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Q: What is a word for ‘not imposing undue pressure or force to act in a specific way’

What is a word for ‘not imposing undue pressure or force to act in a specific way’? A word to be used to assure a junior employee that his inability or unwillingness to act in a particular way will not have negative consequences or affect his relationship with the senior.

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tchrist

04:21

@Mitch Do you say your cran- morpheme of cranberry the same way you say crayon?

I think the zillions of pronunciations under /æ/ raising are what can sometimes give rise to the yeah/neah thing, however you care to spell that.

For some people, man and crayon rhyme.

Meaning the version of crayon with two syllables, perhaps [ˈkɻæ̃.ən] if you like.

You can pivot on a /j/ there, too: [ˈkɻæ̃jən]. It just drags out without a clear break though.

The OED gives /ˈkreɪɒn/, /ˈkreɪən/, U.S. /ˈkreɪˌɑn/ if it matters.

Wikipedia has Eastern New England with [æ~eə], upper midwest and northwest and Canada with [æ~ɛə], and the South with [ɛ(j)ə~eə]. And that’s just what happens before a nasal.

> For speakers in much of Canada and in the North-Central and Northwestern United States, a following /ɡ/ (as in magazine, rag, bags, etc.) or /ŋ/ (as in bang, pang, gangster, angler, etc.) tenses an /æ/ as much as or more than a following nasal does.[8] In Wisconsin, Minnesota, and central Canada, a merger of /æ/ with /eɪ/ before /ɡ/, making bag, for example, rhyme with vague, has been reported.[9]

I’m sure we tense bang into /beŋ/.

It’s super close to bane in fact, just a slightly different terminal nasal.

The bane of your existence. The bang of your existence.

So some people say hand like ['hejən(d)].

I’m sure you’ve heard that.

> "Hay and what?"

> The realization of this "tense" (as opposed to "lax") /æ/ varies from [æ̝ˑ] to [ɛə] to [eə] to [ɪə], and is greatly dependent on the speaker's particular dialect.

From soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Englishes/word/hand

[hɛ̝ĕən], [hɛ̝ɪ̆ənd], [hɛ̝ˑən] — and oh so many more.

Calf is another good one to look at: soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Englishes/word/calf

Or lamb.

Bath: [bæ̝əθ], [bɛĕəθ], [bæˑəθ], [be̞ˑəθ]. ...

Makes you appreciate why we (usually) use phonemics not phonetics, eh? :)

Anybody can figure out /bæθ/ but the narrow transcriptions are so finicky.

If you think that's wild, try all the ways part works out to being said in Romance: soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Romance/word/part

Færd

05:24

@Mitch subsides into violent mirth

But that debunks my GT-Farsi-level-evaluation theory.

@RegDwigнt Eager to watch it!

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Q: Happy word for frowning

Is there a word to say when someone "frowns" eagerly/anxiously? Example: You just wrote a song and sang it for the first time for your best friend. By the end of the song you look at your friend, unconfident and with your forehead wrinkled and eyebrows on a /\ shape, anxious to hear his opinion a...

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Cup Fever

@Cerberus this one

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Q: Is there a word for someone who has been in power for an unusually long period of time?

Whether democratically elected or not, some people are in power for unusually long. What word distinguishes for example, a democratically elected official who has been in power for 40 years versus one that's been in power for 2 years? You might think such a word is inappropriate because there's...

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Q: Is there a specific english word for a woman that has not given birth yet?

Is there a specific English word for a woman that has not given birth yet? I don't mean a sterile woman. I mean a young woman, who is not pregnant, who hasn't got children, who hasn't given birth.

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RegDwigнt

09:17

@Mitch WTF, why does Google Translate give a different translation for that every time you press reload?

What is this sorcery?

Have I found a glitch in the Matrix?

@Færd fix the Matrix, please. This is worrying. Kthxbai.

Cerberus

12:05

@CupFever Ohh I remember now!

Voted to reopen.

Mitch

12:18

@tchrist cran- = /kræn/ same vowel as 'cat'

Most of the answers there I feel like are doing... spelling pronunciations, like they're trying to pronounce it like it is spelled? eg yeah -> ye-ah, two syllables.

Cup Fever

12:30

@Cerberus thanks pal :-)

tchrist

12:44

@Mitch Are you thinking that the yah spelling represents /jɑ/? In theory, we shouldn’t be able to have a "checked" vowel at the end of a word by itself without some sort of glide or centering diphthong to "tie it off". That's why things like /jɛ/ or /jʌ/ by itself "doesn't exist" in English.

