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GratefulDisciple

Oct 10, 2024 11:58

@Mitch Astute response, that I appreciate as insighful and valid. Food for thought (for me).

Robusto

Jul 23, 2024 20:47

And nobody even gave that a single star ... sniffs

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Lambie

Dec 6, 2023 20:52

From: Acrisio Pires, Ling Chair <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 5:44 PM
Subject: John Lawler, rest in peace
To: LingLorchHall <[email protected]>

Dear colleagues:

We have now heard the very sad news that Dr. John Lawer, Emeritus Faculty and former Associate Professor in our department, passed away this Saturday November 25.

Dr. John Lawler identified himself as aa general practitioner of linguistics. He studied the processes of metaphor in relation to lexicon and grammar from a cognitive perspective. He was particularly curious about embodied metaphors, and those …

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Cerberus

Oct 8, 2024 22:52

Most ideas are not caught in a single word.

CowperKettle

Jun 3, 2023 11:41

Open Letter to Stack Overflow openletter.mousetail.nl

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Cerberus

Jul 20, 2024 19:46

What I would have done, in your place, had someone applied a correction I posted against my wishes: "Oh, thanks, but I actually didn't mean for that correction to be applied, sorry".

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CowperKettle

May 13, 2024 03:30

> A daughter from the high society potato family makes an announcement at dinner
"I'm getting married."

"That's wonderful," mother potato says. "What kind of potato is he?"

"He's an Idaho potato," the daughter answers.

"Oh that's wonderful," the mother says "Idahos are fine taters, fine taters indeed."

The second eldest daughter says "I'm getting married too."

Again mother says "that's wonderful news. Who is he?"

"He's a Russett," the daughter answers.

"Fabulous," the mother says. "Russetts are fine high class taters, fine taters indeed."

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CowperKettle

Oct 7, 2024 02:29

Cerberus

Jul 18, 2024 01:25

@Alexander I used to listen to Russian music before the invasion.

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M.A.R.

Jul 17, 2024 23:41

A horrible person is horrible to you once, but constantly to people around them. They would die alone. You can move on though.

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tchrist

Oct 5, 2024 22:53

@GratefulDisciple And I was practicing the BWV 543 fugue when you plonked. Aren't we blessed that the old master continued to create "outdated" work in the ancient style long after the bright young things of his day had abandoned it to classical marches? :)

Cerberus

Jul 16, 2024 03:19

> The New York Times: "Russian forces have also recently pushed into New York"

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jlliagre

Oct 4, 2024 21:07

By the way splinter is écharde in French. It cognates with 'shard'.

Xander Henderson

May 5, 2024 21:03

Also Jif is gross. Peanut butter should not contain sugar.

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Araucaria - Him

Oct 3, 2024 22:43

@Mitch Question Time's in the US next week. And there's still time to take part as a member of the studio audience!

tchrist

Jul 13, 2024 14:28

cantelet, crewel, caddas, and incle.

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alphabet

Oct 3, 2024 19:49

Moreover, any bot like this should require a clear "opt-in" by a room's moderators, and it must provide--in its first message to a chatroom--clear instructions for how to opt out.

Robusto

Oct 3, 2024 14:11

@Michael Or you could just make him leave.

Mast

Feb 26, 2024 17:43

@AlMa1r Please do not abuse chat flags.

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Mitch

Jul 5, 2024 13:59

Spanish should be mandatory in the US like French in Canada (that's my one outright political statement for today).

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tchrist

Sep 28, 2024 19:00

I worry that there will be no end to these questions, and that their answers will be unlikely to help future visitors. It's kind of like custom proofreading, but what it really is free volunteer debugging of somebody else's software, like when people gripe about computerized spell- and/or grammar-checkers making suggestions that don't sense to that person.

tchrist

Sep 28, 2024 18:50

This is not the first time a question that amounts to little more than validating or refuting the drivel hallucinated by Generative AI has come to us, and I doubt it shall be the last. But I question whether doing so falls within a reasonable scope for our site.

CowperKettle

Jul 5, 2024 03:02

@Mitch Because you're not an expert on it. Those who are deep into it call it dipinto.

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Robusto

Feb 19, 2024 15:38

Albert Camus on why accepting absurdity is the start of a fruitful life

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Mitch

Sep 27, 2024 16:30

The problem with all this LLM stuff is that if you don't know what's going on, they sound awesome and believable and so on. If you actually know something about the subject, it's like word salad with really good dressing.

