English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

9:09 PM

Sorry, but I'm not expert in these things.

You don't have to be an expert. It suffices to be aware of their existence.

readies a shovel

Shovels are for girls. Italians use horse heads.

I'm not the one claiming to be Italian

Exactly.

Further proof. As if further proof was necessary.

9:12 PM

I was just readying the shovel in case any help was needing digging this hole, but clearly the hole is digging itself

►

... @sim what hole? The black holes?

However your English is too difficult to me. I'm not able to understand.

It seems that even knowing yourself is too difficult for you.

If Gravediggaz fly over your head, try Geto Boys.

►

... and Reg have a good English, but his "discourse" are a babele.

9:15 PM

I can sell my good English to you. A ruble a word.

Funny, I know someone else who used to use ellipses overmuch in comments...

@sim I overuse nothing, nor ellipse. They are only to indicate that the message follow.

Uh huh.

but are you aware that I do not speak English, and so I'm not able to retort with two moderators toghether?

I feel like one who is "accerchiato" (maybe Reg understand)

Please, be more careful when talking with foreign people.

We would say "fate gli onori di casa".

I must install Java. It's 2012 and I must install Java. O heavens, or not so tiny manatee.

Cerberus

9:22 PM

@Carlo_R. Makes sense.

@RegDwighт I know, it sucks.

@cerberus :)

Cerberus

Thankfully, you can enable and disable the plug-in without restarting the browser.

At least in FF.

I have it disabled unless I need it.

user19161

I just got 5000 on math, yay!

woohoo!

user19161

And now there abide three: woo, hoo and boo. But the greatest of these is boo.

9:33 PM

@RegDwighт Don't do it. Java is just the thin edge of the wedge.

user19161

@RegDwighт I install IcedTea on my Linux box.

user19161

When does coffee become tea? On Linux. QED.

@Carlo_R. We are well aware that you do not speak English. And yet you won't shut up.

Cerberus

Hey.

Politesse.

I was taught having respect for one's elders is important.

I mean those of the older generation.

user19161

The word respect does not mean too much to me. In a sense, we respect all people.

Q: How applicable are screenwriting ideas to novels?

9:38 PM

1

My current goal is to write a novel (I'm already close to the 35K word mark). However, most of the books I've read about story structure are actually about screenwriting. While stories are stories no matter the medium, I'm wondering whether everything in these books applies to novels. In particu...

In some respects we are people.

Looks like they need a Writers.SE Lite.

user19161

To respect someone more just because he is older is silly.

user19161

Those who always talk about respecting older people often don't respect children.

►

user19161

9:41 PM

Also, the motto society before self is silly. There is no society without selves.

user19161

Society is just made up of selves. We must take care of ourselves first before we can take care of others.

society before elves

user19161

So you see, the way I see it, people often utter superficial things but don't know what shit they are talking about.

Note that no real philosopher has ever changed his name from Jasper Loy to Will Hunting.

user19161

Even the word philosophy is superficial. All this is just common sense.

9:43 PM

It's true. You could look it up.

@WillHunting Ah, but the word superficial ... yeah, that's deep.

Batman has his Batmobile; Non Sequitur (i.e., Jasper) has his Segway.

user19161

Now I must look up Batmobile and Segway...

look up segue too

user19161

Hello @hugo. Welcome to this chat!

Hugo

@WillHunting Why thank you!

user19161

Hugo is the boss. Hugo Boss.

9:54 PM

@WillHunting I used to wear a piece of him.

A: Another word for the "about" section of a personal website

10:18 PM

0

another word for about would be around

I wonder what her motivation was for posting this.

Have you read the around page for Stack Exchange?

night!

"You should be proud of your brain power. It is a very special gift!"

If only it were not so.

@Will Hey.

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog How is school?

10:35 PM

Pretty good.

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog As good as kimchi.

As good as kimchi.

user19161

Did we just say the same thing?

I was just confirming your statement.

But it would have been cool if we did.

user19161

I don't like kimchi. I like sashimi. But both end with i, so...

10:37 PM

:P

user19161

@Sonic loves kimchi
Will loves sashimi
They meet for dinner
And then for supper
Oh how they fill their tummy

Is that a limerick?

user19161

A pseudolimerick I guess, since I did not follow all the rules.

