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6:02 PM

Yo.

Student of master of computer science of yo

Master's student in computer science.

Very interesting.

eating bolognese

adding parmesan

@KitFox Thank you.

Matt Эллен

6:19 PM

I've made too much food. I might burst open at any moment

user19161

How do we delete an accepted answer? Contact a moderator?

You generally don't

If it is your own answer, you can flag for moderator answer and make your case as to why you should destroy something that is considered accepted

Matt Эллен

is "that of" a preposition in "better than that of the villages"?

user19161

@GraceNote Attention, not answer.

If it is someone else's answer, you'd better make sure you have a really good argument backing the decision to remove another individual's answer.

user19161

6:23 PM

@MattЭллен Isn't it just "of" itself?

Matt Эллен

so is that a pronoun?

user19161

I don't know the grammar.

Matt Эллен

I think it is. Thanks!

user19161

I have yet to study my grammar book, and may never do so!

user19161

But I did get a copy of the CGE.

user19161

6:26 PM

Hello @carlo.

@MattЭллен That is a pronoun (it always is: a demonstrative pronoun in this case, used substantively/independently, to replace a noun), and of is simply a preposition.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus thanks! I needed to update a question that thought it was about comparison when it is about pronouns and prepositions

OK.

There is a comparison going on...

Matt Эллен

but the comparison is the same, the pronoun and preposition change

cornbread ninja

Nortonn has forever stained prepositions for me.

Matt Эллен

6:35 PM

that's kind of him. What colour(s) did he go for?

@MattЭллен Ehh I don't know what that means, but you probably understand how it all works.

Matt Эллен

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Q: Correct usage of pronouns and prepositions

I am confused between two sentences: The houses in the cities are more beautiful than that of villages. The houses in the cities are more beautiful than those in the villages. Which one is more appropriate in usage?

prepositions pronouns

user19161

@MattЭллен Do prepositions have colours?

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting I don't know, but stains do

By the way, Apple claims that the battery of the Iphone 5 allows for 10 hours of video playback.

Matt Эллен

6:36 PM

lies

user19161

@MattЭллен OK, though it can be a colourless stain.

That is 99 % likely to be a lie.

Jinx.

user19161

@Cerberus iPhone

Why Excel? Why won't you let me put these in separate windows?

Anything over 5 hours I would be highly sceptical of.

@WillHunting Nope.

6:37 PM

@MattЭллен The answer is so confusing, even I don't understand it, even though I do know which construction is right and which isn't.

user19161

@KitFox I thought it is your habit to put a comma after why.

Matt Эллен

user image

@WillHunting was*

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight I agree, it is nonsense

user19161

@MattЭллен Is that a real picture?

6:38 PM

@MattЭллен Wowie.

That's an advanced frog.

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting it really is a picture

but I don't think there are sponsored poison arrow frogs

user19161

@MattЭллен I see. Your hair looks colourful!

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight he's updated it to add in a formula, so it makes more sense now. I don't know if it's true.

Ugh, why this doesn't talk to me?

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting my hair?

6:39 PM

@MattЭллен oh and that is a determiner there, I think...

cornbread ninja

@MattЭллен licks frog

user19161

@cornbreadninja Sick.

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight but "those" is a pronoun? or is it a determiner too?

cornbread ninja

trips

O_o

@MattЭллен actually 1. is not true.

Matt Эллен

6:40 PM

@cornbreadninja far out man!

> 1. The two prepositions must be the same for consistency.

That is wrong.

@ЯegDwight According to traditional grammar, it is a pronoun.

user19161

@Cerberus And according to modern grammar?

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight ok, I wasn't sure. it seemed an odd restriction

@MattЭллен The houses over the clouds are more beautiful than those under the clouds.

user19161

6:42 PM

The hair on Reg is longer than that on Matt.

The hair behind Reg is longer than that inside Matt.

user19161

Geezis.

You can call me Reg.

@WillHunting That is the wrong opposition: there is a certain movement among mainly Anglo-Saxon syntacticians that uses a terminology that uses the traditional terms in some cases, new terms in others, and in others again it uses traditional terms but with changed meanings.

