English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Mitch

1:00 PM

@RegDwigнt That's me in the corner

RegDwigнt

I don't know if I can do it. Oh no, I've said too much!

Mitch

You haven't said enough.

Really.

I have no idea

RegDwigнt

NOU

You haven't even specified "the" corner.

Here's a map. Please point to the exact corner you have in mind.

@Cerberus

Mitch

The back corner behind Beria and that other dude

the one who was 'disappeared'

@RegDwigнt I know that place!

RegDwigнt

The ultimate irony, of course, is that all four people in that photo disappeared.

Mitch

1:03 PM

Except thre's something wrong with my eyes, I can't read very well.

Who's the bald dude?

up front

RegDwigнt

In fact, three of them only disappeared from the photo, but the last one disappeared from the anthem and the mausoleum. He had it the worst.

@Mitch who even cares.

Mitch

Also, quite a stylish picture, very nonchalant. Instead they could have been pointing at a computer screen (facing away from us) for maximum dorkiness

RegDwigнt

You've been brainwashed by Korean artists.

Mitch

wow...amazingly well done photoshopping.

@RegDwigнt I haven't been brainwashed enough. They're so skimpy on the acetone.

"[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected" - no kidding, take a bath, dude.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Stalin was bulimic about subordinates.

Mitch

1:10 PM

You'll notice that he did gain a bit of weight going from left to right.

RegDwigнt

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Mitch

Also, you'll notice they cropped out the schedule on the bulletin board for the sauna and 'laugh' therapy.

RegDwigнt

By that time, the schedule had become common knowledge.

Robusto

The picture on the right is about as lifelike as a courtroom sketch.

RegDwigнt

And a courtroom sketch it is. The "after" version.

Not that it matters. Everything in Russia is about as lifelike as a courtroom sketch.

Consider Russian roads, for example.

That's a highway.

Robusto

1:17 PM

Meaning they must have been high when they built it?

RegDwigнt

Federal Highway М-53.

@Robusto meaning you must be high when using it.

Robusto

On the plus side, there are plenty of places to stop and relieve yourself. No waiting for a rest area.

RegDwigнt

I believe I can high.

Cerberus

1:30 PM

@RegDwigнt Not bad, but at least it doesn't seem to be meant for cars. Pedestrians might have the time to read it.

And apparently Russia is somewhere to be found in the area.

tchrist

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Q: Synonym to homoïd

We may borrow the Greek ὁμοειδής and say homoïd of something that has the same form as something else. But is there a more idiomatic alternative? Ex. of usage: ‘Thus, the general definition taken together with its homoïd particular formulation …’ (Please note that this is not an invitation to ...

single-word-requests

I am not well-caffinated, but what do they want?

Mitch

asked.

also, invitation declined.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist a thesaurus entry for "homoid".

tchrist

Invitation?

Robusto

I think you mean non-invitation declined. Or non-invitation not declined. Or something.

Probably something.

RegDwigнt

1:35 PM

Not I don't think not you doesn't mean non-invitation non-declined. NOT.

Mitch

@Robusto probably something else

Robusto

Now you're just being contrary.

RegDwigнt

No I'm not.

Robusto

You? You're always contrary. Mitch is only contrary most of the time.

Mitch

@Robusto He was being polite in making it explicit that an invitation was not requested. But I thought I'd go one better and formally decline the non-invitation. That's how politeness works.

tchrist

1:36 PM

Maybe he wants an homunculus.

RegDwigнt

Wait. Politeness works?

Mitch

If you're more polite, you win... Ass.

RegDwigнt

What a cunting thing to say.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt yes, wonders!

Robusto

Careful, or Politeness Man will bop you with his steel hankie.

tchrist

1:36 PM

Merde, that again?

Mitch

@RegDwigнt quit twatting my words

Robusto

RegDwigнt

Quit playing gays with my heart.

tchrist

The OED attests neither homoïd nor homoid.

Mitch

That's not being polite, just well-verkempt.

@tchrist Augh! He said not to question that!

Robusto

1:38 PM

tchrist

Isn't there an extra -en- in that word?

Robusto

Politenessmanen?

tchrist

Politesseman

RegDwigнt

Eating prunes? That's really great!

Mitch

Sure they are if you want to lose weight

tchrist

1:40 PM

Does he mean identical, or just similar or same-shaped or something?

