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Robusto

02:44

Google Translate vs. Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" ...

Google Translate Sings: "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen

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Cerberus

03:16

@Robusto So how was this created? Two-way translation?

Will Hunting

The four women look identical.

SmokeDetector

05:28

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, +4 more (886): click2fitness.com/praltrix-es/ by user319394 on english.SE

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07:07

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Q: One word describing robust and light

What would be the word to describe robust and very lite, carbon composite frame?

single-word-requests

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08:26

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Q: Pejorative word for events like ribbon-cutting ceremony, Association party & fests which are counterproductive activities for an organization

Pejorative word for attending "ribbon cutting ceremonies, ribbon cutting ceremonies, Association parties and fests" by a country's missions post abroad who are meant to be engaged in welfare of country's diaspora in a foreign country but instead do the above activities. Example: The Ecuadorian ...

single-word-requests phrases idioms pejorative-language

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly non-latin answer (51): Does a "fact" have to be true? by Carmela newton on english.SE

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08:58

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Q: What is the name of an item used to hold paper so that you can write while standing?

The item that Benson from Regular Show always carries, or what petitioners always have when in public, so that people can sign for stuff? I can't remember the name of that object and trying to give a description is difficult.

single-word-requests

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11:20

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Q: Word for the thief's key that can unclock anything

Is there any specific word that describes or denotes a key, which helps thief to steal anything and anywhere, no matter what kind of lock there is; in a nut shell that key can unlock any locks e.g. of room, wardrobe, bike etc. In some parts of Pakistan, people regard such keys as under, in Urdu...

single-word-requests nouns adjectives

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive body detected, toxic body detected (114): What does the sentence mean by Chason on english.SE

Mitch

13:04

@Robusto Translate from English to what back to English?

as usual, comments suck, and no one asks that.

@WillHunting It's the same woman filmed singing it four different times.

Robusto

13:18

@Mitch Tru dat.

Robusto

13:37

@Mitch Cf. any Jacob Collier video

Hideaway – Jacob Collier

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Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing - Jacob Collier

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@Cerberus I wish the author was more forthcoming about that.

@Cerberus Modern trikes (These are good if you have an injury that prevents you from riding a bike, but otherwise I wouldn't recommend them. Visibility from and of the vehicle is problematic for street riding.)

Robusto

13:57

single-word-requests are the junk food of EL&U. We all decry them, but then we see one and we think, "Well, I guess just one won't hurt."

Mitch

> Well being a musician was fun while it lasted. No point even trying after watching this.

Robusto

@Mitch You're not the first to have that reaction.

Mitch

It's like why bother

all permutations of all music ever he's already thought of

WTS:

Robusto

@Mitch Google him and you'll find it's even worse than you think.

Mitch

>Opening: A=432 Hz
2 minutes in: A=~435 Hz
5 mins: A=~438 Hz
By the end: A=440 Hz

Robusto

14:02

@Mitch BTW, he and Jesus Christ share the same initials. Coincidence?

Here he is playing live (more or less) with a band:

Snarky Puppy feat. Jacob Collier & Big Ed Lee - "Don't You Know" (Family Dinner Volume Two)

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Mitch

@Robusto I only just mastered the bass line to Another One Bites The Dust

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Another One Rides the Bus

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Robusto

It's a start.

Mitch

The other guy is using ... is that what a beat box is? An actual box you beat?

Robusto

"Adulthood" seems to be that point in your life when you realize you're too old to be the youngest anything ever.

@Mitch Context?

I.e., which "other guy"?

Mitch

Oh. I thought you meant beat boxing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatboxing

There are two guys in the video

the one who is not Weird Al

the one sitting down in front of the box

that he hits

to keep time

along with the car horns

Robusto

14:08

Reaction in the comments parallels your own: "Idk why I put myself through this... Every time y'all release a video, I watch it, I go to 10, chills, unbearable thrill, and I end up crying. It's like this is so good, I feel unworthy, and i need like 20 cigarettes and I don't smoke. I can't love Snarky Puppy, this is unhealthy. I'm calling the police."

