@Cerberus Having access to internet is easiest thing, far easier than having access to warm shower facility. My alma mater has public computer center with many computers connected to internet for everyone to use freely; before I moved back after graduation, I used computers there while living in my collaborator's rented house or sleeping in classrooms or seminar rooms. I could also stay there to have access to those computers now, but it's just that I have no friend to accommodate me there now.

also, there are free Wi-Fi everywhere, but you need to have a computer or mobile phone to use the Wi-Fi, but it's still far cheaper than renting a house or hotel room, which seems to be the only way to have access to warm shower facility every day if no friend can accommodate you. Though houses are everywhere here, and most houses should have warm shower facility, house owners wouldn't offer you just to shower with cheap price; you can only rent those houses with a high price to shower there.

please

could we say

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Is this British usage? What would an American equivalent be?

Move home, apparently.

Still, move house is more common in BrE than move home is in AmE.

@Robusto Korinthenkacker?

Dummschwätzer?

Assi? Arschloch? Dummbatz? Penner? Vollspack?

Could you be any less specific? Just give me the English word, yo.

It's the SWR problem. You ask a simple question with a single answer in your head, you get fifty answers none of which are yours.

And invariably three of the answers are Politiker or Merkel or Obama. Because people on the Internet are funny and original, you should know.

And since I'm funny and original and on the Internet, I think you are looking for Rush Limbaugh. Hope that helps.

Erbsenzähler is another possible one. Pea counter.

@Færd in the US, you say neither. You just say 'move'

> our rent is getting too high, so we're thinking of moving to a new place.

> I'm going to move to LA to get into the movie business.

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@RegDwigнt Yeah, none of those ring my bell. The word in English that's closest is shrew, but that's gender specific.

Anyway, thanks for trying. You are definitely funny and original and on the Internet. /nod

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when it comes to housing price, my home district is the most high-priced place in my whole state/country.

@Færd in our native language, we also say "move house". If you just say "move", nobody knows what you move. When I was a child, I was confused by what "move house" means. I just wondered how one can move a house since a house is fixed on the ground.

And there is the irony. If you say "move house" in the U.S., people will give you quizzical looks, because it's the people and their possessions which are moving; the house itself is staying right where it is

@Mitch Right! Thanks!

@CaptainBohemian Haha! In our native language we literally say move furniture.

Or to be exact, furniture-pulling.

But the same confusion would occur to me when people said the burglar took the house, meaning stole the furniture.

@CaptainBohemian The word by itself is ambiguous but the words around it should clarify.

"I moved last year" - no one sits perfectly still for that long, the only possible thing to have done was to have 'changed residence'

"I moved over" - You can't move a physical house (at least not easily), you probably just slid over to give some room for someone else on the seat.

For @Færd, burglars there aren't that talented to be able to steal the entire house.

@choster Worse, even 'mobile homes' hardly ever move. If you have just enough money to afford a mobile home, you probably don't have the money to move it.

@Mitch Now I remember I thought of those incidents as happening during the night when everybody was fast asleep. I would think to myself, "But did the burglar took the house with its residents? Did they wake up? Is this a too stupid question to ask?".

Ah. Kids.

Additionally, is it a valid question to post on the main site?

@Diaa There is wide variation on what is accepted for the representation of dates, not just country to country but organization to organization

For a U.S. audience, I might write "14th of May" or "May 14," but "14th May" would be deemed incorrect by most, and "14 May" would look "foreign"

I'll remember that you said that on May 14th

My advice on such matters is to follow your boss or your editor's advice, or if writing for yourself, to choose a style manual and be consistent in its application

@choster really? I have written dates with the style of "May 14th" many times.

And don't forget, tans always come with sunburns.

@CaptainBohemian It's the probably the most natural-sounding variant to me too

THE PUBLISHER IS XENOPHOBIC

Yes, that's my point. "May 14th" is perfectly acceptable to most. But the good folks at McGraw-Hill said "14th of May" or "May 14" were acceptable, but "May 14th" was a sign of illiteracy

I had a "good" education, but it goes to show how bad attitudes about use of the language become ingrained, much in the same way that while I acknowledge that there is no grammatical reason at all why sentences should not end with a preposition in English, I still tend to word my writing so that they do not

ur face is a sign of illiteracy. Ugh, I expected more of them, of all publishers

@choster So you use "asshole" often?

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I do pass silent judgment on other things

Hmm, I guess you won't end statements in prepositions if you keep silent

Disinterested becoming synonymized uninterested is the trend I notice most. Also, just desserts, hoisted by his own petard, and baited breath jump off the page at me

I will have a stroke in five years if I continue to use Facebook, and the death certificate will say the cause of death was stress brought on by a "good" education

I was just frustrated enough by Facebook.

@choster I'm mostly disunterested when it comes to Basefook

@CaptainBohemian Frustrated? Treated it too much like MMO games, or people were being too stupid?

Yep, it's healthy, but not healthful

@choster Thanks for your explanation

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ What people in Facebook present to me is far more degraded than what I expect.

Whoa, you do autopsy on Facebook?

for example, I accept the friend request of a mathematician to expect his posting his math issues, but what he posts are all leisurely pictures.

Math issues on social media? And I thought I was the one who had no idea how these things work

I don't like the socialization for general public.

actually I am curious of what math research topic he is engaged with now, but he seems to have never revealed that kind of information.

