Language Overflow

Jasper

00:26

Going to sleep now, lol.

Anonymous

00:53

Rest well, Blue Square.

Anonymous

@userr2684291 It's called that in a bunch of languages. Off the top of my head, both Spanish and French call it double-v.

Anonymous

English calls it double-u, and Japanese got it from English, so they call it double-u too.

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Anonymous

But I have a vague recollection that, across languages, the double-v version is more common.

Anonymous

@userr2684291 Lovely word, by the way.

CowperKettle

02:44

Dobroye Utro

Good Morning

+ 9.9 °C

CowperKettle

03:27

Poem of the Day

> WE never said farewell, nor even looked
Our last upon each other, for no sign
Was made when we the linkèd chain unhooked
And broke the level line.

And here we dwell together, side by side,
Our places fixed for life upon the chart.
Two islands that the roaring seas divide
Are not more far apart.

(Mary Coleridge)

> Mary Elizabeth Coleridge was born in London in 1861 and is decended from good poetic stock. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sara Coleridge were amongst her ancestors. Her parents were great followers of the arts and Mary grew up in the company of some of the greatest writers of her day. Tennyson, Ruskin, Kemble, Holman Hunt, Millais and Browning to name jsut a few.

CowperKettle

03:43

The content of bacterial endotoxins in the two compositions of the DRUG NAME is less than 0.1 EU/mg of protein, which meets the regulatory documentation requirements when calculated in terms of quantity per dose of drug (not more than 1.67 EU/mg of protein).

I wonder if it is okay to use the emphatic not more instead of the more level-headed no more.

Jasper

07:48

@CowperKettle I think it is standard to use 'not more than' for inequalities like that. In fact, I would not use 'no more than', LOL.

@CowperKettle Well, I don't understand the poem. Seems that they are lovers who died and are now buried together.

Jasper

08:03

@userr2684291 Maybe I should edit my answer on the integer and fraction digits to say why I don't like the terms in the other answers, lol. Someone, just added 'decimals' as the answer.

CowperKettle

09:20

@Jasper are you a native speaker of English?

@Jasper They are past lovers who separated and go on with their lives. They continue to see each other now and then, because they did not move to other places, but are as apart as two islands.

userr2684291

09:54

@CowperKettle Ugh. I think both are correct, but I'd rephrase it as ...which meets the regulatory requirement of not exceeding 1.67 EU per mg of protein per dose of drug.

userr2684291

11:19

I feel like a sociopath when I have to look through stock videos of people expressing different emotions in order to learn what they are. Apparently, this shows dismay.

Jasper

@CowperKettle I think I am, but some may think I am not.

@userr2684291 It doesn't show dismay to me. It shows nothing. It is just acting, lol.

@CowperKettle Here, maybe it is because I am used to saying things like A is not more than B in math, instead of A is no more than B, lol.

@userr2684291 Do you still have queuing to do today?

userr2684291

11:34

@Jasper I've waitlisted queueing.

Jasper

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A: Can't translate the phrase into Russian language

Based on the words on the poster alone, there are two possible interpretations. Dressing for the body you have refers to wearing less clothes for the hot weather. Dressing for the body you want, however, could refer to either dressing as if you have a very attractive body and you want to show of...

What do you think of my interpretation? LOL

Supposedly, the sign is fake. But I answered based on the words alone, and I think that is more important in this case for a site on English.

userr2684291

11:48

@Jasper Who talks about potential romantic partners as bodies, anyway?

Jasper

@userr2684291 You see, the words already suggest that they are trying to be funny, so I interpreted in all funny ways possible.

It is true that in ordinary speech we don't use body for that, but in ordinary speech you would not have the words on the sign either.

I am very surprised that my answer did not get more upvotes, but I am happy nobody downvoted it yet.

Perhaps this is an example of what I meant last night when I said that I interpreted things in strange ways, lol.

userr2684291

It's not a very clear answer; especially the first paragraph.

The accepted answer isn't that clear either, but at least it spells out parts that need to be spelled out.

Jasper

Hmm OK, lol.

Let me add that I was once severely downvoted on ELU for a strange interpretation, lol.

The post is now deleted because of too many downvotes, lol.

userr2684291

Oh well.

Jasper

@userr2684291 I actually don't think sociopaths are like that, but never mind.

And I think the girl in the video is very pretty, lol.

userr2684291

11:58

Haha.

