@MattE.Эллен I don't see why not. It depends on how they're delivered. But that's not really relevant. You seem to be assuming that cosmetic/health products do what it says on the bottle.
I don't know. I heard about it in new scientist a couple of years ago, but yeah, it's become a hot topic recently. something to do with designer babies
@MattE.Эллен It is. It's just odd that that particular technique has gotten so much press. Why not next generation sequencing? That's at least as important. Or PCR which is far more important. Dunno. Just odd is all.
We were just having a little debate about the question What does it mean to give someone boners? in chat, and it strikes me as a rather borderline case. The matter under consideration was whether or not enough research had been conducted, and how obvious that research is too obvious for considera...
Recently, and by recently, I mean during the past month or so, we've had an emerging pattern of voting to close questions because they lacked research.
More precisely, questions used to be closed with this reason only for lacking context:
This question should include more details than have ...
@M.A.R. Can you get me a more popular link showing that E.L.L. is frustrated with our tendency to migrate too much? Maybe something with 10 or more votes? I'd include a post like that in the body of my question., but right now it doesn't seem to be representative of what E.L.L. thinks overall.
@Tone what I'm implying is, when we get five different dictionaries telling us what a boner means by typing "boner meaning" into people's favorite search engine, we would close a question on ELL that ends in "What does boner mean?"
We've been getting a lot of migrations to ELL lately. That's actually fine by me – I think a lot of them are okay on ELL, even if they're not suitable for EL&U. The two sites have different standards, and that's okay.
But we've also been getting migrations like this:
When someone wanna tal...
@M.A.R. Also, I'm perfectly well aware of that. I'm just saying that in order to do that, you need to know that the word boner is the one to isolate. If we suppose you're looking for a search term and the entry is under B, and you're looking under G under the assumption that you're looking for a phrasal verb like "give boner" instead of just the word "boner" then the research effort will be futile no matter how many times you look.
for a giggle, do a search for "penises" in the chat history. then read all those messages without context. Then read them with context. It's no better.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 What everyone does is something that will be more accurately determined by the answers on meta and the votes accumulated on them, than anything either of us might suppose, hence the meta-question.
Good point friendo. I suck at parsing sometimes, so at first I thought it was something like "(truck) stop prostitute" or "truck (stop prostitute)" which doesn't make sense of course. Yeah a hyphen will help.
In one Bond movie there was a riddle about a five-letter word, something you cannot take with you but that you sit on. The answer was chair but I thought it was penis.
@M.A.R. I remember once visiting Switzerland (or was it Germany? no insult intended...yet) and watching buses slowdown considerably before they reach the stop...
in order to be exactly on time according to schedule
I made up that reconstructed memory because I thought it would be funny. And I bet somebody there tries to do some small part to clean up that ol' messy nature.
that bacteria evolved to metabolize cellulose (or is it ceullulite) and that's why there is a carboniferous period where lots of ancient forests turned into coal, but..
...but once the bacteria evolved to do that metabloization, no more coal (from the Permian onwards).
Does that sound plausible?
@JasonBourne You would know better having seen it much more recently
@Mitch I think Parenting, Workplace, Academia has the worst questions. All questions there are answered subjectively and not objectively. I feel that it's just bad advice given there, with the occasional good one thrown in.
@MattE.Эллен How do you keep a wave from crashing on the beach, tracking you down, shotgunning you in the face and then driving your car backwards off the top floor of a parking deck?
I am very sad because recently, my mental problems got worse, after it got very well, so this is very painful. I would like some words of comfort and encouragement, please.
@JasonBourne It's like when you get a cold even. You feel bad, wondering what you could have done to prevent it. I mean, you shouldn't go around licking bus windows (that apparently is a thing)
It's like how people talk about cancer (pardon anybody if this is a bother). They say "cancer survivor" and "lost the battle with cancer" as though you personally were responsible for the outcome (I know it is not intended that way, but it is one consequence of the metaphor)
@JasonBourne yes, that does come up here. but that's a bit more philsophicl. I'm just addressing how people think bad of themselves for being sick, and it's just not the case that it's their fault. Unless of course you see someone sneeze over their soup and you ask to have some.
because extra flavor.
@JasonBourne haha. I have to sit back to address that. one moment...
@JasonBourne unlike the English or Japanese where to go out without umbrella is a sign of a lack of sense or enjoyment of drizzle which is mostly the same thing.
@JasonBourne academia is similar every where (in the sense that real life out of academia is way different everywhere but all schools are kind of alike
some slight differences in details but mostly the same
@Mitch No, not all of them. However an umbrella is as much as a part of the customary regalia for the King of the Penguins, as a scepter is for any king of men:
@JasonBourne That's Danny DeVito playing The Penguin in Batman Returns, which is the first sequel to that other Batman movie I mentioned to you.
@JasonBourne Danny's most famous for his role as Louie Depalma in the late 70s sitcom, Taxi, where he plays the role of a greedy dispatcher who's second in command. The actual manager of the company isn't seen on-screen to my recollection.
@JasonBourne I hadn't noticed honestly. I do recollect that you try to model your English after the British though, so that might be part of why. Another reason is that I model myself after older forms of Am. English, so Doughnut rather than Donut.
@englishstudent Maybe you can help yourself by reading The Elementary Spelling Book by Noah Webster. It was the gold standard of American spelling for well over a hundred years, and sold approximately 100 million copies! It's one of the best selling books in U.S. history.
@JasonBourne I think it's more likely that they've given up. I don't even see their unabridged dictionary in new bookstores when I check the dictionaries section.
@Tonepoet When I emailed them about new editions of the printed Collegiate and Unabridged, there was no reply. I hope they did not think I was being sarcastic, because I asked a genuine question.
@Tonepoet It's strange that MW Collegiate has the word longanimity in printed form but not ODE in printed form. I wonder how ODE chooses words for inclusion. It really isn't that great, pronunciation missing aside.
@Tonepoet I sometimes write things in strange ways so it is not surprising people misunderstand me. I think it's because my mind works in strange ways, ways I don't even understand.