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12:18 AM
This is funny.
@TemporaryNickName It just means you serve your country, so anyone in the army is in military service.
"Serve" means almost the same thing as "be employed by".
But the word "service" usually means either you are employed by the government, as in military service or civil service, or you are a servant to a person or household.
 
1:03 AM
@Cerberus Nice. What did you guys decide? Yes? No? Justification?
@aediaλ Exactly! Or rather, when the bombs stop dropping?
 
@Mitch Oh, yes.
Well, we have pondered the matter extensively, and we are happy to announce that a conclusion has been reached: further research is required.
How does that make you feel?
 
@RegDwighт: More litotese.
 
Netflix is clever, very clever indeed.
It is mitigating the harmful effects of potential net-partiality, by forcing ISPs to provide it with sufficient bandwidth, under threat of blocking access to its product to the ISP's subscribers.
 
1:55 AM
@Cerberus I am quite amusing.
 
@Cerberus wow...such diligence. I'll just accept your answer and make all my life choices now based on it. First step, smash the power.
smashing power
Second step...shit, there's no power.
 
Eek emergency! Gmail deleted all my messages.
They are now in Trash.
How do I restore all 16,000?
It botched up a filter (weird error, I did everything correctly).
 
Uh-huh.
 
I'm serious. I said "throw all messages titled "Nieuwsbrief" into Trash". It said the filter matched 6 messages.
Then suddenly all my messages were sent to trash!
Fuck Gmail.
 
2:40 AM
Okay, I was able to restore all messages at once.
phew
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A: How do I restore my entire Trash can to Inbox in Gmail, not just one page at a time?

CerberusI have just found out how to do this, thank God. When you select all messages in a page, a new line pops up just above the topmost message; in that line, there is an underlined "select all 16,000 messages". Click that, and then you can perform an operation (such as move) to all your messages.

 
What Google giveth, Google taketh away.
 
> a period in the username doesn't make a difference. username@gmail.com, user.name@gmail.com & username@googlemail.co.uk will all resolve to the same email account
Did you know this?
 
I don't use gmail. It always sounded like a gay dating service to me.
 
@Cerberus Interesting.
 
Sort of. It just works very well.
@CCInc I had no idea.
@CCInc It is possible, however, that this only applies to Gmail?
 
2:43 AM
Yes, I believe so.
Something like that would be server specific
 
Unless it is somehow part of the Email protocol?
 
@Cerberus I guarantee you that it is not.
 
Okay, it works with Gmail, I can confirm that.
@tchrist OK.
> Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
^ This was to Hotmail.
So you're right.
 
3:08 AM
o hai.
 
Where are her other six eyes?
 
All cobkin have eight eyes.
 
@tchrist shoop them on her yourself. I have advertising homework. :)
 
I have my own homework, alas.
 
3:19 AM
korean is awesome because we can understand what other person is saying just by looking at the person's mouth without actually listening to it XD
 
3:45 AM
@tchrist oh yeah?
@TemporaryNickName oh yeah?
howdy @mahnax
 
Hiya, @Corn!
 
How goes it?
 
It goes well, thanks. Just taking a break from cooking and studying. How about you?
 
I'm almost ready for bed. Finished an assignment and took the first weekly quiz earlier tonight.
Wot you cooking?
 
I was making some pasta with various mushrooms and spinach sautéd in olive oil and topped with parmesan.
And I have a cup of coffee from my French press.
 
3:57 AM
@cornbreadninja yeah lol
 
@Mahnax double yum!
 
@cornbreadninja Yep! It's Caffè Verona, not sure if you know which one that is.
 
@Mahnax I do! I've had that instead of espresso blend once in a while.
 
@cornbreadninja Oh, nice! I've got espresso blend upstairs in the coffee/tea cupboard, with Sumatra and Kenya.
 
@Mahnax I don't think I've had those since I worked there.
 
4:04 AM
@cornbreadninja Kenya isn't really that great, but my mum likes it, so there's that. Sumatra is kind of spicy (not the jalapeño spicy, the other one) and earthy, with a medium-high body and low acidity.
 
