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Q: Word that means "I can only express myself by stating that I cannot express myself"

eqzxA common phrase is "I can't tell you how much I X", or "Words can't express how much I X" as a way of expressing the speaker's significant feelings towards X. This phrase implies that the speaker feels that language cannot do their feelings justice. There should be a simpler way of conveying thi...

 
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Q: What is a location people only pass through?

JamI recall hearing of a word that described those strange locations, along the highway, in the middle of nowhere perhaps, where people don't ever live, or truly think about, but yet (as least in the U.S.) are a strong memory for anyone who travels. Highway stops, gas-stations, pit-stops, rest areas...

 
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, potentially bad NS for domain in body, potentially bad NS for domain in title, +2 more: bigconverter.xyz/not-legal-kid-trunks-mp3-song-download/ by mcjanite on english.SE
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Q: is there a word or phrase meaning "to falsely believe one's opinion/feedback is being considered"?

user298876For example: in a conversation where one is asked their opinion regarding a decision, however the decision has already been made so that individual falsely believes their opinion would have an impact on the outcome. "Jane [falsely believed her opinion was considered] when her boss asked her w...

 
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Q: Word or phrase to describe feeling of mental clarity & contentment with things being in order or organised

ZeeI'm trying to find a word (or words) to describe that feeling of mental clarity when you know knowing things are in order. E.g. when you've got a bunch of work done that that you been meaning to do for ages and it's finally done and out-of-mind. 'Peace of mind', 'satisfied', 'content' 'clear-h...

 
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Q: Is there a single word for someone who left the company that does not have overly negative connotations?

Adrian SchmidtIn a new policy from my company (non-native English, but English is the corporate language), they use word "defector" to refer to a person who has quit their job. I think "defector" has too many and too strong negative connotations around it (some applying to the "defector", but most applying to...

English pronunciation is complex, item -> [ai]tem, ignore -> [ee]gnore
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Why... why is the room title "Zee incomprehensible Trump" in Cyrillic? :P
13:35
Cyrillic has more letters, so it's more nuanced
13:45
Fair enough :P
14:04
Sorry, that was a joke :D I don't actually know
Ah :P
14:25
@Mitch I generally wake up fast. But I also generally don't sleep very well.
Or for very long at a time. At least, not on this continent.
14:49
@FaheemMitha Better to be on the wrong continent than incontinent
I have bad thoughts sometimes.
Like, ugh, well, it will just put bad thoughts in to your head to.
Maybe my bad thought is that I wish other people with bad thoughts would show the courtesy to not expose their bad thoughts openly. And that I'm jealous of this freedom/lack of control.
I'm sorry. I think I've said to much.
15:09
@Mitch That should have been "too much".
@Mitch I don't see what's wrong with writing advice.
@Mitch Comparison of completely unrelated things.
@FaheemMitha There's nothing wrong with writing advice -- but it's not a good fit for Stack Exchange.
@MetaEd Not even on Writers?
@FaheemMitha Check with Writers but I believe they set some limits on that.
@MaxVernon And you're right. There are hundreds of those.
@MetaEd do you delete them?
or is it overwhelming?
So far we haven't found a good reason to spend the time deleting them -- except when they post spam, which quickly gets them blocked.
 
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17:50
why is "item" pronounced with a 'eye' sound, while "ignore" is more with a 'ee' sound?
maybe the g is a strong consonant, or some rule like that
Item is followed by a single consonant, then a vowel. Ignore is followed by two consonants.
Does "for the past twelve months" include the unfinished current month as the twelfth one?
> past: (of a specified period of time) occurring before and leading up to the time of speaking or writing.
It doesn't, it seems. Or does it?
18:32
@Færd Probably.
18:51
@TRiG Thanks. So it'll be up to the context, eventually.
General Request: I need a hotdog pun real quick
'Frankly' has, frankly, already been done.
@Mitch I'd say you've already got one.
And I relish it.
@Færd That's my impression, yes.
also no dog meat ones.
@MetaEd pun for bun... ugh
I shouldn't be so thin-skinned
My favorite: the zen master at the hotdog stand who says "make me one with everything."
Also my favorite: the zen master asks "where's my change?" The hotdog guy says "change comes from within."
18:59
@Færd I would say the strictest interpretation is a period between now and 12 months so, so it would begin on the 16th of May 2017.
More loosely, a period between now and around 12 months ago.
@MetaEd Classic
@Færd It is only grammatically correct to utter that sentence after the markets close on the last day of the month, and before they open again.
In the proper context, another loose interpretation could be a period ending some time before today, like the end of last month.
I found these jokes:
>God Is Watching The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large tray of hot dogs. The nun posted a sign on the hot dog tray, "Take only one. God is watching." Further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. One child whispered to another, "Take all you want. God is watching the hot dogs."

