes

It doesn't even matter if I knew if the mic was on.

checks watch

Have your coffee now

drinks coffee

brb

I'm trying to identify a tree in my yard and it's damn hard.

"It's that one"

"That's the tree that stole my wallet"

"wait...without all their leaves, they look all alike"

The bark looks like cedar. It grows gnarly, like a wisteria vine. It doesn't have leaves so it must be deciduous.

I think yesterday was the worst...come the revolution the first in the reeducation camps should be the daylight saving time people, at least the spring ones. The fall ones are pretty cool, they'll be party leadership

And I have a sneaking suspicion that we shouldn't be burning it.

@Mitch That was two days ago wasn't it?

@KitZ.Fox i read that as 'delicious'.

@KitZ.Fox the effects come out the worst a couple days later.

Yeah. I have a hard time adjusting to time changes.

@KitZ.Fox not that I'm a tree hugger or anything (it's not that comfortable and they don't seem to like hugging back) but burning any kind of plant material is just releasing sequestered carbon.

an enviro-crime

that the pre-enviro-crime-police are-monitoring.

I think it's producing some kind of smell.

@KitZ.Fox I have absolutely no problem in the fall.

My proposal is to turn the clock backwards in the spring too.

@KitZ.Fox you mean without burning? Just by itself? Is it a bad smell?

spring is coming early (in the NE US) this year, so maybe it is gearing up, loosening its sap, fragrantizing early?

It's kind of like nail polish, acetone smell or maybe ammoniaish. Faint before burning, stronger when burned. That's why I want to know what it is.

Because I'm thinking it might be toxic.

Hmm. Maybe it's laurel? This would be easier if it had leaves on it.

@KitZ.Fox Oh. so you're going ahead and burning it, then sniffing?

Turpentine comes from pine trees.

what is ammoni.. oh like ammonia.

That doesn't sound good

but then people's breath smells like nail polish when going through ketoacidosis

Right.

I wonder if nai polish came first, or if someone smelled a diabetic's breath and thought that that could strip the polish off of nails.

Ponderosa pines smell like butterscotch.

Why?

We're cutting it off the back of the lot where there's still damage from the ice storm of '98 and burning it in our woodstove.

Because they know how to boil sugar to the right temperature?

poison ivy?

@tchrist Terpines?

that would be very annoying for your eyes. I think you'd know.

burning poison ivy can kill you.

Wait, I found the answer.

Scientists don't know why a closely sniffed Ponderosa smells like baking cookies. The aroma may arise from a chemical in the sap being warmed by the sun.

The answer is that nobody knows!

Nobody nose!

@tchrist Hi. Can I ask you for your updated list of conditionals?

How can I say this sentence better than this? : "You are creepy person, look at me, creepy ...! Because you like posts and laugh to posts according to relationship (you just like those posts which are sent by your wife) not according to the worth of such a post"

"You are creepy because you only like the posts your wife makes, regardless of their worth."

very good, tnx

@Shafizadeh "... Because you unfairly favor your wife's posts over others' posts which maybe better." / "When you wanna like a post, you show favoritism toward your wife." / etc.

@Shafizadeh But that doesn't make you creepy, mind you.

@Fard tnx

@Fard Yes it does ..

You're not married apparently.

:-)

I'm not ... but I believe replying a post as "a good post" should be according to its worth .. Not the relation of his owner

Correction: maybe --> may be. (in my first sentence)

;-)

@Fard You should write "which may be better". Also, "wanna" is very very slangy and informal.

oh you already corrected it.

I don't think unfairly favouring one's wife's posts makes one creepy.

@Fard "others' posts" is correct? I think you are missing a "s" after ', Am I right?

like this: others's posts

oh interesting .. tnx

@IͶΔ How some plural nouns get an apostrophe.

Yeah that

This room is really good for me .. I always learn stuff in here

The ox's harness, the oxen's harnesses. Bob Jones's house, the Jones's house. Sam Richards' house, the Richards' house.

Actually I'm not sure about singular Richards'. Richards's?

You add 's if you pronounce an extra "es" sound to mark possession, you add ' if you don't.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yeah Richards's.

Is this correct? "but the way, your reactions are overreacted, you should send one or two (or maximum three) emoji for a post, not twenty emoji"

emoji = a laugh/smile/like/etc .. symbol

that first comma is wrong

It is not.

@MattE.Эллен ah, just that?

@IͶΔ And may you please tell me where of that is wrong?

@Shafizadeh unless you mean "by the way"

> Don't overreact. One emoji is enough to bring the message across.

But a BTW there if you like.

@IͶΔ ah .. seems you have a lot of English-writing-skills

@MattE.Эллен yes I meant was what you said :-) sorry I never cannot learn English :(

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 You're right about 'wanna'. I just assumed it was an informal Facebook chat.

@Fard Even on Facebook I'd never write "wanna".

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 you're so stuffy, man! you wanna lighten up a bit?

Not gonna do it.

dunno why.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Is this your personal preference not to use it or is it that slangy? I hear it (along with gonna, gotta, etc) all the time in TV-shows and interviews and ... .

@Fard In speaking, that's how the words come out. But in writing, it's just not written that way.

So it's a slangy stile of writing but a regular form of speaking?

That's a bit strange.

and I have a personal aversion to "wanna" as a written word. My brain rebels at interpreting that "a" as the "a" in "want"... I read it as rhyming with "hannah"

@Fard Not at all. Sounds change in speaking all the time. Spelling is fossilized.

ossified like the teddy bears hung off a waterfall

Yesterday I saw gatta as a short form of get to. That I'd call slangy.

But I didn't know about wanna. Thanks.

