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Q: Need Help Figuring Out What Word(s) Describes My Feelings

RichardHello & thank you for reading- My question is, what word(s) describe the following: Not/no strong(but little) feeling towards others in general but can be 'forced' to how I use to be with them. Not really inputting on life seeing things take place & happen around me like I'm just observ...

 
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Q: Word for "a group of people responding in unison to a greeting"

Nicholas PickeringI'm looking for a word to describe the event in which a group of people respond in unison to a greeting or introduction. The most obvious example I can think of is in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, when a person introduces themselves and the rest of the group responds in unison with the same ...

 
@KannE I know, they can be super annoying!
But why not just ignore them?
Use the site in whatever way you get satisfaction out of, and let the old grumps be.
 
2:49 AM
seems to be a common theme across the network
Jay Hanlon on April 26, 2018

Let’s start with the painful truth:

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Our employees and community have cared about this for a long time, but we’ve struggled to talk about it publicly or to sufficiently prioritize it in recent years. And results matter more than intentions.

Now, that’s not because most Stack Overflow contributors are hostile jerks. The majority of them are generous and kind. Sure, a few are…  just generous, I guess? But our active users regularly express thei …

 
3:09 AM
@s.patroller Ah, interesting!
I'll read that.
At least I'll open it in a new tab.
 
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ فاکر
فاخر که بد نیست.
@Cerberus Are they all old?
 
3:36 AM
@Færd I suspect that many of them are, if not in body, then in spirit.
And not in a good way, because I generally like oldness.
 
4:22 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, +4 more: greentoneproblog.net/naturalics-forskolin/ by janewoke on english.SE
 
 
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: Is 'Regards by' a valid usage by Haaretz on english.SE
 
 
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Q: https://freemp3download.xyz/feel-back-wally-b-seck-mp3-telecharger-musique/

clarkculliganFeel Back Musique Télécharger And in some cases they will require speakers for options. Everyone wants to sound good! Flatter your loved ones by choosing these features, and they will jump for joy at the chance to visit your karaoke parties. Even if you are buying your home karaoke practice this ...

 
7:35 AM
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Q: Verb form for the word "ubiquitous or widespread"

Kemalthe sentence I am trying to create is used everywhere in this report I am trying to proofread and semantically goes like this: "Increasing the use of internet" or "making infrastructure establishment widespread across the nation" I am looking for a verb more practical than "making sth. widespread...

 
7:54 AM
@Færd okay, then choosing to be an English teacher wasn't a great move
 
 
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Is there a word for all of a sudden feel--I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it. I'm about to lose control and I think I like it!--Oh, happy day (Oh, happy day) Oh, happy day-ay-ay (Oh, happy day...)?
 
 
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Q: What to call someone who knows How to Search for a solution?

AswanthI am looking for a single word to describe someone who knows how to search for a solution.

 
Hah.
Are you deferring?
 
2:31 PM
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Q: Crowdfunding without the funding

noClueI'm looking for a "catchy" word that is basically like crowdfunding/crowdfunded, except it's not about funding specifically and instead can mean any activity that involves a large group. Example: how would you describe Wikipedia? Crowd... written? Crowdproject?

 
2:59 PM
@Cerberus I think it funny, but I'm gon' defer my difference till I read more.
 
Your difference?
 
Oh. Thought you were asking whether I disagreed.
 
Nope!
 
Never mind.
No deferment.
 
I was talking about deferring your purchase as in the article.
Fun fact: Latin differo means "to differ, to delay", while defero means something else.
 
3:03 PM
Oh.
Differ and delay come together?
 
Yes.
 
Interesting.
So how would you think women's underwear would compare to that of men?
 
So perhaps the English use of defer "delay" is an error, because it should be differ that means "delay".
Hmm it seems you are more interested in woman's underwear.
Perhaps underwear is more like a fun shopping experience for women than for men?
I suspect they spend more money on it than we do.
 
