@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Now, that's a good case for making the dot a lot larger. Avoids all that "I didn't see the point in that" business. An accountant I worked with wrote his dollars and cents with a short dash, almost like a minus-sign. It looked odd at first, but I quickly picked up why. The Euro comma-as-decimal-point is more visible than the dot, but that looks even weirder than the dash to me. Maybe the dot would look weird to them there.
@tchrist light bulb moment
@tchrist Perhaps it's to do with things like senpai/kohai, where it seems that people call their 'superiors' senpai but don't call their juniors kohai. A junior calling himself a kohai might be considered to be an application of a 'negative' honorific.
@tchrist Tipping wait staff is well-understood. How does one tip cows?
So the layout is quite random and arrived at by trial and error, and is not mathematically and ergonomically optimum.
But any language using the Latin alphabet would have a different ideal keyboard. So it doesn't make much sense pursuing this problem in the abstract way I formulated it.
I don't know what my fuming habits have to do with Dvorak?
I started out in my early twenties and soon reached two or three hours a day (yeah I measured the time it consumed, not the tobacco I consumed), then quit for a year or two.
And now I've backslid but I'm only smoking one cigarette a day and I don't feel awful about it the way I did back then.
I've even found a brand that doesn't throttle my larynx. It doesn't affect my voice at all.
Which is kind of important to me, because I hate not being able to sing to myself when I roam the streets of Tehran.
To my observance, I found the following words:
Helper, one who helps others.
Assistant, one who assist others.
Are these okay, or should I need other words?
I am looking for a word (or a combination of words) that describes reenacting emergency situations, including painted wounds, etc. Basically a name for the whole concept of painting wounds, reenacting injury, etc.
This is something that is often done by emergency services for training their staf...
what do you call a person who thinks that everyone is talking about them only.what ever the public post is done they think it's for them only and give a quick reaction.
@Cerberus In my brain, one is mapped to the Russian лететь, and the other to летать. Same verb, but two different aspects. English doesn't have those. But it still needs to express similar things occasionally.
Cow tipping is the purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment. The practice of cow tipping is generally considered an urban legend, and stories of such feats viewed as tall tales. The implication that rural citizens seek such entertainment due to lack of other alternatives is viewed as a stereotype. The concept of cow tipping apparently developed in the 1970s, though tales of animals that cannot rise if they fall has historical antecedents dating to the Roman Empire.
Cows routinely lie down and can easily regain their footing...
> Cows routinely lie down and can easily regain their footing
Goes to show how stupid people are if we have to spell that out on Wikipedia.
Like, who's never seen a cow.
@Educ yeah that's actually quite apropos. Social media are very much a crucial contributor whenever I face any exhaustion at all.
We only think in terms of likes and upvotes and followers these days. You post something on Facebook or YouTube or Reddit (or ELU, for that matter, or Wikipedia, even) and you get a million views and a trillion likes, but the person next to you gets a trillion plus one, and you feel all sad and drained. For no reason at all. None that holds up to scrutiny, anyway.
That said, it kinda takes away from that talk that it's being held by someone who's never been part of this crazy treadmill in the first place.
Is there a single English word to describe the attitude conveyed when someone destroys an object/opportunity for others simply because he/she cannot benefit from it?
For example, suppose a formerly wealthy financier goes bankrupt and his creditors arrive to haul away his assets which include som...
@RegDwigнt It's the epidemic of nature deficiency syndrome caused by poisonous urbanization and obsessing over flashy video games and "social media" propaganda.
"Like, who's never seen a cow?" One of my classmates at MIT had never seen a cow. We drove her out to the countryside and showed her a cow. She was vastly impressed at how large it was. She was, of course, from New York City. This was decades ago.
I love this Manga / Anime in a way that you can not imagine, I started watching it since 2003 and I still. By the way, the author supports the flat earth.
> the author believes in the the flat-earth theory OR the author believes in a flat earth OR the author believes that he earth is flat OR the author believes the earth to be flat
@ab2 Yeah decades ago I can understand. But these days everybody's got a million TV channels. There's no escaping cows now. At any moment in time, there's a cow being broadcast for your viewing pleasure.
Like, I come from the largest city in Europe. NY is Podunk in comparison. Still, everyone has seen a cow at least on TV. More often than not, standing next to a human, allowing for a direct comparison in size.