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Why isn't food pronounced like hood or good or wood ... or maybe blood or flood ... but it is pronounced like dude or booed or lewd or shrewd? I understand that "no language makes perfect sense" (McWhorter), but damn.
@CowperKettle Europe is closer to 1950 US as far as house space is concerned.
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> Light, so low in the vale
You flash and lighten afar,
For this is the golden morning of love,
And you are his morning start.
Flash, I am coming, I come,
By meadow and stile and wood,
Oh, lighten into my eyes and heart,
Into my heart and my blood!
@tchrist Still doesn't rhyme. I'd call that a slant rhyme, like care and fear or wall and bowl.
@Robusto Not "still doesn't rhyme", but "doesn't rhyme now/for me". :)
@tchrist Oh, bow-how (which rhymes with "boo-hoo", of course).
Nothing is in slant rhyme in that poem. Therefore this was not.
> Heart, are you great enough
For a love that never tires?
O' heart, are you great enough for love?
I have heard of thorns and briers,
Over the meadow and stiles,
Over the world to the end of it
Flash for a million miles.
> Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
01:23
So you think he's just yanking our chains?
> Home they brought her warrior dead:
She nor swooned, nor uttered cry:
All her maidens, watching, said,
‘She must weep or she will die.’

Then they praised him, soft and low,
Called him worthy to be loved,
Truest friend and noblest foe;
Yet she neither spoke nor moved.
Sure seems like it.
@tchrist When I saw the rhyming verse, I initially thought I was responding to @Cowp. Serves me right for not looking at the gravatar ...
@tchrist So is that a Scottish blood? (E.g., like bluid)?
In any case, I wasn't talking about ancient uses of those words, and British ones at that, but modern, simplified, American vocab.
@Robusto Lincolnshire.
OK. I'll give you that one. But only as it suits instances in English as a whole, not the subdomain I spoke of.
Like food, rhyming mood and rood also had a long vowel in Old English. But so did most of the words that end that way but don't sound that way. The difference lies is whether the Southern English version or the Northern English version came to dominate, and in this there is little pattern beyond the labials.
@tchrist I basically know all that, or most of it. I was just having a laugh about English's abominable spelgnil.
01:36
Think of Sean Bean's native accent. He's from Sheffield to the west of Lincolnshire. I bet his moving and loving rhymed for him.
Possibly.
@Robusto I think it might be the oldest national flag still in use?
@Cerberus As of what date?
I looked it up recently but forgot.
> A tricolour (BE) or tricolor (AE) is a type of flag or banner design with a triband design which originated in the 16th century as a symbol of republicanism, liberty, or revolution.
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The first association of the tricolour with republicanism is the orange-white-blue design of the Prince's Flag (Prinsenvlag, predecessor of the flags of the Netherlands), used from 1579 by William I of Orange-Nassau in the Eighty Years' War, establishing the independence of the Dutch Republic from the Spanish Empire. The flag of the Netherlands inspired both the French and Russian flags, which in turn insp
01:53
@Cerberus OK.
I think the orange of the flag in the Worldle quiz was more tomato-colored.
The Dutch flag is red, not orange.
The Prinsenvlag was just a variation.
The flags of the county of Holland date back to the Middle Ages and probably had red, white, and blue.
So many countries like that combination.
The national flag of Denmark (Danish: Dannebrog, pronounced [ˈtænəˌpʁoˀ]) is red with a white Nordic cross, which means that the cross extends to the edges of the flag and the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side. A banner with a white-on-red cross is attested as having been used by the kings of Denmark since the 14th century. An origin legend with considerable impact on Danish national historiography connects the introduction of the flag to the Battle of Lindanise of 1219. The elongated Nordic cross reflects its use as a maritime flag in the 18th century. The flag became popular...
The flag of Holland may be older.
But nobody probably really knows how old either flag is.
> "Oldest continuously used national flag". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-continuously-used-national-flag/
01:59
"Continuously used".
Maybe the changed the Dutch flag for a couple of years during the French occupation?
But it was certainly used longer than 391 years ago.
Did you have your own flag when Spain took over?
Took over, in what sense?
We weren't a country before the war.
During and after the war, Spain never managed to conquer us.
@Cerberus Maybe that's the discrepancy.
02:38
That's the first time I read the French flag was inspired by the Dutch one. I suppose that's more the layout in three stripes than the colors themselves because they supposedly come from the colors of Paris (blue and red) with added white with varying symbolism depending on the sources.
The cockade of France (French: Cocarde tricolore) is the national ornament of France, obtained by circularly pleating a blue, white and red ribbon. It is composed of the three colors of the French flag with blue in the center, white immediately outside and red on the edge. == History == The French tricolor cockade was devised at the beginning of the French Revolution. On 12 July 1789 – two days before the storming of the Bastille – the revolutionary journalist Camille Desmoulins, calling on the Parisian crowd to revolt, asked the protesters what color to adopt as a symbol of the revoluti...
Nov 15, 2015 at 14:25, by Robusto
Speaking of flags, my favorite national flag designs are, in order, 1. French, 2. Japanese.
They are nice and simple. And while the French flag is three bars of color (like other flags), unlike other many other tricolor flags they use vertical bars instead of the ho-hum horizontal ones. It just works.
I also like Argentina and Ukraine, as well as Colombia.
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@jlliagre Supposedly is the right word...
People come up with origins they like.
04:11
A woman in Yekaterinburg killed her two sons, aged 15 and 10, and a daughter aged under 1.
She wrote that she was trying to save them from the Devil.
"Because the Apocalypse is coming".
Poor psychiatrists who will now try to treat her.
04:28
@CowperKettle Thanks, Religion.
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Holy shit.
06:13
Medical self-experimentation of the day: In 1922, Shimesu Koino ingested 2,000 Ascaris lumbricoides eggs, found larvae in his sputum a few days later, then after 50 days took an anthelmintic and recovered 667 immature Ascaris lumbricoides, thus confirming the life cycle.
 
