English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

tchrist

6:00 AM

As I said, the terminology varies considerably from one institution to the next.

And none of these really applies to high school or before.

Mechanical snail

@tchrist The only pupils in a modern school are in anatomy.

Cerberus

No doubt.

tchrist

You may have pupae in biology.

Cerberus

Actually, practicum applies both to middelbare school and universiteit.

Funny.

tchrist

Ok, I have to go work. Really, actually. Schedule is all flipped around, and have to interact with Indians who (think they) are 12½ hours advanced.

Note, I said go work, not go to work. Thank God. I’ve had enough of that for the week.

Cerberus

6:06 AM

Poor you.

You will survive.

tchrist

I am really urked by driving. I drove over a hundred miles each of three days in a row. Blah. And not all for work, even.

Joseph Weissman

I am actually very optimistic, Cerbie :)

tchrist

I don’t mind driving. I mind city-driving.

Cerberus

@JosephWeissman Haha, yeah right!

Joseph Weissman

Though present conditions are doubtless discouraging... :)

Cerberus

6:08 AM

@tchrist I don't know, depends. Cities can be more frustrating, but the country can be terribly boring.

@JosephWeissman See?

So I curse the city when I'm in a hurry, but I bless it when I have the time to look around and admire the various architectural styles. I love dating buildings.

tchrist

@Cerberus submarine Holland ≠ transalpine Colorado.

Cerberus

Up to ca, 1940, because after that they become too hideous to look at.

tchrist

@Cerberus What a pick-up line!

Cerberus

@tchrist Still too boring after the first five minutes.

tchrist

@Cerberus Then you are doing it wrong.

Joseph Weissman

6:10 AM

I do think there is reason to hope...

Cerberus

@tchrist You should be glad.

tchrist

Why? Because I am no building? :)

Cerberus

@tchrist I would have to see a new animal or a new rock formation every thirty seconds to keep me from boredom.

@JosephWeissman Great!

tchrist

In farm country, one plays roadside cribbage.

In the mountains, one watches for falling rocks.

It is never a dull moment. The splendor — nay, magnificence — of the scenery cannot be overstated. You might as well have no scenery in Holland, at least of the stuff of which I speak.

Cerberus

I'm sorry, but just can't occupy my mind for too long. I want meaning, I want things human.

tchrist

6:13 AM

It is different to have quaint and cosy scenery that invites you in versus scenery so grand it makes you feel insignificantly small and ephemeral.

Cerberus

Of course a gorgeous view is nice, but it's not so complicated to comprehend that I need to stare at it for longer than a few minutes.

I don't know, the difference is not that great for me.

I have seen mountains, gorges, seas, and forests.

They are very pleasant to be around.

tchrist

Mother is a biologist. She would sit you in a 10'-square patch of ground all day and show you more things than are dreamt of in your philosophies.

Cerberus

But rather as a background than as something to hold my focus.

tchrist

Then you do not See.

Cerberus

@tchrist Now that is better. But I can't do that while riding my bike.

From a distance, there are fewer details and there is less change.

tchrist

6:16 AM

There are always soaring eagles and plunging peregrines, herds of elk and darting deer, the occasional quail and the colorful bluebirds and orioles.

Cerberus

Although I don't find walking through a forest terribly exciting either...

tchrist

I will take you through a forest full of bears and see whether that doesn’t excite you.

Cerberus

Hardly always. And a speck in the sky is not much to look at.

Eek!

I don't want to go through a forest with bears!

tchrist

I mean of the ursine variety.

Cerberus

Even less.

tchrist

6:17 AM

You cannot deny the potential for unforeseen excitement.

Cerberus

But not of the good kind!

tchrist

Picky, picky.

Cerberus

I would never enter a forest where danger lurks.

tchrist

Danger does not lurk. Danger you bring with you.

Cerberus

Oh, bollocks.

tchrist

6:18 AM

Them, too.

Cerberus

Save that for Old Shatterhand, Winnetou.

tchrist

Would you fear a badger?

Would you fear a porcupine?

Cerberus

Probably not.

tchrist

Would you fear an alligator snapping turtle? :)

Cerberus

Unless they might attack me, or if I might stumble upon them to provoke an attack.

tchrist

6:20 AM

I know someone who murdered a porcupine because it startled him.

Cerberus

I fear wasps and ticks already.

tchrist

I no longer speak to that person.

You have no need to fear wasps; they merely cause pain. Ticks, though, carry infection.