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight so yes, because it's determining.

6:44 PM

Traditional grammar is still used in modern land.

@3eg Hello.

I have a new 'R'

user19161

Who is 3eg?

@MattЭллен So which question is this?

Hello it is Reg

Matt Эллен

1

Q: Correct usage of determiners and prepositions

I am confused between two sentences: The houses in the cities are more beautiful than that of villages. The houses in the cities are more beautiful than those in the villages. Which one is more appropriate in usage?

prepositions determiners

6:45 PM

Thanks!

user19161

@Carlo_R. Oh you can copy and paste the inverted R but I usually don't bother to ping him anymore.

Ok

I am neither Zeg nor Threeeg.

user19161

@Carlo_R. It is actually either OK or okay but not ok.

And the capitals of Europe are more interesting to visit than that of Saudi Arabia. — Cerberus 21 secs ago

user19161

6:47 PM

@ЯegDwight Reminds me of TRiG.

Will, OK

@Cerberus since when does Saudi Arabia have only one capital?

user19161

@Carlo_R. OK is not an abbreviation of okay. Rather OK is the original form, so I always use OK myself.

@ЯegDwight I believe it has only one?

user19161

@Cerberus Riyadh?

6:48 PM

Yes, what else?

user19161

@Carlo_R. Similarly, DJ and MC are the original forms of deejay and emcee respectively.

@Cerberus Riyadh 2.

I feel bad for that guy now. He really made an effort and we're ganging up on him.

Yeah.

Will, I have hear that in Singapore transvestites are known as shims, a contraction of she-hims. Is it true?

user19161

@ЯegDwight Did you take the wrong pills?

6:49 PM

The question is ELL anyway.

I may have to post a simpler, competing answer.

@WillHunting did you take the right ones?

@Cerberus oh! oh! oh! please do! jumps in triangles

user19161

@Carlo_R. I have no knowledge of this matter.

user19161

@ЯegDwight You better make it up to him then, you.

Ohh... Sorry!

user19161

6:51 PM

@Carlo_R. No need to say sorry.

user19161

The people who should say sorry never say it, and those who need not say too many.

2

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Maybe someone should just post that [the houses] of the villages should be plural if he means more than one house, and singular otherwise?

7:03 PM

Well yeah.

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A: Correct usage of determiners and prepositions

As to which proposition you should use, there is no strict rule about that. However, in your example, I feel that using in the cities with of the villages creates a variation that is needless and slightly less eloquent. You are directly comparing two things (houses) in very similar situations (in...

user19161

@Cerberus You are full of feelings: I feel that...

@Cerberus Haha, proposition.

Et tu, Brute.

user19161

@ЯegDwight Proposition 3.2. QED.

@WillHunting Feelings?

user19161

7:05 PM

@Cerberus Well, you used "I feel that" which sounds very mushy.

@ЯegDwight Oops! I always do that.

@WillHunting Hmm I don't feel that that sounds mushy...

user19161

And yes I posted the answer on the mushy question which I think might not be right, but it is accepted and maybe it is fine so I will leave it there first.

user19161

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Q: What does "mushy" mean in this context?

This is the context from Joel Spolsky's blog: And now I'm going to get a little bit mushy, and argue that the most productive programming environments are the ones that let you work at different levels of abstraction. The meaning of mushy as in Cambridge dictionary doesn't quite fit in ...

meaning meaning-in-context

@WillHunting Muschi is German for pussy. The female genitalia kind.

user19161

@ЯegDwight Oh OK. By the way the flagger was here just now but he left, if you know who.

user19161

7:07 PM

He would definitely flag that if he saw it.

No, I don't know whom you mean.

3... 2... 1...

user19161

Well, just a guy from the Islam room who flagged pretty harmless stuff there.

−10... −11... −12... I'm still counting down to your commenting on my usage of whom.

user19161

@ЯegDwight Ah, I am slow!

... and I had to correct the minusae's lest tchrist kills me.

7:09 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I only noticed your answer after I had already posted mine.

user19161

Actually I am so confused over this who/whom thing myself.

user19161

It's those things you read about and forget, read again and forget again.

