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inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

20:00

And what does that mean?

Free stuff for one day?

Damkerng T.

Promotion?

I logged on to Amazon because I've got a problem.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Huh?

Damkerng T.

I ordered a book, but I got two.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

For the price of one?

Damkerng T.

That, I'm not very sure.

'Cause there are two more books still on the way.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

20:02

That no fun. :(

Damkerng T.

I was afraid that maybe they sent the wrong book.

Oh, the one I got today is correct!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Are you still afraid?

Damkerng T.

What order did I get the other day?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Hehe grabs popcorn Oh wait what's this?

> Hullo! HipChat now has their own official emoticon listing page, so this page is no more. To the emoticons!

Damkerng T.

Oh, no! The other one is also correct, and was shipped by the same seller!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

20:05

MWAHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHHHAHAAAAAHAHAHHAHHA hullo's taking over the world!!!!one!!eleven!!!!111!!!

Damkerng T.

Wait, did I order two books?

I ordered only one book from this seller! And I got two!

Oh, what should I do!?

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Congrats!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Hah! This is so fun. . . Even gonna get more fun when the Amazon SWAT will break into your house and all o' that action and you shooting lasers. . . OMG!

Damkerng T.

Maybe they thought the first book they sent to me didn't make it here.

Come to think of it, the postman asked me a weird question.

"How often is it that the stuff you ordered from other countries will be missing?"

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

There's something weird slash iffy slash fishy slash whatever you call it going on.

in The Periodic Table, 2 mins ago, by Hippalectryon

(ノಠ ∩ಠ)ノ彡( o°o)

Damkerng T.

And I was like, "Not sure. But sometimes I missed the delivery when I wasn't at home. Then they would leave me a slip."

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

20:13

Damn I wonder how he makes all those emoticons.

Anonymous

Copying and pasting

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M A couple of them are Japanese characters. Some are math symbols, I think.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

From where? My Google Fu kills me. . .

@DamkerngT. Nah, I also think it's copy-paste.

Damkerng T.

nods -- I mean there must be someone made that first.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

There must be a site for this.

Anonymous

20:14

You could search for 顔文字

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

What's that?

Anonymous

lit. "face characters"

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Oh the horror. . .

Hats off to you @snail. . .I findz it!

oerkelens

@DamkerngT. Live coverage, in-depth articles, discussion forum. Greece.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@oerkelens Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

But nice!

oerkelens

20:26

Nice? Not really...

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Craving to know more is always nice, even if the subject isn't.

oerkelens

Too much to put into a few lines, but I'm actually considering the cost of emigration. Just in case...

Oh, to know more is always nice, at least you see the $%* coming

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Indeed. Hey @Oer the $%^* is coming BTW.

oerkelens

Well, it's there already. Question is what will happen when it hits the fan.

Damkerng T.

@oerkelens Ohhh!

oerkelens

20:32

Maybe it's nothing, maybe the foundations are being knocked from under one of the most ambitious cooperative economic co-operations in history.

Damkerng T.

Considering moving whatever left out of the stock market...

oerkelens

Ironically, the stock market may profit...

Damkerng T.

Everywhere or only over there?

oerkelens

World-wide, stock markets seem happy

In Europe they seem all right

Damkerng T.

But when it hits the fan...

oerkelens

20:35

Conflict is over public money, not private (stocks)

Damkerng T.

nods

oerkelens

Although evaporating public money may hit banks, hard. So I'd not put all my eggs in in banking-basket.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@oerkelens The popcorn industry will go BOOM?

oerkelens

There's huge growth potential there :)

Damkerng T.

Anyway, my local market (SET) comes all the way down almost to the last low level (1461 points).

oerkelens

20:39

I only look at long-term in investment... short turn will be a roller-coaster for while at least

Damkerng T.

@oerkelens It doesn't really go anywhere here the last 5-6 years.

But before that it was really profitable.

oerkelens

Euro is under pressure, China has created its own bubble that just popped, I wouldn;t dare bet on short-term options :)

Look at me, sounding like I know what I'm talking about 8)

Damkerng T.

You sure know enough, I'm sure. :D

oerkelens

I know more than I want to :P

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@oerkelens What are you talking about?

Damkerng T.

20:41

That could give you a headache too. :D

oerkelens

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M See, that's the point :P

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Sheesh. . . The overflow of smileys. . .

oerkelens

Macro-economic impact of the current developments in the Euro-crisis in the light of the hazy status of the current bail-out agreement between Greece and the Euro-Group.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

. . .sucks, right?

oerkelens

Sucks hairy camel balls, as we say in Dutch

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

20:44

Haha!

oerkelens

Discussing the changing perceptions among the European audiences. Sounds like more fun than it really is, considering the potential effects.

Anyways, better that I get some shut-eye. I just happen to be in a position where I can only observe, not influence, so worrying is not going to change anything.

I bid everyone a good night

Damkerng T.

@oerkelens Have a good sleep. Good night!

oerkelens

Bye :)

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Rest well sir mister politician.

Damkerng T.

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Q: "As if you have your teacher with you"

I was running across this advertisement for an English language school on the subway this morning: English fit for travel, as if you have your teacher with you. This sounds somehow wrong to me. Shouldn't the subjunctive use the past form of have in this case, as in 'As if you had your teach...

Oh, this is really interesting.

One answer claims that in spoken American English, it's fine.

> English fit for travel, as if you have your teacher with you.

Another fixed it with like (which I think sounds better).

> English for travel: It's like traveling with your teacher.

Me (fixing it):

> English. Fit for travel. Like you have your teacher with you. Always.

I tried using a lot of periods!

Damkerng T.

22:02

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A: Definite article in conjunctions

There is no confusion about the way your sentence is written - subject and verb are in agreement. The question of whether to use the depends on what you have placed in "the next section". If you think that you have thoroughly described your background and motivation and left out nothing, then...

I think the answer smells.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

sniffs

Passes out

@Dam can you relate any of that to something linguisty, @snailboaty?

Damkerng T.

The definite article?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Nah, I mean the rest of that [gibberish?].

scmp.com/infographics/article/1810040/…

There's Turkish, Persian, Arabic & English there!

OMG Persian is spoken in 29 countries around the world?!!!!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!? We're not that alone, specially not as much as Thais or their robots.

Damkerng T.

22:30

Hehe, I think that infographic is not quite reliable.

Damkerng T.

23:45

Corrections:

1) It was about "hiccup" being pronounced as "heekup".

2) It was about "Daylight Savings Time" (the one the host says) that the correct usage should be "Daylight Saving Time", then another guy stood up and said that "Daylight Savings Time" was correct and that the correction was unacceptable.

I misheard their emphases of Saving(s) a lot of times in the first view. During the argument, their emphases were not like the usual pronunciations. Everything was over-emphasized, and though I heard /z/ in some of them, I couldn't remember which one had and which one didn't have the /z/ sound.

I still have two copies of the same book, though...

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