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CowperKettle

00:28

Come on, Chief Executives, you can do better than Psychiatrists! Maybe next year.

Word of the night: hot sauce paradigm

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alphabet

02:18

Who will give us such cinematic masterpieces now that Tucker isn't at Fox?

CowperKettle

03:04

The Origin of Job Interviews - The Armstrong and Miller Show - Series 2 Episode 6 Preview - BBC One

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CowperKettle

04:09

Word of the day: holophrastic

CowperKettle

04:36

> Italian and Romanian have around 77% lexical similarity.

Vikas

05:32

China's new map. It also includes one Indian state Arunachal Pradesh.

CowperKettle

06:01

@Vikas Called "Crimea Pradesh" in Chinese

Black Repartition

Black Repartition (Russian: Чёрный передел, romanized: Chornyi peredel; also known as Black Partition) was a revolutionary populist organization in Russia in the early 1880s. Black Repartition (BR) was established in August-September 1879 after the split of Zemlya i volya (Land and Liberty). The name comes from the Russian countryside, where rumors circulated among peasants about the approaching repartition. "Chyornyi" in this context does not literally mean "black", but instead "general" or "universal".Originally, the BR members shared the ideas of Zemlya i volya, renounced the necessity o...

Vikas

06:29

@CowperKettle LOL

M.A.R.

@CowperKettle according to the food chain, CEOs go to psychiatrists, not the other way around

And all of them end up with heart problems

Araucaria - Not here any more.

@Mitch That tonicity question got deleted (and the user left) ... . Pity

Thang Hoang

07:11

hello!!!

Vikas

Hello

Thang Hoang

My writing skill is bad, but I just found out that chat gpt and bing. Can I use that tool to fix error in paragrapth?

Xanne

Wordle 801 5/6

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CowperKettle

> Among those who used the ball invented by the computer science student, there was an average 75% reduction in anxiety and a 56% increase in protection against worry-induced thoughts.

@ThangHoang Yes!

Breathe: The shape-shifting ball that supports mental health

Vikas

07:41

Good

Robusto

08:05

#Worldle #585 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

🌎 Aug 29, 2023 🌍
🔥 14 | Avg. Guesses: 4.36
⬜⬜🟩 = 3

globle-game.com
#globle

Robusto

08:20

Wordle 801 5/6

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Robusto

08:31

Daily Quordle 582
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Ick.

Weekly Quordle Challenge 10
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A bit of redemption

jlliagre

08:47

Wordle 801 6/6

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CowperKettle

09:41

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Chandrayaan-3 landing on Lunar surface: 'Sky is not the limit for India'

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jlliagre

10:17

Daily Quordle 582
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alphabet

10:55

@ThangHoang Yes, you can ask ChatGPT about that sort of thing, though it may not be perfectly reliable. If you have specific questions you can ask ELL.

Laurel

11:39

By the way, if you ever see spam on the site lasting for more than a minute, you can report it in Charcoal HQ. (That's what the SmokeDetector user is all about, though I delete its comments when it posts in here :p)

Q: How can I get spam deleted faster?

Usually spam I see on the SE network is deleted very fast. But occasionally the system utterly fails and we're left with spam on the site for hours. Sometimes this happens because nobody's there to flag it. Other times it happens because people are seeing it but decide to vote to close "as spam"...

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Robusto

13:21

Daily Octordle #582
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Mitch

13:35

@Araucaria-Nothereanymore. As I mentioned in my comments, the OP and their comments came across as not 'serious' (my unstated euphemism for immature. If I calculated correctly, I think that is why it was so highly downvoted. (also one of the commenters doesn't seem to be very knowledgable of linguistics) And then the user deleted themselves (which is what deleted the question). Otherwise, what a great example for the linguistics lesson.

Is the tonicity topic discussed in some phonology text? Do you have a good reference? Though the toncept of stress is well known, your mentioning of 'ton-' was totally new to me and I'd like to read up on them.

@Laurel How do you do that?

Laurel

@Mitch The command is !!/report example.stackexchange.com/q/#### (replacing the URL with a link to the specific post), but if you're not comfortable doing that (or aren't entirely sure it's spam) you can just post a link to the post and ask someone else to look into it (make sure you include something else in the message so it doesn't onebox)

Of course, you should remember to flag it as spam too

Sometimes the post is already reported. In the case of our site, you'll usually see a message from SmokeDetector here in chat (in which case reporting doesn't do anything)

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CowperKettle

14:59

What do you call eating duck liver with the wrong fork?
A foie gras faux pas.

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Vikas

18:04

Peak of heat is likely over here.

Robusto

@CowperKettle What do you call a bumbling, antagonistic stepfather? A foe pa.

Vikas

18:28

A foe apple

Robusto

The Insane Plot Armor of Cats

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@tchrist ^

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Mitch

19:40

@Robusto Cats, man.

@tchrist can you check in on @Robusto? I think he's being manipulated by a cat.

Robusto

@Mitch My cats say never mind, I'm not being manipulated. Nothing to see here, move along.

Mitch

@tchrist OMG -you're- being manipulated by a cat. probably two

@Robusto OK. wow so defensive

Robusto

Cats are the meanest, most vicious—OWWW! Cats are all-loving, beautiful, kind creatures who would never think of getting into any kind of trouble.

Mitch

The 'cat surviving a fall' stat is pretty impressive

even though cats are blamed for avian catastrophe, I still don't feel comfortable forcing a cat to be indoor all the time.

also, cleaning out a litter box is no fun

I think that's a fair trade, fewer birds, less cat poop to come near.

MetaEd

@Robusto "my wife told me to stand here"

sorry I don't remember the joke index number

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Vikas

21:01

jlliagre

21:20

@CowperKettle Your French is steadily improving!

Robusto

@Vikas Is that Modi?

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jlliagre

22:34

#waffle585 4/5

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CowperKettle

22:55

You had to be really open-minded to undergo a whole-day brain surgery.

alphabet

23:15

@Vikas Has he considered blaming the Muslims yet?

Anyone here with more phonetics knowledge want to figure this out?

Q: American English retroflex 'd' in the word 'guardian'?

In American English fast speech, I have noticed that the 'd' sound in words like 'birdy' and 'guardian' sometimes appears to be pronounced as a voiced retroflex plosive (/ɖ/) instead of the standard voiced alveolar plosive (/d/). I would like to know if this is a recognized phenomenon.