Mitch

yeah rhymes with meh rhymes with feh

tchrist

Nyet!

Mitch

@tchrist yeah. 'yah' = /jɑ/ is what you say to horses, among other things.

@tchrist as with everything always append 'for me'

I don't have a diphthong (or can't perceive it) in 'yeah'

Cup Fever

the thong song?

:)

Mitch

@tchrist That shows well the bath-trap split, where /æ/ before a nasal goes to /a/

tchrist

12:57

@Mitch Perhaps you couldn’t perceive it in the tautosyllabic triphthong [jæə̯].

Mitch

@tchrist so many diphthongs! but that is in very regional out of standard accents. I'e only heard it in the wild in N/S Carolina 'backwoods' (so to speak), They'll triphthongize 'pen' to /pi:jen/. I haven't heard all these diphthongs in all these other American places

@tchrist Is that the Mordecai and Rigby version 'yay-yuh'?

tchrist

@Mitch To a northerner, that always sounds like two different syllables not a triphthong.

To be in one syllable, the glides have to be on the outside; putting one on the inside of a sequence of three is how we get to separate syllables where I come from.

Mitch

Then so wouldn't all those two vowels next to each other in your American map of 'hand'?

tchrist

@Mitch Certainly [bɛĕəθ] and [bæˑəθ] are suspicious in that regard.

[hɛ̝ĕən], [hɛ̝ɪ̆ənd], [hɛ̝ˑən]

Surely the middle one of those three hands must have two syllables.

This is why northerners joke that there are no one-syllable words in southern.

You want a word with a funny vowel, try quite.

[kʰʷʌɪ̯ʔ]

While bite and write rhyme, as do quite and white, but I’m not sure those all four rhyme with each other.

It’s probably close enough though.

Unvoiced vowels confuse me: height.

quite white height

Are different from night might bite.

Somehow.

The first trio are puffier.

Mitch

13:48

@tchrist Unvoiced? all vowels in English are voiced. Unless you're whispering. unvoiced vowels are rare in the world. maybe Turkish? Yanamamo?

@tchrist whatever is different, the last vowel and consonant are the same for me.

tchrist

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A: Why is /h/ called voiceless vowel phonetically, and /h/ consonant phonologically?

A good question, and a very basic one that illustrates an important difference between Phonetics and Phonology (or, as it used to be called, Phonemics): They use different criteria for what's a vowel and what's a consonant. First, an important caveat: This is only true of English; i.e, it's ...

Mitch

All this is to say that I don't like any of the answers on the 'yeah' question, I disagree with what some say, but I don't know enough of what's going on to answer myself with an answer that I would find acceptable.

I hate it when other people are wrong!

tchrist

@Mitch Better thee than me.

Mitch

@tchrist I'm happy calling /h/ the unvoiced glottal fricative (a consonant) and leaving it at that.

@tchrist I don't think other people like it when they're wrong either, but I wish they'd do something about it.

Anyway, yes, it's sort of an ASD thing to be upset when things are wrong, but everybody is annoyed by other people being wrong, some just manage their reaction better, or have varying levels of diplomacy about it.

tchrist

@Mitch Quite.

Mitch

13:59

Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better - The Spy Who Loved Me

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tchrist

@Mitch By DJT? :)

Mitch

@tchrist I've found that older academics tend to do pretty good at it despite them all being a bit ASD (that's how they got there, right?).

@tchrist Ew

tchrist

@Mitch [iːjuˑwə] is sure complicated, eh?

And thus well befitting the situation.

Anonymous

14:34

@Mitch Some devoicing of high vowels isn't that rare. People often devoice the middle vowel in English multiple, for example.

tchrist

@snailboat Because they stop their vocal cords for the /t/ before it?

Oh, and because they also have to do so for the /p/ following.

And since it’s a short, reduced vowel between unvoiced stops, it’s too tough to get all that buzzing fired up again then quickly offed in time for the next unvoiced bit.

Is this why vowels between voiced consonants seem to last longer than those between unvoiced ones?

Compare kick and did.

Let alone cut and dried.

pit vs bid

Mitch

@tchrist haha hi I say it /yw/, which is maybe not a terrible way to teach Americans how to say the French /y/

tchrist

I begin to fear than in connected speech I may only be guaranteed to release final coronal consonants when the next word starts with a vowel.

