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Q: what do you call someone who refuses to provide training when they should?

Example: The employee went to their manager for help on how to perform a task that was new to them. However, the manager told them that they should know how to perform this task and refused to train them. The manager is ... Note: In this context, the manager should have no expectation that the...

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1:49 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted username: Plural of -choron and -hedroid suffixes? by wingding on english.SE

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8:09 AM

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Q: What word describes when an image or thought gets stuck in your head?

Is there an English word that describes when you do the something all day and then it gets stuck in your head. Examples of what I'm describing: You spend 12 hours straight solving crossword puzzles and afterwords, you look at a restaurant menu and find your self counting the letters of the wor...

single-word-requests meaning synonyms

8:46 AM

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Q: Is there one word for 'six and half-a-dozen'?

I was asked to visit a different client last night, other than my usual one. I said 'Yes, sure. It's six and half-a-dozen.' I meant that, to me, there was nothing to choose in terms of travel distance or client requirements. But could I have said 'it's six and half a dozen' in one word ? 'Yes...

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Q: Common word to resemble add and remove other than update

This is different to the question been asked earlier. I am having a method that is used for obtaining added files at one time and being used for obtaining removed files at another time. It can't be names as findRemovedOrNewlyAddedFiles as it resembles it does both in the single call. Can anyone h...

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9:15 AM

How would you say to show a mecanism piece by piece, all split?

I was going to write "split up", but I realized it's meant for relationships

I mean like a detailed plan, where each piece is shown separately

Disassemble

ah nice, thanks

np

I 'll take this, thanks

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10:36 AM

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Q: Paper that acknowledges something

I am looking for a particular word in English language. What do you call a paper which acknowledges something? For example, at university when you ask for a list of passed exams (be it a analog or digital), you get a signed document. What is the name of such type of document? I found the word ...

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12:21 PM

Why isn't the single word for "six and half-a-dozen" not just dozen? :)

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Matt E. Эллен

1:59 PM

Do Canadians spell aeroplane like that, or the American way (airplane)?

Keep these mind

2:37 PM

@MattE.Эллен Airplane. Or avion.

Matt E. Эллен

OK. thanks :)

3:03 PM

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Q: One word for something liked only by a few

Unpopular would not be the word I am looking for. Something may be popular but only among a small group of people. For example, classical music. Here in India, not many like the classical music but there are some who like it. Therefore, I cannot say classical music is unpopular in India. Is there...

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3:16 PM

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Q: What is a word for "an image/concept with deeper meaning" or a synonym for the word "symbolic"?

I need a word for "an image/concept with deeper meaning" or a synonym for the word "symbolic". Please answer ASAP. I need it for an English Seminar that is due next week. Thanks.

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4:03 PM

Howdy.

Matt E. Эллен

Howdx

Howdz.

4:22 PM

user image

Looks nuclear. Cool.

4:35 PM

@KitZ.Fox It had me at 'mad'

4:47 PM

So howdy is labeled AmE, old-fashioned, and/or humorous by this dictionary and that.

I'm not sure about it being old-fashioned.

books.google.com/ngrams/…

5:01 PM

runs the review queue through

Matt E. Эллен

queues the run through review

@KitZ.Fox Where's that form for the Unicode Consortium.

It should have variations like dash has. Three-demi, four-demi, six-demi. A one-demi is a semicolon, a null-demi is a bullet point.

This ⊙ is an infinidemicolon.

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Matt E. Эллен

Heracles was a demigod. Are there any semigods?

@MattE.Эллен Rubber Duck, obviously.

Matt E. Эллен

??

5:13 PM

Convoy by C. W. McCall

"Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck, and I'm about to put the hammer down."

Pig Pen and Rubber Duck are semigods.

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Matt E. Эллен

LOL. I get it now

I suppose Rubber Duck is a variation on Thor, since he has a hammer he puts down.

"to get rich" vs. "to get rich"

What's the difference?

bangs head against wall

5:29 PM

@Gigili I'm reading those over and over, and I can't tell the difference. Are my eyes bad?

5:40 PM

Do you need to see a doctor?

I also cannot see a difference.

Matt E. Эллен

@Gigili they are the same.

Right.

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Q: "to get rich" vs "to become rich" vs "to be rich"

I see all of "to get rich" and "to become rich" and "to be rich" in several sentences and I don't know differences and I don't know which is most suitable. please help me to select best.

Matt E. Эллен

There's a difference between "to get rich" and "to get Rich"

Matt E. Эллен

6:02 PM

In some accents there is no difference between "to get caught" and "to get cot"

Matt E. Эллен

6:18 PM

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Q: Should we keep the "friendly tag name" feature?

Depending on what site(s) in the network you spend your time on, you may or may not know that Stack Overflow recently spent a long time trying out something called Documentation. One of the features we added to SO for that now-closed project was the notion of tags having a "friendly name". For ex...

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6:32 PM

@MattE.Эллен I am so happy you wrote OK instead of okay. Most people in this chat use okay, unlike me, LOL.

Matt E. Эллен

I prefer typing less letter. Fewer chances for mistakes!

@MattE.Эллен And there is 'to Get Rich' as well.

Matt E. Эллен

who is Get Rich?

It's the name of a seminar I just invented.

Matt E. Эллен

nice

6:39 PM

When I say pigs, I usually don't say the correct pigz but the wrong pigs.

@MattE.Эллен That's rich, coming from you.

