@Cerberus I'm very slightly thinking Joanna Lumley might be getting a little old, but I'd still marry her if I wasn't committed to marrying all of The Roches
@RegDwightѬſ道 haha i did like that one. bit like the definition of [some word i've forgotten] as "a bit like manyana, but without the sense of urgency"
@rumtscho Someone's missing a point. Quick, inform the police!
Theoppositeofprocrastination is not German in any way, manner, or form. It's English. Just because it happens to be spelled in one word, doesn't make it Chinese.
@RegDwightѬſ道 You mean, "Is this sentence grammatically correct" is off-topic, but "is the tautology in this sentence grammatically correct" is on-topic?
It's just that you can't say, "I googled for 'don't see that. I think OP's issue is with the tautology, only he doesn't know that' and got zero results, is that grammatically correct?" and leave it at that.
Short answer: it depends. Long answer: you have to be as specific as possible.
Broad questions along the lines of "please proofread this" are likely to get closed. However, if you have a specific problem with word order, capitalization, spelling etc., go ahead and ask.
In other words:
"Can y...
In fact you, @FumbleFingers, very often comment on the crappiest questions to the extent that there's a gold nugget in there. And every single time I am tempted to reply, different question is different.
You will often reword the question such that it is indeed on-topic and shining. Except that nobody can be really sure that that's what's really being asked, least of all the OP themselves.
@RegDwightѬſ道 yes, but almost everyone thinks the basic answer is "it's idiomatic - no special reason", and i'm 100% sure such an obscure point couldn't be learnt by copying what others say
It's just that at the end of the day we are often left with a bunch of crappy closed questions, and a bunch of really interesting spin-off questions buried deep in comments.
@FumbleFingers That's why you should post it as a question and not an answer - then people who know more will make the complex analysis and post it as the answer
@RegDwightѬſ道 when he's not being a rockstar, my lodger is a chef. he loves the fact that we keep a 10-litre box of vino in the kitchen. Always get kick-ass gravy!
But it was an exception, we talk without censorship there, our ultrareligious people are actually the most tolerant ultrareligious people I've ever met.
@KitFox he's david munch moore on keyboard at the back. likes eating, which is where he got the sobriquet. but also like putting the food together, which is why I've got him!
@rumtscho Hey, I was just kidding. I've been through the sleep-deprivation psychosis bit with two children. I would get up and do the parts of baby-raising that didn't include milk production.
go**damm**it! how do I explain to the cat that she has to eat dried munchies because they'll stop her teeth falling out, when she knows there's wet catfood in the cupboard?
@KitFox she's already pushed me up through every price-point in dry cat food! There ain't nothing more expensive I could get her, even supposing I could afford it. Besides, I want a new ebook reader - can't be wasting money on trivial stuff like catfood
@rumtscho i think the average life-expectancy of feral cats is actually pretty low. I don't wanna waste money feeding something that's gonna peg out on me that quick
> Brushing of the teeth is the most effective means of removing plaque before it turns into tartar. We recommend the use of a toothbrush and toothpaste made especially for cats. This should be done daily, but we know that not all cats will tolerate it. Ask your veterinarian for a cat toothbrush and toothpaste.
@KitFox oh i thot it did. she's gonna have a problem then, since no way am i letting her share my electric toothbrush (she doesn't use toilet-paper, I've noticed)
@KitFox well, some people would say it's keeping her alive, since she only gets one pouch of the wet stuff per day, and they reckon she'd need FIVE or more if that was all she got
"The music video for "Pussy" (which is the first Rammstein song to be released in English with German) was released on September 16, 2009, at 20:30 GMT, released especially for the adult website Visit-x.[15] The video contains graphic scenes of male and female nudity as well as women engaging in sexual activity with the band members, although the actual sex scenes were performed by body doubles.[16] The women featured in the video are German porn stars."
I liked the banter on programmers.se where someone said OP shouldn't use some programming technique because every time the purists saw it they would kill a kitten. Someone else commented (void) kitten // cast kitten into the void. Shame some mod decided to delete the whole interchange as "off-topic"
@RegDwightѬſ道 i can't say it anyway - had a friend who used to trot out something approximately like that, only longer than supercallifragilisticexpealidocious in syllables, but shorter in temporal duration
me i gotta got deal with the stove - unlike the hypothetical porn that might feasibly watch itself, i just know my dinner ain't gonna cook itself (also, unlike pop, it won't eat itself either) Byeeeeeee!
> Morpheme use also reduces the individual’s level of awareness of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, harming their ability to communicate or even to be fully aware of other conversational participants.
I though of precrastination at first but that seems to signify planning to procrastinate.
Short answer: it depends. Long answer: you have to be as specific as possible.
Broad questions along the lines of "please proofread this" are likely to get closed. However, if you have a specific problem with word order, capitalization, spelling etc., go ahead and ask.
In other words:
"Can y...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…