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[i2amroy]

PELMENI for life.

Those look delicious. And Italian.
What are they filled with?

That looks to be almost identical to stuffed Gnocchi.

[Avis-Mergulus]

A question regarding the forums.
How does one render Zalgo text here?

www.eeemo.net

Paste the text in, then copy it here.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Huh.
Wasn't working the first time I tried it.

[Sensei]

T̯͕͉̣͡h͔̥̝̝i̠̺͍͞ͅș͕͔̺̩͉ ̲̭̺̘̲̯̫͠i҉͙̩̪s̳̰͉̭̘̞͙ ͖͍a҉ ̸t͡e̠̞̞͎͔͟s͉̱̪̮͔͚t̸̫͍̙ ̧̰̝̙͙̯̻̖o̟͈̩̯̤f̫̙̻̣̭͇̫͡ ̭̭̭Z͚̙͎Á͕̺̩L̖̠G̞̹͇̥͖̮͘ͅO̯̼̹̟͇ͅ ̢̠̖̩̹̦̖t̛̫̠͔̙ͅe͙̠͢x̻̖̥͚ͅt̜̲͎̠̀.̮̀

It appears to be working fine.
That generator is handy enough for all your ZALGO needs, but if you're just curious how it works, you can find all of the characters in your unicode/special character library. There's just a number of awkward, broken characters or legacy characters used for making accents, which don't occupy any space, so they're drawn over whatever regular characters are also in the text.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Is the phrase "up to snuff" slang or, specifically, too informal for an university paper?

[Frumple]

It's been informal-ish long enough it works for fairly formal stuff. It's arguably a little on the highfalutin' side these days, really, at least in the academic regions I've been exposed to. I might not suggest using it in, say, a master's thesis presentation, but most other things it's probably fine. Pretty sure I used it in a few papers m'self, but I also had a noted tendency towards somewhat informal language, so... *shrugs*

Best suggestion is to ask whoever you're submitting the paper to, probably as part of an excerpt so they get context etc. In general, that sort of thing is one of the reasons the person in question is being paid, so... ask away.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Thanks!

[Arx]

I'm looking for the name of a particular gardening tool.

• It's referred to by my family as a 'KAH-foot' (phonetically), but all the logical spellings seem to turn up nothing.
• It's a ~1.5 metre (~5') long solid steel bar, ~3cm in diameter (1.2"), octagonal in shape.
• It's got a chisel point on one end and a conical point on the other.

I don't know if it's just that it's known by a different name in different places.

Edit: after quite a lot of hit and miss searching involving random terms to describe it prefaced with "gardening tool", it appears that it may be known as a spud bar in other places. It makes no sense, but okay.

[Comrade P.]

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I don't know its English name, in Russian it's called lom

[Arx]

Yeah, that's it.

Lom, kufut, spud bar...

I think people just call these things whatever they want.

[Comrade P.]

Pretty much so.

[TheDarkStar]

Crowbar? That's the only thing I've heard those called.

[Comrade P.]

Crowbar is usually way shorter than 5', no?

[scrdest]

Prybar?

[Graknorke]

"big fooken bit of metal to hit things wiv"