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Anonymous
00:01
Hmm! Give me an example.
> In one kingdom lived folk like you and me, ...
Anonymous
I think that's largely true, but for example you'll find folks only in some uses
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Nice example!
Anonymous
Like for example, if you're addressing an audience, you have folks and not folk
It's from Maleficent!
Anonymous
00:03
That is, I think the vocative is always folks
Anonymous
> That's all, folks!
> *That's all, folk!
Oh, yes! I remember that toons!
(Or toon?)
(Oh, it's "Looney Tunes"!)
Anonymous
Oh, yes!
Anonymous
I call them cartoons, never 'toons
Anonymous
But the title is Looney Tunes and not Looney Cartoons! :-)
00:06
Yes! I was so confused!
:D
Anonymous
I've gradually come to realize that the name snailboat confuses everyone
Anonymous
Today I was called "snailnot" on Japanese.SE chat :-)
Anonymous
We can add that to the growing list of names I've been given by people who weren't trying to get my name wrong, but were overwhelmed by its sheer hard-to-brain-ness
That's really interesting!
Anonymous
00:14
I mean, I didn't intend for it to be difficult to brain. It just turned out that way.
Anonymous
It was supposed to be cute. :-)
Anonymous
I mean, sailboats and snails are both cute things.
It is! They are!
But why "snailnot"?
The font, perhaps?
Anonymous
さあ・・・
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Do you think my meta post is fair? (I'm not sure if you've seen it already)
00:17
I haven't!
Anonymous
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A: What to do about downvotes not based on the merits of an answer?

snailboatI think the answer received downvotes both because it's incorrect and because of certain statements with non-factual implications. I don't believe the downvotes were made in bad faith. I've gathered a few examples from The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) to illustrate the constru...

Oh, I thought you post only a comment.
Anonymous
I'm trying to get the hang of keeping a positive tone while writing things like this, but I may have done so rather inexpertly
Anonymous
I mean, I'm basically what they call "not a people person"
Anonymous
But it's a skill, right? So I'm trying to work on it.
00:18
@snailboat And look what happened to me. :-)
Anonymous
But I didn't get a very positive reaction, so I'm looking over what I wrote
But I wouldn't worry too much this time, because I can see iyrin is another truth-seeker. So, I suppose that no matter how strong an argument is, as long as it's based on facts, they will handle it well enough.
Actually, I had another angle but didn't mention it because of I was on iPad, and it's not that important.
I think a word play in an answer intended for learners could confuse them.
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Well, I certainly don't need to (and of course can't) make people agree with me
Anonymous
I just don't want to actively drive people away from agreeing through poor choice of words, which I think I've done enough of in the past :-)
00:27
Imho, I think I can't see any problems in your answer, except for maybe the learning part. I mean, not everyone considers themselves a learner.
Anonymous
Hmm, that's true
Anonymous
Maybe we really aren't all here to learn.
Anonymous
I am, though! :-)
nods
Me too!
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. I think I'll leave that part, but maybe I'll be more careful in the future
00:30
Don't worry. Should anything happen, we have our @MARamezani to blame for!
:P
Anonymous
Yay
nods -- I think the answer is fine.
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A: meaning of "take the country out of Salem"

StoneyB As TRomano observes, the keys worn by the innkeeper on his belt at one time signaled his sexual predilections to those in the know—worn on the left they designated a "top", one who took a more active role, worn on the right a "bottom", one who took a more passive role. As FumbleFingers points ou...

