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Ste

11:32 AM

Morning all.

RegDwigнt

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Q: Is or "verse" or a homonym of "verse" another word for versus?

I have heard a television news figure say what sounds like verse when it seems he means to say versus. Is this an alternate pronunciation, or is it a different word? If it's a different word, what is the spelling? I suspect it's a mistake, but it is MSNBC news talk show host, Chris Hayes, who ge...

neologisms

This question title just broke my brain.

Ste

@RegDwigнt Mine too....

RegDwigнt

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: Is or "verse" or a homonym of "verse" another word for versus? (no tags)

Ste

@RegDwigнt - I didn't get Before It Was Cool yesterday...

RegDwigнt

I didn't get a couple hats myself. Trying to figure it out now.

Before It Was Cool should be fixable retroactively.

Ste

11:36 AM

I created a new tag, updated its wiki and the question got a number of upvotes.

What did I miss?

RegDwigнt

Oh wait. You mean a different hat.

I am still drunk.

Sorrieh!

I thought we were talking about the warm hat.

hangs head in shame

@Ste do any other questions use the tag yet?

Ste

Not yet.

Is that a factor?

RegDwigнt

Well, that's the whole reason for the hat name.

You use a tag before others find it cool and use it.

badass

Now we have the "hat police" looking for people who game the system

Ste

Ahhh - okay, I need someone to create a question with the british-dialect tag.

RegDwigнt

11:38 AM

I am not sure if you can slap that tag onto another question yourself.

It would make sense if you'd have to wait till others pick it up.

But I do not know.

@badass where now? Is that what @Laure is doing here? :P

badass

Yep

RegDwigнt

The whole system is a game to begin with. It forces me, by design, to do things I'd otherwise not do.

badass

That is what I told them

RegDwigнt

And some hats are entirely unattainable without gaming. Guru on Meta? Of a tiny site that barely has 40 active contributors per day?

badass

They tried to shut me up by giving me bonus "trusted" points.... Whatever

RegDwigнt

11:42 AM

I mean, we're like in the top 10 by every metric imaginable, and even we struggle to find 40 active people.

@badass that only counts if you also get a bonus trusted hat.

Anonymous

@Laure Oh, what Victor Mair calls round-trip words!

Ste

Unix & Linux are catching up! Quick, view these to hand out random silvers to EL&U users!

RegDwigнt

Nah they can't be catching up.

Lemme see.

61 behind.

Was 40 yesterday, 20 the day before yesterday.

What's with the fearmongering?

Now, we are still behind Web Apps by 285. That is a tough one.

I don't think we'll be getting them. If anything, we together with them will pass some other site ahead of them.

badass

The competition is trying to scare is away >8(

RegDwigнt

Ah so BTW. I was saying. I didn't get a couple hats yesterday. So I think I figured out a couple more things as a result of that.

Ste

11:47 AM

Fearmongering facilitates fervent flurries.

Noah

Hi

RegDwigнt

I got 22 reps on FLU yesterday. Four upvotes for a question plus a +2 for an edit. No downvotes. But I didn't get the UpDo hat. So either you need upvotes on more than one post, or upvotes on an answer, or more than 20 reps in total (suggested edits not counting).

Noah

What is sytems in this example?

Power Control Systems Management?

Is it an adjective? Noun?

RegDwigнt

Head noun of a modifier.

Anonymous

Adjectives are never plural.

RegDwigнt

11:50 AM

The modifier is "Power Control Systems". The last word is the head word, somewhat unexpectedly.

Noah

And what is the modifier here?

Ha, I am faster.

is it correct?

It is fine.

Don't we need the possessive form here?

RegDwigнt

11:51 AM

No, why?

Anonymous

It's a NP in attributive position. It's representative of a trend in English toward NPs marked for number in attributive position

badass

!!wiki power control systems management

KitSox

@badass No result found

RegDwigнt

You have a Marketing Director, but you don't have a Marketing's Director.

