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user19161

11:00 AM

There are many mysteries in this world.

@RegDwightѬſ道 "This edit changes too much in the original post; the original meaning or intent of the post would be lost.", eh?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Yes.

Gigili

How so?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

You are removing a fact just like that?

user19161

Because it removes an essential part of the question.

user19161

11:02 AM

And what's wrong with Iran being there?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I still don't understand why you don't like Iran.

Also, if you gonna edit the question and the answer, you better edit them consistently.

Gigili

Because I like you instead.

user19161

No flirting in chat!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

And hey, no edit wars on this site.

Matt Эллен

too late! Some flirting in chat.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

11:04 AM

State your case, or I'll just lock the answer.

user19161

@matt When was that photo taken, the one I just saw?

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting of the robot? January, probably

user19161

@gigili I have rejected your edit.

Gigili

@RegDwightѬſ道 I like it like that and it has no affect on the question and answer, so I won't give up.

user19161

@MattЭллен Not the robot, the one mahnax linked to.

Matt Эллен

11:07 AM

Oh. I guess around when the first post is

user19161

Seriously what's wrong with the Iran thing? There is nothing bad said about Iran there for one to remove it.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

We never got hung up on a useless joke question like that before.

user19161

@gigili I have rejected your edit again.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

This one was better, I will admit. But still a radical change.

Gigili

I can't understand you Reg. Obviously, I can't fight against a moderator.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

11:09 AM

Of course you can.

But you have to make a stronger case. Or a case at all.

Matt Эллен

he has his head in the sand, that must make it easier

user19161

@gigili What is wrong? If you keep submitting the same edit I will just keep rejecting it.

user19161

And even if it is approved, I will just reedit it.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

We have asked you like seven times by now why you insist on editing Iran out. You have not replied once.

user19161

You cannot just change the intention of the OP like that.

user19161

11:13 AM

If there is something particularly offensive then at least there is a reason.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Well I am kind of waiting for her to say that she is the OP. But then it will go straight to the Merge and Delete Town.

user19161

For example, there was once someone said something nasty about the Jews.

Gigili

@RegDwightѬſ道 Because it's an extremely stupid question and it might lead to the conclusion that it has anything to do with the Iran-Tehran part.

user19161

@Gigili Including Iran is part of the OP's question, period.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

If someone from Iran is not offended by it, then neither should you.

Gigili

11:15 AM

I am someone from Iran!

user19161

Nobody said Iranians are stupid there for it to be offensive, but humans in general exhibit much stupidity.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Gigili Very good. Couldn't you have mentioned that right from the start?

user19161

I for one have exhibited much stupidity.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Now. What do you find offensive about mentioning your country's name?

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 Even then there is nothing offensive in the post really.

Gigili

11:16 AM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Huh, you didn't know that. You didn't know that.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Whether or not I knew that is irrelevant.

The people on the site don't know that.

Gigili

2 mins ago, by Gigili

@RegDwightѬſ道 Because it's an extremely stupid question and it might lead to the conclusion that it has anything to do with the Iran-Tehran part.

user19161

And mods do know a person's location from the IP address.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Gigili That what has to do with the Iran-Tehran part?

user19161

@Gigili Then that is extremely stupid reasoning, period.

Gigili

11:17 AM

They all know, at least the ones I care about.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

We have 30000 visitors on the site each day. Trust me, they don't know shit about you.

user19161

I know gigili and meysam are from Iran.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

All they see is someone radically changing a post by someone else for no apparent reason.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 Though some people here know some shit that I have been through.

Gigili

@RegDwightѬſ道 Okay, I give up. But locking both answer and question like that wasn't a wise solution to stop me.

user19161

11:20 AM

Anyway that post has been locked I see.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Gigili it is not a solution to stop you. Sigh.

user19161

@Gigili We tried to explain to you in chat.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

It is a way to solve a dispute rather than carrying out needless edit wars.

user19161

We are very reasonable people.

user19161

Then you might as well have changed it to "my first name is X and last name Y".

RegDwight Ѭſ道

11:21 AM

If i see someone engaging in an edit war without stating their reasons, I have to lock that post. That is just how the site works.

That is also how Wikipedia works and countless other sites.

Settle the dispute first, edit later.

Gigili

Right, I see your point now.

user19161

On the other hand, if that post had said "All XXX are assholes" then there is cause to be offended.

