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Anonymous

Jul 9, 2018 20:39

The 2018 ELL moderator election has begun! ell.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4737/230

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CowperKettle

Jun 9, 2019 01:06

> Dear Olya, you're a master cook -
Your meals taste better than they look.
And you're the smiliest of friends,
Who dances till the music ends.
And you can knit a sock or two -
I bet there's nothing you can't do!
You can do anything, my dear,
I wish I always had you near.

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Catija

Aug 27, 2016 21:35

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Anonymous

May 25, 2019 14:47

Word of the day: oleaginous

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Anonymous

May 21, 2019 09:34

Every time you make a sentence, you have a chance to play a game.

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Eddie Kal

Jun 13, 2020 21:47

So I think it's time I posted this reminder for some users here: Keep in mind that bigotry is not allowed and obscenity and insults will not be tolerated. Period.

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skullpatrol

Jun 10, 2020 01:20

Word of the day: testilying

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Cardinal

Jun 9, 2020 20:30

word of the day: precariously

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M.A.R.

Jun 1, 2020 19:37

If ELL was to be claimed as a single person's work, J.R. would have the biggest share in that.

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M.A.R.

May 26, 2020 20:05

But there's your bitter truth: There's lots of rep gain in answering easy questions (and definitely easier than those) and none in closing them.

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Eddie Kal

May 23, 2020 18:25

Eid Mubarak!!

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Anonymous

May 20, 2020 14:13

I can’t express how nice it is to sign in to both sites I moderate and see every single flag has already been handled :-)

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Anonymous

May 16, 2020 10:18

What happens as we get older isn't that we no longer have neuroplasticity, it's not that we lose the capability to learn a new language, the sounds, the grammar, and so on. Instead, what happens is we get really good at the languages we know, and our brains get really optimized for those cases. We fail to recognize distinctions that are irrelevant to the languages we know well, because we naturally optimize away the brainpower we would spend on those, since it doesn't normally buy us anything.

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Jasper

May 15, 2020 00:51

@snailcar I saw a joke about the coronavirus. They said that in 2020 we would have flying cars, but in 2020, even the planes cannot fly. Just thought of it since I see that you are now a car and have been a plane.

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skullpatrol

May 14, 2020 04:59

Word of the day: axolotl

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Jeef

Mar 27, 2019 16:39

I dont have a poem, but i really need to show em, that i can be in the chat, and im not a scaredy cat....?

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Eddie Kal

May 4, 2020 07:42

just entered the race...

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ColleenV

Mar 27, 2019 01:07

@Man_From_India Today is my birthday and my family is spoiling me, so it’s a good day to ask me how I’m doing lol

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Anonymous

Mar 25, 2019 01:48

We all say sentences every day that have never been said before.

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Anonymous

Mar 22, 2019 18:54

@Kaspar It almost feels like a shame to actually answer your question now. We've had this thing going for so long now.

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New Meta Question

Apr 20, 2020 22:26

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Q: 2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

English Language Learners is scheduled for an election starting next week, April 27th. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is ...

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Willow

Mar 16, 2017 13:46

Hi all -- just wondered if you'd seen this yet. LINK The Oxford comma

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Anonymous

Jan 16, 2018 13:35

Word of the day: spasibo

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userr2684291

Jan 9, 2019 13:23

@Jasper If the entire US suddenly switched from pounds to kilograms, there would be mass confusion.

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Anonymous

Dec 24, 2018 19:00

Merry Xmas! :-) I waited one minute to type that.

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userr2684291

Jan 20, 2020 22:57

@amanuel2 There are also dictionaries for learners of English (non-native speakers). E.g. ldoceonline.com. They explain stuff in simpler terms.

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CowperKettle

Nov 12, 2018 19:30

O Snailplane where art thou,
Dost thou crawlest upon the lush greenery of Californy now,
Or dost thou travelest through the Midwest?
Reply not, for you need some time off the web and in the sun.

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userr2684291

Oct 26, 2018 17:08

Let's hope she comes back soon and tells us why she's taken a break from SE. She's definitely missed!

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CowperKettle

Dec 27, 2019 07:08

Word of the day: the whole enchilada

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CowperKettle

Apr 17, 2021 14:51

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CowperKettle

Dec 10, 2019 18:01

Word of the day: to cut the apron strings

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Anonymous

Dec 7, 2019 17:57

winterbash2019.stackexchange.com

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M.A.R.

Nov 26, 2019 20:07

Snailshuttle

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Anonymous

Nov 23, 2019 21:00

Or an I/O library for cats.

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ColleenV

Nov 22, 2019 20:18

“Break-in at the Apple store! Police looking for iWitnesses!”

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CowperKettle

Nov 9, 2019 15:05

An asp in the grass is a snake, but a grasp in the ass is a goose.

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Anonymous

Nov 5, 2019 16:05

It used to be common not to pronounce the h in historical, so an made sense. It’s typically pronounced these days, so you’d expect a, but some people grew up seeing an historic(al) because it was used in older titles and such, and so they imitate it today. It gives it a bit of an old-fashioned feeling.

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M.A.R.

Oct 31, 2019 22:51

Happy Halloween!

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Anonymous

Jun 27, 2017 06:00

@DamkerngT. Hope you're doing okay.

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Anonymous

Jul 27, 2018 13:19

Word of the day: minuend

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Anonymous

Jul 26, 2018 17:37

Word of the day: subtrahend

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Jul 24, 2018 14:52

Catija is a valued associate now!

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Anonymous

Feb 4, 2021 21:27

Hope everyone's been well.

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CowperKettle

Aug 23, 2019 11:02

> Make Greenland green again!

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Eddie Kal

Jan 4, 2021 05:05

I did and still am. How are you?

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CowperKettle

Aug 4, 2019 03:44

What do you call a Tinder for very old people? Carbon dating.

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Anonymous

Apr 11, 2018 03:35

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I'm sure we all miss Damkerng. I know I do.

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M.A.R.

Jan 22, 2017 20:56

Word of the day: Candor

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ColleenV

Jun 18, 2019 20:47

And there’s the idiom of the day: the rest is gravy

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Anonymous

Jun 18, 2019 16:40

Slang of the day: janky

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