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Mitch

19:35

@KitFox Gumption? Verve? Bull-headedness? Head-strong? Strong-willed? Willy-nilly? Nil pro sequi? Prosecco? Grappa?

No no not forthright. You meant a half moon.

Cerberus

@RegDwighт ...

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MετάEd

20:45

@Mitch Not a fortnight. You're thinking of a king of Norway.

RegDwighт

21:07

english.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/34730

Hilarious

I especially liked the part where John Lawler approved it.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@MετάEd not Fortinbras. You're thinking of the large US Army installation in North Carolina.

tchrist

@Cerberus You stay up till ungodly hours, doncha just?

Mitch

@RegDwighт "why is this?" indeed.

Gah! I used that word again!

tchrist

21:23

A: What does "side four" mean?

how to trap wild pigs-build a long fence on one side, and place free corn, then fence again at 90 degrees, place more free corn, then build a third side, at 90 degrees to the other end, making 3 sides , place more free corn, then place more free corn and build the fourth side while they are enjoy...

here piggy piggy piggy piggy piggy piggy! here piggy!

corny and piggy

so weird

MετάEd

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Fort Bragg? No, you're thinking of that Canadian mens quartet.

tchrist

Drugs today just aren’t like when I was a kid.

Mitch

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 No no not Fort in Bragg. You meant to say "Ireland forever".

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@MετάEd Four Ehs Into Barbershop?

tchrist

If the present tense of couldn’t is can’t, then how come the present tense of mightn’t isn’t mayn’t?

Mitch

21:28

It ayen't?

tchrist

It may be, mayn’t it?

Don’t you need more than 4 sides in a piggly-wiggle box? Otherwise it’s just a piggly-wiggly corral.

And the problem with piggly-wiggly corrals is teaching them to sing in the first place.

MετάEd

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Ha! It's the Four Lads actually.

The ones who made Istanbul (Not Constantinople) famous ... not the people you might think did.

tchrist

@MετάEd There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Mitch

@MετάEd Oh. them.

@tchrist a pentagonal pen?

@MετάEd the Turks?

MετάEd

@tchrist No, no, not men of renown. You're thinking of that rock band.

@Mitch The Four Lads, as I said.

Mitch

21:37

As if I've ever heard of them.

MετάEd

@Mitch No, no, not pentagonal pen. You're thinking of that celtic band.

Mitch

@MετάEd Man this is hard. The clancy brothers? The Pogues? U2? Clannad?

tchrist

At least they got away with bare children back then.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@MετάEd I knew that! :D

Sorry, I was off cleaning the cat box.

Mitch

Also, aren't everybody the children of -women-? I mean the dudes were involved I suppose.

tchrist

21:40

everybody aren’t

Mitch

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 notes new excuse for -anything-.

tchrist

Not Of Mice and Men, but Of Pigs and Men.

Mitch

"Why weren't you at my funeral? I was hurt." "Oh sorry, I was cleaning the cat box. Wait, -your- funeral?"

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

heh

tchrist

Where PIGS = People In Germanic Settlements and MEN = Mediterranean Ethnic Neighbors

Mitch

21:41

"Also, what hurt you? I'm guessing your own funeral didn't feel so great."

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Love lies bleeding in my hand.

Mitch

Yech.

tchrist

That time of the month again, eh?

> Poul Anderson’s ‘Of PIGS and MEN’. Précis: People Inhabiting Germanic Settlements GOOD: Mediterranean Ethnic Neighbours BAD.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Ha!

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kicks chat

tchrist

Who the heck is closevoting this for nonsensically indefensible reasons?

Q: How to spell 'aumenace'?

I'm very dyslectic, and English is not my native language, I'm looking for the spelling of a word that I'm pretty sure exists, but I'm starting to have my doubts as I can't seem to find it anywhere. The word sounds like (I think) au-menace, with 'au' as in 'audience', and then menace. Or maybe it...

single-word-requests

Probably whoever silently downvoted my answer, but sheesh!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

21:53

I can't remember the last time I closevoted.

tchrist

Would the people closevoting as “General Reference” kindly explain how in the world the OP is expected to look a word whose spelling he does not know? Kindly show us the General Reference that allows for the necessary lazy/approximate/fuzzy phonetic matching, because I’d really like to use it—and I bet a lot of other people would too. Even better, would the people closevoting as “Primarily Opinion-Based” kindly explain how it is that spelling has come to be an unanswerable matter primarily of mere opinion, impression, conjecture, hypothesis, attitude, speculation, and viewpoint? — tchrist 5 mins ago

I just don’t understand.

But at least I asked kindly. :)

Today I learned that all sentences must contain an object:

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A: Are commands complete sentences?

Imperatives are grammatically correct...as for the complete sentence part of the question, I will say no. I did see John Lawler's comment Provided they're grammatical imperatives, yes, they're complete sentences. Imperatives and Interrogatives are different kinds of sentences, but not incomp...