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12:30 AM
@Mitch If this is the golden age of TV, why isn't Johnny chain-smoking or tapping a box with white pencils? Besides the fact that he's dead, I mean. Who is the new Bob Newhart (or Carol Burnett) who can make everybody laugh out loud with just a look (including deaf people without CC)? As you get older, the real choices become more limited...I like Stranger Things...Let Me In...Happy To Be Here...ha-ha, really.
 
12:55 AM
I guess you could say...If you can't name Fred Sanford's deceased wife and his favorite actress in two seconds or less, we probably don't have a lot in common, TV-wise.
 
1:51 AM
@KannE Wilma?
 
 
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5:40 AM
@KannE Agreed. But they haven't got Sopranos or Game of Thrones on Netflix among some other cool shows.
@FaheemMitha Thanks
 
 
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8:19 AM
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Q: Linguistic term for the introductory sentence preceding a list of statements

Stephen RuffusWhat is a linguistic term for the introductory sentence preceding a list of statements. In the example below, the clause preceding the bullet points. A successful candidate for this position should demonstrate Sound judgement in complex situations Fairness in the treatment of others the abilit...

 
 
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10:51 AM
On the long list of plants that I confuse with each other, there is tarragon and what I guess you'd call savory.
Or what do you call it?
Satureja is a genus of aromatic plants of the family Lamiaceae, related to rosemary and thyme. It is native to North Africa, southern and southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. A few New World species were formerly included in Satureja, but they have all been moved to other genera. Several species are cultivated as culinary herbs called savory, and they have become established in the wild in a few places. == Description == Satureja species may be annual or perennial. They are low-growing herbs and subshrubs, reaching heights of 15–50 cm (5.9–19.7 in). The leaves are 1–3 cm (0.39...
 
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Q: Expression for recursive/cyclical phenomena

ZacharyFor example, A mother passes on her mitochondrial DNA to her daughter, who then passes it on to her daughter, _________. Some phrases that come to mind are and so on/fourth and et cetera, but these aren't specific enough (they can be used for non-recursive lists e.g. "I like fruits like ap...

 
11:27 AM
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Q: synonym required

subhamoy dasI need synonym (one word) of below two questions. Answers must have ‘MAR’ at the beginning or at the end. A court order freezing a debtor’s assets, usually to prevent them being taken abroad A complex and difficult situation

 
 
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12:30 PM
@Educ You could say something like: "He arranges the documents according to the name of the class in an ascending order"
Or "He organizes the documents according to the name of the class in an ascending order"
You could do away with "the order" or "in an ascending order" at the end though.
Like "He arranges/organizes the documents according to the name of the class"
There are many ways to say the same thing
 
12:52 PM
@Færd I've heard of savory but I don't think I've ever used it in cooking.
 
 
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5:00 PM
I don't really like tarragon, and savory I've never consciously tasted. It is called
"bean herb" in Dutch and other languages.
 
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Q: What's the word for this geometric solid?

ChaimWhat's the word for a geometric solid with two congruent regular pentagons in parallel planes and ten congruent triangles on lateral faces? It's neither a pyramid nor a prism. I chose pentagons arbitrarily. It seems to me there is a word for such a figure in general, proper with any number of s...

 
5:24 PM
@Cerberus Can you unconsciously taste something? I guess it is a figure of speech?
 
@Izanawistaria Conscious meaning aware.
 
ok
yeah, like without making your unconscious conscious.
By unconscious I mean the part of the mind
 
Without knowing it.
 
> And so in fact, and yet all unconsciously, was Sir John doing for his son, William.
The Grand Old Man

Richard B. Cook
Which is, I suppose, the trend we are following, even if we follow it unconsciously.
The Conquest of Fear

Basil King
Unconsciously his arms tightened around her, drawing her to him.
The Leopard Woman

Stewart Edward White
She had, too, unconsciously to herself, solved one of the mysteries that surrounded me.
The Underdog

F. Hopkinson Smith
Unconsciously he made a nice contrast with his modern motor.
 
5:30 PM
Good examples
 
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5:45 PM
"Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea."
It's poetry time:
> Siphonaptera
Augustus De Morgan

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum.
And the great fleas, themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
Is there a good poem about lice?
 
