English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

crl

9:38 AM

@Robusto oh ok, "I fell badly" is the 'same' idea as "I run badly" (defecting way)

RegDwigнt

The same than? What is this grammar?

crl

a loose grammar

Relish

A relish is a cooked, pickled, or chopped vegetable or fruit food item typically used as a condiment in particular to enhance a staple. It originated in India and has since become popular throughout the world. Examples are jams, chutneys, and the North American relish, a pickled cucumber jam eaten with hot dogs or hamburgers. == Description and ingredients == The item generally consists of discernible vegetable or fruit pieces in a sauce, although the sauce is subordinate in character to the vegetable or fruit pieces. It might consist of a single type of vegetable or fruit, or a combination of...

RegDwigнt

That's a relish of the past.

crl

funny because you could mean relic or relict

RegDwigнt

Funny because I didn't know you was Captain Obvious!

Welcome to chat, sir.

RegDwigнt

11:27 AM

Yo dawg, i herd u liek camera's, so we put camera's in ur camera's so u can camera while u camera.

Zoom in, baby.

tchrist

11:40 AM

Domino?

tchrist

12:19 PM

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Q: Does a landscape lay or lie in the present tense?

There is a lot of information regarding the correct use of lays vs lies. How does this apply to landscape in present tense? For example: Hi sits on a rock. A wide turquoise bay lies spread before him or Hi sits on a rock. A wide turquoise bay lays spread before him Lie: to recline L...

He wants a personal answer to the same question as has been asked so many times before.

RegDwigнt

I like personal answers.

They are so personal.

Now, what the heck is going on with the most personal formatting here:

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Q: What do you solve?

What are different things that can be solved? For the purposes of responding to a complaint "I can't solve this!" with the intent: "That's because it's not a(n) ______". Words considered so far: Problem Equation Puzzle Specifically the response should convey comfort to the complainant. "Yo...

single-word-requests phrase-requests correspondence

That is OVER 9000 Lawlers.

tchrist

I can't tell how much money they're asking for.

RegDwigнt

12:36 PM

I can, if you give me money.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt How much is that in roubles?

RegDwigнt

The format is too cryptic to tell. I have to format my piggybank first.

Robusto

Just publish the contents of your piggyback on any Russian site. They'll format it for you.

tchrist

Hogback ridge?

crl

@RegDwigнt ah sorry, they are just the same word, I'm naive I thought relic = reliques in French, and relict = vestiges (fr)

Robusto

12:41 PM

@crl No drawing inferences about English from French in chat.

tchrist

Welcome to the drawing room.

Robusto

Everyone knows French is crazy and English is the One True Language. English is the new Lingua Franca! Suck on that, Charlemagne!

Both the original Charlemagne and that impostor in The Economist.

tchrist

English without French is Dutch.

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Robusto

Oh, we may have borrowed a few million things from French (cf. Freedom Fries), but we have given them their Freedom.

tchrist

Arbeit macht frei.

Robusto

12:45 PM

Papas fritas te hacen libre.

tchrist

You know, they’re really Spanish fries, not French ones.

Robusto

Spanish flies?

tchrist

That would be long.

Robusto

> Utilizamos la expresión “tócame los huevos“, acompañado del gesto de echarse mano a los mismísimos, en señal de menosprecio y burla hacia nuestro interlocutor . . .

No sabía eso.

crl

No sablea queso.

RegDwigнt

12:52 PM

@tchrist flat and flooded?

Robusto

Cheesy.

Tried to quit my job yesterday. It didn't take. I have to try harder.

crl

just give your resignation

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Red Leicester? Tilsit? Four ounces of Caerphilly? Bel Paese? Red Windsor? Stilton?

Robusto

@crl I tried to. My boss asked me not to make a decision yet. Go home, relax, come in Monday and we'll talk more.

@RegDwigнt Yes.

RegDwigнt

Ugh. Talking on Mondays. There are people who think that helps keep people?

@Robusto Brie, Roquefort, Pont-l'Eveque, Port Salut, Savoyard, Saint-Paulin, Carre-de-L'Est, Boursin, Bresse Bleu, Perle de Champagne? Camembert, perhaps?

No matter. Fetch hither the fromage de la Belle France!

I don't care how fucking runny it is. Hand it over with all speed.

Robusto

12:58 PM

@RegDwigнt All these and more.

