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tchrist

12:01 AM

@JasonC \N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN}.\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA}.\N{LATIN LETTER YR}.

user259867

And here I was thinking the letter name is "lambda"

user259867

I see it varies, Λάμ(β)δα

hichris123

You're using it like a proper noun without a determiner as though it were a person. You must be talking about the system — unless it’s achieved sentience and a nice title. Sir System, anyone? It could accompany Dame UI. Seriously, please insert the obligatory articles without which your article is wholly ungrammatical in English. It distracts the reader and detracts from your point. It sounds like it was written for the Bullwinkle Show to be read aloud by Boris or Natasha. — tchrist 19 mins ago

tchrist

@NormalHuman Yup.

@hichris123 I did try to edit it first. :(

‭ ƛ  019B       LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE
        = barred lambda, lambda bar
        * Americanist phonetic usage
‭ Λ  039B       GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA
‭ λ  03BB       GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA
        = lambda
‭ ᴧ  1D27       GREEK LETTER SMALL CAPITAL LAMDA
‭ 𐎍  1038D      UGARITIC LETTER LAMDA
‭ 𝚲  1D6B2      MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL LAMDA
        # <font> 039B greek capital letter lamda
‭ 𝛌  1D6CC      MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL LAMDA
        # <font> 03BB greek small letter lamda

hichris123

What's the reasoning for not having suggested edits on meta again?

tchrist

12:06 AM

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Q: Why can't I suggest edits on SE meta sites?

Right as I was going to post this as a possible bug, I finally found this post which says that per-site Metas don't have suggested edits by-design because it's "not needed". However, I've been participating a lot over at Skeptics meta where there is a lot still to be figured out in terms of site...

gnat

@hichris123 I picked Progs meta because it's Programmers being pressed by SE staff to be more welcoming to such questions. "Recently I've seen notes from Stack Exchange staff about how it would be nice if site would allow for broader, softer kind questions..."

hichris123

@tchrist Huh, Jon's answer was actually kinda implemented. And yet no change has been made with suggested edits.

tchrist

Alas.

hichris123

@gnat It's applicable to more than just one site though. But it doesn't really matter.

Jason C

Oh man I'm so excited

tchrist

12:09 AM

hears a yipping puppy

hichris123

@JasonC ... about?

Jason C

I spent the last 2 years annoyed at how brown my apartment was, and I kept avoiding adding other colors because I couldn't think of what looked good with brown. So I just added more brown.

tchrist

Deliberately?

Jason C

But today I was feeling saucy so I put something blue in.

And boom! The light bouncing off it made the apartment not brown any more.

hichris123

@JasonC jadarnel27 would be proud.

Jason C

12:11 AM

I've finally broken the brown cycle.

It just needed some courage.

tchrist

That would require red.

Doorknob

@JasonC TRAITOR!

user259867

@JasonC Does it look white and gold to you now?

Jason C

A little. It cooled off the general tone all around.

I didn't realize how much I've been self-reinforcing the brownness.

gnat

@hichris123 FWIW all but one of the feature requests in the examples answer are "hosted" at MSE

bjb568

12:13 AM

@JasonC GREY IS THE SOLUTION TO ALL BROWN.

Jason C

Wtf bjb, you're from Ohio. Say grAy like normal people.

tchrist

Wait, did you finish with ALL the browns before going radical?

Jason C

Yes. ALL the browns.

I even took a dump in the corner.

Andrew T.

Ugh, morning

tchrist

BROWN := adust, almond, amber, auburn, bay, bice, biscuit, bisque, bistre,
bracken, brimstone, brunette, buff, burnet, butter-nut, cafe, caramel,
catechu, chamois, charcoal, chelidonian, chestnut, cigar, clove, cocoa,
crotal, damson, dingy, dun, fallow, fawn, ferruginous, feuillemorte,
fuscescent, hazel, hepaticous, khaki, leather, lurid, mahogany, manila,
maroon, mink, mocha, moorit, mordore, mulberry, mustard, nutria, ochre,
olive, peat, persimmon, pitch, puce, quaker, raisins, red, rhubarb, rufous,

@JasonC Got those covered? :)

bjb568

12:15 AM

@JasonC Grey is the only correct spelling.

tchrist

@JasonC Don't be so gray.

Jason C

@tchrist Every last one, you... testaceous little mink, you.

bjb568

@tchrist … charcoal?

Jason C

Red is not brown.

bjb568

Raisons?

Somebody needs to look at their kindergarten color wheel.

tchrist

12:17 AM

@JasonC It can be.

> red: Having, or characterized by, the color which appears at the lower
or least refracted end of the visible spectrum, and is familiar in
nature as that of blood, fire, various flowers (as the poppy and rose)
and ripe fruits (whence the frequent similes red as blood, fire, a rose,
cherry, etc.). The precise shades of color to which the name of red is
applied vary from bright scarlet or crimson to reddish yellow or brown
(the latter esp. of the hair of certain animals). The numerous varieties

Jason C

I am looking at my kindergarten color wheel. It's got fuscescent, right next to ferruginous.

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tchrist

> raisins: The dark purplish-brown color of raisins.

Jason C

Out of stack space

brown: the dark brownish color of brown.

tchrist

@JasonC La feuille est morte.

> brown: The proper name of a composite color produced by a mixture of
orange and black (or of red, yellow, and black), and varying greatly in
shade according to the proportion of the constituents, as a red brown,
yellowish brown, dark brown. Brown is the color produced by partial
charring or carbonization of starch or woody fibre, as in toasted bread
or potatoes, peat, lignite, withered leaves, etc.

bjb568

purple

tchrist

12:19 AM

Dark purplish-brown.

J’ai raison, tu sais.

Jason C

Dang.

tchrist

@JasonC And just what conynger did you fetch that on up out of for us to appreciate?

I was about to spell it coniegrey but I knew you’d correct me.

Jason C

I just searched google for rabbit poop.

tchrist

Bet it was full of it.

Jason C

You bet it was, that rabbit craps a lot. Daaaang.

tchrist

12:25 AM

@gnat Thanks!

bjb568

A female fungus gnat for our viewing pleasure.

tchrist

Betsy!

Jason C

I also found a few handy poop identification charts, which I've filed away for future post-apocalyptic reference.

bjb568

Sounds useful.

tchrist

A cunningaire or cunnerye is a rabbit-warren.

Jason C

12:28 AM

Correct.

tchrist

Trust me, I know a cunnerye when I spy it.

Jason C

I wouldn't have corrected you, by the way. We've already been over this. I have the vocabulary of the average 3rd grader IIRC. I'm easily intimidated by alternate spellings.

Actually it's got to have been at least a year so maybe I've moved up to 4th grade.

tchrist

That word has two dozen spelling variants in English alone.

I'm not kidding, either.

bjb568

This is why we needs strict standards-based human languages.

Like XHTML.

Jason C

I know. Actually, I had looked up conyger once a long time ago and it was traumatic enough that I still clearly remember looking it up.

tchrist

12:32 AM

Welsh has cwning-gaer there, one of the few very early borrowings from Latin.