English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

12:00 AM

BTW, why are you all still online? Don't you have serious drinking to do?

Or maybe you are better than me at multitasking.

I just enter my actual age. I don't give a fuck about it myself, so it'd be really quite grandiloquent to presume anyone else does.

@Robusto I was thinking about that. I actually bought a bottle as well. But then I got into some nice chitchat with Tom about life and God and 42.

Robusto

I guess it's vain of me to think that Google doesn't already know my real age, and SS#, and bank account numbers ... and secret fantasies.

@RegDwigнt What does Bill Clinton have to do with it?

RegDwigнt

I'm happy if it can remember all those things for me.

Robusto

You forget your secret fantasies from time to time?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto he's mostly there for the sax.

@Robusto I never even knew them until Google showed me.

Robusto

12:04 AM

Feb 3 '11 at 20:07, by Robusto

See, that's why we go over this stuff.

spillthrill

Hi. I'm looking for an idiomatic expression that means something along the lines of "that's just the way things are going these days". Halp, please.

Robusto

Aren't we all?

RegDwigнt

That's just the way the cookie crumbles.

The way things are going, they're gonna crucify me.

Mitch

Haven't slept a wink for a week

Robusto

"Life's a bitch and then you die."

spillthrill

12:06 AM

@RegDwigнt I'm sorry, I should have been more specific. Not the way things are currently going, but the trend of how things look to be going. e.g. "I wish more cars came with naturally aspirated engines." "Well, emissions standards are getting tougher, that's just the way things are going these days."

RegDwigнt

@Robusto my point is more like, it's not so much vain to think that Google knows it, it's that it's vain to think it gives a fuck about knowing it. They could spy on you. But they don't. That's how unimportant you are.

Mitch

Flew in from Miami beach BOAC

Robusto

@spillthrill Curious that you changed "help" to "halp" ... did you think we were too young to understand or appreciate the correct spelling?

Mitch

or B.O.A.C. if you're tonepoet

Robusto

@RegDwigнt And yet the entities they share my info with might wish me harm.

RegDwigнt

12:07 AM

@spillthrill I really can't think of anything better than what you have. What is wrong about what you have. Seems legit to me.

Cerberus

I do the first of January of my real year of birth.

Robusto

I guess "That's life" is more succinct.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto those entities don't wish harm on anyone in particular, either. They are just evil in general. Unless it's Nortonn S. But nobody shares anything with that sod, so you're safe.

Robusto

@Cerberus That is so transparent.

tchrist

Ave @choster!

Cerberus

12:08 AM

That way, you never get problems with an unbelievable age, and it's easy to remember.

Robusto

@Cerberus Unix epoch is not unbelievable.

tchrist

@spillthrill Plus ça change?

RegDwigнt

You're smoking weed with April, drinking wine with May.

tchrist

@Robusto I antedate it.

Cerberus

I don't really know what that is about. I only know the Unix timestamp.

Or whatever its' called.

Robusto

12:09 AM

Frank Sinatra-That's life lyrics

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RegDwigнt

But I know I'm gonna change that tune when I'm back on top of June.

Robusto

@tchrist Ditto.

spillthrill

@RegDwigнt My first thought was "that's just the way the wind is blowing these days", but I got the impression from a Google search that the expression "the way the wind is blowing" is more often used in terms of wanting to gauge opinion, rather than in a "don't fight it, just accept it" kind of way

Cerberus

Nortonn, that was a long time ago.

spillthrill

i.e. "I'll see which way the wind is blowing regarding your project proposal."

tchrist

12:10 AM

@Cerberus The Unix epoch is the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 -0500.

RegDwigнt

@spillthrill that's like way too poetic. Doesn't fit the context at all.

spillthrill

What's too poetic?

tchrist

@Cerberus We still remember we who dwell...

Robusto

Frank Zappa - Anyway The Wind Blows 1968 [Vinyl Rip]

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There's a song for everything.

RegDwigнt

It's also a horribly broken metaphor when talking about emissions in particular.

Quite funny, actually.

