English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

KitFox

3:00 PM

Because of differences in perception of relative sizing.

RegDwigнt

@KitFox it all comes down to "for each step, just press A- in Powerpoint".

KitFox

I wish you wouldn't say things like that.

RegDwigнt

I am fresh outta fixing PowerPoint slides that were horrible beyond even Powerpoint. We discussed.

And I am fresh out but for the fact today was the deadline. I don't consider my job to be done by any stretch of imagination.

KitFox

You have my deepest sympathy.

RegDwigнt

I'll take two of those please.

tchrist

3:02 PM

RegDwigнt

Yes! I know that! The orange and the blue are the same color!

Andrew Leach

@tchrist I don't think that's good enough for me to reverse my vote. Adding "and why" as the last two words might help. Or might not. But it only needs two more votes.

tchrist

@AndrewLeach I strongly agree with you.

KitFox

@tchrist Except that one is a lie.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist oh are we discussing that one? But it is a dupe.

KitFox

3:04 PM

@AndrewLeach How is that not a duplicate?

Jinx.

RegDwigнt

Go ahead and reopen if you want to create extra work for me.

Or Kit.

KitFox

No.

Andrew Leach

I don't intend re-opening it.

KitFox

It should be re-opened and closed as a dupe.

RegDwigнt

Well I would reopen it to close as dupe instead. But again: work.

KitFox

3:05 PM

But then I'd have to find the dupe.

Andrew Leach

I'm sure that sort of ambiguity has already been covered.

RegDwigнt

Jinxes all around.

Free jinxes!

KitFox

Get out of my brain please.

RegDwigнt

Everyone get one!

@KitFox right, that is why your head is such tilt.

KitFox

@RegDwigнt so tilted or such a-tilt.

RegDwigнt

3:06 PM

@KitFox much right! Very thanks.

KitFox

That's twice in three years.

My regulars make more mistakes than you.

RegDwigнt

Which according to my pocket calculator is OVER BOOBS.

KitFox

Your perfection is your biggest marker.

Robusto

Gawd, I cannot abide stupid QA people who cannot speak or write English.

Or is that a redundancy?

RegDwigнt

@KitFox er, but that was on purpose...

Looks like I suck at this doge thing.

KitFox

3:07 PM

No No it wasn't.

RegDwigнt

Is that what you call it, doge thing?

KitFox

folds arms

Robusto

I made it a point to skip a meme when the doge thing came out.

RegDwigнt

Cool. Which meme did you skip? Is that why you're not rickrolling?

Robusto

No. I skipped the doge thing.

RegDwigнt

3:09 PM

Jesus Tchrist everyone so series this day.

KitFox

I am thousand shades of grey.

Matt Эллен

it's a series of small walls

Robusto

I am two-faced: one side is in a meeting, the other is chatting.

RegDwigнt

Nöone speaks English and everything's broken and my panties are soaking wet.

Robusto

Don't get 'em in a bunch.

KitFox

3:09 PM

Sopping wet panties.

Bag of wet panties.

That reminds me, I have a story needs writing.

RegDwigнt

Needs written, you mean.

Robusto

Needs warshed.

RegDwigнt

No Polish capitols in this chat.

Matt Эллен

needs warshed when the devil spills gravy

KitFox

Careful, you're almost talking to me.

Robusto

3:11 PM

Warshed is like watershed, except without the te.

RegDwigнt

@KitFox Well there's almost no one else here.

So who the fuck am I almost talking to?

Stack Exchange

Limerick Machine: It’s really quite blissfully warm It’s quite a nice break from the norm I’ll si…

posted on July 18, 2014 by sgdi

It’s really quite blissfully warm It’s quite a nice break from the norm I’ll sit and relax In this field of flax And wait for the on coming storm

KitFox

Oh, then it must be me.

But I don't have any prostitutes.

RegDwigнt

What, not even just seven?

KitFox

Sorry. Not since my youth.

RegDwigнt

3:12 PM

Daught, I am disappoint.

Robusto

Meeting over, time for my bike ride. Laters. Er, LaTours.

RegDwigнt

CU

I shall be commuting rather soon myself.

KitFox

But it's not even lunch time yet.

