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"If I said you had a nice body, would you hold it against me?" is only a good pickup line if you have a thick foreign accent.

@Gigili So I don't mean that you should go out of your way to avoid abstract words—just that you should only use them when they feel natural to you. And some of the best works of fiction were written in a very simple style, like the King James Bible.

It's ours, and nobody else's!

"OH WOW NOW THAT ANDROID USERS ALSO HAVE THIS APP IT IS RUINED FOREVER" :P

Like someone said, isn't this the best SE room? We're all so nice! xD

does find an amusing "List of sexually active popes" link, though

(transcript, dude.)

See this as a place for community building. "Getting to know you" and all that stuff you can't do on the site.

I know you want to hear I am jealous or something like that but there must be some misunderstanding.

Quadrilingual.

Why are there no starred messages from me on the sidebar!? This is unacceptable!

The more eligible you are, the less starred messages you have there.

can't think of the gender when it's hard enough to remember the word :)

Although I do know a man who lived in Germany for a while, and just said "duh" for every form of "the". People understood him just fine.

You get one less; I get one more. It's because you're on the wrong side of the world.

Hi all. Thanks @Alenanno for the invitation but this website is already making me procrastinate too much, I'll be in deep trouble if I start hanging out in the chat room!

which looks kind of creepy, with three maws gaping at you

Next week, 12 March 2012, we'll have a chat discussion about the next challenge week: #3 Methodology. The chat discussion is not necessarily linked to the time (we can discuss about it also during the same week). Feel free to participate!

@KamilS I'm sure we will be able to provide some counter-weight to all the Chomskeyism and framework-fetishism.

specialize in one language or one family, don't bother about frameworks, but about the actual data and describe them within whatever framework happens to be the most useful in the particular case

Blabla filler post to annoy the Hippietrail.

Hehe, do you see my big corpus? ;)

We say Farsi.

He has to understand that he shouldn't use such idiomatic phrases with non-native speakers like us.

@OtavioMacedo They are mostly on Area51 looking at the proposals.

Five minutes ago it was snowing: now the sky is all blue and sunny.

I swear I've seen people do it. I think I got it to work too sometime.

Et vive l'Europe!

And here is my envy: [ )

I'll get you the train model you so wanted

sorry @Alenanno: i always get the ISO codes for languages and countries mixed up!

@Cerberus A little, but if there's already a good answer to one that exists, and I post a comment telling someone that it's related to their question, I feel like that may help (especially if I can't write a good answer to their question). I dunno... I guess I feel like if I know of a helpful thing, and I have time, I have some sort of duty to tell people about it.

@Cerberus I love finding dupes though. It's like some perverse satisfaction from acting as a human search engine

@aedia: i was looking for that too but damn i had too many tabs going at once

We're not a scientific journal anyway: some intuition and subjectivity may be OK.