@KitZ.Fox I just looked at a bunch of nitrogen compounds on wikipedia. THey're all... messed up.It's like there's a parallel world that I never knew about.
Dear next person who answers a question about a vs. an: you are awesome and I love you, but your answer will be deleted without further notice.
Note the date please.
I won't pretend we should only be dealing with questions of how to end all wars and solve world hunger and cure baldness.
But when by far the most frequently asked question on the site is about the one and only rule of English that's actually a rule, and a rule that's really short, really simple, and has absolutely no exceptions whatsoever at all, when that's your most commonly asked question, something's going terribly, horribly, no goodly, very badly wrong.
Imagine the environmental impact of all the times that question has been asked. The fuel burned to make the electricity to run the infrastructure so people could ask about a vs an .....
Does anyone think we should have a signpost to the Monica situation on ELU meta? Something like this post. It's not going away (however much SE hope it will) and I think that's a fair summary for those who want to know. But it's bound to be controversial.
PS No animals were harmed in the composiition of this message, but a number of electrons were severely inconvenienced.
@TimLymingtonsupportsMonica the way I see it, meta is a free-for-all. Anyone can post whatever really.
And since they changed the design I've been unable to find our Meta ever again, so for all I care you can go post pictures of cats there right now.
On that note, I don't even know what the Monica situation is.
You're better off consulting with @Cerberus, I would say.
@DavidM it's probably less than the environmental impact of myself having cooked pasta for dinner tonight.
And I won't change my ways. So to be fair, it'd be unfair to ask that of others.
But yeah you sure have a point.
@DavidM through a series of highly scientific experiments held with assitance from top professionals, I was able to determine that the difference between a and an is known with full certainty by exactly two people in the world entire: myself and prof. Stephen Hawking.
And prof. Stephen Hawking died of it.
The rest, the jury's still out.
Even the top professionals wouldn't know the difference. They'd say to my face that they did, but then secretly at night they would go ask on ELU.
Which is how we got half of those questions in the first place.
Well you should teach @Cerberus, then. He only speaks a couple hundred languages, and all of them are dead. Plus one language that he calls "Dutch" that he pretends is living. And a language.
Oh crap, I forgot to check back on my Fallout Shelter vault today. BRB checking on that.
So I just closed a different game for that, and the Switch told me "the software was closed because an error occurred". No, you dumdum. I am not an error.
Calling up Nintendo support. This is unacceptable levels of insult even by their standards.
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