English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

12:03 AM

@RegDwigнt: So have you ever played any Scarlatti keyboard works? I was reading that proper technique for that was never to use your thumbs. I can't imagine how you do anything on a keyboard without your thumbs.

Robusto

1:25 AM

Holy shit, that guy is playing Liszt's piano. And it's a Bechstein!

Jesus, that guy is good at improvisation.

Captain Bohemian

5:42 AM

how do you drive away ants?

SmokeDetector

6:40 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): Earlier sources or identity of person who coined the term "neutrois"? by ankittk on english.SE

CowperKettle

7:21 AM

> Disputes and disagreements that may arise in the course of execution of this Contract shall be possibly resolved through negotiations between the Parties.

What is a more proper legalese for possibly? As far as possible? To the best possible extent?

Hm..

@CaptainBohemian Issue an eviction order?

CowperKettle

9:17 AM

Non-invasive nerve stimulation boosts learning of foreign language sounds

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in username (97): What is the job placement rate at Regional College of Management, Bangalore? by RCMB on english.SE

Captain Bohemian

9:40 AM

so hot

CowperKettle

Same here. +28°C

Very untypical for the Ural in August.

And the same will be tomorrow.

This is the hottest summer ever.

Captain Bohemian

do you see Neowise?

CowperKettle

No. My attention is spent on proofreading a legal medical document and reading daily news about new arrests and fines in Russia. Today they came for a woman in Yekaterinburg. She managed to send an SMS that she is being taken to the police station, and haven't been heard from since. She stood with a protest sign in the center on 1 August, and was not expecting a sudden arrest at 7 am.

The whole newsfeed is arrests, fines, apprehensions, interrogations.

Captain Bohemian

how to feel less hot?

CowperKettle

Word of the day: nasal dorsum

The word columella is also nice. I memorized overhanging columella two years ago. I have a friend, a beautiful bicyclist girl, she has an overhanging columella

Matt E. Эллен

9:54 AM

I have a pierced radix

I think radix is also a mathematical term...

Captain Bohemian

Are you hungry?

Matt E. Эллен

not yet

are you?

Captain Bohemian

I have got hungry now.

Actually it has been dusk but I haven't eaten a meal today.

I have just drunk blueberry juice.

CowperKettle

12:15 PM

Ngerulmud

Ngerulmud is the seat of government of the Republic of Palau, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean. It replaced Koror City, Palau's largest city, as capital in 2006. The settlement is located in the state of Melekeok on Babeldaob, the country's largest island, located 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Koror City and 2 km (1 mile) northwest of Melekeok City. It is the smallest capital city in the world. == Etymology == Ngerulmud is derived from the Palauan meaning "place of fermented mud" (mud being the native name for Centropyge tibicen, the keyhole angelfish). Before being chosen as the site...

Capital city with a population of 271 person

That's grand.

I'd live there

@CaptainBohemian Yummy! it costs a penny here

Captain Bohemian

Do you want to see Neowise?

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен It does. It's also Latin for root IIRC

And radish comes from there.

An interesting word.

CowperKettle

@CaptainBohemian Do I want to see Neowise? More than Pennywise surely. It was a wisecrack

Robusto

12:37 PM

This House Paint Was Supposed to Stop a Nuclear Bomb

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Product placement in a nuclear test. Or: making nuclear war safe for the white suburbs.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yes lots of them. Mostly as a kid. Standard literature for beginners.

Never thought of not using my thumb though. Especially not as a beginner.

That silo is fucking huge up close.

You really don't get the full scale from the aerial images.

So now there'll be famine on top of everything else. Brilliant.

15 thousand tons of wheat, maize, and barley were there at the time of the explosion.

CowperKettle

Oh, the silo was very big. We had a silo in Yekaterinburg in the center, but sadly they demolished it a year ago. It would have made a great industrial art object, and the area around could have been turned into a park.

But our silo seems to have been smaller.

Matt E. Эллен

1:06 PM

@Robusto oh! that's interesting. of all the root vegetables!

M.A.R.

@TerranSwett You are truly my evil clone.

@CaptainBohemian There's a wide variety of chemicals in different forms

@CowperKettle Just "may be resolved"

"shall possibly" → "may"

@CowperKettle Last couple of nights have been uncharacteristically cold here

@CaptainBohemian just splash some water on the face?

@RegDwigнt Dang

Robusto

1:23 PM

@MattE.Эллен Also interesting is the fact that radish in Japanese (根) serves the same purpose as a metaphor for things meaning root in its "at bottom" or "original" meaning. See jisho.org/search/%E6%A0%B9 That is one versatile vegetable!

So think about that next time you sit down to a salad: you're making linguistics easier to digest.

Matt E. Эллен

1:50 PM

:D

Captain Bohemian

Do you want to go back to room on hill?

Artificial Stupidity

Is the following sentence grammatically correct?

If there are more items than can fit in the container

How can "can" follow "than"?

RegDwigнt

2:11 PM

It's fine. Precisely because this is one way in which can can follow than.

Artificial Stupidity

@RegDwigнt: Thank you. What is the relevant topic name for this?

From linguist's point of view.

M.A.R.

3:19 PM

@ArtificialStupidity And it's not a complete sentence but I think you know that

@ArtificialStupidity Not a linguist so take it with a grain of salt but it's probably just a comparative complement

Terran Swett

4:19 PM

@ArtificialStupidity Well, I think "more items than" takes a... what's it called, a relative clause?

