I'm looking for a word that describes an action where people unintentionally persist with a certain way of doing things or continue to accept a certain practice even though they are aware it should change. Because they continue with it (whatever it is), those who are unaware (or even know!) of th...
@Mitch My father, too! He lost his hearing when he was a child, so his speech became...well, my schoolmates assumed he was German, based only on American WWII movies and Hogan's Heroes, of course. When he sneezed, for 5 minutes, it sounded like he was yelling--'I rush you! I rush you! I-rush-you! I-rush-you! Irushyou-Irushyou-Irushyou!'--absolutely terrifying...but he had nasal surgery later, and that was the end to that.
@Cerberus The capital D is relatively a new thing. It indicates that they were part of a community with their own language, ASL--American Sign Language vs. SEE, Signed Exact English. Their generation actually developed it, in large part, and made it the standard in America. I assume the same happened in other countries, but I don't know.
Is this site just for BrE? I mean, really, I checked the URL to see if it had "uk" in it. If not, why am I being 'corrected' when I respond with how someone in this part of America would say something? Just so everyone knows, if you come here and order "bread and butter," your waitress is going to look at you like you're stupid and blurt out, "The butter comes WITH it." Then she's going to think--My tip!--and say, "I mean, we don't charge extra for the butter--it's free--it comes with it." FRT.
@user2646 I feel like I'm being bullied; I really do. I don't respond well to that; no one I know does...but I've never been to the UK. My MIL always wanted to see the white cliffs of Dover again, and she had plenty of resources to do so, but instead...she said, "Just scatter my ashes in the Savannah River, and I'm sure they'll make their way there somehow." Now, that all makes perfect sense to me.
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@Cerberus That's idiotic. Seriously. Next someone will try to copyright the I-IV-V blues progression.
Here's another: "My Sweet Lord" is a song by English musician George Harrison. ... Later in the 1970s, "My Sweet Lord" was at the centre of a heavily publicised copyright infringement suit, due to its similarity to the Ronnie Mack song "He's So Fine", a 1963 hit for the New York girl group the Chiffons."
@KannE The Brits (including former colonies other than this one) can be quick to take umbrage at any suggestion of AmE absolutism on the site, and I think that's what happened with Chappo's comment about your comment. I personally wouldn't worry about it. Just remember it's a comment, not an indictment.
Radial lines divide a circle into pizza slices
Annular lines divide it up to make a bullseye shape
What if you do both, as in polar coordinates? Is there a word that means radial and annular?
Radannular? Radioannular? Radler?
Context of the sentence: "Pictures were divided into radial/annul...
@Robusto Yes, I forgot to specify my locale because I thought it would be put on hold anyway...but I directed him to "our" ELL site..."our" meaning everybody who uses it...not "our" meaning we--The United States of America--dang... But thanks for the Beatles...and my MIL from Ramsgate...so my husband, too. That's about it.
@user2646 I'm over it. I should've specified my locale...middling-sized state over half the size of your sovereign state, near-acre worth less here than your couch probably is there. OIC now...never mind.
In German there is a term Beutelschneiderei which in all dictionaries I have currently access to is being translated as "daylight robbery". However, Beutelschneiderei in German is a very picturesque word, and my impression is that "daylight robbery" is more of a sober description of the activity....
@Mitch plot twist: when the thing that the sneezing interrupted was more sneezing.
@Cerberus yeah I have drafts of all translations saved up on my mobile phone, though sometimes on YouTube I change a word or five in the very last moment. Or after a week. Just tell me what poem(s) you need, I can dump them on you here or on Facebook.
@Robusto The Brits just need to get Tony Blair back. Then they'll be singing "America first" louder than any American can possibly manage. Give it time, it will happen. Especially once the EU finally kicks them out.
@KannE Chappo was very even handed and factual. Your feeling like it was bullying was more an aggressive response to being contradicted. Also it was not clear what exactly you were saying. Chappo was trying to make clear all the nuance that wasn't clear beforehand.
Hopefully you won't take this as bullying but more like having things clarified.
Having an annoying skin tag on my back which I could not treat myself without impossible contortion, my G.P. gallantly offered to assist with his famed 'Cryogenic Clinic' available on Saturday mornings.
Halfway through the treatment he stepped bask and asked (with some degree of irritation) 'Wel...
In a report, I have a set of experiences a person has reported experiencing, and a set of experiences a person has reported not experiencing.