Cerberus

Well, if a porcupine came running towards me, I don't know what it could do, and I don't know what I would do if I had a weapon.

Not true. Wasps can kill.

If you swallow them. Which happens.

I once nearly swallowed one.

tchrist

Don’t do that.

Cerberus

I ate a leaf of lettuce.

tchrist

6:22 AM

Are you allergic?

Cerberus

Then I wondered why the lettuce was full of huge thorns pricking all over the inside of my mouth.

tchrist

I once knew a boy who was nearly killed by wasps, but it was an enraged swarm.

Not a singleton.

Cerberus

I was lucky it was lettuce, and not something one quickly swallows.

tchrist

Hush.

Cerberus

The most common scenario is a wasp in a bottle of beer or coke.

People die.

tchrist

6:23 AM

Disbelieve.

Cerberus

It is true.

tchrist

Show me.

People allergic to bee stings can and do perish.

Normal people very seldom do so.

Cerberus

getreading.co.uk/news/s/…

The problem is if it stings you inside your throat. It swells up and you choke to death.

tchrist

> About 2 million Americans are allergic to the venom of stinging insects. Many of these individuals are at risk for life-threatening allergic reactions. Approximately 50 deaths each year in the U.S. are attributed to allergic reactions to insect stings

Cerberus

This man may have been allergic too.

But the non-allergic can die this way too.

tchrist

6:26 AM

Anaphylactic shock = allergy.

Which is abnormal.

About one in one hundred fifty.

Less than 1% of the populace.

I get stung all the time. It comes from traipsing through the fields that we know.

You get used to it.

Some are worse than others.

Do not pick a fight with a paper-wasp nest.

Cerberus

But have you ever been stung inside your throat?

tchrist

Hm. In my mouth, sure.

Not post-glottally.

Sweat bees fly into your mouth when you are out and about, or riding your bike. It is rather annoying.

Cerberus

tchrist

But there are admittedly amongst the mildest of stinging insects.

TemporaryNickName

lol wasp

tchrist

6:31 AM

I leave my doors open in the summertime, without screens. We just don’t have that many insects here. Yes, sometimes wasps get in the house. Oh well. Don’t fight with them.

Cerberus

I hate wasps so much.

TemporaryNickName

is it a similar insect as bee?

Cerberus

Ticks too.

TemporaryNickName

i hate gnats

Cerberus

A wasp looks a bit like a bee, but it is far more aggressive.

You don't have wasps?

TemporaryNickName

6:32 AM

i haven't seen it around me

tchrist

A wasp is any hymenopteran which is neither a bee nor an ant.

Cerberus

Striped yellow and black, vicous hunters, always buzzing around your head and in your drink.

tchrist

Wasp

The term wasp is typically defined as any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant. Almost every pest insect species has at least one wasp species that preys upon it or parasitizes it, making wasps critically important in natural control of their numbers, or natural biocontrol. Parasitic wasps are increasingly used in agricultural pest control as they prey mostly on pest insects and have little impact on crops. __TOC__ Taxonomy The majority of wasp species (well over 100,000 species) are "parasitic" (technically known as parasitoids), and...

Cerberus

When I see that, everything in me says KILL KILL.

tchrist

You’ve heard about the sting connoisseurs then?

TemporaryNickName

6:33 AM

we have a lot of gnats, huge flies, and mosquitoes

tchrist

Schmidt sting pain index

The Schmidt sting pain index is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different hymenopteran stings. It is mainly the work of Justin O. Schmidt, an entomologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Arizona. Schmidt has published a number of papers on the subject, and claims to have been stung by the majority of stinging Hymenoptera. His original paper in 1984 was an attempt to systematize and compare the hemolytic properties of insect venoms. The index contained in the paper started from 0 for stings that are completely ineffective against humans, progressed through 2, a f...

Cerberus

@TemporaryNickName Those are annoying too. And dangerous, depending on where you live, because if diseases.

Just like ticks.

@tchrist Yes, yes.

tchrist

Er, what?

TemporaryNickName

you mean gnats?

tchrist

Ticks are just like what, vis-à-vis disease?

*gnats

Cerberus

6:34 AM

Lyme. Like mosquitoes.

TemporaryNickName

yeah, i hate them

tchrist

I am confused.

Cerberus

Ticks spread Lyme's disease, as mosquitoes do malaria and various other diseases.

tchrist

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is another.

Cerberus

Thankfully, our mosquitoes are harmless, except for the itching.

tchrist

6:35 AM

Mosquitos carry West Nile Virus.

