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3:00 PM
My logic was, if you're not a megalomaniac, it does not follow that you're not a room. Kiamlaluno's logic was, megalo = room as long as he says so.
 
@RegDwight It still is a generalization.
 
Feb 16 at 15:39, by Kosmonaut
And everyone loves to make generalizations.
 
Feb 8 at 15:59, by Robusto
And remember: all generalizations are false.
 
How come @MrHen's gravatar is split in two?
 
I meant I am not obsessed with exercising power and, in particular, the power of become a room.
Because it's Mr and Hen?
 
3:03 PM
@RegDwight — Some people are too cheap to have gravatarsin good repair.
 
@kiamlaluno NOW THAT WAS ABUSE OF PREPOSITIONS. OR IGNORANCE OF PARTICIPLES. EITHER WAY YOU MUST ADMIT THAT THE PROBLEM WAS NOT ONE OF MERE OMISSION
 
Home mission?
 
I THINK THIS IS A GOOD QUESTION
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Q: use of the injection "but lo' ..."

Gottfried HelmsIn an article I tried to understand (the german understanding) of: (...) we’re outside the part of \mathbb{C} where the standard Dirichlet series actually converges. But lo’ we can ask what’s the Ramanujan summation (...) Here the injection lo' got my interest. I found, for instanc...

CAN SOMEONE WITHOUT A VOW OF CAPITALIZATION TAKE TIME TO ANSWER IT PLEASE?
 
@JSBangs Whoa, there. Caps in italics? Seriously? What's next, like, caps in bold?
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Q: How to use Lo and behold expression

Anderson SilvaHow should this expression be used, and what is its origin?

 
@RegDwight RELATED BUT NOT A DUP
BEHOLD MY AWESOME POWER
 
3:06 PM
Yes, and yes.
 
@RegDwight Eh? Wha?
 
@JSBangs qǝɥoןp ɯʎ ɐʍǝsoɯǝ doʍǝɹ¡
 
JUST HOW MANY EMPHATIC MARKUPS ARE SUPPORTED HERE? ***THIS MANY***?
 
@JSBangs Your shipment. Fail. Arrived.
 
HMM, I GUESS UNDERLINE DOESN'T YET WORK
OR RATHER, _ IS FOR ITALIC
MOST UNFORTUNATE
 
3:09 PM
@JSBangs — I see you don't give up on a joke just because it doesn't happen to be funny.
 
You should try --- before and after everything you say.
 
@Robusto I MERELY FOLLOW REGDWIGHT'S DIRECTIVES
 
That's most nice of you, here's another directive. Tell me where's the head and where's the tail in this:
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A: The word 'Yahoo'

YAHushua ben JosephYahoo is the denigration of the true name of God... The true name of God derives from the tetragramma YHWH, and It's YAH'u'WEH... Yah is the abbreviation of Yahuweh, (remember "AlleluYAH"). Yahoo was the outcry with which farisei denigrated the believers and it follows us of of true and only God...

 
@JSBangs Hey, you didn't capitalize that apostrophe.
 
I think I should protect that question.
 
3:13 PM
@RegDwight I just ignored that answer.
 
0
A: The word 'Yahoo'

Thom Van VleckI was watching a program and the muslim being interviewed kept pronouncing Yahweh as "YAHOO". So I began to research this term, but can't find anything beyond Gulliver's Travels.

 
@RegDwight I think I flagged that one though.
 
@RegDwight -1 TO THAT ANSWER
 
Answer downvoted, answer deleted, answer downvoted, answer deleted, answer converted to comment, question protected.
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@RegDwight My^H^HOur hero!
 
3:18 PM
@RegDwight WELL DONE, SIR.
I WISH WE HAD MORE QUESTIONS TAGGED
 
@JSBangs I like how you added the tag to that question, but left the title as is. The best of both worlds.
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Q: use of the injection "but lo' ..."

Gottfried HelmsIn an article I tried to understand (the german understanding) of: (...) we’re outside the part of \mathbb{C} where the standard Dirichlet series actually converges. But lo’ we can ask what’s the Ramanujan summation (...) Here the injection lo' got my interest. I found, for instanc...

