English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

1:18 PM

10, 9, 8, ...3, 2, 1 you're out!

@tchrist mmmmm. prepositions

@MattЭллен No thank you.

@MattЭллен spitejoins

@Mitch I already told you, nobody cares.

lol

1:20 PM

@MattЭллен yawn... rubs eyes

What?

How is that happening?

@Mitch nothing, nothing. go back to sleep

kit is controlling Jarvis

@AndrewLeach if you !!akf Jarvis will say goodbye and heelo, in someway or other

If kit controls the jarvis, who controls the kit?

1:22 PM

she's got two kids that do a neat job :D

@JarvistheBot That's a bit harsh, don't you think?

!!yo mama

@skullpatrol I didn't understand that. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

@MattЭллен Yes, but ... but it was this message which triggered the bot.

@MattЭллен Wha? shu'up...sleepin...

!!sleeping

1:23 PM

@AndrewLeach yeah, on Mitch's return.

@Mitch I'm sorry. I don't know what you mean. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

for example

!!afk

@AndrewLeach When you say !!afk, the bot bids you goodbye and when you return, it greets you back.

@MattЭллен Nobody cares.

!!I care

1:24 PM

@JarvistheBot !!God what an idiot. Can't you see I'm kidding?

She's not nice at times.

!!afk

@Alraxite Can you pick up some milk on your way back?

I'm back!

!!youtube star wars I care

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1:25 PM

ahem

I am back!

Mmmk.

I thought it would work.

you have to wait a bit

Oh.

!!you cheap bunch of wires

before coming back

@skullpatrol I don't understand. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

1:26 PM

I'm not sure how long though

@MattЭллен I already told you, nobody cares.

that long, apparently

the messages are paired

So they are.

I see. Thanks.

!!will you marry me?

no problem

1:27 PM

@skullpatrol Yes, absolutely

:D

:(

!!youtube luke skywalker i care

But is the bot still female?

@Alraxite Turns out I already have milk. Oops.

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1:28 PM

!!will you marry skullpatrol to a rock?

Now that she is JARVIS.

@MattЭллен Nuh-uh

!!when does the honeymoon start?

@skullpatrol Absolutely not

!!will I be pretty?

1:28 PM

@JarvistheBot Joke's on you, I didn't bring any.

@Mitch No way

Morning.

Morning.

hi

How has the room been?

1:29 PM

No different.

full of room

!!Ask Jarvis how it's been

@Mitch Were you trying to invoke me? Use the !!/help command to learn more.

!!How has the room been?

!!mustache Jarvis

1:30 PM

@Mitch I'm sorry. I don't know what you mean. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

@Alraxite Nobody puts a mustache on me. Again.

Gah!

!!Has the room been?

@MattЭллен I'm sorry. I don't know what you mean. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

!!Are the room being?

@MattЭллен Nuh-uh

1:30 PM

> "...whose pritty duckys I trust shortly to kysse," Henry VIII, c.1536 letter to Anne Boleyn, who, contrary to rumor, did not have three of them

oh dear

Q: I kicked my dog in the back and now she's walking funny, what do I do?

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I left my room to go talk to my mom and left my little brothers food on the table. When I came back Lola, my dog, was eating the food so I spanked her, then out of frustration I kicked her in the middle of her back and she yelped. She then ran away with her back feet not being normal they were s...

O.O

There are so many things to learn in that sentence. 1. duckies. 2. kings write sexually graphic letters. 3. anne boleyn doesn't have three boobs. 4. Enough people must think so for that to be worth refuting.

4. is most surprising

I mean Henry composed green sleeves

I suppose that's not graphic

still, 4 is most surprising

that's a tragic question

now i feel sad

1:34 PM

it's pretty bad

It's horrible, because that guy is probably a child.

Oh man....

I come in and this

Same here.

@Cerberus Give one of yourself to the poor child

Hah.

I cannot split off body parts, you know!

1:43 PM

@Cerberus I'm sure Medusa knows all about it

Haha.

@Zoe Hydra.

@tchrist OH

@Zoe Look how well that went for her...

Hydra is a different beast.

@Cerberus We should both be ashamed.

1:44 PM

Should we?

tchrist has the honor of explaining.

Are you Medusa, or what is left of us?

claps

The monster that can split off body parts is the Hydra wahahaha

1:44 PM

@Zoe Not sure why we should be ashamed...

@MattЭллен Hello sis!

idk why I said Medusa..... Must be Percy Jackson

@Cerberus oh! you know why. you. know. why. stern look

@Zoe Umm I'm not sure whether Hydra can split off body parts, I don't remember that from the story?

Medusa's head was chopped off by Perseus, I thought that was what you meant.

if you cut off a hydra's head two grow back in it's place

When you cut off one of Hydra's heads, it grows back.

