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Robusto

00:16

@RegDwigнt You've been panning for gold on MuseScore for so long it should be no surprise when you come up with something like that. I mean, that sure seems like the norm, not the exception.

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CowperKettle

03:26

> Schedule of audits planned for 2019–2020, with indication of completion status.

I wonder if this looks natural. The translator used the term "with notes on completion", which is a calque of Russian "с отметками о выполнении" (with marks indicating whether this particular audit has been completed).

Xanne

04:10

@CowperKettle Looks okay to me. So does the earlier version.

Did we find out if @tchrist is okay?

Biden says we don’t need “Neanderthal” thinking on mask-wearing.

Walk like an Egyptian, think like a Neanderthal.

RegDwigнt

05:08

@Robusto yeah. Sometimes it's like. You know, like how if I eat a cake, you can't eat that cake anymore. It's like that. Every time I read a note, someone else can read one note less.

CowperKettle

@Xanne Maybe someone has his email?

CowperKettle

05:47

Word of the day: mock recall

Xanne

06:39

@CowperKettle Interesting, I hadn’t heard about mock recalls before (one up and one down) and would have thought it was something like “Imagine you remember your fifth birthday.”

A word of the regulatory age.

Xanne

06:57

The pop music of the 1970s was not very good.

CowperKettle

07:34

Moribund Music of the 70s

Chumbawamba - Pass It Along

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Pass it along by word of mouse
Save yourself, don't leave the house

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Xanne

09:21

From an article on the seasonality of coronaviruses, a wonderful sentence: “Human factors, such as behaviors and activities that are closely associated with proximity of humans to one another, may contribute in seasonal cycles in virus transmission “

I would have said “the proximity,” but in fact article use is variable.

Australia: very low cases, likely to increase as they enter winter months.

CowperKettle

09:43

@Xanne I came across the term only today

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Gigili

11:02

@Cerberus Almost 60 percent of the list are Arab states, that says a lot.

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user586228

14:25

What is meant by this statement,"Functions as technical advisor and consultant to the railway board."

CowperKettle

@user586228 Some persons (not named in the sentence) works as a technical andvisor and consultant.

"He (or she) functions as a technical advisor"

user586228

What is meant by a teechnical advisor please explain me this.

CowperKettle

@user586228 A person who has knowlegde in the technical aspects of some activity. Who knows the technology used in the railway business.

user586228

And consultant?

@CowperKettle

CowperKettle

consultant

Noun: consultant (plural consultants)

a person or party that is consulted
a person whose occupation is to be consulted for their expertise, advice, or help in an area or specialty; a party whose business is to be similarly consulted

Verb: consultant

present participle of consultar

Adjective: consultant (feminine singular consultante, masculine plural consultants, feminine plural...

@user586228 You can look up the meanings of words in a dictionary

user586228

14:33

ok..

CowperKettle

14:45

Word of the day: epiblepharon

Robusto

@Xanne I refute it thus:

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Full Album)

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Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (Official Video)

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W̲ish You W̲ere H̲e̲re - P̲ink F̲lo̲yd Full Album 1975

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Journey - Lights (Official Video - 1978)

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Van Halen - Dance The Night Away (1979) (Remastered) HQ

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Matt E. Эллен

Bohemian Rhapsody came out in the 1970s, so I think that's case closed

Robusto

The Cars - Just What I Needed (HQ)

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@MattE.Эллен Whoa, good one.

Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video Remastered)

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@MattE.Эллен And, like, just about all of Queen.

Matt E. Эллен

:D yeah

Robusto

The decade was not entirely disco.

Rush - A Farewell To Kings (Official Music Video)

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Accidents Will Happen

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Armed Forces (album)

Armed Forces is the third studio album by British musician Elvis Costello, released in the UK by Radar Records and in the US by Columbia in 1979. It was his second album with the Attractions, and the first to officially credit the Attractions on the cover. The album had the working title Emotional Fascism. The North American version omitted the track "Sunday's Best" and replaced it with Costello's version of Nick Lowe's "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding," which had been released the previous November as the B-side of Lowe's "American Squirm" single. Initial pressings of the...

Whoa, here I am leaving out David Fucking Bowie ...

D̲avid B̲owie – A̲laddin S̲ane (Full Album) 1973

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Bowie only had like a dozen iconic albums in that decade.

And even his "disco" sound (Young Americans) was hipper than disco.

So, @Xanne, the ball is in your court. I could go on, but I think this refutation will suffice.

Matt E. Эллен

15:11

Johan Larsson

15:30

wish you were here is a great song, long time since I listened to it

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Robusto

16:43

Sorry, can't help myself ...

Carole King - So Far Away (Official Audio)

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Joni Mitchell - "Blue" (Full Album)

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Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York (Audio)

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Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years (Audio)

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Superstition

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Funny how you can't think of things when you're trying to think of them but when you stop they all come flooding in.

Gigili

17:05

So true.

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M.A.R.

18:56

@CowperKettle Looks wise TBH

SmokeDetector

19:18

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected, potentially bad keyword in answer, toxic answer detected (159): ''Wassup, can a loc come up in your crib''? by john smith on english.SE