English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Bradd Szonye

00:15

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Q: Single term for "elephants going berserk"

Is there any single term for "Elephants going berserk"? Can we say that the elephant got wild and started destroying whatever is in its path? Is there any term for that? Hope you understand my question...

single-word-requests

Who knew that there actually is a specific term for elephants going berserk.

Johan Larsson

Would rampage be a fit?

Bradd Szonye

Yes, and that's the top-voted answer.

But apparently there's also a specific word for this (musth) which is essentially Vulcan mating rage (for elephants)

We get so many questions that make me think, You can't seriously expect English to have a word for this specific thing. And this was one of them. Until I saw that it does.

Johan Larsson

nice

Bradd Szonye

Darnit, I can't find a question that I actually want to answer.

I always feel bad when I have a negative-reputation day because I've found stuff to downvote but nothing good to answer.

tchrist

I reached the same conclusion an hour or so ago.

Bradd Szonye

00:27

There are a few good questions today, but the already have good answers.

tchrist

> Whether a person considers himself English first or British first is a powerful predictor of class, race and political persuasion.

tchrist

00:46

> It has been said many times, but the fact remains that anything users share over the internet will inevitably be bought and sold and, sooner or later, used against them in some way. That is the price people tacitly accept for the convenience of using popular web services free of charge.

> The corollary, of course, is that if individuals are not paying for some online product, they are the product.

Ouch.

From Pay up, or shut up.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

01:44

@tchrist what of reflectional-morphology?

reflections of / the way words used to be

@tchrist Oh, but I did!

@tchrist is that the one that, if incorrectly prepared, can kill you? Or is that puffer fish?

Sorry to have pung you thrice.

tchrist

It’s ok.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I don’t believe so.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Fugu

is the Japanese word for pufferfish and the dish prepared from it, normally species of genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or porcupinefish of the genus Diodon. Fugu can be lethally poisonous due to its tetrodotoxin; therefore, it must be carefully prepared to remove toxic parts and to avoid contaminating the meat. The restaurant preparation of fugu is strictly controlled by law in Japan and several other countries, and only chefs who have qualified through rigorous training are allowed to deal with the fish. Domestic preparation occasionally leads to accidental death. Fugu i...

> A dish of fugu can easily cost ¥5,000 (approx. US$50), but it can be found for as little as ¥2,000 (approx. US$20), and a full-course fugu meal (usually eight servings) can cost ¥10,000–20,000 (approx. US$100–200) or more.

Not a time to skimp.

tchrist

Right.

@TRiG Tell me about it! Look at my first sentence:

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A: What is the difference between "better yet" and " better still"?

In the most common case, they are completely indistinguishable, and indeed are used with equal frequency as I show below. That said, certainly there can be plenty of difference in certain rescue readings given enough context, but these are differences of the sort that that Google N-gram is usel...

I guess I could skip the first one if I had to. And the second one annoys people because it is not a new clause, so I might be coercible into a dash instead.

user = (dash) tchrist;

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

02:07

Gotta catch 'em all!

Oh, that's Ash.

@Rob @Reg I stopped watching a few seasons ago, but you may enjoy this.

Bradd Szonye

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A: What is the word for the high-pitched "sex sound" a woman makes?

[high-pitched sex sound a woman makes] = YELL "It is so cute when she YELLS while she is fighting." She should understand since it's the topic of your conversation. "I find her YELLS intense when she plays tennis." "Don't YELL, your parents could hear us" @Szonye - give me ONE instance in wh...

Am I being oversensitive or is SurvMach being combative?

Not sure how I should respond to that comment. Like, no need to call me out dude? Just saying that your answer doesn't work for me.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@BraddSzonye yeah, that was unpleasant.

Bradd Szonye

Later all! Have a happy Friday. :)

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

You too!

Mahnax

Where's Cerb? I need to disappoint him.

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@Cerb Oi!

Bradd Szonye

02:22

0

Q: Is there a name for "dissecting a sentence and naming its parts"? (example below)

Such as: The great people of that great nation had been producing the greatest per capita carbon footprint since their industrialization when they realized that the science was right and their practices were unsustainable. I've gone thus far and have some questions. 1-SUBJECT A..The B.....

sentence-structure

SurvMach is being even ruder to Lawler.

