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Damkerng T.

15:18

@Catija I guess they don't really read the book.

Do i really have to provide the context, i just googled the book and this quote came up. I only wanted to know the meaning. — Ardis Ell 18 mins ago

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

They're not putting value to their question. Why should we?

Damkerng T.

nods -- Judging from the comment, I wonder if they've looked up any words in the sentence.

22:22 <-- What a time! (my local time)

Catija

@DamkerngT. We don't ever have that time of day.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

My rep in chem is 3331.

Damkerng T.

@Catija Oh, you don't use 24-hour time?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

15:24

@Catija You post meridiems ;)

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Ask a question and accept an answer. :D

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. I'll get upboats. :(

Damkerng T.

Haha! Probably!

Not really related to English.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

If pictures of @snail are on-topic, then astronaut shots are okay also.

Damkerng T.

But a high-jump smash is not something a beginner should try to do in the first day or the first week or even the first month.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I guess so!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

15:35

What is the game?

Badminton?

Damkerng T.

Badminton

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Badminton!

Damkerng T.

Yes! Badminton!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

BADMINTON!

Damkerng T.

Unlike in tennis or table tennis, a badminton player will have a chance every now and then to feel like flying.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

15:38

Is badminton a famous sport in the land of Thai?

Damkerng T.

Yes. I think we're only behind China, Korea, and Indonesia.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Then Y U NO STRONG IN VOLLEYBALL? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Damkerng T.

But a men single player from Malaysia is also formidable.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Indeed. -- sobbing

Our women team is doing quite okay, though.

Catija

@DamkerngT. :D correct. We understand it... mostly... but the average person uses 12-hour time.

Damkerng T.

@Catija Ahh... so the a.m. and p.m. must be important over there. :D

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

15:42

@Catija I'm not sure how many people in this chatroom are "average".

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Well, my height is just a little above the average over here. :D

Catija

@DamkerngT. Well... if it's under 12, yes. If it's over 12 we can adjust but even for me, who's been out of the country and spent time in Europe, I have to think hard to remember that 20 is 8 pm, not 10 pm.

Anonymous

16:05

Surviving is good.

Damkerng T.

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Q: "Can" vs. "Could" for bringing examples

I wrote this sentence: it is a semantic property used to indicate the current title, it could be the values of HTML heading nodes like H1, H2. vs. it is a semantic property used to indicate the current title, it can be the values of HTML heading nodes like H1, H2. It is in a scientifi...

Strange question. Strange answers.

Oh, an answer keeps updating itself!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

16:33

@Dam I keep forgetting this: What's the word for the special sound you make with your tongue and upper jaw when you disapprove of what someone did (i.e. cheating etc.)?

Damkerng T.

tsk tsk?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

(It sounds like continuous hits and is usually accompanied with horizontal nodding)

@DamkerngT. Yeah, what's the verb for it?

Damkerng T.

Um... tsk or tut, I think.

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Q: Correct use of "Belong" in English Sentences

I am confused of uses of belong in sentences. I know belong is intransitive verb so it should not be used in passive sentence. But still I can see it is used with "is" and "was" like below examples a) Can we use "Belong" to tell status of something like below examples? Examples a) This proper...

sentence-construction passive-voice

Hmm...

> But still I can see it is used with "is" and "was" like below examples [This property is/was belongs/belong to us].

Probably, in a game?

All your base are belong to us

"All your base are belong to us" is a broken English phrase found in the opening cutscene of the 1991 video game Zero Wing which became a popular Internet meme. The quote is included in the European version of the game, which features poorly translated English from the original Japanese version. The meme developed from this as the result of a GIF animation depicting the opening text which was initially popularized on the Something Awful message forums. == Selected transcript == == Mentions in media == The phrase or some variation of lines from the game has appeared in numerous articles, books...

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. Indian error, definitely.

Damkerng T.

Umm... it was a Japanese video game.

Oh, you meant the question.

Catija

16:40

@DamkerngT. That is a meme title and it's intentionally wrong.

Damkerng T.

I think the error in the original video game was genuine, though.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Indian newbie askers tend to have this grammatical error: "If you are belong to chemistry, plzzz answer my quesshion"

Damkerng T.

