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Anonymous

23:00

SE thrives because it has good enough answers to people who need good enough answers to their questions

Anonymous

It's not full of gems, but for most purposes it probably doesn't need to be

Damkerng T.

I found a lot of gems here.

Frankly, I learned a lot from here.

Anonymous

Oh, sure.

Anonymous

When I said full I meant it literally.

Anonymous

It's not 100% gems.

Anonymous

23:01

But there are thousands of answers here now, so whatever the gem-to-not ratio is, I'm sure you can find plenty :-)

Anonymous

We have a lot of good answerers.

Damkerng T.

That's very important.

I think it's the reason that Q&A websites work.

Anonymous

ELL is working fairly well.

Anonymous

I don't know how it relates to ELU.

Anonymous

I will probably never quite know that. :-)

Anonymous

23:04

But that's okay by me.

Damkerng T.

I might need to sell my idea to some folks first, so I don't have to worry about its expenses. :-)

@snailplane I'm sure ELU is doing great too!

Anonymous

Oh, ELU is buzzing along.

Anonymous

I contributed there a little bit.

Anonymous

I have a long-term goal of reaching 3000 reputation there.

Damkerng T.

I'm just worried a little lately, about the quality of our answers here.

@snailplane That would be my indefinitely-long-term there. :-)

But I sneaked in there (ELU) quite often.

Anonymous

23:06

@DamkerngT. It's not too hard. You can get a bunch of reputation for a silly answer here or there more easily

Anonymous

I have 2719 reputation there from 47 answers and 2 questions.

Damkerng T.

I know. I got many from my silly answers too. :-)

Anonymous

The scores on my answers are mostly unrelated to how good they are.

Anonymous

ELU is too close-happy for me.

Damkerng T.

I'm not sure about the meaning of "close-happy".

Anonymous

23:08

Happy to close.

Anonymous

(Questions.)

Damkerng T.

Oh, I see. :D

Cerberus

Enjoying the act of closing, i.e. inclined to close questions.

Hi!

Anonymous

collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/-happy

Anonymous

Hello!

Cerberus

23:09

@snailplane I agree.

Damkerng T.

Hi!

Cerberus

My home site though it be.

Damkerng T.

Hah! They have an entry for -happy (not just happy).

Anonymous

Yeah, the definition for -happy was better than the gloss I gave ("happy to X").

Anonymous

Cerberus's definition was good, too.

Damkerng T.

23:11

Still there are many questions there deserved to be closed but didn't get closed.

Anonymous

Oh, I suppose that might be the case--there are an awful lot of questions there I've never read

Damkerng T.

I would say luck got involved.

Anonymous

I don't know. I can't predict when a question will be closed or not on ELU.

Anonymous

I suppose it's probably more predictable to a regular

Damkerng T.

If I could predict it, I would be super-rich. (I would apply the same formula to stock markets.)

Anonymous

23:15

Language is so confusing.

Damkerng T.

So as stock markets. :D

Today I found that BBC Radio 4 has a section for Classic Literature where they'd dramatize classic novels (like Sense and Sensibility) and I can listen to many of them for free!

Anonymous

Yes, so they are.

Cerberus

In my humble opinion, some people on EL&U spend too much time and energy on administrative affairs. Sometimes the emotions build up...

Anonymous

Oh! Hooray!

Damkerng T.

But I'd prefer something similar from the US.

Anonymous

23:16

Oh, because you're training your American English accent?

Damkerng T.

But BBC Radio 4 is not too bad. Actually it's rather good.

@snailplane Yes. But I don't think my accent is totally American. It's a mix.

@Cerberus nods

Anonymous

Somehow I think a dramatization of Sense and Sensibility with American accents might seem weird

Damkerng T.

Oh don't worry, I think they dramatized some American literature too. :-)

I didn't look into it too much, but I wouldn't be surprised if I could find Tom Sawyer there.

Cerberus

@DamkerngT. Why an American accent?

Damkerng T.

Oh, my Firefox just crashed again! :D

@Cerberus It's because it's the main accent in movies I watch.

And growing up with IT, I'm more familiar with American accents.

Cerberus

23:22

But RP is more sonorous, and more prestigious, too...

Damkerng T.

RP is fine too.

But accents in some English TV programs can be so difficult to understand.

Cerberus

The BC will surely read those novels in RP or something close to it?

Damkerng T.

(Something similar to cajun's accent, and yet I could understand cajun rather well.)

Cerberus

Yes, regional or lower-class accents are always harder if you're used to the standard accent...

@DamkerngT. That's odd!

Damkerng T.

@Cerberus When they dramatized novels, the accents seem to vary, but not stray too far from RP I would say.

Cerberus

23:24

Yeah.

It's called "BBC English" for a reason.

Damkerng T.

Hehe.

Anonymous

23:56

@DamkerngT. You could turn your "more often" comment into a short answer.

Anonymous

Not much more need be said.

Damkerng T.

Then it would be very, very short. :-)

But I will do as you suggested. :D

Anonymous

Well, it's up to you.

Anonymous

You do risk it being turned into a comment. :-)

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