English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

7:00 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Funny how your attempt at serious work here still managed to include "buttocks" and the non-serious conversation ALSO converged onto buttocks

Cerberus

Use a net?

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Oh I hadn't noticed his buttocks!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@MrShinyandNew安宇 It's maths, my dear friend. Everything converges to, well.

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus right, like eating a dog. don't wanna do it, but not immoral

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JSBᾶngs Hey some people don't even want to wash vegetables, but they just have to.

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs That is immoral! Unless you prepare me really well, in really good olive oil.

KitΘδς

7:03 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Aw crap. BRB.

@Cerberus I want the left head!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@KitΘδς No flirting in chat.

Cerberus

no comment

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus What, not even a comment on how Kit does not have to wash vegetables?

KitΘδς

@RegDwightѬſ道 I am so misunderstood.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

You let her go off like that?

KitΘδς

7:05 PM

You misspelled "get."

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 To be honest I didn't get that.

JSBᾶngs

i dinna get it either

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Oh come on. It was you who brought the topic up.

FFS, remember something.

Cerberus

Washing vegetables? looks dubiously

KitΘδς

Anencephalic.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:06 PM

Jul 7 at 22:52, by Cerberus

Consider people washing their vegetables.

KitΘδς

hint

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Jul 7 at 22:52, by Cerberus

I have told them countless times that it is nonsense. But they keep doing it.

Cerberus

Oh, those vegetables!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Cerberus

Huh.

KitΘδς

7:06 PM

Oh. Apparently I missed it as well.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

How can you tell people something countless times if you can't remember it once?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς Wait you meant the other kind of vegetabls?

JSBᾶngs

huh. another conversation btwn Cerb and Jez where Jez was being wrong

KitΘδς

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Yes.

Robusto

0

Q: How to use the internet to find origins of the phase "smash-and-grab capitalism"

I want to find the first use of the phrase smash-and-grab capitalism (I want to use the expression but I want to make sure I am not unwittingly quoting Ronald Reagan). I have googled a bit but this didn't seem very effective at finding the origin. I also tried to make a google ngram but both...

Cerberus

7:07 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 I don't see the connection between washing vegetables and JSB's line. Unless it is about people having no brain functions.

Robusto

Free Internet Lessons!!! Get 'em while they're hot!!

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs Was he?

KitΘδς

@Robusto You need more !!!!!!!! s

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus yes. you were absolutely right in that convo

Robusto

@KitΘδς — Here, have a bundle: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cerberus

7:08 PM

@JSBᾶngs Oh, good.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς My ability to multi-task this room and my real work is fading

KitΘδς

@Robusto Thx !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll add them to my collection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus certainly "don't wanna do it, but is not immoral" can be applied to washing vegetables? No? NO???

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 My ability to multi-task between the different strands of conversation here has never amounted to much...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς Have some full-width ones: ！！！！

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:09 PM

‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽

KitΘδς

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Sweet! Thank you!

JSBᾶngs

@RegDwightѬſ道 actually, that's the opposite of what we're talking about. washing veggies presumably = don't want to do it, but am morally obligated

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightѬſ道 Are you showing off now?

KitΘδς

@RegDwightѬſ道 Interrobangs?!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@MrShinyandNew安宇 What do you mean, "now"‽

Robusto

7:09 PM

0

Q: What does "You Bury Other Things Too" mean?

I have seen the next episode “The Event”. I cannot translate what does the name of episode mean? Thank you.

meaning idioms

It gets worse ...

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Eh sure, it can be.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς No problem! My chinese writing is normally not too excited so I don't need them!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Thank you.

@JSBᾶngs That's an interesting way to see it.

Is that a moral obligation?

KitΘδς

@MrShinyandNew安宇谢谢

Cerberus

I don't think anyone considers washing vegetables a moral obligation.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:11 PM

このドッキドキはなぜ止まらない‽

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς Don't tell me you also speak Chinese...

Cerberus

Neva be surprised in this room.

Grace Note

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I actually knew she knew that phrase.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Why should that poor river be surprised?

Cerberus

Funny: my spelling corrector changed nevr into neva.

@RegDwightѬſ道 Because of this ^.

