English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Mitch

12:00 AM

@Cerberus Who the H is Posh Nosh? Some TV gourmet/cook thing?

@Cerberus Death mostly

Cerberus

12:24 AM

@Mitch A parody on snobbish cooking programmes.

It is quite funny.

Posh Nosh- Ep 1

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An episode is only 8–9 minutes.

A nice little nosh.

Perhaps I should have used a different word rather than nice...

Mitch

1:04 AM

@Cerberus funneh!

"I will embarrass the veg before disappointing them"

Cerberus

@Mitch Yup!

They love the funny chef verbs.

"Put it into your Aga. And, if you don't have an Aga..."

tchrist

4:23 AM

> They are interested in doubt about word in language english.

So funny, so true.

skill patrol

4:54 AM

Indeed.

Faheem Mitha

6:12 AM

Using "mostly" to mean "probably" is incorrect usage, right?

Anonymous

7:08 AM

@Robusto Yeah, the pitch is the most important part. You can communicate uh-huh and uh-uh (either variation) without opening your mouth, just by using the right rhythm and pitch. Like with Japanese ううん.

Robusto

9:30 AM

@snailboat Except if you didn't open your mouth, the better transcription for that sound would likely be mm-hmm (for the affirmative).

skill patrol

For your mathematical viewing pleasure.

in Mathematics, 2 hours ago, by El'endia Starman

Square grid, all movement is strictly along x or y axis, apparent curving is because of hyperbolic geometry.

Peque

10:08 AM

Hi there :-)

When using "group" as a verb, would "ungroup" be the opposite? (I think not, but still it sounds good to me)

Justyna Nogala

I afraid ain't nothing like "ungroup".

skill patrol

Ungrouping is the opposite of grouping, but it sounds strange.

Peque

which verb would you use to say, for example "make groups of 3, out of a set"?

(@skillpatrol, @JustynaNogala)

and which would be the opposite of that verb?

that would be an order (imperative), by the way: "you! make groups of! (out of a set)"

*of 3

Justyna Nogala

An already group of 3 when it wants to go back to square one it has to "split up".

It's the only possible way to me. But I'm not an expert here ;p.

Peque

10:24 AM

group/split then? sounds good :-)

would it be better to use merge/split?

(@JustynaNogala)

Justyna Nogala

I would say "to separate".

like in "He got separated from his group."

There is also "to detach".

oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/…

Peque

@JustynaNogala: ok, thanks for your help :-)

(and for the link)

Matt E. Эллен

@Peque yes

Justyna Nogala

Why didn't we just do what he did? -_-

Matt E. Эллен

I got 21K reps because I can use a dictionary ;)

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Justyna Nogala

10:38 AM

Not only because of that.

I recon.

When reading old books even a dictionary can't help.

tchrist

Biological nomenclature is always in flux due to the clumpers and splitters there who cannot stop playing on their teeter-totter.

RegDwigнt

10:57 AM

@MattE.Эллен I got a dictionary because I can use 21k reps.

Robusto

I asked my question about dropped /s/ on Spanish.SE.

One decent answer so far.

Haha, the SC just set the status of a bug to "won't fix" because "Unfortunatly its tricky to handel . . ." Hmm, I bet it's not tricky to Bach.

RegDwigнt

Clearly you mean one deent anwer o far.

Robusto

'o you 'ay.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto exactly. That's because B A C H are all on the keyboard, but N and L are not. Not to mention Ä.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt and soon it will be yours

Robusto

11:03 AM

I still don't get how the deutschbags figured B should be H.

RegDwigнt

I am sure there are fifteen and a half Wikipedia articles covering just that.

Matt E. Эллен

how can you have an octave without eight letters?

RegDwigнt

Google "wikipedia".

Robusto

You don't understand. I don't want to know how. I just want to bitch about it.

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен Twelve, Matt. Twelve.

@Robusto Google "bitch".

Robusto

11:05 AM

@RegDwigнt I did, and a picture of yo mama came up.

RegDwigнt

I'm a bitch I'm a bitch I'm better than you.

Robusto

Or was it Yo Yo Ma.

RegDwigнt

It was Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh.

Robusto

Chi Minh? That's a funny way to say Merry Christmas.

RegDwigнt

Crap, not funny enough if you can still tell what it means.

Robusto

11:10 AM

@RegDwigнt This isn't about Vietnam, Walter.