CowperKettle

Sep 26, 2024 01:55

HippoSawrUs

Jun 30, 2024 10:34

@Mitch When they were only $7 at the PX, long ago, I bought one for every child I could think of so all the parents could suffer. It seemed right at the time.

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دولة فلسطين

Jun 29, 2024 20:44

@jlliagre Le chat en balade est vraiment excellent. Dans mon coin souvent des écureuils ou des chats essayent de traverser le rue et c'est vraiment dangereux. Moi je pense qu'on devrait construire des passerelles pour les animaux, mais les utiliseraient-ils ? Ou simplement faire passer les autos dans des tunnels partout, ce qui permettrait au moins de récupérer le monoxyde de carbone qui s'en échappe.

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tchrist

Jun 29, 2024 04:14

I think I like Joni Mitchell's recording of that song better.

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Robusto

Apr 14, 2024 13:46

I’m Jewish, and I’ve covered wars. I know war crimes when I see them.

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Robusto

Sep 23, 2024 03:31

“Yes! We Have No Bananas” by Billy Jones 1923

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Robusto

Feb 3, 2024 20:00

@Idon'tknowwhoIam. I am a reference. But now you're asking me to do some work, and I decline.

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Dannyu NDos

Apr 4, 2024 02:56

Fun fact: The Sino-Korean word for "chemistry" literally means "study of becoming".

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MetaEd

Jun 18, 2024 15:23

"Frisbeetarianism, n.: The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."

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alphabet

Sep 18, 2024 01:23

Remember the golden rule of foreign policy: "It doesn't count as terrorism if our friends do it."

Ryder is not Rude.

Sep 18, 2024 00:41

The whole StackOverflow Corp. is "circling the drain."

M.A.R.

Sep 17, 2024 20:08

Then I'll officially be a sort of doctor and look down on people, yisss!

Lambie

Jun 15, 2024 16:34

Yeah, the Merlin bird app from Cornell. Red cardinals can be very noisy, right outside my window.

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alphabet

Sep 14, 2024 21:08

Would you like me to quote H&P's extensive discussion of regular and irregular plural forms?

Robusto

Jun 12, 2024 20:25

spoiler

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tchrist

Sep 14, 2024 03:20

> At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go

CowperKettle

Sep 12, 2024 05:17

You could board a train in Scotland and get off the train in Tokyo.

alphabet

Sep 12, 2024 04:19

Phrase of the day: terms of reference. (British) "A description of what must be dealt with and considered when something is being done, studied, etc."

jlliagre

Jun 5, 2024 20:20

My first HNQ reply on ELU :-) Guess what? It's a lot about 🇫🇷.

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Cerberus

Mar 15, 2024 23:28

Why would you think we were talking about English, have you looked at this room??

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Robusto

Sep 9, 2024 04:01

@Cerberus Would you mind correcting M.A.R.'s spelling of "18-karat" horseshit? Because "carat" is not used with gold, only precious stones.

Laurel

Mar 14, 2024 16:31

Hmmmm, only 40% of questions in the last 30 days were closed (excluding migrations and duplicates), which I think is a good sign

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Araucaria - Him

Sep 7, 2024 13:21

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Q: Are most sentences said or written only once?

I have many times heard it claimed that the great majority of natural-language sentences that are ever said or written are said or written only once. For example, Steven Pinker, in The Language Instinct, summarizing a famous argument by Noam Chomsky, says, "[V]irtually every sentence that a perso...

Robusto

Aug 19, 2023 18:57

@CowperKettle Caution: This chat is a version of social media, and may cause a vicious cycle of inflammation and cognitive decline.

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CowperKettle

Sep 6, 2024 08:08

Coke Fatwa

On September 11, 1951, an Egyptian newspaper, al-Ahram, published a fatwa by mufti Hasanayn al-Makhluf ruling Coca-Cola and Pepsi were permissible under Islamic law. The premise of the case was due to rumors and conspiracies spreading among the public, such as the Coca-Cola logo, when reflected in a mirror, spelling out "No Mohammed no Mecca" in Arabic. == Issuing the fatwa == In order to get an accurate answer on whether or not Pepsi and Coca-Cola were prohibited by Islamic law, the Egyptian Department of Fatwas asked the Ministry of Public Health to ascertain the composition of the two sodas...

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