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Q: Is there a verb for attacking someone's mind (psychic damage)?

TanthosIn gaming nomenclature, when you use fire damage, you burn. When you use cold damage, you freeze. When you use holy damage, you smite. And so on. What's a good verb for using psychic damage, i.e., making a psychic or mental attack on someone?

 
1:23 AM
Huh. Sometimes you learn things about people.
no names
Actually it's worse. You find out that first impressions are sometimes right. So you don't learn anything, other than that you were right all a long.
What is that guy's problem?
 
@Mitch Haven't figured that one out yet, myself.
 
1:43 AM
@Mitch Which guy?
 
3:27 AM
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Q: One word synonym

Bravo JadesIs there a one-word synonym for the phrase "complement each other"? Or maybe some other rare usage phrase?

 
 
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6:13 AM
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Q: How to refer to 'a person' if you don't say anything about the gender

Daria Kucharczyk"A person whose words are not enough to describe what she sees. " "Person" doesn't refer to any specific gender, but if I, myself, know I'm talking about a woman, should I use "she"? Or maybe "they"?

 
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7:11 AM
Hi.
Please let me know which chat will be better to ask the meaning/ interpreatation of literature texts.
The ELL one or the ELU one?
I an't understand this line from crossing the bar:
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far
Can someone please explain what it means? (please ping me while replying to me otherwise I am uninformed.)
Thank you.
 
 
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8:28 AM
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8:43 AM
@Robusto yeah I'm subscribed to these jokers. Actually, I'll go see them live in concert in Frankfurt this October.
@Cerberus Most people don't know what a dictionary is.
If you spent any time on ELU, you'd know. Or on YouTube, for that matter.
@Robusto I did spend two weeks learning to hold the violin and bow before even bothering my teacher with the first lesson. Though of course the point of the video really isn't the specifics, but the general idea of "you say a thing and they just won't listen".
 
 
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10:32 AM
@Abcd I suspect bourne might mean "realm" here:
> bourn
n.2

"destination," 1520s, from French borne, apparently a variant of bodne (see bound (n.)). Used by Shakespeare in Hamlet's soliloquy (1602), from which it entered into English poetic speech. He meant it probably in the correct sense of "boundary," but it has been taken to mean "goal" (Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold) or sometimes "realm" (Keats).

The dread of something after death, The vndiscouered Countrey; from whose Borne No Traueller returnes. ["Hamlet" III.i.79]
Or possibly "boundary".
And tho' means "(al)though".
ELU is probably not the right place to ask, unless it is about a specific word, expression, or construction.
@RegDwigнt And they get closed...
 
11:14 AM
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Q: Non Financial Reward

NazI am writing about how a business can make a change that benefits the community and increases their profits, the line I am stuck on is '...and rewarding both _______ and financially' What word can I use to fill in the blank.

 
 
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1:33 PM
@Cerberus That guy. Why is he so like that?
 
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It's a dude.
Almost like he's trying to get negative rep.
 
He is like that because that is before his name?
 
I can't say that I know whom you're talking about, for that would be telling.
 
1:48 PM
Morning. stares longingly at empty coffee cup
 
> The directors of the firm hired to
continue the credits after the other
people had been sacked, wish it to
be known that they have just been
sacked.

The credits have been completed
in an entirely different style at great
expense and at the last minute.
 
My boys watched that for the first time a few months ago, and what a delight to see it again through their eyes.
 
 
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3:13 PM
Sep 30 '13 at 12:40, by Mitch
@MattЭллен You've said too much already.
@Cerberus There are probably other more substantive reasons why that guy is like that, but I'm sure that doesn't hurt.
@KitZ.Fox coffee cup stares back
strains
tears up a little
blinks
 
 
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4:24 PM
Mornin!
 
5:04 PM
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Q: What is the word the means there is a difference in meaning of the same words when the exact same works are spoken by a different person

Wai YanI read about the word in a book where it says if an ordinary man say “ I now pronounce you men and wife.” It doesn't make the couple husband and wife. But when the same words are spoken by a priest, it makes them husband and wife. The word starts with either "i" or "l". Hope you guys can help me...

 
@MattE.Эллен Thanks I didn't know that site existed.
 
 
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7:02 PM
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9:36 PM
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Q: correct term for the "next to latest ( item before the latest)

bill si am informing my website readers that i have added the latest page. please tell me the proper name for the page that is now just before the latest page. it is not the "next to last" as, hopefully, there will still be more to add soon

 

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