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14:13
puts tables in a circle and places seats around them
14:27
@MattЭллен Well, I'm happy. Two actual comments, so at least two people besides you read it.
So what's next? ... I mean, I can read your schedule, but should I start thinking about more ways to frighten the horses?
@StoneyB as soon as the article got into the community bulletin the number of views went up 20 fold
@StoneyB What takes your fancy?
Gotta be hot news or you're no news.
Well, a couple things been perking. 1) The Rules and what they're good for - that's for 'general' audiences. Or 2) The changing face of grammatical terminology - which might excite some higher-level comments/discussion among the established users. What's the audience you want?
Well, yeah. if you come up with another article, that would be ace!
Cameron, Luke, Kit, Me, cornbread ninja, maybe Mahnax
so you'd be at the back of that queue, I suppose
I really want to think up a slogan to encourage other contributors...
14:39
I don't think of it as 'back of the queue' but as 'remote deadline' ... Do you mean "encourage more people to contribute" or "encourage other contributors than StoneyB to get their articles in" ... and if the former, Who do you want to encourage?
encourage more people. I'd like to encourage other people who have an interest in writing about English, with a good command of English
Oh, and Gigili is writing post too, so that's good.
Hmm ... there's a lotta folks around who write pretty well. Why would they want to post on the blog instead of in the Q&A? he said rhetorically. Obviously, because they're not limited by an inferior question, or by such constraints as get a question closed. So perhaps something building on freedom of expression or get it off your chest or don't wait to be asked . . .
good thinking!
15:00
The Blog - EL&U's Tahrir Square
And maybe you need to think about a broader rebranding. "English Language & Usage Community Blog" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
ELUsion : escape the constraints
15:18
And then if the Learners site takes off, carry it over
ELLipsis : fill in the blanks
ohdear. Work calls. (actually, work repels, but paycheck calls). I'll continue to drop in as opportunity offers. ta.
CU @StoneyB
 
2 hours later…
16:54
noknok?
hello!
so, um, I never have an agenda for this meeting
BLEU
Blog, Language, English Usage
or you could anglify it to BLUE
Okay I am done with random backronyms.
:D
@Jez - how's your poem coming along? Have you got your meter sorted?
17:08
hi @Mitch! Are you composing a post?
@MattЭллен as a matter of fact I am. (on 'a few', some', 'several' etc) I got the Graves book which mentioned a similar analysis, which I have included in my draft. I still have to add the draft to the wordpress blog site.
@Mitch ok cool! I couldn't remember, sorry!
I'll add it to the list
whee!!
This morning (in my timeframe) you were looking for nifty slogans to induce other writers to come put us out of a job.
@StoneyB aye! I am at that
17:30
Well, there's one agendum.
I burned out all my inventiveness synapses with Don't wait to be asked. Over to the Ms
17:46
Is the pow-wow over? I'm confused. This site shows me "in 1 hour", regardless of whether it's 1 hour in the future or in the past.
reads transcript
ELUcidate!
@DavidWallace +1
@DavidWallace well, it goes on for as long as people want to chat :) it started an hour and a half ago
 
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Jez
Jez
22:11
@MattЭллен not at the mo. been busy with the new job.

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