Gigili

I thought saying I like you was enough to approve my edit.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

And anyway. That question will probably be deleted soon.

user19161

@Gigili No favouritism on ELU!

user19161

11:23 AM

We are very professional.

Gigili

Is there anything that you're not?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

He is not Mariah Carey.

user19161

I am also not happy.

user19161

That is why I need to believe in miracles.

user19161

But thanks @gigili, you helped me attain 100 reviews today.

Gigili

11:30 AM

@WillHunting I hope you repay me one day.

Actually you did, by rejecting them.

user19161

@Gigili I was about to say that.

user19161

No favouritism on ELU! But giving presents now and then is allowed.

user19161

I am also known as ELU Santa Claus...

user19161

Title courtesy of @reg.

Robusto

@WillHunting But all XXX are assholes. This is known.

user19161

11:37 AM

@reg Why did you edit that question? But never mind, I shan't dispute you!

Robusto

Is it just me, or are Yoichi questions instantly recognizable: "What are “the quantum politician” filled with aluminum powder?:

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto they absolutely are.

user19161

@Robusto They are always newspaper articles.

Robusto

I'm trying to identify the exact traits, though. It's almost at genius level.

I don't think I could make up a Yoichi title.

user19161

@Robusto You need more sushi.

Robusto

11:39 AM

I always need more sushi.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto he also changes his style in subtle ways, for it to escape you even moar.

He used to put commas before the quote. Now he no longer does. Or at least not that often.

user19161

Yoichi moves in mysterious ways.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

As in, "What does the word, 'blabla' mean?"

Robusto

Yet it's always recognizable via subject matter and syntactical idiosyncracies.

user19161

Maybe he is reading different punctuation guides.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

11:42 AM

Maybe he's just actually learning.

I mean, we have edited those commas out many times.

So he adapts to our requirements.

Without losing the rest of his style.

Robusto

He takes many figures of speech literally. But then, I do the same in Japanese.

user19161

It's time the elephant came out for a breath @reg.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

He does. At night.

user19161

But the photo is in the day. Mystery solved. QED.

user19161

Speaking of which, I watched a Japanese drama titled QED.

Robusto

11:45 AM

0

Q: 'Supposing', 'Let us suppose': differences in hypothetical sentences

Are there differences in meaning between the sentences below? Supposing they had taken your car without asking you, what would you have done? Let us suppose they had taken your car without asking you, what would you have done? In my opinion (I am non-native) the latter sentence is...

period

I changed ipothetical to hypothetical. I hope that wasn't a word copyrighted by Apple.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

In any case as long as it's a word they have to pay you royalties.

user19161

@Robusto That would be ipodhetical.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 But QED royalties come to me. Note that QED is not a word.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Robusto

Only @Cerberus can speak the three words simultaneously. Which brings about the apocalypse, so let's hope he keeps his mouths shut.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

11:49 AM

The apocalypse would deprive him of his job.

Robusto

No. He would still guard Hades. It would simply be bigger.

He's not keeping people out, remember. He's keeping them in.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I am not so sure. He relies on a steady flow of souls, not on them showing up all at once and shutting the buisness down.

@Robusto No point in having hell when there's no world left.

Robusto

It is difficult to say what he relies on. I think he's mainly interested in which pair of pink undies he's going to wear.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

The hell's only purpose is to scare the shit out of the living.

Matt Эллен

maybe he would set up an elaborate queuing system, so that he would have eternity to usher the souls through

RegDwight Ѭſ道

11:51 AM

@MattЭллен he couldn't, He'd forget all about the system five minutes into setting it up.

Robusto

@RegDwightѬſ道 L'enfer est les autres.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightѬſ道 lol it's wonder he remembers which direction is out!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@MattЭллен he does not. He just keeps one head in either direction.

Matt Эллен

:D

doesn't that mean half the souls get thrown out?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Not from the other head's perspective.

Matt Эллен

11:54 AM

lol

Robusto

Mawcor is evil.

Also vile.

Also live.

But not a veil.

user19161

I think that might be the only four-letter word with 4 anagrams.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Mar 12 at 13:08, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

Hah. Mawcor is as treacherous as ever.

Robusto

rats, tars, arts, star

QED

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@WillHunting word, wrod, wrdo, orwd.

