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1:07 AM
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Q: A word for Hatred of a person or group of people based on a physical characteristic couched in science

dap10I'm looking for a word that describes hatred of a person or group of people based on a physical characteristic that is couched in science. I've been using the word scientific racism to define this and a good example of this is IQ Tests for example where people are selected based on the outcome o...

 
 
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2:13 AM
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Q: What do you call those inclined slopes surrounding for instance a tree?

RGKFor a visual, you approach a tree and around it the ground slopes downward in a circular circumference and thus is not level? "As I ran past the tree my foot got caught in the _____ and I stumbled."

 
 
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3:57 AM
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Q: can i use "indeed" in single word to response someone?

Yunita Khumaeroh Because I often find my friends using "indeed" after I give him a few sentences. He replied to my sentence with "indeed".

 
4:15 AM
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Q: Is their an English word for one who touches things compulsively?

chichiThat little brother/sister or cousin that touches/moves stuff around your table. Not a thief just rearranges stuff.

 
5:10 AM
Hello Feeds
@Feeds Kitticattism
@Feeds indeed
How the hell is that an SWR?
 
5:49 AM
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Q: What are the best movies to improve English in your opinion?

Alexander LavrenkoIn other words, how to reach Advanced level faster while watching and breaking down movies, videos with subtitles? Share your preferences. Thanks.

The subjective warning thing probably went through the roof, but they asked it anyway
 
6:22 AM
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Q: What is the word used to describe a person who is able to make all decisions by himself?

user8498054I need a positive word to describe a person who has his own opinions and is not easily influenced by others. Thank you!

 
6:54 AM
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Q: Word for the argument or situation that in which you are proven wrong

avi2661I came across a word which was used either for a situation or argument in which I was proven wrong and there was no further point arguing about it.

 
 
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10:22 AM
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Q: Word to describe looking through a crowd

Peter LynchA word to describe looking at someone on the other side with a parade or train or traffic or something passing between the two points. The target is hidden and only seen between the gaps. All I can think of is "flickered".

 
10:58 AM
@Tonepoet I can't believe we said so many things in chat last night!
 
@WillHunting Why not?
We've chatted often.
 
@Tonepoet Well, I usually don't discuss matters of the site with you in chat so extensively.
 
Dealing with the main website is a difficult issue..
 
Yes, I thought of being a moderator here before, but I don't have the energy for it.
 
I vaguely recollect @tchrist suggesting it's not even worth it before, because it's much more work for not all so much more benefit over being a very high rep. user. Does that opinion still hold true?
 
11:12 AM
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Q: What do you call a person who is mentally strong?

Lnux There are many people who have gone through domestic violence and still strong after crosses many hurdles over the closed mined society. If I want to ask,may I use the sentence "Have you ever seen a strong person?" But here "Strong" might be either considered as Physically or Mentally. So...

 
 
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1:21 PM
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Q: Is there a word to describe a kind but corrupt person?

D_SIn the NBC television series Chicago P.D, the character Sergeant Hank Voight (played by Jason Beghe) is a dirty cop who is associated with shady, unsavory characters in the Chicago underworld, regularly breaks police protocol and takes bribes. However, despite his ruthless, morally ambiguous met...

 
Stupid Feeds
Why is no one else alive?
 
@M.A.R. Everyone is still alive. They're just not saying anything
Listen to all the things they are not saying.
 
Nooo, don't leave
@Mitch oh, they're not saying they found some money on the ground
Because I should find it only
 
2:17 PM
@caub nice
 
@M.A.R. How much, they haven't said. I think it'll be enough for lunch for all of us, but you didn't hear me saying that.
 
@Mitch what did you eat for lunch?
Did you eat it with my money? q_q
 
@M.A.R. Still too early for lunch. I'm probably going to skip elevenses given my late second breakfast.
 
@Mitch I know!
But, alas, I had to sell mine, a long time ago.
 
@Cerberus sorry for the pings. stupid chat formatting stuff
 
2:29 PM
That's OK.
 
it's been compared to classic bubble economics
but from the left end of the graph, the previous steep rise didn't fall off so bad.
How difficult was it it to get regular cash out of it? The whole thing seems like it is an electronic money laundering scheme, but the I don't understand laundering either.
 