Cerberus

12:11 AM

@tchrist But an epoch is a period.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto is that how we spell "any way" now?

Cerberus

It's not a specific point in time.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt That is how Zappa spelled it.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Try something Zeitgeistier.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto lies. He wasn't in Nirvana.

tchrist

12:12 AM

@Cerberus Thing of it as BU and AU.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Nevermind then.

tchrist

The "epoch" is the zero-point.

Cerberus

I'm not good at abbreviations.

An epoch is not a point...

RegDwigнt

You're not a point.

Robusto

@Cerberus But it expresses my fake age perfectly.

Which is the point.

tchrist

12:13 AM

@Cerberus Who is? Before Unix and After Unix. The epoch in computer timekeeping is the zero point. The Unix epoch is 1970-01-01 00:00:00 -0500, so "epoch time" is how many seconds since then. I'm saying this badly. I'm sorry.

spillthrill

@RegDwigнt The way I understood it, "I want a naturally aspirated, high-performance station wagon. But emissions standards are tightening up such that the small number of projected sales would not be enough to recoup the investment, given the tighter emissions standards. It would make more financial sense to design another cookie cutter, hybrid crossover for soccer moms. Ah well, that's just the way the winds are blowing these days."

tchrist

Apple has a different epoch.

RegDwigнt

@spillthrill basically what we're saying is, don't overthink it.

Cerberus

An epoch may begin at a point; it may not be a point.

Robusto

yesterday, by Robusto

So fuck it, Dude, let's go bowling.

That works for all things.

tchrist

12:14 AM

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Q: Why is 1/1/1970 the "epoch time"?

Why is 1 January 1970 00:00:00 considered the epoch time?

Cerberus

@Robusto Happy birthday?

Robusto

@Cerberus Always!

tchrist

> ¿No encuentras la respuesta? Pregunta en Stack Overflow en español.

spillthrill

You said the metaphor was broken for emissions, I thought it worked perfectly fine. I was just explaining myself. Sorry if that came across as overthinking, I'm often guilty of doing that.

Robusto

I'm just a party animal.

Cerberus

12:14 AM

Indeed.

tchrist

The Mac HFS+ epoch is 1904.

Not 1970.

So its timestamps are seconds since 1904 not since 1970 like Unix/POSIX.

RegDwigнt

@spillthrill I'm just thinking out loud. Just throwing spaghetti at you. You are free to choose which ones to let stick.

Robusto

@tchrist But ... I thought Mac was Unix under the hood now.

I mean, I know it is.

tchrist

@Robusto Has been since forever. But different filesystems are different filesystems.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto you're a grand old elephant alright.

Robusto

12:16 AM

Ah.

tchrist

If you make the POSIX call, you'll get since-1970. But there are other, extended syscalls to return more detailed data.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Now, now ... you're getting really close to that line where you can't take back something you said.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I have mod powers. I can delete the room entire.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt First you show me Angela Merkel's boobs, now you flirt with calling me a Republican.

RegDwigнt

Sexy times.

For a relaxing time, try Sattori time.

tchrist

12:18 AM

mac(tchrist)% grep stat /usr/include/sys/syscall.h
#define SYS_getfsstat 18
/* 38 old stat */
/* 40 old lstat */
/* 62 old fstat */
#define SYS_statfs 157
#define SYS_fstatfs 158
/* 168 old ustat */
#define SYS_stat 188
#define SYS_fstat 189
#define SYS_lstat 190
#define SYS_stat_extended 279
#define SYS_lstat_extended 280
#define SYS_fstat_extended 281
#define SYS_stat64 338
#define SYS_fstat64 339
#define SYS_lstat64 340

RegDwigнt

Oh fuck.

Tchrist is walltextofdooming us to death and you're complaining about boobs.

tchrist

So, syscall #279 is different from syscall #188.

spillthrill

@tchrist In regards to the Stack Overflow en Espanol comment you left above..."Cerrado por duplicado". Jajaja

Robusto

Suntory Time! - Lost in Translation (1/10) Movie CLIP (2003) HD

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RegDwigнt

@tchrist I could have told you by looking at them numbers and using my magnificent brain.