Flagged both comments.

OK, leaving for reals now

OK I lied. What the hell? Dude has a persecution complex. He's accusing me of being aggressive somehow.

I don't think he's going to do well here.

Mahnax

Did you see his "answer" to my question?

I'm supposed to be retired.

Bradd Szonye

Yeah, just noticed that.

Flagged that one too. Apologies to any mods who end up dealing with the flag spam.

Mahnax

Gone.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax nooooooo

Time for Minecrack.

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 sticks out tongue

Bradd Szonye

02:29

Did he really post a rant against one of my comments as an answer to a completely unrelated question?

boggles

I'd better run before I get pulled into that train wreck some more.

Later!

Mahnax

Bye!

tchrist

02:53

> deterior: Inferior in quality, worse.

> 1839 Bailey Festus (1848) 64/2 — Some of downward and deterior lot.

> Etymology: a. L. dēterior worse, meaner, poorer, compar. of an obs. adj. *dēter, f. dē down.

Now that’s certainly not a word you hear every day of your life.

Ok, now guess what deterration means.

> 1695 Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth i. (1723) 57 — Deterrations, or the Devolution of Earth down upon the Valleys, from the Hills and higher Grounds.

That’s de + terra + ation.

If it were trees, it would be deforestation.

The gnawing out of the land.

I think we would just used erosion these days.

To bring rodents back into it.

tchrist

03:39

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Very knotty panelists.

EnglishMaster

03:56

lol

Around half of young British people never had a job or study full-time

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392431/…

And they always protest about "Rich people took our moneY!" "Get out of my country immigrants!"

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Isn't the fornication beautiful?

EnglishMaster

I like how British kids always reserve sometime of day for tea time

I guess they had too much tea time

Johan Larsson

06:44

This is fun if you know Swedish, woman calling radio tech support and leaves a message. She also leaves sanity behind pretty quick.

Stack Exchange

Limerick Machine: You can't help but look

posted on September 28, 2013 by sgdi

A fox was sat down on a rock Deliriously panting in shock The thing it now knew Would frighten you too Some knowledge we shouldn’t unlock

Noah

10:08

Hi

Eeryone

@JohanLarsson I hope she didnt leave herself behind.

Noah

10:23

spent a day on iTUnes trying to convert a book from mp3 into an audio one, didnt work. I am on windows.

Johan Larsson

What does leaving onself behind mean?

Noah

That was just a joke

How are you doing?

@JohanLarsson

Johan Larsson

Fine here in Sweden, how are you sir?

good thing that you ping, I'm a multichatter and reader

Noah

10:43

Cool.

I am single.

:)

How's the weather there?

Johan Larsson

+8 Celsius and grey skies. Autumn will be over soon, then the season I call the black-darkness begins before the snow comes.

Not many know about the black-darkness but it is a distinct season.

Noah

Umm. I might be visiting Sweden in December. Do you think I will need a jacket?

Johan Larsson

It can be very cold, in the north you can be looking at -20 Celsius. In the middle and south with some luck you get snow instead of rain.

November and December is not much fun in Sweden, very dark.

what are you going to do and where are you going?

Noah

11:02

Attend a conference. Stockholm

EnglishMaster

11:32

Guys, what's the difference between in the meantime and meanwhile?

Do I have to foremost indicate the date of actual thing happen?

Such as "I'm taking an exam tomorrow morning, in the meantime I'm going to play some games"?

tchrist

12:01

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Q: "1912-3" versus "1912-13"

Numbers between eleven and nineteen are fused rather than separable compounds. eleven, twenty-one, thirty-one, ... twelve, twenty-two, thirty-two, ... and so on ... So, when indicating a span of years, can you correctly write, for example, 1912-3? Or should you write 1912-13 bein...

numbers

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Q: "2003-07" versus "2003-7"

Since I see the last two digits repeated for example in "1935-38" or "2013-14" and so on, does this usage involve dates from 2000 to 2009, too?

abbreviations ambiguity time date dash

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Q: "1904/6" versus "1904-6"

Since I see both dashes and slashes marking dates, I ask, which one we should prefer? Example, 1904/6 or 1904-6?

abbreviations ambiguity date dash slash

TTToooooo mmmuuuccchhh ddduuupppllliiicccaaatttiiiooonnn ttthhheeerrreee fffooorrr mmmyyy tttaaasssttteeesss...

