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First take off all your clothes, though. People love that.
You can leave your lampshade on.
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Q: Base on __ Grounds, On Basis Of

Fondness=-==-=-=-==--==-==-==-=,,.,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.-==-=- "The secret was discussed on the basis of humanitarian grounds." "The secret was discussed based on humanitarian grounds." Does these mean that humanitarian compassion compelled the act of discussing the secret? Or is it that the humanitar...

Lulz.
Could you look more like Nortonn S? — Matt Эллен 40 secs ago
He could, and he will.
yay!
my wish fulfilled
In other news, I've heard "admix" for the very first time today.
I've heard of admixture before. I don't know if I've heard admix
And in the meaning "shuffle", no less. All dictionariez sey, "mix, blend".
Someone wanted to be extra fancy.
Yes, it does seem to be the wrong word for shuffle
My vote is for Not Constructive:
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Q: Create an Account or Create Account

Chen HarelI have a registration form I want to name.Should I name it: "Create Account""Create an Account"(or "Create the Account") Also, which words should be capitalized if this is a header. Thanks!

12:52
having edit privileges here is a problem when I look at some other site and I want to fix it. It needs fixing! Stupid people who can't spell and create run ons. Argl Bargl
@RegDwightΒВB I will follow?
Hm. I don't remember such a line.
Hello.
Ehm @Mitch, have you been sitting in the sun for too long?
Your colours broke.
Nortonn S is back...and quite Meta
> I saw a question I liked yesterday, so I copied it on computer. I tried find it today, but it's not here. I think the original author was wrong, but I am not very sure, and I have questions about the question. So, I write a better question to help out.
well, I guess he's got a lot of alteregos to keep in check
13:04
I have no idea what he even wants.
Why is his suspension still ending on the 21st though? Isn't there something about "thou shalt not create sock puppets"?
@Cerberus Neither does he.
Apparently not...
@RegDwightΒВB Argh ... because there wasn't one...I thought you were referring to 'walkaway, walkaway, walkaway'
@Cerberus my apologies. I haven't changed them, but they are kinda bright. How did they break for you?
I like things broken.
13:09
@Cerberus Is that what does it? correlation is not causation.
It could be that?
Or is it more like the way a broken LCD screen looks?
Ending a statement with a question mark is simply the orthographic manner of encoding uptalk?
It is meant to indicate a question where the asker considers a confirmation of what he proposes to be likely.
@Cerberus oh...so, no, that's what it is then.
It could be? Or maybe it's just that the preceding sentence is eliding , couldn't it
13:12
which I think is where uptalk is coming from?
You don't know?
@MattЭллен I suppose that works the same way, yes.
I killed that man?
nah, up talk is just to annoy people. ;)
Uptalk may have come from that?
Everybody is doing it these days?
13:14
I think that actually comes from something like, "you know I killed that, don't you? Well, he came back to haunt me."
¿I only talk down, never up.
But in a degenerated way.
?
Except for the Lardashians. They do vocal fry.
What?
Why?
Haven't watched it yet.
the last one wasn't so funny.
13:16
Agreed.
Not sure why not.
vocal fry is (as far as I can tell) is dropping the frequency at the end of a sentence to the lowest part of your range where your voice scrapes a bit.
Oh yes, it was about pointy shoes.
I prefer his observations on social interaction, I think.
@Mitch Hmm...doesn't ring a bell.
@Cerberus I can't remember what part put me off, but I think it was because the jokes were based on a fallacy that I don't find funny or something
A fallacy? His?
13:19
And what is (a?) Dragon's Den? It sounds like a game?
"everyone wears pointy shoes"
Right.
maybe that was it
I thought perhaps it was something English.
I can't remember exactly. I ll have to rewatch it
13:20
Better not.
So what's Dragons Den?
@Cerberus yeah it's a show where people go up to 4 realy rich business people and pitch their business ideas
the business people are called dragons
Why would he even refer to such a show?
It sounds very uninteresting.
Oh, well.
it's quite famous here and parodied a lot
13:21
Oh.
I hope he won't go on about it for too long.
:D
agh! stupid edit timeout
"The how-come-they're-ordering moment".
I like that.
What were you going to edit?
I hadn't even noticed...but now I have!
Why did Carlo add a tag to something?
13:26
@MattЭллен Okay, I like this episode well enough.
@simchona What does it even mean?
Wut iz web phrase?
Jinx.
That says it all.
Even the birds and the dogs despise it.
I deleted it. Some people shouldn't have tag edit ability.
Or at least snub at it.
> ... a company that simply copies an idea presented to it by another will quickly find itself shut out of future opportunities to work with innovative companies. These are issues that patent system defenders and policymakers seem to rarely consider.
Would you prefer to keep rarely where it is, or put it before seem?
(Not my writing.)
@Cerberus 'rarely' does sound better before 'seem' here
13:39
@Mitch OK.
This seems like a classical case of the "split infinitive" (which is a silly, imprecise label anyway).
but as an informal native speaker and bad writer I would morelikely but infelicitously split the infinitive.
Heh.
I don't have a huge problem with this.
Right. Often splitting the infinitive just doesn't sound good. but other times -unsplitting it can be worse.
It just struck me a slightly...unpreferable?
@Mitch Yeah, it is rather that you would normally tend to avoid it, but it's no biggie.
It is often the only possibility.
I find it rather hard to spl an infinitive it.
13:41
There, was it that hard?
Oh.
<insert inappropriate joke>
Joke inappropriately inserted.
Eww.
That is inappropriate.
Flag!
OK, someone give me an example of "anymore" used without a negative context or as a question.
@Mitch To boldly go where no man has gone before?
13:55
If you want any more tea, you're going to have to help yourself.
But you could say there is a weak negative expectation.
As is the case with any any.
Or is it?
It is the same as Latin u(m)-.
I don't think the two are related...
@Robusto quoting nohat, 'The problematic dialectical use would be “I was surprised to learn they make brown cars anymore.”'
Basically take a sentence with still and go from there.
14:34
It still feels like a veiled contradiction.
Oh dear…
@Cerberus Har.
Very believable, isn't it?
In point of fact it is.
How would a child know what a strip bar looks like from the inside?
14:44
I still think she's a stripper. I don't buy the snow-shovel thing for a minute.
@RegDwightΒВB Duh, from TV?
@Robusto Think bigger. The entire thing is forged.
I can tell by the pixels and from having seen quite some Comic Sans in my life.
@RegDwightΒВB Think biggest. The entire thing is true but presented as a forgery.
I'm getting to the point where Arial Rounded Bold looks like Comic Sans to me.
Whoa. Dude. Your like meta or sumtin.
I am not Ron Artest.
Metta World Peace (born Ronald William Artest, Jr., November 13, 1979) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was known as Ron Artest before legally changing his name in September 2011. World Peace gained a reputation as one of the league's premier defenders as he won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2004. He was a participant in several controversial on-court incidents, most notably the Pacers–Pistons brawl and is known for his sometimes eccentric and outspoken behavior. Early li...
Hey someone's younger than me! When did that happen?
14:48
@RegDwightΒВB It happens every second of every day.
Stuff and turkey.
You just aren't paying attention.
Indeed I am.
How long was your WMT room used for?
@RegDwightΒВB Just what I said.
@Mahnax I don't know, 6 months? 8?
Can someone tell me again what this effect is where you round frequencies up and and to get "pure" pitches in songs?
14:51
Last message: December 8th.
@Cerberus OK. I'm just trying to estimate how long it will be before someone shuts down Penthousing.
The ugly thing used in some modern music.
First message: July 7th.
153 days.
@Mahnax Qu'est-ce que c'est, ça?
Autotune? Or am I thinking of something else?
14:52
Yes!
That's it.