Robusto

12:19 AM

Yep, you think you can make obscure references unchallenged?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto you forgot the bit where I spelled it like the sword from Kill Bill.

You only win half of an internet for now.

tchrist

@spillthrill ¿De veras? ¿Por dónde?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I didn't forget. I chose not to mention it. Or that it was a pun on epiphany ...

RegDwigнt

Elephantiphany.

Breakfast at Elephant Tiffany's.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Pachyqué?

RegDwigнt

12:21 AM

Gezondhijd.

spillthrill

@tchrist I was just poking fun at SO's eagerness to close threads, but this time en Español. It's not something that really happened to me.

tchrist

@spillthrill Link me the Spanish one? I've mislaid it.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt See, now you're just free-associating.

Which is your normal state, of course.

tchrist

@spillthrill You can't close as a duplicate between sites, so I'm curious whether it's linking to the "wrong" one.

I can't seem to make it give me the Spanish link again.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto that was Wyoming last time I checked.

tchrist

12:25 AM

Wyoming is a normal state?

RegDwigнt

Which sounds like another Latin guy asking about another Chinese guy, but this time in English for some reason.

Why, o Ming?

tchrist

It has twice the senators it has congresscritters.

Seems abnormal to me.

RegDwigнt

I know nothing of my state.

Oh yeah it is abnormal that I know.

Don't forget to put a flower in your hair.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt The Cowboy State. It figures.

tchrist

It has no income tax, but does have a sales tax.

It is very peaceable.

Except when it hangs broken gay boys to die on a wire cross.

RegDwigнt

12:27 AM

It has no income tax because noöne ever wants to come in.

Just basic supply and demand.

tchrist

It is full of pronghorn and longhorn.

RegDwigнt

What's pogrom to do with any of this.

tchrist

See cross, wire.

Robusto

@tchrist And some of the most beautiful mountains in the country.

tchrist

The rivers of wind.

Robusto

12:29 AM

I.e., the Bighorn mountains.

Also Thermopolis with its hot springs.

tchrist

Pronghorn and longhorn and bighorn.

RegDwigнt

There we sat down. Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

tchrist

I cited that early. We still remember....

RegDwigнt

1/1/00 never forget.

Robusto

And let's not forget Yellowstone.

RegDwigнt

12:30 AM

I'm trying, k?

I'm kinda creeped out by that 20000-year-old mushroom tho.

That's 20000 miles across.

And no I don't mean Cheney for once.

tchrist

By the Waters of Babylon performed by NKU Chamber Choir

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spillthrill

@tchrist Here ya go: es.stackoverflow.com/questions/161200/…

RegDwigнt

Hear the trumpets hear the pipers.

spillthrill

"cerrada como no relacionado"

tchrist

Fissinger's harmonies are not for the baroquen-hearted.

RegDwigнt

12:34 AM

Earlier today I realized that I'm not writing Chopin wrong. I'm writing Chopin in the style of Bach. And then I was at peace with myself.

And so I went and helped a colleague resurrect a 10-minute stop-motion video of MahJongg tiles he filmed 10 years ago on a potato.

And then we sat and watched.

Also, nobody I know got killed in South Central LA.

I gotta say, I've had worse days.

Mitch

Laterz!!

RegDwigнt

Oh so that's what Mitch has been shopping for the last 40 minutes.

That's why no words like violence broke the silence.

tchrist

@spillthrill Thanks. Did you see the edits? gosh. Y lois6b♦ le pidió ejemplos but never got them.

RegDwigнt

May 30 '17 at 13:43, by RegDwigнt

Y por eso los grandes amores de muchos colores me gustan a mí.

@tchrist that is some genuinely creepy shit.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt You know, that thought did actually occur to me. I was going to mention it but I thought you would take it as disparagement.

RegDwigнt

12:39 AM

Yeah I wrote a figuration prelude is what I did.

I dunno that that's not an achievement, tho. Some people think it's hard.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt We took a First at State with it lo these many years ago.