Hey there, ya like, wanna free badge?
There, wasn’t that fun?
 
@tchrist I would love one! Where is it? (I already have the Informed badge).
 
No you don’t. You just got it.
 
Really? I thought there was one for that before.
Weird.
Sorry, my bad, then.
 
@Mahnax there's one for reading all parts of the FAQ.
 
4:07 AM
@cornbreadninja Ah, that's the one.
 
@tchrist sim has 4/59/99.
 
She does.
 
4:37 AM
how do you guys pronounce Linux?
My teacher pronounces it like Linerx
 
5:36 AM
Linnex.
Ugh, I have to replace the thermistor in my bread-maker.
At least so I am instructed by the Internets.
I'm neither technical nor electrically experienced.
I have managed to remove the old old one. It looks fine. But how can one tell if it isn't?
A new thermistor has to come from England, which will cost € 13 including shipping.
However, I paid € 25 for the whole machine, second hand.
What would you do?
Buy another bread-maker?
Order the thermistor and see whether replacing the old one helps?
 
6:17 AM
Ugh, there are balloons in the area where the dog sleeps and she is afraid of them.
So she has decided to bark.
@Cerb Can you use dog-powers to make the one upstairs stop yapping?
 
uses dog-powers
Did that help at all?
 
Yes, actually.
 
Good.
 
The barking has stopped.
Thank you very much.
 
Now can you use Dostoevsky-powers to repair my bread-maker?
It may be a long shot...
 
6:22 AM
Umm, I can use Dostoevsky-powers to make you frail, sickly, and paranoid, but that's about all I can do.
How much is it for a new breadmaker?
 
Not that much.
 
Also, old breadmakers tend to be hit and miss. Some are excellent, some are awful.
 
I paid € 25 for mine second hand.
Oh yeah?
How do you mean old? Second hand?
Do you have experience with those?
 
From what I know, yes. We have an older one, still works excellently.
 
Okay.
And new ones are better?
 
6:23 AM
I am not sure about newer ones.
We have never had a new one. Only old ones.
 
Right.
 
This one is 20 years old, I think.
 
Oh! That's pretty cool.
I didn't know they lived that long.
 
Yeah, it's a pretty resilient machine.
 
I'll have to think about it.
And now to bed.
Good night to you as well!
 
6:24 AM
Alrighty, good night.
 
poof
 
how about Java guys? do you pronounce it just Java or Jeva
 
I should get to work on my Physics lab report. evaporates into mist
@TemporaryNickName Java.
 
I saw some american people say Jeva
 
condenses
Hmm, odd.
Were they from the South?
 
6:27 AM
no idea
 
I see.
 
but I felt it's cooler
Jeva
 
6:39 AM
The pronunciation is whatever you want it to be.
 
 
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9:19 AM
I give fricking up: I am stuck on a flipping European time schedule, and maybe GMT+1, too, not just GMT. But my sun says I am in GMT-7. GRRRRRR!!!!
 
10:05 AM
There's a large review queue. You could bore yourself to sleep with that.
 
Those are ugly to review.
And why are you up? Morning person?
 
For today, yes.
 
10:21 AM
What is the technical term for when the stressed syllable moves backwards in the word? It may involve “regressive” or “regression”.
 
user19161
I just got the informed badge for visiting about.
 
user19161
I see that Robusto appears multiple times in about.
 
It's random.
It picks from half a dozen sample questions.
 
user19161
I thought they loved Robusto too much.
 
10:43 AM
I see downdinging K r i s is active this morning.
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A: Why is “accidentally” pronounced “accident-ly” instead of “accident-tal-y”?

tchristFor precisely the same reason as UK speakers often drop an unstressed syllable in words like medicine and secretary, making those come out as though they were spelt “medcine” and “secretry” instead. It is because we sometimes reduce unstressed syllables not just to ambiguity, but to oblivion....

 
No indication of it being a particular person.
I see Mikhail tries to repeat his success with Russian idioms.
He's in for a surprise. Not every question hits the Collider.
 
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@tchrist You think it is Kris? Hmm, maybe.
 
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@reg This reminds me that I have yet to post a question on the origin of HB.
 
