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Martha is three votes shy of a gold badge and a hat.
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A: Is there a word or phrase for the feeling you get after looking at a word for too long?

MarthaªEureka! Ok, so it's not a single word, but it's what I was trying to think of: Semantic Satiation Edit: Found a languagehat discussion on this topic.

It even says "Eureka!". She should get the Eureka hat for that.
 
as so often is the case with these request, I find that I have already contributed my vote
 
when do you think is a good time of day to ask on SO for tumbleweed?
 
Then again, some people like to claim that ago is a postposition not an adverb. “Three years ago” and “five miles away” have much in common.
 
@Hugo I think it's more about tags than time.
Ask about Turbo Pascal 5.5.
No one will give a damn.
 
So have I.
 
1:03 PM
@RegDwigнt haha, I think I have that somewhere
 
So have we all
I voted on that answer on May 24th 2011. I wonder why then.
 
Yeah, May 25th would have been more appropriate. Tsk.
Brits with no manners. Horror.
 
@tchrist s/there/their/
 
@Matt I will keep that in mind. Thanks. ;)
 
@MattЭллен Thanks.
 
1:08 PM
np :)
 
SO has 326k Tumbleweeds compared to 31k Promoter (offer a bounty on own Q)
 
@RegDwigнt hang head in shame
 
@MattЭллен Somebody downdinged me. Probably Kringle the Ineffable. Well, just Effable.
 
indeed
 
Ste
I have a theory about Eureka.
 
1:11 PM
@tchrist his is the only comment
@Ste let's hear it!
 
@MattЭллен He apparently doesn’t like me citing the OED to counter somebody else’s toy dictionary.
 
@Ste I am listening but not hearing!
 
I see there’s no love for minges around here. Maybe they thought I meant midges.
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Q: Where does the word “minge” come from?

tchristThe slang term minge in the sense of quim dates from the beginning of the 20th century. However, neither the OED nor Etymonline has any idea where it came from. Here are two of the OED’s citations: 1936 J. Curtis Gilt Kid viii. 80 — I’m going to give you a kick in the minge if you don’t shut u...

 
BTW yesterday was a sad day because I realized I would never have the bunny ears. Ten questions? WTF.
 
@RegDwigнt Yeah.
 
1:14 PM
@tchrist so what was the new tag you created? Aboriginee-English or something?
I want to add it somewhere now.
 
Which should be but I am an idiot.
 
The eurekian theory @ste ?
 
@tchrist That is a separate issue which will be handed separately.
We don't want to mess with it now.
 
That’s what I figured.
There are two on .
 
If you could all start following , I'd be much obliged. I think that's how "before it was cool" works. I need some critical mass of followers to follow the thing I was following first.
 
1:17 PM
The eureka conspiracy theory.
 
And 5 on the other one, but I put them there myself.
 
390 behind Web Apps.
 
toodle pip
 
@MattЭллен let's try it, but I don't think that's it. now following.
 
1:26 PM
How the heck do I follow a tag?
 
subscribe
 
Or do you mean add to my favorite tags...
 
good question...
 
Anonymous
I added it to my favorites. I just assumed that was the right thing to do
 
Follow it with your eyes, QED.
 
Anonymous
1:27 PM
I've never followed a tag before.
 
if you subscribe, it increases follow count
 
@snailboat what favorites?
@Hugo where do I subscribe and where is the count?
I am so lost right now.
 
Anonymous
I can't find a subscribe link.
 
hover over the tag
 
Anonymous
@RegDwigнt There's a right-column module that says "favorite tags"
 
1:27 PM
Subscribe means use the RSS. Favourites colours the question list.
 
it's obvious! hover over a tag and subscribe to follow
 
Anonymous
Oh geez, it sent me email!
 
subscribe means email, right? RSS is another option
 
@snailboat ah yes, then the two of us mean the same.
 
Anonymous
@Hugo Obvious to other people. To tag-hoverers!
 