@Mitch I was taught to pronounce /y/ by rounding my lips for a "w" but saying "ee" through that mouth-hole.

Mitch

@snailboat I don't notice any devoicing of the vowel. How is it devoiced?

@tchrist I don't even then. If I do it sounds like trying to be British

tchrist

The mistakes an L2 speaker of French makes in pronouncing something like French tu /ty/ can show how they were taught. L1 speakers of English tend to make it a /tu/ but L1 speakers of Spanish tend to make it a /ti/.

Mitch

14:47

@tchrist well it is a high front vowel, with the weird-for-Americans rounding

tchrist

@Mitch Yah I dint thing so.

@Mitch It's whispered?

> ”Someday my prints will come.”

E-NO-T

capital

Seems the same scenario should apply to capital as applies to multiple.

Mitch

I don't have an oscilloscope (or Praat?) to tell if it's voiced or not

My oscilloscope is at the shop

tchrist

And yes, capital and capitol for me are homophones.

Mitch

Speaking of which, aren't all capacitors dealing with flux? So are't they all nominally flux capacitors?

tchrist

Ditto capitel, an architectural term.

@Mitch Been reading Jack Chalker again, I see.

Mitch

14:53

And Capitulle

a word I just made up

@tchrist I haven't read a single thing in forever

tchrist

@Mitch Stop hardly unhelping!

Spirits of Flux and Anchor

Mitch

A fine liqueur

made by squeezing Artesians

with a cold compress

tchrist

In theory, the vowel in German die Tür should be longer than the one in French tu.

Mitch

physician recommended treatment for the flue

@tchrist they're mostly non-rhotic which ends up with this weird long /tyə/

tchrist

@Mitch But I think it's long even for those native speakers who are rhotic. @RegDwigнt Are you a Teutonophonically rhotic speaker?

Mitch

14:58

the 'r' is there but only if there's something following: 'die Türe' /tyrə/ (for whatever weird 'r' when the do pronounce it out loud

tchrist

Tür

Noun: Tür f (genitive Tür, plural Türen, diminutive Türchen n or Türlein n)

door

gives /tyːr/, /tyːɐ̯/

With a long mark on both virgins.

Mitch

@tchrist or pfft I can't remember all the case endings!

tchrist

@Mitch CAPITEL!

The case on Ionic capitels differs from that of Doric capitels differs from that of Corinthian capitels.

Mitch

@tchrist sure, /ɐ̯/. they beat that difference into you between masculine '-er' and feminine '-e' endings and they still sound identical

@tchrist another difference that I thought I had figured out how to name properly but can never remember right. Corinthian is the curlicue one... Ionic looks like (the top of) an 'I' and Doric is ... boring?

tchrist

Mitch

15:02

What about Aeolian columns? Mixolydian? The Boeotians could barely make a lean-to.

@tchrist Hah! I randomly got it right for once!

tchrist

@Mitch Wasn’t JC some sort of Boeotian ~~maiden~~ princess?

Mitch

Which makes me wonder about violin makers. They spend weeks sculpting the tuning peg curly par when they should forget about it and worry about the body.

@tchrist Jesus Christ

I mean 'Jesus Christ?'

Oh Julius Caesar?

tchrist

Caesar

Mitch

Was that where he... no it was Bythinian

or Bithynian

tchrist

Yeah, right.

Mitch

15:06

that'd probably upset both Bithynians and Bythinians

tchrist

I always get my Bythinians and my Boeothians confuseds.

Mitch

You now how they are

tchrist

> . In 80 BC, young Gaius Julius Caesar was an ambassador to Nicomedes IV's court. Caesar was sent to raise a fleet using Bithynia's resources, but he dallied so long with the King that a rumor of a sexual relationship between the two men surfaced, leading to the disparaging title for Caesar, "the Queen of Bithynia", an allegation which Caesar's political enemies made use of later in his life.

Mitch

haha people making fun of Caesar

tchrist

@Mitch If only that were the secret tape!

Mitch

15:08

Wait... that's not his real family name is it?

tchrist

JC was only 20 when he went to Nicky's court.

@Mitch Whose?

gens Julii?

Mitch

15:47

@tchrist Right. The wiki says Caesar is the family name but then 'gens Julii' as though the family lineage is 'Julius'. So I'm confused.

His friends called him Chad

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Q: What do you call a mother whose children have died?

For instance, a child whose parents have died is an orphan; while a woman whose husband has died is a widow...

