Just wanted to clarify. Don't think I was trying to be rude or offensive or wanted to push my opinion. I was intrigued by your interpretation and wanted to know how a 3rd party would interpret it

@Daniil Sorry about that but that was the easiest place to ask

@Daniil It is a joke about Alice in the Wonderland? You ever read/watched it?

@Daniil Yeah well it is a kids story. What he meant is that he was amazed and confused by the contrast and out of ordinary nature. Atleast that is how I interpret it. You may want to ask what he meant exactly. But I am sure the idea is similar

@Daniil How old, if you don't mind...

@Daniil dictionary.com/e/slang/rabbit-hole

@Daniil I am still 16 ;)

@Daniil Really? UK or where?

Uh. You might want to take your English lessons a bit seriously from now on :P

@Daniil 🖐 Maybe it was our teenage rebel feelings that made us argue. LOL.

@Daniil Keep it up. I scored 100% on my last 2 English term tests. Well gtg. stay safe and learn well. cya. Also well done on being such an active and successful member of SE so young. You are much better than me in that regard. Also a mod. Wow

@Daniil you are? And you find less smaller natural? That's really interesting. I wonder if it's some sort of regional thing, it certainly sounds very wrong to my native's ear.

Are you bilingual, perhaps? Were you raised speaking more than one language natively?

Well yes, that too.

But less smaller sounds OK?

@Daniil Do you speak one of those natively though?

I was raised in a bilingual household, and my two native languages often bleed into each other, and I sometimes make mistakes because I'll bring in a form from languageA into languageB. I understand that's a relatively common occurrence in folks who were raised bilingual.

That might be it, then.

Presumably, less smaller makes sense in Russian, right?

Heh, just one of those things then :) I still find myself using weird constructions in all languages because of this sort of bleed through.

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welcome to the island B)

just taking the stuff not related to moderation out of the Downboat

sorry I should have said I was going to

yes, we like to keep it trim

that is, we usually tidy it up so people reading back to find moderation stuff can easily do so

Ah, sorry about that. Thanks for moving them!

not a problem! it's perfectly fine (and often great fun) that off topic conversations arise in the Downboat. We just move them later :)

this room of random stuff is my favourite in a way

@terdon I wouldn't even say less small. I would just say smaller.

@terdon Same funny little problem here. English + Sinhala

@SasukeUchiha Well, yes. Of course.