« first day (3947 days earlier)      last day (1270 days later) » 

 
5 hours later…
05:44
LOL
05:55
Three locals who will be put before the court in the next few days. They beat a man unconscious and then pushed a metal pipe in his rectum. He died from severe internal injuries.
A local girl decided to make a joke and said that the man was a pedophile and touched her. When she learned that he had been killed she disclosed that she had only been joking.
But it was too late, the three thugs had already killed him.
06:45
I'm just cussing out trolls now… Would someone just answer my effin' question if I had no problem whatsoever with grammar or the English language as a whole…wait, would that be a thing or things? Except, somehow, I didn't know if I was getting it on by a creek or in a Creek mound (or a hill? with a hole in it?) or on a mountain, barely overlooking a… What are those things called again? Oh, dicks, right. That's the point; let's all straighten those out. We would if we could, if a woodchuck could…
07:01
In the city of Rostov, a 32 yo woman charted a pentagram, sarcificed her small daughter using a knife, and then killed herself
According to the police, the whole flat looked like a witche's lair, with magial attributes lying around
The neihbors told that the woman was known to collect herbs near the building and chant some chants in a strange language, and always kept to herself.
OMG
 
3 hours later…
10:14
The latest opinion poll in Russia, with 52% saying they will not get the vaccine, 32% saying they have already gotten the vaccine, and 15% willing to vaccinate.
10:33
@CowperKettle Is that a reliable poll.
11:00
@CowperKettle Why is that funny?
@Cerberus Activists throwing explosives are called terrorists.
11:17
@CowperKettle Well, they are throwing them at an army, not at civilians.
 
1 hour later…
12:22
Texas has introduced abortion bounty-hunters.
If you catch a doctor carrying out an abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy, you get $10,000.
Oh, and they can also catch people who drive women to their abortion.
12:52
@FaheemMitha Yes, it was conducted by Russia's oldest independent population research foundation, based on a representative sample of over 1600 participants from different cities and villages.
@CowperKettle OK
13:08
@Cerberus 6 weeks is 1.5 months, should be enough time to perform an abortion
13:46
@KannE which question of yours?
14:00
@CowperKettle Why do you say that?
Note that many women do not even know they are pregnant at six weeks.
@CowperKettle 90% of abortions are after that cut-off point.
14:28
What's the IPA for OE Cwēnþrȳð?
['kwe:nþry:ð] ?
No the voicing would be swapped on the fricatives.
Probably a theta in the middle rather than thorn, for IPA. (Is thorn in IPA?)
Hah, right.
/ˈnəʊ.aɪˈdiːə/
@Cerberus :D
I probably got some of the marks wrong..
14:33
Are those two different morphemes glommed together that we can separately analyse? Or just a random thing?
Which ones?
Like Cwen for queen, not like Welsh Gwen meaning white.
Probably doesn't end in something for the name Ruth.
White throat? Sounds like a bird.
Queen Thrifty. :)
14:51
@Cerberus Ah. I did not know. Shouldn't a woman keep track by using pregnancy test etc?
> The neural tube closes around week 6 or 7, at which point the brain separates into three parts: front brain, midbrain, and hindbrain.
Probably they chose 6 weeks as a cut-off point because that's when the brain develops
@CowperKettle "Shouldn't"?
It seems they chose observable heartbeat.
15:11
Hello guys.

In my country there is a mandatory technical inspection checkup every year for vehicles.
If a vehicle dont pass the inspection it is not allowed to the road