@WillHunting Don't take that prescriptive tone. If people start to compose limericks differently, then the dictionaries will just have to change.

And let me share with you a few of my favorites.

May 23 at 14:41, by MetaEd

"There once was a man from Purdue / Whose lim'ricks would end at line two".

user19161

@MετάEd Thanks!

10:50 PM

May 23 at 14:41, by MetaEd

... and: "There once was a man from Verdun."

Jul 19 at 22:09, by MetaEd

And have you heard the one about Emperor Nero?

Wow, it's a big room today.

13moonsart.blogspot.com/search?q=election

Nov 1 at 18:03, by MετάEd

Oct 5 at 16:14, by MετάEd

Dammit. I killed the room again.

Q: How can you submit a new word for inclusion in a dictionary?

0

Possible Duplicate: Is there an ‘official’ way to suggest a new word become part of the English language? If I happened to have coined a few words that I find could be of practical value to the general public, how can I make a request to have it included in one of the standard dictonar...

dictionaries

What is wrong with people?

No, seriously.

What is wrong with people?

11:05 PM

This looks like a FAQ.

How can you submit a new answer for inclusion in the FAQ?

You have to think of a pink pony real hard.

If it works, you will notice.

9 hours ago, by MετάEd

Did already.

Pretty much to the letter.

@MετάEd yoink

@KitFox Did you see where @tchrist claimed they were uniponies?

Seems vaguely familiar.

11:16 PM

@Reg I have a more interesting question: "how can (and when) a dictionary exclude a word?"; but I cannot ask, sorry.

@Carlo_R. How old are you really?

I'm not sure how that is more interesting, and it's been asked before to boot.

@MετάEd Oh right, I was trollccupied.

Yeah. What was that all about?

@KitFox Oh, true!

Meta, really, I have 80 year old; but I understand your perplexity because my English is like the English of a child. This depend from the fact that I'm not native.

11:20 PM

So I stood up till midnight to order that LEGO set that was saying "available starting November 7th", except now it says "currently not in stock". WTF.

@RegDwighт It will be in stock, Citizen, right after Christmas, we promise. Trust the Computer. The Computer Is Your Friend.

It also says "from our current printed catalogue". Good job wasting dead tree.

Well I'll give them another twelve hours. Perhaps they need an actual human to flip the switch.

@RegDwighт Failure To Trust The Computer Is Treason. Treason Is Punishable By Death.

Thank You For Your Cooperation, Citizen. Please Step Into The Small Booth.

@Reg then it is a dupe; could you please indicate the previous question. I'm really interesed in understinding the process that exclude a word from a dictionary. I think this is a rare event in English language.

Why is nobody up at night anyway? I am up at night ready to shove money down their throats. They should wake up, take my money, and go to bed again. Stupid humans.

@Carlo_R. it is not a rare event. Try looking up any word from Beowulf in a dictionary of your choice.

I mean come on. Use your brain. Language changes every decade.

Anyway, I'm outta here. Stupid online shops. At least the time wasn't wasted completely, I got to export my sheep into LDD while waiting.

11:27 PM

@Reg thank you for your patience in answering. However I will make some searches on this matter.

Be my guest.

Poufff.

@RegDwighт Another twelve hours makes it November 7th by my estimation. Four days short.

@Kit If I can ask, what is the language you are working and for what type of software?

@KitFox He's on a different timeline.

@Kit I often read that you coding.

11:32 PM

@Carlo_R. For my code? I mostly write in Visual Basic.

I also write SQL queries and work with CSS and jQuery.

I have used Java, C++, C, Basic, and python.

In the past.

Ohh, interesting. I do not know nothing on this matter, but I have heard to talk very well on Python.

A: 'Each' with plural or singular verb

I used python for virtual reality. It was interesting. I liked it, except that it is whitespace delimited which can be a pain without a good editor.

tchrist

Ok, how the hell was this wrong answer allowed to persist for 19 months?

5

Each in phrases like each battery is singular; the verb you use in that cases is singular. Each battery is in a separate compartment. Vice versa, in sentences like the following the verb is plural. They each have their own personality. Foo comprises multiple binary programs that each ...

For shame!

There is no accepted answer there.