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Cerberus

17:58

@Robusto Look, this is why one might need both the web console and the browser console:

See the errors that are only presented in the browser console, in the lower right quadrant?

The control-K console, in the lower left quadrant, won't show those errors.

It's really annoying.

@RegDwigнt By the way, the above is from the latest Firefox. You see the title bar, the menu bar, the bar tab, the addresss bar, and even the bookmarks bar (which I do not use).

I believe it is the standard set-up.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, mostly dots in answer: Is there a specific english word for a woman that has not given birth yet? by b. maisie on english.SE

RegDwigнt

19:59

@tchrist English or German? In English I can do, and do do, either at will. The intrusive R as well when I feel like it. And not when I don't.

In German I speak High German but I can code-switch to the local dialect, or I dunno Bavarian or Saxonian, but I suck at those for I have no practice.

In Russian I just do this:

Learn Russian in 1 minute

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@Robusto @Cerberus @terdon ^

Robusto

@Cerberus You need to learn to use the other console tabs, like Network for XHR etc. Also how to set breakpoints in code and inspect the returns, etc.

@RegDwigнt I don't have that kind of time, sorry.

Actually, IIRC Russian does use verbs, just not copulas.

Sorry, @Cerb, I meant copulae.

RegDwigнt

20:17

@Robusto I was actually thinking of you when I made this.

Because recently you complained how a video that taught something in 5 minutes was 6 minutes long.

Cerberus

@Robusto I use other tabs when necessary, but it's nice to have all error messages in one and the same tab.

As it is the case in older Firefox.

Now you need to switch between tabs all the time, which was not needed before.

@RegDwigнt This does explain much of the Internet and Youtube comments.

Ender Look

Could someone please tell us what means take the infinitive? We've already looked up 3 dictionaries with our teacher and we didn't find it!

Cerberus

It means, "must be followed by an infinitive".

> I must go: go is an infinitive, and must takes an infinitive.

Anonymous

@Mitch It's usually at least partially devoiced (greater than otherwise expected VOT) but often completely devoiced. By the way, one surprising fact about phonetics is that it's really hard to make accurate judgments about how things are pronounced based on how you think you pronounce them. It's usually much better to take some data (e.g. sign up for a free LDC account and grab some recordings from Switchboard) and see what you find (Praat is a free download as well).

Cerberus

As opposed to a gerund (going).

Anonymous

20:29

People aren't necessarily wrong about their intuitive judgments, but those judgments tend to be surprisingly bad evidence on their own.

Ender Look

@Cerberus but it's an expression. Does it means exactly that?

Oh. My teacher has just found that it means take the initiative. She just have asked it to a friend.

Is it right?

RegDwigнt

scratches head

What.

No. "Infinitive" never means "initiative". Ever.

Ender Look

20:46

So, what it means??

Anonymous

@EnderLook What was the context you found it in? Was it part of a sentence?

ana ng

hi

I was wondering if anyone knew where I would go to have a short essay reviewed. I wrote one to apply for a scholarship. Is there any sort of business that edits this stuff?

Ender Look

@snailboat Which group in exercise 1 do the following expressions belong to?: Take the infinitive, take pride in, etc

tchrist

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Q: Where can I ask for free proofreading?

I know that proofreading is prohibited in this site. However, I'd like to ask if there are free online websites to do that. I remember once there was a website where I can help people in Spanish/Portuguese and they help me in English. I attempted searching on Google, but I didn't find anything....

discussion resources online-resources

ana ng

No i mean is there a type of business that does this. I'd like to meet someone face to face. I don't need proofreading though. I just want editing.

Cerberus

20:58

@EnderLook Okay, infinitive is a completely different word.

To take the initiative = to take action, to be the first to do something.

ana ng

by the way do you guys mind if I ask a quick question about commas and phrases like "on the other hand"?

Cerberus

@anang I'm sure you will find many people who do this for a living if you search for copy editing.

RegDwigнt

Yeah there's definitely a ton of professional editors in any city.

Cerberus

If you have an English question, you can just ask. Someone may or may not answer, depending on the question and the person('s spare time)!

ana ng

@Cerberus thanks! Which is correct? "On the other hand _________" or "On the other hand, __________"

Cerberus

21:01

It's hard to say without context, but I would generally use a comma.

RegDwigнt

@EnderLook listen to Cerberus. His explanation is correct. Both for "take the infinitive" and for "take the initiative".

Cerberus

Merci.

RegDwigнt

I don't speak la grenouille.

