English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room - 2016-10-21

« first day (2171 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (2742 days later) »

user227867

12:14 AM

@Tonepoet Maybe I will stop coming here soon and then just hang out in hangouts. =)

2:20 AM

@Mitch Thanques.

4 hours later…

user227867

6:17 AM

-1

Q: Why IPA prefer amerian vowels

in college they asked me to do an essay about why using american vowels or i another words why IPA prefer american vowels or in a direct way why there is no British IPA any sources , i would be very grateful since it is essay that needs documentation

user227867

Geezis, what is this question asking?

Huh

3 hours later…

9:39 AM

Eggcorn of the day: middle indian format.

No, I'd say almost everywhere outside USA people would be sure that the 01/02/2013 is 1st February, since middle indian format would seem so absurd to them that they wouldn't even think someone may use it. I have noticed that on some forums the posts are not sorted correctly by dates, and some posts are in future, but I haven't even thought that month could be written first! Imagine the time 44:12:21 and guess what time it is :D:D — Danubian Sailor May 21 '13 at 19:27

user227867

9:50 AM

@TRiG Long time no see, lol.

@WillHunting Yeah. I've not been around as much recently.

user227867

Hello @matt. Now that I have attained 1k, I may retire, lol.

Matt E. Эллен

HI @WillHunting. ok

got to go!

user227867

Go!

10:53 AM

@WillHunting You should wait until you get 3,000 and fight the good fight against rash closures. =P

3 hours later…

1:39 PM

@Færd No prahblem

2:32 PM

@Lembik @Jasper I just noticed the word 'taramasalata'. Despite it being really greek, it satisfies what I thought was the answer to that puzzle. I thought the question was longest word with only 'a' as the vowel letter.

5

Q: Largest number of eɪ sounds in a word

This is a simple puzzle about English words. Which English word has the largest number of eɪ sounds in it? The phonetic sound /eɪ/ is the same as the letter "A" or the "ay" in day or the "eigh" in "eight". To make it more like a competition, if two people get the same number of /eɪ/ sounds, th...

english language

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

it's the wrong vowel, though, right?

Sometimes a lady needs to be told she's being nasty.

Or using the wrong vowel.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch it's so long Greeks shorten it to tarama

in conversation, at least

I've just remembered I have the makings for spanakopita and haven't made it.

I think I've had the ingredients for three weeks or so.

Matt E. Эллен

2:50 PM

yum!

I've eaten so much of that :D

Nasty Women Have Much Work to Do

I don't think Trump could have given Clinton a bigger gift than to call her nasty on live public TV.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

heh. It's like the SNL sketch where the moderator asks her if she wants to say something and she says "Nah, he can have my two minutes"

3:20 PM

@MattE.Эллен Long greeks are always having such troubles

Matt E. Эллен

so many short bridges

always being asked to reach things from the top shelf

Take a long walk off a short bridge

@MattE.Эллен Having to change light bulbs

Matt E. Эллен

people saying "you're tall"

@KitZ.Fox "They must finish Ron and Harry’s homework for them (again)." Hermione was JKR's Mary Sue Maybe HP was her Marty Stu?

Thank you for not linking to TVTropes.com

3:40 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Meaning of "bust on somebody" by Adnonia on english.stackexchange.com

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch I almost posts 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 then I saw someone else had thought of

@KitZ.Fox Remember my idea for a story sentences made entirely of clichés? New idea, create a story entirely from choices made from TVTropes (which is almost the same thing).

Wait... just found that on TVTropes

@Mitch How would you pronounce that? In Greek, all the 'a' sounds there are the same as in pan, not pane. But I have no idea how to say it in English.

@terdon 'Tair-uh-muh suh-'læ-tuh

No shit?

3:53 PM

or preferably 'that pink mayonnaisey stuff'

Actually, come to think of it, that's how I'd say it as well had I not known the greek word, I guess.

maybe Tair-uh-muh 'sæ-luh-tuh

But not tara as in the name Tara?

it's weird to try to pronounce in English

@terdon Yes, just like that name, or the plantation in Gone with the Wind

@Mitch Oh, wow. I always thought that was pronounced with the a of tap. Bad example then :)

3:56 PM

For me that's the same.

before an 'r'

rhymes with 'air' (american style)

because that's how we roll.

Yeah, but tap doesn't.

tap = /tæp/, right?

Or, say pat.

@Mitch I blush to admit I haven't learned to grok those yet.

