I totally agree with Jeff that
The quality of the questions and answers is paramount.
Joke questions pose a real danger, because (a) everyone likes them, and (b) they can easily end up trivialising the site.
However, I can't help but think the policy in the FAQ at time of writing is overly re...
It would seem that someone gave a monkey* a computer, and after bashing at the keyboard long and hard enough, he actually managed to send a single email**; since there was no discipline for all the wrongdoing, but “Good monkey! Have Banana!” for ‘correctness’***, the monkey began to imitate his own actions, eventually, given the nature of randomness and the monkey’s articulation (but subdued by his own intellectual inferiority), he managed to begin sending 1 in 10 emails correctly**** - out of such sheer chaos was born what we now know to be a ‘mailer’*****.
@Kit: Yes. I am an editor-at-heart, but I wish the "active" page wouldn't show all my edits... Oh well. I am mostly going through and methodically removing "thanks", taglines, etc. as well as improving grammar and word flow. I edit a lot of things - not just on SE.
Sorry for coming in w/o warning like that
But only now have I noticed your comment of ~25 mins ago
Let us say that I am talking with a client about a potential project and that I have done some research on the project as well. Let us say that the project will require considerable research in the future as well. Since we haven't agreed on the project, I'm not sure if I will get paid. How do I p...
@Rhodri I believe you mean the persuasive bard who spreads word of Xena's fabulous exploits. And the one who features prominently in some slash fiction that I would know nothing about.
We just moved into a new house with a very unique layout. I'm wondering how to describe some of the rooms using formal definitions. The main floor has an open-air space that is pretty versatile -- it could be a living room, or it could be a dining room, we haven't decided ourselves yet -- and ext...
I believe that there are two somewhat similar expressions to using the term "hard on." Only one of them has a sexual connotation.
To BE "hard on" somebody is to be tough or difficult with them. This can come from either a man or a woman. It often refers to "aggression" but has no sexual connotat...
Lenin was a mushroom () was a televised hoax by musician Sergey Kuryokhin and reporter Sergey Sholokhov. It was first broadcast on 17 May 1991 on Leningrad Television. The hoax had the form of an interview.
In the interview Kuryokhin was telling about his findings that Lenin used to consume a lot of psychedelic mushrooms and eventually turned into a mushroom himself. This absurd idea wasn't presented all at once; instead there was a resemblance of logical chain of reasonings, facts and quotations from various sources. An aura of plausibility was created using manipulation of facts, pseudo...
What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement ( Chto delat’?) is a political pamphlet written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in 1901 and published in 1902. Its title is inspired by the novel of the same name by the nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary Nikolai Chernyshevsky.
In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin argues that the working class will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles with employers over wages, working hours and the like. To convert the working class to Marxism, Lenin argues that Marxists should form a political party, or "...
Meh, my translation is funnier. Also, more accurate.
Over at Judaism.SE someone asked a question with the title
(1) What is the source for not walking with one's hands behind his back
and someone else edited it to read
(2) What is the source for not walking with one's hands behind one's back
commenting (in the edit summary) "antecedent-...
Which is to say, if we were to remove it from the English language and replace it with "who" in all contexts ("who" gains the definitions and parts of speech of 'whom'), would English lose any of its expressive power? Would anything have to be rephrased or rewritten? Can whom provide emphasis on ...
Which is more correct,
"They don't use either of them"
or
"They don't use any of them"?
I am pretty sure than "any" is more correct, but can I use either "either" ?
Do you think you are smarter then me?
While this question should be using than...I have to wonder if this is a debatable topic within English or is this cut and dry? If this specific instance is indeed cut and dry are there any instances on the usage of then and than that would cause a hot d...
I totally agree with Jeff that
The quality of the questions and answers is paramount.
Joke questions pose a real danger, because (a) everyone likes them, and (b) they can easily end up trivialising the site.
However, I can't help but think the policy in the FAQ at time of writing is overly re...
The title pretty much says it all. Is there a more eloquent word for a zigzag?
Is it grammatically correct to say "launch of school's magazine" or "launching of school's magazine"?
Over at Judaism.SE someone asked a question with the title
(1) What is the source for not walking with one's hands behind his back
and someone else edited it to read
(2) What is the source for not walking with one's hands behind one's back
commenting (in the edit summary) "antecedent-...
Which is more correct,
"They don't use either of them"
or
"They don't use any of them"?
I am pretty sure than "any" is more correct, but can I use either "either" ?
Do you think you are smarter then me?
While this question should be using than...I have to wonder if this is a debatable topic within English or is this cut and dry? If this specific instance is indeed cut and dry are there any instances on the usage of then and than that would cause a hot d...
I know there is a term for a number that is the power of 2, such as 8, 32, 128, 4096 -- but it slipped my mind.
"Hey, , y'know"
Aside from the "gen-u-wine™" thing I actually want to have the global-inbox enabled in Area 51 (maybe http://stackexchange.com too).
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…