English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Oh, sinner man, where you gonna run to?
Run to the moon, "Moon won't you hide me?"
Run to the sea, "Sea won't you hide me?"
Run to the sun, "Sun won't you hide me all on that day?"

user19161

@Noah TYPING LIKE THIS IN CHAT IS USED FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT. IT CAN MEAN MANY THINGS DEPENDING ON CONTEXT.

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy JASPER IS SHOUTING!

howdy, room

user19161

@cornbreadninja YO YO!

KitFox

Jasper, you are back to your old self.

cornbread ninja

I am 1/5 and 1/5 to the Marshal badge.

user19161

4:01 PM

@cornbreadninja Does that mean 2/5?

Robusto

.2 * .2 = .04

The closer you get to your goal, the farther you are away from it.

Z-Nose' Paradox.

user19161

@Robusto That could happen if the path is not a straight line, it's true.

tchrist

"e’"???

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy I have 120 flags. Marshal badge takes 500.

user19161

In life, we often have to go around in many circles until we reach the goal.

Robusto

4:05 PM

@tchrist You are taking far too much umbrage at my jokes. Lighten' up!

tchrist

@JasperLoy ⅕ + ⅕ = ⅖.

cornbread ninja

@tchrist two small. kant reed.

tchrist

@Robusto It’s because it’s pluvious by me today.

Robusto

Marshal badge is a dubious honor. It means you excel at being a pain in the ass.

cornbread ninja

ctrl+mousewheel ahhh.

tchrist

4:06 PM

I need a brelly.

user19161

@Robusto That means all the mods are pains in asses.

cornbread ninja

@tchrist let a smile be your umbrella.

tchrist

@cornbreadninja Whose fault is that, O querulous one?

cornbread ninja

@tchrist OP.

:D

user19161

Beware of the jellyfish. It is an umbrella that can sting.

Robusto

4:07 PM

Now, the Legendary badge ... that's the form horse on any SE site.

user19161

@Robusto I think you should aim for 100k. That is something rare, 6 digits.

tchrist

user19161

Also, looks like Barrie may overtake Robusto this year, or maybe next.

tchrist

@JasperLoy Check the second derivative.

Robusto

@JasperLoy Nah, I just don't have the interest anymore. I'd have to spend six months jumping on every stupid question that comes along. I don't roll out of bed anymore unless a question is at least mildly interesting.

Or I'm really bored.

user19161

4:09 PM

Why do people swim in seas knowing that there might be jellyfish? I guess many seas are safe from jellyfish, but then one cannot be sure.

cornbread ninja

the mama pajama rolled outta bed and she ran to the police station

@JasperLoy why stop at jellyfish? Sharks, stingy coral. . .

user19161

@cornbreadninja The banana in the papaya in the iguana in the zenana is in Panama.

cornbread ninja

I apologize for my fake spaced ellipsis.

user19161

@cornbreadninja My skin is rather sensitive. Seawater gives rise to rash.

cornbread ninja

I don't think we have any business swimming in oceans.

tchrist

4:11 PM

@cornbreadninja ¹³⁷⁄₆₈₅ ＋ ²³¹⁴⁄₁₁₅₇₀ ＝ ²⁄₅

cornbread ninja

@simchona meow!

@tchrist I see.

user19161

@cornbreadninja Are you a crazy cat lady?

cornbread ninja

I was greeting simchona.

when the papa found out, he began to shout and they started the investigation

user19161

@cornbreadninja I know, I was trying to use this term because I only learnt its meaning recently.

user19161

@cornbreadninja Is this your new novel?

cornbread ninja

4:13 PM

@JasperLoy throws free cat @JasperLoy

@JasperLoy paul simon's old one

user19161

@cornbreadninja The only Simon I know is the one on American Idol. I think he knows nothing about singing.

tchrist

@cornbreadninja How many cats can you juggle?

@JasperLoy Tough claim.

user19161

@tchrist I can't even juggle a single ball I think.

cornbread ninja

►

@tchrist that remains to be seen.

Robusto

@JasperLoy Unless he gets tired of jumping on every question he sees, he no doubt will. But, as the guy says in Moneyball, "We're all told at some point in time that we can no longer play the children's game, we just don't know when that's gonna be. Some of us are told at eighteen, some of us are told at forty, but we're all told."

user19161

4:17 PM

@tchrist I never heard that Simon sing himself. I wonder what he sounds like.

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy here's a little number I tossed off recently in the Carribbean...

tchrist

is delighted that a future-tense tag exists, just to get Barrie’s and John Lawler’s knickers in a snit.

cornbread ninja

@tchrist knicker-snitter

Robusto

boring

tchrist

@cornbreadninja english.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/snicker-nitter

Well, how do you make that work?

cornbread ninja

4:22 PM

Which?

Dare you to write the tag wiki for knicker-snitter

user19161

[test]

cornbread ninja

oh... [ tag: tagname ] without spaces

user19161

test

cornbread ninja

see also: <kbd>ctrl</kbd>

damn, only works on main

go ahead, go try making a keyboard key. I'll wait here.

tchrist

@cornbreadninja What do you want a 🎹 🔑 for?

cornbread ninja

4:28 PM

@tchrist cries kant see

tchrist

GARFC

cornbread ninja

I'm just sayin', if you need to make a neat-looking keyboard key...

