[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer (86): Shout out from the American English by felix logan on ell.SE

Word of the day: hypoferremia

Etymology of the day: suite and suit are cognate with sequel

Word of the day: posset

@M.A.R. It's a joke. In my first language the words isolate and insulate are interchangeable.

I've begun to read this book on... style and clarity, but I've found the part in bold somewhat confusing, lol: "For most of us, though, the deadline is closer to tomorrow morning. And so we have to settle for prose that is less than perfect, but as good as we can make it. (Perfection is the ideal, but a barrier to done.)" The text talks about rewriting and drafts, so I believe they mean striving towards the ideal is a barrier to ever being done.

I understand their usage if that's what they mean, but I would've preferred the word in bold set off in some way, or the sentence rephrased. I don't know if my brain is just stuck reading the sentence in a certain way, or I don't recognize some obvious pattern there, but that thing doesn't look good to me.

@Daniil "In the nomination phase, any community member in good standing with more than 300 reputation may nominate themselves to be a community moderator."

I don't know if that means network-wide, however.

I feel like my most commonly uttered expressions here are I don't know and, more generally, I don't. I just don't, it's great.

More important than the measly 300 reputation is the requirement of being [a] community member in good standing, which is a different, unquantifiable kind of reputation.

Y'know what's also weird, the word mensurable: its IPA transcription as provided by Lexico is /ˈmɛnʃrəbl/ or /ˈmɛnsjərəbl/ (the latter being the un-iotated pride of all honest men in the British Commonwealth), while for measurable they give /ˈmɛʒrəbl/. I've taken the liberty of removing the optional schwas.

You should have Soviet-style elections with a single candidate then

> For 250 years, grammarians have accused the best writers of violating rules like these, and for 250 years the best writers have ignored them. Which is lucky for the grammarians, because if writers did obey all the rules, grammarians would have to keep inventing new ones, or find another line of work.

@Daniil I'm in Yekaterinburg

@CowperKettle What does that word mean? Is it just silly-funny?

It definitely sounds funny, especially combined with that cat's face.

In Russian, the majority of words are pronounced as written, and beginners carry this over into English.

English y looks just like Russian у, which is pronounced as oo

Yeah, I thought as much, but wasn't sure whether there was a hidden meaning behind the word as well.

@snailcar It means STOLEN

УКРАДЕН (ook-rah-den)

The Bolsheviks planned to transition to the Latin alphabet, but then dropped the idea

They transitioned some languages inside the USSR to Latin as a kind of pilot project, but then reversed that back to Cyrillic

@Daniil Hi

@userr2684291 It means they belch before uttering "done"?

Yep, not really a pun, just a regular joke. This doesn't have to be Russian, though.

Hm... I think a visual pun might be using Cyrillic letters but writing something in English?

Nope. Never mind.

No, that's faux Cyrillic.

@M.A.R. That's what I do normally, before pushing away my plate.

@userr2684291 see, that's why the style guide is useful

Honestly, I can come up with a more badass line in five seconds.

"Perfection is poison to productivity"

There

@M.A.R. Should I do a curtsy during/before I burp?

I'm the wrong one to ask

Go ask Queen Victoria

The Johnny English version

She's probably been dramatized more than any queen or monarch in history

What's the big deal though? Does the royal family do anything that I missed?

@M.A.R. Not Elizabeth Aye-Aye?

I don't get the reference

So probably not

@M.A.R. Not Elizabeth II?

They all look alike

It might be her

I mean you might well be right, I haven't the foggiest, but I did see her a lot in those comedies and stuff.

If you sit your arse in a palace and all you do is make a speech or voice a concern some time or another, you deserve to be made fun of

Ah Hollywood

Or Urbanwood, I dunno

Basically everything remarkable about the story is made-up?

Heh.

You should sue them for misrepresenting reality.

But then they'd sue me for suing them

guy spitting cereal dot jay peg

@M.A.R. Do you know any non-superhero movies where the guy is unbeatable and superhuman in some aspect, and which I probably haven't seen, also with as little drama and character development as possible? And that doesn't rhyme with itch her, haha.

Or a girl, okay, okay.

@CowperKettle That's funny!

@userr2684291 Chronicle?

Maybe Taika's What We Do in The Shadows

@userr2684291 Why are you calling Jay a pig, he might sue you

@snailcar Do candidates need to finish answering the questionnaire before the election begins?

@Daniil I was, but I don't have the time to work on the questionnaire - i have a deadline to meet tomorrow