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Q: What is the use for code formatting?

D ManokhinSo in the tool bar (that’s what I like to call it), the bar that appears when you edit/ask a question or answer: (sorry for my terrible handwriting) So after thinking about it I can’t see any use for the code formatting tool so I wonder if there is. You would format sentence examples with a bl...

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Q: What to do with [untagged] questions that are off topic?

D ManokhinSo as far as I know the untagged tag is automatically added to migrated questions as they have no tags. If this tag is left on a question I could be confusing. When I was searching the tag I found a question that is tagged with it, link: How can I learn cursive handwriting? The question: It...

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@JimReynolds harharhar. I tried not to while on dialysis, but since my BP was always low then, I had no other choice but to enjoy biscuits and a movie in the middle of dialysis
@NewMetaQuestion JEEZ WE GET IT. He's new. I'm not going to be mean. Get off my case!
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Q: What is StackExchange?

user85483Is there a different community? Than English Langage Learners for English Learning? Where can I find the FAQ? How can I learn here if half the resources are on Google?

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Feels like a window shopper
How much for this Stack Exchange? Uh, thanks, I'll check in later
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Q: How are answers with no votes sorted?

D ManokhinWhen I was viewing a question: How can I introduce (or name) a person my answer was above the other answer even though they both have 0 votes. I sorted it by votes. My answer is above the other answer, but that was only after I reloaded the page. Before, the other answer was hove mine. So I was ...

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Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
12:55
In the ongoing World Chess Championships 2018, each of the first 12 games ended in a draw. Now on to the tie-breaker games. =)
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
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> Word of the day: nidicolous.
Usage example: "Don't be nidicolous!"
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Nidicolous
A nidicolous animal ( ny-DIK-ə-ləs; from Latin nidus "nest" and -colus "inhabiting") is an animal that stays at its birthplace for a long time because it depends on the parents for food, protection, and the learning of survival skills. They are the opposite of nidifugous species, which leave their parents more quickly and survive independently. Two other terms are also used by scientists for related developmental phenomena: altricial (relatively undeveloped at birth or hatching; helpless, blind, without feathers or hair, and unable to fend for themselves) and precocial (relatively developed at...
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
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> Children commonly swallow coins—next on the list are small toys. Parents often ask doctors how long will it take for the toy to pass through.
Can we write it will take here?
> Each volunteer was asked to rate the softness of their stool samples on a scale known as Stool Hardness and Transit—to give themselves a SHAT score. And that was not the end of it: Each of the volunteers was also given a score to describe how long it took for a toy to pass through—they called it the Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
17:18
Hm
> To feel or see the difference between aspirated and unaspirated sounds, one can put a hand or a lit candle in front of one's mouth, and say spin [spɪn] and then pin [pʰɪn]. One should either feel a puff of air or see a flicker of the candle flame with pin that one does not get with spin.
I can feel the puff with boff
 
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Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
18:23
@CowperKettle The correct sentence should be "Parents often ask doctors how long it will take for the toy to pass through."
ColleenV
ColleenV
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@CowperKettle you could write that particular sentence either way I think
Parents ask how long will it take. Parents ask how long it will take. I think the latter is more standard as @JasperLoy mentioned, but the former doesn’t jump off the page as wrong.
Welcome back Jasper btw 👋
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
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@ColleenV Thanks. How do you add pictures like that? Is it just something you click on on your computer?
ColleenV
ColleenV
@JasperLoy My iPhone has emoticons on the screen keyboard that I can select. I don't know how to do it from my computer.
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
21:08
One day when I am rich, I may get a Macbook and an iPhone. =)
I think the main reason to get a Macbook would be to use macOS, because a PC with the same specs as a Macbook costs much less.
I have been using Windows 10 the past couple of years, and I still find it buggy. macOS might really be superior. =)
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
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@JasperLoy Not sure what you mean. Nothing can be abruptly and/or forcefully changed as English is a human language, and as there's no authority over it prescribing how the majority ought to speak, etc. If on the other hand it arose naturally, it'd be tautologically natural – just like they.
@ColleenV Macs have something akin to the charmap on Windows, an... emapji (it's a standard term), from which you can select emojis, etc.
@CowperKettle "Parents often ask doctors 'How long will it take for the toy to pass through?'." or "Parents often ask doctors how long it'll take for the toy to pass through.".
But you'll find the former without proper punctuation in sloppy/hasty writing. I only mentioned one way of punctuating it; some people might dispense with the capital letter and only put a comma, or set the question off with a dash or some such.
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@userr2684291 I just meant it as a stupid thought I had.
@userr2684291 Which Mac do you use?
userr2684291
userr2684291
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I don't know. My parents have a newish model back at home.
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
Apple now has 6 different laptops, all terribly expensive and very hard to choose between them.
userr2684291
userr2684291
Huh.
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
If you are rich, just go for the 15 inch Macbook Pro 2018.
userr2684291
userr2684291
I wouldn't have used them there.
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
My grammar is bad.
userr2684291
userr2684291
23:50
Lol.
I already have a brand new Macbook Pro sitting in my room. I haven't unboxed it yet. I got it for free for some stuff I did.
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
Actually there is a reason I used them there, but I am too tired to explain now. I am thinking of the sentence differently from you.
userr2684291
userr2684291
I think I know why...
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
Until I have read the entire CGEL, I do not claim to be good in grammar.
In fact, my knowledge of grammar is almost zero.
userr2684291
userr2684291
Lol.
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
What I do know is that the CGEL has the only perfect treatment of punctuation I have come across, after consulting 9000 sources on punctuation.
userr2684291
userr2684291
23:56
Your grammar is perfect because you're a native speaker of English.
Well, your dialect of English.
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
I was fed up because all sources I consulted were either incomplete or had one or two things sort of wrong.
This includes some very famous works on punctuation.
Both online and offline.
userr2684291
userr2684291
Haha.
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
However, it is in the final chapter 20, lol.
Bas Aart's Oxford Modern English Grammar does not cover punctuation, unfortunately.

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