English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Tonepoet

01:43

@JennaSloan That is probably because it is not really quite up to snuff, and people merely left it open out of respect for the existing answers. At the very least, you could have named one of the dictionaries you checked.

I mean, I hate to be disparaging, but a single line worth of writing with little else does not really generate interest, and most of the attention it attracted is probably due to the high amount of effort put into the answer.

SmokeDetector

02:44

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Idiom- someone looks and acts as if they're innocent? by Chelcey spencer on english.SE

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

03:56

ooga chaka, ooga ooga ooga chaka

skullpatrol

Heya

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Sup.

skullpatrol

Chillin, you?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Same. Nearly bedtime.

Got that Reservoir Dogs version of "Hooked On a Feeling" in the noggin'.

As you can see ^

Færd

04:22

Ismo: Ass Is The Most Complicated Word In The English Language - CONAN on TBS

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SmokeDetector

06:27

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: wrinklerewindfrance.com/trilixton-france/ by kroveind on english.SE

CowperKettle

06:53

> Uzhu uzhe ne stat uzheye
Uzheye nekuda uzhe
Uzhe dostignuta vsya uzhest
V uzhe

Russian verse

> An adder can't become more adder
It is already very adder
All adderity has already been reached
In the adder

CowperKettle

07:21

"Adder" is "uzh" in Russian. "Uzheye" means "more adderly". "V uzhe" means "in (an/the) adder". "Uzhe" means "already". Hence, a funny wordplay.

OOps my bad -- uzh is grass snake

But a nice wordplay with add/adder

Kiro

07:37

"information transfer via both ground and free space communication lines" or "information transfer via both ground and free-space communication lines"? I'm asking because "Free-space optical communication" is a thing but here it is not quite used..

Feeds

11:26

0

Q: What is the scope of the expression "Industry experts"?

When in a sentence it is necessary to refer to an expert person, someone who is a reference for a specific field, I've often seen the expression "industry expert". Is it an expression wide enough to be used for contexts different from the industry or it is better to write something like "expert...

Mitch

13:35

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Earworm? Ear Anaconda!

Oh. Reservoir Dogs. Something about ears there makes me uncorfortable

Sayros

13:48

I used to use Cambridge dictionary to understand a new words... in this context, I noticed that the UK pronounciation is always pronounced by a women and US by men lol

I don't know why

Matt E. Эллен

I guess the UK pronunciation is HMQEII. Only She would know how to truly pronounce English.

Mitch

The Corgi Whisperer

Matt E. Эллен

14:18

It'll be a reality TV show if the UK ever becomes a republic

Robusto

@tchrist: So how in the hell could a single Telugu character crash iOS devices?

tchrist

@Robusto peeps be dumz

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен Don't be too quick to turn your country into a reality show. The US tried it and look what happened.

tchrist

bad font sub, bad kerning pairs

Robusto

Causing what, a seg fault?

tchrist

14:27

parently

I can see a broken kerning-pair rule causing that to happen.

Robusto

peeps be dumz, yup

This after we find out that Javascript can trigger chip-level security flaws.

I mean, Javascript in a freakin' browser ...

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto you got the best reality TV show, trust me, better than any other reality TV show you've seen. Really. There's no better reality TV show, and I should know. etc.

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен Spoken like a stable genius.

Oh, @tchrist, welcome to the six-figures rep club. Didja get your mug and stickers yet?

tchrist

Oh I dunno.

I never read that mail. Maybe I should.

I sure wish people understood that dictionaries don't really tell you anything about how words are actually pronounced in connected speech.

There may be some issues for speakers of languages with isochronous syllabification and no reduction.

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Q: Pronouncing the final "‑ing" inflection as [əŋ] instead of as [ɪŋ]

I’m asking about American English, but feel free to answer about other dialects. The ‑ing verbal inflection ending is, in the abstract, a phonemic /ɪŋ/. Those phonemes usually get realized phonetically as literally the sounds [ɪŋ] in General American, and this is the way it seems to be pronounce...

american-english pronunciation dialects ing fast-speech-rules

Notice that when "Americans" say the same thing that "English" people do, it sounds "uneducated" only in the mouths of the first set not the second set. Curious, that.

They get this whacky idea that there's no such thing as phonetics, or phonology, or allophones.

Robusto

Dat's all ya get.

tchrist

14:39

So it is.

Robusto

I mean, plus some crap you would never, ever use.

tchrist

Darn, I was hoping for an EL&U one.

Robusto

I don't think they get that specific.

Mitch

14:54

No stickers? No totebag? No truck mudflaps?

Robusto

@Mitch Most high-rep ELU contributors don't drive trucks.

But you do get stickers. Only no Truck Nutz.

Mitch

15:20

@Robusto That's not a limitation, it's an opportunity!

Tonepoet

15:59

Why is this question on track for lack of research closure? It divulged details of its research in the very first revision of the post through express mention of Wiktionary, and even if that's not a very well respected resource, Edwin Ashworth has shown that none of the American lexicons cover that meaning of the word. =\

M.A.R.

