English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

KitFox

7:00 PM

What? No, I don't.

JSBᾶngs

ELU tells me that I am now a guru of the F-word

which is a great relief

KitFox

I feel relieved as well.

Oh. No, that is for a different reason.

Robusto

You know, without the "-w" the F-word is just an ordinary Ford.

Mahnax

Why?

…

KitFox

Cold.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

7:24 PM

3

Q: Is it grammatical to have "why" and "to" together?

Is the following sentence grammatical? Why to use page-level permissions From Google Support: Why to use page-level permissions Page-level permissions allow you to.. It sounds weird to me, however the words were from a Google support page so I'm suspecting that it may actually...

grammar

So. Um. Everyone says this is okay?

I would deem "Why to use" awfully ungrammatical, title or not.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 No. I just had to look away.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Everyone says "why to" is ok? or everyone says the question is ok

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@MrShinyandNew安宇 The former.

The question is fine. But the answer, as far as I am concerned, is "it's a typo or a rookie pineapple mistake"

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Yeah, I don't think "why to" is ok, actually I'm not sure if there are any cases when it's ok

JSBᾶngs

in the context given, it's fine

WH-word + infinitive is a common construction in titles

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

7:28 PM

First time I see that. Honestly.

JSBᾶngs

How To Build a Boat, When To Punch Somebody, Why To Quit Your Job

Who To Schmooze With At Parties

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

All of those sound fine to me except "why to quit your job"

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Exactly.

JSBᾶngs

i have no problem with it

perhaps this grammatical construction isn't fully generalized for you

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

But I do see several examples of it in the COCA.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

7:29 PM

In fact the point is, the grammar in titles is weird because you want to save space. Which is what most of the answers say. They provide five-word clauses that are supposedly omitted from the title. Well, why not omit the to as well?

Mitch

@Robusto They're all bastards. Some more than others.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

And look! I just said "why not omit", without even realizing it. But in a title I am supposed to write "why not to omit"? Stuff and nonsense.

JSBᾶngs

you're not supposed to write "to". it's acceptable either way

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Well you catch my drift.

JSBᾶngs

interestingly, i would take "Why Quit Your Job" and "Why To Quit Your Job" somewhat differently

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

7:31 PM

It's three characters longer.

Why would I add three characters to save space.

@JSBᾶngs I see what you're getting at.

The former is, don't, the latter is, here's why you should.

JSBᾶngs

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 exactly

Mitch

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 people are dumb

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I don't think "why not to omit something?" is grammatical

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JSBᾶngs well that is an interesting interjection.

KitFox

Can someone help me with some code shorthand that I don't understand?

(start - dtMin).Days > 0 ? (start - dtMin).Days * 100 / dateSpan : 0;

Mitch

7:34 PM

for all those answerers, they're not answering the direct question of 'is it grammatical', because I think they agree that it sounds off, but all sorts of weird things happen in titles so it's hard to be too critical.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

If you ask me, "why to" is generally not grammatical. But it has enough hits in COCA that I can't say they're all mistakes.

KitFox

This is conditional, I'm guessing, but I don't get it.

Mitch

@KitFox It's max(some stuff, 0) (don't go less than 0).

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox ?: is an if-else operator

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Mitch but that's the thing. Do they actually analyze it, or do they dodge the question? Much of what they say is justification in hindsight. I can justify many a typo that way.

Mitch

7:35 PM

dodging.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

((boolean expression is true) ? return this value : else return this value)

KitFox

So the colon divides the true from the false? If this ? true:false.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Oh. Thanks.

Mitch

yes.@KitFox

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

so (true? 1 : 2) gives 1 and (false? 1 : 2) gives 2

KitFox

I'm frantically trying to translate this code block before 4pm.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:37 PM

and in most languages "1" and "2" both have to be the same type. So you can't do a > 1? "hello" : 23

JSBᾶngs

i want a sandwich. brb

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I want a good answer on that question for me to upvote.

And a sandwich, of course.

JSBᾶngs

operation sandwich was aborted. instead, i have free leftover pizza from the group down the hall

Mitch

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 write one yourself....-oh- one that you can upvote.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@stuff=("answer", "sandwich"); while (@stuff) { sudo make me $_; }

KitFox

7:41 PM

Anyone happen to know how to escape double quotes in VB.net?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I can't see anything on this monitor. Can't even tell a colon from a semicolon.

user19161

I just had a Subway sandwich. Yum yum.