RegDwigнt

King Viet Kong.

Robusto

The KIND snacks girls just made the rounds, interrupting my work by handing out treats. Bah, humbug!

Apparently this is some kind of do-gooder hustle. Buy our products and give them away, or something like that.

RegDwigнt

A donation has been made in your name to the company Coca-Cola.

Robusto

Oh, is it a Coke possession?

RegDwigнt

It was but an example, but sure, why not, I have no reason to think they don't belong to either Coca-Cola or Nestle.

Or Nike, perhaps.

Robusto

11:25 AM

I have to say, Nestle has the crappiest chocolate. Well, except for Brach's.

RegDwigнt

> A [translation] presented by Babbette Deutsch was widely considered canonical until the 1960s when Walter W. Arndt and Vladimir Nabokov published their editions. The translations by Arndt and Nabokov are considered both fundamental and mutually exclusive—not least due to their argument over Eugene Onegin and nature of verse translations in general, creating one of the biggest literary disputes of that era.

> In 1963, Walter Arndt published a verse translation of Eugene Onegin preserving the rhyme schemes and metrical structure of Pushkin’s text. Vladimir Nabokov reviewed Arndt’s work in an essay entitled “On Translating Pushkin Pounding the Clavichord” that was published in The New York Review of Books.

> Nabokov furiously criticised Arndt’s translation; according to him, the attempt to preserve the original iambic tetrameter resulted in Arndt’s defacing Pushkin’s spirit and the literal meaning of the novel. Arndt replied with a letter “Goading the pony” that was followed by an article “The strange case of Pushkin and Nabokov” by Edmund Wilson, a critic who rose to Arndt’s defence and thus ruptured his close friendship with Nabokov.

Jesus Christ, Batman, that's some quality screenplay right there.

Take that, Michael Bay.

Robusto

Nabokov vs Arndt Smackdown!

Matt E. Эллен

on WWE next friday night

RegDwigнt

The plot thickens over at fryreadsonegin.com

Robusto

Nabokov is the face and Arndt is the heel, I presume. Or is it the other way around?

@RegDwigнt He weighs in on just about everything, doesn't he?

RegDwigнt

11:29 AM

He has the gravitas.

Meanwhile elsewhere,

Mentions of body parts in songs of different genres.

Robusto

Funny, nobody seems to mention the patella.

RegDwigнt

Verdi and Puccini do that all the time, it's just that Oprah is not on the Liszt.

tchrist

I’ve just set the bull amongst the sheep.

Robusto

> n 1999 Douglas R. Hofstadter presented a more liberal, distinctly American and colloquial in style version of the novel. He believed that a contemporary translation should be done in contemporary English and taught himself Russian for the task.

". . . taught himself Russian for the task." Hmm. Suddenly I have doubts.

RegDwigнt

Yeah. Because. Why not.

tchrist

11:37 AM

I answered a question on the the Portuguese SE freely mixing citations in English, Portuguese, and Galician, and I was intentionally careless in distinguishing the second from the third. :)

RegDwigнt

Thing is, even if you teach yourself Russian, you won't understand shit.

In the first two verses alone there are half a dozen words that even Russians misunderstand.

Robusto

People consistently underestimate what an immense task it is to really learn another language.

RegDwigнt

Because they stopped meaning what they meant in Pushkin's time at, well, around Pushkin's time.

tchrist

@Robusto Only those who’ve never tried, surely.

RegDwigнt

It needs to be stressed that it's not that they are some weird unknown words. They are well-known everyday words. They just don't mean the same thing they meant 200 years ago.

Robusto

11:40 AM

He might have been laughing about your accent. Or maybe something else struck him as funny. Or maybe they just don't use that construction in Nigeria. Whatever, "How much do I owe you?" is perfectly acceptable in retail transactions of all kinds. You could also say "What do I owe?" to make it seem less personal. — Robusto 10 mins ago

RegDwigнt

Kind of like, you know, there is no Red Square in Moscow. And never was.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Lies!

RegDwigнt

There's a Beautiful Square. But even every other Russian gets it wrong by now.

In Pushkin's time, exactly nobody would have gotten it wrong BTW.

Robusto

Next you'll be telling me there is no Gorky Park.

RegDwigнt

What a difference a day makes, 200 little years.

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Q: What is the first recorded appearance of the mistranslation "Red Square"?