@Mitch Just separate your dark money from your light money and use cold water to save...er... money.
 
ha. I still have lightly shaded pink t-shirts that were formerly bright white
 
3:19 PM
In today's episode of Where's Waldo:
 
@RegDwigнt Hi, long time no see.
 
@Mitch Easy, just filling in a number and clicking a couple of times.
 
NVZ
4:01 PM
I wish to update our List of Resources on meta by adding the following "synonym comparison" idea. I'm not sure how to proceed with it. Any volunteers?
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Q: Comparison/contrast dictionaries of synonyms

Aleks SeggenIs there any dictionary or similar for comparing and contrasting related/synonym words, such as for ex. "swing" vs "sway", or "ask" vs "inquire"?

 
4:39 PM
@NVZ add links to the thesaurus section. Try to make it look like the other answers.
 
 
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5:56 PM
Hi Ed.
 
@KitZ.Fox Higher Ed
 
Now I've got Higher Ground in my head.
 
@KitZ.Fox TIL Stevie Wonder believed in reincarnation.
 
NVZ
6:17 PM
Hello, all. (Indian song for the day. Enjoy! youtube.com/watch?v=a4QyYyloteQ)
 
@MetaEd And so do I, but I call it rebirth. I think reincarnation is more common in the Hindu literature, while rebirth is more common in the Buddhist literature.
 
NVZ
@WillHunting What do you mean? Is there a difference?
Reincarnate into another animal, while be reborn as a human?
 
@NVZ I mean just a different word used for essentially the same concept.
 
NVZ
@WillHunting I for one would decline an offer to be reborn into this crazy world. LOL
I'd rather be dust in the wind. Here today, gone tomorrow.
 
@NVZ Well, I don't know whether you really mean that or not, LOL. Because there are some very good places on earth too.
 
NVZ
6:22 PM
Nostalgic song. Means a lot to me.
@WillHunting Is that an "S" or a symbol of "hope" in your display picture?
 
@NVZ It is, now that you mention it, the latter.
 
6:51 PM
If you rotate by 180 you get an 'S'
 
what if you rotate it by 178?
 
a tilted S?
a more optimistic song?
 
I just had a cold shower.
'Cold showers' is one of my favourite French movies.
 
A small announcement: #machinelearningflashcards are now available at http://MachineLearningFlashcards.com https://t.co/CfwB78cOB5
 
@Cerberus Oh hey, I just took a look at Area 51 for no particular reason and I saw the Nordic Languages proposal on Stack Exchange. I think it might be of interest to you since you are a native speaker of one of the specified languages if I recall correctly, albeit I am not quite sure which one.
 
6:57 PM
@WillHunting I thought that 'Last Tango in Paris' was a musical
 
@Mitch I didn't watch that one. Neither have I watched La La Land.
 
Does Fifth Element count as a French film?
How about Leon?
 
I have also never heard of those.
You know what? I still haven't watched Alien Covenant even though I watched all the other alien movies.
 
Fifth Element is a scifi film starring Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich
 
@MattE.Эллен $10???? That is quite the false positive
hahahahha
 
6:59 PM
@WillHunting I've watched the Fifth Element.
 
bad pun of the day
 
@Mitch I don't get it
 
@WillHunting Hint: not a musical
 
@MattE.Эллен Ooh, my favourite Milla? Milla's whole family was involved in Resident Evil The Final Chapter, father, mother, and their daughter, LOL.
@Mitch I hate musical movies.
 
@WillHunting La La Land is vey enjoyable, but not s good as its almost Oscar would have you believe
 
7:01 PM
Leon is an action thriller starring Natalie Portman, Jean Reno and Gary Oldman
 
@WillHunting But modus tollens does not apply, you may well not like some movies that are not musicals.
 
Daniel Craig will be the next Bond, but after that I still have a chance.
 
@WillHunting ??? hunh? double hunh??
 
@Mitch I mean he will continue to be Bond in the next Bond movie.
 
He already was the next Bond, meaning he was the last Bond. So the next one is up for bids. Are you telling us something? Will you be on the big screen soon?
@WillHunting Oh.
I thought he had already bowed out.
 