RegDwigнt

Tish tish. Unfinest cheese shop in the district. Too contaminated by cheese.

Robusto

How come you never hear about Russian cheeses?

Or Russian Jesus, for that matter.

RegDwigнt

I think there are like two or three. And they suck.

Robusto

This is why France is more civilized. You can get both great cheese and great bread.

@crl: ^

RegDwigнt

Russia doesn't really produce anything, you know. Much like America. Mostly just shitty movies and wars.

Come to think of it, does America even produce two or three shitty cheeses?

Not counting the ones in cans. That's cheating.

Robusto

1:03 PM

We produce artisanal cheeses in places like Vermont, but most cheese Americans eat ain't really cheese. It has to call itself "cheese food" because they can't call it cheese.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yeah you know what I came to be quite disappointed with French bread. It's like Russia all over again. There's the baguette, and then there's the flute, and then there's the fuck-you-what-else-do-you-need-bugger-off.

Robusto

What is amusing (or alarming, take your pick) is that Russia and America can't resist inheriting failed wars from each other. Russia went into Afghanistan for a lengthy stay, failed, and got out. So what do we do? We go in there and in Iraq and pick up the failure where Russia left off. Now Russia is looking to fail once again where we have failed.

RegDwigнt

And only the flute tastes any good. And it's not even a bread in its own right, just an overweight baguette. So basically epic fails on all but one count.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Many more kinds I have seen. You have never visited a good boulangerie in Paris?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto the world is tiny. Only so many places to pick from. And it's easier to war-tear what's already war-torn. Frees up money for pockets.

@Robusto oh sure enough I have. But we are not talking a good boulangerie in Paris. We are talking France. Just like we are talking Russia, and not a good cheese shop in Moscow. A good cheese shop in Moscow will have everything to make you happy till the end of times.

Including an endless variety of Russian cheeses that don't taste like shoe soles made of tofu.

Robusto

1:11 PM

You realize that without oil, the entire Middle East would garner approximately the same amount of attention that the world accords Mali right now.

RegDwigнt

There's Mali right now?

Robusto

As we speak.

RegDwigнt

Hm.

Last thing I heard was some nonsense about people speculating that Merkel would get the Nobel prize. Then I remembered why I stopped caring about news.

Somewhere in that two-step process, Mali fell through the cracks.

Oh and yeah, I also was presented with that picture of a 16-camera camera.

Robusto

Well, they gave Obama a Nobel prize for doing even less.

RegDwigнt

Life sucks if you don't ignore everything.

@Robusto hey now, at least Obama then went on to do more of doing even less. Merkel never even bothered with that.

Robusto

1:15 PM

> CHEMISTRY PRIZE — Callum Ormonde and Colin Raston [AUSTRALIA], and Tom Yuan, Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William A. Brown, Kaitlin Pugliese, Tivoli Olsen, Mariam Iftikhar, Gregory Weiss [USA], for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg.

> ECONOMICS PRIZE — The Bangkok Metropolitan Police [THAILAND], for offering to pay policemen extra cash if the policemen refuse to take bribes.

RegDwigнt

Seriously, if Nobel prize weren't a bad joke, I'd call it a bad joke now. It's a prize for one person. Pick one. Fuck all the other guys. One guy's the guy.

Robusto

Ig Nobel prizes.

RegDwigнt

If you want to give out prizes to X people each year, then just make the prize happen X times a year.

Robusto

> BIOLOGY PRIZE — Bruno Grossi, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A. Vásquez [CHILE], José Iriarte-Díaz [CHILE, USA], for observing that when you attach a weighted stick to the rear end of a chicken, the chicken then walks in a manner similar to that in which dinosaurs are thought to have walked.

RegDwigнt

I mean, even when there was only one winner, you could barely remember his name just a month later. And now you are forced to not even note it in the first place. Who reads the fourth name on a list of seven?

MετάEd

1:19 PM

@RegDwigнt It's important to read all the obits in case you're on the list.

RegDwigнt

Oh yeah if I'm on the list, that's when I most certainly ignore any names but mine.

Robusto

> NEUROSCIENCE PRIZE [CHINA, CANADA]: Jiangang Liu, Jun Li, Lu Feng, Ling Li, Jie Tian, and Kang Lee, for trying to understand what happens in the brains of people who see the face of Jesus in a piece of toast.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto hey wait a minute I tried to understand that, too.