Does anybody know when the mistranslation "Red Square" made its first recorded appearance? Have there been any noteworthy attempts at establishing the correct translation "Beautiful Square" at some point in history? Obviously, it's too late to change the name now, but I am interested in learning ...

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Q: When did Красная Площадь begin to shift from Beautiful to Red?

I suppose this one will be tough, or actually impossible, to crack by looking at Russian in isolation — there is no way to know what writers at what point had which meaning in mind, short of going back in time and asking them all. However, it should be feasible to take a detour via other languag...

значения прилагательные toponyms

@Robusto yes, indeed. There is a Central Park of Culture and Recreation in the Name of Maxim Gorky. But no Gorky Park, no.

There's a Gorky Park American movie and a Gorky Park American band. That's about it.

Robusto

11:44 AM

The thing is, you don't realize what a minefield a language is when you wander into it by yourself. And you're dumbfounded that people don't understand you when you use perfectly acceptable words that you looked up in a dictionary.

@RegDwigнt I prefer my Russian with an American accent. Also a corn dog.

RegDwigнt

And then there's Wind of Change by Scorpions, which are from DDR FFS.

tchrist

@Robusto Because you looked them up in a dictionary instead of hearing them spoken by living speakers in particular contexts.

Robusto

@tchrist Exactly.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto my hovercraft is full of eels.

So anyway. That's a free MP3, and I'm grabbing it.

Except I have no sound here, and never even turn on my PC at home anymore.

So by the time I listen to it, all the words in English will have changed their meanings.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I have no idea what you're talking about. The language has moved on since you last spoke. Sorry.

RegDwigнt

11:48 AM

Take that, Stephan Pommes.

@Robusto WHAAAAT? My mother was a saint!

Robusto

laughs Why do you paint your mother?

RegDwigнt

Yes, seven, folignaridge.

Robusto

Voluminous.

RegDwigнt

It goes to twelve.

Robusto

What about High Noon?

RegDwigнt

11:50 AM

Yes. Very good question. What about it?

I think the noon was going to clean its room, but then it got high. It was going to get up and find the broom, but then it got high.

Robusto

Not for the dirty dozens, you.

RegDwigнt

Now reading all the links. Hilarious shit.

> The author of a soon-to-be-published translation may find it awkward to criticize a just published translation of the same work, but in the present case I can, and should, master my embarrassment; for something must be done, some lone, hoarse voice must be raised, to defend both the helpless dead poet and the credulous college student from the kind of pitiless and irresponsible paraphrast whose product I am about to discuss.

Geez, Vladimir. Stop showing off.

Nobody even talks like that.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt True. I would have used periphrasis instead of paraphrast there.

RegDwigнt

His Russian is showing.

Парафразировать.

skill patrol

and your's isn't?

;)

RegDwigнt

12:02 PM

It is thoroughly concealed under layers of Pennsylvania Dutch.

Robusto

Or Deutsch, in your case.

RegDwigнt

Of which you have to inform any officer without request.

skill patrol

we all have our liitle concealments

RegDwigнt

@Robusto as chance would have it, it's the same word. One being German, the other English. Since I am talking concealment here, I am obviously using the English word.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt This one goes to eleven.

RegDwigнt

12:04 PM

Otherwise I'd just go straight to einszweidreiing you to Gugglhupf.

Robusto

This one goes to elf.

RegDwigнt

This one goes to troll.

skill patrol

me?

Robusto

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Q: How to use "success" ?

. i'm ghaida .. i want to ask you if this right or not "9 years of successful" Or "9 years of success" Please can you explain it :) Thank you 💜

grammar word-usage

RegDwigнt

@skillpatrol no, you only troll skillpas. Whoever that is.

Robusto

12:06 PM

Immediate disqualification for using a heart emoji in the text.

Burn it with fire.

Note that it should be "OVER 9000 years of successful." Any noob knows that.

tchrist

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Q: Is 'I fucked the dog' an actual idiom and what are its alternatives

I am a non-native speaker from Germany. In the german language, an idiom exists: Sich die Eier schaukeln This is used to express severe boredom, especially to describe procrastinating or ones state of mind when you should be appointed to a task, but aren't. It is somewhat vulgar as it invo...

idioms idiom-requests

Looks like somebody’s gone and screwed the pooch with that one.

skill patrol

@Robusto playing with fire

tchrist

Reg we have to ball the title.

