Zompist Bboard Again

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Edit: Just googled it. Yeah, that would have been embarrassing.

In unrelated news, the current Hungarian government, known for all kinds of not-so-nice things, is introducing some kind of new family-related policy. In order to promote that policy, they're running a poster ad campaign featuring stock photos of a happy couple. The problem? The happy stock photo co...

For the Tiggers, I suspect it's a disaster. "Anti-semitism" is a nice cover to excuse their defections and sow discord in Labour, How sad it must be to be Mighty Salmoneus, He Who Knows and He Who Understands, and to be so indifferent to bigotry that one can't even imagine other people se...

That's a good question. Without looking into the legal details, my impression is that it would, yes. However, until now the whole of the EU has been completely united at every stage on brexit policy, and at least the reports out of the EU indicate that they don't expect any internal rebellion on th...

On the EU's side, would a postponement of Brexit need the unanimous approval of the Council of the European Union? Because in that case, I could well imagine the current governments of Italy, Poland, and Hungary, and perhaps some others as well, vetoing it.

I just learned how "bass" is actually pronounced in English. I always thought it was either "bus" or "bess". Why would it be "bus" or "bess"? Because after more than 26 years of learning English, I still sometimes get a bit confused about the variou...

Is in "capitalist", in the English language, someone who politically supports capitalism, or someone who practices capitalism by running a business? A capitalist is generally someone who practices capitalism by running a business, as opposed to someone who merely supports capitalism. Than...

Is in "capitalist", in the English language, someone who politically supports capitalism, or someone who practices capitalism by running a business?

This is NOT a confusing headline - more like a headline indicating the writers might have been confused: https://twitter.com/MarshallJulius/status/1103569102906556416 For those of you who, for whatever reason, can't read headlines in photos of newspaper pages, the headline says "China may be us...

I just learned how "bass" is actually pronounced in English. I always thought it was either "bus" or "bess".

Probably yes.

Unrelated to the ongoing discussions: I've only recently learned about an apparent dialect of English that, based on the only contexts in which I've heard it so far, might be described as something like "Northeastern US Upper Class". It sounds interesting, if perhaps a bit annoying - as if...

This is completely beside the point, but I am delighted by the names of the two final candidates. Preckwinkle is marvelous on its own merits, and Lori Lightfoot sounds like a combination of a hobbit and one of Superman's exes. They're both great names. Honestly, they sound like they could both be h...

From the introductory section of the Wikipedia article on hot sauce:

Criteria in food grading for chili sauces in the U.S. includes coloration, consistency, character, absence of defects and flavor.

mèþru wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:26 am give or provide both work, but provide is a bit more formal (maybe even snooty, but I still use it)

Thank you!

Basic English language question: in English, what do you call the thing that you're doing with an answer when you're answering something? Do you "give" an answer, do you "make" an answer, do you "provide" an answer, or something else entirely?

mèþru wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 7:15 am COlleges that don't try to prosecute people for nudity? I'm already jealous that you got into Oxbridge; no need to rub salt in the wound.

I don't think that British educational institutions have the authority to prosecute anyone, though I might be wrong on that.

*applauds*

(Thing is, there are so many vaguely penis-shaped peninsulas that I have no idea which one you mean.)

Thank you, everyone!

How plausible would it be to have a consonant appear out of nowhere after word-final /u/?