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waiwai933
waiwai933
12:08 AM
Since the room isn't busy right now—can I ask people to take a quick survey for my school project? It'll just take a minute (and I'm running out of people I know in real life). (And even if you think it's fundamentally flawed in some way, please don't say anything (you can email me if you really want); it depends on people not knowing anything about it).
 
KitFox
KitFox
12:24 AM
@waiwai933 Oh, I get it.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Hi!
 
KitFox
KitFox
Ohai!
Killer war going on.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@waiwai933 Hey, your survey hangs after the initial form for me.
@KitFox I can't win a single battle any more, so I stopped trying, sorry.
 
waiwai933
waiwai933
@Cerberus That's weird... if you refresh, though, it should take you to the second page. Let me know if that works?
 
KitFox
KitFox
@Cerberus Not keeping up on the new stuff, huh?
 
Robusto
Robusto
12:35 AM
@waiwai933 One question? That's it?
 
waiwai933
waiwai933
@Robusto Four. But only one real question, yes. (besides name, age, gender, which aren't real)
 
KitFox
KitFox
Hahaha.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@waiwai933 Nope, I just get the same form with empty fields again. I have JS turned on (I'm on FF). I should try a different browser.
 
Robusto
Robusto
I did it on my cell.
 
KitFox
KitFox
@waiwai933 I hope you got IRB approval for that.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
12:37 AM
@KitFox Neva! I stopped doing anything but the occasional faction battle a few months ago.
 
waiwai933
waiwai933
@KitFox High school project = teacher approval. No review board to run it by.
 
KitFox
KitFox
@waiwai933 raises eyebrow
Does your teacher realize how much trouble that can cause?
You'll never be able to publish your results anywhere.
Except here, of course.
Since you are really supposed to debrief your participants after the study is concluded.
 
waiwai933
waiwai933
Well, I suppose it's a good thing I have no intention on publishing results. The extent is handing them in (and I suppose if anyone who took it really wants to see it, then to them as well).
 
KitFox
KitFox
I'm just yanking your chain.
 
Robusto
Robusto
It was a pretty easy question.
 
waiwai933
waiwai933
12:42 AM
@KitFox I have to say, I couldn't tell there for a moment. :)
 
KitFox
KitFox
Oh. Sorry. I'm sleepy and not paying good attention to my tone.
Also, epic battle taking place in another tab.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Battle's over. Good guys won.
Time for XBox.
 
KitFox
KitFox
Yippee!
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Wai: Okay, somehow it worked this time when I tried again!
I have finished the survey.
Now I would really like to know what it is about/for!
 
KitFox
KitFox
shh
Be patient.
 
waiwai933
waiwai933
12:49 AM
@Cerberus Thanks! (and that goes for anyone else who participated as well)
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@KitFox stamps foot
But I want to knohow!
 
waiwai933
waiwai933
@Cerberus Survey ends by Sunday (possibly earlier), so I'll let you know then. :)
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Heh.
OK!
 
KitFox
KitFox
1:12 AM
twiddles thumbs
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
This girl is doing a parody, isn't she?
 
KitFox
KitFox
Uh, yeah.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I mean, her hole accent and language.
After the first few lines I knew she wasn't really defending Palin.
 
KitFox
KitFox
Oh wait. You probably won't find that one funny.
@Cerberus She's exaggerating teenspeak, I think.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@KitFox Muchly, I should think?
 
KitFox
KitFox
1:19 AM
Let me listen again.
Not muchly. About the usual.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Yeah, I meant, she doesn't really have that accent.
 
KitFox
KitFox
It's possible that she does.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@KitFox Hmm why not? The concept is funny. And that guy is doing a decent job.
@KitFox So it's hard to tell?
 
KitFox
KitFox
It kinda peters out at the end. I was really rooting for the first guy. He was doing a noble job, but when he gave in, man, the damn just broke.
@Cerberus She's talking like a regular teenager. I hear that frequently at school and in coffee shops. It makes me want to punch bunnies.
Although since she is making stupid jokes, she is probably exaggerating her speech to make her seem more typical.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Heh, I will watch some other video of her.
@KitFox Right, that kinda was my impression too.
This one is funny, but you may not like it (too racist).
 