I want to give these a pithy descriptor since I've got a lot of these people.
"Reported:" is easy, but I can't find a good opposite of it (can't use unre...
The context is a book on the interactions of pagans and Christians in antiquity. Sallustius is a pagan, but he put together a catechism of various pagan beliefs, which some of his contemporaries found extremely unHellenistic (a catechism normally being something associated with the Christians).
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@WillHunting I wondered about that. I figure that a youtube search can pick up his videos to and you don't have to be subscribed to have it suggested to you in a search.
Seek carnal pleasure elsewhere to divert your attention from the present object?
Speak to the object to get clarity and closure either way?
@MetaEd Whenever I see a flag bubble, after I finish reading the message and make my decision to press valid/invalid, I'm usually too late, and it says "you can only counter-flag messages that have been flagged". The bubble doesn't disappear when it should.
What is a word for a person with a skill level that is not quite as low as a beginner but not in any way competitive?
e.g. I enjoy running and have a reasonably good fitness level compared to the average person, however, I wouldn't be able to compete with anyone who takes it properly seriously. ...
Today, I found the usage of the verb "peel" in OffSet site, which says:
Man's hands peeling a pomegranate.
I am sure that "peel" can easily be used in "peeling potatoes", as we strip off their outer layer (skin in general). But in sense of taking out pomegranate seeds, I am confused ... wet...
Because of its length, the two towers of the Verrazano Bridge are not parallel: they are [???], accounting for the curvature of the earth.
There's a bunch of terms that come close, such as:
Radial from the center of the earth.
Okay, but this only covers vertical lines.
They're skewed.
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@Mitch No, it's not about being contradicted. Who gives a d*** about bread and or with butter? That question would've been put on hold or redirected had I not given my little opinion on it. Then it was like how dare she? But not one word directed toward the other blanket statements
because they are the opinions of men...or non-Americans...or whatever the deal is here.
There have been sporadic 'miffedness' by one nationality or another getting one's nose bent out of shape due to assumption of answerers answering generally assuming AmE unconsciously
I'm sorry about the 'aggressiveness'...if I had had a brother or been a brother, this never would've happened because I would've learned my place and been comfortable in it OR I would've rightfully assumed my position and been oblivious in it, whichever the case may be. So, I apologize again, because my reproductive organs condemn me to. There, I feel better now. Have fun with your little deal-y. Good afternoon.
@WillHunting it's because YouTube is broken. When you add subtitles, every time you pause the video to type, it counts that as a view. It gets corrected after the video goes live, but only like two days later.
When I first started adding subtitles and was still figuring out what to do and how to best do it, I used to generate like 120 "views" simply by going back and changing a word, or fiddling around with the timestamps. These days I'm much more efficient, as you can see.
All that said, if you post your vid on like Reddit, you will get thousands of views even if it's a ten-minute video of a black screen.
And if it isn't, you might hit a million.
You don't get views by having subscribers. You get subscribers by having views.
@Cerberus that's a lovely offer. Though very carelessly worded! Hold on while I type up his entire book. No worries, it's just a couple hundred poems. And I don't need it tomorrow, in a week is fine.
@MetaEd I do actually have that in one of my videos.
@RegDwigнt I have to tell you that the analytics showing the demographics of your viewership is broken as well. I know for sure that the numbers are terribly wrong in the youtube studio or the classic version right now. They add the numbers to the total number of viewers but stop adding to the number from my location, for example.
In the past before you started posting videos, at least the location stats were correct. And they showed many countries even those with just one count. @RegDwigнt
Like, for example, I have viewers in ~150 countries, but all the gender data is based solely on viewers from the US. And there solely on those who have Google+ accounts.
So basically you might as well just roll the dice yourself on who's watching your stuff and who isn't.
@RegDwigнt Protip: When you navigate to the videos tab, you often don't see the correct number of views for each video in your channel. But if you then sort by oldest videos first, you then usually see the correct updated number.
You need to go, Hey Mitch, wanna buy a yacht? It's only $3000! And then you go, Haha fooled you, it's not an actual yacht, it's a Russian poem from 1911.
@WillHunting that is impossible. You stalk all your subscribers.
I cannot see untasty in Oxford dictionary. Also spelling checker tells it is invalid. But in dictionary.com, I see it is a related form of tasty. So is it a valid English word?