Mitch

@Robusto What?

I figure my last deathbed words will be "I was only just beginning to figure it all out"

Robusto

I thought it was pretty clear. What don't you understand?

@Mitch Mine will be "Have you seen my car keys? I have to be somewhere."

Mitch

I wiped a bead of sweat from my brow when I realized I won't be the youngest to have a heart attack in my family

@Robusto haha

gulp

"They couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from that dist..."

Mel Blanc has "That's all folks!"

"You mean that's it?"

Robusto

@Mitch I believe the actual quote is something like "The uh a the uh a the uh uh That's all folks!"

Mitch

@Robusto There's an old saw that I've heard profs repeat from different sources something like "Before a certain point in my life I was always the youngest person in the room, and after that point I was always the oldest in the room". I think it is a humble brag about how they're old, but really they were hotshit when they were younger.

@Robusto I don't think that'll fit on a tombstone.

Brevity is the soul of what you can fit on your gravemarker

Robusto

14:14

Mar 29 '14 at 5:20, by Robusto

The Greek poet Simonides used to write epitaphs for people. Two of his that I remember (somewhat) are: "My name is Brotachos of Euboeia, and I did not come here for death but weighty business." And: "Sir, you are not looking at the grave of some great Lydian king, for being poor my gravestone is small — yet still too much for me."

Mitch

Cerberus

@Robusto Right, those may be for people who have even more problems with balancing or getting onto a normal bike.

Robusto

@Mitch He was misquoted.

Porky Pig Cartoon Ending "That's All Folks!"

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Cerberus

The ones I linked to should work for someone who needs just a little bit more stability.

Mitch

@Robusto No. You're wrong. The tagline was stolen from his tombstone and 'augmented' for the movies.

Robusto

14:18

@Mitch That would require a redirection of the time arrow, which Stephen Hawking says is impossible.

Mitch

@Cerberus I've only recently seen these motorcycles that have two wheel up front.

(and one in back)

Robusto

Totally cute and touching.

Mitch

@Robusto Any excuse for a plagiarizer

Cerberus

@Mitch Don't they have a special name?

Mitch

@Cerberus Yeah. 'weirdo motorcycles'

reverse motorized tricycles

hm... I don't think they're riding them backwards.

in reverse

I'm not sure I get the point

If you're going to ride one of those things, just go all the way and ride a motorcycle.

Does it keep you from having to put your feet down when you stop?

Robusto

14:22

Maybe they're for people with inner-ear problems.

Mitch

Because they got in a wreck on a real motorcycle that injured their inner-ear?

probably

Robusto

The problem with motorized trikes is: cornering. A regular motorcycle can bank in curves. A trike can't.

So you're always flying off the seat opposite to the direction of the turn.

Mitch

@Cerberus Looking it up it seems it is 'Three-wheeled motorcycle'

underwhelmed

So it leans (separate suspension for each wheel?) unlike older fixed wheel motorized tricycles, the batmobile like things or motorcycles with side cars.

Robusto

RegDwigнt

14:47

@MetaEd I'll be honest with you, Ed, I've no idea what link you're on about.

But yeah whatever. I'm awesome and you're welcome.

And now I have to commute. Or rather escape this random Flintstones convention Rob seems to be hosting.

MetaEd

15:02

20 hours ago, by RegDwigнt

Wer bin ich – und wenn ja, wie viele?

Wer bin ich – und wenn ja, wie viele? Eine philosophische Reise ist ein im Jahr 2007 veröffentlichtes Sachbuch des deutschen Philosophen und Publizisten Richard David Precht. Es war 16 Wochen lang im Jahr 2008 auf dem Platz 1 der Spiegel-Bestsellerliste. == Inhalt == Das Buch gliedert sich in drei Kapitel (Was kann ich wissen? Was soll ich tun? Was darf ich hoffen?, nach Immanuel Kant), welche insgesamt 34 Unterkapitel haben. Jedes Unterkapitel beschäftigt sich mit einer philosophischen Frage, wie etwa ob es einen Gott gibt oder was Moral ist. Dabei werden verschiedene Aspekte der Hirnforschung…

RegDwigнt

16:50

OIC.

