@MattE.Эллен [ɡít] really?

@MattE.Эллен I've never once read a case of anything.

@tchrist what, there are options?

Next up they'll ask if tsk-tsk should be pronounced /t͡saˈt͡siːki/.

@tchrist It was that way for years. I see no reason for it to be changed

@MattE.Эллен I can name several. And they all start with i- and end in -acy.

@RegDwigнt iacy isn't a word I know

How do you mean that? I've just introduced you two. Show some manners, you.

IACy - the innovationagency network

> 51-200 employees.

Counting is hard. Let's go innovationagency.

In other news, every third beer worldwide is now coming from the same poodle puddle. Exciting.

what is a poodle puddle?

ah

Anheuser Busch just bought the puddle pictured for a nifty 96 billion.

Now your only options are 1) move to Germany 2) never have a beer again.

I don't like beer, so I'll stay where I am.

If they came for my cider, then that would be different

@RegDwigнt but Anheuser Busch are based in Belguim

@MattE.Эллен of course, that's because your beer is shit already.

I guess so. I've never had a good beer, so I assume all beer is shit.

@MattE.Эллен and Enron were based in the US. And VW are based in Germany. And Nickelback is based in Canada. Provenience does not matter if you are determined to screw up.

@MattE.Эллен well good news for you, then. Now can you assume it with more confidence.

@RegDwigнt but why would I move to Germany if I want beer, if AB are in Belguim?

Wait, you want to drink shit?

Sorry, I missed that part of the conversation.

no

it was hypothetical: if I like drinking shit, why would moving to Germany be what I should do?

Well, they do have Warsteiner in Germany. So there's that.

It's basically Miller Lite Lime but without the lime.

Again, if you are determinerd to screw up, you can screw up anywhere.

It's not like Germany has a record of suffering from lack of brown.

I think everyone knows all beer tastes horrible. They just pretend otherwise so they don't look stupid for drinking something that tastes so bad.

Congratulations, you've now read the Wikipedia article on beer.

:D

without even reading it!

You can now understand 1% of all English text.

the Internet's an amazing place

@MattE.Эллен well, read, written, same difference.

@MattE.Эллен how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like you.

wretches

If wretches had stretches we'd all match in batches.

Good question.

But a good question for Chess.SE.

Yes, although it might be a sports term in general.

not according to ODO, but maybe still

Yes, it might even be an English sports term in general.

But then what are the chances that we don't know what the hell it means.

on going

would be my guess

but, yeah

It's a guess

The way scores are counted in chess, that just makes no sense at all either way.

This sounds like some kind of bizzarro tennis shit.

Chess is simple. You get a point, or you get a half, or you go home cry on your mother's shoulder.

These are the options. These are all your options. No other options.

No 2 going or 3rd base or 11 meters.

@JohanLarsson snake climbing stairs

What a letdown. It's not climbing at all. It's sleeping.

is it a live video? it's been asleep for a while now

I think it's a death video.

:-o

alas poor snakey, I knew him, RegDwigнt

@RegDwigнt A score is counted in chess the way it is counted anywhere else. It always equals 20.

@Robusto not in Réaumur, no it does not.

They don't have scores in Réaumur.

They do have some chores. Or scores for short.

They have vingts in Réaumur. Not scores or chores.

You have the vingt to remain silent.

I would rather have Vingt Rhames on my side.

Who you gonna call? Rhymes Basta.

@MattE.Эллен The reason to change it is that what it says right now is nothing. IPA is [ɡɪt].

That's the IPA for git the insult, not git the SCM

Really?

I’ve never heard anyone say those two differently.

Okay now I'm confused who's saying what.

Did you just reverse your positions? Stop messing with my brain.

At any rate, ɡɪt is ɡɪt and there's no two ways about ɡɪt.

ɡɪt aʊt

Which reminds me that Shiites are just Finnish thanks.

Hallo

What is the noun for maim?

> maim: to mutilate or injure in a way that limits full use of the body.

Whatcha mean, the noun?

The result is a gimp. The process is thrashing. The tool is a bat.

And these are just examples.

@MattE.Эллен I honestly do not mean to quarrel; I just do not understand what your version means.

hmm? I mean fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb maim

Whatcha mean, the blanks?

A mutilation, perhaps.

I'm not even seeing a blanks.

> In cases of murder and bodily harm crime causing dismemberment, .... or property damage,

There you go

Mutilation it is.

@RegDwigнt Consider developing your patience

No. Consider writing in chronological order.

Life is too short to have patience.

@RegDwigнt No.

When you ask a question, I have to assume it is in your interest that we answer. I do not assume that we have to sit idle saying nothing until you've supplied something else.

@RegDwigнt Thank you.

No probs.

@RegDwigнt OK, you are right. My bad.