Where is my prize?

Robusto

Get in line.

RegDwigнt

Obviously, Yoda is not on their board.

Don't, or do not. There's Nobel prize for try.

Anyway. On to looking at pics of 福島県.

Cerberus

1:31 PM

What happened there?

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus google "福島県".

Cerberus

Aha, Fukushima.

RegDwigнt

This one really looks a lot like Pripyat.

Cerberus

I suppose.

RegDwigнt

This one, not so much.

Cerberus

1:33 PM

But Fukushima is a lot less bad.

RegDwigнt

Not that they had no computers back then, I mean there's no photos of birds shitting indoors.

Curious.

@Cerberus yes, this chart's been posted a couple times before here.

Now this is more like Pripyat again. In twenty years, it might be indistinguishable from it.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt I know.

I wonder what caused the floor to collapse.

RegDwigнt

How about the earthquake.

Just a wild guess.

Like this, just underneath a floor rather than cows.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt That sunken area is just the main floor now. The rest is the mezzanine section.

RegDwigнt

Massive Attack indeed.

Cerberus

1:40 PM

@RegDwigнt Ah, I had forgotten. But that is a great picture.

RegDwigнt

Of course. It was created by God himself.

MετάEd

Banana na na, na na na na. Banana na na na na na-na-na. Banana na na, na na na na. Banana gang bang na na na na na.

RegDwigнt

MetaEd had too many bananas with caesium in them.

Robusto

THE NAME GAME SHIRLEY ELLIS

►

RegDwigнt

Curiously, the wiki page on caesium has not a mention of bananas.

terdon

1:43 PM

Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper

►

RegDwigнt

@Robusto don't call her Shirley.

Robusto

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

RegDwigнt

The week's alright, but you picked the wrong glue to quit sniffing.

MετάEd

@RegDwigнt Put the cow down.

RegDwigнt

I will put the cow down when you pry her from my cold dead hands.

terdon

1:56 PM

@RegDwigнt Is that Black Uhuru?

Robusto

@terdon Those are some kind of maxifigs.

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Q: Why do these similar words have pronunciations?

So looking through other answers on this site listed here Why do certain words have the same type of spelling but different pronunciation? Why do written English vowels differ from other Latin-based orthographies? Are there rules of pronunciation for words in English? Why is "go" spelled with th...

etymology orthography

Hmm, don't all words have pronunciations?

Even flawed ones?

RegDwigнt

Robusto has no pronunciations.

I tried to pronounce it once, and then Fukushima happened.

Won't try again.

Robusto

2:17 PM

Apr 9 at 0:39, by Robusto

A wise policy.

MετάEd

@Robusto Maybe they're masticators.

RegDwigнt

I am looking out of the window and there is a car painted in a color. Is there a word for this?

Matt E. Эллен

2:33 PM

I'd go with Mercedes

user116848

Hi Matty!

user116848

I have an English question. May I?

Matt E. Эллен

hi!

sure

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен hm. Well no, perhaps I should stress that I am looking out of the window.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt would two words do, or does it have to be one?

RegDwigнt

2:35 PM

I need one word, preferably a past participle.

If that doesn't work, a future participle will do I suppose.

Also the third letter must be h.

Matt E. Эллен

cahpitalised

RegDwigнt

That's a good one, but I mean the third from the end.

Sorry.

Matt E. Эллен

lol

Saskatched

user116848

@MattE.Эллен I have a habit of starting a sentence sometimes with "Yeah" even when I'm not necessarily agreeing with anything. It doesn't look like I'm agreeing with the previous statement, right?

user116848

For example,

user116848

2:38 PM

> You say: I get many updates for my browser.
I say: *Yeah* updates suck.

user116848

(I mean I’m not agreeing or anything, just writing my sentence like that. So can it be misinterpreted? Or the other person will know that I’m just giving my views and not passing any judgements)

Matt E. Эллен

it does look like you're agreeing, in a sympathetic way

user116848

I see.

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен On that's excellent. Will that also work in an academic context? Specifically, calling Her Majesty a hobo on Twitter?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Arrowfar Yes, it could be misinterpreted.

anything can, really.

user116848

2:40 PM

okay, thanks.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt you'd have to be careful in academic contexts, especially one involving the queen. I thnk you need a word that conveys something about carriages, in that case.

