English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Vitaly

7:59 AM

Rhodri

12:27 PM

Robusto

@Rhodri: What, no tumbleweed?

Kit

@Vitaly What is that? Some kind of mole?

Morning.

Vitaly

Purple frog

Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis is a frog species belonging to the family Sooglossidae. It can be found in the Western Ghats in India. Common names for this species are Purple Frog, Pignose Frog or Doughnut Frog. It was discovered in October 2003 and was found to be unique for the geographic region. Description The body of Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis is shaped similarly to that of most frogs, but is somewhat rounded compared to other more dorsoventrally-flattened frogs. Its arms and legs splay out in the standard anuran body form. Compared to other frogs, N. sahyadrensis has a small head an...

Yo.

Kit

Yeesh. I didn't know frogs came in purple.

Robusto

12:43 PM

Wow, the trash is piling up here with @RegDwight gone.

Not talking about you guys. ^)^ I just mean that there is getting to be a huge backlog in flagged questions/answers.

Kit

@Robusto Well, get on it then.

Someone's got to keep things clean while Reg is gone.

It's only been a day, right? Or two?

Robusto

Hey, there's a reason I didn't run for moderator.

Feb 19 at 13:11, by Robusto

See? This is the dirty little secret reason I do not want a moderator job. I don't want to run around performing janitorial chores.

Rhodri

Well, now moderator is running for you. Hop to it.

Robusto

But in @RegDwight's absence we are no longer in Soviet system, so moderator can't be running for me.

JSBangs

@Robusto don't those of us w/ > 15K rep have the ability to look at flags?

Robusto

12:49 PM

Yes. I've been looking and adding my $.02 or votes where appropriate. But there's a mountain of them.

And I'm only one user.

JSBangs

i only see 9 flags right now

i'm going through them

is the flag threshold for non-mods the same as the close-vote threshold (5) ?

Robusto

Wow, I garnered another down-vote for my rhyming slang question. After like 5 months. Looks like a spite attack, because it's in a cluster of downvotes around the same time period: all on questions.

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Q: Do Brits understand rhyming slang or are they sometimes puzzled by it too?

Most people know that rhyming slang is a colorful addition to British English, where someone says something that is not the intended word but rhymes with it. For example, "He was brown bread," might be understood to mean "He was dead." When I watch British films I hear a lot of it, and some of i...

I fail to see what there is to object to in that question.

Kit

@Robusto Who did you piss off lately?

Robusto

Beats me.

Kit

I suppose you could argue that's it's subjective.

There's no definitive answer.

But I think it's fine.

Robusto

12:53 PM

It's not really subjective, and there are some very enlightening answers.

Rhodri

Indeed. So I just upvoted it.

Robusto

Merci.

Rhodri

Meanwhile 3i is approaching 10k on the back of being mostly wrong, or cribbing earlier answers. Sometimes I despair.

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JSBangs

@Rhodri link to profile?

Robusto

@Rhodri — You and me both, brothah.

"Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving." — Coleridge

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Rhodri

1:04 PM

Ham and Bacon, Australia

8.9k 1 9 36

meaning etymology single-word-requests word-choice word-usage phrases differences

I think that's him

Robusto

@Rhodri — In the flesh.

Rhodri

Truly, pigs have wings.

Robusto

Ayup, I guess we know what it means "when pigs fly" now.

JSBangs

@Rhodri er, and why did you refer to him as 3i?

Robusto

He used to style himself 3rd Idiot

Rhodri

1:09 PM

^ What he said. 3rd Idiot

Which didn't say much for Idiots One and Two.

Robusto

@Rhodri — Hahaha.

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Q: Heraldry symbols description

I'm reading Game of Thrones, in English, and when some Heraldry shields are shown as the novel goes, I have some doubts about the meaning on some words. Or given the context some words don't mean what I know as the definition of them. Maybe some those are misspelled and I'm breaking my coconut tr...

meaning terminology

OT?

Hmm, maybe not.

JSBangs

@Robusto i just left a comment. i don't think i can justify calling it off-topic, but i doubt that anyone here can answer it wellr

altho the one answer that it has seems to be pretty good

Gigili

@Rhodri "If I get up votes I will post more :)"

Robusto

@JSBangs — Yeah, when I voted to close there was no answer. Now that someone has given one, I'm inclined to reconsider.

I fail to see why one can't remove a close vote after a certain time.

Rhodri

@Robusto Sorry, I was too busy answering it to notice you asking.

Kit

1:19 PM

@Rhodri Ha. Me, too.

Robusto

1:44 PM

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Q: usage of: Not only ... but also...

Please let me know if I used this correctly in the sentence below: Not only I had a terrible night sleep, but I was also very upset, and it was definitely coming through during our interactions. I am concerned about noun-verb agreement above. For the full context, see this (I'd appreciate...