@tchrist hands you a barf bag

tchrist

I just do not understand “keyboard key”.

cornbread ninja

bye @JasperLoy!

@tchrist please hold for informative picture

tchrist

@cornbreadninja I see.

␡⃣ ␡⃢ ␡⃞.

cornbread ninja

4:42 PM

@tchrist :(

searches for hobby lobby coupon; waits for tchrist to post last message as image

tchrist

cornbread ninja

thank you.

tchrist

5:12 PM

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Q: US/UK spellings of tags should be synonyms

I propose as a matter both of policy and principle that any tag name that exists in one of the major spelling variants (loosely, US-vs-UK, but not so limited) should also exist in the other as a synonym. Here is the list of current tags this would apply to, along with the respective status of ea...

That should get me talked about.

We’ve definitely lacking a peeve tag.

Ah, there: now I’ve done it.

I’m of course unserious about the peevers.

Matt Эллен

bananas

tchrist

plantain

pineapples

carambola

Matt Эллен

apple's not the only fruit

tchrist

5:28 PM

Prolly oughtn’t get me started, you know.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist which is a synonym of esl

tchrist

    F8FF  (customized PUA name: APPLE CORPORATE LOGO) \p{Block=Private_Use_Area}
 🍅  1F345       TOMATO
 🍆  1F346       AUBERGINE
        = eggplant
 🍇  1F347       GRAPES
 🍈  1F348       MELON
 🍉  1F349       WATERMELON
 🍊  1F34A       TANGERINE
 🍋  1F34B       LEMON
 🍌  1F34C       BANANA
 🍍  1F34D       PINEAPPLE
 🍎  1F34E       RED APPLE
 🍏  1F34F       GREEN APPLE
 🍐  1F350       PEAR
 🍑  1F351       PEACH
 🍒  1F352       CHERRIES
 🌸  1F338       CHERRY BLOSSOM
 📙  1F4D9       ORANGE BOOK

RegDwight АΑA

Actually tchrist forgot to propose that american-english be made a synonym of esl.

user19161

@cornbreadninja Hey no need to say bye. I jump in and out 9000 times a day.

tchrist

@Reg: How much work would it be to implement the proposal? Is it just so much busy-work?

user19161

5:35 PM

@RegDwightАΑA True. I wonder why BrE is not used...

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist a couple seconds per synonym? Perhaps ten. Twenty tops.

tchrist

@JasperLoy That’s a very interesting question, you know.

@RegDwightАΑA Oh good. I’d withdraw the proposal were it otherwise.

user19161

@tchrist You got the number wrong.

RegDwight АΑA

Nah, if anything we are not synonymi[z|s]ing enough. Mods and regular users alike.

user19161

@mahnax Boo!

RegDwight АΑA

5:37 PM

Of course the requirements are quite draconic, too.

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA This is the problem.

RegDwight АΑA

You have to be like the queen of the tag, and be wearing your crown, too.

user19161

I don't understand why the network profile has to be synced from the oldest account.

tchrist

Hm, 20k relaxes editing of tag wikis.

user19161

Can't the network profile be edited on its own?

tchrist

5:39 PM

I don’t understand why Meta is repfree.

Well, here.

Not on SO.

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist it used to be not entirely rep-free, only that the rep was kind of hidden.

Now I suspect it's still not really rep-free, but the rep is completely invisible.

user19161

What if one wants to delete the oldest account? Wouldn't the network profile then say "please delete me" when that is not the intention?

RegDwight АΑA

Meta still has all kinds of badges that absolutely require rep.

@JasperLoy Is it synchronized regularly? I don't think so. But I don't know.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA It seems to be synced now and then even when not intentionally activated.

user19161

It takes a JLO to spot this kind of errors, really.

RegDwight АΑA

5:43 PM

If you think it's an error, post a complaint.

user19161

Not a complaint but a suggestion. Complaint is too strong a word.

user19161

Then again, it's just me who cares about these things which may seem unimportant to others.

user19161

Very often, what seems important to me is not to others, and vice versa.

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA Are you sure? It seems to simply bounce through to main’s.

user19161

@tchrist Do you know that typing main here enclosed in square brackets has a magical effect?

tchrist

5:46 PM

@JasperLoy Teleport?

user19161

@tchrist Try it!

tchrist

I hate getting sucker-punched.

But you seem not to be that way.

Very well: English Language and Usage.

And English Language and Usage Meta?

Hm.

user19161

Yes, very good.

user19161

Now typing it as the only thing on a line will have another effect.

user19161

English Language and Usage

tchrist

5:48 PM

Looks the same to me.

user19161

Oops, I thought it would expand.

tchrist

@Reg I can’t seem to find any evidence that one can get any badges at all from (a non-MSO) meta.

user19161

Ah, it only expands when you type it out in full.

tchrist

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Q: Origin of 'fairer sex'

I've seen the term 'the fairer sex' being used in a number of areas to refer to females. How did they get that title? What does 'fairer' refer to in this case?