Johan Larsson

guy wants three answers

tchrist

goyle

Noah

He might be confused

tchrist

she may

Noah

How do you know it's she

tchrist

12:07

She’s just pesky.

Well, she acts like it.

Especially when she calls herself Jennifer.

Noah

Well, she is probably Jhon Michael Pesky

Or Michiele Obama Pesky

tchrist

That’s Ms Pesky to you.

Noah

Maybe.

I gotta jump and get on the bus.

C U

Break a leg!

Oh, no. I still have time

Thougth it was late

tchrist

It’s always later than you think.

Noah

@tchrist Can we use break a leg! as a substitute for good luck every where?

tchrist

12:15

No.

Johan Larsson

You can use break the build when about code.

tchrist

You can’t use it when wishing someone success in their legal case or insurance claim, or hoping they’ll win the lottery.

It’s also a fail when referring to having a medical examination.

> illocution: An act such as ordering, warning, undertaking, performed in saying something. Hence illoˈcutionary a.

Huh! So where else might one stress the adjective?

Noah

@tchrist So if you are having surgery, I could say break a leg!, right>

tchrist

 1  ˈillocutionary
 2  ilˈlocutionary
 3  illoˈcutionary
 4  illocuˈtionary
 5  illocutionˈary
 6  illocutionaˈry

If it’s God Bless You on one end, shouldn’t it be Devil Take the Hindmost on the other? — tchrist Sep 20 at 19:41

Once upon a time it was just crippled, but that one got caught up in the euphemism treadmill of time. — tchrist 2 days ago

Noah

@tchrist What do you mean by "also a fail"?

tchrist

12:25

It also fails

> prolocution: The use of ambiguous language so as to mislead.

Cf. dissembling

Noah

So does it mean we can use it when referring to having a meidcal examination?

tchrist

Or perhaps equivocating, but that’s stretching it.

Noah

Or does it mean the opposite of that?

tchrist

looks around for the ɪʀᴏɴʏ button

Noah

Well, dont waste your time. There's none.

Would be better to use an unequivocal language.

tchrist

12:29

If bright Sunnis were known for their sunny disposition, what sort of disposition might little Shiites be known for?

Noah

There's no such thing.

tchrist

3 mins ago, by tchrist

looks around for the ɪʀᴏɴʏ button

Noah

There's no bright or dark sunnis.

I gotta go before I totally lose my mind

tchrist

Sunny. Sunni. **itty. **iites.

Horse, water. Drink.

Noah

Yeah, a horse drinks water.

But so can a human.

confused

crying

tchrist

12:33

looks for his river

Johan Larsson

12:43

you river was looking for you last week

tchrist

I ran the pump in the sub-basement again last night. We got another half-inch of rain, and I got like 5" in my sub-basement.

RegDwighт

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 you stopped midway through season four? Does not compute.

Johan Larsson

is sub-basement a place where one stores wine and potatoes?

tchrist

yeah

sometimes

it’s like an unfinished dug-out cellar

alas i had stored other things there

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@JohanLarsson is this part of why you have St. Lucia?

Johan Larsson

12:59

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 not sure, I'd have to google it but I would fail doing it :D

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@RegDwighт I watched a few past ABQ.

Robusto

13:14

It seems from the text that the polarity suggested by the hijra is female. So there is still a binary gender identity (male/female—count 'em). For it to move beyond binary, there would have to be a third sex that did not identify as male or female. — Robusto 2 mins ago

@JohanLarsson A sub basement is what you call the bottom decks on a submarine. Yark, yark.

@RegDwighт Word.

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Everyone can have Santa Lucia.

Even cats and mice:

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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto I can't remember what happens!

He fixes the cable?