RegDwigнt

Everyone's gone here, to the company BBQ.

I only stuck around for the chat and some browsing.

KitFox

Oh we have one of those next month.

All the veggies get a tag.

Properly insulting.

RegDwigнt

3:14 PM

How racist.

See, that's why I never come to your company BBQ.

Tell them all about it.

KitFox

And that's why I never have a date.

Matt Эллен

because you don't win friends with salad

KitFox

Or grilled portobella.

RegDwigнt

Depends on whether you're making friends with humans or rabbits.

KitFox

How do you spell that?

Giant Russian rabbits.

RegDwigнt

3:16 PM

@KitFox porte-feuille.

KitFox

hahaha

RegDwigнt

It's like Manchester, which is pronounced Liverpool.

But my bus will be leaving in nine minutes, so measures must be taken that it does so with myself within when it does.

good luck!

Such fun.

Ciao-cocoa.

3:17 PM

Many laughing.

Bienvenue, @StéphaneGimenez.

Stéphane Gimenez

Salut :-)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

wow there's so much blue in this chat

KitFox

Vous venez ici parceque il n'y a personne qui parler anglais?

Matt Эллен

it's as if you've walked into a private shop

KitFox

Ou parceque chacun est en panne?

Damn. Faltered there at the end.

Stéphane Gimenez

3:21 PM

I come here to inspect the room's configuration. :-)

KitFox

@MattЭллен A local shop for the local people.

You seen that?

Matt Эллен

the league of gentlemen? I've seen bits :D

KitFox

The good bits?

Matt Эллен

I assume so, Dave

Stéphane Gimenez

We had a "french" tag chez Cosette so I was wondering whether there was an "english" tag here.

KitFox

3:23 PM

@StéphaneGimenez Est-ce qu'il y a quelque chose que...oh. No.

Nous sommes sans tag.

Stéphane Gimenez

Et c'est mieux comme ça !

KitFox

Ouais. Je suis d'accord.

user116848

Hello! folks

KitFox

Hello @Arrowfar.

user116848

@KitFox Ms Fox is that you?

KitFox

3:24 PM

Yes.

user116848

Cool

user116848

Which language were you speaking. Spanish?

user116848

Or French?

KitFox

French.

user116848

You can speak French?

KitFox

3:25 PM

Elle a parlé, moi, je l'ai mangé.

user116848

Translation please :)

KitFox

Or is that an etre one? Can never remember. Something with a house.

@Arrowfar She speaks it, myself, I eat it.

user116848

So you are a French then I guess?

KitFox

Drop the "a". And no.

user116848

So "a" is not grammatical here?

KitFox

3:27 PM

It sounds vaguely insulting. People are not things.

user116848

Ah.

KitFox

Which is silly, because we use articles with professions and such.

user116848

"So you are French then I guess?" That okay?

KitFox

But with nationalities and other things that are personal qualities, we usually drop the article.

Sounds less like a label and more like a descriptor that way.

@Arrowfar Yes.

user116848

icic :)

skullpatrol

3:29 PM

:D

Stéphane Gimenez

In this case French is just an adjective. No articles with adjectives.

user116848

Hi! skull and Stephane

skullpatrol

hi pal

KitFox

@StéphaneGimenez Is that the reason? considers this

skullpatrol

@StéphaneGimenez what's the biggest difference between the french spoken in france and quebec?

Stéphane Gimenez

3:34 PM

Pronunciation and expressions. Grammar and vocabulary is basically the same.

(Except for questions maybe.)

skullpatrol

icic

KitFox

Accent.

Stéphane Gimenez

Voulez vous-tu aller danser ? is a no-no in France.

KitFox

Did you notice my dialect?

Stéphane Gimenez

You mean, according to the few sentences you wrote in here ?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:36 PM

@StéphaneGimenez I'm not sure that's how it'd be said in Quebec

Stéphane Gimenez

(Definitely not.)

KitFox

@StéphaneGimenez Yes.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@StéphaneGimenez Are you from Quebec?

Stéphane Gimenez

From France.

KitFox

I can't spell anymore and my pronunciation was never very good, so what I remember in my head is probably pretty not exactly correct.

