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"Perhaps it is time to adjust the rules?" Are you saying that because you find the rule odd we should go against our preference to accommodate you? — Robusto 7 secs ago

Donald Trump: I wasn't talking about Carly Fiorina's face. "Hell no, her ass ain't that hot neither."

skill patrol

3:07 PM

:D

neither?

^@tchrist

Robusto

That's my New Jersey accent in print.

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Q: A word for an array of colours?

I'm looking for a word or phrase, if there is one, that is similar to the phrase "spectrum of colours" or "array of colours" something to describe the fact that there are several different colours from all over the spectrum of colours. I'm using it in a sentence akin to "The light glinted off o...

tchrist

@skillpatrol Negative concord.

Robusto

Look who just hit the MC.

Hey, this one is obviously a dupe:

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Q: Form of a direct/indirect speech

Is it correct to say the sentence like this : “A week ago I went to a shop to buy a butter and all of a sudden I saw that ‘two men are walking towards me’. Look, here I used ‘are’ because the statement is inside the inverted coma’s. The same concept which is used in direct speech. Such as - Di...

sentence backshifting indirect-speech

I can't remember which would be the canonical.

skill patrol

hi @cornbreadninja麵包忍者

Robusto

It's the mixed use of time expressions in a sentence one.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

3:09 PM

@skillpatrol are you ready for the Thieves vs. the Cheaters?

skill patrol

:D

yup

Robusto

O how they envy thee, New England!

skill patrol

deflaters

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Hey, Mayweather used illegal IVs.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto screw Mayweather and boxing.

Okay, that was harsh. But my eyeball hurts.

skill patrol

3:11 PM

what happened?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@skillpatrol under-inflatriots

@skillpatrol to my eyeball? Allergies and/or eyestrain, methinks.

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Did he punch you in the eye again? No wonder.

skill patrol

Mayweather?

^joke

user116848

Me new avatar.

user116848

Me speak no English :-)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:17 PM

@Robusto Trump is the most amusing thing to happen in US politics in a while. I'm glad I don't live there.

tchrist

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Maybe he will change that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

heh

Frankly though, your election cycle is too long.

tchrist

Like.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:32 PM

Our election period is too long too, but we have spending limits on campaigns, so there is no incentive to having extremely long campaigns. Our current election campaign is 78 days which is considered extremely long.

Actually it's the longest since we instituted single-day elections. The average is 50 days and the average for the last 10 elections was 45 days

Granted, we don't hold primary elections.

those work differently here.

Robusto

4:07 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 He's Rob Ford for Americans.

MετάEd

@Mitch Oh, those fancy Latin terms. "Cardinality". Can't we stick with a nice Anglo-Saxon word and just say X and Y have the same redness?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Trump is a flash in a pan.

tchrist

@MετάEd So ruddy or sorrel or moorit then, not incarnadine or coquelicot or lateritious or sanguinolent?

Robusto

You left out vermilion.

tchrist

Oh, I didn't.

Robusto

I don't see it there.

tchrist

4:21 PM

> apple: of the yellowish-red color of apples, bay;

bay: A reddish brown color, generally used of horses, and taken to
include various shades.

blood: a reddish bay (color)

brick: The color of brick; brick-red.

brown: The proper name of a composite color produced by a mixture of
orange and black (or of red, yellow, and black), and varying greatly in
shade according to the proportion of the constituents, as a red brown,
yellowish brown, dark brown. Brown is the color produced by partial
charring or carbonization of starch or woody fibre, as in toasted bread

There were many other candidates.

Robusto

I didn't see the earlier post.

tchrist

Sorrel is from French, but then from German not Latin.

MετάEd

@tchrist I'd accept ruddiness.

However I'd draw the line at titianity.

Robusto

No it doesn't either. It suggests nothing like "popularity" at all. — Robusto 22 secs ago

NGram alert.

tchrist

@MετάEd Titianity => aureoled aurantian aurorae

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Q: Should we have an official ELL -> ELU migration path?

As a follow-up to Should we begin migrating questions to ELU?, (and counterpart to http://meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/7128/should-we-have-a-migration-path-to-ell). Now that ELL is a full-fledged non-beta site, we're allowed to establish official migration paths to other network sit...

discussion migration

MετάEd

4:32 PM

@tchrist Hard to turn down aureoled. How about a number's aureolity?

Robusto

4:45 PM

A number of birds have cardinality.

Matt E. Эллен

@terdon I think it would upset ELL, but maybe I'm too cynical

tchrist

@MattE.Эллен Some will be upset, yes.

My own ill-developed feeling is that it is best to leave this to coordinated effort by the two mod teams.

I simply don't trust users to do the right thing. Which is not something I am proud of.

Matt E. Эллен

Yeah, I feel the same

Robusto

At present the only migration path we have is to meta. That seems a little odd.

tchrist

Migrations generally don't work out as well on SE as one might hope.

Especially user-triggered ones that aren't to meta.

I watched this on SO.

Matt E. Эллен

4:53 PM

I suppose we could give it a test, and turn it off if things go wrong

tchrist

True.

We don't have dev support for what I would really like.

Which is that there be rep requirements on both sides.

Matt E. Эллен

That would be good

tchrist

I mean, who else can judge?

I would start with Trusted User on both and then see if it can be half that.

But we don't have dev support for that kind of thing.

Matt E. Эллен

exactly. at the moment most of the ell migration flags come from JR, so don't need any thinking about

tchrist

Exactly.

Some ELL folks have been ruffled by a few of our recent migrations thither.

When it isn't a mod-triggered flag like that, it seems prudent to ask the other mod team.

That won't guarantee that users will like it, but it's something.

I used to CV for "better on ELL", but I don't think I've often flagged for migration. (Now please don't go look and embarrass me at having self-supporting memory deficit. :)

Now I just CV for GR/ELL.

Matt E. Эллен

5:00 PM

@tchrist true, but shog frowns on that behaviour. the mod teams shouldn't bother each other unless they want to learn the process. we're meant to just migrate if we think it's good enough

tchrist

I think it depends how well you know the other site, but I see his point. You really need mods to be autonomous so that things scale.

Matt E. Эллен

aye

tchrist

JR of course is the best (active) case for cross-familiarity.

Waiwai is a schoolin, so isn't around much any longer. And ELL has a new mod, still untempered.

Mitch

5:35 PM

@MετάEd The preponderance of Latin neologisms should help distinguish the informal ideas with the stipulated term concept. Using cardinality is somewhat obscurantist, but it is supposed to be a distinct and non-vague concept from 'big'

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