Oh, so Salem is a brand (of cigarettes)!
Anonymous
I didn't know that
I know only Marlboro and 777.
I used to smoke only about a year. That was enough for me already. :D
Anonymous
I've never smoked
Anonymous
00:45
Some people in my family drink and smoke
Anonymous
I've never done either
Yay!
I've done both... :-)
Anonymous
They always seemed like dangerous drugs to me
When I was young, most women here didn't smoke or drink.
I think I can still say most, perhaps. Not very sure.
Anonymous
Most women I know drink, only a few smoke
Anonymous
00:49
Smoking is becoming less common all around
nods -- I guess it's different from place to place.
I remember that when I was in Paris, which was about 7-8 years ago, almost everyone there smoked!
Anonymous
Smoking has been on the decline ever since I first had the opportunity to go to Japan. At the time, it was pretty widespread
You mean in Japan?
Anonymous
Yes
Anonymous
I sort of wrote that sentence in reverse
Anonymous
00:53
I probably should've started over :-)
Anonymous
At the time I first had the opportunity to go to Japan, smoking was pretty widespread there. Since then, it's been on the decline, lower each year
Anonymous
Since I have breathing problems, it's difficult for me to be around people who smoke
When was that? Was it before or after the time when Japanese schoolgirls seemed to like to paint themselves tan?
Anonymous
So that's a concern for me
Anonymous
00:54
Late 90s
@snailboat Oh, now I can remember that you mentioned that once.
@snailboat Probably before that fashion.
Anonymous
Ganguro (ガングロ) is an alternative fashion trend among young Japanese women that started in the mid-1990s, distinguished by a dark tan and contrasting make-up liberally applied by fashionistas. The Shibuya and Ikebukuro districts of Tokyo were the centres of ganguro fashion; it was started by rebellious youth who contradicted the traditional Japanese concept of beauty; pale skin, dark hair and neutral makeup tones. Ganguro instead tanned their skin, bleached their hair and used a lot of colourful makeup in unusual ways. Ganguro has a connection to Japanese folklore of ghosts and demons who are depicted...
Oh, yes! That's the picture I was thinking of!
I asked that because I remember that some show mentioned that this group of young Japanese women like to drink and smoke a lot.
Ah! mid-1990s
Welcome back! @iyrin
hi
That is an interesting trend
Makes me miss my Japanese friends
Aww
I remember I was kinda puzzled seeing Ganguro girls the first time. :-)
01:01
hah
I mean, I thought to myself, "What happened to them? Is it some kind of prank?"
We had a party where people from different prefectures made their version of okonomiyaki. I made a pizza :D
Then I got used to it.
Nice!
I really liked the okonomiyaki
Okonomiyaki sounds nice and tastes nice!
I only have it a few times, iirc.
01:03
Yeah I like the word too
And I'm not sure if mine were authentic. :D
Actually I love how Japanese sounds
Where's the Japanese learners Q&A?
^__^
Hehe! I don't know why, but almost everything in Japanese sounds sorta cute!
Anonymous
cool
01:04
^ Yes!
Anonymous
Japanese.SE へどうぞ^^
Oh, I don't have Japanese input installed on this PC.
oops i had posted that before seeing snailboat's
Snailboat you speak Japanese!?
Anonymous
ええ、できるよ。少しだけだけど・・・
haha I don't, but I think I'm going to start a duolingo course for it
01:07
imagining snailboat saying that in a cute voice...
Have you ever used that site? It's fun
Anonymous
Oh, I haven't
Anonymous
@iyrin Beginner questions are welcome on Japanese.SE! :-)
It's free and seems great for learning or brushing up on basics
Thanks sb!
I watch a lot of Naruto. I admit it.
Anonymous
01:08
Yes! I'm going to take that sb abbreviation back from StoneyB and Somebody!
Even the filler.
raising hand -- Me too.
Never heard of him
Anonymous
I've never seen Naruto, but one of my close friends has seen the entire thing, I think
I remember that the last episode I've watched was when Naruto fought Pain.
Anonymous
01:09
I do like cartoons, by the way, I just haven't seen Naruto :-)
Probably best to wait until it's done then watch all the non-filler episodes. There are lists on the web somewhere
Which ones do you like?
Anonymous
I like the Ghibli films like Spirited Away (called Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi in Japanese) and Mononoke-Hime
Anonymous
And Sakasama no Patema!
(Maybe Ponyo too :-)
Anonymous
Oh, yes!
Anonymous
01:12
But Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi is my favorite
Spirited Away is probably the highest rated Japanese anime on IMDb.
Anonymous
Wow!
Anonymous
In English, Japanese anime is more or less redundant because we only say anime to mean Japanese animation. But in Japanese, anime is a more general term for animation
Oh, yes, indeed!
Generally, anything above 4 is usually watchable (for me), above 6 is good, above 7 is nice, above 8 usually means awesome!
Spirited Away is at 8.6.
Anonymous
How is Sakasama no Patema doing?
Anonymous
01:17
I think the English title is Patema Inverted
Anonymous
I liked that movie
I haven't seen any of them. Might check them out
Oh, let me see... How well The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is doing on IMDb...
7.9! Yay!
Anonymous
Oh, I liked that movie a lot, too!
Anonymous
01:21
Toki o Kakeru Shōjo!
Anonymous
It's actually the sequel to an old book
Anonymous
Well, not that old.
Anonymous
(The book has the same title as the movie)
nods -- Probably one of the most heart touching anime I've ever watched.
Oh, you just made me want to read it in Japanese!
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. You could! It's short
Anonymous
01:33
You'd probably want to do some learning first ;-)
@snailboat Or I can try reading 3 pages a week like I did when I started reading English. :P
I don't know if this is the novel
http://www.amazon.co.jp/続・時をかける少女-Fukkan-com-石山透/dp/4835447344/
It looks like it's a sequel.
Anonymous
You want this one
Anonymous
The original novel by 筒井康隆 (Yasutaka Tsutsui)
Ah, thanks!
Oh, it's available on Kindle, too!
And it's much cheaper!
Anonymous
01:39
@DamkerngT. You could, but Japanese orthography is a bit more difficult than English
時をかける少女 角川文庫 [Kindle版] Not currently available
Anonymous
It doesn't have furigana on all the kanji
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Aww
Anonymous
It is fairly short, and it's a young adult novel
01:40
nods
Anonymous
So it'd be an easier read than some things you might attempt :-)
@snailboat And I already know its anime version!
Anonymous
The anime is a sequel to it
Anonymous
Do you remember the aunt who she called a まじょ 'witch'?
01:41
Ah, yes!
Anonymous
She was the main character in the novel
Anonymous
That was how she knew about time leaping
A-ha! That's why I think the aunt in the anime was kind of enigmatic. :-)
 