Robusto

11:57 AM

meat, team, mate, tame

I'm sure I could think of more.

user19161

Ah very good!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

that, taht, ttah, hatt

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 Fail!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

fail, flai, ailf, flia

Gimme another one.

user19161

Not only can any word be any part of speech, but any word can be spelled in any order according to @reg.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

11:59 AM

What nonsense are you spewing there.

Robusto

@WillHunting You did that brick meaningly.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

"Hatt" is not a different spelling of "that". It's an anagram.

Much like team is not a different spelling of meat.

user19161

Hello @carlo! Welcome to chat.

Carlo_R.

Thx

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Okay, so it is April 1st.

Robusto

12:02 PM

Mar 6 at 13:33, by Robusto

@KitFox One man's meat is another man's poisson.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Mar 28 '11 at 16:13, by RegDwight

I mean, I can totally see how when you drop a hammer on your toe, you first try to keep back the pain by keeping back the air, but then can't stand it anymore and release it. Resulting in a stop sound.

Robusto

You mistake opacity for perspicacity.

Matt Эллен

tips spit pits sipt

Robusto

sipt? What kind of bastard Briticism is that?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

No, I just provide pain to go with your poisson.

user19161

12:05 PM

Hello @jsb! You are early today.

Matt Эллен

@Robusto passed tense of sip

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Yeah, like ahtt is the past tense of aht.

Matt Эллен

zaklee

Robusto

@MattЭллен Like passed is the parallel past tense of past.

Matt Эллен

@Robusto the best kind - one I just made up!

Robusto

12:07 PM

@MattЭллен Britannia waives the rules. ★ ★ ★ ★

Matt Эллен

when it suits her

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Mar 24 '11 at 14:05, by Cerberus

@Reg: Let's keep the past the past!

Robusto

See? That line was too smart to be starred in chat.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 But sometimes the past makes your present and future difficult.

Matt Эллен

@Robusto indeed. I had to read it several times. and now it is starred on my retina

RegDwight Ѭſ道

12:10 PM

@Robusto there, happy now?

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 No mod trolling in chat!

Robusto

See? We can dumb this down even moar.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@WillHunting Whom else do you want to troll in chat? @CarloR?

user19161

Also note that skullpatrol is now Rob.

user19161

Rob

9 2

dictionaries

RegDwight Ѭſ道

12:16 PM

The Russian adjective for Rob means "shy".

user19161

He cannot escape the eyes of Sauron or whatever.

user19161

Now there is a problem pinging him as Robusto will get it here and robjohn will get it in the math room.

user19161

Also, robinhood sometimes comes here.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Then let's just ping @Will instead.

I think I will post a sushi question, too.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 I will be switching back in six days, but thank you.

Robusto

12:18 PM

I think I will change my username to ping. Or @. That way I will always be pinged.

user19161

I think robinhood comes here just to check the pings meant for robusto.

Matt Эллен

@Robusto change it to everyone.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

My question will be, "What do sushi and the sandwich have in common, other than that they are both things that are eaten?"

Tagged sushi

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 They both contain the letter s. QED.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

-1.

Robusto

12:21 PM

Mar 22 '11 at 17:56, by Robusto

Cultural note: Sushi and sandwiches were both invented by gamblers who didn't want to stop gambling long enough to eat a proper meal, but didn't want the gunk from the meal to mess up the game.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 Also tagged sandwich.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightѬſ道 I am holding neither right now

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto no WAY!

Robusto

Way.

user19161

My way -- Frank Sinatra

RegDwight Ѭſ道

12:21 PM

Jan 10 at 3:41, by Robusto

And here's your pop quiz question: What do sushi and the sandwich have in common, other than that they are both things that are eaten?

It looks like Rob only remembers his answers but not his questions.

Robusto

That's why we cycle this stuff repeatedly.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Jan 10 at 3:44, by Robusto

They were both invented by gamblers who didn't want to stop playing cards long enough to eat a proper meal, but didn't want to get their cards greasy or sticky.

Robusto

@RegDwightѬſ道 Faulty inference. I recognized both.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

This is the proper answer.

user19161

The endless cycle of questions and answers, and of birth and rebirth.

Robusto

12:23 PM

Either is true.

Matt Эллен

and death and redeath

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto then y u quoted wrong answa?

