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Q: What's the word for someone who criticizes a work you've done without properly understanding it?

Ezequiel BarbosaLet's suppose I write a book expressing how the political situation in my country is bad, because X and Y reason. Then some outsider comes and says I totally don't get the point or criticizes my work in any way, without understanding the depth of it, missing the whole one point of the thing, crit...

 
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Q: Verb form of currently

user58712What is a verb that means currently. A verb that applies the action to a noun of existing currently, but not referring to this present moment, rather it makes the noun exist at the time frame of the present. This is in reference to How To Make a Statement Always in Present Tense?.

02:52
Google Chrome incognito mode doesn't hide the fact that you are visiting incognito from the site. Firefox private mode does. Or at least some sites with barriers for private surfers can't recognize it on Firefox, as opposed to Chrome.
Chrome even reports the number of times you have visited a site.
I don't know if there's a switch to flick and fix this in Chrome.
Even Tor browser doesn't hide the fact that you're using Tor from a website.
And there are many of them which put restrictions for Tor users.
03:47
> Anna was delivered of an infant girl.
> She was not better till the 18th when she was delivered of a daughter.
> Hannah was delivered of a healthy son.
> And look after yourselves until you are delivered of your children.
Didn't know about that of, and don't know where it comes from.
To quote ODO,
> 4.2 archaic, formal Assist (a woman) in giving birth.
> Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4.24 p.m.
It's not peculiar to this sense of deliver only:
> he delivered himself of a sermon
 
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hi, good morning, I'd love to have a chat.
Mhh... the pinned post really worries me. How is the health of this SE?
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Q: Word for "land in a job position"?

alexIs there are word or phrase for that? Example sentence: Procrastinating in her résumé, and surely it wouldn’t __ accountant. (Wordy version: "Procrastinating in her résumé, and surely it wouldn’t award her the position of being an accountant.)

 
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Using "wilderness" as an adjective by Gloria Lapiz on english.SE
 
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@SmokeDetector interesting. they left the post for a week before coming back to edit in the spam
@MattE.Эллен One reason why Smokey is useful! User is now destroyed for spam.
 
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12:37
Good morning @kit and good afternoon @matt.
Hi, @Jasper
Good evening @jasper, lol.
I only realised that my timezone is the same as Perth's timezone yesterday, lol.
Here in Antarctica, I can change timezones easily by jumping from one iceberg to the next, lol.
jumps jumps jumps
12:52
Hi @Jasper.
I noticed there are over 4000 unanswered questions on ELU. Maybe you folks wanna consider doing this which I just posted on ELL meta:
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Q: Let's bring down the number of unanswered questions

JasperThere are currently almost three thousand unanswered questions (questions with no upvoted or accepted answers) on this site. If I recall correctly, some sites actively try to bring this number down to zero. All we need to do is close unsound questions convert comments on these questions that ar...

I'm trying to figure out how to make my page elements flow correctly.
13:41
I just had some coffee.
sorry! wrong button
LOL
Now you have revealed your secrets, lol.
what?! but I thought they were ROT13 encrypted :-s
 
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15:24
@MattE.Эллен You should upgrade to RAD50
@KitZ.Fox Have you tried a hotplate.
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Q: Is there a word for burying one's head in the sand?

PatroclusAs in a concise way to describe someone who routinely either denies he has a problem in the first place, or if he does accept that problem as existent, he puts it out of his mind as soon as possible and will even go so far as to resort to alcohol, drug use or promiscuity to distract himself from ...