So no idea what you just said.

Cerberus

I understand. Far be it from me to accuse you of praeterition.

Ender Look

So, take the infinitive just means must be followed by an infinitive?

RegDwigнt

21:09

Yes.

Ender Look

Oh, thanks!

Cerberus

@EnderLook You're not really making sense.

Is it inifinitive or initiative? From what you said earlier, it's probably initiative.

ana ng

@Cerberus thanks! I found a pro editor! she said she'd get my job done in 1-2 hours. 75$ per hour. Not sure if those are good rates or not but its something!

Cerberus

Great!

That sounds decent enough, it's fairly specialised work and one cannot do it 24/7.

Be glad you didn't need a lawyer.

Ender Look

@Cerberus It's is infinitive, but my teacher's friend said it was a synonym of initiative in that phrase.

Cerberus

21:18

Nooo.

Those words are completely different, not close at all.

ana ng

Why would someone need a lawyer?

Cerberus

@anang I don't know, but it would cost you a lot more!

Ender Look

@anang Maybe your work is "delicate"?

@Cerberus So? I am getting lost.

Anonymous

@EnderLook You haven't really given us any context, but assuming it's from a textbook, it's possible they just wrote one word down while they were thinking of another. It happens.

Cerberus

@EnderLook Then maybe read back the entire conversation. I don't know how to say it in a different way.

ana ng

21:20

@EnderLook Well the prompt said "don't use a professional editor for help" so umm... maybe its delicate?

Ender Look

21:34

@snailboat You have right, it may be a typo error, we've already found one.

@Cerberus Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't my intention to offend you.

Cerberus

Don't worry.

RegDwigнt

Why is any of this still happening. :-D

Also hey @snailboat. She's alive!

And with a different avatar. Yay.

Cerberus

Yes, hello!

But, different? I didn't notice.

The general colours are similar.

Anonymous

21:57

Hello! :-)

Cerberus

makes snail-like sound

Færd

22:21

@RegDwigнt To be fair to GT, those are different sequences of characters.

The second is my favorite so far.

Why do I always drop off at the computer and promise myself I'll know better next time?

RegDwigнt

Ground floor
Without pass
Did you do this?
MEMORY MEMORITY

Landmine Zimbabwe is one of the few nonpartisan mothers of the United Arab Emirates

Land mines Land of the land without any
of the ancestors of the
Mummam's Mommamma

Earth Land Land Land Land Offshoring
Offspring Ancestors Mummers

Jun 22 '13 at 11:31, by RegDwighт

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Færd

Yes, the second one.

RegDwigнt

I know.

I figured I transcribe them all.

For posterity.

And for poetry.

I do nothing but transcribe things all day long anyway.

Mostly it's not words though.

Færd

On your tablet? :)

RegDwigнt

Lol how appropriate. Mummam's Mommamma summons Mitch.

@Færd Phone or tablet or PC. Don't use the pencil much these days.

Did some transcribing in a company meeting earlier today.

I bet they were thinking I was doing something serious. Like playing Farmville.

Færd

22:34

It's hard to keep up with people talking on phone.

On a keyboard it's more feasible.

And you type fairly fast.

RegDwigнt

Yeah that's the comment I like leaving on YouTube.

Whenever someone says "nice video but I wished you could talk slower, I am not a fast listener".

I always reply "nice comment but I wished you could type slower, I'm not a fast reader".

Færd

Hehe

RegDwigнt

Any time you see shit like this, that's one of my alter egos.

I've not seen anyone else do it.

Færd

I was thinking how cool it would be if you could translate and transcribe on the spot.

Mitch

@snailboat I'm very aware of the problems with introspection. If there is an erro it is because I am relying on remembered statements (like 'unvoiced vowels are rare in the world') which could be misremembered or correct only in some context or just wrong.

RegDwigнt

22:37

Well that's what professional translators do.

Like, the ones doing the talking, not the writing.

I only do the writing.

In German these two professions have different names.

Übersetzer and Dolmetscher.

Mitch

Do you mean interpreters?

RegDwigнt

Fuck.

Færd

But to listen and transcribe the translation at the same time, does anyone do that?

RegDwigнt

I should learn English some time.

Exposed by Mitch. The horror.

Mitch

Dolmetscher sounds like an unappetizing pastry

RegDwigнt

22:38

Funnily enough it's related to a Slavic word nobody suspects it's related to. Толмач.

