English Language Learners - 2014-04-15 (page 3 of 3)

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9:00 PM

Chocolates are best served cold.

Anonymous

I think you're right about that.

Anonymous

Crisp, not melty.

Tyler James Young

yeah, I've got a few Snickers™ bars in the freezer

Anonymous

Ahh! I'm jealous! Even though I hate Snickers superscript letter T letter M end superscript

Tyler James Young

haha

I memorized the alt-code

alt+0153 on numpad

Anonymous

9:02 PM

Ah, I'm not on Windows

trying... ™ -- It works!

Tyler James Young

does <sup>HTML</sup> work here?

Anonymous

Nope.

Tyler James Young

yeah, I've got a few of them locked away

0233 for é

0161 for ¡

¡áy caramba!

|:( I just realised that snailplane and snailboat are one and the same

feels stupid

9:03 PM

I got a few chocolate bars out of my fridge. It's melted! -- putting them back into the fridge

Tyler James Young

I use ↑ sometimes too, that's alt+24

other arrows are nearby

→ = 26

Anonymous

If I had my choice of chocolates right now, I would eat a Kit-Kat barᴹᵀ

Tyler James Young

you might have put them in backwards, Damkerng

I still remember most some codes for drawing lines, like 452 and 179

─│

Anonymous

→　↗　↑　↖　←

9:04 PM

yups they still work

Tyler James Young

haha "mt"

I use 0151 for em dash

Anonymous

I subverted the trademark.

Anonymous

I'm not a big believer in trademarks.

┼─├╚╔╩ etc

Tyler James Young

nice

Anonymous

9:05 PM

I treat lots of words as genericized, like google and xerox and kleenex

waiting for the chocolates to be crispy once again...

Tyler James Young

don't forget dumpster, escalator, elevator

heroin...

Anonymous

Minus e.

Tyler James Young

bye Sari!!!

Sari was the strong, silent type

Hmm... Sari is a curious name. We have that word in Thai, borrowed from Indian.

Tyler James Young

9:10 PM

referring to the item of clothing?

Oh, it's also an English word!

Tyler James Young

yes

Yes.

Tyler James Young

That reminds me of a funny conversation I had with a kid when I was in India

curious

Tyler James Young

9:11 PM

basically, he thought “knickers” was a Hindi word

Eh?

Really?

Tyler James Young

yeah

he thought a lot of words were Hindi words

I mean, in some sense they are

How was knickers (or whatever he thought) pronounced in Hindi?

Tyler James Young

the same way “sari” is an English word, as you said

the same

Hah!

Meaning? panties or upset?

Tyler James Young

9:13 PM

underwear

Oh!

Interesting!

Tyler James Young

yeah

some confusion while I was in the UK related to “pants” comes to mind as well

What was the word or phrase that caused the confusion?

Tyler James Young

in AmE, pants are long outer garments with separate legs

Yup.

Tyler James Young

9:15 PM

in BrE, pants are worn under those, which are trousers

Oh! I see.

Anonymous

@TylerJamesYoung Are they gender-specific?

Tyler James Young

no

though I believe “knickers” are intended for women and girls

“pants” can be any downstairs underwear

What about the upstairs department?

Undershirt?

Tyler James Young

I think undershirts are mainly for men

though it wouldn't be that strange for a woman to wear one

9:21 PM

Is undies gender-specific?

Tyler James Young

in addition to whatever other contraptions she might be wearing under her top

no

I see. Thanks.

Tyler James Young

though, as with many -ies constructions, it's... childish

cutesy

cutesy is actually an example of itself

A-ha! I saw college girls used it in movies.

Tyler James Young

yes, on some level perhaps part of the mass-infantilization of women in which both genders participate

or maybe they just didn't want to say “panties”

a word many dislike

like “moist”

9:25 PM

Probably. :D

How can you quote like that?

Mine are always like this: "..."

Tyler James Young

I wrote a script on my computer

yeah

Oh!

Neat!

Tyler James Young

when I'm about to quote I hit a key and it writes a pair of smart quotes and places the cursor between them

Wow, that's cool.

Tyler James Young

ᴵ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵃᶰᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ᵒᶰᵉ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵈᵒᵉˢ ᵗʰᶦˢ

but I don't really use that

9:27 PM

Oh!

Tyler James Young

and a bunch more that replace things I type

so I get Citroën

Œdipus

uhh

~= ≈

That's so cool!

Tyler James Young

!= ≠

yeah, I have a lot of fun with it

it's called AutoHotkey if you want to check it out

autohotkey.com

I will, thanks!

Tyler James Young

there are a lot of scripts out there, but I mostly just like to write my own

9:29 PM

Windows only, I think?

Tyler James Young

yeah

it's cool because it's really easy to figure out how to write stuff

you can do a lot with a little

It's open-source, even.

Tyler James Young

yeah!

Anonymous

Yeah, AHK is pretty nice if you happen to be using Windows.

Tyler James Young

Sometimes in my job I am given tasks that involve clicking through various screens, entering the same things in various fields

so I love automating parts of that

9:40 PM

Several years ago, I had to do exactly the same thing, but I had to code it myself. Scripting makes it super easy for everyone!

Tyler James Young

and having a single keypress activate a sequence of clicks at precise locations around the screen or tab through fields and enter predetermined text

AHK is a very nice idea.

Really neat!

Tyler James Young

I recently wrote a script for that "Source:" thing I like to do

Let's see if I can demonstrate

> So this would be the thing in blockquote, and then <br><sub>Source: What is the Plural of WHO?</sub>

It takes the current contents of the clipboard as the title of the link and grabs the URL of the next tab to the right as the link

while typing the HTML, of course

Nice! -- thumbs up

Tyler James Young

This is what it looks like in AHK:
#s::
Send <br><sub>Source: [
Send ^v
KeyWait, Ctrl
Send ](
Send ^{PgDn}
KeyWait, Ctrl
Sleep, 200
Send ^l
KeyWait, Ctrl
Send ^c
KeyWait, Ctrl
Send ^{PgUp}
KeyWait, Ctrl
Send ^v
KeyWait, Ctrl
Send )</sub>
Return

#s:: means “do this whenever I press the windows key and ‘s’.”

the KeyWaits aren't really necessary

but sometimes AHK will stick a modifier key

so that improves reliability

9:46 PM

I see.

Tyler James Young

the sleep is just to give the browser 200ms to change tabs

probably more time than it needs, but less than I can really notice

Anonymous

The Windows input stack has some issues if you do stuff fast, sometimes

Tyler James Young

yeah

nods -- That's true.

Tyler James Young

I sprinkle Sleep commands through a lot of the scripts I write

there's a way to have it wait for a webpage to load

9:48 PM

They work. goes in search of a bed

Tyler James Young

but it's pretty involved

haha

good night oerkelens

g'night all

Good night!

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