English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

user19161

00:33

@Carlo_R. "in front of"

user19161

@Carlo_R. "people are"

user19161

@Carlo_R. "Italians were"

user19161

@Carlo_R. "we were"

user19161

@Carlo_R. "I bought my first"

user19161

@Carlo_R. "ladies", "people were"

user19161

00:36

@Carlo_R. "exchange", "every"

user19161

@Carlo_R. "mathematician"

user19161

There are more. I give up.

tchrist

00:47

In this study, we consider the functions that formulae perform in two genres which
exist in written format as texts, but maintain close links to oral forms, namely Old
English (OE) verse, specifically the epic poem Beowulf, and weblogs, or “blogs”.
We identify five important functions of formulae found in common across OE verse
and blogs, classifying these functions as discourse-structuring functions, filler
functions, epithetic functions, gnomic functions, and tonic functions. In addition, a
sixth type of formulaic function necessarily tied to the written medium, the

From the paper “Hwæt! LOL! Common formulaic functions in Beowulf and blogs”

Cerberus

Hmm.

user19161

Hey @spare!!!

Cerberus

@tchrist Looks a bit too much like attention seeking, but perhaps it is not so bad if you read it.

tchrist

My reaction was, “Oh dear!”

user19161

@tchrist I watched the movie Beowulf I think.

tchrist

00:50

Paper from the Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society is here.

They’re making the point that one does things in an oral medium that are different from what one normally does in a written one, and that these were for oral media.

> As will be seen below, OE verse and blogs fall into neither of these prototypical categories, but instead represent genres transitional between oral and written. Extant OE verse survives only in written form, and thus was not actually composed in real time—but as discussed below, is composed as if in real time.

Cerberus

Somehow I don't feel that blogs and Beowulf are that closely related.

tchrist

I don’t think of blogs as transitional between oral and written. Text messages, maybe.

Spare Oom

hi @Jasper

I'll have to re

Ember not to bother signing in on

tchrist

Ah, Academe!

> Foley (1991) analyzing epithets like πόδας ᾽ωκὺς ‘swift footed’, as characterizing Achilles in Iliad XXIV.559, argues that the use of this epithet (in this case, while Achilles is not in motion), is a traditionally established method of bringing the full image of Achilles to the minds of the audience (Foley 1991:142f.).

This is still from the Hwaet-LOL paper.

Spare Oom

Y iPod again. It is too hard to see or reply

Pretend I'm not here. Urg.

tchrist

01:05

One of the authors cites an upcoming paper of his: Slade, B. forthcoming. How (exactly) to slay a dragon in Indo-European? PIE *bheid- {h3égwhim,
kwŕ̥mi-}. Historische Sprachforschung.

I’m sure we’re all dying to learn.

Well, all us dragons, I mean.

Cerberus

01:27

@tchrist Neither do I.

@tchrist What about it?

tchrist

I am amused by how they make it seem fancy.

Cerberus

What? Their paper?

tchrist

Yes.

It just seems a silly paper dressed up in fancy terms.

Cerberus

01:44

Yeah, wouldn't be the first.

Spare Oom

►

tchrist

02:26

@Mahnax And Copyeditor makes three.

Mahnax

Nice.

tchrist

I had thought Ed had gotten it long ago, but it seems that he hasn’t.

Archaeologist is rarer, hm.

Mahnax

Epic is even rarer.

Tenacious, Tumbleweed, and Unsung Hero have never been obtained on ELU.

tchrist

03:14

Or Reversal. Probably never will.

Why does Fumble put a giant ! at the top of NS’s questions?

Frank Science

06:17

That's muffle lay.

What does that mean?

David Wallace

06:33

@FrankScience I believe it doesn't mean anything. Refer english-test.net/forum/ftopic79999.html

Frank Science

@DavidWallace Therefore it's nonsense?

David Wallace

07:21

@FrankScience I don't believe that any native speaker of English would understand anything by this remark. Of course, there could always be a little pocket of people somewhere in the world who would use and understand such an expression, but it seems extremely unlikely to me.

user19161

09:51

Happy October.

Cerberus

10:42

Hello.

KitFox

11:42

Morning.

RegDwighт

O la paloma blanca.

KitFox

nods to Reg

Robusto

What's happy about October? It's the beginning of the slide into winter, the sun's progress toward the southern hemisphere accelerates, and all the leaves come off the trees.