 
@RegDwight — And he still finds time to make a great cup of coffee.
 
@RegDwight I HADN'T EVEN NOTICED
 
Okely-dokely, party peoples. Me's gonna be gone in a minute.
 
Later, hard-working mod who makes great coffee.
 
3:29 PM
Awesome -- I just did a search for a question I had and found that someone had already asked it. TIL the SE format works if you are willing to use it properly.
 
@MrHen As long as that someone wasn't yourself...
Happens to @Robusto all the time.
 
Oh.
@RegDwight Haha, that is silly. Who would do such a silly thing?
Oh.
 
Mar 26 at 12:02, by Robusto
But then I've also had this strange experience: the Web has robbed me of my memory and made me lazy. Instead of trying to remember the fine points of an API method call, say, I will simply Google it and read about the arguments and their data types, etc. But twice lately my Googling has pointed me to my own accepted answer to a StackOverflow question, which I didn't recognize until I saw my gravatar at the bottom. Scary.
I'm out! Someone give @Phil a warm welcome.
 
@RegDwight OK, pass the flamethrower :-)
Hi @Phil, we're really more sane than this looks at first sight. And at second sight, for that matter.
 
@Rhodri Past that, all bets are off.
 
3:42 PM
And, uh, @Phil, in any case it doesn't matter. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
 
4:16 PM
Who is @Phil?
 
@kiamlaluno He appeared in the chat room, but didn't say anything. And we were bored, so we said hello.
 
@Rhodri Thank you. I was thinking I was saying ghosts. :-)
I have to join in the greetings.
@Phil I know I am late, but I will greet you the same: Welcome on EL&U chat!
Sometimes I am too slow.
Well, I am always slow.
(I could say I am a three-toed sloth.)
 
5:02 PM
Booyakasha! Me swag is arrived.
Now @Martha ain't no longer da coolest gangsta in da room anymore.
 
Where is @Robusto when you need to ask him a question?
 
Mar 16 at 18:49, by RegDwight
@psmears You have to mention Chicago, d'oh.
@Rhodri Here's your flamethrower. Handle with care. Some people are too stupid to use it correctly.
 
@RegDwight Is enough to mention Chicago, or should I compare Chicago with Boston?
 
@kiamlaluno If you want to be on the safe side, you should compare @Chicago with @Robusto.
 
@RegDwight That is unfair.
 
5:12 PM
Like, Chicago is even worse than @Robusto, or @Robusto is even worse than Chicago, or something like that. You catch the drift.
But don't mention NY bagles, that will summon a different monster.
 
That would be too much, even for my worst enemy.
Why? I love bagles (and fudge).
 
Nononono. Fudge will summon Robbie Williams. You don't want him round here.
 
OK, I also like pancakes.
@RegDwight Which one?
 
Pancakes will summon Cerberus, if they are with cheese.
 
Yikes! I prefer my pancakes without cheese.
 
5:15 PM
@kiamlaluno The one and only?
@kiamlaluno Too late, Cerberus is already here.
 
@RegDwight Do you mean Robin Williams?
 
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams left the group in 1995 to launch his solo career. On 15 July 2010, it was announced he had rejoined Take That and that the group intended to release a new album in November 2010. Williams has sold more than 57 million albums worldwide. He is the best-selling British s...
 
@RegDwight Holy wow. Now I want to see the question that was closed.
 
@kiamlaluno You are missing out on a wonderful thing, then. Pancakes filled with cheese and ham, mm-mm!
 
@Rhodri What kind of cheese?
 
5:18 PM
@MrHen You have 10k on SO? Cause me doesn't.
 
@RegDwight Er, no.
 
@Rhodri I prefer plain pancakes with maple syrup.
 
I have like 400 on SO.
 
@MrHen Turns out you won't need'em reps anyhow.
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A: Eeeek! How does this question have 28 (and growing!) close votes without being closed?

WillPfft. You guys are wimps. It takes a MAN to close this question.

