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19:30

@Snail hey @Snail

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, Jan 5 at 14:12, by balpha

@UNIKITTY2.0 @rekire paste this into the javascript console on a chat page: $.post("/users/new-mobile-ui", fkey({ value: true }))

The new mobile UI is very good.

You should totally try it.

Too bad it's beta; Balpha doesn't accept bug reports for now.

V.V.

A quick question :What are they?They are boys. Is "what" correct here?

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@V.V. Yes.

Nihilist_Frost

How do you pronounce the moon Charon? (not the ferryman)

Catija

kay-ron? That's how I do... Don't know that it's right :P

> There is minor debate over the preferred pronunciation of the name. The practice of following the classical pronunciation established for the mythological ferryman Charon (IPA [ˈkɛ:rən]) is used by major English-language dictionaries, such as the Merriam-Webster and Oxford English Dictionary.

> These indicate only one pronunciation of "Charon" when referring specifically to Pluto's moon: with an initial "k" sound. Speakers of many languages other than English, and many English-speaking astronomers as well, follow this pronunciation.

> However, Christy himself pronounced the ch as sh (IPA [ʃ]), after his wife Charlene. Because of this, as an acknowledgement of Christy and sometimes as an in-joke or shibboleth, the initial sh pronunciation is common among astronomers when speaking English, and this is the prescribed pronunciation at NASA and of the New Horizons team.

Charon (moon)

Charon, also called (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known moons of the dwarf planet Pluto. It was discovered in 1978 at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., using photographic plates taken at the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS). It is a very large moon in comparison to its parent body, having half the diameter and one eighth the mass of Pluto. Its gravitational influence is such that the barycenter of the Pluto–Charon system lies outside Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft, to date the only probe to have visited the Pluto system, approached...

wired.com/2015/07/really-heres-pronounce-charon-probably

> So what’s that got to do with the pronunciation? Most astronomers, says Grundy, pronounce it “Share-on, as a tip of the hat to Jim and his wife.” But then he shrugs and says everybody flops back and forth all the time. “We all say it both ways in a single sentence.”

How to Pronounce Charon

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It's discussed in the comments ^

CopperKettle

19:48

Q: Why the preposition OF in Keats's "... as those whose sobbings were heard [of] none beside the mournful robins"?

Written by John Keats in February 1817, on the blank space of a leaf at the end of Chaucer's "Tale Of The Flowre And The Lefe". This pleasant tale is like a little copse: The honeyed lines so freshly interlace, To keep the reader in so sweet a place, So that he here and there full-heart...