@Cerberus Only as an indicator of economic progress.
So it's more of an indispensable item for men?
 
@Færd Uhuh...
@Færd Perhaps so?
What do you think?
 
3:07 PM
Rather, especially as an indicator of economic progress.
@Cerberus I don't think it is.
 
@Færd Sure.
Do your male friends spend much on underwear?
 
The bottom limit of underwear expenditure for men and women approach each other in times of hardship.
So when things start to look up, they both grow at the same time.
 
Hmm.
Women's underwear doesn't go up more slowly but higher?
 
I don't undrestand the question.
 
Women's underwear isn't more of s luxury product than men's underwear?
 
3:15 PM
@Cerberus I know some of my male freinds' moms spend more on buying underwear for their sons than for themselves!
 
Haha.
 
@Cerberus It could be.
 
Interesting conversations you must have.
 
Yeah! hehe
 
The sons don't want to pick their own underwear?
Or do they tell their mothers what to buy?
 
3:16 PM
I don't know any man who buys his own underwear.
 
Huh??
 
I guess we grow adapted to what is chosen for us by the female caretakers of that matter.
 
What if you live alone?
Who buys yours?
 
My mom.
 
And you live with her?
 
3:18 PM
I just find new underwear in my closet when I need 'em.
@Cerberus Yes.
 
So do all your friends live with their mothers?
 
Oh no.
But even those who don't, receive enough supplies from their moms.
Some do.
I dunno about all of them.
 
please check this comments of this question there are two people that argue about abberiviation and acronym
@NicolaTalbot Examples, H-HMMWV pronounced Humvee, CSTA pronounced "siesta", AHPCRC pronounced ahipcrick, NMAH pronounced "enema". — Steven B. Segletes 11 mins ago
 
Funny.
 
@Cerberus See. We're having one right now.
 
3:20 PM
What you are calling "abbreviations" are better known as "acronyms". Look up acro and/or acronym packages. – Steven B. Segletes 40 mins ago
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@StevenB.Segletes Technical an acronym is an abbreviation that can be pronounced as a word, although it's increasingly being used as a synonym for abbreviation. – Nicola Talbot 34 mins ago
yes Thank you but do you know any package in acronyms can create this kind of list – Educ 33 mins ago
@Educ With the glossaries package you can provide your own styles. You might want to start with just a tabular environment and work out how to make that lo
guys what do you think about this conversation
What you are calling "abbreviations" are better known as "acronyms". Look up acro and/or acronym packages. – Steven B. Segletes 40 mins ago
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@StevenB.Segletes Technical an acronym is an abbreviation that can be pronounced as a word, although it's increasingly being used as a synonym for abbreviation. – Nicola Talbot 34 mins ago
yes Thank you but do you know any package in acronyms can create this kind of list – Educ 33 mins ago
@Educ With the glossaries package you can provide your own styles. You might want to start with just a tabular environment and work out how to make that lo
 
@Færd When I moved out, when I was like 20 or so, I had already been buying my own clothes for some time.
> Technically, an acronym is an abbreviation that can be pronounced as a word, although it's increasingly being used as a synonym for abbreviation. – Nicola Talbot 34 mins ago (this seems correct)
 
@Cerberus Yes. Some people do buy their own attire.
 
@Færd Quite!
I could imagine a mother buying some clothes for her live-apart son occasionally here, but not systematically.
Wife for husband, that's probably very common.
Or live-in girlfriend.
 
@Cerberus It would seem pretty natural to me.
 
But they're separate households...
Getting some stuff from your parents seems natural to me, but not everything all the time.
 
3:25 PM
Maybe the parents want to retain a semblance of the role of the keeper.
Makes them feel good.
@Cerberus Of course not.
 
@Færd Could be. And the children are happy to save money.
@Færd Then why is it unnatural for other things, but natural for underwear?
 
Sometimes the money doesn't even matter.
My father really likes to give me pocket money, even so I may not need any!
 
