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M.A.R.

06:45

@Feeds Eat that -1

CowperKettle

07:58

Feeding of cows in Paris, Russia

Jude Niroshan

08:11

@CowperKettle so charming photo :)

userr2684291

08:35

@M.A.R. The only reason why I'd ever actually want to reach 2000 reputation is so I can make trivial edits.

M.A.R.

@userr2684291 Duh, the only reason we would want to reach any privilege levels is to earn those privileges. o.o

userr2684291

09:06

@M.A.R. There are other reasons. Some people are just greedy for rep. Upon reaching 2k reputation points, you are accorded some other privileges such as the ability to edit questions and answers while eschewing peer review.

Mark Twain once supposedly said: "Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do." Isn't their statement paradoxical on its face?

Was it intended as such?

Cardinal

Word of the day: en banc

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M.A.R.

09:22

@userr2684291 Yeah, that's called rep-farming

And your edits not going to the suggested edit queue is the same privilege

userr2684291

@M.A.R. It's not, really.

M.A.R.

(/¯◡ ‿ ◡)/¯ ~ ┻━┻ Whatever

userr2684291

@M.A.R. I don't need the privilege to eschew peer review, if that clarifies it.

userr2684291

09:40

Man, everyone's (mis)quoting this guy and I can't find the source. It's like Chinese whispers. I'm thinking the original said "five-cent" instead of "fifty-cent".

M.A.R.

@userr2684291 The only person misquoted and misreferenced more than Mark Twain is Einstein

Jude Niroshan

Can someone make this below sentence more formal and structural way?

I believe selecting me as the developer won’t be a bad choice at all.

userr2684291

@M.A.R. ―Albert Einstein

M.A.R.

@JudeNiroshan The what developer?

Just 'the developer' doesn't sound really good to say. Or you can drop 'the'

Jude Niroshan

@M.A.R. ok. But this entire sentence, does it sounds formal? I'm writing this in a project proposal

M.A.R.

09:51

It's not just about formality

userr2684291

@JudeNiroshan You might not want to tell them what to do, rather say what you're capable of.

M.A.R.

The sentence might just not be appropriate where you use it

userr2684291

@JudeNiroshan It sounds informal.

Jude Niroshan

@userr2684291 agree with you.

@userr2684291 Actually they have allocated a section in the proposal to describe why you are the right person?

before that sentence, I have mentioned about the courses and the academic stuff what I have done.

I am writing that sentence at the end of the paragragh

userr2684291

@JudeNiroshan Right.

@JudeNiroshan I am confident in my ability as a software developer; nevertheless, I am prepared to acquire knowledge and guidance, and gain experience this position would indubitably grant me. I would appreciate it if you considered my application as I am keen to take up the post.

@JudeNiroshan Something along those lines would be apt, I reckon.

Jude Niroshan

10:08

@userr2684291 This seems like I'm applying for a vancy. But I'm writing my Google Summer of Code application

userr2684291

@JudeNiroshan What's the difference?

Jude Niroshan

I need to represent myself as a student

However your sentence is pretty good

I modified it slightly as follows:

I am prepared to acquire knowledge and guidance, and gain experience in GSoC would indubitably grant me. I would appreciate it if you considered me as I am keen to take up the project.

userr2684291

@JudeNiroshan Nix the in before GSoC.

Eh, now my sentence sounds somewhat simple and formulaic.

user178049

11:33

Hello. How are you?

M.A.R.

\o

Doing fine

user178049

@M.A.R. You said you are Asian. How do you practice speaking? Do you try to keep you accent? Or do you try to immitate how native speakers speak?

M.A.R.

@user178049 I took some courses

user178049

Ohhh

Let's ping @DamkerngT.

M.A.R.

And when I started to learn how to walk, I watched some movies to be able to run

I guess

I don't even remember most of it

My courses were only enough for a mediocre to slightly good score in TOEFL exams

But I came to this site, and this chat, and my English became more native-like, I guess

I guess most courses, including the one I took, completely miss the point. :(

The more popular something is, the more crappy people can become teaching it

user178049

11:42

I do watch movies. But they don't help me. Sometimes I don't know they are saying, maybe because of their accents.

