So, I wanted to put myself into a story I was writing (an "author insert"), but didn't want to use my real name. So I devised a pseudonym generation procedure: take the first three letters of one's first name, shuffle them around, and then add some more letters. That's where "Elendia" came from. I added the apostrophe to make "El'endia" so people would actually pronounce the "ell" sound at the beginning. Then "Starman" is just because I like space and stars.
@El'endiaStarman Honestly, I'm a huge fan of the name "El'endia". It remembers me of the names one of my favorite author use for his character (Pierre Bottero)
@El'endiaStarman I tear a mesh from a tissue and put it in my nostril. Unfortunately, since I'm looking forward to being more ecological, I only have tissues made of actual fabric ... I'm pestering rn
@avazula Ah yeah, that's what I do too. I've just...developed more sophisticated procedures that I follow based on how the nosebleed behaves (e.g., if it doesn't slow down within a couple minutes or it slows down but keeps tricking a bit).
@Noon I used to switch every few months before I became a mod... From me, to orange tulips, to a snowy branch, to a giraffe.. And then to the parrot. I kept that one for over 6 months.
I think "self-directed" means when you're intrinsically motivated and come up with your own path to investigate, vs. when you have a teacher telling/showing you the steps to follow
Yeah but when a baby put something in their mouth, I'm not sure they are trying to solve a problem. They just want to "try it". So, honestly, I think we are born with both kind of curiosity
Yeah. So maybe it's not that people learn to be curious by some age, but that they lose that curiosity (often due to lackluster education at schools).
As I keep thinking about this, it feels like I could write a whole paper.
The core of curiosity is present from birth, basically, but it can be expressed and used in different ways later in life. E.g., there's curiosity about what one doesn't know (research by reading) and then there's curiosity about what nobody knows (research by experimentation). There's another sort of jump when one transitions from satisfying curiosity by local means (direct action, talking with parents, etc) to satisfying curiosity by remote means (books, the Internet). Etc.
@Noon I mean, this is the ideal case. I think, however, that a lot of people do lose that sense of wonder that goes hand in hand with curiosity that many children have.
@El'endiaStarman I've heard a number of friends say they stopped enjoying reading books due to their high school English classes :( there's similar issues with math ed, too
@El'endiaStarman I'd argue everyone loses that sense of wonder--just some more than others. I also feel like the reason I enjoy fantasy literature/media so much is because it makes me feel just a hint of that wonder again
@EmC Yeah, high school English classes weren't great for promoting a love of reading. I'm glad I held on to mine via Star Wars novels (and other books). :P With regards to math education, I like how John Lockhart covered it in his essay A Mathematician's Lament.
I was homeschooled, so my high school english class was basically "read a bunch of these classic novels" plus some fun vocab/language stuff :) none of that "write a book report on what the author might have meant by this imagery" stuff that I always hear about
@scohe001 Yeah, reality has a way of asserting itself. I'm fortunate to have a pretty sizable sense of wonder, even if people around me look at me funny sometimes. :P
@Tinkeringbell Did you enjoy the books you had to read for those? For my classes, probably half or so were not fun to read.
Especially Dandelion Wine. That one was so boring and at the time I hated how dandelion wine didn't show up until well past halfway through the book.
I probably wouldn't mind it now but when my usual diet consisted of The Chronicles of Narnia, Star Wars novels, and other fantasy books, the "classics" were very meh.
@Tinkeringbell I (and many of my classmates) did quite like the one summer we could read a Harry Potter book for class. :P
I didn't grew up with much fantasy books, magic and fantasy was always considered kinda evil by my parents. So perhaps that's why I didn't really mind reading 'classics' in the first place ;)
I’m asking this question because, I want to be invited in the town by my class mates in winter vacation. My father told me that I don’t have to be like clown where everyone laughs at, because they’ll laugh at you not with you. And my mother tells me different story, and now I’m bit confused.
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Hmm that's a little broad though. Like I said, whole books have been written on that. I don't think that's something we can answer in the 30,000 character limit of an answer here :)
So then maybe how to hop in and contribute in an online group conversation? That one could also be interesting (and could be useful for contributing in StackExchange chat!)
So then "How can I identify if the person I'm talking to online is 'trolling'?" that may be broad though if you don't have a specific situation to ask about
Ahh yea then don't. Ask one question per question ;)
You could delete and ask a new one if you wanted. Or if you edit that question into a more specific situation like we talked about, it'll get re-opened and answered
@AlexA this seems like a specific enough situation to ask about (you could write about what happened, and what you'd like the outcome to be if it happens again)
@AlexA I don't think we've ever done anything like that here. as long as your edits are improving the question, and you're not invalidating existing answers or in a rollback war, you should be fine
@scohe001 Though I remembered from long ago that if you edit an answer 10 times you no longer get more points even when upvoted, but I don't know the current SE system.
too broad - if your question could be answered by an entire book, or has many valid answers (but no way to determine which - if any - are correct), then it is probably too broad for our format
Please edit the question to limit it to a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer. Avoid asking multiple distinct questions at once. See the How to Ask page for help clarifying this question.
When giving detailed answers like this, it is very easily possible to produce more than 10 edits. And this, without any disputes or other contradictory interaction with other users. In that particular answer, I was then informed of this 10 edits rule ; and thus stopped editing.
(I did already tr...
@WillHunting yeah, that's not supposed to happen.. that's why we want to close quickly if they're not a good fit at first, so they can be freely edited
@AlexA that sounds more like what we're aiming for with the sandbox? since one of the principles of editing is to not go against the author's intent, we're kinda limited in how much we can shape it up
@EmC I’m saying, if you all agree for new thing like I do, then some of us can post on Meta for some changes and then as a result for agreendment, you guys can up vote and accept the post
And you can even tell your reasons why you want, so that Stack Exchange can do this
if you need to talk to them there's a "contact" link at the bottom of the page, but feature requests are just posted on meta.se with the feature-request tag
if you can't ask questions there, this post talks about that
@AlexA the info in that post I linked gives some advice for that, plus I'd check for any feedback in comments on the posts you have made already. worst case, it does say that you can ask one question every 6 months, which will help lift a ban if it's a good question
@AlexA there's many comments here that you can think about, and put your question into the sandbox, possibly? We're willing to help but we won't do all the work for you, we want to help you learn how to do better.