Yeah.
Money is always nice...
 
And he sometimes asks for money from his father, in order to have his spirits rise.
@Cerberus I don't have any statistics on this.
Just had casual conversations about it with a few of my friends.
 
Your father asks your grandfather for money?
To raise whose spirits?
 
3:29 PM
@Cerberus Little amounts.
@Cerberus To make my grandfather feel dependable, even in old age.
 
Cute.
I didn't know that was a thing.
 
@Cerberus Yeap!
 
Here students often ask their parents for extra money.
But they usually stop doing that once they get a full-time job.
Parents tend to complain about the asking.
But perhaps they secretly enjoy it.
 
Haha. I think they do get a mix feeling from it.
 
Quite possibly.
 
3:34 PM
Nobody would like to see their children uncapable of affording their own expenses.
 
Indeed.
 
Oh, I subconsciously read that as a typo for though, I didn't even consciously notice.
I make typos all the time...
 
I know! :D
Everyone does.
(And capable of affording something doesn't sound very sound)
 
Heh I wasn't going to comment on that...
Incapable of taking care of themselves?
 
3:41 PM
Informally, yes.
Or incapable of paying their way.
(And it's mixed feelings, not mix feeling: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/44258359#44258359)
 
Or that, yes.
@Færd That, too, looked like an unnoticeable typo.
 
@Cerberus Looks like I'm still the champion.
 
You may correct me when you see errors.
@Færd I don't think so!
 
@Cerberus You too! And thanks in advance.
 
I'll try if I ever notice!
 
 
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Q: Proper verb to use with the noun help

AlexI would like to say "I thank you for all the help you have given with this item", but the word "given" doesn't sound right. What other verb can I use here?

 
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Q: What to refer to elementary, middle, and high school in one word other than "K-12"?

cr0I need to refer to school for grades 4-12, thus the usual K-12 is not suitable, and it would be ideal to do this with a word rather than the numbers "4-12". What word generically refers to the schooling associated with K-12? I don't want to use K-12 itself because that is misleading since it imp...

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Q: Word to describe "A single point of entry"?

Joshua HowardIf there is not such a single word, the a shorter phrase or more eloquent way to sat it would do.

 
6:08 PM
Are any of these right or wrong?
1. the black community
2. the colored community
3. the people-of-color community
4. the community of people of color
 
I would say, all wrong.
People aren't a "community" just because they look somewhat similar to other people.
The blue-eyed community. The hairy community.
Maybe if there truly is a community of people at a specific location, and those people are characterised by this similar appearance, then perhaps.
 
Good.
Perhaps "community" is overused.
> 1. the blacks
2. the coloreds
3. the people of color
4. the people of colors
5. the peoples of color
6. the peoples of colors
Better? :)
Whichever your choice, it pales before people of pallor. :)
Or maybe after?
@Cerberus Does Dutch have cognates for all these Latin-derived words here?
 
6:28 PM
@tchrist All?
Colour is kleur, I assume that's French.
 
community, colored, people, pallor
to pale
 
Black is zwart, we have no black. Maybe blakeren, which means to ehh burn something until it becomes sooty.
 
And yes, those are all via French, I think probably.
I didn't claim black Latin, or at least, I hope not.
I knew zwart of course. :)
 
Community, we have the adjective communautair, but I don't think we have a substantive.
 
ah
 
6:30 PM
Pale, I don't think so. We have bleek, but that sounds like the opposite in English!
 
bleak
 
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Q: What is the smile that occurs when a kid asks you for something you really know but you can't explain to them?

OokerSay a kid reads a book contains a word "Fourier transform", then they ask their father who is a mathematician. He really understands what it is, but knowing their child lacking enough background to comprehend that, all he can do is to have a small smile and say things like "you will know when you...

 
is washed out
pale
 
Exactly.
 
so pale as bleak is reasonable in your cntext
 
6:30 PM
And I don't think bleak/bleek is related to black, nor to pale.
 
no to blanch
 
Also bleach.
Which is also bleek.
 
that too
 
We have no people, only folk.
Volk.
 