16:28

@Mitch thank you.

Hey, where is my star?

@Tonepoet that's an answer

Tonepoet

@M.A.R. Oh right: I forgot that your profile links directly to the answer. Well, it's the same page but if you don't want to scroll up, I mean this question

M.A.R.

I know, just wanted to annoy you

@Tonepoet I guess all you can do is vote to reopen if it's closed, and add a comment explaining why it should remain often right now

Tonepoet

@M.A.R. I can petition on meta too, but right now I'm just trying to see if there's anything I missed about it.

M.A.R.

@Tonepoet there hasn't been any real action done on the post, so now you can only comment

Well, of course you can do the other things too, but then you'd be a weirdo

Tonepoet

@M.A.R. That was a reply to your if-condition. XP

Matt E. Эллен

16:38

@Tonepoet I don't know for sure, but if I weren't a mod I would have voted to close for lack of research, as my go to is ODO, and ODO lists it. That Edwin has gone the extra mile and found that some list it and some don't means it should remain open, of course.

the fact the wiktionary doesn't list it is surprising as they often list newer coinings before the big boys

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен and fail to mention obvious common usages. Wait ... that's not surprising.

Matt E. Эллен

just so long as we acknowledge wiktionary as the official scrabble dictionary, I'll be happy

Tonepoet

Maybe I should have written "could" come to think about it...

Mitch

@M.A.R. Glad I could help. Wait...what are you thanking me for? Wait...who is starring 'thank you's? That seems excessive.

@MattE.Эллен _edits wiktionary prophylactically'

Matt E. Эллен

what do you mean "qqzxwk" isn't a word? It's right... tap tap tap here!

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Mitch

16:46

Goddamit

adds 'prophylactically' prophylactically to wiktionary

Matt E. Эллен

although, to be fair, I could just edit any ODO entry locally and hope noöne double checks from their own machine

damn. I missed the first paragraph.

Tonepoet

@MattE.Эллен That's clever, but you'd have to fix more than just that one part: XP Home > British & World English > Word, (usually words) &c.

Find and replace all. XP

Mitch

I didn't notice

I am curious about the pronunciation though

Matt E. Эллен

lol

@Tonepoet yeah I should pick a word with a smaller definition

Tonepoet

17:04

@MattE.Эллен How about fictional? There's a certain appeal to people not realizing that the word is fictional when the definition for it is staring you right in the face.

Matt E. Эллен

:D

I think the trick is, first use pyx, then once they acknowledge your superior vocabulary, just make up some words.

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Feeds

17:45

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Q: Is there a word for shaming people with low vocabulary?

I know there are synonyms for shaming like abashment but is there any specific word for shaming people with low vocabulary ?

single-word-requests offensive-language

Feeds

18:02

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Q: What do we call a house built with random material?

I am looking for a term to describe the actual houses inside slums, shanty towns or spontaneous settlements? Please check out the attached to know exactly what I mean.

single-word-requests image-identification

Matt E. Эллен

@Feeds Scrabble

@Feeds saying "you're shit" is pretty low vocabulary. I wonder if that's what they mean...

Feeds

18:53

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Q: Being Emotionally Moved by Yourself?

How to use a word to describe a state of mind that you are moved by your imagination or assumption? For example, the boy think he really loves the girl, and believe the girl will love him and idealizing his love because he has made a lot of efforts, but the truth is the girl don’t like him at all...

single-word-requests meaning adjectives

Mitch

19:16

@MattE.Эллен That's pretty low

Jenna Sloan

22:59

Anyone know if there's a word that refers to the words 'increment' and 'decrement' collectively?

Feeds

23:12

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Q: What is the word for a situation where a person benefits from their own mistake and hopes you won't notice?

I'm not even sure how to phrase the question, but I'm looking for a word that describes a situation where a person doesn't necessarily act unethically, but in which the ambiguity they create benefits them when mistakes are made (and therefore they have no incentive to keep the mistake from happen...

single-word-requests phrase-requests idiom-requests

Feeds

23:29

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Q: Term for type of race: racing by turns and racing together

What do you call race wherein participants race together(side by side) and racing by turns (winner depends on fastest time finishing the race)

single-word-requests

skullpatrol

Unary operators?

Increment and decrement operators

Increment and decrement operators are unary operators that add or subtract one from their operand, respectively. They are commonly implemented in imperative programming languages. C-like languages feature two versions (pre- and post-) of each operator with slightly different semantics. In languages syntactically derived from B (including C and its various derivatives), the increment operator is written as ++ and the decrement operator is written as --. Several other languages use inc(x) and dec(x) functions. The increment operator increases the value of its operand by 1. The operand must have an...

Feeds

23:45

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Q: What do you call an organism that is dying out (failing to evolve successfully)?

In evolution, a successful organism can be said to have adapted or evolved. What about an organism that is clearly going to die out? The example I have in mind is a parasite that kills its host.

single-word-requests

skullpatrol

@JennaSloan

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