 Penthousing

discussing penthouse related issues
Have you not seen Penthousing?!
It's important business!
Jun 8 at 20:55, by RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

 Penthousing

discussing penthouse related issues
That room's not private.
14:53
Can you even make private rooms anymore?
So why do you have a room about penthouses?
that's not the only thing that's not private
@Cerberus Ask Meysam.
Ryan is pretty private.
@RegDwightΒВB That's why he needed to be saved.
14:55
always save the pretty ones
ugly people are expendable
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Q: An alternative word for Lest

Babak SorouhReading a book that it is not an old book (1995) and following the proof of a theorem, I saw this word Lest. I have not seen it, for about 20 years of reading and working on mathematical contexts. Is this word used nowadays? Babylon, suggested to use against the possibility instead of it but I f...

Nature seems to love ugly people, since it made so many of them.
Why people, put random commas and, emphasis on stuff?
I don't, know.
Because it's a great way to, get your point across
14:59
My favorite gratuitous use of the comma is in the Subaru slogan: "It's what makes a Subaru, a Subaru."
It totally alters the meaning to be not what they intend.
Perhaps they intended it to be a repetition, for the less attentive listeners.
It's what makes a Subaru. A Subaru. A SUBARU, we said!
ass burrow? what's that?
Who cares, just buy one. Or several.
You really don't get ads, do you?
@RegDwightΒВB No. They mean it in the sense of "It's what makes a house a home." The way they punctuate it puts it into that echoic repetition.
@RegDwightΒВB Sorry, I'm not a lesbian, so I wouldn't buy a Subaru.
@RegDwightΒВB as infrequently as possible
15:02
Oh, Rob's having his serious day today.
You're having your obtuse day. I'm being funny and you're pretending I'm serious.
I'm not saying that I'm not linking to the Wikipedia article on joke again again.
apparently, I read the other day, research suggests that zen Buddhist meditation makes you more susceptible to subliminal messages
compared to just relaxing
What about superliminal ones?
Or exoliminal ones?
15:03
Yvan eht nioj!
@RegDwightΒВB we'll have to get Jasper to take up meditation
Or medication.
Or mediation
@RegDwightΒВB You forgot the required expletives.
No, you required the forgotten expletives.
Also, ass burrow is an expletive.
15:07
I suppose it does fill out
Perferct answer... — Rohan Shah 56 mins ago
Meow.
@RegDwightΒВB Now you're talking.
15:26
Gotta run! Latorz.
CU
^(' ° ')^
15:59
@Cerberus well-tempered
Well temperament (also circular or circulating temperament) is a type of tempered tuning described in 20th-century music theory. The term is modelled on the German word wohltemperiert which appears in the title of J.S. Bach's famous composition, The Well-Tempered Clavier. The phrase wohl temperiert also occurs in the works of Bach's predecessor, the organ tuner and music theorist Andreas Werckmeister. Origins "Well tempered" means that the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in most major or minor keys and it will not...
16:55
Checking out the area51 proposal for ELL, I notice that:


