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12:02 AM
@KitFox You should consider returning to this chat some day.
 
Life is short, and it pleaseth the eye to see the sun.
 
I just slept for 9 hours after taking some flu meds.
 
I was unaware that neuraminidase inhibitors were hypnotic, nor particularly effective.
 
The biggest bookstore here is Kinokuniya.
 
Apart from antivirals, which are highly debatable, there is no such thing as “flu meds”.
What did you really take?
 
12:12 AM
OK. I just took an antihistamine for my runny nose, chlorpheniramine.
 
The flu does not cause runny nose.
 
OK, whatever.
 
You’re just making this up.
 
OK, I have a runny nose then.
 
That’s a rhinovirus.
Not influenza.
And so you took prophylactic medications to reduce your symptomatic discomfort. These do nothing against your virus, but they can make you less uncomfortable.
If only you had something serious like strep throat, they could treat you with penicillin and cure it. But you have a virus, so you have to cure yourself.
 
12:59 AM
Q: What's St. Nick doing by himself in a corner behind the... what's that? a comma?
A: Oh, yes. I'm separating an ... independent Claus.
 
 
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2:35 AM
@medica yoga helps with that. low impact, relaxing but does good stuff (if you don't over stretch) bores me to death though.
 
3:04 AM
room topic changed to English Language & Usage: No drive-by postings in chat (no tags)
 
3:31 AM
You guys amaze and humble me. You take such good care of yourselves.

Yoga would be very good for me (really good for balance) as well as anything that strengthens core muscles. But my problem is I have otoconia (everyone does; they're essential for up/down orientation) that have become displaced from the utricle into my semi-circular canals messing with my balance. (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo). It sucks. I'm going to fall one of these days.
Ha, early researchers studying otoconia actually centrifuged guineas pigs - alive, mind you - to displace their otoconia. The poor guinea pigs were dizzy for months. It sucks to be a guinea pig.
 
lol
Hi btw
:D
 
I'll have to get better before I can do yoga - too many head position changes.
Hi!
Aren't you glad you weren't born a guinea pig?
 
for sure!
 
Man, there is so much to be grateful for! :D
 
yes, life is a gift
handle with care
 
3:37 AM
every day. every new day.
Do you know who Brittany Maynard is?
 
Every day is a pain for me.
 
@medica yes
 
So sad. So brave and beautiful. What an inspiration.
What do you think about euthanasia?
@JasperLoy I'm sorry to hear that, but I also understand.
 
I'm not in favour of it.
Only in extreme cases...
 
I mean, people who choose to die like Brittany Maynard. Do you think she was wrong?
 
3:40 AM
Yes.
 
Yes, so do most of my friends. But I think she was wise well beyond her years.
why do you think it was wrong?
 
Life is not only about "you."
Sure, it is your life, but suicide is wrong too.
imo
:(
 
It's not an easy thing. But who wins (what is the reward) if you go through a terrible death (pain, seizures, loss of basically your self)?
It's personal, and a choice. It's awful. But I'm actually in favor of assisted suicide in terminal patients.
 
I am in favour of assisted suicide for all persons.
 
5 mins ago, by Ice Boy
Only in extreme cases...
 
3:45 AM
@IceBoy I agree.
 
...with ABSOLUTELY no hope!
and that decision should be made by the loved ones
they are the ones who live with the pain after
 
@JasperLoy In some scandanavian countries, you can obtain lethal drugs for depression if you meet the criteria. That, to me, is very, VERY thin ice.
@IceBoy absolutely.
 
@medica Good to hear. Sometimes, life is too hard. I have suffered too much. I don't know when it will end.
 
@JasperLoy And I understand that, I really, honestly do. When one feels complete hopelessness for a better future, suicide makes sense. But I think, too, that depression can get better for most people, even you, Jasper Loy.
But it takes effort.
And depressed people aren't interested in making the effort.
It's a catch 22.
I'm dizzy. I think I'll go to bed early. Take care, you two.
 
later pal
 
3:53 AM
:-)
 
:-)
@JasperLoy I will make you a believer.
It will end.
 
4:17 AM
I am so glad Yoichi-sama answered. What he recounts is just exactly what I strongly guessed had occurred.
Poor guy.
The Bat Signal is at 72. Really folks? Please help out.
 
link please
 
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A: Is there a word for "drab" with a positive connotation?

MakaylaAbbottYeah dude go with understated that is like way better than the word muted. There is my advice now in return you should call me at: (502)268-9465 do it I will like totally pick up we can talk about my address and you can come over sometime 😍😘😘😘😘😘😘😍 if you know what I mean lover boy . Let's...

Which is something else.
That posting is so weird I don’t even know what to flag it.
 
sexually frustrated and desperate?
 
