English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Nice, I successfully resisted temptation to masturbate in bathroom while in shower. Guy monitoring bathroom security camera is probably impressed (sobering) by seeing my improvement.

GnomeSlice

@JasonMarsh Hahaha there's a camera in the bathroom?

Jason Marsh

I'm highly assuming there is one because I'm in psychiatry

Gosh, I want to get a job here so I can monitor hot girls showering.

GnomeSlice

I just got hired by a security company

That's what I told them in the interview, I wanted to see hot girls showering.

Jason Marsh

1:28 AM

Cool, I'd apply at a security company for a same reason.

tchrist

@JasonMarsh I didn’t realize they allowed psychiatric patients to masturbate on the internet.

I guess at least they can make a spot of cash that way while incarcerated.

Jason Marsh

That is some intersting usage of word "masturbate" there, mate. Any ways, I like this band.

►

Their songs are about death and has guitars.

Jason Marsh

1:42 AM

Does anyone recognise this photo?

If so, we must chat.

Cerberus

2:03 AM

I have never seen it before.

But it looks like Tolkien but based on the films.

Mitch

@tchrist Velociraptors are North American too. Everyone knows that.

tchrist

2:17 AM

@JasonMarsh Yes, it is Grond against Ringil.

After which the Enemy would go forever halt.

Jason Marsh

2:37 AM

Sorry, I have no idea about the story too, I was just trying to pretend I'm geek.

But it sounds cool though.

tchrist

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A: Saying that the mail has an attached form filled up by me?

After root my device my gmail is filled plese help me. Sory my english is bad

tchrist

3:02 AM

@EdwinAshworth Why did you take it upon yourself to roll back my own edit to my own answer, particularly without consulting or discussing it with me, nor indeed giving any explanation at all for this unjustified action? — tchrist 4 mins ago

Call me a twit if you want, but if you don't like something that I did to my own posting, then it is simply common courtesy to tell me why you don't care for what I did — and rudeness to blindly undo my work without any discussion on the matter.

He rolled back my own edit to my own posting, and didn't even say why.

I refuse to engage in an edit war, but I cannot see how this is constructive or useful.

It’s my own post. If you don't like my edits, then downvote me. Don't undo what I've edited in. That is just plain rude.

If this is acceptable behavior, I would like someone to please explain how. Because as far as I can tell, it's an asshole move.

It's one thing to downvote me. It's something else to edit me into nonexistence.

I rather find this unacceptable in the extreme. Do I need to take this meta?

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A: When does one append "-ly"?

Adverbs versus Adverbs TLDR: The word real is a modifier which like very works as an intensifier. Just like very, real can function not only as an adjective but also as a special kind of “adverb”. As an adverb, it can only intensify other modifiers: it does not intensify verbs. To compare...

If I have not received an answer that makes sense to me by the time I wake, I will take the necessary action.

In particular, he destroyed content, and I think that is out of bounds. He removed the part that said that as an adverb it could only modify other modifiers, not verbs. That was an important point, and I am duly pissed at its excision.

This was too long to write in a flag, @mods, but please take it as such.

Good night and good luck.

Jasper Loy

5:15 AM

@tchrist It is possible that both of you were editing around the same time, and his minor edit won in the end instead of your major edit.

Andrew Leach

6:46 AM

@JasperLoy It appears to have been an explicit rollback.

@tchrist I believe Edwin's in the UK, so hopefully he'll have had a chance to read your comment before too long. It's possible that he took exception to the formatting of the COCA citation as too big/bold, but it would have been reasonable to edit that rather than roll back and risk removing other edits. Rollback is a radical tool.

I don't propose to lock the post at the moment, because that would make it impossible for anyone to roll back to Revision 7.

RegDwigнt

9:02 AM

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: After root my device this chatroom is filled plese help (no tags)

Matt Эллен

10:13 AM

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Q: Plagiarism is a good way to earn reputation. Combatting this after the fact?

There is a certain pattern of Stack Exchange users who habitually post plagiarized content. Some cases are easy to deal with. If the user is still pretty new, a message explaining that plagiarism is not cool can turn them into more useful contributors. Some plagiarizers are so bad at it that the...

harder line than we take on copied pasta

Andrew Leach

Well, an example is given of "properly-attributed posts that none the less consist entirely of copied content," and we do say that there should be some original content in an answer. On ELU, it's helpful to quote from a dictionary, but if an answer is just a dictionary quote, then the question is GR.