KitFox
KitFox
1:25 AM
I can't watch it. It is too scrambled.
But usually I like Rowan Atkinson.
This is one of my favorites:
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@KitFox Huh, too scrambled?
@KitFox That's one of my favourites too!!
Actually it's my favourite, period.
OMG I only now get the "small guillotine"!
I guess I missed "male" in "male fornicators".
Odd.
 
KitFox
KitFox
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I never thought twice about the "small" guillotine.
 
KitFox
KitFox
There, this one I can watch.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Huh, so what did you mean by scrambled?
 
KitFox
KitFox
1:30 AM
Except that the audio is out of sync.
@Cerberus Scrabbly and green spotted and pixelated.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Both videos are exactly the same for me.
@KitFox I have seen that happen to videos on a friend's laptop: a hardware issue? Can you try again?
 
KitFox
KitFox
@Cerberus I tried it a couple of times.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Wow.
It looks perfectly fine to me.
Unless it is a CDN issue, it must be something about your computer?
You don't happen to be using an Asus?
 
KitFox
KitFox
\No.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Because two of my friends with Asus laptops have this happen occasionally.
Oh.
 
KitFox
KitFox
1:35 AM
I need to bookmark this for my husband.
 
simchona
simchona
2:00 AM
Ron Maimon, New York City
177 1
discussion
Ugh. Make him be nice
 
KitFox
KitFox
Whatever for?
He is crazy. There's no sense in even engaging with him.
 
Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic The Hedgehog
@Kit What the...
 
user19161
2:34 AM
@waiwai933 Done a while ago. Good luck with the project!
 
user19161
@SonicTheHedgehog Yo!
 
user19161
@mrs Anyway I found this page which showed that even with 2GiB RAM 64-bit Linux can run better than 32-bit, interesting. tuxradar.com/content/ubuntu-904-32-bit-vs-64-bit-benchmarks
 
user19161
3:01 AM
@waiwai933 I prefer using sex to gender. The former emphasises the physiological characteristics and the latter the social roles.
 
Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic The Hedgehog
3:26 AM
@Jasper Hey. Went out for a walk.
 
 
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Jon Purdy
Jon Purdy
5:10 AM
“I see nothing wrong with ‘I think him to be…’, and have used it before!” proclaimed Jon to the silent room.
 
Mahnax
Mahnax
5:54 AM
@waiwai933 I took your survey, I hope you don't mind.
 
waiwai933
waiwai933
6:05 AM
@Mahnax No, that's a good thing! The more the merrier. Or at least the more, the higher grade I get.
 
Mahnax
Mahnax
@waiwai933 Heh, gotta love those high grades!
Are you in grade 10, 11, or 12?
 
waiwai933
waiwai933
I'm in 11th right now.
 
Mahnax
Mahnax
Ah, okay. I am in grade 10.
 
 
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RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
8:29 AM
0
Q: Looking forward

user971155recently i've seen a sentence with "looking forward". Could you explain why it contains progressive aspect. Doesn't this phrase mean a thought process which cannot be seen and thus must be regarded as stative and be used without progressive ? Consider a sentence like I'am looking forward to r...

progressive-aspect
2
Q: What's the difference between "I look forward to" and "I'm looking forward to"?

ShazI just don't get the reasoning behind which one is correct in which situation. Typically I use the wrong one, or I use them when I'm not supposed to.

differences verbs progressive-aspect
Dupe since Barrie's answer says essentially the same thing as the answers on the older question (both look and looking are possible, but the latter is less formal).
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
9:01 AM
0
Q: Do you put double dots when a contraction occurs at the end of the sentence?

CaffeineIs it grammatically correct to use two dots at the end of the contraction 'etc' when it comes at the end of the sentence? For example, All he eats is junk food: ice-cream, pizza, burger etc.. Or should be put just one dot there? like All he eats is junk food: ice-cream, pizza, burger etc. ...

punctuation contractions
duped
21
Q: When "etc." is at the end of a phrase, do you place a period after it?

ShimmyExample: It's all about apples, oranges, bananas, etc. VS. It's all about apples, oranges, bananas, etc..

phrases abbreviations period
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
9:30 AM
@JonPurdy whispers Yeah, it seems OK to me too
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
9:52 AM
this question needs reopenning
3
Q: How do I spell "subdistrict"?

