@andrew.46 thanks :)

@karel thanks :)

@andrew.46 He isn't anywhere

@nobody :( sorry to hear that

@JourneymanGeek That sounds very metaphysical :)

Suspended that is :D

Never become older @Zanna

@andrew.46 I was in the past.

@RandomPerson Suspended? On a SE platform?

yup

It is a bad feeling to receive such a notice

@andrew.46 I didn't get you

Upsetting

upsetting for you? or for me? or for anyone who gets suspended?

@RandomPerson I imagine that anyone who would get suspended, for whatever reason, would be upset.

gotcha!

Andrew, were you active in AU meta in the past (before becoming a mod)?

@RandomPerson I think I had a couple of posts. I remember one on 'Disclaimers' (from when I was an abcde developer,) one where I contested a Duplicate made of one of my questions and one longer post on a question you asked about people's Ubuntu history.

ok... what I meant was were you actively following posts in meta?

As a user of Ask Ubuntu in my pre-Mod days my focus was predominately answering questions and posting Q&A style series. Mostly on video and audio encoding if I could, still my passion.

So after that I would look at Meta

@RandomPerson So why the interest?

@RandomPerson So where is your focus on SE?

Pardon?

I have shown my areas of focus on AU from my pre-Mod days: Questions + Answers. I was curious to hear where you feel you are best focussed: Meta / questions / answers / editing etc?

Or perhaps the whole package :)

I was initially quite focussed on editing posts in AU... I tried answering some easy questions in AU (I'm not having much technical knowledge about Ubuntu)... Sometimes I asked questions in AU about problems which I faced with my PC... then I spent my time mostly in AU meta (as I'm not actively using Ubuntu now)... Now, I guess I mostly spending my time in MSE.

Everybody finds an area that feels natural for themselves. If you are not Using Ubuntu what disto / OS do you run?

@nobody haha I wish I could follow your advice!

@andrew.46 I'm using Windows now

Andrew, which OS do you use?

@andrew.46 Shog once said something nice about metas... something like

If you don't ever stop to sharpen your tools, you will never get anything cut. But if you never stop sharpening your tools, you will never get anything cut

@RandomPerson I have a main desktop and laptop, both running Slackware -current

@RandomPerson I guess 'randomly' is the right word 😅

@Zanna I only caught the tail end of Shog before I believe he was 'kicked to the kerb' :(

@RandomPerson I heard it as what people say around here

@Zanna what do you mean?

>_>

@Zanna super friendly Mami?

:D

Meta's a means to an end

haha... but I'm not sure if simply = "summa/chumma"... I was checking the meaning online and realised that simply doesn't really mean summa... or maybe I'm wrong

@RandomPerson oh thanks, that's a less ambiguous version I came up with because someone for whom English is not L1 felt that "stop to sharpen" was the same as "stop sharpening"... this is difficult because we don't say what we are stopping. But the ambiguous version is a little more poetic

@RandomPerson its almost "just"

Assuming @Zanna's using the tamil summa

@JourneymanGeek haha the house owners... MADAM! YOU HAD BREAKFAST? yes sir! WHAT ITEM? dosai. SIDE DISH? pudina chutney sir. VERY GOOD MADAM.

lol

Sounds about right lol

@JourneymanGeek what do you mean by mami?

@RandomPerson "Aunty"

AFAIK "Mami" is a term used in Malayalam and also sometimes people use it to call Malayali females (but I guess it's offensive, I'm not sure)...

quora.com/…

my Tamil teacher taught me mami

but she said in Sri Lanka we say mami. In India, they say athai

ah so, got different levels of aunties

but mami is easier for me. it goes with mama and athai sounds like a delicious tiffin item

In Lebanon, it's a synonym for mom. It's one of the million possible ways to call your own mom

:)

"Properly" Mama is your mom's brothers - Mami is the wife of said uncle

Athai is dad's siblings

Chiti is mom's siblings

or some complicated thing like that

tho for generic "older people" uncle/aunty "We" tend to use mama/mami, though I donno if that's a Bramin thing

@JourneymanGeek and mom's older sister is big mom, younger little mom, dad's older brother big dad, younger little dad hahahaha

Yes!

I don't have actual Perimas or Perippas tho

@JourneymanGeek haha... maybe... I have seen in movies, Brahmins use that word...

@Zanna mother's younger sister... I'm not sure if they call it "chinna amma"... they say "chithi".. chinna amma sounds wrong to me 😅

some people call step mother as "chinna amma"

quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-the-Tamil-word-Chitthi

@JourneymanGeek as your parents are the eldest?

@RandomPerson dad's only son, mom's eldest of daughters

ok...

found a scene which might be relevant in Brahmin case...

@JourneymanGeek We call mother's brother's spouse as atthai... not mami.

wierd, We don't?

Maybe regional

Cause athai and athember is dad's side

yeah... lots of dialects in Tamil...

learnentry.com/english-tamil/vocabulary/relationship-in-tamil