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6:00 PM
It wasn't that bad.
 
"zing"
 
Divergent was awfuller.
 
Divergent was ok
But the rest was bleh
@question_asker That implies what I said was a joke
 
It sucked. If you think Stephanie Meyer is bad writing, you can't possibly think Veronica Roth's is better.
 
It's sub-par
At the worst, they're equal
 
user174558
6:01 PM
Kit Fox's writing is the best in the field.
 
I mean, where's all the drama?
 
Stephanie Meyer is just an easy target
 
At least Stephanie can maintain her tenses not only through a single sentence, but through an entire series.
 
She's outstanding in her field
 
At least the tense didn't make all of my organs tense whenever I read a new word.
aha...
 
user174558
6:02 PM
The key to maintaining intensity is maintaining tense.
 
I think that makes her better than Dan Brown, who doesn't get half the shit that Meyer (or EL James, for that matter) do(es)
 
Let's not argue which crappy writer is worse
 
@Demisemihemidemisemiquaver WRONG ELLIPSIS ALERT
 
And despite that the plot was a bit eye-rollingly young adult, at least it wasn't founded on an incredibly stupid premise.
 
@Demisemihemidemisemiquaver but I waaaaannaaaa
 
6:03 PM
50 shades aspires to Meyer's talent
 
@question_asker somehow Dan Brown wrote one book but got it published several times under different titles
 
I would argue that Stephanie Meyer is not a crappy writer.
 
@Demisemihemidemisemiquaver I think that's exactly what needs to be done
 
@Mitch Alright crappy movie fight
 
6:04 PM
Because Veronica Roth really believes that "scientists" would come up with a plan to "fix human genetics" by putting all the broken ones in a pen together.
 
Birdemic vs. Manos
 
@KitZ.Fox I assume Jesus looked like a young Yasser Arafat.
 
user174558
It is interesting that when I click on a link to someone's google drive, it appears in the recent tab in my google drive.
 
Wait I thought we were talking books which we haven't read, not movies we haven't seen
 
@MετάEd Hmm. I suppose you could kind of look like Yasser Arafat, if I squinted my eyes just right.
 
user174558
6:05 PM
@MετάEd I read that he was a controversial figure.
 
@KitZ.Fox Ack.
 
@MετάEd I want Jesus to be like Michael Jackson
Just super glamorous
 
You want Jesus Christ, Superstar.
 
He's mahvelous
 
Second Jesus On The Right
 
6:06 PM
Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started as a rock opera concept album before its first staging on Broadway in 1971. The musical is sung-through, with no spoken dialogue. The story is loosely based on the Gospels' accounts of the last week of Jesus's life, beginning with the preparation for the arrival of Jesus and his disciples in Jerusalem and ending with the crucifixion. It highlights political and interpersonal struggles between Judas Iscariot and Jesus that are not in the Bible narratives. The work's depiction...
 
Also Bad
 
@Mitch Fahbuluhs
@MετάEd why
 
@KitZ.Fox scientists might find evidence about human genetics and politicans might devise a way to make profit for rich people from it, that automatically makes poor people worse off...
 
@MετάEd No, no, I mean, in that "you'd look really sexy in a kafia" sort of way.
 
@question_asker Second Jesus. That's like a midmorning Jesus, right?
 
user174558
6:06 PM
If Brenton Thwaites is my favourite actor, then Indiana Evans is my favourite actress now.
 
user174558
Indiana Rose Evans (born 27 July 1990) is an Australian actress and singer-songwriter, best known for her roles in Home and Away as Matilda Hunter, H2O: Just Add Water as Bella Hartley, and Blue Lagoon: The Awakening as Emmaline Robinson. == Early life == Evans had an interest in performing since the age of five, when she would perform for family and friends. At the age of seven, Evans' parents enrolled her into dance lessons, which started with ballet and then evolved to jazz and tap. Before working on Home and Away, Evans started high school at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts, but...
 
