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CowperKettle

03:32

Sparring Match of the Day: Shakespeare vs. Thomson

Jasper

05:48

@CowperKettle Now we have more and more things of the day.

CowperKettle

06:08

@Jasper Scottish definition of the day:

Feeds

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Q: Excessively figurative and wrong usage of a phrase

The first line of the passage is: My emotions are complicated and not readily verifiable. I feel a vast yearning that is simultaneously a pleasure and a pain. ... The question related to the italicised portion above is to identify which of the given options matches correctly with the author...

CowperKettle

> The Muin is an astronomical bouk that orbits planet Yird, bein Yird's anerly permanent naitural satellite. It is the fift-lairgest naitural satellite in the Solar Seestem, an the lairgest amang planetar satellites relative tae the size o the planet that it orbits (its primar). Follaein Jupiter's satellite Io, the Muin is seicond-densest satellite amang thae whase densities are kent.

SmokeDetector

06:41

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: What is mom-pkin? by Jorma Kalevi on ell.SE

CowperKettle

08:04

> The peak with m/z of approx. 75 kDa represents a doubly-charged ion.

Can one omit the use of the indefinite article before m/z?

Or should it always be

> The peak with an m/z of approx. 75 kDa represents a doubly-charged ion.

Jasper

10:04

@CowperKettle No idea what m/z is, so cannot comment.

Jasper

10:17

Hello @snailplane, I went to see the doc for meds just now, lol.

Anonymous

How did that go?

Jasper

Well, we just said the usual stuff. Basically I just went there for the meds. But I will be seeing a psychologist next week to determine which other psychologist to see. This one I saw today is the psychiatrist who only gives meds. That's how it works here.

CowperKettle

10:36

Don't tell the psychiatrist that you spend some of your time talking to a kettle and a snailplane.

I don't want you to be locked away.

Jasper

LOL

CowperKettle

Hi, Mohammad!

M.A.R.

\o

@CowperKettle Both uses are okay

Jasper

@M.A.R. What is m/z?

M.A.R.

@Jasper some ratio.

Anonymous

10:49

Emms per zees.

Anonymous

Well, emms per zee.

Anonymous

I probably shouldn't have pluralized the zee part.

Anonymous

Maybe even emms per zed.

Anonymous

But I'm American, so I call it zee. :-)

CowperKettle

11:12

I zee. (0:

CowperKettle

11:22

Maybe the Brits call it zed?

Anonymous

Yep!

Jasper

11:40

@snailplane You sleep late too, I see.

Anonymous

I'm actually up early.

Jasper

Oh OK, lol.

Anonymous

The early snail catches the, erm, snail. Y'know, like, if I want to actually go out and catch a snail.

Anonymous

Maybe it's time to give a new snail a home.

Jasper

Oh I see. I was thinking of some other interpretation, lol.

CowperKettle

11:45

I woke up at 5:50 today

Unusually early

And went walking

The sunrise was amazing

And there was a very fine, very light fog of rain. Almost non-existent

And there was a rainbow due to that

Jasper

I wonder whether there is a difference between the sunrise and the sunset.

CowperKettle

I never saw a rainbow at sunrise when there's is no rain but only a kind of fog

Jasper

Well, I don't like looking at the sun these days. I much prefer the moon.

CowperKettle

Jasper

I like walking at my favourite mall after midnight.

CowperKettle

11:48

Bein Yird's anerly permanent naitural satellite, the Moon is quite nice too.

Jasper

Although most of the shops are closed, the mall is still open, and I can walk there and listen to the music and enjoy the shop displays.

CowperKettle

And this is the Green Grove, yesterday

Jasper

You should show us a picture of yourself some day!

CowperKettle

I usually jog there but the last 20 days I've been having eye inflammation.

So I'm just walking and taking pictures

Jasper

Did you get some medicine for the eye?

CowperKettle

11:51

A lot. But it is almost okay since yesterday. I hope the inflammation has passed.

Jasper

Did you get punched by someone?

An eye inflammation for three weeks sounds very serious.

CowperKettle

No, it was conjunctivitis.

It was not very serious, but my cornea is very sensitive. My left eye's vision got a bit out of whack. The cornea is transplanted, and it gets misshaped due to inflammation.

Jasper

You need to take care of your eye. It's not good being unable to see.