 
Well, I don't eat them so much; I eat them just when I go to USA.
 
5:20 PM
@MrHen It depends on the pancake maker. I think they normally use something nutty like emmental.
 
@kiamlaluno Maple syrup is so Canadian.
 
@Rhodri Ah. I have no idea what that is, but "nutty" sounds like a good mix with pancakes
Option question: Thick pancakes or thin pancakes?
 
@RegDwight Ice wine is so Canadian. The first time I have ever eaten maple syrup, I was on New York.
 
You maple-eating Ndranghetta-monster!
@MrHen First the ones, then the others.
The Mille-feuille (, "thousand-leaf"), vanilla slice, cream slice, custard slice, also known as the Napoleon, is a pastry originating in France. The name is also written as "millefeuille" and "mille feuille". Traditionally, a Mille-feuille is made up of three layers of puff pastry (pâte feuilletée), alternating with two layers of pastry cream (crème pâtissière), but sometimes whipped cream, or jam. The top is usually glazed with icing or fondant in alternating white (icing) and brown (chocolate) strips, and combed. Alternatively the top pastry layer may be dusted with confectioner's s...
 
@MrHen I prefer thin. Think of swiss cheeses, that sort of flavour.
 
5:22 PM
Well, at least I didn't drink it confusing it with mouth washer.
 
@RegDwight That isn't a pancake... did I miss a topic-shift?
 
Hi.
 
@MrHen I was trying to make a point.
 
Do we have anyone well versed in Spanish here?
 
You have to interleave them, you know?
 
5:23 PM
@RegDwight Oh. Well, don't let me get in your way. Go ahead and make your point.
 
@MrHen See above. Thick, then thin, then thick, then thin.
 
@Cerberus No entiende nada.
 
@Rhodri Mmm, sounds good. US traditional pancakes are thick
@RegDwight Ah.
 
@Kiam: Capito.
Really, do Americans make their pancakes thicker than the average European?
 
I have never seen pancakes in Europe.
 
5:25 PM
@Cerberus No clue; our pancakes are caky.
 
@Cerberus It depends on what the meaning of the word "well" is. Whaddaya want?
 
My family called thin pancakes crepes
 
@Kiam: What, why not? Do you never bake them yourself?
@Mrhen: Oh dear, caky... I wonder what that would taste like.
 
@MrHen Crêpes, s'il vous plaît. Accent circonflexe.
 
A pancake is a thin, flat, round cake prepared from a batter, or dough in some cases, and cooked on a hot griddle or frying pan. Most pancakes are quick breads; some use a yeast-raised or fermented batter. Most pancakes are cooked one side on a griddle and flipped partway through to cook the other side. Depending on the region, pancakes may be served at any time, with a variety of toppings or fillings including jam, chocolate chips, fruit, syrup or meat. Archaeological evidence suggests that varieties of pancakes are probably the earliest and most widespread types of cereal food eate...
Top picture on that page is a "thick" pancake
 
5:26 PM
@Cerberus Nope; the first time I saw pancakes I was in New York.
 
@Cerberus Well... they are easy to make and easier to make poorly
 
@Reg: I want to know whether there is a popular saying that Columbian Spanish is considered the most beautiful accent.
 
There must be a reason, if they say "flat like a pancake."
 
@Cerberus Okay, I pass.
 
@kiamlaluno You can be thick and flat at the same time. :P
 
5:26 PM
@MrHen "Crêpes" would be more correct for thin pancakes. We tend to view thick pancakes as a confusing Americanism.
 
@Rhodri I like both but am not a fan of syrup
 
@Cerberus You trying to hook up with Shakira or what?
 
So I just eat them like bread
 
@MrHen: Yeah that does look sort of fat! Might be good actually, at least when I look at that picture.
@Kiam: Crepa is crêpe in Italian, or isn't it?
 
@MrHen Then you probably want a savoury batter, which goes well with cheese :-)
 
5:28 PM
@Cerberus No, it isn't.
 
@Cerberus No, "crepa" is what Ricky Martin shouts before he procedes to counting from one to Maria.
 