Stéphane Gimenez

3:38 PM

From the south, but I also spent some time in Lyon and Paris.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I think the -tu gets attached to the verb, not the pronoun.

KitFox

On the other hand, I have never heard Voulez vous-tu aller danser before.

Stéphane Gimenez

14

Q: Should we use the second "tu" in Québec?

Quebecers often something like a second “tu”. For example: T'as tu un crayon ? I just don't know how to use it, like in what kind of expressions/sentences/questions? or if it depends on the region?

KitFox

But I have heard Vouvous t'aller dansing.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@StéphaneGimenez I think its use with vous is rare. I'll have to pay attention more when I next speak to my relatives in Quebec.

2

A: Should we use the second "tu" in Québec?

Like Joubarc mentioned, there is no need or convention about this way of speaking. I could maybe compare it to some people saying y'all in English. As far as I know, this construction seems like the amalgamation of the two ways of asking questions in the second person singular: 1- Formal: Verb+...

I agree with that answer.

skullpatrol

3:43 PM

iirc there is an old saying that goes: to learn the history of France you should learn the French language, in the same way as to learn Physics you should learn Math, the language of Physics.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@skullpatrol If that were true nobody could learn history about any place other than places that speak their own language. Also you could only learn the history back as far as the language is still intelligible to you. A few centuries too old and it'd be meaningless.

Zoe

So, what language do women speak? Cat?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I think it goes the other way: to learn any particular language it helps to know some of the history of the people who speak that language.

@Zoe They speak the same? language as we do? except every phrase? sounds like a question?

Zoe

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 AH

skullpatrol

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 you are taking a more historical approach to learning, in which the learner studies the original works of a topic to get a feel for future motivations in that topic.

KitFox

3:49 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 What? do you even mean? when you say that?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox It's like, totally a thing? Even language log? has written about it?

KitFox

I can't imagine that's really true. Not for adult women.

Like, you know. Grown-ups.

skullpatrol

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 some educators are great believers in that approach

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox I may be exaggerating? For comedic value? But it's called uptalk?

KitFox

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Like, I get it? You don't have to keeping saying it? Because it's kind of triggering me? right now?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:53 PM

Alright everyone. Joke's over. Y'all are talking it too seriously.

It's dead, Jim.

KitFox

My ex- made vicious fun of me for talking like that.

That guy was such an asshole.

Andrew Leach

Australian Interrogative Ending, n'est-ce pas?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

well, I've got to run. Sorry for bringing up bad memories @Kit.

KitFox

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Oh don't take it seriously. No harm.

skullpatrol

This internet chat room environment is unique in that way: how people switch from "joking" to "serious" within seconds.

!!wiki bipolar

Jarvis the Bot

4:00 PM

Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder, also known as bipolar affective disorder, manic-depressive illness, or affective psychosis, is a mental illness characterized by periods of elevated mood and periods of depression. Other mental health issues such as anxiety disorder and drug misuse are commonly associated. The cause is not clearly understood, but both genetic and environmental factors play a role. Treatment commonly includes psychotherapy and medications such as mood stabilizers or antipsychotics. --> Examples of mood stabilizers that are commonly used include: lithium and anticonvulsants. --> Trea...

KitFox

The lack of nonverbal context makes it less stable.

skullpatrol

True.

user116848

4:16 PM

@KitFox So is uptalk close to sexy baby voice?

user116848

:)

KitFox

@Arrowfar No. I wouldn't think so. Unless you are attracted to young dumb women.

user116848

No I am not.

user116848

Just thought I should ask. Wikipedia has an entry for that in uptalk :)

KitFox

!!wiki uptalk

Jarvis the Bot

4:19 PM

High rising terminal

The high rising terminal (HRT), also known as Uptalk, upspeak, rising inflection, or high rising intonation (HRI), is a feature of some accents of English where ostensibly declarative statements are uttered on a rising note of apology or inquiry. Empirically, one report proposes that HRT in American English and Australian English is marked by a high tone (high pitch or high fundamental frequency) beginning on the final accented syllable near the end of the statement (the terminal), and continuing to increase in frequency (up to 40%) to the end of the intonational phrase. New research su...

user116848

Sexy baby voice

"Sexy baby voice" is an English language speech pattern or sociolect, first described by U.S. media in 2013, in which young women affect the high-pitched voice of pre-pubescent girls. Features The speech patterns at issue are described as sounding "like Minnie Mouse on helium", or a "mousy squeak [with a] handful of gravel tossed across the very top of the register". Actress Lake Bell described the style as an amalgamation of "valley-girl voice" (characterized by "upspeak") and high pitch. Controversy "Sexy baby voice" is controversial in the context of discussions about gender equalit...

