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Zhe (Ж ж; italics: Ж ж) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced palato-alveolar sibilant /ʒ/ (listen), or the somewhat similar voiced retroflex sibilant /ʐ/ (listen) in Russian and in other languages, like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "treasure". Zhe is romanized as ⟨zh⟩ or ⟨ž⟩. == History == It is not known how the character for Zhe was derived. No similar letter exists in Greek, Latin or any other alphabet of the time, though there is some graphic similarity with its Glagolitic counterpart Zhivete ⟨Ⰶ⟩ (Image: ) which represents the same sound. However, the origin...

> like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "treasure"

so treasure is really treaжure

Anonymous

Much like CGEL, the section numbers start over in each chapter. So it's chapter 3, section 3.3.

Damkerng T.

Oh, it's actually 3.3.3. -- Yes!

Anonymous

Threes all around.

ⱮᏁℛ

It's really cool.

Damkerng T.

(Location 1095)

ⱮᏁℛ

5:15 PM

Like a Chi that has been stabbed with an I.

Anonymous

@CopperKettle ＾ж＾

Damkerng T.

LOL

CopperKettle

(0:

Damkerng T.

I like the ж character, being in an emoticon or not. :D

Anonymous

In general, would you prefer chapter and section numbers or page numbers?

Anonymous

5:16 PM

I usually give page numbers.

CopperKettle

To exphand this cultural exchange, I'll mention that жопа (zhopa) is the Russian word for "arse" (one of a score of words, really)

Anonymous

@CopperKettle And now we know™!

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CopperKettle

(0:

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Because pages are difficult in several ebooks, I think chapter+section numbers are more helpful.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I see!

ⱮᏁℛ

5:17 PM

@snailboat +1 for the TM

Damkerng T.

I don't know why they don't allow us to switch between the ePUB-like and book-list format when we buy an ebook.

Anonymous

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Ah, it's got TMed just now!

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I have some ebooks, but I'm really much happier with paper.

Damkerng T.

nods -- Though ebooks have some advantages, I still like paper books better.

Anonymous

5:19 PM

They definitely do have some advantages. I have some books in both formats.

Damkerng T.

The term "static have" (also "dynamic have") is quite interesting!

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Yes, they are used because the relevant meanings of have are stative and dynamic.

ⱮᏁℛ

@snailboat . . . the more you look like a comic shooting star?

Anonymous

ja

Anonymous

I meant to type ja into an empty tab, which would give me Japanese.SE, but I managed to type it into chat instead.

Anonymous

5:21 PM

@DamkerngT. Maru and batsu!

Anonymous

○ and ×.

ⱮᏁℛ

@snailboat Oh, I thought you were saying "yes".

Anonymous

@ⱮᏁℛ Nein!

ⱮᏁℛ

OMG, this is bad. Snail is actually secretly affiliated with Germans.

Damkerng T.

nods -- The first time I saw it, I wondered why didn't they use a checkmark and a cross?, but then I realized that they may have used their convention long before they met people from the West.

ⱮᏁℛ

5:24 PM

BTW are you using the new mobile UI @Snail?

Anonymous

I'm on a real computer right now.

ⱮᏁℛ

@snailboat Oh, I think Apple co. took that as an insult.

Anonymous

Well, an iPhone is basically a toy computer.

Anonymous

I like my phone. But the toy aspect is definitely there.

Damkerng T.

I'm on a toy.

:D

ⱮᏁℛ

5:31 PM

@DamkerngT. So are you using the new toy UI?

Damkerng T.

That's one thing I still have to figure out. I mean, the mobile interface (via web) still looks the same to me. Do I use the wrong URL?

Anonymous

Yeah, what new UI?

Anonymous

Is there a meta post about it?

ⱮᏁℛ

I meant the chat though.

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Q: Test the new mobile chat!

Remember 2010, when smartphones looked like this? Back then, we created a mobile version of chat, so that people could use the bare minimum of features on those and similar phones. Well waddayaknow, suddenly it's 2016, smartphones for some reason now look like this: –...

So are you guys tasting the new new mobile chat? @Snail @Dam

Damkerng T.

Let's see...

going to switch to "mobile" mode...

ⱮᏁℛ

5:38 PM

Guessing @Dam's reaction

Damkerng T.

I think it doesn't work on iPad.