Anonymous

Where previously they were unmarked for number (and thus always had the same form as singular, except with pluralia tantum)

Noah

11:52 AM

Right. But you don't have a Marketings Director

Ste

@noah - I have given you a kitty hat. :o)

Anonymous

The "singular" form is still predominant in attributive position

RegDwigнt

Anyway. I also got 26 reps on RLU. From four upvotes on different questions and three edits. But again, no hat. So. See above. It probably requires upvotes on answers, and/or more than 20 reps in a day from upvotes, where edits do not count.

Noah

So what is the difference between power control system management and that one?

Anonymous

Systems is plural and rules out a single system interpretation.

RegDwigнt

11:52 AM

@Noah that is very correct. As snailboat says, the singular is pretty much the norm.

But plural is not unheard of. I think we have a couple questions on that somewhere.

Noah

Can you redirect me to some?

Anonymous

They're more common in BrE than AmE; they're common in for example institution and job titles

RegDwigнt

I am thinking of what to search for...

Ice Girl

@badass hi please come to ELL. there is not a good place for asking my questions I'm confuse here thanks

badass

We are at ELU

Noah

11:54 AM

@Ste I am a blackbox, I have no head to put it on. So I don't know what to do with it.

Anonymous

Examples of institutional plurals include yours, or [ Parks ] Department, or [ heavy chemicals ] industry

Ice Girl

@badass sorry

Anonymous

Quirk et al. give "a [ soft drinks ] manufacturer" as an example where the plural indicates multiple kinds of drink

Anonymous

"A [ customs ] officer" as a pluralia tantum example

badass

No problem

RegDwigнt

11:56 AM

Sorry Noah I can't find it right now. I tried a bunch of different strings all to no avail. I think Cerberus answered one of the questions I am looking for, so perhaps I can ask him later today.

Anonymous

A couple interesting exceptions: trousers and scissors normally have no singular form, but they appear unmarked for number in attributive position in trouser press and scissor kick

RegDwigнt

Though he never remembers anything, that could be a problem.

Anonymous

But most genuine pluralia tantum appear in the plural in attributive position

Noah

@RegDwigнt Dogs are good at recalling.

Don't know why you would say that.

RegDwigнt

Well ask Cerberus what's the deal with that.

Perhaps two more heads is actually a handicap.

Anonymous

11:57 AM

He probably just forgets which brain he remembered stuff with.

RegDwigнt

Ha!

badass

He must eat a lot too

Anonymous

@Noah Was that enough information about attributive plurals?

Anonymous

You can look them up in your favorite grammar if you want to know more.

badass

Nobody has a favorite grammar :)

Ice Girl

12:00 PM

@badass please

Anonymous

@badass That's the saddest thing I've heard all evening.

badass

You said ELU

Anonymous

We're on a site for discussing the English language. Why wouldn't people here have favorite grammars?

Ice Girl

no English Language Learners

RegDwigнt

So. Now just let me finish my hat roundup with one more observation. Frosty, which is awarded at midnight, should, according to its description (no downvotes in a day) count for the day that just ended. But it does not. It counts for the next day, the one on which it's awarded. That means you won't be getting the three-hat hat if you have two other hats and then get Frosty. It won't count as three, it will count as 2, then 1.

Which sucks, frankly.

Anonymous

12:02 PM

Oh!

Anonymous

I got Frosty on the first day, I think.

badass

Ok give me a few minutes please @icegirl

RegDwigнt

@snailboat and technically you got him on the second.

Ice Girl

@badass np

RegDwigнt

But anyway, Frosty is not really the problem here, the three-hat hat is.

Anonymous

12:03 PM

@RegDwigнt Ha, yes, I should have said that.

Anonymous

Let's see where I got the Hat Trick.

Anonymous

ELL and ELU!

RegDwigнt

Basically you're only safe if you got the three-hat hat right away on the very first day. Because afterwards it gradually becomes more and more unattainable.

Anonymous

It's harder getting hats on Japanese Language (Formerly & Usage).

