ELL's Cabin

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

19:00

What? A yep?

Damkerng T.

A lot of questions from upper-intermediate-up users look more and more like requests for writing advice.

user116848

@CopperKettle Copperkettle you are talking like Shakespeare. I had to Google "recondite".

Damkerng T.

Which I think makes a lot of sense. It's an alternate form of proofreading that can be treated as on-topic.

CopperKettle

@Arrowfar does a theatrical bow

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@Arrowfar Blame the old avatar's retaliation.

user116848

19:02

:)

user116848

does a theatrical arrows

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. O rly? Looking back

CopperKettle

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

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That isn't smiley, this is: ಠ_ಠ

user116848

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M No. no I like this good, old Copperkettle avatar.

user116848

19:03

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Glasses?

CopperKettle

That was a temporary Rainbow White House avatar, in support of the Gay Marriage Supreme Court decision (or ruling?)

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@Arrowfar Dunno, but a meme in The Periodic Table.

Anonymous

19:17

@CopperKettle In this case I believe you can say either one

CopperKettle

It'a Facebook thing. Everyone started painting their avatars. (0: Russian communities started banning people with colored avatars, in line with the recent idiotic Russian laws, so I made me one. (0:

Damkerng T.

I might be wrong. But, suppose the word "pet" is written on some paper. The word "pet" as written on the paper is a bunch of lines (straight and curly) that make up the letter "p", "e", "t", which combine to form the word "pet". But people don't seem to write "put down the lines that form the word 'pet' ". They write "put down the word 'pet'". It seems that "put down" should be followed by some semantic entity (word "pet") represented by the lines. So, "put down a line" sounds very off to me. — meatie 32 mins ago

@CopperKettle Another amazable comment. :D

Anonymous

@CopperKettle It happened outside Facebook, too!

CopperKettle

A mighty rain has just started. I've peeked at (on? in?) the local website, and there's a headline saying "We Shall Float", a weather forecast for the next couple of days.

user116848

The web page is all Russian!

CopperKettle

19:25

Google translate translated it as "Swim: in the Sverdlovsk region declared a storm warning" (a rather good translation)

Damkerng T.

@CopperKettle Yikes!

@CopperKettle Hopefully it won't get to this:

CopperKettle

@DamkerngT. I hope so!

We had this on 11 July

Damkerng T.

A-ha! Half a wheel.

Anonymous

Eep!

Damkerng T.

In some places, it was half a door, over a car, half a house, and way above a house!

CopperKettle

19:29

@DamkerngT. You recently had a flooding?

Damkerng T.

@CopperKettle Back in 2011.

CopperKettle

I see!

Damkerng T.

What a year!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

That's geologically the past minute.

user116848

I once visited a flood hit place it was depressing.

CopperKettle

19:40

Floods look innocent from afar, but they have been hitting records in terms of loss of human life

List of natural disasters by death toll

A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, lots of collateral damage or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide, hurricanes etc. In order to be classified as a disaster, it will have profound environmental effect and/or human loss and frequently incurs financial loss. == Ten worst natural disasters == * Estimate by Nova's sources are close to 4 million and yet Encarta's sources report as few as 1 million. Expert estimates report wide variance...

1931 China floods

The 1931 Central China floods or the Central China floods of 1931 were a series of floods that occurred in the Republic of China. The floods are generally considered among the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded, and almost certainly the deadliest of the 20th century (when pandemics and famines are discounted). Estimates of the total death toll range from 145,000 to between 3.7 million and 4 million. == Meteorological causes == From 1928 to 1930, a long drought afflicted China. By some accounts, abnormal weather over central China began in the winter of late 1930. Heavy snowstorms in the...

user116848

2010 Pakistan floods

The floods in Pakistan began in late July 2010, resulting from heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and, Balochistan regions of Pakistan, which affected the Indus River basin. Approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's total land area was underwater, approximately 796,095 square kilometres (307,374 sq mi). According to Pakistani government data, the floods directly affected about 20 million people, mostly by destruction of property, livelihood and infrastructure, with a death toll of close to 2,000. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had initially asked for US$460 million (€420...

user116848

I once saw a movie in which they chase tornadoes in cars for readings.

user116848

It was a cool film.