ⱮᏁℛ

:/

Damkerng T.

There is not even the Pref button!

ⱮᏁℛ

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A: What will happen when all the possible answers are given to all possible questions?

Jon Skeet will put some ice on his wrists. That was a lot of typing.

LOL

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. You have to change it here: chat.stackexchange.com/users/43955?tab=prefs

ⱮᏁℛ

5:42 PM

stats.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/… -- Interesting

Anonymous

@ⱮᏁℛ It'd be interesting to try comparing that without Hot Network Questions.

Catija

@ⱮᏁℛ I see all... I have a Mac.

Damkerng T.

Grrr! it just doesn't work for me (on my old iPad).

ⱮᏁℛ

@Catija Then what's with people whining about my characters?

Anonymous

I like Macs.

Anonymous

5:47 PM

I have one too! :-)

Anonymous

They're very different from iPhones.

Catija

@ⱮᏁℛ Dunno... Macs have all (or at least most) foreign keyboard text preloaded.... I can see them fine on my Laptop and on my iPhone.

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Yay!

Catija

Anonymous

Oh, I see, we changed topics and I missed it.

ⱮᏁℛ

5:48 PM

Eh, could have looked crappier.

Catija

I think lots of PCs do not.

Damkerng T.

On this old iPad, the first character of your name is a square, BTW. @ⱮᏁℛ

Catija

@snailboat Sorry! I was responding to @ⱮᏁℛ 's ping from a while ago. I didn't even look to see what you were talking about now.

Anonymous

@ⱮᏁℛ If you really want to change your name now, it can be done. But if you want to keep it this way, don't let me stop you :-)

ⱮᏁℛ

Stack Exchange Stats Blog: Does Jon Skeet have mental powers that make us upvote his answers? (The effect of reputation on upvotes)

andyw on August 04, 2011

Of course since we all know Jon Skeet does have various powers, I will move onto unanswered questions, whether a users reputation makes them receive more upvotes for answers. I’ve seen this theory mentioned in multiple places (see any of the comments to Jon Skeet’s answer that are along the lines of “If this was posted by someone other than Jon Skeet, would this have gotten as many upvotes?”). It is similar to the question we were supposed to address in the currently dormant Polystats project as well. …

So yeah, the topic was

@snailboat Can it? I thought I should wait for a month.

Anonymous

5:50 PM

@ⱮᏁℛ A moderator can change it for you.

ⱮᏁℛ

A mod in Japanese.SE?

Anonymous

I can only do that if you actually sign up for Japanese.SE.

ⱮᏁℛ

@snailboat I did! Yay!

Now let's serial-upvote Snail

Anonymous

@ⱮᏁℛ Do you want me to change it? If so, to what?

ⱮᏁℛ

@snailboat Yes, please. :) To "IͶΔ".

Anonymous

5:54 PM

@ⱮᏁℛ It is done :-)

ⱮᏁℛ

@snailboat Thank you!

(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

Damkerng T.

But why INΔ?

ⱮᏁℛ

People in the Periodic Table call me "Ina", since that was part of my reversed name when it was my username. :)

Reason 2: I am not pingable in Android.

Reason 3: All the characters are too common to look like rectangles.

So tell me @Dam: Can you now ping me by typing I and pressing tab?

Damkerng T.

I'm back to my computer now, so I sure can.

ⱮᏁℛ

No, I mean it doesn't come up with typing @?

Damkerng T.

6:04 PM

Oh, it came up! :D

But in this room, you are still ⱮᏁℛ.

ⱮᏁℛ

What?!

But I typed a normal I!

Oh.

Anonymous

Chat should catch up soon.

Damkerng T.

That's how the new mobile interface looks on my old iPad.

It acted rather weird. I couldn't even type anything because the input box was way down off the display of my device.

ⱮᏁℛ

@DamkerngT. That's not the new mobile UI to me.

Damkerng T.

Trust me. It's new. The new top bar was way up there (again, off-screen).

I had to use my computer to change the setting back to the old interface before I could continue using the chat from my old iPad.

My iPad 2 (desktop mode): i.stack.imgur.com/tWINM.jpg

My iPad 2 (old mobile mode): i.stack.imgur.com/jM3GQ.jpg

ⱮᏁℛ

6:15 PM

How does it look like in your jet's screen?

Damkerng T.

