This is part 58 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a diagramless checkerboard crossword. Empty cells are either blue or white; one of these cell colours only contains vowels (A, E, I, O, U) and the other only consonants (i...
You try to see doubly well
But I'm not for locations
You try to slither in through
But I'm not for foreign words
Don't worry, I'm here to store
You just need a key to find
The time admits it's no chore
The log; from how I'm designed
What am I?
It's not a word in common use, as a clarification if you're a non-native English speaker. it takes a base word ("riddle") and add a suffix ("able", for ability/potential) and a prefix ("ir", for not) to make a compound whose meaning could be sussed out by someone with enough familiarity with English
I get people annoyed with me on a semi-regular basis; I've accepted it as the cost of doing business. The very fact that I'm active in moderation means that I'm more harsh than the standard PSE user, who does approximately nothing. I admit that I am on the harsher end of the spectrum of active moderators. However, I make every attempt to accompany my close-votes and flags with comments, so my motivations/reasoning are clear and able to be disagreed with.
Amusingly the latest person accusing me of being a "dictator" and "bully" for arbitrarily deciding which questions were closed, was a poster of a question which I had not voted to close.
From what I understood of the situation, they directed their anger at me because none of the close-voters commented. I was the only commenter - I posted the standard request for attribution, followed by some clarification questions. I left before I got the last answer. When I came back, I had a message in my inbox accursing me of dictatorship while five other users had VTC'ed.
There are 75 different integer numbers (belonging to Z set). E. g., they are written down on a blackboard. A person erased all the originals, replacing every single initial number with either its square or its cube. In other words, each original number was either squared or cubed, the choice betw...
They also accused me of "ruining the sense of community" when they'd only been a user for 2 days. I haven't actually flagged their comment for deletion because I find it so hilarious I keep going back to re-read
@DannyuNDos another non-native here... i think english poems usually follow some kind of word-stress pattern, like ba-BAM ba-BAM ba-BAM, or ba-BAM-ba ba-BAM-ba ba-BAM-ba, or similar
I attribute my good sense of rhythm and stress to the sheer quantity of musicals I consumed as a wee one
It is something that comes much easier with practice, sadly for those who wish to pick it up quickly. I learned rhythm much the same way as I learned vocabulary: by accident while I was frantically devouring any words within reach.
anyways, feel free to ping me about my moderation stuff in here; I pop in often enough to be pingable
musically speaking though a sense of rhythm is weirdly innate, a lot of people get it right without ever trying to "learn" it and for others it's constant struggle
i was in a garage band in my 20s and we had a singer who could not freaking count to four, no matter how hard we tried to teach him
I think I got all the words, but I'm struggling with the logical deduction part. I'm trying not to use the assumption that a circle must have a letter in it since it doesn't really state that in the rules...
My process: rot13(V qrqhprq gur cbfvgvbaf bs cnanzn pnany, bcrengvp naq ertrarengr jvgu gur uryc bs jurer urknqrpvzny pbhyq or, nygubhtu vg qbrf abg gryy zr jurer urknqrpvzny vf. V riraghnyyl sbhaq jurer urknqrpvzny jnf ol cebprff bs ryvzvangvba (sbhegu ebj pna'g unir vg orpnhfr gura lbh pna'g cynpr n jbeq gung unf ebj guerr pbyhza bar, naq rvtugu ebj'f abg vg rvgure fvapr gur obggbz svir pryyf va pbyhza gjb zhfg pbagnva n svir yrggre jbeq juvpu vf rvgure phovg be xriva))
Then rot13(V nyfb unq gur yvynprengrq cneg. V sbhaq gung ebj gra pbyhza bar unq gb rkgraq gb ebj gra pbyhza svir be orlbaq ohg gur bayl jbeq fngvfslvat gung jbhyq or yvynp. Gura ebj gra pbyhza frira unf gb or cneg bs n jbeq bs sbhe yrggref be zber, fb vg rvgure unq gb funer yrggref sebz yvynp, va juvpu pnfr ynprengrq unq gb or gurer, be vg qvqa'g funer yrggref, va juvpu pnfr ab jbeq pna or gurer, fb vg unq gb or cneg bs ynprengrq)
But I only got to that part
Oops, I meant gragu rather than rvtugu in the first paragraph
If the definition is "Right wing leader of Armenians" then it must surely end in "yan".
If "right" means "proper/real" (as in "you've made a right mess of it") then "Right wing leader" could be one of these people. (But I highly doubt that's the intent.)
Hm, if HRSHERS meant "fearsome" then the answer could be THRASHERS.