Or two.

@MattЭллен I merely jumped on the table to have a snack...

1:46 PM

@Cerberus That means you can split one of you and give one to the child. But you said you can't so I should have said Hydra would know all about that.

But instead I said Medusa and... we kinda rolled with it until tchrist

@Zoe But the head you cut off dies

@Cerberus jumping up to the table can be bad for your health. ominous glare

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Just like his dog if he doesnt get it to the vet ;)

@Zoe yeah that's crazy.

Ah, well, I'm not familiar with this splitting of Hydra. Where does it say that?

1:47 PM

Poor dog :(

@MattЭллен So I found out...

@Cerberus Oh, in the movie. "When you cut off one of it's head, two more grow back in place."

@Cerberus In my old Hercules game too.

A: The Cobbler's children have no shoes

♫ Shoe spam, don’t bother me. / Shoe spam, don’t bother me. / Shoe spam don’t bother me, ’cause I don’t want your company. ♫

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I always thought that cobblers children would be wearing some special type of shoes. Generally, it is seen that the kids shoes are the most understated market area. It is the area which is not fully utilized by the shoe making companies. We can see that kids shoes are in great demand, people are ...

@Cerberus And it also says that in the first paragraph of the wiki article.

1:50 PM

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@Zoe Yes, but splitting off into a separate being? The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus just gives the two heads growing back, not splitting off. It is apparently the main source for the myth as we know it.

@Alraxite It doesn't say anything about splitting off. You can't give someone a living Hydra head!

@Cerberus Ah, well I didn't mean that either.

OK.

But I have to go now.

@Cerberus You give someone a dead one, because that is a lesson that he should take his dog to the vet or it will end up dead just like the cut off Hydra's head

CU. No more stealing snacks!

1:53 PM

Because I think you meant that if you split yourself you would die or something like that?

But Hydra wouldn't die.

Election ends in 6 hours!

Or sorta kinda

After candidates are done with perusing the ToS.

@Zoe Hercules killed Hydra, by cauterising the necks (so replacement heads couldn't grow back) and then burying the last, immortal head.

so if someone sticks the hydra head on the hydra body, it will live again?

Not since the neck's cauterised. Kinda makes joining difficult.

hmmmm

1:56 PM

Not to mention it's mythology.

!!wiki new atheneans

@MattЭллен The Wikipedia contains no knowledge of such a thing

hmm. I thought that was a thing

oh well

@AndrewLeach Don't say that when Cerberus's around.

@Alraxite MEANY

1:57 PM

@Alraxite I didn't say Cerberus was myth.

@AndrewLeach Not him. His sister.

@AndrewLeach bites you

Ow.

2:15 PM

!!wiki rabies

@skullpatrol Were you trying to invoke me? Use the !!/help command to learn more.

Rabies

Rabies (; from , "madness") is a viral disease that causes acute inflammation of the brain in humans and other warm-blooded animals. Early symptoms may include fever and tingling at the site of exposure. This is then followed by either violent movements, uncontrolled excitement, and fear of water or an inability to move parts of the body and confusion followed by loss of consciousness. In both cases once symptoms appear it nearly always results in death. The disease is spread to humans from another animal, commonly by a bite or scratch. In the Americas, less than 5% of cases are from do...

@Cerberus are any of your mouths foaming?

That poor dog in the picture...

Sad.

yep, it's a nasty disease

hey, who here speaks Portugese?

2:23 PM

@Jez Where is your audio from?

World Cup?

@Alraxite a bbc recording

wimbledon

OK.

I’ve just made a great deal clearer my MSE post with ELU results on the new question-asking badges proposal. I will similarly clarify our longer ELU.meta post.

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A: Asking days badges

I ran the proposed badge-award criteria against the top 124 users on English Language & Users by reputation, and discovered that this would produce 2 golds, 20 silvers, and 75 bronzes amongst those 124 users, from a total of 38.5k questions asked (by anyone) and not deleted. Here’s the table sor...

Why are flair and flare different words?

Why am I getting new feed items from german.stackexchange.com?

for some reason @Reg has added german.se tags to our feed filters

2:35 PM

Wunderbar.

Hmm, I think I'll just use Gmail for all my emails.

Or, he has added some ELU tags which also happen to be G.SE tags. Like grammar and word-order.

oh, and not limited the tag filter to EL&U

Hushmail seems OK, but you need to pay for POP3/IMAP

yeah, that's probably more likely

2:38 PM

@AndrewLeach That suffices? If that were so, then wouldn’t we be getting them from ELL, Writers, Linguistics, and so on and so forth?

I've no idea. But at least one German question in the feed has those tags. Perhaps he just chose the wrong instance of the grammar tag.

Perhaps I'm talking complete nonsense.

