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user19161

01:00

@daniel I have asked on meta about the migration. Now Jeff is gonna be pissed...

user19161

0

Q: Why was "Are 'toddler' and 'baby' mutually exclusive?" migrated?

Why was "Are 'toddler' and 'baby' mutually exclusive?" migrated? This is a legitimate question asking about the use of the English words toddler and baby in everyday life. In fact in its form it is not even suitable for Parenting SE in my opinion.

waiwai933

@Jasper I'm dealing with it atm... will post any updates I have

user19161

@waiwai933 But it's not you who migrated.

user19161

@waiwai933 Wah super fast, you are the coolest mod here!

user19161

I have also upvoted and accepted your answer, being the coolest user here!

waiwai933

01:07

No problem. Note that I wouldn't be surprised if that question ends up closed again, though...

user19161

@waiwai933 Sure, we cannot control the world but we can control our reaction to it.

user19161

04:09

@daniel I see you're back!

Matt Эллен

12:57

arglfargl

Kitḫ

Matt, @Matt, are you OK?

shakes wiggly avatar firmly

Matt Эллен

barglrargl!

@Kitḫ thanks. It seems my talking bits were out of place

Kitḫ

Phew! I was worried.

Matt Эллен

Right as rain now! how are you @Kit?

Kitḫ

I'm.

Yourself?

Matt Эллен

13:02

@Kitḫ You seem to have a few words...

I'm shipping buggy software :( but otherwise good.

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен sad panda

You know what I am? Tired of being this damn sexy.

Matt Эллен

Yeah. I'm hopeful I'll be allowed to put the fix into the new units, but one shipped last week, and my colleague reviewed the code today, and said "You can't have that there"

@Kitḫ really? is it exhausting? Never having been that sexy I'd be interested to find out

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен Oh, ouch. Bucket of suck.

Matt Эллен

aye

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен Oh terribly exhausting.

The grooming alone takes hours.

Matt Эллен

13:07

!!

I've tried grooming myself, but I just have to stop after I've shaved my face.

Kitḫ

I might be telling stories, @Matt.

Matt Эллен

Well, that's OK :D there's no way I'd know!

Kitḫ

Have you seen my picture? Not that sexy.

Not a ton of grooming either.

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ I remember things favourably. I couldn't tell on the grooming front.

Kitḫ

I can't remember which picture I showed you.

Matt Эллен

13:15

Ahoy, brie and onion sandwich, I be coming aboard to stock up on rations. Don't put up a fight, or ye'll be feelin' the point o' me blade. Aye, that's it matey, nice an' easy does it... Gah! What trickery be this? Yer onions are overpowering me crew! Foiled! Foiled by rhizomes!

Kitḫ

Har har. Nicely done!

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ you were cradling a baby boy to your bosom

Kitḫ

Ah yes. So not a lot of grooming there.

I had probably managed to brush my hair though.

And are onions root vegetables? I don't think so.

Rhizomes, maybe.

Well, it's a bulb.

Matt Эллен

yeah. I was about to edit it to something bulby, but it's timed out

Kitḫ

Aww.

Matt Эллен

13:18

hehe, I could have called them rap scallions

Kitḫ

guffaw

I must stop thinking about food.

Matt Эллен

have you had breakfast?

Kitḫ

No breakfast except black coffee.

Matt Эллен

no wonder you're thinking about food!

Kitḫ

I am determined to lose five pounds before Christmas.

This exercising all the time and staying the same weight is bogus.

Matt Эллен

13:22

really?

Kitḫ

And I hate, hate, HATE that I sound like such a girl.

Matt Эллен

that's disappointing to hear

Kitḫ

It is very disappointing. I've been working out since September, for the honor of Frigga!

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ well, it's better than sounding like this crazed mother

Or, if you prefer video

@Kitḫ I guess it must be a really slow process. Maybe your metabolism is still catching up with your mind

Kitḫ

Holy crap.

Matt Эллен

13:26

aye

Kitḫ

Well, I feel like Supermom now.