BrendaGeographically, there are voting districts, taxing districts, and school districts. There are also subdistricts. I have found different spellings of this word (subdistrict, sub district, sub-district). Which one is correct for the USA?

american-english spelling
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Does it? It seems that the supply of answers that are already there say just about everything there is to say on the matter.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
but it is a valid question because of the ambiguity it raises
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
I must be getting old and cynical. When I read this question, I thought "why would anyone care?"
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
well,yeah that was my first impression too :)
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
If it doesn't deserve to be closed as "general reference", it DOES deserve to be closed as "too localised". It's ONE goddamned word.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
10:00 AM
hmmmm. I can see that other pineapples might fret over this
they fret over various things we find trivial
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
How would pineapples fret over how to spell such a specific word, and then only in USA?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
there are a lot of pineapples in the USA
some of them work in government
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
But you raise a really good point. It seems that the aspects of language that concern pineapples are different from the aspects of language that seem (to native speakers) to matter. I discovered this from the other side of the coin.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
besides, I like Daniel's answer - if this remains closed it could get deleted
@DavidWallace I have only really discovered it coming to this site and thinking "why on earth do you care about that?" only to see the question get umpteen upvotes :D
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Yeah, for me, it's not Daniel's answer that I like, but his subsequent comments in the face of tchrist's complaining.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
10:04 AM
yeah, that too
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Umpteen? I see three.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
oh, well I was making a generalisation
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Bosnian has a distinction that I don't quite understand about definite and indefinite adjectives - the two classes have different sets of endings. When I asked my Bosnian sister-in-law to help me to understand the difference, she told me "you don't need to worry about picky little details like that".
So here, I was the pineapple obsessing over the wrong thing.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
heh. Except that people will look at you funny when you use the wrong ending
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Maybe; but I'm resigned to the fact that I shall never sound like a native speaker of Bosnian. So provided I get the endings "close enough", I'm no worse off if they're a little bit wrong - I've still made myself understood, and at the same time, made it evident that I am not Bosnian.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
10:09 AM
true
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
So I can spend my time obsessing over the esoteric points of Bosnian grammar, or I can spend my time learning more Bosnian vocabulary. It's clear to me which of the two will enhance my ability to communicate with Bosnians.
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
-1
A: Which is the correct idiom: "First thing's first" or "First things first"?

LiznethFirst Thing's First . Because You Are Supposed To Say First Thing Is First . (: Because Your Gonna Do The First Thing First. Unless It's First Things Are First .

 
David Wallace
David Wallace
FWIW, my mother-in-law consistently used the wrong endings.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
:D excellent.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
@RegDwightѬſ道 I wish I had asked this question, just so that I could accept Lizneth's answer!
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
10:14 AM
Just try harder! You can accept it! I believe in you!
-2
Q: Is there any term in English for a person who starts a debate, but once he is presented some valid arguments or facts, he quickly retreats?

brilliantIs there any term in English for a person who starts a debate, but once he is presented some valid arguments and facts that he cannot rebut, he quickly retreats saying that the further debate is meaningless because his opponents are just stupid, stubborn, dull, etc. (An idiom describing such an a...