@Mitch I don't know if I recommend the book or not. I only posted that because the title fit my conversation with Cerberus.

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Q: How can I call file not under version controll in one word?

In opposite to - versioned - files that are under Source-Code-Version-Control system (i.e. Git/SVN), is there a way to call files that left deliberately out in one word? Is word "un-versioned" ("non-versioned"?) valid construct?

single-word-requests programming computer

RegDwigнt

All I know about the author is that he's on every single show on German television, and I've always found him very annoying for that reason alone.

Also a couple months ago someone on Facebook posted a quote of his that went like, these days people don't travel with open eyes, you book everything in advance on the Internet and can walk through every location and every hotel corridor in 3D ahead of time. And I posted right back, well if that grinds your gears then don't fucking do it, you plum.

So yeah. That is all I can tell.

Oh yeah and the book was a bestseller in Germany when it came out. Which is like five years ago now or something. But I wonder how many people only bought it because of the funny title.

MetaEd

Nice to know there's a market for philosophy though.

Or funny titles.

RegDwigнt

17:06

There's always a market for funneh.

Even in Germany. Especially there.

As to philosophy, there's like two or three philosophers that people are vaguely familiar with. Some are less annoying than others, but each is annoying in their own way. And each is constantly on the television somewhere because there's only two or three of them.

There's that famous quote that alleges Germany to be "the land of poets and thinkers". I always found it stupid. Nobody can name a German poet. If they can, it will be Goethe. If they can think of Goethe, they will probably also say Schiller. And that'll be it. Full stop. If they can't think of Goethe, they won't think of anyone at all.

Even though they may have read Eichendorff in school, or Rilke, or Brecht, or Benn. But nobody remembers the names. Most only remember Goethe, but nobody ever reads Goethe. More to the point, nobody wants to read Goethe, even if you give them money.

At the same time everyone can name like five German composers off the top of their head. Which is why I always found the quote so stupid.

It should be "the land of composers".

German composers were at the forefront of everything for like four hundred years straight. Nobody else ever managed that. Not Russia, not Britain, not Spain. Italy was hit and miss all the time. France never did anything at all except for like five years at the beginning of the last century. And America hasn't even existed for that long.

Cerberus

17:32

@RegDwigнt Rilke?

Ah, you already mentioned him.

I think many people know Rilke and Brecht.

Großdeutschland may have the most well known composers.

Robusto

17:49

@Cerberus I'd have brought up Rilke if no one else had.

Brecht always comes to mind as a playwright first.

Cerberus

Exactly.

Robusto

18:07

@Cerberus Well, yeah. I think Bach, Beethoven and Mozart alone would account for at least 75% of the classical composers pie chart.

Mitch

Doktor Süß

Cerberus

@Robusto Of the composers most people would mention first, yes.

RegDwigнt

18:28

@Cerberus I didn't say people didn't know them. Indeed I said most people were probably forced to read them in school. What I said is that nobody can name them. Anyone can name Bach. Nobody, ever, can name Rilke. Ever.

Cerberus

By known I meant can name.

RegDwigнt

Bach, Wagner, Beethoven, that's all active knowledge. Brecht is passive knowledge.

@Cerberus not in Germany they can't.

Cerberus

I hear the name Rilke quite a lot specifically when people are mentioning German poetry.

RegDwigнt

Not German people, then.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt I can't name them and it's right in front of me

Cerberus

18:29

Perhaps.

RegDwigнt

And not in Germany.

Mitch

You sir, are a poet and a philosopher.

And I mean it to sting.

RegDwigнt

I can name a bunch of American composers, too. Doesn't mean that every American knows who the fuck Ives was, or Poulton.

Will Hunting

mathematician, musician, mystic

physicist, poet, philosopher

Mitch

As I was going to Chuck Ives,

RegDwigнt

18:31

And Poulton wasn't even American, strictly speaking.

