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12:28 AM
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Q: Since The Stalemate Has Stretched On

nevercatI am looking at this sentence using "since": NY Times Barnes & Noble has been placing much smaller orders of Simon & Schuster books since the stalemate has stretched on, damaging sales for authors. Is the part after "since" not good? Shouldn't "since" be followed by a point in time or...

BST warning.
 
1:10 AM
Yup.
@aediaλ Really? I’d heard they’d begun to do that in the UK, but hereabouts they still all seem sewn.
 
night
 
Hello, good people of EL&U (Not-good people: hello to you too)
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1:25 AM
This guy I know from a mmorpg has been using google translator to translate a sentence and it's miracolously readable but... we have some doubts on construction. "Name is back... and more fierce than ever". It's my understending you need to repeat the subject on the subordinate sentence so it should be "and he's more fierce" or we should remove that and, are we right?
 
hm
Fido is back, fiercer than ever.
No and.
No more.
No repeated subject.
No problem.
 
What about if one wanted to separate the two sentences, for underlining how being fiercer is something extra? "Fido is back... moreover, he's fiercer than ever"? (A wild guess, and a laughable attempt, I know.)
@tchrist Nice song, by the way.
 
1:45 AM
Ah, got to go. Thank you anyway.
 
2:20 AM
@GlenTheUdderboat this is pretty close to how I felt when I learned topology.
 
3:02 AM
Wow, this is weird.
Seems like someone just lifted that paragraph entire out of my post and placed it as the lead paragraph in some drivel that doesn't even make sense—with interspersed advertising words to make it senseless as well.
"Topic: hgrsiq mulberry outlet online gdpkds" indeed.
Heh, I copied the wrong one in reference to my own post. Mine didn't have the mulberry outlets in it.
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A: Is English Language & Usage highbrow?

RobustoThis may be a semantic distinction, but I balk at the word middlebrow. That suggests we cut off the bottom and the top. Not that you need a dictionary citation, but let me air my fears a bit here: middlebrow |ˈmidlˈbrou| informal chiefly derogatory adjective (of art or literature or a sys...

 
 
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4:16 AM
@KitFox I didn't know you learned topology.
 
Does anybody know the Jewish equivalent of a 'church member'?
Maybe they are just congregants.
I'm not sure if they are called 'parishioners'. Alas, I think 'parishioners' carries a Christian connotation.
 
4:37 AM
How about worshippers?
 
No. It's definitely 'congregants'.
I just asked on the chatroom of the mi yodeya.
 
@Zachiel That’s fine.
 
 
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5:48 AM
Sodomy is known to mean anal copulation, oral copulation, and vaginal copulation, and sometimes, in some academic or professional publications, exclusively anal copulation. Is this sort of thing consensual or non-consensual?
 
 
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8:00 AM
Guys I have a question.
Why do American soldiers in this video make a Crunchwrap Supreme with their flag?
 
 
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9:49 AM
Susan is now a 10k user!
 
10:34 AM
Susan just spelled "Wiktionary" as "wictionary".)))
That caught me off-guard.
 
Reg, may I ask a question?
 
Yeah go ahead.
And congrats on 10k.
 
the yellow review "alert" - is it supposed to go off when I've reviewed flagged posts?
yeah, well.
just so happened to come into chat at just the right moment, huh?
 
You mean that one?
 
yes
 
10:44 AM
That one tells you that there are 8 flags to review. Not that you have reviewed 8 flags.
You don't have to review them at all, for that matter.
But it can be fun.
I think there could be a Meta post on that, let me see...
 
yes, I get that. But after I've reviewed them, as in the case of the regular review queue, should it not disappear from my view?
 
I actually am not sure what happens with the flags for 10k users.
 
ok, thanks.
 
I don't remember what happened when I was a 10k user, plus they have made several changes since then.
But it stands to reason that it should disappear, yes.
Perhaps more flags came in in the mean time?
 
well, I'll learn, I guess
 
10:48 AM
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A: What are the moderation tools available to high-reputation users?

XMLbogFirst off, see: the Access to Moderator Tools privilege description. It's mostly just lists. I just recently became a member of the +10k club. Allow me to enumerate all of the views available. Each view is found in one of five categories: links, stats, close, delete and flags. There is also a t...

