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Anonymous

21:00

I didn't avoid trading all those pawns for nothing!

CopperKettle

yes, it's possible

lekon chekon

come on, now. xD

CopperKettle

you can make a linear checkmate already, with three figures (0:

Anonymous

Shh!

lekon chekon

you need two pieces to end a game. xD

Anonymous

21:00

I want to have my fun.

lekon chekon

xD

Anonymous

Woo!

lekon chekon

two of them won't even come in handy.

CopperKettle

Why, this is ridiculous. (0:

Anonymous

Yay!

CopperKettle

21:01

Al last!

lekon chekon

good game. :)

CopperKettle

Congrats, Snails!

Anonymous

My favorite kind of checkmate, the ol' Three Queen Maneuver.

Anonymous

@lekonchekon You too! That was really fun! :-)

CopperKettle

Heh

lekon chekon

21:02

I shall have my vengeance though. :3

yes, it was fun. :)

Anonymous

Ooh, there's a 'gg' button. I'm going to press it.

lekon chekon

xD

knock yourself out. :3

Anonymous

How do we see the analysis thing?

Damkerng T.

applauds

Anonymous

I like that our game was 83 moves long.

Damkerng T.

21:03

LOL

lekon chekon

i don't know if you can see it without having an account there or not.

wait.

en.lichess.org/8fIG661Z/white#0

CopperKettle

Good-night, everyone!

Damkerng T.

Goodnight!

lekon chekon

good night. :)

Anonymous

Have a good night, Copper Kettle!

lekon chekon

21:05

en.lichess.org/8fIG661Z/white#0

try clicking on that link now

Anonymous

It says you had the advantage early on.

lekon chekon

and then i screwed up.
i should've taken the knight near the beginning.

Anonymous

Haha. "Not the best checkmate sequence."

Anonymous

So many of those.

CopperKettle

We have a saying "the best is the enemy of the good"

lekon chekon

21:10

:3
anyway.
It's past 2 30 in the morning here. :P
I should probably go to bed. :P

Thanks for playing.
It was really fun. :)

Anonymous

Oh, here's an analysis from my side: en.lichess.org/8fIG661Z/black

Anonymous

Have a good night, @lekonchekon! And thanks for the game, I haven't played in forever. It was really fun :-)

lekon chekon

it's the same from both sides, the analysis, i suppose. :p

Anonymous

Oh, I guess so.

Anonymous

Oh, I can click 'flip board'.

lekon chekon

21:13

xD make an account there, it's quite a good way to pass time. :3

anyway.
good night.

bye, now :3

Anonymous

Uh-oh, I made chat off-topic all day again!

Anonymous

Sorry, everyone :-)

Damkerng T.

room topic changed to Language Overflow: Random thoughts about language, language learning, learners, and their language [holiday-special]

Anonymous

Ooh, holiday special

Damkerng T.

Feel free to chat about anything during this Winterbash! :D

Also, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Anonymous

21:44

Starred!　←　The exclamation points show no sign of letting up!

Anonymous

When will their merciless assault cease!?

Damkerng T.

:-)

I think I'd better change my hat back to the headset. :-)

Now I'm a communicator once again!

Oh, no! Look at our hot question. <-- trying so hard not to end that sentence with an exclamation mark! oops!

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Q: How to read "1 + (-2) = -1" and "1 - 2 = -1"

How to read this to others, so they can write it down just by listening? 1 + (-2) = -1 Also: 1 - 2 = -1 I want to know the differences.

Maybe we could use a canon post on "How to read anything mathematics".

@Cardinal I believe that's the plural because sorts is also in the plural: "this sort of thing" means one group, whereas "these sorts of things" means multiple groups, which are closely related. In reality both can be used interchangeably, but generally only the former is used when referring to a single initial thing. — Charlie Harding 4 hours ago

Hmm... interesting! I think it's true!

this sort of movies is weird, but movies of this sort is fine.

A-ha! Finally, someone posted what I thought! ell.stackexchange.com/a/76811/3281

Even though I had no idea you liked movies of this sort could be okay, I had no idea you liked movies of that sort sounds much much better.

Anonymous

22:09

@DamkerngT. It'd be really a big post, though!

Anonymous

Plus, people don't always agree on how to pronounce stuff in mathematics.