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Which sounds better to you:

the prefixes and verbs or the prefixes and the verbs
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> Meanwhile, Ukraine’s armed forces said a further 620 Russian servicemen were killed between 24 December and 27 December, bringing the total Russian losses to 103,220.
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Halfway there, anything new on this fascinating topic? — rackandboneman Apr 4, 2021 at 0:42
 
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@Robusto Sometimes I pronounce wall so that it rhymes with bowl. (But with it in front of me, I'm pronouncing wall in the more standard way.) It's so weird and I don't know why. I've never heard anyone talk about this pronunciation either, but I'm pretty sure it's not just me
 
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Looks cool
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Midjourney, "unicellular organisms in love"
The C shell (csh or the improved version, tcsh) is a Unix shell created by Bill Joy while he was a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1970s. It has been widely distributed, beginning with the 2BSD release of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) which Joy first distributed in 1978. Other early contributors to the ideas or the code were Michael Ubell, Eric Allman, Mike O'Brien and Jim Kulp.The C shell is a command processor which is typically run in a text window, allowing the user to type and execute commands. The C shell can also read commands from a file, called...
Oh, haha
@Laurel Where did you grow up that you acquired that accent?
@tchrist Was the C shell Bourne Again? Discuss.
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Funny, the NYT Spelling Bee will take Pavlova but not Pavlovian. The bastards.
Enough to make you pavlivid.
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What do the words micky, rig, stirk, pollard, and freemartin have in common?
15:20
@tchrist Do they all originate as proper names?
Nope.
Were they originally Scottish or Irish?
Some.
Were they from animal husbandry?
15:24
Noice.
Does anybody else find it strange that on stackoverflow, we're starting to get a trickle of little tiny new UI features?
@Mitch Maybe it's the first sing of an AI overtake of overflow
Like the 'save' button (which is really the old favorites button but with a new management screen and choice of sublists)
what was the other one I noticed?
I'm sure there was one more.
Nope. When most of your programming is done by picayune Tinkerbell-types outsourced by Mrs Clause, all UI features are little tiny ones.
A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real or one sixteenth of a dollar. Its name derives from the French picaillon, which is itself from the Provençal picaioun, the name of an unrelated small copper coin from Savoy. By extension, picayune can mean "trivial" or "of little value". Aside from being used in Spanish territories, the picayune and other Spanish currency was used throughout the colonial United States. Spanish dollars were made legal tender in the U.S. by an act on February 9, 1793. They remained so until demonetization on February 21, 1857. The coin's name first appeared in Florida...
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Let's assume I just forgot what that one other feature was.
but then these are the first UI feature additions/changes I've seen since...
since winter hats were created years ago
It makes me annoyed at product development... it's like for any new app all they do is create things like wild for a couple years and then they don't touch it again. ever.
maybe something cosmetic after a few years.
and new color scheme/logo
but that's it.
Duolingo has this new 'pathways' interface, which simplifies the choices made as you go through the lessons, and changes the layout a little (from strictly linear to waving back and forth snakelike (which is emptily cosmetic)
@Mitch I wonder if they switched to QML for those.
QML (Qt Modeling Language) is a user interface markup language. It is a declarative language (similar to CSS and JSON) for designing user interface–centric applications. Inline JavaScript code handles imperative aspects. It is associated with Qt Quick, the UI creation kit originally developed by Nokia within the Qt framework. Qt Quick is used for mobile applications where touch input, fluid animations and user experience are crucial. QML is also used with Qt3D to describe a 3D scene and a "frame graph" rendering methodology. A QML document describes a hierarchical object tree. QML modules shipped...
> Etymology: < (i) French regional (southern, especially Savoy) picaillon, pécaillon, picayon (1643 as †picailloux in a Lyonnais source, denoting a small coin of foreign origin; compare French picaillons (plural), a slang term for ‘money, cash’ (1746 or earlier in this sense)),

