English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

SmokeDetector

01:34

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, phone number detected in title: QQ微信2754595898办理匹兹堡大学UP毕业证成绩单学历认证 University of Pittsburgh by laybexed on english.stackexchange.com

Cerberus

02:17

> “Mega has experienced a hostile takeover and is no longer in the control of people who care about Internet Freedom. The New Zealand Government and Hollywood have seized a significant share of the company,” Dotcom told TorrentFreak.

“The combined shares seized by the NZ government and Hollywood were significant enough to stop our listing on the New Zealand stock exchange. On the one side Hollywood seized Mega shares of a family trust that was created for the benefit of my children and on the other side Hollywood was lobbying US Senators and credit card companies to stop payment processing…

torrentfreak.com/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: 办文凭认证加拿大加拿大维多利亚大学Victoria毕业证办理Q微[274848895]成绩单学历认证 University of Victoria by znznzq01 on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

Free spam flags for the taking.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: (Q/微541520157)办理俄勒冈大学UO毕业证成绩单学历认证 University of Oregon by key8155 on english.stackexchange.com

Cerberus

Hmm lots of spam.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: 办文凭认证加拿大卡尔加里大学UC毕业证办理Q微[274848895]成绩单学历认证 University of calgary by znznzq03 on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

02:31

Blah people are downvoting instead of spamflagging.

Cerberus

I always do both.

tchrist

Too hard to delete if need 5 closes and a downvote and 3 deletes. Just takes 6 spam flags.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: The word "suck" - why is something widely desired considered a curse? by Mike on english.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: QQ微信283214072办UT 学历认证毕业证成绩单Austin Texas A&M University University of Texas at Austin by endlesssto40 on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

@SmokeDetector I @ignored that post in the Tavern. It only works there. Damn the sinospammers.

So, they've been doing this.

Cerberus

Who? What?

tchrist

02:34

The devs didn't turn off Chinese everywhere, just the sites getting hit. But they find a new one each night. So annoying.

The Chinese degree mill spammers.

We’ll probably get a few dozen over the next hour or two.

Cerberus

One does wonder what will happen when they begin to aim at the English market. How will we be able to filter them out then?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, phone number detected in title: 100%永久可查QQ/微信2754595898办理加拿大西蒙菲莎大学毕业证成绩单学历认证 Simon Fraser University by scfkzbxduiy on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

Oh one can.

Cerberus

Hao?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, phone number detected in title: 100%永久可查QQ/微信2754595898办理加拿大昆特兰理工大学毕业证成绩单学历认证Kwantlen Polytechnic University by scfkzbxduiy on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

02:37

You find the URLs and phone numbers.

The main problem right now is that most Tavern denizens only get 10 ELU flags, so they will run out of firing power before the devs can turn off the firehose.

Cerberus

But this spam contains no URLs?

tchrist

Oh, they’ll think of something I’m sure.

Cerberus

Yeah?

tchrist

But these guys are trying to sell to sinophones. It busts if you switch it to English.

Cerberus

Perhaps all new questions should be spam-vetted before publication by experienced users?

tchrist

02:39

Well.

They have a Triage review queue on SO. It’s a miserable, miserable job.

Cerberus

But they or their friends can no doubt sell to Anglophones.

Triaging what?

All question?

But before publication, that would be nice.

I'm sure legions of experienced users would be honoured.

tchrist

Triaging really bad questions.

Cerberus

But I mean just spam.

