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Anonymous

07:33

Q: We'd like your feedback on our new Code of Conduct!

tl;dr: We've put together a code of conduct (CoC) that is a bit more comprehensive than our existing be nice policy because we feel that our current policy isn't meeting our needs. Some background, our reasons for doing this and a link to the draft can be found below. We'd like your feedb...

Cup Fever

hi @snailboat

Cup Fever

07:50

@userr2684291 all my teams have been eliminated :(

still, plenty of good football to watch...

Anonymous

Hello! Sorry to hear about your teams :-(

Captain Bohemian

I just see a new usage in dictionary, "unremitting demands of hunger". This is a usage we can often use.

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Captain Bohemian

10:08

a new word: accelerometer in the context "Another workshop talk described gravitationally mapping the entire solar system with a network of souped-up accelerometers akin to those in smartphones."

wherein "soup up" is also a new phrase for me.

Anonymous

11:00

@CaptainBohemian It's also spelled supe, reflecting the writers' perception that it's derived from super rather than soup.

Captain Bohemian

11:12

I think souped-up is correct there because I found in https://www.thefreedictionary.com/soup "soup up" is a Slang meaning
"To modify (something) so as to increase its capacity to perform or satisfy, especially to add horsepower or greater speed potential to (an engine or a vehicle)." But maybe you are right that "super" is more relevant than "soup" there.

Anonymous

11:44

@CaptainBohemian I would focus on which is more common rather than which is more correct. I don't think there's any basis to choose which spelling of a slang term qualifies as correct if multiple spellings are in use and the etymology is unclear.

Anonymous

I would spell it with soup because I think that's more common, but I would want to at least be aware of the alternate spelling.

userr2684291

12:11

@CupFever Ah. Yeah, I always support Germany and Spain for example. Unfortunately, they weren't able to make it out of their groups.

userr2684291

12:39

@CaptainBohemian Supe up isn't even a soupcon more incorrect.

Okay, I just wanted to make a pun.

Or... whatever.

Featured Questions

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The team can pair James — and whoever else might be coming — with Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma. I saw the sentence from a news article. I doubt the usage of "and" here. From my understanding, 'pair' denotes two parties. So, the team can separately pair James with Brandon Ingram...

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CowperKettle

14:38

> "The data show large effect sizes, and the number needed to treat to get ≥20% improvement in our PANSS negative subscale was only 3. That's pretty exciting. I'm a late convert to nutraceuticals, but I think the bottom line is we just don't have adequate treatments for our patients with schizophrenia," said Gannon.

Why on earth does she say but?

Q: Meaning of "but" in " I'm a late convert to nutraceuticals, but I think the bottom line is we just don't have adequate treatments for our patients"

From a news report: These findings suggest that WSE may have promise in schizophrenia, particularly in the treatment of negative and general symptoms and associated stress, she added. "The data show large effect sizes, and the number needed to treat to get ≥20% improvement in our PANSS n...

meaning-in-context conjunctions

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CowperKettle

15:57

> Adjunctive treatment with ashwagandha may lead to recovery of some of the neurophysiological auditory processing deficits observed in schizophrenia, according to preliminary data presented by Dean Salisbury, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
"Schizophrenia is associated with profound auditory abnormalities, from complex verbal hallucinations to more basic sensory processing deficits," Salisbury told Medscape Medical News.

Does this told mean that he told this in an interview, or can it mean that he simply wrote this in an email?

In Russian, there's a distinction..

But maybe in English the term is more vague

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Omkar Reddy

17:23

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Q: A single word for **not enrolled**

Are there any other words which give the meaning not enrolled? I am searching for a single word which means never being enrolled in the first place, or not being a member of some class/school/institution etc. I know of the word unenrolled but I don't know whether it's correct or not as I cannot...