Mitch

I think similar-shaped.

that's why I suggested 'homologous'

tchrist

Lots of thesauroïds for that then.

Mitch

but really it's a question the requires us to be mind-readers.

"Can you give me a synonym for X that is better?"

Malachi

this place does have activity in the morning. good morning!

Mitch

And please don't question if X is a variable.

tchrist

1:43 PM

Congruous? Kindred? Matching?

Mitch

@Malachi No one about here.

RegDwigнt

> Fry: Four identical castles!
Bender: Each more identical than the last!

Mitch

@tchrist also, if we knew the Greek, it might help.

The Greek knows a guy who could 'take care of it' for us.

tchrist

@Mitch We know @terdon.

Mitch

And @Cerberus (who is more familiar with classic Greek)

RegDwigнt

1:44 PM

@Malachi yes, and the sun never sets over Her Majesty's empire.

Mitch

@Terdon knows how to swear to the bank teller in Greek. Suggestions?

RegDwigнt

Just say όχι.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt where has DFW been to?

@RegDwigнt όχι!

How was that?

RegDwigнt

@Mitch ХЗ

tchrist

If you wanted to talk about out-of-the-box thinking without letting your opponent score a bingo for annoying business jargon, what would you use?

RegDwigнt

1:47 PM

Just thinking.

Any proper thinking is out of the box.

Mitch

It's really sad. The jargon is so pervasive it's like kudzu overpowering existing words. "Let's socialize this" I know what it means but there's gotta be a better way to say it. "Let's tell other people"?

RegDwigнt

Ugh.

Mitch

"Let's have a long boring meeting where we explain this better to people who don't care and then we can blame them for not listening"

RegDwigнt

This is the first time since 1991 that I hear the word "socialize", and it turns out either myself or everyone else has forgotten its meaning.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt But if you keep it in the box it will last longer and command a higher price at auction.

RegDwigнt

1:50 PM

My thinking always commands high prices. Starting at $3000.

tchrist

I have an out-of-the-box question for you lot. A native speaker of Spanish from Spain has realized that he doesn't know how to talk about out-of-the-box thinking in Spanish. He’s asking whether fuera de la caja really works in Spanish, or pensamiento lateral. Isn't that curious?

Mitch

It's at the same level as 'optics'. "This news will really change the optics"

tchrist

Perhaps it’s best if they just don’t go there at all. :)

Mitch

"This news will really change how things look".

Matt E. Эллен

ναί

RegDwigнt

1:50 PM

There is literally not a single person in this world who has ever paid me less than $3000 for thinking.

tchrist

@MattE.Эллен bai?

Mitch

@RegDwigнt I would think about that but my rates are highter

Matt E. Эллен

@tchrist kinda sounds like neigh

tchrist

Oh.

Matt E. Эллен

the opposite of όχι

tchrist

1:52 PM

Sorry, too much portungles.

Matt E. Эллен

:D

RegDwigнt

@Mitch Your asks are too damn high.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Had to use that when I was saying something that had only words of the Hun in it.

RegDwigнt

Use the Swadesh–Yakhontov list.

Matt E. Эллен

@tchrist being imaginative

tchrist

1:54 PM

@MattE.Эллен Ooh, that's good!

RegDwigнt

Being imaginative is so not thinking.

tchrist

Hubo un debate interesante sobre esta frase en Wordreference: think outside the box (think out the box / think outside of the box). Ahí veo cosas que nunca oí (la traducción literal, por ejemplo) pero sí otras como "no seas cuadrado" (si bien tiene una connotación mala no existente en el original), "innova", "sal de la rutina" (tal vez demasiado genérica), "piensa creativamente" (¡me gusta!), etc. Supongo que en distintos países se verán con buenos ojos diferentes opciones. — fedorqui 14 mins ago

RegDwigнt

I imagine there's rockets with dog tails that perform space surgery.

tchrist

"Don't be square"

RegDwigнt

I wouldn't call that thinking, though.

Matt E. Эллен

1:55 PM

I disagree with your semantics.

RegDwigнt

I imagine you do not.

Matt E. Эллен

I imgaine you don't think ideas are thoughts

RegDwigнt

You don't imagine all the people.

tchrist

You forgot an r in migraine.

RegDwigнt

Château migraine.

Matt E. Эллен

1:56 PM

arrrrr

RegDwigнt

Imagine like a pirate.

Imagine different.

ImaginePad.