Anonymous

We can cover the basics at least, though :-)

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Hmm... that could be a problem!

@snailboat Yes!

Anonymous

math.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pronunciation

Damkerng T.

Oh, quite a bunch!

Most are beyond the basics, though.

Anonymous

22:11

Yeah. We can cover the basics, and then for advanced questions we can toss them over the fence and hope for the best ;-)

Anonymous

So if we made a Canonical Post, we could have that in mind.

Damkerng T.

nods -- Or it would be a very long post!

Anonymous

You could write up a meta post with this idea.

Anonymous

And then someone who's good at that sort of thing can write the actual post :-)

Anonymous

Wow, Fan-Hat-Ic is a weird looking hat.

Damkerng T.

22:14

I'm not sure where we should draw the line.

@snailboat :D

Anonymous

I don't think I quite understand the idea behind it.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. It's probably an arbitrary decision, ultimately.

Damkerng T.

So fancy a hat!

Anonymous

Such a fancy hat! :-)

Damkerng T.

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Q: Poll: Retag questions with the "grammar" tag, or not?

We've discussed this issue finely in Is This Tag Useful? Episode 1 - The Big Boss (grammar) and A proposed solution to the "grammar" dilemma -- Please contribute your answers to the "what is grammar" post. However, a recent question came up with the tag, which was initially locked. It made me rea...

discussion tags

Interesting! I thought there wouldn't've been any downvotes!

StoneyB

22:30

@DamkerngT. The Monkey Puzzler?

Damkerng T.

The Grammar dilemma. (I don't know how I should understand the Monkey Puzzler. I'm sorry!)

Ahh... got it!

BTW... an Eng-to-Thai dictionary translates "shotgun" as (translated back from the Thai translation) "a gun that is short". (T_T)

StoneyB

I believe he takes his screenname from this man's pseudonym.

What we call a "sawed-off shotgun", I guess.

Damkerng T.

Ooh! Thanks for the pointer!

@StoneyB Actually, the word the dictionary uses is another word in Thai for pistol. (sobbing)

@StoneyB Still looks too long for the word.

Word of the Day: matchlock musket

Nihilist_Frost

22:51

"butting in line" always had a flap for me.

Damkerng T.

Same here.

Nihilist_Frost

when I first heard it I thought the word was "budding in line" instead of "butting in line".

Damkerng T.

Hehe!

Nihilist_Frost

due to the flap

which dialects realize /hj/ as [ç]?

Damkerng T.

That's beyond me.

Spotted on EL&U

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Q: Indian English: What usage is allowed for "doubt" (meaning "question")?

I have a doubt about having a doubt. I learned from this question that in Indian English the word doubt is used to mean question, that is, as a countable noun. If my understanding is correct, the following is grammatical in InE: I have two doubts about SQL. 1. Can I type in lower-case? 2. Doe...

usage indian-english

The list is very interesting!

learningindia.in/references/indian-english-dictionary

Nihilist_Frost

23:02

They call this a "halberd" when it's a glaive, LOL!

http://darksouls.wdfiles.com/local--files/halberds/black-knight-halberd-onhand-large.jpg

Damkerng T.

:D

Anonymous

@Nihilist_Frost Dunno. Happens in both AmE and BrE.

Damkerng T.

Oh, several Thai-Eng dictionaries translate it as halberd as well!

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. You know, Japanese has a bunch of words for polearms, and I haven't really been able to figure out how well they map to English polearm words.

Anonymous

I hope no one ever quizzes me on polearm translations! :-)

Damkerng T.

23:06

:D

Anonymous

I don't even know what half of them are in English.

Nihilist_Frost

http://darksouls.wdfiles.com/local--files/halberds/scythe-onhand-large.jpg

A bardiche called a "scythe". LOL

Damkerng T.

I mentioned the matchlock musket today because it's a very, very long gun that appeared in a turning point of the history of Thailand.

To sum it up, there was one bullet that turned the whole army away.

I think a scythe is what the Death holds.

(I wasn't sure what pronoun I should use with the Death: his, her, or it?)

Anonymous

Hey, there's a book about that!

Anonymous

books.google.com/books?id=rBjRcDvBMnAC

Damkerng T.

23:21

Hah!

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