1:28 PM
</sarcastic>
network leader Manishearth got "before it was cool" on Information Security.SE. If we think it's related to tags, relevant activity is that he added a new clickjacking tag to two questions: security.stackexchange.com/users/7497/manishearth?tab=activity
that tag has just 1 follower
dunno if we can see who, but perhaps it's our man?
anyway, he also is top asker and also one of the top answerers. relevant? dunno
all questions are also 0% unanswered. relevant? perhaps
I created the rude-words tags here, and followed it and added it to my favourites
0% unanswered / I'm top asker / not top answerer*
* but I did add the tag to another where I do have most votes
no hat
now, that page has: "Only non community-wiki questions and answers are included in these totals (updated daily)"
so perhaps tomorrow I'll have the hat? dunno
 
Caption on a cartoon in this week's The New Yorker showing a wedding ceremony: "Steve invalidates his wedding vows through the clever use of homophones."
 
"eye dew"
 
I do
 
What about "I plight thee my troth" ?
 
@Mitch "If your honour will observe closely the video recording of the ceremony, you will see some moistness of eyes upon the defendant"
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1:44 PM
@Robusto I didn’t know phones had orientations these days.
 
It's legal in most states now, I think.
 
@tchrist most phones have landscape and portrait orientation nowadays
 
homophophobia is uncool
 
@Ste howsabout that eureka theory?
 
@Mitch You mean homophonophobia.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Nope.
 
Only on the main site.
 
Hello
I have a quick question which is probably not good for the main site
I need a list of random words for test purposes and I remember that there was some website which showed a "rain" of colored words which slowly scrolled through the screen
I thought it was Wordnik, but I was there, and couldn't find the function. Did I make a mistake in the navigation, did they remove the function, or is my memory wrong and I went to the completely wrong site?
 
Hi rummy!
 
1:55 PM
Hi Kitty!
 
Hi Kit! You've got a fancy hat there, I like the way the fox peeks from under it :)
 
Thanks.
Sorry I can't help with your question.
 
yes, it is a strange feeling with the question.
I don't even need to find the exact service. I can surely find other random word choosers. But I have this visual memory of it, and now my brain is bugging me to find where it was, because it wants to see it again.
 
@rumtscho You could ask Wordnik directly twitter.com/wordnik
 
@Hugo Interesting idea, never thought of that. I don't have a twitter account, but they probably have other channels too.
 
2:02 PM
Hey there, Sluggo, how’s it hangin’?
 
Holy moly, I didn't know we were #5 by traffic.
 
Muy curioso.
 
@RegDwigнt someone came asking for traffic data yesterday
 
@RegDwigнt This explains all those do-nothing gold visitation badges.
 
@rumtscho Wordnik do have random words in their API so it could easily have been from them: developer.wordnik.com weblog.bocoup.com/making-a-rapbot
 
2:06 PM
hoverover
That's a new word, enjoy it.
What are you gawping at
 
@Reg Enquiring minds wants to know . . . .
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Q: File kept on/at the server?

KrantiI want to write that I have saved the file on the server. What should I write, on the server or at the server?

I’ll be very disappointed if we have an MO mutation in progress.
 
Ste
I think Eureka is asking a question, getting x votes and then deleting your question.
Give me a few more votes on my squiffy question and I'll try
 
Discplined?
 
@Ste Oh, that’s hard to find!
 
Oh, no, that's an answer, I think.
 
2:15 PM
Because you can only delete it if it lacks answers.
 
Ste
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Q: What is the etymology of "squiffy"?

SteI am planning on get squiffy this evening, and then I wondered where that word had come from. Oxford Dictionaries has the following: British informal   1slightly drunk:     I feel quite squiffy Can anyone shed any light on this word's origin? Online references I've checked have nothin...

Ah right.
Hmmm - could be,
I've done loads on Area51 this morning and not got the "Before it was Cool" hat
 
I wonder what its vote count must be?
 
Ste
I'm not sure @tchrist but it would explain why we can't find it on people who have the hat.
 
True.
 
Do those people have a deleted question?
 
2:18 PM
Once it’s out of the Recently Deleted list on the 10k page, only mods can check that.
 
Oh.
Right.
 
And we have no Eurekas on ELU, IIRC.
It is tough to check when a new hat is award for somebody else, or we could coordinate inspections.
We can test the theory easily enough, but we don’t know how many votes it might need first.
 