Matt E. Эллен

Think the same

Imagine Dragons

RegDwigнt

There is no life I know to compare with pure thinking.
Living there, you'll be free — If you truly wish to be.

tchrist

> When he was still a lonely child in the depths of Casterly Rock, he oft rode dragons through the nights, pretending he was some lost Targaryen princeling, or a Valyrian dragonlord soaring high o’er fields and mountains. Once, when his uncles asked him what gift he wanted for his nameday, he begged them for a dragon. “It wouldn’t need to be a big one. It could be little, like I am.”

The Dragon and the George.

RegDwigнt

Casterly Rock entertainment.

Matt E. Эллен

2:01 PM

ὁμοειδής means alike, according to Google Translate

tchrist

Oh, that shows me why me OED searches failed; I was mistransliterating.

homoeoid [n.]
homoeˈoidal [adj.] ← homoeoid

RegDwigнt

Homo Eidos Interactive.

Subsidiary of Square Penix.

tchrist

> homœomeral /hɒmiːˈɒmərəl/, a. Pros.
Etymology: f. hom&oe.o- + Gr. μέρ-ος part + -al1.

Consisting of (metrically) similar parts.

Oops, I missed a degreeking.

Well, de-identity-fication.

There are actually a lot of other ugly words where those came from.

> homœomeric /hɒmiːəʊˈmɛrɪk/, a.
Etymology: f. hom&oe.o- + Gr. μέρος + -ic.

a. Relating to homœomery; of the nature of homœomeries. b. Consisting of similar parts, homogeneous.

1836 in Smart.
1865 Grote Plato I. i. 53 ― The Homœomeric particles congregated together, each to its like.
1884 Penn. Sch. Jrnl. XXXII. 267 ― This homœomeric work, so deep and so broad in its results.
So homœoˈmerical a. = prec. a.

1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), ― Homoeomerical Principles, certain Principles which, according to Anaxagoras, are in all mix’d Bodies. So that when they become Parts of the Body of a livi…

> homœomerous /hɒmiːˈɒmərəs/, a.
Etymology: f. Gr. ὅμοιος like + μέρος part + -ous.

Having or consisting of similar parts.

1. Bot. Applied to lichens in which the gonidia and hyphæ are distributed uniformly through the thallus: opp. to heteromerous.

1875 Bennett & Dyer Sachs’ Bot. 265.
1882 Vines Sachs’ Bot. 320 ― The disposition of the gonidia and hyphæ in a thallus may be such that these two structures appear about equally mingled··and the thallus is in this case called homoiomerous.
2. = hom&oe.omeric a.

A homœoteleft is a word having a similar ending to another.

And a homœoteleuton is a rhetorical figure consisting in the use of a series of words with the same or similar endings.

homoeotypic

I’m sure he could greek something here, but who but @Cerberus would know what he was talking about?

> hoˈmomeral, -ˈomerous adjs. Gr. μέρος part, having like or corresponding parts (Cent. Dict.);

> homoˈchresious (erron. -cresious) a. Obs. Gr. χρη̆σις use, relating to the same commodity or use; opp. to heterochresious;

Homoglot is good for someone who speaks the same language.

Cerberus

2:19 PM

Hello.

What is this?

@tchrist What do you need?

tchrist

> homœarchon /hɒmɪˈɑ˞ːkɒn/, homœoˈarchon = homœoarchy

I dunno, some guy who wants a homey word.

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Q: Synonym to homoïd

We may borrow the Greek ὁμοειδής and say homoïd of something that has the same form as something else. But is there a more idiomatic alternative? Ex. of usage: ‘Thus, the general definition taken together with its homoïd particular formulation …’ (Please note that this is not an invitation to ...

single-word-requests

Probably Germanic or Latin, not Greek.

Homologous seems straightforward enough though.

Cerberus

I think homologous or analogous is what many people would use in that situation?

Or even aequivalent.

RegDwigнt

I don't think homologous or analogous is what many people would use in any situation.

tchrist

Just something samier.

RegDwigнt

What many people would use is "similarly shaped" or "alike".

tchrist

2:25 PM

That.

Mathematicians do use a lot of Greek but nothing that's idiomatic in the vernacular.

Read: in common use.

RegDwigнt

This is English language and usage.

When a question is asking for an English equivalent for a Greek word, saying "here's a Greek equivalent for your Greek word" is downright rude.

tchrist

Really cannot tell what he wants.