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03:14
I ordered it! -- 時をかける少女 〈新装版〉 (角川文庫)
@DamkerngT. Is that a book?
BTW good morning
@Freddy Yes! Good morning!
I that's is based on anime movies
The anime (maybe more than one anime) is based on the novel.
I've watched only the 2006 one.
It's English name is "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" and it has only 170 pages!
03:26
Yes!
It's really heart touching. Nice story.
(I haven't read the novel yet; that's just the feeling I got from the anime.)
Do you watch Anime?
Yes, sometimes.
Not as often as before.
There are too many NSFW posts on 9gag on Anime
The next anime I want to watch is a sequel of Ghost in the Shell.
Oh, sorry, wrong name!
Ya imdb says Ghost in the shell is better
Yesterday I started "Complete Adventure of Sherlock Holmes" novel.
03:31
Hah! Scarlett Johansson is going to be in Ghost in the Shell (2017)! Wow!
@Freddy Nice!
But I think it will soon be boring because there are too many cases of Sherlock(new case after every 20 pages)!
Oh! Isn't the more cases the merrier?
:-)
It should be. But my friends says it will be fun till I complete 1 novel, after that it will require break(Actually there are 4 novels in book)
Ahh
How many cases are there in the first novel?
I don't know but I guess around 12
I have just read 1st case
03:39
nods
Gotta go. Please look after the room for us. :-)
And one thing i notice in the book is that there is space before question marks.
Bye
@Freddy Punctuations were different in the old days.
Bye!
Okay
 
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08:35
No one's here!
Everyone's asleep
Yay I can say anything now
ahooo
unko unko
08:49
Please maintain appropriate English Learning Log Cabin Chatroom decorum at all times. Thank you.
09:37
@Choko You can say anything at anytime. :)
Exactly. That's our decorum.
 
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11:56
Evening @Jim!
Evening! @MARamezani, @Araucaria
Hullo!
Hullo!
You can blame me, but you can't catch me.
Oh wait...
Snailboat has the hammer.
So maybe you can catch me.
11:59
Eh, is she Thor?
Even better. She's a mod.
LOL
I'm starting to see "vocabulary" from another perspective.
My new motto: Not all words are equal.
I mean, someone who knows 5000 words might actually has a bigger vocabulary size than another someone who knows 30000 words.
It's because we usually think of "word" as a word.
@DamkerngT. But some words are more equal than others.
(And so it's a good motive for non-native speakers to increase their vocab size by increasing number of words.)
@MARamezani Such as...
I just completed your motto, Animal Farm style.
12:05
Hah!
So you are a fan of Orwell's, eh?
I remember that of all of the English stories I read, I loved that one the best, or the second best.
I planned to read 1984 in full. Never succeeded.
I planned to buy 1984. Never succeeded.
LOL
I wonder if it'll be the same for 時をかける少女 I just ordered.
No swearing!
BTW, have I shown you this?
12:07
LOL
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Q: Chemistry site design

Kurtis BeaversI’m Kurtis, senior product designer at Stack Exchange. First, I wanted to congratulate you because this site is now starting the process of moving out of beta to become a fully-graduated site! Well done! Graduation and Your Site Design Graduation comes with a few perks. We have already started ...