7:03 PM
@Mitch Maybe after the next one, they will consider JLo.
 
@MattE.Эллен a false positive is one of those elementary concepts of machine learning. Also, $10 is positively way too much money for that.
 
@WillHunting If you liked her in that, you'll love her in Dazed and Confused
@Mitch ah! I knew what a false positive is, I just couldn't make the connection
 
Anyway, it is already Wed here, my birthday.
 
@WillHunting JLo (Jennifer Lopez) would make a terrible Bond.
 
@WillHunting Happy Birthday :D
 
7:04 PM
@Mitch She should be Bondess.
 
Superficially she might look good but she's just not believable as any character other than herself.
 
@MattE.Эллен I have a huge cheese cake in my fridge. :D
 
@WillHunting nice :D
 
Now Matt and I are of the same age, LOL.
 
@WillHunting Happy Birthday! tomorrow for me still
 
7:06 PM
It happens that although I often delete accounts, I have been in chat on most of my birthdays, just a coincidence!
Well, maybe a miracle will happen for me soon.
 
I don't think it can be most of your birthdays, if you're as old a me. most of my birthdays happened before there was a chat
 
I mean since there was this chat, LOL.
 
@MattE.Эллен checks IMDB
 
7:09 PM
Wait... I was in that movie.
 
:-o
you're Ben Affleck!
 
I don't like Ben Affleck. I think he sort of had sex with his nanny.
 
 
Mitch! of course
how could I forget
 
@WillHunting just to be clear... with his kids' nanny
 
7:10 PM
I only like his friend, Matt Damon, who is me, of course.
 
@MattE.Эллен whats his face isn't even mentioned
 
@Mitch ben affleck is one of the villains
 
Ellen rhymes with Damon, therefore Matt Ellen = Matt Damon = me, QED.
 
I'm not sure that's true....
 
@WillHunting QED = QE2 = Titanic = a cold, wet slap in the face.
 
7:14 PM
I'm surprised Milla is mentioned above Ben, as she has a much smaller role in the film
 
Matthew McConaugh. Hey!
 
He keeps getting older and I stay the same age
or something
 
To be honest, the feeling of that movie, except for (only the slightest change in) the accent, is pretty spot on.
 
I really didn't expect the final twist in Resident Evil 6, that Milla herself is a clone.
Spoiler alert! lol
 
@Mitch how do you mean?
 
7:19 PM
feelings are pretty vague so hard to articulate. Also, I'm trying to remember the movie.
 
@Mitch do you mean the accent of the film or of Matthew McConaughey?
 
stupid parties? filled with stupid people? convincing themselves that they like beer enough to throw up for it?
@MattE.Эллен oh. speech accent was only noticeable in MM, not in many of the other actors.
I mean the general feeling of the movie. Was there a plot?
 
sort of. it was a sort of coming of age film sort of.
 
@WillHunting There are a few other movies like that. Matrix. um.. that other movie. That's all I got.
 
following Mitch and Jason London's characters
 
7:23 PM
@MattE.Эллен except nobody came of age, they were still the same at the end, right?
 
@MattE.Эллен Who is Jason London???
 
What's that movie about the woman who gets early onset....
whatever that disease is...
 
@WillHunting he played (Randle?) Pink
 
where you can't remember stuff
Does it start with an 'L'?
 
@MattE.Эллен Oh I thought I was Jason London, LOL.
 
7:25 PM
Alice?
Go ask Alice?
 
Memento?
 
Alice is my mum, LOL.
 
haha. no. that one's about a dude.
 
50 first dates?
 
Still Alice.
had to look it up
 
7:28 PM
Amnesiac?
ah
 
@MattE.Эллен ugh. Adam Sandler.
I'm sure his mom thinks he's funny
 
immune to:
1 EFFECTS 20
2 CRITICISM 19
3 PRESSURES 18
4 CHARMS 15
5 DISEASE 14
6 FORCES 14
7 PROBLEMS 13
8 CHANGES 12
9 KIND 11
10 PRESSURE 10
 
ugh indeed. I haven't seen it, but I assume he's an out of luck, out of love [profession] with a talent for [other profession]
 
immune from:
1 PROSECUTION 25
2 LIABILITY 18
3 LAWSUITS 14
4 CRITICISM 11
5 ATTACK 10
 
@MattE.Эллен So I'm guessing D&C didn't speak to you directly?
 