 
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5:42 AM
I don’t know many cultivated saurians; the fossilized ones don’t really count as having been planted. Chickens are cultivated but rather silly looking as cultural icons. So if you’re looking for culture, I would go for either the great white egret or else the golden eagle, depending on just which look you’re after: the first elegant, the second regal. — tchrist 1 min ago
 
 
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8:05 AM
@tchrist Hmm somebody must actually have typed this.
 
 
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1:08 PM
Where is StoneyB?
 
 
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2:13 PM
@medica ha ha... no need to be humbled. When I say 'bores me to death' I mean that as 'would bore me to death from what I hear'.
 
2:33 PM
@tchrist You don't have to be so deferential. A simple "-san" would be good enough.
 
2:43 PM
what you Japanee?
 
3:27 PM
Restaurant reviews get compiled to bite code.
 
4:00 PM
What would be a good name for mm / %?
 
What is "mm / %"?
@JohanLarsson What does that mean?
 
length per percent
 
How about "length per percent"?
 
dunno if it means anything really I get that unit over the wire
I don't like the percent part
LengthPerFraction is not nice either
 
Seems like you're trying to describe length / 100
A percent of n is 1/100 * n or n / 100.
 
4:11 PM
I need to compensate a position x mm / % of another thing
Maybe I'm gonna make it simple for once
use doubles
 
Heh, is that what you were trying to avoid?
 
sounds strange for a js-guy right?
 
mm / % = mm / (1/100) = 100 mm
 
@JohanLarsson I know what doubles are.
 
I mean my type wankery
Do you have VS?
 
4:13 PM
I've programmed in languages that have strong data types.
@JohanLarsson Used to. Don't use it anymore.
 
ok, the lib is FOSS. I was fishing for a testdrive.
 
I've programmed in languages so weakly typed that you have to give them types just to get them going in the morning.
 
That must be a good thing if you have weak typing skills.
 
A weak typer with a strong compiler can still work.
 
english.stackexchange.com/help/badges/37/… (How to get eight gold badges on ELU by not being good at English)
 
4:29 PM
Compliance can mean: In mechanical science, the inverse of stiffness In healthcare: Compliance (medicine), a patient's (or doctor's) adherence to a recommended course of treatment Compliance (physiology), the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions Pulmonary compliance (or lung compliance), change in lung volume for applied or dynamic pressure Compliance (psychology), responding favorably to a request offered by others Regulatory compliance, adherence to standards, regulations, and other requirements Environmental compliance, conforming to environmental laws...
I think Flexibility sounds better
 
5:08 PM
^funny in Swedish
 
5:44 PM
@JohanLarsson That's where my bear went! What did you do with him?
 
Nothing he is on his way back.
 
@JohanLarsson Nice, thanks. It's dinner time so I figured he'd be a little cranky.
 
he was nice & classy
 
Thanks. He's usually really sweet but he doesn't know his own strength.
 
do you understand her coaching?
 
5:56 PM
What? I coach the bear, not the other way around.
But the woman yelling? no I don't understand a thing.
 
6:16 PM
@Mitch Sometimes you coach the b'ar . . . other times, why, the b'ar coaches you.
 
@Robusto Is that some kind of eastern thing?
 
6:32 PM
the east coast is the beast coast :P
 
7:05 PM
@IceBoy :)
 
:)
 
7:26 PM
Flexibility | Compliance for m/N
 
@Mitch Far from it.
 
7:43 PM
You mean Albuquerque?
 
7:58 PM
The Dude abides . . .
 
user55340
 
Too slow! See the starwall :)
yesterday, by oerkelens
user image
 
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Alas.
 
But that's one hell of a good cartoon :)
 
user55340
@terdon Too bad the star wall doesn't show sticky images.
 
8:03 PM
True, and yet, how horrible it would be if it did so.
 
user55340
I'll also point out some other odd synchronicity...
 
user55340
 
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@terdon Maybe you could persuade SE to do like Photography.SE does with their photo contest, and just have that sticking in the top of the main site all the time?
 
We'd have to use particularly interesting/funny/elegant utterances here though.
And I don't even want to guess what would end up on the top of the more geeky sites.
Stupid geeks.
Stupid Greeks.
 
@terdon links to xkcd images
 
8:07 PM
That I could live with :)
 
user55340
@terdon But 'Stupid' derives from Latin... not Greek.
 
links to corrections of xkcd images.
 
@terdon Hey, there is a user here that takes offence to that.
 
@MichaelT Yeah but stupid Leeks makes less sense. Plus, I'm Greek so I can get away with it. The Leek Anti Defamation league would have my balls otherwise.
 
And that user happens to be my wife!
 
8:08 PM
@oerkelens What? Who let all the riff-raff in?
 