I See.
 
6:32 PM
A people = een volk; some people = mensen.
 
You miss out on the purple people eaters then. :)
 
We do have gepeupel! Which is like, the common people, in a bad way.
Ge- is a common Germanic prefix to generalise/massise something, as in berg, gebergte; dier, ongedierte.
Where on- = bad.
I think English has some vestiges of this ge-, but I forgot in which words. It's probably rare.
 
I don't know of any.
 
Thou speakest in code?
 
It does that sometimes
Too many spaces.
 
6:35 PM
Ah.
This seems somewhat similar.
Gefiend "enemies", cf. Dutch geboefte "boeven" (villains).
 
Interesting
 
This is all under y-, which represents earlier ge-.
 
Does
 
6:57 PM
@tchrist So what triggered this question about blacks?
 
7:07 PM
@Cerberus I read something about "the" black community.
And it immediately struck me as off, but I couldn't quite see why.
 
@tchrist Do you see it now?
Cf. "the intelligence community", by which people mean a number of independent intelligence agencies.
To me, a "community" means more than just having something in common.
The gefiend ≠ the community of our enemies.
It just means, the enemy in a general but non-communal sense.
 
7:36 PM
@Cerberus We prefer to be called the League of Hirsution
@tchrist The wan folk
 
@Mitch Oh, my apologies.
And after a good shave?
 
@Cerberus haha no, The hair that has chosen to not grow on my head has chosen to come out of my ears. Auricular hirsutism.
 
I see.
Does it feel...communal?
 
@tchrist I find 'the black community' less off-putting than all the other combinations you gave. 'people of color' is much larger (includes almost anywhere non-European originating)
@Cerberus ew... no. we try not to grow on each other.
oh is there a sense of community among those of us who share this characteristic?
 
How...graphic.
 
7:43 PM
Only the silent recognition, when noticing someone who needs to shave their earlobes, of 'poor slob'.
 
I see.
 
@tchrist those are all horrible. the plural giving it a sense of being 'other-ed'. not exclusive to him, but a well-known trumpism.
 
@Mitch This is the main problem with all you pallids.
You're always otherizing.
You should try northerizing for a change.
 
'colored' is so old fashioned that it seems laughable. I remember being real young and hearing my grandmother use that word and us laughing at it. She also used to say pizza, instead of the normal /'pi: tsə/, she'd say /'pɪ zə/
@tchrist we're too busy winterizing
 
Winter its own ice makes.
We've no need of more.
 
7:56 PM
@tchrist but now its southern rising.
The south will do it again
and again
give me two steps, give me two steps mister and you won't see me no mo
now you'll be ostracizing
instead of westerosing
I've never seen that show
 
But have you seen Westworld?
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I saw the 2 movies as a kid, but I have not seen the current series. I'd probably like them but...
 
but there is just so much likeable TV on that I'm just stuffed.
Also I just saw the Westworld movie, on TV, recently, and ...
it was terrible. as a movie. the story line, sure, very interesting.
 
The HBO version has more boobs (the B in HBO stands for "Boobs")
But also I thought it was very well told
 
8:03 PM
But Richard Benjamin was the most uncharismatic or unbelievable or something leading man.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Nice.
 
I haven't seen the original movie.
 
Also, the sets were terrible, and the acting. Did I mention the lighting? Horrid.
I'll have to put the series on my list.
There's just too much good. And also a lot that is mediocre that would probably be great if it weren't for the great things making them look mediocre.
So Black Mirror is over the top excellent (but also I can warrant, not to everyone's ... taste).
 
I watched S01 E01 and it was... um. too heavy on the pig fucking.
 
The Expanse is really good 'realistic' scifi about all sorts of stuff in 300 years
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yeah.
that was rough.
 