@Rhodri Yeah, I hadn't really thought of cheese with "pancake"; only with "crepe". All previous experiments didn't end well
But now I want to try some pancakes + cheese
 
I can imagine.
 
@Reg: She is not quite my type. But my friend, a Mexico-loving Dutchman, keeps saying that Spanish from Columbia is the best, etc.
 
@Cerberus If you say crepa to somebody, you are telling him "Die!"
 
5:29 PM
Pancake + cheese + fruit sounds really tasty...
 
Now I'm feeling hungry. And I brought birthday doughnuts in to work too!
 
I could kill for some Russian pancakes right now. Where's the wife when you need her?
 
Bliny?
 
Also, US tends to stick crap in their pancakes like chocolate chips or blueberries. :P
 
A blin, blintze, or blintz (plural: blini, blintzes, or blinchiki; ; cf. ; Lithuanian: blynai; ; ; Yiddish: בלינצע blintze, Kashubian language: plińce) is a thin pancake. It is somewhat similar to a crêpe with the main difference being that yeast may be used in blini, but not in crêpes. Etymology, origins, culture The English word blintz comes from the Yiddish בלינצע ("blintze), which in turn comes from blin. "Blin" comes from Old Slavic mlin, which means "a mill" (compare the Ukrainian word for blin млинець, mlynets’). Blini had a somewhat ritual significance for early Slavic people...
 
5:29 PM
@Kiam, @Rhodri: right, that makes more sense actually. No idea why I thought that.
 
@RegDwight Perhaps you killed her for the last batch of pancakes?
 
@Cerberus Crepa also means crack.
 
@MrHen It's catching on in Europe, I'm afraid.
 
@MrHen Never kill a winning team!
 
@Rhodri: Is today your birthday?
 
5:30 PM
@Rhodri The problem with blueberries in the pancakes is that those blueberries have been in there for a while.
 
Blini's (how we call 'em in Dutch) are also good.
@MrHen: Huh, but surely you don't store a pancake for longer than, say, half an hour?
 
I am sure fresh blueberries in fresh batter tastes a little better than our "restaurant style" food
@Cerberus Not in a typical US fashion
 
Come on, why would anyone eat non-fresh pancakes?
Bad idea!
 
@Cerberus Yes, I was surprised to see Yiddish taking over Russian on Wikipedia!
 
They are so easy to make! You can store the batter in the fridge for a day or two.
 
5:33 PM
Bisquick is a pre-mixed baking product sold by General Mills under their Betty Crocker brand, consisting of flour, shortening, salt, and baking powder (a leavening agent). According to General Mills, Bisquick was born when one of their sales executives met a train dining car chef in 1930 who mixed lard and the dry ingredients for biscuits ahead of time. The recipe was adapted, using hydrogenated oil, thus eliminating the need for refrigeration (Sesame oil was originally used as a preservative, identified on the box as "Ingredient S" over the years), and officially introduced on grocers' sh...
 
@Reg: I actually didn't know; but you assumed that it came from Russian directly?
 
Pillsbury is a brand name used by Minneapolis-based General Mills and Orrville, Ohio-based The J. M. Smucker Company. Historically, Pillsbury was a rival company to General Mills, also based in Minneapolis, and was one of the world's largest producers of grain and other foodstuffs until it was bought-out by General Mills in 2001. Antitrust law required General Mills to sell off some of the products. General Mills kept the rights to refrigerated and frozen Pillsbury products, while dry baking products and frosting are now sold by Smucker under license. Leo Burnett who created Pillsbury's ...
Laziness is good for business.
 
Oh I don't think we have Biquick here. Besides, I always use an egg and milk as well.
 