RegDwigнt

Midair collision with a tchrist.

tchrist

Yep.

RegDwigнt

12:12 PM

@tchrist I have.

tchrist

Ficking dogs.

RegDwigнt

I ficked a girl, I liked it.

tchrist

Perra

> Is “I pəʞɔnɟ the dog” an actual idiot and are there alternatives?

Just in case it’s offensive to itty dumbs.

RegDwigнt

> But my statement of the translation’s purpose, which he finds so bizarre and which [Nabokov] paraphrases with the brand of fairness peculiar to him

Tee hee.

> , makes it clear that I do not believe in seating the would-be reader of Pushkin on the kind of prose pony he provides (after all, there simply are no interlingually equivalent semantic units, regardless of the form of discourse), and then goading him, with “ardent stir” and “in the blossom of glad hopes,” up a pyramid of footnotes every bumpy line or two, throughout a multi-volume trek. The scholarly yield and value of his undertaking, I have no doubt, will be outstanding

Harhar.

Holy Batman, this guy's even better.

tchrist

Brand of fairness peculiar to N?

RegDwigнt

12:16 PM

That's some WWE Raw showdown right there.

> All three achieve a great measure of success, but all three obviously contain just such enforced liberties and padding as those which their writer so abominates in others, as well as some obscurities and infelicities that to me seem gratuitous. Had I the space, I believe I would be forgiven the brief indelicacy of pointing some of these out, garnished with a suitably Nabokovian by-play of donnish cackles and sham obtuseness

There really should be a wrestler that converses like that.

And that's the bottom line, cuz Walter Arndt said so.

Robusto

That settles it. Nabokov is the heel. Who else would cackle donnishly?

You're out of your element, Donnishly.

RegDwigнt

Meanwhile elsewhere, The National Public Toilet Map.

Robusto

I guess that is a particularly hard-core form of sightseeing.

RegDwigнt

Those Brits will spend money on all kinds of shit.

Robusto

"After you've seen all the monuments and zoos and museums, have a look at our toilets."

skill patrol

12:27 PM

they're not brits

RegDwigнt

@skillpatrol her Majesty the Queen begs to differ.

Are you Her Majesty the Queen? If no, you have no say in this.

skill patrol

she can beg all she wants

1 min ago, by skill patrol

they're not brits

RegDwigнt

And you are not patrol.

tchrist

That’s Father Troll to you.

skill patrol

thank you^

:)

RegDwigнt

12:30 PM

@Robusto yeah you'd think you'd be making a joke, but...

> Planning a trip

Please enter a place name or address for the start and destination of your journey.

You can add more destinations to go via as well.

The toilets listed for your journey will match your selections from the icons above the map where possible.

RIP Saruman.

He had it coming.

That spirit never peace shall find.

RegDwigнt

He escaped starring in Peter Jackson's next quadriplelogy. That is the definition of a skilful actor. Kudos to him.

tchrist

12:40 PM

> To the dismay of those that stood by, about the body of Saruman a grey mist gathered, and rising very slowly to a great height like smoke from a fire, as a pale shrouded figure it loomed over the Hill. For a moment it wavered, looking to the West; but out of the West came a cold wind, and it bent away, and with a sigh dissolved into nothing.

RegDwigнt

And the sigh spake, "TROLOLOLOLOL, LOLOLOL, LOLOLOL".

skill patrol

@RegDwigнt ~~skilful~~ skillful

RegDwigнt

@skillpatrol no. I get a wiggly red line under "skillful". I do not get any such line under "skilful". Thus, QED.

thefreedictionary.com/skilful

You were saying?

tchrist

Unwilful.

RegDwigнt

Wil I Am.

skill patrol

12:43 PM

Chiefly Brit. skillful.

RegDwigнt

You've mastered the craft of reading. Congratulations.

tchrist

Tact.

Robusto

@skillpatrol Skilful is a variant spelling.

skill patrol

Albeit Amer.

RegDwigнt

The fact is, when someone begins a sentence with "@RegDwigнt," that sentence will probably contain not a single provable fact.

tchrist

12:45 PM

QED

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Also ones prefaced in the left column with that name.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto also all the others.

Robusto

Including those in parallel universes.

RegDwigнt

Facts are facts. They are not words. They are physically unable of being contained in sentences.

Robusto

BTW, why do other universes have to be "parallel"? What if they are oblique?

tchrist

12:46 PM

I have ripe tomatoes. On two different plants.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto What if they are communist?