@Færd I was thinking that every kid in every culture goes through that. Things that adults (in that culture) are totally blind to, but outside the culture (and kids) it's just so weird.

Or maybe it's just us.

@Mitch Yeah I struggled with that a lot. I always told myself I'd soon get old enough to understand all that.

@CaptainBohemian yeah, Facebook is not about thinking about things.

Also you may have noticed that a Facebook 'friend' is not necessarily a friend.

Probably not an enemy, but just as likely just somebody you met years ago.

@Mitch friend don't be so gloomy, friend

@choster Wait...what's wrong with 'hoisted... petard'? (other than it sounds like they're trying to quote Middle English badly)

@Mitch it's hoist with his own petard, not hoisted

Hoistened

hoistenated

hoistenificationified

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Oh, there's gloomier:

@choster Oh. depends on context?

@Mitch Isn't it fixed?

Something like "you have better been there"

@Mitch I find there is a tendency in Facebook. Strangers who are serious experts in certain fields never send friend request to me; they would only follow me. Strangers who would send friend request to me are almost all frivolous people or native people.

"frivolous people" Um

Are you Thanos?

@CaptainBohemian Different social media apps allow people to show different faces of themselves.

@Mitch Well, my face here is censored, so dunno what I look like

Facebook is for family and friends and showing pictures of vacations or babies or political attack ads.

I sure hope I won't have to use anti-acne

@Mitch Or spread anti-vaccination propaganda or flat Earth bullshit

Or was that Twitter?

Instagram is for selfies or pictures of that meal you got at that restaurant.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ What do you mean propaganda/bullshit? I don't undestand

Our state media news has been funny lately. They cover Zarif and Trump/Pompeo/Bolton barking at each other

Twitter is censored, but not for Zarif

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ haha, they're different but overlap. Sometimes the content can be similar, but Twitter is for following complete strangers and their snap opinions, rather than people you've maybe met in real life like Facebook.

@Mitch Well, shit turns into fertilizer turns into soil, amirite

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ 'Dirt' originally meant 'shit' in English.

the word evolved with the material

Hmm, I remember that

Not that I'm 100 years old, but from oldish sounding literature? Dunno

There's so much fuss about time travel and alternate timelines, but humans have discovered writing stuff down is the way to do it.

Damn. I feel absolutely non-shallow.

What is life

Step in a puddle. Then you'll truly know the meaning of shallow.

^ Not asking Bohemian. They'd just say it means "position"

Lao Tzu, Tao De Jing, 1200 BC

@Mitch I dunno, they all sound like karate masters

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ NO SPOILERS!

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I have never had a conversation in Twitter; people in Twitter may follow me but would never send message to me. I have checked those followers, finding their posts seem not to show any interest overlapped with mine, thus wondering their motivation of following me.

@Mitch y u no liek spurt cars

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Jackie Chan: "...so I'll jump off the motorcycle onto the top of the moving train, duck just before it goes into the tunnel..."

@CaptainBohemian Not everyone is looking to use you

@CaptainBohemian Oh yeah. Twitter randomly (and not so randomly) suggests people to follow, and people follow hoping to be followed, because when you die, the gods will judge you by how many people follow you and convert that into frequent flyer miles.

@Mitch "And beat the final boss with a spoon, a handkerchief, and the remainders of my coat"

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ but there is no point to follow a person whose posts seldom interest you.

which you could then upgrade to first class.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I can see how to use the coat and the spoon.

@CaptainBohemian Yeah, don't. just follow people who write interesting things for you, and unfollow those who don't. Or don't use it at all. No one is making you use those things.

@choster Out of curiosity, should I put a comma before the year in "14th of May 2019"?

Yes, I would, at least

,

@Robusto Besserwisser?

@Gigili More like scold.

Besserwisser is more like "know-it-all" ...

In fact, I'd say that would be a pretty good translation.

Haar­spal­ter?

It's more like someone who, when you say you bought a new car, they tell you everything that's wrong with your purchase, and somehow imply that you didn't do enough research, or ignored important environmental considerations, or could have got it cheaper elsewhere. All in a very negative way.

But it's worse than that.

Someone will nag you about some trifling detail, in a very negative way, and then simply will not let up. You want to tell them, "OK, you made your fucking point. Now shut the fuck up already!"

Miesmacher?

Spaßbremse?

Well, you better delete that person from your life, no words can describe such an evil personality.

Those are more like killjoy I think, which is an attribute of the person I'm talking about but those don't encompass the entire malignancy.

Miesmacher is a good one. Haarspalter, too.

I'm finding it hard to think of a good equivalent for shrew.

That word for me in English is colored rather positively anyway, because of Shakespeare.

@RegDwigнt Oh, miezemuizen, yes!

Spießbürger is another one that comes to mind, but that one's even more far out. Basically philistine or babbitt is what it means.

But yeah Korinthenkacker is my favorite actually.

And you don't hear it very often these days. A pity.

There's a lot of Korinthenkacker running around. More than ever before.

And the Internet only makes them ever more visible.

@Cerberus that sounds like a term of endearment.

Mäuschen is what German men like to call their women for some reason.

@Robusto Naseweis.

A smart aleck.

But yeah that's in the same vein as Besserwisser.

Speaking of Shakespeare.

To be is a word that's colored rather negatively for me, because of him.

Also because of The Beatles.

But mainly because of Hamlet.

@RegDwigнt Ask for the Spiesburger with special sauce. Yum!

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