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Xanne
Xanne
00:58
@CowperKettle A premium is what you pay for insurance—it’s the purchase price of the policy. Installment is a means of payment, e.g., in portions over time. “Premium” is also used as a grade, or adjective, to describe quality, as of a wine or a piece of leather.
Cerberus
Cerberus
01:17
@Xanne The latter is bad English, wouldn't you say?
But I agree with you, of course.
Robusto
Robusto
01:40
A Wonderful, Magical Animal (The Simpsons)
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
04:50
I dreamt that I could fly, provided that I first drink a potion made from some dried herb.
The special services learned of the location of my flat, so I drank some potion and flew away before they could storm the flat.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
05:22
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
05:58
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Fan-Fan, a shopping mall in Yekaterinburg, yesterday
Huge video screens are everywhere the last several years.
Looks like the prices for these screens have dropped, enabling their installment.
When the first big screen was installed in Yekaterinburg 20 years ago, it was a marvel, a singularity.
Now they are seen even on moderately-trafficked sections of roads and streets.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
06:34
Obsolete term of the day: to futter (to fuck)
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
06:46
Horrific new videos show inside Putin’s ‘torture conveyor belt’ prisons as inmates are ‘raped and mutilated’
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
06:57
@Xanne This word, spyachka, also exists in Russian. But in Russian it means the winter hibernation in bears and other species. It's related to the term spat - "to sleep".
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It's curious that it means "coma" in Polish ))
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
07:16
In St. Petersburg, a man decided to commit suicide and ran towards the arriving train at a subway station. A passer-by, a 26-yo guy, noticed that and immediately turned to help, grabbing the suicidal guy. They both fell on the rails in front of the train.
The suicidal guy fell just between the wheels, and survived, and his would-be savior fell right under the front wheel and died instantly.
Then the suicidal guy ran away from the place of accident. He went to the nearest high-rise building, and jumped from the 12th floor, finally dying.
Xanne
Xanne
07:47
@So it’s not so odd—hibernation is a kind of sleep, as is a coma—both involve not being responsive to current stimuli.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Here buddy, It’s all yours.
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Later
Later
08:09
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Q: Should the present perfect form of the verb "continue" not be used in the following sentence?

LaterI have seen the following sentence in some article: Frankly, I think the point it makes is rather obvious, but to my surprise the publication was followed by a further flood of objections that - more surprisingly - continues to the present day. The context is that the author stated a controvers...

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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
09:27
Belarus’s ruler has used asylum seekers to destabilize the EU. And he’s not the only one profiting politically from their misfortune.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
12:53
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Belarusian authorities bring trucks filled with sawn tree trunks, and these are used to break the border line.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
13:20
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
14:05
In French, "April's Fool" is poisson d'avril - April's fish.
Curious.
The Russian word peskar' could be related to poisson
But it's not clear. Maybe not.
tchrist
tchrist
Well, pescar is "to fish" in Iberian languages, from the Latin.
 
