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12:01 AM

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Q: Looking for a grammatically correct sentence consisting of all English letters with minimum repetition

In English, is there a grammatically correct sentence consisting of all letters and punctuations of English alphabet but with minimum repetition? Note: The case is sensitive. :-)

complex-sentences

Really?

Why on earth would someone want this sentence, except to have a question to post on our site?

aedia

12:15 AM

@Kit Maybe for typeface testing? Or for us to do their homework.

Kit

If it's for typeface testing, why do they care if it's grammatically correct?

aedia

12:43 AM

Perhaps they are unable to escape the dolor of lorem ipsum and need help to construct real sentences again.

user19161

I suspect the OP is writing some typesetting text and wants a neat sentence like this. I know xport from the TeX site. She usually asks very good questions there.

user19161

And @aedia have you done your laundry?

Cerberus

1:00 AM

@aedia Indeed it does! But what doesn't?

@Kit Oh I hate those kinds of questions, just like most single-word requests...

@aedia Another thing to hate! Every single time, after years of exposure, it still makes my brain hurt, because I start parsing the pseudo-Latin, fail, and am frustrated for being fooled yet again.

aedia

@JasperLoy I have almost done all my chores, but now I must go clean the kitchen again. Somehow the dishes multiply when I am not looking.

@Cerberus Speaking of bad Latin, I tried to answer this O question but do tell me if I'm entirely wrong. My knowledge of the vocative case is, after all, based pretty much just on a children's book, so I wouldn't be surprised...

Cerberus

1:19 AM

@aedia I'd say o is an interjection in Latin that expresses emotion; it often, but by no means always, accompanies a noun in the vocative. In is pretty close to English o/oh, thought not completely the same.

aedia

TTFN. Must go feed dear friend Dishwasher.

Cerberus

Give him a pat on the front from me!

aedia

@Cerberus In English though it's not wrong to consider "O, Cerberus" the vocative?

@Cerberus I will ;)

Cerberus

@aedia I'd say o is an interjection in English too; it often accompanies a vocative as well; but strictly speaking, it is only the noun that is in the (unmarked) vocative case, not the interjection.

In Latin, o was used with vocative (most frequent), nominative, accusative, or genitive, or just by itself.

MrHen

2:28 AM

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Q: Synonyms for the word "bloat" in the Obsd -style?

If you have never used obsd, please do not answer this question. For short, it means to keep things as simple as possible -- even a bit dump simple ("dump" her is a positive term with programmer context). Now anything that is not expressed with clarity or a bit like scientific/mathematical rigor ...

synonyms programming

Can we get this closed?

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Q: Is "Most of it's in English" normal English?

The phrase "Most of it's in English" is grammatically correct (it's short for "Most of it is in English"), but it doesn't feel right. Is there a reason it doesn't feel right?

word-choice grammar apostrophe

Also... this.

simchona

6:16 AM

how do users get suspended?

waiwai933

@simchona By a moderator through our special mod tools

simchona

@waiwai933 interesting. I think one user is kind of on the road there

(I could be very, very wrong, of course)

waiwai933

I am watching a user very, very closely right now, but I'm not allowed to say who. But there is a high chance that we're thinking of the same person.

simchona

I won't prod. I have a feeling it would be the same person, though...considering I haunt EL&U

Thanks for the bounty, by the way

Jez

9:25 AM

Does anyone have an example of an answer which contains IPA pronunciation formatted correctly?

z7sg

9:41 AM

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Q: IPA pronunciation of 'Bazinga'

You might be familiar with the tv-series the Big Bang Theory. Sheldon, one of the main characters, often says "bazinga". How would I write this in IPA? This is what I have, does that make sense? /bəˈzɪŋɡɑː/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skQGve3XksU

pronunciation ipa

Jez

aha thanks

does this look right?

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A: How did Shakespeare pronounce "hautboys"?

Depending on whether you're pronouncing it the US English or British English way, it looks like this word may be pronounced any of the following ways: /hoʊt'bɔɪ/ (ie. with the leading 'h' sound and pronouncing the 't') /hoʊ'bɔɪ/ (ie. with the leading 'h' sound) /oʊ'bɔɪ/ (ie. without the leading ...

z7sg

I don't like the blockquotes. That certainly displays. Whether the answer is right or not I haven't a clue.

Jez

trouble is that without blockquotes, it's tough to get the markdown to break the line. i guess i can use the br tag

z7sg

break the line? 2 spaces + new line

Jez

didn't know that.

won't remember it either :-)

Robusto's feeling anal today.

there are 2 @z7sg s

they're multiplying

Robusto

10:21 AM

@Jez — You don't offer any evidence for your assertions in the hautboys questions, and yet you call your conclusion "obvious"; that's why I called you on it.

Jez

I said 'obviously more likely'

that doesn't equate to obvious per se

z7sg

there is only one @z7sg perhaps you have confused me with another unicorn

Jez

I see 2 of you

10676 and 19437

linked to SO and EL&U

user19161

11:20 AM

@Jez I only see one z7sg. Maybe I'm really blur.

z7sg

i can star my own messages and double-star ones i have already starred so yeah something is odd

user19161

@z7sg I think only the second is odd.

z7sg

you can't star your own messages!

user19161

@z7sg But starring your own questions is quite common on the main sites!

z7sg

@Jasper But you can't do it here! Try it and see!

user19161

11:33 AM

@z7sg Oh yes I see: there is no star for me to click on. This is mysterious. And I think Jez was referring to another unicorn, though that one does not look like a unicorn, more like a horse.

user19161

Hello @kit, I just gave you a +1 for dark of the moon!

Kit

@Jasper Thanks.

Oh hang on. I have to reboot. BRB.

RegDwight

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Q: Good way to write if..else statements

Is there any way the below statement can be made better ? if the authentication succeeds, the user is taken to front page, else he is taken to the error page. Are the commas placed correctly? Is the above sentence grammatically accurate?

grammar sentence

Is there a reason I am not seeing a single close-vote on this?

"Review and improve this sentence."

z7sg

crumbs! once again the community is asleep at the wheel

user19161

@RegDwight It may be seen otherwise as good way to write if ... else, or where the commas should be placed. But in its current form the question is not clear. I'll close it as not a real question.

RegDwight

11:47 AM

Right. "Too broad" is certainly an option.

Kit

12:04 PM

@RegDwight I had a bad night, and was getting coffee before I checked the boards.

user19161

12:29 PM

@kit I see that you have changed back into a fox after rebooting!

Kit

Oh yeah. I forgot the unicorn makes me crazy.