@RegDwighт No, of course not.
Hey, look at these great lectures on dialectology from Matthias Jilka of Stuttgart. And this fellow is a native German speaker, really? It is quite well done. I just flipped through number 10.
 
11:07 AM
@tchrist well sometimes there is. That's what I'm saying.
 
Ok.
You aren’t in Stuttgart are you? :)
I’ve been reading through more of Jilka’s stuff. Very dense, very correct, very interesting. How the hell he picked all that up, I have no idea. Must have a flock of grad studs at his beck and call.
 
@tchrist some 200 km away.
 
You know I am kidding. And why. :)
 
So by American or Russian standards, that's the suburbs.
@tchrist no not yet, I only just clicked the link.
I'm tied up in a tiresome discussion about Hollywood hype.
 
@RegDwighт Only in Texas, where the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex is one huge local calling zone. Then again, Denver’s is pretty big too. Yah, ok.
 
11:13 AM
And then they wonder why people downvote without leaving a comment. Well because they have better things to do with their lives than getting tied up in tiresome discussions about Hollywood hype.
@tchrist Denver, le dernier dinosaur !
 
@RegDwighт I was teasing about my allegedly having snapshotted everybody’s IP with the picture trick.
 
I must have missed that.
 
@RegDwighт Oh, I even invited @Shog9 to play. :)
But yes, you were not here — then.
About log-reading, I make no comment. :)
@RegDwighт Colorado does have two dinosaurian national thingamajigs. Florissant Fossile Beds National Monument ’round the backside of Pike’s Peak, and Dinosaur National Monument straddling the border with Utah. There are fossilized giant redwoods at Florissant.
 
I have a dynamic IP, so for all I know I'm surfing from Berlin right now.
 
@Jasper goes through five of them in the space of like an hour. I have no idea what he is doing.
 
11:19 AM
There was a picture of some donut dinosaur somewhere here. Can't find it. Don't even quite remember what the point was.
 
I mean, I don’t go through that many cell towers in a normal hour, and he goes through that many IPs.
That is because your mind is being hyped.
And there is a “Dinosaur Donut Disco” in Los Angeles. Apparently.
Jilka on RP: “received” in the outdated meaning of “generally accepted”
Outdated, heh.
“Near-RP” has “occasional flapping or glottalling of /t/”. Thought so.
His RP notes are good, too.
@RegDwighт Does German have both anders von and anders zu?
> very few authentically prestigious forms in American English (prestigious “whom” in “Whom did you see?”, British variants in pronunciation (e.g. no tapping, “either” pronounced as /aIð()/)
@Cerberus Was it you who was asking about whether there was a notably upper-class dialect in America?
 
11:35 AM
Instead I run into TRiG's gay porn. Thanks for nothing, TRiG.
And the cable company is fixing some shit around our house, so that line took me sixteen minutes to post.
 
I didn’t know that TRiG made porn! :)
 
@tchrist it has neither if you ask me. What are your trying to say, anders als?
 
Yes that is the one that sounds normal.
 
I just noticed Jilka using “different to”, Britly.
 
11:38 AM
@tchrist yeah something like that except in real.
 
Ha, I forgot that angle brackets cause text to disappear in answers on SE sites. Webster's 3rd gives quotes in angle brackets, which I dutifully copied, and only later noticed the lacuna.
 
Right! I wanted to close an angle-brackets question earlier today.
Then my Internet died.
 
@RegDwighт A gay man with a thing for boobies? Wonder how that works. :)
@Robusto You have to use ‹angle quotes›.
 
I solved it with < and >
 
@Robusto that's what I would have jinxed if my Internet hadn't died again.
 
11:43 AM
Have any of you ever heard accidentally pronounced accidently?
@RegDwighт Find another Internet. There are plenty out there. Just look for a working tube and you'll be right as dodgers.
 
Ugh. Another question about using and twice?
What hole are these coming out of?
 
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@tchrist Really? How does that happen? Hmm. Maybe because I turn it off and on.
 