And yes, it’s meant to be disturbing.

RegDwigнt

First you take a First at State, then you take Berlin.

tchrist

We seem to have come upon Moscow before Berlin. Not sure how that works.

Wait no, in Putin's Russia, Moscow takes YOU!

Robusto

Putin is coming to the White House to cut the ribbon on his puppet government.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I listened to some crazy waltz last night. It was all over the place. And I kinda liked it, but I also thought never ever am I going to go for this nonsense.

tchrist

12:42 AM

@Robusto Palatine must feed.

Cerberus

I'm surprised at how his approval rating has risen.

RegDwigнt

Friedrich Burgmüller - Grande valse de salon sur 'Le pardon de Ploërmel' (audio + sheet music)

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Here it is.

Not my style at all. Never will be.

tchrist

@Cerberus Non est enim consilium in volgo, non ratio, non discrimen, non diligentia, semperque sapientes ea quae populus fecisset ferenda, non semper laudanda dixerunt.

Cerberus

It's higher than Reagan and Carter, and aequal to Clinton.

RegDwigнt

I didn't know that Putin still traveled places.

I thought everyone just went and bowed to him by now.

Cerberus

12:45 AM

@tchrist Even so, his rating was much lower most of the time.

Robusto

@Cerberus Because disasters happen.

RegDwigнt

Especially if you elect them to happen.

Only in Soviet Russia do disasters elect themselves.

Cerberus

What caused this relative rise in popularity?

RegDwigнt

Women started to like being touched inappropriately.

Robusto

@Cerberus The Republicans passed a tax cut.

Also, people are stupid.

RegDwigнt

12:49 AM

Yeah that didn't happen tho. That is just a permanent state.

Cerberus

@Robusto You really think that's it?

Robusto

@Cerberus I know that's it.

Cerberus

But I thought many poor people in the country voted for Trump, who would not profit much from his lower taxes?

tchrist

@Cerberus It's ineffable.

@Robusto "Theft"

RegDwigнt

I don't know that the ratings are in any way accurate to begin with. Just more RNGesus to talk about.

tchrist

12:56 AM

It's because a lot of people, given the chance, will side with the bullies and crooks.

RegDwigнt

The opinion of one man is a tragedy. The opinion of millions is a statistic.

Robusto

@Cerberus Did you miss the part where I said "people are stupid"?

tchrist

All that matters now is how you can propaganda them into submission.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Now you're just stallin' ...

RegDwigнt

I won't even give that one a grad.

Robusto

12:58 AM

Don't matter. Lenin lost his too.

RegDwigнt

Imagine all the people.

tchrist

Which means Fox News and stealthfully targeted "social media" lightning wars. Not only have we sown the poison seeds of our own destruction by deliberate algorithmic design, we have fed and watered them as well, and harvested them for our daily bread.

RegDwigнt

So you eated them, then, and them is gone. All is good.

Robusto

Don't knock faux-Cyrillic.

RegDwigнt

Still loading for me.

I can see the file name though.

So maybe I saw that one before.

Oh yeah I did. In this very room, if memory serves.

Robusto

1:02 AM

Possibly.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt It doesn't matter if you shun all social media and its spamvertized feeds. Most people are lured to it like the moth to the flame, and thus the nation was lost.

RegDwigнt

And I did knock faux-Cyrillic. Probably.

Robusto

Nov 3 '16 at 14:05, by Robusto

Even faux Cyrillic beats no Cyrillic.

RegDwigнt

Yeah. Also Lennon never built a wall around Rus.

So hail him alright.

Robusto

Sep 5 '12 at 15:57, by Robusto

Ya, It's a Pome for RegDwight

The time has come, you knew it must,
To cease abusing our chat-room trust.
For you to show us the proper deference
You'll have to allow us to give you reference.
In short, it's time to stop being a dick:
Just dump the annoying faux-Cyrillic.

Wow, I forgot all about that one.

RegDwigнt

1:04 AM

@tchrist I don't even shun social media. I just shun the stupid on there. Like everywhere else, really. Business as casual.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt It's all stupid.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt They control the vertical. They control the horizontal.