@Jasper You know what I meant. Maybe I'm confusing autism with that, but I was referring to a type of person who doesn't have emotions and perhaps has to learn how to fake them at some point.

Jasper

@userr2684291 I see. Hmm, you don't seem sociopath or autistic to me, lol.

userr2684291

Well, I'm not. I'd just never learned the word properly.

And sometimes it's easier to learn through that (pictures) than going over the definition the OED gives.

Jasper

Do you play chess?

It is easier for me to learn through words. You know why? Because the expressions can be misinterpreted.

userr2684291

Sure, but I also looked at upset and distressed, etc., so I knew what they were trying to mimic.

> Utter loss of moral courage or resolution in prospect of danger or difficulty; faintness of heart from terror or from feeling of inability to cope with peril or calamity.

Jasper

Most of the people who talk in this room are mods or room owners. We are neither, lol.

snailplane and Catija are mods. CowperKettle and MARS are room owners.

userr2684291

12:06

Haha, it's "M.A.R.".

Jasper

Oh he changed it a number of times, so I don't bother remembering, lol.

userr2684291

I think I'm gonna change my avatar, this one's getting boring.

Jasper

I think maybe you should change your username. userrxxxxx is too hard for me.

Maybe you can call yourself 'perfect english in chat room', lol.

userr2684291

Alright, I did it.

Jasper

Haha, all you did was change your email address to generate another avatar, lol.

userr2684291

12:10

I didn't, haha.

Jasper

Then how did you get another autogenerated?

userr2684291

@Jasper Well, you're partially right because this one is a new one, but only with respect to the original one. The previous picture I had (the one that you still see, unupdated) I uploaded myself.

Jasper

@userr2684291 WTF! You are really strange, lol.

userr2684291

I actually saw it somewhere and I thought it looked nice.

Jasper

LOL

OMG

userr2684291

12:14

I mean look at how cool the... strokes look.

Jasper

One of the reasons I decided to upload a pic is that the autogenerated ones all look terrible, lol.

userr2684291

@Jasper I don't wanna identify myself with anything, that's why – and I don't mean literally, as in my photograph or my name, but anything, such as an interest.

Jasper

Let me know when you change your username @userr2684291, lol.

userr2684291

I might revert it to the original.

Jasper

I have never taken selfies until this year.

@userr2684291 So what are your interests? =)

userr2684291

12:25

@Jasper Generally, computer science.

Jasper

That is an interesting interest. =)

I am going to take a nap now.

userr2684291

@Jasper By the way, I played chess (not professionally, but at a decent level) in elementary school – so if you want to do that sometime, we can.

Lawrence

12:55

Hi @ColleenV!

Jasper

13:14

@userr2684291 Oh OK, I will remember that. I haven't taken a nap yet, going to do so soon, lol.

CowperKettle

Word of the Day: chitterlings

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Chitterlings

Chitterlings ( or ; sometimes spelled/pronounced chitlins or chittlins) are a prepared food usually made from the small intestines of a pig, although the intestines of cattle and other animals are sometimes used. == Etymology and early usage == Chitterling is first documented in Middle English by the Oxford English Dictionary, in the form cheterling, c1400. Various other spellings and dialect forms were used. The primary form and derivation are uncertain. A 1743 English cookery book The Lady's Companion: or, An Infallible Guide to the Fair Sex contained a recipe for "Calf's Chitterlings" which...

CowperKettle

14:19

> You live unaware
Of the faint, the unearthly
Echo of hooves
That within your white streams
Of clear clay that I love

Are in flight as you turn,
As you stand, as you move,
As you sleep, for the slender
Gazelle never rests
In your ivory grove.

How can white streams be of clear clay?

"Clear" means "see-through", translucent, fully visible through.

I don't get these two lines

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If he means "clear" as "bright, luminous", then this is merely a repetition of white, yes?

Maybe he means "pure", unblemished?

Word of the evening: cogwheeling

@userr2684291 Thank you!

CowperKettle

14:59

> Ты шаг – и она:
Но тебе не видна
Газель, что в ногах
И в руках и в движеньях
Твоих.

Не зная, живешь,
Про тот тихий, волшебный
Цокот копыт
Что из милых ложбин
Белой глины звучит

Check this out, @V.V.

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I used dear ravines of white clay instead of white streams of clear clay

Jasper