So you think 'delete an upvoted question?'
 
I can check the Recently Deleted list on SO, but I’d need a fairly new Eureka to key off of.
@KitFox I don’t know. That’s Ste’s hypothesis.
The problem is that it probably needs some vote threshold, and we don’t know what.
 
Well, how about asking a question, having it upvoted +3 then deleting it before it is answered?
 
2:22 PM
Could I have an upvote to test bunny ears? I now have 10 (unheld) questions: english.stackexchange.com/questions/142716/…
 
We can always undelete it for more votes.
 
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Q: Where did the word “quim” come from?

tchristBoth the OED and Etymonline offer no clue as to origin of the slang term quim, meaning minge. The OED’s earliest citations are from the 18th, which isn’t quite as old as Adam, but has certainly been around for a long time. Here are two of its later citations: 1966 P. Willmott Adolescent Boys ...

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Q: Where does the word “snogging” come from?

tchristWhere does the word snogging come from, in the sense of canoodling? I’m looking for it etymology, not for its connotation or phonoaesthetic properties, as the answer of the other question provides. The OED says that its origin is unknown, as does Etymonline. The latter claims that the word “is s...

The latter has a close vote on it, the former not.
 
(Thanks.)
 
Ha, @Matt asked about canoodling ages ago.
 
I’ll try for 3, and if that doesn’t work, we lather, rinse, repeat.
 
2:24 PM
nods Very good, sir.
 
Say goodbye to quim.
 
worth a try, but I don't see how it relates to the clues
 
I bet it won’t run till my reps are lost upon deletion.
@Hugo “Figured it out” — so the question is no longer needed.
 
I see...
 
16 more votes here will get me guru badge on meta and attendant hat.
 
2:27 PM
Uff, I am starting to see a problem with Wordnik
 
then you will be the enlightened one :-)
 
I got a list of random words from somewhere else, and didn't know all of them. So I thought, I still have a Wordnik tab open, let's look them up there
So the first word was gurners. Definition: "plural of gurner"
I type gurner into the search box (no visible way to click through to it) and get a new definition. "A person who performs at gurning".
 
@Robusto I’m not supposed to vote often, only early.
 
Third step, gurning -> "An alternative spelling of girning"
girning is more helpful, "A light-hearted competition in which people girn (make elaborate faces) through a horse collar; most popular in rural parts of England."
and after looking up girn too, I finally know that my word means people who partake in snarling competitions for humorous purposes. Phew. If all dictionaries were like this, I would still not have finished my highschool essay assignments.
</rant>
 
@Hugo Ever get your binky?
 
2:35 PM
damn you robocop hat, how will I ever get it here?
 
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A: After 13 years in the 21st century, what conclusion have we come to regarding the short forms of the names of the years?

RobustoWe use the term "thousand" (mostly without the "and" for the sake of brevity) when citing the full year: Two thousand one Two thousand nine And we use "oh" before the single digit for the short form: Oh-five Oh-two 2011 provides a unique challenge. I hear it split fairly evenly be...

Revivalist opportunity.
 
They still haven’t docked me for my lost quim.
 
Some of the mechanics of these hats remain a mystery.
 
True dat.
 
Ah, shit. I misread the qualifications for revivalist. It has to be a first answer scoring two or more.
grumbles
 
Ste
2:42 PM
@Robusto - there is a query on data for revival candidates
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Wowie.
That must have been a lot of work.
 
@Ste Lotta false positives there.
 
@Robusto Interestingly, nobody says twenty-twelve in Dutch, even though everybody says nineteen-twelve.
 
@Ste Are you sure you got the right query? I can't find an answerless question.
 
It's always tweeduizend twaalf in Dutch.
And all the years from 2000.
 
2:47 PM
@Cerberus Twenty all by itself is problematic. Pronouncing it requires a lot more work than, say, nineteen—or any of the teens, for that matter.
 
Hmm you think so?
Two stops?
 
@Cerberus Is that where the tweedle beetles battle?
 
Hmm?
 
