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12:02 AM
Independently?
 
@RegDwightАΑA Why don’t you want unilaterally?
 
@simchona Nope.
@MetaEd I can't think clearly but I have that weird feeling that I'm just looking for a different word. And it's killing me.
I do have unilaterally in there ATM.
 
arbitrary :-)
 
Prematurely?
Preemptively?
 
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A: Why 'one-night stand' means sex?

RobustoFrom NOAD: one-night stand noun 1 informal (also one-nighter) a sexual relationship lasting only one night. • a person with whom one has such a relationship. 2 a single performance of a play or show in a particular place. The etymology is from the "play or show" meaning and the word...

After all this time, someone decided to down-vote this answer.
Ah, me.
 
12:10 AM
I can't speak, write, or think in English anymore. Good thing I prepared my questions well in advance.
I went with unilaterally. But I vow to find that other word one day! And it will be edited into that answer with extreme prejudice. That's right, extreme.
Thanks for your helps everyones.
@Robusto you downvoted your own answer?
I no understand nothing no more.
 
How is unilaterally different from what you wanted? What aspect does it fail to emphasise?
 
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A: Why are some questions closed as duplicates and others merged?

RegDwight АΑAAny question closed as a duplicate of another is a potential merge candidate. However, while a closed question can still be reopened (for whatever reason), a merge is irreversible. Consequently, I will usually give people time to dispute the decision — especially if I closed the dupe unila...

It's just not the word I wanted.
 
@RegDwightАΑA He is probably bemoaning himself.
 
Or I think it's not the word I wanted.
Or I think I think it's not the word I wanted.
 
Or he would have said, "Ah, I".
@RegDwightАΑA Does it add an unwanted connotation?
 
12:16 AM
@RegDwightАΑA No, I tried to but it wouldn't let me.
 
@Robusto rats. You can still delete it, though.
 
@Reg Ex parte?
 
@Cerberus look at that answer and tell me.
 
@RegDwightАΑA I'll wait till the newer, stricter mods get around to it.
 
@KitFox no, it was like unilaterally, approximately the same length and all.
 
12:17 AM
Unassisted?
 
@Cerberus I'm bemoaning The Stupids. They are all around us.
 
unequivocally?
 
The end is near; I'm firing up a Thesaurus. The Maya was right.
Well thanks for nothing, Herr Thesaurus. Why don't you go thesaurize yourself.
Sigh.
 
Too late. Not even a dictionary will help us now.
 
@Robusto what's a good — whatcha call it, an acronym? antonym? anagram! — what's a good anagram of unilaterally?
 
12:21 AM
You must be a very tired owl.
 
At my own discretion?
 
I don't have any such thing.
 
But you do.
 
looks around
I only see LEGO.
And I don't close questions at my own LEGO.
 
But unilaterally sounds absolutely fine to me.
@RegDwightАΑA Have you looked with your mind?
 
12:22 AM
57 secs ago, by RegDwight АΑA
I don't have any such thing.
 
@RegDwightАΑA How about "real ally unit"?
 
@Robusto Yes! We must be getting closer. We aren't, but we must.
 
Does the word you were looking for have a different colour?
Or sound?
 
Seven.
 
Maybe you mean "autonomously"?
 
12:26 AM
I don't even know what to search for in a bilingual dictionary.
 
Good find. But...
 
of your own volition?
 
Damn. I know Mitch used the word. So now I'm trying to search for it in the transcript, and what do I see? There are like four different Mitches in the dropdown.
 
Autonomously suggests to me that there was no higher authority to stop him...
 
12:28 AM
@RegDwightАΑA He's user 2238.
Jinx!
 
Argh!
 
Of his own volition suggests that nobody made him do it.
 
Thanks. He used autocratically. Close, but no cigar.
 
shrugs
 
It was a different word still.
 
12:28 AM
@RegDwightАΑA So you think.
 
@RegDwightАΑA Arrogantly?
 
@Cerberus I don't do any such thing.
 
You think you don't.
 
Why are we doing this here, anyway? Would make for a great SWR.
 
Gah!
 
12:29 AM
excathedratically
 
"What is the word I am thinking of? Go crazy!"
 
@RegDwightАΑA I would not think it was so negative...
@tchrist If that is a word, I like it!
It has the right connotations!
 
@Cerberus It certainly isn't a number, a punctuation mark, or a note.
 
I'm a native speaker. I have a licence to neologue what I will. And did.
 
