English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

KitFox

7:01 PM

Damn, I missed it. Was it me?

ChairOTP

@Robusto Could I also say 'Demanding to make'?

ЯegDwight

@Robusto same happened to me. Then it got flagged again. Then I dismissed it. Then someone flagged it again, and someone else approved it.

in The Bridge, 7 mins ago, by ЯegDwight

Is this how you roll? In this room? Flag stuff over and over and over again until people give up and suspend everyone? Kewl. And cuil.

in The Bridge, 1 min ago, by Mark Trapp

@ЯegDwight Perhaps I wasn't clear. I think you trying to FGITW flags here is silly and you're more likely to get it wrong than right because this isn't your site. We have more than enough active moderators here to handle them: you don't have to do it.

So basically I got told off. Which is fine with me.

Don't wanna mess with gamers.

KitFox

What's FGITW?

ЯegDwight

Fastest gun in the West.

Matt Эллен

it's nothing to do with Fastest, it's just because I see it. If I didn't see it I wouldn't click it.

show me a side quest and I will take it!

KitFox

7:12 PM

Gah. This website is crap. Who designed this ugly-ass website I'm working on? They ought to be demoted.

Grace Note

@KitFox The last time you spoke of this in a more positive tone, weren't you the individual behind it?

KitFox

yes

ΜετάEd

@KitFox Wouldn't that make you demotic?

KitFox

yes

ЯegDwight

BTW @Rob, the kind folks of HI actually answered your question.

yesterday, by Robusto

I think I will go to Home Improvement and ask how one gets relatives to leave before they become annoying.

ΜετάEd

7:15 PM

@KitFox Or maybe a demotista.

ЯegDwight

in Home Improvement, 1 min ago, by Chris Cudmore

@ЯegDwight The answer to that question is: Start a renovation.

Even though I suspect that's their standard response to every question.

KitFox

I just got an email about an effective practices conference for engaging students in writing and it was in green comic sans.

I am too tired to feel. I just cried.

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight it's not "moar power"?

hur hur hur

ЯegDwight

@MattЭллен no, moar power is every question.

Robusto

@ЯegDwight Well, explain to me why flags go global then? I would prefer we kept our conversations within our own little domain.

Matt Эллен

7:18 PM

OIC

ЯegDwight

@Robusto well yes. What should I say. Stuff?

user19161

@KitFox Comic sans! I used to write letters to my friends in that font!

Robusto

@ChairOTP I would avoid that until you get a lot better at English.

KitFox

And the answer is: use sweet potatoes instead of russets. Holy shit those things are the perfect ordnance.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox there there commiserating pat on the back. just force outlook to render all emails as plain text.

ЯegDwight

7:19 PM

In fact, I got told off after this clarification:

in The Bridge, 18 mins ago, by ЯegDwight

@MarkTrapp tell me about it. We got people suspended in the Incomprehensiбle room precisely thanks to drive-by mods. However, note how I was not suspending anyone.

So you can see how people take offense even if you do not suspend anyone.

And yet the flags are being broadcast not just to mods, but to all 10k users.

ChairOTP

@Robusto what do you mean?

ЯegDwight

Which is like, what, OVER 9000 people?

user19161

I have not had a milkshake for 9000 years. I just had one.

Matt Эллен

had*

ЯegDwight

May 2 at 14:12, by RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

His milk shake is better than yours.

Matt Эллен

7:21 PM

else it's a contradiction, innit

KitFox

Mmmm. Milkshake.

user19161

The milkshake is in the toilet bowl now I guess...

Robusto

@ЯegDwight Yes. By all means. Stuff.

KitFox

desire for milkshake vanishes

Matt Эллен

lol

Robusto

7:22 PM

@ChairOTP I mean I can think of ways to use that but until you understand the language better you should just stick with simpler forms.

ЯegDwight

Pictured from left to right: Kit's desire (artist's conception).

KitFox

Where are the naked women with owls?

And/or partially clad men with owls?