RegDwigнt

You don't have to follow Trump on Twitter. You could follow Rob instead.

Robusto

@tchrist Outer limits of what?

tchrist

@Robusto The mindfuckers.

Robusto

1:05 AM

@RegDwigнt Nope. Ain't on Twitter.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto my point exactly.

Blissful silence.

There's a billion dumb bitches on Instagram that just post the same dumb selfie ten times a day over and over again. And it's not like even changing. It really is exactly the same. Angle, location, hairdo, clothes.

You could get all echauffé about that, or you could just, you know. Follow someone else. And never even see that bitch again.

Robusto

I never see any o' them bitches.

RegDwigнt

Ah so you're on Tinder, too.

Robusto

Nope. None of dem

You're looking at the sum total of my social networking right here.

Well, there's Strava too. But that's more athletic than social.

RegDwigнt

I follow like Adam Savage. Tim Minchin. Simone Giertz, the queen of shitty robots. Adam Neely, Nahre Sol, Katie Melua, musicians. And some bakery in Hamburg of all places. Where I've never even been. And that's pretty much it. All good people.

On Twitter I follow like half the cast of Firefly. And nobody else.

You can pick and choose. And so I do.

I ain't seeing no Trump.

Anywhere. Ever. At all.

Never heard of Strava tho. For reals. Gotta google that.

Oh fuck me that's like sports and doing things. No. Twenty years ago, maybe.

Robusto

1:15 AM

Meh. Get out and shake that thang.

RegDwigнt

I can shake that thang firmly sat.

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Q: My cat is dead vs my cat was dead

I wanted to tell someone that my cat"is dead or was dead"i got flustered between the present or the past

grammar grammaticality grammatical-structure

Someone doesn't realize that "my cat (has) died" is an option.

And everyone in the comments misses that.

Trololol.

Robusto

You can use the present emphatic form which would be "My cat is dead as disco." — Robusto 11 secs ago

I know, be nice. Fuck that.

RegDwigнt

You are really into Elephant Tiffany tonight.

Also the correct spelling of "disco" is "a doornail".

Robusto

Let's all agree never to click on an enumerative link, ever again. "The 7 worst foods you can eat!"

RegDwigнt

Cazu Marzu.

And six more of those.

Robusto

1:24 AM

YouTube is fulla dem.

RegDwigнt

Top 10 best rickrolls of all time

Robusto

I've already taken the pledge, sorry.

RegDwigнt

I'll just screenshot ELU's Top Questions of all Time and bring the party to you.

I can walk the extra mile. And I can walk five hundred more.

Fuck me the top question is actually by Mitch.

No wonder he's into otters now.

Robusto

Where do you see that?

RegDwigнt

Top 25 ELU Questions of All Time

Feeds

1:28 AM

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Q: Is There a Word of Phrase that denotes the ending of a never ending conflict?

The idea is that there is a contest, or a battle, between two opponents that are so equally matched, so eternally against each other, that they end up both destroyed. But this doesn't happen until all forces, all resources have been marshaled for one or the other side up-to optimum efficiency. Yo...

single-word-requests book-title

RegDwigнt

Fuck you Feeds.

Ours are better.

428

Q: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture?

My 1-year kid has a plastic ball that is decorated with all 26 letters from the English alphabet and besides each letter is an image. I suppose the images are of words in English that begin with each of the letters. That works for all of them, except for the Y, which image looks like an axe to me...

single-word-requests

Robusto

125

Q: Is it "bear" or "bare" with me?

Is it "bear" or "bare" with me?

word-choice homophones

That's on the list.

RegDwigнt

So you clicked.

Robusto

Don't get too self-satisfied.

@RegDwigнt Yeah. I made an exception for you.

tchrist

Schtap the schtoop I tees.

