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1:21 AM

@tchrist Well, that may be his opinion—and a well-regarded opinion to boot—but the fact remains that others have called it Anglo-Saxon.

> Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc, pronounced [ˈæŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon,[2] is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

> Old English, sometimes known as Anglo Saxon, is a precursor of the Modern English language. It was spoken between the 5th and 12th century in areas of what is now England and Southern Scotland.

I used to have a shelf in my office containing dusty tomes of Old English (now stored in boxes since I moved from Boston), some of which have names like "Anglo-Saxon Riddles" or "Anglo-Saxon Poetry" (or pottery, believe it or not).

tchrist

@Robusto They shouldn't. That's his point.

It's not a language.

2:34 AM

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Anyone have an adjective describing something not black and white as in non binary?

@JBis The normal way is to describe such a thing as having "shades of gray."

any other word?

Variegated.

> having discrete markings of different colors

2:41 AM

Look at its second meaning.

> 2. Distinguished or characterized by variety; diversified:

ok

mean in the sense of not one or the other but a in between. Not yes or no, but yesish or noish.

Idk if that fits

I guess I can just say its not b & w but gray

I'd go with gray.

Jinx.

lol

ok thanks :)

np

3:03 AM

@tchrist The problem with "Old English" (which I was of course trained to call it as an undergrad) as a term for the general audience is that most people think that it describes anything from Hamlet to Beowulf —even Sir Walter Scott. I often will use the term Anglo-Saxon for those folks, and I do so without apology to Tolkien or my Old English instructor, Dr. G-----.

Side note: I hate that I can't use an em dash adjacent to starred italics: "... anything from Hamlet to *Beowulf*—even ..." had to be edited to put a space between the asterisk and the dash.

marcellothearcane

6:15 AM

@tchrist that's really interesting, thank you

7:10 AM

last night I finally used my Gift Card in a newly-opened Family Mart for a XO-sauced fried noodles and corn stew, which originally cost 114 but the counter said they only cost 109 due to the discount as a result of buying the both together. Actually the quantity the noodles is so small though it looks delicious.

if there is no Gift Card, I wouldn't buy it because I don't think it ca resolve hunger do to its meagerness. Indeed, after finishing the both, I felt my hunger had not been completely solved, so I had a cup of instant noodles.

I got the Gift Card on April, 2018. I often thought about using it soon. Finally I used it, feeling a relief. I got it from a market investigator of sun-block. I think this kind of free money is good in that it can be used to exchange for food. I lack food very much. A ticket for food is meritorious for me; I would use it for expensive food with meager amount. Food is never too much.

7:46 AM

hunger is such a trouble very difficult to solve because it occurs so frequently and requires cooked food to solve.

8:22 AM

I am going to sort out litters in my room, hoping to finish soon.

10:51 AM

need to go solving solving hunger now.

if there is a hunger solver, the time can be save to do other things.

11:02 AM

@Robusto inorite. Sometimes I have those really really good ideas that are really really good.

Most of them are in A♭ major for some reason.

12:36 PM

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Matt E. Эллен

1:42 PM

ELL: Q&A site for people learning English
EL&U: Q&A site for people *still* learning English

Mitch

2:21 PM

Where is la bibliotheca?

Just as important, does it have a public ... whatever you call it, you know, I really gotta go.

The importance of learning language.

The difference between 'I gotta go' and 'I gotta go'

Matt E. Эллен

I gotta go

Terms and conditions apply. You library card may be forfeit if you fail to mention something you later rely on in Spanish class.

@Mitch Muñeca

2:43 PM

@RegDwigнt Maybe because A♭ major (also its dominant key) are "grateful" keys for piano? In my own case, those chords lie soooo nicely beneath my hands.

3:14 PM

@Malavika hi, sorry not give you any useful information.

@Malavika I actually have experienced a long struggle for a place to go and know the desperation which can arise therein.

@Malavika I had the feeling earlier this year that everyone in this world competes for survival - those who would smile are those who win a post, and if they lose the post, they can't smile anymore.

@Malavika not yet, I still have some issues.

@Malavika I will go to but I still have to deal with something before going.

I am in a wasteland without anybody to discuss related issues.

that's the result of not holding a position.

@Malavika I got a position as a teaching assistant in a university half a year after graduation, then after a semester I quit it. Then after several months I got a position as a research assistant in a research institute.

@Malavika but none of these positions really interest me. what I really want is to do PhD.

@Malavika no, I have long quit it.

@Malavika No.

actually I have encountered a lot of Indian PhD students when I was a research assistant.

I mean Indians coming here to do PhD.

actually PhD students here are not generally well paid.

@Malavika no

@Malavika mainland China government probably pays PhD students better than island China government.

I guess our government doesn't encourage research that much.

I don't quite understand how our government spends its money because I have never concerned about politics.

but I don't see a good place to do PhD here.

I have never applied for any of these.

England is not easy to go to study.

UK doesn't offer scholarships to foreign students easily.

most of UK PhD programs preserve scholarships to their own students.

or European students.

I have not tried to apply for even once in UK.

so don't know if UK admit foreign students easily.

but most UK PhD programs only offer scholarships to EU students.

I don't need to try now.

I do found there are few PhD programs in UK offering scholarships no matter where the applicants come from earlier this year, but I didn't try.

because I see they require something annoying.

they require the recommendation letters to be signed by the writers and use particular envelope.

that means I have to go to my alma mater to meet those professors.

other programs I applied for accept sending recommendation letters by email.

first, my alma mater is far away and I don't want to bother those professors, so I gave up applying FOR that program in UK.

Also, all UK programs require some kind of English proficiency certificate.

4:21 PM

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4:37 PM

@Malavika I am sleepy and may go to bed soon.

@Malavika I haven eaten. Actually I only eat this meal today.

7:16 PM

@Robusto well yes I'm being tongue-in-cheek there.

You can gauge a piano player's progress by looking at their favorite key.

Children tend to think C major is the best.

Teenagers discover E flat major and go OMG dude mind blown.

Older folk quietly stick with A flat major and don't tell anyone.

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Q: What the sentence means

Instead my antenna picks up messages sent by humans back in the United States. This sentence means instead my antenna picks up messages which are sent by humans back in the Unite States?

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This is a new trend. Quoting the exact same thing twice, and then asking if quote one means the same thing as quote two.

@MattE.Эллен good effort. But I would say a minor correction is in order.

Really it's ELL that's for people still learning English. ELU is for people who gave up.

7:53 PM

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Mitch

10:38 PM

Doidy-doidy-doy

@CaptainBohemian that is factually incorrect. Hunger does not require cooked food to solve.

You are really quite obsessed with kitchens and cooking. And to each their own. But you're in the tiniest of minorities with that obsession.

I am saying that as someone who cooks quite a lot. Yet even I can't claim that I need a kitchen. Or that a walrus even knows what a kitchen is.

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