Matt E. Эллен

taruhmasuhlatuh

Tara = tear - uh not tar - uh

@MattE.Эллен inshallah

3:59 PM

Fun fact: it isn't supposed to be pink. They add food coloring for some obscure reason. In fact, an easy way of recognizing the good stuff is that it's sort of a créme color and not pink.

Matt E. Эллен

same to you!

@terdon I've been lied to!

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch you've been lied to!

goes back to eating mayonnaise straight

as God intended it

@MattE.Эллен At least once!

It also shouldn't have any mayonnaise!

4:00 PM

What's pink?

@terdon spits out mayonnaise

Matt E. Эллен

mayonnaise should not be pink

@MattE.Эллен puts on checklist

> Taramasalata or taramosalata (Greek: ταραμοσαλάτα, from taramas, from Turkish: tarama 'fish roe'[1] + salata, from Italian: insalata "salad"[2]) is a Greek and Turkish meze made from tarama, the salted and cured roe of the cod, carp, or grey mullet (bottarga) mixed with olive oil, lemon juice, and a starchy base of bread or potatoes, or sometimes almonds. Variants may include garlic, spring onions, or peppers, or vinegar instead of lemon juice.[3][4]

Matt E. Эллен

unless... are eggs pink?

4:01 PM

@MattE.Эллен pink ones are

ohgodithinkimapuke

That might turn out pink also

No! It's really good.

Matt E. Эллен

hmmm. more research is needed. where's a grant from the EU when I need it?

just sayin

@MattE.Эллен um... I hate to break it to you...

Matt E. Эллен

4:02 PM

@KitZ.Fox bad fish eggs?

I can't eat fish eggs anyway.

Matt E. Эллен

I know. No c food 4 u!

I'm trying to bring 'vagenda' into the conversation but it doesn't seem to fit right anywhere.

so what's the difference between seafood and shellfish anyway?

@Mitch typical male response

Matt E. Эллен

I think fish are seafood?

4:04 PM

@KitZ.Fox zing!

@KitZ.Fox Neither can I. I'm allergic to all other seafood I know of. Caviar tastes like, well, let's just say it certainly doesn't taste like food. Absolutely disgusting. Yet taramasalata I enjoy. Different eggs I guess?

@terdon the mayo and pink food coloring are there to cover up the fishy taste.

Maybe if it were some kind of paste and I didn't know what it was.

so if you don't allow those you're screwed.

@MattE.Эллен I don't think so. I use seafood to describe anything edible that comes from or is a marine animal excluding fishes.

4:05 PM

I can tolerate fermented fish apparently.

@Mitch Seriously though? Mayo?

@terdon fish are totally seafood

but shellfish are seafood too

Really?

Really? I think of seafood as excluding fish as well.

Matt E. Эллен

:-o

4:06 PM

@KitZ.Fox bleurgh

Matt E. Эллен

it's a language divide!

wait...what's a fermented fish?

Well, fish oil is from fermented fish.

Matt E. Эллен

oak aged for 12 years

@KitZ.Fox Phew. I thought I was making this shit up!

4:06 PM

@KitZ.Fox If I go to a seafood restaurant, or there's a seafood section on a menu, fish better be there.

I wonder what the divide is though.

Mitch and I are both American.

Red lobster is a seafood restaurant. Do they have fish? It would be weird if they didn't.

Matt E. Эллен

for me, I think of seafood as anything a seafood restaurant would cook.

@Mitch Huh. I expect that too, but only because I don't know anyone who serves just seafood.

I assume I have this from my Dad who's from Philadelphia. Could have been something I picked up while living in England but Matt doesn't seem to agree so. . .

Matt E. Эллен

4:07 PM

jinx!

@KitZ.Fox yeah, that's not what I meant (that they'd serve a steak at red lobster for those weirdos who have to be different)

But like, at non-seafood places, you'd see "Fish & Seafood" as a header on the menu.

seafood for me is anything out of the ocean. fish and shellfish

I might be getting confused from another language. Both Greek and Spanish differentiate between fish and other edible marine stuffs.

Now the word 'seafood' is starting to sound weird.

4:09 PM

@KitZ.Fox oh. I'd expect just 'seafood'.

Matt E. Эллен

I don't see seafood as food

All the definitions I've found online, however, claim that seafood in English also covers fish.

@terdon fruits de mer?

Yes, French too.

@MattE.Эллен that's another discussion. lobsters are underwater spiders.

