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I've thrown these at ya'll before; been wondering if anyone cares. Who can protect and when do they decide to?
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It's a 15k priv.
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Protecting wouldn't have stopped any of the existing answers. But it's now on The List, so it probably is prudent (and done).
And so to bed.
Thanks and good night!
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Q: Articles !use of it before noun or adv

Deepanshuc AnandWhen to use articles means always I get confuse to use it before noun or adjective ?

¿Es una pregunta aquí?
 
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04:39
@MετάEd "How," perhaps?
Or maybe "why." confusingly, both of these words seem to have been instrumental case versions of the interrogative pronoun at different stages in history.
But since you asked about words that were in instrumental case in OE, "why" seems to fit better.
 
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10:20
@Cerberus for a free epigenetic activation, just visit the nearest epicerie.
 
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11:28
Incorrect use of prepositions, what kind of mistake is that?
Er, you will have to define "incorrect use". In the process answering your own question.
Incorrectly spelled? Incorrectly placed? Incorrectly collocated? Incorrect meaning?
it means exactly what it says -_-
to use incorrectly.
all of them
in work instead of at work
and such
btw how to use typing tools in here?
11:58
If it means all kinds of them, then the question "what kind" makes no sense.in the first place.
At any rate, as I said, you now have answered your question yourself.
What kind of mistake is that? All kinds of mistake.
"In work" is wrong grammatically and semantically, and possibly orthographically as well, as for all we know they misspelled "on work", which is actually much more likely if they're a native speaker of, say, German or Russian.
Or Polish, for that matter. Na pracę, no?
12:14
Apparently it doesn't split up like that. Testis originally meant 'witness', and etymologically the te- part comes from an older tri-, a combining form of the word for 'three', and -stis is derived from the Indo-European root *stā- meaning 'stand.' (I have no idea how "three" got involved here, btw) — John Lawler 11 hours ago
Definitely the dog's bollocks.
Hi guys,
Bit of a (really) weird question, was working on a small craft project and have to write the last sentence with stickers... however I only have a limited number of each letter and I miss two T's to write the original sentence I wanted, any ideas how I could change the following sentences to use two less t's: *and simply the best at being you. Never forget that.*. Taking out 'the' in front of 'best' is definitely an option, but I am stuck on how to take out a second t~ (and yes, I know it's a bit weird to ask here, but ach, been stuck on this for 2 days now)
12:59
Never forget = always remember. One less T.
But frankly there's little reason for that last sentence to even be there in the first place. It's kinda condescending.
Scrap it and you've got yourself a whopping 3 spare Ts.
Reg, how is it possible to contact you for a quick chat?
@RegDwigнt Oh wow, so obvious and I didn't think of that (was looking through synonyms of every word in the sentence nearly, but it didn't occur to me to just turn it around) Thanks!
13:28
@DavidMulder Funny problem!
Are you the David who also posts stuff on Tweakers, by the way?
@Cerberus Oh lol, yeah I am xD
@DavidMulder Welkom.
@Cerberus Should I recognize your username on Tweakers as well? O:)
And thanks xD
13:44
@DavidMulder Well, it is the same as here.
With the same icon.
But perhaps you post more there.
Which makes you more recognizable.
@Cerberus Oh wait a second, yeah, you pointed a grammar mistake out in one of my posts once :P :P
Haha yes!
I have just found it:
You're on my profile page.
I thought I just recognized you from here, as I see your name pop up here all the time xD
Oh hehe.
I didn't know you were active here!
We're everywhere.
Infiltrating the Internet from Amsterdam.
Preparing for day zero.
Oh oops, should update my profile xD Working for a different company from Amsterdam now, but living near Brussels xD
13:50
How exotic.
14:55
@Cerberus Day Zero is long past. Can't you keep up? If there are any days at all, and we are in one and it's not the first one, then day zero has to have come and gone, because obviously for days that exist Day Zero must be the first, since you can't have negative days. QED
Well, maybe you can have negative days. When I feel one of those coming on I just get high. Problem solved.
You could get high too, what with living in Amsterdam and all.
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Q: Onomasticssssss

chakravartinOnomastic (or, conventional alternative) term for given names consisting of the names of famous people, e.g.: "Winfield Scott" Hancock; "George Washington" Roebling, etc.?