@MetaEd I have not. I have tried a hammer, but that did not work.
@KitZ.Fox Gamma-ray burst.
mmm.
scrummy
Should get the backups too. And forestall any objections.
15:38
May have the added benefit of making me super-strong.
@MetaEd I'm sure that'll fix me right up
@KitZ.Fox Sure. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
KIT SMASH!!
16:06
She's ... she's toinin' GREEN!
did someone say Green?
Yes
OK, thanks. Just keeping a tally
Chartreuse
It's what people in that cathedral town in France are like
Chart reuse? Is this some sort of academic fraud exposé?
16:16
No, no, not chartreuse. You're thinking of of that black stuff that makes hamburgers.
I'm sure it's not charcoal, you're confusing it with that town with all the white supremacists.
No, no, not Charlottesville. You're thinking of that E. B. White book.
Charlotte's Web? No, pretty sure it's that fiery pokemon that my son loves.
16:39
I just woke up from a nap.
@KitZ.Fox I'll have to phone a friend.
@MetaEd OK.
I'll give you a hint. It's a starter pokemon.
Is there a way to change my Windows fonts without having to edit the registry? I can do that easily on Ubuntu but not on Windows, and I dislike the default fonts.
Which version of windows?
Windows 10! I got a new laptop last year!
16:50
Cool!
There's something under Settings.
I can't remember how on Win 10. I'm on Win 7 atm.
You can edit your theme if you want to use different fonts.
17:02
The brown in this room matches well with the brown fur of the fox, lol.
@KitZ.Fox No, no, not Charmander. You might be thinking of a presocratic philosopher, though.
@KitZ.Fox Charmander? Please. You're thinking of that dated British expression for the cleaning lady
oops!
(Char woman, I think)
Parmenides?
17:05
That's a kind of fish.
@MetaEd Not Anaximander. It's that tricksy god, the spider one.
I had to look that up.
I have been reading the transcript a few times, and I have no idea what is going on? Are you playing some word guessing game here?
@Mitch Ancient Greek tailor. "Hi. Euripides?" Ancient Greek customer. "Yeah. Eumenides?"
Spiders. Why couldn't it be butterflies?
@MetaEd Ha!
@KitZ.Fox Anansi? No. I think you meant the lost American tribe before the Hopi.
@Jasper It's a game to figure out the word, then leave a clue for a similar word.
17:09
@Mitch No, no, not Anasazi. You're thinking of that lost Russian princess.
Except Mitch always makes them too hard!
@Jasper No, no, not a game. You're thinking of that word that people use two t's instead of one, even though logically it should be two.
@KitZ.Fox I give hints!
@MetaEd Anastasia is yesterday's news. Today's news is that groundbreaking Disney flick.
Frozen?
That's not...No, @Mitch.
17:11
Anna was in it, right?
Yes, there's an Anna and an Elsa.
I can't keep them apart. Anna and ...her sister ... Eloise? ... Eliza?
gah! Elsa!
What? is this some pre WWI German romance?
Gudrun and Astrid were walking through the woods. A bear attacked. Gudrun drew her sword and lopped of the bears head. Astrid stripped the hide, and made stew. They continued their walk without interruption after that.
@KitZ.Fox but it was groundbreaking wasn't it?
@Mitch Isn't that Hansel and Gretel?
Not much of a hero's journey, but I guess we need more stories from pre-WW1 Germany
@Jasper No, they get eaten.
@MattE.Эллен It was a simple time.
17:16
@Mitch OK, yes. I was thinking older and sounding like Anastasia though.
@KitZ.Fox Anyway, the groundbreaking Disney flick was not Anastasia even though it was groundbreaking and by Disney
Anastasia was not ground-breaking. It was pablum.
You're probably thinking of the other river that goes through Washington DC that's not the Potomac.
Hm, yes, you're right, that's hard.
This one had a sorcerer's apprentice in it. I'm pretty sure everyone has seen it.
@KitZ.Fox Have you ever had pablum? If so I think you'd understand how groundbreaking it really was.
17:18
I don't like watching animation movies. Except for The Polar Express which I watch every Christmas.
@Jasper What about the Grinch? That used to scare me as a child.
when you see how small his heart has shrunk
@Mitch I don't like the Grinch either.
and how he abuses his authority over his poor dog
@Jasper A Charlie Brown Xmas?
@Mitch Never saw that, maybe I should find that some day.
@KitZ.Fox No, not Fantasia. You're thinking of that orange flavoured drink by Coca-Cola
17:19
Fantasia? With the dinosaurs ruling the Earth, then being destroyed?
haha. I was not trying to answer you Kit but Jasper instead.
@MattE.Эллен See, I was thinking you were going to think Fanta, but really it's those hairy beasts in Star Wars.
The wookies?
or the yak things?
Which of them sounds vaguely like fanta, @Mitch?
:/
Why is it that Tatooine is the only planet that has destroyed star battle cruisers littering the surface?
It isn't in the new movies.
17:21
@KitZ.Fox OK. Wookie it is.
Banta-lover.
@KitZ.Fox Bantha? Hmmm I think it's more likely the type of vaguely insulting chatter between two friends
@Mitch Why you do this?
@MattE.Эллен I don't think banter is insulting, is it? Maybe you're thinking of a horse's third gait.
@MattE.Эллен not sparkling repartee?
I hear you can get bottles of it in Chartres
Now I want some sparkling repartee with dinner.
@Mitch depends on whose banter it is
17:23
Good with pasta.
@KitZ.Fox No, no, not cantering. You're thinking of that famous spammer duo.
milli vanilli?
You guys.
Daft Punk?
Mario and Luigi?
get it? GET IT?
because they used spanners?
oh good lord.
When did Daft Punk use spanners?
My work is done here.
17:25
falls out of chair laughing
rebooting...
Anacostia. That's the other river through Washington DC. People are always forgetting it.
My Anacostia don't want none if you ain't got buns, hon.
LOL
@MetaEd I guess I don't know any famous spammer duos.
me neither. I give up
17:33
Wallace and Rines doesn't seem like cantering, so it can't be them...
something and Turing?
Canned goods?
Church and Turing?
CAPTCHA?
Cannery something
Can we use google to help us find the answer? LOL
Canter and Siegel!
Laurence A. Canter (b. June 24, 1953) and Martha S. Siegel (April 9, 1948 – September 24, 2000) were partners in a husband-and-wife firm of lawyers who, on April 12, 1994, posted the first massive commercial Usenet spam. To many people, this event, coming not long after the National Science Foundation lifted its unofficial ban on commercial speech on the Internet, marks the end of the Net's early period, when the original netiquette could still be enforced. Canter and Siegel were not the first Usenet spammers. The "Green Card" spam was, however, the first commercial Usenet spam, and its unapologetic...
Woo!
That sounds right.
It wasn't them though. It was that German rag that Reg is always on about.
der Spiegel? No, isn't he always talking about the protagonist in cowboy beebop?
17:44
haha cowboy beebop
just think to yourself, WWSSD?
Spike Spiegel? I would never have gotten that without Google help.
or did you mean a ubiquitous shoreline bird?
Wait, do you mean ubiquitous?
I do indeed.
I remember once you wrote flutist and I thought it was flautist. Turns out both are used.
17:52
@KitZ.Fox yes
Hmm, dictionary.cambridge.org now has an English-Spanish and Spanish-English dictionary there too, interesting.
Also interesting is that English and Spanish are the only two languages that appear on both sides when you visit translate.google.com.
it's only English for me
I see English, Spanish, French on the left, and English, Spanish, Arabic on the right. The others are hidden. Don't know if we are talking about the same things.
17:56
Have you been translating those recently?
I see Russian, Portuguese, English on the left and English, Greek, Spanish on the right
@KitZ.Fox Nope, lol. And I don't store anything in my browser, maybe that's why. No cache or history at all.
@MattE.Эллен The plot thickens...
Well, that's what happens when you stir it so much
I have Japanese, English, Spanish and English, Spanish, Arabic.
@Jasper Take it off the heat!
Yeah I think it must have something to do with the history stored somewhere.
17:58
Google never forgets
unless it's forced to by law
I know where google stores some things, be it in the google account or the browser. I always clear everything and disable everything.
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Q: What is the word / phrase used to described a product that is distributed with different brand labels?

