@snailboat I see you are an expert in not just English and Japanese but also Chinese, lol.

@CaptainBohemian You misspelled pronunciation, lol.

@snailboat The strange thing is that although I have heard bopomofo I have no idea what it refers to, lol.

Anyway, I studied the Chinese language for ten years from elementary school to high school. But I think now I can only write the simple characters that I learnt in say the first three years of that education.

Unless you write the characters regularly, you just forget how to write them after some time, even if you might be a native speaker of the spoken form.

@CowperKettle I figured out what went wrong with my Acer laptop. It was because I installed the latest graphics driver from Intel to replace the old Acer driver. But Acer customised the old driver for the hardware, and the non-customised version from Intel just does not work well for the hardware. That gave me a black screen. I tried to reproduce this bug successfully, and used my magic thumbdrive to reinstall Windows again easily, lol.

scientificamerican.com/article/our-language-affects-what-we-see

@userr2684291 It wasn't there when I vented in chat

@Jasper Glad to hear that!

@CowperKettle It has always been clear to me that the language we use affects the way we think directly.

Proceeding with the treacly verse

@Jasper I'm not sure that this influence goes deep. It's a contentious issue.

I haven't read the article though

@snailboat Oh, it's an NVMe model, it must be blazingly fast

@CowperKettle Next poem you write should be about me I guess, lol.

I wanted to buy an NVMe model, but bought a cheaper Samsung model with a SATA interface, because I had read that NVMe models get very hot

@Jasper I'll try! )))

I am still thinking of whether I want to get another laptop, but my Acer is working alright now.

Sometimes, there are huge discounts here.

@snailboat I think that depends on what hardware you have. Some of them you don't even know how to open the casing to get to the inside, lol.

@Jasper Do I really spell wrong? I always spell it that way. Recently I have been tired of fussing about English. I find no matter how fussy I am, there is a possibility that I make some mistake. But actually I found German professors commit very absurd English mistakes in their mails to me, so I think they shoud be able to pardon any English mistake I make.

@snailboat we have learnt pinyin since kindergarden if we do go to kindergarten.

@CowperKettle I wanna hear about CopperKettle

Not to be confused with CowperKettle

now it's only 16 C and raining. I really hate raining. I want to drink something but can't go out to buy beverage.

upset

If I were to become a US president, I would ban the use of cups, ounces, and servings in description of food.

It's something out of this world.

@CowperKettle I am not sure how big a cup or serving is. An ounce is fixed though.

hiya. i'm looking for a work for this sentence: "if you have any concerns, please let me know. I would remove the concerns.

i know there is a better work. i just can't think of it now

allay is the word.

A bicyclist from Yekaterinburg

His videos make me a bit inparanoid. I almost made a Pu'u O'o watching this one.

@user14492 allay your fears, address your concerns, resolve your problems, etc

@CaptainBohemian That word is commonly misspelled. You may check any dictionary of your choice to see.

Fuck. Now you tell me. I already sent the email.

My fears are far from allayed

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Feel free to write one! ))) Sorry about "transfer rate"! I wanted it to be all good-natured, but rhyming got the better of me!

@Jasper I have checked the free dictionary and it even doesn't tell me I spell wrong and automatically link me to correctly spelt word webpage.

the problem with cold weather is lack of warm water.

if there is warm water to wash the body and drink, the weather won't feel as cold as it is.

@CowperKettle IKR, ugh

Amount of calories in a serving: 250. WHAT THE FROG IS A SERVING?!

@CaptainBohemian "pronunciation" not "pronounciation", but "pronounce" not "pronunce". IOW, it's English's fault.

Although if someone likes church and missionary work, I guess they're pronunce? Ugh, that pun. I blame doing geometry for most of today.

"rhythmic clipping" is just another word for English

I like that when you read stuff like this it confirms some of the things you suspected but also suspected are just gut feelings and not legit linguistic patterns

"It got squished out by rhythmic clipping."

(:

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ There are no t's in pronuciaion.

@userr2684291 "Snake"? When I Google something and the relevant results are Chinese, I always worry that my browser might be broken