M.A.R.

You should use whatever language you acquire

Chatting is a good help, but don't expect immediate results

user178049

@M.A.R. I understand that feeling :( . My teacher also, sometimes misleads us. But because od respect, I stay silent.

M.A.R.

The more English you do, the better it will become

Think in English. Eat in English. Swear in English. o.o

user178049

I'm now starting to listen and sing only English songs. Hope that would help.

M.A.R.

I never understood songs well, neither in English, nor Persian, nor Turkish, nor Arabic

user178049

11:47

If this site allowed swearing. I would've been swearing all the time.

M.A.R.

The music distracts me too much

user178049

Hmm.. I'll still try practising with musics. Because I don't have a member with the same passion with me. I seft-learn this language. So I got no friends that I can converse in English.

ColleenV

12:00

@user178049 I have seen several attempts to set up a Discord server for people learning English to chat, but I don't know of any that have been successful in attracting enough people.

I'm a gamer, so I've been in a lot of guilds/clans with voice chat servers, and that group is usually happy to accommodate players that are still learning English. You will definitely learn how to swear on those voice servers :)

M.A.R.

@user178049 Same as me

user178049

12:22

@ColleenV Unfortunately, I don't play games. Maybe I'll swearing if I listen a sufficient number of rap songs XD.

M.A.R.

Naturally

Everyone imitates one another, if they understand what's being said well enough

It has little to do with learning a new language

user178049

@M.A.R. Agreed. It's learned unconsciously. But it takes time.

ColleenV

There was a discord server for learning English called "English Realm" that had 54 users, but I can't really recommend it because I've never been on it

We could try to make one for ELL, but I don't know if enough people would join

and I wouldn't want to be the one responsible for moderating it

user178049

12:46

@ColleenV I would try it.

ColleenV

Actually I found this one linked from the English learning reddit, and it has over 2000 members: discordapp.com/invite/v5egjjJ It might be worth looking into instead of trying to make a new one (although we know the ELL one would be full of awesome people :) )

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I worry about recommending servers sometimes though - I don't know if there are nice people on there

skill patrol

Nice people are far and few between on some sites.

M.A.R.

I am nice

ColleenV

13:05

I popped into that discord channel discordapp.com/invite/v5egjjJ and it seems pretty nice. I need to steal their OED bot for our chat...

Or does ELLBot already look up words in OED?

M.A.R.

!!define/already

I think it's from Wiktionary

ELLBot WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME

skill patrol

already

Adverb: already (not comparable)

Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 6
slipping then my cloaths off, I crept under the bed-cloaths, where I found the young stripling already nestled, and the touch of his warm flesh rather pleas'd than alarm'd me.
Arthur Conan Doyle
It was already dusk, and the lamps were just being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, waiting for the coming of its occupant.

(2 more not shown…)

ColleenV

The thing I like about discord is that it has text and voice chat, so you can still participate even if you don't feel like talking

you can just listen and type

M.A.R.

13:33

Hey, can "this is questions" ever be grammatical?

userr2684291

13:54

@M.A.R. Yeah.

M.A.R.

@userr2684291 Yeah? But I thought that only happened in "there"'s case

OK, should probably ask on main

M.A.R.

14:06

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Q: Is "this is questions" ever grammatical?

I know for a fact that you can use plural nouns after "there's", which is an existential construction. I encountered a post on Stack Overflow today which went like this: . . . this is questions. Now, of course it was ungrammatical because what the poster actually meant was "these are questi...

Oh boy. There goes nothing

Damkerng T.

@user178049 Selamat malam!

@ColleenV Scary!

ColleenV

Sorry, every time I hear "This is..." I think of that "This is Sparta!" scene in 300

Damkerng T.