Robusto

1:29 AM

125

Q: "My wife and I's seafood collaboration dinner"

I just stumbled upon a Reddit post titled: My wife and I's seafood collaboration dinner. How does it look? Sure enough, the top comment immediately points out that it should be "my wife's and my". However, a cross-post to the Grammar subreddit produced the following comment: It's fine a...

possessives personal-pronouns apostrophe noun-phrases

RegDwigнt

@Robusto don't worry, I'll make you watch the rickrolls some other day.

Robusto

234

Q: How are "i.e." and "e.g." pronounced?

How are i.e. and e.g. pronounced?

pronunciation abbreviations latin initialisms

RegDwigнt

Correctly.

Robusto

That would be "ye" and "egg" ...

RegDwigнt

You should always pronounce them correctly.

Robusto

1:30 AM

Nevah.

RegDwigнt

Indeed, that is recommended for most words.

@Robusto ah the times when I still knew what Reddit was.

Robusto

Well ... here's #2.

428

Q: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture?

My 1-year kid has a plastic ball that is decorated with all 26 letters from the English alphabet and besides each letter is an image. I suppose the images are of words in English that begin with each of the letters. That works for all of them, except for the Y, which image looks like an axe to me...

single-word-requests

And we're a serious site why, exactly?

The answer is in Swedish!

Seriously, folks, that should be closed on account of Swedish.

Hear that @JohanLarsson?

RegDwigнt

I actually went there the other week to promote my LEGO walrus. And they had just rolled out a new layout that is bloated as fuck and loads the entire PirateBay in the background. Won't show anything for 5 minutes on an octo-core with 4 Gigs of RAM.

Sometimes won't show anything after that, either.

Robusto

You went where? Sweden?

RegDwigнt

Which is a blessing really because the one time that it loaded I had to close it in disgust.

@Robusto still talking about that Reddit thing.

Robusto

1:33 AM

Reddit isn't in Sweden.

RegDwigнt

I don't think anyone on Reddit knows that.

I'd rather follow Kim Kardashian on Instagram than go to Reddit again.

Robusto

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Q: Is There a Word of Phrase that denotes the ending of a never ending conflict?

The idea is that there is a contest, or a battle, between two opponents that are so equally matched, so eternally against each other, that they end up both destroyed. But this doesn't happen until all forces, all resources have been marshaled for one or the other side up-to optimum efficiency. Yo...

single-word-requests book-title

I think the answer is PippiLongstocking.

RegDwigнt

The word for the ending of a never ending thing is "never".

These are easy questions. I like.

146

Q: How do the tenses and aspects in English correspond temporally to one another?

Non-native speakers often get confused about what the various tenses and aspects mean in English. With input from some of the folk here I've put together a diagram that I hope will provide some clarity on the matter. I offer it as the first answer to this question. Consider it a living document....

verbs tenses conditionals progressive-aspect pp-vs-sp

Hey what do you know, you're on there, too.

Robusto

Yeah. Me and Kosmonaut.

I should change the title to "What's a single word or phrase for no good deed goes unpunished?"

RegDwigнt

Aw you only got 177 stars on that. Pity. I still rule with my 182.

Robusto

1:37 AM

Fuck you and Blink-182 too.

RegDwigнt

That's because I'm on Twitter and all my followers star all my questions.

I don't even know if I have any followers, but if I do I'm confident they've got nothing better to do with their pathetic lives.

Robusto

Or is it "I'm confident they've got nothing pathetic to do with their better lives"?

RegDwigнt

Protip: you can star your own shit.

Robusto

You would know that.

RegDwigнt

I'm Elton John, after all.

There's a star in my fucking logo.

That's how star I am.

Robusto

1:42 AM

Don't forget, tortilla rhymes with María.

RegDwigнt

Turtle Tortila's romance

Robusto

When You Wish Upon A Star - sung by Jiminy Cricket (Cliff Edwards)

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RegDwigнt

I have that one on SoundSlice, too. In the shortened version.

Disney Intro - Leigh Harline

But really you should check out Pogo instead.

POGO - Forget

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And that is a good note indeed to end on.

Nighty night, folks.

Cerberus

Auf wiedersehen.

Or does that count as a noun?

Robusto

@Cerberus Feels verbish to me.