Very easy to weed out.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: QQ微信283214072办CMU 卡内基梅隆大学学历认证毕业证成绩单 Carnegie Mellon University by endlesssto40 on english.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, phone number detected in title: 100%永久可查QQ微信2754595898办理英国谢菲尔德大学毕业证成绩单文凭学历认证 The University of Sheffield by scfkzbxduiyy on english.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, phone number detected in title: 100%永久可查QQ微信2754595898办理英国伯明翰大学毕业证成绩单文凭学历认证 University of Birmingham by scfkzbxduiyy on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

What, no lecture on irrumation? :)

SmokeDetector

02:45

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: QQ/微信：2796053907办理英国谢菲尔德大学毕业证成绩单学历认证The University of Sheffield by vcnfgrh6 on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

12 down, 88 to go.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: Q.微信:488848875办理澳洲南昆士兰大学USQ毕业证成绩单文凭学历认证100%真实可查办理 University of Southern Queensland by youni899 on english.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: Q/微信：1619053386 办理利物浦大学毕业证成绩单学历认证 University of Liverpool by emilycarrd on english.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, phone number detected in title: Q/微信1473277057办理澳洲墨尔本大学UoMELB毕业证成绩单文凭学历认证 The University of Melbourne by qojd458 on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

I’m very droopy.

Sleepy.

Lorin’s around but Randy is a roamin’.

Had a real hard time with him with that big moon, but at least it’s waning now.

Millions and millions of crickets.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, phone number detected in title: 100%永久可查QQ/微信2754595898办理加拿大西蒙菲莎大学毕业证成绩单学历认证 Simon Fraser University by scfkzbxduiyyy on english.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: QQ/微信：2796053907办理英国爱丁堡大学毕业证成绩单学历认证The University of Edinburgh by vcnfgrh6 on english.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, phone number detected in title: Q/微信1473277057办理澳洲阿德莱德大学毕业证成绩单文凭学历认证 Adelaide University by qkjd458 on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

03:12

Tavern's out of flags.

Trying to get praire detritus out of Lorin.

Cerberus

@tchrist It has flags of its own?

I have 27 flags left.

@tchrist He likes the moon?

Is he a dog perchance?

tchrist

I have like 80 left, started at 100.

@Cerberus Spam patrollers.

Cerberus

@tchrist Huh? Where?

@tchrist Special people?

tchrist

Just the folks who take care of Smokey.

The Tavern gets all sites, and each (big) site just gets its own, like ours.

You can talk to Smokey there too, get him to black/white list stuff, manual reports, etc.

Cerberus

@tchrist Whom?

tchrist

03:23

The people who hang out in the Meta.SE chatroom.

Tavern on the Meta.

Employees are the only mods.

Hm do we get a break from spam?

Cerberus

I see.

1 min ago, by tchrist

Employees are the only mods.

What does that mean?

> def quit()
eg.StopMacro
eg.Exit

Any idea what's wrong with this bit of Python? The last two lines are properly indented.

I am trying to create a function.

But everything in Python deviates from Autohotkey in small yet annoying ways.

Why aren't all programming languages the same?

tchrist

@Cerberus What it says. Like Meta.SE: only employees are in blue there.

Cerberus

Oh, the only mods of the room?

tchrist

Yes.

Cerberus

I see.

Loud thunder here.

I welcome it.

tchrist

03:28

Python is freaky. Whitespace sensitive.

Cerberus

I am sure the indentation is good: it is the same as in my (working) if statements.

tchrist

Would not mind rain.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: QQ微信283214072办澳大利亚国立大学学历认证毕业证成绩单The Australian National University by endlesssto33 on english.stackexchange.com

Cerberus

(I agree about the fact that being sensitive to whitespaces is freaky.)

@tchrist Does a torrent of spam work for you?

tchrist

Huh?

"Work"?

Cerberus

03:31

What?

tchrist

@Cerberus What?

Cerberus

You said you wouldn't mind rain. So do you enjoy the rain of spam that is torrenting down upon us?

It was funless pun.

Meant to be casual: I just wanted to tell you that the spam had regun.

tchrist

Too tired to detect humor.

Cerberus

Actually, what is the English prefix to indicate return or repetition?

In Dutch, it is her-.

Probably related to Latin re-.