RegDwighт

Sounds giddy.

KitFox

Apples.

Pumpkinfest.

The New Year.

A holiday.

What's not fun about October?

Robusto

11:49

1 min ago, by Robusto

What's happy about October? It's the beginning of the slide into winter, the sun's progress toward the southern hemisphere accelerates, and all the leaves come off the trees.

KitFox

Want to dance? We can do circles all day.

RegDwighт

I much prefer square dance.

Robusto

No dancing in chat. Also, no circles.

KitFox

Oh I see. It's going to be that kind of day.

RegDwighт

That unkind of day, to be precise.

Robusto

11:50

It's Monday. Duh.

RegDwighт

Wait I thought it was October?

KitFox

But...my boss is out of town.

Robusto

October and Monday.

RegDwighт

Lies.

KitFox

And coffee! And holes in my ceiling!

Cerberus

11:51

Hi.

Yeah the end of summer sucks.

RegDwighт

Does the hole have a cat yet?

Robusto

Who let the dogs in?

Cerberus

woof

KitFox

Hey the remaining gang's all here.

@RegDwighт She's too lazy to jump that high.

RegDwighт

Throw her.

KitFox

11:51

giggles

RegDwighт

I saw one crazy film yesterday.

KitFox

Which?

RegDwighт

The Science of Sleep

It's... unusual.

And threelingual.

English, French, Spanish.

Well, I watched it with a Russian overdub, so make that four.

KitFox

Oh, I know those three. It looks like a fun romp.

RegDwighт

It's funny, too.

KitFox

11:54

It's French, so it must not be.

RegDwighт

The description sucks. Ignore the description.

KitFox

OK, I will.

RegDwighт

I've never seen anything quite like that before.

KitFox

It's always hard to tell with French films. Sometimes they look funny, but it is just the chocolate coating on the grasshopper.

RegDwighт

Other than being set in Paris and having Charlotte Gainsbourg in it, not much French about this one.

KitFox

11:55

Oh! It's the Eternal Sunshine guy.

RegDwighт

@KitFox it's not unsimilar to Eternal Sunshine, Being John Malkovich, and the like.

KitFox

I like those movies.

RegDwighт

Then check this one out.

KitFox

OK.

Hey there was an animé flick you recommended once, I think. A kids' movie. I can't remember the title. Do you know which one I'm talking about?

RegDwighт

Totoro.

KitFox

11:58

That's it. Thanks.

RegDwighт

imdb.com/title/tt0096283

KitFox

I was going to add it to my list.

RegDwighт

A must-see. At any age.

KitFox

Lovely. I looked it up on Netflix, and the second movie listed is My Neighbor, My Killer

RegDwighт

Looks like a million dollars well spent.

People who liked the only cartoon ever that works without having a villain also liked Freddie vs. Jason IV.

Oh, it's a documentary. Even better.

KitFox

12:05

People are pretty tweaked.

RegDwighт

Nah, I'm joking of course. This is plain-text search for a string contained in both titles, after all.

KitFox

Oh yes. I see.

I was thinking more of "people who like horror movies also like the real thing."

RegDwighт

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

KitFox

Well, I rather think there is something wrong with that.

RegDwighт

Not that there's anything wrong with that, either.

KitFox

12:12

Haha.

Robusto

3

Q: Does the washing up fairy exist outside of Australia?

Just to clarify, I'm not talking about the Lush product of the same name. In Australia, the washing up fairy is a mythical creature. People leave their dishes unwashed overnight, and lo and behold, the next morning the dishes are clean thanks to the washing up fairy. Sadly, she (I assume it's a...

australian-english

This is what we've come to? This is an English question?

tchrist

Martian.

RegDwighт

Serves you right for using too much Unicode.

KitFox

Oh Reg, that reminds me. I wanted to ask a question that is difficult to search for. Can you tell me if the difference between "not a [something]" and "no [something]" has been asked before?

RegDwighт

> Generally speaking, if you can't see something, that means that you must have a bug installed in your PC. Simply remove it, and everything will work again. Hope that helps. — RegDwighт ♦ Apr 1 '11 at 14:00

tchrist

12:20

isn’t PC.

RegDwighт

Glad to see you've discovered the bug.

