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Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

9:08 PM

can it be? @aediaλ is back!

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Hi @Mr.Shiny!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@aediaλ You were gone a long time. It's like, one day you said "brb", and we're all waiting

you missed all sorts of lego conversations.

38 mins ago, by aedia λ

I was kinda busy IRL for a while. I bought a house, and it was full of that purple wallpaper and other things that had to get fixed. And I moved several states. And started telecommuting and my not-commute got filled up immediately with stress and house. And my husband switched jobs. And things and stuff. So yeah!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

And I've had Sarah Maclachlan songs in my head way less.

Aww.

I got a Lego pencilholder for the holidays!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

9:13 PM

@aediaλ yeah one time, months ago, when I was talking to Kit: "Have you heard from aedia?" she was like "she's super busy, I got an email once, in the Cretaceous"

shop.lego.com/en-US/Pencil-Holder-850426

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@aediaλ nice!

now that you have a house, do you have room for lego?

Now that you have a house, is it made of Lego?

I do! Or rather, I will soon. I'm not breaking any large amounts of lego out until the construction and remodeling settles a bit more.

As soon as I get a few more boxes and things organized in my office and spare bedroom I should have room to put a table in there to build something at least.

@Cerberus salivates slightly dreaming of house made of Lego

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@aediaλ excellent!

9:18 PM

0

A: Should "glamourous" be considered incorrect?

I spell it "glamourous." I know it looks odd, but if I spell it "glamour" then I don't have a choice.

I am trying to think of examples to refute this.

@aediaλ You could be the witch of Hansen und Gretl, but different.

So far I've only thought of the obvious ones, like all + right = alright, fit + -ing = fitting, knife + -s = knives.

But I really am trying to come up with something closer to glamour + -ous = glamorous.

@RegDwighт *Humourous.

There must be something.

I know there is.

^

Matt Эллен

9:20 PM

face+palm=captain picard

^^

@Cerberus that won't refute that guy. He'll certainly write it humourous.

He won't, because the OED says no.

Matt Эллен

truly

@Cerberus so?

user19161

9:21 PM

I have just deleted all my TeX SE comments too!

That should be enough.

The top answer on that page says that OED also says no to glamourous.

And COCA, and BNC.

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A: Should "glamourous" be considered incorrect?

Edit in response to comments: as has been pointed out in the other answers, the spelling glamourous is included in the Oxford English Dictionary, which is why my answer doesn't so much as address the question of whether it is considered wrong by everyone, but rather tries to quantify its populari...

@RegDwighт That's wrong.

OED says "o, also ou" for glamo(u)rous.

Matt Эллен

flame + buoyant = flamboyant

And surely BNC will have 0 for *humourous.

9:22 PM

@MattЭллен very good.

Uhh.

Flamboyant was formed in French.

@Cerberus 9.

Are you sure?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus oh! damn. I guess they can't spell

Oh come on. Are you trolling me?

9:23 PM

The exact same number as for glamourous?

No, I am not sure. I always take random figures off the ceiling.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwighт sorry. I did give you truly

I thought you mixed up glamourous and *humourous. It happens.

@Cerberus can you please just go read the answer already? It will be faster than keeping forcing me to repost it here one sentence at a time.

@Cerberus ah haha.

Well let me check, then.

I have read it.

Humourous is 14 times.

In BNC.

9:25 PM

Wow, you used a corpus?

OMG OMG OMG

I have used the BNC before.

Ah.

So why no COCA?

It's the same interface, one click away.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

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BNC ^

Well, I don't write in American English. So it has no use for me personally. As far as stylistic advice goes, I don't think frequency is terribly cogent.

Matt Эллен

frappé + cappuccino = frappuccino

that's a real one!

9:27 PM

And I find Ngrams more convenient anyway.

@MattЭллен good thinking. Let's bury him in portmanteaus.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

No wonder Cerb is using BNC. He likes obsolete tech.