Mitch

I met a man bla hl blah lbalha blha..

What was the color of the bear?

RegDwigнt

The color was polar.

Will Hunting

Interesting that all 3 words start with M, and all 3 words start with P, and there are 3 pairs of words.

Yes, I know that was totally random.

Mitch

His pallor was a polar color

His collar color was a pale polar pallor

RegDwigнt

He was also the ponciest ponce who ever ponced past the ponce parlour.

Mitch

18:34

Sploosh!

(that was him diving into the ball pit)

(if it wasn't clear)

RegDwigнt

It wasn't. And still isn't.

Mitch

Good to know!

RegDwigнt

It might be one day, but I am quite literally not holding my breath right now.

Mitch

Keep working at it!

You could have a job one day

Like Cris Angel

or who is that really cool guy

RegDwigнt

To keep working at something, I need to start working at it first. And I'm not doing that.

Mitch

18:36

the one who survived buried in ice

for a month

over the thames

brave soul

Will Hunting

Geezis, my screen just became darker for no reason, and I had to fiddle with the brightness settings again. What happened? Is there a supernatural force in my room?

RegDwigнt

What's with the Pennsylvannian accent all of a sudden.

Mitch

David?

David Chilblain?

RegDwigнt

"He survived buried". I guess his room "needed cleaned", too.

Will Hunting

Needed cleaned is a very famous question on this site.

Mitch

18:37

@RegDwigнt I'm not holding my breath either. No offense, but I can't depend on you.

OK maybe that is an offense

RegDwigнt

See. I am an inspiration.

Mitch

@WillHunting needs warshed

RegDwigнt

Leeds : Warsaw.

Nil : eight.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt is that where 'waiting to exhale' came from?

Will Hunting

I think Reg should change the owl back to the other animal, the one that looks like a bat.

Mitch

18:38

There's another animal?

Will Hunting

I think it's called a viscacha or something.

RegDwigнt

@Mitch it's a secret, but I can share this much: in the beginning was the word. And the word was not "whale".

Mitch

@WillHunting It's to balance with your keyboard backlighting

@WillHunting vicuña?

Will Hunting

@Mitch No. I think it's just something unexplained.

RegDwigнt

@WillHunting this whole site famously needs cleaned.

Mitch

18:39

@WillHunting oh

Will Hunting

@RegDwigнt Have you thought of becoming a professional pianist or musician?

RegDwigнt

Why? So I can't afford even the smallest LEGO set anymore?

Will Hunting

Oh I see. At least you are making money now.

Well, if you can become famous, you can make more money.

RegDwigнt

Harry Enfield: loadsamoney

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Mitch

> Und hier ist ein neuer Trick, Herr Knox ....
Socken auf Küken und Küken auf Fuchs.
Fox auf Uhren auf Steinen und Blöcken.
Steinen und Blöcke auf Knox auf Kasten.

RegDwigнt

18:42

Feb 16 '11 at 15:11, by Kosmonaut

@RegDwight: You appear to have spilled some IPA symbols all over the ground. Shall I help you pick them up?

Mitch

@WillHunting I think the difficult part is the 'famous' thing

Will Hunting

The soprano Montserrat Caballe died a few days ago.

RegDwigнt

Famous is not difficult at all. Famous is all luck. Luck is not difficult. Luck is just lucky.

Mitch

How many people actually make a decent living on Youtube via sponsoring?

Will Hunting

Now they have American astronauts, Russian cosmonauts, and Chinese taikonauts, did you know?

RegDwigнt

18:43

@WillHunting I didn't know that. I will put up a piece of hers on my SoundSlice, then.

Mitch

@WillHunting Somebody else died today.

RegDwigнt

@Mitch it's in the single digits. And I'm not even joking.

Will Hunting

Let me explain where taiko comes from.

You see, taikong means outer space in Chinese, that's all.

RegDwigнt

These days the price for 1000 ad impressions is around 10 bucks. And that's what the advertiser pays, mind, not what you get. And that's actual ad impressions, not just video views.