In Greek, it is ana-.

tchrist

Re-

analemma

Cerberus

03:34

@tchrist That's not very Anglic, nor is it Saxon.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, phone number detected in title: Q/微信2727586870办理西安大略大学毕业证成绩单教育部学历认证University by aspoifdua45 on english.stackexchange.com

Cerberus

@tchrist There ana means "up", its other major meaning.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: QQ微信283214072办阿德莱德大学学历认证毕业证成绩单The University of Adelaide by endlesssto33 on english.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, phone number detected in title: Q/微信1534584698办理澳洲天主教大学毕业证成绩单学历认证Australia Catholic University by ladeninfbi1 on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

If ana- is onomatopoeia then what about cata-? Prolly not.

Cerberus

Why do you think it should be onomatopoeic?

tchrist

03:44

ahhhh p. :)

Cerberus

By the way, the error in my Python was that I needed a colon at the end of the function definition, probably because all blocks needs to be introduced so.

tchrist

anamatopoetic

@Cerberus Oh right.

Cerberus

04:49

@tchrist Ugh, and now the error was that I had re.sub('someregex', '\1', somevariable)

Python won't accept a backslash in anything.

So I had to do r'\1', or it just wouldn't work.

The r tells Python to treat the backslashes as actual backslashes from its perspective (though not from the command itself's perspective) instead of escape characters.

SmokeDetector

06:32

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: *Q/微信14732/77057*如何办理伯明翰大学毕业证成绩单学历认证 University of Birmingham by qujdk458 on english.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

06:50

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: QQ微信283214072办西悉尼大学学历认证毕业证成绩单University of Western Sydney by endlesssto41 on english.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: QQ微信283214072办格里菲斯大学学历认证毕业证成绩单Griffiths by endlesssto41 on english.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

07:45

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, phone number detected in title: Q/微信1534584698办理昆士兰理工大学毕业证成绩单学历认证Queensland University of Technology by Vanda Miss Joaquim on english.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

07:58

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title, chinese character in title: QQ微信283214072办曼彻斯特大学学历认证毕业证成绩单 by endlesssto42 on english.stackexchange.com

Matt E. Эллен

so much spam will make me fat

SmokeDetector

08:38

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Adjective for someone who is an a-hole? by harrylane on english.stackexchange.com

RegDwigнt

08:59

So much fat will make me spam.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: 毕业证Q/微信859034112办理东北大学NU学历认证成绩单 Northeastern University by yydyfcz86 on english.stackexchange.com

RegDwigнt

Gee, that was fast. Thank you, autobots. Bumblebee in particular.

Robusto

10:54

-1

A: Gender-specific replacement for fiancée and fiancé

I don't think about you, however I don't have a craving for announcing and after that clarifying my sexual character when it's immaterial to the discussion. I'm infatuated with my closest companion. She's a lady. So am I. Now and then that data is obliged, yet you'd be amazed how regularly it...

Huh?

RegDwigнt

Spam.

Why am I even reading spam.

Robusto

Because that's what you signed up for.

RegDwigнt

-1

Q: Infinitive help needed

Please help me find a suitable infinitive for the sentence 1.One little boy _______ friends with the wolf-girls.(make) Please help me asap.

infinitive

I don't say that often with that kind of confidence and bluntness, but: here's an idiot.

user116848

I finally put my country in my profile.

RegDwigнt

Good job squeezing it in.

I bet you had to give half of it to Putin first so it would fit.

user116848

11:04

heh!

RegDwigнt

We should really have the close reason "If you have to ask this, you must not be writing, you must be reading. Do not write a word until you've read enough to answer this question yourself".

It would easily replace all the other close reasons.

Because that's the root of the problem. This stupid Internet thing. Absolutely everyone is a writer. Nobody at all is a reader.

Robusto

11:50

@RegDwigнt I think Putin already had it.

@RegDwigнt Just like poets: There are millions of people who write poetry, and hundreds who read it.

@Arrowfar Whoa, that's not your real photo, is it? (Disclaimer: mine is.)

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yeah no shit, I don't even read poetry I write.

user116848

@Robusto Haha!