Still looking for the post on flags proper.
So far to no avail.
But that right here is a nice overview with some links.
 
don't bother, really.
it was just a question.
 
Nah, I'm now interested myself.
 
but while I've got you, is there a consensus that I'm not wanted here?
 
So by the way, what number are you seeing right now?
I just handled a flag, so mine went down from 8 to 7.
 
3
 
10:50 AM
Hm.
Right. You only see boilerplate flags.
@Susan is that the vibe you're getting?
So far I think there were but a couple people wondering just how prescriptivist you were. :)
Actually, on one occasion that included myself!
And now I don't even remember what the occasion was.
 
um... I don't know how to answer that
 
Well yeah it's a sliding scale.
 
i come here to ask a question and see that I'm being laughed at.
by you.
 
Oh you mean my remark about wictionary.
 
so it's a reasonable q, no?
yes.
 
10:53 AM
That wasn't meant to be a laugh.
Perhaps it didn't come out right.
 
?
 
As I said, it was an unusual typo that caught me off-guard.
If you stick around you'll see that it's perfectly normal for people here to point out unusual typos.
Which is never meant as an insult.
More like a collection.
 
ok, thanks
 
I mean, of course the idea is that the poster also fixes it.
 
I'll read more about flagged posts
 
10:56 AM
Otherwise it is a bit unfair and could indeed be misinterpreted as a point-and-laugh type of thing.
 
and I'll fix the answer
 
So the idea is not to say "look at X, he said Y", but to also fix it.
 
ahh. .)))
ok
thanks again.
 
Yeah I actually fixed it before mentioning it here.
No probs.
Just drop by more often and you'll get a more accurate impression of how things work here.
Right now it's very atypical anyway, as most of America is still asleep.
The room will be on fire in a couple hours.
 
11:08 AM
@Robusto we have an impostor.
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Q: CSS broken on days I was online

RobuustPlease check the image, on my profile the CSS in the datepicker is gone - I'm using the latest version of Chrome.

 
 
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12:24 PM
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Q: Schrodinger's Cat. Why was it necessary?

Sarah JayneCould someone please explain to me the idea that Schrodinger was trying to illustrate by the cat in his box? I understand that he was trying to introduce the notion of the cat being both alive and dead at the same time. But why was it necessary to introduce this thought experiment and what did it...

 
necessary? no no no. Schrodinger hated cats, so he routinely ran the experiment to satify his bloodlust.
 
No experiment is necessary.
 
Sure it is, otherwise no evolution
 
Hello
 
@MattЭллен how do you mean.
Hello Uday.
 
12:27 PM
oh, then I suppose you're right, in an existensial manner
the universe isn't necessary
 
That, too. But I also mean that we have long stopped evolving.
 
Just want to know whether this sentence sounds good
"I am especially impressed by his capability of mastering a technology in less amount of time"
 
Our technology is evolving, but that, yes, that is not necessary at all.
 
@RegDwigнt things have not stopped evolving. things evolve all the time.
language evolves
 
Yeah but not as a result of experiments.
 
12:28 PM
@RegDwigнt evolution is an experiment run by the universe
 
does "less amount of time" suits in the sentence?
 
Either "less X", or "smaller amount of X". But not both.
 
or in lesst time?
 
@RegDwigнt when someone uses a word for the first time, they are experiemnting with it
bbl, eating.
 
Yes, in less time or in shorter time.
 
12:29 PM
so you say less time
 
@MattЭллен not necessarily! One-off errors are way more common than conscious experiments with a goal and an agenda.
 
any other way of writing above sentence?
 
@MattЭллен An experiment would be, let me say FAsgQ on purpose and see what ensues.
More often than not that is not what happens when people use a word or a spelling for the first time.
@udaysagar why is it comparative in the first place?
It should not be comparative.
 
whom are you talking about @RegDwigнt ?
 
There is nothing you are comparing it to.
He is not mastering technology in shorter time. He is mastering it quickly.
 
12:33 PM
yea, this sounds good
from the past 1 year or for the past 1 year ?
I have been his Manager for the past 1 year
 
> I have been his manager for one year now.
As to your original choice, "from" makes no sense, "past" should be "last", and "1" is superfluous.
And do not capitalize manager. English does not capitalize random words in the middle of a sentence.
 