Will the real Jesus Christ please stand up
Please stand up
 
sits down
 
@MετάEd mmm .... Elevenses Jesus
 
@MattE.Эллен In this case, Veronica thinks you can breed out genetic problems by ... inbreeding.
 
6:07 PM
Will the fake Jesus Christ please stand up
 
And surprise, surprise, she's a devout Christian.
 
ahaha
 
@KitZ.Fox Just put all the genetically fit on an Ark
 
@KitZ.Fox pure bloods and royal families...
 
My favorite actors are people who are incredibly good at overacting
 
user174558
6:09 PM
The Colt family incest case, dubbed by media as the Colt incest clan, is an Australian family discovered in 2013 to have been engaging in four generations of incest beginning with "Tim and June Colt," a brother and sister who emigrated from New Zealand in the 1970s. The family grew to nearly 40 members ranging from grandparents to mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, aunts, uncles, nephews, brothers and sisters all engaging in various forms of incest. Many of the children suffered from deformities and medical problems. The case has been described by lead investigator Peter Yeomans as, "like nothing...
 
Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and producer. He has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films. In the early years of his career, Cage starred in films such as Valley Girl (1983), Racing with the Moon (1984), Birdy (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Raising Arizona (1987), Moonstruck (1987), Vampire's Kiss (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), and Red Rock West (1993). Cage received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and...
This guy is way too good at freaking out
 
Seriously, if you're going to have genetics as a major plot element, you probably ought to at least have one class in it, and maybe ask a geneticist or any biological scientist or a farmer what they think about your idea.
 
user174558
@Demisemihemidemisemiquaver Mine are those who look sexy.
 
user174558
I was thinking of the difference between spelling and orthography. Then I realised that some languages are not spelled. Ding!
 
@WillHunting spells are real, though
 
6:12 PM
"Nicolas Cage is as good as anyone since Klaus Kinski at portraying a man whose head is exploding." - Roger Ebert
 
@MattE.Эллен Christian Rage
 
@Demisemihemidemisemiquaver puts a spell on you
 
@MattE.Эллен no my speshul buk sais thei arent reelllllllllll
 
Anonymous
@WillHunting What do you suppose the difference is?
 
user174558
6:14 PM
@snailplane Well, I think one is how you write the language and the other is just what letters you use to spell. But before I thought of this, I thought that spelling = orthography.
 
@Demisemihemidemisemiquaver is reality real?
 
Orthography includes punctuation as well.
 
@MattE.Эллен wel acording to my buk it is
so it is no questions asked
 
@Demisemihemidemisemiquaver but (dun dun dunnnnnn) you don't have a book!
 
@MattE.Эллен devil magic
only explanation
 
6:16 PM
the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making @Demisemihemidemisemiquaver's book disappear
 
user174558
The only other words I know beginning with ortho are orthogonal and orthonormal, which means perpendicular and perpendicular with length one respectively.
 
thank god for tab complete
 
@question_asker And then subsequently pulling infinite handkerchiefs out of his sleeve
except he didn't have a sleeve...
 
technically that's a second trick
 
Anonymous
6:16 PM
That seems like a good way to distinguish them, although some people use spelling for non-alphabetic ways of writing, too. I think there's some disagreement as to the exact definition of spelling. But spelling doesn't encompass everything about a writing system in any case; punctuation, for example, is not spelling.
 
@question_asker Part of the trick was making it into one
 
@WillHunting orthodox
 
Anonymous
Spelling doesn't seem to make much sense for Chinese characters, but it does seem to work for Japanese kana. Some people refuse to use spelling for kana, though.
 
over/under on how long it takes before the devil gives up his life as a magician and spends the rest of his days debunking tv psychics
 
user174558
@MattE.Эллен Ah, yes. The Eastern Orthodox Church.
 
6:17 PM
I thought ortho meant right and normal.
 
Anonymous
A right angle!
 
@snailplane Because having three different alphabets is hip and cool
 
user174558
I found out that Eastern Christianity has different dates for Good Friday!
 
the greeks have a whole other easter!
 
orthomancy: divination by right angle
 
Anonymous
6:19 PM
Hiragana and katakana are not alphabets, and neither is the set of Chinese characters.
 