Matt Эллен

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 that's it! thank you, it's been bugging me for ages.

Ahhh no portmanteaux. Those are only good if they're humourous.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 what is it?

9:28 PM

Otherwise they're stupid.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwighт coax cable connector

for, eg, 10-Base2 Ethernet

First time I see or hear.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 They use the same tech.

Besides, almost everybody likes obsolete tech.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus whoosh

Consider how popular gramophones are today.

Matt Эллен

9:29 PM

grammar phones are for people who don't like lolspeak

Which ought to be called either graphophones or grammatophones anyway.

clenching fists in powerless gesture

Did I just spell Nazy?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 BNC always makes me giggle because of these connectors

Matt Эллен

apparently

How silly of me.

And I'm never silly.

Matt Эллен

no, never

9:31 PM

Why are people being so impatient in the comments on ELL?

It is not doing us any good.

Matt Эллен

this will go on your permanent record

OMG JUST HURRY UPPPP

Don't push them.

Matt Эллен

which will be played on a gramophone

@Cerberus yeah that.

9:31 PM

@MattЭллен Nooooooooo...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@aediaλ Me too! I used to operate a small 10-Base2 network. It was infuriating.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I know them from ham radio

...another exciting new up-to-date technology

Radio?

I have a wireless!

Matt Эллен

mmmmmm. ham radio. so tasty

Yay, I'm up to date!

9:33 PM

@Cerberus haven't you heard? you can communicate wirelessly across the globe!

Huh?

It's the hip new invention.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@aediaλ I'm not sure Cerb has heard about this "globe" thing.

Matt Эллен

using pigeons

So how does that work? People carry your sound recording to China by means of an automobile?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

9:34 PM

@Cerb: the earth is round, newsflash

Why not just use wires?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Haha, yeah, sure.

Matt Эллен

people steal the cables

And the earth rotates around the sun, haha.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus It's true. Don't take my word for it. start walking, you'll eventually make it back to your origin.

Matt Эллен

and the sun is one of billions of stars in the universe!

9:35 PM

Yes, wireless pigeons, why not? But it's easier with wired, they won't get lost.

@MattЭллен and the undersea cable was really difficult to make because of all the fish nibbling on the construction workers

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 But I can't walk on the bottom of the sea.

Matt Эллен

@aediaλ fish are dangerous! especially the little ones, you don't notice at first, and then they've taken your leg.

Angler fish!

Matt Эллен

those are scary

9:36 PM

@aediaλ Do you know how certain species mate?

The female is like this: O and the male is like this: .

I'm already nervous about the next sentence

And the male sucks himself tight to her belly, and he is then permanently attached to her, by means of certain proteins that make their bodies one.

Then many of his organs start to dissolve.

Hold on, is this flirting? In this chat?

Until he is only a bag of sperm hanging for her belly.

user19161

@Cerberus Wow, now I am turned on.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

9:38 PM

@Cerberus what? why not? I thought you lived under the sea.

That she can use when needed.

I take that as a yes.

Yes.

user19161

More flirting in this chat!

@Cerberus I will take that as a yes as well.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

9:39 PM

theoatmeal.com/comics/angler

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Eeek!

It's pretty cool.

@RegDwighт So perspicacious.

I'm in that kind of mood.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I didn't know she could have multiple males!

Impressive.

Polyandrous bitch.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

9:46 PM

@Cerberus that's awesome

> Here the angler fish is comparing its camouflage with a flounder which -- holy crap, did you see that?

I know! I totally didn't see the flounder fish.

And she is so fast...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

well, time for me to go.

Aw she scared you.

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 See you!

Bai!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

9:48 PM

bye folks. bye aedia, welcome back.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Is this about how your wife angled you in?

user19161

@aedia Will you be coming to chat more regularly now?

G'night Shiny One!

@Jas Yep.

user19161

@aediaλ Haha, the first three letters apply both ways!