4:10 PM

And mariscos in Spanish.

like eating a pet

@terdon claims are meant to be broken

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch sealions are underwater lions!

have you seen their teeth!

@Mitch Clams?

Ah-ha!

> The "Larousse Gastronomique" defines seafood as meaning crustaceans and shellfish, saying that seafood dishes can sometimes include slices of fish, just as they would include slices of vegetables, but that doesn't make the fish or vegetables seafood just because they are included.

cooksinfo.com/seafood

Your clam claim is underwater

@terdon pfft... Larousse. What do they know about English.

4:13 PM

Yeah? Well yours make my hands clammy and my lips clammed shut.

Versatile little bugger the clam, innit?

"Seafood prominently includes fish and shellfish."

OK they lost me at prominently. It's 'pre dominant ly'

Matt E. Эллен

lol

@Mitch Read the rest of that article. It mentions both, but at least others share this definition.

Matt E. Эллен

good old wikipedia

Almost as bad as wiktionary

Matt E. Эллен

4:14 PM

I'll edit it to say "seafood pre-eminently includes Germany and Swindon"

It does!

@MattE.Эллен Huh? Pigs aren't seafood!

Matt E. Эллен

they are they way I farm them. i.e. in the sea

Um...yeah it does... if you throw them in the water first

Pigistines.

4:15 PM

again bleurgh

Pigistynes, even!

Matt E. Эллен

they'll call me the Aristotle of pigs one day

Pygian

@MattE.Эллен people have been calling him that behind his back for a while

considers a taramasalata and bacon sandwich

Back in a second...

Matt E. Эллен

Bacon a second

You know, one of the best things that ELU has done for me is improve my self esteem.

Matt E. Эллен

4:18 PM

yay!

I used to think I had a punning problem. Then I met you all and realized that my problem is puny.

No prune intended.

Matt E. Эллен

:D

@MattE.Эллен microwave bacon - best invention since faster than light travel

Matt E. Эллен

lol

@terdon groan

which is the punner's golf clap

well played

4:51 PM

C:\>nslookup
> server 8.8.8.8
Default Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
> twitter.com.
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
*** google-public-dns-a.google.com can't find twitter.com.: Server failed

Uh. Twitter flew away?

Matt E. Эллен

twitter and github

there are DNS problems apparently!

Amazon is back up, but Etsy is still gawn

@MetaEd Try without the trailing dot, perhaps?

$ nslookup twitter.com
Server:		192.168.1.1
Address:	192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	twitter.com
Address: 199.16.156.198
Name:	twitter.com
Address: 199.16.156.230
Name:	twitter.com
Address: 199.16.156.70

Although it works for me with the dot too

Matt E. Эллен

I think my local DNS is still catching up. I can get there if I transfer to 8.8.8.8

1 hour later…

6:16 PM

@terdon There was apparently a DoS attack on their name service.

@MetaEd Jeez! How many nslookups did you run, man?

@terdon Ha!

My local router is now resolving the domain. I'm getting timeouts from 8.8.8.8 so I wonder if it is being attacked now too.

6:54 PM

> As she walked out, she was smiling.

Do you detect anything unnatural about this sentence?

user227867

7:14 PM

I thought I had 52 points for answering "knowledge worker". Then I realised it was actually 52 votes.

user227867

Exactly 33 years ago on this day, our current definition of the metre was set.

7:43 PM

@WillHunting Because of the expansion of the universe and slow degradation in physical constants (like the diameter of a proton or the wavelength of light), the exact distance of a meter is very slowly expanding.

So measure twice, cut once, hammer to fit.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

measure twice, cut once, repeat as needed

that's what shims are for

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

well, if you cut it too short

@MattE.Эллен Would you please make a comment on this exchange from your BrE viewpoint? Particularly if you find anything ungrammatical about it.

> Have you a lighter, please?
> No, I haven't one.

I can't say say it from Matt's POV but to me it sounds very Harry Potter. Wait, no, very Chronicles of Narnia. Polite RP children sent to the countryside to avoid the shelling.

Because everybody in HP has some non-RP accent. Except Hermione. 'Wingardium levio-SAH', amirite!

7:55 PM

What polite children smoke?

hm... I bet CS Lewis didn't consider that that's what they were really doing in that closet.

I have this test book (by two Brits) that says the reply is wrong and should be I haven't got one.

"I haven't." is not among the choices. I don't know if that's considered wrong in BrE as well.

@Mitch I haven't read the book.

