English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

RegDwighт

3:00 PM

@simchona they deceive all of us.

It's a strange day.

Gigili

@MattЭллен Umm, doesn't look like the one I am playing. Might be a different version.

user19161

@simchona Geezis.

KitFox

@Jasper, you're you! You must be feeling pretty chipper today.

user19161

@KitFox I just went out with a friend who took this for me. We had pasta!

tchrist

@KitFox No, pretty jasper — self-evidently.

KitFox

3:02 PM

@Robusto Stay out of it. I would give out a different answer if he were getting fired.

user19161

Wait, is Jeff saying that he wants ELL or not?

Matt Эллен

Jeff is pro ELL

Mitch

@Robusto Oh. really, I thought it was a 'witnessing' thing, like an invitation to faith. Now to reality, your colleague doesn't have an idea that he's already not currently 'in shape'?

Cerberus

@tchrist Hmm all right.

@simchona Wow!

Sometimes we gain allied from the most unexpected corners of the galaxy.

Mitch

@simchona there's lots of precedent. stackoverflow has codereview.

Cerberus

3:04 PM

Even the corner itself must be unexpected, since the galaxy is ellipsoid.

tchrist

@MattЭллен You know what the song of the day is, don’t you?

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Gigili

@Cerberus My only concern is the phone storage space which is quite low.

user19161

@MattЭллен Geezis. That is some drama there. Well, actually, I think MO and MSE should be merged, hehe. Also, Ubuntu and Linux should be merged.

Mitch

@JasperLoy "don't worry, be happy"?

Gigili

Uh oh, I didn't recognize you @jasperloy.

Matt Эллен

3:06 PM

Should Jasper Loy and Matt Damon be merged?

Robusto

@Mitch Some inklings.

user19161

Talking about merging, I think that superuser has many linux questions too.

tchrist

♬ No ELL, no ELL, no we ain’t got no ELL. ♬

Robusto

4 hours ago, by Robusto

Check it out. We are getting support from an odd quarter.

Way ahead of ya.

Matt Эллен

♬ we don't need no ELLucation ♬

Mitch

3:08 PM

@tchrist da dum, da dum, da da-da-da da dum ?

tchrist

♬ Oh well, oh well, so we’ll all say farewell. ♬

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We can always tell when Mitch is here.

Robusto

@MattЭллен ♬ Don't know much about history. Don't know much biology. Don't know much about a science book. Don't know much about the English I took. ♬

Mitch

@tchrist Me especially.

@tchrist OK so it's close: da dum, da dum, da-da da da da da.

Cerberus

@Gigili It is, comparatively...but then what do you want to put on there?

Films?

Mitch

@Robusto != @cornbreadninja

Cerberus

3:12 PM

Anything else should fit.

Robusto

@Mitch How would you know?

Gigili

@Cerberus Films and games and other useful applications. There are lots and lots of them out there to install.

Cerberus

Haha.

tchrist

Let’s play Spot the Eggcorn:

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A: On the Closure of English Language Learners

I think that the ELL would be much more successful if it were hosted in other languages. Much like the various stackoverflow in [X language] sites that are gaining a lot of momentum, I think that ELU could stand to have counterparts in other languages. The biggest problem with ELL, from what I co...

Mitch

@Robusto it's one of my unknown knowns.

Cerberus

3:14 PM

@Gigili Indeed there are. But do you need them all at the same time? Only games truly take up lots of space: all other applications are fairly small.

So films and large games.

RegDwighт

@tchrist you mean segway? That one has been spotted already.

By me.

Bye you!

Bye bye.

No N'Sync in this chat.

Or was that Atomic Kitten?

user19161

3:16 PM

So now that JA has commented, do we expect ELL would open tomorrow?

tchrist

sync; sync; sync

Robusto

@RegDwighт I rode off on mine, in fact.

tchrist

@JasperLoy Be not so silly, Polly.

Cerberus

I can't believe what I have just done. I have up-voted a comment by Jeff.

user19161

@tchrist OK, but seriously, what's going to happen now?

