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6:00 PM
For the new year, why don't we code something that awards 1/10th the reputation points for questions and answers?
Or would you prefer 1/100th?
 
I bet there's a word for that.
decimation
 
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@Mitch And for 1/100th? Decidecimation?
Or maybe centimentality?
 
contumation
and for 1/1000....
wait for it...
sneezing fit
 
centimation
 
6:03 PM
wait... gotta get a tissue
 
You must be allergic to winter.
 
and a towel for the keyboard
 
Quoth the teenage boy.
 
We didn't have keyboards when I was a teenage boy. At least not ones you could abuse yourself to satisfactorily.
 
ew. again
 
6:05 PM
Hey, you started it.
However lofty the chat topic may begin, in the end gravity pulls it down into the nether regions.
 
asses to asses, crust to crust
 
> - Hello, is this the laundry?
- This is fuckondry! You've got the wrong number. It's the Ministry of Culture.
(A Russian joke)
 
asses to ashes, busts to dust
Welcome to winter. Niagara Falls on ice.
Funny because I sometimes fall on ice too.
 
Welcome to winter. Konzhakovsky Kamen mountain, Russia. I shot this a month ago (0:
 
Looks like you cleaned and skinned it too.
 
6:08 PM
The wind was very strong
 
YOU SLACKERS AREN'T MANNING OUR CLOSE-VOTE QUEUE TODAY!
 
It's a holiday. Ease up.
They're not delivering any mail today either.
 
@Robusto I would be glad to, provided you explain them ausländers to the same us do.
 
They never learn.
 
I would like to learn The Art of Debate . Is there any good radio to learn that, currently i'm listening to podcast of Fox talk radio
 
6:10 PM
 
moans
 
@CowperKettle are you from russain ?
 
Also, it's Ausländer.
 
laender
oder länder same
 
6:12 PM
Neither a borrower nor a länder be.
 
Opt-u not Opt-e
 
Fuck
 
Your fingers are used to Spanish.
 
Exactly right.
 
lingüística
 
6:13 PM
And my vision isn't good enough to tell the difference.
 
ɴᴏ ɪ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜʀ ꜰᴏɴᴛ ɪꜱ ᴛᴏᴏ ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ
 
Please folks, I would like to learn The Art of Debate . Is there any good radio to learn that, currently i'm listening to podcast of Fox talk radio ? or anyway to dot that ?
 
@Educ WTF? Why would you try to learn debate from the anti-debate crowd?
 
@Robusto because I don't know that they are crowd until now
until you said it
 
He doesn't know to block Fox.
The Mouth of Sauron.
 
6:16 PM
Well, Fox news is like the Soviet Правда ...
Nothing but lies and state propaganda.
Why do you think our Stooge-in-Chief watches Fox & Friends every morning. Gotta get his morning briefing on today's lies.
 
@Robusto glad to know that, but i felt already I just want to learn english by listening to native speaker that's why I choise it
do you know any good radio talk /news
?
 
@Educ BBC
Since you are learning British English
 
Word of the day: wellaway
Interjection: wellaway
  1. (archaic) Expressing sadness, regret etc.
  2. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
  3. Crying with pitteous voice, and count'nance wan; / Ah well away, most noble Lords, how can / Your cruell eyes endure so pitteous sight [...]?
 
What movie is worth seeing today at the cinema?
 
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Q: Why not coin the word 'catachrestic' as the noun for a person who uses words incorrectly?

Forrest K. HarstadI would like to suggest the coinage of the word 'catachrestic' to be the noun for a person who uses words incorrectly. Thoughts?

 
6:19 PM
@Mitch that's for school but for my personal taste i would prefer something American
 
@Educ NPR news if you want the American accent
 
@Educ Yes
 
@Mitch Thank you very much , I'll try it
 
@Mitch PBS News Hour, for video.
 
@Educ And the information you get won't be as crazy as other sources might be
 
6:20 PM
NPR news, if just audio/radio.
 
(still a little opinionated, but not nearly as much as others)
 
@Mitch yes, I see that they fake the news
 
@Educ For podcasts, you can't go wrong with Dan Carlin's Common Sense or Mark Maron's WTF.
 
Lügenpressers.
 
@Robusto I stop it now, I will try NPR
 
6:21 PM
@Educ 'fake' is a little too strong for it all.
 
