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Damkerng T.

18:04

Word of the Day: acclimate

Ah, wrong room! (But that's okay. :-)

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

There comes the boss.

StoneyB

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M, @DamkerngT. What the ding-dong has been going on?! Has Presley_Mick_Alcindor turned ELL into a minefield?!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Prolly.

Damkerng T.

I think one of the Presley's turned into a user-bunch-a-number.

StoneyB

[snort. Bunch-a-number's good, very good.] How many are there, and how many of those are the same? Or does anybody know?

Damkerng T.

18:10

I can count two, so far.

Wait, three.

StoneyB

And are all of them new? Or are they cognate with known trolls?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@Dam I think the me-imposter is deleted.

StoneyB

And why are they picking on MAR instead of me or Catija?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Because I'm less handsome.

Or less good-looking

Damkerng T.

@StoneyB I guess that "rude" may not mean the same thing in different languages.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

18:15

Ahh political correctness FTW.

StoneyB

"Rude" doesn't mean the same thing in Engish-by-herself, for that matter.

Damkerng T.

It looks like one man's use of rude can upset another man, quite badly.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@Stoney here's a link: ell.stackexchange.com/questions/65811/…

Guess what the troll's name was.

StoneyB

Oh, yes, that was the impostor. You seem to have regained sole possession of your name.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

StoneyB

18:20

That was one of the all-time bizarrest posts I have ever seen.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Indeed.

It should become a "gem of SE".

@Stoney gemsfromstackexchange.tumblr.com is a site full of these monstrosities.

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Interesting!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Of course it is.

StoneyB

I particularly like "Using an obscure or ancient or terrifying language". That would certainly be on topic here!

Anonymous

18:36

A linguist who specializes in terrifying languages—that's what I'd like to be

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Hah!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

How do you terrify a language?

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Oh, I know one! Try saying awful when you mean awesome.

Or, when someone said You're awesome! to you, you could try replying with Why are you so mean? :D

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Will that terrify English?

Damkerng T.

I'm not sure. Isn't that a terrifying experience?

tchrist

18:47

@snailboat Peter Salus is a one-time professor of Tocharian.

@StoneyB Not a mod candidate? You'd make a good one.

StoneyB

@tchrist I've been an administrator and it didn't work.

tchrist

@StoneyB Ok.

StoneyB

"... the present indicative, consisting of 12 classes, 8 thematic and 4 athematic, with distinct sets of thematic and athematic endings ... ". That's pretty terrifying, alright.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Ahh, then organic chemistry must be terrifying.

StoneyB

"Michael Fortescue, a specialist in Eskimo–Aleut as well as in Chukotko-Kamchatkan, argued for a link between Uralic, Yukaghir, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, and Eskimo–Aleut[2] calling this proposed grouping Uralo-Siberian. Later, he removed Chukotko-Kamchatkan from Uralo-Siberian, instead arguing for Nivkh being its closest relative."

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

18:57

Hehe!

StoneyB

It looks like an incantation for summoning Yog-Sothoth.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

OK. So here's the golden question: Is Nivkh Uralo-Siberian's sister or brother?

Damkerng T.

At the other extreme, we can try sign languages. :P (I can't speak any, BTW.)

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

\o| |o_ -o}, while |o| .o| (o)!

Damkerng T.

Oh, no! Someone else also has a similar idea I had.

> Could a 'Second Skin' applying visible language be useful for humanity in the future?

> ultrafeel.tv/octopus-psychedelic-color-language

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

19:25

#ELECTIONHYPE

@Dam the 10th candidate!

Damkerng T.

I should try to develop my own psychohistory. ;-)

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

30 mins to election

Damkerng T.

in 2015 ELL Moderator Election, Aug 26 at 14:32, by Damkerng T.

I speculate that we'll get about 8-12.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

WOOHOO!

@DamkerngT. Guess you were right after all!

Hmm, will we enter primary? Lemme see . . .

Damkerng T.

I don't want to be right, really.

user116848

19:38

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M That is awesome I think.

user116848

And hi!

user116848

Hi @StoneyB.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Hullo @Arrow! I hope we're over arguments and stuff.

user116848

@tchrist Congrats on becoming a moderator!

user116848

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Sorry?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

19:40

Nothing.

StoneyB

As I read it, it takes 11 to launch a primary.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@Stoney @Dam nominate!

user116848

So nominations close in 18 minutes.

user116848

Hi @santiago.

santiago

hiya

StoneyB

19:44

Hi @Arrowfar

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

7 mins #electionhype

user116848

20:01

Cast your votes guys!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Good people! The election started. Cast your votes! Please.

user116848

I don't know who to vote for. All interesting choices.

user116848

But we can only cast three votes. Hmm.

user116848

There, I gave my votes.

Stack Exchange

Q: 2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Not every question was compiled - as noted, we o...

StoneyB

20:05

@Arrowfar Wait a while, and see how the candidates respond to the questionnaire.

user116848

@StoneyB Oh, okay. Thanks.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@Stoney you can change your votes at any time.

To any mod position candidates that visit the Cabin: Have you written your response to the election questionnaire? Please do so!

What?

@Tch @Undo could you please remove the pin from the feed? I already added a better message.

user116848

So you can pin any number of messages?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I think so.

Three is at least possible.

But one of those two guys mod-pinned the message, and I can't remove...Thanks!

user116848

heh.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

20:19

K I'm sleeping, I'll come and write something sensible tomorrow.

user116848

G'night!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Night!

Undo

20:35

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Which one do you want to keep?

Oh, too late :P

tchrist

I fixed it.

I had pinned the previous one before he put up a better version.

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