KitΘδς

7:13 PM

@MrShinyandNew安宇我会说中文。

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Funny: your spelling corrector has not changed funny into unfunny.

KitΘδς

@MrShinyandNew安宇 It just takes too long to type, and I can't always remember which character is which.

JSBᾶngs

@RegDwightѬſ道 it's a ritual obligation for some religions. you could probably split a line between ritual and moral obligations, but i'm not convinced its a meaningful distinction

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Well, I am not aware of a river called Nevr.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς gah, of course, we already talked about this.

Cerberus

7:14 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 My spelling corrector would like to correct you! If you will give it your address...

@JSBᾶngs That is meaningful.

KitΘδς

@GraceNote How did you know that?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus 221b

Grace Note

@KitΘδς That was the word you asked me how I would romanize for Mandarin.

Cerberus

I can follow a ritual for various reasons, moral ones being only a selection.

@RegDwightѬſ道 It changed that into slums.

KitΘδς

@GraceNote Oh right. Now I remember.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:15 PM

@Cerberus It should have changed it into museum, cause that's what it is now.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Lego museum?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Oh come on, how many 221B's do you know of???

Cerberus

Eh no freaking clue.

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus yeah, i'm not sure about that. but there certainly are some ritual obligations which are also felt as moral obligations

Cerberus

I don't know many things, as you know.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:16 PM

@Cerberus I know you have no TV, but how about, um, books?

221B Baker Street

221B Baker Street is the London residence of the famous literary detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the United Kingdom, postal addresses with a number followed by a letter may indicate a separate address within a larger, often residential building. In the Baker Street of the "Sherlock Holmes" stories this would have been part of a Georgian terrace. We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B, Baker Street, of which he had spoken at our meeting. They consisted of a couple of comfortable bed-rooms and a single large airy sitt...

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs That is perhaps a philosophical position: is an obligation to God a moral obligation, or just a self-serving way of getting what you want?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

This room is crazy. People don't know Gagarin. People don't know Baker Street. And what they do know they write in Mandarin. Which is a fruit, for Christ's sake.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Haha, you have no idea how funny this is. I am reading The Valley of Fear at the moment, and I finished another Holmes two days ago.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightѬſ道 And people don't remember conversations they had recently.

Cerberus

And yet I didn't think of that once.

Matt Ellen Д

7:18 PM

@Robusto I'm truly sorry

I thought he'd take the time to ask a good question.

Cerberus

My memory just skips over stuff, I think.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus You should totally drop that and try some other stuff he wrote.

Feb 8 at 15:33, by RegDwight

Conan-Doyle is totally underrated.

Feb 8 at 15:33, by RegDwight

Everyone just knows Sherlock Holmes. Nobody is familiar with his Jules-Vernesque stuff.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Hmm, really? I must admit that I am not terribly impressed with anything in his S.H. novels other than the crime + "deductions" themselves; the characters other than Holmes and perhaps Watson are pretty superficial, their motives and reasons.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus See, that's why I am the one who recommends stuff.

Because I actually know what I'm talking about.

Cerberus

Probably true.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:22 PM

I would never recommend stuff I didn't read.

Cerberus

I wasn't even there when you typed that. Am I expected to remember that stuff too?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus SHouldn't ONE of your three heads be always watching this chat room?

I know I could use a second head for this right now.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus I will usually inform you what you are expected to remember.

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Unfortunately, it isn't that easy. My heads turn where they will.

@RegDwightѬſ道 Right. And I won't.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus "Gee, I'd like to look at that thing over there, but none of my heads are facing it!"

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:24 PM

Und so zerbröselt der Keks.

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Yeah life can be complicated!

@RegDwightѬſ道 Is that a quote?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Sure...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Well time for me to head out. nice talking to everyone. Don't eat any non-decapitated humans roasted in olive oil without me!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

103

Q: How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat?

I am playing a human wizard, and I just killed a monster, leaving a corpse on the ground. How do I tell whether it is safe to eat this corpse? I leave the monster unspecified because I am interested in "how can I figure out whether this is edible," rather than whether any particular monster is e...

roguelikes nethack

CU

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Bye!