@Færd It's good children's lit.

@Færd Yes, @MattE.Эллен would know best. I'm just replying to keep the conversation going.

user227867

@Mitch I don't know any physics, so I take your words as AUTHORITATIVE.

@Mitch I like children's stuff (not in pedophililc ways).

8:06 PM

@WillHunting It's very good advice. You can use it with police officers who stop you for speeding.

user227867

@Færd Talking about paedophilic ways, I would like to clarify that I think it is OK to have sexual attraction to children as long as you don't act on them by doing things to children. Then it is just a harmless mental state of mind that does not affect others negatively.

I had a friend once who got pulled over for speeding and started to explain to the officer all about the normal distribution and error in measurement and air attenuation of the radio waves and how it can spoil the accuracy of doppler shifts and that he was going just under 65 and the officer interrupted saying the speed limit was 55 here.

user227867

@Mitch You need to use it the right way though, otherwise you are not only not speeding but speeding even more.

user227867

@Mitch I think I will get a copy of Enderton's Computability Theory later on. I figured despite its shortcomings it is still the perfect complement to my copies of his other two books.

@WillHunting As a former child who has seen his share of horny teachers and a former teacher who has spent quite a lot of time with children, I advise that one pulls out at the sight of sexual affection for a child and doesn't come back until cooled off.

8:11 PM

@WillHunting yeah I'm not thinking it out too well. It could be that the expanding distance between subatomic particles as compensated for by a time contraction. Also the change is 1 part in 10^40 over the current lifetime of the universe.

user227867

@Mitch I am not thinking at all, just making a spontaneous reply.

That''ll come in big in another 10^40 years when all protons themselves have disintegrated into constituent quarks.

@WillHunting you must have a good math library by now.

@WillHunting I'm thinking even less than that.

user227867

@Mitch I am actually surprised that Enderton's Computability Theory seems liked by many. It is such a short book, not "comprehensive" or "authoritative".

@WillHunting I'm sure it is authoritative. Re: comprehensive though, as with all domains of thought one has principle ideas and their secondary ramifications, and then tertiary and then details all the way down. It's arbitrary when you decide to stop.

user227867

@Mitch By the way, if you like recursion theory a lot, I have come across the two volumes by Odifreddi: Classical Recursion Theory. I think those two are indeed "authoritative". He lost his wife for writing the first book and not spending time with her, it seems.

8:15 PM

If you like the first two Enderton's, I expect his third will get to the necessary amount of details you desire.

user227867

@Mitch OK, since you said it, I will take your word on his books as AUTHORITATIVE.

Also, those other books titled 'Recursion theory' tend to have their very one sided view of the field, mostly concentrated on their own research in them so they tend to ignore important swaths of development by others.

@WillHunting Hm... I hope there aren't any mistakes then. I haven't actually read #3

Re his dying, it looks like #3 was published posthumously.

user227867

@Mitch It is alright. I know there are many mistakes in that book, according to reviews, but it is OK. I can fix them myself.

really, a list of lots of errata?

user227867

No list, but just Amazon reviews.

8:18 PM

oh. I would question Amazon reviews.

user227867

Anyway, we all know that all math books have a substantial number of small mistakes, typos or otherwise.

user227867

Or things like forgetting to mention this has to be nonzero, that has to be nonempty, this has to be nontrivial, and so on.

@WillHunting oh...those aren't what I would call mistakes, just 'expository simplifications'

user227867

@Mitch I know what you mean. By the way, I am very particular about nonempty stuff, so when I write I always make sure it is very precise, but I don't apply that level of precision to SE posts on any topic.

user227867

About ten years ago, I liked to write things using many symbols and few words in math. But now I see the problem with that and I try to use fewer symbols and more words to get the right balance.

user227867

8:23 PM

I think I read Paul Halmos on mathematical exposition and I would like to try to copy his style of writing.

user227867

I think it is time people stop upvoting my "knowledge worker" answer and take a look at my other answers instead. It is so silly.

@WillHunting You'll be happy to know that I have no idea waht your knowledge worker answer is.

wait.. sorry. Yes I do. I upvoted. Do you want me to reverse that?

user227867

No need to reverse anything, lol.

user227867

But I am surprised this question became so hot.

@WillHunting I think that's a common path. I still haven't gotten past it. You feel like you've put so much work in the algebraic manipulation that you really feel like that is what other people should see.

user227867

8:28 PM

@Mitch Yeah but sometimes it is more efficient or illuminating to describe the manipulation in words, especially when it is simply algorithmic.