Don't worry. He'll scroll way up soon. :D

(Or so I hope!)

ColleenV

All gone :)

Damkerng T.

Ah! I kinda miss him now. :P

M.A.R.

14:20

\o Dam and Colleen

ColleenV

I probably should have picked something less graphic in all honesty.

Damkerng T.

o/

ColleenV

300 was a pretty brutal film and not everyone has a tolerance for that stuff.

M.A.R.

Well, how brutal?

The Departed is brutal because Scorcese has a really unapologetic theme in his movies

ColleenV

Well it was based on the graphic novel, which was just visually stunning, but there is a lot of death, dismemberment and gore

M.A.R.

14:23

But if you mean lotsa blood, I prefer Django Unchained and Tarantino

Damkerng T.

@M.A.R. I haven't watched that one, I think.

ColleenV

I think American's are really wimpy when it comes to sex and overly blase when it comes to violence

Tarantino's violence is a little more satire based on the old grindhouse films

userr2684291

@M.A.R. Heh, I admit I took that as a challenge, and immediately assumed this wasn't in the usual subject position. I can also imagine questions as a verb.

M.A.R.

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A: Is "this is questions" ever grammatical?

Here's an uncommon situation where it could work: when the antecedent of this is singular. It occurs in Laura K. Lawless, The Everything French Phrase Book: The only exception to this is questions.

:/

ColleenV

but not as jokey as, say Evil Dead.

userr2684291

14:26

I'm sure you can think of a similar accidental sequence which crosses constituent boundaries (as StoneyB puts it).

@M.A.R. Is there a context where "this is questions" would ever be grammatical? is your question verbatim.

M.A.R.

@userr2684291 Of course looking at it as a standalone sentence .

Lemme edit

Damkerng T.

@ColleenV I couldn't finish that one. I enjoyed Cabin in the Woods, though. (^_^)

ColleenV

@DamkerngT. It was meant for a certain audience - one who enjoys bad jokes and buckets of fake blood lol

M.A.R.

@Userr better now?

Damkerng T.

This is questions makes me think of Who's they? @M.A.R.

It'd read better if we quote the right side.

(Like, Who's 'they'? or This is 'questions'.)

userr2684291

14:32

@M.A.R. The first result COCA gives is This is nuts. (:

M.A.R.

@userr2684291 This is nuts and bolts of X

But I guess what I added to the question nullifies both of what you said and what the answerer said

userr2684291

From Google: "...my colleague, we can share with the American people, and we always say this is not the Tim Ryan/Kendrick Meek Report, this is facts. We spend at least 7..."

I can imagine questions being used in a similar context.

user178049

Selamat malam @DamkerngT. o/ I want to know how do you practice speaking, do you imitate how native speakers speak, or do you keep your accent?

Damkerng T.

@user178049 I tried to imitate native speakers, the best I could, to the level I thought it'd be passable, and then left it like that.

So, my accent would be somewhat Tinglish. :-)

You can find some of my old clips around here.

userr2684291

@user178049 I imitate native speakers of English in a silly voice. They usually tell me to knock it off.

user178049

14:40

Ohh, thank you @DamkerngT. :-)

Damkerng T.

I think it's fine to have an accent. The more important point is the listener shouldn't have a hard time trying to understand us.

userr2684291

Native speakers of English told me my accent is OK, but obviously non-native.

Damkerng T.

nods

user178049

@userr2684291 Hahaha. I know that feeling, I sometimes get annoyed when English speakers try to copy accent.

Damkerng T.

An American may mistake me as another American from 5 meters away. :P

(At least it happened once. :)

userr2684291

14:43

Same. Especially if they don't hear me talking.

Damkerng T.

But I'm sure that my accent is Tinglish most of the time. :P

CowperKettle

My pronunciation tends to skedaddle from the native speech, but this skedaddling is homoscedactic.

Damkerng T.

You're practicing Words of the Day again!

:D

CowperKettle

En banc!

(0:

userr2684291

Heh.