Good choice /nod
 
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Q: What does the fox say?

Kit Z. FoxIt is true that as a fox, I should know this, so consider this a spoilers warning. In a recent post, Geek Girl mentions that the mating call of the fox is a series of sharp, eerie barks and that this is called gekkering. This is supported by a citation in Wikipedia, but the reference is not one ...

 
@Robusto :)
@tchrist interesting
NPR news wow I love their accent
 
In the running are The Post and Darkest Hour. What else is out that's worth seeing?
I fear Coco might give me bad dreams.
 
NPR news is belong to which state in USA ?
 
6:25 PM
It's national.
Hence the name: National Public Radio
It's not from any state in particular.
 
@tchrist ah I see now
do you know any good radio belongs to NY city
 
   And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
    Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
              And the sabbath rang slowly
         In the pebbles of the holy streams.
 
Should really shouldn't use "belong" that way. It doesn't mean that in English.
 
@tchrist Foxes bark.
 
Just use from probably.
 
6:26 PM
At least according to Dylan Thomas, and he should know.
 
Good NYC radio, I can't say.
Asians often use belong in funny ways in English that don't make sense. I never know why. Some Hindu thing I thought, but that's obviously not your case.
 
@tchrist How can i say what I meant proporly in English
yes I'm not hindi or asiatic
 
> Do you know any good radio from New York City?
Do you know any good radio out of New York City?
Do you know any good radio broadcasting from New York City?
Do you know any good New York City radio?
Do you know any good NYC radio?
Belong in English is "mostly" about ownership.
So I can see why you said it.
It also is for something being in its right place.
 
I thought that belong express possession but
broadcasting is good for me
 
6:30 PM
@Educ BTW, using the simple present to indicate a continuing or current action is very non-native speakerish.
5
A: Can I say "Look, the bus comes" to mean "Look, here comes the bus"?

RobustoThe way you are using the simple present tense to describe a current event Look, the bus comes. is probably the most obvious giveaway that you are not a native speaker of English. Languages like German Der Bus kommt. or Spanish El autobús viene. commonly use simple present to e...

 
Maybe look at those senses, and expand the + More example sentences and the + Synonyms.
 
@Robusto yes it expresses habitual, facts
present continuous expresses the action that runs at the moment of speaking
 
So what should you have said instead of "I stop it now"?
 
It's like how people don't "belong" to countries in English. Stations don't "belong" to cities unless in fact the city itself should happen to own them.
 
@tchrist Now i see thank you
 
6:32 PM
@tchrist Well, not entirely. We can refer to "Chicago's WFMT," for example.
 
I('ve) just stopped it, or I'm stopping it now
 
@tchrist Good job.
 
@Robusto Yes, but I can't make belong fit there.
 
@tchrist Oh wait, you're not the non-native speaker here.
 
@tchrist present perfect / present continous
 
6:33 PM
Stop doing @Educ's exercises for him! How will he ever learn?
 
The plain present tense has very restricted uses in English.
 
@Robusto beautiful poem
I know by heart his "Never until mankind's making"
 
@CowperKettle Certainly Dylan Thomas's masterwork.
@CowperKettle For a wicked grin, try reading "Light breaks where no sun shines" ...
 
@tchrist Please, what is the correct answer
 
okay, I'll read it now
 
6:36 PM
@Educ He just gave the correct answer to my question to you.
 
Could you elaborate please ?
 
17 mins ago, by Educ
@Robusto I stop it now, I will try NPR
That's what you said.
 
yes
ah i have to use present perfect
 
You should have said "I stopped it now" or "I am stopping it now" or "I've stopped it now."
 
i 've stopped it now
 
6:39 PM
Good.
 
@Robusto :)
 
Only no space before the apostrophe: I've stopped it now.
 
@Robusto yes it just typo
 
If you want to be more idiomatic, try I just stopped. Meaning "I just now stopped."
 
@Robusto my level in english doesn't allow me to be idiomatic , so I speak in straight way
 
6:41 PM
You speak in a straight way.
But "straight way" is not really the right idiom.
 
@Robusto so what should I say ?
 
Maybe say "I'm trying to speak simply and grammatically."
 
@Robusto Yes, That's what I meant Thank you
BTW, this radio www.npr.org they talk in a way that I can understand not like fox they speak very fast
 
@Educ And, with Fox, usually with mean-spiritedness or spite in their voices. NPR is decidedly neutral in their presentation.
 