The intended domain.

RegDwigнt

Then close it.

Ask.

Wait.

Understand.

Reopen.

tchrist

Did. Waiting. Understanding comes not.

Matt E. Эллен

Profit

RegDwigнt

2:27 PM

I see.

@MattE.Эллен Profit*

FTFY

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt That, too, is possible, but it would probably be less precise.

RegDwigнt

* you will never actually profit from this question.

Matt E. Эллен

:D

Cerberus

The first thing that came to mind was "similar", but then I realised that it was not very precise.

tchrist

Lawler's gone all gay-shaped on him.

RegDwigнt

2:28 PM

@Cerberus which is the whole point of the word.

Cerberus

And similarly shaped is not a single word; you what all people who come here want...

@RegDwigнt Haha, no, no.

Not in that way.

RegDwigнt

Of course "similar" is not precise. That's what the frigging word means.

If you want precise, say "identical". Duh.

Matt E. Эллен

these similarly shaped objects are identical

tchrist

We're reconverging on congruency.

RegDwigнt

Fry: Four homoïd particular castles!
Bender: Each more homoïd particular than the last!

Cerberus

2:31 PM

@RegDwigнt No: similar is, in this context, less precise on a higher level.

RegDwigнt

Could you be any less precise?

On a lower level, please?

Yes.

NOU-Dutch.

catachthonically

Your Dutch is very fluent.

RegDwigнt

2:33 PM

You should see my Tadjik.

Which for a limited time you can, in the room's description.

tchrist

Guidance question...

Andrew Leach

@RegDwigнt Why shave a yak? Just to pass the time?

tchrist

Do we have anything formalish somewhere — our meta, meta.SE, help center, elsewhere — that says we shouldn't leave new duplicates open simply because old duplicates don't yet have good answers?

RegDwigнt

Yes. It's called "put up your worthless rep for a bounty".

It is not called "keep your worthless rep and all questions open".

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt That doesn't look very Tadjik.

RegDwigнt

2:39 PM

You don't look very Tadjik.

Cerberus

Thank you.

By the way do you know how many trees there are on earth?

Andrew Leach

The problem is "This question already has an answer at..." instead of "This question should have a good answer at ... and would do if you put a bounty on it."

RegDwigнt

Which brings me right to our today's quiz. Or today's our quiz. Or quiz of ours of today's.

Cerberus

About 3 trillion.

RegDwigнt

Who is this young fella.

Cerberus

2:40 PM

I don't recognise him, so I'll have to Google him.

Ah.

RegDwigнt

Don't spoil it for others, then.

Cerberus

That's not surprising, I suppose.

I won't.

tchrist

@AndrewLeach I ask because of the comment-discussion here. I don't think that leaving new dupes open just because "people won't look at old ones" is a sound position, but am loth to speak up myself given who it is.

Cerberus

The age of the picture and his ethnic appearance fit the bill.

RegDwigнt

The eyes.

tchrist

2:41 PM

Not Raygun.

RegDwigнt

Also, his hands are clearly not in the photo.

@tchrist what's sunglasses to do with this?

Andrew Leach

@tchrist Yes. Actually the comments he makes have some merit. Especially the "low-voted" answer bit -- low-voted because it's only just arrived.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus Yes, in point of fact I do. It's OVER 9000. There are OVER 9000 trees on Earth.

Coincidentally, that's the most accurate number you will ever hear. Everyone else will just fabricate complete nonsense shit. That's because nobody else actually knows that number. No human possibly can. And God can't possibly bother.

tchrist

@AndrewLeach Time changes things. I’ve dupvoted before and then added an answer to an old question with suboptimal answers. My answer never does rise to the top because the others are several years old. This does not bother me, though.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt There has been new research, and they estimate there to be about 3 trillion.

tchrist

2:48 PM

If it is "a dead thread", there have been no new answers, I think.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I seem to remember that picture from somewhere. Is he Latino?

RegDwigнt

I think a new better answer rising to the top did happen on more than one occasion on this site. Namely, on two.

Cerberus

Based on many counts, samples, satellite pictures, etc.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yeah.

Robusto

Not a young Castro without the beard?

RegDwigнt

2:49 PM

Close. As I said, his hands are clearly not in the photo.

Gigili

@AndrewLeach What was your older avatar? If you don't mind my asking. Was if your face?

