@KannE Yeah, sometimes it is better to have the old question with crappy answers be closed as duplicate of the new more popular question.

@RegDwigнt: Just discovered this guy. Dunno if you like electric bass, but this guy plays it like no other.

And another:

In case you weren't aware, Jaco Pastorius was generally acknowledged to be the foremost jazz EB player of his time.

Well, it's rainy in England, I guess that explains why he could work up his chops so thoroughly.

And now for OMG.

@tchrist height doesn't sound like hate. to me anyway. perhaps if I were born to a higher caste

Word of the day: ramekin

@CowperKettle This is a pretty common word. Just go to a Bed Bath & Beyond or the housewares section of any department store and you'll see it.

@MattE.Эллен rhymes with 'paste'?

or with 'past'?

or (sorta) with 'pats'?

@Mitch past I think

lexico agrees with me

well, there you go. that's why it's different for me :D

@MattE.Эллен lexico is a sham

:-o

it's powered by oxford dictionaries

I still don't know what that means.

how dare you!

I know!

@Mitch well, oxforddictionaries.com is now lexico.com for the most part

so lexico gets all its definitions from the place that oxford dictionaries got them

doesn't lexico include some other source for definitions? Like Collins or something?

also, it was sort of unclear where OD got them. Not from the OED, but then where?

Where is @Jasper?

not as far as I know. it's maintained by the folks at dictionary.com, which might use multiple publishers?

so lexico = dictionary.com? I'm sure this was explained months ago (possibly by myself) but I have no idea now.

Butt?

also look up 'shamus'

on lexico

haha I knew that one.

@Mitch lexico is maintained by dictionary.com, but they're not the same dictionary. dictionary.com seems to be based on the random house dictionary

Well, that's unnecessarily confusing.

So dictionary.com -maintains- the website -for- lexico, but the lexico definitions aren't the dictionary.com definitions.

Saying it explicitly doesn't remove the clarity.

uh... lack of clarity

'removing a lack' = 'adds'

just say it write the first time.

you might need a thesaurus

yeah or one of those synonym dictionaries

I do like thesaurus.com a lot.

which is run by dictionary.com!

better connections than most

but often still sticks with same part of speech which is limiting.

@MattE.Эллен What?

Stop it!

You're as confusing as American politics.

I am a pied piper you forgot to pay, but I'm not stealing children, I'm stealing your sanity

Like there's one politician that seems dodgy, and they get turned in by someone who is also dodgy, but they are friends (or used to be) and then the 2nd guy is the one actually convicted but then in jail or after getting out sings the praises of the first guy.

You know who I'm talking about.

Thanks Obama.

@MattE.Эллен I made that rhyme, that is 'saniTAY'

nice :D

Anyway, I just want the bad guys to be the bad guys and go to jail, and the good guys not.

The plot is confusing otherwise.Who am I supposed to root for? I don't want this to be some French story where half of everybody dies by the end and the ones who survive wish they had died.

You know who knows what I'm talking about? @KannE.

@Mitch Huh, I didn't know that was possible. You should clear all those dups up then.

@KannE But that takes work.

Work that I am not bored enough to do.

@Robusto I went, but saw only signs in Russian. D'oh.

I've read more than 100 books in English and never came across ramekin

@Mitch, I'm a slow reader. I haven't read the political thing yet, and guess what. I've reached some kind of milestone or something. I don't care about politics, civil rights, equal rights, no kind of rights... I just want to rest and eat now.

@tchrist Is it "how" or "now"? Brown cow... that's compulsatory, of course. Something about a horse now...

@KannE It's exactly how we got it from him that's so heinous.

@tchist - OIC now, it's as I suspected...

@Mitch - That "milestone" turned out to be withdrawal from nicotine...but I'm good now; I care about every body except my own now. Give me an hour to read a couple of paragrahs, and I'll get back to you on that...whatever it was.

Mitch - BTW, Dictionary.com is where you go to confirm misdefinitions and made-up words. Everybody knows that. Look up "misdefintions"...it's probably in there. And Lexico has joined with them in order to elimiate the first recorded use of every word not recently invented...because it makes people too busy for basic curiosity feel satisfied in some ironic way.

*eliminate

@Mitch Ignominious sinus or Sinus ignominious, Shirley.

@CowperKettle I guess you never read a cookbook.

Manikin?

Close.

dyNamic in.

'Tis a hard one, that.

Alabama kin?

Yes!

Feminine rhymes.

Suitable for that kind of rhyming.

Actually, not feminine.

kin in both instances ends on a stress.

Oh.

RAMeKIN

I have no name for this.

I liked manikin though.

On second thought, yeah: it's a feminine rhyme.

The final stress in ramekin is possible only if forced.

@CowperKettle Iconic signs are like charades, and the sign for "white" is sort of like pulling a shirt (or stroking the bottom of a long, white beard). The sign for "wrong" is not completely arbitrary though. It uses the "stay" sign, reversed and pulled back towards the mouth (landing on the chin), which suggests 'take that back'...as you would when someone says something wrong. And don't put them back in your mouth; they fall flat on your chin.

@Robusto Indeed, that was my omission

@CowperKettle - In ASL, that is; sign languages are not universal.

@KannE Isn't there a set of four signs really close that can be embarrassingly mixed up by non-fluent ASLers?

Is there an online rhyming dictionary for ASL? So you can make rhymes or puns in ASL?

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Oh how exciting, an all-new re-layout!

Hopefully in the next iteration we can do away with the question bodies altogether, and make the votes even more prominent.

After all, it's only the rep that really matters to anyone anyway.

@Robusto lovely.

I recognized his face from somewhere. But I've not listened to him before.

@KannE I'm a slow reader myself. Could you maybe type that again, but slower?

@Mitch Well, first, don't sign "thank you"...like the Italian chin flick. Some signs are taken from pop culture (like "whatever" from Clueless), and some are...specified, like chin flick--FU--so why not just fingerspell it? It'd be easier. And how would you say "get outta here" with an Italian accent in ASL? They probably don't give a d*mn (again, not the chin flick).

@RegDwigнt - If I type any slower, all the "children" will probably join forces and throw me into a nursing home...versus grappling over whatever electronic device I'm using at any given time...and attempting to reverse time with only their thumbs...dumb kids; I tried...some things can't be learned.

@Mitch - Those are good questions. I'll have to ask...but it depends, for example take my Deaf cousins, one writes poetry, wrote a book...but the other, when asked about metaphors, said...they're not necessary; why should Deaf people care what dogs and cats sound like when it rains... Yep, she sure did...had never considered the weight of it.

That's kinda pathetic, really.

I might do one at 1k, but I probably won't. Maybe at 1 million. Though in a way that's maybe even more pathetic.

As Brian Tyler said in an interview, you like my music, good. You don't like my music, also good.

Or something to that effect.