Robusto

3:17 PM

@Cerberus Yeah, I felt weird too.

Cerberus

The universe will splode.

@Robusto Dirty, eh?

Robusto

Kinda.

user19161

Now remember we already have Ling SE.

tchrist

@JasperLoy I’m a programmer, not a haruspex.

Matt Эллен

needs must when the devil wears prada

user19161

3:19 PM

Since I don't really support the idea of ELL, I disagree with JA. In fact, I have never agreed with JA on anything.

user19161

Once he migrated a question I answered, then another time he deleted it.

RegDwighт

@JasperLoy he breathes air just like you.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Then you alone remain pure.

user19161

But I don't hate him as much as some of you here may.

user19161

Well, the Kosmo incident was the worst, but I don't feel so strongly about it as some of you.

user19161

3:23 PM

And we have come full circle!

That was unexpected.

You were unexpected.

Geezis, dude.

"EL&U Mod Privileges Summit". Ugh, what a name!

Robusto

3:34 PM

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Q: Placement of the word "Only" in a Sentence

Consider these two statements: Which of these is only possible in a smart phone? Which of these is possible only in a smart phone? How can these two sentences be interpreted? I see these possibilities: a. Which of these features defines a smart phone. b. Which of these is possible in a smar...

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Dupe.

@RegDwighт Wow, really? You mean for once you didn't know I was going to say/do/show something? Score one for capitalism.

MετάEd

Nemo igitur vir magnus sine aliquo adflatu divino umquam fuit.

I am loving this "divine flatus" imagery.

Robusto

@MετάEd I thought that was divine afflatus.

RegDwighт

Not sure how that is a dupe.

In fact it's more of a NARQ to me.

MετάEd

It is. But in any case it's the divine wind.

Cerberus

@MετάEd Breath and wind have always been associated with the spiritual. Spiro = to blow => spirit, inspire.

RegDwighт

3:37 PM

He is asking, among many things, how to interpret "only smart phones". "[Only smart] phones" or [Only] [smart phones].

Cerberus

But you knew that.

Robusto

"Imagine a sentimental young man of the provinces, awaking one morning to the somewhat startling discovery that he is full of the divine afflatus, and nominated by the hierarchy of hell to enrich the literature of his fatherland." — Mencken

RegDwighт

And he is asking that as a completely orthogonal question to the placement of only in the sentence.

MετάEd

@Cerberus Yes, I did.

user19161

Wow, this chat is crowded now.

MετάEd

3:38 PM

@JasperLoy No crowding in this chat.

@Robusto Yeah. Usually I just take an antacid.

Robusto

I think @MετάEd is looking more for "divine fellate us" ...

KitFox

Interesting factoid about the divine...

MετάEd

@Robusto There's a reason it's called "blowing".

cornbread ninja

@Mitch cello

gasps @JasperLoy picture!

Robusto

@MετάEd That's just a metaphor.

Fellatio sucks!

MετάEd

3:40 PM

My work here is done.

user19161

@cornbreadninja How is it after removing your braces? Good good?

RegDwighт

@KitFox Humans are humanoid, ellipses are ellipsoid, opium is opioid, and facts are factoid?

KitFox

@RegDwighт You could say that.

RegDwighт

I could, but instead you did.

user19161

@RegDwighт Are demons devoid?

RegDwighт

3:41 PM

@JasperLoy I don't think you understand how this works.

user19161

@RegDwighт True, I am still trying to figure out the pattern.

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy smooth!

RegDwighт

Smoothoid.

cornbread ninja

smooth operator / smooooooth operator

user19161

Andrew is Android?

KitFox

3:43 PM

Yay @Jasper!

You did it!

RegDwighт

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A: Punctuating "What are you going to do, sue me?"

I think commas can do lost good in middle of questins and also to in populer phrase like "U no?" but in middle of sentence. Comma can be for to question and not questin.. its up too you, But you're sentence has two sentence in it so you need coma!