Will Hunting

They have identified the 2 Russian suspects in the Salisbury poisoning case. Looks like the Russians are not very good at covering up their act.

RegDwigнt

18:46

No, the Russians are very good at giving you scapegoats.

Will Hunting

Oh I see.

RegDwigнt

I can poison people, too, and then tell my bruh Putin to say it was you. That is how it works.

Will Hunting

Viscacha

Viscachas or vizcachas are rodents of two genera (Lagidium and Lagostomus) in the family Chinchillidae. They are native to South America and look similar to, but are not closely related to rabbits. The viscacha looks much like a rabbit due to convergent evolution.The five extant species of viscacha are: The plains viscacha (Lagostomus maximus), a resident of the pampas of Argentina, is easily differentiated from other viscachas by black and gray mustache-like facial markings. This species lives colonially in warrens of 10 to over 100. It is very vocal and emits alarm calls. The plains viscacha...

So that is the viscache I was talking about, not a bat, more like a rabbit.

RegDwigнt

Biscotti

Biscotti (; Italian pronunciation: [bisˈkɔtti]; English: twice-cooked), known also as cantucci, are Italian almond biscuits that originated in the city of Prato. They are twice-baked, oblong-shaped, dry, crunchy, and may be dipped in a drink, traditionally Vin Santo. == Name == Biscotti is the plural form of biscotto. The word originates from the medieval Latin word biscoctus, meaning "twice-cooked". It characterised oven-baked goods that were baked twice, so they became very dry and could be stored for long periods of time. Such non-perishable food was particularly useful during journeys and wars...

Will Hunting

Biscotti is what I call biscuits at home.

RegDwigнt

18:49

whoosh

Will Hunting

I am wondering if viscacha likes to eat biscotti.

Oh @RegDwigнt I think you look quite nerdy. I didn't expect that. =)

I didn't think you would look so intellectual with a pair of glasses.

Mitch

And with a goatee he'd look like

a lego D&D piano player with a goatee

Will Hunting

dinner and dance?

Mitch

Sure! When will you come pick me up?

Will Hunting

I prefer picking my nose.

Mitch

18:55

I prefer picking my apples

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt I like those.

Will Hunting

Let me tell you something funny.

Mitch

@Cerberus I'd eat them if there was nothing else

Cerberus

Like cheese?

Mitch

But they are either rock hard dry, or after you dip them they're soggy and fall right back in.

Cerberus

18:56

@RegDwigнt I can still hear his singing Blueberry Hill in my heads.

@Mitch They are hard, but not too hard.

Mitch

@Cerberus Cheese is OK.

Will Hunting

When I was very young, I used to sit in shops where they sell food and drinks for long periods. Now some of the men there will do this. They will pick their nose, and then flick the nose wax far away and it would land on some chair there. It is interesting to see where the nose wax lands.

Mitch

actually pretty good

Cerberus

If you dip them in tea and eat them immediately, they're not yet soggy: their consistency is just right.

Mitch

But don't look too close at blue cheese.

Cerberus

18:57

Perfect.

Mitch

Like really close

Cerberus

Don't look too close at casu marzu.

Or at all.

Mitch

You can almost see the mold growing...like ... like... like a fungus

like the fungus it is

Will Hunting

What do you think? Funny right?

Mitch

@Cerberus Sure, but that's a lot of strategic planning just to get a soggy almond tasting weird thing.

user1732

18:58

GROSS!

Will Hunting

Another thing those men do. They cough out their phlegm and then they spit it out and again I see where it lands.

Cerberus

Will Hunting

True story dat.

Mitch

@Cerberus Which one is that?

The corsican worm cheese?

Cerberus

@Mitch No, it tastes great, and the texture is not exactly soggy but just very good!

@Mitch Sardinian.

Mitch

19:00

Where if someone cuts off a piece for you, you just wait until it crawls over to you?

Will Hunting

@Cerberus Do you still do baking these days?

user1732

those aren't "men" they're PIGS!!!

