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3:13 AM
@SvenYargs You shouldn't add research to new users' questions. What's the point, just ask your own question if you're actually interested. And in addition, we have no idea of knowing whether the OP has seen the particular things you've raised. The OP was asking about singular/plural words, whereas by adding that quote from Bernstein you have changed it to being about things of the same kind or different kind. Your edit is illegitimate. — curiousdannii 6 mins ago
Controversial rollback, but I think a justified one.
 
3:49 AM
Hurray for round numbers! :)
Awfully stingy on bronzes though.
And silvers.
 
 
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user227867
5:00 AM
Today, I am deleting 5 old accounts and creating 4 new accounts. After it is done, I will have 5 accounts on English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish Stack Exchange. Yay!
 
@WillHunting Hopefully English Stack Exchange will count. XP
 
user227867
@Tonepoet Well, it can count as long as it is not long division. =P
 
I meant "be the one that sticks". I don't know why I typed count. >_<
 
user227867
Maybe you have been doing too much long division? <_>
 
No.
 
user227867
5:04 AM
I am trying to apply for some part-time tutoring positions now.
 
user227867
Maybe people won't hire me when they know I am mentally ill, but I will try.
 
user227867
It's not my loss but their loss if they don't want me.
 
user227867
Maybe I will take a walk around the island to see what nice centres there are to teach at.
 
user227867
6:16 AM
@Tonepoet I just had a cup of chocolate followed by a cup of coffee, lol.
 
@JasperLoy I don't get it but for some reason chocolate without sugar tastes much like coffee, which is to say bitter. Also, my mother bought some delicious chai for us recently.
 
user227867
@Tonepoet Say hi to your mum for me, lol. Well, I bought dark chocolate, which is more bitter than milk chocolate, I guess.
 
@JasperLoy I'd consider it, but I'd rather not have to say this: "Hey mom, some guy you never even met on the internet said hi. Don't look at me like that. I swear he's not some creepy stalker!" =P
 
user227867
@Tonepoet Maybe I am a creepy stalker, lol. But I would think I am pretty harmless. =P
 
@JasperLoy Well, if you say so, I suppose I have no choice but to fix my error. ;-)
 
user227867
6:26 AM
@Tonepoet By the way, do you know why I like to arrange the languages in this order: Eng, Ger, Fre, Ita, Spa? It's because that's the geographical order, from top to bottom on the map of Western Europe!
 
@JasperLoy Ah! That makes sense now that I realize it's not in alphabetical order ( since G[ermany] is listed before F[rance]).
 
user227867
@Tonepoet Also, this order is nice because it separates the languages into two groups: Germanic (the first two) and Italic (the last three).
 
8:50 AM
The future of Single Word Requests:
Right. Before they were a kind of bikini bottom, a thong was a single sandal with a y-shaped ... uh ... toe-retention mechanism. In that case, where there were generally two sandals, they would be called thongs. However, when that style of bikini was named for resembling the sandal, it was singular, because it looked like a thong sandal, not like a pair. I thought that was a pretty good question, though. :) — Aiken Drum 15 hours ago
 
 
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11:14 AM
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A: I am writing a story about my Barbie do I use a capital

Katherine LockwoodYes, you should use the capital. "Barbie" is a trademarked product: Mattel trademarks Chicago Manual of Style says that trademarked names should be capitalized: Chicago Manual of Style: Registered Trademarks

Who upvotes this nonsense?
So. You are saying we must at all times capitalize escalator, cellophane, videotape, heroin, kerosene, hoover, escalator, app, as well as office, apple, and word. That is just horribly wrong. Utter nonsense. −1. — RegDwigнt ♦ 2 mins ago
Since when do I have to check with patent offices worldwide before using the word "when"?
Oh shit, I forgot, Office is a trademark. Sorry.
 
11:27 AM
And it hasn't occurred to a single person on that page that Barbie is a name.
There, I just closed it on that grounds alone.
 
11:54 AM
Wow @Reg, your voice is amazing:
 
12:39 PM
@KitZ.Fox For real?
 
Um. I would be surprised, but I suppose it is possible.
 
Good morning btw
I thought you were serious =p
 
Good morning. It is evening for you, innit?
 
Yep evening here. 5:40 pm.
I visit chats here usually after studies, work etc. in the late afternoon or like now, in the evening.
When it is afternoon here people on the other side of the world are sleeping, except for a few from Britain etc. like Matty and others.
 
1:00 PM
@JasperLoy Good luck.
 