Well, Armen Sarkissian has the KISS (smack) and S (is), but Arian isn't a term for fearsome Georgians from the naughties. And Wikipedia doesn't say that he was right-leaning.
The only 9-letter potential answers I see in the chat are Ossetians and Thrashers. And Thrashers fits the definition better (plus, Jafe often clues American sports teams). But what the heck is the wordplay?
Tearing from fearing,
Hands nervously interlocking because of the robbing,
Since the cheating done in that meeting,
So in the center of a dark alley I hide,
Like a rudiment my heart pounding at my side!
If each of these lines you truly understand,
Then you would know exactly what I am! (6)
@Jafe I will add the logical steps to my answer. Btw, neither the other answer had explanations initially. However I didn't expect that answer to be deleted.
@bobble Gosh, just seen that comment. I know you're managing to put a comical spin on it but I'm so sorry you received that hate - nobody deserves that and you do an excellent job of moderating as a site user. Don't stop.
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On a separate note (to revert back to previous conversation), whoever names collective nouns really should make better use of rhyme. A 'platoon of baboons' is surely top choice, yes??
that's because kids these days don't even chat anymore, everyone's too busy staring at their scr... wait
re: the schwa discussion from a couple of days ago, wikipedia seems to claim that much of north american english has [ɜ] as the expression of the "jump" vowel
which is a central vowel so it actually kinda makes sense to denote it as /ə/ rather than /ʌ/
i thought the other day that i may have actually been aware of the distinction on some level
like if i say "steph curry", the vowel in curry sounds different than in "chicken curry", because i've only heard his name pronounced the american way, even though i know the word curry
The three overlapping ellipses form seven curved regions. Your task is to place exactly one tile per region, so that the four tiles in any one ellipse can solve the corresponding clue!
> Most North American English dialects merge the lax vowels with the tense vowels before /r/ and so "marry" and "merry" have the same vowel as "mare", "mirror" has the same vowel as "mere", "forest" has the same vowel as the stressed form of "for", and "hurry" has the same vowel as "stir" as well as that found in the second syllable of "letter".
My dialect is not one of "most North American English dialects". I have none of the listed mergers.
"Murray and Barry ate curry in a hurry. It was hot, so their tongues got furry, their vision got blurry, and we had to bury them." voca.ro/14aD6mX5VqXX
Hah time to prepare another voice line (I'll do it later)
If the definition is pot then it could be a slang term for the "marijuana" pot, and there are quite many of those...
Incidentally, one of them is "green paint", which would probably make the latter statement here untrue now. (Well, depending on how popular the term actually is...)
Oh! This is the only community I'm in where I haven't bragged yet: I'll be starting a PhD program in the fall. I'm very excited, but I still have to graduate the last term of my bachelor's degree first.
In the US, a master's isn't assumed as a PhD pre-requisite, but people will still do one if they 1) have poor bachelor's grades/went to a bad university, and want to prove they are actually good at the subject, 2) want to switch to a different field, 3) want more research experience so they know whether a PhD is the right path, 4) weren't planning on the PhD initially, etc.
I had the option do so; it would have entailed an extra year at the same university (we have a combined bachelor's-master's program that lets you overlap the last bachelor's year with the first master's), but that would have cost quite some tuition (the money saved for me to go to college ran out my second year) and I already had a decent academic & research profile, plus I have a strong idea of what field I want to study in the PhD. Thus the master's wasn't necessary for me
Basically anything you can say about academia differs based on the field, but it's certainly quite common to admit bachelor's-only students across many fields
I start my master studies this fall in quantitative finance/economics in Europe. Since this will just take 3-4 semesters I want to take a look ahead and obviously PhD is one option to do.
So I am wondering if it makes sense to go to the US for PhD, since I will have already a master's degree in...
The question goes as:
If the word $\text{ISSUE}$ is written as $341145$, how is $\text{DATES}$ written as?
The answer is:
In the case of ISSUE, I get the logic as - the product of the place values of all the letters gives us the final number.
$\text{ISSUE}=9\times19\times19\times21\times5=3411...
The CCCC has all the necessary charades in place to form RAINBOW RIOTS (pot [of gold]'s neighbour being a rainbow, riots being 'takes part in mob behaviour'). If only it meant 'classy'...
"non-profit organisation that creates arts and cultural projects to advocate for human rights for LGBTQ people around the world" sounds pretty classy to me
@msh210 true! (I'm in one of them at present :) ) but schools differ on exactly how much you're expected to prioritize the coursework, so I feel it's good to have the freedom to jump straight into research, at least in schools who don't make the coursework requirements too bad