Use who for the subject and the subject complement of the relative/interrogative clause, whom for the rest.

Or don't use whom at all.

user19161

Whom is set to become extinct soon, I think in a decade.

Matt Эллен

yeah, if Cerb catches you using whom he won't be happy

7:12 PM

No, I will only be sad if you use it incorrectly!

Ah, an un- question again. Didn't I create a special tag for those a while back?

user19161

I read the Christianity and Islam SE sites about homosexuality. I am pretty disgusted now by the answers there.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus It's okay. I only posted mine because all I got was crickets here when I mused about why nobody posted.

@WillHunting must resist snarky comments

@WillHunting As you should be about most religions.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 All right.

un-de There we go. Such a nice name, too.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:15 PM

@WillHunting Your answer is not right, sorry. The other answer is right.

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It's OK. I think so too.

Except this one is about un- vs. non-. Gah.

Matt Эллен

now the wrong answer has an upvote on the determiners question. It even says it's wrong. people are stupid

It's A for Affort.

Matt Эллен

:D

7:16 PM

un-non-de-etc.

@Gigili everything-vs-anything-and-hulk

user19161

@ЯegDwight I would like to delete my accepted answer. Please assist. It is incorrect.

@MattЭллен Do they not understand that they can just delete it?

More questions must be tagged with hulk. He'd take care of them alright.

@WillHunting linky or it didn't happen.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Here you are using World knowledge i.e. there can't be many villages sharing a single house. I think a more general rule should avoid using 'common sense knowledge'; otherwise if someone wants to write a computer program for it, it will be difficult. — user13107 3 mins ago

7:18 PM

When I see "un-de", I think ... what letter has been omitted?

user19161

2

A: What does "mushy" mean in this context?

Mushy here means too emotional.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

So user13107 wants me to avoid using world knowledge, i.e. knowledge about the world, when communicating.

So that computers can understand me better.

@DavidWallace it won't let me create un-de- or un-/de- or really anything at all.

Matt Эллен

@DavidWallace probably not

"mushy" just means "very emotional". Not necessarily "too emotional". Sometimes, mushy is good, so it's not "too" anything (don't make me link to my answer on too/enough).

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:20 PM

@DavidWallace It can mean that, but not in the context in question.

Matt Эллен

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 -_-;

user19161

@DavidWallace Yes, it does mean emotional but not exactly in that context.

@WillHunting there. Have your cake and eat it, too.

Hah! Are you telling me I should read the question before critiquing the answers?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@DavidWallace No, merely revelling in your wrongness

7:21 PM

@DavidWallace what is read?

Why bother even reading the answers?

Bzzt. In the given context "a little bit emotional" works better than "a little bit too emotional". I don't believe I am incorrect.

user19161

@Mitch claps

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 But revel away, if it makes you happy.

0

Q: What make you happy or What makes you happy?

Which one is correct usage? What make you happy? What makes you happy?

Puhleaz.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:22 PM

@DavidWallace except that it had nothing to do with emotions and everything to do with rigour.

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight not this question

Actually that has to be a dupe.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

it's gaining upvotes

Arguments from emotion, rather than from science.

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I upvoted it.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:22 PM

@WillHunting what? why?

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Because it could be what (thing) makes you happy or what (things) make you happy.

Un- is ambiguous: [un][insulated] (not insulated) vs. [uninsulate][d] (previously insulated but then deinsulated again). Cf. these questions. — ЯegDwight 11 mins ago

user19161

So it is not too clear at first look.

@WillHunting hoots!

But he/she didn't write "things".

7:24 PM

Someone's un-des are showing.

@WillHunting this is deja vu all over again. That exact same discussion we had on the other question this is a dupe of.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@WillHunting No, you can't just add words like that.

@Robusto IPN

user19161

I know we would use "makes" there, but I am wondering if "make" is also possible.

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight is that like VPL?

7:25 PM

@WillHunting I try to make my answer in my head before reading others's, then I read them. Sometimes. When I don't it sometimes doesn't work out well.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@WillHunting If you change the question, then yes, 'make' would be possible.

