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Mitch
Mitch
01:23
@Robusto But thanks to you, somebody somewhere just -gained- two hours. It's how it works. That's science.
tchrist
tchrist
02:23
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A: Is it correct to say 'I wish some magic happens'?

tchristNo, you cannot have a present-tense verb following I wish that X. That’s because you always have to backshift that next verb in X to make it unreal or hypothetical. After all, it’s a wish; it isn’t real. Therefore using the present tense won’t work there. (By the way, wish is pretty much the las...

There was just too much blind-leading-the-blind to fix in a comment.
Randomly reminds me of the interval-training unit from my high-school music theory class of more than two-score years ago. The mnemonic song for an octave ascending was the opening interval from When You Wish Upon a Star — well, or Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
04:55
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Word of the day: spoiler
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
05:06
> The doors open only once. That’s how people often describe Japan’s hidebound hiring system, in which college students have their best shot at landing a coveted salaried position in the year approaching graduation.
What is the meaning of hidebound here? Narrow-minded?
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
05:28
Word of the hour trade books (Trade books are published for general readership, and usually are headed for bookstores and libraries. They are not rare books or textbooks for small, specialized or niche readerships, but neither are they targeted toward impulse buyers at drugstores, airports or discount stores.)
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
05:47
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, pattern-matching website in answer, potentially problematic ns configuration in answer (140): Are guillemets used at all in English? by phDassistance higs on english.SE
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
> If two prison inmates dated, would it be romantic if they finished each other’s sentences?
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
06:30
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Post is mostly images (13): Figure of speech of "that i really needed him" ✏️ by Morenike on english.SE
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
06:45
@Cerberus An abscess started as a cavity, but wasn't treated in time. By that point it's often too late to save the tooth, as was the case for me.
@CowperKettle Ossified. Resistant to change.
@Cerberus If you have a cavity, get it filled ASAP. Cavities are usually no big deal, but do need to be dealt with.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
07:32
@FaheemMitha Thank you!
Xanne
Xanne
08:27
@CowperKettle Conventional, traditional, not flexible. No new thinking, no chances taken. Apparently hidebound is a century old term for a malnourished condition of cattle with hide that was no longer flexible.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
08:46
@MattE.Эллен noooo y u migrate nonsense, I was about to close it.
Now it needs five fresh votes on the other site to get closed.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@RegDwigнt I'm sure they can help. it'll be fine!
Xanne
Xanne
09:01
@CowperKettle Am I to figure out that the spoiler is in the crucifix hanging above the VM, Joseph, and the blessed child as they perhaps thunder over the countryside in a steam-powered train?
”except for the anachronisms, such a charming tableau”
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
maybe it's a highly anthropomorphised bat
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
09:27
> New Flute Solo for Flute and Piano Accompaniment!
A flute solo for flute?
And a solo with accompaniment?
What a treat!
Make Stackexchange Great Again
Make Stackexchange Great Again
No treats for you owl boy because Covid-19 took away hallowe'en this year
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
mikewblog.com/2-years-to-learn-japanese -- You can't become fluent in Japanese in under 2 years.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@MakeStackexchangeGreatAgain what you mean, "this year"?
Who the fuck even celebrates halloween, you heathens are all going to hell.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
Hell: where it's Halloween all year 'round!
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^
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
09:39
Hell is other wieners.
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Make Stackexchange Great Again
or Friday the 13th all year 'round
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@M.A.R. just because I didn't, doesn't mean I can't.
@MattE.Эллен I don't think they can. It is asking for something that is not present in the text.
But wevs.
Out of sight, out of mind.
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Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@RegDwigнt it is present in the text, well in the photo of the text. the first highlighted sentence of the passage
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@MattE.Эллен I don't think you understand. The question is "what figure of speech is this". But there is no figure of speech present in the text.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
although I will admit I don't understand how it is figurative, other than maybe using "him" to mean a computer?
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
09:43
This.
It is not figurative at all.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
but that is answerable
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@RegDwigнt yeah it's kinda that guy's point. He's trying to call BS on all the conflicting info iut there about language learning (not just Japanese)
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Well, yes, by that token every question is.
"How much seven is blue". Answer: "yesterday". Totally answerable.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
hopefully ELL will be able to get to the real question.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/j5w6v7/… -- Trump projecting strength while having trouble breathing and high on steroids
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
09:45
@M.A.R. why is he trying to call Britney Spears on that? She is not a specialist on anything.
Or is it because her loneliness is killing her and he just wants to help?
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@RegDwigнt *Bush Senior
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Oh his loneliness ain't killing him no time soon.
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Only the lonely
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Schmonley the pronely.
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i forgot the rest of the song :-/
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
09:47
Of course you did. You still have Covid.
Who allowed His Highness Mr President in this chat anyway, he's highly contagious at this point.
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and I'm highl on steroids
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Chris De Burgh - High On Emotion
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I'm hooked on a feeling
high on believing
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
David Hasselhoff - Looking for Freedom 1989
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Babe watch?
I want Pamela as my nurse
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
09:51
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Thanks.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Any time.
Xanne
Xanne
GILF wife.
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=flSVidqmlzU m.youtube.com/watch?v=flSVidqmlzU6
Bobby Goldsboro - If You Go Away
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Saddest Song.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
10:23
A head of psychiatric department in the Sakhalin island says that in his dept two patients have died from covid. At the same time, the official statistics for the whole island is 0 deaths.