It's the be-all and end-all of this channel to him, it might seem. I'd never do such thing.

CowperKettle

14:46

(0:

userr2684291

Not channel but chat room.

M.A.R.

Whenever you practice WOTDs like a desultory moggie, I become seropositive like a petaloso

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ColleenV

@userr2684291 That should be "this is fact" or "factual", but it's a common enough usage I think

"This is not speculation. This is facts, based on what we've seen first-hand," Jones said of the economic fallout." (foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/11/…)

You might be able to say "This is not proven. This is questions." but I'd still want to reword it.

"This is a sea of questions."

M.A.R.

15:06

I posted this in chat, but I think it might be helpful here as an example : "This is not speculation. This is facts, based on what we've seen first-hand," — ColleenV ♦ 30 secs ago

First meaningful contribution?

I hope my post doesn't turn into a crap magnet

ColleenV

Well just keep iterating until people understand

It takes a few tries sometimes

M.A.R.

I wish Arau was around, and answering :/

ColleenV

Patience grasshopper ;)

M.A.R.

@ColleenV Mhm, and the simpler it is, the more people think they should take a stab at it

On the plus side, considering there's probably going to be a third answer, a good answer would get upvoted and get this to HNQ, leading it to get even more upvotes

So it's like I made an auto-bounty

ColleenV

The same thing happens on ELU. The SE model tends to encourage throwing mud at the wall and seeing what sticks.

M.A.R.

15:09

@ColleenV The problem in ELU is more drastic only because a wider range of fluencies are present

I don't know if this guy is looking for an answer from a textbook, CGEL, or research material

BTW @Colleen I think you forgot to link the source in your comment . . .

ColleenV

@M.A.R. I did that purposefully because the article is kind of a political hot topic in the US

and might generate a lot of chatter. I think the example stands on its own

M.A.R.

"Mods on ELL follow FOX news" Invokes Godwin law

ColleenV

Lol. I don't follow any of them really. It's not news anymore, just a bunch of psuedo-facts strung together to support whatever story someone wants to tell.

I was sort of sad that such a good example came from an article on such a stupidly controversial topic. We don't actually have anyone in the US enforcing gender at the doors to our public toilets.

so dumb.

M.A.R.

Well, neither here

Bah

I don't even want to read what it says

Catija

morning.

M.A.R.

15:21

Morning!

Catija

@M.A.R. Well, I guess it's afternoon for you. :P

M.A.R.

Well, UGT says it's always morning

Catija

UGT?

M.A.R.

Universal Greeting Time. Ask @Dam

Catija

Ah.

Damkerng T.

16:19

Mar 21 '16 at 9:35, by Damkerng T.

> UGT (abbr.): Universal Greeting Time.
UGT is convention initially established in #mipslinux on irc.openprojects.net (now irc.freenode.net) but slowly taking over the world. It states that it is always morning when person comes into a channel, and it is always late night when person leaves. Local time of any member of channel is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. Your ass will be laminated. (geoman is exception to this rule - his ass will be fried instead).

(^_^)

Catija

HA HA! That's cute!

Damkerng T.

So, good morning! :D

Jude Niroshan

16:48

@DamkerngT. Hiii

@DamkerngT. would you please take few minutes and go through the document which I have written so far? I have to submit it tonight. please? :D

@DamkerngT. docs.google.com/document/d/…

I have given permission to anyone can make comments on the document

Please feel free to give me a support :)

Damkerng T.

17:18

Though people in the project would know, Built-In Reports for OpenMRS Reference Application would be better than Built-In Reports for Reference Application, IMO.

We normally don't write 29 - March - 2017. No hyphens or dashes are needed.

Built-In Reports for reference application is probably better written as Built-In Reports for Reference Application. You could add OpenMRS here, too.

Jude Niroshan

okay

@DamkerngT. docs.google.com/document/d/…

Damkerng T.

contribute on open source softwares --> contribute to open source software

userr2684291

@ColleenV It is. There's a line in that song that comes to mind "...and that's facts – no printer", lol.

