i was rather stunned to learn once that my neighbor, who is from west africa, actually shaves her head, and that the hair that i am used to seeing her with is a wig
this is evidently standard practice in their country
they're muslim. i don't think that these are correlated, but who knows? maybe it's a peculiar interpretation of head-covering, where you never show your actual hair but are free to show off fake hair all you want
@Cerberus it's an orthodox jewish thing to always cover one's head. In some even the women are required to cover their heads. In that particular culture, which is very lawyerly, there is some back and forth with the rules, such as instead of a hat, one can wear a wig (one is still 'covering' one's head (as a sign of respect))
Hello, anyone understand what the emphasized sentence means? When he spoke, his simple, unsophisticated language, suited to an audience of illiterate peasants, fell oddly on the jaded ears of Europe. Yet most great spirits have shaped their message to conditions no less restricted. -- (Jaded = worn-out; dulled by excess)
really just a more complicated way of using synonyms to say that 'When he spoke simply (unsophisticated), the sophisticated Europeans thought it was naive.'
@MετάEd Sure, respect. but without knowing... fine... 'they' it is.
@MετάEd my prior is based on population here, not on the name.
@its_me it's just complex. 'shape' is the only figurative word. 'no less' is just a complex opaque way of saying 'as restricted or even more restricted'
Yet most great spirits have shaped their message to conditions no less restricted. — Most other great people/speakers have been able to adapt what they wanted to to communicate to the ways the audience wanted/expected. So "he" should adapt his style to what jaded Europe wants/expects.
@Mitch Prior probability should take all known facts into account. So yes, take genders overall into account, but also take the name itself into account.
Writer's Chat is gong on now in The Overlook. Today we're talking about how to figure out your writing pace as a means of preparing for Nanowrimo. Come and visit! All are welcome.
> The employee said that only a handful of people were recently allowed to take a new device off campus to use in real life. "That's really disturbing for something you're about to ship millions of," the employee said, adding that such restrictions have some worried whether they can "test things to the level we want to test them before they ship."
All that writing...so many words. how about start with a novella. or a short story. or a short storya. like a paragraph. or an outline. My first novel wil be an outline. and an exercise for the reader iwil be to fill out the sentences.
I like how on iCarly, they don't do explicit product placements, but instead they do obvious analogies, such as, all the silver laptops have big 'pear' logos.
@its_me Yeah I am sceptical too...but they do have lots of internal policies that are bothersome for employees and that are ostensibly meant to prevent leaks.
You see, Drake and Josh are brothers, half brothers actually, their parents married each other, and they have an annoying little sister (Drake's actual sister...or is it Josh's) named Carly, but now she lives with her older brother who is not Drake (or Josh) and was actually the weird guy in ...stop me if you've heard this before...
@tchrist do you have some sort of script set up that catches instances of 'unix', 'unicode', 'UTF-8', &c in this chat and rings a bell to get your attention? :D
@Carlo_R. Please do not clutter the site with off-topic comments. Ask here in chat. Especially if your question is so basic that it doesn't make us look good. And if you see that a comment of yours got deleted, do not post another one telling us that you noticed. Of course you noticed. Your noticing was the whole point. Telling us about that is pure noise that just wastes everybody's time, including yours.
@Cerberus No. I'm at work. And I'm stuck because people who are working on dependencies I need have gone home. And they came in late. Fuck this shit. Am I the only one who gives a shit about getting stuff done?
Possible Duplicate:
Future tense in conditional clauses
Which one is correct?
option 1: If I go there, I can meet her
or
option 2: If I will go there, I can meet her
I clearly remember, was told by English (not American) teacher that "If", "When" cannot be used with "will" ...
@Carlo_R. I think there is a different number of views today than at the time the question was closed. Also, when a question is a duplicate of another question, one of the questions will be closed even if both of them are popular.
@Cerberus we may have uncivilized train service, but we make up for it in our attention to the luxury afforded cars. the roadside rest stops are like luxury shopping malls, clean bathrooms, and great food. almost cosmopolitan centers of activity.
of course I'm making this up. the (commercial) rest areas are way worse than those in Europe.
Moose? Moose! I like a moose. I've never had anything quite like a moose. I've had many women, my life has been loose, but I've never had anything quite like a moose.
Our friend Ed didn't need an excuse to admit he was fond of a moose. But he made up a song, which was not very long, where he told us his life had been loose.
Possible Duplicate:
Future tense in conditional clauses
Which one is correct?
option 1: If I go there, I can meet her
or
option 2: If I will go there, I can meet her
I clearly remember, was told by English (not American) teacher that "If", "When" cannot be used with "will" ...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…