Recently, The New Yorker came out with Thomas Mcguane's short story Balloons. It is a really a short piece of fiction. However, it wasn't clear to me what the author intends to convey through this short story. All I could make out of it was that it takes the reader through a good relationship gon...
In Chapter One of King Solomon's Mines we have the first reference to one of the main antagonists of the story:
Stop, though! there is Gagaoola, if she was a woman, and not a fiend.
Throughout the rest of the book in the story, however, her name is Gagool. For example, in Chapter Nine:
“White ...
@Bookworm How interesting, the header as it shows up now does not have "A gaggle of names ... " etc., just the opening question. But I don't see any edit history for the question.
in the hypothetical case where a user came in to this chatroom and did something they had been repeatedly and explicitly asked to not do, would flagging their message be appropriate?
Unless it really is spam or offensive, I'd say Moderator. At least two mods are pretty active in this room so would probably know the history you reference
Also, I believe anybody above a certain rep can see "spam/offensive" flags?
Right, and for "spam/offensive" you can't. So you would get users all across the network thinking "this isn't spam or offensive" because they don't know the history and can't see a reason
Hypothetically, such a user might also ask me to join a separate chat room just for me and them, I suppose. In such a case I would just turn on the "ignore this user" setting in that user's profile, I think
I have unfortunately been invited to such a room against my will, and do not know a way to get rid of the notification other than going into the room (which would make me pingable there)
“Poetry seems, by some inner necessity, to be becoming more difficult to read … Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes” — William Empson (1930), ‘Obscurity and Annotation’
@Randal'Thor True, although one possibility mentioned at the end of the question is that all three are correct and have some meaning, which could be construed as "significance".
Now I should ask why Gavrila in Dostoevsky's The Idiot is variously referred to as Ganya, Gañka, and Ganechka at different places throughout the story.
Yes, every Russian name has at least one "diminutive" form, something like a pet name but more widely used than pet names would be in English, and applying to common nouns as well as personal names.
So @Alex might become Alya to most of your friends, Alka to schoolboy chums, Alechka to doting parents. Something like that anyway, as far as I can remember it being described for Gavrila.
@Alex Oh, you might be. You've got a good eye for detail and spotting inconsistencies in long written texts; you'd probably be great at debating bills.
Although you might end up making long-winded speeches that nobody else would agree with.
The United Kingdom has a doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty,[5] so the Supreme Court is much more limited in its powers of judicial review than the constitutional or supreme courts of some other countries. It cannot overturn any primary legislation made by Parliament.
Huh.. yeah that just occurred to me. Can't recall if we've encountered each other before I became a mod or if this is also my first time seeing yours in blue
@Alex my arrival usually signals impending doom >:-D
Mariem Mint Derwich's poem "You Will Tell Them", available in English translation from Words Without Borders, appears to be about a Mauritanian woman, perhaps "the" woman of Mauritania representing (metonymously?) the whole Mauritanian culture and people.
A number of pronouns are used throughout ...