@Cerberus I mean, wouldn't it have an article if used as a noun?

Cerberus

2:16 AM

@Robusto E.g. Wasser doesn't require an article.

I would say wiedersehen is both a noun and a verb in that sentence.

And I keep forgetting which German has decided it is.

Feeds

2:50 AM

0

Q: Single word of happening in the night

I want to know this word which u will answer me . I am interested to know this ,So please answer my question and oblige me... tnx

single-word-requests

Robusto

@Cerberus Well, in some contexts, no. But it with the preposition auf it feels like it would be accusative to me if it were a noun. Just a feeling. So there.

Cerberus

Indeed.

But we could not see the case, if it had one.

Færd

3:25 AM

Is Trump The Toughest Ever On Russia?

To follow up a discussion we had a couple days ago.

Feeds

4:47 AM

0

Q: Camouflage but not quite... like zebras

Camouflage is form and color that blends with the environment and for example make it difficult for a predator to spot a prey... But what is the correct word when the "camouflage" is not made to blend in? The best example is perhaps the zebra: Black stripes on white doesn't exactly blend in. ...

single-word-requests synonyms

SmokeDetector

6:02 AM

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Feeds

6:55 AM

0

Q: Word for well-intended compliment that offends you?

For example, if someone says “I love your art. It reminds me of that movie, Avatar” and you happen to think Avatar is a horrible movie. I wouldn’t say it’s a “backhanded compliment”, because it was well-intended.

single-word-requests

SmokeDetector

7:21 AM

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Lawrence

8:17 AM

@Mitch The one without the leading zero: "0.34".

Feeds

11:43 AM

2

Q: A word or phrase that someone says frequently is called what?

A word or phrase that someone says frequently is called what? As an example, a friend says the phrase "Faithful God" frequently, say 15 times in day. So, what English word defines the term "Faithful God" with respect to the friend?

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

2:07 PM

@Lawrence I ate .25000 kilograms of peach yesterday

Mitch

2:34 PM

@Lawrence Wha...?? '0.34' has the leading zero.

So do you like '0.34' or do you like '.34'?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

2:45 PM

@Mitch If you open your mind eye, you'd notice that the 0 in 0.34 is actually an egg

Færd

3:36 PM

Make an election is a strong collocation.

> 1 MAKE AN ELECTION TO 140
2 MAKE AN ELECTION UNDER 97
3 MAKE AN ELECTION , 63
4 MAKE AN ELECTION FOR 35
5 MAKE AN ELECTION . 24
6 MAKE AN ELECTION WITHIN 15
7 MAKE AN ELECTION WITH 15
8 MAKE AN ELECTION ON 11

What do you think it means?

Mitch

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ 0M?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mitch Lett

@Færd It's an origami thing

Færd

> The Secretary shall allow producers on a farm to make an election to receive partial payments

Mitch

@Færd does it give any context at all? I mean sentences those are found in? But yeah I don't know what that could mean

Færd

> Your organization can also make an election to allow for partial dispositions of property.

> You- can make an election to be considered a resident alien for the entire tax year.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

3:40 PM

Oh

Færd

> Bureau employees shall make an election under this paragraph not later than 1 year after the date of appointment

> Where the accused refuses to make an election , that refusal shall be treated as an election to be tried by court martial

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

> Putin shall make an election in two years to elect Trump

Færd

> If you don't make an election , you are considered to have declined LONG...

etc

Mitch

@Færd 'make an election' sounds like a weird attempt to be articulate when you've forgotten the word 'elect' (just replace and it sounds great)

Færd

Hmm

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

3:44 PM

Yay, tonight is going to be cool

So much wind outside

Færd

For all possibilities of * an election, make is the third frequent verb after is and win. I'm surprised its meanings are not very clear.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ It was windy here in the afternoon.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Færd Well it wasn't two minutes ago

Færd

(The data and examples are from the iWeb Corpus)

Mitch

@Færd order does say a lot but I'd also would want to know absolute frequency, and how it compares with other things

Færd

call/won/have/hold an election all rank below make an election.

Let me check COCA too.

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