Robusto

0

Q: Compound Adjective

A gut-shaking sound Does this mean that the sound can shake the gut? or the sound sounds like the shakes of the gut? and if it was like a gut shaking sound, would this change the meaning?

compound-adjectives

Where do we GET these people?

RegDwigнt

The Internet.

Robusto

And why can't we POST them back?

RegDwigнt

11:53

Because the Internet.

Robusto

collapses in a heap

RegDwigнt

382

A: HTTP status code for update and delete?

Short answer: for both PUT and DELETE, you should send either 200 (OK) or 204 (No Content). Long answer: here's a complete decision diagram (click to magnify).

Just send them a DELETE.

Or a 403 Forbidden.

Or really anything at all except 200.

Robusto

Pfft. You only came in second with that answer. Loser.

RegDwigнt

I know. That's why I quit SO. I sucked too much, even by SO standards.

Robusto

On the plus side, you still have a handy TL;DR wall chart.

I wonder what kind of people think that diagram is "handy" . . .

It's handy the way the Encyclopedia Britannica, paper edition, is handy. If you ever get up the energy to actually use it, it's quite informative. Otherwise you just look at it.

Comprehensive, complete, detailed—all these are descriptors that work with that diagram. Handy does not.

Not to say that it isn't a marvel. But handy?

RegDwigнt

11:58

@Robusto a cat may look at the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Robusto

But only to see if there are any mice lurking behind it.

skill patrol

hi pals

Matt E. Эллен

hyper

skill patrol

hypo

RegDwigнt

Scooter - Hyper Hyper

►

Matt E. Эллен

12:05

I wonder what triggered the influx of spam this morning

RegDwigнt

So earlier today on ELU I learned that "long" never means "long", it always means "tall".

Thank you, ELU.

skill patrol

This ain't The Encyclopaedia Britannica :-)

which I was surprised to findout does not mention R. L. Moore anywhere in it.

:-/

RegDwigнt

Well. In that case, good thing this ain't the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Because this room does mention R. L. Moore and is thus clearly superior.

Sep 4 '12 at 12:36, by ЯegDwight

This room contains everything, including the known universe.

skill patrol

clearly

RegDwigнt

There is literally nothing this room does not contain. The second you think you've come up with something this room doesn't contain, this room contains it.

It's magical.

Robusto

12:14

@RegDwigнt Does that mean ElendilTheTall is really ElendilTheLong?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I can't tell with enough confidence, as the verdict on whether "the" actually means "the" is still out. Waiting on ELU to enlighten me. Will keep you posted.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Also there is some controversy about its pronunciation.

skill patrol

controversy?

Robusto

I guess you had to be there.

RegDwigнt

Pronounced "theer".

Robusto

12:19

0

Q: A recent trend in pronouncing "the"

I have observed a recent trend to pronounce "the" as "thuh" even if it is followed by a vowel (as in "thuh evening.") Is this regional (I live in Alabama) or national? I think it's the latter. And does anyone have an idea about why this has happened? Has the glottal stop become fashionable? ...

pronunciation

I pronounce it Cthulhu.

skill patrol

@Robusto thanks pal :-)

RegDwigнt

Thuhthuh, he said "glottal".

skill patrol

"glottal" is an interesting word...

Robusto

So is "interesting" . . .

RegDwigнt

So is "Charlize Thuhron".

It's actually twice as interesting.

Robusto

12:22

0

Q: What's the meaning of "For far too many"?

I'm looking for Far too many expression's meaning. Phrase I found the word in: For far too many, the dream has dissipated.

meaning

Aww, c'mon.

If you don't know simple words, then how would we even explain that to you?

skill patrol

nuke that commie

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I know simple minds and simply red. Will that suffice?

Robusto

I don't understand "simple" . . . pls explan to me.

Are simple and simply related? Y?

RegDwigнt

May 11 at 12:12, by RegDwigнt

I think, therefore you're not.