@KitFox so many times that I created a dedicated tag last week! no-not

KitFox

Ah, that's it. Thanks.

So I have another question about that construction.

tchrist

KitFox

If we combine these constructions with *ain't*, we get:
I ain't no fool.
I ain't a fool.

tchrist

Now you can migrate it back to MSO.

RegDwighт

12:26

@tchrist awesome.

KitFox

Do these appear in different idiolects?

RegDwighт

@tchrist You wanna edit here first, or there after the migration?

tchrist

I’ll edit here first.

RegDwighт

K

KitFox

Because it seems to me that "I'm not no fool" is different than "I'm no fool" and since "I ain't no fool" is a contraction of the first...now I'm confused again.

RegDwighт

12:29

Just admit that you are a fool and be done.

tchrist

Gosh it is hard to edit when what you are seeing is in Martian.

RegDwighт

Har

tchrist

He wants a copy of the HTTP traffic.

Really?

RegDwighт

Yeah.

@Luke - fiddler, network tab in Chrome or Firefox, anything where we can see the actual HTTP going back and forth. Basically we need to see when and where (ie. what request to the server) that garbage is getting added. — Kevin Montrose Sep 27 at 21:12

Just invent something. ХИР ИЗ МАЙ ТРАФИК!

tchrist

The garbage is not there when viewed from Opera.

So the request is fine.

RegDwighт

12:32

Opera: on the cutting edge of recycling.

tchrist

And somehow so is the response, but Safari is screwing it up.

RegDwighт

Safari: on the cutting edge of screwing it up.

tchrist

I don’t have a "network tab" that I know of to show anything with.

Gigili

Morningen.

tchrist

I can simulate the HTTP response/request cycle manually, but since Opera shows it correctly, I’m sure my handrolling would too.

Gigili

12:34

Oh hello @kittyo.

tchrist

"View Source" gives me a whited-out window. Weird.

KitFox

Hello, sweetie.

tchrist

His gut is wrong.

I am not using a proxy in Safari.

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Q: English SE vandalized by Martians

Here is a screenshot of English SE newest questions tab. Look at the red gibberish (likely Martian handwriting). Here is the text: tdber 18 Tvrptvinp-oldpanigno"viTclzinsti tdber 18 Tvrptvinp- oldpanigno"viAddzinsti butt /bvalui Addzon-td I refreshed the page and the re...

bug status-norepro

@RegDwighт I’ve edited the question. I hope that is enough for migration.

I’ve saved a copy of the HTML. There is no garbage in the HTML.

tchrist

13:00

Can’t get the upload widget to work from Safari anymore, and the shot above is blank viewed from there. Looks right in Opera.

The user drop-in code for chat is also display Martian usernames, but the pop-ups aren't.

Noah

Hello

I just wonder how Norty can get around the restrictions

KitFox

He's got a lot of time to kill.

Noah

@KitFox Is he really learning?

tchrist

Learning how to post questions even when we don’t want him to, yes.

Gigili

13:16

@Kit: Are "issue date" and "billing date" the same thing?

KitFox

@Gigili Not always.

Gigili

What does "issue date" refer to in the context of cell phone bills?

KitFox

"Issue date" is whenever it got sent out. "Billing date" can be the same, but might be different if the bill is paid in installments.

Oh. With cell phones, "issue date" might be the date you got your new phone.

It's hard to say for sure.

Gigili

@KitFox Could it be the date "from blah to blah" the period of time that charges were calculated for? Or what you said, when it got sent out?

KitFox

@Gigili Hmm. I think it could be either. Without looking at it, I would guess the latter.

"Billing period" is usually how I see the former.

RegDwighт

13:28

@Cerberus

KitFox

Women in pajamas in the bathroom mixing genders?

RegDwighт

Saudi children don't have mothers. Mitosis, I guess.

Gigili

@KitFox Thank you.

KitFox

Oh, they do have mothers, but they are kept in seclusion.

@Gigili Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

RegDwighт

Bathrooms are for clean people. Women are unclean. QED!

tchrist

13:30

Meiosis.

RegDwighт

I always mix them up.

But I thought meiosis is for sexual reproduction?

KitFox

Neither is accurate, so it doesn't matter.

RegDwighт

You are inaccurate.

