@Gigili Well, yes. Not so much so that you can use them yourself; but rather so that you'll understand them when native German speakers say them, and so that you can avoid using them when it would be inappropriate to do so. The problem is that the list is too long and somewhat daunting. It would be really nice to find a list like this, but ordered by how important or how common each idiom is, rather than ordered alphabetically.

Or alternatively, a list that has a usefulness score next to each idiom.

Ordered by how common the idiom is is somewhat difficult to implement

'Ello BTW.

Yes, 'ello indeed.

You could design some software that would do it. Take a list of idioms, do the n-Gram magic on each one, and sort them by the result.

Good idea.

It wouldn't be perfect, for all sorts of reasons. But it would give you a better list than a purely alphabetical one.

I'd would write them down instead or write a book.

Did you see my question? What can one do with my credit card number?

Buy things; until you get round to cancelling it.

What? He can't buy things with card number only, can he?

Does he/she know the expiry date and the name on the card?

No.

Then I think you're safe. Sorry if I alarmed you unduly.

I missed the context; was it the English chat that you first asked this on?

Oh, I see; and then Jordan hijacked the conversation. What did you mean by "weird transaction reports"?

There are two reports like "-$3".

So you're short of six dollars, is that right? Can you ask your bank what the transaction reports mean?

I'm not sure, but I can try it.

Sorry, I know I work for a bank. But I know absolutely nothing about banking.

Oh? I didn't know that.

For all of three and a bit weeks.

Hello @Gigili :) and @Cerberus

:)

Our visits are decreasing... Are you sharing the site? :P

Heh, it wasn't me?

'Ello?

Hey :)

Why is it decreasing? Where's Otavio?

Otavio is travelling

:D

In my experience, there's nothing you can do about visits.

So let it go as it is.

We can do something... Share the site or questions. :P

I don't have any linguist friends?

I have one, but I think you are already familiar with the site?

You consider me a friend then? :D

What you consider yourself? An enemy?

Nope. :P

Actually, I start to consider someone a friend when I receive a birthday present from that person.

Let's ahahahah now!

Ahahah :P

Hih.

What are you doing?

At the moment?

Yes. :)

Sending an email, are you bored or what?

Kind of... But I'll have to study in a bit... :/

Me too, but I'm too lazy to do something useful.

I understand that feeling. :P

I think I really need to force myself powerfully.

Especially after lunch. :P

forces herself powerfully

Yeah, lunch. It was 5 hours ago!

Here not that much. :P

What the heck is this software.

It's about two days I'm trying to do something but pft.

What software?

Blender.

Oh... Are you using the guide?

No?

Use it! At least for the basic stuff

:P

I cannot! I'd play around instead to discover its functionality.

Ok :) Keep playing with it! :D

I'll go offline now... Later!

:)

Have fun!

You too :)

Hello @GraceNote, @Gigili and @Cerberus

I actually didn't mean to physically enter here, was just fetching something from the transcript.

Oh, it's ok. Just saying hi! Hope nothing's wrong by the way.

Nope, nothing's wrong

Good :P

But I am gonna vanish, then

See you! :)

@GraceNote Ohh what did you fetch?

Hi Ale.

Hey there :) want to see the last version of the head?

Otavio's?

Eh why?

"Otavio's"?

Oh sorry, the wrong room.

Otavio's head?

Nope the 3D model!

@Gigili Want me to help you?

puzzled

cl.ly/FknU

@Alenanno I was about to go to bed, could you please do it another time?

@Alenanno What's the difference between this and the last version?

@Gigili Yes sure. I added the ears... :)

I have to fix them, though.

Oh nice.

It doesn't look as real as other parts of the face like nose and eyes.

Oh, wait

I'll take a better screenshot

cl.ly/Fkrc

What's with that big ear?

It's big?

It's as big as the nose, more or less

Umm, maybe.

:D It is, and actually I think the ears are smaller... :P

It's just the camera

in perspective

You're ... right?

I don't like the ear anyway.

Nope? :(

Why not?

It's big!

Hey @Gigi, I understand why it annoys you. I really do. But if the flags aren't really helping anyway...

What is annoying to you?

@Cerberus Why not? I was suspended for no reason. Same thing must happen to that person.

This situation will not stand.

Stupid people.

Suspended where?

German room I guess.

hello

Now the entire room is suspended.

Hi!

@kaleissin Hey!

@Cerberus It's not suspended, I think it's in a "watch-your-keyboard-state"

has there been a round of spam-score-checking? I'm down 30 points all of a sudden

@Alenanno I can't type there.

Text box is closed.

Hi Kale.

@Cerberus Ah I can...

@Cerberus logged out?

the chat login seems not to work quite 100% with the login for the other SE stuff

@kaleissin A user asked to be removed, sadly.

I hope they come back.

@kaleissin No, the room was put on time-out.

I sometimes have to log in an extra time, to be able to chat

No no, it is on a time out. Believe me.

@Alenanno Hmm who?

@Cerberus I can't say it, I'm afraid.

Ah OK.

Sorry. :) But I hope they do come back!

No prob, I understand.

ppl have stopped asking questions and I can't think of anything to ask :)

@kaleissin Are you sharing the site? :D

@Alenanno I've shared it several places

@kaleissin Keep spamming them for THE GLORY!

Ahah :P

don't feel like pushing it at my uni though since the linguistics department is being shut down

No well, don't spam.

Oh, that's sad!

Not many students applying?

yup

That sucks. As a Linguistics student, I express my solidarity.

i'm also anooyed with them for the uni library not having the books I want :p

I... NEEED... reference... grammars...

<-- reference grammar zombie

Ahah

What are those, exactly?

which reference grammars? any non-minimalist will do. I'm after the examples, not the "fit the square peg to the round hole"-analysis

Uhm so examples -> theory, and not theory -> examples?

examples describing the language, not examples supporting a theory

too much x-bar this and move-that and I'm out

when you can't spot the language for all the framework jargon, you can't really reuse the examples

Actually I meant that

your approach starts from real language to develop theories and not

develop theories and look for languages to apply it to

Is that it?

yep

i'm a big fan of radical construction grammar

comparing languages directly that way

you have to have the samples before you can draw the conclusions :)

I see

I'm not a linguist by profession by the way... I studied it in university but it won't be my field.

Although I find it interesting. :)

I'm not professional either, I need to eat ;) but it is one of my main hobbies

stopped after the master's

What's your actual field?

If I may ask!

actually, I was using linguistics classes as a sort of reward for doing cs, math and statistics classes =D turned out I could graduate as either ling or cs so did a comp ling thesis

machine translation

Oh, you like Comp Ling then... :D

professionally, I do what it says in my profile, babysit servers and code stuff

and NLP

and AI

and some rather theoretical math

I used to be able to describe a tree-structure in four different science field prespectives, ditto for grammars, but now I'd have to look it up

not much need for running a turing machine in wetware at my current place of employ

wetware?

brain

software, firmware, hardware and tech willing, one day we can run stuff in wetware

Uhm, I'm not sure I'd like people to put stuff in my brain...

whatever happened to @cerberus on the 1st of april?

I think I'll let him answer that.

Hullo.

@Alenanno I'd love a retina display like google glasses but I don't think my eyesight is good enough for it

What happened to me?

@Cerberus since 1st of april 2012 was the bestest 1st april evah

@kaleissin To do that? :D

@kaleissin Oh yes.

Well, we made several fake, funny questions and answers under pseudonyms on English.SE.

Great fun.

I'm going to sleep guys. Goodnight! :)

Night!

should head to bed as well

past midnight and all

byee!

Ciao!