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A: Mixing adjective and noun enumerations

Mistu4uAlthough like Andrew Leach commented your first statement is absolutely okay, as you wish not to use any of them, I can suggest something more complex. Beverages including both hot and cold would be followed by finger food at every meeting. At every meeting there will be finger food alon...

That's not even English.
Ah, Jon Hanna strikes again.
 
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Q: Is the 'L' silent when pronouncing 'salmon'?

GlideIs the 'L' silent when pronouncing 'salmon' properly? If so, why?

 
He'll be dethroning Barrie any time now.
 
11:48 AM
Why is this still open?
 
Because people really like Salmon Rushdie.
 
I prefer his brother, Tuna.
 
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@RegDwighт Wow, I see you have been stalking him...
 
Stalking?
 
@RegDwighт From his gravatar, he would appear to be a Walter White wannabe.
 
11:50 AM
One search for "dinosaur" now counts as stalking a person?
 
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I see @robusto is doing many edits these days.
 
Pay no attention. Jasper is making yet another desperate plea to be noticed.
 
Do you mean from better to worse or the other way around? — Gorpik 1 min ago
Oh come on. Some minimum effort you'll have to expend yourself.
And why am I still getting pinged on the Hollywood-hype discussion? I have long dropped out of it.
 
@RegDwighт But isn't this Easy Language & Usage? Sorry, misspelled E-Z.
 
I will not be reading any further contributions.
@Robusto Not easy like Sunday morning, no.
 
11:54 AM
@Robusto Actually, that is one of those medieval respellings, like debt and island. It was never really there.
 
You talk the talk. Do you walk the walk?
 
user19161
The talk and the walk are one.
 
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@tchrist It might not be me only. Maybe there are others around me who visit this room as well, just a guess.
 
@JasonBourne It's always about you, isn't it?
 
user19161
I like Jon Hanna's answers. I think he is the new guy to watch for.
 
12:06 PM
I already said that. You're too late. The idea's taken.
 
user19161
You haven't said what I like or what I think. That is new. Yes, it's always about me.
 
I am Jon Hanna's relative.
 
user19161
Really? Now you are just MSU.
 
"[Link to Wikipedia]. Voting to close as general reference." – Barrie England
Question closed.
"Barrie, do you care to post your comment as answer?" – BobSort
 
@JasonBourne I am not Michigan State University.
 
12:09 PM
@Novice ah but he meant the Manhattan Slalom University.
 
And I am Jon Hanna's relative.
Technically, we are everybody's relatives.
 
No. You descend from a monkey. I descend from Adam.
And Adam descends from God, so I am God's relative.
 
@RegDwighт Monkeys were made by God.
You descend from God, so you made me.
If you made me, you are my father.
 
user19161
Who cares monkey or Adam? They are the same.
 
WHOS MY MOTHER
 
12:12 PM
@Novice Wrong again. Monkeys were killed by God. The only two that were left were Noah's cousins.
 
@RegDwighт I descend from one of those two dudes.
 
You can't pick one. That's not how it works.
 
They technically did something very bad with a descendant of God... so...
 
If it didn't go against the Ten Commandments, it wasn't technically bad.
 
user19161
Amazing that adultery is forbidden in the ten commandments but not gay sex. Yet the former is not illegal but the latter is in some places.
 
12:15 PM
There are like five Commandments on how God is totally in love with Himself, and not a single Commandment that you shall have no buttsex. That says it all.
 
Suck on this.
Commute. Bai.
 
@Robusto Illegal building techniques!
 
user19161
@RegDwighт Yeah, the first commandment shows that he loves himself so much that he doesn't allow others to love other gods.
 
Thank you for explaining my own thought to me.
 
user19161
But to be fair, what man says in that book might not be what God actually said.
 
user19161
12:18 PM
Just like others may edit my answer to mean something totally different here, and then I will roll it back.
 
Eeryone knows Moses dropped some of the Commandments on his way down.
 
user19161
I have told you my thoughts on the matter: this God is just one of the beings in one of the god realms.
 
You will have to look up "being".
 
user19161
He will pass away from that existence when his lifespan is over.
 
user19161
And I won't judge him based on what man says about him.
 
user19161
12:20 PM
He could be a really awesome being.
 
user19161
Over and out!
 