@snailplane Kanji
@snailplane Kana
 
@question_asker it was last Sunday
 
Anonymous
Are not alphabets.
 
Huh
Thought they were
 
user174558
I was surprised when I read that there is an Arabic alphabet.
 
6:20 PM
I heard somewhere there were three
 
@KitZ.Fox I'll have to try that.
 
Anonymous
An alphabet is made of letters, which are a type of character. Not all characters are letters, and not all scripts are alphabets.
 
Ah, I meant scripts
Script = Alphabet to me
 
@MattE.Эллен true! I saw the crowds and everything
 
user174558
@snailplane I know that English, German, French, Italian and Spanish alphabets use the Latin script.
 
6:21 PM
@KitZ.Fox it's like you are against the creative process. Philistine
@WillHunting alphabets are so 5th c BC
 
@Mitch I'm against willful ignorance.
 
An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) which is used to write one or more languages based on the general principle that the letters represent phonemes (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to other types of writing systems, such as syllabaries (in which each character represents a syllable) and logographies (in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic unit). The Proto-Canaanite script, later known as the Phoenician alphabet, is the first fully phonemic script. Thus the Phoenician alphabet is considered...
 
Emojis are how I think now
 
All of the alphabets
@Mitch :^) eternal pain
 
@KitZ.Fox pfft. Principles.
 
user174558
6:23 PM
effectivelanguagelearning.com might be helpful for those learning a new language.
 
@question_asker rabbits don't have Easter. Or rather they call it the Nakhba
cries for the bunnies
 
Speaking of fictional holiday characters
There is a kid at my high school
Still believes in Santa and he's like 15
We're still not sure if he's joking
 
Lots of adults still believe in ... uh ...
 
Fox News being correct?
Another myth
Along with any positive assumptions about Fox News.
 
@snailplane missing a stroke here or there...id count that as analogous enough
 
6:26 PM
@Mitch I don't understand this joke
 
Which one?
 
the rabbit/nakhba one
 
Oh. Don't people have rabbit for Easter dinner?
I don't know
 
Anonymous
@Mitch It might seem that way superficially, but writing a Chinese character isn't much like writing an English word.
 
user174558
Is it acceptable for a person with a PhD or a medical doctor to call himself Mr X instead of Dr X?
 
6:29 PM
It shows the utility of phonics vs whole word 'spelling'
People tend to read alphabets not char by char but as one whole word, which is like an ideograph
 
Anonymous
Incorrect.
 
@WillHunting Not very unless they're a psychiatrist or someone whose job is to pretend to like you
 
Anonymous
We read letters in parallel.
 
@WillHunting sure. The other way round, no
 
@WillHunting A person can choose how they prefer to be addressed.
 
user174558
6:31 PM
@KitZ.Fox Aha, though I guess interchanging Mr and Ms would be too much, lol.
 
@WillHunting Surgeons are addressed as Mr.
(or Ms. or whatever)
 
user174558
@MattE.Эллен Why is that so?
 
@WillHunting the first surgeons were butchers, not doctors
 
user174558
LOL
 
6:32 PM
Chirurgeons.
 
Chirurgeons and barbers.
 
user174558
If I ruled the world, I would do away with all titles and salutations in addressing.
 
Did you read my latest instructional guide?
 
The barber surgeon (or a quack) is one of the most common medical practitioners of medieval Europe – generally charged with looking after soldiers during or after a battle. In this era, surgery was not generally conducted by physicians, but by barbers (who of course had a sharp-bladed razor as an indispensable tool of their profession). In the Middle Ages in Europe barbers would be expected to do anything from cutting hair to amputating limbs. Mortality of surgery at the time was quite high due to loss of blood and infection. Doctors of the Middle Ages thought that taking blood would help cure...
 
user174558
6:33 PM
@KitZ.Fox Nope. Where?
 
@KitZ.Fox Gotcha
 
barbers, then, not butchers
 
user174558
Oh, I happened to read that one, lol.
 