@RegDwightАΑA But it is colours.
Why not simply ex cathedra?
It is not exactly right...
 
12:31 AM
What's catheters to do with this?
 
Hey, is the town hall chat in 30 minutes then?
 
I would say ex cathedra is rather about declarations than actions.
 
Shhh.
No need to tell everyone my age.
What were you thinking?
 
You just need to be more tollerant.
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12:32 AM
@Cerberus It was someone else's. But now you told them your age.
 
@RegDwightАΑA autocratically?
 
Oopss...
 
Déjà dit
 
@simchona now what's that meme all about?
People! Keep me posted on the latest memes!
 
You didn't have to look up the p.p. of dire, did you?
 
12:33 AM
Holy pay attention @Reg!
 
Should I have?
 
No.
 
Good.
 
Dire straits.
 
yesterday, by Carlo_R.
I WANT A COMMUNITY WELL GOVERNED, BUT - AT SAME TIME - REALLY TOLLERANT IN THE REAL SPIRIT OF ELU. VOTE FOR MATT, VOTE FOR KITFOX
 
12:33 AM
I was teasing you.
 
Oh that. Who reads that?
 
I was just trying to remember the antecedent, what its gender was, so I didn't have to say dite.
 
I only read things in bold.
Anything after a faux em dash I just ignore.
 
@tchrist Ah haha, I knew you were pondering something!
 
𝕴 𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖞 𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖇𝖔𝖑𝖉.
 
12:34 AM
@tchrist Totally agree.
 
totally
 
@tchrist That's a very small faux em dash.
 
@RegDwightАΑA I'm sure he'll be in the town hall
 
I believe general/unspecific subjects are generally masculine in French.
 
Now I wish I had taken French more recently
 
12:36 AM
Hahaha.
 
@RegDwightАΑA You’re just lucky tiret is masculine.
 
French is fun!
 
@simchona I just realized that you weren't born yet the last time I took a French class.
 
@tchrist how is that luck?
 
@RegDwightАΑA: not that I'm judging but...
 
12:36 AM
@KitFox Shh, now you're giving away my age
 
faux em dash
 
why do you care...
no that's not it..
 
@KitFox That is funny.
 
why are you planning for the town hall chat?
 
No planning in this chat. Ever.
 
12:38 AM
are you expecting to answer questions or to answer them?
 
Who now?
 
answer questions or question answers
 
@tchrist Seven.
 
I will ask all my questions in Mongolian. But I will only reveal that later, and only in Russian.
 
Sneaky!
 
12:39 AM
You have just revealed it.
 
You will have to answer in French.
 
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Q: How to use the word duplicate

Reddy S RI would like to warn my customers that names can be duplicate. How do I put it in words? In MS Word when I entered Name can be duplicate., it draws a green line under "duplicate". Whats my mistake?

 
@Cerberus you are most very observant. Which version of Joke Decomposer are you running?
 
ah. I was trying to read between the lines in:
40 mins ago, by RegDwight АΑA
Damnit, what's the word for closing a question all by myself with no community involvement?
but there's nothing implied.
 
There's only one line.
 
12:40 AM
He's just that good
 
exactly
 
"How to use the word duplicate?" — "Correctly. Next!"
 
@RegDwightАΑA AAA
Seven.
 
“Damn duplicate question: the DISMISS box doesn't make the question go away!” Tom said dismissively.
 
@Cerberus it's not AAA, dammit. It's АΑA. Learn some Greek ferchrissakes.
 
12:42 AM
You don't know what version I'm using, so I'd be careful if I were you.
 
I am careful anyway.
And you don't want to be me.
 
Because it is not impartial to decomposing organic matter.
 
@Mitch indexed book text search application: Backtracking failure, parser aborting, core dumped.
 
Town Hall Meeting in 10 minutes.
 
Haven't seen you in a while, @SonicTheHedgehog
 
12:51 AM
@sim Hey. Excited for the meeting. :)
I'm going to snatch the first comment.
 
@SonicTheHedgehog Better get in the room then, so you can be the first when it unfreezes. Not that I would recommend that, given Grace probably wants to explain the rules
 
@SonicTheHedgehog I'll unfreeze it, post "FIRST", then freeze it again.
 
@tchrist yes, word salad. but I think most are relevant
 
@reg you won't.
 
@SonicTheHedgehog He is a mod
 
12:53 AM
Perhaps I have?
 
I am already in the room.
 
But you're a ghost.
Ghosts have no accurate assessment of reality.
 