KitFox

phbblt

RegDwighт

You are so inaccurate, you wouldn't even appear on an IKEA catalogue in Saudi Arabia.

tchrist

13:32

awaits parthenogenetic enlightenment

KitFox

@RegDwighт Well, that's true.

RegDwighт

Meiosis

Meiosis () is a special type of cell division necessary for sexual reproduction in eukaryotes. The cells produced by meiosis are gametes or spores. In many organisms, including all animals and land plants (but not some other groups such as fungi), gametes are called sperm and egg cells. Whilst the process of meiosis bears a number of similarities with the 'life-cycle' cell division process of mitosis, it differs in two important respects: * the chromosomes in meiosis undergo a recombination which shuffles the genes producing a different genetic combination in each gamete, compared w...

See, that's for gametes.

KitFox

Duh.

Mitosis is simple cell division.

So both of you are wrong.

RegDwighт

@KitFox you be quiet. We've had that fruitless discussion already. Now let tchrist have his.

KitFox

Oh fine.

tchrist

13:33

Suddenly I can see your picture.

KitFox

huffs

tchrist

Not the previous one.

RegDwighт

Mar 3 at 16:39, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

Now tell me with a straight face that that doesn't beat litotes.

tchrist

That one is blank.

And that one has Martian.

RegDwighт

Then my job here is done.

KitFox

13:34

That isn't less cool than litotes.

It's fewer cool.

RegDwighт

Is that your straight face?

KitFox

It's my o-face.

RegDwighт

O I see. But I wanted to see straight.

KitFox

I don't think I have a straight face.

RegDwighт

Bummer.

KitFox

13:35

I could hammer this one out maybe...

tchrist

Star hugger.

KitFox

gets hammer, beats out kinks

RegDwighт

If I had a bummer, I'd hummer in the morning, I'd hugger in the evening, all over this land.

tchrist

deftly avoids the wh- word

RegDwighт

Whiplash?

KitFox

13:36

Meiosis is not less cooler than litotes.

tchrist

Rhotic whole.

KitFox

That's my straight face.

RegDwighт

That's like saying that Wachowski Starship is not less cooler than Snoop Lion.

tchrist

Still looks like a tortuous visage.

KitFox

Castle Greyskull.

So there.

RegDwighт

13:37

Grayskull. You're in America.

tchrist

Ick.

KitFox

Oh ffs.

Whenever I skip rope with you, I end up flat on my face.

RegDwighт

You don't have to skip rope for that, honey.

tchrist

Greyhawk

Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. Although not the first campaign world developed for Dungeons & Dragons—Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign predates it by a few months—the world of Greyhawk was the setting most closely identified with the development of the game from 1972 until 2008. The world itself started as a simple dungeon under a castle designed by Gary Gygax for the amusement of his children and friends, but it rapidly expanded to include not only a complex multi-l...

KitFox

@RegDwighт You could be a little nicer to me. I would give you apple pie.

RegDwighт

13:39

@KitFox I'm still waiting for the previous occurrence of said pie.

KitFox

I told you, you had to wait until harvest season.

And now it's harvest season.

RegDwighт

My wife meanwhile made me apple pie just yesterday.

KitFox

We've a crappy crop this year though.

tchrist

Didn’t know you had an American wife.

RegDwighт

@tchrist Continue to not know it, for knowing it would be knowing wrong.

KitFox

13:40

How would I ship it to you? Bake it, then freeze it, you suppose?

And if all goes according to plan, this will be our last apple harvest for several years.

RegDwighт

@KitFox we've been there. This is like vu again all over deja.

tchrist

Then you haven’t had real apple pie.

KitFox

Which is unfortunate that it is crappy.

tchrist

The kind with hot dogs in it.

RegDwighт

@tchrist Whatever floats your boat.

KitFox

13:41

@RegDwighт Yeah, I know. But I like talking about it.

Gigili

@KitFox you were helpful enough already.

tchrist

American Pie

RegDwighт

That becomes tiring after the fifth.

tchrist

One of the hot dog carts on the Pearl Street Mall has veggie dogs. I always get two.

RegDwighт

Pearl Street. Right.

Gigili

13:43

Ugh, who invited this guy to chat.

tchrist

Aye, ’tis a pretty place.

RegDwighт

Can't say that about the Java Plaza.

tchrist

But he offers jalapeños with it, not Chicago-style “sport peppers”.