CopperKettle

Good-night all!

user116848

Good night!

Anonymous

19:45

Rest well, rainbow Kettle!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Rest well the third unreactive element in transition metals!

user116848

I am lost.

user116848

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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

K let me rephrase.

Rest well the third unreactive element in transition metals where you're sometimes referred to as a d-block element and sometimes not a d-block element but the debate continues!

user116848

Yeah, sorry, lost again.

user116848

19:50

I only know one d-block these days: D-Block & S-te-Fan

Damkerng T.

@CopperKettle See you around!

Anonymous

I think I'll update my avatar, too.

Anonymous

snailboat ♦

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Anonymous

Damkerng T.

Candy snail!

Anonymous

19:55

It's Calliostoma annulatum, the jeweled topsnail.

user116848

@snailboat Is it only for Japanese SE site?

Anonymous

I wonder what it will look like at tiny chat icon size.

Anonymous

@Arrowfar I only updated it on one site, but that's the parent site for my chat profile, so it should update on chat, too.

Anonymous

For moderators, your parent account has to be a site where you're a moderator. (If you're a moderator on more than one, it can be any of them.)

user116848

@snailboat Ah. Very nice picture by the way!

Anonymous

19:58

Otherwise, moderator stuff breaks.

Anonymous

They're really pretty snails. Many of the most interesting snails live in the ocean.

Anonymous

This one included.

Anonymous

Calliostoma annulatum

Calliostoma annulatum, also known as the purple-ring topsnail, blue-ring topsnail or jeweled topsnail, is a medium-sized sea snail with gills and an operculum. This is a sublittoral marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae. This snail lives off of the Pacific coast of North America. == Range of distribution == This top shell can be found in the littoral zone from Isla San Geronimo, Baja California, north to Forrester Island, Alaska. == Shell description == The shell height varies between 16 mm and 35 mm. The elevated-conic shell is imperforate and rather thin. This specie...

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M An example of what I was talking about: ell.stackexchange.com/q/61964/3281

Anonymous

I want to have an icon that is recognizably snaily, even at small sizes. But most of the avatars I've picked, I can't really tell what they are when they get scaled down...

Damkerng T.

20:00

@snailboat It looks almost like a kind of candy I've seen over here.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Their shells are always very clean.

Anonymous

So they're always pretty.

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Oh, how do they clean their shells?

Anonymous

It's thought that there might be some organism living in their habitat that cleans the shell.

Damkerng T.

A-ha! I thought it might be like what cats do for a second. :P

Anonymous

20:03

Maybe they clean them themselves.

Anonymous

Most snails are content to have their shells be pretty dirty, though :-)

Anonymous

Oh! Hold on...

Anonymous

I'm wrong!

Anonymous

They've actually been experimentally observed cleaning their own shells :-)

Damkerng T.

Eh?

Hah!

Anonymous

20:05

Shell cleaning behavior of calliostoma zizyphinum (Journal Of Molluscan Studies)

Anonymous

That's a different calliostoma.

Anonymous

Most of the other calliostoma aren't so vibrantly colored.

Anonymous

But they have similar shells!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. What were you talking about?

Anonymous

Damkerng T.

20:06

1 hour ago, by Damkerng T.

A lot of questions from upper-intermediate-up users look more and more like requests for writing advice.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I think that's okay, at least in theory.

Damkerng T.

nods -- I think so too.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@snailboat I'd think that's the Babel tower when it gets shrunk to a small size.

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M An interesting observation!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Everything about me is interesting.

user116848

20:19

Oh Bean again!

Anonymous

I decided to change it back to Bean at the last moment :-)

Anonymous

I'm surprised it updated already!

Damkerng T.

Aww

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