1:23 PM
@KitZ.Fox thank you. My secret ingredient is Gauloises Blondes and Laphroaig 15yo. But shush.
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Q: "sections 1 and 2" vs. "section 1 and 2"

David MWhich is correct: "In sections 1 and 2 we discuss ...", or "In section 1 and 2 we discuss ..."? The latter sounds strange to me, but a journal copyeditor has just changed multiple instances of the former into the latter.

 
@RegDwigнt investigates 15yo scandals
 
This is a dupe, but I'm not sure we ever got a good answer on previous instances.
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A: "Figure 1 and 2" or "Figures 1 and 2"

xpditeTry substituting your terms for others while keeping the grammar, and it'll be a bit more natural. 1. Cats Bob and Jim cough up hair balls 2. Cat Bob and Jim cough up hair balls 3. Cat Bob and Jim coughs up hair balls I'm pretty sure you should be using the plural form (Figures, Cats) for the ...

Like, this one's a train wreck.
 
Anything worth saving there?
 
There was one on sections specifically a couple weeks ago, but I am not seeing it. And not sure what ever came of it.
@tchrist well you can always close an older question as a dupe of a newer one, is what I'm sayin.
 
Or even merge.
But yeah, I'm not finding anything either.
Maybe it wasn't sections or figures.
 
1:30 PM
I tried figures. Chapters, too.
I do think it was sections, tho.
 
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Q: Singular or plural: "The figure(s) in the center and on the right show that..."

AzoIn a paper I'm writing, there are three figures: one on the left, one in the center and one on the right. I want to say something about the one in the center and the one on the right. Should I use the singular or the plural form of the word figure in this sentence? The figure(s) in the center...

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Q: Referring to two sections

m940What is the proper way to refer to two sections in a single sentence (in a scientific text)? In particular, should I use the word section twice, or should I use sections. If I use sections should I capitalize it? For example: We discuss this issue in Section 4 and Section 9. We discuss...

 
The first one's different. And also like from the last century.
 
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Q: "Sections X to Y" or "Sections X through Y"?

EyvindWhen referring to text that is in a set of consecutive sections, is there a difference in writing "Sections X to Y" compared to "Sections X through Y" ? My intended meaning is to include both Section X and Section Y, and any section in between them.

 
@tchrist that's more like it. But where's that one from last week like.
 
@RegDwigнt Not hiding.
 
1:37 PM
Aww too bad. If only I had deleted it, we'd have it now.
Note to self: delete everything.
 
Easier to search smaller corpora like that.
 
Yes. So we must make it much larger.
It's the NSA approach!
 
> (RemovedAbandonedClosed)
Oh I'm so changing my screen name to that.
 
heh
Merely 505 deleted grammatical-number questions.
 
1:43 PM
Yes yes, sorry again.
6 mins ago, by RegDwigнt
Note to self: delete everything.
 
505 HTTP_SERVER_VIRGIN_NOT_SUPPORTED
 
Coito virgo sum.
 
Predicate complements should be in the nominative case.
 
Satur ventur non studit libentur.
 
Thursday too.
Mar 27 '11 at 1:29, by RegDwight
Nobody may post any additional Latin sentences until everybody's memorized those already posted.
 
1:48 PM
Where's my favorite image for that.
@tchrist oh I am not posting any new Latin sentences. I am playing by the rules.
Mar 12 '11 at 1:30, by RegDwight
Coito ergo sum.
Oct 8 '11 at 19:50, by RegDwight Ѭſ道
Mar 12 at 0:49, by RegDwight
Satur venter non studet libenter.
 
Oct 6 '12 at 0:45, by tchrist
Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
 
Even though, as you can see, I've memorized every instance of every sentence posted so far so technically I am allowed to post new ones.
 
Everybody has a nostra these days. Don’t tell Sicily.
 
@tchrist that one's just an anagram of "Lenin lived, Lenin is alive, Lenin will live".
 
The once and future closet linens.
You know who came to town yester?
 
1:55 PM
Santa Claus?
 
Filia prima quondam filiaque futura.
 
Love?
Oh.
 
I only understood "came" and "fillatio".
 
I think she'll make a fine First Lady, given the available options.
 
Nov 19 '15 at 13:31, by RegDwigнt
@tchrist cuanto cushta uma parazhei por Santana, fash favor.
 
1:56 PM
dances with the devil
No progress on the sections, eh.
 
Oh I said my bit and thus absolved myself from ever dealing with it again.
 
@RegDwigнt So he's the one revealing Hillary's emails?
 
See, now I have to deal with Robusto instead. Fuck.
Hold on hold on I can do it.
 