I haven't gotten back into it.
 
8:11 PM
It is so outrageous that the series really can't hit that level of disturbing
... and then it does it in episode 2
and then you think
nope, does it again episode 3
 
When I want outrageous I just turn on the news and see what Trump's been up to
 
but... none so gross as the first one
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 good point...Black Mirror is extremely good at capturing things in the near future. terrible disturbing things. That seem to be ripped from the headlines from 2 to 3 years from now.
except they started filming in 2014, so parts of the first couple of years has already started happening.
not the pig thing of course
yet
 
8:28 PM
Did they have an episode where a guy who can't get laid drives over a bunch of pedestrians?
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Ive been going through the plot recaps of the series. All of the episodes are great, and all have a dark side to them, but some are less anxiety provoking, there are a few that are not disturbing but still make you think. I feel like they are almost necessary
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 WTS?
 
That's a thing that happened near me.
 
That is disturbing, but doesn't sound like an idea BM would produce
Wait...was that that thing that happened last week?
or was it this week?
 
Christ
that feels like years ago
 
8:30 PM
It was like 1km from my house
 
BM would do that story if the guy was being blackmailed into doing it (watching porn on his computer) in order to distract from a bank heist happening at the same time (and the bank robbers were being blackmailed into doing that too)
So you definitely should see some BM episodes, but I'lll only suggest the 'not -disturbing' ones:
 
Oh, I watched a fun little Australian show called "Glitch"
 
S3 E1 Nosedive - following one woman's day, while social media rating affects her credit rating and such
S3 E4 San Junipero - two women run into each other at different nightclubs every week
S3 E6 Hated in the Nation - bee drones, invented to replace the extinct bees for pollination, are hacked for personal revenge...wait... this one is disturbing, don't watch it.
S4 E4 Hang the DJ - dating couples are arranged for an arbitrary amount of time, 1 hr, 24 hrs, a month, 12 months, but one pair doesn't want to follow that.
that one? the woman with a gun in one hand and the baby carrier in the other?
 
8:46 PM
yeah
It's on Netflix
 
I think there was a similar american one (not the gun wielding baby toting miniskirt wearing one)
 
Glitch wasn't amazing but it was fun to watch. In part, I think, because we see so little Australian TV
 
northwest? Washington state? there was a school bus accident, all the kids die, but ten years later a handful of them just walk back out of the forest?
 
hm, don't know it.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 They talk funny
 
8:48 PM
yeah!
 
I'm just saying that a miniskirt and a baby carrier and a gun isn't a good combo. you can't have all three.
trust me.
experience.
but she is wearing sensible shoes. so maybe she can handle it all, I don't know.
 
OMG!!!
Is THAT Mr. Shiny?
welcome back @Mr.ShinyandNew安宇
 
@Mitch TBH that picture is a huge spoiler
@skull Thanks, nice to see you again
Well, I need to get going. Thanks for the recommendations Mitch.
 
9:05 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 No. The fact that you said the picture is a spoiler... is a spoiler. I thought it was the baby's gun, and you're telling me the mother is the other woman?
 
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Q: What's the word for someone who keeps everyone calm?

3gatos1999This word would describe the person everyone goes to when they are stressed. The person is behind the scenes, keeping everyone else functioning at their best. Someone who never reveals what is learned in private, and is a supportive listener. The person may never actually fix the situation, but...

 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 cya pal
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Later dude. I highly don't recommend Altered Carbon. Or at least don't think too much about what they say. Everything else is very interesting. also some boobs.
 
:O
congrats @Mitch
 
9:23 PM
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Q: a word for "to agree without sincerity"

user289661As in: "There is nothing wrong with learning from the enemy, you see, an attack of this scale is much more efficient with collective organization." "Indeed," she ____, "if only my people were susceptible to such wisdom." Context: first speaker is running his mouth off with a lecture ...

 
@skull Thanks! But for what?
 
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