idioms
I have a feeling brilliant is looking for a synonym for "Robusto" there...
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
@RegDwight - that's exactly what I was thinking; then I thought I had better not say that!
Do you think brilliant is planning to use whatever answer he gets, in part of the ongoing flame war with our robust friend?
@MattЭллен ... which got very confusing with prepositions; because many prepositions in Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian mean different things depending on the ending on the governed noun.
e.g. zgrada = building; za zgradu = for the building; za zgradom = behind the building
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
cool. I take it Bosnian has Slavic ancestry? Or is it Germanic?
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
Oh come on Matt.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Slavic.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@RegDwightѬſ道 please don't ;) I'm not afraid to be ignorant if it leads to knowledge++
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
10:24 AM
I'm just surprised, is all.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
There is a lot of stuff I don't know about languages.
it could fill a Q&A site
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
@RegDwight - As someone almost said - there's no such thing as stupid questions, only stupid people :-)
And it's not obvious that Bosnian should be a Slavic language. Croatian tries to be Germanic, replacing words that sound too Slavic.
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
Apr 24 '11 at 12:49, by RegDwight
Remember, there are no stupid questions, only stupid askers.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Oh, you're fucking kidding!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
:D
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
10:32 AM
Mar 1 at 19:27, by RegDwight Ѭſ道
This room contains everything. Including the known Universe.
Anyhow. My point is not that Matt's question is stupid, or Matt himself for that matter. I was just genuinely surprised.
But I can cut being surprised any time! I have it under control! Really!
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
It's interesting to me how in the last 20 years or so, the Bosnian and Croatian education systems have both tried to make their languages increasingly different from Serbian; Croatian by introducing Germanisms, and Bosnian by introducing Turkisms.
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
The former because of money, the latter because of religion.
Oversimplifications galore!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
Turkish itself is an odd amalgamation of parents
It's clearly got Russian influence
and German
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
I think it's the other way round.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
and Romance
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
10:35 AM
Is "Germanisms" a word? Should I have said "Deutschisms"?
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
Russian has borrowed a ton from Turkish.
Or Turkic in general.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
@RegDwightѬſ道 Actually, both as a backlash from the series of wars in the 1990s.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
Didn't Russia used to run Turkey? Or am I confusing it with Turkmenistan
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
Same difference.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
@RegDwightѬſ道 What are some of the Turkisms found in Russian?
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
10:37 AM
Uh. Altyn?
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Oh, wow! I only said "some", not "all".
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
I don't think them's all.
In fact they don't even list altyn.
Probably because it's still disputed.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Yeah, I noticed that. I know what altyn means in Turkish; how do you write it in Russian?
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
алтын
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
And when would you say that instead of золотой?
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
10:40 AM
Nah, алтын is an old coin, three kopeks.
Алтын
Алты́н (или алты́нник)(от тат. алты — шесть) — старинная русская мелкая монета, а также единица денежного счёта. С 15 века равнялась 6 московским или 3 новгородским деньгам. Последняя позднее получила наименование копейки. В 1654 году впервые выпущена медная монета с надписью «алтынник», а в 1704 году (по 1726) — серебряный алтын. В период с 1841 по 1916 гг. чеканились медные и серебряные алтыны (символ: ). Этимология Название образовано, по мнению И. Г. Спасского и многих других исследователей истории русского монетного обращения, от тюркского числительного алты — шесть (что соотве...
Note how it's never been made of gold.
 
user19161
What is the difference between "I am pissed off" and "You are pissing me off"? That is the best difference question I answered, hah!
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Gee, you wouldn't want to spend it all at once now would you?
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
So it's not from the word for "gold", it's from the word for "six".
 
user19161
@RegDwightѬſ道 That coin looks like it's for the ferryman at Hades.
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
@DavidWallace back in the day there were coins to ¼ kopeks. One kopek was really a lot!
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
10:43 AM
@RegDwight - do you know a fair bit about Turkish?
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
I know exactly one handful of words. And some very basic stuff about their cases.
So I could order dört ekmekler, but that would be it.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
I used to go very frequently to a Turkish restaurant. The owner, Hasan, didn't know my name, but he knew what I liked to order. So instead of writing down my order, he would write down the word enışte. I found out that this means "brother-in-law", or more generally, a male relative by marriage. But I figured there must be a hidden meaning to it, or he wouldn't have used this word to mean me.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
how odd!
 
user19161
@DavidWallace It might have a different meaning.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
I idly wondered whether it was because he knew that my wife is a Bosnian, from a Muslim family; and that he was drawing an analogy between marrying into the Muslim world and marrying into his family.
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
10:46 AM
Oh, and BTW, these days there's a chain of jewelry shops called АЛТЫН, who obviously do mean gold.
Warning: eyesore.
 
user19161
This reminds me of "jewelry" and "jewellery".
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
jooalree
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
Blinky stuff.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
@MattЭллен Interesting - that's not how I pronounce it
 
user19161
@RegDwightѬſ道 Gold is not a nice colour to me. I think steel watches look better than gold ones.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
10:48 AM
For me, it rhymes with "cooler E"
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
Metathesis, huh.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@DavidWallace yeah, I hear that here too. I find it a confusing word to pronounce.
 
user19161
Wait, "jooalree" could rhyme with "cooler E".
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
First things first. Let's tackle February.
 
