By the way, in case you folks didn't know, it is so much easier to delete your account now.

The whole process is now fully automated, and there is no need to wait days for an email.

I think the SE folks decided to do it this way to save their time, because I think they had to handle too many deletion requests every day.

Hey @skullpatrol.

Hi pal.

How are you? @Jasper

@skullpatrol Not good, but I will go back to meds soon and continue to sort out my thoughts.

Hang in there pal :-)

I think you mean class room. The "class" is the people. The "class room" is the room the class meets in.

monologues.co.uk/Childrens_Favourites/Hand_in_Bird.htm

Why is this poem called "A Hand in the Bird"?

I don't understand

@snailplane I hope you are feeling good now. I'm so remiss in not sending a postcard or a book.

I have this figure.. How do I call the little subscripts next to the arrows?

Can I call them legends?

> Arrows of different color indicate different protein modifications, and their legends (?) correspond to the locations mentioned earlier in the protocol.

Will this be okay?

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Wow, I got 200 rep in 24 hours from creating the account, LOL.

@CowperKettle Funny! I like how it says my foot and today people say my ass, haha.

@CowperKettle I'm pretty sure bird is some sort of euphemism for a vagina or something like that, but it could be something to do with this proverb phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-bird-in-the-hand.html, though I'm not sure how it's related.

Thank you, @userr2684291!

I asked a question on the main site.

Sorry, I'm busy now

On reflection, I think the author is playing with words meaning animals and body parts, and the OED defines bird as "a maiden, a girl", and this hasn't got a deeper meaning.

A bird is a girl? LOL.

I think I heard that somewhere...

@userr2684291 My mum says 'my toes are giggling'.

@Jasper Haha, what does that mean?

@userr2684291 Just when someone says something really stupid.

Oh, I didn't notice what message yours was addressing.

Ah, no, I heard hen here.

Wait, does someone post a word of the day here every day?

@Jasper I don't think it's that regular

Yeah, sometimes there are two in a day, LOL.

@Catija 5

And 200 the size of the suggested edit queue

@M.A.R. It averages out, I suppose. :>

@userr2684291 mayhaps

I can't believe it took me around 3 years and a half to reach the 2k rep mark.

Hm, I started actively contributing on March 25, 2016 – so around a year and a half. Sad.

@userr2684291 3 years? Are you an older user than me?

Shuts up and bows

@M.A.R. Yep.

I posted like a couple of stupid questions on other sites when I was in a hurry, preparing for my Matura exam, and I kept forgetting this site's name (Stack Exchange).

What is Matura exam?

@Jasper My guess, some important high school exam with English as its subject/one of its subjects.

@M.A.R. The word sounds very Japanese to me.

Well, userr is Croatian

So this can only mean Croatia ~ Japan

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matura The first paragraph explains everything.

@userr2684291 You're correct - english.stackexchange.com/q/215980

The poem is an allusion to the proverb "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"

@ColleenV Yeah, but I'm not sure how, meaning-wise, it alludes to it.

"A hand in the bird" - the Vicar is trying to molest the maiden with his hand

It's not terribly clever in my opinion

"Bird" as slang for a woman always makes me think of Austin Powers

Haha.

Hello @ColleenV nice dog you have, lol.

@Jasper Good morning Jasper - I'm off to work. I will catch y'all later maybe. Have a groovy day :)

Well, I just had some gravy, so it's a gravy day, lol.

The more questions I read on English, the more confused I become on what is grammatical and what is not. =D

I guess now I will only have total confidence after reading the entire CGEL, which may never happen this lifetime. =D

If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then 1=2, so 0=1, LOL.

I find it strange that everyone starts with 1 point on a site. Shouldn't we start with 0 instead of 1?

Hello everyone!

Hi, what do you want to ask?

Nobody answered me why?

Erm, what is the question?

Question is that what in the link above please

Are those correct ways or not?

I would say 'Get inside the classroom' instead.