Not really an example of Standard English, but whatevs.

ColleenV

@userr2684291 Standard English is so boring. It's much more exciting when we leave the door open for someone to misunderstand us and nitpick our grammar :P

userr2684291

(:

M.A.R.

17:30

And then show them a soup nazi GIF

ColleenV

Also, if we all spoke and wrote perfect Standard English, not only would the world be a dull place, we would lose maybe 80% of our ELL questions...

Damkerng T.

@JudeNiroshan Sorry. My browser just crashed again!

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. It's ok. I can wait until you come back :)

Damkerng T.

(I don't know why everything Google makes isn't as efficient as it should be. This is why I like Firefox more than Chrome.)

Jude Niroshan

I think your RAM is 4GB :D

M.A.R.

17:36

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A: Is "this is questions" ever grammatical?

"There's questions to be answered." is incorrect. You will see it, but it is un-grammatical, and doesn't sound quite right. To make "this is questions" work in the sense you want (not by a trick of splitting/splicing different phrases), this can refer to a thing/concept which in turn may be or ...

Jude Niroshan

Chrome needs minimum 8GB :p

Damkerng T.

Oh, it's 16GB, but I think I've opened over 5000 tabs in total in all browser instances I'm running.

M.A.R.

> "There's questions to be answered." is incorrect. You will see it, but it is un-grammatical, and doesn't sound quite right.

Yep, my post indeed became a crap magnet

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. woah

Damkerng T.

Hehe! :D

Jude Niroshan

17:38

@DamkerngT. have you recovered it?

userr2684291

@M.A.R. ell.stackexchange.com/a/124141/3395 This is what I had in mind when you asked that question the first time.

Damkerng T.

@JudeNiroshan Yeah, I think it's okay now.

M.A.R.

Aww :( TRomano is probably upset at me because of the previous drama.

@DamkerngT. Define okay

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. 3 more pages to go. We can finish it up within 15 minutes. After tha I won't bother you :)

Damkerng T.

@M.A.R. Okay meant I had to restart my Firefox one more time! :)

M.A.R.

17:43

I'm doing some punctuation edits Jude

@Dam is an anonymous frog

Jude Niroshan

hahaha :D

Damkerng T.

@M.A.R. LOL

Jude Niroshan

I didn't see the Snail there :D

Damkerng T.

Are you the anonymous walrus?

M.A.R.

I can't see what I am

Damkerng T.

17:47

@M.A.R. Okay, so you're the walrus. :D

M.A.R.

I don't even know what sound Walruses make. Woof woof?

Damkerng T.

@Jude thousands of users is better than 1000 of users. If you want to make the digits stand out, you could go with over 1000 users.

@M.A.R. Haha! I don't know either!

M.A.R.

A wild anonymous badger appeared

Damkerng T.

> I took many courses in the college which were useful for me to think as a good developer. Data structures and Algorithms, Database management systems, probability and statistics, internet technology and programming and many software engineering courses.

This is fine, but I think it'd be better if you changed the period before Data structures to a colon.

Jude Niroshan

I was trying to tell, that I learnt those sort of subjects in college

Damkerng T.

17:50

And I think you should make the capitalization of these courses more consistent.

M.A.R.

> Therefore, reference application is considered the entire set of modules that are available in OpenMRS.

I don't get this sentence

Damkerng T.

@M.A.R. It's Reference Application.

A name of something in the project.

Jude Niroshan

@M.A.R. OpenMRS reference application = 100 different projects put into a single folder

M.A.R.

So "considered as"

user62015

Hi

Is there anything like "the lot of or just a lot of"

Damkerng T.

17:54

Hmm... between Sweden hospitals and Swedish hospitals, I like the latter better. Though I'm not 100% if the former is really incorrect.

M.A.R.

@user62015 Both exist

Damkerng T.

@user62015 What's the full sentence?