and its etymon (ii) Occitan picalhon, denoting a Savoyan-Piedmontese coin (see note), and in the extended sense ‘money’, of uncertain origin, probably < Occitan piquar to ring (bells), to knock, strike (1509; of imitative origin) + a suffix, the coins being so named because they would jingle in the pocket.
LinkedIn, while it moves a few things around on the screen, is still the shittiest rolodex ever. If you add people to your contacts list, it's like a /dev/null of people, you're dumping it into nowhere, difficult to retrieve that guy you knew 8 years ago whose name has a K in it (or was it a C?)
@Mitch I dumped LinkedIn when I retired. I just got tired of all the headhunters breathlessly extolling their latest shitty job opportunities.
@Mitch Casey Keigh isn't the missourable one.
15:35
@Robusto I feel sorry for web developers. There's always a new platform to learn.
@Mitch Yeah. And nobody can agree on anything.
@Robusto I thought AI was supposed to fix that. Only find good opportunities.
It's totally insaney.
AI might help if anybody could ever agree on anything.
But of course the recruitment teams don't care, they just shotgun everything that has the right keywords in it. Like 'the' or 'Educational History'
15:37
Besides, we already have AI. They're called graphic designers.
Those people who messed up your SO pages.
@Robusto The latest image creation from prompts will actually make their lives more interesting.
SO should spend their UI dev dollars on a good tag creation system. Also search.
So where do you think you would click to see all the answers? Almost everyone savvy enough to use the web would click on the title of that section. And that's what SE used to do. Now they not only add a "view" link that is totally unnecessary, they actually unlink the click-on-title-text functionality.
And then they should create an AI that does question suggestions.
Wait... Copilot is actually (supposedly because I ain't used it none) very useful for some programmers and that was based on ... was it stackoverflow or was it git?
@Robusto Wow. The only adjective I can think of for that is 'stupid'
That's not even a behavior/culture thing. It's wasting everybody's time
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Especially the more frequent habitués of the site.
@CowperKettle That's as idiotic as saying that 'young people don't want to work hard anymore'
Curious word of the day: rubber check (a check that cannot be cashed)
@Robusto Old people (or newbies) having trouble with their interfaces isn't their fault anymore. We've all been using computer/mouse interfaces for thirty years (you don't have to be a professional anymore to have that experience).
It's the designer's fault.
@Robusto Y’en a-t-il?
> Zelda and Hemingway disliked each other from their first meeting, and she openly described him as "bogus," .. "that fairy with hair on his chest" and "phoney as a rubber check."
15:48
@CowperKettle You'll still need programmers to fix up all the subtle bugs in the AI's code.
Every new tech will need the specialist to manage it.
Yes, a couple programmers in lavender kids.
@tchrist Peut-être.
@Mitch Better make that plural.
@CowperKettle The moment Peter Pan sprouts his first chest-hair, childhood ends.
Most cars nowadays have circuit boards to control engine timing, braking features, dashboard features. If something goes wrong you as the car owner still don't know how to fix it you still have to go to a car specialist to fix it.
@CowperKettle It's not curious at all. It comes from the original metaphor of "bouncing" a check (so that it came back to the bank for NSF), and was extended by the "rubber" metaphor.
@tchrist Facial or pubic?
@Mitch And they don't know either.
15:50
I thought it was hair on the chest.
Fairies are forbidden chest hairs.
They lose their wings then.
No cherubim they.
@Robusto yes. I meant to say 'a specialist' but just like medicine, you'll need a team.
@Robusto Yes, that is definitely an issue, that the car repair people will need to be even more trained and specialized, just like the infinitely extending specialization of medicine.
Does that analogy work for software too?
Yes, eventually they become gnomes and trolls.
@Mitch It's amazing how often the answer in medicine is "I don't know."
Curious etymology of the day: tweezers are cognate with Latin studere (to care about)
15:53
@CowperKettle It's not 'phony'?
@Mitch On Wikipedia, it was "phoney"
@Mitch THAT'S NOT FUNNY!
@Mitch The difference with software is that it's something that (usually) yields to probing. A car's programming is in a black box and you can't fuck with it. Nobody can, except the ones who produced it (read: "fucked it up in the first place").
Like a building has several 'stories' not 'storeys'
Maybe someone made a typo
15:54
@CowperKettle You're just making me annoyed more at wikipedia.
Some people write things with 'ey', but that bugs the shit out of me.
'chocolatey'
Gah.
I love Wikipedia, but I'm afraid that without paid editors it might be doomed.
@CowperKettle No, just some Brit stuck his oar in.
@CowperKettle I read an article about that recently that paid editors would compromise quality drastically.
I get hyperkatifeia if I try abstaining from Wikipedia.
Honey and money and coney.
15:56
but yes, the editor pool is ossifying.
@tchrist Rhymes with "cunny"?
@CowperKettle You should see a doctor about that
@Robusto For $200.
a specialist
LOL
A hyperkatifologist
15:56
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> Guess this: in a single word: "unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks (which are called "hjell" in Norway) on the foreshore"
@Robusto I remember wanting 'Kix' cereal so bad as a kid. then finally having some and... meh
not exactly dashed hopes.
just unmet expectations?
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Q: Specific usage of "more"