Færd

@Mitch But that's spoken.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt self schadenfreude

RegDwigнt

Meaning the same thing but kinda archaic. At least in Russian.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt my case is made. Have you ever had Slavic pastry? Unappetizing

RegDwigнt

@Færd which was my point, it was me who brought it up.

Mitch merely found the word for it.

@Mitch I've had Slavic everything in my life.

Mitch

22:40

If you ask someone in Russia if they want a pastry, the reply is always no, I was planning on killing myself some more pleasant way

RegDwigнt

Hm. I should try that.

Asking, not the pastry.

The pastry I've tried.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt That's nothing to boast of

Færd

Another thing I was thinking about today, how cool it would be if I engaged in the conversation whose translation I'm transcribing on the spot.

RegDwigнt

According to my official documents, I live in Russia, after all. :-D

Færd

It would come handy to me.

RegDwigнt

22:41

@Mitch yeah. It's a mixed bag.

Unlike with America, there everything is just all horrible all the time.

Mitch

@Færd there's be a lot of repetition

Færd

Why?

Mitch

@RegDwigнt for that you want a Ungemischttutendolmetscher

Færd

Say, everyone is talking in Farsi and one of the participants is writing it down in English to be shown on a screen for a non-Farsi speaking audience.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt But we have these idiotic grins all the time. Like we just ate shit. And then you realize that's exactly what happened

RegDwigнt

22:43

@Færd okay ccccombo breaker just for a second I have to ask you to teach me Instagram.

What is it with those full-screen posts that I see sometimes.

Like your recent one.

Mitch

So basically I'm saying that I won this contest. You may have shitty pastry but we went ahead and ate it.

RegDwigнt

I can't do anything on those. How do I like them?

I seem to be able to leave a comment, but I want to leave a heart.

Færd

@RegDwigнt Me teach you wha?

Those are stories.

Mitch

@Færd because of the recursion

Færd

You can't like them, because liking them is pointless.

RegDwigнt

22:45

@Færd I was just about to ask if that's what they were.

Mitch

You didn't specify a base case

RegDwigнt

So what do I do about these?

They seem kinda user-unfriendly to me.

Færd

Your reaction to them is not visible to the followers of either you or the story maker.

RegDwigнt

That sucks.

Why would people post them then, if they can't even get a like.

Færd

But if you put up a story you can see who viewed it.

RegDwigнt

22:46

Hm.

But that I can see on regular posts anyway.

Færd

Think of fapping instead of full-fledged sex.

RegDwigнt

Yeah.

Figures.

Færd

You want to share something but not spend too much time on it.

RegDwigнt

This new-fashioned Internet stuff is beyond my comprehension.

Færd

And you don't want it to hang around in your profile for a long time.

So you share it as a story, and it disappears in 24 hours.

RegDwigнt

22:47

Yeah that I know about stories, which is why I never tried posting one myself.

Mitch

Is talking about shit bad?

I mean what if you're a shit doctor?

Færd

Any reaction to it goes to the private messaging part.

RegDwigнt

I do see a lot of stories with quite high production value. Bummer people just let them vanish like that.

Mitch

I mean not a bad doctor but a doctor of shit?

RegDwigнt

@Mitch you've not had enough Seinfeld clips for tonight?

Færd

22:49

@RegDwigнt Oh there's a function on new versions of Instagram that you can sort out and keep some of your stories in your profile.

Mitch

Like someone who deals with fecal transplants. Or intestinal biota?

RegDwigнt

Cosmo Kramer - The ASSMAN (Seinfeld)

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Færd

I haven't used it yet. Let me find a link.

@RegDwigнt help.instagram.com/813938898787367

RegDwigнt

Thank you.

Mitch

I think we should discuss the elephant in the room

Færd

22:50

@Mitch Aren't they all doctors of shit?

@RegDwigнt No probs.

Mitch

Like, how did he get in here? He's too. If for the door

The window is definitely too small

RegDwigнt

Lol it's automatically in German for me. What is this global Stasi conglomerate that tells everything about me to every site I visit.

Mitch

Was he born here? But his mom would be to big

RegDwigнt

@Mitch oh I'm making a video on an elephant.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt not to go all tech on you and shut, but google doesn't bother keeping an explicit table of info that connects you. It just machine learns a function that says oh you got this IP address and maybe you had a cookie that visited mars once, imma give you an ad for poop stuff.

And it'll be right!

@RegDwigнt exactly

RegDwigнt

22:54

What is it with you and poop tonight.

You are assman, arencha.

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