@tchrist what if they are communist?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Then we hates them, preciousss.

@RegDwigнt His tomatoes will probably be red someday, if they aren't already. And I don't mean beautiful.

RegDwigнt

I have like fifteen plants this year, but still not a single flower.

I skipped on chilis this year.

skill patrol

“Do what thou wilt” shall be the whole of the Law.

tchrist

FECPTSD?

Robusto

12:47 PM

@skillpatrol No. That is the loopwhole of the law.

wormhole

slant jinx

in space time?

And my dill was being eaten by horrible green creatures from Mars, so I had to spray communism over them, after which two things happened: 1) the horrible green creatures from Mars died horrible green deaths and 2) I could no longer eat any of the dill, for fear of the communism.

Mitch

@skillpatrol Woo hoo! Riot!!

Robusto

12:48 PM

There is no space without time nor time without space.

skill patrol

@Mitch hi pal :D

Mitch

Tame spice

Robusto

Uh-oh, hide the dictionary.

Mitch

@skillpatrol when does the carnage begin? Anytime!!

RegDwigнt

Unhide the Polish dictionary.

Mitch

12:49 PM

@Robusto No worries I have aspirin instead

tchrist

polishes his dictionary

skill patrol

@Mitch Let it begin!!!

Mitch

carnages

RegDwigнt

Proszę, pani, krówka.

Robusto

@Mitch I thought those had been crushed by insects.

RegDwigнt

12:50 PM

My nipplęs expłode with dęłight.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt That's all sentences are. or non facts.

@RegDwigнt We have aspirin for that

Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

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RegDwigнt

So God, Slave, the Queen come into a bar.

skill patrol

The symbol ∪H (pron. glue) reminds the alchemical token describing the process
of amalgamation between two or more elements (one of which is often mercury): albeit amalgamation is not recognized as a proper stage of the Magnus Opus, several sources testify that it belongs to the alchemical tradition

RegDwigнt

Reminds the alchemical token describing the process.

Does not reminds author grammer.

Robusto

The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, the Bad & the Queen

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RegDwigнt

12:55 PM

Now that's the best title ever - now that's the best title ever.

Robusto

It's its own best encore.

RegDwigнt

Encore, again encore.

By Pavel Fedotov. Oil on canvas.

Robusto

Creepy.

RegDwigнt

Hey it's war. That's what war looks like. Take notice, CNN.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt No, please don't. All we need is 3D CGI views of war from CNN now.

RegDwigнt

1:05 PM

Good news for you: thankfully they are too busy making 3D screenshots of Twitter to be read aloud. 24/7.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Well, oil be damned.

RegDwigнt

Nobody needs war coverage if they can have coverage of Twitter coverage of the lack of war coverage.

Mitch

1:17 PM

They're covering that

@RegDwigнt ... and the bartender says "Is this some kind of joke?"

RegDwigнt

1:29 PM

So a tender walks into a bar.

Robusto

Long way to go for a joke. But then you've never been lazy in that regard.

RegDwigнt

Oh but I have. It's just that you've been lazy noticing.

Robusto

NOU.

RegDwigнt

Your lazy beats my lazy, hands down.

Robusto

That's because I work much harder at my laziness.

RegDwigнt

1:31 PM

Get it? Hands down? Hahaha. Pun intended. Look at my pun! I am so clever. Get it?

Robusto

What does that have to do with Putin?

Mitch

i don't get it

RegDwigнt

It has to do with the price of Putin China.

Robusto

Russians have no will to govern themselves. Why is that?

RegDwigнt

Because nobody has any will to govern themselves. Everyone only wants to govern others.

The Russians are merely the first to admit it.

And look, they have all the vodka in the world to go with it. What do you have? Bud Light.

Robusto

1:33 PM

Glib, but not accurate.

Mitch

How do the French say Putin? Putain is out, Poutine seems out. What's left?

RegDwigнt

Jul 29 '14 at 0:12, by RegDwigнt

Every country has the government it deserves.

Robusto

Also glib, and equally inaccurate.

RegDwigнt

That's French barons for you.