Anonymous

Oh, that makes sense

Anonymous

12:04 PM

Although there'll be some easy hats later, like "Post on Christmas"

RegDwigнt

And by "gradually" I mean pretty much "immediately".

True. You can save up your bounty hat for the occasion, too.

But the point is, at that point you're making a conscious effort already.

Anonymous

I've almost been hat-dethroned on ELL.

RegDwigнt

And last I heard that immediately counts as "cheating". :))))

Anonymous

Wow! I'm #28 on ELU

Anonymous

You guys are serious about your hats.

Anonymous

12:06 PM

And by "serious" I mean "entirely unintentionally getting many hats".

Noah

@snailboat Thanks. Yeah.

I have my favorite grammar but it's in latin.

Anonymous

Oh! I'm sorry, I meant favorite grammar of English.

Noah

So i have a hard time understanding it.

I see.

RegDwigнt

I'm now #6 on ELL, #3 on French, #1 on Russian, #4 on German, and #1 on ELU.

I think I'll have a look around Linguistics next.

Anonymous

I've been working through various books on grammar (but not strictly "grammars") in Japanese

Anonymous

12:08 PM

I have to say, given how many linguistics terms there are, it's exciting having to learn them in multiple languages at the same time.

Noah

I had one, but I left it somewhere in the midwest. I don't know how to ship it to CA.

Anonymous

Especially when there's no one-to-one mapping between them.

Anonymous

Oh, I thought you lived in England for some reason

Noah

No, I don't. I wish that was true.

LOL

Anonymous

English envy!

RegDwigнt

12:09 PM

@snailboat so you are tied with Kosmo, who is our hero. His fame will bleed straight right through onto you.

Anonymous

@RegDwigнt Yay!

Anonymous

Hat friends. Unbeknownst to Kosmo

Noah

I have no hats guys. I have got a pair of cat glasses that;s all.

Anonymous

That can be rectified.

Noah

Why is ELU so stingy?

Anonymous

12:11 PM

What do you want ELU to give you more freely?

RegDwigнt

@Noah you are very active in chat, but you should be a tad more active on the main site.

Noah

@snailboat a bundle of hats.

lol

RegDwigнt

Just leave a couple votes here and there, flag some crappy or outdated things, stuff like that.

Anonymous

@Noah Well, I see you have two starred messages.

Noah

@RegDwigнt I am bit lazy these days.

RegDwigнt

12:13 PM

And the hats will descend upon you.

Noah

I think you are right.

Anonymous

Now you have two-starred messages.

Noah

lol

RegDwigнt

@Noah well who knows, there might be a super-secret Lazy Hat. But if there isn't, you are not in the business of complaining!

Noah

Yeah, thanks for the generosity.

Anonymous

12:13 PM

I see you also have 805 profile views.

RegDwigнt

@snailboat he already got that hat.

Noah

@RegDwigнt Is there a communist hat?

Anonymous

Just a moment, I have to go check my vanity meter.

Noah

I want one.

Anonymous

@RegDwigнt But... but... now he has stars!

RegDwigнt

12:14 PM

@Noah don't know about you, but all my hats are communist hats.

Anonymous

Wow! I have over a hundred profile views.

Anonymous

I wonder who views my profile

Anonymous

I don't post too much on ELU.

RegDwigнt

Your parents.

Noah

I am sure they don't.

Anonymous

12:15 PM

That's kind of creepy. Being net.stalked by one's own parents

RegDwigнt

@Noah That's what they'd have you believe.

Holy moly. I have OVER 9000 profile views. Why the hell don't I also have OVER 9000 supporters for my LEGO project, then?

Noah

Right. But my parents don't really stop by here. I don't know about snail.

I have viewed your profile 8000 times.

RegDwigнt

That sounds about right.

Noah

You should be happy for that. The other 1000 were probably random parents.

RegDwigнt

Ha.

Point taken.