Cerberus

Probably.

Mitch

@Cerberus Really, you should have a donut instead.

They're better for you.

packed with calories

Cerberus

@WillHunting I baked a tarte au citron a few weeks ago.

And you?

Will Hunting

19:01

@Cerberus I have never cooked my entire life.

KannE

@Cerberus I don't know. I'm a slow reader. I may have missed the context if it was given.

Mitch

@Cerberus I ate a tarte aux pommes the other day. Tartes are good.

Cerberus

@Mitch I really don't get why people eat those. I tried one once. It was just sweet and flavourless.

@Mitch Yes.

Mitch

@WillHunting I have a feeling you should try some other place to sit

Will Hunting

@Mitch Yes, but these days you don't see such things anymore. That was about 30 years ago.

Mitch

19:02

@Cerberus You have no culture

@WillHunting Now I'm afraid to ask what happened to them

Cerberus

That's culture with a tiny c...

Mitch

Government restriction? Soylent Green?

Will Hunting

@Cerberus Reminds me of a famous question on this site. Is flavourx a word or the plural of flavour? Turns out the teacher just crossed out the s with an x.

Mitch

@Cerberus Sprinkle a little Rilke and Seuss on your donut

Cerberus

@WillHunting Hah, I remember.

Mitch

19:03

@Cerberus When you don't know, you don't know

Like the geometry problem on a test with a picture of a triangle that said 'Find x', and the student circled the letter 'x''

Will Hunting

I think it is probably safe to uninstall all the copies of Microsoft Visual C++ on my computer. They don't seem to be needed anywhere. Do you agree?

Mitch

@WillHunting Sometimes a program outside of VC++ have dependencies on some of the libraries inside. Or at least that was the case ...

30 years ago?

Will Hunting

@Mitch Yeah, they say keep it around to play safe. But so far I removed everything and have not noticed anything bad.

Mitch

@KannE Are you going to get hurricane rain again soon or are you out of the way?

Will Hunting

It probably came with the bloatware that the manufacturer preinstalled.

Mitch

19:08

@WillHunting I just got rid of XCode, but of course now I saw a tutorial I want to do that requires it

Will Hunting

What is VC++ for anyway?

Mitch

@WillHunting That's a problem with layers. Each layer adds something new, but ends up repeating many of the functions that layers below already do, in addition to calling them with wrappers needed for compliance with the layer. That's where a lot of bloat comes from.

A lot of bloat also comes from a lot of unneeded libraries bundled in.

@WillHunting VC++ is MS's IDE for C++. KWIM?

Will Hunting

Which words form their plural with an x other than portmanteaux?

Mitch

tableaux

bureaux

Will Hunting

Fungi, loci, radii

I am fascinated by the different ways to pronounce fungi and garage.

Mitch

19:13

I really try to avoid... the mushroom thing, because I don't know which way to pronounce it.

Will Hunting

I was surprised that I had pronounced binoculars wrongly my whole life.

Anyway, I think we should have the licence to pronounce whatever word we want whatever way.

I also note that different dictionaries (ordinary or pronunciation ones) will have different lists of acceptable pronunciation.

MetaEd

@Mitch Pronounce it "FOON-GHEE" and in your mind add italics.

I think you can get them at TAR-ZHAY.

Will Hunting

There is the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary and the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary. I think these two are the best.

The former even has polls stating the percentage of speakers who pronounce a word in a certain way.

But I might prefer one without polls because the polls are not given for every controversial pronunciation, and so lacks uniformity

Oh, interesting thing is other than Office 365, there is now even Microsoft 365.

But I am happy Windows is stopping at version 10, so you don't ever need to pay again to upgrade to a newer version.

Of course, people will still buy new computers installed with Windows 10, and Microsoft will still earn money that way.

Mitch

19:28

@MetaEd installs mind fonts

MetaEd

@Mitch I'd recommend NoTo except we eat a lot of that

Mitch

@WillHunting Polls like that are not reliable, because it's just people who want to waste their time giving their weird-ass pronunciation

@MetaEd I am slow today. I had to have someone tell me more than once that today is the 9th (except for those who it is the 10th). I was expecting that would happen this weekend, not already.