@Cerberus I certainly didn't assume traditional Slavic food would be called by a Jewish name.
Also, how come there's no article in Dutch?
Bliný ([], endbetont, , eigentlich Plural, Singular ist blin, ), (west)europäisiert auch Blini (dann erstbetont), sind eine aus Osteuropa stammende Teigspeise, die Eierkuchen ähnelt. Sie werden in Form dünner Fladen zubereitet, warm und teilweise eingerollt mit unterschiedlichsten Füllungen und Aufstrichen (Quark, Konfitüre, Hackfleisch, Kaviar) gegessen. Der typischste Aufstrich ist in Russland jedoch Butter. Weitere häufige Beilagen sind saure Sahne, gesalzener geräucherter Fisch (Hering, Sprotten, Sardinen, Lachs) oder Kaviar. Zum Tee werden sie mit saurer Sahne, Konfitüre, Honig, Kä...
 
@Reg: I see. Long live the invention of tradition!
 
5:35 PM
@Cerberus You aren't missing anything.
 
Mar 27 at 2:30, by RegDwight
Laziness is the driving force behind progress.
 
@Cerberus The Italian word is crespella.
 
@Reg: Have you seen that one yet?
 
@Reg: Right, a strange hiatus!
 
@MrHen I was just going to ask!
Where's that one from?
 
5:36 PM
Question:
 
Same answer you posted earlier but a link in the comments
 
What would be your estimate of how much it would cost to make your own traditional pesto, compared with how much it costs to buy fresh pesto of the same quality?
 
@kiamlaluno Ack, stop that
 
@Cerberus Yes, it's my birthday (sorry, I'm slightly distracted here at work. Someone deleted a macro I was just about to document).
 
5:38 PM
@MrHen Hm. Then I must have read it but forgotten.
 
@Rhodri: Congratulations!
 
@Rhodri Happy +1
 
@MrHen Why? I didn't start anything.
 
Yeah! Or, I am sorry for your loss (whichever is more appropriate).
 
@kiamlaluno Well, now I want pastries
 
5:39 PM
@Cerberus, @MrHen: My encroaching decrepitude thanks you :-)
 
I was happy merely wanting lunch
 
@MrHen That is the Italian millefoglie.
 
I want food. Basically any food will make me happy right now.
 
I was happy merely eating nothing.
 
Meh.
Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
 
5:41 PM
Which one?
 
No food = no happy.
 
Does that mean one can only be happy with food?
Uhmmm...
 
D'oh!
 
Obvious absence of food is depressing. The trick is to not notice it is not there.
 
No exercise and lots of food make me happy.
 
5:43 PM
Posting pictures is a good way to ruin that.
 
@Mrhen: easier said that done!
 
Exactly!
 
@Rhodri This is the stupidest best birthday card I could find.
 
@RegDwight Is that like, happy birthday or something?
 
5:43 PM
There you go!
Now tell me pictures ruin all.
 
@MrHen That's "I wish you lots and lots of happiness/luck!"
 
What is mnogo-mnogo, or however it is pronounced?
 
@Cerberus "much-much"
 
Oh, that sounds Asian.
Funny.
We don't have that plural.
 
Isn't Russia part of Asia?
 
5:45 PM
It is.
 
No.
 
Yes.
 
Some of Russia is part of Asia, and some of Russia is part of Europe.
 
No way.
Next thing you're going to tell my the Ural is the boundary.
 
Moscow is the largest city in Europe, in fact right in the middle of Europe.
Check the map. Europe ends at Ural.
Yes!
 
5:46 PM
I knew it.
Lies, lies.
 
That's right; Russia is part European, and part Asian.
 
Nah.
 
In fact, some parts of Georgia are in Europe, too.
 
That's just propaganda.
 
@RegDwight We could probably lend you some of Alaska so you can claim a third continent.
 
5:47 PM
Hey why did you change that?
 
@MrHen Whaddaya mean, lend? We sold it to you.
For $50k or something.
 
@RegDwight Sure. Now we can lend it back.
 
@MrHen No. Keep your Sarah Palins to yourselves, you capitalist monsters. Thank you very much.
 
The Alaska Purchase was the acquisition of the Alaska territory by the United States from Russia in 1867 by a treaty ratified by the Senate. The purchase, made at the initiative of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward, gained of new United States territory. Originally organized as the Department of Alaska, the area was successively the District of Alaska and the Alaska Territory before becoming the modern state of Alaska upon being admitted to the Union as a state in 1959. Background Russia was in a difficult financial position and feared losing Russian America without com...
 