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Is that enough for an inductive proof?

Robusto

Maybe this guy?

tchrist

Nose.

RegDwigнt

We have a winnor.

Here is a rare photo where he does have hands.

Robusto

2:51 PM

And they're in Russia's pockets.

Andrew Leach

@Gigili Yes. Several months ago, now.

Gigili

OK, thanks.

Robusto

@tchrist: I wouldn't say that is not unsurprising. — Robusto yesterday

RegDwigнt

I would litotes you till it hurts, though.

Robusto

Me, I wouldn't not litotes you.

RegDwigнt

2:53 PM

How not unkind of not you.

Robusto

OK, enough litoteasing.

RegDwigнt

Wait, I've not even shown you my litotes pole yet.

Robusto

Ah, my home-brewed coffee is so much better than work coffee.

One more incentive not to go to work.

RegDwigнt

There's no business like no business.

Robusto

All play and no work makes for happy time.

The problem is, I'm still employed. But I'm working on that. You could say I'm working on not working.

RegDwigнt

2:56 PM

yesterday, by RegDwigнt

For relaxing times, make it golden gaytime.

Robusto

I adhere to Dave Chapelle's rule about sex: there can only be one dick in the room, and it has to be mine.

That covers everything from masturbation to orgies.

RegDwigнt

Cockaine is one hell of a drug.

Matt E. Эллен

Shoulders are one hell of a shrug

Robusto

Boulders are one hell of a bug.

RegDwigнt

Gold ores are one hell of a mug.

Matt E. Эллен

3:00 PM

au

RegDwigнt

It appears you are trying to spell down under. Do you need help with that?

Robusto

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Q: "Play" as a linking verb?

Is the verb "play" used as a linking verb in this sentence? "My younger sister played Tiny Tim in the Christmas performance." Can a valid argument be made that "played" is synonymous with linking verbs like "became" or "is" in this context?

verbs

. . .

Where do these people come from?

Down under.

America

Jinx.

3:02 PM

I want to go all John Lawler on his ass, but Lawler ain't around.

RegDwigнt

Wait, you need Lawler to go Lawler?

Matt E. Эллен

(NB I don't actually know where these people come from)

RegDwigнt

What a shortcoming. A severe crippling. A lack of freedum.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt You don't think I'm going to put out that much effort myself, do you?

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен luckily the answer's been posted to this very chat not long ago by one Matt Ellen. You can go and read it, then you'll know! HTH

Matt E. Эллен

3:04 PM

:-o

RegDwigнt

@Robusto why would I think?

Robusto

Because I couldn't think of a better word for the process that goes on in your brain?

RegDwigнt

Whoa whoa whoa my what?

Robusto

That space between your ears. I was being kind.

Or generous.

RegDwigнt

Robusto

3:06 PM

That is what your brain looks like?

RegDwigнt

Robusto

@RegDwigнt God, I hate that actor almost as much as I hate Adam Sandler or David Schwimmer. And, no, I'm not being anti-Semitic. There are gentile actors I hate as much or more, I just can't think of them without visual prompts like the above.

RegDwigнt

I dunno, he was fine in Mad About You and Scrubs.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt And her too. The world conspires to make an unfunny lesbian's life come true.

@RegDwigнt See, there's this word that applies to one-dimensional actors like that: schtick.

RegDwigнt

Also he was fine in Spin City for as far as anyone could be fine in Spin City.

Matt E. Эллен

3:08 PM

I was fine in Spin City

Robusto

She could write a book: How To Have A Successful Career In Comedy Without Ever Being Funny. Not Once.

RegDwigнt

Nonono, that's Whoopie Goldberg.

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен He said Spin City, not Sin City.

@RegDwigнt Her too.

Matt E. Эллен

oh, well, easy mistake to make

RegDwigнt

He lacked spine in Fin City.

@MattE.Эллен the keys are right next to each other.

Matt E. Эллен

3:10 PM

@RegDwigнt that's why typing is so convenient

RegDwigнt

So anyway. What I was really going to say before Rob said how much he hated Richard Kind was that Richard Kind looks a lot like my father.

Robusto

It is a transitive verb, with the direct object being the name of the character in the drama that they portray. That's what transitive play means. Sir Lawrence Olivier played Henry V in the movie means that the real person named Sir Lawrence Olivier played the dramatic character "Henry V" when the real person acted in the movie. — John Lawler 1 min ago

He got Lawlered after all.