That was kind of a long explanation of why I didn't get your joke and I need to have it explained to me like I'm 6 years old.

MetaEd

@Mitch The Google NoTo or "no tofu" font.

Mitch

googles

oh

haha

I get it

yeah, there's a lot of blanks spaces in here

which I make up for by an excess of esses

queue a successful excess of esses

at a suq

KannE

@Mitch It looks like we're in its path, according to the last forecast map I saw, but our fence is still lying on the ground... Googling craft ideas instead of calling our insurance company... Paying a huge deductible again? How many more times? I've given up; it's not worth it. Our dog died of very old age...he doesn't need it anymore. I'm sure there aren't any evil things to chase up there...like horses, big CATs (or Caterpillars?)...or neighbors on riding lawn mowers...they're the worst.

MetaEd

19:43

@Mitch an access of excess?

Mitch

@MetaEd access to excess.

kind of a party atmosphere

MetaEd

access to access of esses?

Mitch

@MetaEd Sure, why not. It's a bit excessive though

you have an access excess

but if you get just a little bit more....

you'll have an access excess success

MetaEd

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Q: How to assess “an access of butchness”

I read this phrase in Alan Bennett’s Diary years ago and found it so unusual I’ve never forgotten it. Italics mine: 8 December. Trying to find someone a Meccano set for Christmas, I’m reminded of a couple, friends of Russell H., who had a son of twelve or so who they were worried might be...

meaning word-choice nouns errors

Mitch

Wow. It's so obviously an eggcorn (= fancy word for mistake). But you got high balanced voting +5 -5.

that's messed up.

Is it plausible that 'access' is used meaningfully different from 'excess' in the phrase in questin?

haha I read more. I commented exactly that same thing

looking at the other answers and their quotes, some authors in the past may well have intentionally used 'access' in phrasing like the one quoted.

If so those authors are pedants of the worst kind

I bet all those ancient uses, and also by physicians, were just post-hoc rationalizations of their own eggcorning.

MetaEd

20:02

@Mitch We need better pedants.

Mitch

Sticklers. We need better sticklers.

sigh

MetaEd

@Mitch If you pedant me, I'll stickleback.

KannE

20:21

@Mitch I tried to find a stronger synonym for insinuate...like, on my way to find it in Roget's--Infect! Ah-ha! To plant a shady seed...or to shadily plant...in the shade or not--like Hostas! But--nah, that's probably not exactly...anything.

MetaEd

I've always liked "inveigle".

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, no whitespace in answer, repeating characters in answer (264): 19th century American English "slang"? by Njvk on english.SE

Will Hunting

@MetaEd Just a comment about tofu. Of course tofu is the food which is beancurd, but that is like some kind of English transliteration. In Chinese hanyu pinyin, the word is doufu, which literally means beancurd.

KannE

@Cerberus That would be assumed, incorrectly in the case of my sister...and someone else...I assume.

Will Hunting

@KannE I realise I did not make myself clear that day. See, when I use Edge or Chrome, I can see your avatar, but when I use Firefox with my settings I see a white square with the words KannE and nothing else. It happens with other people linking their avatars to external sites as well, and I still don't know what setting I have set in Firefox that causes this. Clearly this setting does not exist in Edge or Chrome, or at least I don't know where it is, so there is no problem there.

MetaEd

20:37

@WillHunting This might have some suggestions you haven't tried: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-problems-images-not-show

@Mitch From the perspective of a few years, I think "access" is used in that context to mean an "approach" or "onset" of butchness. They're seeing what they think might be butchness for the first time. It's not an excess of, it's an onset of.

tl;dr my answer is shit.

Will Hunting

Anyway @MetaEd I am very surprised Microsoft sells its Project and Visio separately from even the Professional edition of Office...

KannE

@Cerberus Puritan beliefs, or whatever, caused me to 'unfriend' my former best friend on movie nights...and then indefinitely. When in doubt, go with Harry Potter...