Cerberus

Not here.

tchrist

But Hantavirus is much worse.

Cerberus

Ticks and wasps and flies and mosquitoes are the only animals I kill.

TemporaryNickName

We also have a lot of insects look like this

tchrist

Our prairie dogs are plague (pestis) reservoirs here.

Cerberus

6:36 AM

Ahhh!

tchrist

Stag beetle.

TemporaryNickName

but they are much smaller

tchrist

Hantavirus

Hantaviruses are negative sense RNA viruses in the Bunyaviridae family. Humans may be infected with hantaviruses through urine, saliva or contact with rodent waste products. Some hantaviruses cause potentially fatal diseases in humans, such as hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), but others have not been associated with human disease. Human infections of hantaviruses have almost entirely been linked to human contact with rodent excrement, but recent human-to-human transmission has been reported with the Andes virus in South America. HTNV ...

TemporaryNickName

no they are not beetles

tchrist

Thatis the really bad one.

Cerberus

6:36 AM

@TemporaryNickName Do those bite?

tchrist

@TemporaryNickName How can that not be a beetle?

TemporaryNickName

no but they fly around very fast and annoying

tchrist

Most things are beetles.

TemporaryNickName

i posted the photo because they look like it

tchrist

Looks like a Rhinoceros Beetle to me.

Cerberus

6:37 AM

Ahh OK, yes, we have similar large beetles who are equally annoying. But they don't bite.

Cockchafer

The cockchafer (colloquially called may bug, mitchamador, billy witch, or spang beetle, particularly in East Anglia) is a European beetle of the genus Melolontha, in the family Scarabaeidae. Once abundant throughout Europe and a major pest in the periodical years of "mass flight", it had been nearly eradicated in the middle of the 20th century through extensive use of pesticides and has even been locally exterminated in many regions. However, since an increase in regulation of pest control beginning in the 1980s, its numbers have started to grow again. Taxonomy There are three species o...

tchrist

I hate it when that happens.

Cerberus

Those are annoying.

Quite big.

TemporaryNickName

i cannot google search the insect, it basically look like the beetle in the picture

Cerberus

I remember when my mother screamed out loud at night, when she felt one under her back when she lay down in bed.

tchrist

Locusts are annoying.

Cerberus

6:39 AM

@tchrist I think that's what we call it too.

tchrist

Oh, you have a screamer.

Cerberus

My mother doesn't scream easily.

But I would scream too.

God, I wish insects did not exist.

tchrist

I like them, actually.

Cerberus

I don't.

TemporaryNickName

i got it

tchrist

6:40 AM

We would not survive without them.

TemporaryNickName

flickr.com/photos/merryjack/8220593614

tchrist

Rocky Mountain locust

The Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) was the locust species that ranged through almost the entire western half of the United States and some western portions of Canada until the end of the 19th century. Sightings often placed their swarms in numbers far larger than any other species of locust, with one famed sighting having been estimated at 198,000 square miles (513,000 km²) in size (greater than the area of California), weighing 27.5 million tons, and consisting of some 12.5 trillion insects - the greatest concentration of animals ever speculatively guessed, according to ...

Cerberus

Some are nicer than others, like butterflies.

tchrist

But those are a problem. Somehow, we extinguished them.

And we do not know how.

TemporaryNickName

i was talking about those bugs at second column

MετάEd

6:41 AM

Answered:

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A: What is the Term for Groups of Numbers within a Large Number

The exact term for such a group of three digits is a period. Thus you have the ones period, the thousands period, the millions period, etc. This is one of those wonderful terms we all learned (and then forgot) in primary school. This term is in current use but hard to find in general purpose dic...

TemporaryNickName

does anyone know their name?

Cerberus

I think we have those too, depending on how large they are.

I think we just call them black beetles, hehe.

tchrist

I think they have to be proven unbeetles to me.

Because they sure look like beetles.

TemporaryNickName

they come out from sewer hole during night time lol

tchrist

Because they sure look like beetles.

Dynastinae

Dynastinae or rhinoceros beetles are a subfamily of the scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae). Other common names – some for particular groups of rhinoceros beetles – are for example Hercules beetles, unicorn beetles or horn beetles. Over 300 species of rhinoceros beetles are known. Many rhinoceros beetles are well known for their unique shapes and large sizes. Some famous species are, for example, the Atlas beetle (Chalcosoma atlas), common rhinoceros beetle (Xylotrupes ulysses), elephant beetle (Megasoma elephas), European rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes nasicornis), Hercules beet...

