oh, okay ... Thanks :)

Can anyone tell me what this means "that is the diction that conveys the meaning of demand"

It's in the answer to my bounty-question

ambiguous sentence here - Two guys walked into a bar

yes it was fun to read

I want to politely request you all senior folks here, if you find time, would you please kindly take a stab at my bounty question. It will be expiring soon. I will appreciate even the sternest of admonishments. (Is that even idiomatic?) Thanks! (:)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, no whitespace in body, repeating characters in body, repeating characters in title (328): zzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzz zzzz zzz by ryuyurtur on ell.SE

@snailcar Yeah, but what about soccer? A whole lot of running around, but not very much scoring. Of all the sportsballs, I like tennis, especially doubles. The longer the game, the more exciting it is because you end up in a lot of “sudden death” situations.

@AIQ You could say “Yes offense!” in the right tone. It’s nonsensical on it’s own, but it would be understood in context.

I mean, he's handsome and all

MAR uploaded a picture.

Iran's Government must have totally cut the apron strings.

@CowperKettle You wish

Although, to manipulate the youth into thinking they value us in the slightest bit, the lefts will give the idiots false hopes of internet freedom or somesuch.

Imagine browsing the internet for real for the first time.

@M.A.R. Haha.

A common word that describes a man who often/easily "picks up girls" is player (or womanizer, but I don't know how common that one is in speech – probably not very common).

@AIQ It's simply referring to this rising and falling pitch they described in the same sentence. Take a look at the second sense of the word here.

I don't know whether their description is phonetically (or whatever-branch-that-deals-with-pitch-ally) accurate, although it does sound pretty accurate to me.

Anyway, it's saying that in order to deliver this (pragmatic) meaning (i.e. of a demand in your case) you enunciate the utterance accordingly. I think the answer you've received pretty much nails it, and it goes into sufficient detail.

If you said I want chocolate now here in chat, it wouldn't be rude in the slightest, and hence isn't something inherently rude.

Re the r in my userrname: it's the minimum I could do to make it unique and yet somewhat meaningful (user + err(or)? I don't know). It's effectively meaningless and I did it on a whim, really. You know, the hardest problem is always naming things. I consider myself blessed to have been assigned a username in the first place (its being a default, generated one notwithstanding).

Word of the day: micromort

@CowperKettle Cool. The Wikipedia article on it has some interesting (although unsurprising) statistics, too.

You need to travel 10 km by motorbike to get 1 micromort, or 16 km on a bicycle, or 1600 km on a jet plane.

And you need to call your girl fat once to get a gigamort.

@CowperKettle the chance of being killed, reanimated as a zombie, killed again, rinse and repeat, for a billion times?

)))

Gigamort for a gigagirl.

The other day I thought of looking like you had a snack (instead of looking like a snack). Now I just need an English-speaking 'boutta-be-ex girlfriend to tease.

@userr2684291 And if you survive after calling your girl fat and receiving your gigamort, you are Voldemort

@CowperKettle That’s a great cover. Sometimes PostModern Jukebox is hit and miss.

@ColleenVpartedways I see. What about "Offense taken!" would that imply that it's greater than "some taken"?

@userr2684291 Oh so that is what it means ... got it. Thanks!

Always so satisfying to read comments like this: Great! You are awesome! That indeed explained everything. Thank you so very much, buddy!

OP sounds happy! I actually did put a fair bit of effort here. ell.stackexchange.com/a/232344/77766

why do people say "I absolutely, positively, ...."?