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Mitch
Mitch
00:44
@Robusto It's just that one guy. Too much Bible at Bible study and too much Call of Duty outside of Bible study
 
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Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
11:18
@RegDwigнt <3
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
11:47
@Robusto never mind you, I see and hear the word shun used everywhere. Like every fucking day. More to the point, also every non-fucking one.
Have you not learned your lesson to never post on the Internet?
We can't possibly teach you it any stronger.
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
12:16
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body (99): How should I prepare English for SSC CGL? by triptikhandal on english.SE
 
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Robusto
Robusto
14:01
@RegDwigнt What, you're saying I should shun the Interwebs now? But I am party here.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
eschew all contact
e-chew: eating online
Cerberus
Cerberus
14:31
Achoo: expressing one's allergy to a certain opinion on-line.
Mitch
Mitch
15:11
> "Civilization is where people carefully analyze the grammar other people use when discussing hired murderers."
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
15:53
seems very civil to me
Mitch
Mitch
16:32
OED Frequency bands a convenient (though arbitrary) structure for talking about how common a word is. Simple yet recognizes complexity.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
17:27
@Mitch doesn't work for me, as I don't have a library card or username
Mitch
Mitch
@MattE.Эллен You must be a giant then
Because you're a philistine
haha ha ha ha ha ha hha haa
ha haa ha ha
ha ha
hm. 
Band	Frequency per million words	% of entries in OED
8	> 1,000	0.02%
7	100 – 999	0.18%
6	10 – 99	1%
5	1 – 9.9	4%
4	0.1 – 0.99	11%
3	0.01 – 0.099	20%
2	< 0.0099	45%
1	–	18%
> The underlying frequency data is derived primarily from version 2 of the Google Books Ngrams data. This has been cross-checked against data from other corpora, and re-analysed in order to handle homographs and other ambiguities.
Band 8
Band 8 contains words which occur more than 1000 times per million words in typical modern English usage. This includes the most common English words, such as determiners (the, a, an, this, that), pronouns (I, you, he, she, him, he, that, which, what, who), principal prepositions (e.g. of, to, in, on, from, with) and conjunctions (e.g. and, but, that, if). It also includes the verbs be and have, other auxiliary and modal verbs (e.g. may, can, will, would), the other most common semantic main verbs (e.g. do, make, take, use), and basic quantifying adjectives (e.g. all, some, more, one…
@Jasper You left. We were just getting started.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
18:32
More correctly, I have both library cards and usernames, but not ones I can use in that system
@Mitch is that a prong of a fork from philidelphia?
Mitch
Mitch
19:10
@MattE.Эллен Oh. Duh.
Public OED Key to Frequency
@MattE.Эллен haha stick it in and it's done
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
19:45
ther's that song "the fog on the tine" and I'd always wondered how they got fog on something so small
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
20:02
@Robusto the thing with the Interwebs is, it's your party, but you only cry if other people want you to. So really it's not your party at all.
Mitch
Mitch
20:29
@MattE.Эллен Tiny tine fog
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
20:57
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer (173): Countries "of the world" or "in the world" by user335530 on english.SE
Robusto
Robusto
21:11
@RegDwigнt Oh yeah? Well ... what Lesley Gore said ...
Lesley Gore - It's my party
►
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
21:53
@Robusto way too gorey for my tastes. I'm not into splatter. I'm more into daffodils, like.

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