Conversation started Jan 4, 2013 at 20:07.
Meysam
Meysam
Jan 4, 2013 20:07
I don't get the meaning of "States rich" in this: "he was there because he had once had his opportunity to go home to the States rich, and had not done it".
KitFox
KitFox
@TRiG Anything is possible. Anything at all.
@Meysam "to go home rich"
to go home / to the States / rich
Cerberus
Cerberus
Verb of movement + adjective can work like that.
To come in first.
To arrive last.
Robusto
Robusto
@Meysam ... to go back home (to the United States) as a rich man
KitFox
KitFox
To go home to the Netherlands full of beer.
Cerberus
Cerberus
To emerge soaking wet.
@KitFox Yay!
Robusto
Robusto
Jan 4, 2013 20:08
@KitFox Coals to Newcastle, what?
KitFox
KitFox
To thrust drunkenly in the...what? What were we talking about?
Cerberus
Cerberus
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Looks good, huh?
Robusto
Robusto
@KitFox In God We Thrust
Cerberus
Cerberus
However...
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KitFox
KitFox
Inside is a human head!
Oh.
Cerberus
Cerberus
Jan 4, 2013 20:09
in The Frying Pan, 1 hour ago, by Mien
http://www.reddit.com/r/Breadit/comments/15ve77/i_tried_my_hand_at_no_knead_sour‌​dough_bread_ive/
KitFox
KitFox
You had a big bubble there.
Cerberus
Cerberus
@KitFox It would fit, yes.
Not my bread.
KitFox
KitFox
Reminds me of boiled heads.
Cerberus
Cerberus
Of course.
KitFox
KitFox
I wish it hadn't.
Robusto
Robusto
Jan 4, 2013 20:10
@Cerberus Could you work at Downton Abbey?
Meysam
Meysam
Thank you everybody
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Robusto Of course I could not.
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus If the alternative were a coal mine or a farm?
Cerberus
Cerberus
As the countess dowager said, when catching a new word at the dinner-table, "week-end? Week-end? What is this?".
@Robusto Couldn't do that either.
Meysam
Meysam
Does "resolved" mean "decided" in here? "he was there because he had once had his opportunity to go home to the States rich, and had not done it; had rather lost his wealth, and had then in his humiliation resolved to sever all communication with his home relatives and friends, and be to them thenceforth as one dead"
Cerberus
Cerberus
Jan 4, 2013 20:15
Yes.
You know new-years's resolutions?
Robusto
Robusto
@Meysam Not exactly. It means decided in an aspirational sense, not an absolute sense.
David Wallace
David Wallace
I disagree with Robusto. Writing "decided" in place of "resolved" here would not change the meaning of the sentence in any way.
Meysam
Meysam
my take is that he felt humiliated, and therefore decided to cut his communications and seem to be dead
Cerberus
Cerberus
That's right.
David Wallace
David Wallace
@Meysam correct
Cerberus
Cerberus
Jan 4, 2013 20:18
@Meysam Although appearing as "dead" need not be taken literally.
He may not actually have wanted them to think he was really dead.
Meysam
Meysam
@Cerberus He sort of preferred to be dead, indeed
Cerberus
Cerberus
It may just mean severing all connections, cutting off all contact.
KitFox
KitFox
Resolved is more idealistic than decided.
Resolute, for instance.
Firm in conviction.
Robusto
Robusto
@DavidWallace Well, that's a first.
@KitFox Which is why I used the term aspirational.
KitFox
KitFox
@Robusto Yes. I was agreeing with you.
Cerberus
Cerberus
Jan 4, 2013 20:22
@Robusto By the way, "now-comma" is welnu in Dutch, clearly distinguished from nu "regular now".
It is like "so" or "look here, ...".
Meysam
Meysam
Does "half an hour apart" mean "once every half an hour"? in here: "Now and then, half an hour apart, one came across solitary log cabins of the earliest mining days, built by the first gold-miners"
What was that sleigh stuff?
KitFox
KitFox
They added sleigh graphics for the winter.
Or summer if you are south of the equator.
And yes, the cabins were far enough apart that it would take about a half hour to travel between them.
Meysam
Meysam
@KitFox I guessed so. Looked more like a festive feature.
@KitFox Tankio
 
Conversation ended Jan 4, 2013 at 20:27.