Oh totally.

the symbols are there to make sure everybody is talking about the same thing. If you really wanted a formal proof, you would do it in a formal symbolic theorem prover. But then nobody would care to read it.

user227867

I read about automated theorem proving machines...

it's all logic

i mean mathematical logic

user227867

Maybe I will work on the P vs NP problem one day, maybe, LOL.

I don't mean that in a boring trivial way

user227867

8:33 PM

I strongly recommend Linux Mint, Cinnamon desktop, 64-bit if you are looking to install Linux. I now think it really is the best for Linux desktop.

user227867

Debian and Ubuntu seem to have gone from good to OK to bad in recent years.

and Pumpkin Spice Java?

user227867

Perhaps they are resting on their laurels, just like Oxford with their dictionaries.

@Mitch Too trendy. Stick with Ginger Spice Java.

@MetaEd Nice.

DT played Pumpkin Spice

user227867

8:37 PM

I have no doubt that Merriam Webster is authoritative in the US, but I really think they need to change their logo and cover design. The circle looks TERRIBLE

@WillHunting What? It's elegant and promotes egalitarianism. UNlike the UN flag which is northocentric.

user227867

I have not gotten so much rep on ELU for so long. I think something is happening on ELU. What could it be? A change in heart of many users?

They should use the projection used in the flag for the United Federation of Planets. It's galacto-centric

user image

See?

user227867

When I was in undergrad, I had to write something for my senior year, so I did 28 pages on a method of defining Lebesgue integration which is not the usual way in textbooks. Until today, I have not seen it done in detail in any book, so I wonder where my supervisor saw it and proposed the topic in the first place.

Do you have a lot of analysis books?

user227867

8:44 PM

I have browsed many. Now I own a few.

(or really those books that are relevant to analysis like PDEs and limits and differential topology)

Do you have any combinatorics books?

user227867

Yes. This year I have been trying to build up a library with different topics.

user227867

Right now, I own 28 math books altogether.

Do you have Munkres?

I got that once and couldn't get past page 1

I've tried to get all sorts of topology books and same reaction.

I just don't get it.

user227867

Nope. I do not like Munkres. I use Bredon's Topology and Geometry which treats point set topology in the first chapter, manifolds in the second, and algebraic topology in the remaining.

user227867

8:48 PM

Munkres is a classic, but it is a little too wordy for me.

user227867

If you want my recommendation for a solid book on point set topology only, get Willard's General Topology. Extremely concise and comprehensive.

user227867

It is very cheap, being a Dover book.

user227867

You can get it even if you don't want to read it.

I think that is one of them that I got to the middle of page one and gave up. I get lots of little parts about topology, but I just don't get the medium picture. I just don't get what to do with it.

user227867

I think Munkres is overrated, but if I say that in the math room, they will stone me.

8:50 PM

I have three Dover Topology reprints

Yes, Munkres is what every body says is great.

user227867

What do you not get about general topology? It is one of my favourite subjects.

@WillHunting that's it. I just don't get it.

There's a DDoS going on, no?

I have: Hocking and Young, Henle, and McCarty.

user227867

I guess it's just a generalisation of metric spaces, itself a generalisation of Euclidean spaces.

8:52 PM

@M.A.R. with Twitter and some others I've heard

dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8

user227867

@Mitch I think Willard beats them all. I already declared it to be AUTHORITATIVE.

@WillHunting for example knots. sure I can understand the general principles, but I don't get how to put a knot into symbols, manipulate the symbols and then get something out about the knot (for example)

@WillHunting I think I will take what you say to be AUTHORITATIVE then.

user227867

@Mitch I can't comment on knots. I have not studied them.

@WillHunting well, you probably know more than me already

user227867

8:54 PM

@Mitch To be honest, I know zero about knots, so I cannot know more than you, unless you know negative.

I was just using knots as an example.

I know less than zero. I know less than imaginary amounts

wait for it..

I know less than quaterions about it.

user227867

Now if you don't like Willard, I have another nice recommendation. I still like Willard best, but Dixmier's General Topology is also excellent.

user227867

I really have no idea why people keep using Munkres. It is just overrated, like Oxford.

user227867

Dixmier is a Springer UTM book.

user227867

Finally, if you still don't get it, maybe you can try Sutherland's Introduction to Metric and Topological Spaces published by OUP.