Indeed.

cornbread ninja

10:01 PM

howdy.

Are the titles of television shows to be italicized in prose?

> A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. — Michael Kinsley

user19161

@cornbreadninja I would use italics myself.

cornbread ninja

@JasonBourne that is the path I have taken.

@aediaλ, does Kit know you're alive? 0_0

user19161

@cornbreadninja The right path in life is often a narrow one.

user19161

Sometimes we are alone. We need to take the road less travelled.

cornbread ninja

10:11 PM

@JasonBourne or an invisible one.

@Jas I should hope so! It would be weird if I were chatting from the grave.

Oh. I read that as questioning if I was alive.

I put y'all on the phone so I could move around the house; I blame the small screen.

cornbread ninja

enjoys ride, view of ceiling

user19161

@aediaλ Ha, you should not use the internet on the phone! That's what I tell everyone!

user19161

@cornbreadninja Ride? Are you on a bus now?

cornbread ninja

@JasonBourne on aedia's phone.

user19161

10:15 PM

@cornbreadninja Oh! You are so funny today.

user19161

At the risk of boring everyone again, I declare that I have now deleted all my comments on all my accounts on SE.

The ceiling is a cool white, freshly painted. You see dingier square tiles on the ceiling through the doorway. Enter? [Y/N]

user19161

I will try to clean up my own comments periodically from now, and keep my posts self-contained.

cornbread ninja

@aediaλ y

user19161

@aediaλ Y

10:21 PM

The dimly lit area might be a hallway or foyer. You see a panel that doesn't match the tiles. A cord hangs down. Pull the cord? [Y/N]

cornbread ninja

@aediaλ y

user19161

@aediaλ Y

A creaky staircase descends from the opening. You can't see much, just a dark void straight above. Go up? [Y/N]

cornbread ninja

@aediaλ omg Y

user19161

@aediaλ Y

TemporaryNickName

10:25 PM

Hello everybody

cornbread ninja

hi @temp

@JasonBourne how long did that take? :x

user19161

@cornbreadninja About two hours I think. =)

@cornbreadninja and @Jas are both eaten by an attic grue.

user19161

@aediaλ End of story!

cornbread ninja

@aediaλ perishes

10:36 PM

Don't worry, we're not really going in the attic. It's too dark up there.

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A: Etymology of 'ripped' as in 'ripped abs'

rip (v.) "tear apart," late 15c., probably of North Sea Germanic origin (cf. Flemish rippen "strip off roughly," Frisian rippe "to tear, rip") or else from a Scandinavian source (cf. Swedish reppa, Danish rippe "to tear, rip"). In either case, probably imitative of the sound of cloth ripping. ...

Your view is of a bright light surrounded by a soft warm white background.

cornbread ninja

walks toward light

Don't hurt yourself! It might be hot.

Okay, gotta run for dinner. Later, alligators!

cornbread ninja

@aediaλ have a nice dinner!

TemporaryNickName

10:53 PM

guys, what is military service? if someone volunteer to go to military then is that a military service?

user19161

@TemporaryNickName Yes. You serve in the military, therefore it is military service. QED.

user19161

Check a dictionary etc first before asking.

user19161

I might be wrong.

cornbread ninja

11:07 PM

@TemporaryNickName yes, but not until they have served.

@KyleTrauberman ...

Kyle Trauberman

?

TemporaryNickName

what music do you listen to when you are working?

cornbread ninja

Finest Worksong, REM.

just kidding.

TemporaryNickName

lol

11:19 PM

"How does the bee stay put (in a downpour) and even (in high winds)?" Assuming I correctly identified the prepositions

in C# on Stack Overflow Chat, 1 min ago, by CC Inc

What word(s) does the adverbial/adjectivial preposition modify?

18 hours ago, by TemporaryNickName

This room is abuzzin!

I'm sorry @TemporaryNickName I didn't realize you were so concerned about my word/grammatical usage.

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