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KannE
KannE
15:50
How do you just take away a vote (up or down) without changing it to the opposite? I mean how do you neutrallize a vote, to make it as if you never voted? I accidentally downvoted a question, but I'm afraid to click on it again.
Cerberus
Cerberus
16:24
@KannE You click on the down arrow.
Mitch
Mitch
@KannE There's a timer (don't know how long) so that you can undo you vote (from down to not voted) or reverse (from down to up) maybe 5 minutes? after that you get a message saying you can't change your vote/it's locked in. But you -can- change your vote -if- the question or answer has been edited since you voted. It's a bit of messing with the rules, but if absolutely necessary you could do a minimal/non-substantive edit yourself and then change the vote.
@KannE Or you can do what @Cerberus just said. just click on it - either it will undo or it will give you the message that you can't.
I think there is some mechanism in place so you can't just keep clicking on/off/on/off over and over. like you get some limit in the # of times you can change your mind (or have mistaken tremors/cat walking on your keyboard.
Cerberus
Cerberus
Yes.
Mitch
Mitch
Woo hoo!
KannE
KannE
16:43
Thanks.
Right now I'm in the process of getting rid of points: ridiculous bounties, picking the low-hanging fruit. But I think the guy (gal?) I was just going to randomly give 500 points just gigged me for the low fruit. Hahaha! Well, his answer just went down in value, big time. IDK, it could've been anybody, maybe the OP. Who knows.
tchrist
tchrist
@KannE What does gigged mean, and is its first sound the one from get or the from the jig? I'd reference that old Quevedo joke about low-hanging fruit, but it only works in Spanish.
KannE
KannE
Military for points taken away.
tchrist
tchrist
Like dinged?
Goodness the OED has 7 different gig verbs.
KannE
KannE
16:58
E.g., I got gigged on my uniform b/c my president's ribbon (or whatever) wasn't brand new. They say gigged, so I thought it was a real word, since forever.
tchrist
tchrist
Obviously it's a real word, duh. I just don't know it.
There are a lot of those.
I've one gotten to the second in the OED yet, but it does have a U.S. origin, and is pronounced /ɡɪɡ/.
KannE
KannE
I don't know if it is or not. I never thought about it. And I can afford NG but not the OED for some reason, and those maps are expensive as…you know.
tchrist
tchrist
> 2. transitive. To move backwards and forwards. Chiefly U.S.; also technical in to gig back (the carriage of a sawmill after the cut is made). Cf. jig v.
The one I want to be able to afford is DARE. They have wondrous maps.
Hm, I've read through all 7 and none seems a perfect fit. But they haven't gotten to this set yet in the Third Edition, either.
It's by no means uncommon that a perfectly common word from American use hasn't yet made its way to the OED, especially if it is domain-specific.
KannE
KannE
Some military are in a lot of parades b/c they look bad-ass. They have to have like a +60 y/o veteran barber or they'll get gigged on their haircut, for real. Every inspection, means a lot of new badges and ribbons. It's very expensive.
tchrist
tchrist
I guess I could try MW but only their 3rd Intl Ed. is much good.
KannE
KannE
17:04
Wait, let me ask my husband in case I've lost my mind. It's been an F-d up day.
tchrist
tchrist
So yes, they have it.
> gig noun (5)
Definition of gig (Entry 8 of 9)
: a military demerit

gig verb (4)
gigged; gigging
Definition of gig (Entry 9 of 9)
transitive verb

: to give a military gig to
It's not in the OED.
KannE
KannE
Yeah, it's gigged.
tchrist
tchrist
And I think these are all G as in gog never G as in judge.
KannE
KannE
17:39
I was in chat jail for 29 minutes. I don't if it's from earlier today or what I just said.
What did I just say? Oh, let's try it again bad-ass, F-d up and…I guess that was all. But my account may be suspended now; I'm not sure.
Ya see, there was this OP named Forest…who came from Alabama with a bango on her…twat. That should do it. Oh, gig as in get? I dunno, none of us can speak our own language, all deaf of Heinz 57 here.
Ya see, I meant banjo! Hahaha…
I meant, Deaf OR Heinz 57. We didn't pour BBQ sauce in our ears… It's been a long, long day.
Well, I have really enjoyed you guys and Cowper Kettle. Just in case we don't ever chat again… You've been real fine company, the best.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:49
Thank you! )))
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
19:18
There are currently 10 persons in Earth orbit.
7 on the ISS, and 3 on the Chinese station.
Cerberus
Cerberus
And where are we?
In this room.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
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A good name for a rock group
Krio language
Sierra Leonean Creole or Krio is an English-based creole language that is lingua franca and de facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Krio is spoken by 87% of Sierra Leone's population and unites the different ethnic groups in the country, especially in their trade and social interaction with each other. Krio is the primary language of communication among Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad. The language is native to the Sierra Leone Creole people, or Krios, a community of about 95,000 descendants of freed slaves from the West Indies, Canada, United States...
English-based language used by 7 000 000 people
With the -dem suffix for plurality: uman (woman) -> umandem (women)
Would supporters of the Democratic Party be called democratedem?
Demdem for short
Good night.
Cerberus
Cerberus
19:34
Cute.
Adios.
 
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Mitch
Mitch
21:32
@KannE wait..what -does- a white balloon on your mailbox mean?
Oh.
I was worried it was something malevolent.
Mitch
Mitch
21:47
Like 'White supremacists welcome!' Or 'drivers with baseball bats, please take a swing at this mailbox!!.

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