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. ohh, yeah yeah. I should write Swedish

user62015

No, I was thinking myself and just want to know what is the difference between them?

Jude Niroshan

In fact the entire hospital activities that takes place are covered in this systems

entire hospital activities - this sounds bit odd

Damkerng T.

17:57

Using all would be a better choice.

But I think it doesn't flow very well, considering the previous sentence. Not sure how to fix it, though.

Trivial grammatical errors are activities but takes, and this but systems.

Jude Niroshan

ok. let's move ahead

Damkerng T.

> Having said that, in order to develop built-in application for reference module needs knowledge on ...

I don't know why, but it reads a bit strange without articles, even though I know built-in application and reference module are names in the project.

Jude Niroshan

Is that a bad way to start the sentence?

Damkerng T.

No, Having said that is fine.

Jude Niroshan

built-in application for reference module is the name of the project

Damkerng T.

18:05

nods -- It still look weird to me, anyway.

I think I wish it'd been formatted distinctively, just to remind me that it's a name.

Jude Niroshan

Do you think other readers will also find it weird and won't be able to understand that?

Damkerng T.

They definitely will, if they're not familiar with the project.

M.A.R.

I'm done

Jude Niroshan

@M.A.R. Thanks a lot mate.

@M.A.R. do you think, at the last section, I wrote the truth saying that I have joined the community just before a week ago

will this statement reduce the chance of wining?

Damkerng T.

Okay, finished!

@JudeNiroshan Not necessarily, IMO.

Jude Niroshan

18:20

To be honest, I joined the OpenMRS community only last week.

Damkerng T.

It's a fact, anyway. And you use it to point out that you're a quick learner.

userr2684291

D'you really wanna include "which proves that I am a quick learner".

Damkerng T.

@JudeNiroshan If you're worried about it, you can delete only.

Jude Niroshan

@userr2684291 I thought that would give me some extra points to my profile

Damkerng T.

It'll make the time period more sublime.

Jude Niroshan

18:21

@DamkerngT. ok. I'll delete it

M.A.R.

@JudeNiroshan Nah

userr2684291

@JudeNiroshan It would, but I don't know how recommendable it is to say it about yourself.

@JudeNiroshan "I tend not to write intelligent code, but more readable code." What exactly do you wanna say by the part in bold?

Jude Niroshan

@userr2684291 What I was trying to tell is that, when I write the programs I always try to make it more readable to others

userr2684291

@JudeNiroshan I'd rephrase that sentence then.

Jude Niroshan

@userr2684291 thank you

@userr2684291 should I keep that ... (3 dots) at the end of that sentence?

userr2684291

18:33

@JudeNiroshan No, haha, I'm thinking.

Jude Niroshan

@userr2684291 LOL.... Ok. I can wait :)

userr2684291

@JudeNiroshan I mean, try to think of something to add to that so it's not such a short sentence.

Jude Niroshan

@DamkerngT. @M.A.R. @userr2684291 Big thanks to all of you giving your valuable time for help me. If I got selected with this proposal, I will definitely give my gratitute to all of you. (It's a suprise) I hope I would get selected for this. :)

@userr2684291 yeah. sure

Damkerng T.

You're welcome!

Jude Niroshan

@userr2684291 I think, that's good, right?

userr2684291

18:43

@JudeNiroshan Yeah.

Jude Niroshan

@userr2684291 appreciate your willingness to help me :)

M.A.R.

19:01

@JudeNiroshan Sure, anytime

Araucaria

20:24

@snailplane @ColleenV @J.R. I think something might be broken with the upvoting recording. ...

Tonight I watched my rep going up several times -sometimes by 30 rep at a time for this question but the score on the answer remained steady at 54 and didn't change. Whilst I'm happy to have my rep capped, having the upvotes on answers unregistered is not quite so cool. Could any of you guys find out what was happening there?

Catija

There's a delay in the achievements pane... it's reporting achievements that are often hours old...

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Q: Why does the reputation dropdown not show this upvote?

