English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer

Not for the faint of heart or those easily triggered by Englis...
04:09
Thanks for that.
04:09
The Liszt-Schubert is definitely amazing. IIRC, Schubert had repeated notes, which Liszt translated into repeated octaves (I have no idea how anyone can play those at that tempo, let alone making music out of the piece).
04:05
@GratefulDisciple Yes, she's quite something else. A musician, not a mechanic.
yst 21:44
Daily Octordle #1278
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Daily Sequence Octordle #1278
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Daily Extreme Octordle #1278
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yst 21:28
@GratefulDisciple You can get a sense of whether cell phone cameras were used as well. Those typically are much more detailed at a distance than even good film cameras of yesteryear.
yst 21:06
@GratefulDisciple WT is more luck-contingent, I think.
yst 21:06
And don't be too quick to peek. Let it settle for a while. I let that particular one sit for half an hour.
yst 21:05
You've already come a long way.
yst 21:05
Well, better luck next time. You'll get used to this.
yst 21:04
Also, you have to look at the outer bracket, what that needs. And then the answer is clear.
yst 21:03
Think of other verbs. You can "get geared up" or simply "gear up" for a task. Either works, but in this case Occam's Razor applies: simpler is better.
yst 21:01
@GratefulDisciple That would involve a helper verb. The bare verb is sufficient.
yst 21:00
@GratefulDisciple No. It's a slangish term, so that may be where your difficulty lay.
yst 20:58
@GratefulDisciple That one took me a while, but I eventually sussed it out because I figured out where the outer brackets from that one were headed.
yst 20:57
[Bracket City]
July 25, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/

Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master)
🎹 Total Keystrokes: 64
🎯 Minimum Required: 64

Total Score: 100.0
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yst 20:30
@Cerberus I don't know. It's not here in this chat. I'm not sure why, though. No announcement.
yst 19:21
@Mitch Who'da thunk it?
yst 18:48
@GratefulDisciple I'll check it when I do the puzzle.
yst 18:47
Wordle 1,497 4/6

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Connections
Puzzle #775
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Strands #509
“Step to it!”
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yst 18:47
#travle #954 +0 (Perfect)
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#WhenTaken #514 (25.07.2025)

I scored 813/1000🏅

1️⃣📍1.2 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇199/200
2️⃣📍1.4 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇198/200
3️⃣📍3.4K km - 🗓️10 yrs - 🥉121/200
4️⃣📍11.2K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥉99/200
5️⃣📍2.2 km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥇196/200

https://whentaken.com
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yst 01:10
@alphabet I slipped once trying to play basketball and my feet went right out from under me and I hit the back of my head hard. Might as well have been ice. I was dazed for a bit, but no lasting damage. Now, had I fallen on a bike like that I'd have gone straight to the ER.
yst 01:07
;-)
yst 01:07
yst 01:03
@GratefulDisciple Depends on the locale, I guess. Roofers where I live always wear hard hats (i.e., helmets).
yst 00:55
Apples and oranges.
yst 00:55
@Cerberus I don't think it's as deep as you suppose.
yst 00:54
C'mon, doggy, you're smarter than that.
yst 00:54
@Cerberus You are constructing a ridiculous parallel and asking us to refute it, which is impossible because it is absurd, all the while leading up to your triumphant parallel, which a child could see coming, but not letting that be addressed until you're finished with the first part of the reduction.
yst 00:51
@Cerberus Master of the reductio ad absurdum thou art.
yst 00:42
I don't wear a helmet at home because I don't have epilepsy. But I wear one on a bike because a helmet has saved my ass (er, my head) on multiple occasions.
yst 00:41
Geez, lotta hating on helmets going on in here.
yst 00:38
Cyclists who fall do so from a greater height than pedestrians. They are also traveling at a multiple of a pedestrian's speed.
yst 00:38
Apples and oranges.
yst 00:37
@Cerberus Well, there are falls and there are falls. It's one thing to fall off a roof, another to fall on a carpeted floor.
yst 00:17
@Arfrever A wise policy.
yst 00:12
@Arfrever Where is that?
yst 00:04
Seems like only yesterday I read it.
yst 00:04
Here at The New Yorker is a 1975 best-selling book by American writer Brendan Gill, writer and drama critic for The New Yorker magazine. == The book == Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of The New Yorker, Gill's book is a semi-autobiographical memoir built around his time as an editor and writer at the magazine and written in the style of the "Talk of the Town" section to which Gill contributed for many years. Much of the book is devoted to anecdotes about his best-known colleagues, such as cartoonists Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and James Thurber; writers Truman Capote, John...
yst 00:03
That's where I first read it anyway.
yst 00:03
I believe Tom got that from Brendan Gill's book about The New Yorker.
yst 00:02
@CowperKettle Also a palindrome. ^
yst 00:02
Apr 1, 2013 at 17:51, by tchrist
T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad. I'd assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot-toilet.
Thu 20:52
Daily Octordle #1277
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Daily Sequence Octordle #1277
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Daily Extreme Octordle #1277
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Thu 20:41
[Bracket City]
July 24, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/

Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master)
🎹 Total Keystrokes: 68
🎯 Minimum Required: 68

Total Score: 100.0
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Thu 20:41
Connections
Puzzle #774
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Strands #508
“Back away slowly”
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Thu 20:40
#travle #953 +0 (Perfect)
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#WhenTaken #513 (24.07.2025)
I scored 831/1000🏅

1️⃣📍301 km - 🗓️21 yrs - 🥈141/200
2️⃣📍293 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇188/200
3️⃣📍7.7K km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥉106/200
4️⃣📍218 m - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200
5️⃣📍68.1 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇196/200

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Wordle 1,496 4/6

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Thu 18:19
@GratefulDisciple A certificate of impeachment might help with that.
Thu 18:18
Don't forget these.
Thu 18:18
A silver certificate is a certificate of ownership that silver owners hold instead of storing the actual silver. Several countries have issued silver certificates, including Cuba, the Netherlands, and the United States. Silver certificates have also been privately issued by various mints and bullion companies. One example was the Liberty Dollar issued by NORFED from 1998 to 2009. == Cuba == Cuban silver certificates were issued between 1934 and 1949 (and circulated from 1935 to the early 1950s). Prior and subsequent issues of Cuban banknotes were engraved and printed by private bank note companies...
Thu 15:50
Because that's not how percents work.