Wat.
I just noticed that.
And then it was gone.
I knew you would say that.
The system works.
Oct 27 at 12:03, by RegDwigнt
Or as Matron Mama Morton once succinclty put it, "the system works, the system called reciprocity".
15:02
You might have given me time to work my way through the pluralizers at the end of the title before closing it.
Mind you, I have no time for thisssssss today.
I was only on my fourth or fifth s when the hammer came down.
Working on a giant HTMLLLLLLLL table.
Why a table?
Why not?
15:02
Why not an HTMLLLLLLLLL chair?
@Cerberus You linked to it at some point a while ago. But I don't think it correlates with GDP. Where are the japanese heavy metal bands?
@Robusto I am a mesanthrope, not a sedanthrope.
room topic changed to English Language & Usage: The Incomprehensible Roommmmmmmmm [gratuitous-pluralizers] [member-since-today] [plugs-of-all-sizes] [we-asombrate-with-your]
@tchrist only from that one dude.
@RegDwigнt No es tan sencillo.
15:04
Haha your rong. Them possessive's not pluralizer's. Idiot's.
Thanks for explaining why this roommmmmmmmm is incomprehensible.
@AndrewLeach I've been working on my idiot badge for so long. And I didn't know I was working on the ignoramus part too.
I never did any such thing. Or any other thing.
And I do not plan on doing things in the future.
Also, you can't really prove that m is not now nor has never been a pluralizing consonant in some languages.
I can.
But I do not plan on doing it.
15:06
He can but he'd be wrong
semitic
no ur rong
See, I 'd be wrong. But you 're wrong.
haredimmmmmm
mujihadeennnnnn
See! See! Hebrew to the rescue, again!
But not Hebrews to the rescue. Most boring book of all.
15:07
Reminds me of that conversation we had the other month on the main site about how common triple Es are in English.
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A: Does "overseee" mean "one who is being overseen by the overseer"?

moismailzaiNo, it does not. Though it is not an explicit rule, there is a very strong convention against triple letter words in English. In fact, there are only about twenty such words (eg. See this stub). The word you're looking for is "overseen". Eg, the overseee is the overseen.

The convention can't be all that strong, or really a convention at all, if I can spend a whole life on this planet without ever so much as hearing about it. Are you sure it exists? You yourself have provided examples to the contrary. I am most very confused right now. — RegDwigнt ♦ Oct 20 at 10:34
as common as triple fff's
New business-meeting badge:

HELLO MY NAME IS
Ozymandias, king of kings
Look on my works, ye mighty
and despair.
@RegDwigнt - It is worth noting that all of the examples are either onomatopoeia, proper names, or suffixed words (and only 3 distinct variations of those). English does not like triple letters. (In part I suspect that this is purely practical -- triple letters (especially with, eg, "eee") are hard to accurately read and transcribe. — Hot Licks Oct 20 at 12:23
@HotLicks you say that like there's a wealth of languages out there that do like triple letters. Care to name a hundred or so? Because otherwise that's a rather pointless thing to say, innit. Russian has more words than English but exactly one with three consecutive Еs: длинношеее. Clearly, by comparison, English is clinically obsessed with trippling its Es. — RegDwigнt ♦ Oct 20 at 12:37
Damn, I almost wish I was still working. I would attend one of those meetings and use that.
HELLO MY NAME IS FELINA
user174558
15:09
@RegDwigнt Russian has more words than English?
Russian has more words than your mom.
@Robusto full of sound and fury signifying gastrointestinal distress.
hm...the meter actually works.
On the plus side, lone and level sands are a great place to be if you have GI distress.
The Sahara is the world's largest cat litter box.
user174558
If you have distress, you must destress.
@Jasper I tried counting once. I got up to elevenses and... arghh... again!
user174558
15:11
@Mitch Alice's right foot is swollen. She is seeing the doctor now. I hope she does not need to be warded.
You can't ever get to eleventy-twelve because it would change to twelvety before your eyes, just like ninety-ten becomes one hundred in decimal.
Russian has roughly the same number of words as English, and then it has 9 cases for all the nouns, and 2 forms of every verb, and 3 genders of every adjective and participle, and even simple past is inflected by gender. Oh, and it has singular, plural and a third thing in-between.
And you're wondering it has more words?
It does not have articles. That's about as much as it will grant you.
@RegDwigнt I want to put 'Felicia' as my name, so when I leave and everyone says 'Bye, Felicia' they'll feel like a jerk for saying so.
@RegDwigнt Is it any wonder I gave up on glimpses of Catholic girl side-boob just to get away from trying to learn Russian?
@Robusto Vodka.
I mean yes.
15:13
@Jasper Did she sprain it?
I mean no.
I mean vodka.
Also, who is Alice?
Alice is the fuck.
I thought vodka meant "let's fight."
Vodka.
I mean yes.
I mean no.
I mean vodka.
15:14
Is it true Russian has more words for vodka than Eskimos have for snow?
@Robusto looks at 100 No It's still 'quatre-vingt vingt'
@Mitch French doesn't count.
But I must go back to my HTMLLLLLLL.
user174558
@Mitch Well, from years of strain the bone around the big toe is jutting out, but this is pretty harmless. Only recently was there swelling which did not subside, even after two weeks. She is seeing the orthopaedic end of the month, but now they are trying to figure out what the swelling is about, even after two courses of antibiotics. Hope it's not serious, awaiting blood test results at hospital.
@RegDwigнt You're crafting this bruiser by hand, are you?
15:15
@Robusto it sure has more brands of vodka. It also has more brands of eskimos, for that matter.
@Robusto Most of the sahara is barren rock or pebbles, not the nice sandy oceanless beaches of our romantic holiday dreams.
@Robusto yes. I mean vodka.
@Mitch That's OK, my cats aren't fussy.
The english patient crashed and died immediately because he literally landed on a brick wall.
See, that was his mistake, right there. Moral: don't try to land your plane on a brick wall when there's an entire Sahara full of cat litter literally right next to it.
15:16
@RegDwigнt it's also copula-drop
Goodbye yellow brick wall, where the ralphs of society fiennes.
@Mitch yes. Once you have OVER 9000 words more than all other languages combined, it's very easy to begin dropping half of them. Like all verbs in all sentences.
I wish I didn't have to hate Ralph Fiennes for his role in the English Patient, because otherwise he's a pretty good actor. Thought he did great in In Bruges. Acted Colin Farrell off the freakin' screen, he did.
But you still have those words, mind you.
user174558
Hi @cornbreadninja麵包忍者, LOL.
The dropped copulas still exist.
And some people even know what some of them are.
15:18
@Jasper singing all day / singing 'bout nothin'
@Robusto I found his rôle in In Bruges to be horribly written. So it's the other way round for me.
@Robusto OK, cats are warm and fuzzy and huggable but the poop thing is a pain. Same for dogs but in a different way. Why can't they breed poopless anmals like they do hypoallergenic ones?
Nah, it was fun.
They can breed poopless animals, but those don't last long.
Didn't your parents read "Everybody Poops" with you when you were little?
@Robusto I know! and for Voldemort, he dieted so much to lose the nose. That's dedication.
Jan Svankmajer's Alice.
15:21
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Are you saying hats are back, as long as they show some ingenuity?
user174558
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Certainly she is not as pretty as you.