8:59 PM

Do you have any good books on Lexical Semantics?

haha...changed the subject on you.

user227867

Nope. I don't have many English books.

THat's not English, it is Linguistics.

A universal subject. Most of us speak at least one language

user227867

I don't really read linguistics books. I am just interested in English for fun.

@WillHunting So you read stuff in Portuguese?

user227867

@M.A.R. In Farsi, actually.

9:00 PM

:o

@WillHunting I only look at the pictures

user227867

@Mitch I see. I like to look at pretty girls, lol.

user227867

Ah, it is now 5 AM here in Antarctica. I, the Emperor, must survey my territory...

@WillHunting nice.

me too. or rather someplace other than Antarctica.

user227867

Quick, prepare a horse for me.

9:04 PM

cloppity cloppity clop clop clop

Done

user227867

I need White Horse to ride on the white ice and snow.

You know, a white horse is not a horse.

Sorry to spoil it for you

user227867

What?

白馬非馬

Every child knows that.

Every horse knows that

user227867

Well, I did not say white horse. I said White Horse, which is the name I gave to my black horse.

9:05 PM

Maybe white horses don't know that and that's the problem

Oh... you mean:

user image

Matt E. Эллен

@Færd more likely to say "no I haven't"

@MattE.Эллен What about 'Have you a lighter?'. Do you say that instead of 'Do you have a lighter?'?

Oh, this discussion was in LO.

Matt E. Эллен

"Have you a lighter" sounds like something from one of the Ealing Comedies. A bit high register for me

@WillHunting That makes sense, in that it makes no sense, which we would expect.

@M.A.R. Which discussion?

Matt E. Эллен

9:09 PM

@Mitch "Do you have a lighter"

user227867

@MattE.Эллен Welcome home after work!

in Language Overflow, 2 hours ago, by snailplane

My Scottish friend doesn't really like it either, but his dialect has a different have. He's comfortable with just No, I haven't, which wouldn't work in my dialect.

I couldn't bookmark it because there was so much off-topic chit-chat in between

Which I'm to blame for.

@WillHunting OK flipping through the topology books I have, I can tell you what I don't get. Nothing seems to fit together. maybe one paragraph makes sense, and nother by itself makes sense, but next to each, I just don't see why. It's like all these things have a vague similarity, but nothing is said about how they connect in reality.

I chit-chatted in an off-topic way. I have the best off-topic chit-chat. My chit-chat is the best because it's good.

Thank you.

Failte romhat!

When a white horse is not a horse

When A White Horse Is Not A Horse (Chinese: 白馬非馬; pinyin: Báimǎ fēi mǎ; Wade–Giles: Pai-ma fei ma; literally: "white horse not horse"), also known as the White Horse Dialogue (Chinese: 白馬論; pinyin: Báimǎ Lùn; Wade–Giles: Pai-ma Lun; literally: "white horse discourse"), is a famous paradox in Chinese philosophy. Gongsun Long wrote this circa 300 BC dialectic analysis of the question Can it be that a white horse is not a horse?. == The original text == The White Horse Dialogue (Baima Lun) constitutes chapter 2 of the eponymous Gongsun Longzi "Master Gongsun Long", who was a leader in the "School...

Matt E. Эллен

9:15 PM

@WillHunting not yet!

Dang, Wikipedia one-boxes take up half the page.

user227867

@Mitch I hate the Chinese language, to be honest.

user227867

@MattE.Эллен Ah, you must be out with Maria!

@M.A.R. half-boxing is not a thing. yet.

Matt E. Эллен

@WillHunting would I be in here if I were? I'm just not home yet. I'm waiting for a bus.

user227867

9:17 PM

@MattE.Эллен Good answer. I suppose the date just ended, LOL.

user227867

@Mitch By the way, that is traditional and not simplified characters.

@WillHunting I just cut and pasted so I don't even know

Matt E. Эллен

when a white norse is not a norse

They should just convert to pin yin and be done with it.

or make one up themselves like the Koreans.

The Dark Knight: Hospital Scene

2 hours later…

user227867

11:10 PM

I refuse to earn the critic badge. I will not be tempted.

« first day (2171 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (2742 days later) »

Transcript for

Oct '1621

English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…

Not for the faint of heart or those easily triggered by Englis...

phrase-requests pronunciation single-word-requests synonyms

join this room
about this room

00:00

06:00

12:00

18:00

all times are UTC

site design / logo © 2024 Stack Exchange Inc; legal

mobile