?
I think you did!
Oh, this one looks newer than the last one!
Congrats!
It looks really nice.
Just look at the lab I'm gonna be living in the rest of my chem.SE life.
:D
When are they going to deploy that?
In a week or so, they told us.
12:09
Yay!
Pffft. Earned 11 upvotes (highly rare back there) for this comment:
This. Is. The. Best. Piece. Of. News. I've. Heard. Here. AWESOME! — MARamezani Apr 23 at 16:50
Hmmm
HMMMMMMMMMMMM!
WAHHHAHAHA!
My browser must get too excited, it's starting to freeze up bit by bit...
@Dam Apr 27 '16 means 2016 right?
12:12
I suppose so.
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!
I'm not gonna have any other headaches caused by this user till that time.
ADG, Jaipur, India
1 8
@DamkerngT. That question is very deep.
@MARamezani I'm glad to hear that you aren't gonna have more headaches.
@MARamezani Maybe it's a chemical name!
@DamkerngT. Me too.
Gosh!
I can't believe how much rude and annoying can a person be.
12:15
@MARamezani Life is like a box of chocolate. :P
It melts and becomes delicious?
Hi all
Hi! @Araucaria
@DamkerngT. Darn it! Snailboat edited this question into something insensible.
@Araucaria Hullo!
@MARamezani Usually it's better before it's melted.
@MARamezani I think we're getting a strange kind of behavior on the main site.
12:17
@DamkerngT. I like melted ice cream and chocolate better. I'll sacrifice my clothes.
@MARamezani :D
Oh, melted ice cream is why I always choose cup over cone.
Is Studyenglishwell upset, or is somebody trying to vandalise thier posts?
I think that user is scared of some other person who might see their question.
@Araucaria Hmm, gimme some minutes guys.
It was about twenty of their old questions ... :(
@Araucaria I don't know. I just saw it start a few minutes ago.
12:19
Hmmm. I hope they haven't given up ....
That would be too bad.
Their questions, though unfamiliar, are interesting, imho.
Sad.
I couldn't find it.
In meta.SO someone was saying that if they can hide their posts from their managers.
So that they won't see them ask questions on SO.
I believe something similar is happening here.
I don't get this.
Somehow I lost two rep on ELL.
How is that possible?
No downvote signs, no rollback signs, no nothing!
@MARamezani Someone downvoted your answer?
@DamkerngT. That's what I'm confused about.
My rep profile mentions nothing like a downvote.
A question having your answer with one downvote has been undeleted?
12:26
@DamkerngT. You can use the tools and see what has currently been undeleted.
I remember the latter happened to me a couple of times.
But I only had a -3 answer, no -1s, iirc.
And that was because of a lousy choice of words.
@MARamezani I mean, the owner of the question had deleted the question and then they changed their mind and undeleted it.
Anything undeleted will be visible in the undeleted tab, I think.
I've never used that tab! Where is it?
12:29
@Maulik this is the sophisticated part of English not everyone is worthy to understand! Study please don't mess with your question's content. Precious time is being wasted trying to maintain it. — MARamezani 13 secs ago
@DamkerngT. Review then tools.
Eh? Hmm... I wonder if such actions will be recorded in the review queue.
A lot of my review actions are done outside the queue and they aren't recorded in the queue history.
Choose tools then Delete.