Joseph de Maistre

Joseph-Marie, comte de Maistre (French: [də mɛstʁ]; 1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat. He defended hierarchical societies and a monarchical State in the period immediately following the French Revolution. Maistre was a subject of the King of Piedmont-Sardinia, whom he served as member of the Savoy Senate (1787–1792), ambassador to Russia (1803–1817), and minister of state to the court in Turin (1817–1821). Maistre, a key figure of the Counter-Enlightenment, saw monarchy both as a divinely sanctioned institution and as the only stable form...

Sorry, French counts.

Except it does not.

Robusto

Everyone wants to be Oscar Wilde when it comes to epigrams. Even those born before him.

skill patrol

1:35 PM

the germans have barons

RegDwigнt

Yeah. Like those Greeks. They even claim to have invented the very word "epigrams". Luckily Merkel showed them the Grexit.

Robusto

What is this about Merkin?

RegDwigнt

I know your, um, er, kin.

skill patrol

Mitch

2:12 PM

who's the dude with three hands choking the owl?

Robusto

Putin.

RegDwigнt

The beard gives away it's Ras, the older of the two brothers.

Robusto

Also, "choking" is a euphemism for what's really going on there.

RegDwigнt

Robusto

@snailboat 云々

RegDwigнt

2:19 PM

ジッグラト

skill patrol

-_-

RegDwigнt

ハウルの動くジッグラト

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Hah, I had to look that one up. That's katakana for you. A bunch of syllables strung together for you to puzzle over.

Jigurato? WTF?

RegDwigнt

Yes, it's a transliteration of "sí, claro".

Endo meri kurisumasu tsu yu.

Cerberus

2:39 PM

Etruscan?

Robusto

@Cerberus "Pax Romana. Where they made a desolation they called it a peace. What absolute nonsense! It was a nasty, vulgar sort of civilization, only dignified by being hidden under a lot of declensions." —Anthony Burgess

RegDwigнt

Et ru, Scan?

@Robusto but then they blew their cover by naming it after a country full of gypsies.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt No, they named it after Read Only Memory.

Cerberus

@Robusto Hah, well, then give me a civilization that did not do the same thing.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto lol they so misspelled anal

Cerberus

2:42 PM

The Greeks were certainly no better.

RegDwigнt

The Greeks were ancient.

AND STILL ARE

Robusto

@Cerberus I don't think the Mongols had a lot of declensions. But I could be wrong.

Cerberus

The Athenians massacred entire islands when the rulers of such an island tried to leave the Delian League.

@Robusto Fair enough.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Mongols had a lot of fucking killing you for your 5-tugrik words. So there's that.

Robusto

Fucking, killing? Make up your mind.

RegDwigнt

2:44 PM

No. Them. Not me. Them.

Also what prevents you from having a lot of fucking while killing? Certainly nothing if you're a Mongol.

Robusto

@Cerberus But it was OK because they had Culture. And nude statuary.

Cerberus

But it is true that pax and the verb pacare ("pacify") were often about "breaking resistance" rather than tranquility.

@Robusto So did the Romans!

Robusto

@Cerberus ~~Borrowed~~ Stolen from Greece!

RegDwigнt

How did Romans procreate? You never hear anything about Rowomans.

No wonder they went extinct, I say.

Cerberus

@Robusto Copied!

Robusto

2:46 PM

Greece had poor copyright protection.

RegDwigнt

Who needs copyright protection if they have credit cards. Certainly not the Greek.

Robusto

@Cerberus Those islands shouldn't have begrudged Athens use of their ships! It was their fault for protesting!

RegDwigнt

What's Kurt Cobain to do with this?

skill patrol

smells like teen spirit?

RegDwigнt

Who is teen's pirit? And how is he different from teen's pirate?

Robusto

2:53 PM

@skillpatrol I was thinking more of Lithium

RegDwigнt

Lith and let lith.

skill patrol

you used say...

Cerberus

@Robusto I am glad that you see the virtue in massacre.

skill patrol

...but in this ever changing world in which we live in

Lith and let die.

Robusto

@Cerberus Well, there were ships involved. That changes things.

Cerberus

2:56 PM

The ships did nothing, they just lay there.

RegDwigнt

My eyes! The ships do nothing!

Robusto

Also there was a beverage involved, IIRC.

RegDwigнt

They beveraged many years of experience.

Robusto

@Cerberus They floated, didn't they? That's not nothing.

RegDwigнt

Ear and floating in Las Vegas.

skill patrol

2:59 PM

what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas

Cerberus

@Robusto You have convinced me; they are as guilty as the clouds.

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