KitFox

Oh, it's related.

user116848

Valleyspeak

Valleyspeak or Valspeak is a common name for an American sociolect, originally of the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, in particular Valley girls. This stereotype, which originated in the 1970s, became an international fad for a certain period. Many phrases and elements of Valleyspeak, along with surfer slang and skateboarding slang, are stable elements of the California English dialect lexicon, and in some cases wider American English (such as the widespread use of "like" as a hedge). Origin The term "Valley Girl" and the Valley manner of speech was given a wider circulation w...

KitFox

Not the same thing at all though.

user116848

Yeah.

KitFox

4:20 PM

Also very annoying.

user116848

Yeah very annoying.

KitFox

Except when Jennifer Tilly does it.

sighs

user116848

26 mins ago, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

well, I've got to run. Sorry for bringing up bad memories @Kit.

user116848

About you I mean.

KitFox

When?

Oh, he thought I was upset about the uptalk thing.

user116848

4:23 PM

Sorry my browser.....

KitFox

On account of me then mentioning that it was reminding me about my douchey ex-.

tchrist

I hate it when an interviewer asks you what salary range you are looking for and then when you give them some numbers, they quickly say “Well that seems perfectly reasonable.”

KitFox

Yeah. Me too.

I'd much rather that they choked on their tongue.

tchrist

Exactly.

Next time I’ll obviously have to add 20%, and repeat until the choke-point.

@KitFox Nothing wrong with dating a duchess.

KitFox

Of course, last time they told me that it was reasonable, I still got an offer that was considerably less.

@tchrist Hmm, I haven't.

tchrist

4:32 PM

@KitFox Oh really!?

That is not reasonable.

KitFox

Well, few Ks less.

tchrist

Well a few Ks less would put me at my previous annual salary, which I was not happy with and told them as much.

KitFox

It was still 30K more than the previous job.

tchrist

I asked for 10-25% more than I had been making, and that’s when they did the “perfectly reasonable” thing.

Perhaps they are used to hiring people who live in downtown London or San Francisco or New York. I dunno.

@TimLymington How now, O Tim?

TimLymington

Greetings from Earth

user116848

4:37 PM

Greetings!

tchrist

Would you like a book on How to Serve Man?

TimLymington

Boiled?

tchrist

To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone)

"To Serve Man" is a 1962 episode of the television series The Twilight Zone. The episode, along with the line, "It's a cookbook!," have become elements in pop culture. The story is based on the 1950 short story "To Serve Man", written by Damon Knight. The title is a play on the verb serve, which has a dual meaning of "to assist" and "to provide as a meal." The episode is one of the few instances in the series wherein an actor breaks the fourth wall and addresses the viewing audience at the episode's end. Opening narration Plot summary As the episode opens, Michael Chambers is seen ly...

TimLymington

Tastes like chicken. PJ O'Rourke pointed out that anything frm rattlesanake to penguin can safely be said to taste like chicken. But I wouldn't know about 'long pig' of course, no sirrree...

BTW, what is this, Wikipedia day? If I want unreliiable information I can get it at home.

Jasper Loy

5:24 PM

@TimLymington I find Wikipedia quite reliable.

Jasper Loy

5:34 PM

I have nightmares almost every night.

Just woke up shouting again.

KitFox

Do you want to talk about it?

Jasper Loy

Nope, it doesn't affect me though.

It's just weird that it is so frequent.

KitFox

Are you on meds?

Jasper Loy

Yes. Still the same meds.

KitFox

Maybe that's why.

I had a lot of nightmares on certain meds.

Johan Larsson

5:39 PM

Grabbed a burger and charged the battery

Jasper Loy

Aha. I am thinking of going off them.

KitFox

I dreamt about killing people and being killed and stuff.

Really not fun.