@tchrist I forgot how dry your air and your water are.

Why do I return to really sad kitty stories?

It was lost on me as a child, but taking a shower was like washing myself in Perrier.

I don't need sad kitty stories today.

2:40 PM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I don’t understand the water part.

31 secs ago, by cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

It was lost on me as a child, but taking a shower was like washing myself in Perrier.

If water can be dry, it is dry.

Still fails.

Oh, the counting for the election is instantaneous.

@KitFox I just ate a snickers

I was just off on the timing.

You'll know within five minutes of polls closing.

2:42 PM

@tchrist have you had Perrier or any other kind of, what is that, mineral water? Sparkling water?

sparkling mineral water

I know what sparkling water is, of course.

I think it's because the air is constantly absorbing moisture.

Oh, right.

This is true.

My hair was completely dry in about two hours. At home, it takes about five.

2:43 PM

You have to shut your bathroom door and window and let the shower run hot for a few minutes to steam up the room if you don’t want that. Normally it is considered a feature.

However the last few days’ weather have been incredibly muggy here.

It's a feature. And I did achieve steam.

agua con gas

It was very dry on Friday. Saturday and Sunday less so.

It also rained both of those days.

You know, I wouldn't be surprised if there were more that 80% here who use GMail. I don't think there's any free secure service.

@MattЭллен And how is Benidorm these days, Matt?

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Hailed, here.

2:44 PM

Hail!

Constantly.

@tchrist sunny. lots of Brits :D

A: Etymology of certain words ending in "-en"

See, we really can get proper answers on ELU:

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First things first: children does not have i-mutation in the plural, nor anywhere else: i is simply the root vowel in that word in all forms. The word was (as the source you linked to says) part of a minor declension type called the -r-plurals. When that declension was lost, its members had vario...

Yes. And the quality of the question was good. A good premise and evidence of research.

@AndrewLeach:Hi

Is this sentence grammatical: your appeal was approved in June but the coverage effective from January.

Can anyone look at this for me?

2:57 PM

Your appeal was approved in June, retroactive to January.

@KitFox: you are my favorite.

why 'to' January? I think it should be 'from'.

I think to makes sense because you're going back from June to January. not going from January to June

Roger @MattЭллен and Thank you all of you.

no probs

@Kabir101 Hi. Others have beaten me to it.

3:02 PM

@MattЭллен Yes, that.

I though he was referring to January next year.

Nope, January 2014...

Ah, OK.

3:39 PM

toodle pip

Q: How curious are you? — or — Tallied ELU “Asking-Day Badges”–Proposal Results

@AndrewLeach This should be clearer now:

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How we fare in the new badge proposal In the MSE posting Asking days badges, there is a proposal to create a new trio of badges for asking “good” questions on distinct days. Its basic metric for scoring is the number of separate days that a user both: has a positive record of questions, and ...

discussion feature-request badges asking-questions

@MattЭллен Bai!

Good luck!

@tchrist I'd say I'm bi on the subject.

@KitFox Man, it sure takes a long time for the partner to pick up the line around here!

OK, I tried, but I don't get it.

I feel like I’m Abbot and you’re Costello a day delayed.

3:51 PM

@tchrist My point about rank numbering was simply that reputation doesn't come into the badge awarding, and so everyone who has a Days value of 45 should be at the same rank.

Well, I was a bit retarded on my way to work today.

There was construction.

@AndrewLeach You are using “Rank” to mean something other than line-number. But I’m not.

I'm using it to mean Rank :-)

Whenever I have a list of N items, each item is assigned a monotonically increasing ordinal.

Otherwise you overwrite the same array slot.

Damn it, Andrew, I’m a programmer, not a bookie!

:-)

... and off home.

4:38 PM

Well, with just a couple hours to go in the election, I'd like to say a final "good luck" to the other candidates.

@KitFox :-)

Good luck.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

So what happens when the election results come in? Are the winning candidates Automatically Moderators?

Or are there steps to go through first?

I wrote a long series of messages about it in the election room.

4:40 PM

Ah, OK.

Start with the pinned one where I thank you.

Done and done. Thanks!

Did I cover all your questions?

Yep!

I mostly just wanted to know how much time it would take away from studying today if I turns out I win. Just in case.

Well, if you can concentrate on other things, it needn't take any time at all. The moderator agreement isn't timed, as far as I know.

You could accept tomorrow.

Manhax. Like Half Life. Sweet. Never noticed that.

4:52 PM

Ah well, we'll see. It is very likely that I'll not be elected at all, so I shan't worry until the results are in! For now, it's time to get studying and have a nice latte.

Or maybe today is an iced espresso day. Hm.

It's so hard to decide when you're essentially a coffeeshop.

@KitFox thanks! you too!