Vitaly

Okay, so I read the relevant parts of the transcript twice and I still don't understand why it had to be changed to Nalchik. Is this some kind of elaborate April Fools' prank?

Robusto

@RegDwightѬſ道 My answers are interchangeable. Like LEGO.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Who is April Fool?

@Robusto LEGO is not interchangeable. Least of all with Monster Bricks.

user19161

12:24 PM

@Vitaly You only have to read it once. There is no reason. Reg just felt like it.

Robusto

►

RegDwight Ѭſ道

> Dieses Video ist in Deutschland leider nicht verfügbar, da es möglicherweise Musik enthält, für die die erforderlichen Musikrechte von der GEMA nicht eingeräumt wurden.

Robusto

Get a real country.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Get rid of RIAA.

user19161

Where is Nalchik?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

12:27 PM

In Kabardino-Balkaria.

user19161

Nalchik

Nalchik (; Kabardian: Налшык; Balkar: Нальчик) is the capital city of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia, situated at an altitude of in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains; about northwest of Beslan in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania. It covers an area of . Population: History The territory of modern-day Nalchik was inhabited by native Balkars and Kabardians as far back as 1743, but the modern city dates from the early 19th century when the expanding Russian Empire built a fort there in 1818; this date is seen at the top of the city's coat of arms. A military settlemen...

user19161

Now you will upset all the Nalchikians and the OP.

Robusto

@RegDwightѬſ道 Get rid of it in your country.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

There is no RIAA but in America.

user19161

I really think it should be changed back to Iran, but never mind.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

12:28 PM

Hence the A.

Vitaly

I, for once, agree with Will.

user19161

To deliberately change it from one country to another, hmm.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Go ahead, roll it back. It will be deleted in 10 hours anyway.

user19161

@Vitaly We have never disagreed on anything.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Oh, and you will babysit Gigili for the rest of the day.

Robusto

12:29 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Yet I can watch the video here.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto Cool! You finally got rid of RIAA!!!!

Robusto

Now you need to follow suit.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I only follow skirt.

Robusto

That's how you skirt (RegDwight) the issue.

user19161

I only follow shorts.

Robusto

12:30 PM

I long to follow shorts.

user19161

I seldom wear longs.

Robusto

You have to go along to get along.

user19161

The trend is for skirts to end higher and shirts to end lower for females.

Robusto

@WillHunting There is still no end in sight, alas.

Vitaly

@RegDwightѬſ道 Well, duh, I decided to take the rules' side just so I could see your babysitting her for the rest of the day. TYVM.

JSBᾶngs

12:35 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 "rob" in Romanian means "slave"

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Another Slavic influence?

It's раб there.

Robusto

From rabotats?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Aye, there's the rob.

JSBᾶngs

yeah, it's borrowed from slavic

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto Good question.

> Происходит от церк.-слав. рабъ, ср. ст.-слав. рабъ (δοῦλος; Остром., Зогр., Клоц., Супр. и др.); исконно русской является форма *робъ. Из праслав. формы *orbъ, от которой в числе прочего произошли: вост.-слав. и зап.-слав. rоbъ, ю.-слав. rаbъ. Ю.-слав. формы на -о-, вероятно, заимств. из придунайских районов. Русск. *реб- получено из *роб- в результате стар. ассимиляции гласных. Исходной формой было *orbę (род. *orbęte).

> Родственно лат. orbus «осиротевший», греч. ὀρφανός — то же, арм. оrb (основа на -о) (род. п. оrbоу) «сирота», готск. arbi ср. р. «наследство», arbja м. «наследник», греч. ὀρφοβόται ̇ ἐπίτροποι ὀρφανῶν (Гесихий), ирл. orbe «наследство», др.-инд. árbhas «маленький, мальчик»

JSBᾶngs

12:37 PM

roaba (the feminine form) however, means "wheelbarrow"

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Interestingly, the original form in Russian was rob as well.

@Robusto so not from rabobat'. Much rather they share a common ancestor.

Robusto

Happens a lot.

Meanwhile, I suck against Chinchompaz.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto try Blue Oyster Bar.

Or switching to Fight.

Robusto

@RegDwightѬſ道 I heard you can get hepatitis-C from them.

Anyway, I'm spent.

Besides, I have a positive delta against Chinch on surge. I only switch to fight when I can't win any.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

That's not how math works.

