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CowperKettle

06:18

> - Who are you?
- I'm the man from your dreams.
- Why, only one?

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> - Do you have any journals on midget discrimination?
- Yes, please look on the upper shelf

hellodear

@DamkerngT. Hello, u remember me? :)

Anonymous

06:56

I'm sure we all remember you, @hellodear! Welcome back :-)

M.A.R.

09:15

SmokeDetector

09:30

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted username, offensive answer detected: Meaning of "little more o’er the merry-o" by nigger on ell.SE

Jude Niroshan

09:42

@M.A.R. Hey

M.A.R.

@JudeNiroshan hi

hellodear

10:05

@snailplane :D hehe.. show me ur snails pic :D

@SmokeDetector how do u detect the smoke? which technology are u using :)

M.A.R.

@hellodear Click on the ''SmokeDetector'' link

hellodear

10:21

:o hey! it's a bot? :o

A bot having backend support from a homosapien

@M.A.R.

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Damkerng T.

12:21

@hellodear Hello! Of course! Long time no see! Hope you're doing well.

Speaking of bots, I've forgotten to run Ellbot!

M.A.R.

12:40

@hellodear Why :(?

@DamkerngT. ಠ_ಠ

yubraj

Hi All!

What's better way to say that I'm leaving, (good bye) to a principal of a school after the school is over?

I'm leaving sir, bye or what?

CowperKettle

Dear Sir,
This is to inform you that I'm leaving the school, having completed the full education course.

@yubraj Why do you need to inform the principal at all?

yubraj

12:55

@CowperKettle oh really!

CowperKettle

I never informed the principal about my leaving of the school

M.A.R.

I never did either

But I never left school before I should've either

yubraj

I mean when the school is over, don't I need to say 'bye' to the principal?

CowperKettle

> Dear Principal, I'm leaving
And now for good, my lad
Don't lose your mind in grieving,
I'll soon be undergrad

M.A.R.

Haha

yubraj

12:58

Haha

You seem to be joking! :

CowperKettle

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yubraj

It's ok

M.A.R.

A: Creating a shell script to run Java program

@ Colin Hebert Thank you. your code is work for me.

Ungrammatical but grammatical thing of the day:

> your code is work for me.

yubraj

Can I use this sentence: "I have lefft my keys there in the office room."

Can I use "There in the" in the same way in speaking English?

Viola

13:16

@yubraj If you write "there" and "in the office room", it is not clear to me, where exactly did you left your keys. For example, did you mean there? as in somewhere in the office room? or if there = in the office room, then this is redundant, so you can just cut there off.

yubraj

13:45

I mean in the office room.

Araucaria

14:05

A: "Stopped talking" and "stopped to talk"

We can use an infinitive of purpose at the end of a clause to explain WHY we do something or did something: I came to London to learn English. I went to the shops to buy some milk. I am studying hard to go to university. In the sentences above, why did I come to London? To learn English! Why ...

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Araucaria

15:44

Pron question!!!:

M.A.R.

LOL

Araucaria

A: "Anna(r) and the King" - R liaison in English

In rhotic varieties of English, such as Southern Standard British English (also known as RP), a small non-phonetic glide is thought to separate two vowels across a word boundary. The two glides that are thought to be used are mini articulations of [j] and [w] (the sounds at the beginning of the w...

M.A.R.

I love that question :)

Really interesting

in Root Access, 3 mins ago, by Powershell for Linux

CowperKettle

16:11

@M.A.R. I remember another question on this phenomenon, there was a quote from The Beatles.

I don't recall the quote

Damkerng T.

@Araucaria I'm pretty sure that there must've been only few Thais involved in the production of the film. (^_^)

yubraj

Hi @DamkerngT.

Damkerng T.

@yubraj Hi!

yubraj

How are you

M.A.R.

Damkerng T.

16:17

I'm okay. Thanks! How are you?

yubraj

I'm fine upto now.

Can I use this sentence: "I have lefft my keys there in the office room."
Can I use "There in the" in the same way in speaking English?

Damkerng T.

Well, you can, but you probably won't use there most of the time.

@M.A.R. Finally, someone gave us the right images for the emoticons! :D

Hmm... "Lawran order", really? I haven't noticed that. -- checking...

Chris Noth's Law & Order Scrapbook

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Nope. I don't think so.

Now I have to find some examples in RP.

Hey, this one sounds like a good example of "lawran order"!

Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks

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But when I think of a British accent, I usually think of something like this:

Chris Grayling: Speech to Conservative Party Conference 2014

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CowperKettle

17:08

> While the bolted joint that fastens a pH sensor to a sensor protection cap was being tightened using a spanner, following an autoclaving procedure, the thread got stripped, resulting in a spinning joint.

Is this an okay expression?

When the thread is no longer operational, and when you apply force the bolt just keeps on spinning instead of coming to a halt?

1 hour later…

Damkerng T.

18:21

@CowperKettle I think the tenses are somewhat in conflict. -- Consider fastens--present, was being tightened--past, got stripped--past.

Reading it again, I think I understand it somewhat. So the bolted joint is still there, but the thread is now stripped.

Resulting in is fine, IMO. I don't like the comma before following much, though.

Phrase of the Day: There's a bun in the oven.

:-)

M.A.R.

There's a pun in the oven.

CowperKettle

18:57

@DamkerngT. 'fastens' is not present, IMHO. It's just what the bolt does. It fastens the sensor to the cap.

"fastened"... would not that sound odd?

It might still be fastening it

Yes, comma is wrong

Thank you

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Damkerng T.

22:48

Q: What does it mean to say "f*** this n***a" here and when to use it?

I was reading some jokes on Facebook when I saw this. "D tryna tell me I can't paint Tamiya's room blue cuz she's a girl. Fuck this nigga". What does "Fuck this nigga" mean and when will you use it? You can find The complete conversation below (it is a wrong number joke):

No, no. I'm not gonna upvote this.

No research. Not even a link to that page or anything.

@CowperKettle It'd read to me as a narrative past, which is fine. But I think your original is okay, too. It was just that I didn't get the intended meaning at first.

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