RegDwigнt

Which is strange, because I really don't look like Richard Kind at all.

If anything, I look more like Ellen Degenerate.

@Robusto halleluja.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I don't hate your father. Just people who look like him.

RegDwigнt

I didn't say or mean that you did. I just was catching up with my todo list.

Robusto

3:12 PM

That's the only thing on my todo list: make list.

RegDwigнt

And now that I'm done with the only item on it, I'm exhausted while still facing the horrible task of muting commies.

Robusto

Train, bus, plane, car?

RegDwigнt

Insurmountable days are insurmountable.

Robusto

Why don't you try dirigible today?

RegDwigнt

Not to mention insurmountable gays.

Robusto

3:13 PM

I sense that you are trying to mount gays. Do you need help with that?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I will try one with due dirigence.

Robusto

Ganbatte kudasai.

RegDwigнt

Gun battle kudos, aye?

Robusto

No es interesante.

RegDwigнt

Hilarious placeholder is hilarious.

Also, sad placeholder is sad.

tchrist

3:17 PM

@Robusto No te interesa, tampoco.

@RegDwigнt You talkin Hillary again?

RegDwigнt

Mission Accomplished in 1942.

Robusto

1942 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1942 in the United Kingdom. This year is dominated by World War II. == Incumbents == Monarch - George VI Prime Minister – Winston Churchill (coalition) == Events == 1 January – An underground explosion at Sneyd Colliery in the North Staffordshire Coalfield kills 55. 10 January - Liverpool Blitz ends with German bombs dropped in the Stanhope Street area of the city, with nine people dying and many more suffering injuries. Among the houses destroyed in the bombing is the former home of Adolf Hitler's half-brother Alois. Four more people die as a result of their injuri...

RegDwigнt

Robusto

Maunsell Forts

The Maunsell Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. They were operated as army and navy forts, and named after their designer, Guy Maunsell. The forts were decommissioned in the late 1950s and later used for other activities including pirate radio broadcasting. One of the forts is managed by the unrecognised Principality of Sealand; boats visit the remaining forts occasionally, and a consortium called Project Redsands is planning to conserve the fort situated at Red Sands. In the summers of 2007 and...

That's a new one on me. Could they have inspired George Lucas to create Imperial Walkers?

RegDwigнt

Built by Guy Maunsell, decommissioned by Guy Fawkes for pirate radio broadcasting.

What ever happened to these.

Robusto

3:25 PM

The Cold War happened.

RegDwigнt

But it's over. Why not greet the Red Army again.

Robusto

We greet them by proxy these days.

@tchrist: To say "You are a child" in Spanish, meaning it disparagingly of someone who is acting in a juvenile manner, seems problematic. Children are niños, but so are boys. So "Tú eres niño" can mean you're a child or you're a boy. And it's worse if the person misbehaving is a girl. I suppose one would have to use a different construction altogether.

tchrist

3:43 PM

@Robusto Deja de jugar al niño, maybe.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt What year is that?

terdon

4:12 PM

@Mitch That I do. Might be counterproductive though.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

4:22 PM

Mulder is one hell of a thug.

tchrist

@terdon It was about a poor question, alas.

Robusto

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Q: What does it exactly mean to be educated and uneducated?

Can you please explain what it mean to be a educated person and uneducated person

meaning

Absent irony.

tchrist

An educated person does not write a educated person.

Robusto

Hence "absent irony."

We should open a line of ELU casual sports wear called "Member Since Today"—I think it would be popular in non-English speaking countries.

Cerberus

5:58 PM

> The [Chilean] mayor explains that in a surveillance system implemented in Argentina, the operators started to use the cameras to follow women in the streets.
...
The mayor's unusual solution: to employ women, because "they are less voyeuristic, more discreet" than men."

tchrist

Doubt that will work out well.

Cerberus

Yeah.

But it's funny.

Robusto

6:51 PM

He's right, though.

Cerberus

Who is?

Maybe women would check out attractive people less.

Robusto

@Cerberus Women just have different vices than men do.

@Cerberus Still, when men and women go out the men look at the women and the women look at the women. For different reasons, mostly, but there it is. (NB: the previous statement presumes heterosexual orientation.)

tchrist

7:52 PM

The Tw♀ Cult♂res

Cerberus

8:13 PM

@Robusto I know.

Women are an odd species.