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1:20 AM

@Cerberus That non-lazy youth lasted like maybe a few months until I realized the futility of it all.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Philosopher
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Giblets
Harry Potter and the Something of Something
Harry Potter and the Formulaic Title

"Harry Potter and the"

That's it, that's the title.

Cerberus

@Mitch Still amazing.

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CowperKettle

3:23 AM

rogitate

Verb: rogitate (third-person singular simple present rogitates, present participle rogitating, simple past and past participle rogitated)

(transitive, intransitive) To ask a question repeatedly.
rogitāte
second-person plural present active imperative of rogitō

> His ardent Love for Jane was ſuch,
Poor Roger rogitated much.
(1735)

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CowperKettle

5:08 AM

Xanne

5:34 AM

@CowperKettle The perils of translation. This is worthy of “English as she is spoke.”

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Hairi

6:53 AM

I want to ask my colleague at what time today is he going to leave work.

Is the following correct?
What time are you going to be there til?
OR
Until what time will you be available today?

7:40 AM

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9:09 AM

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Mitch

12:14 PM

@Cerberus Ironing socks and underwear was a sign of insanity that only lasted a year.

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SmokeDetector

1:15 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating characters in answer (80): Why do certain consonant clusters occur only at the start of a syllable but others only at the end? by stoopid CCC on english.SE

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Cerberus

2:53 PM

@Mitch Good Hades.

CowperKettle

3:36 PM

barryodev

Hey, is this the right place to ask for feedback on why my code review question didn't get any feedback?

Cerberus

This room belongs to the English site.

You can ask anything, but it doesn't seem related to your topic.

barryodev

3:52 PM

well I put a question for code review, codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/260113/… it got a few views and one positive vote but no feedback, did my best to follow the guidelines for posting, was wondering if anyone had any tips on rephrasing it to get some feedback

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Mitch

4:55 PM

@CowperKettle You know what I can't stand about Wiktionary (which is passed forward by the one-boxing)? They don't give the meaning at the beginning. In One-boxing you see all sorts of stuff about part of speech and etymology and pronunciation, but what is it I really want to know to judge the rest? The meaning.

CowperKettle

@Mitch I rogitate inwardly on the same.

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M.A.R.

6:27 PM

@barryodev I suggest trying Code Review chat, as most of the recommendations of the type you're looking for will be site-specific

CowperKettle

7:08 PM

Cupping therapy

Cupping therapy is a form of alternative medicine in which a local suction is created on the skin with the application of heated cups. Its practice mainly occurs in Asia but also in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Cupping has been characterized as a pseudoscience and its practice as quackery.Cupping practitioners attempt to use cupping therapy for a wide array of medical conditions including fevers, chronic low back pain, poor appetite, indigestion, high blood pressure, acne, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, anemia, stroke rehabilitation, nasal congestion, infertility, and menstrual...

I remember undergoing this as a child

Without bloodletting of course

Bohemian relativist

infection or vaccination may protect against disease but not provide the type of transmission blocking immunity that allows for shielding or the generation of long-term herd immunity.

M.A.R.

@CowperKettle Yeah we have such equipment here too. The cups weren't heated, they just sucked the skin

I was always skeptical of their effectiveness even when I was three or something

CowperKettle

@M.A.R. In my case, they were heated in order to provide suction when applied to the skin.

I was not skeptical, my mom used them on me. But then I stopped getting ill, and their usage stopped.

And then much later I learned that it was pseudoscience.

Another traditional treatment was rubbing a sick child with Vodka.

LOL

I'm not kidding.

I remember constantly getting colds with severe headaches in my childhood.

If I'm recalling correctly, sometimes small slices of potato were placed under cups, with matches stuck in them, burning - so that a match, burning off all the oxygen, provided the suction force.

Банки как метод лечения. Здоровье. (28.08.2016)

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A Russian prime time TV show about health, showing the use of cups

The show host correctly says that cups are not effective, it's just a traditional pseudotherapy.

And a lot of indignant comments in Russian under that video with "we've been using them for centuries and it helped"

Bohemian relativist

study about covid-19 infection and other related virus infection looks like a tedious task.

Xanne

7:25 PM

@CowperKettle Externally applied alcohol (vodka) might reduce fever?

Bohemian relativist

come on, still empty.

M.A.R.

7:49 PM

@CowperKettle heh

Xanne

Well, the placebo effect is powerful.

@Bohemianrelativist Those immune are unlikely to transmit. But immunity may not last for years, and the vaccines often do not trigger responses in those with repressed immune systems.

then there are new variants. The longer the initial vaccination takes, the more new variants. Some will say let’s just live.

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Bohemian relativist

8:56 PM

@Xanne it takes me much frustration to finish reading this article to answer the questions for the English assignment. The teacher said this article may concern us because we may wonder when the pandemic will pass. But I have long felt studying this kind of article is too boring, so why bother to study it since we are not pandemic researchers - we just want the answer from those researchers about the result without wanting to know too tedious experimental processes.

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