This proposal is in:
Definition

The topic and audience are still being decided. It needs:

29 followers
40 questions with a score of 10 or more

to move to the next phase.
When I joined up I got -5- votes. If there need to be 40 qn*10 votes (at least) that means there needs to be at least 400 votes possible. it looks like you need -80- people to come in -and- vote all their votes to get past definition.
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huh
interesting
17:26
@Mitch I know wohltemperiert / well tempered!
18:06
I can't believe I never checked the math.
18:52
@Mahnax Do you? Well, I like that! huff
user19161
@Danielδ They were talking about another Dan.
I know ;)
user19161
I told them the ping would not work well.
I got all three pings.
user19161
You need three pongs to match.
user19161
18:53
Then we can play ping pong.
That's what I was just doing
Half hour ago
:)
user19161
But don't eat from the pong pong tree.
OK, I'll keep that in mind
user19161
The fruit is forbidden.
while I clean the bathroom
@JasperLoy By whom?
Oh, you
I get nothing
user19161
18:54
@Danielδ Well, in case you did not know, there really is a pong pong tree.
:(
@JasperLoy So much I gathered
Otherwise you would have said ping pong tree
user19161
Cerbera odollam, commonly known as the Suicide tree, Pong-pong, and Othalanga, is a species of tree native to India and other parts of Southern Asia. It grows preferentially in coastal salt swamps and in marshy areas. It grows wild along the coast in many parts of Kerala, India and has been grown as a hedge between home compounds. It yields a potent poison, often used for suicide or murder . Description The fruit, when still green, looks like a small mango, with a green fibrous shell enclosing an ovoid kernel measuring approximately 2 cm × 1.5 cm and consisting of two cross-...
DON'T EAT IT! NO!
Well, I'm going to go clean a bathroom, as I mentioned before
C ya.
19:10
@JasperLoy That's me!!
19:33
@Cerberus a beautiful, poisonous flower? interesting
Very dangerous.
So don't bite me.
but you looks so tasty!
These may look tasty too...
However...
19:50
however?
oh! Is that how babby form?
nibbles tentatively
20:14
those things look like hedgehogs
20:24
The one day I'm supposed to ask Kit something, and she's not here
20:35
@Cerberus durians?
user19161
@Cerberus Did not know such things exist.
user19161
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Q: Mean or Median?

Kartik AnandMy textbook sets this question: In each of the following sentences, a word has been used in sentences in different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate. The average of 3, 4, 5, 7. and 10 is 6 whereas the m...

user19161
I have no idea what the mean median OP is asking.
Chinese police warnings about what kind of geometry allows a man to look up a woman's skirt
( from here)
user19161
20:48
@MrShinyandNew安宇 I've seen them myself before unintentionally. They wore short skirts and are a few steps above me on the escalator.
@MrShinyandNew安宇 they're giving men advice? surely they don't need it!
user19161
The other thing I see unintentionally is when I look down a few floors and they wear lowcut blouses.
> If the eyes of the ‘observer’, i.e. the point E, is right on the extension of segment BC, then point B would fall into his eyesight. Then, let's make another line of DE which goes through E and is perpendicular to the extension of AC, then the right triangle of DEC is similar to the right triangle of ABC. So clearly, the length of DC is the horizontal distance between the man's eye and the lady’s skirt. Ladies, have you figured that out?
@JasperLoy unintentionally, suuuuurrrree
user19161
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Sounds like xkcd.
Jasper wears a new avatar
user19161
20:53
@Meysam You can change yours too.
@JasperLoy I can't
@JasperLoy I think they've confused 6 as part of the sample, whereas it's actually being given as the answer to the average
21:09
I'm sure this is a dupe, but I can't think of what to search for:
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Q: Book market or books market?

isaCan someone tell what would be right word 'Books market' or 'Book market', similarly 'Pirates Bay' or the 'Pirate Bay' ?

maybe this one:
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Q: "User accounts" or "users account"

kiamlalunoIs it correct to say user accounts or users account when referring to the accounts any user has on a site like this one? In general, in the case of a noun that is used as adjective for the noun that follows, is it better to use <plural-noun> <singular-noun> or <singular-noun> &...

22:07
@MattЭллен Rule of thumb: If you're spending time trying to track that stuff down, you're the dupe.
:D
I have been duped by myself on many occasions
22:46
@JasperLoy Really? But they come from east Asia!
@cornbreadninja Yup! Yum?
23:28
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Q: "I'll give you an ideal opportunity to get some senior management." What does "some senior management" mean?

MeganMy understanding is 1, an opportunity to become a member of the senior management team; 2, an opportunity to get some service, like senior management in an apartment???

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