I suppose it'd look like everyone else's. :D

Anonymous

Mine had a little thingy in the upper-left corner which, I discovered, I could click to get a menu. And from that menu, I could pick the non-mobile interface to chat.

Anonymous

But now I'm trying it again, and the menu thingy seems to be gone.

Anonymous

Ah, it somehow lost my setting!

Anonymous

I had to pick it again.

Damkerng T.

6:17 PM

@snailboat I had a change to click on that once, and then I wasn't able to make it come back anymore!

I guess the browser on my old iPad is too old.

ⱮᏁℛ

@snailboat Yeah that's a bit annoying.

Damkerng T.

Let's see if I have better luck on a newer one.

Ah... It looks pretty good!

I wish I had an easier way to switch the interface back to the desktop mode, without having to access that thumbdrop menu in the upper-left corner.

Because if I opt for the new mobile interface, the chat will redirect me to the new interface automatically, and it's not functioning on my old iPad 2.

So, basically, I can't chat from Safari on my old iPad if I opt for the new interface.

ⱮᏁℛ

Well, feature-request @Dam.

On meta.SE.

Damkerng T.

nods -- Will do that later.

@ⱮᏁℛ Hmm... The reply feature needs a little tweak, too, I think. I have to fight my soft keyboard to access to the message input box when I want to reply.

And it's virtually impossible to edit a message to reply to another message.

ⱮᏁℛ

@DamkerngT. Good point.

Damkerng T.

6:29 PM

But if I'm not mistaken, the font looks somewhat better than before.

Hey, I can star my own messages via the new interface!

ⱮᏁℛ

What? LOL

Damkerng T.

The history feature is not supported, though.

@ⱮᏁℛ I can do that by pinning a message and then unpin it.

Let's see if I can do that again.

ⱮᏁℛ

@DamkerngT. You can do that on Desktop too.

And you can't cancel the star.

Damkerng T.

I don't think I can do that on my computer. Let's see...

Oh, right!

Wait, what? I can't cancel them!

ⱮᏁℛ

Yeah, a moderator clears your action.

Seems some SE mods are jobless. :P

Damkerng T.

6:37 PM

I just deleted one of those pin-starred messages.

ⱮᏁℛ

@GoDucks I just had a moderator change my name into something more pingable. I hope we can put this behind us and start new and fresh and I think we started off on the wrong foot. I apologize for my ignorance and hope the apology's accepted. — IͶΔ 11 secs ago

I suddenly feel so much better now.

IͶΔ

6:56 PM

So @Dam, you need to ping me with an I now, right?

Damkerng T.

@IͶΔ Yes.

IͶΔ

I am on an android phone, using the mobile site, and I don't know if @IND (which is the closest I can get to your username) will ping you. Maybe it's the browser I'm using. I do not get any suggested usernames for anybody when I type the symbol used to ping people. I have to type out all usernames after the symbol, which means those using a non-English letters are unpingable. I only use the dolphin browser, perhaps other android browsers are different. — GoDucks 4 mins ago

Dah, what the hell

Damkerng T.

But I only tested it in the chat.

IͶΔ

7:24 PM

Hullo @GAD3R! Welcome to LO!

IͶΔ

7:41 PM

@Dam @Cop free flags:

Uh, sorry, this isn't a comedy show. — IͶΔ 42 secs ago

CopperKettle

@IͶΔ YEs, a great answer. (0:

> To fast is to not allow or absorb through or digest any food into the stomache, untill the appropriate "time" could be days and has been reached(achieved)and only then at that time the individual may and most likley will engage in the act of what we all know as EATING! YUMMY,YUM,yom,yom,yom,yom,errrhhepp! Exuuuuse Muahs! :^)

IͶΔ

@CopperKettle What a "sensable" answer.

CopperKettle

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Damkerng T.

8:49 PM

I don't like long words much. Why so, you may ask. Have a look at the longest words in Romeo and Juliet, and you'll understand why.

> counterfeit'st | unthankfulness | distemperature

ColleenV

10:13 PM

I was just fudgelling away the last half hour of work and came across this lifehack.org/articles/communication/… Thought y'all would find it interesting, even though it's just for entertainment value. Now, I need to get back to looking like I'm working before my boss quagswags me :)

Damkerng T.

10:34 PM

@ColleenV Nice article! Thanks!

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