Rubbishes all.
 
You mean you have to fuck with Robusto instead. Deal.
 
2:01 PM
May 9 '12 at 22:15, by RegDwight ΒВBẞ8
Coito ergo Robusto summa cum laude.
 
Ah, a portmanteau Latin tag.
 
Latin tag, Latin tagt, Latin werden tag.
 
I was just chided on ELL for telling the truth about English dialects.
 
Speaking of which, there's a Lego version of Lenin now.
 
Of course.
 
2:03 PM
 
Uh ... Vladimir Ilyich Lennon?
 
They all live in a yellow mausoleum.
 
Violets
is unbecoming in a dictator.
 
BTW, that's an old joke:
Replete with faux Cyrillic.
 
Yes. Mdyazh and Lepsiloniifi.
 
2:05 PM
Yours had no Cyrillic.
Even faux Cyrillic beats no Cyrillic.
 
Mine had no many other things as well.
For example, sax and violins.
 
@Robusto Well, he's right, and you're right.
You don't make a distinction, but he does.
He aims to help the learner, so he prefers to take ''correct'' to mean ''standard''.
 
@M.A.R. I do make a distinction. I mentioned that this was the practice of an English dialect.
He's the one leaving out information.
 
Technically though, there is no definition of ''correct'' provided by the OP.
 
The truth about English dialects is that they should all go to Glasgow and see how many of them survive and then they can pretend they exist.
 
2:07 PM
When I was in Germany, I found out very quickly that because dialect training had been left out of my school experience, I was very much an outsider.
 
Also, because you were an American.
 
I didn't even know there were dialects when I went there.
 
Did you know you were an American?
 
@Robusto Yep, but an answer that sticks out and doesn't conform to that norm, how idiotic as that norm is, isn't going to help anything.
 
@RegDwigнt Hey, you can't spell American without "I can"!
 
2:08 PM
Yes, and your dishonorable discharge was spelled with honorable.
Courtesy Homer Simpson, sorry Matt.
 
@M.A.R. I will always prefer to tell the truth. Sorry if that offends you.
 
Truth: if you don't smoke, you will die.
 
@Robusto Doesn't. I'm not picking sides. He overreacted a bit, but he's not in the wrong. That's my point.
 
Okay so when are we all going to Glasgow, then?
 
Well, for the record, I'm not ashamed of myself for including all the information.
@RegDwigнt The pound is way down. Good time to go.
 
2:10 PM
It's okay, Rob. We are all plenty ashamed of you enough without the need for you to chip in.
 
Hi, I was thinking what exactly means the name of this Korn's song "Freak On a Leash". Does it means that someone is getting frightened while in chains?
 
But I won't be going to Glasgow until the weather warms a bit. Say next July?
 
Haha. Warms up. You don't know much about Glasgow now, do you.
 
I've been there before. In late June. It was still cold.
 
Poor June. Did she die before or after?
 
2:11 PM
Hey @Robusto "yume" do you know where to buy japanese records to America?
 
Do you mean "in" America?
 
yeah,
 
@WeaponX Freak is this sense is someone who feels like they don't fit in with social norms. On a leash implies that they are under someone else's control, as though they are a pet or trained animal.
 
@WeaponX I generally search Amazon first. There ain't no record stores no more.
 
Step 1: leave America. Step 2: never return. Step 3: you can now buy any number of Japanese records. Also, you're not in America anymore.
 
2:13 PM
@RegDwigнt Regarding Step 1, I'm waiting to see the election results first. If Trump wins, I'll start looking into it.
 
I want to see you go to war with Ras Putin on the Ritz.
 
I can't believe it's 2016 and we're still dealing with this shit.
 
If only so you fucking wish you elected Trump instead.
 
@KitZ.Fox oh I see thanks
 
@RegDwigнt Well, I think I will Putin for a transfer in that case.
 
2:14 PM
@RegDwigнt Haha. Yeah, Putin. So terrifying. The dwarf from the norf.
 
Many a man will Putin. Not many a woman will Putout, though.
@KitZ.Fox you go girl.
 
SO I am scrubbed
 
He is rumored to appear in Canada from time to time.
Poutine (/puːˈtiːn/; Québec French: [put͡sɪn]) is a Canadian dish, originating in the province of Québec, made with French fries and cheese curds topped with a light brown gravy. This fast-food dish is typically found across Canada and in some places in the northern United States, less often elsewhere and is still considered 'exotic' in such places. In Canada it is sold in small "greasy spoon" type diners (commonly known as cantines or casse-croûtes in Québec) and pubs, as well as by roadside chip wagons (commonly known as cabanes à patates, literally "potato shacks") and in hockey arenas. National...
 