So you say "I have been his manager for the last one year" seems valid
 
No, for the last year. Not for the last one year.
 
he has been managing even now
 
Also, see above how I would reword it from scratch to make it sound natural.
 
12:39 PM
not in the past
 
@udaysagar I am not sure what you mean by that.
But at any rate, "I have been his manager for one year now" includes both the last year and the present time.
 
aha, okay
 
If you're no longer his manager, you'd use "was" and not "have been".
"Have been" always implies a connection to the present.
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A: How do the tenses in English correspond temporally to one another?

Robusto EDIT: Added past continuous, trimmed image so it would be slightly larger, and gave it a transparent background. EDIT: Added middle line, made some adjustments per @Kosmonaut.

There's a nice visualization.
 
Many of the questions I answered are on hold, lol. That shows how cheap I am.
 
that thread is really good @RegDwigнt
thanks
 
12:45 PM
You're welcome.
 
@JasperLoy questions again please
 
@JasperLoy As long as they are not deleted in the next three months, you get to keep your cheap reps!
You should throw a party then.
 
@udaysagar Too lazy to find now, lol.
 
that's okay.
 
It seems that edits within five minutes are recorded now.
@RegDwigнt Only to lose it all when I delete account.
 
12:50 PM
edits? sorry i didn't get you
 
In the past, edits within five minutes on the main site are not reflected in the post history.
 
@JasperLoy where?
@JasperLoy they always were if they were by someone else than the OP.
 
@RegDwigнt which is what children do all the time.
 
aha, ok
 
@RegDwigнt Ah, that could be it. Someone else edited and then the OP edited again, all within 5 min.
 
12:53 PM
@MattЭллен you're like Cerberus. You extend the meaning of a word to the point where it means everything plus the known universe plus this chat room which contains the known universe twice.
 
@RegDwigнt I learn from the best!
 
I, on the other hand, submit that children don't run experiments at all because they are too dumb.
 
@RegDwigнt then your definition of children is different to the legal defintion?
I suppose it differs from country to country and case to case
 
An experiment is a conscious thing. Saying "pasketti" because you can't frigging speak correctly is not an experiment.
 
but if we accept that anyone younger than 18 is a child?
 
12:55 PM
Ugh.
 
or younger than ....
 
Not here.
Child is younger than 14 here, I believe.
 
If I have to choose between learning French and learning German, which should I choose @RegDwigнt
 
@JasperLoy German is easier because it is Germanic just as English.
 
are you a native american @JasperLoy ?
 
12:56 PM
French has all the stupid Latin grammar that should have died out with Latin but didn't.
 
@udaysagar No, I am not. I live in the wheel of Samsara.
 
ohh, do you know of samsara, that's sanskrit!
then you are much close to german too!
 
@MattЭллен anyway. I think I can move to say that anyone younger than 18 is dumb. Also, anyone older than that.
I can learn from the best, too!
 
@RegDwigнt but if we're all equally dumb, who is the best?
 
12:57 PM
@MattЭллен yeah and then he died and so did his cell and the entire Earth and the cosmos. That wasn't too smart of him now, was it?
 
I am going to take a nap. I wonder who I will see in my dreams.
 
In the land of the dumb the two lipped man is king
 
This chat is a nice contrast to the Diary of Anne Frank I am trying to read.
 
lol
highly contrasting
 
Though the "yeah and then he died" part seems to be a popular plot line everywhere.
 
12:59 PM
what time it is there at your place @JasperLoy
 
@udaysagar It is 9 pm.
 
@AnaMardoll @DoKnowButchie did you see this? > “@jonathanhliu: We love our baby alot. http://t.co/8bHoYTOrHM”
 
k, here it's 6:30 pm
 
 
Excellent.
Again, a nice contrast to what I was looking at a minute ago.
 
1:02 PM
It's silly to wear hats, lol.
 
silly? nonononono hats r srsbsns
 
Ouvert et haut !
 
@JasperLoy Hats are awesome. Silly hats are awesomer!
 
1:37 PM
@Zachiel you forgot to greet the worst people. I feel left out.
 
....and us who are
!!youtube bad to the bone george thorogood
 
Now that's way over the ZZ top.
 
yipyipyip
 

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