Mitch

the COCA data makes it seem like 'Why to quit... 'it is becoming possible, and I guess by analogy with all the other question words, which sounds somewhat reasonable however weird it sounds.

JSBᾶngs

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 that's just going to loop forever making you sandwiches and answers. which is pretty sweet, actually

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 did I ever tell you the story about a guy who called me for customer support, who was unable to spell "a:"?

(obv. back in the days of floppy disks)

JSBᾶngs

7:43 PM

(actually, it's not even going to do that. you want for or foreach in place of while)

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I don't think you have, to me or anyone else here.

@JSBᾶngs no idea. I'll try it out at work tomorrow.

Don't have an interpreter here.

user19161

I can't find "compenetrate" on merriam-webster.com (free version) or oxforddictionaries.com.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Yeah so basically this guy was calling me for help setting up his internet connection. This being the days of Windows 3.1 and 95, his "internet software" came on floppies and had to be installed along with some optional windows stuff like tcp/ip drivers. So he called asking what he should do when the system asks for a disk.

user19161

2

Q: Difference between "penetrate" and "compenetrate"

According to Merriam-Webster: penetrate — to pass into or through compenetrate — to penetrate throughout What is the difference between the two? Are they synonymous?

differences verbs

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JSBᾶngs But it was supposed to be pseudo code anyway, in case you can't tell by the lack of backticks around the shell command.

user19161

7:45 PM

So +1 for you on "compenetrate". That is the whiskey for you today @jsb.

Mitch

@ClarkKent 'compenetrate' is not a word

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I told him "put the disk in drive A", but he didn't know which disk to put in. "It's asking for disk #2, but I have two disks with #2 on them". I tried to explain that it would ask for "Windows 95 Disk #2" and not just "disk 2", but he didn't get it and wasn't at the computer, naturally, so he couldn't explain the message to me.

Jez

windows 95 disk 2?

have i entered a timewarp and gone back 15 years?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Anyway I told him "If it asks you where the disk is, type "A:" and press <ENTER>". "How do you spell that?" "It's the letter A and the colon symbol". Long pause......... then I said "It's next to the L". "Which side?" headdesk

@Jez If you had you'd be running Netscape 1.0, or 1.1 if you were lucky

And this chat would work by doing meta-refreshes

that being the only tool in the toolbox

Jez

Yep, thank god for Microsoft for introducing XHR

user19161

7:50 PM

So I learnt that when you put facepalm and headdesk together, you get facepalmheaddesk. QED.

KitFox

@JSB Can I use Linq on a datatable?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I had lots of headdesk moments when I did customer support.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JSBᾶngs actually I now realize that I wanted a for in there. Not sure how while got there in the first place, as I don't think I have ever used that in any programming language at any point in my life. Well, Turbo Pascal 5.5., perhaps; I don't remember.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Unfortunately I didn't have a blog back then so I never kept track of all those stories and have forgotten them.

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 you've never used while? it's pretty useful!

JSBᾶngs

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 i use while quite a but; but not for iterating arrays

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

7:53 PM

@MrShinyandNew安宇 well it's also pretty useful to be able to write bla if X, and yet I never use that one either and always go with if X bla.

@ClarkKent wrong.

yesterday, by RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

headpalmfacedesk

Jez

Frown

A frown (also known as a scowl) is a facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration. The appearance of a frown varies from culture to culture. Although most technical definitions define it as a wrinkling of the brow, in North America it is primarily thought of as an expression of the mouth. In those cases when used iconically, as with an emoticon, it is entirely presented as a curve of the lips facing away from the eyes ('down'). The mouth expression i...

JSBᾶngs

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 i do that all the time in perl

Jez

It takes more muscles to smile than to frown. So, keep frowning.

JSBᾶngs

die unless everything_is_ok();

KitFox

Damn it!

user19161

7:54 PM

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 HB! I misread!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JSBᾶngs it only confuses the matters further for me, in a language that's confusing enough without that.

user19161

@Jez Wrong. Smile to exercise or do nothing to slack.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JSBᾶngs dieis a special case for me, I am willing to make an exception for that one.

user19161

@Jez What? Wikipedia has an entry on "frown"?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

oh, you guys are talking perl? blech

Jez

7:57 PM

s/blech/cool/ig

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@ClarkKent it even has articles on individual horses.

So if you want to have a Wikipedia article all for yourself, become a horse, or a video-game character. For best results, become both.

