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I read about it! Nice.

I am thinking of getting either Oxford Advanced American Dictionary or Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary for American English. Any tips on which of the two to choose?

@snailboat Yes, I already did that, but just asking for personal opinions.

OK @Robusto I will take the NY Jets -2.5, I need to make-up for that mis-call on TB :-)

@snailboat I have decided to get MW, thanks.

Do anyone one have any idea about synfig?

@snailboat I don't like MW Collegiate because it does not use IPA!

@snailboat And I purposely got an American Eng dictionary since I intend to move there, lol. Though that may not happen...

@snailboat 'zero' is misleading as you note, and much more misleading than conversion. I'd go so far as to say that yes it is theoretical baggage, but misguided theory. There's no invisible unspoken morpheme there going from clean as an adjective to clean as a verb. It just is.

Prolly closeable as a software-disguised-as-English question?

Why is closing so important?

Hi @StoneyB

hi pal

and others

:D

@Arrowfar do you watch Monday Night football?

icic

Orly?

Oh Really

This song defines the raiders

:D

Not now a days, but they were huge in the 70/80's

No one stays at the top forever.

@Arrowfar Yes, they are well below average today... The teams are ordered and the last place team picks first in the draft the next year.

Yep, in all pro sports.

@Arrowfar Yes, but only 3 games have been played out of 16

Football is a game of staying injury free after all those brutal hits they take.

@Arrowfar I used to play in high school.

@snailboat I agree.

@Arrowfar American football came from "Rugby"

soccer = association football

Oh, we're talking about the origin of a couple of sports, I guess.

Rugby is not the same as American Football!

Definitely not!

@AndrewLeach Came from

My brother got his shoulder dislocated once because of the rugby.

@AndrewLeach like baseball came from cricket

@IceBoy Probably. But all of that protective gear is outlawed in Rugby.

@IceBoy Baseball is much more like rounders than cricket.

icic

No, that's American Football.

Rugby has no protective gears. Like, at all.

Rugby has no PPE and is less airborne.

(Possibly not much less airborne, but challenges tend to be ground-based)

My brother usually said, "moving forward inch by inch".

@Arrowfar They also have an international world cup of rugby, not like american football that only has the super bowl

Anyway: lightning visit. It's midnight and I'm off to bed.

Also, in rugby, they scrum a lot.

later @AndrewLeach

Rest well!

@Arrowfar Thanks for asking :-)

I think Australian football is a bit different from American football. Not sure.

The Australian's game is very similar to the british rugby game.

American football is unique to America and Canada

We have its variant, flag football, here!

yep, all the running and no hitting :-)

LOL -- It could be fun, though.

it looks fun

trying to pull the flag off

I think someone started it here around six or seven years ago. It's probably originated somewhere else, perhaps the US.

But NFL is definitely the origin of flag football.

yes, it has been around in the US for many years

A small quiz: Which country do you think is the country of origin of American Fried Rice?

Korea?

Three guesses. Try again. :)

Thia land?

Hooray! That's the correct answer!

I googled :(

I still can't tell which country is the origin of fortune cookie.

Japan?

Some said that, but others said the US. :)

Ask on an Asian.SE

Just a guess :-)

Me neither.

@snailboat Have you ever gotten one from a Chinese restaurant that switched your body with someone else (like in Freaky Friday)?

No. It was just a plain question. :)

Fortune cookie usually reminds me of that movie.

A mom and a daughter went to a Chinese restaurant together. They both received their fortune cookies, and they switched their bodies!

Jamie Lee Curtis was the mom and Lindsay Lohan was the daughter.

It was actually quite good, imo. I think the producer must've taken "put yourself in other's shoes" too literally. :-)

It's not an action movie, so I guess there was no scene that would really be a high impact scene.

I think it had a few emotional scenes.

Maybe just one. I can remember one.

The mom was about to get married. But the daughter was still trapped in her mother's body.

So the mother, who was still in her daughter's body, accepted the fact that they couldn't switch their bodies back before the wedding, and decided to call off the wedding.

So she told her daughter (who was in her body) to call off the wedding.

And the daughter decided to do something else.