Matt Эллен

:D Good

Kitḫ

It just boggles my mind that people will spew that kind of hate in front of their kids.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Fucking racists

gods I hate racism so much

Kitḫ

It's not just that. I mean, think about how scary it would be for a little kid to hear his mommy shouting and angry.

Matt Эллен

13:29

@Kitḫ I just can't figure out why. What has happened to a) make her like that b) set her off in a tram full of people who she will offend

@Kitḫ Very true

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен Maybe she was sexually assaulted by a black man.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

There was this guy once who got mad at an asian woman on the bus who was sitting right next to me and my wife (who is Chinese). and he starts saying "you know what's wrong with this city? people like you!" So I started to tell him off but I was so shocked it came off a little lame, but another passenger stepped in and told the guy, point blank, to shut the fuck up. Anyway he got booed enough that he got off at the next stop.

@Kitḫ But she's going off on Poles and other immigrants too

Kitḫ

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Black people take the brunt though.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

it's just pure racism and xenophobia

Kitḫ

She was barking like that because she was afraid.

I don't mean to say she's not racist and xenophobic, though.

That's pretty obvious.

But she was making loud noises to keep the scary bad people away from herself and her boy.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

13:34

If she had kept her stupid mouth shut from the beginning, nobody would have known she was an ignorant racist, and everybody would have treated her nicely.

Kitḫ

I'm thinking she didn't feel that way. She felt anxious and threatened and out of her element.

I mean, come on. Brown people are really menacing. ;-)

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I'm glad that guy got booed off the bus.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

man, the article made me angry, but the video is 100x worse! I just want to slap her and send her kids to foster parents who won't abuse her child with such ridiculous indoctrination

Kitḫ

Isn't it awful?

Doesn't that make you feel like such a good parent to your own kids, though?

Damn it. I really have to pay attention at work today. Ping me if anything interesting is going on.

user19161

@Kitḫ Yes, fear leads to anger.

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 it's a really messed up situation. I wonder if she's like that all the time.

user19161

13:42

@MattЭллен This world is messed up big time.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен I can't think that this is the first time.

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I admire your passion. I feel like that sometimes too when I consider the injustices in this world.

user19161

Now I have pinged everyone talking recently, so I may go for dinner.

user19161

And yesterday I capped, migration or not.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I encountered some bad parenting on the subway once: eternalephemeron.blogspot.com/2011/04/…

I mean, I've encountered it lots of times, but that time was bad enough that I blogged about it

Kitḫ

13:46

> That guy was calling me on

Is that the same as "calling me out"?

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ I was gonna ask the same thing!

Kitḫ

Damn it. I am supposed to be paying attention to my codez today.

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 That's pretty vile. It almost like he's reverting to some childlike state.

Kitḫ

Pretty gross.

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ If your codez wuz dancin, then you'd pay attenshun

Kitḫ

13:49

But reverting implies he's going back to it.

@MattЭллен Stoopid codez.

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ I suppose I always have hope people are not normally like that!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

It was almost so idiotic that if that guy hadn't been poised to punch someone, the whole car probably would have burst out laughing

Kitḫ

> No. You know what's disgusting?

"The crap I took in the corner earlier."

Matt Эллен

lol

Kitḫ

"The hooker I banged on my way to pick up my family."

"The schwag I smoked for breakfast."

Come on. There's lots of great answers for that.

Shit. Focus, Kit, focus.

Matt Эллен

13:53

The fiscal deficit that over spending has got us in

Kitḫ

chuckle

But that one kind of hurts.

Matt Эллен

aye

It would have been super funny if the spitting guy had said it

Kitḫ

Of course, the crapping might have hurt too...

Matt Эллен

:D oh god. LOL

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен Yes. Definitely a milk-through-the-nose kind of answer.

Matt Эллен

14:01

Damnit! I want there to be some sort of link between curdling and crawling

Kitḫ

What? Why?

Matt Эллен

it's the only way those phrases make sense

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Q: Why does one "laugh to see a pudding crawl"?

You'd laugh to see a pudding crawl is a catch-phrase aimed at someone who is easily amused or is suffering a fit of uncontrollable hilarity. Does anyone know how this phrase came into being? I'm not even sure what is meant by a pudding crawl; I presume it means the act of the last part of your m...

etymology catch-phrases

Kitḫ

See definition 7

Crawl in this sense means to "set up" or become firm.

