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@Cerberus I really don't understand what there is to misunderstand: Someone says a word, in this case "yergh" that I have never seen before, so I look it up and post the definition for others who may not know it.

Cerberus

Oh, someone else said it, even.

skill patrol

yes

3 hours ago, by skill patrol

in Homotopy Theory, 13 hours ago, by Tyler Lawson

yergh

it started here^

3 hours ago, by skill patrol

13 hours ago, by skill patrol

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yergh

I post this^

4 hours ago, by skill patrol

in Homotopy Theory, 12 hours ago, by Peter Nelson

@skillpatrol please don't post things like that in here...

Peter says with this^

:-/

3 hours ago, by skill patrol

in Homotopy Theory, 13 hours ago, by skill patrol

Sorry @PeterNelson I flagged it to be removed. There, it's gone. My apologies :-)

Hello

12:18 PM

How are you ip?

I'm fine thx u?

Fine thanks.

@skillpatrol Then He must have misunderstood the entire situation and tried censorship based on a misunderstanding.

skill patrol

@Cerberus I still don't get it?

A definition is a definition.

Cerberus

12:20 PM

Anything can be misunderstood.

Ice Girl

@skillpatrol what's up?

Cerberus

Example: he never clicked the link, just assumed it was something nasty because it was on Urban Dictionary.

skill patrol

@IceGirl not much, you?

Ice Girl

@skillpatrol just exams

Cerberus

Then proposed censorship of the link, even though the link itself is 100% clean regardless of what's behind it.

skill patrol

12:22 PM

@Cerberus I see now, thanks :-)

Ice Girl

3 exams left

skill patrol

16 hours ago, by skill patrol

Talk about ultra conservative

@IceGirl good luck :D

Ice Girl

@skillpatrol Thanks

;)

Cerberus

12:36 PM

Yeah or just weird.

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SmokeDetector

2:40 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Antonym of nomad by Bizi Very on english.stackexchange.com

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Matt E. Эллен

4:11 PM

Curse you god, for making me this way

user116848

5:08 PM

Hi guys

user116848

@MattE.Эллен @terdon Can you take a look at this:

user116848

in The English Learning Cabin, 2 hours ago, by Damkerng T.

For those who welcome Arrowfar, I won't object to your welcoming him or chatting with him, though I think it's the best for everyone if Arrowfar will stay in other rooms.

user116848

I flagged this ^

user116848

He is clearly trying to look me bad. Bringing up the past and all that.

terdon

@Arrowfar Best thing to do is let it go. Or, if you respond, just say "Damkerng and I have had our disagreements in the past. I don't want to go into that again but I can assure you all that I'm nowhere near as bad as he thinks :)"

user116848

5:11 PM

I know terdon. But he is bent on kicking me out of there. He has put me on ignore, I mean I feel very depressed these days whenever I see him acting like that.

user116848

I told him:

user116848

in The English Learning Cabin, yesterday, by Arrowfar

I am saying again guys: Accept my apologies if I ever wronged you here.

terdon

5:29 PM

@Arrowfar just put him on ignore as he has done with you. That way neither needs to see the other.

Robusto

6:00 PM

Q: Semantics links between all, all of the and the

I am trying to find links between numbers and semantics using digital roots. To do this I usually take a sentence and phrase it in different ways to get the number I want; a specific single digit number. In this case , 1 or 7. I can match 7 with the following: god is all energy in the universe ...

Whoa, this is really off the wall.

terdon

@Robusto WTF? How's he getting the 7 anyway?

skill patrol

6:41 PM

@terdon good advice pal :)

terdon

skill patrol

An eye for an eye will make them both blind to each other.

terdon

@skillpatrol Well, that might work too. I was hoping for something less violent :P

skill patrol

There is a third party involved there also.

A certain mod who removed me from the room owner list.

But it's no big deal to me.

Linguistics is not my thing anyway :)

I believe the same happened with cerb @terdon

terdon

No idea. Which room? This one?

skill patrol

6:49 PM

Nope ell

terdon

No idea.

skill patrol

"No" idea is so...neutral, it's not a positive idea or a negative idea ;-)

I have absolutely no idea.

I have an empty set of ideas :D

The set with no members, the null set.

terdon

The set of all ideas that are not ideas of themselves.

skill patrol

7:05 PM

How Russelliean of you sir.

terdon

Don't get me started on teapots. Or barbers.

skill patrol

terdon

@oerkelens I ended up accepting the other answer because i) I think it's more on the nose and ii) he needs the rep more than you do. I just wanted to thank you for a great answer regardless.

skill patrol

I have lately been thinking about the difference between learning and understanding, have you ever thought about it? @terdon

terdon

Oh, often. Unfortunately, the school system in Greece is (or was) largely based on memorizing as opposed to understanding. As far as I'm concerned, learning is understanding. It's the difference between information and knowledge.

skill patrol

7:13 PM

Interesting analogy.

Let me think about that, I'll get back to you on it.

There are certainly various levels of both.

Agreed?

terdon

Yes. My point is that a lot of information != great knowledge. The latter requires understanding.

skill patrol

What does " !=" mean in this context

By definition

terdon

It's the opposite of =

I mean that a lot of information does not necessarily mean great knowledge.

skill patrol

=/=

terdon

I could conceivably learn to recite a book on Calculus and still not understand a word of it.

skill patrol

7:21 PM

True.

Or even the bible

Note the lack of capitalization ;-)

terdon

Especially the bible.

skill patrol

Yes.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Aristotle said that^

terdon

Smart bugger.

skill patrol

Indeed.

Do they still teach/preach his writings in Greece?

terdon

No more than anywhere else. Less than most, probably.

skill patrol

7:35 PM

Learning can be acellerated, but understanding can be enduring.

The most popular MOOC is entitled Learning How to Learn.

One could do a course entitled Understanding How to Understand.

Or Learning How to Understand

Of Understanding How to Learn

MOOC - Massive Online Open Course

According to Class Central, "Learning How to Learn" is currently the most popular MOOC of all 253 MOOCs from major universities around the world.

Robusto

8:01 PM

@terdon Beats this shit out of me.

skill patrol

The Hawks are goin down!

Putin on the strangle hold tonight.

Then finish them off in game 7

Only in the USA can a team from a state that never gets snow win the hockey championship.

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skill patrol

9:22 PM