single-word-request What's that word when someone's body language shows they are proud. Like their chest puffs up with pride. I've written "He bristled with pride" but bristled is the wrong word.
As you may be aware, I am quite opposed to the ELL proposal. I think it will destroy this site. So, as has been pointed out to me, I'm welcome to go and downvote the questions in the proposal. But to downvote a question, I need a rep of 150+ on Area 51. And it seems the only way to get rep on Area 51 is to support a proposal. Do you see my problem?
Meanwhile, RegDwight, (bless his little cotton wings) seems to advertise the ELL proposal any time an extreme pineapple asks an acolyte question. This kind of seems like cheating to me.
Or I could go into stealth mode. Ask questions in the proposal itself, so that people think I'm in favour of it and give me upvotes. Once I reach 150, then I switch over to the dark side. Muhahaha
The first people to get downvoted would be the ones who had upvoted me!
If simchona was elected moderator, I leave ELU. She has often given great example of intolerance. I have seen this directly (I've been subjected to acts of terrorism and a lot of harassment from this one). His strange behavior and crazy, his obsession, is demonstrated by his flag 976. With this ELU will die. I'm making a last ditch attempt to understand these things from the co-founders, so they sent away this person totally insane mind.
I'm still cracking up over the incident that went something like - Simchona: Why do you want to talk to me so badly? Carlo_R: I'm sorry, but English is my second language.
See? You can tell David Wallace is in the southern hemisphere. He says "when and if" whereas northern hemispherers say "if and when" ... something to do with the coriolis effect, I suppose.
@DavidWallace you know cartographers, always trying to create some kind of sensationalism. "Lost Kingdom" this, "Sunken City" that, "Floating Sky Fortress" the other
This seems more like a programming question than an English-language one, but
here’s my answer anyway:
I question whether you need a suffix for these classes. Unless you have both Customer and CustomerFacade classes, you should just call your single class a Customer. If you do need the second c...
And there's giving one's client value for money. I'm sorry, I'm a professional programmer, not an ASCII-art leech (or I guess it's specifically non-ASCII art)
Tell me, Mr Vallace, would you like to wisit Sveden? Ve’ve collated our V and W together, which giwes them an interchangeability that vill sawe you a spot on the bus. It is not a spelling error vhen ve do these wery fine things.
This anglophonic-monoglot idea that diacritics are effete niceties of the sub-English world readily omissible by manly men is a cultural imperialism of the most insidious kind.
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The Oxford Comma toon above was my good-morning present from Nat.
I say that because of its massively fucked-up idea of a "default platform encoding" for its own source code and for files whose encodings are not explicitly stated.
True. But I don't want to have to use curlies and quotes around my identifier names. No matter what language my employer speaks.
No, I'm not saying that writability trumps readability.
How does escaping stuff help readability?
I recently had to help one of my co-workers who couldn't decide whether he needed 7 backslashes or 8 backslashes at the head of some grotesque regular expression that was being passed from one place to another, each with its own escaping convention. My best advice - try it both ways and see which one works, but I think it's 7.
I appreciate your philosophy, Tom, but if I work with programmers in Spain again, I will do what they do. Which is to drop the tildes and accent marks. I'm sorry if that offends you. But it seems to me to be the only sensible course of action.
We’ve gone to some trouble in languages like Go and Perl, and yes even Java, to make it possible to use Unicode in your source. It saddens me to see that effort go to waste.
For some reason, this conversation has reminded me of the Sarajevo taxi driver who asked me when NZ was FINALLY going to have a civil war to get rid of the English.
My company has a code base with many words misspelled. But to correct misspellings you have to refactor lots of legacy code and who wants to do that? So I have to live with abominations like getSingelton and the like.
Ah here’s a good comment: I spent altogether too much of my undergraduate years on Scottish and Viking toponymy. Depending what you want these for have you considered the -bólstaðr, -staðr, and -setr triple? They're probably not what you're after as they relate to parcels of land more than to the underlying topography but they're all that come to mind at present.
That one I actually knew, because I was looking at the kanji.
> My maiden name was Waldren, Wald is Saxon for forest, my first marriage made me Warren. My last marriage made me Carr which is Norse for the boggy corner of a Field, which was my grandmother's maiden name. Except that for some reason it was spelled FEILD.
> As well as knock and knoll, you can have knowe and knapp. To go with kame, you can have craig. And howe is either a burial mound or a hollow like haugh depending on your part of the world.
I had how and haugh.
> Geo and gloup decribe a rocky inlet at the coast, and you've got skerry, but clett and stack are also used for similar but smaller features.
> In Northumberland you also have heugh, as found on Lindisfarne.
> On the Yorkshire coast there is a headland called Filey brig(g?) - I don't see brig or brigg on your list.
International Herald Tribune, August 18-19, 2012 (source: I have only the paper copy):
"Luckily for Des, Lionel is distracted from his suspicions about his slag of a mother when his criminal career is derailed by his winning the lottery".
I'm uncomfortable with the phrase "slag of a mother" in ...
This seems more like a programming question than an English-language one, but
here’s my answer anyway:
I question whether you need a suffix for these classes. Unless you have both Customer and CustomerFacade classes, you should just call your single class a Customer. If you do need the second c...
It's possible that it is for software technical issues that arise from using such characters.
International Herald Tribune, August 18-19, 2012 (source: I have only the paper copy):
"Luckily for Des, Lionel is distracted from his suspicions about his slag of a mother when his criminal career is derailed by his winning the lottery".
I'm uncomfortable with the phrase "slag of a mother" in ...
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