And/or partially clad men with naked women with owls?

Matt Эллен

at the gay bar?

KitFox

Mmm. Apple bars.

TRiG

@KitFox Women with owls are further up. I've not yet seen any with penguins.

user19161

7:26 PM

@MattЭллен Speaking of which, I have been fantasising over some men...

KitFox

Naked women with penguins are not my desire.

Matt Эллен

naked owls

user19161

@MattЭллен Cannot see the faces, might be fake owls.

Matt Эллен

naked Reg:

Grace Note

...

ЯegDwight

7:28 PM

Nice. And they put that other room in timeout.

Robusto

Well, they placed their stupid chatroom in timeout rather than face my ad hominem attacks. Haha.

Stupid fuckers.

ЯegDwight

Just imagine that happening here!

Grace Note

I wonder if that gif of Dwig saying "No this, no that" is still around

ЯegDwight

Jul 11 at 13:05, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

You can take that as a yes.

Matt Эллен

how can you be so fast?

ЯegDwight

7:29 PM

Easily.

I can be so fast easily.

With ease, too.

Grace Note

@MattЭллен It's what he does

Matt Эллен

true, true

user19161

@MattЭллен OMG, such a nice figure.

Matt Эллен

he works out

ChairOTP

Why are you so obsessed about owls?

user19161

7:31 PM

Because owls are wise.

Robusto

His real name is Till Eulenspiegel.

Matt Эллен

ЯegDwight

@GraceNote I only do that at strategically important points in time. Then I go MIA for three days. But people's impression remains.

Feb 21 at 21:45, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

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Matt Эллен

that one has our logo in the background

Robusto

anagram: owls => slow

Grace Note

7:32 PM

@ЯegDwight Doing it when it matters is when it matters

user19161

The master of anagrams strikes again.

Matt Эллен

slow => lows

ЯegDwight

@Robusto ah but I'm but one owl. So I'm just low.

Too Low for Zero

|rev2 = Rolling Stone |rev2score = }} Too Low for Zero is the seventeenth studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1983. Production For the first time since Blue Moves in 1976, all lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin, who has continued in this role to the present day. At the insistence of Taupin, John decided to go back to basics and returned to working with Taupin full time. John also reunited with the core of his backing band of the early '70s: Dee Murray, Nigel Olsson and Davey Johnstone as well as Ray Cooper, Kiki Dee and Skaila Kanga (who played harp o...

Robusto

@MattЭллен Only a bovine creature lows.

Matt Эллен

so owls are related to cows...

cowls!

KitFox

7:34 PM

@MattЭллен OMG, is that the EL&U mascot?

Matt Эллен

@KitFox it should be

KitFox

It's got our logo and everything!

ЯegDwight

2 mins ago, by Matt Эллен

that one has our logo in the background

Robusto

@MattЭллен Just be thankful cows don't fly.

ЯegDwight

The circle we come full becomes shorter each time.

Matt Эллен

7:34 PM

I am, every day

I've seen a horsefly and a dragonfly, but I ain't never seen no cow fly

ЯegDwight

They only fly at midnight.

user19161

I fly only in my dreams.

ЯegDwight

Thank you for that. Thank you for not flying in mine.

user19161

@ЯegDwight Thanks for reminding me. I will fly in yours later.

ЯegDwight

You will dream of wishing to fly in mine later.

user19161

7:38 PM

At the same time, you will dream of me.

user19161

We are connected like that.

Matt Эллен

I had a dream I was being hunted by a serial killer, then I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep because I thought there was a serial killer in my flat.

so far there isn't

user19161

The worst dreams are those in which you dream of waking up but can't wake up.

user19161

It's like being smothered.

user19161

After a while, you don't know whether you have woken up or not.

user19161

7:41 PM

Perhaps life is but a dream...

KitFox

phew

user19161

Perhaps when this life is over, we will wake up from the dream into reality.

ChairOTP

@WillHunting I think the worst dreams are those in which you feel like it's real life, sometimes after you wake up you know it was a dream, but sometimes you still feel as if it was real.

