English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

M.A.R.

00:07

@Mitch I feel like you're trying to tell me something

Robusto

#WhenTaken #136 (12.07.2024)

I scored 840/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 215 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 189 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 32 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 196 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 116 km - 🗓️ 22 yrs - ⚡ 142 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 460.2 metres - 🗓️ 30 yrs - ⚡ 115 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 6 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 198 / 200

https://whentaken.com

alphabet

01:16

@CowperKettle The resulting 500-page NTSB report blamed "the lion's poor airmanship" for the crash.

Mitch

01:37

@M.A.R. @jlliagre @MetaEd what are the guesses and what is the solution?

tchrist

01:58

United Nations special rapporteur

Special rapporteur (or independent expert) is the title given to independent human rights experts whose expertise is called upon by the United Nations (UN) to report or advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. Depending on the specific mandate, there can also be working groups composed of an independent expert from each of the five UN regional groupings: Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the Western group. Their work falls within the scope of "special procedure" mechanisms under the United Nations Human Rights Council, and thei...

"Rapporteur"? Do they have to be French? :)

> 1653 The Crackarades of balists or stone-throwing Engines, contrepate Clerks, Scriveners, Brief-writers, Rapporters [French référendaires], and Papal Bull-dispatchers lately compiled by Regis. —T. Urquhart, translation of F. Rabelais, 2nd Book of Works vii. 40

I don't know the difference between a reporter and rapporter. :)

> 2. 1653– A person who prepares an account of the proceedings of a committee, session, etc., for a higher body; (also) one who presents a report on the current state of a problem, policy, or issue to a commissioning body. Cf. reporter n. I.1b.

So, we should blame Rabelais? Or his traductor? :)

At least Rabelais, I know how to say. Urquhart, not so much.

CowperKettle

02:32

Joint of the day: diarthrodial joint (freely movable joint, as opposed to synanthrodial and amphiarthrodial)

Xanne

02:58

The problem with Kamala Harris, according to black women being interviewed by CNN, is that they’ve never seen her “bring it.” So they’ll go with Biden. “Don’t rock the boat,” they say, “if you don’t have a way to get me back to shore.”

alphabet

03:32

@Xanne I can imagine no survey methodology more rigorous than "according to black women interviewed by CNN."

Xanne

Best there is. Getting down with the people.

alphabet

(I was being sarcastic, if it wasn't obvious.)

Xanne

In the field. On the ground.

alphabet

I imagine that, every time they need one of these anecdotes, they call up five random phone numbers from their Official List of Black Women.

I mean, it's possible they rigorously chose a representative, 100-person sample of Black women in key swing states.

Or it's possible that the reporter just talked to three of their friends.

Xanne

No, it was reporters’ video. My interest was in the expression “I’ve never seen her bring it.”

alphabet

03:42

Oh, sorry, I thought that that entire sentence was supposed to be a quote from CNN.

Xanne

Bring it on—that I’ve heard.

alphabet

That said, I somehow doubt it was a completely random and representative sample.

@Xanne "Bring it"

I've heard it before. Dunno if it's rising in popularity

Xanne

@alphabet, school books aside polling these days is really difficult. It is devilishly difficult to get a representative sample.

alphabet

"To determine what White men think of Joe Biden, CNN interviewed a bunch of White guys found on the streets of Boston. Most thought he was OK, though a few expressed a wish that he would be more racist."

alphabet

04:10

CowperKettle

07:02

> Everyone agrees that feelings and actions are intertwined, but cannot agree how. According to dominant models, actions are directed by estimates of value, and these values shape or are shaped by affect. I propose instead that affect is the only form of value that drives actions. osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/68yta

> es actions. Our mind constantly represents potential future states and how they would make us feel. These states collectively form a gradient reflecting feelings we could experience depending on actions we take. Motivated behavior reflects the process of traversing this affective gradient, towards desirable states and away from undesirable ones.

Xanne