Robusto

One has a Y. Which is correct?

RegDwigнt

12:24

What is this grammar?

It is really asombrate with my

Robusto

Cup or book??? Which is correct???

Hurry I have to go peepee!!!

skill patrol

tmi

RegDwigнt

Somewhere, out there, there's an actual collection of molecules that invented the word "asombrate". And the universe will never reward it. The fucking universe will just go on like nothing happened.

Robusto

The universe rewards different skills. Like being born to rich parents.

skill patrol

true

RegDwigнt

12:27

I find it deeply depressing. More deeply depressing than Ben Affleck. More deeply depressing than Ben Affleck as Superman. More deeply depressing than Ben Affleck.

Robusto

Ben Afflect played George Reeves, who only played Superman. He was not the actual Superman, who lives at the North Pole when he's not gadding about the skies of Metropolis.

RegDwigнt

I find your ideas interesting, David Carradine who plays Bill, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Robusto

You'll need telnet.

RegDwigнt

David's dead, baby. David's dead.

Robusto

Everywhere from A to Zed.

RegDwigнt

12:29

Lol should be everywhere from An to Zed. You suk at grammor.

Robusto

I am no asombrate with your

RegDwigнt

To my parents, An, Zed, and God.

Robusto

0

A: Is this a literal interpretation of "without reason"?

What Stoic the Vast meant was that people who lack morals/compassion can't be desuaided, there is nothing emotional in that person to appeal to.

Desuaided?

Matt E. Эллен

turned back into leather?

RegDwigнt

Oh. That's an answer. Dude. You have to warn me.

I thought that was the question.

Since ELU questions traditionally do not contain questions, a nice warning in due time is the only way to tell.

Robusto

12:33

@MattE.Эллен ding

Perhaps you mean dissuaded? And even if you do, I think you're missing the point of the question. — Robusto 1 min ago

RegDwigнt

I think they mean de-suede-aided.

Like, first you take Suede (the band, no other Suede do), then you use them to bandaid you to a chair (a chair, no armchair or stool will do!), and then you pay them monies for undoing said procedure.

Robusto

dude cant you talk shorter lol

RegDwigнt

The challenge lies in completing the fiscal transaction with your hands tied behind your back to a chair (which coincidentally is why no armchair or stool will do).

@Robusto ur ret are dead.

Robusto

nou

Idiocracy

Idiocracy is a 2006 American satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews. The film tells the story of two people who take part in a top-secret military hibernation experiment, only to awaken 500 years later in a dystopian society where advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism have run rampant and that is devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights. The film was not screened for critics, and 20th Century Fox was accused of "abandoning...

So that's where they got the idea for ELU.

RegDwigнt

Aw my pineapples.

Damkerng T.

12:55

@Robusto How about editing the question a little and then migrating it to ELL?

I was thinking, maybe something like:

> *A gut-wrenching sound*
Does this mean the sound that wrenches or can wrench the gut, or the sound of the gut that is wrenching?

RegDwigнt

The thing is, dictionaries are a thing for ELL, too.

They close genref as genref as much as we do.

Damkerng T.

I think compound adjectives are difficult for many learners, so it could be useful over there.

RegDwigнt

Well. And this question is about compound adjectives, how?

It is about one compound adjective.

The meaning of which is genref.

A question about all compound adjectives, on the other hand, would be entirely unanswerable.

Because every single compound adjective means whatever it chooses to mean regardless of other compound adjectives.

Damkerng T.

True. But we got a few similar questions recently.

RegDwigнt

Yes. And we've been getting "what does spouse mean?" for six years now.

I'm not holding presses or breath.

Damkerng T.

12:59

@RegDwigнt I was thinking about the pattern X-ing as an adjective. I mean, only in this question.

RegDwigнt

If someone can't use a dictionary, then the solution is not to turn our site into yet another dictionary. Because guess what, people won't use it!

@DamkerngT. right on. But there's a lot of things that can lead to an -ing, with lots of different meanings.

