@Mitch I know, that's the point. How could it get any worse? Well, in that case, I thought he needed some old-as-death words, but still...it seems random--like a lottery--oh, short straw, yay--maybe it wasn't straws; I haven't read it in 40 years.
Oh, yeah, it was slips of paper, one with a black spot.
@Mitch Actually..."(euphemistic oaths) darn!, dern!, dang!, dash!, drat!, blast!, doggone!, goldarn!, goldang!, golding!, gosh-darn!"...I find all those exclamation marks disturbing. Were they really necessary ~ 40 years ago?
@Cerberus what you mean, "source"? The source of Unicode is Unicode. It's in your computer right now. You press these numbers, you get these other numbers.
@Robusto I imagined I had imagination once. Then I almost got run over by a cyclist.
@KannE Sounds lame to me. Just throw away the slip of paper. Bad choice gone.
@KannE dern. that's a lot.
@Færd It's a great -idea-, but the execution of that idea seems daunting.
like saying "I'm going to get in shape. Therefore I plan to run a marathon every day to get across the Sahara"
Actually, reading the dictionary is probably more useful afterwards, and less likely to to give you a blister
@Færd but dictionaries tend to be pretty poor on collocations.
and yeah, you noticed the errors. There's just so much that it is more likely. It's like an engineering problem, if you have a 1000 light bulbs, and there is a non-zero error rate probabllity, there's probably gonna be some.
@Færd ugh... people in general are idiots but at least they're trying. there's those few who are not trying, don't care, are assholes, etc. how to convert those people I don't know.I think there were always people like that, but they're more able to actually act on their more than idiotic ideas
Once again, you could just type these exact numbers on your keyboard right now and verify for yourself that these are the characters that you get. There is nothing wrong with the image.
@depperm list questions are off-topic on pretty much all SE sites because the engine doesn't really serve the format well.
What we do is ask people to ask them on our Meta.
If you have a specific question about one word, it's fine for the main site.
@depperm That's what is called 'too broad'. It's a very interesting question, but would be like a different questions for each word. You could ask, for example, what is the history of the word 'damn' and its euphemisms (dang, darn, dern, etc, @KannE knows them all). And then you could ask another question about shit. and so on.
@Cerberus maybe there's a unicode displayer? I don't know.
@Mitch You know I just like to get annoyed and then get over it and move on.
However, I did write a poem (term used incorrectly) as I like to do when I'm annoyed.
No, No, Not...
It’s just a matter of weeding out Everything that matters Till nothing’s left But the shit you do, Just plain shit And fancy shit And in-between shit, Like you-give-a-fuck shit. No, no, not fuckshit... There is no such compound word. It’s shit like that I’m talking about.
What is the meaning of "we are not without ~"?
e.g. Like a Goliath, the giant of evolution defies the living God day after day in the public arena. But we are not without our Davids. Our speaker is a David.
@Mitch that is also a good litotes, but an extra proper good litotes would have been "all of RegDwight's remarks are always confirmed on all sites".
And like come on, this is a Tchrist room. Had I posted rubbish about Unicode, I would have been called to order by now. Hell, I wouldn't have been able to post it in the first place.
And now to round up our Reader's Digest of the day.
Question: "I was eating while she was cleaning the room. Is this correct?"
I hope I won't get banned for this question But I just trust the community and don't know where else to ask What do native english speakers use to learn the language?
There are murphies and stuff for ESL-s but it doesn't seem logical to me to have a special way of learning language specifically if it's not the first one you learn
Also I'm not really interested in exercises and whatnot, never understood their purpose
I searched a bit and found this question https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/183/what-are-some-of-the-better-english-reference-grammars hopefully giving some useful a…
Or maybe generally where can I seek authority in english language
Because internet or amazon or whatever all seem like a ton of random (and thus basically useless) stuff
@RegDwigнt I am not unaware, but I don't don't respond to messages where the subject matter is religious conniptions over the evils of science daring to contradict the bible.
That's one don't. I'm on a tablet and apparently SE doesn't support message editing.
What is the meaning of "we are not without ~"?
e.g. Like a Goliath, the giant of evolution defies the living God day after day in the public arena. But we are not without our Davids. Our speaker is a David.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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