Anonymous

12:16 PM

My parents are in their 70s. My dad is retired and doesn't use the internet a lot at this point, I think. My mom is spending all her time learning Korean and Spanish

RegDwigнt

So she's on SLU and KLU, then.

Anonymous

You know, I told her about the Korean proposal at one point

RegDwigнt

Hm. I am #19 on Linguistics with just one hat.

More to the point, I will be #1 in a minute with just one edit.

Noah

Gotta go

bye

no hat, no chat.

Anonymous

Linguistics isn't very hatted, then?

Noah

12:19 PM

bye

Anonymous

The leader on Japanese has 8 hats.

RegDwigнt

@snailboat the top 10 people combined have 22 hats between them. 131 hats in total.

More to the point, Jeff Atwood is in the top three, with just as many hats as @jsbձոգչ, who holds a degree.

Fear the power of the GMAT!

Anonymous

Oh, that post about Japanese needs Vance 2009 and Labrune 2012

Anonymous

I'm up to 18 hats on ELL. #2 has 17 hats, so I'm going to be dethroned shortly, I bet!

KitFox

Hi.

RegDwigнt

12:24 PM

Basically pretty much the entire top 20 on Linguistics is SE employees with their Mod hats. It has to be seen to be believed.

Hello Kitty!

KitFox

Wow, I'm tied for #20 on Ling and I haven't been there in probably a year.

RegDwigнt

There we go. I'm #1 on Linguistics as well.

Anonymous

A hat coup!

KitFox

Of course, I'm tied with a few hundred people or so.

RegDwigнt

That's #6 on ELL, #4 on German, #3 on French, #1 on Russian, ELU and Linguistics.

Okay, which site next?

KitFox

12:26 PM

Take the easy pickings.

RegDwigнt

Gonna get them all! Hatémon!

KitFox

I never did get my Eureka. Anybody figure that out?

RegDwigнt

Nope. But it's ubiquitous now. In the global charts, that is. Not here.

KitFox

So other people have figured it out.

Oh, I do have Upboated, but no sock.

I guess I have to answer a new question?

RegDwigнt

I guess.

KitFox

12:29 PM

And the Full House...I need a couple more votes for that.

RegDwigнt

Looks like all stuff has to be new. Except for stuff that's expressly labeled as old. Like Link and Stallman.

Anonymous

I'm #59 network-wide! Yay

RegDwigнt

I'm still in the top 5, but only thanks to getting some hats on other sites.

Would have been impossible to keep up while staying on ELU.

KitFox

I only have a couple more here that are even likely.

I'm debating branching out. Writers is pretty empty.

RegDwigнt

Yeah the problem with getting hats quick is that you then have two weeks worth of getting no hats at all.

KitFox

12:32 PM

I could maybe get some hats easy, maybe not.

RegDwigнt

@KitFox oh that's a good one. I even have some answers there...

Let me see.

KitFox

I might be able to get bunny ears there.

RegDwigнt

Just a quick update on the quick updates I was giving earlier.

40 mins ago, by RegDwigнt

Anyway. I also got 26 reps on RLU. From four upvotes on different questions and three edits. But again, no hat. So. See above. It probably requires upvotes on answers, and/or more than 20 reps in a day from upvotes, where edits do not count.

KitFox

But today is Christmas with my nephews, so I'm just hanging out here for a bit while the coffee brews.

RegDwigнt

31 mins ago, by RegDwigнt

So. Now just let me finish my hat roundup with one more observation. Frosty, which is awarded at midnight, should, according to its description (no downvotes in a day) count for the day that just ended. But it does not. It counts for the next day, the one on which it's awarded. That means you won't be getting the three-hat hat if you have two other hats and then get Frosty. It won't count as three, it will count as 2, then 1.

Keep those in mind.

KitFox

12:33 PM

Huh?

RegDwigнt

Yes.

KitFox

Oh. For on Writers.

RegDwigнt

Tricky stuff is tricky.

@KitFox Well, Writers or any site.