AgmLauncherIt is common for a single generic product to be produced in a factory, whereby the manufacturer then sells that product to whatever company/brand wants to put their label on it. The result is several different "clones" of that product, each with different brand labels. What is the word used to ...

And of course, visiting youtube.com takes you to your country's videos on the front page. I always type youtube.com/?gl=US to see the US version.
But they allow you to change the video location easily.
@KitZ.Fox Seagull? No I think he meant the martial artist/action movie "actor"
@Mitch Hahaha, Stephen Seagal is not the famous painter I was thinking of.
Also, I hear that Maria is ravaging the Caribbean, @Jasper.
18:14
@KitZ.Fox LOL. I see. I thought you were talking about some specific Maria at first.
 
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Q: Antonym of "Jobsworth"

DraxDomaxWord for someone who isn't jobsworth. Someone who, once he'd been given a job, is looking to get that job done the best way possible for everyone (not just himself). I tried "proactive" but it doesn't fit.

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Q: What is it called when someone has unrealistc goals

narchWhat is a person called they have a really big goal which is seemingly impossible to achieve.

@KitZ.Fox the winner
@KitZ.Fox No, no, not Chagall. You're thinking of how I feel when I can't think of the answer to one of these and then it turns out to be obvious.
Oh. I see there's been a topbar redesign.
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Q: What’s the term for “hearing” words when you read or think?

Chase Ryan TaylorIf you’re anything like me, you may hear a little voice in your head when you read (e.g., this post) or think to yourself. THAT VOICE MAY GET LOUDER ON CUE, or it may get softer on cue. At any rate, is there a word for this? I ask, because I am writing an essay on how the language of set theory...

@MetaEd Chagrined? Well, perhaps one of those oak-y whites will make you feel less self-conscious.
Too much Chardonnay and I'll probably forget the name of that guy who went with Lewis and Clark.
You guys are still playing the game, lol.
21:00
@MetaEd Sacagawea? Ohhh...Charbonneau. They probably saw, exposed in the Rocky Mountains, fossils from the geologic period before the Permian and after the Devonian.
@Jasper game? This is life man. It is serious.
@MetaEd to be honest, I haven't been able to get any clue of these without googles help.
And even then I can't get them
Google insists you can't be thinking of Carboniferous. I bet it's that stuff they pour on you before riding you out of town on a rail.
Champagne? Gatorade? Wait...those are for celebrations. Riding in a rail doesn't seem celebratory.
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Q: What's the origin of "and sh*t"

Susan SackingerI'm referring specifically to phrases like, "kissing and shit" or "baseball and shit". Sometimes it is contracted: "n'shit".

Why is this question open. Almost no effort put into the question.
 
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Q: What's the term for "seeing" words when you hear spoken language?

JoeSome people "hear" a spoken voice in their head when they read words, apparently called subvocalization. What do you call it when you hear someone speaking and your brain turns it into actual words that you "see" before you in your mind's eye? This happens without any particular effort or inten...

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive body detected: I need a word so I can feel again by Robert on english.SE
@MetaEd you are right, but people are upvoting it a lot because poop
No close votes at all

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