Poutine du merde !
 
Putin a mer
 
2:16 PM
Oui oui et ta maman aussi.
 
What does Yo Yo Ma have to do with this?
 
He can have her. I'll pay for the shipping.
 
@Robusto his involvement is twofold. First, yo. Second, also yo.
It's his shtick. Don't judge.
 
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
 
In fact, forget about the bottle of rum.
 
2:18 PM
Wait, I forgot we were dealing with French here: Yeaux heaux heaux ...
 
He does fruit baskets anyway.
 
Y'eau hault haut.
 
@RegDwigнt You're going eaux naturelles now?
 
I am still trying to figure out what the fruit Basques have to do with Yo Ma.
 
Yo Yo Ma could never be a Marine, because everyone is required to answer "Yo!" when their name is called.
 
2:21 PM
@RegDwigнt Mazana en Amérika
You can tell it’s Basque because of the z and k.
 
I heard that Basques are descendants of Atlantis.
 
He could never be a Marine because he'd be a Mamarine and the enemy would not take them seriously.
 
It was on the Internet so it must be true.
 
@KitZ.Fox that is decidedly wrong. They are ascendants of Atlantis.
 
@RegDwigнt There are no cello players in the Marine Band.
 
2:22 PM
I can't believe it's not Mamarine!
 
@RegDwigнt ♪ This is the drowning of the Age of Aquarius ♫
See, this is what I have to stoop to when it's too windy to ride.
 
No jokes about drown syndrome people.
 
user227867
'This account is scheduled to be deleted 15 min ago', so why is it not deleted yet? I have already waited 24 hours.
 
@RegDwigнt Oh that explains it. Thanks.
 
A tension hoar.
 
2:24 PM
I am always here to explain it.
 
@JasperLoy Are you logged in to it?
 
FFS why would you even try and log into an account you want to delete.
 
@RegDwigнt You aren't here. You're there. I'm here.
 
user227867
@KitZ.Fox I just logged in to those accounts. I guess they will wait an hour or more, maybe. It's OK, no worries. Anyway, I am keeping my ELU one.
 
@Robusto Coito, thus you aren't.
 
2:25 PM
There's a load off.
 
@JasperLoy Well, stay logged out of it.
 
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@KitZ.Fox Good thinking.
 
I missed making a joke about marmite. Now I'm hungry.
 
Eat some marmite. You'll never want to eat again.
 
woodchicks
 
2:26 PM
That's a curious thing to say.
 
@tchrist You mean dryads?
 
I am all curious.
 
Yellow.
 
No, you're thinking of currious.
 
marmite is just the fancy word for woodchick.
 
2:27 PM
@RegDwigнt You mean the man in the yellow hat?
 
Woodchick is just a fancy word for prostitute.
 
How much wood could a woodchick chick
 
of which the yellow flavor favors flair
 
user227867
@KitZ.Fox I need to ask a difficult question. How do you log out of it other than closing the browser?
 
@RegDwigнt Nah, courtesan is a fancy word for prostitute.
 
2:28 PM
@Robusto nah, that's not a word at all.
 
NOU!
 
Stick to English, mofo.
 
@JasperLoy Under the top bar where the sites are, there is an option to log out.
 
This is not English language and French whoring.
 
user227867
@KitZ.Fox LOL. I will try it. I log in to see if it is deleted, and it ends up not being deleted. LOL. Deletion is rocket science!
 
2:29 PM
Des vaches espagnoles, autre fois.
 
@RegDwigнt ¿Cómo se dice mofo en Español?
 
@JasperLoy Jasper. Just do this simple thing here, just once:
 
In Texas it’s mofolatta.
 
You will never have to deal with any accounts ever again, ever.
@Robusto con un accento castellano.
 
Now I want a muffin and latte.
 
2:31 PM
@tchrist That's a mofo with milk?
 
Latte is German for morning wood.
 
That must make their body-building contests interesting, when they deal with "latte spreads" ...
 
Well someone has to do something about those fucken boring contests alright.
 
I blame Arnold.
 
user227867
@KitZ.Fox Anyway, I have logged out of them and will stay logged out for a few hours to see if the desired effect takes place.
 
2:33 PM
And, in effect, all of Austria.
 
Äkschn Pfuim.
 
@Robusto hey you're just jelly cuz Austria started two world wars, and you're still months away from kicking off your first one.
 
There's been a delay. It'll be another couple years at least.
 
