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Q: Is is fine to use emoji? o_O

user178049As far as I know, ELL (or maybe every site on Stack Exchange) does not allow "chattiness" in comments. But I'm not sure whether the "chattiness" also includes the use of emojis. Actually, I use emojis very often on this site, because I prefer being friendly rather than being formal. But before ...

 
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03:54
"forests" and "fox" reads the same in Russian, only spells a bit differently
леса - forests and лиса - fox
04:41
hey all..... What is the meaning of roll out? To start or to end?
Thanks skull petrol!!!
Like rolling out a carpet.
Thanks for asking :-)
Officers think that this plan should be rolled out by 2020. IN this context.
The plan should be unveiled or made effective by 2020.
The carpet should be rolled out by 10 o'clock.
Verb: rolled out
  1. simple past tense and past participle of roll out...
Verb: roll out (third-person singular simple present rolls out, present participle rolling out, simple past and past participle rolled out)
  1. (software) To deploy.
  2. We plan to roll out the new version in September.
  3. Used other than as an idiom: see roll,‎ out.
  4. The cook rolled out the dough with a rolling pin.
  5. They rolled out the red carpet to welcome the visiting dignitaries.
05:03
I got it. Thanks for your effort @skullpetrol
05:56
> Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (JFK)
I wonder how would I explain this will if someone asked me.
"Why is there will there?"
> Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. (JFK)
Without will it's still passable
 
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How...Future or in general.
09:29
@V.V. I don't think it's exactly "future". It's kid of "cause and eventual effect (that might or might not happen)"
IMHO
10:08
@CowperKettle sure it's passable, but there's an implied question there: What will make violent revolution inevitable? imho
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Q: What is the word for dragging motion of a finger on a trackpad?

neckTwiWhat will be the appropriate word for the dragging motion of a finger on a trackpad of a laptop or any surface with an intention to make an effect.

It sounds stronger with "will" also.
As if those who make peaceful revolution impossible have an intentional will to make violent revolution inevitable.
 
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Bloodless revolutions are a pipe dream.
 
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A: "Eating babies is wrong" but "It's wrong to eat babies" - Why?

AraucariaWe often use gerund-participle clauses when we want to use a verb as a Subject: Smoking is bad for you. Using a keyboard is better In English, we don't like to use infinitival clauses as Subjects, though. Although to do so is grammatical (see what I just did there?), it places a lot of strain...

I think it's better with a comma or a hyphen: It's better--using a keyboard.
15:16
@DamkerngT. Yes, if it had a comma or a dash it would be a slightly different contruction, it would be a right dislocation. (He's friendly, your Dad)
nods
Ah, right! It's a dash!
Any nice questions around today?
Not sure. I just came in only the last hour.
@DamkerngT. Yeah, I think we only call it a hyphen if it makes a compound word. Same thing though, just in a different place!
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Q: What is meant by the quote "The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

VikramWhat does following quote mean. I understand the language but not the thought behind it. "The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

I suppose the best person to ask would be Oscar Wilde himself. (^_^)
But if we rephrase the question to What do you think this quote means?, it will become an opinion-based question.
15:25
@DamkerngT. Yep. On the other hand Geoff Pullum has taken that up as one of his catch phrases. Someone could ask him!
In fact he even used it as a title for one of his papers :)
Oops, I'd better skidaddle. Am tardy ...
Ciao @Dam!
Have a nice day!
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Q: Why don't we keep public records of suspensions?

Jon EricsonWhenever the topic of a suspended user crops up, there's often confusion about what information moderators ought to share and what they should keep private. Sometimes moderators are just as unsure as other users. This can cause all sorts of unnecessary problems. The immediate effect of a suspen...

Let's give a round of applause to our moderators.
And let's make this word our WotD. :-)
Word of the Day: instigate
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Q: Should I use "not" or "without" in the following sentence?

alex My husband hasn’t spoken to me in a whole year, not/without a nod or even a grunt. Why is not or without the best option above? How do I decide in future situations?

How about not even a nod or a grunt? — Damkerng T. 25 mins ago
I can tell which alternative sounds better.
But the why and the how... I don't have a good answer.
16:05
Quick, everyone! Let's learn Emoji as a language!
 