Well, not actually.

How do we explain that?

When pudding sets, it sometimes pulls away from the edges of the bowl.

Matt Эллен

hmmmm

Kitḫ

That's pudding crawling.

Matt Эллен

14:06

that's sneaky - hiding two definitions.

@Kitḫ yes, that makes perfect sense. just need a way to link paint and puddings

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен Or find a better dictionary.

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ or edit it into a dictionary ;-)

Ed Guiness

Today is crawling along. Like a

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

what kind of pudding are we talking about?

Kitḫ

The pudding kind of pudding.

Ed Guiness

14:09

I would naturally assume that for a pudding to crawl, it must contain suet.

Was there a fictitious pudding, perhaps of Enid Blyton's creation, with a round pudding face and spindly legs and arms?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

ngrams has zero hits for "pudding crawl" and almost nothing for "pudding creep"

Ed Guiness

I'm quite sure Pierre is sniggering over this question

2

Q: Is there a hidden meaning of "swinging the club"?

Does "swinging the club" have another meaning outside the world of golf ?

idioms translation

Kitḫ

I'd like proof.

Perhaps I should eat it.

Ed Guiness

@kith high five

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I know - it's weird, even with 0 smoothing. but there are books that have it in.

Kitḫ

14:12

@EdGuiness high five

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен are there? are there REALLY?! I've never seen one

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I will produce one...

well, a scan of one on Google

Kitḫ

►

Maybe it's this kind of Crawl?

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 a book with "pudding crawl" used in context

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I can't seem to find "pudding crawl" in COCA, BNC, COHA either

Kitḫ

14:17

It's got to be that the pudding shifts very slowly in its dish.

Gigili

Hello, I have a question

Kitḫ

Hi!

Gigili

Are undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and BS, MS, PhD same things?

Kitḫ

Similar.

Gigili

Thank you.

Kitḫ

14:19

Undergraduate is any first college degree.

B.S., B.A., etc.

Ed Guiness

Soon after lunch, when we had stuffed ourselves with roast meats and fallen asleep in front of the TV, the pudding crawled out from under the table and made its escape through the cat flap.

Kitḫ

Graduate is usually any master's degree, but can include doctorate work.

Postgraduate is any degree after a graduate degree.

Gigili

So when one says "grad school" means master?

Kitḫ

Or doctoral.

Oh wait. Let me think.

Well, graduate school can be master's or doctoral, but I think I might be wrong about postgraduate.

I think graduate and postgraduate can be used to describe after college.

I think postgraduate could also probably describe after high school.

Gigili

Aha.

Complicated.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

14:23

I've always used "post-graduate" to mean schooling after you get your "undergraduate" or bachelor's.

Matt Эллен

in the UK postgraduate studies are more advanced studies that you embark on after you graduate from a bachelors degree. This includes things like Masters and PhD

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

So Masters and PhD are "post-grad"

Matt Эллен

we also do a PGCE (post graduate certificate of education)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

But I'm sure this will also depend on what specific school you are talking about because they often use words slightly differently

Kitḫ

I would say, I did my undergraduate work at University X, then my post-graduate work at University Y's Graduate School for Gifted, Hot Chicks.

I think post-graduate is less specific than graduate though.

Matt Эллен

14:25

@Kitḫ that's similar to what I'd say too

Kitḫ

Graduate is almost exclusively master's or PhD.

Post-graduate could be a certificate, JD, MD, etc.

I think.

You don't go to graduate school for an MD; you go to medical school, but it is still post-graduate work.

Ed Guiness

The pudding crawled out of the cat flap and collapsed on the doorstep. That was the last we saw of it until later that evening.

Kitḫ

Uh oh. Did it come back to haunt?

Gigili

I guess I got it, thank you all.

Kitḫ

You're welcome!

Matt Эллен

14:32

sorry, PGCE is a post graduate certificate in education - a teaching degree

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Today's "sleep talking man": "Kiss you? I'd rather use my mouth to plug the hole that's left when someone's asshole falls out."