user19161
You guys are confusing me as always.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
10:50 AM
Feb you ree
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Why is February an issue? It's pronounced phonetically for Christ's sake!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@DavidWallace I miss out the middle r
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
I have always pronounced it with all four syllables and both Rs.
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
Yeah yeah, pronounced phonetically and written orthographically. Thank you for your help.
 
user19161
I will change my username in 2 hours. Time to think about it.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
10:51 AM
(0_0)
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Yes. Seen visually and heard by ear.
@RegDwightѬſ道 That would be second things first :-)
 
user19161
I wonder what wai's survey is for.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
I'm sure I mispronounce January.
 
user19161
I took it and it was fun!
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
"wai" is Maori for water.
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
10:53 AM
@DavidWallace not in the Mayan calendar.
 
user19161
"wai" is Chinese for crooked.
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
So what does that say about waiwai933?
 
user19161
Water cannot be crooked, so Maori is not Chinese. QED.
 
user19161
@RegDwightѬſ道 Also 933 is a radio channel here.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
"wai" is lolspeak for why
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
10:55 AM
So what does that say about waiwai933?
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Yes, I can see how much shorter it is.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
as in "wai u haz ma cheez burger?"
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
I no hez, I eated.
 
user19161
@RegDwightѬſ道 It says he is a good boy.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
U cn haz ma cheez burger n eet it 2.
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
10:56 AM
0
Q: Adgective or Noun?

Obmerk NinenineWhat is the right form to use when talking about plural citizenship ? "we are Italian" or "we are Italians" ? (or American, Or German or any other ending with "*an") Same issue for "Saudi" or "Saudies" , "Israeli" or "Israelies" .. I understand that one is used as a noun and one as an adjective. ...

word-choice construction
 
user19161
I wonder what Putin is putting on his pudding.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
"bow" is English for bend forwards. "bow" is English for fancy knot with loops. "fancy knot with loops" cannot be "bend forwards", so English is not English. QED.
4
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
lol
 
user19161
My jokes are not starred because they are too funny.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@RegDwightѬſ道 pouts wai u do that?
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
11:00 AM
Jasper - may I ask you whether you are a native speaker of English? Feel free not to answer if you don't wish to.
 
user19161
@DavidWallace I think yes but the rest think no. "native speaker" is not well-defined.
 
user19161
@DavidWallace No need to be so polite with me!
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
OK, then I'll be rude. I was just wondering about your sense of humour. It doesn't seem characteristic of a native English speaker.
 
user19161
@DavidWallace Well, my two cents on the matter is this: humour is not English. QED.
 
user19161
In the same way culture is not language.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
11:04 AM
Oh, I don't dispute that. But I don't understand my pineapple wife's jokes, and I've given up making jokes at home (the whole annoy the pineapple business).
 
user19161
@DavidWallace I would think though that a non-native speaker would have difficulty getting jokes because of the nuances of the language.
 
user19161
However one could also not get jokes because he thinks very differently which is probably the case in my case.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Well, yes, but that's not what I'm talking about. My wife says things that aren't funny (to me) and expects me to laugh.
 
user19161
@DavidWallace It could even be a male female difference!
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
Hey, unrelated, I have never asked a question on any SE site. Does one gain reputation from asking questions, as well as from answering them?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
11:08 AM
you get 5 reps per up vote on a question
 
user19161
@DavidWallace Yes 5 points per upvote and 2 points for accepting an answer.
 
David Wallace
David Wallace
What do you lose per down vote?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
and 2 reps when you accept an answer
@DavidWallace 1 reps, I belive
 
user19161
@MattЭллен Too late.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@JasperLoy How jokes I funny different think than.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
11:09 AM
well, that seemed awkwardly conincidental
hi @Robusto :)
 
Robusto
Robusto
Hola.
@MattЭллен What was awkwardly coincidental?
 
user19161
@DavidWallace You lose 2 rep per downvote but you downvote others' questions for free. When you downvote others' answers you lose 1.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@Robusto David left just as you arrived. He had been mentioning that he might have offended you. I'm sure it's just coincidence
 
user19161
@Robusto I am wondering too. "That" and "it" are often not well-defined.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@MattЭллен Coincidence that he offended me?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
11:11 AM
@Robusto coincidence that he left as you arrived
 
