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I think I usually say "hello" if it's a single word by itself and "hi" if it's immediately followed by another word. But I am not sure. And I don't know if that's just me or what. Don't read too much into it.

Anonymous

You sleep so late, I think people in North America usually sleep at 10:00PM

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Anonymous No, it's common for people to stay up later. Myself, I am not usually up so late. Well, I guess I am sometimes. It's a weekend.

Anonymous

5:12 AM

Are you a student?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Anonymous no. But I am a parent and I am thinking that maybe staying up so late is a bad idea :)

teehee, I'm reading a story online, and I just advanced to the next chapter, and the very first line is "If you're five hours past your bedtime and strill reading this, may I suggest getting some sleep? The fic will still be here tomorrow.... unless, you know, something bad happens to it...."

Yeah, that more or less describes me.

good night!

Theta30

8:50 AM

Aug 18 '11 at 19:17, by JSBᾶngs

@BogdanLataianu i'm not sure about the overall distribution of schwa's, but it's true that in english any vowel can reduce to a schwa, while in romanian it's only /a/ and in russian it's only /o/ (and possibly also /a/, though i'm not an expert on russian phonetics so i wouldn't swear to that)

@JSB the pronunciation of the main vowel in the unstressed syllable changes, often to the sound ‘uh’ which is the single most common sound in the English language. This sound has its own special name, schwa, and about 30 per cent of the sounds we make when we speak English are the sound schwa. In English, schwa can be represented by any vowel. languageinstinct.blogspot.com/2006/10/…

Vitaly

9:53 AM

hey, @Cerberus, you are the philosopher, right? so i have this dream, then suddenly i see a black screen across my whole field of vision (as if a computer were forced to reboot), then a console that starts with Prelude> and then i'm awake. so in that console there was a load of definitions and it scrolled like mad, but i managed to make out some of them,

among which there was a definition of a metric on the space of all possible minds that took Self as an argument, and there was a recursive definition of Self through Self. so, question: when can i consider myself fully myself, when the distance (as in the metric) between Self and other minds is defined, when Self is defined through Self, or when i'm awake? :P

Vitaly

11:38 AM

@Cerberus also, En cat (9), De kus (6), Ru кус (7). Couldn't really find the Dutch word, but I suspect it might be cus (6).

Robusto

12:14 PM

@Vitaly What, in all of that you couldn't eke out a little music? I got interested when you said Prelude, but then it turned out to be a deceptive cadence and you were really talking about Haskell or something. And where was the sex? The best dreams have them, you know.

Vitaly

^_^

> The Prelude: a standard module imported by default into all Haskell modules. For more documentation, see the Haskell 98 Report haskell.org/onlinereport.

Robusto

@Vitaly This is the sex part? Don't tease me, bro.

user19161

1:18 PM

@Vitaly Would a philosopher know about metric spaces (X,d)?

user19161

@Robusto Not necessarily the best ones but definitely the wet ones.

Vitaly

@WillHunting no, but a philosopher would still be able to write a paper about metric spaces and submit it to a philosophy journal

Anonymous

1:48 PM

Hello

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