English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Cerberus

00:19

@Arrowfar Hmm that doesn't sound like fun.

Why don't you quit just ELL, rather than SE?

We can't all like all sub-sites.

user116848

@Cerberus I know Cerbs but today I think I can't handle the pressure here.

user116848

I'm almost crying right now.

user116848

I think I have no choice but to delete my account.

user116848

I mean all the mods from the network insulted me man.

Cerberus

@Arrowfar Naah.

Just sleep on it.

Put all the people you're fighting with on Ignore.

Don't go to the ELL room.

Some chat rooms just don't work for all people.

user116848

00:22

Yeah it seems that way.

Cerberus

Tomorrow, it will all seem less important.

It's only some strangers on the other side of the planet! What do you care how they behave?

2

Promise yourself you won't go back to the ELL room.

That you won't even look at the transcript.

user116848

I mean how could people star all those mean messages?

Cerberus

I don't know.

But I think it's best not to wonder, but just to ignore.

There have been times when I was very angry at someone on SE.

Now, it seems so unimportant that I don't even remember.

Whereas, at the time, I was probably quite upset.

Robusto

@Arrowfar You can hang out here. We don't mind a little drama now and then.

@Arrowfar It's the Remedial English room, remember.

Please, this question feels a little too much like trolling. In any case, not really suitable for EL&U. — Robusto 52 mins ago

Can we get a couple of close votes there, please?

user116848

Hi Rob. Yeah okay I'll think about it.

user116848

00:37

ELL is dead to me.

user116848

02:14

@Mitch @MattE.Эллен @Robusto @Cerberus @skullpatrol and all the others. I'm leaving SE. I have made up my mind. It has been nice knowing you guys. Take care and goodbye.

user116848

Thanks for all the nice discussions. Also thanks for helping me out in English,

user116848

Bye!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

02:38

@Arrowfar Bye Arrowfar! We'll miss you in the Overlook. Come back any time to write with us.

Mitch

@Arrowfar Why quit SE? Just don't go to ELL.

3

I know, it's hard.

but it's late for me, gotta go. tomorrow for me, later today for you.

skull patrol

02:55

@Arrowfar Bye pal :'(

Faheem Mitha

08:19

@Arrowfar Don't do anything hasty. I recommend you just take a break from SE. A week, two weeks, whatever. And don't delete anything. A deleted account may not be so easy to undelete. Or may be impossible. I don't know.

Matt E. Эллен

11:42

EightBitify.me now works in chrome and on phones

phones that use chrome or firefox

also, it's faster in firefox for android than in chrome

Robusto

Hardware acceleration?

Matt E. Эллен

possibly

skill patrol

what does it do?

Matt E. Эллен

I haven't looked into to it

@skillpatrol it takes images from your webcam / phone camera and makes them... look worse, I suppose.

Robusto

It's a big breakthrough in making things look worse.

Matt E. Эллен

11:46

:D

skill patrol

sounds handy :P

Matt E. Эллен

EightBitify.me

Robusto

I'm the rare case where EightBitify actually makes me look better.

Matt E. Эллен

lol

Matt E. Эллен

11:59

@Arrowfar I don't know what all the ruckus was about. I assume it's been deleted. drama happens, don't let it push you off the site. Learn from it and move on.

Robusto

12:36

@RegDwigнt: You seem fairly cogent this morning. Oh, wait—you're not here!

Sorry, just felt like trolling someone. I guess it was your turn.

17

In the example below, I'm looking for a suitable synonym for 'nice-to-have'. I'm specifically looking for an appropriate noun replacement - do we actually have such a thing in English? "Maintenance shouldn’t be a ‘nice-to-have’ but an all-important necessity."

synonyms

This question should be studied for clues on how to hit the MC without really trying.

Matt E. Эллен

call something that isn't horrible horrible

controversy ensues

RegDwigнt

@Robusto hello, coladies and cogents.

@Robusto I've studied it, but saw no mentions of boobies or negros, so I still don't understand.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен That's horrible.

RegDwigнt

Your horrible mother is a horrible president.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt Does that mean that I'm...

RegDwigнt

12:48

No. You are not.

Mitch

Gunga Din!

RegDwigнt

You misspelled Gundam Style.

Mitch

Fair dinkum

RegDwigнt

For that alone you get 10 years without Internet.

Mitch

Please!

Diabetes of the soul

RegDwigнt

12:49

@Robusto You are my troll model.

And I shall continue pinging you im Sekundentakt until you show the frig up.

So then I can disappear. With a "tee-hee-hee" or a "ho-ho-ho", and a Christmas.

Matt E. Эллен

Chris-t-mas

Robusto

13:02

@RegDwigнt Whu?

Sorry, work reared its ugly head and I had to respond.

Stupid work.

RegDwigнt

Tee-hee-hee-ho-ho.

Robusto

That looks like work.

RegDwigнt

Did you know that "work" backwards is "Donald Trump"?

It is true.

Robusto

Someone should make him eat krow.

RegDwigнt

Krow is murder.

