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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
00:02
@Færd A famous human rights lawyer died in prison in Turkey recently. She was abstaining from food in protest.
@M.A.R. I'm sure it's not legit ))
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
00:48
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Q: What is "self-contained university teaching"?

CowperKettleFrom the Habilitation page in Wikipedia: Habilitation is a qualification required in order to conduct self-contained university teaching, and to obtain a professorship in many European countries I googled for "self-contained teaching" and found definitions related to schools only: The term “se...

phrase-meaning
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
03:08
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A picturesque bench I came across on my run
🌿🍁☘
For some reason these three icons appear different on differnet websites
The pace is wrong. When I convert from Endomondo to Strava, it loses a good 30 seconds somewhy.
Thus it's closer to 05:07
Færd
Færd
04:07
@Mitch Maybe it depends on the other vowel in the word (too).
Xanne
Xanne
04:30
@CowperKettle "Self-contained" in this article seems to mean "independent," that is, without outside supervision. Habilitation seems to be roughly comparable to what would be called "tenure" in American universities--a higher level and more permanent position than lecturer or assistant professor. In both cases the promotion requires some evidence of independent research and publication.
@CowperKettle Habilitation has nothing to do with K-12 education, where a group of students may stay together in a class or may move to different teachers' classrooms for different subjects, e.g., French, maths, and so forth.
Or, in high school, where the students may split up from their "home" room for different subjects.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
04:48
@Xanne Thank you, Xanne! You could post this as an answer!
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
06:02
I often inwardly mispronounce mishap as mee-shap
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Xanne
Xanne
06:47
I once thought misled was the past tense of the verb "to misle," which I understood very well from the context.
Færd
Færd
Being missiled = being misled taken to extreme
Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
how difficult is it to keep hunger free?
getting food is such a big engineering
it's not like taking a shower - you can do it as long as you turn open the faucet.
it's not like surfing the internet - you just need to plug the computer to the socket
Færd
Færd
@CowperKettle Turkey is darkening in an alarming way I think. Nationalist and irredentist fervor, racism (against Kurds etc) among its youth, and its adventures in Africa and elsewhere scare me.
Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
it's not like drinking icy beverage - you just need to buy the beverage last night and put it in the refrigerator
Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
07:19
Now I know a possibility why some people write answers with a lot of syntactic or spelling errors - because they are hungry.
so you really can't expect people on web to answer your questions well because they are not paid to do this work - they may be hungry when writing the answer.
 
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
08:44
Lol
That's one way to look at it
 
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Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
10:05
Do you feel so hot?
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
10:44
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
11:15
e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-69450197.html
A local billionaire is spending lavishly on a usual school Yekaterinburg from which he graduated as a kid.
Some say that his taste is preposterous, it's all gold and plasterwork, but I think that it's better than just spending all money on himself.
Enriched environment has been shown in many studies to have a positive effect on the mind. And in this school, the environment is enriched to say the least.
 
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
12:53
> A new strain of head lice is going around which is resistant to conventional treatments. That has left scientists scratching their heads.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
CRISPR-based COVID Test is Rapid, Accurate and Costs Less Than $1
Robusto
Robusto
@CowperKettle When I was a child I thought misled was pronounced myzeld.
Sorry, too early for IPA. Need coffee.
@Xanne Me too! ^^
Cerberus
Cerberus
Makes perfect sense.
When you don't recognise the constitutive morphemes.
 
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Mitch
Mitch
14:10
@Færd I think it's like blackboard vs cupboard. in noun/noun or adj/noun pairs, when it's a new pair, the emphasis/stress is on the (2nd) noun. As it becomes more of a set phrase, the stress moves slowly towards the front. So: 'a board for cups' is cup board -> cup-board -> cupboard -> cuberd (= /'cʌ bɚd/) (thevowel in the unstressed 2nd syllable gets reduced to a schwa/syllabic-r)
and for 'blackboard' the evolution is going that way, but since it started much later hasn't gone all the way to the 4th stage of /'bla brd/
(this is related to my recent 'dogleg' answer)
@Færd so for necklace, this started much longer ago so the final syllable has reduced a lot, for shoelace it hasn't gone to the final stage.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Word of the day: original antigenic sin
Mitch
Mitch
For /'min it/ vs /mai 'nu:t'/, I think it's also about how long it's been in English. /'min it/ for the time period was borrowed from OF (via the Normans in 1066) so it is old. /mai 'nu:t'/ was borrowed from Latin and the pronunciation stayed closer to that.
Or maybe they were borrowed around the same time but in different contexts and frequency, so the time period had was more frequent and more likely to change pronunciation.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
17:15
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After 25 years of oppression by Lukashenko's thugs, a full 23 days of protest, that's inspiring.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
17:28
Smooth Criminal M.Jackson à l'orgue de barbarie
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:26
According to the most recent tests, about 12-15% of Russians have an immunity to COVID.
Still a long way to go.
Aspirated consonants may promote the spread of COVID-19, linguist says
> The article may be used under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Which is better, "can" or "may" be used? It feels like may.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:47
> An early example of "pills" came from Ancient Rome. They were made of the zinc carbonates hydrozincite and smithsonite. The pills were used for sore eyes, and were found aboard a Roman ship Relitto del Pozzino which wrecked in 140 BC. However, these tablets were meant to be pressed on the eyes, not swallowed.
Curious! I never knew that. I wonder what effect these chemicals have.
Robusto
Robusto
@CowperKettle I would use may. It is a subtle difference, but may is a more polite or formal way of expressing permission.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
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Word of the midnight: product placement
@Robusto Thanks!
Robusto
Robusto
19:05
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes is a children's story published by John Newbery in London in 1765. The story popularized the phrase "goody two-shoes" as a descriptor for an excessively virtuous person or do-gooder. == Plot == Goody Two-Shoes is a variation of the Cinderella story. The fable tells of Goody Two-Shoes, the nickname of a poor orphan girl named Margery Meanwell, who goes through life with only one shoe. When a rich gentleman gives her a complete pair, she is so happy that she tells everyone that she has "two shoes". Later, Margery becomes a teacher and marries a rich widower....
I never knew that was actually a book. I thought "Goody Two-Shoes" was just an expression.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
19:47
@CowperKettle Hollywood the early years?
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
20:07
> Yegor Zhukov is the face of a new generation of Putin opponents using social media as well as student rallies to stand up to the regime. On Sunday night, he was beaten up outside his home in Moscow hours after posting a YouTube video criticizing Putin.
news.yahoo.com/bloody-face-putin-crackdown-171726236.html
Thugocracy.
> The video was posted in response to university administrators who abruptly told him that he would not be enrolled this year, even though he had already been accepted and had paid to start the course.

Almost 200,000 people online watched Zhukov say: “Clearly, no professional person, who is serious about political science, would describe Vladimir Putin’s regime as effective.”
They tried to jail him for several years for peaceful protest. Now they ousted him from the university and mugged. Putin's thugs.

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