How do we stand on whether a poetic/slang term is "correct English"? I'd dearly love to close a very recent question. "Literary analysis" might cover it, if what is linked to counts as "literature". It's not very SFW.

RegDwigнt

The pissflap guy is back!

After what, two years?

Matt Эллен

10:29 AM

@AndrewLeach but we don't delete the answer and suspend the answerer

Jason Marsh

reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2d5utc/…

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt who is the pissflap guy?

RegDwigнt

@MattЭллен the guy asking about pissflaps.

english.stackexchange.com/questions/189759/…

Matt Эллен

lol. I didn't see it

RegDwigнt

He kept asking questions of that sort always linking to that site. Initially everyone even took him seriously, but at this point it's blatantly obvious he's just spamming the link.

I mean, he literally asked this exact question two years ago. And got though no answers, but a few comments.

Andrew Leach

10:33 AM

I don't remember the last time.

Any relation to this one?

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Q: Is this a example of parody of Shakespears play

Is this an example of parody "A-Midsummers-Nights-Dream " http://www.scribd.com/doc/233474857/A-Midsummers-Nights-Dream-erotic-poetry These are the reasons I think it is parody I am interested whether you agree parody "a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writ...

usage

RegDwigнt

It just can't be that fast forward two years, he's still reading the exact same poem and is still wondering if there should be a hyphen in the exact same word.

@AndrewLeach possibly. I do not know.

Andrew Leach

It's "erotic" "literature" (using both words very loosely!)

RegDwigнt

@AndrewLeach Search for "pissflaps deleted:1"

And LOL at the third title.

So yeah. That's actually two years and six months ago.

Andrew Leach

10:46 AM

Oh. Yes. Even the Meta question about it has been deleted. Well, in that case I concur it's a candidate for summary deletion. Which is what it looks like has happened :-)

Robusto

10:58 AM

I go away for a couple hours and already you people are letting the tide of awful questions roll in.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yeah very curious. Normally we can blame them on you, but you weren't even here. Very curious.

Matt Эллен

I feel like cnut

Robusto

@MattЭллен You don't look much like him, though.

RegDwigнt

I suspect Rob was away writing erotic poetry.

Robusto

How did you know?

RegDwigнt

10:59 AM

This is too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence.

Robusto

That coincides with my views on coincidence.

RegDwigнt

That doesn't surprise me, the probability was basically a flip of a coincidence.

tchrist

@AndrewLeach I remember him.

Robusto

It also dovetails nicely with my views on dovetails.

RegDwigнt

Careful, next up it will revolutionize your view on revolutions.

tchrist

11:10 AM

@Andrew He says it was an accident. I don’t know what he really was trying to do, but I’ll fix it myself now.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt You think the world revolves around your views on revolutions, don't you?

Andrew Leach

@tchrist We had another user do something similar a couple of weeks ago, and ending up getting completely confused with "rollback".

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I don't think. I just am.

Robusto

Am not.

RegDwigнt

Pan Am not.

tchrist

11:14 AM

@MattЭллен Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don’t.

RegDwigнt

Nuts don't have feelings. Source: Wikipedia.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist Those who pecan, do

tchrist

@AndrewLeach It perhaps isn’t completely clear how rollback works. And you don’t get to leave a check-in comment for that step either.

cues Barry Manilow

RegDwigнt

So I see they are doing to London what they've done to Moscow.

Must be the revenge of the Irish.

Matt Эллен

give it a beautiful looking metro?

Robusto

11:17 AM

@RegDwigнt Turned it into a column chart?

Andrew Leach

Ooh. I walk past the tallest of those towers.

RegDwigнt

@MattЭллен that train has sailed.

Matt Эллен

:D

RegDwigнt

@AndrewLeach yeah no wonder, the other ones haven't even been built yet.

Rolls eyes.

Robusto

You have to go to Arizona to view London Bridge anymore. But you can sing the song anywhere, I guess.

RegDwigнt

11:19 AM

Now tell me what I want what I really really want.

Robusto

A Spice Girl?

tchrist

@Robusto “Anymore” is a negative polarity item.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist you're a negative polarity item.