If you can't surge 6:4, you are better off on Fight.

Vitaly

12:46 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 ЭССЯ: i.imgur.com/qXPdi.jpg

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Yay.

Robusto

@RegDwightѬſ道 Assuming you win all battles on fight?

Vitaly

> Ю.-слав. формы с корнем rob- — отражение заимствований из сев.-слав. языков, связанное с торговлей рабами, см. Snoj 541.

Huh.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto Assuming a whole number of things. But on average 6:4 is a reliable way to ballpark it.

Gigili

You're awesome Reg.

No wait, I didn't see that.

You are not.

Jez

12:54 PM

Hands up who speaks German.

Robusto

Hände hoch?

Jez

congrats, you just volunteered to help me translate this game to English ;-)

Robusto

違う。

RegDwight Ѭſ道

You can't afford his hourly rates unless you are EA.

Jez

different?

EA? they rape gaming. i'm helping it

Robusto

1:01 PM

@Jez It's how the Japanese say "You're wrong."

They're more polite than I am.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Jez You are helping EA rape gaming?

Jez

"it" doesn't marry with "they", so no.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

It does in liberal countries.

Robusto

rape, pear, pare, reap ... standard 4-letter word with 4 anagrams.

Where is Will now that I really need to rub that in his face?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Where there is Will, there's also Way.

Robusto

1:04 PM

No Way.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Then no Will.

Jez

@RegDwight do you charge an hourly rate for cheesy puns?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I only charge you. Glad you asked.

This hour's rate is seven.

Matt Эллен

what's the rate for the next hour?

Gigili

Eight.

And nine for the next hour.

You can guess the pattern.

Matt Эллен

1:09 PM

4 for the following hour?

Can anyone think of a good pun with the word burlesque to imply having a good time?

Robusto

@MattЭллен You had to specify "good" pun, didn't you? You went and spoiled it by making the game impossible.

All puns are bad, and the best puns are the worst. This is known.

Also, it's known of your business.

Matt Эллен

@Robusto I like to spoil your fun. OK, if you insist on looser talk, how about an easy to understand pun?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Ugh.

Robusto

@MattЭллен Where's the fun in that?

Matt Эллен

I don't know!

Vitaly

1:13 PM

TIL that Gastarbeiter is cognate with orphan and раб.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

It's also cognate with гость, innit.

Robusto

This is just what we needed.

►

Jez

Well if anyone who speaks German fancies an interesting task, here: pastebin.com/Qp50uZXj

Please fill in the StringEN fields with an English translation of the German :-)

RegDwight Ѭſ道

> Maximal ein Kanal kann in drei Senderegionen geleitet werden.

Well if it would make sense, it could be translatable.

Jez

hmm

it kind of makes sense

RegDwight Ѭſ道

1:19 PM

Is it some Media Tycoon type of game?

Jez

basically yeah

Mad TV 2

Robusto

Wie heißt Sammy auf Deutsch?

Jez

Sammy's like their jokey name for Grammy

Robusto

Is that like an Oscar?

Jez

yep

RegDwight Ѭſ道

1:21 PM

Ah. So geleitet in the meaning of to head.

Or to manage.

Robusto

Or its cognate, lead.

Jez

if this is really hard to understand i'm kind of wondering how Germans played the game :-)

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto Well I dunno, does Rupert Murdoch lead Fox?

Robusto

@RegDwightѬſ道 Yeah.

He is their leader.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Jez Germans are used to crappy texts in games. This text is actually rather decent so far.

Jez

1:22 PM

@RegDwight isn't that one talking about directing a channel into transmitting regions?

Robusto

I'd bet that leader and leiter derive from some ancestral word somewhere.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

A mission in which you already own a channel and movies. For complete rookies. You can manage at most one channel in three transmitting regions.

Jez

ahh

makes sense

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 You have correctly applied the contrapositive to make a conclusion.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I'm so excited, I just can't hide it!

Off to the showermobile!

Matt Эллен

1:26 PM

@Robusto the verb lead:

@Robusto > A Common Germanic weak verb (wanting in Gothic): Old English lǽdan = Old Frisian lêda , Old Saxon lêdjan (Middle Dutch leden , leiden , Dutch leiden ), Old High German (Middle High German, German) leiten , Old Norse leiða (Swedish leda , Danish lede ) < Old Germanic *laiđjan , < *laiđâ road, journey (see load n., lode n.), related to Old English líðan, Old Norse líða to go, travel.