Actually, there's something to be said for unseeing patterns.

Damkerng T.

@RegDwigнt Yes. Imho, it could be useful if someone could post a good guideline as an aid for our learners.

Over there, I mean. Not here.

RegDwigнt

Yes, I understand. But it's a gargantuan task really. I'm not sure how many gargantuan users ELL even has these days.

Damkerng T.

Me either. But I still hope for the best. :P

RegDwigнt

Yeah.

It's this whole Internet thing all over again. Someone should do so many gargantuan things. And in select cases someone somewhere is actually working on one. But in the mean time every single page gets flooded with half-assed one-liners.

Kit Z. Fox

13:04

@feetwet I don't have an opinion on it.

@Jez Hey.

RegDwigнt

So when you ask politely, "someone please tell me everything about words ending in -ing, including the word everything", then some kind soul might actually take up the task, but unless you freeze the question until they are finished, you'll end up with yet another page full of "answers" like "I think you are asking about verbs. I can recommend looking up verbs." or plain spam.

Holy something. There's a fox!

tchrist

This is not an answer:

The vowel will be reduced in unstressed position, especially under the fast speech rules operative here. Good luck hearing a difference between a reduced [/ɨ/] or [ɪ̈] and a complete [ə]. This is hard even for people trained to do it, and virtually impossible for those who are not. That means you will not be aware of what’s really happening and therefore are apt to mischaracterize it. — tchrist 2 mins ago

At least, I don’t think it is.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist good thing it's a comment, then!

Damkerng T.

@RegDwigнt Understood. It's not my call anyway.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен A spam influx trigger. Well, that's what the parts catalog says.

tchrist

13:07

I seem to have an almost-dislocated dominant index finger. Probably need an immobilizing split and no more typing.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox Like Old Mr Bunny.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch they should ban those.

Robusto

@DamkerngT. Be my guest.

Damkerng T.

@Robusto Done!

This edit will be visible only to you until it is peer reviewed.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен as long as your parts list has a bit extrusion shredding vat, you'll be OK. Wait.. don't use PVC with that, or you'll have to replace it within a year.

@Robusto mais oui, ma chère mademoiselle

Robusto

13:20

english.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/132860

Suggested edit is vandalism.

tchrist

@tchrist Happy? Surely it’s a pain in the back side that finally when you think you’ve figured out what those damn e’s at the end of words do and how it works, along comes this word just to prove you wrong and stick its tongue out at you! — Janus Bahs Jacquet 4 hours ago

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Q: What is the adobe of gods?

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity . I don't understand this whole sentence, possibly because I don't know what adobe of the gods means.

phrases

Wrong order, but you get the connection.

Mesa Verde was abandoned once the gods cut off the Ancient Ones’ adobe supply.

Robusto

@tchrist So, the gods are using Photoshop now? I thought they didn't need that.

RegDwigнt

Where is my dictionary template.

tchrist

They probably didn’t like the licensing scheme.

RegDwigнt

To look up the meaning of a word, use a dictionary of your liking. Dictionaries have been specifically created and optimized for looking up the meanings of words. This site is not a dictionary, and has not been created or optimized for looking up word meanings. For starters, typing a word in a dictionary search box is much faster than typing up a question here. — RegDwigнt ♦ 22 secs ago

I should be getting a fraction of a cent every time I write this.

Then I could own the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation, which is the one and only goal of my life.

tchrist

13:24

Pro tip: Never sign a contract that includes in perpetuity with immortals.

RegDwigнt

Pro tip: if you actually sign something, you will probably outlive it.

tchrist

I wish our mod team had better après-UTC-biz-hours coverage.

RegDwigнt

There's life after UTC?

Show me the signed contract.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch it seems, despite the bit extrusion shredding, some spam got through the filter. how can I fix that?

tchrist

Because once you guys all bounce home, it gets ugly here a lot of the days.