SmertI was reading E.M. Forster's A Room With A View and came across this dialogue: “Up to now I have never kissed you.” She was as scarlet as if he had put the thing most indelicately. “No—more you have,” she stammered. I had never encountered this usage of "more" before and have not been able to f...

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@Mitch They are called "learning opportunities" in education.
If bachelor is for males and bachelorette for females. Is etiquette for females and etiqu for males?
> “Lucy, I want to ask something of you that I have never asked before.”

At the serious note in his voice she stepped frankly and kindly towards
him.

“What, Cecil?”

“Hitherto never—not even that day on the lawn when you agreed to marry
me—”

He became self-conscious and kept glancing round to see if they were
observed. His courage had gone.

“Yes?”

“Up to now I have never kissed you.”

She was as scarlet as if he had put the thing most indelicately.

“No—more you have,” she stammered.

“Then I ask you—may I now?”
Does that mean "Sure, you've never kissed me before, but you've done a whole lot more to me that merely kissing"?
And from that moment on, they were an item.
@tchrist or is it a really weird way to right 'not yet'
@tchrist I also failed to understand “No—more you have,” she stammered.
16:01
'not yet you have'
@Mitch I remain dubious of that reading.
Otherwise she sounds like Yoda: "No. More you have."
@tchrist This is the kind of dialogue that got them all hotted up in Victorian times?
An apophatic turn of phrase.
@Mitch Please never ever say YODA again just because the word order becomes you not.
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Yoda.
And never become word order to me. Again ever.
No - More.
Hm... that -is- a bit flirty.
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I hate when I go after words without prepping the ground first.
also 'apophatic'. Chicks dig that kind of vocab.
@Mitch It's like very young children stuck in their stinky–poopy phase. It's so very silly that it's an uncomfortable firehose of vicarious embarrassment to everyone around them.
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Apophatic is prophetic?
I'm just repeating my words in Anki, and came across apophatic :)
16:07
Apochromatic.
@CowperKettle It's a good word
what it means though is unclear to me.
Apophasis is everyday though!
I see it all the time!
In everything
Quotey Dianne, is that you?
Jesus Christ on toast!
> Ronald Reagan used a humorous apophasis to deflect scrutiny of his own fitness at age 73 by replying, "I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."
@tchrist So sad that story. Diana was the people's princess.
16:09
Pease are pulses.
@Mitch Oh, puh-leeze!
Pulse no more has she.
There is no such thing as a "people's" monarch.
you're darn tootin'
You can't a pease porridge of a princess produce.
16:11
@Robusto That was what they called her.
@Robusto No - more than you can have an elected queen.
@Mitch If they had called her the Second Coming of Christ, would you have believed them, or would you have got out your Yeats and had a laugh?
Fairytales of pease princesses excepted.
It was at that point where I lost all believability in Star Wars.
@Mitch It took you that long?
@Robusto That's ludicrous. She's not Jewish enough for that.
@Robusto snort
16:12
@Mitch How Jewish was she? None Jewish, that's how much.
She was Jew-ish maybe?
@Robusto Spencer is an old Sephardic name, from Spanish expulsion in 1492.
> Once upon a time, there was a blonde young Jewess blind to life's perils....
Facts brought to you by ChatGPT
@Mitch Serioiusly?
I'll leave the typo. I kinda like it.
16:14
@CowperKettle That's funny. She doesn't -look- Jewish
@Mitch There was no expulsion: once a pulse ever a pulse in thy pease porridge pot.