Ponyta

Insieme a Chimchar, è l'unico Pokémon Base di tipo Fuoco presente nel Pokédex di Sinnoh in Pokémon Diamante e Perla. In questi titoli è inoltre uno dei quattordici Pokémon che possiedono una descrizione in 6 lingue nel Pokédex. Nel manga Pokémon Adventures Lady Platina Berlitz ha posseduto un esemplare di Ponyta. Significato del nome Il suo nome probabilmente deriva dall'unione della parola inglese pony con il suffisso spagnolo -ita (piccolo). Potrebbe anche derivare dalla parola inglese ponytail (coda di cavallo) o dalla parola spagnola bonita (bello). Origine Ponyta è basato su ...

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 It is interesting that if we append "it" to "ponyta" we get "ponytail".

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Interesting, you say...

aedia λ

Awwh I miss Ponyta!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

BTW, this is a dupe:

2

Q: Is 'Haphazard' a unique word?

Is "Haphazard" the only word where ph is not pronounced like "f"?

pronunciation

18

Q: Why is the "ph" pronounced like a "v" in "Stephen"? Is this the only word like that?

While I know how my name is pronounced, I've run into many non-native english speakers who have stumbled over this unique exception to English. Even in the female name, "Stephanie", the ph is pronounced as f. What is the etymology of "Stephen" and is there any other instance of ph being pronoun...

etymology pronunciation proper-nouns

user19161

8:05 PM

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Yes. I am easily amused.

aedia λ

I'm miles late, but Why To Eat Spaghetti and the like are unremarkable for me

user19161

@aediaλ I would just write the title as "Why eat spaghetti".

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Personally I think JSB had the only valid point in favor of to.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Reg that "dupe" is asking if "ph as v" is unique to Stephen

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@MrShinyandNew安宇 it also answers the question at hand.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:11 PM

"Stephan" is not really a "word" like all the other words

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

First of all, of course it is.

Second of all, the answers to that question go much farther.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Lots of person names fail to respect English spelling rules in some way

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 The answers to the Stephen question say nothing about why the ph in Haphazard isn't pronounced as /f/

Furthermore the haphazard question didn't even ask that

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Exactly.

The haphazard question doesn't ask why.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

but the answer would be different anyway

There are two or more cases why ph isn't pronounced f and the Stephen question only deals with one, and a different one applies to haphazard.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Of course.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:15 PM

so, different question, different answers, how is it a dupe?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

The question is, and I quote,

11 mins ago, by RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

2

Q: Is 'Haphazard' a unique word?

Is "Haphazard" the only word where ph is not pronounced like "f"?

pronunciation

That is all. That is the entire question.

It is answered by the title of the older question. Don't even have to look at the answers.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I'm familiar with it, as you may note from the fact that I answered it.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

The point is, had he searched the site for "ph", this question wouldn't even exist.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Ok, our disagreement stems on the interpretation of what is meant by "word" in that question. I think it's perfectly fair to exclude any "word" that only serves as a proper name.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

And I think it's only fair to exclude all words where the p and the h belong to two different morphemes. Now what?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:18 PM

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 That doesn't make sense

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Of course it does.

There is no "ph" in "uphill". There's a p, and an h.

This question is highly relevant here:

4

Q: "Ph" for the /f/ sound; Is Old England responsible for this swap?

Is old England responsible for creating the /f/ sound from ph, as in Philip, Pharoah, Physics, Sophia, etc? Many European countries keep the f for all of their /f/-sounding letters, as in Sofia and Stefan, for example.

pronunciation

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

The whole point of that question is that the p and h are from different morphemes. That's why they're not pronounced f.

Whereas all the ones where they ARE from the same morpheme ARE pronounced /f/. except for a few /v/ ones.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Hm.

Well I guess that's a point.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Maybe I should put that in my answer and make the internet a better place?

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Yes, do a noble deed.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:24 PM

What do you guys think of this: Words that came from Greek and have a 'ph' in a single morpheme tend to use the /f/ pronunciation (except some cases like "Stephen" where it's /v/ - voiced instead of unvoiced). However, words that were formed by combining separate morphemes (such as uphill, loophole, haphazard, etc) have a 'ph' that belongs to two morphemes and does not represent an /f/ sound.

(I'm not sure if /v/ and /f/ are the right IPA for that)

ok, the answer's updated

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Very nice.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

thanks! I'm glad we had this little chat

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Teehee.

