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10:02 PM

@JohanLarsson Nope, I do not.

@Robusto Seems that FF thinks that a non-bright four-year-old is the measure of what makes a word “odd”. What nonsense!

You count 5,000 as some cut-off point for “odd”, do you? Me, I count it as the cut-off point for pre-kindergarten for those of non-above-average smarts. “The average native speaker already knows 5,000 words by age four.” Until we hit something like the 20k or 40k down the list, I won’t really even take any claims of oddity seriously, and I hope you will not either. — tchrist 2 mins ago

Too much flouncing about for my tastes.

I can’t believe his lame answer has garnered five upvotes. Have we set our standards at that of a non-bright four-year-old now?

I am disappoint.

I’m sorry.

Send me mail.

Just because I don’t do vox-pop-ass kitch-kultcher doesn’t mean I am incomunicado.

Johan Larsson

I have nothing specific, just fished for a chat friend.

Alraxite

@tchrist Do you know of a way to reply to messages from the keyboard?

Except the SE Modifications script, I don't know of any other way.

tchrist

@Alraxite Yes, but it is not practical. Just tab till you are on the right widget.

Alraxite

I knew you had a way!

OK. I don't know what you mean.

tchrist

Just keep hitting tab.

It wil eventually take you to the reply arrow.

A: What's the word for "running with your arms outstretched as though flying"?

Verbs that go fl-! A very great many little-used verbs all beginning with fl- and relating to flitting or flipping or fluttering or flurrying or flinging or flying or flapping occur. Many are uncommon, obsolete, dialectal, or just plain Scottish. :) A great many words did not, alas, make the...

@Alraxite I suppose you could use kkkk or some such in pentadactyl to find the right line.

> A great many words did not, alas, make the cut, but are delightful words nonetheless, like flimp and flume, flivver and flimmer, flapadoodle and flapdragon. But ten that did make the cut, and which are cited in more detail below, are flacket, flaff, flanch, flaughter, flichter, flisk, flizz, floister, flurr, and flusker.

Alraxite

10:16 PM

In Pentadactyl I can click on the drop down menu on the left and then click on the 'reply to message' link using hints.

Also, tab only tabs through the drop down menus on the right.

tchrist

I still want focus-follows-eyeballs.

But I worry about double-clicking.

<BLINK, BLINK>

Alraxite

@tchrist What would kkk do?

Well, if you really do use tabs, then I don't know how you manage it.

I honestly can't figure out how you can possibly reply to a message just by pressing tab.

I can get that dialog box on the top left. But I still can't click on the reply to message button.

While I knew you'd have a method, I also knew it'd be extemely difficult to comprehend your explanation of the method.

So great.

Well, I think the tab method will only work on a Mac or its equivalents.

In windows, you can't tab into the reply link from the permalink link.

Nor does dactyl detect the reply button.

Stack Exchange

10:35 PM

Limerick Machine: It’s nearing the end of the day I just have this one thing to say Rhyming’s so...

posted on September 10, 2014 by sgdi

It’s nearing the end of the day I just have this one thing to say Rhyming’s so good It’s better than pud Everything’s better this way

Alraxite

Right. So the only option seems to me is to use the SE Modification Script.

I have made AHK map the arrow keys onto the home row using Capslock combinations.

So, I could use it in conjunction with the control key. Sort of inconvenient but might work.

Robusto

10:48 PM

@tchrist You'll never get the last word with Fumble. He's retired, he's got nothing but time.

Zoe

@WillHunting The analogy is a reply to your view of "we dont choose hell". I think that from the start, you had a wrong impression of God and what He wants. But anyway, I see that's how you feel. Okay.

tchrist

11:20 PM

@Robusto My. F’ing. God.

Hole. Digging. Stop.

I’m sorry, but flail doesn’t even mean that, and airplaning doesn’t even start with f-. Transitively, the OED says that flail means “1. To scourge, whip; to beat or thrash. 2. To strike with or as with a flail. 3. To thresh (corn) with a flail.”, while intransitively it means “To move in the manner of a flail. Also fig.” So your answer does not fit, not merely because you have selected a perfectly common and completely non-odd word, but more importantly because you have chosen one that does not mean this thing that the fellow is doing. No one is being beaten on here. — tchrist 3 mins ago

A whuppin’ is what that boy needs.

Fetch me a flail, and make it nine of tail!

A willow switch will do.

Alraxite

Never mind. I found a much better solution.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/se-chat-reply-helper

Last time I had checked, the creator had only made it for chrome, I believe.

@Alraxite Replying to yourself has never been more easier!

Alraxite

11:48 PM

The only problem is that dactyl tends to add a newline in the chatbox and I don't know what to do about it.