Robusto

13:07

So I get in this morning and India wants to know if I have completed the project that was assigned to me while I was on vacation.

And my vacation is publicly posted, and I sent out reminders about it.

RegDwigнt

Aug 6 at 8:53, by Faheem Mitha

@RegDwigнt Do you have any idea how big India is?

Robusto

So I got an assignment while I was gone and—horror of horrors—I didn't even look at it or know about it until yesterday. What a slacker, right?

I can't wait to not be doing this shit anymore.

RegDwigнt

You didn't make sure all 2 billion get the memo. If that ain't slacking, then I don't know what is.

Robusto

We only work with two or three million of them.

RegDwigнt

That is most very slacking.

@Robusto so, um, just go back in time a couple hours and you won't be doing this shit.

You spent your entire vacation not doing this shit and now the first thing you do at work is looking forward to more of not doing this shit. That's dedication.

Robusto

13:11

I mean for good and all. No work, no how, not never no more.

RegDwigнt

You can keep going back in time duh.

Robusto

Tried that. Didn't work.

RegDwigнt

Then you can enjoy this awesome conversation all over again.

Robusto

Some guy in some other universe is going back in time. You're going forward.

RegDwigнt

Whoever Ward is, I am not going for him.

Robusto

13:12

Seems kinda stupid, but that's how Mr. Hawking wants it.

RegDwigнt

Mr Hawking has zero competence when it comes to physics, as all he does is defy the laws of physics himself.

The laws of physics wanted him dead when, forty years ago?

Robusto

Speaking of physics, this season of True Detective really should have been cast into a black hole.

I woulda cast it there myself but what can one man do?

RegDwigнt

A man can drink. A man can drink.

Mitch

A cat can look at a king.

Robusto

No. A cat may look at a king.

Matt E. Эллен

13:26

A banana can split.

Robusto

A tree can leave.

Matt E. Эллен

13:37

> Someones are 46% better than Some Ones!

RegDwigнt

> Yous are 169% better than Is!

Matt E. Эллен

> Bings are 211% better than Not Bings!

> The Twitter sentiment for Hink is 2.1330650618

I need to know how twitter sentiment is calculated!

RegDwigнt

They take twitter and calculate it until it gets all sentimental.

Like dude, shoulda paid attention in school.

Matt E. Эллен

nobody pays attention in school

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Nov 17 '13 at 16:10, by RegDwigнt

Attention is the worst paid person in this room.

Someone had to do it.

Matt E. Эллен

13:48

you inb4d Reg!

RegDwigнt

No. I inb4d him.

Watch the timestamps.

I said it first. Then he quoted me.

It's very technical. Get an expert to help.

Robusto

14:07

Big talk for someone who hasn't cracked 100k in chat ferchrissakes. Also lost of blank faces.

RegDwigнt

Why would I want to crack anything in chat if nobody reads my shit.

I can go home and not read my shit myself anytime.

While watching Firefly.

Robusto

You are a crack addict, that's why.

RegDwigнt

Cocaine's one hell of a drug.

Robusto

14:22

And one drug of a hell.

RegDwigнt

I'm Jick Rames, biatch.

Robusto

@Deepak: You must use a different dictionary than I do. In my view, peremptory carries the connotation of demanding attention in a brusque, imperious way. Merely stating one's wishes does not qualify for that, unless one's culture views stating one's preference at all is rude. — Robusto 3 mins ago

RegDwigнt

14:50

What a peremptory quote.

Robusto

Gah, now FumbleFingers is weighing in on it.

RegDwigнt

Of course.

What did you expect.

Robusto

Am I crazy? Do "I wish to" and "I would like to" carry some imperative, peremptory connotation that I cannot fathom?

Has the world gone mad?

Am I losing my frickin' mind?

RegDwigнt

You had a mind?

Robusto

Before today, yes.

At least I think I did.

Now I'm not even sure I speak English anymore.

RegDwigнt

14:59

I am unable to take such shocking news in stride.

Next up you'll tell me you used to have a spine, too.

drinks metric-ton heavily

Robusto

No, but seriously:

2 mins ago, by Robusto

Am I crazy? Do "I wish to" and "I would like to" carry some imperative, peremptory connotation that I cannot fathom?

They sound like the mildest assertions possible.

RegDwigнt

I no speaky. if you problem, ask the elu.

Robusto

Thanks for the reach-around.

RegDwigнt

Well, I've not read any of the discussion, or the questions, or the comments. And your understanding cannot possibly be that I am going to do any of that now, after your anti-advertisiment.

Robusto

I'm just asking for a sanity check.

RegDwigнt

15:03

Plus there's commies knocking at my door waiting to be muted shortly.

Robusto

Uh-huh. So you see someone hit by a car and you give them reasons why you can't even call an ambulance. I get it.

RegDwigнt

Hey now. You are not having a problem with me. Stay focused.

Robusto

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Q: English equivalent of the russian word подъезд

A large multistory apartment buildings have several separate entries that are called подъезд in Russian. What is the accurate english equivalent of this word? I could only find stairwell, which doesn't sound right to me in this sentence for example. "I live in the building with several stairwells...

single-word-requests

You will no doubt have time for this one.