Matt Эллен

very creative and unpleasant

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

and he created that in his sleep!

Also, this is amusing: amultiverse.com/2011/11/29/on-the-origin-of-horses

user19161

@MattЭллен Or maybe just a diploma.

user19161

Anyone here tried reactos before?

user19161

14:39

ReactOS

ReactOS is an open source computer operating system intended to be binary compatible with application software and device drivers made for Microsoft Windows NT versions 5.x and up (Windows 2000 and its successors). A spin-off of a previous attempt to clone Windows 95, development started in early 1998, and has continued with the incremental addition of features already found in Windows. ReactOS is primarily written in C, with some elements, such as ReactOS Explorer, written in C++. The project has been ported to the ARM and AMD64 processor architectures, and partially implements Windows ...

Matt Эллен

nope

Kitḫ

nope

user19161

If reactos succeeds that might be the end of Microsoft.

Kitḫ

yep

And if pigs fly, bacon will still be tasty.

Ed Guiness

We were quite surprised when, during the hernia operation, just after we had removed the anal pore, we witnessed a bedraggled pudding crawl out onto the table, clearly looking for a means of escape.

user19161

14:41

Reminds me of Ham and Bacon.

user19161

I think he once had a flying pig as avatar.

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ if pigs fly, bacon prices will soar

Kitḫ

The Australian Olympic swimmer surprised everyone when he opted to use the pudding crawl for the last race.

@MattЭллен head slap That's it. I couldn't remember it.

user19161

@EdGuiness I hope you were not the patient.

Kitḫ

Must...focus...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

14:43

@JasperLoy reactos will never succeed because it doesn't offer anyone anything compelling.

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ and now I have laughed at a pudding crawl

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Except that it is free. But it is just a hobby currently. Why it is slow to progress is because there is no funding.

Cerberus

Hello children.

Matt Эллен

hello teacher!

Kitḫ

@Cerb!

Yay!

No!

Must focus!

Cerberus

14:45

Okay go stand in a corner.

Kitḫ

moue

Cerberus

What must you focus on, by the way?

user19161

I think half of all the donations to Linux distros should go to Debian and the other half to reactos. Then everyone else can close shop and Debian and reactos can take over the world from Windows and Mac OS.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен teaches you a lesson or two

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy But "free" means nothing without features. And the entire value proposition of ReactOS is that it is a Free Windows, except the Wine teams have proven over decades that it's impossible to match Windows in a generally useful way. So ReactOS will never succeed. And there is not much need for it in non-desktop settings.

Matt Эллен

14:46

@Cerberus golly! blushes

Kitḫ

@Cerberus takes pictures

Cerberus

Is that true? Why is Wine not generally useful?

Kitḫ

@Cerberus w-rk

user19161

@Cerberus Because it does not work all the time.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен I hope you know understand the universe and all, and women.

@Kitḫ Aww...

Does w-rk include a little map game?

Matt Эллен

14:47

@Cerberus the universe up to, but not including women

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Because Windows doesn't have a defined standard, only a defacto standard. And thus only Microsoft knows for sure what the API is. Wine has to reverse-engineer it. And then they run into all sorts of corner cases where apps don't work, because those apps shouldn't work on Windows, but do, due to implementation quirks.

Kitḫ

@Cerberus ears prick up

No, surely I couldn't...

Cerberus

Go to Geosense.net.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Consequently, only the most strictly-written Windows apps will work properly on Wine, and only if Wine actually has properly implemented what they purport to have implemented.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен I understand.

user19161

14:48

@MrShinyandNew安宇 This is deep.

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Yikes... but how about modern virtual machines? You can install Windows on one of those?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I almost understood, but even your magnificent explanations couldn't make me understand

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

ReactOS is trying to bring together all the problems of Wine AND all the problems of making a working OS kernel AND making that kernel BINARY COMPATIBLE with the Windows Kernel. It's just not going to happen.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен shows women

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus you can, but that has nothing to do with Wine or ReactOS

Matt Эллен

14:49

@Cerberus looks confused

Kitḫ

@Cerberus Is this some kind of joke?

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Yeah OK, just wondering about how using Linux would work in practice.

