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12:32 AM

Oh there was a Star Wars movie a couple years ago. So @Mitch is not talking about the past century every time he brings those up.

(Don't shame me for my Hollywood impairment please. Thanks in advance.)

((That ^ means please do so we'll have a laugh))

M.A.R.

Ha ha Hollywoodly impaired

Pointing at @Færd, laughing

@Færd my biggest movie pet peeve is Star Wars

I don't get what's so special about it

That why The Force Wakes up is ranked higher than The Departed is beyond me

Why does Star Wars demand so much attention? And why should Lucas be more successful than King Spielberg?

The world makes no effing sense.

Downgoat

12:55 AM

I have this stanza in a poem:

We will bind our pains among our veins,
nor tie these chains on your ordain.

is it grammatically incorrect not to include "neither" after the 'will'?

I understand that in a formal context it would be, but in the case of a poem is it important?

Faheem Mitha

1:15 AM

@M.A.R. Star Wars is crap.

I don't get it either.

I also thought "The Force Awakens" was particularly dire. It made the earlier films look like masterpieces.

Færd

4:06 AM

@M.A.R. Ooh that tickles my masochism.

@M.A.R. OK. If it doesn't make sense to you then I must let my hat be the judge.

(The above sentence is not meant to be understood by non Farsi speakers)

Tonepoet

4:52 AM

@M.A.R. How would the system determine which answers are duplicates, and how does it know if there's not some subtle difference that would cause me to vote the other way? Also, this is predicated on the notion that everybody use the vote = agreement rationale on meta, instead of the vote = good post rationale.

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Q: Term describing the "in good standing" conditional

As I understand it, the phrase "in good standing" describes a person or entity having complied with all their explicit obligations and therefore has no negative history so far. Being "in good standing" or having "lost good standing" are the two possible conditions, what is the umbrella term that ...

Tonepoet

5:28 AM

Dear Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (©1994): Nobody else has said "appurtenance of the infinitive" since 1660 in A Shortcut to Cambridge [A Latin Grammar.] on page 36, and it seems like nobody ever did it before too. Was that intentional? Signed Tonepoet.

CowperKettle

6:54 AM

Word of the day: bullfinch (a hedge too high for a mounted rider to cross)

> The course was the devil! A start on the level,
And then a stiff breather uphill;
A bank at the top with a four-foot drop,
And a bullfinch down by the mill.

My rhymed birthday greeting has been starred 3 times. Is it really nice, or is it just out of courtesy? Are there some awkward things in it?

CowperKettle

8:33 AM

Lord Byron on Top Gear:

> Now there is nothing gives a man such spirits,
Leavening his blood as cayenne doth a curry,
As going at full speed -- no matter where its
Direction be, so 't is but in a hurry,
And merely for the sake of its own merits;
For the less cause there is for all this flurry,
The greater is the pleasure in arriving
At the great end of travel -- which is driving.

CowperKettle

9:16 AM

..

> Alas, how deeply painful is all payment!
Take lives, take wives, take aught except men's purses:
As Machiavel shows those in purple raiment,
Such is the shortest way to general curses.
They hate a murderer much less than a claimant
On that sweet ore which every body nurses; --
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,
But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

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10:39 AM

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Q: Word meaning to repeat what another person is saying as a form of mockery?

For example, when a kid repeats what his/her mother is saying because he/she is angry.

single-word-requests

NVZ

11:28 AM

@tchrist english.stackexchange.com/questions/425923/…

Someone closed my question as duplicate without even reading it to see that I had referenced that very same thread... Please reopen and stop anyhow downvoting posts carelessly! — user21820 Jan 12 at 2:52

CowperKettle

1:48 PM

> Plastika exhibition to open on January 30
Plastika exhibition opens on January 30

Which is better as a headline?

Provided that today is January 19

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Q: What is the best word to use in place of "unique, but due to your setup", without attributing blame?

At work, we believe one of our customers experiences problems with our product due to their infrastructure. Their network is very busy and requests often time out. We suspect that this is the cause of the problem and we've attempted to remedy it blind. We can't reproduce the issue using our own...

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