KitFox

decides to put finishing touches on killer robot this weekend, just in case

ЯegDwight

What is this "wake up" you keep mentioning?

Mitch

7:43 PM

@WillHunting pinch yourself. actually, don't, it hurts.

user19161

This reminds me of a terrible movie: What dreams may come.

ЯegDwight

ChairOTP

@Mitch the 'pinch yourself' cliché doesn't not really work.

ЯegDwight

I'm still the only one to have tried out the new shit yet? After a whopping day?

Matt Эллен

yes

ChairOTP

7:45 PM

It can hurt in your dream just as it does in real life.

Matt Эллен

but not for long

ЯegDwight

I thought the usual suspects would be all over it.

user19161

@ЯegDwight I never bother to review. I am not a babysitter.

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight it wasn't there yesterday

ЯegDwight

@MattЭллен but today is almost over.

user19161

7:45 PM

@ChairOTP Perhaps dreams are more real than real life.

Gigili

@ЯegDwight Can a mod delete a question which got four answers and none of them are upvoted/downvoted/accepted?

user19161

@Gigili A mod can delete almost anything, certainly that.

user19161

But let him answer.

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight yeah, I didn't review anything before just now today

ChairOTP

@WillHunting Perhaps they're parts of real life that we're not supposed to go through.

user19161

7:47 PM

@ChairOTP If life is a dream, I hope I wake up soon.

ЯegDwight

@Gigili I think even 20k users can vote to delete that.

ChairOTP

@WillHunting waking up would be dying.

Matt Эллен

I don't want to click "Not Sure". I am very sure this answer is OK, but not worth an up vote. stupid system

ChairOTP

Ever wondered if we die in every dream we have?

ЯegDwight

I think there needs to be at least one upvoted answer for it to become a mod-only action.

Gigili

7:48 PM

@ЯegDwight Umm, that SE site doesn't have many 20k users. So should I flag it?

user19161

@ChairOTP My "life" was metaphorical there.

ЯegDwight

@MattЭллен yeah, bug report exists.

Which is why you should try it out in the first place.

It's still not perfect.

Matt Эллен

what kind of system is not perfect? pah!

Gigili

Oh, then I should upvote one of them and flag it for mod attention?

user19161

The dream team scream for cream.

ChairOTP

7:49 PM

@WillHunting I know, that's why I get to the point that have you ever wondered if you die in every dream you have? We don't exactly remember the whole dream, just a part of it, normally the middle part, never the end, never the beginning.

tchrist

@KitFox No, my dear: a nickname is something which once upon a time an ekename was. Quoth the OED: “† ˈeke-name. Obs. Etymology: f. eke sb. + name; cf. ONor. aukanafn : An additional name, a nickname. Now superseded by the corrupt form nickname: a nekename (Promp. Parv.) for an ekename.”

ЯegDwight

@Gigili you are free to flag anything and everything if you think it's useless noise. Just take your time to explain why you think it should be deleted. Convince the mods.

Gigili

@ЯegDwight Aha, thanks.

ЯegDwight

@Gigili do not upvote anything that doesn't deserve an upvote just to do something else.

Especially if you're going to argue it deserves deletion.

Gigili

Yessir

user19161

7:50 PM

Sometimes I upvote a question, answer it, then when OP does not upvote my answer, I edit the question and downvote it, shh...

ΜετάEd

@WillHunting I enjoyed that movie

KitFox

@tchrist Yeah, uh-huh, ok. I'm pretty sure someone else said that like two minutes after my comment.

ЯegDwight

@tchrist I thought that was common sense. I'm surprised to see Kit didn't know.

Gigili

@WillHunting I called the police.

user19161

@ΜετάEd The only good Robin Williams movie I watched is Good WH.

tchrist

7:51 PM

These things happen all the time.

ЯegDwight

@WillHunting Good BH >> good WH.

user19161

Nickname aka hypocorism.

tchrist

Aunts.

