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ab2
1:16 AM
@RegDwight Seeing a cow on TV is not like seeing a cow in person, close up, with nothing between you and the cow. Like seeing a bear while watching Animal Channel is not like seeing a bear in person. Close up. Pawing through your backpack. Picking it up in her teeth and dragging it off into the darkness. To her cub...... Not defending people who don't know a cow can get to her feet, however. S----d is the right word.
 
2:09 AM
@ab2 "Nothing between you and the cow" sounds like you forgot the saddle. :)
 
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Q: Is there a term for "pretty much" first person?

FattieOf course, novels in first person go like this: "Then I changed to my winged form. I hopped to the ledge. The kethel attacked me. The voice is literally that of the main character. As if he sat down and spoke his story to you from beginning to end. I did this then that. Whereas third-pers...

 
 
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4:06 AM
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Q: What would you call someone who discriminates against left handed people?

KristWe have words like racist, bigot, xenophobe, etc. that we are all familiar with, but what would we call someone who discriminates against left handed people?

 
 
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5:44 AM
@tchrist Oo. Better not tip the wait staff this way.
@tchrist That goes to show the oddity that the bare 'nothing' isn't an absolute.
 
6:11 AM
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7:29 AM
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9:40 AM
@ab2 oh yeah totally. No discussion there.
I remember how one day we were having tea in the farmhouse, and there was a horse parked right outside the window. And it decided to go for a pee. So it just let if flow. Gallon upon gallon of piss. The stench was nothing like I had ever experienced in my life before. Or since. And it wouldn't seep into the earth because where the horse stood the soil was all treaded down and firm like stone.
So basically there was a huge puddle of horse piss in the yard for the next couple hours. That was our life now. It was 95 degrees and the sun was shining like crazy, so it did help with the quick evaporation, but accordingly not at all with the reek.
They really don't bring such things across on the Animal Channel.
 
10:13 AM
@tchrist I'm sorry for a direct request, but what does the sentence you proposed yesterday mean? :) just curious
"Give he notice and we shall let the room anew"
Isn't it 'the' notice?...
And how could it be misread
 
 
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11:57 AM
@ledonter I don't know the context, but if we assume there aren't any typos, it's sort of saying in ye olde style that "when he gives notice (i.e. says he's leaving), we'll rent the room out again".
 
12:22 PM
@Lawrence cool! thanks
 
Give him notice...
and we shall rent the room to someone new
 
12:39 PM
@ledonter You're welcome. And welcome to EL&U. :)
 
12:57 PM
@tchrist Nothing gets between me and my Jordache cows
 
George
 
Is that you, Brooke?
 
1:39 PM
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Q: Word to describe an action you do to relax/de-stress

penguinoI'm trying to remember an adjective that describes something you do to help yourself relax/de-stress, but I can't think of it. It's similar to therapeutic, but when I checked the synonyms I couldn't find it. I wouldn't say it's a common word either. Ex: After a long day at work, I enjoy cooking ...

 
2:10 PM
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Q: Which words is use to describe people who outrank others because of their position in company?

Phoenix EllyMy reading case study mentioned that there are a group of engineers in a company who usually look down to other people in other departments because every major position within the company, including president and vice president, are engineers. I look for a specific word to describe those people....

 
2:40 PM
Help me to correct a sentence
If that happens "I would be dying to watch this"
Or
If that happened "i would die to watch this"
 
3:05 PM
> If that happened I would die to watch it.
... would be grammatical.
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Now it's our turn again to be at the business end of his "fire and fury".
 
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8:47 PM
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Q: What is the equivalent for "dilute" to make more runny?

KalenGiIf I'm dealing with a salt or sugar solution, adding more water to it is called dilution. The same could be said of adding water to a liquid such as milk. What word would I use if I was dealing with a paste of mud or corn starch? Adding water makes it more runny, less pasty, and dilution seems ...

 
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Q: What is the word for one who retries?

KerookerI'm developing a system in which there's a process that retries one specific sub-process. When trying to create a name for it, we went for something in the line of "sub-process-retryer", but the word retryer doesn't exist. What is the English word for the one who retries? "He retries that ever...

 
 
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11:27 PM
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Q: One Word Synonym for "Tired" as in Exercising/Running

Zani XuIs there a single synonym for "Tired" that only fits for the exercising "Tired" and not the sleepy "Tired"? Exhausted would work, but you could also use exhausted if you were very sleepy. I want this because I am making a card game with a word and a single definition. Here is a sample sentence th...

 

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