@RegDwigнt Indeed, you shall not die without seeing me, but that is a tautology.

Should grammar questions be asked here or on ELL? They appear to be on topic on both sides...

Most grammar questions aren’t.

it depends on how hard they are :-)

What about the ones which are @tchrist :) ?

Well, we’re thinking of blacklisting the grammar tag altogether, because nobody ever uses it in any way that makes sense.

Your question is almost surely not actually about grammar. What is it about?

@tchrist do you recall that economist article you linked about how minorities over populate the prisons? I can't find the link :(

@infinitesimal No, I don’t. chat search is not so hot.

I read a title that made me wonder on SO because it used the third singular person where the plural one should have been used as I would in my native language.

The verb or the subject?

This one specifically: stackoverflow.com/questions/3106110/what-is-move-semantics/…

Ah.

@infinitesimal Is it on this page?

Semantics is one of those words that sometimes gets used in the singular.

^ perhaps?

Quite possibly.

nice work @Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 thanks

So, @tchrist, which site should I choose? Actually, I'd have to create a ELL account...

Well, I thought it had been asked before, but I don’t see it at a quick glance. Note that this is not about grammar per se, but rather about grammatical-number.

If it is something you can look up in the dictionary, you should not ask, because it will be closed as Off-Topic.

economist.com/news/united-states/…

that^ was the one

the graphs are incredible

guns lead to prison

TFS means that I forget reference so System a lot.

Hello!

Saw this here: The Feeds API lists all the feeds available to the authenticating user -- Shouldn't it be ... to the authenticated user?

Actually, it seems that others use it too.

@IonicăBizău Probably, yes.

If the user is authenticating, that means he is still in the process of doing so, and hence not fully authenticated yet.

@Cerberus So, it should be for the authenticated user.

(already used in the list: The public timeline for the authenticated user)

@IonicăBizău I would say yes.

Could someone please vote to reopen this?

OK! I will submit a pull request. Thanks.

The closing reason states:

> ... unless primarily concerned with linguistics rather than usage.

It is primarily concerned with linguistics, if only because Latin is not now "used".

@IonicăBizău Good lucK!

@Cerberus Thanks! Just did it: github.com/github/developer.github.com/pull/740

@Cerberus Done, but 1) three more to go, and 2) the close reason as given is correct (it's about one language). I don't agree with the close reason (I'm for keeping interesting questions open even if they're not exactly on-topic; follow stupid rules is too stupid. There's other crap to worry about.

@Cerberus dead languages tell no tales

@Mitch But:

Nobody learning Latin in school learns these rules. This is linguistics, not usage.

But thank you!

@MattE.Эллен Umm...

Wha?

it's sleeping with the pisces

Drunk?

me? no

just rattling your cage

I am unencaged.

oh. then who is in your cage?

photo of a meteor over Loch Ness

Cool!

Does look like it was enhanced a bit...

Haha.

I have noticed the same thing.

The efficiency of solar power. Each line is a technology, progressing ever upwards with time.

I cannot see where this fellow is coming from:

Show me the condescension.

fragmentation of concerns

liked that

Does this have something to do with the ⁷⁄₃ advantage his master has over our resident hell hound?