Robusto

Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.

Johan Larsson

13:31

@Robusto this is probably the most common song heard December 13 in Sweden.

this might be more xmas.

Robusto

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This is what we have around that date.

Johan Larsson

yep a classic here too

Robusto

@JohanLarsson But +1 for Jussi Bjorling.

Damn fine pipes he had.

Johan Larsson

trema broken?

Robusto

Nah. Just lazy.

Jussi Bjørling — there, you satisfied?

Johan Larsson

13:34

I can relate, I'm too lazy for shift most of the time.

@Robusto Actually Jussi Björling, he was Swedish, ø is the Norwegian ö.

Robusto

Another fine tenor:

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Not a Christmas song, exactly.

Johan Larsson

Have you heard Claus Wunderlich? Pure insanity, gonna find a gem for you if you have not heard him.

@Robusto yep, perfection, never heard him before. Ty sir.

Robusto

This being Wagner, even the tender love songs invite a crowd response:

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Johan Larsson

German insanity with organ, probably harmful even in small doses.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Help.

ljennifer

50 3

date abbreviations ambiguity dash alternative ranges word-usage

Lookiter questions.

Johan Larsson

13:44

We listened to him one full day with gf once. Did not even turn him off when we walked the dogs.

@Robusto I don't know if Tommy Körberg is well known outside Sweden. Great voice imo.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Here a dupe, there a dupe, every where a dupe-dupe.

Johan Larsson

She is a shotgun-asker.

Robusto

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I can take it in large doses.

Johan Larsson

yeah 1:26, large, and German is a match. Dunno about the insanity level.

Robusto

14:02

The French had a thing for organ as well:

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Although sometimes they could just drop it right on your head.

MετάEd

@Robusto Everyone has a thing for organ.

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 And she apparently has no shame, or art, or invention: lookiter profile pic with the watermark 'n' all.

@MετάEd Not that kind of organ.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto inorite?

@MετάEd ho yeah!

Robusto

@MετάEd Although organists do tend to "lay pipe" more than other musicians.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

That's not very exciting for 7,000+ pipes.

Robusto

14:13

From the film Pushing Tin: Know-It-All Schoolboy: [In response to his teacher's request that the class say "metaphor"] That wasn't a metaphor. That was a simile. "Laying pipe" is a metaphor.

@JohanLarsson BTW, not to be diacritical, but you Scandinavians are obsessed with modifying the letter o. Can't you just be happy with a simple circle?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto njuck njuck.

Robusto

That was cørny.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Ewe started it.

Robusto

One, two, tres, quatro:

Johan Larsson

@Robusto We have only two in each country {o, ö} {a, å, ä} is worse. They all make sense as they sound differently.

Robusto

14:17

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Shite, tweened again.

@JohanLarsson You have too many vowel movements. It ain't healthy.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto watch it now, watch it watch it.

Seems slow.

Robusto

OK, now you've done. Let's have some zombie music.

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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

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Robusto

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For Walter White, of course.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 And this is "the Limey" they're talking about, btw:

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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

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Robusto

14:23

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Hot Rats! My fave Zappa album.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto me too!

Robusto

I linked to another song from it a couple days ago, IIRC.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Seconded by Just Another Band from LA.

Johan Larsson

Zappa was probably an interesting person, I should find a biography.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Donovan dosed Lolita without her knowledge.

Robusto

14:25

@JohanLarsson He was a weird motherfucker. I talked to him once while tripping. It did not go well.

Johan Larsson

what happened?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Because he was anti-drug?

Johan Larsson

weird is pretty interesting, more interesting than the alternative I think.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Except for cigarettes.

and the beat goes on

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 He was so anti-drug that his band had to stuff towels in the motel door cracks just to smoke.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

14:27

Heh.

Robusto

@JohanLarsson Well, a friend and I dropped some acid at his house (this was while I was still in high school). And we heard Zappa was going to appear on the FM station we were listening to later that night. So we were still more or less lucid enough to write down the number, and we waited until he came on, about 2:30 a.m.