Cerberus

6:43 AM

@MετάEd Good.

@TemporaryNickName Eww!

Dung beetles?

tchrist

TemporaryNickName

nope they are not dung beatles

they fly around as a swarm

tchrist

> If you were to randomly pick an extant animal species, odds are that it would be a beetle. While there are 250,000 described species of plants, 12,000 described species of roundworms, and only 4,000 described species of mammals, there are over 350,000 beetle species described, with many more beetles yet to be discovered.

From here.

Cerberus

@tchrist Percentage of what?

tchrist

Why are there so many species of beetles and so few crocodiles?

@Cerberus Of described species.

Cerberus

6:48 AM

Of species, of individuals (if such can be distinguished), of volume, mass, caloric value...

@tchrist Right.

@TemporaryNickName Yikes.

Swarms are horrible.

tchrist

Most organisms are insects.

Cerberus

All ants weigh far more than all men.

Hey, does the ps in reps also look yellow to you in the starred post?

Robusto's.

tchrist

@Cerberus Naw.

TemporaryNickName

@Cerberus sick

Cerberus

Ah, it was a userscript.

@tchrist Is that how much you need to feed the next layer?

tchrist

6:51 AM

In general, yes.

Cerberus

Those numbers match up a little too nicely.

tchrist

The difference is that with vertebrates, the cold-blooded predators have a dramatically different predator-to-prey ratio than the warm-blooded ones have.

Lower.

You can have 10:1 on cold-blooded, but need closer to 100:1 for warm-blooded.

Us warm-bloodeds eat more.

See here.

Predator-to-prey ratios provide evidence that dinosaurs were not cold-blooded.

> The Komodo dragon, the largest living lizard, consumes its own weight every 60 days, a lion in only eight days. Such are the demands of endothermy. As a consequence a community can support fewer warm-blooded predators than cold-blooded predators.

> Calculations revealed that a given biomass can support a warm-blooded predator biomass of 1–3%, and a cold-blooded predator biomass of up to 40%. Given that some fossil deposits yield remains of thousands of individuals, their predator–prey ratio should be measurable. And Bakker did find that amongst the reptiles of the Permian (285–225 million years ago) the ratio was very high (35–60%), while the dinosaurs of the Triassic (225–195 million years) had a ratio of only 1–3%.

Physiology of dinosaurs

:Note: In this article "dinosaur" means "non-avian dinosaur," since most experts regard birds as an advanced group of dinosaurs. The physiology of dinosaurs has historically been a controversial subject, particularly thermoregulation. Recently, many new lines of evidence have been brought to bear on dinosaur physiology generally, including not only metabolic systems and thermoregulation, but on respiratory and cardiovascular systems as well. During the early years of dinosaur paleontology, it was widely considered that they were sluggish, cumbersome, and sprawling cold-blooded lizards. H...

Heh.

> Note: In this article "dinosaur" means "non-avian dinosaur," since most experts regard birds as an advanced group of dinosaurs.

Hm, that says Bakker’s arguments have been refuted. Interesting.

TemporaryNickName

what differences are there between cold blooded and warm blooded creatures?

tchrist

We think of warm-blooded as meaning like us, but that is somewhat facile.

TemporaryNickName

aren't they all warm blooded?

tchrist

6:59 AM

It is, complicated.

Birds are warm-blooded, but they have less control than mammals.

A hawkmoth (sphinx) is a warm-blooded, as is a mighty bluefin tuna.

For certain definitions.

Endotherm

An endotherm (Greek: endon = "within", thermē = "heat") is an organism that maintains its body at a metabolically favourable temperature, largely by use of heat set free by its internal bodily functions instead of relying almost purely on ambient heat. Such internally generated heat is mainly an incidental product of the animal's routine metabolism, but under conditions of excessive cold or low activity an endotherm might apply special mechanisms adapted specifically to heat production. Examples include special-function muscular exertion such as shivering, and uncoupled oxidative metaboli...

@TemporaryNickName Read this.

Tuna and mackerel sharks are warm-blooded, a rare trait amongst the fishes, boned or otherwise.

> Atlantic bluefins are homeothermic ("warm-blooded") and are therefore able to thermoregulate keeping their body temperatures higher than the surrounding water, which is why they are so well adapted to colder waters.