Jasper Loy

I often dream about people abusing me.

Johan Larsson

What is the name of the meds?

Jasper Loy

Then I will shout "Stop abusing me!" then I will wake up, lol.

It is very loud when I shout!

KitFox

5:40 PM

@JasperLoy Yeah, I had dreams like that, and dreams where I would intentionally put myself in those situations.

Very odd.

Jasper Loy

@JohanLarsson I have tried several.

Johan Larsson

What are the nightmare ones?

Jasper Loy

Well, I am currently on clomipramine.

KitFox

I am trying to remember which one gave me nightmares.

Johan Larsson

Ok I asked gf, she hands them out left and right at work. She had not heard any complaints about nightmares.

That does not mean much though.

KitFox

5:47 PM

I can't remember what the last one was called. That's so weird.

Johan Larsson

@Jasper are you willing to test a thing?

Saladin

Hi

KitFox

I was on prozac and then wellbutrin and then something else, and then one more and the last one worked.

Hmm.

@JohanLarsson Might be misperceived as relating to depression.

Johan Larsson

How do you mean misperceived? The drug is an anti depressive right?

KitFox

Right, but if you think your nightmares are from being depressed, you might not think they are related to taking the drug.

mirtazapine, that was it.

Saladin

5:52 PM

Meds are best mind control medicine

Nothing more

KitFox

Yes, good to control the mind that is out-of-control.

Jasper Loy

@JohanLarsson Test what?

Johan Larsson

I have a theory on|for|??? how I can ~treat~ you

Jasper Loy

Well, go on.

Johan Larsson

For four weeks I want you to:
- Be outside while the sun is up > 2 hours per day
- Go to gym/walk/run/we for ~1 hr per day.
- Eat healthy food, lots of fruit veggies and fish meat.
- Sleep at least 8 hours per night.
- Brush them teeth morning & evening.

Are you used to lifting weights?

Jasper Loy

6:00 PM

Haha, thank you. I used to lift.

You are right I guess, all these things will definitely help.

Johan Larsson

Great then you can do aerobic exercise one day and lift weights the next.

@JasperLoy I'm taking it one step further and think it is impossible to not feel great doing that.

You live in Singapore right?

Jasper Loy

@JohanLarsson Yes.

Johan Larsson

Pretty hard to find places to walk in the nature there right?

Jasper Loy

One can just walk anywhere outside I guess.

KitFox

@JohanLarsson on

Jasper Loy

6:06 PM

I am going to eat a burger now.

KitFox

hahaha

Johan Larsson

@KitFox ty ty

@JasperLoy Ideally you need this. Three days with heavy backpack will solve all issues for a month..

KitFox

Shit, I need that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JohanLarsson People who suffer from depression don't feel great even when they're doing things that make people feel great.

Johan Larsson

Everybody needs it.

tchrist

6:12 PM

Poppycock.

KitFox

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Often you can't be arsed, even if you think it will work.

Johan Larsson

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 The idea is to jumpstart them endorfines.

Endorfine is probably very similar to most antidepressants.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JohanLarsson No doubt those activities may be the only thing missing from certain people's lives. But others with depression won't get any relief from that sort of regimen at all.

Johan Larsson

And getting genuinely tired helps sleep and gives appetite for healthy food ime.

tchrist

@JohanLarsson It is much, much, much more complicated than that.

Johan Larsson

6:14 PM

ok /my advice then.

@tchrist not sure. Actually pretty sure it is a way forward.

KitFox

When your brain consumes you, flooding it with endorphins won't help.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Whoa, KitFace.

KitFox

Hi.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

urge to moustache: rising

Matt Эллен

do it!

KitFox

6:16 PM

do it!

!!mustache KitFox

gah!

I forgot that would be an advantage of...wtf?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JohanLarsson There are mental issues which can be treated that way, it's true. But there are many that can't. At least your regimen is at worst time-consuming, and in no way harmful.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

6:17 PM

Blarg.

!!mustache KitFox

Matt Эллен

internal server error at mustachifyme

Jarvis the Bot

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Dang.

I'll make a note to do it later.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

!!mustache @KitFox

Jarvis the Bot

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 User -1 was not found (if the user is not in room 95, pass a user-id instead of a username).