So even though many speakers, even speaking formally, drop the "g" in -ng, or slur "to" to "a" in "want to", "going to", etc, it's just not written that way.

@Fard "gotta" is the more common spelling.

"gatta" just seems wrong.

Let's getta goin'.

My mistake. It was getta.

That makes no sense to me.

gatta hatta hooza chatta

Let's get goin' is fine. (for speech).

google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22let%27s+getta%22

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 "getta going" reminds me of affected cowboy speak

Get to doing something is along the same lines as start doing it, isn't it?

Why does catsup go on potatoes but not on peas?

@Fard Those examples are contractions of "get a". "Get a move on", "get a-going". I'd strongly avoid using "getta" anywhere you're not trying to draw attention to accented or affected speech.

@Fard Quite possibly.

@tchrist potatoes are intrinsically bland?

@tchrist I'd be glad if you would give it to me then!

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I was wondering whether it might be because both peas and tomatoes are sweet fruits.

@tchrist I've never had peas (allergy), so I dunno. But I find that ketchup usually goes on bland things: plain beef burgers, potatoes, plain eggs, sandwiches. Some people put it on everything though.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That makes more sense. But does get to doing something not make any sense whatsoever?

@tchrist I don't mind it on peas, but I can't stand it on carrots

I wouldn't mix it with ice cream. I think that would be terrible.

AIEEE! A BALROG HAS COME! It begins.

Yeah, that definitely adds drama.

@Fard "get to doing" is a phrase, yes, that means to reach a point where you can do something.

I meant in the sense of start doing. Apparently it doesn't.

@IͶΔ

Also, monkey.

♫ Tell Lora I love her ... ♫

@MετάEd ?

Oh.

Is "The" necessary in this sentence? "That's my duty as the moderator of this group"

@Shafizadeh It is not grammatically necessary.

Now, is it necessary for some other reason? Maybe.

Ah, so this is fine? "That's my duty as moderator of this group"

@Shafizadeh The sentence is grammatically correct. It has a subtly different meaning, and sometimes the right shade of meaning is necessary in the social situation.

I see, tnx

So it might still be necessary to put in the "the" -- or necessary to leave it out. But not because of grammar.

got it :-)

@MετάEd As in This is my last day as President of the United States of America.

But then maybe it's better to capitalize the first letter: as Moderator of this group.

(If there is such a post as capital M Moderator)

trumpdonald.org

@IͶΔ That is surprisingly amusing.

Bows

I'm pleased that you're pleased master

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1746-8361.12128/abstract

I wonder if even Trump's fans find it funny

@IͶΔ It's creepy. In a delightful, Monty Python way.

@MετάEd I've been playing with it for twelve hours.

@IͶΔ That's creepy but not in a delightful way.

@MετάEd It's not like literally just sitting and playing with it.

I just multitask.

You'll find me read Wikipedia, answer something on ELL, study biology and trump Donald at the same time.

Explains like 4 hours of my day.

When I wasn't browsing the Two Guy & Guy comic.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 some plural nouns get apostrophes by licking bus windows.

@Mitch Nah, pretty sure bussing lick windows suffices.

Well anybody really.

@IͶΔ consults professional doctor impersonating as google

Wow. 'My doctor' says I'm going to die.

That's bad

maybe

@Mitch Well, sure. You can't spell "my doctor" without "doctor".

@Mitch or Cry T Doom. Whatever.

or Cody Mort.

@Mitch I know someone who once licked a payphone by accident.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Snopes says no.

Ry Coot, MD.

"Is there any grammer issue in my sentence." Ouch.

No, you have already identified the grammest issue.

This is exactly rocket science.

What's the right term for seeing a newspaper ad before it runs in a paper? Mockup?

Hmm, a quick google suggests the term might be 'proof'.

@RegDwigнt What are the odds, eh?

@FaheemMitha "Leak."

@RegDwigнt If only it were repeatable.

@MετάEd Funny.

@IͶΔ Thanks. I think

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Eww. But the bus window thing seems to be a universal among young first time riders (<5yoa)

Solved.

@MετάEd That dictionary entry annoys me. I'm fine with the usage by the author as it is a figure of speech (not literal). But is that a recognized and repeated usage? Has it become a dead metaphor for breaking ot into laughter? It sounds way too poetic to me. I need to fracture the editor who dared but a specific entry in for that usage.

Dictionary of American Slang? sounds like baby Urban Dictionary to me.

How did you find 'fractured'?

@Mitch Searched Google for "explosion" in that book. The total research time was on the order of a minute.

Why that question had a million guesses and no attempts at actually researching the answer is beyond me.

@Mitch Yeah, that I don't know. But it was nice confirmation.

@MετάEd That's the feeling I got from your answer (that you googled that book), but it wasn't obvious in the answer. Yes, it seems idiotic that others are just guessing when the OP wants the word -in that book-.

@MετάEd did you share that connotation before you read this question?

@Mitch I added the search method to the answer. Maybe it'll help somebody.

@Mitch I didn't know it.

@MετάEd I don't trust dictionaries anymore. Not that I did before. I remember having to do translations in French class in high school and being annoyed at getting things wildly wrong using the dictionary. I learned to go F-E then E-F then back again, just to make sure.

Have you seen Elian's answers? He seems to just go E-F then F-E and stop, almost always giving an answer that is in the ballpark but eerily veering off to left field.

I translate back and forth just because it's fun to see how the sentence evolves with each translation. Translation-for-the-helluvit.

@MετάEd There was a website, not too long ago, that did that automatically for Japanese-English, you'd give it a word and it would go back and forth translating till it reached a steady state. usually too about 5 hops.