Achu

7:33 PM

Hello @all

Cerberus

Hi!

Matt Ellen Д

hello!

Achu

@Cerberus @MattEllen o/

Matt Ellen Д

\o/

Achu

I was checking topics if they are already exit regarding grammar practice help

My Grammar is very very bad

May i get some advice's How can i practice my grammars alone since i don't have someone to discuss using dialog or something else

Cerberus

7:42 PM

There are many websites about grammar. They have summaries and examples of many rules of grammar, and exercises.

Many also have forums where you can ask questions.

english-test.net has questions that you can automatically ask a question about on the forum.

Stack Exchange isn't really meant for learning grammar.

Achu

yeah i saw that

Thank you anyway for your advice i will check english-test.net

Bogdan Lataianu

@Achu, you can learn from books too

such as this that teaches you how to learn english:goodreads.com/book/show/3159134-language-logic

Achu

@BogdanLataianu Ok thank you, but i prefer multimedia education materials (audio and video)

Robusto

@RegDwightѬſ道 — That's simple. Check the corpse's freshness date. It will tell you whether the corpse is safe to eat or not.

Shelf life

Shelf life is the length of time that food, drink, medicine, chemicals, and many other perishable items are given before they are considered unsuitable for sale, use, or consumption. In some regions, a best before, use by or freshness date is required on packaged perishable foods. Shelf life is the recommendation of time that products can be stored, during which the defined quality of a specified proportion of the goods remains acceptable under expected (or specified) conditions of distribution, storage and display. Most shelf life labels or listed expiration dates are used as guidelin...

Someone should edit that entry to include corpses.

simchona

8:00 PM

Can someone with voting rights tell me if they agree my question should be closed?

2

Q: Would the "Cavendish drawl" be considered a dialect?

I was reading the biography Georgaina by Amanda Foreman, and came across a description of what she calls the Cavendish drawl, an accent of sorts that was spoken by the Cavendish family. One blog refers to it as a patois and wrote that: the Foreman biography quotes various examples of the phen...

british-english dialects

Robusto

@simchona — I honestly don't understand your question. Are you asking for the definition of patois? Mere pronunciation differences, in and of themselves, wouldn't constitute a dialect or a patois.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

Nah... she is just asking whether the cavendish drawl is a dialect.

No, I don't think so. It's a good question.

Matt Ellen Д

I certainly learnt things from reading it

user19161

@Achu Try reading grammarbook.com and doing all the exercises there. You can get the book too.

Achu

Thank you i will check that :)

user19161

8:10 PM

@Achu That is mostly American usage. There are some differences in British usage, but it is a good free start.

simchona

@Robusto I want to know whether it counts as a dialect. I'll revise, and will you see if it's better?

user19161

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū barbaric

simchona

@Robusto Revised.

user19161

@Cerberus You have a cat?

simchona

@MattEllen I revised the question again, so does it make more sense (if patois isn't the right term)?

user19161

8:17 PM

@simchona it's

simchona

@JasperLoy Whoops.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy No, but my parents do.

So that's also my cat.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@simchona gasp she misspelled a word! It's the end of the world!

XD

Matt Ellen Д

@simchona Yeah, that makes sense if wikipedia is correct :)

user19161

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū You must have been the one who starred that!

simchona

8:20 PM

@MattEllenД Thank you! I saw FF's comment and was sad, but now his comment doesn't apply. Think you can answer it, btw?

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@JasperLoy no, I didn't. wonder who did?

simchona

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū *Wonder

All is now right with the world.

user19161

Fumble Fingers = FF = Firefox, interesting.

Matt Ellen Д

@simchona Sorry, I don't know anything about Cavendish Drawl. We'll see though

user19161

@matt What was your removed message about? Been naughty again?

Matt Ellen Д

8:23 PM

@JasperLoy nah, I was replying to something Bogdan said, but then he deleted it!

Robusto

@simchona — I think it's a legitimate question, but I still don't see how a drawl of any kind qualifies its speakers as comprising a separate dialect. But maybe I'm just being obtuse. I mean, if a certain social class affects a lisp, does that mean they are speaking a separate dialect?

