@Robusto On the channel I was watching the game on, they showed before it a brief history of hockey, and it was fascinating. Gentlemen in Technicolor with no protection whatsoever playing against each other and scoring 110:3. What we have now is a sport for assholes who lambaste an opponent lying on the ground. Fuck that, seriously. The direct comparison to the historic footage couldn't have been more strinking.
@MattE.Эллен Probably the hoopla is just U.S. journalists looking for something sensational to write about. The story I heard driving in this morning made it seem imminent.
Here is a concept regarding happiness frequency.
These are two sentences
1-I am more than happy to help you
2-I am happier than happy to help you
in which "I am more than happy to help you" sounds more perfect than "I am happier than happy to help you". It explains:
"happier" is in more favo...
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-1 Please don't answer if you don't know what you're talking about or can't express yourself adequately in English. — Robusto2 mins ago
@MattE.Эллен Probably the hoopla is just U.S. journalists looking for something sensational to write about. The story I heard driving in this morning made it seem imminent.
OK, I reject your assumption that nobody complains about that. I am evidence of someone who complains about that, and I am not nobody, therefore your assumption is unfounded. QED
Try reading The Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin and then ask yourself if you think having multiple protagonists is still a good idea. It will take you months, but we'll wait. — Robusto12 mins ago
I hope "The sentence is wrought with implicit and implied redundancies" was said tongue in cheek. — Robusto10 mins ago
Seems like you could use a citation for your actual answer, not for the answer to a question that wasn't asked. — Robusto30 mins ago
I have cold feet and I don't know how to warm them. I am not 100% convinced that bumping our site from a 24 close-votes-per-person and 20 close-vote-reviews-per-day site to a 50/40 one will address the current issue well enough, and in a way that's reasonably free of undesirable side effects, for this to be a clear path forward on all this.
I don't know how to scale participation in close moderation.
close voting is only satisfying until you realise how thankless the task is. Then it gets boring for most people. Why do something people, at best, don't say anything about and at worst, they complain about? Might as well just answer questions. you get points that way.
@RegDwigнt I really really really hate to say it, but he is not the worst thing ever. Stand him up next to any of the Koch Bros. surrogates and he's almost appealing.
Is it grammatically correct to say sentence #1?
Consider f to be defined by f=x.
Well, then what about sentence #2?
Let f be defined by f=x.
I am sure #2 is ok because it's correct grammatically, but is #1 also grammatically correct or could it be wrong?
Is that question one that shows no research, or one that is just proofreading asking for "is this correct", or one that deserves migration to ELL, or one that should be answered with a 1-one bit response?
I'm edging toward proofreadery.
Virtually all "Is this grammatically correct" questions are crap.
Grammatically these 2 sentences seem to have the same structure
I - pronoun
am - verb
finished/started - verb
my - pronoun(dictionary.com -> possessive, used as an "attributive adjective")
sandwich - noun
Why is it that "I am finished my sandwich" sounds correct but "I am started my s...