But "serioiusly" is not a question for @Mitch. He is never serioius.
@Mitch I came across the expression "Jew-ish" on Twitter. Some (Republican?) politician recently used it.
> 'I said I was Jew-ish': George Santos admits to lying about background
@tchrist "Some like it in the twat / nine months young" —e. e. cummings
Seldom if ever are the pronouncements of the Serioli sufficiently scrutable to men like us.
16:17
Word of the day: synophrys (Ancient Greek σύνοφρυς (súnophrus, “with meeting eyebrows”).
The serioi are the sober-sided Greeks.
@CowperKettle Chinese whiskers?
Sure looks like Chinese whiskers to me!
Why's this chat always talking about the weirdest stuff possible?
16:19
@Gokuカカロット Just a side effect of terminal insomnia.
@Gokuカカロット De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum.
Lingva Latina non penis canina.
Anyway, English guys or whatever, answer my question. Bachelor for males, bachelorette for females. Then, is etiquette for females and etiqu for males?
Psychological mindedness for males.
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Goose for singular for geese for plural. Therefore, choose for singular and cheese for plural, right?
I still can't figure out what the 'katifeia' part is.
Then again I never studied Greek.
> (derived from the Greek katifeia for dejection or negative emotional state)
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Can I get ELU to write my reports/essays? I suck at writing nontechnical parts.
@CowperKettle Oh
> Gloom: the mental state in which we are not in a good mood , we do not have fun
"After the team's defeat, the gloom was evident on the faces of all the athletes."
Google translate is taking so many liberties it's making Sparta look like Athens!
Har har har
What new malefice éculé all this?
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anyway don't use 'gloom' like that.
@tchrist I auto google translated the greek wiktionary page that @CowperKettle linked.
So auto translate ahas a little ways to go.
@Mitch Because you're one of those glum and gum types, not one of those gloom and goom types?
@Gokuカカロット You'd have better luck at ChatGPT
@tchrist It's 'gwm' if you want to up your scrabble score.
@Mitch ...your bwm.
@Mitch after seeing the kind of nonsense it produced when a few users on MathSE decided to use it, no thanks.
16:30
> Etymology: Old English góma weak masculine, corresponds to Old High German guomo (Middle High German guome), and (apart from difference of declension) to Old Norse góm-r palate. The vowel in these forms seems to represent a pre-Germanic long diphthong ōu; compare the synonyms (apparently related by ablaut) Old High German giumo, goumo (Middle High German goume, modern German gaumen). Outside Germanic the Lithuanian gomurýs ‘palate’ has been compared; the word may belong to the Old Aryan root *ghēu-, ghōu- to yawn, whence Greek χάος, χαῦνος.
The normal pronunciation /ɡuːm/ (compare loom) still survives in dialects.
Another of those doom and gloom casualties, like blood and flood.
@Gokuカカロット No, you use etiquette for both males and females. The abstract noun was borrowed from French, where it was a neologism from 'étique + -ette' a diminutive of 'ethics' spelled the French way. 'Bachelorette' is a modern English neologism, using the alternate feminine meaning of '-ette'. So you should just use 'etiquette for both males and females.
@Mitch how about choose and cheese?
But poorly do you dissemble.
@Gokuカカロット 1) ChatGPT is not connected to facts. It's only doing (very fancy) word associations in its corpus. Any kind of symbolic manipulation (like computing multiplication) that comes out correct is a coincidence (increased chance because most (even all) multiplications found in the corpus are correct). It's not figuring out multiplication by example. It's figuring out word and letter frequencies by example and correct multiplications (of small numbers) kinda falls out of that.