@Robusto it reminded me of Jess Whedon's DVD commentary on the deleted scenes from Serenity. He had a whole lot of scenes with Chiwetel Ejiofor but then tossed them all because he realized, correctly, that the more you show a villain, and the less he keeps his mouth shut, the less he will be feared.
The same thing happened with Smaug.
@RegDwigнt I was very fond of the role of the pavement below the clock tower with it's hard hitting action.
@Robusto That's exactly what I'm saying.
@RegDwigнt Especially a villain who looks and talks like an accountant.
user174558
15:22
:25327827 Haven't they been here every year?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Damn it. I thought we were through with hats. And ingenuity.
@Robusto I'm through with buzz.
Buzz? Lightyear or Aldrin?
@Robusto So basically I was looking forward to Ralph Fiennes' appearance, but once he did, he wouldn't stop telling the audience for a freaking hour on end just how evil he was and how much he would kill everyone. And after two sentences I was like yawn dude let's go bowling.
@Jasper yes, I just wondered when...
15:23
@Robusto "Everybody poops" wasn't even a twinkle in the author's eye when my kids were doing it. Wait... maybe the japanese version?
@RegDwigнt I just enjoyed listening to his cockney mobster prose on. 'E stitched you up like a li'l gayboy, di'n 'e?
In Bruges generally was very poorly written in a whole number of respects. Which I found a bummer because the movie fucking rocks.
Yeah. And Brendan Gleeson is always watchable.
It is one of those rare ones that have atmosphere.
@Robusto coke, I imagine.
15:24
And where the city is an actor in its own right.
And not in a bad way, like New York in New York, I love you, but in a good way, like New York in Smoke.
Gleeson is like a whale beached on a sandbar, there's this whole drama surrounding whether he is stuck or free, and when he moves a little you get this little drama going about whether he is going to make it this time.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Damn, first time I didn't immediately get one of your song drops. I blame @Reg for distracting me.
@Robusto s/Gleeson/life
@Robusto Vodka.
I mean no.
I mean nou.
15:26
I was going to say 'your mom'. I laughed to myself. Then I thought better of it.
I mean vodkau.
@Mitch why do you refer to your mom as "it"?
In French, vodka is spelled vou'd'caille.
In French, your mom is spelled au jour de la madame de ta mère du bouillon parce que car ce que comme ci comme ça.
And that still does no justice to her actual size.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 that reminds me. pop music was great until the early 80's. Then sucked. Has it ever gotten OK again?
@Mitch hahaha, poop music.
15:29
@RegDwigнt 'my mom' is too inside-baseball.
That's a good place for her.
Anyway. HTMLLLLLLL it is.
Lators suckors.
Vodka.
@RegDwigнt Mats. (Too lazy to look it up in Cyrliic.)
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I know! But why aren't people at least trying? They're not trying.
user174558
15:30
@Mitch Alice just said the blood test is fine, they will just try to give her an earlier date to see the specialist for operation.
One song here or there, is OK, maybe.
@Mitch Phil Collins was trying. He was very trying.
@Robusto Argh...yes, there was some terrible music too. OK here's another philosophy question. Since both Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel are almost identical, how come PC was terrible (unimaginative) and PG was great (still forward thinking)?
@Jasper yeah, you don't want an infection.
@Mitch the Black Keys are trying, but I don't think they're strictly pop.
@Mitch because PC is a drummer?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Alicia Keys is hot, but her music is OK. I guess.
15:33
@Mitch Because when Genesis got a divorce, Peter Gabriel's lawyer got him all the talent. Next question?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 No that's not it. There was another guy that was a drummer. He was OK.
Also, Gabriel was what was good about Genesis anyway.
@Robusto Amon Göth, now that was a great villain for Fiennes. Even though he had a lot of screen presence and dialog in that one, two.
In In Bruges, he was nowhere near Amon Göth.
Not even near your mom.
@Robusto I find it hard to imagine how the music label's execs listened to a PC song and said, let's just fucking play this constantly
user174558
I prefer mum to mom.
15:35
me too
@Robusto oh is it The International Day of Common Knowledge Basic Facts And Boring Truisms yet?
@RegDwigнt Yes, that was a chilling portrayal. I may have said this before, but he gave such a convincing portrait of a man destroyed by evil that I almost couldn't watch.
but not mummy or mommy
@RegDwigнt nope. wait for it.
@Robusto Amon who? Is that another TBL reference?
@skillpatrol my brother says 'mumma'
I don't know where the hell he got that.
that's ok
15:36
Surprisingly enough, it's an SGK reference.
@RegDwigнt Star Gate 1000?
Oh sorry, it's SKG.
Same shirt different ass.
Siobhan Gaks a Krill?
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
@Mitch The concentration camp commander in Schindler's List.
@Mitch look up Katzenberg.
15:38
