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Spagirl
Spagirl
00:13
@bobble I hadn't twigged that all the other comments were from one person, I skimmed them and thought it was a multi-way conversation!
bobble
bobble
I've deleted my one reply comment, which was after their first and was attempting to say "this isn't relevant".
And I might just be being cranky since my tics have been acting up since I'm stressed about upcoming tests
Bookworm
Bookworm
01:13
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Q: What figure of speech is "The women echoed in my daydreaming"?

SayamanIs the following a valid figure of speech? The women echoed in my daydreaming. Instead of saying: The laughter of women echoed in my daydreaming. Is this a valid figure of speech or an error? Also, can the first sentence be interpreted as something other than a metonymy or metaphor?

literary-device
 
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bobble
bobble
02:19
@Bookworm would a VTC as Needs More Details be acceptable, until they add work/author tags?
verbose
verbose
02:40
@bobble Congratulations! Also, I think it's as much about post quality as quantity. For example, Matt Thrower is close to me in rep but he has a lot fewer posts. His posts just get upvoted a lot more. So it's possible to get a high rep even with few posts.
bobble
bobble
@verbose is it quality, or is it HNQs? :P
I've only managed 3 posts with >=10 score. Granted, one is 42, and the second is 21. I need to figure out how to replicate their HNQs :)
verbose
verbose
02:57
@bobble Well, the HNQ lottery is another matter. But I think to hit it you have to answer relatively soon after the question is posted? My sense is that you take time to research your answers before posting and work on them for days. I also think that after a point the HNQ thing comes out in the wash. That is to say, I probably hit the HNQ lottery as often as Matt, or Gareth probably hits the HNQ lottery as often as Tsundoku. (To take two sets of people with scores within striking distance)
bobble
bobble
@verbose yes, so I need to write some nice clickbaity questions :)
And I can write some answers quicker. Mostly just to simple meaning questions.
verbose
verbose
@bobble Indeed. Just ask whether O'Reilly in 1984 was gay. You'll get massive upvotes.
@bobble Gareth had a good point some weeks ago when he said that simple meaning questions are great for users who need to build rep do so. So I'm glad you're making use of it. I've been trying to back off on answering the more obvious meaning questions since he pointed that out.
bobble
bobble
I'm not just doing it for the rep - I have an AP Literature exam coming up, need to practice passage comprehension :)
Would "Why do so many Redwall books use frame stories?" be a non-opinion-based-enough/answerable question?
verbose
verbose
03:29
@bobble I think so
@bobble Oh, ah
bobble
bobble
rep is nice though :D
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
06:08
@verbose O'Brien?
verbose
verbose
06:39
Or O'Connor or whatever that Irishman's name is
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
07:31
@verbose O'Really?
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@verbose Unfortunately, post score is often unrelated to quality. There's a few people who are still in the first page of users by rep but have hardly posted since early 2017 and most of their posts aren't that good. Just because everything got tons of upvotes in the private beta stage.
That's one of the reasons I try to give bounties to lower-rep users with good posts: the only reason they're lower-rep is because we aren't as vote-happy as in the early days.
@Spagirl Congrats on 9k rep!
verbose
verbose
07:57
@Randal'Thor Oh, ah.
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
08:15
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A: Photo Competition 2021-05-03: Typography

user98068Footnotes in Footnotes in Footnotes Germany, 2021-04-26, Sony DSC-R1 30.2mm/7.1 @ 1/1000s (flash) Critical editions summarise several different text versions in a manner where one can actually cite the exact page and wording from any of the covered variants. This critical apparatus contains a ca...

It's footnotes all the way down.
 
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verbose
verbose
09:55
@Tsundoku That's the one! Thanks
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
10:39
Congrats to @GarethRees for a badge in sourcing quotes.
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
@Bookworm This question was previously asked and closed on Writing SE. So it does not seem to be about a specific work of literature.
 
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bobble
bobble
13:43
Great, now there's a long comment discussion about something I removed from one of my answers
@Randal'Thor do I hear a challenge to push them off there? :)
Bookworm
Bookworm
14:08
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Q: Swedish novel from 2013 on a researcher in the isolated Pårte observatory in the Sarek Mountains, Sweden

gerritI'm looking for a Swedish literary novel, published 2013, set in the Pårtetjåkko observatory in the Sarek mountains in Sweden. In the book, the (fictional) main character is alone in the remote mountain summit observatory, and contemplating his (real) predecessor Axel Hamberg. In the same year, ...

identification-request scandinavian-literature
Librarian
Librarian
15:02
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Q: What kinds of non-work-specific literary-device questions are on-topic?

bobbleThe question which led to this one: Can "women echoed" be considered a figure of speech? What kinds of general literary-device questions (not connected to a specific literary work) are on-topic? Some previously well-received questions for your consideration Asking about the definition of a speci...

discussion scope
bobble
bobble
That's quick
 
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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
17:25
@bobble Doesn't seem to be anything we could add, you say? :-)
@Librarian Good meta post!
> Have you noticed that I like hyphens yet? :)
Ironic when that smiley is noseless.
bobble
bobble
smileys with noses are against nature
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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
:-o
Having noses is against nature?
TIL that bobble is Voldemort.
('s daughter?)
bobble
bobble
ack, she's evil
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
But does she have a nose?
Mithical
Mithical
*non-canonical
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
17:33
(I've never read Cursed Child and consider it to be nonsense outside the spirit of the original books, mostly because of that character.)
bobble
bobble
it is nonsense but it has pretty music and choreography
@Randal'Thor I wasn't sure exactly what should be there besides the title question. Are the links to previous questions a good idea?
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
Here is Voldemort with a nose.
bobble
bobble
(was worried it would make the meta question too broad, or not focused enough on the specific question which inspired the meta)
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@bobble Yes, I think so. The meta question isn't just "should we close this question or not", but a more general query, which is good.
Asking about a specific question might lead to a policy being formed which doesn't take into account other questions of the same type that might be more or less useful.
Napoleon Wilson
Napoleon Wilson
17:52
@bobble Nonsense or nosense?
bobble
bobble
@NapoleonWilson It certainly costs more than no cents to see it
Napoleon Wilson
Napoleon Wilson
@bobble Doesn't help when everyone simply reads the script like a book, though. ;-P
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@NapoleonWilson Nosenose.
Napoleon Wilson
Napoleon Wilson
Much better, yes.
bobble
bobble
nosesense is smell, of course
 
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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
19:12
Oh hey, it's exactly a year since the Lit mod election! Happy mod birthday, @Tsundoku :-)
I suppose our Constable badges will be along in an hour or so.
bobble
bobble
19:56
8003, 8004, 8005, 8006, 8007, 8014, 8022, 8060, 8061, 8137, 8198, 8295, 8467, 8502 - snack on some spam as a treat?
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
@bobble Thanks for listing those. They will have to wait until tomorrow, unless one of the other non-vegetarian mods wants a little snack.
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
20:19
Well, I have fed them to the dogs. All gone.
bobble
bobble
What did the dogs think of them?
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
We'll see if they start howling tonight.
 
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bobble
bobble
23:07
@Bookworm I observe this question on the HNQs

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