Over at Science Fiction & Fantasy, I answered this question: Why did Voldemort choose a snake as a Horcrux given that it is a living thing and has a limited lifespan? (spoilers for Harry Potter 6/7!). This brought my reputation up to 10,565. However... this upvote didn't show up in the dropdown. ...

bug reputation achievements-dialog

Also, you're not rep capped today... you're only at 120.

Araucaria

20:45

@Catija Yes, but you're understanding that backwards :) My rep is going up but the votes on the Q aren't! There isn't that much delay on the Q score :)

Catija

Nah, you're just looking at it backwards. You look at the rep change when you see the alerts in your bar (I'm guessing)... and then go see what the score is... but it hasn't changed... because the alerts are late.

If that's wrong, let me know. I haven't upvoted your answer yet but I can (because it is good) and we could test it.

Araucaria

@Catija Possible, but I don't think so - unless the delay is massive. We could try that (and if you do it reasonably soon after you could undo your upvote). Do you want to give it a go?

Catija

Yeah. Voting now.

@Araucaria voted.

The delay seems to vary... sometimes it's instantaneous and sometimes it takes 20-30 minutes or more.

Araucaria

That made the Q score go up - so you're probably right. Hmmm :) (You can undo that now if you want )

Catija

Nah. It's worthy of it and it will be interesting to see what sort of delay there is.

Araucaria

20:51

@Catija It registered both ways instantaneously ...

Catija

Hmmm. Well, it's also possible that it's since been fixed.

Hey J.R. :D

Araucaria

@Catija That's possible too. (I'm glad you liked the answer, btw)

J.R.

@Araucaria Nothing amiss as near as I can tell. I think Catija's theory is a good one.

Araucaria

@J.R Yes, that looks likely ...

Catija

@Araucaria Yeah, it was great... I hadn't looked at it in that way before so it really makes it helpful (even to a native speaker who doesn't really think about why).

Araucaria

20:53

@J.R. If I get any evidence that it really is malfunctioning I'll let you know ...

@Catija Those are the bits I like about studying English - it's the bits we'd never think about as native speakers ...

It's what makes it fun.

@ColleenV You've changed ...

ColleenV

@Araucaria This might be relevant:

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Q: Why does the reputation dropdown not show this upvote?

Over at Science Fiction & Fantasy, I answered this question: Why did Voldemort choose a snake as a Horcrux given that it is a living thing and has a limited lifespan? (spoilers for Harry Potter 6/7!). This brought my reputation up to 10,565. However... this upvote didn't show up in the dropdown. ...

bug reputation achievements-dialog

It was asked 12 hours ago and seems to indicate an on-going issue

@Araucaria Yes! My husband finally got a good picture of our hyper puppy

Araucaria

@ColleenV Yes, superficially, it looked like things were working the other way round in this case - but as Catija pointed out that could be a result of the same delay ...

@ColleenV You are very handsome now .

ColleenV

I call him a puppy, but he's actually all growed up

Araucaria

@ColleenV He's got a great understated smile ...

ColleenV

He's a very happy dog. Our older dog always pushes him around, but he just keeps on being happy

Araucaria

21:00

Would make a good album cover.

@ColleenV Good on him :)

ColleenV

Our older dog has dragon-like tendences. She gets all of the toys and piles them up in her crate, and if Charlie tries to play with something, she marches over and takes it away from him

He's very zen about it though

Catija

@ColleenV It's amusing when the younger creature is the more zen one.

Araucaria

Ah, the boss has arrived. Better pretend I haven't been being on ELL ... @ColleenV Hmmm, reminds me of someone who's just walked in (the boss/GF) ... I wish I could be as equinanimous ...

Ciao all! Thanks for the help. Cheers @Catija

Catija

@Araucaria Sure! Anytime. Good luck pretending to work ;)

user178049

21:39

@Alex89 Did you delete your answer here? Your answer was correct and receive 4 upvotes. ell.stackexchange.com/q/124089/35026

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