Still no probs.

The results are in.

Whodathunk, Sherlock.

A fugitive (or runaway) is a person who is fleeing from custody, what is the one who has helped them flee called?

the individual providing the grounds for escape

SWR

hi guys. i have a subtle question about definition of the word "bigot". now would you say a bigot is someone who hates all cultures other than their own, or just one particular culture?

A bigot is a person obstinately and unreasonably wedded to a particular religious creed, opinion, or ritual.

By being wedded to one opinion, the bigot rejects all others.

OK, then I will ask on main and that means more work for you @RegDwigнt as opposed to simply replying my chat message here devil smiley

@tchrist git with a high tone on the i

but to be honest, I can't find where I found that IPA, so maybe it doesn't matter anymore

You had said high tone before, but I had thought you were joking. I guess I’ve never seen English transcribed with tones before.

@MattE.Эллен Well, I lost it in Regent Street, so maybe that's where you picked it up.

The spycams have you dallying along Wardour Street at that hour, guvna.

If you can't be in several different places within a full 60 minutes, that's not my problem.

Maybe you should eat less cheese.

@MattE.Эллен ^^^^^^^^

Surprised they cover Dubstep.

@tchrist that was basically my definition; but you hear the term "anti-Muslim bigotry" to describe people who are just anti-Muslim

People do say that, yes.

how does that fall into the category of bigotry when they don't necessarily reject all cultures other than their own?

One can be bigoted against blacks, or moors, or blackmoors.

i don't see how

Can’t help you then.

you're not bigoted against something surely; you're bigoted in favour of something

No, against.

how?

Because that's how it's used.

it's not a useful usage of the term. it's basically equating "being against" with "being bigoted against"

If it weren't useful, it wouldn't be used.

not true

Whatever.

people falsely use the word "racist" all the time

No axe-grinding in this chat, Jez.

Very useful discussion that totally leads somewhere.

@tchrist :D wub wub

who said anything about axe-grinding

@Jez you just falsely used the word "word".

You do that all the time.

I think all the time is the wrong word.

Not true. It is four the wrong words.

The right word is ever and anon.

Not true. These are five the somewhat less wrong words.

I know a spade when I see one.

Not true. I know the spade when you see one.

He who lives by the spade is buried by the spade.

He who speaks the language does not understand the first thing about how words work.

Calamus gladio fortior.

I'm for the wrong word

For all the wrong reasons.

Four seasons

Sugar and salt and pepper and vinegar.

and cinnamon

And cardamon and lavender.

@MattE.Эллен Say no mon.

No man is an eyot.

No man for old countries.

Ware the country matters my lord, lest you attract jezebels.

Warez the country matters my lord.

Why in the country patch, natch.

> Source: Arabic is my mother-tongue (I speak English very well too).

That must lead to cabbage patch kids

Whoa whoa whoa buddy, you no get to be the judge on that.

Also what the hell does it even have to do with anything.

I listen to English very well

Your answer is about Arabic. It does not matter one bit if you speak any English at all.

All that matters is if you speak any Arabic.

I do not

"In Russian, sputnik means 'satellite'. Source: I know English very well!".

It is an accepted axiom of Unix wizardry that no wizard calls himself that, for it is a title bestowed upon him by the vulgar masses — et mutatis mutandis for English.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

Hm. To quote The Big Lebowski, what the fuck you talking about?

Which reminds me: @Robusto teh Coen bro's hez makes new movie.

Competence is more oft proclaimed than achieved.

Never trust someone who touts themself an expert.

Expertise should be manifest in their acts.

I achieve competence all day long. I've not once proclaimed any competence.

Thank God someone's working on fixing the balance!

Never trust a doctor who puts M.D. after his name.

Dr. Marcus Delano Physicker, M.D.

Never trust a chiropractor who ... need I go on?

You probably should have stopped one word before who.

Language! It's like a blank cheque, one that lets people say whatever they like! It can't go on.

The word before who being chiropractor, I probably should have stopped the chiropractor. I guess there are a lot of people who in hindsight have said the same thing.

@MattE.Эллен And whatever they don't like.

Most importantly, what I don't like.

@MattE.Эллен That’s what he said about his mother-in-law.

Language can't go on. It'll go on!

Gawn you.

Only the show must go on

A poodle puddle paddle battle

Snicker doodle oo.

@tchrist I thought that was "Take my mother-in-law. Please."

Your heart can go on.

If your girl starts acting up, then you take her mother-in -law

Wait... That's not right

On and on and on an on

Dum ditty dum ditty break of dawn

On is just another word for nothing left to lose.

Nothing is better than having nothing left to lose

Having nothing left is better than having nothing to lose

Well at least you have something.

Does the following text make sense to you?