I can't think of any.
But there must be
But why are we talking about lice?
How is that related to English?
Never mind me
 
@Izanawistaria There must be...
and I just found one...
 
Let's hear it.
I mean let's see it.
Or let's read it.
 
> To A Louse On Seeing One On A Lady's Bonnet, At Church
by Robert Burns

Ha! whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie?
Your impudence protects you sairly;
I canna say but ye strunt rarely,
Owre gauze and lace;
Tho', faith! I fear ye dine but sparely
On sic a place.
 
Internet screws with my words.
 
5:52 PM
Verbing weirds words
 
Why is your name in italics?
Why isn't mine?
 
I hurt my foot so I'm leaning against the wall
 
You must be special here
 
I'm special everywhere
It goes without saying
But I said it anyway
Just because I can
 
Why are you leaning against a wall? You need crutches I think?
 
5:54 PM
I think it is in italics because
I think they change it based on some superpowers one has.
 
What might your superpowers be?
 
Like blue means you're a site mod
I think italic means someone designated me a chat room owner here.
 
Oh that kind of stuff, yep
 
which has as its superpowers:
 
Oh okay. You are a chat room owner but I have barely seen you around since yesterday.
 
5:56 PM
- can organize picnics but doesn't have to bring anything
- can fart in public without anybody saying anything
- can second endorse checks to cash
 
Not judging or anything. I know people have lives.
 
This is why superpowers are a terrible burden, you can't just willy nilly fart in pubic any old time, you have to wield that power responsibly and with purpose
 
If you fart in public and no one says anything, that's a bad sign.
That means people dislike you
 
@Izanawistaria an absentee proxy landlord?
 
5:58 PM
@Izanawistaria To be honest, it doesn't help people like you no matter what
 
@Mitch Why the proxy? Why not the real landlord?
 
@Izanawistaria because someone else made me chat room owner. I don't own it outright
and I;m sure I can be reomoved any time
The only powers I have are:
 
Oh
okay
 
- announcing special themed days: eg today is poetry day, yesterday was 'be real quiet' day (good job, everyone!)
- ooh I can pin and unpin a message...watch
See! Unpinned!
And now pinned again!!
Woo hoo!
Awesome power!
I can feel the strength coursing through my veins, through my finger tips, trackpad moved to ... just the ... right...
point
Oops. DId it one too many times. now its unpinned unless someone else does it.
Power used irresponsibly
 
Hi! During a, back then, ongoing discussion in another chat room, someone wrote "This is becomig too complicated for my small brain." to which someone else replied "Is "is" the correct verb tense in that sentence?". Is it?
 
6:03 PM
Yes
Wait...
which 'is'?
There are 2 (3 if you count quoted things)
 
"This is becomig too complicated for my small brain."
 
yes, 'is becoming' is right
 
@Mitch Thank you so much!
 
if it was in the past, you'd say 'This became too complicated'
Next question?
I'll start you off...
How many people does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One.
 
All my questions have been answered.
 
6:07 PM
Nice
Wait.. all?
You're satisfied with everything?
 
I'm simple-minded ;-)
 
You've reached enlightenment
@MetaEd I was playing around with pinning way too many times and it won't let me pin again the GPDR msg
But enough of that. This is poetry day
Either make it rhyme or make it haiku
alliteration is probably OK.
 
Okay, so Wednesdays are our poetry days
I didn't prepare any
 
@Izanawistaria Well, it's a tradition.
It's only happened once
it's in its first year
@Izanawistaria me neither. you can make up stuff.
or cut and paste
or give a link
 
Oh okay
I will see what I can come up with
 
6:16 PM
or something else altogether that is not poetry at all
 
I'm multitasking so it might be a while
I'm good at writing
In chats
 
call it 'Poésie Vérité'
found poetry
 
I can talk all day
 
all words are poetic to some degree
 
Very poetic
 
6:18 PM
OK here's a thing. What's with all the hats at the Markle wedding?
@Izanawistaria haha. see!
 