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> Pigeon, another pigeon,
Poplar, another poplar,
Snowpiles covered with snow.
Spring hasn't yet much to show.
Under this drowsy sun
I have no strength to run
Counter the grain,
Or athwart the flow, if you like
Under this chirping streamlet
Hides a hideous dike.
My translation from Russian
17:31
@skillpatrol ah!
> New research carried out online has found that 59% of 28,113 respondents preferred to eat chocolate rabbits starting with the ears, 33% indicated that they had no starting point preference, and 4% indicated that they started with the tail or feet.
This gives some cause for deep thought
#Chocolate_Rabbit_Ears_Matter
@CowperKettle I always go for the face first, because I don't like my food staring at me while I'm eating it...
17:50
@ColleenV this is very charitable!
Word of the night: verdant
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@DamkerngT. :))
@Cardinal Nice one!
@Cardinal :D
Word of The Day: genteel
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@M.A.R. It's too long, what is it?
18:01
Eh -- Just another Trump-related rant
@M.A.R. I see.
It's good tho'. Read it when you have time
Probably similar:
Mar 20 at 13:23, by Damkerng T.
> Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.
@M.A.R. I added it to my bookmark bar.
Advice of the day: "tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip" W.Churchill
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:D
 
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Q: In what way should I ask a question?

MaxWhat is the right way to ask a question in terms of its word order? first: What the impact it has? What the name it has? What the taste the water had? What was the taste of the water? second: What the impact does it have? What the name it does it have? What the...

Can someone find the dupe please . . .
I'm too lazy
19:52
If only we were really good at tagging questions, then something like this search would reveal the duplicate....
We're kinda good at tagging, but our tags are stupid
20:13
And the effort to clean them up seems greater than we could muster
I think you're discounting a lot of progress that has been made
because it seems like a drop in the bucket
@ColleenV Well, not enough
We haven't been adding bad tags, and we've gotten rid of a few bad ones, and we've gotten a lot more consistent about the pluralization (auxiliary-verbs instead of auxiliary-verb)
Apparently we still can't rely on tags
I found a pretty good dupe candidate in that search
One that was a duplicate of one you answered actually :)
20:16
OK, I should sleep now
Night
g'night
Anonymous
20:29
@M.A.R. I'm not sure if there is a duplicate target for that.
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. Yep! You could use an em dash: It's better—using a keyboard. Or you could use a spaced en dash: It's better – using a keyboard. But if you wanted to right-dislocate using a keyboard, I'd personally use a comma instead: It's better, using a keyboard.
Anonymous
Usually when people type --, I convert it mentally to an em dash.
"Things goes difficult as another game adds “NEW” variant of Denuvo" is anybody familiar with this usage "Things goes difficult"? It's from this article: fooxs.com/index.php/…
Anonymous
I would read It's better using a keyboard and It's better, using a keyboard out lout differently.
Anonymous
And I think the one without the comma sounds more likely to my ear, although they both work.
Anonymous
20:34
@Jakub Oh! Very interesting! I'm actually not familiar with that at all.
Anonymous
I think that the author must be a non-native speaker.
Anonymous
Yeah, after reading the article, I think that the author is a non-native speaker.
May be, the sentence "its DRM no matter how they refuse it" also seems a bit weird.
Anonymous
I don't see many results for this phrase on Google, for what it's worth: google.com/search?q=%22things+goes+difficult%22&start=20
Anonymous
My ear says that it is not acceptable in Standard English. Things get difficult sounds better to me.
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@snailplane LOL -- they bothw ork -- It took me a couple seconds to realize what you meant. :D
It's true. Sometimes I forget that em-dashes aren't hyphens!
Anonymous
Whoops! Let me fix that typo :-)
@snailplane Agreed.
It's hard to tell where they're from, though.
You need to read that article more carefully: what it says is that "die-hard grammatical sticklers" follow this rule; that "not all varieties of British English" follow this distinction; that "will and shall are equally acceptable"; and (quoting Fowler) that "there is not much doubt that will will win, and shall shall lose, in the end." — StoneyB 11 mins ago
... that will will win, and shall shall lose -- Nice!
 
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Hi! Good morning everyone!
My mobile keeps on running itself or mobile screen touches itself. Mobile is LG G2, what can I do please??
23:29
I'm sorry. I've never used an LG smartphone. Probably better asked elsewhere, like an Android room. (^_^)
Speaking of phones...
Is it going to be explosive, or not explosive? -- That's the question!
In any case, the Bixby voice assistance and Dex desktop functionality sound like a killer to me.
Oh! I didn't know his tweets will be in the archive!
That makes me give a second look on presidential records.
From the language aspect, I regarded presidential records as ones of the best of the best of speeches and written articles and essays.
Not sure if I'll still feel the same.

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