RegDwigнt

Oh crap. I'm almost done with the tweet now. Need help quick!

user116848

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 But sometimes I see people start sentences with "yeah" a lot. So it is dialectical or something?

Matt E. Эллен

@Arrowfar it is often used like, um, er, or other filler words

user116848

@MattE.Эллен Yes, that's what I mean. Thanks. So I can use it as a filler word right?

Matt E. Эллен

2:43 PM

@Arrowfar yes, but it might be misinterpreted

user116848

Oh.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Arrowfar Yeah it's a bit of a filler word. It doesn't exactly convey agreement or assent or "yes". In situations where you need to be unambiguous you should avoid saying that.

user116848

okay.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt sorry, I think you'll need to ask on Quora

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Some people use the construction "Yeah, no".

RegDwigнt

2:44 PM

I don't know why people keep saying that the Japanese hai has no translation in English. Yeah is the perfect translation.

Saying yes without saying yes, and often with not saying yes at all.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Language Log on "Yeah no"

Matt E. Эллен

domo arigato Reg-kun

RegDwigнt

Anyway. Good news, everybody! I have only just sent out my very first Tweet! I know I know, a bit of a late bloomer here.

Matt E. Эллен

what is your first tweet?

RegDwigнt

> Saskatched @Queen_UK #hobo

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:46 PM

Wait, you figured out what twitter is for?

Matt E. Эллен

lol

RegDwigнt

Thanks to everyone in this room for their generous help, and Matt in particular.

Matt E. Эллен

np

RegDwigнt

Much appreciated. Will visit again!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I have a twitter account. Don't know what to do with it.

RegDwigнt

2:47 PM

You could tweet with it.

Matt E. Эллен

my last tweet pointed out that pictures allow you to have tweets with as much text as you like

RegDwigнt

I'm not aware of anything else you could do.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I have other platforms that are better suited towards saying things.

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Other platforms? Certainly you mean other shopping carts?

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Q: How to substitude "shopping cart"?

All the time in articles we need to use "shopping cart". It can, of course be replaced with "platform" or "shopping platform"? What other words or phrases can be used as synonyms?

synonyms

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I actually have an audience on G+ and FB. I have a blog. Why do I need twitter? So I can shout into the noise?

Matt E. Эллен

2:48 PM

lol

user116848

In Urdu hai means "is". It is written as: ہے

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Twitter is like trying to get everyone to pee into the ocean at once.

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 if you shout into the abyss, the abyss will shout into you. What's not to love?

Matt E. Эллен

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 G+?! I mean, I have a G+ page, but I have no idea what's on it

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattE.Эллен I have some followers there and am part of some communities where people post things. So if I had something to say, I could say it there, and someone would read it.

Or I could post on my blog, and nobody would read it, but the could.

Matt E. Эллен

2:50 PM

:D

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

same for twitter, I guess, but with no features and pointless restrictions.

Matt E. Эллен

twitter is great for learning how to edit long thoughts into short ones

if you'll have 10 seconds to explain something, figure out how to fit it in a tweet

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен not to mention that pictures are much more efficient at storing plain text than plain text.

Matt E. Эллен

very true

RegDwigнt

Good thing they placed a limit on the right thing.

Matt E. Эллен

2:52 PM

otherwise the internet would be full of text instead of pictures with text in

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 you do know that everyone right now is peeing into the ocean at once? And has been for the last 5 ~~billion~~ thousand years?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattE.Эллен You mean it's great for trying to reduce complex ideas with nuance and subtley and challenging notions into terse statements that are (1/2)

easy to repeat but ultimately less enlightening, truthy rather than truthful. (2/2) #fighttheman

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен just throw out every second letter, and then every second letter of what's left. DUH.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 it's great for learning how to keep the nuance with fewer chars

RegDwigнt

Twitter doesn't teach people how to be more concise. It teaches them how to be less concise but now with worse spelling and JPEG artifacts.

Progress, yo.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:55 PM

@RegDwigнt And what good has it done us, eh?

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 well for starters, it got us your blog.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt Q E Fucking D.

RegDwigнt

Which I've never read or visited, but I assume it exists. Probably. Perhaps.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

You should visit. I posted about Lego, once. or thrice.

Matt E. Эллен

RegDwigнt

2:56 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 in that case maybe I have.

@MattE.Эллен too long, didn't watch.

