English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room - 2018-04-13

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1:33 AM

@Robusto I haven't studied the current prospects. I can certainly hope.

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3:28 AM

@Cerberus That was supposed to be the helpful bit. :)

@Educ Changing proofing to proving would get the message across there, though I'm sure people know what you mean anyway.

3:45 AM

@Mitch it is a quotation!

hmm

What should I write -

"a customer" or "the customer" ?

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4:50 AM

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5:00 AM

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5:24 AM

@Mitch Or a bong.

5:44 AM

Can one write "Delivery of goods under the terms of the tender" - meaning that the delivery/shipment took place under the terms of a contract arrived at using a tender procedure?

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8:48 AM

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Q: Is there a word for a person who has no influence?

Is there one sole word for a person who has no influence in the world outside or make any valuable or notable contributions? Example: "Most people are not addicted to their smartphones, they simply don't want to feel lonely or [being in that described state or being that kind of person]"

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12:25 PM

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Q: Term for spending more time expresing than resolving a problem

As a fellow developer, sometimes I struggle with bugs and talking with a coworker about the bug i send a gif expressing my mood in that moment. Sometines i spend more time searching for a gif than actual resolve that bug (in really silly bugs), is there a word for that situation?

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12:42 PM

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Q: “Find to her cost”

Woe would befall anyone who sought to sully the good name of Windsor dynasty, as Daisy Warwick, one of Edward VII’s mistresses, found to her cost. The whole context is such: Woe would befall anyone who sought to sully the good name of Windsor dynasty, as Daisy Warwick, one of Edward VI...

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Please vote to reopen. This is a perfect ELU question that was unfortunately closed

@BAYMAX But what does the rest of the text say about bees? I need to know. Lives are in the balance.

@Færd or a clash. I've reassessed my clash/crash position and I think 'clash' does sound better

wait...that's for cymbals. for a gong, yes, bong is what it sounds like. or gong. FOr a very small gong, it's 'ding'. for a steel drum, it's a clang, like a bell.

There's a science behind this

1:16 PM

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Q: Need a word / exp for instantaneous, effortless perception of displayed data

I am trying to describe why a certain display doesn't work well. I have to look closely and make an effort to read it, because pixels are too far apart and have low contrast. I've been looking at 'glance value', 'gestalt principles' but didn't really find a perfect term. It might be somewhere in...

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@Cerberus nice evidenced based. It's annoyingly nice to find out that a vague inkling of one's own has a full implementation already.

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2:41 PM

So, is it:

> Richard Adams’s Watership Down

or

> Richard Adams’ Watership Down

I can never keep those apostrophes straight.

1 hour later…

3:48 PM

@FaheemMitha pro-tip: just avoid those situations altogether. "Watership Down, by Richard Adams"

or, better, don't refer to his books at all

@Mitch I don't want to avoid it. I want answers.

@Mitch Why not?

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5:12 PM

@FaheemMitha It's the most successful way of solving the problem

@Mitch I don't see how.

@FaheemMitha Here I'll show you how:

> Richard Ada... Watership Down is tantamount to food pornography for dogs
> The book Watership Down by Richard Adams is tantamount to food pornography for dogs
> Cat videos are tantamount to food pornography for dogs

There. Solved.

@Mitch You realise that makes no sense at all, right?

Of course it makes sense. Dogs love to eat rabbits. And cats.

sigh

It's

> Adams' Watership Down

pronounced /'æ dəmz/

And "Octopus's Garden" /'pʊ sez/

but...

I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas...(Lyrics in MORE)

5:41 PM

@Mitch See, was that so hard?

@FaheemMitha Actually, it was.

struggles...

so hard...

to be....

seriously?

Have you actually read "Watership Down"?

Sure. There are rabbits

They get into things

Noble savages

They have trouble counting

Also, Hampshire

kind of drizzly there

all year

I'd rather stay in a monastery in southern Spain than be free in rainy southern England

rather a rabbit in a habit than a hare in Killare

6:12 PM

A word that should get more use is numinous.

Let's all use it more often.

@Mitch That's quite an impressive takeaway.

You should write Cliff Notes.

Actually, they can count fine up to 4. 5 is hrair. We aren't told how good they are at addition and subtraction.

Correction, any number over 4 is hrair.

Though it's not explained what is so special about 5. And it doesn't really jibe with the generally anthropomorphic depiction of the rabbits.

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Q: A word for mourning future endings/loss

I have often felt melancholy at the beginning of good things, trips, events, etc. in anticipation of their ending or loss. I would sometimes even sob when dating my husband (before we married) somehow mourning the future loss of this stage of our relationship. Is there a word for this particular ...

single-word-requests

Anonymous

Technically those are 5 "valid reasons". Realistically...if you use the word "hitherto" in a conversation...you would confuse the vast majority of people (regardless of the place/audience). Anyone who was not confused would probably consider the usage "pretentious" (at best). — RickyBobby 2 hours ago

Anonymous

That seems really unlikely to me. My expectation is that most English speakers would be able to understand hitherto without a problem. But I suppose we're all biased to think other people are like we are, so perhaps the poster and I are suffering from the same cognitive bias, but in opposite directions.