RegDwigнt

Lacking any context whatsoever "I would like to" carries no connotation at all. Certainly not imperative. Given context, it can carry any connotation at all. Including imperative.

@Robusto The word is entrance?

Robusto

I cannot think of any natural context where it would.

Why do Russians not go to the Russian site to get translations. Why do they think English speakers would understand Russian?

RegDwigнt

15:06

@Robusto "I would like to remind the court how Jon Bon Jovi pleased himself orally in this very room just yesterday".

That is pretty much an order to the fricken judge to get off his forgetamin pills.

Robusto

That's passive-aggressive, not peremptory. Geezis.

Neither a spokesperson for the organization nor the current world champion could be reached for comment.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto "passive-aggressive" is white-trash speak, "peremptory" is the 64k word. Geezis.

Robusto

Russian is white-trash speak. QED

RegDwigнt

Nonono, you are thinking of white-russian drink.

That said, yes, you correct, there no word "peremptory" in Russian. So I say right.

You prove me.

Robusto

Hey, man, there's a beverage here.

RegDwigнt

15:16

I beverage over ten years of excellence in the field of achievement.

Robusto

I'll drink to that.

RegDwigнt

Aug 16 '13 at 9:49, by RegDwighт

Ice cream soda

An ice cream soda or float (United States, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and East Asia), coke float or Snowball (United Kingdom, New Zealand), or spider (New Zealand and Australia), is a beverage that consists of ice cream in either a soft drink or in a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water. Origins The ice cream soda was invented by Robert McCay Green in Philadelphia, PA, in 1874 during the sesquicentennial celebration. The traditional story is that, on a particularly hot day, Mr. Green ran out of cream for the flavored sodas he was selling and used vanilla ice cream from a...

Robusto

"Oh . . . my god" (What is the gender of the speaker?)

Mitch

White, because Cheryl's birthday.

RegDwigнt

Cheryl's birthday?

Is he also phone?

Robusto

15:24

0

Q: A word for the fear that everyone can read your mind?

When I was young, I had an irrational fear that everyone in the world was an actor who could read my mind. This fear was highly specific, and I felt that I was the only one who had it, especially since I couldn't find a word for it on phobia websites. One day I was randomly browsing a small websi...

single-word-requests

There's just no fun in this site anymore. I think I have to stop.

RegDwigнt

Hammertime.

Robusto

And yet, it's easy to see the flaws in ELU until you go to another site, like Writers.

3

Q: Can a foreign language novel have English character names?

Situation: My main character is born and raised in a foreign, non-English speaking country. After his 18th birthday he moves due to some circumstances in Great Britain, learns the language and lives there. My book is written in the language of that non-English speaking country, but after I move...

word-choice translation language

Someone should slap someone with a sock full of sardines.

RegDwigнt

johnny cash-if you could read my mind

►

Mitch

mmm...or crackers with peanut butter

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I just slapped Margaret Thatcher with a sock full of sardines. How many hours of happiness has that brought you?

Robusto

15:29

None. She is already dead to me.

RegDwigнt

Well rats. Shoulda told me earlier, mr la-dee-da.

I can't be going slapping things left and right gratis.

There, now you get to deal with Cerberus as retaliation.

Clickety-clack, byety-bye, pissety-off, mutie-commie.

Robusto

Hasta la vista, baby.

SmokeDetector

18:08

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: ethic vs ethics by Kiki on english.stackexchange.com

crl

19:12

@Robusto It was just after your holidays? good. My left arm still hurts, but it's doing doing, also I've started a new job, with a sound and image e-commerce (mostly in .net, with a bit of js)

Robusto

@crl Grats. That's good to hear. You wanted .Net, right?

crl

why not, it look powerful, but I'm a novice :) (not really what I targeted, but I'll learn)

Robusto

The important thing is to get good experience at this point in your career.

crl

19:31

yep, to try to master something

SmokeDetector

20:37

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected, repeating characters in answer: What does "trigger-happy on broken windows" mean? by fuck on english.stackexchange.com

Matt E. Эллен

22:13

hmmm

it doesn't do my beard justice

Robusto

Aww, and here we all thought you looked like Benedict Cumberbatch. What a gyp.

I mean, everyone in England looks like Benedict Cumberbatch, right? Even the women?

Robusto

23:34

@MattE.Эллен seriously, pretty cool effect. Like posterization.

tchrist

I’m . . . concerned . . . about phobia-word-requests starting a trend.

The litany of grammar-word-requests, kinship-word-requests, politeness-word-requests, geek-word-requests, collective-word-requests, translation-word-requests, fantasy-word-requets, antonym-word-requests, slang-word-requests, proper-word-requests, and most of all of course nasty-person-i-disapprove-of-word-requests will never end. Ever.

Robusto

And don't forget the dreaded mountain-that-word-requests.

@MattE.Эллен Now I remember who your pic reminds me of. Pete Townshend, sort of.

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