Grace Note

Ooh, deleted messages? I should go investigate!

user19161

@GraceNote Now we know why you jump left and right!

simchona

@Robusto The author referred to it as a "dialect" of sorts because other people adopted it, and they had a weird pronunciation. It could just be an affected accent--that'd be a nice answer to have too

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

"I do not know the exact answer... But wouldn't it be considered a dialect if it is spoken locally? If it is only spoken by a family and its social circle, I don't think it would be considered as dialect."

simchona

8:28 PM

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū It's a start, but I wouldn't upvote an answer without sources

I'm looking for a pretty linguistic answer with a good explanation

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

...Back to the drawing board...

user19161

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū What are you drawing?

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@JasperLoy ... Its an expression.

Grace Note

@JasperLoy It's probably an idiomatic usage

user19161

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū It's

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

8:33 PM

Found out; it's called minimal dialect when spoken by family and their social friends... www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~kdk/201/spring02/slides/variation-4up.pdf

google.com/…

user19161

Now who removed the previous star and starred this one? Must be simchona.

Matt Ellen Д

dear lord, these stars are getting out of control!

user19161

Someone is playing games here with the stars!

user19161

@MattEllenД stars

Matt Ellen Д

maybe someone has stars in their eyes

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

8:35 PM

guys.... look at my answer!

user19161

@MattEllenД someone

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

should I answer using my answer on the question?

simchona

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū ???

Grace Note

If you've an answer, you post it as an answer.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

WHateves...

user19161

8:37 PM

Once a soprano told a conductor "You can't correct me. I'm a star!" The conductor said "There are only stars in the sky."

user19161

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū whatever

user19161

Indeed, a comment should be a comment, and an answer an answer.

Matt Ellen Д

and a kiss is still a kiss

a sigh is still a sigh

etc.

user19161

And Latin abbreviations should be discouraged in the style guide I follow.

user19161

But cerberus will not be happy with this one.

Cerberus

8:41 PM

Hey!

Matt Ellen Д

style guides should be discouraged in the style guide I follow

Cerberus

Why discourage Latin abbreviations?

Matt Ellen Д

Hi @Cerberus

Cerberus

Hi!

user19161

Must be Matt hairstyle guide then.

Matt Ellen Д

8:42 PM

no no no no. unstar!

user19161

@Cerberus Ask Larry Trask. Because English is not Latin?

Matt Ellen Д

@JasperLoy lol, I can't imagine that selling any copies!

Cerberus

That isn't a very good reason.

user19161

@Cerberus Because people don't know what they mean?

Matt Ellen Д

@JasperLoy education then!

Cerberus

8:44 PM

Many people do. And even if they didn't—is that so bad? You don't know the meaning of most of the roots of most other words either.

user19161

@MattEllenД It has not been starred. You can't have negative stars here! -3 ★

Matt Ellen Д

@JasperLoy I was referring to chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1579151#1579151

user19161

@Cerberus True, but we only use the words, no need to care about the roots.

user19161

@MattEllenД Clearly someone is messing with them!

Matt Ellen Д

I smell a Reg...

user19161

8:46 PM

Me too, since you see the owl hopping on the right.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Then why bother with the meanings of the Latin abbreviations?

user19161

Initially I suspected grace.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@simchona you contradicted yourself. you always told me not to overuse punctuation.

Grace Note

Suspected me for what?

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

staring messages.

Cerberus

8:46 PM

Besides, I forget what many English acronyms stand for all the time.

I just know what the acronym means as a whole.

user19161

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū starring

user19161

@Cerberus because we still use them?

Grace Note

Ah, well, yeah, that ain't me.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@Cerberus LASER - Light Amplification by Simulated Emission of Radiation.

Cerberus

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Exactly!

Or Navy SEAL.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

8:48 PM

@Grace we never cleared on your gender; are you male or female?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Amle, clearly.

Grace Note

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Pick one, stick with it, don't listen to anyone who tries to correct you.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@Cerberus SEAL - Sea, Air, and Land

Cerberus

I'm not saying that the fact that we do not remember what they stand for counts for nothing; but the sweeping statement that any such thing should be abolished goes too far for my taste.