@RegDwight Hee!
 
5:49 PM
@RegDwight What if we accidently dropped the undesirables in the ocean during the journey?
 
@MrHen Well, one thing is for sure, as soon as it's our land again, Sarah Palin is the first to go overboard.
 
@RegDwight We could probably just chip the whole thing off like an iceberg and float it on over.
 
@MrHen: Sell now! You know it makes sense!
 
@MrHen I'm told that's going to happen anyway, but not before the next presidential election. More like 5 million years or something.
 
@RegDwight It looks like the actual amount was $7.2M; FYI
 
5:51 PM
@MrHen You wouldn't believe how often I tried to memorize that number. Alas, why bother if it's up on the Internet 24/7.
 
@RegDwight Right; who wouldn't be willing to pay a small amount for the equivalent of 5 million years of work?
@RegDwight Well, you were close.
 
@MrHen I always am!
 
If you count "factor of 100" close.
 
Yes, yes!
You can beat that, big boy?
 
@MrHen That's close to an engineer's approximation :-)
 
5:53 PM
@RegDwight I live in Texas. Everyone here overestimates things.
 
@kiamlaluno — Here I am. Whatcha need?
 
@Robusto I had a question to ask you about American greetings.
 
American Greetings Corporation, Inc. is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Brooklyn, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products (such as wrapping papers and decorations), and electronic expressive content (e.g., ringtones and images for cellphones). In addition to the American Greetings brand, the company owns the Carlton Cards, Tender Thoughts and Gibson brands of greeting cards. American Greetings is also famous for their toy design and licensing division, Those Characters From Cleveland (now American Greetings...
 
:(
 
Somebody asks you "how are you?", and you reply back with "I am fine; and you?" Is not replying to that considered rude?
I apologize; it's not the best moment for me to write in English.
 
6:00 PM
@kiamlaluno Not really. A typical smile or head nod will do. A simple, "Good." is fine. Amping up to "Good, thanks." is also good and a bit more polite.
 
Is not replying to the reply rude? Is that what you're asking?
 
Are you supposed to reply to "how are you?" with "hello"?
 
You can.
"How are you?" is just a phatic greeting. It's not normally considered a request for information.
 
@Robusto I mean, if the other person doesn't reply back to my "I am fine, and you?", is that considered rude?
 
Well, it leaves something hanging in the air. But simply answering "OK" is enough.
Or, as MrHen said, nodding and smiling will do.
 
6:03 PM
@Robusto Thank you; I just wanted to understand, as in Italy that would be considered rude.
@Robusto I know it's not actually a request for information; that is why I always reply with "I am fine."
I still have to understand the reason to ask something when you don't care to hear a reply back. It would be more polite to just say "hello."
 
@kiamlaluno It is just a script people run through when talking to each other. It used to be a way to ask your friends how they were doing; now it is just a dying cliche.
 
The fact the person doesn't reply back with "I am fine too," or "I am OK," or "OK" makes me think the person says that just an automatic act.
 
@kiamlaluno Exactly.
 
I should try replying back with "the ship is over," the next time.
 
@kiamlaluno Haha. It is fun to provide non-standard answers and see what they do. "How are you?" "Recovering."
 
6:09 PM
Or say "Terrible!" while smiling and nodding. It confuses the hell out of people.
 
It makes people really awkward, if that is your thing. :)
 
@MrHen — Part of maturity is ceasing to laugh at that stuff.
 
Brian Reagan's standup comedy has a bit about the "me too" auto response
 
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Q: Just How Important Is Grammar and Spelling?

Oscar GodsonA blog post of mine made it on the Hacker News front page. My blog post was mainly intended for a very, very small audience, but ended up getting around 20,000 views in one day. The most talked about topic was I accidentally used: "it's self" instead of "itself" It was an honest mistake, and it...

 
@Robusto Right. Keeping a straight face is key.
 
6:11 PM
Therefore, the next question is: am I considered rude if I don't reply back to "how are you?"
 