IPN may refer to: Payments: * Instant payment notification * Intuit PaymentNetwork Chemistry: * Interpenetrating polymer network, form of chemical copolymer * Isopropyl nitrate, a liquid monopropellant Outer space: * Interplanetary Internet * InterPlaNet * InterPlanetary Network, a group of spacecraft equipped with gamma-ray burst detectors Medicine and anatomy: * Infectious pancreatic necrosis, disease in fishes * Interpeduncular nucleus (brain region) Other: * Independent Practitioners Network * Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Institute of National Remembrance), a Polish historical resea...

???

Infectious pancreatic necrosis. That must be it.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

But also, if you change the question, the right answer might be "pineapples"

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I mean in the original form. Is "what make you happy" definitely wrong to you?

@MattЭллен acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/I'm+Posting+Naked

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:25 PM

@WillHunting definitely

Oh. That. Well, we all assumed you were posing naked anyway.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

wait: I can punctuate it so that it works: "What, make YOU happy?"

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight oh! http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Visible%20panty%20line

@Robusto how correct of you to correctly make a correct assumption. Such correctness!

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Now we have another variation.

7:27 PM

I am so correct. beams

user19161

@Robusto Anagrams to PIN.

Also NIP.

Matt Эллен

Also PNI

It almost anagrams to FedEx, too.

user19161

But is NIP an abbreviation?

7:27 PM

You are an abbreviation.

@ЯegDwight UR2

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@WillHunting But despite Cerberus's constant suggestion to "read people charitably", if someone asks "which of these two are correct?" and provides zero context, I can't see how we're supposed to try to figure out what is missing from their question before we answer it.

user19161

PIN=personal identification number, QED.

@DavidWallace No U2 in this chat, with or without R.

Matt Эллен

Arrrrrr

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:28 PM

I refuse to supply punctuation that turns an incorrect sentence into an extremely unlikely sentence.

@ЯegDwight I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

Matt Эллен

it's nearly TLAPD

@DavidWallace exactly.

user19161

@ЯegDwight U2 is a nice T-shirt brand.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@DavidWallace UЯ2 (ftfy)

7:29 PM

ToysЯU2s.

user19161

I think Toys R Us paid Reg to advertise their R.

I think you think wяong.

@ЯegDwight Can someone please help me in formulating correct rules that can be understood by computers? — user13107 5 mins ago

Not sure what to do with this...

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Depends on the question.

Did he just call @Cerberus a computer?

I'm not surprised.

I'm Gigili.

user19161

7:32 PM

I pronounce the g as in giraffe. Is that right @gigili?

['dʒigili]

@ЯegDwight Hehe.

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight who was that guy who was smarter than all physicists? Point him in that direction. Ron Maimon?

At least I'm a rare, triple-core computer, then.

How you pronounce giraffe, that's the question.

user19161

7:34 PM

@ЯegDwight That sounds funny.

@MattЭллен I am not sure I get the reference.

@MattЭллен Yes, Ron.

user19161

@MattЭллен Well, I respect that guy though.

@Cerberus what is the opposite of core? Because you are tripple-opposite-of-core, clearly.

He was also smarter than professionals in other fields, I believe.

7:34 PM

@MattЭллен Haha, Maimon means monkey in Persian.

@ЯegDwight Y?

Matt Эллен

@ЯegDwight Ron Maimon was a user here who thought he could capture English in code

user19161

@Gigili OMG!

in German Language and Usage, Nov 26 '11 at 20:53, by Gigili

Better to not pronounce it at this situation ..

@Cerberus You mean you put all three heads of yours up your ass???

7:35 PM

@DavidWallace Pft, at?

Because unless you did, they are not in your core.

@WillHunting Yes, OYG.

@ЯegDwight I'm afraid I have no idea what you are saying. Probably some obscure reference again, with the douple p and the core?

@MattЭллен yeah, I vaguely remember something like that.

user19161

@Gigili You are very creative today.