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū I had to look it up.

Grace Note

And don't correct others, either.

user19161

8:50 PM

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū stimulated

Marthaª

@GraceNote But, but, but, whaddaya mean we can only pick one? What if I want to pick, say, three?

Cerberus

I like to know what sex I am talking to and I don't mind being corrected at all.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@GraceNote I think you are female..

@Martha like alien?

Grace Note

@Marthaª You can do that if you want. I mean, @badp calls me it.

Matt Ellen Д

@Marthaª amle?

Grace Note

8:50 PM

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū I think that's at 44% now or so.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

Guys; amel was just typo. geeze..

Grace Note

Possibly less.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Less than 44% female sounds painful.

Grace Note

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū You've successfully typo'd your own typo.

Marthaª

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Hush. You meant to invent a new word, that's your story, and you're sticking to it.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

8:51 PM

But your username is grace.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Don't dis grace.

Matt Ellen Д

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū but your avatar is a neon hedgehog

Grace Note

It's Grace Note, as it were.

Marthaª

@RegDwightѬſ道 THWACK!

Grace Note

Full name, short for the R-9DH GRACE NOTE.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

8:52 PM

@Marthaª GÄHN...

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

Looks like inventing a new word is another thing of chaos. Look at all the words I invented. Phychotic, amel, ....

Grace Note

Which itself is named for the humming sound its Extended Photon Belt Wave Cannon produces when being fired.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@MattEllen Its Magenta. And it glows. WHat you gonna do?

Matt Ellen Д

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū look handsome

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

Ty

Matt Ellen Д

8:53 PM

:D

wax eagle

@Gracenote: PEPPERS!!!!!!!!

simchona

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū That's because ??? was my sentence.

Grace Note

@waxeagle Geezers, y'r g'in all out here, ya?

wax eagle

@GraceNote gotta make sure you remember :)

user19161

@GraceNote This is a very difficult sentence.

Robusto

8:56 PM

@JasperLoy — Nah. Thirty years to life ... now, that is a difficult sentence.

Grace Note

@JasperLoy You'll learn that Ima teach you all the wrong things about language.

Marthaª

@Robusto THWACK!!!

Robusto

@Marthaª — Hunh. You are not a 美少女. You are a thwacker.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

thwacks everybody in this chatroom

Matt Ellen Д

@GraceNote why is the note a grace note?

Grace Note

8:57 PM

@MattEllenД Sheer luck?

Matt Ellen Д

@GraceNote sorry, I mean, what does it mean to be a grace note?

Grace Note

I mean, my old chemistry teacher has a ringing on his ear (from work in MRIs) that is a very specific note (and thus perfect for pitching his tune). No real reason for which note it was.

Grace note

A grace note is a kind of music notation used to denote several kinds of musical ornaments. When occurring by itself, a single grace note normally indicates the intention of either an appoggiatura or an acciaccatura. When they occur in groups, grace notes can be interpreted to indicate any of several different classes of ornamentation, depending on interpretation. Notation In notation a grace note is distinguished from a regular note by print size. A grace note is indicated by printing a note that is much smaller than a regular note, sometimes with a slash through the note stem (if two...

Robusto

@MattEllenД — A grace note is a note that precedes a note that is on a beat, but which is itself not counted as part of the meter.

simchona

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū You can't thwack.

Robusto

What Grace Note said. (Or quoted.)

Matt Ellen Д

8:59 PM

I see. thanks, guys :)

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

@simchona why not?

simchona

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Also, I'm not upvoting your answer as is. Please format, expand, and make less redundant.

Grace Note

No problem ♪

Marthaª

@Robusto I can't interpret [7F8E][5C11][5973].

simchona

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū You are not Martha, Kit or Rob

Robusto

9:00 PM

@simchona — Wow, that's some serious control issues.

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

WHateves... ttyl. gotta go. see ya.

Grace Note

Wait, Rob has thwack permissions?

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

idc

Marthaª

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū You haven't been properly licensed or deputized.

@GraceNote Yes. On himself.

Robusto

@Marthaª — You could if you tried.

Grace Note

9:01 PM

Ahha

Bogdan Lataianu

what is thwack?

simchona

@Robusto I don't upvote poor answers.