Pearl Street Mall

The Pearl Street Mall (also referred to as Pearl Street, Downtown Boulder or just simply Downtown) is a four block pedestrian mall in Boulder, Colorado. The pedestrian area stretches from the 1100 to the 1400 blocks of Pearl Street (inclusive) and is home to a number of locally-owned and operated businesses and restaurants as well as the Boulder County Courthouse. About The Pearl Street Mall is a popular destination for tourists visiting Boulder and for students attending the nearby University of Colorado at Boulder. The mall hosts a blend of locally-owned businesses and national chain ...

It doesn’t have snow on it right now.

It is quite pretty all decked out with late summer and early fall colors.

There are hot-dog carts.

RegDwighт

Nais.

tchrist

The weird thing is that they don’t ditch the sidewalk-cafe seating during the winter.

People still sit outside to dine.

Some places have those heated umbrellas, though.

Do you have heated umbrellas for winter?

KitFox

13:47

Maybe I will have a hot dog for lunch. Or two.

tchrist

The washing fairy question continues to garner more upvotes than closevotes. And “answers”.

RegDwighт

0

A: Is there a term for the period between midnight and sunrise?

lalalalallalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalafirst jack off my friend knows GTA vice city cheats if u want it visit : [email protected]

That's a very elaborate term for the period between midnight and sunrise.

KitFox

Interesting.

Vice City? pfft

tchrist

So much for that idea. Safari cored. I was trying to keep the Martian version up and running for any debugging they might want.

Oh bloody hell, the washing fairy is at the top of the supercollider.

RegDwighт

It is topped by an XKCD question over at Maths.

Always Friday in MultiCollider.

MετάEd

14:09

How has the washing up fairy question attracted no closevotes? The washing up fairy is a cultural icon that has nothing to do with the language used to talk about it. Or do we suppose the Australians only know about the washing up fairy when they are speaking English?

RegDwighт

Huh, no closevotes?

MετάEd

Never mind; I need to swill my eyes out.

RegDwighт

People have been complaining about it the whole morning.

Meysam

Hello

MετάEd

Hello, @Meysam.

tchrist

14:20

Is this about knocking up brownies?

RegDwighт

Recycled paperboard with real girl scout? Yummy.

tchrist

Wednesday was here.

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MετάEd

14:35

english.stackexchange.com/review-beta/first-posts/…

Grindleflack was the name of a balrog, ain't it?

Robusto

@MετάEd You have to open the other end if you want the Girl Scout. Can't you read?

MετάEd

2

A: What is the origin of "shh"?

It's been a while since I read the book, but Fredrik Lindström's "Jordens smartaste ord" (ISBN: 9789100580360) discusses the word "shh" in depth and posits it's the only word common to all human languages. It's even present in languages that don't use the sound. Since it's been so long since I r...

This is a great late answer.

@Robusto I always open the other end.

KitFox

14:56

Would it be rude if I went and got lunch now and then met my friend for lunch in an hour?

I'm really hungry and I don't think I can wait that long.

RegDwighт

If you still meet them...

MετάEd

15:13

Sharing a meal is good for friendship --- best not to fill up now but certainly nobody would fault you for having a snack!

tchrist

Nosh on a crumpet or something.

Or nibble at a wafer.

To fix your blood sugar. Then have the real meal with your friend.

RegDwighт

So Steward badges actually encourage people to have a filthy site, because on a clean site there is nothing to review.

Robusto

That is the metric you use? Silly Europeans, using such a metric system for reviews.

You can't apply the metric system to everything. But that doesn't mean you won't try.

RegDwighт

Yes, I will use any metric. No, I won't use any imperialic.

Robusto

You are a ~~glorified~~ meter reader.

RegDwighт

15:24

Speaking of filthy, where is @jsbձոգչ anyway? Haven't seen him in a while.

Robusto

►

RegDwighт

I see Waldo in that picture, but no JSB.

tchrist

> As to fairies in the U.S, I am personally a firm devotee of the Parking Fairy, and, influenced by Fairiology as presented in Pratchett's Hogfather, I have recently come to discern the importance of the Traffic Fairy in our lives; many U.S. children believe in the Tooth Fairy; and Jim McCawley used to say, of some people, that "the Mind Fairy must have come and left a quarter under their pillow".