Of course, it is clear what 'Get inside the class' means, but I don't think I would use 'class' to mean 'classroom' here.

And 'Get inside the classroom' sounds authoritative, like a teacher would to young students.

'May I get in, sir?' sounds weird, because when you use 'get in', it is a teacher speaking in an authoritative tone.

Ok, thanks for reply, what about "go inside the classroom"?

I would be more inclined to say 'May I go in, sir?' instead.

There are often no clear answers to language questions.

Some cases are clear cut, and others are not.

I mean teacher says that

Sometimes, there is a better word choice in a particular situation.

'Go inside the classroom' is also correct.

Can't a teacher say "go inside the classroom" to the students"?

Yes, of course the teacher can.

In fact, I would prefer the teacher says 'go' instead of 'get'.

Well, it depends on the definition of correct.

But I think I have said everything I can which is helpful.

Ok, Thank you very much.

I am not a language expert. Others may tell you different stuff.

@snail @colen v @others

Ok, let's see, what other will say

LOL

Lol too

@yubraj No. You've been told three times by now that it's classroom, not class.

Four or five actually if you count the comments.

@userr2684291 Are you an English language teacher?

Nope.

Neither am I.

I was never taught any grammar in school.

That's interesting.

I used to be a math teacher though.

@Jasper On what level did you teach mathematics?

@userr2684291 High school.

By the way, I'm a Computer Science student; I'm 21.

Ah. I studied math for my degree.

But I didn't learn much math there.

Computer science is interesting.

It certainly has a large intersection with mathematical logic.

I really like maths and physics, but I'm afraid of studying it, I mean for a degree.

Let's hope we solve P vs NP, LOL.

Oh I see. We can talk about math if you want, like just general stuff.

I think for people who study English as a first language and not a second language, maybe they are not explicitly taught much grammar.

But they will do different things like writing essays.

Yeah but I was taught our grammar.

Or, well, some universal grammar applied to our language.

Is English your first language?

No, I'm from Croatia.

Well, different places have different education systems.

I think it's good that you learnt grammar.

I think you speak very well too.

Maybe write or type; I'm not sure about my spoken English.

LOL, yeah.

I see that ELL is the only SE site you are currently on? Same as me.

I asked a couple of questions on Physics.SE and SO and Mathematics.SE.

I have deleted all my other accounts.

It's just something I do once in a while.

I just hid mine because I'm kinda ashamed of them, lol.

@Jasper Why, though?

Why do I delete my accounts? Well, I don't really know myself.

I think sometimes I just feel like not returning to SE.

But then I will create one again when I feel like returning.

So though my account is very new, I have actually been on SE on and off for many years, and know many things on SE inside out.

I see...

And many users on SE know me as well, LOL.

So what is the difference between computer science and theoretical computer science?

Maybe you can give me your answer to this question.

Hm.

I guess the answer is similar to the difference between physics and theoretical physics, LOL.

Yeah.

Fortunately, there is no theoretical mathematics, LOL.

There is, though.

Yeah, just pure and applied, and the distinction is just for convenience.

Basically, all of it is theoretical, but instead of practical, there's applied.

"Pure", yeah, haha.

Because pure math is motivated by real life problems, and in turn helps to solve them eventually.

Mhm.

I think that theoretical computer science came after the practical counterpart, however, haha.

It is very interesting that mhm and lol are both palindromes.

Aha.

I mean, all that "theory of computation" and stuff, it seems made up; but perhaps it developed as an extension of applied mathematics.

@Jasper Well "worth" is not the same thing as "equal to". For example, I sometimes say "My opinion is worth exactly what you paid for it. " If I offered my opinion for free, then eh, maybe it's worth nothing, but it's not the same as nothing :)

@ColleenV Yeah, I was just joking and talking crap, as usual, LOL.

There was any joke that did the same thing with "time is money"... I will have to see if I can find it

Oh, if it is crap, I was probably the one who said it. If it's not, then it is probably someone else. =D

ahajokes.com/bus159.html

Wow, lol.