Matt Эллен

I'll tell you what you want, what you really, really want.

Robusto

@tchrist Then it will adhere to your positive polarity items. Cf. magnetism

RegDwigнt

11:20 AM

That was the first thing I said on this site, and the first thing for which nohat ate me alive.

It was my introduction to descriptivism.

And no, I'm not linking to that now-deleted answer.

tchrist

@MattЭллен Who judges a city by the aesthetics of its underground?

Robusto

Anyway, I used anymore correctly, despite what some folks think. Why be negative about such things?

RegDwigнt

Positive anymore

Positive anymore is the use of the adverb anymore in an affirmative context. While any more is typically a negative/interrogative polarity item used in negative, interrogative, or hypothetical contexts, speakers of some dialects of English use it in positive or affirmative contexts, with a meaning similar to nowadays or from now on. Positive anymore occurs in some varieties of North American English, especially in the Midlands variety spoken in parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, and Missouri; its usage extends to Utah and some other western U.S. states. Positive anymore also...

@Robusto look, if you're positive someone has to be negative. Otherwise the fucking magnets just don't work.

Robusto

See? It says "Illinois" and not "Wisconsin"; I am right. QED

@RegDwigнt What about gay magnets?

tchrist

@RegDwigнt How they call Pennsylvania “Midlands” I have no idea.

@Robusto Those are monopoles.

Matt Эллен

11:22 AM

@tchrist Any number of fictional characters. Dwarves, especially.

Jason Marsh

which animal would make fat people feel the most unpleasant if you compare it with them between elephant, hippo and pig?

RegDwigнt

@tchrist by usind the letter M, then an i then a d and so on.

Robusto

@tchrist Then we need to get the Anti-Trust Act working better.

@MattЭллен I think i is a dwarf letter. And M is a giant.

RegDwigнt

What does that make M&M?

tchrist

> Invariably you can tell the plagiarized content at a glance: it's the posts that contain a grammatically correct English sentence.

That’s offensive to pineapples.

RegDwigнt

11:24 AM

It's offensive because it's true.

tchrist

Not incorrect though.

Robusto

@tchrist All my content must be plagiarized, then, except the ones where I made a typo.

Matt Эллен

@JasonMarsh depends on the culture of the person. I'd say it's a toss up between hippo and pig

RegDwigнt

@Robusto So all you're saying is he's right.

tchrist

This is a cultural issue then.

RegDwigнt

11:25 AM

You never did pay any royalties to yourself, did you?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Proof it.

Jason Marsh

what do you mean?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I have yet to see a single Czech you wrote out in your own name.

tchrist

Intellectual property is only property in somebody’s mind.

So of course it is subject to occidental copying.

RegDwigнt

So that's why the US is always after not just the hearts.

Robusto

11:26 AM

@RegDwigнt What nationality is Martini Navratilova?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Lesbian.

tchrist

Italianovski.

Robusto

But an interesting drink nonetheless.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt The Undiscovered Country. Careful how you spell that last word.

Robusto

Oh, I think it's been plenty discovered. There are plenty of YouTube videos documenting its existence.

tchrist

11:28 AM

Not by me.

Robusto

There are even TV shows about it.

tchrist

Except for this one chick in high school I made out with a bit. She ended up going dyke.

I guess I had cooties.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist youtube.com/user/UnsolicitedProject for edificational purposes

tchrist

I’m at my parents’. I’d best not.

Robusto

What, you think they don't look at lesbian porn?

tchrist

11:32 AM

The kittens are watching.

Robusto

Of course.

Or you could give them a quizzical look and say "You talk funny." In your first example, that construction would almost never be used unless you were offering someone something you probably didn't want. In the second you would sound stilted beyond belief. And in the third, you're being ordered to do something, so no thanks would be in order. — Robusto 7 secs ago

Why not go and spread the word in fat-people chat? Everyone here is quite trim.

tchrist

Actually, it’s because of their pedalogical lifestyle. A lunar lifestyle would be just one-seventh the weight.

Robusto

What I hate is people who can't manage subject/verb agreement.

tchrist

Are they now?

Robusto

@tchrist You under/overestimate. The correct value is 1/6.

tchrist

11:41 AM

1/6 is for height. It’s why your foot is only 2 inches long on the moon.