@Kitḫ No!

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен shows women

Cerberus

You can humiliate me there on a USA map.

user19161

@Cerberus By the way reactos is not Linux.

Cerberus

14:50

If you like.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

So as a hobby, of making an OS that resembles Windows and possibly lets someone out there run an old bit of hardware with an out-dated driver, in a very controlled circumstance on a luckily non-buggy app, ReactOS might make sense. But as a general-purpose replacement for windows? There's no way they can get it bug-free enough.

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ looks even more confused

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Yeah OK.

Kitḫ

@Cerberus I clicked on Tehran and it said I was way off and marked it in Austria.

@MattЭллен shows women louder

Cerberus

@Kitḫ Huh?

user19161

14:51

@MrShinyandNew安宇 True, unless Mr Shiny gets involved.

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ cowers and looks confused

Cerberus

What colour was the mark in Austria?

Kitḫ

@Cerberus Yellow.

I did a bunch before I got fed up with it.

Cerberus

Oh, that is weird!

Kitḫ

Indonesia is nowhere near Oman.

Cerberus

14:52

But the idea is that you play against me!

Kitḫ

Also, Olso in not in Iceland.

Cerberus

@Kitḫ I have never seen that!

Very weird.

Your American internet must be geographically confused.

Works fine for me.

Refresh?

Kitḫ

It's all effed up.

user19161

@Cerberus I didn't know the internet had nationalities.

user19161

Morning @jsb!

JSBᾶngs

14:54

morning @everyone

Ed Guiness

Earlier that day we'd been forced to listen for hours to the jam roly-poly pleading for pride of place, but when the chocolate torte, all glistening and magnificent, began to flatter the young pastry chef it was all over. The young chef chose the torte and put the roly-poly on ice. Man, I've never seen a pudding crawl like that torte.

3

Matt Эллен

morning @JSBngs

Cerberus

@Kitḫ Indeed 'tis!

@JSBᾶngs Morn!

@JasperLoy Alas it does! China has the Great Firewall...

Kitḫ

@JSBᾶngs Morning!

@Cerberus What browser are you using?

user19161

@Cerberus Literally since they block many websites. Here some sites are blocked too.

Cerberus

14:57

@Kitḫ FF

@JasperLoy Really? Like what?

user19161

@Cerberus Mostly porn.

Matt Эллен

who keeps putting these bugs in my code?!

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Wow! But why?

Matt Эллен

au revoir

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен Oh that was yours? Sorry!

Cerberus

14:58

@MattЭллен wiggles foot Sorry.

JSBᾶngs

@MattЭллен elves. and @Kit

user19161

@Cerberus Because people call to complain. We are not a liberal society you know. But they don't block all porn, just specific sites that specific people call to complain.

Cerberus

Haha that is silly.

If I were the government, I'd say: "Ah, Ms. Wang, you again. Now, tell me, why did you decide to visit this particular porn site?"

user19161

So the authorities take a pragmatic approach by satisfying both camps. It is silly because google instantly gives you whatever you want.

Cerberus

"And why are you complaining about its having moved to a different domain? How many times a week do you visit it anyway?"

user19161

15:00

But then this world is silly, until it lives as one. Until then we can only imagine.

Cerberus

Yeah I understand.

user19161

Of course one can still use proxy server to access but with limited functionality.

Cerberus

They should all use Tunnelbear.

user19161

But I really don't understand why China bans harmless social sites.

user19161

Maybe there is a lot of anti-government propaganda there.

Cerberus

15:03

Social sites can be used to fuel and organize resistance...

Propaganda, probably, but also countless citizens who are genuinely concerned about corruption and such.

Kitḫ

ahem

Cerberus

The government wants stability above all else.

user19161

And there was this official who committed suicide because the emperor did not listen to his advice but listened to the evil officials. Now there is a festival in remembrance of him. I find that silly too as it is encouraging people to commit suicide.

user19161

It's actually the Dumpling festival. The dumplings were thrown into the waters to prevent the fishes from eating his body in those days.

user19161

@Cerberus Then they should use Debian Stable!