Fair enough.

KitFox

Mmm, pulled pork.

tchrist

Poor piggies.

MετάEd

15:39

@tchrist Some piggies enjoy that sort of thing.

RegDwighт

I don't get youse all's obsession with furries.

Noah

Hi

RegDwighт

15:59

Bye

Robusto

@KitFox If you like to pull pork, you can pretty much always find work.

@RegDwighт You don't see Johann Sebastian bձոգչ, you only hear him.

Cerberus

16:12

@RegDwighт Wow, is that real?

Incredible.

Ikea just Photoshops out women from the same advert.

tchrist

16:30

It interesting how Norty’s accept rate goes up when we delete his questions.

tchrist

17:14

@RegDwighт Check this out, will ya:

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A: Add non-Latin character set support for tags

Our original implementation of tags was written with stackoverflow (and similar sites) in mind, and due to technical reasons would not support much by way of non-latin characters. This has seen a lot of work lately, in particular changing the implementation so that it theoretically supports a wid...

He says it is now working in Russian.SE.

user19161

@tchrist And his rep goes up too, so we are all working for him in a way. See how evil that is?

user19161

@Robusto Those who use meter usually use metre.

tchrist

@JasperLoy Inviso-rep, you mean.

user19161

@tchrist Maybe he got this all figured out when he attacked us.

user19161

To fight the terrorists, you must think like a terrorist.

user19161

17:24

So we must think, what would Nortonn do?

user19161

Perhaps we should just ignore his questions to deal with him. Pretend they are not there at all.

tchrist

@JasperLoy That will never happen, because people always end up answering him before he is identified. So he gets what he came for, with no penalty.

Carlo_R.

@JasperLoy thank you for your proofreading. You have posted this night.

I'm not good with English, but my phone worst the things.

I'm always happy to hear from you. Thank you again.

Robusto

17:46

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Q: What is a communication breakdown caused by two cultures/societies trying to adapt one another's mores called?

For example, in Japan I often encounter this paradox when it comes to addressing friends. In Japan, it's generally rude to call someone by their first name unless you're really close friends. You'd generally refer to them by their last name followed by -san. Most of the young people that I meet i...

single-word-requests

I don't know of other cultures besides Japanese where this "paradox" obtains.

In fact, I've experienced the opposite in France.

tchrist

@Robusto What do you mean?

I’m afraid I’ve gone and bowdlerized the ass-popping question’s title.

coleopterist

@tchrist: I saw that just now.

tchrist

I don’t think that is a good title for us.

coleopterist

If fuck and jerk off etc. are acceptable, why is this not? Besides, why do we give a fuck about search engines now working properly?

tchrist

They aren’t.

coleopterist

17:55

They are in other questions.

tchrist

Especially fuck. We don’t use fuck in titles.

No, they are not.

coleopterist

Besides, are there any guidelines for this?

tchrist

They can be in question, but not the title.

Yes, there are.

coleopterist

I recommend attempting a search.

tchrist

I recommend paying attention.

coleopterist

17:56

I saw at least one.

Robusto

@tchrist I mean that people would refuse to speak to me in English, especially in Paris, and yet they rewarded my pathetic attempts at French with continued conversation in that language.

coleopterist

Shrug. Rolling back.

tchrist

@Robusto Oh, that. That’s France, tu sais. Very different in language matters.

@coleopterist Lock and take it to meta.

coleopterist

You can do that if you like.

Besides, there is not a single term in the sentence which is profane in itself as "ass" is mostly acceptable everywhere. The phrase itself is not profane either.

Cerberus

@Robusto ! It is the opposite for me. They reward my pathetic attempts at French with English.

Robusto

17:59

@Cerberus Only because they know Dutch to be a made-up language.

tchrist

@coleopterist Pay attention:

@tchrist the policy on this site is that potentially offensive words shall be censored in the titles, but can be explicit in the bodies and comments. If you find this policy unacceptable, please refrain from participating on this website. Thanks! — Jeff Atwood Jan 11 at 1:05

Robusto

In BrE parlance, Dutch would be called a bespoke language.

Cerberus

@coleopterist I agree that such words should be allowed; but some compromise was reached between us and Jef a year or so ago.

Jinx.

coleopterist

@tchrist So, what is a potentially offensive word here?

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