Lest I came around to noticing how it can't even spell "Twitter" twice.

"I've spelled a word once, what do you need me to spell it again for?"

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt My last post was about Lego. Looking at when it was posted it seems I don't post there much anymore.

Matt E. Эллен

It spells it right twice.

it's the thrid time it falls down on

RegDwigнt

I did say it was too long for me to count all the times it had words.

Basically I just looked at the gay Winnnie Pooh in the background.

And even that was a huge letdown after a while.

Matt E. Эллен

much like life

RegDwigнt

Life is just a file.

And you don't even get to know if it's on God's hard drive or the NSA's.

Matt E. Эллен

3:05 PM

maybe God's on the NSA's harddrive

RegDwigнt

God's not on Twitter, that's for sure.

Matt E. Эллен

There are some impersonators, though

user116848

Is Latex or MS Word better for making a thesis?

RegDwigнt

God should get with the times and forbid Twitter. Nobody wants their neighbor's cattle anyway.

Matt E. Эллен

Instead of sending you all to hell I've decided it would be easier to just send hell to you.

Tweeted by TheTweetOfGod on October 2, 2015 at 5:19 AM

RegDwigнt

3:07 PM

@Arrowfar Latex, of course.

user116848

Here they say use Word. But Word can be a hassle sometimes. i dunno.

RegDwigнt

MS Word is not better for anything. It is not even better for itself.

user116848

Heh, okay.

Matt E. Эллен

I was supposed to end the world yesterday, but then I got high. Happens every-time! xD

Tweeted by TheGoodGodAbove on October 8, 2015 at 4:17 PM

Robusto

What about Word of God? Does that mean God uses MS Word? And if He does, shouldn't we?

RegDwigнt

3:08 PM

One day it will just paint every other letter blue, and you won't know why, and it won't be possible to change it back short of buying a new PC and writing it all from scratch.

Matt E. Эллен

This is amazing! Computers are now making me and my wrath obsolete: http://universesandbox.com/

Tweeted by god on September 10, 2015 at 11:17 PM

user116848

@Robusto Yeah my teacher kinda said it like this "Only MS Word.".

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен I was supposed to learn spel-ling yester-day, but then I got hig-h.

Matt E. Эллен

I would love it if some of you could tell other twepes (sp?) about me. It's hard to make a name separate from your husband when he's God.

Tweeted by TweetOfMrsGod on June 13, 2014 at 5:39 AM

Robusto

My advice: shit-can the grammar checker at least.

RegDwigнt

3:09 PM

Okay hold it. Wait a minute. Is this Twitter?

Cuz if it is, I'm not following.

Matt E. Эллен

yes

gog, god, god and Mrs. god on twitter

RegDwigнt

That's racist.

Matt E. Эллен

at least it's not killing people

RegDwigнt

Let me understand, you got the god, the god and the mrs. god. The god goes with the god. So, who's having sex with the mrs. god?

You see my point here? You only hear of a god, a god and a mrs. god. Something's missing!

That's perverse.

Matt E. Эллен

the father, the son and the holy spirit, and mrs god. I assume that the father is having sex with mrs god, and the other two are getting it on

RegDwigнt

3:14 PM

The Telnet, the Sun, and the holy Sprint.

It's actually worrying to see how little progress there is in the field of pizza boxes.

Matt E. Эллен

worrying? why improve on something that works?

RegDwigнt

How's that an improvement? Today's pizza boxes have no RAM and don't run Solaris.

That's a massive downgrade if there ever was one.

Matt E. Эллен

George Clooney doesn't need more exposure

RegDwigнt

> Sun SPARCstation 1+ "pizzabox", 25 MHz SPARC processor, early 1990s

See, it wasn't even a proper pizzabox, they had to squarequote it, and yet it had a friggin monitor!

Matt E. Эллен

that looks more like a computer than a pizza box

RegDwigнt

3:17 PM

You look more like a computer than a pizza box.

Matt E. Эллен

true

RegDwigнt

You also are more like a computer than a pizza box.

And why??

Well precisely because there's been so little progress in the field of pizza boxes.

Matt E. Эллен

because otherwise I'd get bored

RegDwigнt

For make benefit the great nation of Kazakhstan, no doubt.

tchrist

@Robusto Y más.