source: http://www.jokes4us.com/miscellaneousjokes/foodjokes/hotdogjokes.html
Another one:
> A guy walks into the doctor's office. A hot dog in one of his ears, a pretzel in the other ear, and a nacho chip in one nostril. The man says, "Doc, this is terrible. What's wrong with me?" The doctor says, "Well, first of all, you need to eat more sensibly."

source: http://www.jokes4us.com/miscellaneousjokes/foodjokes/hotdogjokes.html
They're terrible
@MaxVernon What I think is really going on is SEO manipulation. It might cause the linked pages in the profile to get more Google juice when somebody searches that game.
19:10
@MetaEd its an interesting proposition. I would guess it would be SEO, except none of those links are actually workable links. It almost looks like someone is testing defenses or something.
@Cerberus How do you pronounce 'nieuw' (or whatever is 'new' in Dutch)?
is it /nju/ or at least starting with /nj/?
They're not?
The domain free...ive.com is good.
And of course blogspot.com is good.
It's pronounced "naeuioaeuiaeouiaeoiaueoiaueuw".
And sometimes Y.
That profile spam is also visible here: p.hgc.host/101450
apparently the physics room is going down the same road as the SciFi room:
in The h Bar, 43 mins ago, by ArtOfCode
This room was placed in timeout for 5 minutes; the topic of this room is "General chat for Physics SE (https://physics.stackexchange.com/). For MathJax see https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/220976. Don't ask about asking, just ask." - conversation should be limited to that topic.
in The h Bar, 44 mins ago, by ArtOfCode
Inappropriate conversations have been tolerated here in the past in the name of leniency. That kind of behaviour is no longer welcome, period. If it's seen, it will be removed along with the users who take part in it. This is the only warning you will get.
19:25
@skull eh? In my impression it was always like that
@Mitch @MaxVernon The guidance is still to not worry about them. There's at least one site that has enough mods who take enough offense at them that they do hunt them. Which is fine.
Most mods think they already have enough to do.
Which is actually the impression a chatroom should avoid. All that being welcoming and stuff
yeah
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Q: Word for an old, cheap car you use in your daily routine instead of your new one?