Robusto
Robusto
@MattЭллен For the record, I am not offended, but I will not be dragged into point-by-point flame wars in chat here. It's discourteous to everyone else. I regretted letting myself lose my temper and get involved in the whole sordid mess in the first place, so I withdrew from those arguments and those people who were involved. I don't mind discussions and slagging and all of that, but that is one area I am determined to stay away from.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
Noted
 
brilliant
brilliant
11:37 AM
Hi! everyone! It's a very nice weather here in Taiwan. Just stopped raining. The air is very fresh. I am about to go buy pizza soon. Btw, what is more correct, "Taiwan for UN" or "UN for Taiwan" (a slogan used by the Taiwanese rallying for the return of Taiwan's membership in the UN)
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
I'd go for "Taiwan for UN"
or "UN membership for Taiwan" if that's not too long
 
brilliant
brilliant
@MattЭллен Then the Taiwanese again made a mistake. It's really funny how they just don't care to check with naive speakers before making some official statements or writing some official announcements in English.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
Well, it's not invalid.
I would read "UN for Taiwan" to mean that the UN likes Taiwan
but it could mean that Taiwan want the UN, like "Bread for Taiwan" would mean that Taiwan wants bread
 
brilliant
brilliant
Could "UN for Taiwan" mean that the UN is after Taiwan?
Ah! I see. thank you.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
No problem :)
 
brilliant
brilliant
11:43 AM
All right! I am out to buy pizza!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
cya!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
12:00 PM
and we're back in the 90s!
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
OMG look who's here.
F to the X.
 
F'x
F'x
well, I got a flag on Matt's <td>
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
Hahaha.
 
F'x
F'x
so I came rushing in on my high horse and save the day :)
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
So that's how we can get you to visit.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
12:01 PM
I flagged it because it looked silly by itself
@Fx yay!
 
F'x
F'x
and now, the balance of the force^WXML is disturbed
so, I can flag other mods' messages; that's an interesting feature
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
Quit touching my stuff!
 
F'x
F'x
I'm not touching your junk
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
 
F'x
F'x
@RegDwightѬſ道 I was thinking of a more TSA-oriented reference
anyway, I think the appropriate sentence now is: my work here is done
see you!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
12:07 PM
tarah!
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
Mar 22 '11 at 19:39, by Robusto
@RegDwight — Right, light up a room and leave.
 
Robusto
Robusto
12:20 PM
Wait, someone lit up the room and I missed it? Damn.
@Reg: Looks like both wars are lost, so pointless to participate in, yes?
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
@Robusto don't shock me like that.
We have a 1k lead in the active one.
Used to be more, so we might or might not have to invest some work into maintaining it. But don't bother with the def war.
 
Robusto
Robusto
12:36 PM
@RegDwightѬſ道 Sorry, I misspoke. I meant the contests were decided.
Hmm ... is it worth spending WBs to get Bulging Mantis spam?
 
RegDwight Ѭſ道
RegDwight Ѭſ道
I dunno. I remember spending 75 WBs on Grim Specters and a fat lot of good did they do me.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Empress, Sanctuary, Credo Mech, Scepter, Evacuaters, Benediction, Placid Glider, Praetor, Righteous Punisher and one other card looks like a tough def deck to crack.
 
Robusto
Robusto
12:53 PM
Hmm, not for Gorelesup, though.
But I suck no matter what deck.
 
user19161
1:17 PM
@brilliant You mean "native speakers" and not "naive speakers" I guess.
 
user19161
@brilliant Well, "Taiwan for UN" could be a call to include Taiwan in UN. "UN for Taiwan" could be a call to UN to include Taiwan in it.
 
user19161
@brilliant Enjoy your pizza!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
1:32 PM
Keeping your name, so far, @JasperLoy!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
1:45 PM
ah, I see I needed to refresh
 
brilliant
brilliant
@WillHunting - Thanks. Yes, of course, I meant native speakers. (My mistake doesn't mean that I consider them to be naive :) I am a bit confused: what's the difference between "a call to include Taiwan in UN" and "a call to UN to include Taiwan in it". I mean, what makes the second call to be a more directed one?
@WillHunting "Enjoy your pizza!" - Thaks. I just got it. A genuine Taiwanese-Italian one! :)
 
KitFox
KitFox
Anyone else have the sneaking suspicion that I'm going to be laid off in June?
 
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