Haha.

By the way, don't confuse me with the other Jasper, the one with a very high rep on ELL.

That just proves that idioms like statistics can be made to say whatever you want them to, lol

Reminds me of that joke with cheese and holes: ...thus, the more cheese you have, the less cheese you have.

'Cheese and rice' seems to be a euphemism for 'Jesus Christ'.

Ah...

The ones I heard are back the truck up and shut the front door. I don't know what these're called.

And did you know that the correct term is 'He had his just deserts' and not 'He had his just desserts'? Many people don't know.

(:

LOL

Of course, if Tom's Mum wants to buy Tom an ice cream for doing well on the math test, we would say that Tom got his just desserts. =D

@Jasper Are you from Australia/NZ?

@userr2684291 Nope. =D

Alrighty.

@Jasper By the way, that's an eggcorn.

Ah, eggcorn!

Yeah I answered an eggcorn question many years ago, lol.

@Jasper A mainstream one is you've got another thing coming.

@userr2684291 Hmm, never heard that one, lol.

@userr2684291 Do you also have a hidden account on ELU?

I haven't posted anything there. Don't worry we don't know each other, haha.

Yeah, I already know that, lol.

I've voted on a couple of questions/answers there, that's all.

By the way, I was the one who posted the just desserts question on ELU. =D

Right, I found it.

That was on my very first account, which was deleted, lol.

When I replied in chat here I hadn't seen that question; I'd seen the phrase in a book (and noticed there's no extra s).

And I'd previously heard the phrase many times; desserts made sense, obviously. :>

Regarding the another thing coming: this also makes sense because think as a noun isn't in common parlance as far as I know.

I have a very small vocabulary. When I tested myself at testyourvocab.com it was only 18000 words by the way they count it.

@Jasper I remember taking that test. I think it may be deceiving. I know a lot of words, but I don't use 80% of them. (There's a difference between active and passive vocabulary.)

28k, yay. I've seen the word parsimonious a thousand times, checked its definition, but it just won't stick. The other words I didn't tick on that list look as though they came from this excerpt from the episode of Blackadder.

@userr2684291 Haha, that's much more than me.

Fortunately I never saw or needed to use parsimonious in math, lol.

I am thinking whether it is a good idea to have the migration path between ELL and ELU or not.

My immediate thought is that maybe we shouldn't have this migration and just let users decide themselves if they want to delete their question on one site and post it on another.

I have seen the questions migrated from ELU to ELL many times, and I don't know why some are migrated and not others. There doesn't seem to be much reason to which are migrated and which aren't.

@Jasper Well, it's not really their question in the first place (once it's been posted).

@userr2684291 I just noticed you have an additional r after user in your username, lol.

@Jasper Yes. I inserted it there.

It's supposed to be some sort of pun, and although it wasn't well thought-out, the main reason was to sufficiently break the pattern in order to distinguish myself from other users that come here often – even just for handle completion purposes, while not revealing a dash of creativity.

@userr2684291 LOL

@userr2684291 I suppose you speak Croatian? I know that Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian are mutually intelligible.

@Jasper I do.

They are, and I believe linguists consider them dialects of the same language (e.g., something like BrE and AmE).

And it seems that it is quite close to Russian in terms of the words.

It's not really that close, there are many false friends, etc.

I didn't want to learn Russian because of the Cyrillic script, lol.

Take a look at this: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/39807511#39807511

I can understand Slovenian if I try hard, but I'd never say I can 100% understand it or act as a translator of any kind, and the lexical distance between my first language and Slovenian is 15 on that map, and 34 with Russian. Sometimes I understand Russian sentences completely, deducing the meanings of words from context, etc., but this works only occasionally with written Russian.

@Jasper You can learn it fairly quickly, just start reading.

@userr2684291 I see. OK, I am going to sleep, good night!

Good night.

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