78u57867iur67ukr68ulr8ik[sdj[5]oly4WR0wj409ir5yi-q5ryhji-05ikyoy-3=gp]ae-5py=qa3‌​-r]pa=-53oyh-e35=qo=hp=456o9y-46i7y-w06u=woat]=4pr]aqrlyh'k,t5yhkm54pok[5q]a3=4p‌​yg4elt5hkrthmjsltmhjsprpspssj[yk]qa-o5y]5ujstj0sjtugai=4\3o=5py4o5t=w\5p0oq45qt-a‌​34y\q345[pajt[hjaq3=4iykgjr4hgaW)r=4ik-4gha-p3ik6y34-otgap_r=wyhiq35yo]q=3uy=0gi9‌​5o9=-q3i5yq34=-ryog=q-54ihap[05yi-5ygikpa5y-i7q0a34ryu5iyq34i934=0t-q13o4ytq=34-p‌​y\qw35y=-oqa5r4yh=\34q — Study.English.Well 1 min ago
I know that now, but my wondering is still the same.
What the?
sigh
I think this needs our moderator's attention.
12:32
INDEED.
Done like a charm!
I tried to read it as a false keyboard, but failed.
I know what he's saying.
For example, this comment:
78u57867iur67ukr68ulr8ik[sdj[5]oly4WR0wj409ir5yi-q5ryhji-05ikyoy-3=gp]ae-5py=qa3‌​-r]pa=-53oyh-e35=qo=hp=456o9y-46i7y-w06u=woat]=4pr]aqrlyh'k,t5yhkm54pok[5q]a3=4p‌​yg4elt5hkrthmjsltmhjsprpspssj[yk]qa-o5y]5ujstj0sjtugai=4\3o=5py4o5t=w\5p0oq45qt-a‌​34y\q345[pajt[hjaq3=4iykgjr4hgaW)r=4ik-4gha-p3ik6y34-otgap_r=wyhiq35yo]q=3uy=0gi9‌​5o9=-q3i5yq34=-ryog=q-54ihap[05yi-5ygikpa5y-i7q0a34ryu5iyq34i934=0t-q13o4ytq=34-p‌​y\qw35y=-oqa5r4yh=\34q — Study.English.Well 3 mins ago
I exactly know what it means.
It means
> 78u57867iur67ukr68ulr8ik[sdj[5]oly4WR0wj409ir5yi-q5ryhji-05ikyoy-3=gp]ae-5py=qa3‌​‌​-r]pa=-53oyh-e35=qo=hp=456o9y-46i7y-w06u=woat]=4pr]aqrlyh'k,t5yhkm54pok[5q]a3=4‌​p‌​yg4elt5hkrthmjsltmhjsprpspssj[yk]qa-o5y]5ujstj0sjtugai=4\3o=5py4o5t=w\5p0oq45q‌​t-a‌​34y\q345[pajt[hjaq3=4iykgjr4hgaW)r=4ik-4gha-p3ik6y34-otgap_r=wyhiq35yo]q=3uy‌​=0gi9‌​5o9=-q3i5yq34=-ryog=q-54ihap[05yi-5ygikpa5y-i7q0a34ryu5iyq34i934=0t-q13o4y‌​tq=34-p‌​y\qw35y=-oqa5r4yh=\34q
"It means exactly that" you're going to say, I suppose.
Ahh, I guessed right. :-)
12:35
I should try better techniques.
Maybe we should have a canonical post about headlinese.
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Yes, the first thing I did was flag
Anonymous
I helped roll back the vandalism a few times
Anonymous
It seems to have stopped for now
12:39
It looks like so.
Anonymous
But a moderator will have to take care of it
@snailboat Hopefully.
Even if it doesn't, we have your eagle eyes alright.
But wait... Goes to get some free flags
I don't know why they got their knickers in a twist all of a sudden.
Something might trigger it, or maybe it just happened.
Anonymous
You don't need to flag the individual comments
But heck, I need some helpful flags.
@DamkerngT. I once had my cousin robo-review back at chemistry.SE.
Anonymous
12:44
@MARamezani That sounds causative, like you made them robo-review
It was my falult.
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Q: Grammar: Tenses

FaithWhich is the correct answer and why? Let us go to the carnival, (shall we / shan't we / should we / shouldn't we)? All but Stella (is being / were being / has been / have been)auditioned for the ballet performance this afternoon. In a year's time, he (is becoming / had become / shall become / w...

Just saw it.
Classic!
Too bad that the OP made it look like a homework question.
But the questions in the question are actually interesting.
I wonder what points the book tries to make.
Seeing two questions are about shall, I guess that the book is BrE based.
Anonymous
12:57
Yeah, shan't is basically nonexistent in AmE
@MARamezani he had it coming ..
Oh no!
@Gowtham Finally, after some hard-earned helpful flags...
I didn't think the mod would suspend Study!
I did.
But probably not very long.
7 days?
What happened ? Did he post some encrypted messages or something
12:59
Ahh... a week.
That's too long.
It couldbe three days, heck, only a day.
But mods know what we don't.
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