KitFox

Yeah. OK.

Will do, boss.

I think I'm only 4 hats behind you.

RegDwigнt

We could be topping the charts across the board. Like Kitty and Clyde.

Laure

12:35 PM

@snailboat Thanks for the word, I was looking for it and just couldn't find one. In French we call them mots voyageurs but I knew translating it into English wouldn't do because "travelling words" would have been understood as words pertaining to the lexical field of travelling.

RegDwigнt

Except I'll probably get bored soon and give up after getting in the top 10 on a mere twenty sites or so.

KitFox

@RegDwigнt Absolutely. I can't believe I'm #8 on the leaderboard.

RegDwigнt

I think I'll go make me some tea. I haven't dranken tea in years. I want tea.

KitFox

That makes me want moar hatz.

CU!

Anonymous

@Laure I love the concept of round-trip words. Although I unfortunately can't think of many (any?) that went from French to English and back.

RegDwigнt

12:36 PM

@KitFox well you'll still be getting some hats from bounties, no? I forget. I'm wearing my umbrella but don't think you have yours yet.

KitFox

Right! I forgot! I was waiting on folks who wanted the IG-88.

RegDwigнt

Speaking of which, that is a prime example of how it's all just a game. They make a hat that can simply be bought.

Anonymous

Bought? Which hat is that?

RegDwigнt

@KitFox I want the IG-88. I do not want the bounty hunter.

Anonymous

The bounty hat(s)?

RegDwigнt

12:38 PM

@snailboat the umbrella.

@snailboat yes.

Bounty hunter is easy to get later on.

Anonymous

I got that by accident. I've been giving lots of bounties on ELL because I can't think of anything else to do with my rep

RegDwigнt

IG88 is harder.

Anonymous

It's hard to find enough posts to downvote.

Anonymous

At this point, I'd need to find thousands to spend it all

RegDwigнt

Yeah I've been giving out three (or is it four already) bounties here as well. And prior to that I had never awarded a single bounty on anything anywhere ever.

But tea!

AFK

Anonymous

12:39 PM

How do you get the IG-88 hat?

Anonymous

I've been jealously eyeing certain users sporting head robots.

RegDwigнt

You try to get a bounty but fail.

Dec 18 at 21:02, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

it MUST be bounty-related. IG-88 was hired to catch Han Solo and followed Boba Fett to cloud city where Fett had him destroyed.

Anonymous

What counts as failing?

RegDwigнt

The awarder gets the Umbrella, the winner Boba, all losers IG88.

@snailboat posting an answer and getting a couple upvotes but not getting the bounty.

Anonymous

Do I have to get the upvotes before the bounty ends?

RegDwigнt

12:43 PM

I would think so. But I do not know.

Anonymous

The five-dollar word for this is sandhi. — RegDwigнt 2 days ago

RegDwigнt

I think I'll move to the Linguistics chat for a day. Everybody is welcome to drop by and give them a nice activity boost.

Anonymous

It's also been analyzed (but not popularly) as epenthesis

Anonymous

They've got that in-chat feed bot thing. I hate that thing.

RegDwigнt

@snailboat the last epenthesis I bought cost a mere two bucks. It also held for no longer than a week.

@snailboat together we can thrash and lambaste it. TO THE GROUND.

RegDwigнt

1:03 PM

@KitFox you are expressly invited as well. We already have a nice discussion going, but I keep getting distracted with tea.

Cerberus seems to be asleep.

Laure

@snailboat List (slowly) starting, please visit and you'll learn some, you might make discoveries. We don't mind entries in English, we're very flexible and polyglots.

Anonymous

@Laure I did study French for some years, although I'd never claim to be good at it :-)

Laure

@snailboat Posts can be bilingual as well... we all speak English over there although we do appreciate those who make an effort to try their French (I wonder if that could have one of those secret hats attributed next winterbash round). I've stopped having a go at it to give more people to get the Stallman hat but The French aren't much interested in hats.