@KitZ.Fox We need to see the same doctor

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch rich like meringue

@Jasper okie dokie

@MattE.Эллен As rich as Croesus. Croesus meringue.

So many colories

@MattE.Эллен It's necessary morally to point out at length, and I mean it, that you made a typing mistake there.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch oh, thanks! I'll fix it...

@Jasper You'd know it if you pick the wrong pig. A pig picked wrong, is a prig pricked prong.

Matt E. Эллен

6:54 PM

much better

nice

Hey, you survived the hurricane.

Matt E. Эллен

well, I don't live in Ireland, or Wales, or Cornwall. I think that's where the worst of it was.

I mean, we're all gonna die, but that would just be weird

Matt E. Эллен

to die in a hurricane ?

@MattE.Эллен look man, don't blame it all on them

@MattE.Эллен yes, in England at the same time

Matt E. Эллен

6:56 PM

we're all deathly allergic to hurricanes

I did get to enjoy the weird red sun and sky

Every hurricane has a weird red sun and sky to it

Meteorologically speaking

Matt E. Эллен

ours was apparently because of Iberical fires

I suppose Iberian is the correct words, but who uses correct words?

'Not I' said the cat

correctly I might add

Matt E. Эллен

paradox warning!

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? #Nietzsche

Tweeted by NietzscheQuotes on August 14, 2017 at 12:10 PM

Matt E. Эллен

7:01 PM

Cats love. They love themselves

I don't think they're that complex enough

They're just dumb enough to ignore other's feelings

Didn't you get at least a little extra rain and wind?

Matt E. Эллен

yes. it was windier and warmer than normal

Oh. well then what was the point of it all?

Matt E. Эллен

to disrupt the trade negotiations between the UK and the rest of the EU

I find concerns about impending weather hazards much less anxiety producing.

Because people are idiots

Matt E. Эллен

7:15 PM

especially people in charge of countries

argh! meeting on Friday afternoon! I'm just getting into the groove and now this.

Grr. Argh.

OK one last thought to leave you with. Why? Why? Why?

Give examples.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:31 PM

Because. Because. Because.

Examples: This is not a pipe. Tron 2. The Electoral College.

Matt E. Эллен

Why not? Why not? Why not?
Dipping french fries in Mr. Whippy. Communism. Acknowledging your own mortality.

Is that you, Marcus?

8:03 PM

@Gigili Is that you, bowl of cherries?

We don't look a thing alike.

I'm sorry. I mistook you for John.

8:51 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Because of the wonderful things he does?

@MattE.Эллен hahahha. I do exactly that with my fries. People are often disgusted by it. But it doesn't hurt anybody and, besides, both me and the pig enjoy it.

Wait.. a Mr Whippy is like a Wendy's Frosty, right?

If not, then that's totally disgusting.

Matt E. Эллен

I have not been to a Wendy's

You're not missing anything

Matt E. Эллен

good

except maybe dipping your french fries in a Frosty.

if you know what I mean

Matt E. Эллен

If you mean "something similar to dipping your french fries in a mr whippy" then yes

8:57 PM

A Frosty is a chocolate milkshake, very think. It is impossible to consume through a straw, you need a spoon (or a bunch of french fries) to consume a Frosty.

Matt E. Эллен

I think Mr. Whippy is more substantial than Wendy's frosty, by the look of it. Without eating one, I can't be sure, so that mystery will have to go in the unsolved file.

@MattE.Эллен Yes. More or less.

@MattE.Эллен or allocated into the research budget

Matt E. Эллен

my budget extends to putting in the unsolved file.

moths fly from wallet

I'm sure we could convert a mating regimen for moths into a profitable protein resource

Matt E. Эллен

to turn into frozen dessert?

9:00 PM

haha all my great entrepreneurial ideas come from badly remembered Blade Runner vignettes

Matt E. Эллен

lol

@MattE.Эллен oh...hadn't considered that. But yes. a protein rich frozen dessert

that tastes like bacon

Matt E. Эллен

frozen bacon and fries

delightful

and it wriggles like a moth as it goes down.

We'll call it a Piggly-Wiggly Sno-Fro Shake

I'm hungry already

Matt E. Эллен

It has had the opposite effect on me

I am unhungry

9:03 PM

oh? you've eaten too much already?

I'm not sure how bacon got into this, but never mind everything is better with bacon.

Matt E. Эллен

the only way to improve bacon is to add more bacon

Just yesterday I traded four ears of corn for a slab of bacon (in real life. for real)

Matt E. Эллен

toodle pip

l8r

9:41 PM

@Mitch If you add an egg, it can be a Humpty-dumpty Piggly-wiggly Sno-fro Shake.

Anonymous

10:20 PM

@Færd I've been howdied twice today.

Anonymous

People from around here don't generally say howdy, but I know people who do.

Anonymous

I just checked ten dictionaries, and none of them said it was old-fashioned.

Anonymous

Now I'm curious what dictionaries call it old-fashioned.

10:34 PM

@snailplane You love dictionaries, LOL.

10:45 PM

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Q: Single word for "probably wrong"

I need a word that corresponds to the meaning of "probably wrong" (as said in the title). I can re-phrase my sentence, but I would appreciate it if someone knew of an adjective that fits the statement. Here's an example of what I mean: "In her utter confusion, she scrawled the [probably wrong] a...

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11:50 PM

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Q: Psychological terminology

What is the terminology for someone who is aroused by strangling someone to death? Albert DeSilva, the Boston Strangler, was a(n) ________. I realize sadist covers this but I was hoping for a more specific term.

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