RegDwigнt

3:23 PM

Hm. Why does the pic for Government Hooker have Gaga shoving stuff up her vagina?

user116848

Is Latex something xxx too? I was searching for its software but got some out of the blue results as well. The hell?

RegDwigнt

Also, what's that to do with huevos?

Matt E. Эллен

@Arrowfar latex is a substance for making things

people make underwear and stuff

user116848

Ah.

RegDwigнt

Latex is the gum thing fabric.

Matt E. Эллен

3:24 PM

Χ at the end of LateΧ is actually a Greek letter χ I think

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен yes, which is why it's pronounced like that.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/De-LaTeX.ogg

Matt E. Эллен

χΧχΧχΧχΧχΧ

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your Twitter.

Matt E. Эллен

Matthew Ellen

@MellenTheNerd

Programmer, drummer.

611 tweets, 47 followers, following 73 users

RegDwigнt

Whoa whoa whoa I said I wanted to subscribe to it, not have it shoved in my face.

Also you're not The Nerd. Not even A Nerd. Just A Troll.

Matt E. Эллен

3:28 PM

@RegDwigнt the quickest way to let you subscribe is to shove it in your face

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен you should meet more people.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt Says A. N Other Troll

RegDwigнt

No. I'm not on Twitter. Which makes me The Troll.

I've trolled all the trolls in one fell swoop.

Also WTF a drummer. I've always pictured you like more of a flutist.

user116848

@MattE.Эллен I didn't know you were a drummer. Cool!

RegDwigнt

But I suppose that's what y'all posh bankers do at night, go boxing and drumming.

Matt E. Эллен

3:31 PM

I should probably edit that bit. I haven't drummed in ages. Or I should start drumming again

RegDwigнt

I've seen a documentary or two.

@MattE.Эллен false dichotomy. You could do many other things other than these two things.

Matt E. Эллен

I am constrained by fate

RegDwigнt

Yes, like all those posh folks. Who are so posh the fate prevents them from learning the word "yes", so they have to spend all their lives saying "ears" instead.

Matt E. Эллен

ears, aaav heard sach things.

tchrist

wonders how one says posh in America

RegDwigнt

3:43 PM

Beverly Hills 90210.

If you say it really fast, you can say it in one word.

tchrist

Bilsen.

RegDwigнt

And now you know what Tom Hanks was talking about on that deserted island.

tchrist

That one in the Whitsundae Isles, you mean?

RegDwigнt

What's that to do with ice cream?

Well, anyway.

I hope you've learned all the english today, children.

Next class on Monday.

user116848

Not tomorrow?

RegDwigнt

3:51 PM

Tomorrow you have a day off for tweeting.

And don't forget to tweet God on His day.

Elaborate daily phrase and avoid grammetically. Just like we've learned.

Robusto

@tchrist mismísimos means "the same" as a reference to an earlier subject?

tchrist

The very same.

Robusto

Ah.

@MattE.Эллен Most of the pizza boxes I've seen came without peripherals.

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto most of the ones I've seen come with garlic mayonaise

Robusto

I've never seen a computer that came with garlic mayonnaise. I had to supply that.

Cerberus

3:57 PM

Aïoli?

@Robusto What did you think the mayonnaise-jar-holder was for?

Robusto

Good tip. makes notes

tchrist

@Robusto No pornographic allusions in this chat.

Cerberus

This is apparently a real thing.

tchrist

Not a very good cupholder.

Robusto

4:54 PM

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Q: How to write grammatically correct sentence

Which sentence is grammatically correct : I would like to know how you spent the day or I would like to know how you spend the day

grammaticality

tchrist

Don’t migrate.

Robusto

I did "what research?"

@tchrist Now that you're a mod on Portuguese, do you have a hammer-vote on all sites?

MετάEd

@tchrist Immigrate.

Flemish.

tchrist

@Robusto Then I couldn't vote at all.

Robusto

That's what I'm asking.

MετάEd

4:57 PM

Or perhaps phlegmish.

tchrist

So no, there are no cross-site conferred abilities.

Everything derives from the site itself.

I can't even downvote on random places I've never done anything on.

Robusto

> Según datos de Ethnologue, un trabajo de referencia que documenta las lenguas vivas del mundo, los países con el mayor número de idiomas hablados incluyen Papúa Nueva Guinea, Indonesia, Nigeria, India y Estados Unidos.

That is interesting.

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