12:51 PM
Theosophy? Too early.
 
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1:08 PM
@KitFox Good morning! It's Friday!
 
Indeed.
Good morning.
Hola, @Mitch.
 
Ni hao.
Dobry utro.
 
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@Mitch Wo bu hao.
 
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Q: What is the specific nuance of "ask against"?

p.marinoPremise: English is not my native tongue. I am helping another non-native to translate as precisely possible a sentence: indicating that the question is asked against an awareness that the mother has recently been afflicted by illness (Context: the sentence comes from an Astrological rea...

 
user19161
This is a very interesting question. I have been thinking the past few minutes about it. I am not sure if my answer is correct.
 
1:18 PM
Hao. Hen hao.
Oops sorry. I mean, that's too bad what's the problem?
 
user19161
Nvm. What do you think of the above post?
 
schade
 
user19161
I was thinking about all the possible meanings of against, shortlisted to two and then chose one.
 
Good morning!
I have a wonderful and accepting wife. We're having a dinner party tomorrow and she's not even upset that, instead of putting lego away, out of sight, I got a bigger table and more boxes to sort it into.
 
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@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Good!
 
1:24 PM
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Q: Mark correct or incorrect

user35987Children playing do not require the active involvement of nearby adults, but if you try to leave they demand that you watch them play. Source Whether children playing/sleeping......are grammatically correct.

WTF?
 
indeed
 
Children are not grammatically correct. It's been proven.
 
my son is pretty grammatically correct. I was singing "Bad boys, bad boys, watcha gonna do?" and he was singing "Bad boys, bad boys, what are you going to do?"
 
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1:27 PM
Wait, how come this doesn't autoexpand?
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 His scansion sucks.
 
@JasonBourne because it's deleted
 
@JasonBourne Yours and Kris's capture it
 
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@MattЭллен +1
 
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1:29 PM
@Mitch It's either of the two. I prefer mine after thinking for ten minutes.
 
user19161
Oh dear, another Kris comment on my post! I must flee!
 
user19161
You know, I won't bother to reply to his comment.
 
harish.raj should get an upvote for deleting his post.
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Q: What is the specific nuance of "ask against"?

p.marinoPremise: English is not my native tongue. I am helping another non-native to translate as precisely possible a sentence: indicating that the question is asked against an awareness that the mother has recently been afflicted by illness (Context: the sentence comes from an Astrological rea...

How is that a premise? Are we expected to argue the point with him?
Careful, @JasonBourne: K to the R to the I to the S is in da house.
 
user19161
Wait, who just serial upvoted me again? Haven't they learnt a lesson?
 
user19161
Oh please, refine your skills first before you serial upvote!
 
user19161
1:41 PM
These will certainly be removed.
 
user19161
I have no idea who did it this time guys. I am really not in cahoots with them.
 
user19161
Oh, the second Kris comment for the day directed at me! Geezis!
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Is it a LEGO themed dinner party?
 
@KitFox Sadly no. That would be an awesome idea. Instead of a potluck, you each bring a lego kit, and we have to build something by the end of the night oh my god i'm totally going to propose this idea.
 
Oh my god that's a great idea.
Which reminds me, have you heard of Hacker Scouts?
 
1:50 PM
it sounds familiar
 
My boys will do this, I'm sure.
 
I will have to find a way to get my kids involved too
 
user19161
Very interesting that kit, jsb and mr.s each have two kids of the same age too.
 
We'll need a hacker space around here somewhere though.
 
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A: What is the exclamation "have at you" actually saying?

RobustoWebster's 3rd New Int'l Dictionary gives it as have at to go at or deal with, usu. hostilely <flops the morning bale of poetry upon my desk and I pull up my chair to have at them> —H. L. Mencken This is undoubtedly derived from the following sense of have: 10a to maneuver into a...

AH, yes. Kris is in da house. What would I do without his parasitic down votes?
 
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1:53 PM
@Robusto HAHAHAHAHA, OMG!
 
How does that merit an all-caps laugh?
 
user19161
@Robusto Sorry, I was laughing at the downvote.
 

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