Robusto

*Leader* is a very general term, but it means all those "head of the organization" things:
conductor
head
manager
director
guide
chief
principal
master

@MattЭллен QED.

Matt Эллен

quite!

Leader is from: Old English lǽdere , < lǽdan lead v.1 + -er suffix1.

Robusto

But let's not get all in a læðer about it.

Matt Эллен

:D

user19161

Hello @jez. Any luck on that dating site?

Jez

1:30 PM

haven't really been using it much

user19161

@Jez OK. You can try other sites too. That may help.

Vitaly

@Robusto do you happen to know why the O.E. and O.N. descendants differ from the other descendants here en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Germanic/arbaidiz ?

Robusto

@Vitaly Let me look for my Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. It might take a while, as it is somewhere under one of these waist-high stacks of books in my office.

user19161

@Robusto Now we know what the room looks like.

Jez

bordel

Matt Эллен

1:34 PM

@WillHunting a labyrinth of books, so that the Robustotaur cannot escape!

Robusto

"I don't know just where I'm goin' / But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can"

The problem with books is, you need to have so many within arm's reach that sooner or later you can't reach any of them.

user19161

@Jez What?

Matt Эллен

very true

Robusto

> And I guess that I just don't know.

Vitaly

@Robusto Oh, never mind then. This isn't worth the trouble, and thanks anyway.

user19161

1:36 PM

I have seen rooms piled with books and papers. I wonder how one would find something like that.

Robusto

But it has ON glosses and etymologies too.

Matt Эллен

I must hunt and/or gather

Vitaly

@WillHunting most humans are good at memorizing landscapes, and after a while you know by heart where everything is

user19161

@Vitaly Also they are dangerous. If you try to pull out a book from the pile, everything might topple.

Robusto

2:01 PM

Fail. The pile I thought it was under turned out to be supported by my volumes of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Well, at least I got the Anglo-Saxon part right in my memory.

I should never have removed the bright blue dust jacket. Now it looks like all the other books.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I'm off for a walk. If I don't return in time, attack Last Survivor or Kill King or some such.

Jez

Does "Platina" sound like a Germanization of a real-life area of the world, or is it a totally fantasy name?

Robusto

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Q: expression "the more you squeeze, the more sand disappears between your fingers"

I would like someone to explain me in which situation would one use the expression "the more you squeeze, the more sand trickles through your fingers". I just heard it on Washington Journal on a political strategy, but I would like to know if and when can be used to more day-to-day situations.

expressions

Didn't we see this somewhere before?

Robusto

2:23 PM

4

Q: Could you help me to do a syntax analysis of this sentence?

The more I use Froyo the more new stuff I discover. Does it mean: I more use Froyo, I discover more new stuff.

grammar syntax modifiers

Clippy has died and been resurrected as a unicorn! No fair! Do all Microsoft mistakes get to be unicorns after they die?

Huh. It never occurred to me that 20141 could be asking literally about sand and water. What an odd pineappleism.

user19161

2:39 PM

@Robusto I was thinking maybe it is not the syntax that he does not understand but the expression itself.

user19161

@Robusto I think 20141 = avilela.

user19161

He is forever starting titles with a small letter.

Robusto

Lots of pineapples do that. Also native speakers.

user19161

Maybe we should do away with capitals altogether like how jsb types in chat.

Robusto

That would not be a capital idea.

user19161

2:52 PM

-4

Q: Help me to write

bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

writing writing-style

user19161

That Iran Nalchik question was edited by OP.

user19161

Wait, why did Reg give that answer?

Robusto

"I'm interested to Participate Develop FREE and opensource software (FOSS, like dental, but with out L)." This is perfect pineapplese. I don't see the problem.

@WillHunting It's called mockery.

I voted to delete the question. You may do so likewise. Then someone else can as well and we're done.

user19161

@Robusto But I am afraid the OP might take it seriously.

Robusto

@WillHunting Be not afraid. It has already happened.

user19161

2:56 PM

@Robusto Oh, I don't have the 20k privileges yet. I can only vote to delete after a few days.

Robusto

Ah. Too bad.

user19161