Timeline for What do you call a gift mug not really suitable for coffee?
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| Aug 10 at 22:30 | comment | added | user618322 |
@WeatherVane Just finished another mug of coffee. Your kind message has been on my mind. (Again, thanks :-) FWIW: I've re-read all these answers and, feeling SE persecuted, marvel that, once again, one user who commented on my answer expressed "is not" to my answer's "is so". MOST of these suggested words can/could-be viewed through this same lens of "could be usable; or not because blah-blah". Really tired of the Social Media aspects of SE communities. Gonna miss a few SE folk and the entertainment value found herein. C'est la vie... Cheers! ;-) (Mods are welcome to erase this comment.)
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| Aug 10 at 21:56 | history | bounty awarded | HippoSawrUs | ||
| Aug 10 at 17:35 | comment | added | user618322 |
@WeatherVane Appreciated... :-) "Birds gotta fly; fish gotta swim." It's been (generally) a good experience and, even as an oldie, I've learned lots and 'met' some nice cyber-people. However, if I stay too long in one place, I begin to feel as if I'm becoming "rusted-on" :-)
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| Aug 10 at 17:30 | comment | added | Weather Vane | @FE2O3 the digits are subscripted. Specifically the coding is UTF-8 and there are many sites devoted to it. Sorry you'll be leaving. I'm a salty dog too but have to (try to) keep up to speed... | |
| Aug 10 at 17:27 | comment | added | user618322 |
@WeatherVane How did you do that?? :-) Thanks for showing what's possible. My history has been in other "communities" where the font/typeface is plain-jane, so it's rarely been a big issue. I'll be leaving SE soon, so will leave things as they are. But, thank you for the demonstration. I am curious what 'magic' you used in your comment, though... Cheers! (Ah!... Unicode... I'm too old... Simple ASCII and "old dog/new trick" applies.) :-)
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| Aug 10 at 17:21 | comment | added | Weather Vane | @FE2O3 have you considered using Fe₂O₃ (Unicode)? Note: this site's font is unkind to digits. | |
| Aug 9 at 23:58 | comment | added | Lambie | @Fe2O3 Very GOOD. :) | |
| Aug 9 at 23:39 | comment | added | user618322 | @Lambie In some cases, you're right, of course. In those photos of 'trophy wives', it's the guy standing beside his who could be called the mug in the photo... She's the ornament and he's the mug :-) (PS: It's "F-e-2-Oh-3" aka Hematite or Iron Oxide.) | |
| Aug 9 at 23:08 | comment | added | Lambie | @Fe203 A mug can be an ornamental item but it is not an ornament per se. | |
| Aug 9 at 21:41 | comment | added | user618322 | @Lambie "a mug is not an ornament." Some have a different take on that matter. The kitchen walls of a neighbour, a few years back, was 'decorated' with a large collection of varieties of manual meat grinders bought at garage sales in the region... IMO, it's wrong to presume to dictate the tastes of those who might be living next door... | |
| Aug 9 at 15:22 | comment | added | Lambie | decorative because a ceramic or glass something can decorate something. And because, a mug is not an ornament. | |
| Aug 8 at 11:18 | history | edited | Řídící | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 7 at 23:37 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'Decorative mug' is idiomatic, with a quarter of a million hits in a Google search. But there are none for 'nominally useful mug', and invented phrases constitute writing advice rather than established usages. ELU looks at established usages; writing advice belongs on another site. | |
| Aug 7 at 14:47 | comment | added | HippoSawrUs | I like 2nd choices. I didn't know all the meanings of nominal before. | |
| Aug 7 at 7:48 | comment | added | Stuart F | Decorative or labeled "For decorative purposes only. Do not get wet." | |
| Aug 7 at 7:28 | comment | added | HippoSawrUs | Of course, I should've thought to google "decorative." | |
| Aug 7 at 7:17 | history | answered | Řídící | CC BY-SA 4.0 |