> If a person helps someone who has committed an intentional offence escape, he is required to hand over the fugitive. In cases of murder and bodily harm crime causing dismemberment or Mutilation or property damage, when arrest of the accomplice may result in presence of the accused or accomplice persuading the accused appear, the court must arrest the accomplice - demanded by the victim or victim's heirs- until apprehending the accused is done.

So three logicans walk into a bar

The bartender asks if any of them would like a drink.

The first one says no.

@Gigili the hyphens make no sense at all. Other than that, it's par for the course for legalese.

And the stuff between the hyphens. The whole parenthesis seems out of place.

@RegDwigнt The hyphens or the sentence in between?

The hyphens.

Oh, hmm, I should've used dash, right?

Also I would write "to appear".

They are supposedly supposed to be dashes, but even so it's not clear why one would be spaced differently from the other.

Right.

Thank you.

As to the sentence in-between, I've not really read it, like I've not really read the rest, like I've not really read any legalese ever.

It loses me after three words, tops.

Tops is one word.

So if your legalese manages to lose me after three words, tops, then it's very good legalese.

@MετάEd sorry I am very bad at botany.

@RegDwigнt More legalese than expected?

Try exile in Australia.

He's probably bad at that too

I ruined the logic joke.

You ruined everything.

And then you went and ruined some more.

Should be, instead of 'any of them', 'you all'

Should be, instead of 'any of them', 'Annie of Hall'.

Then it wouldn't be totally ruined

Just a mannish tie

Not until you'd gone on to make fifty horrible movies.

Oh right! That movie with that other actress

If you think about it, Woody Allen is like Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton. Famous for being famous.

May or may not have done something or no thing of notice, but who cares now.

Who was married to that other actor (in the movie) with the...

Running up the stairs?

... beard?

No, no beard. I think that narrow it down considerably

Well, it narrows it down to people with no beards, which is most people.

Also, most aliens, I guess.

Including illegal aliens.

Including Sting.

Except that one time when he did sport a beard.

Sting has an invisible beard. It's chin colored

You sir are no sting

Also, his hair is hat colored.

And that hat!

Jinx!

His feet are boot colored, too.

Boots are underrated. So much better for walking than nothing

These boots are for walking all over you.

I'd prefer sensible shoes

Moccasins to be exact

With tassels

How are mocca sins different from regular coffee sins?

Also, dude, moccasins is not the preferred nomenclature. Iranian Americans, please.

Man you should see the calories you get with extra whipped cream

Say that again.

Cool hwat?

I know! It's Persian. Like the cat. You know the one in that movie. With the squirrel. Who drank coffee

@Mitch also, all Tassels got killed by ChristophEr WalkEn.

Some of the Garrets, too.

Wait is the movie 'the color purple', does that color involved at all in the plot?

I don't think I ever watched that one, or ever will.

Like did the detective realize that the killer must be colorblind because the victim pulled the plug on the clock showing the exact time of death and the tv show on at that time was the weather and etc etc...

I think that's Mississippi Burning, dude.

Leif Garrett?

Leif or deth.

I never saw that movie. How about Mississippi masala?

I didn't see that one either. Wasn't that guy in the upside down airplane alcoholism movie in both?

Desmond Wilkington?

Look man I need answers. Why are there no moon base plans? Some one should take responsibility for these lapses

While he's at it, he should take responsibility for the Playboy no longer having nekkid pix.

Do they still have comics?

No, that's the New Yorker.

@crl :)

i don't read the New Yorker for the articles

You only read the pictures?

Hilarious.

source tweet

ha

lool

It is, indeed, an over-used phrase.

Often used incorrectly or irrelevantly.

like "web-scaling"/scalability

Never heard of that.

dude, does your app scales?

I don't create apps.

means: "can handle or not an exponential growth of connections"

@MattE.Эллен Cute. Unfortunately, it looks a whole lot like falsified (or at least highly selective) data. A quick check on Google ngrams shows somewhat different results.

books.google.com/ngrams/…

If you just ran it up through 1975, it would fit a lot better though.

wall pedantic

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: What does the term "crack-a-lacking" mean? by Nicolette Brown on english.stackexchange.com

@Cerberus if you created an app, then. You could respond hypothetically. But since you haven't created an app, you can only hypothetically respond hypothetically

Also, I look at the articles, glance at the comics and read the captions.

Does a double hypothesis cancel itself?

@JerryCoffin oh well.

@crl I have an Alligator app. It scales.

scares also

Yes, also it bites.

And it converts to a tote bag.

@RegDwigнt: You're talking about Hail, Caesar? Starring Scarlett Johansson and Josh Brolin? Looks like it's ready for a 2016 release.

BTW, Fargo Season 2 has premiered as of last night.

Hi all :)

@IceGirl Hi

Howdy.