I wonder if there is such thing in english speaking countries and if yes how do they call it:
annual checkup ?
or
annual technical inspecition ?
or something else?
Thanks
Vehicle inspection is a procedure mandated by national or subnational governments in many countries, in which a vehicle is inspected to ensure that it conforms to regulations governing safety, emissions, or both. Inspection can be required at various times, e.g., periodically or on transfer of title to a vehicle. If required periodically, it is often termed periodic motor vehicle inspection; typical intervals are every two years and every year. In some jurisdictions, proof of inspection is required before a vehicle licence or license plate can be issued or renewed. In others, once a vehicle...
Something like this?
This page has many different terms for different countries.
Looks like what Im searching for.
I need to apply english-like name to a document, but I dont know if there is a common word/term for it. Seems to me it is quite specific for each country.
"vehicle inspection" seems more clean to me than "technical inspection"
15:29
@Hairi Yes, the title of the article sounds good for your term.
15:40
@Cerberus Yes. Shouldn't a woman make sure that she does not get an unwanted pregnancy? It's the 21st century, we have condoms, pills etc, etc. Ultrasound scanning, hormonal tests
@CowperKettle I don't understand the context of this question.
Is it in support of some argument and conclusion?
How many women do you think take a pregnancy test every three weeks?
How much does it cost, in time and money?
She should then take pills, install a IUD or make sure that her man uses a condom. I think one should avoid abortions if possible.
So that was your point.
Isn't it up to the women to decide what happens with her body?
It's uncertain.
It's not clear where her body ends and the child's begins.
So it's better just to take measures to make as less abortions as possible.
An embryo is nothing compared with a pig with respect to intelligence, friendship, etc.
15:48
I think that every being with more than a couple of neurons, starting from a worm, feels pain and can suffer.
So it would be ideal to just grow meat in biotech vats.
Sure.
But let's forbid killing mice before forbidding abortions.
Let's not.
16:50
Hi
Is "American everyday life" grammatically correct?
(i know it's semantically ... weird. as not all Americans have one routine, but I'm asking just about grammar)
17:08
@reith Sounds OK to me.
Alternative: everyday American life.
It depends on whether you want to emphasise "everyday life" as a unit or "American life" as a unit.
292
Q: What is the rule for adjective order?

RegDwigнtI remember being taught that the correct order of adjectives in English was something along the lines of "Opinion-Size-Age-Color-Material-Purpose." However, it's been a long time and I'm pretty sure I've forgotten a few categories (I think there were eight or nine). Can anyone fill them in?

Consider also this question.
Thanks. I didn't get your alternative. I said "American everyday life" too. Did you mean "Everyday life in America" maybe?
@reith Oops, sorry.
Corrected.
@Cerberus thanks
Either is possible depending on what you want to emphasise.
The difference is slight.
I got it. thanks!
17:17
Yay.
BTW, i thought i should use "the" before it. for example in this sentence: ".. a chance to acclimatize myself with the American everyday life" but Grammarly suggested "the" is redundant.. Is Grammarly right?
Yes, it is better without the.
I can't really explain why, but country-adjective + life is generally used without an article.
Thanks. Articles look really intuitive and hard to explain if not impossible.
They often are.
Maybe there are some rules for cases like this.
@reith Consider this: we say "life is good" and "life in the mines was difficult".
So certain abstract words like life often have no article when used with in a general sense.
Yes. I've already come up with some kind of rule. Maybe I made it myself, but often it works. I see the noun and surrounding words and consider how much "specialty" I'm going to add to word in my context. But it seems I failed with my rule here. I was under the impression that I'm "customizing" or narrowing down life meaning in my sentence so it needed "the"
Since my native language is almost totally ignorant about definite articles, I think and reason a lot about them but sometimes it just harms :D
17:45
@reith I think such reason is beneficial in general.
But there are just many exceptional patterns and idioms, such as life.
 
2 hours later…
19:24
@Cerberus You just wrote the Great Dutch Novel in less than 15 words.
@Cerberus Whoa. Holy crap. I came here with dark thoughts wondering how the Israeli-Palestinian thing will ever sort out, and now we're talking about killing mice?
It literally can't get any worse.
In the very fact of the matter, it is, at this moment, raining.
19:43
@Mitch Exactly!
@Mitch Mice can be lovely pets.
20:36
@Mitch You know I just like to vent. I'm over it already. And I delete my unanswered questions. I wish I could delete them all, but I think people know stuff I can't find online. Sometimes they do. But they're super busy helping teen trolls masturbate, so it's touch and go. Haha! There's a dad joke you won't see every day.
21:23
@KannE Well played!

« first day (3947 days earlier)      last day (1270 days later) »