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Knight

5:54 AM

@Tsundoku quora.com/…

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Rand al'Thor

7:06 AM

Anyone else going to post a Korean folklore question in the last two days of the challenge? :-) It's just me so far.

Bookworm

Q: "Too too sullied flesh" in Hamlet. Why twice?

Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew (Hamlet, Act I, Scene II). Why does too occur twice? It is one in a series of repetitions which occur in this soliloquy. But what does it mean "too, too sullied"? Perhaps it is also a reference to "this too", b...

Rand al'Thor

@Brahadeesh I recreated the the-conference-of-the-birds tag, which shouldn't have been auto-deleted. The the-norby-chronicles tag still exists but only on a deleted question, which the OP decided to delete and re-post on another site, so we can't really undelete it.

@Brahadeesh Done.

user185131

Cool!

user185131

7:21 AM

I'll try to add a wiki and excerpt to the-conference-of-the-birds then, so it stays preserved.

user185131

@Randal'Thor How about de-synonymizing norby-chronicles from the-norby-chronicles, though?

Rand al'Thor

That seems like an unnecessary synonymisation anyway, since typing norby-chronicles into the tag box would make the-norby-chronicles show up anyway.

I don't know how to delete synonymisations though, especially for non-existent tags.

Just ask a question about the Norby Chronicles and solve the problem ;-)

user185131

7:37 AM

If even you don't know how to de-synonymize, then that's the only solution :D I've heard that the synonymization procedure is complicated, but I didn't know it was this bad.

Rand al'Thor

I think I figured it out. Should be removed now.

But don't let that stop you from asking a good question about the Norby Chronicles :-)

user185131

Roger!

Bookworm

10:05 AM

Q: In "The Magpie and the Bell", how can the snake transform into a dragon?

I just read the Korean folk tale "The Magpie and the Bell" (I don't know whose translation this is), in which a huge snake claims to be able to transform into a dragon and rise to heaven: "Fine. Listen carefully. Deep in this mountain, there is an old abandoned temple. No one lives there now. In...

folk-tales korean-literature

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Rand al'Thor

11:40 AM

@Bookworm @North another one that may need some broader knowledge of Korean folklore or culture (or potentially may be answerable by reading a single linked Korean Wikipedia page).

I've got a question about Hamlet coming up too, but may save it for a couple of days, at least until this month is over.

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user185131

12:48 PM

I have suggested a rudimentary wiki (and excerpt) for the tag the-conference-of-the-birds.

user185131

Thanks for reviewing @Rand :)

Rand al'Thor

No problem :-) thank you for creating them!

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Rand al'Thor

2:43 PM

Following on from last week's discussion of the folk-tales and fairy-tales tags (starting here), I've taken a look at all the questions tagged fairy-tales to see if they'd work equally well tagged folk-tales (preparing for a merge, if nobody objects).

Of the eleven questions, three of them are already tagged folk-tales as well, three of them are story-ID questions that would be fine with folk-tales, and the remaining five should probably be fine with folk-tales too.

(The only ones that gave me momentary doubt are the two terminology and genre related questions, but both fairy tales and fables could be covered by folk-tales anyway.)

This one could probably be given a very interesting answer, by the way. Even if the question may be based on poor understanding, the answer could teach us a lot.

Bookworm

3:35 PM

Q: Faulkner in the University

I really appreciate it if anyone can help me to understand the highlighted parts (meaning of the part or a rephrase would be great)? As English is not my first language some parts are vague for me and a bit hard to understand. (Publisher: University Press of Virginia, Edited by Frederick L. Gwynn...

meaning william-faulkner

Rand al'Thor

4:07 PM

@Bookworm HNQ.

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Tsundoku

6:58 PM

@Randal'Thor One of the answers to that question does not make much sense to me.

Rand al'Thor

I agree. Torturing sentence structure to extract two different meanings of "too" instead of just taking the direct explanation that it's repetition for emphasis?

Bookworm

7:23 PM

Q: The name of a device by which an author reports the use of coarse language without quoting it?

Don, a soldier sleeping in a hammock, is abruptly awakened some hours earlier than expected and is quite alarmed, thinking the camp may be under attack by the enemy. The company headquarters runner who woke him up says, "The Old Man [i.e. the commanding officer] wants to see you." Then we are tol...

literary-device

user185131

7:44 PM

I'm curious why the Community User is the sole approver for my suggested edit on the tag wiki of login. Did you do something differently here @Tsundoku? (It's just my idle curiosity, not that it really matters.)

Rand al'Thor

8:02 PM

@Brahadeesh That's weird. Normally if the Community user is doing something alone like that, I'd guess it was done by a deleted user and is now attributed to Community. But that can't be the case here. Community can approve edits only if the actual reviewer clicks "Improve" instead of "Approve", but then the improver's username would also show up on the review task.

user185131

I tried searching on the main Meta for a similar situation, but couldn't find anything about it.

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