@terdon LADI informed. authorities have been disptched. stay away from windows
 
Well, thanks. Have to go on the run. Again.
@oerkelens What? She's Greek? I thought you were married to a native speaker according to your profile.
You're not married to cornie are you?
 
@terdon Just deny liking quiche and you'll be OK.
 
posted on November 06, 2014 by sgdi

There once was a four foot piranha Wearing a bright red bandanna It searched for some meat So that it could eat It ended up with a banana

 
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Side bit... my favorite language etymology bit - mega (greek), magna (latin), maha (sanskrit).
 
8:10 PM
@MichaelT maha?
 
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@terdon maharaja, maharishi.
 
Oh, yes, but those are loan words.
 
user55340
Loan words? or common word from the parent language?
 
Not that common. Not unless we're talking about India.
Compare to magnanimous or megalomaniac that can be used in all sorts of contexts.
 
user55340
@terdon Its like father being similar in german, latin, sanskrit, and greek.
 
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8:13 PM
The following is a table of many of the most fundamental Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) words and roots, with their cognates in all of the major families of descendants. == Notes == The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although we give forms in modern languages for families in which the older stages of the languages are poorly documented or do not differ significantly from the modern languages. In addition, modern English forms are given for comparison purposes. Nouns are given in their nominative case, with...
 
user55340
The basic adjectives section... "big"
 
Yes, of course, the ma/e is presumably a PIE root.
@MichaelT I like that you made that observation using one of the few IE languages whose word for father does not start with a p :)
 
user55340
@terdon the spelling can be different than the pronunciation. /f/ and /p/ are similar sounds.
 
True enough.
Both labials or whatever they're called.
 
user55340
I think they're fricatives... though its been a long time since a linguistics class.
 
8:17 PM
Huh, I just realized that the p sound in English is harder than in Greek. The Greek is more aspirated, closer to an f. It's not an f, mind you, but closer. At least in my accent.
 
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The [p] is apparently a bilabial (uses two lips), while the [f] is a labial dental... "English has two such consonants, [f] and [v], both being fricatives; since it knows no bilabial fricatives and the only labiodentals are fricatives, we can say that English does not distinguish bilabials and labiodentals"
 
OK, thanks.
 
user55340
So, I was kind of right, at least within English... but I also didn't quite get it right either with respect to the IPA definition (which has nothing to do with beer).
 
Beer?
 
user55340
India Pale Ale (IPA) is a hoppy beer style within the broader category of pale ale. The first known use of the term "India pale ale" is an advertisement in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser in 1829. It was also referred to as pale ale as prepared for India, India Ale, pale India ale, or pale export India ale. == History == The term pale ale originally denoted an ale that had been brewed from pale malt. The pale ales of the early 18th century were lightly hopped and quite different from later pale ales. By the mid-18th century, pale ale was mostly manufactured with coke-fired malt...
 
user55340
8:24 PM
The International Phonetic Alphabet (unofficially—though commonly—abbreviated IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association as a standardized representation of the sounds of oral language. The IPA is used by lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, speech-language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators. The IPA is designed to represent only those qualities of speech that are part of oral language: phones, phonemes, intonation, and the...
 
Ah, sorry, never had it. I knew the alphabet.
 
@MichaelT mahi (hawaiian for big fish)
 
user55340
@Mitch In the final exam for linguistics, I recall a question that was re-creating proto-polynesian based on a number of polynesian languages. Kind of interesting (and not too hard because of the limited number of sounds)
 
@Mitch maki (Japanese for rolled fish)
or something
 
@MichaelT I've heard proto-polynesian is pretty easy since the colonization of the islands is only a litle over a thousand years old. more recent than the romance split.
@terdon ha ha... proto-World
 
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8:38 PM
Oh... another fun one. My brother took Sanskrit in college and told me of this one. The '-ter' ending is "one who does" or "person". han" is the verb "to kill" (dict). Thus a "hanter" is one who kills. Or a "hunter" once you go for the vowel shifts.
 
8:57 PM
dumpster - one who does dumps
 
@terdon teacher of English. They come in Greek versions too :)
 
@oerkelens Well then, tell her καλησπέρα from me :)
 
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@MichaelT Maha is loaned into Japanese as maka, as in 摩訶不思議 maka-husigi
 
WTF? Somebody upvoted this drivel!
@terdon with a man who keeps a mistress there is an element of payment - even if its nothing as crass as leaving money on the bedside table in the morning. Therefore Gigalo isn't an entirely unreasonable phrase to describe a "male mistress". — RobM 15 mins ago
Right, so by definition, a mistress is getting paid for her efforts. Note the use of keeps there too. Nice.
Must be a friend of our red dino's.
 
9:15 PM
@terdon What if it's for a cab ride home?
 
@Mitch What, can't you kick her far enough?
 
What, and ruin my shoes?
 
:)
 
 
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@Cerberus are you around?
 

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