CowperKettle

14:03

> Chemists have performed a techno-economic analysis of converting waste toilet paper into electricity.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170915170204.htm

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: The difference between "devil" and "demon" by Rayan on ell.SE

userr2684291

14:16

@SmokeDetector What a great answer.

userr2684291

16:05

@Jasper I've found an A1 to B1 German language course online if you're interested. It looks credible and reliable – it was broadcast on radio during 1990s and the Goethe institute had its fingers in it.

Wait, is have one's fingers in something understandable in English? I basically translated our own idiom.

Jasper

@userr2684291 Hi, I just woke up from a nap.

userr2684291

Hello.

Jasper

Well, I already have the Assimil course for German, so I don't need the online course.

And I know very few words, so I don't know what having one's fingers in something means.

But you can try looking it up somewhere.

userr2684291

No worries. I was looking for something for myself when I found it, and I remembered your saying you intend to learn German.

I'm, uh, in yet another queue...

Yeah, looks like it should be understandable to an average speaker of English. Besides, there's that idiom have their fingers in too many pies.

Jasper

16:21

@userr2684291 I thought you already speak German well?

userr2684291

No, not really, but I can read (and understand) it fairly well. I have to brush up on my German nevertheless, which is why I was looking for some advanced courses – but while I was looking them up, I came across easy ones so I checked those out as well.

Jasper

16:37

@userr2684291 I have the books but have not started learning from them, lol. Yeah, I recommend the Assimil courses. Many polyglots think they are the best. Get the latest version and with the MP3 CD if you are interested.

userr2684291

@Jasper Nah – that course goes only to about B1 and that's not what I need. By the way, it's coming down really hard here. My dad just called me to ask me if I can swim, lol.

Jasper

@userr2684291 Well, the Assimil course is supposed to go to B2 not B1. Can you swim?

userr2684291

Yeah, supposed to. Of course I can, haha. The rain has stopped now, actually.

I've been in lines since 10; it's 18:47 now. Haven't eaten anything really the entire day.

Jasper

OMG you sound so much like the friend I talk to the most these days.

userr2684291

But I've done everything for this academic year, so I'm happy now.

Jasper

16:54

I didn't know that Andrea Bocelli was blind until after a long time after hearing him.

CowperKettle

17:45

Jasper

@CowperKettle I don't know anything about Scotland, but I think I would use Scottish myself, so I expected the red line to be way above the blue line.

CowperKettle

Aye!

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userr2684291

18:07

@Jasper I'd thought Adele was African American.

Jasper

@userr2684291 I have no idea who Adele is, but in math, specifically algebraic number theory, there are ideles and adeles, lol.

CowperKettle

Adele ring

In mathematics, the adele ring (also adelic ring or ring of adeles) is defined in class field theory, a branch of algebraic number theory. It allows one to elegantly describe the Artin reciprocity law. The adele ring is a self-dual topological ring, which is built on a global field. It is the restricted product of all the completions of the global field and therefore contains all the completions of the global field. The idele class group, which is the quotient group of the group of units of the adele ring by the group of units of the global field, is a central object in class field theory. Notation...

userr2684291

I didn't know either until maybe a year ago.

CowperKettle

I will never understand any of this.

Jasper

Well, you would not normally see this unless you are doing a post graduate course.

CowperKettle

18:12

> Let L⁄K be a Galois extension of global fields and CL stand for the idèle class group of L. One of the statements of the Artin reciprocity law is that there is a canonical isomorphism called global symbol map.

Jasper

Math is very, very, very hard.

CowperKettle

Aye!

userr2684291

@CowperKettle I still don't know what the purpose of topology is.

CowperKettle

You might start with simpler things, like "the purpose of life", and then gradually proceed to the purpose of topology.

Jasper

I think you will at least learn topology in a good undergrad course, lol.

userr2684291

18:15

@Jasper I opted out of most of the topology stuff; it seems l'art-pour-l'artistic.

Jasper

You can think of it as point-set topology, algebraic topology and differential topology for now, this separation into different focuses.

userr2684291

I could, but I refuse to think about it.

Jasper

And you can have a book for each of those, lol.

CowperKettle

19:01

Russian poem translation attempt of the day

>
A tiny secret, would you like to learn it,
Of little gloss, but worth a fleeting glance:
Encounters are true, now you may spurn it,
But I do not believe in sightless chance.

Jasper

19:41

I always have difficulty understanding poems.

Jasper

22:30

I am going to sleep, good night, lol.

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