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user227867

00:10

@Mitch Nutella is too creamy for me.

user227867

06:32

@Cerberus I learned a new word: vassal, which is not vessel.

SmokeDetector

14:29

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Slang word for transferring money from one card to another by nblinks on english.stackexchange.com

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Rathony

16:52

Q: Effectiveness of "Leave Closed" votes in the "Reopen Review" queue

I find it somewhat difficult to understand how "leave closed" votes work. A question was asked on one SE site and the timeline is as follows: (All on Nov. 11th) 02:20: It was closed as too broad by 5 close-votes. One or two users seem to have voted to reopen it after it was closed to make i...

Would appreciate your comment or answer to the question.

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Tonepoet

17:52

Since you deleted it, I can't see it anymore and I don't have a "Meta" Stack Exchange account anyway.

Besides, I don't know the ins and outs of the actual voting process.

tchrist

18:19

It’s surprising how densely Tolkien packed in his hapaxes for even his children’s book.

james

Is there any group where we can practice speaking english with native speakers for free?

Mitch

18:42

@JasperLoy creamy? It is not recommended to eat enough Nutella at once so that you can tell it is creamy. Spread it thinly, not unlike marmite.

Too much Nutella at once is too rich.

tchrist

18:54

Where now the dinosaurs of yesteryear? Why, why, why do our high school composition teachers ever fail to teach their charges how perilous the writersbane the saurus is?

Johan Larsson

how do you feel about trump tom?

Tonepoet

@JohanLarsson I think this is quite indicative of what @tchrist feels about Trump.

Johan Larsson

a great wall of text :D

Tonepoet

@JohanLarsson Maybe we can put it on the southern border and save Mexico some pesos. =P

Johan Larsson

@tchrist are you ok with that?

tchrist

19:09

@JohanLarsson What now?

Johan Larsson

context still on screen

even if you use a phone

tchrist

Am I okay with what I said? Yes.

Tonepoet

@tchrist I think Larson is asking if we may use your wall o' text as the wall Trump proposed to build. That doesn't matter though since we can just take it due to the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0 license Stack Exchange imposes. =P

tchrist

Johan Larsson

tchrist

19:18

@tchrist Bravo. Now we can be done with this. It's amazing to me how people think everything worth knowing is googleable for free. It ain't. — Lambie 3 mins ago

Truer words were never spoken.

I find it no coincidence that oblivate is an anagram of bloviate.

Johan Larsson

never heard of bloviate

is it italian?

Monad

What type of noun is it when "the" is followed by it or it is in plural form, the occurrence refers to something else.

tchrist

@Monad I don't understand.

bloviate

Verb: bloviate ‎(third-person singular simple present bloviates, present participle bloviating, simple past and past participle bloviated)

(US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
1845, Huron Reflector, Norwalk, Ohio, 14 Oct. 3/1:Peter P. Low, Esq., will with open throat…bloviate about the farmers being taxed upon the full value of their farms, while bankers are released from taxation.
The downside is that Trump’s bloviating risks driving the party even further to the right and further tarnishing the party’s image among non-Republican voters.

> Etymology 1845, US, Ohio, from blow ‎(“speak idly, boast”) + -i- +‎ -ate, by analogy with deviate.

Whoa, I wonder when the trumpetry appeared!?

The reason one would not know what to make of bloviate is that -iate is Latinate but blow Germanic.

I presume.

Perhaps ventilate but that already means something.

Johan Larsson

19:33

blo could be latin

Tonepoet

@tchrist If you check the quotations it appeared on August 1st 2015, and was incorporated into the Wiktionary entry the very next day according to its history page.

However, Wiktionary's oneboxing needs fixing since it's a quotation and not a listed sense of the word.

Monad

19:53

@tchrist I am writing a specification for a programming language (bear with me because I doubt this word use is exclusive to computing terminology) and if you say the Object, Objects, Object bob, the Objects, current Object or whatever, you are referring to a specific noun, but if you say the Object class, (just) Object, derived from Object, this extends Object, this derives from Object, you are referring to another noun.

Is there a category of nouns that are only expressible like the former examples?

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