Well we can have another. Lemme see what other dupes you have answered lately.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 good luck, I rarely answer questions anymore. Today is a fluke

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Oh my. 189 answers. I'm too lazy to check that many.

Oh haha.

-3

Q: Why is the word "before" vanishing from common use?

Just in the last four years, I've noticed that the word prior is increasingly used in place of before. Prior has become customary enough that people commonly leave off 'to' in employing it: "Most of the guests appeared at 8:00, but I arrived prior." I don't know why this disturbs me so, but i...

language-evolution

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:39 PM

I have 189 answers? that means 10 were deleted! gosh, think of the reps lost

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

These days this would get kiled with fire. But now that it's survived for so long, I suppose we might as well wait and see how long it takes you to get a Reversal badge for that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

heheh

if I get to +20 on that one and it's down at -4, can I cast the downvote to give myself the reversal? :)

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

My money is on extremely very much long or perhaps even way more longer than that.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 of course.

I can't help as my downvote is OVER 9000 old and I can't vote twice.

It could be a recency [sic] illusion, too, John; thanks for that link. Does the use of "no problem" in response to "thanks" qualify as an illusion, as well, or is that just an antipodean thing? — fortunate1 Dec 17 '11 at 14:55

So what's the deal with the sic in there?

Sounds like the Kosmo approach.

May 11 '11 at 13:35, by Kosmonaut

I recommend just throwing [sic] in randomly when quoting one's enemies. Nobody will want to admit they don't know why it is there, and the damage is done.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Yeah who knows with that OP.

1

A: If ______ gets outlawed, only outlaws will ______

Each of those phrases is rooted in one of the received myths of the national psyche -in this instance, that Americans are naturally (and justifiably) resistant to the dictates of a central authority. Each phrase opens with the sort of ukase that a clueless bureaucrat might issue from over the hor...

That's something else they wrote

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

> Each phrase opens with the sort of ukase...

What is that? A bastard child of an ukaz and a bukake?

@MrShinyandNew安宇 275 reps, to be precise.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇, Toronto, Canada

9.7k 1 11 43

word-choice meaning grammar etymology single-word-requests american-english differences

Which means that you would be at exactly 10.000 this very moment.

Coincidence? I think not!

Vitaly

8:59 PM

Do inactive accounts get deleted?

My chat account is somehow 3200 reps short.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Only devs can delete accounts.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

whoa, 5pm already! yikes! poof! disappears

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Inactive or not, that usually only happens if you ask for it yourself, or a site gets deleted wholesale.

3200 is a lot of lumber.

Vitaly

Okay, so it says I have 81 accounts, that would be 8181 if every single one of them had 101 reps, but my chat account has 6249 reps, apparently

Line

Another line

Yeah, 6249 there. WTF?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I am seeing 9017 right now.

Vitaly

9:02 PM

I'm pretty sure it was 9.6K or 9.4K earlier

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Vitaly

:-/

What you are seeing is not what it should be either

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Well only the really cool people get to show off all their reps, and only to really cool people. If you are uncool, you're doubly screwed.

Matt Эллен

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

See, Matt is not quite cool either.

Matt Эллен

9:04 PM

indeed

I'm hawt

Vitaly

The actual figure should be 9217.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

sec relog

Ahahah, now it's 6249 for me as well.

Which means now you've been degraded officially.

Matt Эллен

criticism isn't cool

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

This is fascinating. The Maya is eating ur reps, 2012 at a time.

cornbread ninja

so um

Carlo_R., Italy

1 4 16

single-word-requests word-choice word-usage meaning grammaticality etymology grammar

suspended?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

9:15 PM

It would seem he is.

cornbread ninja

and after he hit the answer lottery

that's a damn shame.

ah, june 7

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

0

A: Is 'Haphazard' a unique word?

Now these are some haphazard answers and comments scattered over here. There are many words that you may consider in your case. Loophole, peephole, uphill, uphold... Many are mentioned already by other users. Unique? I don't think so... The "f" sound exists in other words with "ph", compound ...

I. Um. What?

The last paragraph in particular gives me a headache.

cornbread ninja

you know, still words.

still words run deep.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Can't all these words just get along?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

No seriously. I am trying to understand.

His answer makes no sense to me.

Robusto

9:23 PM

Was ist los? Du siehst so nachdenklich an. Hast du wieder Schwierigkeiten?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

He lists words where "ph" is pronounced as p-h, as requested by the OP, all of them compounds, as the one provided by the OP, only to go on and say "The "f" sound exists in other words with "ph", compound or simple is a secondary issue, they are all still words."