By that time we were peaking. It became my job to make the phone call. So I dialed the number and a guy answers and this conversation ensued:

ME: Hello, I'd like to talk to Frank Zappa, please.
VOICE: Who?
ME: Frank Zappa?
VOICE: [Mexican accent] Who you talkin' about?
ME: [pause] Come on, you guys said he was there.
VOICE: Who the hell is this?
ME: You said Frank Zappa was going to be on the show. I can hear him right now.
VOICE: What is this, the psychedelic show?
ME: [Realizing at last that I had called the wrong number] Uh, er . . . [hangs up]

Johan Larsson

ha

> The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement.

Hate that ^

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I thought you were going to say that you talked to him and he fucked with you.

Johan Larsson

They should write which company has been whining so one can make sure not to buy anything from them in the future.

Robusto

Anyway, we both put our heads together and carefully dialed the number we had written on the paper. This time we got through and they put us on.
ZAPPA: Yeah? Hello.
ME: Hello. [Pause. It only now occurred to me that I was supposed to have something to say.]
ZAPPA: Did you want to say something?
ME: Uh . . . yeah. We . . . we like your music, man.
ZAPPA: I don't give a [bleep] whether you like it or not. I don't make music for you.
ME: [dumbfounded] Huh?
ZAPPA: Are you high on something?
ME: Uhhhhhh . . .

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

14:37

:(

Robusto

Hey, I was 17. It was a learning experience.

Johan Larsson

it was god imo.

but he owned you

Robusto

A two-week-old puppy could have owned me at that point. I was peaking on Orange Sunshine at the time.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I never had any that worked.

Robusto

If it worked, you'd know.

Johan Larsson

14:44

I don't think I'm gonna share due to using full contact info on my account.

Robusto

I wouldn't recommend it for everyone.

Many people—perhaps most—couldn't get that deep without totally freaking out.

Me, I credit tripping with triggering my epiphany about art and music. What that stuff is really all about.

But that happened on mescaline, not acid. But I had about 6 or 7 doses, and it was a massive trip. And it was the last trip I took, since I realized I had graduated to the state of consciousness I needed to be at. Haven't done it since.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yes, read on.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto I did.

rock on / rock on, yeah yeah yeah

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With Turtle background vocals.

Johan Larsson

nice

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 The guys from The Turtles worked with Zappa as well.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto oh yes.

Robusto

14:57

Flo & Eddie

Flo & Eddie (Mark Volman, "Flo" aka "Phlorescent Leech", and Howard Kaylan, "Eddie") are a comedic musical duo. The two were the original founding members of the Top 40 rock group The Turtles. After the Turtles dissolved, Volman and Kaylan first joined The Mothers of Invention as "Phlorescent Leech & Eddie". Due to contractual restrictions made early in their career, Mark and Howard were prevented from using the name "The Turtles", as well as their own names in a musical context. "The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie" were originally nicknames of two of the Mothers of Invention road crew that...

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Toto!

Robusto

Yeah, they were on your other fave Zappa album.

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Though not on that clip.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

15:17

I think I just figured out most of this song.

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Pennf0lio

15:36

Hi Guys, is "wield" an appropriate word in this kind of sentence, "Continually wield your skills to master of it?".

Johan Larsson

hone?

Pennf0lio

ah, yeah -- hone. Thank You, @JohanLarsson.

Robusto

@Pennf0lio It's kind of a high-falutin' substitute for use in that context.

Johan Larsson

@Pennf0lio but you want a second opinion as I don't know the language

Robusto

Continually use your skills to master them. (Implies that use leads toward mastery.) Hone means to refine or perfect, which has a different connotation.

Johan Larsson

15:42

but do you master your skills?

Pennf0lio

i think hone is what i mean.. to refine or improve

Johan Larsson

don't you master something using your mad skills?

Robusto

Well, that's a fair point. It could be argued that master may be used in the sense of achieve mastery of.

Johan Larsson

> to master of it <- does not feel right

Robusto

Yeah, that sucks. Which is why I fixed it in my examples.

Pennf0lio

15:44

yes, that's what i mean. @Robusto

Robusto

So: Continually hone your skills to achieve mastery.

Period.