RegDwigнt

Yeah I was wondering about that the other day when I posted in English.

But I just ne parle qu'un petit peu, so I thought just sioux me.

Anonymous

The great thing about typing French is getting to put spaces around your punctuation. That and guillemets.

RegDwigнt

1:17 PM

Technically they should be half spaces or even quarter spaces.

Anonymous

I always type full spaces.

RegDwigнt

I am sure if @tchrist were posting on French, he'd properspace the hell out of it.

Anonymous

Sometimes I even use　　　　　　　　ＦＵＬＬ−ＷＩＤＴＨ　ＳＰＡＣＥＳ

RegDwigнt

@snailboat yeah me too I'm no tchrist. Though I try.

Laure

@snailboat You can customize your keyboard... But I do admit French keyboards are silly and not practical. De You know why they're so unpractical, there's a whole story behind it. Will try and find it somewhere on the web

Anonymous

1:18 PM

@Laure Oh, that would be interesting to hear

Anonymous

The main thing I know about them is the AZERTY thing.

RegDwigнt

Seconded.

I am on a QWERTZ/ЙЦУКЕНГ right now.

Anonymous

I used to have a Japanese keyboard one of my coworkers gave me when he came over from Japan, but now I have a clicky American keyboard. It's clicky!

Anonymous

Having a Japanese keyboard doesn't really help with typing Japanese, anyway.

RegDwigнt

I used to type a lot of Japanese. But then that helper application fell prey to a system update, or machine change or something.

And I never installed it again.

I really should.

Laure

1:25 PM

@snailboat @RegDwigнt well at first the keys on all mechanical keyboards were arranged in such a manner that the typists wouldn't muddle the keys when typing fast. But at the computer age it's no longer a key factor and I think I've heard a story about that but can't remember it. Going to check.

RegDwigнt

@Laure oh but that bit is an urban legend. I thought it got debunked for good?

I mean, doesn't take much to debunk it. I've used a typewriter myself as a child, and the keys would muddle all the time. And I wasn't a quick typist by any stretch of imagination.

Laure

@RegDwigнt I don't think the thing about key muddling is an urban legend, yes they did muddle (started typing using a 1930's typewriter) but they'd have muddled even more? There's a question of balance between fingers and arms I think as well. - but I've checked and I had a false memory. It seems everybody resisted to adopt a unified keyboard each clinging to their old habits, not just the French. I'm sure they know on "whatever computer".stackexchange

RegDwigнt

@Laure a quick typist will always end up a quick typist. No matter what system you force him to learn.

Think music instruments.

You can arrange and rearrange things every which way you like, but virtuosos will always emerge on every instrument.

The way I remember it, there was exactly one producer who indeed at one point tried to slow people down deliberately. Only to learn what I just said. But somehow that one guy's story got its end cut off and the rest blown out of all proportion to become the one and only way to tell the story.

Laure

@RegDwigнt A good instrument will give a better sound even to a virtuoso. An ergonomic keyboard (and the azerty isn't) will give a faster typist

Cerberus

2:10 PM

Morning.

Night.

Is it?

ten pm

More like evening?

Yeah.

2:19 PM

It is dark like hell, but it's still just three p.m.

Cerberus

But we're past the solstice!

EnglishMaster

Shit, I had this amazing pun in my head this morning and forgot while I was working

My coworker said, it will come to your head again when you are stoned

RegDwigнt

@Laure here is an excellent overview on the subject. I'd have linked to it right away, but I thought it was only available in Russian.

> typing on a typewriter with letterkeys arranged in the alphabetical order was not that easy. By the way, one of the particular features of the key layout was that all Latin vowels stood in the upper row (except for the letter A, but it was still there in the French layout: AZERTY).