Robusto

Yes. I think we all saw that.

But, really, why try to understand it? It will only break your brain.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Well I don't understand it.

Robusto

Sometimes you just have to let it go.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

And now it's getting upvoted.

aedia λ

9:27 PM

I think you're both suffering from the illusion that other people on the internet have brains.

Robusto

It's borderline English. That should be our tip-off that you don't have to try to make sense out of it.

> Now these are some haphazard answers and comments scattered over here.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Oh I see it's on the multicollider. Everybody duck.

Robusto

Aww FFS ..

It's an awful question anyway. Can't we just close it?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I tried!

Robusto

It got reopened?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

9:28 PM

@MrShiny talked me out of it.

See the transcript.

1 hour ago, by RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

BTW, this is a dupe:

Robusto

Mar 7 '11 at 18:22, by Robusto

Who reads your shit?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I'm just saying. Into the vast openness of teh you knee verse.

Robusto

Well, FYI, haphazard is a unique word. It's the only word that is spelled that way.

Also jalapeño.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Not if you take raspberry and spell it haphazard.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 But then you'd be violating the rules of space and time, and you would not be permitted to dump your trash into the universe anymore.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

9:32 PM

Raspberries do not violate the rules of anything, by design.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 raspberry 4 informal a sound made with the tongue and lips in order to express derision or contempt: Clare blew a raspberry and stood up.

Clearly, raspberries violate the rules of etiquette.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Oh give me a break. The word etiquette violates the rules of EVERYTHING.

Robusto

But Clare clearly has interesting sexual partners. I didn't know you could blow a raspberry in that sense ...

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

"Stand up" is totally misused in that sentence as well.

Really I can't parse your Mac OS X dictatorshinary.

Two upvotes for unparseable answer.

He will get a Great Answer out of this.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Hey, don't knock dictatorships. They are ships that don't have to go out on the water.

cornbread ninja

9:56 PM

@RegDwightB8, what would you give me to cast my first down-vote against that answer?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

What do you think this is, capitalism? Pffft.

This site is a communist dictatorship.

@MrShinyandNew Zelda LEGO concept being considered by LEGO, could be turned into official Zelda LEGO that is real. Not that I'm holding my breath.

0

Q: How to properly build the "article is <some words> creatable?" question?

I have a minimum limit number, 1, a maximum limit number, 10, an "entity", article, and a question which answer should state if the number of current articles exceeded the minimum limit or the maximum limit of allowed articles, .... Technically speaking, I am trying to write questions like artic...

meaning expressions nouns terminology words

Today is the International Unparseability Day.

cornbread ninja

ugh.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Really? IUD? Protip: You're better off with condoms. Less dangerous for the woman.

cornbread ninja

ha.

Robusto

0

Q: How to properly build the "article is <some words> creatable?" question?

I have a minimum limit number, 1, a maximum limit number, 10, an "entity", article, and a question which answer should state (one between true of false) if the number of current articles exceeded the minimum limit or the maximum limit of allowed articles, .... Technically speaking, I am trying t...

meaning expressions nouns terminology words

Someone just handed us a mess. And if it's not a mess, it'll do till a mess gets here.

cornbread ninja

10:07 PM

close it as 'wtf'

Robusto

Would that I could.

Now he's edited it, and that still doesn't help.

And another edit. And it's still breaking my brain.

cornbread ninja

well.

Robusto

> So, what <some words> can I use?

I dunno. Here's a dictionary. Go nuts.

cornbread ninja

:D

don't mind if I do!

oh, that was 'go crazy'.

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original? ultimate?

Robusto

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We have a new category.

Dinner. AFK.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

10:18 PM

I object to the "have a nice day" part.

I demand it be replaced with "Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!"

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Q: Which is the longest word in english language?

I have been trying to find a useful english word that is longest. This link: http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-is-the-longest-english-word provides a few words with meaning and much explanation. It clearly states that these words are seldom used. Somewhere else, I found the name of a cou...

single-word-requests word-usage

More what-is-this-grammar from the haphazard guy.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

11:03 PM

I think I've had just enough brainaches for today, so bonne nuit à tous.

Mahnax

Good night Mr. Dwight;
Have a lovely sleep.
Don't dream of a fright,
But sleep long and deep.

user19161

11:55 PM

Why is Carlo suspended again?

user19161

@Mahnax That sounds like he won't wake up.

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