English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Cerberus

12:24 AM

@cyril I'm not sure that expression is actually used, but it is understandable.

I would say "fail to give way".

Or "fail to give priority".

> fail to yield / give (right of) way, fail to give priority / precedence

Is what my dictionary says.

skullpatrol

@cyril Car A failed to give the right of way to car B.

or "Car A failed to yield the right-of-way to car B."

Mitch

12:40 AM

@Robusto Oh. Right. Actually...

@Jez A car dealership or just 'dealership'. The ones that sell used cars are called 'a used-car dealership'

@Cerberus No, it is not the upper crust accent. Rich people speak the same way as the middle class, they're all educated at the same places.

Cerberus

@Robusto Hah, I had no idea that word came out of India.

Mitch

Yes, there is some concentration of wealth among ivy league graduates. Only Harvard and Yale have historically been associated with hoity toity accents (as exhibited by William F Buckley and the Kennedy's respectively) but that is very old news...no one speaks like that any more.

Cerberus

@Mitch Class ≠ wealth.

But I think we have gone over this.

In the past.

Mitch

@Cerberus in the US, they are mostly the same.

Cerberus

Nope.

Old money is old money.

And old money can lose their money.

And still be it.

Mitch

12:50 AM

in the us class is not differentiated by accent, which is the main discussion here.

skullpatrol

what about the southern accent?

how are you defining class?

Cerberus

@Mitch I do not quite believe that. But I did not say there had to be a special accent for the upper classes.

@skullpatrol It is difficult to define, but for the upper classes it has to do with old families, knowing people, having certain habits and so on.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Hello!

Am I only supposed to quote a text at the end of a sentence?

MLA-wise

skullpatrol

1:05 AM

What is MLA?

Mitch

Modern Language Association.

skullpatrol

thanks :D

Mitch

Massive Laurentian Accident

Massachusetts Loxodromy Administration

Maximum Likelihood Augmentation

There are more.

Robusto

@Cerberus Dressed to kill, eh?

@Mitch My Lovable Ass.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Depends on what you mean. Do you mean putting in a citation symbol?

skullpatrol

1:21 AM

MLA Medical Library Association
MLA MAC (Media Access Controller) Layer Address
MLA Music Library Association
MLA Manila
MLA Meat and Livestock Australia
MLA Master of Landscape Architecture
MLA Master of Liberal Arts
MLA Minnesota Library Association
MLA Multilateral Agreement
MLA Member of Legislative Assembly (See MPP)
MLA Malta, Malta - Luqa (Airport Code)
MLA Massachusetts Library Association
MLA Mutual Legal Assistance (intergovernmental investigation)
MLA Maritime Law Association
MLA Michigan Library Association

Cerberus

> 62.391

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@RegDwigнt I'm fucking off the board!!!

Your turn.

Robusto

Image not found.

And do you mean you're fucking off again?

Cerberus

Try again!

Robusto

@Cerberus Whoa, congrats.

Cerberus

Thanks!

skullpatrol

1:24 AM

nice

Robusto

Must've had a powerful stroke of luck there.

Cerberus

See what I mean by off the board?

Yes, kind of.

Although I also didn't make any mistake, accidentally. I almost always sooner or later move my bottom row, but not this time.

I think I can now safely retire.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto um, the page number in parentheses. The quote is from a short story in an anthology that we use as a text in class.

@Cerb, tonight we made venison chops marinated in a blend of olive oil, curry paste, garlic bits, bangkok spice, thyme, and Himalayan sea salt. Rice with dried blueberries, raisins, and crushed peanuts on the side.

Cerberus

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Wow, sounds great!

Are you offering some?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Sure!

It was very tasty.

We were trapped by weather today.

Cerberus

1:31 AM

Oh?

Snow?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Lousy Smarch weather.

Yes, and biting cold.

Wind chill is ~-23C.

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Polar vortex strikes again.

I'm still a month away from Curaçao.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Won't you pour me a Cuban breeze, Gretchen.

Robusto

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Cerberus

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 OMG where did you live again?

The North Pole?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:44 AM

Heh. Kansas City.

Bout the same parallel as tchrist. I mean horizontal.

Cerberus

So land climate.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Yes, but it's no Minnesnowta.

Cerberus

Haha.

It's 6 degrees here.

Was like 12 last week.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

That sounds nice!

Cerberus

Yeah it's fine.

People have already been seen sipping drinks at terraces in the sun.

Last week.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:48 AM

Going to be 6ish by Friday.

Cerberus

Yay!

That's a huge change.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

last night I sipped drinks at a terrace in the sun

and I was not the only one

Cerberus

Indeed not!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I was making up lyrics for this song:

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Mitch

aren't there already lyrics?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:57 AM

Yes. :P

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Parallel is sufficient. There are no parallels of longitude.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:10 AM

@Robusto I couldn't remember.

Mitch

@Robusto I want to live on a planet with parallel longitude lines.

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Cerberus

2:40 AM

> 20.883

Mitch

2:51 AM

oh...obviously...Ringworld.

Cerberus

3:27 AM

Depends on what you consider the longitude of the ring?

Mitch

the center of the ring is the equator. circles that go all the way round are the latitudes. lines perpendicular to them are the longitudes. just don't fill out the ring to become a Dyson sphere.

Cerberus

But then the longitudinal lines aren't parallel?

Mitch

3:45 AM

Take a strip of paper with grid lines. make ring with it. both grid line sets are parallel

skullpatrol

3:58 AM

a cylinder would have parallel longitude lines

Cerberus

@Mitch Ah, but is the ring world flat?

I thought it was a hollow (half-)tube?

Mitch

4:16 AM

think of an actual (flat) ring on your finger. Like that. The living surface is on the inside (the finger side)

Ringworld

Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. It is followed by three sequels and four prequels, and ties into numerous other books set in Known Space. Ringworld won the Nebula Award in 1970, as well as both the Hugo Award and Locus Award in 1971. Plot summary The novel opens in A.D. 2850 on Earth. Louis Gridley Wu is celebrating his 200th birthday. Despite his age, Louis is in perfect physical condition (because of a regimen of boosterspice) but is bored. He has experienced life thorough...

later!

skullpatrol

later

Cerberus

4:49 AM

Ah OK.

Somehow I thought it was like a tube, like this:

Laure

7:38 AM

@hunter: Fancy a blish?. Try to guess before you click!. I wonder if any of those will ever cross the Pond?

Laure

7:54 AM

Quite an interesting article about slang in today's MailOnline. Article on the same subject in the Sunday Times but available to subscribers only.

Cerberus

9:01 AM

@Laure That's some funny slang.

I'd have had no idea.

Cerberus

9:16 AM

Grüß Gott, Salzburg!

skullpatrol

10:50 AM

nah nah nah hey hey hey Goodbye

Jez

11:09 AM

@Laure that article's bullshit. I live in the UK and I've never heard that sland. Maybe it was taken from some rundown London borough.

skullpatrol

11:19 AM

~~sland~~? slang

Laure

12:29 PM

@Jez The fact that YOU haven't heard any of those new words doesn't mean a category of people to which apparently don't belong, doesn't use it.

@Jez it's in the latest edition of the Dictionary of Contemporary Slang by T Thorne Director of the English Language Centre at King's College, London. In this latest edition of the dictionary Thorne has included a new category of informal speech used by families that was originally identified by researchers at Winchester University and called “kitchen-table lingo”.

Jez

when i want contemporary slang, I use Urban Dictionary

skullpatrol

good choice^

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