Anonymous
@KitZ.Fox When I was in high school, our school computers all had some brain surgery game (simulation?) on them. That's where I learned words like trepanation.
 
Anonymous
6:34 PM
Unfortunately, all of my patients died :-(
 
Do not under any circumstance attempt trepanation

if you or the afflicted have undergone leech therapy, begun menstruating, or donated blood within the last 48 hours.
during active thunderstorms or within 100 feet of high-voltage electricity, even if the entire grid is down and the main breaker on the electrical service has been tripped.
in the presence of a secondary school athlete including members of the cheerleading squad.
Why the third one?
 
It is harder than it looks.
I lost one once.
@Demisemihemidemisemiquaver Have you ever watched a horror movie?
 
@KitZ.Fox I thought that was a historical reference, but still funny all the same
 
user174558
Watch Wrong Turn 1,2,3,4,5,6. Hahaha.
 
Watch Birdemic
Totally worth it
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (often shortened to Birdemic) is a 2008 American independent romantic horror film written, directed, and produced by James Nguyen, and starring Alan Bagh and Whitney Moore. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Birdemic tells the story of a romance between the two main characters as their small town is attacked by birds. The film was made with no studio support, largely self-financed, and produced through Nguyen's Moviehead Pictures company for a budget of less than $10,000. The film has gained notoriety for its poor quality, with many critics citing it as one of...
 
6:38 PM
oh my god
I actually want to watch this now
 
The films listed below have been cited by a variety of notable critics in varying media sources as being among the worst films ever made. Examples of such sources include Metacritic, Roger Ebert's list of most-hated films, The Golden Turkey Awards, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, Rotten Tomatoes, the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, Mystery Science Theater 3000, RiffTrax, and the Golden Raspberry Awards ("Razzies"). == 1930s == === Reefer Madness (1936) === Reefer Madness (originally released as Tell Your Children and sometimes titled or subtitled as The Burning Question, Dope Addict, Doped You...
 
I was under the impression that it was a normal bad movie
 
Have a field day!
I swear, the 'effects' in Birdemic
Just GIFs of birds
 
but it, in fact, seems like an exceptional bad movie
 
I have a personal list of my favorite bad movies, let me find it
Zaat
Leonard Part 6
Troll 2
 
The Room (a classic)
 
yeah somehow I've never seen any of those
 
@MattE.Эллен in england. In the is they're Drs
 
I know a guy who reviews crappy movies
Want a link?
 
@Mitch in the UK, even
 
6:42 PM
sure, why not
 
Anonymous
There are a few movies I tried watching because I thought they were so bad I'd enjoy them, but they turned out to be so bad my brain melted off and I died. :-(
 
Anonymous
Please don't watch the Star Wars Holiday Special. You might think it's all good fun, but it's not. It's a traumatic experience, one you'll never recover from.
 
user174558
@KitZ.Fox The makeup looks terrible.
 
6:43 PM
@snailplane Yeah, I have a special reluctance when it comes to bad movies. There's a netherzone where a movie is bad but not bad enough to be interesting
 
Even if the movie is boring, he usually spices it up with more commentary
The official worst movie has the be The Incredible Bulk
 
@snailplane waiting for page to come up
 
The effects look like they mere made in the Unity engine.
 
In the mean time I disagree
Movies, on the whole, are stupid
7
 
user174558
I am going to eat some chicken soup, later.
 
6:47 PM
Even 2001 was stupid. You had to read the book to discover the depth
 
user208178
@snailplane That is a great example of hyperbole.
 
3 stories: monkeys learn to kill. Spacey slab on moon, computer tries to kill astronauts
 
space.................babey
 
user208178
@Mitch And what about ads on the internet and on TV?
 
ads... now those are good. love too know what product's too buy
 
Anonymous
6:58 PM
Apparently the discussion has now moved from orthography to scoliography.
 
@snailplane What's that?
Google Dictionary says it isn't a word
 
Anonymous
@Demisemihemidemisemiquaver A joke word :-) The opposite of orthography.
 