7:36 PM

@Cerberus nonono. It's all on the surface. I would consider three-hearted to be three-core. Or three-livered, even. But not three-headed. Because the heads are too outside. Is all.

user19161

@MattЭллен I upvoted all his questions I believe, sorry.

Mar 3 at 7:39, by David Wallace

His surname is similar to "majmun", which is "monkey" in Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian.

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting oh! you're trouble now!

user19161

@ЯegDwight I have two heads, one on top and one below...

user19161

I think Ron Maimon is a great man and I am not afraid to say it!

7:37 PM

This, gentlemen, was the sound of @Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 rolling his eyes again.

@WillHunting Are you in love with Evan Carroll too?

user19161

@simchona No.

Evan Carroll seems to run on some other site on the exact same promises.

What happened to Ron Maimon anyway? I haven't seen any of his posts for ages. Did simchona suspend him or something?

@ЯegDwight Webapps

7:38 PM

@simchona Too? Or three?

user19161

@DavidWallace He is not regular anyway.

@Gigili There's more of them?

@WillHunting You can get pills for that.

@ЯegDwight Ah OK. I understand now.

@simchona oh cool I might even have enough rep to vote there.

7:39 PM

@simchona Who knows.

@WillHunting Ron certainly is a great something.

Ron is a great debater. One would not want to engage him without being very sure of one's ground.

user19161

@Cerberus He is weird but he does make sense.

@ЯegDwight There's only 3 noms, too.

@DavidWallace pffft. My usual approach rules them all.

Jul 27 at 11:12, by RegDwight АΑA

Sicheres Auftreten bei völliger Ahnungslosigkeit.

7:40 PM

@DavidWallace I have to disagree.

Jul 27 at 11:17, by RegDwight АΑA

Google Translate is stupid. "Confident manner in complete ignorance" should be "confident demeanour despite complete ignorance".

@WillHunting Disagree again.

user19161

@Cerberus OK OK.

@ЯegDwight That's more like him...

Cerberus is the disagreeance machine tonight.

7:41 PM

Has anybody got a copy of their facebook data? How long does it take for the archive to get ready?

@DavidWallace I read that as "great disaster", and agreed. Then I realized what you said.

@Meysam sorry, I'm not on FB.

@ЯegDwight I agreed with you, so be quiet lest I find something to disagree about.

@Cerberus you disagreed with me! You said it was him and not me!

@Meysam Sorry, I am rarely on FB.

7:42 PM

@Cerberus Why are you not? Don't you think it's cool?

user19161

@Meysam No, don't even have an account there.

@ЯegDwight I only disagree with that tiny bit. The rest stands.

@Cerberus Why are you rarely on it? Don't you think it's cool?

user19161

@meysam I forgot. You told me that picture is not you right?

@Meysam Not specifically, no. It can be useful for some things.

7:42 PM

@WillHunting Y don't you have an account? Don't you think it's cool?

Have both prime's logins been suspended?

Aww.

@Meysam Well done.

He was annoying.

@Meysam I have no use for it. It's useless to me. I can totally see how it's useful to others. But to me it is not.

user19161

7:43 PM

@Meysam Nothing to do on FB!

@DavidWallace What do you mean?

@ЯegDwight No old class mates you would like to see pictures of?

user19161

@DavidWallace You are tracking him? I forgot already!

No events that you want to be conveniently invited to?

No potential dates you want to check out?

@Cerberus why? Either I care enough about them, then I see them in person. Or I do not, then I can't care less about pictures, either.

7:44 PM

That's what I use it for.

@WillHunting It's not me.

user19161

@Cerberus I only want to see your pics! Hehe.

@ЯegDwight Well, you might have lost touch but be mildly interested now—just interested enough to click "yes" to a friend request, but not enough to send e-mails and pictures to.

@ЯegDwight You can find your old friends there.

@WillHunting Then you should have saved them on your PC.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:45 PM

Reg never went to school and doesn't have any friends. It's because he's actually an alien, sent here to subtly subvert society. His backstory only goes so far, and if he were on Facebook he'd be unmasked.

@Cerberus But not, not not not.

user19161

@Cerberus Well, I remember all of them already!