Seu MadrugaYou use this car to avoid harming your new car, so you don't take that much care of it and you don't mind if you spoil it eventually, since it's old and cheap. I saw this word on a YouTube video but I forgot it.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yep.
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@MetaEd Yep.
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yep?
@Mitch Depp.
@MetaEd I've lost the train here. Offense at what?
Derp?
@Mitch wow
19:28
@skull I totally want to ask about asking about asking now.
That joke is Radio-Active!
:D @Mitch
Now I have more faith in your jokes @Mitch
@Mitch Spam profiles.
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ haha...because now you know I didn't write any of them
@MetaEd Oh
19:30
@Mitch can I ask if I can ask if I can ask if I can ask . . . ?
@skull any idea what happened? Inappropriate conversation or heated words?
Note that infinity - 1 equals infinity
@Mitch usually inappropriate conversation
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ infinity + 1 however is distinct as an ordinal
@Mitch the usual drive-by flagging
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I'm not asking about 'usually' I'm asking about what happened today that motivated the timeout.
@skull you mean outsiders not understanding and taking offence?
19:32
@Mitch casually inappropriate conversation
Yup @Mitch
It happened here.
@Mitch something similar to but not as drastic as this chat's drama
Discussing chat dramas is boring unless it's your chat
Let's switch to another subject
Hmm, let's talk about switching subjects
Ramadan Mubarak
I mean it really didn't start until last night, right?
Yippee!
One whole month of eating dates
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I'm pretty sure there hasn't been any drama here for a couple years.
Maybe three
19:35
@Mitch what, no, tomorrow
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ The first week is OK, but after a bit...yechh
Best part is kidney patients don't fast
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I thought it was yesterday
@Mitch Nieuw is pronounced much like neeoo or neeoow, I'd say.
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Niiiice!! Wait...
19:36
@Mitch set your time machine to current Earth time
In Dutch, ie is a long i, so /i/.
It's like all the kids saying congratulations for breaking your leg, you don't have to go to school. It's all great except for the broken leg part.
Whereas i is short i, like English short i, /ɪ/.
@Cerberus oh...more like /ni:u/?
Yeah.
Although by "long" I didn't really mean phonetically long.
19:38
There's an ELU question about if /nj/ only appear in English in borrowings
And I was thinking that germanic in general doesn't really have /nj/ native at all.
Njet is used in Englisj.
But I'm just guessing
@Mitch We do have nj in Dutch.
@Cerberus Sure, it's pronouncable. Just not... native?
Anja, ranja, anjer, come to mind. Although, actually, it doesn't sound quite like /nj/. It's more like some weird mishmash.
19:39
aren't those two syllables, /an ja/?
Yes.
@Mitch well, I've accepted the broken leg as inevitable fact. Especially since they say it's an anatomical defect when you're born
the question (for English is about words like 'canyon', did they all get borrowed.
Sooo cool
Okay.
But that's two syllables as well?
19:40
@Mitch Gosh, (close that parenthesis
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ so for the Persian question, does any body say 'Eide mubarak' or 'Ramadan mubarak' for the beginning of Ramadan?
Is Mubarak still alive?
@Mitch the latter, TV does
It's not like any of the holidays are happy holidays in Islam.
19:41
@Cerberus we reincarnate him every religious holiday
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ What about normal people (cause TV ain't normal)
Surely the holiday at the end of Ramadan is festive!
@Mitch nah
@Cerberus yep!
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ DO you just sullenly stare at each other all day until the evening meal?
Islam has really few of those
@Mitch tell you what, one thing that probably contributed to my condition was couple of years ago, I went to gym, did tough exercise, biked 10-20 miles, and fasted
That'd kill Superman's kidneys
But yeah, people naturally do less
Pretty fun times though
19:46
@Cerberus Wow...he's still alive.
I get the feeling people are not that much of a jerk to each other
You US guys totally need a Ramadan
Well, guy, at the moment
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Oh wow. Yeah, I've heard that that can happen if you're underhydrated. rhabdomyelisis.
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ yeah, serious naptime should be prescribed.
@Mitch did I mention the biking was in the middle of a hot 40 degrees centigrade summer? That's 104 degrees Fahrenheit in English
Fahrenheit is in German. runs away
@MetaEd Then why are Englishers using it? Huh? Huh?
19:51
hides
Do you even tree
Trees can't hide
You mean trees can't bark. Hides are an animal thing.
20:11
Ooh... I got one... Why can't a nose be 12 inches long?
Because then it'd be a foot
Wait...no hotdogs or trees in there
That'd be 30.5 cm
Not what we're after
Even with hotdogs and trees
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ That certainly doesn't help
@Mitch my conversion to Fahrenheit?
I don't know if you speak German
@Gigili Ohh...another nose joke...how do you keep fish from smelling?
Baking soda
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ No, that level of heat with your underhydrating overexercising
20:26
@Mitch That is, objectively, better than the hot dog ones up there
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Also, practical.
@Mitch BTW, hahaha, who came up with that name?
@Mitch not for the fish
20:55
There's science behind the fishy smell in smelly fish.
@Gigili we've kept our golden fish since Nowruz.
On a different note, why aren't there any friendly monsters?
One of them died yesterday since we didn't change the tank's water soon enough :(
@Gigili sure there are! google.com/…
Fishy smelling fish are fish that have been sitting around for a few days. Today's catch doesn't smell fishy.
@MetaEd today's catch is always legitimate
You could tell the fishiness by the fishy smell
21:02
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Oops - misspelled Rhabdomyolysis, probably by the guy who first wrote about it.
@Mitch that is MUCH better
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ We've had ours for 3 years now.
@Mitch That's generally caused by drugs.
Including medications, possibly. Can cause kidneys to shut down.
@FaheemMitha I've only ever heard of it as either a result from sever heat dehydration or from muscle destruction (high protein) from a crushing trauma.
@Mitch Oh. Actually, my impression is that it is most commonly caused by drugs.
21:15
> The muscle damage is most often the result of a crush injury, strenuous exercise, medications, or drug abuse.
But I could be wrong. It happened to my sister - that's the only reason I've even heard of it.
@Mitch Yes, if it's caused by muscle damage.
Which it isn't, necessarily.
I wonder if most kinds of kidney failure might be ascribed to rhabdo
The wiki site says that the source of the problem is through muscle destruction.
@Mitch I expect kidneys fail for all sorts of reasons.
yes
@Mitch What problem?
21:17
rhabdo
for a diagnosis of rhabdo, it is muscle tissue damage leading to kidney problems. The muscle damage can be caused by lots of things
(listed already)
@Mitch Yes, it's muscle destruction. Shedding of the fibers, I think. Nasty business.
lots of it during earthquakes from limbs crushed under building parts
or car wrecks
but also from extreme sports activities like marathoners or triathletes
I guess so. Extreme sports isn't really good for you.
21:53
But lots more people take dangerous drugs than either experience earthquakes or extreme sports. Though I suppose car crashes are quite common too.
22:08
@Robusto well, in my defense, them heavy shoes do help with pressing down pedals.
It's called optimization. I think Stack Overflow has a question on that somewhere.
22:36
@FaheemMitha good point. but then what proportion of drug ODs are associated with rhabdo?
@Mitch There's loads of reasons for renal failure that don't boil down to rhabdo
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Q: I'm looking for a word for a big change

EvangelosI'm looking for a word for a change, especially in a game. Example The Bulls were winning but then there was a big __ and they lost.

@Mitch No idea at all.
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Q: Is there a word for "not self-righteous"?

KaraIs there a word for "not self-righteous"? Humble doesn't quite fit, but someone who does what they need to but is not self-righteous in their demeanor or actions.


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