RegDwigнt

13:29

And thank god for that, otherwise people would never be able to breathe!

@RegDwigнt I think you're doing a pretty good jobs of policing and putting new Qs on hold in this forum. — artm 9 hours ago

tchrist

reg++

RegDwigнt

Caveat: the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention. (Now that is irony.)

This poor user, for example, can only be a user while I am not.

tchrist

Addict.

RegDwigнt

I can't always only think of myself. That's not communist at all!

tchrist

A dict.

Robusto

13:32

Don't be a dict!

RegDwigнt

Be Gus Dickus.

Robusto

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Q: Difference between "Mollify" and "Pacify"?

Also, which word is suitable in a context of hunger?

meaning-in-context

Awww.

RegDwigнt

Yes to both.

Next.

tchrist

files the edge off his hunger

Robusto

If ever there was a better candidate for "Look it the fuck up" I have not seen it.

RegDwigнt

13:33

Oh come on. Don't make me dig up the "what does spouse mean?"

It's quite hard to dig up cause it's deleted.

Now that was pro. This one's not even trying.

tchrist

deleted:1 is:question spouse

RegDwigнt

See. I did say it was quite hard.

> closed as general reference by Jeff Atwood♦ Apr 15 '11 at 6:51

Mwuahaha.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt That's what she said.

RegDwigнt

This "she" seems to be quite talkative indeed.

Robusto

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Q: role of with in this sentence

in a film a person said: "I'm this close to getting a big promotion with my own office" why he used with?

grammar

And the hits just keep on coming!

tchrist

13:36

Tolja.

RegDwigнt

Install a hit counter.

Robusto

Sometimes the shit comes down so hard I feel like I should be wearing a hat.

RegDwigнt

I was going to say use jQuery but now I'm realizing I've not heard the name in like two years.

tchrist

Why you used bad question?

RegDwigнt

Is jQuery still a thing?

Robusto

13:37

Yes.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto but that would make you a shithat.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I use it practically every day. Even to brush my teeth.

@RegDwigнt I am hatshit crazy, I am.

RegDwigнt

Okay. Phew. Good. Thanks. So without further ado:
install a hit counter. Use jQuery.

Robusto

Meanwhile, why is "role of with" still open?

RegDwigнt

You could even install a jQuery counter to count your teeth. Figure that, bro.

@Robusto because this is life after UTC.

Robusto

13:39

That question even has an answer.

tchrist

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A: Can I say "Please find my yesterday’s and today’s daily reports in the documents."

cbnmvbnmvbnmvbnmvbnmasdfohjansldfjkasdfl;kja alskdfj asldkfj asdlfkj asdf asdf wert

Damned cats.

RegDwigнt

Excellent. On to the MultiCollider with it.

Robusto

Feeding frenzy, could be MC material.

jinx

RegDwigнt

Here's some frenzy coke for you:

Robusto

Well, they got the size right.

RegDwigнt

13:41

That's a great insult, actually. Very modern. "How foot of a biglong are you, actually?"

Robusto

And it's true, the more I play, the bigger I become.

RegDwigнt

I think I'll start posting that under every question I close. "How foot of a biglong are you?"

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен Oh... yeah, you'll need a pan-demic ceramic emulsifier splay tuning rotor for the left overs. It's only in green. I know, right!

Robusto

But the prize always seems to remain about the same size.

RegDwigнt

The prize is right.

Dear next person who uses "english" instead of "English": I will personally come to your home and bludgeon you to death with a giant E.

Cerberus

13:46

I have a script that corrects ENglish into English, because I often do that. But never english, I don't need a script for that.

RegDwigнt

I have a script that corrects Russian into English.

yesterday, by RegDwigнt

It doesn't work tho. At all.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Morning. So I see tchrist didn't change his mind.

RegDwigнt

Priorities, priorities. Socks first, mind later.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Did I mention to you that I got the Detective's Office for my birthday? I just put it together last week. It's pretty great.

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