I see that by now
 
7:08 PM
0
Q: What word could I use for the below bold phrase?

Vaibhav TiwariIs there any word for the below bolded text? She decided to not communicate for some days

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Q: What do you call blocks stacked in a line

devc2What do you call a line of block stacked in a line that when one block falls it falls on top of the block next to it and the effect continues until all the blocks have fallen down

 
> None can say that this was not good advice,
The only mischief was, it came too late;
Of all experience 't is the usual price,
A sort of income-tax laid on by fate.
 
7:50 PM
@Educ Whichever American corporate media news outlet you choose they just can't afford to break some unspoken unstated limitations that make sure American sovereignty is not questioned too harshly.
Nowhere can you find in any of the most liberal corporate media outlets that the US invaded Iraq, which it freakin' did. Simple as that. Never can you see the table turned on Israelis. Their story with Palestinians is always narrated upside-down in the US. I've even heard Israel being knocked hard on BBC (or some other TV), but in America, don't think so.
You might want to try some social media news channels that run on donations or independent websites etc, but you have to rummage hard to find watchable reliable good stuff.
I watch Democracy Now on YouTube sometimes. Respectable newscasts.
Generally.
@Cerberus Sorry, I can't parse that sentence.
 
@Færd yes I see , they are fake media for example they give in their broadcasting bad image about arab.
could you name some of them , I mean social media news
 
Well, one must be careful not to generalize indiscriminately. But yes, I believe US corporate media all observe some shared restrictions.
@Educ I just did. :)
4 mins ago, by Færd
I watch Democracy Now on YouTube sometimes. Respectable newscasts.
 
@Færd some links please
 
Oh sure. A minute...
 
Thanks
 
7:58 PM
Or just search for Democracy Now headlines, in YouTube, listen to the headlines, and then follow the news that you find more interesting.
 
Thanks
Is there any news with transcription
 
But let me warn you, it won't cheer you up. Mostly upsetting news.
@Educ Click on the CC button at the bottom left of the video.
 
I don't care about the content of teh news what I care most is to listen and learn how i speak and how I start debate
@Færd yes it's closed caption Thanks
 
Well, don't limit yourself to any particular program then.
How much time do you spend on YouTube?
You can find all sorts of debates about everything over there. And I mean everything.
Just hang around on YouTube for a while and search for various things, and don't waste your time on crappy materials.
I'm sure you'll be able to find hot debates by the second.
 
@Færd should i just type debates on youtube ?
 
8:09 PM
I'm getting lousy signal and can't go video surfing right now, or I would happily do it with you.
@Educ What kind of debate would you like to watch now?
 
in science
wow I didn't know that trump has been acussed with sexual harrassement
 
@Educ Really? He admitted it.
 
I don't know if he admitted or now
 
Listen to the Access Hollywood tape.
 
Is this channel
 
8:14 PM
What does "four-pinocchio" mean in the following text:
 
@Educ Just type science debate and enter.
 
On the tape, he didn't admit doing it to any named woman in particular, just that he did this stuff.
 
> Many people ridiculed our capabilities and laughed at me because they said it was impossible to achieve such high profits. Some even labeled me a four-Pinocchio.
 
@tchrist Ah I see
 
@Gigili =Liar Liar Pants on Fire
 
8:14 PM
@tchrist Just locker room talk.
I wonder what business those women had in a men's locker room.
 
@tchrist What is "four" referring to? Why not simply "Pinocchio"?
 
@Gigili Pinocchio's nose grew when he lied.
So four times a normal lie.
@Færd Probably Lesbians. :)
 
@tchrist Got it. Thanks.
 
Locker rooms should be labelled backwards.
 
can I say : I would like to say call me in different ways ?
 
8:19 PM
There should be a "Turned On By Women" locker room and a "Turned On By Men" locker room. :)
@Educ Probably not.
 
may be they suduced him
 
Hm, you can't send a Lesbian to the "Turned on By Women" locker room, now can you? Hm.
You can't send any X into the "Turned on by X" room.
This is a tricky problem.
You can't send gay men into Turned-on-by-Men room, or the denizens there might like him too much.
You can't send lesbians into Turned-on-by-Women room, or the denizens there might like her too much.
 