I'm sitting in a confidential Telegram room with 200 Russian psychiatrists.
Furthermore, he said that one of the patients in his ward was tested twice, and both tests returned negative. Only when the patient got severely ill did they manage to have him scanned in an MRI and found damage in his lungs. The third test returned positive.
Both the statistics and the diagnostics are very poor.
Xanne
Xanne
@CowperKettle Are you translating for these R.p.’s?
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
@Xanne What is "R.P."? Psychiatrist? I'm translating for several of them
I update a psychiatric newsfeed for my friend's channel
With some interesting stuff retold from English
And translate for a couple of psychiatrists who are writing a big textbook in Russian.
There are amazing news appearing each day, I cannot retell them all.
With some outworldish technology
Millimetre-precision drug delivery to the brain
> “Because our method aggregates drugs at the site in the brain where their effect is desired, we don’t need nearly as high a dose,” Yanik says. In their experiments on rats, for instance, the quantity of drug that they used was 1,300 times smaller than the typical dose needed.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
10:51
do they realise that rat brains are smaller than human ones, so obviously the dose is lower? :þ
Xanne
Xanne
@CowperKettle Rp was just a quick abbreviation for Russian psychiatrists. Sounds interesting but with very slippery vocabulary—words meaning different things to different people.
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
not to mention that the laws of science change with scale
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Such a method, if refined and approved, would prove a miracle for millions. The currently used antipsychotic drugs dampen the dopamine transmission throughout the brain, stopping hallucinations but also negatively affecting motivation and thinking.
If one could deliver these drugs only in a spot or two, and add some neutrotrophic factors to promote the formation of new connections, the scientists would deserve statues of gold.
Xanne
Xanne
11:25
Who is BillJ? He answers many questions in comments in brief technical language.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
11:43
Yekaterinburg hospitals have filled to their limits, and new covid patients are again distributed to other towns. e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-69493287.html
One doctor in the news report said that he is working "on his last legs", having had no true vacation from the deluge of patients since March.
There was a lull but still doctors were required throughout August.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
12:30
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Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
oh! I get it :D took a second
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
as opposed to the bottom 8
TRiG
TRiG
13:21
@Robusto That's a very useful chart.
Cerberus
Cerberus
13:33
@CowperKettle One wonders who made that map, and based on what criteria.
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
north/south
re: bottom right corner
Cerberus
Cerberus
Oh, so it's completely non-tautological.
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
yes
geographically on top
Robusto
Robusto
@skullpatrol Depends on whether you're counting Hawaii.
Robusto
Robusto
14:00
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Horrible air nationwide today.
Cerberus
Cerberus
14:43
Yuck.
When will it end?
It has been cold and very, very rainy here for weeks now.
Where does that cloud above the Gulf of Mexico come from?
From all the yellow dots?
marcellothearcane
marcellothearcane
15:04
@tchrist You needn't have worried
I will fix it, dear. Hold your horses. — Faizaan Bashir yesterday
Mr Ashworth is being positively hilarious at the moment:
An early buzzword? — Edwin Ashworth 44 mins ago
This is all wishful thinking. — Edwin Ashworth 1 hour ago
tchrist
tchrist
15:51
I did like the last one.
"Dear"!? Uh oh.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
17:03
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:10
@Xanne Probably "Grandma I Like to Flirt" (with)
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
18:21
@Robusto Wildfires?
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
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Robusto
Robusto
@FaheemMitha yup
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Robusto Nasty.
Robusto
Robusto
Indeed
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@FaheemMitha Kamala Harris? Haha
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
18:33
@M.A.R. Hmm?
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Oh, wildfires. Sorry.
@FaheemMitha When Biden chose her as the VP, Trumpians had no comeback and Trump could only call her "nasty" in a tweet
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@M.A.R. Ah. Well, he's an imaginative fellow. Also, a true gentleman.
Robusto
Robusto
@FaheemMitha Masterfully ironical.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:49
Word of the day: prehensile
Robusto
Robusto
> “[Dexamethasone is] cheap as borscht, as my grandparents would say,” Isaac Bogoch, an infectious-disease specialist at Toronto General Hospital, previously told The Washington Post.
@CowperKettle Is this a Russian saying? "Cheap as borscht"? ^
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
19:05
@Robusto Definitely a made-up faux Russian saying ))
Robusto
Robusto
^_^
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Borscht was not always cheap, it requires meat. But it's a good faux saying.
Robusto
Robusto
Good to know.
Gigili
Gigili
19:46
Glad to know you missed me.
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
20:35
in This Is Fine, 39 mins ago, by Tim Stone
> Eddie Van Halen, the Hall of Fame guitarist who revolutionized the instrument and influenced countless musicians, has died at the age of 65
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
I don't know about you folks, but I'm still getting that dystopian novel feeling.
I think there's a nuclear war somewhere around Ch. 20 unless our heroes can head it off.
The problem is, the heroes are MIA.
Cerberus
Cerberus
I don't know those abbreviations.
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Cerberus MIA? Missing in Action.
Cerberus
Cerberus
Ch?
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Cerberus Chapter.
Cerberus
Cerberus
20:51
Ahh.
I haven't seen any signs of nuclear war.
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Cerberus The Joint Chiefs of Staff (some of them anyway) just went into quarantine.
@Cerberus Nobody expects the Spanish Inqusition.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
RIP Eddie van Halen.
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Craziest Eddie Van Halen solo ever!
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