Will Hunting

@KannE Who knew she would become a billionaire writing those books!

KannE

21:07

@WillHunting I had an idea... At the start of 2nd grade, my son refused to read any other books until he finished her 2nd one (the chamber of secrets, I think). I was so upset...until he won the reading award for that period because the book was worth more points than all the other books on the reading list combined. So, it's simple math really...who knew?

KannE

21:17

Dear Mr. Robot...free estimates are worth what they cost. YW. Good evening.

Mitch

@KannE YW? Short for YHWH? Which is short for Yahweh? Which is short for how dare you!

haha.

blaspheming just isn't a thing

Also, you are very ... Wodehousian with your initialisms.Except I never know what they mean. Yoo Who?

@KannE insidiate? That's not a word (or at least wasn't one up until now) but it's what someone who is insidious does.

Robusto

21:32

@Mitch Try You're Welcome.

Mitch

21:46

@Robusto I liked Yahweh better

Yahweh atque salve

Will Hunting

@KannE I see. Now I feel like buying a complete set of the Harry Potter books. =)

RegDwigнt

22:13

@Cerberus you need to get yourself some Grisbi. Look them up now. Order them. Also now. The one single decision in your life you will never regret.

Cerberus

@KannE Oh?

@KannE Exactly.

RegDwigнt

@WillHunting I did say I was the ponciest ponce to have ever ponced past the ponce parlour.

English needs a fucking word for evening as a verb.

You have like three words for everything, but not a single one for this. Pathetic.

single-word-request

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Hmm could be good.

I've never seen those here.

RegDwigнt

I'm in that World of Tanks clan, the best one on console, and we have an Italian in there. And one day he mentioned Grisbi for some reason. And then everyone in the clan, from Wales to Newcastle to San Fran ordered some, and never again stopped ordering them or talking about them.

It's heroin is what it is. Delicious heroin.

Cerberus

Touchez pas au grisbi

Touchez pas au grisbi (French for "Don't touch the loot") is a 1954 French-Italian crime film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Dora Doll, Delia Scala, René Dary, and Miss America 1946, Marilyn Buferd. It is based on the novel by Albert Simonin. It was screened in competition at 1954 Venice Film Festival. The film was released in the United States as Grisbi and in the United Kingdom as Honour Among Thieves. == Background == French actor Daniel Gélin was first offered the role of Max but turned it down, seeing himself as too young for the part. Gabin...

RegDwigнt

22:23

Anyway, in Russian there's the noun evening and then there's the verb evening. So for example you can say "It's eveninging". Except you don't need the whole dummy-it business, you just say "Eveninging", and that's a complete sentence. In English you need four fucking words for that, "It's getting dark" or "it's getting late". Gah. No good, very bad language.

Cerberus

I don't think they are sold here.

Smack it.

RegDwigнt

And then what Mandelstam does, he applies that verb to things other than the non-existent dummy-it. He says things like "the birches were eveninging". Or "the bird rushes through the eveninging bushes".

And I can't translate that adequately, or really at all.

Every time I'd need like a whole fucking paragraph to even explain what he's on about.

Cerberus

In Greek, you can say it's raining by saying "rains", but also "Zeus rains".

RegDwigнt

But I don't have a paragraph. I have five syllables.

Cerberus

The trade of the translator.

RegDwigнt

22:26

@Cerberus well yes. "Snows." "Rains." "Darks." "Winter." All complete sentences in Russian, and not just theoretically, but exceptionally common in every register. Daily speech and War and Peace alike.

Cerberus

You can use winter as a verb in English.

But it means something more specific.

In Latin, you can say hiemat for "it's wintry weather".

MetaEd

@RegDwigнt It is a verb.

Also, that just dawned on me.

Cerberus

22:41

@MetaEd @WillHunting I've tried all of those things, and I can't see her picture either.

It appears to be some kind of weird Facebook picture.

I can see it in an empty profile, though.

So it's something that Firefox does with some profiles.

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