@tchrist Mathematics explanation :)
 
Which locker room should gay men or lesbians use?
 
@tchrist Mathemathical explanation :)
 
8:24 PM
I don't think you should send lady reporters into a Turned-on-by-Women room no matter whether they're lesbians or not.
 
@tchrist you remind me about episode of south park
 
@Educ It's because I'm from the same place they're from.
 
when fat ass want to be girl in order to use bathroom of girls
@tchrist :)
 
Lemme see, you could send a gay male reporter into a locker room full of lesbians.
 
they create new room for him called transgender room
 
8:26 PM
Because they don't like him and he doesn't like them.
But wait, we already have a problem.
You have a locker room full of lesbians!
They can't be there.
I need to invest in a locker-room building company because I can see we need a lot more of these then we have now.
Okay, I think we have to change the locker-room doors again.
The "likes" is the problem. These need to be "Does Not Like Men" and "Does Not Like Women".
You cannot send an X into the Does-Not-Like-X room.
 
Did Bertrand Russell cover this puzzle with his famous Russell's Paradox?
 
@tchrist you see the uses of "belong " in the video
 
If we don't let men and women share the same locker room, then we shouldn't let gay men share the same locker room with each other!
@Educ It means "What is my proper place?"
 
@tchrist Thanks
wow this is amazing series I love it
 
8:34 PM
Does the army have its gay soldiers sleep in the same barracks as each other and use the same locker room? If so, then I don't understand why straight men and straight women aren't allowed to do the same.
I'm thinking we need to take down all these signs.
They don't work.
@Educ My virgin ears!
 
@tchrist sorry
 
I had to turn it off. I'm sure it's funny but it makes me too uncomfortable when that's all you hear.
I actually think the whole "trans" issue with bathrooms hides the real problem, which is that we already make people share bathrooms who get off on each other.
If that is a problem, then the trans problem is nothing in comparison.
If that is NOT a problem, then the trans problem is a delusion.
Pick one.
 
@tchrist I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to hurt your virgin ears
 
Never trust someone who's told you he's sworn off swearing. :)
I kinda feel like we shouldn't be forcing anybody into intimate situations at all.
It feels wrong.
There are countries where all sexes and orientations have to walk past the men's urinals to get to the stalls.
It's really freaky the first time when you're standing there taking a piss and a woman hurries past you.
Maybe we should only ever have privacy stalls.
If there's enough room to change clothes inside one.
There's something fake and Victorian about segregating by gender and forcing people into intimate situations with each other.
Not everybody likes that.
I feel like I've just stumbled on some mathematical proof that we're a really screwed up society.
 
8:45 PM
yes
I already feelt
felt
it
 
Do the test at the end.
@CowperKettle Freakish.
 
@Færd Is this guiz for me
?
 
We trust our gay soldiers more than our straight soldiers. We don't trust straight soldiers to treat each other professionally with dignity and respect and NO LEERING AT PRIVATE BITS so we house each gender in separate barracks and showers and bathrooms.
But gay soldiers, we know they're better than that.
Huh.
This is too weird.
Did somebody put some drugs in my coffee?
We trust our gay soldiers in important ways that we do not trust our straight soldiers.
Is it possible that we're wrong, but if so, which direction?
 
@tchrist hahaha
 
I guess there may be a different model at work.
And that is that gender is more important than sexual orientation.
I guess maybe it is. I don't know.
Everything we've seen in this year of massive sexual harassment scandals is that men cannot be trusted.
In that regard, it appears true.
> In Louisiana, by 1900, black voters were reduced to 5,320 on the rolls, although they comprised the majority of the state's population. By 1910, only 730 blacks were registered, less than 0.5% of eligible black men. "In 27 of the state's 60 parishes, not a single black voter was registered any longer; in 9 more parishes, only one black voter was."
 
8:56 PM
@tchrist but there are some women use this against men and make sexual harassment
 
@Educ What do you mean, that women lie and publicly pretend that men harassed them when the men did not do that?
Although I'm sure that all things happen, I'd rather adopt measures that make sure predators are caught.
 
yes and some of them want to have sex with men and when they don't they truns that against them
 
It's just so evil.
 
like story of joseph
 
I don't believe this is a common problem. I believe that men abusing women is a common problem. I don't believe this can be justified.
 

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