Or not but not.

@WillHunting He amused me when he told me to leave the chat room. Now I can't find that remark.

Very well.

7:46 PM

You're welcome.

user19161

@DavidWallace I think he is crazy.

@DavidWallace Oh! Post it here if you find it.

@Meysam @Cer as I said, I can totally see how it's useful to others. No need to pitch it to me. I can pitch it to myself with the exact same arguments, in fact.

All right.

yesterday, by prime

@DavidWallace, i don't want to talk with you such person too, you can leave this room

user19161

7:47 PM

@ЯegDwight I remember you will also not touch twitter with a foot-long pole.

That one?

user19161

@KitFox Yes.

@KitFox haha, that's hilarious. I thought he had dropped that by now.

@KitFox Lovely.

He was very contrarian on his very first visit, but then got some hold of himself.

7:48 PM

@KitFox That was a very brave statement.

Or seemed to have had.

Sep 13 at 11:44, by prime

Please warn people not to paste other language here.

user19161

He might be a psychopath.

He's just a silly billy.

11 hours ago, by prime

@ЯegDwight, change your name please, i can't type your characters

My favorite ^

7:49 PM

And an accidental trolley-trolley.

@KitFox yeah I know he said that and asked me who was the owner of this room. I thought I shut him up for good, no?

@KitFox But I have to say I agree with him there.

user19161

@Cerberus I am not sure now. There might be more evil than meets the eye.

Could be.

Also amusing:

yesterday, by David Wallace

@WillHunting How are you anyway?

7:49 PM

@WillHunting You defend Ron Maimon, but are against this guy?

yesterday, by prime

@DavidWallace, nobody wants to talk with you, you don't have to know how WillHunting is

Hahaha.

user19161

@simchona Well, I did not witness Ron treating others this way.

@DavidWallace He must have a very refined accent.

@WillHunting You've never read his comments.

7:50 PM

@KitFox very adventurous of him

user19161

@simchona Maybe.

Sep 13 at 13:55, by prime

YOutube link is here, why? How is it pertinent here?

I tried to establish that as a meme, but it won't catch on.

It'll take 6 to 8 weeks.

Also, don't forget to send me a check for postage and handling.

@Gigili Seven to eight. We use Gregorian calendar in here.

7:52 PM

No check, no meme. It's that simple.

You can't meme that.

user19161

Have all of you finally gotten your ELU T-shirts?

@Robusto Your czech is in the male.

Too long...

Blast. That's not the kind of czech I'm into.

user19161

7:53 PM

I remember they said the ELU T-shirt will take 6-8 weeks to arrive.

@WillHunting I have not yet.

user19161

@Meysam Oh, I think you needed to be in the top two pages at that time.

@WillHunting You are right. That is why I have not yet

user19161

@Meysam I did not think I would wear it, so I did not ask for it.

@WillHunting Very sensible. Some people would have asked for it anyway.

7:55 PM

@WillHunting You could sell it

user19161

@DavidWallace I might have used the pens though.

user19161

@Meysam I am not sure who wants it!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I got two t-shirts, one that said "english.stackchange.com"

Matt Эллен

and another that says "Hooters"

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

they are not the best t-shirts I've ever owned, let's put it that way

7:56 PM

Mine said "english.expertsexchange.com".

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Ah, and that would defeat the purpose of the ad.

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A: What General Reference answers this question?

As mr-shiny-and-new points out in a comment, the question Andrew Leach asks about is too basic for the site: it suffices to say "nobody speaks that way in English". The General Reference close reason means the question is too basic for the site, but there's only one criterion: This question ...

user19161

@MattЭллен I have been to Hooters here. The girls are scantily clad.

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting Oh! I've only seen it in films

@WillHunting You could get it sold on ebay in half an hour

Matt Эллен

7:57 PM

I'm not sure if there's a Hooters near me

user19161

@MattЭллен I am not sure if they are nude in some countries.

user19161

@Meysam Ah, I have no online accounts except for SE and Google.

@WillHunting Really? Are you older than me?

user19161

@Meysam No, I am just not really an online person.

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