Alright, lets see who gets it, then.
 
@RegDwightАΑA Spoken to a few good ghosts recently?
 
No, only mean ones.
 
12:54 AM
Nearly Headless Nick.
 
@Mitch Chimpanzees can string together chains of relevant words, too, but like your phrase, they have no understanding of syntax, of how those words they're using relate to one another. You gardenpathed me right down to a banana peel, and I slipped and splashed in the muddy muck of your making.
 
Grace will have the first post anyway.
 
No he/she won't.
2 minutes.
or was it 3?
 
It was 3.
Before that, it was 4.
 
And you'll never guess what it was before that.
 
12:58 AM
HA!
HAHAHA!
Got the first comment~
 
in EL&U Town Hall Chat, 39 secs ago, by Stack Exchange
Grace Note has unfrozen this room.
That's not your name right there.
 
@Mahnax 𝝅
 
Yeah, but that was system.
:D
 
12:58 AM
@tchrist Woah.
 
@tchrist you're welcome!
 
This has only been downloaded 50–100 times @ € 100.
So is the Town Hall over yet?
 
It just started.
 
Carlo certainly seems intent on provoking responses of would-be moderators as a way of testing their patience. But that would be attributing devious delicatesse to an elephant in a china shop, now wouldn't it?
 
1:15 AM
Carlo is being sincere.
 
He's not provoking everyone, just me. It's fine, I expected it from him
 
@simchona He asked me not to insult him. pah
 
Mahnax++
1 while Mahnax++ || ++Maxnax
 
Mahnax = Mahnax + 1?
Not sure if I understand what you're trying to say through all of this.
 
Just jacking you up a bit.
 
1:21 AM
If you say so. But now I really do need to leave, so talk to you all later.
 
But the expr can never be false, so you're off to infinity — and beoynd.
Bye.
I'm sure Carlo will find someone else to insult him.
 
He is an odd one.
 
+1 for Matthew 7:7. Except..
you didn't actually answer im.
(excpet there's no answer for him)
 
If only.
@Mitch I considered Beatituding him.
 
@sim you are not using your mobile devices to Town Hall, are you? Please tell me you are not.
 
1:32 AM
@SonicTheHedgehog No
 
Oh. You were occasionally missing a period... Carry on.
 
boggles at the intimacy
 
I find this town hall a bit boring at times. Am I alone?
 
It's very boring, actually.
 
@Cerberus I already voted with my feet.
 
1:34 AM
@Cerberus I blame the candidates. They're too staid.
 
@tchrist Thanks.
 
@tchrist Unintended pun is unintended.
 
@Shog9 One excepted.
@Robusto I'm voting with various body parts.
I guess boring politics means everything is in order.
 
@Cerberus the interesting parts are crazy
 
@Cerberus To "vote with your feet" means to leave.
 
1:35 AM
@Mitch Yes, crazy crazy...
@Robusto I know that.
 
I'm sorry, but with EC and CR in there trolling around it just isn't being handled well. Where is the decorum?
 
Nobody has a real solution to Reg’s problem situation, because not even Reg does.
 
nutjob
serious candidate
nutjob
 
I think that’s where Grace is supposed to shine on the Holy Gathering.
 
another nutjob
really, only two nutjobs
fun to say
that's -my- favorite word...for the moment
 
1:40 AM
Grace already chastised him for inappropriate blathering. He’s deaf.
prays for Grace
nutjob
wonders when he gets his brass knuckles
 
I haven't heard a single interesting controversial issue answered by different serious candidates.
 
pretty sooon...a regular accrual of rep will get him there
 
Nope. Nor any set of answer that conflict with one another. It's like going to a presidential “debate” where they all agree with each other instead of disagreeing.
except for the nutjob
and the crank
 
Exactly.
The crank?
He isn't a candidate—unless you mean...
 
1:47 AM
which is the crank?
 
No, he just adds his coproloquy to the cacaphony and stultiloquies.
 
in EL&U Town Hall Chat, 1 min ago, by Cerberus
Does anyone have an interesting, controversial question that might give us some insight into where our candidates have very different opinions?
Coproloquy?
 
You don’t know the stems?
Think coprolite.
 
I need to eat dinner.
 
@Sim just wait 10 more minutes.
@Sim now that I think about it, you are vegetarian, right?
 
1:49 AM
@SonicTheHedgehog Nope.
 
@Sim huh... eh. I eat Kimchi.
 
apologizes for muttering copro- words to someone who’s hungry.
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