Pennf0lio

yeah, sorry about my bad grammar. I'll be using "hone" and i mean mastery of something.

Robusto

Mastery over what? Whatever the skills are used for. End of story.

Pennf0lio

yeah. thank you, @Robusto.

example, mastery of a language in programming, is what i mean

Robusto

I would prefer sharpen to hone in most cases, but that's just a stylistic choice based on how the words sound together. The slight alliteration of sharpen . . . skills is a tiny bonus for my ear, and the dactyl of sharpen your allows a more pronounced emphasis on skills.

Johan Larsson

15:49

@Pennf0lio did you know that profanity is the most used programming language?

Robusto

I would use hone if I were talking about something that involves something small and precise.

Pennf0lio

@JohanLarsson, yeah i'm aware :)

Johan Larsson

Would strengthen ones profanity be correct? Sharpen and hone both feels wrong.

Pennf0lio

@Robusto, yeah, I agree.

Robusto

@JohanLarsson I seek to embiggen my profanity every motherfucking day.

Johan Larsson

15:54

.

tchrist

18:01

Here, help me find dupes:

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Q: Why do certain words have the same type of spelling but different pronunciation?

There are words like 'but' , 'cut' etc pronounced in the same way, but 'put' is pronounced differently. Put has the same structure as but and cut (One 'u' between two consonants). So why is it pronounced differently ?

pronunciation

I mean, besides the OP.

@Reg I got 65 dupes.

Alas that I can pick but one for a close reason!

Trollllllllllll

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Q: Meaning: Back Up To

.,.-=,-.=,-,=.,=.,- For the following: source "The kitchen stove backs up to the same chimney used by the front room heating stove." Does "back up to" mean the stove, as habitual repetitions, moves backward towards the chimney?

meaning grammar usage

HaLaBi

18:36

hey guys..

how to pronounce the name "Lloyd"? is it "EL-Loyd" or "Loyd"?

Robusto

Loyd.

HaLaBi

thanks

Robusto

18:50

@tchrist Hahaha, you get the record. Too bad there isn't a badge for that.

c c

19:19

would you say:
any oracle would have foreseen that
or
any oracle would have forecasted that

catmium

19:29

or
any oracle would have foretold that
or
any oracle would have predicted that

TRiG

@cc Forecasted suggests a level of reasoned extrapolation, quite unlike the typical oracle. Any of the others would do.

catmium

I concur with TRiG

TRiG

Foretold and foreseen have a difference: foresee seems more certain, to me. Also, to foretell something, you must actually pass the message on to someone else; this is not a requirement with foresee.

As for predict. Hmm. It's far less certain than foresee or foretell. Also, it might possibly have something in common with forecast, in being a reasoned extrapolation rather than anything supernatural. But, unlike forecast, it isn't necessarily non-supernatural. Um. Not sure.

Einsteins Grandson

anybody speaking russian here?

i need to translate something

Mitch

19:48

@TRiG Foresee makes it sound like the foreseer could have done something to prevent it so doesn't seem appropriate for an oracle. Forecasting is just for the weather, somewhat too mundane for an oracle. Foretelling sounds like a story, where oracles are a bit more short and cryptic. 'predicted' would have been my first choice, then 'foretold'

Johan Larsson

Maybe an oracle just says things, predicting etc. might be implicit?

TRiG

20:08

@Mitch Hmm. I don't get that nuance from the word foresee. Interesting that you do. Is an oracle not also called a seer?

tchrist

@Robusto Yet.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

20:33

Dang, I missed the trolling.

Johan Larsson

21:12

I made some progress with BonesBreaker

Johan Larsson

21:51

> Sverige är strategiskt viktigt i egenskap av EUs moraltantsland. Om Sverige är för någonting är det ofta ett grönt ljus. Är vi mot någonting så skickar vi istället in kvinnorna med cykelhjälmar och knäskydd i högsta hugg och gastar om barn och barbari.

> Sweden is strategically important as the EU's moral Aunt country. If Sweden is in favor of anything, it is often a green light. Are we against anything we'll send in women with bike helmets and knee pads screaming about children and barbarism.

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