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Better!

11:31 AM

ℱ᷈

that's clearer :D

Indeed so.

These all have a character that sorts at the same collation as an F when consulting only the primary strength under the Unicode Collation Algorithm, and most of them are identical in that regard:

U+00046 ‭ F LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
U+00066 ‭ f LATIN SMALL LETTER F
U+01DA0 ‭ ᶠ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL F
U+01E1E ‭ Ḟ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F WITH DOT ABOVE
U+01E1F ‭ ḟ LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH DOT ABOVE
U+02109 ‭ ℉ DEGREE FAHRENHEIT
U+02131 ‭ ℱ SCRIPT CAPITAL F
U+024BB ‭ Ⓕ CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
U+024D5 ‭ ⓕ CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER F
U+0338A ‭ ㎊ SQUARE PF
U+0338B ‭ ㎋ SQUARE NF
U+0338C ‭ ㎌ SQUARE MU F
U+0A77B ‭ Ꝼ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR F
U+0A77C ‭ ꝼ LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR F

Oh I forgot the astrals!!!

Fixed.

I cannot promise that those all look splendid to all viewers.

I wonder what language needs the "WITH DOT ABOVE" version from a legacy encoding!

ﬀ — twice the fs half the chars

More eﬃcient that way.

well, one or the other. It's not 4 times the fs. I shouldn't write advertising copy

I've been hacking so hard that I haven't been jattering much.

Development is 90% inspiration and 90% paperwork.

It's days like this that I regret having but four and twenty close votes to bestow upon ELU.

I see there was a bit a migrant flood yesterday.

I did see one question worth answering, but I don't think I could do so without surrendering wit’s soul, and so I’ve no time.

@Cerberus I’ve been up for hours; arn chew?

The long-decried -ize habit is hardly limited to English:

> Simplesmente parece que essa pronúncia não está ainda generalizada ao ponto de ser dicionarizada.

Dictionarized, hah!

12:04 PM

put in a dictionary?

spoken aloud?

Put in a dictionary.

ah :D

"It simply seems that that pronunciation isn’t sufficiently generalized to the point of being put in a dictionary."

it's hard not to speak pronunciation aloud

Speak softly and carry a big IPA, preferably by the pint.

> converted to a comment by owner 2 days ago

I love people who clean up their own stuff. :)

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, Jan 18 at 20:04, by bjb568

I feel concerned about the present of English.

4 hours later…

3:55 PM

"my variables don't have" or "my variables doesn't has" ?

Doesn't and has are used only when the subject is in the 3rd person singular (he/she/something).

Have and do can be infinitives.

You can use a 3rd personal singular in combination with an infinitive.

What is 3rd ?

I = 1

You = 2

He/she/it/etc. = 3

We = 1 plural

I see

You (referring to several people) = 2 plural

They/things/etc. = 3 plural.

4:02 PM

Got it ..

So the subject of your sentence is my variables, which is 3rd person plural.

So you need don't.

yes, I got it

And the verb do takes an infinitive, so don't have.

merci :-)

De rien!

4:03 PM

Your explanations ~~was~~ were perfect

"was" or "were" ?

;-)

Hehe what do you think?

I think "were" in more correct

Was is singular.

Yes, if you say explanations, it has to be plural, so were.

4:04 PM

ok ok ! :-)

Don't verbs have plural endings in Persian?

they have

OK.

But also there is a lot of exception

@Cerberus And how do you know I know Persian?

I just know?

You must have mentioned you were Persian sometimes? Or from your profile? Or just your name, it does sound Persian.

I don't remember.

Ah, I see it is on your profile.

4:36 PM

Maybe you over heard Hades talking about him. Hades has all the best gossip

@Cerberus good :-)

@MattE.Эллен :-)

Is there something to tell someone when he comes back from bathroom? or he sneezes?

I don't think anyone would ever say anything when people come back from the bathroom.

Some people say "Gesundheit" when people sneeze.

Most people here say something similar. But I stopped doing it, because why??

Why comment on somebody's sneezing? It is an utterly pointless and silly ritual, in my opinion.

And then the sneezer is supposed to say "thank you" back!

shakes heads

user116848

Some say "Bless you".

user116848

And hi!