@tchrist I like the sound of mine better
 
@Cerberus Rounding the lips immediately after /t/ is hard.
 
Ste
2:48 PM
@Robusto - It needs to be the [first answer that scores 2 or more].
 
You have quim, minge squiffy and snog, I have homophophobia.
 
Ste
Not [the first answer] that scores 2 or more
 
Someone please start that before I decide to edit it.
 
In speech, duizend may sound almost like duis, and -tien may sound almost like -ti, so 2013 sounds like tweeduisderti is you pronounce it quickly. Still 4 syllables...
 
22 hours ago, by tchrist
 
2:49 PM
@Cerberus I don't pronounce it like that at -all-.
 
@Robusto Hmm I suppose, but we have no trouble with starting all our years with twee-.
@Mitch Then you need urgent practice!
 
@Robusto Have you twied more twaining?
 
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A: Emails with Attachments

RobustoOr you could simply, and more to the point, just say See attachments.

OK, here's one.
 
@tchrist Ahah.
 
Ste
@Robusto - you have my vote.
 
2:52 PM
My weasel will never go gold. I am going to have to get somebody to redditit.
 
@Cerberus That is because you are all twee fellows.
 
@Robusto We have a special word in English for “all twee”: both.
 
@Robusto If that is your impression of me...I can live with that.
By the way, you thought you got difficult questions on ELU?
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Q: தமிழில் வேதியல் பண்பின் காரணம் என்ன

arun kumar non asciiவணக்கம், "அட்டாலும் பால்சுவையிற் குன்றா தளவளாய் நட்டாலும் நண்பல்லார் நண்பல்லர் கெட்டாலும் மேன்மக்கள் மேன்மக்க ளேசங்கு சுட்டாலும் வெண்மை தரும்".............................[மூதுரை-4] "சங்கு சுட்டாலும் வெண்மை தரும்" இதன் வேதியல் அடிப்படை காரணம் என்ன ?

 
Ste
@Robusto - Stand by for hattage!
 
Danke!
 
2:53 PM
@Robusto That doesn't make sense. Are you sure that's an answer to the question? flagged as 'crazy town'.
 
@tchrist We have alletwee but also beide(n) where appropriate.
 
@Cerberus How can both be appropriate?
 
Anyone here still needs the I'm Not Listening secret hat?
 
Hmm, one more gets me necromancer. Is there a hat for that?
 
@Robusto yes.
 
2:54 PM
@Cerberus Is one a determiner and the other not, or a pronoun or some such?
 
Bushido. Just like last year.
 
Ste
@Robusto - yes, Ghost of Winterbash Past
 
@tchrist If you put them after "x and y went [beide(n)|alletwee] to Moscow", you can use either.
 
@Cerberus Well, at least you didn’t say you could use both.
 
Heh.
You can't use them both together...
 
Ste
2:56 PM
HatChat - Can I get some votes on this: english.stackexchange.com/a/130391/20739 for gold hat, please?
 
@Reg I think Tristan_r and Tristan must be the same user, and need merging.
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A: Correct pronunciation of "TT"?

Tristan r May I say the tt spelling the same way, or does that only work for a single t? That will depend on which English you speak. tchrist mentioned that it's in most North American and some Antipodean dialects of English. It's not normally the same in the English of England and the rest of the...

 
One more vote needed for attachments and necro.
 
@tchrist You can say alletwee the girls went to Moscow, and beide girls went to Moscow. But neither alletwee x and y nor beide(n) x and y.
 
@tchrist I'm not seeing them. You sure they are registered users? Besides, I can't merge no more. Only devs can.
@tchrist Yeah unregistered.
 
Aww they took that away?
 
2:58 PM
Maybe he forgot his passy?
 
@Ste Two to go now.
 
@RegDwigнt It's what you used to deal with N, wasn't it?
 
@Cerberus long long time ago. I can still remember how the music used to make me smile.
 
C'mon, people, one more for attachments. It's for the children.
 
Aww.
 
Ste
2:59 PM
@Robusto - Yep, although the accepted answer needs 3 more too!
 
@Robusto the fourth was mine already, sorry.
 

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