@RegDwigнt That was his name in the show for real?
And not that German Katzenberg with eyebrows ripped off.
There are two bergs in SKG. You misspelled it.
Not this one.
user174558
@RegDwigнt Is that a Barbie doll?
No, you're a Barbie doll.
In a Barbie world.
Life in plastic, it's phanfastic.
You can brush your hair, undress you everywhere.
That's Daniela Katzenberger. Not Jeffrey Katzenberg.
15:41
@RegDwigнt interesting but that shedded no light on SKG or Amon Göûńå
@RegDwigнt Why are today's fashionistas tomorrow's grotesques?
@Robusto yes to all three.
@RegDwigнt Oh. But...
So anyway. (And I don't know why you keep asking as Rob straight-forward no-bs answered the question three minutes ago, but.) Amon Göth was a villain in one of SKG's franchises. And it wasn't The Little Mermaid.
Schindler's list was a Disney movie? Things all start to make sense now.
Just like how Superman is Jewish.
15:46
No it was a Universal movie.
But Spielberg was in it.
Not quite in, but in enough.
Hey, if Jesus was Jewish, why couldn't Superman be Jewish? Oh, wait, I guess he couldn't be circumcised, could he?
You said it man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.
user174558
Should it be "if Jesus were Jewish"?
No.
Do you need it explained to you why "was" is what works there?
Only your mom is large enough to justify a plural.
Jesus was quite skinny.
15:48
From links to rechts: ass, headplode (artist's impression)?
Superman wasn't Jesus. This I know.
Desde la izquierda a la derecha.
@Robusto hey cut him some slack. Not everyone these days realizes that there was a time in history everyone was a Jew.
@Mitch Jesus could beat Superman at Scrabble™, though. That is for sure.
Hebrew Scrabble™, anyway. Or Aramaic.
15:51
@Robusto in Aramaic perhaps. But not Kryptonic.
@Robusto Arguable. But Superman couldn't actually fly, he could just jump really well. There's no evidence that Jesus was good at jumping.
user174558
Arabic and Aramaic differ only that much.
QED
Oh jinx.
@Mitch Wut? No evidence? Dude, the Bible says Jesus "ascended into Heaven"! I'd like to see Superman jump that high.
15:51
Kryptonic was patterned after Hebrew. Just like Dwarvish in LotR
user174558
Some say he was not crucified.
Superman descended from teh Heaven.
I'd like to see that human-born child pull off that trick.
user174558
Sometimes, I feel I am Superman.
I never feel you are.
I are you, bro.
15:52
Superman would be out fighting crime, instead of in here, perpetrating it.
@Robusto Hm... I see your point. But I don't think that was really jumping exactly. Unless ascending is to jumping as knowing is to sexing.
@Mitch Who are we to quibble? He ascended into Heaven, man! That's like, you can't get any higher than that.
Superman couldn't even write a decent article that'd win him the Pulizter. In conclusion, superman sucks. Also, Ben Affleck.
Also Ben Carson.
Speaking of Ben Carson, did anybody see any part of the Clown Show last night?
No.
Nobody.
Not one part.
15:54
Good.
And who is bozo anyway? Never heard of bozo.
user174558
I think this chat is mostly Robusto and Reg talking these days. I wish more people would talk more.
@Jasper I recently heard that there is hardly any evidence at all for Jesus. At all. That's kind of disturbing. I mean, not even evidence there was some charismatic dude with some followers that did a bunch of stuff in Palestine, and a bunch of stuff happened and then cathedrals in Europe.
user174558
@Mitch Well, maybe neither Gautama nor Jesus existed.
@Jasper I wish more people would talk less. Especially out of their buttocks.
15:56
@Robusto I turned off the radio so as not to hear mention. "In the debate las.. click"
user174558
@Mitch You know, I think I should abandon all concepts of religion and start all over again.
user174558
I recently watched The Piano Teacher. It was full of sex.
@Mitch I read the news this morning. Seems like the GOP is getting even crazier than anyone ever imagined they could.
@Jasper We should all talk more. Saying what you feel is much better than holding it back in. which reminds me ... uh...gotta 'go'.
user174558
But the ending was very sad. I wished it had a good ending.
15:57
@Mitch tonight at eleven: cathedrals in Europe do not exist, either. Nor Europe, for that matter.
@Jasper Siddhartha sems to have at least had a royal line mentioning him.
What evidence do you have of Europe's existence?
Then again all history is just abunch of people rewriting what other people wrote. So it could all be made up.
@Jasper It was a religious experience you're saying?
user174558
Yeah, history is the most stupid subject in school.
I mean. I am sitting in Europe right now and can tell you for a fact it doesn't exist.
user174558
15:58
I am sitting in my chair now.
See. More proof that there's no Europe.
user174558
Most subjects in school are stupid. Wasted all my youth studying.
@Robusto Why can't they just be reasonable and say what they think "Immigration is a problem. Starvation is a problem. The solution is staring us in the 'chicken' pot."
@RegDwigнt Are you still here? That HTMLLLLLLLLL table isn't going to destroy itself, you know.
@RegDwigнt Nice. elevenses...
15:59
@Mitch Because that'd be not Donald Trump enough.
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