Ed Guiness

15:09

It was not uncommon during the dumpling festival to find the soggy corpses of unwanted puddings stranded on the river bank, trails in the mud showing where they had crawled up out of the water in an attempt to escape a watery fate.

ok, I'm spent. No more pudding crawls for a while.

JSBᾶngs

@EdGuiness i was enjoying them quite a bit

user19161

@EdGuiness I just realised you are still at pudding crawls of which I have no idea.

user19161

Interestingly China instead of using Red Hat Linux has made its very own Red Flag Linux which is supposedly very fast.

user19161

Red Flag Linux

Red Flag Linux () is a Chinese Linux distribution developed by Red Flag Software. Red Flag's logo is Tux carrying a prominent red flag. The current executive president of Red Flag Software is Jia Dong (贾栋). Description Red Flag Linux 6.0 was published on September 29, 2009. Version 6.9 is based on the Linux distribution Asianux 3.0, which was released on September 22, 2007. It includes Linux 2.6.22.6, KDE 3.5.7 and X.Org 7.2. Red Flag Linux Desktop 6.0 is intended to be a comprehensive desktop operating system and has some major improvements concerning installation, hardware, and mult...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy Seems there hasn't been a release since 2009?

user19161

15:21

@MrShinyandNew安宇 As I just discovered. Yeah I don't follow its development. Just heard about it and thought the name is interesting.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yeah I just checked their website, the English version is almost completely devoid of information, and the Chinese version is only slightly less so. But it seems they have a 2-year-old kernel version. So, have fun with all those out-dated drivers, and all the security problems.

user19161

@mahnax Boo!

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Hi there.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

ok as with Kit I need to focus. So, bye everyone. I'll be back later, maybe.

user19161

@Mahnax Tomorrow all my presents to you will have been distributed, hehe.

Mahnax

15:31

@JasperLoy I haven't been very active recently.... Maybe I should answer a few questions today.

user19161

@Mahnax That's 390 points altogether.

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Wow.

No it isn't.

It's 345.

user19161

@Mahnax Yes, one question is 5 points. One answer is 10 points.

user19161

@Mahnax That is not accurate. You need to go to another page.

user19161

Maybe I will post on meta to ask about the discrepancy.

Mahnax

15:34

@JasperLoy I'm sorry. The new profile is lying to me.

user19161

@Mahnax You should view your summary and not your accounts page.

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Never mind, your numbers are accurate.

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Q: Is it appropriate to use a hyphen in compound adjectives?

I've searched the web and "English Language & Usage", but am having problems finding the answer to the following question: Is it appropriate to use a hyphen for compound adjectives consisting of two adjectives having the same, how do I put it, "status"? That is, grammatically speaking, they ...

punctuation hyphen

Exact duplicate, methinks.

20

Q: When is it necessary to use a hyphen in writing a compound word?

Some words are written without hyphens (nonaggression, nonbeliever), and some words are written with a hyphen (well-intentioned). Is there a schema in the use of a hyphen?

punctuation hyphen

user19161

@Mahnax Done!

user19161

I mean I cast my vote.

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Oh good.

user19161

15:43

It takes 5 votes to close and you can vote when you reach 3k.

Mahnax

I know. I would answer something, but there aren't any worthwhile questions right now.

user19161

By tomorrow I would also have finished giving all presents to someone else, then I will start with yet someone else.

user19161

Of course their identities will be kept secret. Voting is secret!

Mahnax

Good good.

user19161

If all the people I gave presents to gave me the same presents I would have overtaken Robusto, hehe.

user19161

15:48

OK that was a hyperbole.

Mahnax

@JasperLoy I was worried.

user19161

@ed I was not sure about the savings question. I'm glad you took the leap. Plus one!

Mahnax

Apparently the American gov't is trying to censor the Internet!

(Millions of porn addicts everywhere scream)...

Ed Guiness

@JasperLoy Thank you. And may your pudding remain still while you watch it.

user19161

@Mahnax Really? I stopped reading news after 16.

Mahnax

15:56

@JasperLoy There's a banner of it on SO.

user19161

@Mahnax Thankfully you are Canadian!

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Indeed!

I need to go. Goodbye.

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