> The QWERTY layout was exactly designed to speed up typing: at that time typists used to type with two fingers; the blind 10-finger method (touch typing) was not used until the late 1890s

> We can presume that searching for the best letterkey layout, the inventors consulted composers. The fact that the ижсйем layout is in some ways similar to the Russian type case is evident (which allows one to go further and draw conclusions regarding the similarity of the QWERTY layout to the Latin type case —comparing them is all it takes to see that, although this similarity is not mentioned in literature).

Emphasis added.

And of course, and most to the point,

> Nobody knows the precise history of the origin of this sequence of keys, while Sholes didn’t leave any records.

Cerberus

2:42 PM

Why do some people prefer Dvorak?

Anonymous

@Cerberus I don't know. I tried it for a while, never broke 100wpm, switched back.

Anonymous

Maybe if I'd been more persistent...

Cerberus

I see.

RegDwigнt

A colleague of mine had not just Dvorak, but the whole keyboard was two craters of letters. The hands went deep in there.

He typed the hell out of that thing.

I'd be afraid to get near.

Well, I did try it. And it didn't work, but that is not saying anything, as all new things are new.

Something like this except without the middle part, I believe.

Just posted the first image I found, to get the idea across, don't want to spend time searching on.

Robusto

@Cerberus You have such restaurants on places like Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. whistles them from A Summer Place

@RegDwigнt If you grew up on that keyboard it would be fine. If not, not so much.

RegDwigнt

2:54 PM

Story of all things.

Laure

@Cerberus French Wikipedia's entry on Dvorak keyboard lists advantages and disadvantages, the English version doesn't seem to do so.

Robusto

All I know is, I don't have to think about querty, and I would have to think about Dvorak.

RegDwigнt

3:10 PM

I must think up five more questions for RLU.

And I can't think of one.

Yesterday I posted five in rapid succession because I was damn drunk.

It all came to me naturally.

I had inspiration.

I suppose that is why inspiration comes from spiritus.

Gigili

OK we got it, you're trying to imply that you can speak over five languages quite fluently.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Scary.

Gigili

Globally native

Ugh

RegDwigнt

Nobally glative is worse.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Never underestimate the confidence born of alcohol overdose.

RegDwigнt

3:20 PM

@Robusto I never underestimate it when I'm drunk. I only underestimate it when I'm not.

There might be a pattern here, but I am not sure what it is.

Cerberus

@Laure Nice.

Gigili

Try my pattern recognition software for free.

RegDwigнt

Try my borshch for ten dollars, plus shipping.

its_me

Hello, is there a better way to frame this sentence?

> XXX is a news company, blah, blah, blah. Its mission is to offer in-depth reporting and opinion from a liberal perspective.

or is it correct?

(I am just not very sure)

Robusto

Leave out the XXX and the blah blah blah.

Anyway, there's nothing wrong with the bolded sentence.

its_me

3:29 PM

@Robusto Yes, that's what I meant. I am talking about the emphasized text

@Robusto Is it good?

Robusto

It's OK. Unobjectionable.

its_me

@Robusto okay, thank you!

RegDwigнt

3:50 PM

Hey tchrist. Everyone's in the Linguistics chat. And the Writers chat. And all over the place. That's why it's so quiet here right now.

RegDwigнt

4:44 PM

I found a hat for Jasper.

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, yesterday, by Undo the Snowman

Doge hat: delete your account because you can't get doge hat.

Johan Larsson

in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 3 hours ago, by StackedCrooked

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Stack Exchange

5:24 PM

Limerick Machine: There once was a man on a horse Who was worried about his divorce The papers were in She was leav…

posted on December 22, 2013 by sgdi

There once was a man on a horse Who was worried about his divorce The papers were in She was leaving him He so wished he had some recourse

Anonymous

Yay.

badass

Another hat?

Anonymous

Oh, I don't know. I don't keep track

Anonymous

All I know is I'm wearing a boat on my head.

badass

:D

RegDwigнt

5:32 PM

279 behind Web Apps.

badass

They probably have web app bots running around getting hats...

RegDwigнt

5:54 PM

Ha, good point.

badass

Thanks for the edit :)

RegDwigнt

NP

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