Man am I hungry now,
 
2:35 PM
@tchrist Looks tasty.
 
What we need is a safe, effective nuclear balm.
 
Meh. Have some Venus tits instead.
 
I thought those were Brústwarzen ...
 
Venus/Veneris
 
Venus Vidus Vicus
 
2:36 PM
@Robusto well as we previously determined, you don't know shit about German.
 
Venus being the Latin for “she comes”.
 
Whatever, it is sui veneris ...
 
Quiz time! I will show you a sausage, and you tell me what kind of sausage it is.
 
no no no no no
 
@Robusto No no, those are bratwursts!
 
2:37 PM
@RegDwigнt Well, you don't have to bring it up every five minutes, you know. Arschloch.
 
No Anthony Weiner in this chat.
 
@RegDwigнt I have a feeling there is only one kind of sausage you are used to showing.
 
@RegDwigнt Braunschweiger
 
@Robusto I waited for six. And it was you who brought it up six minutes ago. So technically I've only brought it up every once in the entire history of the universe.
 
vi
wrong window
 
2:38 PM
In Germany there are OVER 9000 kinds of sausages ... and I would never that hard to pass a sausage test.
 
Please stop harding.
 
@tchrist Relax, you're in emacs now.
Speaking of horses, when do we start talking about Oat Couture?
 
Blutwurst?
 
Nope.
 
2:41 PM
I give up.
 
Pfennigwurst
 
VologodEtnoEksp? That's not a name, that's a bad Scrabble hand.
I mean, a terrible Scrabble hand. The wurst.
 
It's an Ethnographic Expedition, you genius.
 
2:43 PM
Well why'd you leave all the letters out then?
 
I did not.
Now just watch it for your answer, willya.
 
Anyway, if you're going on an ethnographic expedition in a swamp it won't be long before you turn up the mouthbreathers of Duck Dynasty.
When you could have just turned on the Discover Channel, or whatever venue they use.
 
@Robusto we'll put them right back in as soon as your fucken Potus and Flotus and Scotus do.
Scotus being Russian for farm animals.
 
ENOSCROTA
 
@RegDwigнt I thought it had something to do with Glasgow residents.
 
2:46 PM
It has something to do with Moscow residues.
Same thing, only different.
 
@RegDwigнt There is a rickroll if I ever seen one.
 
Well wha'evah.
Be like that, Kylie.
 
Ereison?
 
Kylie ereison
jinx
 
faster
jinx faster
 
2:47 PM
but I had more words
You still owe me a coke
 
Agnus Merkel Dei.
 
Bah
 
Don't you bah die Mutti.
 
BTW, Hillary Clinton is actually Angela Merkel. True fact.
 
BTW, Donald Trump is actually Hillary Clinton. True fact.
Which is the only reason some people won't vote for him.
 
There is a rickroll if I ever seen one.
 
Who can?
Dubya already couldn't, and you elected him twice.
 
Hey, for the record I didn't elect him.
I mean, people are saying ...
 
@Robusto I'm sorry, women can't be funny on purpose. Or make money or fix things or invent anything important.
Vote Trump!
At least he's not a friggen woman.
 
user227867
2:53 PM
@KitZ.Fox All the accounts I want deleted are now deleted. I think it is not so much about whether I am logged in or not. I think it just takes a little while after the time set for the effects to be shown. Interesting stuff.
 
@RegDwigнt Thank you, Vladimir. You can put your shirt back on now.
 
user227867
Hello @Robusto I hope you are well. I have not seen you for 9000 years.
 
Well to be fair Hillary is not a woman either, I'll give you that.
 
@JasperLoy Let's give it another 9000 and see where we are at then.
 
We will be in the age of Aquarius.
 
user227867
2:54 PM
I am not American so I cannot vote, but if I could I would vote for Michelle Obama in the coming election.
 
No you wouldn't.
She's not running.
 
user227867
Whoosh.
 
Not whoosh. You whoosh.
 
user227867
When will you get my jokes Reg, when?
 
@RegDwigнt Or the Age of Aquariums. And I like fish. (But not Phish.)
 
2:55 PM
As a whooshee you don't get to be a whoosher.
@JasperLoy when you start making them. In the age of Aquarius.
@Robusto Aquarius/Aquariums is literally the worst non-wordplay wordplay anyone has ever come up with. It takes a true master to stoop that low.
 
@RegDwigнt Thank you.
Feb 3 '11 at 20:07, by Robusto
See, that's why we go over this stuff.
 
You gotta know the rules to break them rulez. Biatch.
 
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