> While to his Arms the blushing Bride he took,
To seeming Sadness she compos’d her Look;
As if by Force subjected to his Will,
Tho’ pleas’d, dissembling, and a Woman still.
This piece of poetry helped me memorize dissemble back in 2012.
Because it's too close to disassemble.
I should read more John Dryden.
16:37
2) Since high school/college essays in the humanities tend to not require facts and it is mostly good form that is requested (a lot of filling in the blanks is done by the reader to maintain coherence), then ChatGPT might be sufficient.
@Mitch As one man's receipt is the next man's recipe, without proper etiquette you'll never know the shirt size.
@CowperKettle If you want to be true to 1700's poetry, yes.
What is truth?
It was an age of good poetry.
What is life?
An hourglass on the run; a mist retreating from the morning Sun.
Fidelity need not be high to be heard.
16:39
@CowperKettle dissemble, prevaricate, equivocate always give me trouble. especially since 'equivoca-' means 'outright lie' in some European languages. Spanish I'm pretty sure. French?
Yes, those complex words turn my synophrys in a knot.
Nov 19, 2015 at 12:59, by Mitch
The sun at noon is the sun declining. The creature born is the creature dying.
> 'The child is father to the man.'
How can he be? The words are wild.
Suck any sense from that who can:
'The child is father to the man.'
@CowperKettle philtrum writhes
@Mitch No sneering in chat.
16:48
@Gokuカカロット But I don't recommend using ChatGPT for the practical reason that teachers will immediately recognize its very particular bland style -and- well-formedness neither of which is at all characteristic of the majority of students.
@Robusto snort
I couldn't think of any fancy words for squinting.
@Mitch Conmigo te equivocas. Al escribir la dirección, equivocaste el número del portal. Tus palabras sueltas me han equivocado. Ese muro se equivoca con la fachada.
@Mitch So you wound up sneering instead. Are you new at squinting?
@tchrist Well that is definitely confusing. How can you trust directions that way?
@Mitch so that just means I get ELU to write my reports. I'll provide all the necessary technical data that needs to be in the report
@Robusto If I can't find the right words for it I can't do it. That's how the brain works.
16:52
Your brain, maybe.
At this very moment I'm trying to put on my ... what do you call it... my... you know that... that thing... the thing that... you know... keeps... or rather helps... it... you know...
cripes... it's so cold now.
@Mitch Biden? Is that you???
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Another crap outcome.
@Gokuカカロット Um... that's not how ELU works. or any SO.
Nobody ever does the thing you want in an answer.
16:55
@Mitch Dissiper toute équivoque. Un compliment équivoque. Des traces équivoques. Un texte de loi ne doit comporter aucune équivoque. Il a des fréquentations équivoques. Mais le verb même, équivoquer, est "littéraire et vieux" maintenant.
You ask a question. Then someone gets triggered by some keywords in your question and then they write an essay on on a photograph from their childhood where those keywords appeared in the background graffiti.
@tchrist You are never unequivocal.
@Robusto Univocal. The bivocal speak with forked tongue that they might a diphthong make.
@Gokuカカロット Gesundheit!
@Gokuカカロット OMG the guy has a stutter. That's all.
16:58
@Mitch Wakatteru
@Mitch its funny though. Watching him stumble was also funny
@tchrist Do the bivocal bivouac with bivalves?
Sounds kinky as hell.
@Gokuカカロット Wait till you get to be that old. If you're that lucky.
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