Anonymous
By the way, for English Google has licensed the Oxford Dictionary of English and its American edition, the New Oxford American Dictionary.
 
Anonymous
Those are the same dictionaries you can find online at oxforddictionaries.com.
 
7:00 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: What's the meaning of 'sorry lot' in Albert Einstein's quote? by user173835 on english.stackexchange.com
 
Anonymous
Technically, Google doesn't have its own dictionary.
 
user208178
but one has less definitions than the other right?
 
Anonymous
The NOAD is smaller than the ODE. I don't know why.
 
@SmokeDetector He's not wrong, but....
 
@VitaminC those are dumb too
 
user208178
7:02 PM
Yep. They irritate the shit out of many.
 
Anonymous
I like to keep dictionaries distinct mentally from the websites used to access them.
 
user208178
I'm bad at arranging my bookmarks or I'd be efficient at using dictionaries.
 
user208178
They are everywhere.
 
Anonymous
I recommend bookmarking onelook.com.
 
Anonymous
 
user208178
7:06 PM
ah cool. do you use it?
 
Anonymous
It's not a perfect site, but it's a very useful multi-dictionary search tool, and it has links to lots of dictionaries.
 
Anonymous
I do! I also use some dictionaries that aren't indexed on OneLook, though.
 
Anonymous
I recommend the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) for learners, but it doesn't seem to be indexed from OneLook.
 
user208178
my personal favorites are Webster's and Dictionary.com
 
user208178
also the Oxford dictionary that you mentioned.
 
Anonymous
7:08 PM
What do you like about them?
 
user208178
many things. pronunciations, good formatting etc.
 
user208178
mainly pronunciations.
 
Anonymous
oxforddictionaries.com is a good site. It has the Oxford Dictionary of English, which is a very large dictionary of Present-Day English with lots of examples (based on the Oxford English Corpus).
 
Anonymous
I don't recommend any of the dictionaries published by Oxford for looking up pronunciation, though.
 
Anonymous
Macmillan Dictionary is a good dictionary with IPA transcriptions and audio files for both American and British English.
 
Anonymous
7:12 PM
The Longman Pronunciation Dictionary is the best pronunciation dictionary there is right now, but it's not freely available online :-(
 
user208178
I just get confused between pronunciations when it comes to difficult words, like "fallacies" that I was studying a few days back e.g. Reductio Ad Absurdum, Petitio Principii etc.
 
user208178
But yes different pronunciations do exist.
 
@snailplane why not?
 
Anonymous
@MattE.Эллен Clive Upton's reforms.
 
@snailplane Who is Clive Upton?
 
Anonymous
 
@MattE.Эллен Who is Clive Upton? Who is he not?
 
Anonymous
Changing the symbols unfortunately causes a lot of confusion, because different people use different symbols to mean the same things, and most of the time they don't realize this.
 
Anonymous
But the rest of the world is not going to adopt his scheme, it seems.
 
@question_asker oh right. psychedelic space baby.
that was biring
@MattE.Эллен haha oops yes
 
@Mitch he's not me!
@snailplane thanks
 
7:36 PM
@snailplane interesting. I'll have to reevaluate my position
 
user174558
I had soup and a shower.
 
@MattE.Эллен me neither. The point is is that he is quite not a lot of people
@WillHunting hopefully not at the same time
 
@Mitch good point
 
@WillHunting Gold Star
 
@MattE.Эллен yes. I intend all my points to be good.
Including that one
That one, somewhat but not as much as the first two
 
Oh _that guy? Dr Upton? His friends call him Mr Upton considering his skill with a carving knife.
 
@Mitch He'll funk you up
 
7:56 PM
He can really get down
Then get back up again
 
 
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user174558
9:04 PM
Welcome home @Matt, lol.
 
user174558
Next Fri is Fri the 13th. Will Freddy come home?
 
9:56 PM
@WillHunting - Understood. I've removed 0 score answers as well. It reminded me, though, of a helpful answer - upvoted - you posted on meta, though. I was sorry to see it deleted. (Well, I could still see it, but you know what I mean.)
 
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