Who is Markle? And when did they get married?
Oh, the Duchess of Sussex?
Who cares what celebrities do.
But yeah, interesting question
Hats? Like fancy hats?
 
6:30 PM
OMG hats. Yes, I suppose one would normally call them fancy hats.
I have other words for them
Like 'The corpulent raccoon roadkill that died on your head' hat
It goes with a tweed outfit
@Izanawistaria Yes. Enough cannot be said about the wedding
 
So I'm Izana Wistaria. I was the First Prince and now the current King of Clarines. You can read more about me on Google.
My anime character I mean
 
Today is not 'The Wedding' day because every day is 'talk about Meghan Markle' day
 
Not me, me
 
@Izanawistaria You sound like a decorative climbing vine that grows over the portico
Am I close?
 
I'm not a prince in real life of course. Pfft. I wouldn't want to be a pompous bastard in real life. Online it is phun.
 
6:35 PM
I suppose one could write poetry about Markle, but that would be gilding the lily
 
@Mitch haha
 
@Izanawistaria I know! Down with the monarchy!
 
Well it is all cartoon etc.
Up with the... can't think of a good word here.
 
Tell that to the subcontinent and half of Africa
 
Yeah, sad places
Not that I dislike those places
 
6:37 PM
the other half of Africa was crippled by enlightmenment democracies
 
@Cerberus OK. I guess that's a problem I won't have outside of this region, or in English.
 
Africa makes me sad sometimes.
 
I get them both on the table on a regular basis.
 
It has been used by many
 
@Færd What's the problem?
@Izanawistaria And it has used others, and itself...
 
6:38 PM
@Færd Savory is pretty rare in the US. I don't think I've ever had it, and maybe seen it once in a grocery store
 
@Izanawistaria That I confuse it with tarragon.
@Mitch I think tarragon is more bitter and poignant.
 
But Africa is generally heading in the right direction.
 
I think savory is closer to sage than to tarragon
 
Yeah they beloong to different families.
 
but I also think they're in the same family
what's the opposite of 'jinx'?
 
6:40 PM
@Færd Sorry, that was part of what I was saying to the other guy here.
Chats you know.
 
Hehe. Xnij.
 
So confusing
 
Oh, but sage is great.
It tastes nothing like tarragon?
 
@Cerberus This train is going to run over so many before arriving anywhere satisfactory.
 
@Cerberus No it is not. How?
 
6:42 PM
@Færd Like whom?
 
Like those who die before seeing any results of that "right direction".
 
@Izanawistaria Less poverty, less AIDS, economic growth, more Internet access, etc. etc. etc.?
 
Got it
I see
 
@Izanawistaria just read. Oh
I don't really know anime
 
6:48 PM
Lots of reason for optimism.
 
except... Death Note?
 
@Cerberus Well, of course.
 
Is that anime?
And pokemon.
 
But sometimes all you need is nothing more than one of those children to bring you down.
 
Sure.
But the child could be anywhere in the world.
 
6:50 PM
@Cerberus i think sage and rosemary and oregano and tarragon are pretty close
basil is a little further off (the leaves are thinner and more salady)
 
That's how we're emotionally messed up. We don't respond to statistical growth and improvement the way we 'should'.
We deem killing one no worse than killing all, from an emotional perspective.
 
coming from someone who is not exactly culinary producer. I'm more of an amateur on the consuming side.
Yeah. The news only reports bad things, but on the whole things are getting better everywhere
reads US news
sighs
 
Sigh on.
 
My only solace is that people are idiots every where and that the US doesn't have a monopoly on stupidity
wait... that's not a particularly good kind of solace.
 
@Mitch Well, you're right there.
 
6:55 PM
On a brighter note, The Expanse was picked up by Amazon for a fourth season after being canceled by SyFy
 
Wave them a hello for me.
 

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