Robusto

@simchona — So it's a form of class warfare, then.

user19161

@BogdanLataianu sound made when you hit something with a ruler

Matt Ellen Д

@JasperLoy or a riding crop

Bogdan Lataianu

9:02 PM

thx @Jasper i should give you a badge for helpfulness

simchona

@Robusto I'd upvote if it were improved.

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A: Would the "Cavendish drawl" be considered a dialect?

It's called minimal dialect. When a way of talking is shared by their family and their group of friends it is called minimal dialect. "A dialect spoken by one individual is called an idiolect. ... talk and the way even their family and best friends talk, creating a “minimal dialect”. www.ling.o...

user19161

@BogdanLataianu accepts helpful badge

simchona

As it is, it's on the right track (which I told him), but not upvote-able

Grace Note

This Meta question took me a while to parse what it was asking. Revising for clarity ♪

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto Thwack, since @Martha is obviously asleep.

Robusto

9:05 PM

@simchona — Well, anybody can upvote an improved answer. It takes someone with true insight to see the diamond-in-the-rough answers for what they really are.

Matt Ellen Д

@Robusto dirt

Robusto

@RegDwightѬſ道 — Hey, she's the one going all Daisy Buchanan on some poor bastard's ass.

simchona

@Robusto It uses the SAME PHRASE three times. In three sentences.

Marthaª

@RegDwightѬſ道 I was trying to look up what little boxes containing 7F8E, 5C11, and 5973 mean.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@simchona Hey, you know you can edit, too!

@Marthaª They mean things.

simchona

9:07 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 I want more meaty answers. I'm not beefing it up for him.

Robusto

@simchona — Hey, Churchill did the same thing in a single sentence: "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air ... etc." And he was a freakin' orator, fer Pete's sake.

Marthaª

@RegDwightѬſ道 Well, one of them apparently can mean woman. I think @Robusto is calling me names, but I can't tell what.

Robusto

@Marthaª — Beautiful Young Woman

simchona

@Robusto He used the same structure. He didn't say "It is X. X is X. It is X".

Marthaª

@Robusto I think only one of those applies, unfortunately.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

9:09 PM

@Robusto Google Translate simply goes with Beautiful Woman.

That's... not PC.

Robusto

@Marthaª — Here, let me look that up for you: kanjidict.stc.cx/…

The middle character means "small".

user19161

@martha In Chinese it would also mean beautiful young woman.

Robusto

Beautiful Girl, call it.

Oops, gotta commute. Laterz.

user19161

@simchona He needs to visit the gym.

simchona

I object to this comment:

> I object to the specific question about "Cavendish drawl" as being "too localised". But I also object to the broader question of where to draw the line between various different terms used to describe localised language variants, as being basically "not constructive". Be honest, what do you seriously expect to learn from any answers you might get?

I'm upvoting Chaos' answer, but I can't find any source besides the one he posted to back him up

Grace Note

9:17 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 I would've gone with "beautiful young lady", myself

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@GraceNote Are you implying that you are not Google Translate?

Grace Note

@RegDwightѬſ道 I'm implying it, yes

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Ze wereld crumbles.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 grace not equals google, obviously.

user19161

@GraceNote like you.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

9:19 PM

@JasperLoy "Obviously"! Ha! Big words, big boy. "Obviously".

Grace Note

Keho.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Gesundheit!

Mar 13 at 16:31, by Martha

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user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 I am quite small actually, whatever this refers to.

simchona

8 mins ago, by simchona

> I object to the specific question about "Cavendish drawl" as being "too localised". But I also object to the broader question of where to draw the line between various different terms used to describe localised language variants, as being basically "not constructive". Be honest, what do you seriously expect to learn from any answers you might get?

Back to square 1 on answers. I don't think "minimal dialect" is describing the right thing.

user19161

@simchona you should only say plus one after you have done that!

simchona

9:25 PM

@JasperLoy I +1ed. Then read the source. Then un-+1ed

user19161

@simchona cheat

simchona

@JasperLoy He read English wrong. I can't +1 for that.

Bogdan Lataianu

A medal for @Jasper