ЯegDwight

Büstenhalter

Der Büstenhalter (abgekürzt und umgangssprachlich BH, früher auch als Büha bezeichnet) ist ein Wäschestück, das die weibliche Brust stützen und formen soll. Neben diesen Funktionen dienen BHs auch ästhetischen Zwecken. Aufbau Datei:Modern bra plunge.jpg|plunge Datei:Modern bra fullcup.jpg|fullcup Datei:Modern bra bandeau.jpg|bandeau Ein Büstenhalter besteht aus zwei geformten, miteinander verbundenen Körbchen („Cups“) zur Aufnahme der Brüste, zwei über beide Schultern führende Träger zur vertikalen Stabilisierung und einem am Rücken verschließbaren Band zur horizontalen und eigentlic...

user19161

@ЯegDwight HB!

KitFox

7:52 PM

@ЯegDwight over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder

user19161

ROFLMAO

tchrist

> In Eng. a mistaken division of mine aunt, as my naunt, occurs in literature from 13th to 17th c., and still dialectally; cf. nuncle for uncle, and auger, apron, etc. (Some mod.Fr. dialects have also nante (ma nante = mon ante); the modern Fr. tante, found already in 13th c., perhaps originated, in the language of the nursery, from OFr. t’ante ‘thy aunt.’)

Aunts.

ЯegDwight

@KitFox I wrote a song about that.

user19161

@tchrist I know the Americans make it sound like "ants".

KitFox

@WillHunting Not all of us!

user19161

7:53 PM

Peter Parker says in Spiderman "Ant May", hehe.

tchrist

You know what an auger is, right?

ЯegDwight

An old Greek basterd.

tchrist

It’s what they get naugahide from.

KitFox

Laterz!

ЯegDwight

CU

Augur

The augur was a priest and official in the classical world, especially ancient Rome and Etruria. His main role was to interpret the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds: whether they are flying in groups or alone, what noises they make as they fly, direction of flight and what kind of birds they are. This was known as "taking the auspices." The ceremony and function of the augur was central to any major undertaking in Roman society—public or private—including matters of war, commerce, and religion. The Roman historian Livy stresses the importance of the augurs: "Who does...

user19161

7:54 PM

@ЯegDwight The floral pattern is not to my liking.

tchrist

$oed haru
harumfrodite
harumphroditic
harum-scarum
harum-scarumness
haruspex
haruspical
haruspication
haruspices
haruspicy

ЯegDwight

Haroomph!

Matt Эллен

I'm pretty sure I disagree with shog9 about "I'm not sure", so I'll leave it be. I'm not reading this comment thread to find out.

user19161

@tchrist I have seen none of those words.

tchrist

@WillHunting What??!

You don’t know harum-scarum?

user19161

7:56 PM

@MattЭллен I read your comment on the MSO thread when 9000 people changed their username to the same for fun.

ЯegDwight

Harum-scarumness is about as useful a word as... as... Well damn. It is the most useless word in history!

tchrist

You don’t know about a haruspex?

How you have not lived!

ЯegDwight

Harum scarum

Looks like you only live until you see it.

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting oh yeah, I forgot about that. I'll check it now...

ChairOTP

@tchrist As in soothsayer?

tchrist

7:57 PM

digs out his haruspicational tools

@ChairOTP A reader of entrails.

user19161

Wait, Anglo Saxon is XVH???

tchrist

Haruspex

In Roman and Etruscan religious practice, a haruspex (plural haruspices; Latin auspex, plural auspices) was a man trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy, hepatoscopy or hepatomancy. Haruspicy is the inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry. The rites were paralleled by other rites of divination such as the interpretation of lightning strikes, of the flight of birds (augury), and of other natural omens. Practitioners during the period of Roman dominance gradually adopted the title auspex from the older word ...

@WillHunting The operative term appears to be “was”.

user19161

@tchrist But the Anglo Saxon I know was much worse in Eng than XVH.

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