If all we're interested in getting the review queue down, perhaps allowing the queue to sort by most close votes first. That way we would at least get to all the 4s and 3s, thereby ensuring that more questions would be closed per review session.
One of the difficulties is that even the non-closable questions are dull for the most part. SWR despite being totally misdirected are at least interesting.
Are the questions on the queue all recent or are there a lot that are old?
@RegDwigнt More crap. Far, far more. Also, less obvious scope. The scope of Unix & Linux is, well, pretty much anything to do with Linux or Unix. The scope of ELU is far less obvious to the uninitiated.
If you have to ask "is this correct", that's proof right there there's at least one person in this world who thinks it's not, regardless of its actual correctness. So the answer is "you must rewrite" in 100% of cases.
@Cerberus what's wrong is that while some people enjoy giving them, most people do not enjoy anything anymore. Including yourself. Who just hangs out in chat posting pictures of cheeses and bikes.
What should we do with my meta post about the migration path now that it's open? Andrew posted an answer and added status-complete to this one, so perhaps they should be closed as dupes or the same answer posted on mine as well.
C. C. Catch (born Caroline Catherine Müller, 31 July 1964 in Oss, Netherlands) is a Dutch-born German pop singer, best known for her collaboration with Dieter Bohlen in the 1980s.
== Early lifeEdit ==
C.C. Catch was born in the Netherlands and moved to Germany in the 1970s with her family. She was supported by her parents from an early age, when they recognized her talent and encouraged her wish to be a famous singer. Her father was especially supportive and has played a very important role in her successful career as her manager and tour-manager.
From an early age, the up-and-coming singer took...
Actual true fact about RegDwight: he is not wearing a watch right now.
Thing is, while I could single-handedly pull off the awesum trick of turning the 232 into a 0, the last time I single-handedly pulled off an awesum trick you promised to call me God, and never delivered. So why should I bother if I know for a fact it'll be in vain.
I am writing my resume and confuse in 'Writing' technical proposal sentence. What is the proper word of it for technical proposal? Is it writing, creating, developing, or other?
When the opposite is true:
Jasper likes Lauren, and vice versa.
When the opposite is false:
Jasper likes Lauren, but not vice versa.
This simple negation works well.
Question: Is there a matrix or table showing how audibly similar the different sounds from the IPA are? I'm looking for a scalar value that somehow measures the oral distance between two phonemes.
Example:
The following sounds are "close"
ɑ (father) ɛ (dress)
while the following sounds are "di...
Question: Is there a matrix or table showing how audibly similar the different sounds from the IPA are? I'm looking for a scalar value that somehow measures the oral distance between two phonemes.
Example:
The following sounds are "close"
ɑ (father) ɛ (dress)
while the following sounds are "di...
For some reason, I can't find the right phrase. Google images always returns something different:
wriggling wires cables
dancing wires cables
cut off wires cables
Any suggestions?
Wait, you're looking for a phrase that will elicit a specific result on a Google images search? Come on, that's not worth asking here. — Robusto8 secs ago
Puh-leez.
Seems like I had one remaining close vote after all. I must've miscounted.
which is correct:
Thank you for your and your team's time
or
Thank you for yours and your team's time
and should (or does it make a difference if) I place commas before and after "and your team's" ... thanks!!
I used to be the Caretaker, but these days I'm more like Stone Cold.
And that's the bottom line, cause Grady said so.
> When the new Miss Italia was asked on her way to winning the glitzy televised contest what historical period she would like to have lived in, her answer caught most Italians by surprise.
Eighteen-year-old Alice Sabatini prompted incredulity online after telling the pageant judges that her epoch of choice was 1942, one of the darkest years of the Second World War and the Mussolini dictatorship.
Oh the irony of having to add that explanation at the end.
> Asked why she had chosen that year, the contestant from Lazio said she wanted to "live" the Second World War, noting that she would not have had to fight since she is a woman.
@RegDwigнt No. And as everyone knows, women in WWII were invulnerable to bullets, bombs, and rape. She would have simply enjoyed the big picnic everyone was having.
"In the Netherlands, and to some extent Spain, Cruyff is famous for his one-liners that usually hover between brilliant insight and the blatantly obvious. They are famous for their Amsterdam dialect and incorrect grammar, and often feature tautologies and paradoxes. In Spain, his most famous statement is "En un momento dado" ("In any given moment"). The quote has been used for the title of a 2004 documentary about Cruyff's life: Johan Cruijff - En un momento dado."
"Cruyff rarely limits himself to a single line though, and in a comparison with the equally oracular but reserved football manager Rinus Michels, Kees Fens equated Cruyff's monologues to experimental prose, "without a subject, only an attempt to drop words in a sea of uncertainty (…) there is no full stop"."