I'm sure you'd agree that the phrase "more items than the container can hold" is a perfectly fine phrase.

In that phrase, the trace is the object of the verb "hold". We're saying something like "more items than the container can hold [(the items)]".

And there's no reason why the trace can't be the subject instead of the object.

M.A.R.

"It was harder than I thought"

"than" can take clauses as complements

If that's what they are. I'm really wary about this stuff anyway

Robusto

I don't know what you call it. I just know that it's true, and it's properly a discussion that is more than can or should or will or even might fit into these little chat messages.

M.A.R.

5:04 PM

journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2010/10000/…

This is obviously not a comprehensive outlook but they're worshipping HIIT like it's a miracle worker and it makes me a bit skeptical about how great it is

CowperKettle

5:23 PM

Стоїть явір над водою - cossack song

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One of my favorite songs

Artificial Stupidity

@TerranSwett: Thank you very much!

@M.A.R.: Thank you very much!

@Robusto: Thank you very much!

@RegDwigнt Thank you very much!

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question (93): A general query ✏️ by Userabc on english.SE

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CowperKettle

6:45 PM

@M.A.R. Looks like hell to me

I tried to take a 30 km run when it was +30C. I woke up very early, at 3:40 am, and started running at 4 am, but still it was too hot, it was about +24C.

I had only run 10 km when I started feeling that my mouth is dry. So I turned back.

At such temperatures, one's body looses water very fast.

Apri, May, September and October are just great at your place.

Robusto

7:25 PM

@M.A.R. "NT was less efficient than prolonged running for lowering the subjects' resting HR, fat percentage, and reducing the ratio between total and HDL plasma cholesterol."

In other words, the small metric they're touting for INT over the others is just a skewed viewpoint. The relevant English idiom: "There ain't no free lunch."

I cycle at pace normally between nine and 15 hours a week, and all those statistics about HR, fat % and HDL/LDL cholesterol are stellar, much better than when I was working and could only get in about 6 hours/week.

Resting HR, for example, went from ~64 bpm to ~52 bpm, going down to ~44 bpm while sleeping. Total cholesterol went from ~170 to ~125, with HDL increasing by 80%.

And who does 150 minutes a week? That's not even a day for me, most days. Five half-hours over a week? It takes me half an hour just to get into stride. Even when I was working I did at least an hour.

A very light day now is 90 minutes. And I don't feel good afterwards. I don't get that sense of well-being that comes with a good workout.

M.A.R.

9:01 PM

@Robusto Exactly

This reminds me of folks that want to be a 'hacker' without going through the tedious processes involving how things actually work.

Trying to copy code that's mostly only useful for professionals without really understanding it

@CowperKettle I could swear yesterday was 15 degrees tops

I know that's Death valley for you

Although to be fair HIIT is really tough when done right. You'd need even more motivation to do that than steady cardio

Robusto

9:19 PM

@M.A.R. Sure. And it has its place. But I view it as an add-on to prolonged aerobic exercise. If I were into racing I'd incorporate it into my routine, no doubt.

Robusto

9:40 PM

RegDwigнt

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Q: If to me, you are my crush, what am I to you?

Is there a single English word for that? For example, if Hinata calls Naruto her crush, what is Hinata to Naruto? What can Naruto call Hinata?

single-word-requests

All answers are about Hinata and Naruto.

Shinto Sherlock would refer to this kind of situation as "being taken over by a bunch of insane gnomes".

@Robusto well the Ancient Greeks did it. And the stated goal is to be the greatest at everything, not lag behind the Ancient Greeks of all people.

Murca first!

Robusto

@RegDwigнt If I am your crush, chances are to me you are nothing.

RegDwigнt

Only the people who are bad at doublethink are bad at doublethink. Those who are good at it are really good at it.

Robusto

Also, when you came rolling up here did you see a sign outside that said "Anime Questions Answered Here"?

RegDwigнt

No, I only saw a Black Lives Matter sign.

Robusto

9:53 PM

That's right, you didn't. Because answering stupid anime questions ain't my fuckin' business.

RegDwigнt

If I was informed correctly, the clock is ticking, Jimmie. Is that right?

@Robusto I was going to comment "If you are my crush, then to you I'm a creep".

But there were so many comments already that I abstained.

I don't want to be the tenth in line. I've spent quite enough of my life queuing up, thanks much.

tchrist

10:39 PM

@RegDwigнt What the fuck is a Hinata or a Naruto?

Robusto

11:46 PM

Naruto Uzumaki

Naruto Uzumaki (Japanese: うずまきナルト, Hepburn: Uzumaki Naruto) () is a fictional character in the anime and manga Naruto, created by Masashi Kishimoto. Serving as the eponymous protagonist of the series, he is a young ninja from the fictional village of Konohagakure. The villagers ridicule Naruto on account of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox—a malevolent creature that attacked Konohagakure—that was sealed away in Naruto's body. Despite this, he aspires to become his village's leader, the Hokage. His carefree, optimistic and boisterous personality enables him to befriend other Konohagakure ninja, as well...

tchrist

Not Klingon opera?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better fucking do it and do it quick.

@tchrist This is weirder than that.

tchrist

Narn opera?

It all seems so operatic.

Robusto

Japanese even has a special word to describe how Naruto runs, with his arms outstretched behind: ナルト走り, or narutobashiri. You gotta hand it to the Japanese.

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