7:30 PM
As if there is an idea of deliberate (unfair) protection in immune from.
 
@Færd good point. I'm trying to think of a semantic feature that distinguishes them
 
@Mitch I don't know. I have very fond memories of the film. I have watched it about a million times, although not recently
 
@MattE.Эллен Wow, that means you watch it more than once every day, LOL.
 
@WillHunting those were some crazy summers :D
 
@MattE.Эллен inbetweeners, though exotic with everybody wearing ties and the overt juvenile sex talk, felt similar
 
7:32 PM
What are you people trying to ask me, and @WillHunting I didn't know I had a son. =P
 
@Mitch I haven't seen that. I can't stand British cringe humour
 
I like a few British things.
 
hm...not totally cringey. but I guess you're right, a lot of that
 
I like the Queen and I like James Bond.
 
@WillHunting I like ... struggles for examples ...
 
7:33 PM
I like their accents.
 
Chicken Tikka Masala?
 
Maybe cause I can't do them.
 
Wait, that's Scottish, you racist effing bastards
ABBA?
 
It probably traces back to India or someplace.
 
I like the class divide.
Really keeps you on your toes
 
7:35 PM
but not any particular side?
 
no, never pick sides. I'm British. Constantly on the fence about everything.
on average, anyway
 
Cricket? almost as boring as fishing.
@MattE.Эллен The fence that crosses the divide
 
oh yeah. cricket is the worst, but some people like it. and they say 20 20 cricket is fast paced
@Mitch the fence one peers over to see which side of the divide his neighbour is on
 
@Færd immune from is the legal wording. 'immune from prosecution' is canonical.
 
@MattE.Эллен You'd have to mend your fences quite often.
@Mitch Nice.
 
7:38 PM
@Færd I see a lot of that in our future. #brexit
 
immune to is the medical wording. 'immune to polio'
@Færd the online dictionaries are not very informative on how to distinguish them
 
@Mitch No, they aren't.
 
dictionaries are dumb
 
@MattE.Эллен You mean you'll seek to join the EU again?
@Mitch Well, they try.
 
@Færd I don't know, but leaving is certain to make a lot of other countries very unhappy
 
7:42 PM
Yeah.
It can open the way to breaking the monopoly of English as the lingua franca though.
 
@Færd Nah, there'll be an anglo risorgimiento with the US and Canada. Mexico will join Mercosur. and China will just say pfft and blow them all out of the water.
@Færd They chose English in India because at least it wasn't the language those guys next door.
 
@Mitch US won't stay in favor of Brexit for a long time.
I hope.
 
@Færd s/US/UK/
 
And I hope a language like Esperanto will prevail in the decades to come.
 
Wait...US is in favor of UK? Do you mean as an average opinion or as an official government proclamation?
 
7:47 PM
The current government.
 
@Færd God I hope not. They still have gender of nouns.
 
Esperanto? No.
 
@Færd Has the current US gov made any official pronouncements on Brexit?
@Færd Really? I thought they had that. How about conjugation of verbs?
Chinese would take over the world if they switched to pinyin. Easiest grammar and vocabulary ever.
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@Mitch No, but they applaud the feeling of nationalism that Brexit stems from, I think.
 
telephone = dian hua = electric talk. Done
 
7:50 PM
@Mitch No conjugation for the (first/etc) person.
@Mitch I should check that out.
I'm not sure if it's easier than Esperanto though.
 
@Færd Oh. the US gov is not the populace and is not econ experts and... The state dept in the US is currently understaffed, so it is hard to say what the exec branch strategically thinks of European economics. Frankly at this point, that they have any thoughts at all would be a welcome surprise.
 
Haha.
 
computer = dian nao = electric brain. done
anything with electricity is easy
 
Anyway, with an easy lingua franca more people around the world will have their voices heard, and that's a huge blow to the tyranny of corporate media.
 

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