Subjective? Argumentative? Too localized? Dupe of @Robusto's question?
 
Which is the other question?
 
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Q: Is it ever worth the time and effort to correct someone else's grating grammatical mistakes?

RobustoWhenever I hear statements like "It was a great deal for he and I" and "Call Karen and I in the morning," I die a little. Such solecisms, as Twain said in another context (Cooper's prose style), "grate upon the fastidious ear." Moreover, I know that these things will likely become accepted usage ...

When I say "dupe" I mean "counterpart".
 
@RegDwight I vote subjective.
Namely, I find it odd that it was obviously important if the readers pointed it out.
 
@MrHen That would make a good comment.
 
6:14 PM
@RegDwight Not a dupe, not exactly.
 
@Rhodri Yeah, I misremembered that one, it's the exact opposite of dupe.
 
Worth a link, all the same.
 
@MrHen When are you going to get to 3k? Only some 500 to go, you could do that in two days.
 
@MrHen Personally I'm with the commenter who stopped reading at that point.
 
@RegDwight Sorry; I sort of grew tired of answering dictionary questions.
 
6:16 PM
@MrHen Then answer some hard stuff.
 
@RegDwight Okay; first tell everyone else to stop answering questions.
:P
Nah, in all seriousness, I am not in a hurry.
 
@MrHen Well, I did kind of stop answering questions some two weeks ago. You could easily jump in to fill that void.
 
@RegDwight Fine. Sheesh
 
Excellent.
 
@RegDwight — I just answered that one.
 
6:19 PM
But if you absolutely insist: @Everyone: stop answering questions until MrHen is at 3k.
 
Holy crap, my flag weight just jumped 30 points
 
Respect my authority!
 
And someone just as promptly downvoted me. LMAO.
 
@RegDwight La la, did somebody say something?
 
@Rhodri Not just "somebody", ME!!!!
1 min ago, by RegDwight
Respect my authority!
 
6:21 PM
He's pulling his whole Stalinist schtick again.
 
Anyhow, while you're busy respecting me, I must be off. Respect me harder so I can feel it in the air!
 
Yeah. It never gets old. I upvoted you for balance, BTW.
 
@RegDwight Feel it like a brick!
 
Fear != Respect
 
@Robusto Ha, I made my answer a comment. Now no one can downvote me.
 
6:22 PM
@MrHen Oooohhh babyyyy.... bricks from Texas are the best.
 
@RegDwight Yeah, bricks are our main export. :eyeroll:
 
Anyhow, me's outz! Night all.
 
Cya Reg
 
@RegDwight Dammit, nohat just beat me to a good one.
 
I don't feel like this question : english.stackexchange.com/questions/20548/…
is seeking answers; it feels like peeving to me
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Q: Just how important is grammar and spelling?

Oscar GodsonA blog post of mine made it on the Hacker News front page. My blog post was mainly intended for a very, very small audience, but ended up getting around 20,000 views in one day. The most talked about topic in the comments was that I accidentally used: "it's self" instead of "itself" It was an h...

 
6:32 PM
@Billare i sort of agree, but I'm going to give it a little while before i bring down the NARQ hammer
(ps. don't tell @RegDwight that I turned off caps lock)
 
@JSBangs I voted to close as "not a real question."
 
in the meantime i upvoted @Robusto's answer
 
@JSBangs — Well, ya kind of owed me one anyway. =P
 
I'm not sure about this one. It feels a bit like peeving, but there is a genuine question there, and it's acquired genuine answers.
 
 
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8:01 PM
Nice question there, @Billare
I don't have a ready answer, but I notice you were concentrating on consonantal features. Was that deliberate?
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Q: Are any of the t-glottolization, th-fronting, h-dropping, etc. in English a phonological complex?

BillareWikipedia gives the following, with plenty others ommitted by me, as some of the features of Cockney English: T-glottalisation: Use of the glottal stop as an allophone of /t/ in various positions,including after a stressed syllable. Glottal stops also occur, albeit less frequently for /k/ and...

 
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