MετάEd

Keep warm, everyone. Good night.

tchrist

> Atlantic bluefin tunas, Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758), aka blue fin tunas, blue-fin tunny, bluefin tunas, horse mackerels, northern bluefin tunas, and squid hounds..., are regarded as one of the most highly evolved fish species and one of the most prized fish in danger of overfishing. Tuna, originating from the Greek word meaning "to rush," usually swim at speeds of 1.5-4 knots, can maintain 8 knots for some time, and can break 20 knots for short periods.

Night. Bye.

Tuna is related to a word that meant to rush in Greek?

Ok, I give up: what’s the difference between homeothermic and endothermic?

Super dupe:

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Q: Which of these are correct ? a) "Countries List" b) "Country List"

Which of these are correct ? a) "Countries List" b) "Country List". What is it ? - Title of a page Why is it used ? - web users can view the list of countries and select one

grammatical-number

But I do not remember the canonical one.

Oh wait, I do.

Cerberus

@tchrist A community...

An ecosystem, rather.

Not a community.

But it's bed time for me.

user19161

7:28 AM

@mec What a lovely avatar you have there, as blue as mine!

Jez

9:19 AM

oh. my. god.

my doctor's surgery is actually the worst in the UK.

Matt Эллен

are they prescribing alternative therapy?

Jez

closed before 9:00, closed 12:00-14:00, closed after 17:00, and closed tuesday afternoons.

Matt Эллен

lol

that sucks

Jez

if you take a break during your working hours outside of 12-14:00, they dont usually pick up the phone

Matt Эллен

"closed at all the times normal people need"

Jez

9:21 AM

pathetic bunch of old fuddy-duddies who wouldn't make it outside of an NHS that lets them slack off

oh, and the whole reason i need to call them is because they screwed up and their pharmacy made out my prescription when another one should've

Matt Эллен

that's pretty shoddy

Jez

who're you meant to complain to though? it reminds me of the time i was at university and basically being bullied by the placements office

they're totally unaccountable

Matt Эллен

are they part of a primary care trust or something?

you could try writing to them

or you local council. I think they're accountable to them

if not, then your MP

not that writing to an MP is particularly helpful

Jez

the MP for that area is John Bercow :-)

Matt Эллен

he seems like a decent chap for an MP. Is he good?

Jez

9:26 AM

he's the speaker of the house

Matt Эллен

I thought I knew the name

oh, he has no political affiliation. interesting

Jez

of course he does, he's a Tory

the fact that the speaker technically claims not to is irrelevant

Matt Эллен

oh, right.

got a meeting. BBL

Jez

he's also a bad biased speaker. he publicly said he was happy no BNP MPs got in. so much for impartiality.

tchrist

9:57 AM

@Cerberus I fear you are mistaken. That is a correct technical use of the term community. Watch:

Community (ecology)

In ecology, a community is an assemblage or associations of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area. The term community has a variety of uses. In its simplest form it refers to groups of organisms in a specific place or time, for example, "the fish community of Lake Ontario before industrialization". Community ecologists study the interactions between species in communities on many spatial and temporal scales, including the distribution, structure, abundance, demography, and interactions between coexisting populations. The primary focus of comm...

@Cerberus But yeah, it is nap time.

RegDwighт

You mean you're still up and not again?

tchrist

Well. . .

No, it is again.

It is still nap time, though. :)

user19161

Sleep is very important.

user19161

Ideally, one should sleep 8 hours a day and avoid naps.

Jez

though we don't technically know why

tchrist

10:00 AM

I slept from like 6-10.

I’m interacting with India. Don’t get me started.

user19161

However, it is common for sick people or retired people to sleep in two periods of four hours each a day.

tchrist

They gave me a dataset with an outdated record definition, and it will take them a few hours to rebuild, so I said I would nap in between.

user19161

So try to pick one of the above two patterns of sleep.

tchrist

Not currently either.

And actually, it is historically common to have the split.

user19161

They have the afternoon siesta too.

tchrist

10:02 AM

Bugger if I can remember details, but I was surprised to learn this.

No, at night. They split the night.

user19161

It is very interesting to revisit your own old answers and drastically improve them.

RegDwighт

It is very interesting to revisit other people's old answers and drastically make them worse.

tchrist

I feel like it is all dupes and bikesheds out there now.

user19161

This site has opened my eyes to the multitude of opinions on various grammatical matters.

RegDwighт

@tchrist It's a win-win. You can paint the dupe bikesheds in different colors.

tchrist

10:06 AM

Wait, you would not really use more than one different color on the same shed?! You mean you could paint each shed a different color, right?

user19161

I am currently in the process of deleting my own comments and making my answers more self-contained across each of my 3 accounts.