6:28 PM

yeah, it depends on the level of "education"

a group of lawyers would have no problems :P

there is no "vast majority of people (regardless of the place/audience)"

Anonymous

Hitherto is around the 16000th most common word in COCA, on par with whirlpool and bassist.

interesting, where does "aforementioned" rank?

Anonymous

Around #12000.

Anonymous

I don't think the last few digits are very significant because the data is kind of noisy.

is there a #1?

6:37 PM

@skullpatrol here is a "vast majority of people":

Tokyo Shibuya Crossing, World's Busiest Intersection - Timelapse HD - ooAsia

Anonymous

The.

Anonymous

The closer you get to #1, the more reliable the data gets.

thanks

@skullpatrol The more interesting question is is there a last one

Anonymous

The is ahead of be by a fair margin in this particular corpus.

6:40 PM

@Mitch the most unused word is the word you can't remember :P

I'd like to ask a more CS question, there must be resources for that, but couldn't find

@skullpatrol It's not even on the tip of your tongue

yup

somewhere in the back

uvular

in the back of your mind?

6:42 PM

barely there

if we take a simple binary tree, at any depth, any node has 2 neighbors, easy to find, example 0011 has a 0010 as left neighbor, and 0100 on the right

a fleeting thought

@skullpatrol a dream half remembered

my problem is with quadtrees, (and actually octrees, I want to apply this neighbors search in a RGB space)

Anonymous

@Mitch In Japanese, when you can't quite remember a word, that word only makes it to your throat and not all the way to the tip of your tongue.

6:44 PM

the ghost of a departed thought...

@snailboat sometimes you can remember the sound it starts with. so then I think the tongue would be right

@skullpatrol filled with regret

\o @CowperKettle

Anonymous

@Mitch Sometimes I can remember how many letters it's written with, but not what specifically those letters are.

@skullpatrol Good evening, SP!

Anonymous

Hello, Kettle o' Cowper!

6:47 PM

@snailboat It's like a crossword puzzle your own brain has inside

Boat o' Snail :0)

@snailboat Good evening, Madam!

@caub if you can do it for 2D (or 2 coords, or a pair of values), then you can iterate and do it for n-D.

are you just trying to traverse the space of all colors?

Anonymous

I should know about octrees. I don't, but I should.

An octree is a tree data structure in which each internal node has exactly eight children. Octrees are most often used to partition a three-dimensional space by recursively subdividing it into eight octants. Octrees are the three-dimensional analog of quadtrees. The name is formed from oct + tree, but note that it is normally written "octree" with only one "t". Octrees are often used in 3D graphics and 3D game engines. == For spatial representation == Each node in an octree subdivides the space it represents into eight octants. In a point region (PR) octree, the node stores an explicit th...

Anonymous

6:52 PM

Hey, I never thought about octree only having one ‹t› before.

7:03 PM

"octtree" looks weird to me

@snailboat pastime

threshold

hm... that last one is folkmology

i think

yea I need to work in these coords sketch.io/render/sk-abeacebf1a0b0beecb44ed008824f90c.jpeg

right Mitch, once I have some insightul coords, it's not hard to get the neightbors, I was not writing coords the right way

thx

and so on.. sketch.io/render/sk-ba5188f2c60ef78030223c4e2fafc9e2.jpeg

7:20 PM

A woman is sitting at her deceased husband’s funeral. A man leans in to her and asks, “Do you mind if I say a word?”. “No, go right ahead”, the woman replies. The man stands, clears his throat, says “Plethora”, and sits back down. “Thanks”, the woman says, “that means a lot”

Tweeted by AllieLia on April 12, 2018 at 4:59 AM

7:30 PM

scratching his head

@caub What does 'plethora' mean?

Yes I know, I guess the joke is just plethora <-> 'means a lot' I was searching something deeper

7:54 PM

tube.quinzel.tech hehe, why even bother with design

8:18 PM

@caub No there's nothing deep here, just a real groaner.

oh also. at a funeral that is often a thing that the bereaved say to someone who comes and tells the an anecdote about the parted.

8:47 PM

0

Q: What do you call someone that is really good at tricking people and is really cunning?

An example of how this work should be used is... "In this scene, we find out that Bob is really (word) because he killed two birds with one stone."

single-word-requests

9:03 PM

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Q: Is there a word that means "A small light in a dark area"?

Looking for a word that means a single light illuminating a dark area. Like a single candle in a dark room.

single-word-requests

9:22 PM

0

Q: Word meaning a job someone is installed in where they don’t do anything

I’m looking for a word I’m struggling to remember that refers to a job or role which is inconsequential and usually created in order to install someone in a company, not based on their merit. An example would be creating a vague new role for a friend’s son. The word I’m looking for refers to the...

single-word-requests meaning word-choice expressions is-it-a-word

9:39 PM

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Q: Patriotism is to country as ________ is to Company

Patriotism is to country as ________ is to Company. As used in. "As global corporate entities gain size and power patriotism is being replaced with _________________ as love and loyalty to a corporation becomes more important to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness then love and loyalty ...

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11:49 PM

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Q: A Word For Someone Who Has Been Hurt By Love, And In Result Hates The Concept Of It?

So, I know this is a very advanced question, because I've looked everywhere and cannot for the life of me find the right word I'm looking for. I'm currently writing an album and I need a word that means a hate of the concept of love, however, not in an evil, bad guy way, more so a sympathetic, s...

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