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

6:18 PM

ah

Johan Larsson

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yeah, thought it was a safe suggestion.

KitFox

!!mustache JohanLarsson

Jarvis the Bot

@KitFox User -1 was not found (if the user is not in room 95, pass a user-id instead of a username).

KitFox

Just not werkin?

tchrist

@JohanLarsson Moderate exercise has been shown to be as effective as SSRI regimens alone in treating cases of mild to even moderate depression. Only in that regard might they be considered “equivalent”, and it is a very limited sense. The effects on neurotransmitter production and consumption, and on retention of new brain cells generated by stem-cell centers in the brain itself, are not equivalent.

Johan Larsson

6:21 PM

@tchrist There are also the effects on sleep, have you ever had trouble sleeping after a days hiking? And eating etc.

tchrist

@JohanLarsson Exercise and SSRIs are both sometimes effective at treating certain forms of depression, but that is the only similarity.

Johan Larsson

!!define SSRI

Jarvis the Bot

@JohanLarsson SSR (historical) Soviet Socialist Republic

Johan Larsson

yeah

Matt Эллен

Seretonin reuptake inhibitors

Jarvis the Bot

6:23 PM

@JohanLarsson SSRI (initialism) Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor,

aedia λ

Man, you're making me wish I had time for another vacation.

At least it's Friday!

Johan Larsson

@aediaλ all the drug talk?

Matt Эллен

all the camping talk

aedia λ

The pictures of the glorious outsides!

KitFox

I wish I had glorious outsides.

Johan Larsson

6:26 PM

I'm trying to convince gf to move 30 km from where that pic is taken.

aedia λ

@KitFox Who's to say you don't?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Y'all should just work from home, with your desk strategically situated right next to your backyard patio. I'm working, but breathing the fresh air, and listening to birds chirp, and neighbourhood grannies shout at their grandchildren.

Johan Larsson

She refuses so far and the reason is that it will be 400 km drive to horse jumping competitions.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JohanLarsson how far by horse?

KitFox

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I have a view of the front yard.

tchrist

6:28 PM

I give up.

@ermanen You “proved” no such thing. If native speakers find it ungrammatical, then you lose the argument no matter what you dig up. And we do. Please stop being stubborn; you must recognize our authority as native speakers and stop looking for loopholes in the letter of the law. There is no collective noun for thunderbolts or for lightning strikes in English either, which means your question can have no right answer. It’s just an opinion-based list question, a subjective beauty contest with no end in sight. — tchrist 4 mins ago

Johan Larsson

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 hmm, ~250 km is my guess.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JohanLarsson Problem solved, then.

Johan Larsson

how?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox good enough!

@JohanLarsson Just ride a horse to the competition.

Johan Larsson

What is the horse is tired when he gets there?

I can try suggesting it though.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

6:30 PM

@JohanLarsson leave early, let him rest?

aedia λ

Take a team of horses to pull the trailer for the horse who competes?

Johan Larsson

You guys are better at seeing possibilities than she is

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

You could also get a small aircraft.

horses love flying, right?

Johan Larsson

Or a big fridge.

Been thinking about getting a Cessna

Jasper Loy

@JohanLarsson I have been thinking of starting an exercise schedule for the past few years, but never got down to really doing it. One needs to find a lot of motivation to start.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

6:40 PM

@JasperLoy What I did, to break that cycle, was force myself to do just 5 minutes in the morning.

Johan Larsson

@JasperLoy Promise us all here in chat that you start today.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Surely there's no excuse for not doing 5 minutes of exercise, I thought.

Turns out there ARE excuses. But the point is that it still gets done, some days.

KitFox

You should hire a team of rugged men to pull the horse in a trailer.

I could oil them for you.

tchrist

You know, the flurry of answers from this new user are just not very good. This is the best of them; most of the others aren’t even answers.

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A: What is the correct verb to imply the move of a moveable bridge?

... to relocate ? This moves a moveable bridge without opening, closing, swinging, drawing, raising, lowering, turning, rotating, folding, unfolding, connecting, unconnecting, spanning, un-spanning, sliding, unsliding, trafficating, de-trafficating, de-bridging and bridging, ..... I believe ...