RegDwighт

@tchrist Now that you asked, you could have both.

Paint each shed in a number of colors that are different still from the number of colors the next shed is painted in.

tchrist

@RegDwighт I can see you do not have HOA covenants where you live.

RegDwighт

Covenants? No. We only have silly nannies.

user19161

The most interesting edit I see here is an answer that says A and then not A.

tchrist

10:07 AM

@RegDwighт Or just visit old questions and add bad answers, as very recently seen.

Are nannies legally enforceable?

RegDwighт

Jasper does have a point, though.

Sometimes when I'm bored I will improve an old answer.

David Wallace

I was sad today. I read a question on SO. The OP duplicated one of the answers as his own, paraphrasing only slightly, and accepted his own version of the answer. The time difference was 10 hours I think, so it wasn't a jinx. He then posted a comment on the answer that he copied, saying "yes I did that, see my answer".

RegDwighт

But only after a certain threshold.

@DavidWallace link?

I sure hope there's no link because you flagged the shit out of him.

user19161

I have actually gone through my old posts a number of times for various reasons. Once I wanted to reformat everything.

tchrist

@DavidWallace So zap it. These things happen. One of the most negatively posted answers still extant on SO has that issue. Found it in SEDE.

@JasonBourne Furniture. Poop deck.

David Wallace

10:09 AM

Oh, I can't remember. This was several hours ago, and I was at work. It was also 2010, so I didn't see the point in kicking up a stink.

RegDwighт

@tchrist yes. Sillily.

tchrist

Several hours ago you were in 2010?

I know those islands of yours have a weird timezone, but I didn’t realize it was that weird.

David Wallace

For certain values of several.

RegDwighт

@DavidWallace well that is no good, terrible and horrible.

These people have to learn.

David Wallace

But what's the point in a 2.5-years-too-late lesson?

RegDwighт

10:10 AM

The point is precisely that it is 2.5 years old.

David Wallace

That's like smacking your dog on the nose for the poo he made under the table last week.

RegDwighт

You can run, but you can't hide.

You break the rules, we'll get you.

Sooner or later.

Anyway, I'm just saying you were all sad and stuff and now we are all sad and stuff but nobody can do shit about it. That's no good.

David Wallace

Sorry. I won't share next time.

tchrist

I have a question about Internet jargon.

I'd rewrite the sentence as If I were not already doing this, knowing what I now know, would I get into it again today? Most native speakers would claim that your original sentence is perfectly grammatical, but I disagree: It's colloquial, informal, and essentially spoken English, not formal written English, so it's merely acceptable and a solecism-turned-idiom because it's how the lowest common denominators, God love 'em, speak. The middle clause is parenthetical and not important for the main idea of the sentence, which is expressed by the first and last clauses. — Bill Franke 5 mins ago

Do they still call them “cranks”?

Pity his math is worse than his English.

Maybe.

raises chatty-chatty bung-bung flag

PJ Brunet

Is this archived for eternity?

RegDwighт

10:31 AM

So far there have been no attempts to throw old stuff away.

David Wallace

PJ - are you planning on saying something you don't want your great great grandchildren to read?

RegDwighт

The transcript is public and goes all the way back to the very first message.

And it's the very second message that nobody in this room has ever read.

Nov 10 '10 at 15:27, by Feeds

This is a general discussion room, but please feel free to create more subject-specific rooms (a single room with every possible discussion isn't very helpful)

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: The single room with every possible discussion (no tags)

RegDwighт

10:45 AM

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A: Can you use two 'and's in a sentence?

Brothers, sisters the problem lies not with the use of and, but with the dis-use of a perfectly valid portmanteau. Noble friend, your list should read: chocolate, vanilla, and lemange ice cream

Wow. This is like. What?

Matt Эллен

11:07 AM

and some people like pb and j

user19161

@RegDwighт Brothers, sisters, noble friends, really? Will he die for us? I doubt it!

its_me

Hello all! Does anyone know that the emphasized phrase in this sentence means? "Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague, like some fantastic landscape in a dream..."

user19161

What is all this ingenuine show of affection?

user19161

There is a difference between being dramatic and being hypocritical. That was totally hypocritical.

RegDwighт

Someone's playing human-size chess?

user19161

11:12 AM

@its_me It means the fields were in the shape of squares and the wood was in the shape of a curve.

its_me

lol, no

@JasonBourne 0_o