I think Thais are prone to this error, too. And apparently, it appears that Japanese people and Indians are prone to this error as well.

I know why it's so in Thai. Not sure about Japanese and Hindi.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

It's definitely a thing in Hindu/i.

Anonymous

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M The palate rather than the upper jaw

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

16:51

@snailboat Lemme repro.

Hmm, you're right.

Anonymous

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Hindi is the name of the language.

Damkerng T.

This could be a cure for You *are belong to ...:

Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me

►

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Yeah, I sometimes mix them up. It's one of the rare cases I have to get assistance from Persian.

> It'd take as many years to cure as it took for the disease to spread, in case it goes viral viral. - M.A.R.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Dunno, it doesn't really correspond to a Japanese grammatical construction

Anonymous

legendsoflocalization.com/…

Anonymous

16:54

It's just incompletely acquired English, but in what manner I can't say

Damkerng T.

> She wears high heels. I wear sneakers.

What does sneakers mean in AmE?

Gym shoes?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. People who sneak.

Anonymous

Sneakers (footwear)

Sneaker is a synonym for "athletic shoes," the generic name for the footwear primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise. Additionally, sneakers have come to be used for casual everyday activities. The term describes a type of footwear with a flexible sole made of rubber or synthetic material and an upper part made of leather or canvas. Examples include athletic footwear such as: basketball shoes, tennis shoes, cross trainers and other shoes worn for specific sports. Sneakers is the more common term used in northeastern United States and southern Florida. The British English...

Damkerng T.

Ahh... I guessed right.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. I think the ones that have strips and have slightly lower heels than usual.

But I still think it means people who sneak.

Damkerng T.

16:57

Because of the rubber, perhaps?

Anonymous

Yeah, sneakers are relatively quiet to walk in.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. No, because of the anatomy of foot.

Damkerng T.

Would you call that a sneaker too?

Anonymous

No

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. It doesn't have strips. ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Anonymous

16:58

Strips? Stripes?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

(I was just mentioning some of 'tis properties)

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Are the strips or stripes that necessary?

Anonymous

Sneakers do not have to have stripes.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. They prove it's athletic.

Yeah.

Anonymous

I'm probably never going to start using punctuation consistently in chat.

Anonymous

17:00

I use punctuation at the end of my sentences more often because some people 'round these parts actually think terminal punctuation is normal in chat . . .

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Oh, and I meant stripes.

Anonymous

But it feels weird because terminal punctuation changes the tone of what you're writing.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Unless,

STRIPS

In artificial intelligence, STRIPS (Stanford Research Institute Problem Solver) is an automated planner developed by Richard Fikes and Nils Nilsson in 1971 at SRI International. The same name was later used to refer to the formal language of the inputs to this planner. This language is the base for most of the languages for expressing automated planning problem instances in use today; such languages are commonly known as action languages. This article only describes the language, not the planner. == Definition == A STRIPS instance is composed of: An initial state; The specification of the goal...

Anonymous

I've done too much chatting online where terminal punctuation is expected not to be there

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

<Japanese EHHHHHH> My rep has dropped by one. OMG! freaks out

Damkerng T.

17:02

@snailboat It doesn't change the tone much for me. Unless it's used after every word.

Anonymous

Well, it depends on the circumstances.

Damkerng T.

nods -- I think it usually is the first thing I notice when I'm in an unfamiliar chat room.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Congrats!

Anonymous

If people have been talking for half an hour without any terminal punctuation

Anonymous

And someone types "no."

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. Huh?

Anonymous

17:04

The tone is different than if they'd typed "no"

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

For Japanese-Ehh'ing?

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I think you like a round number better. :P

@snailboat nods

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

ಠ_ಠ How is 7191 a round number? ಠ_ಠ

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Ah, wasn't it 3331?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Only in chem.

Damkerng T.

17:06

Even StoneyB said this after seeing @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M username:

Jul 16 at 0:33, by StoneyB

When in emoR ...

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

O.O

Anonymous

But my habit of not using terminal punctuation in chat is too deeply ingrained to change it for the minority of folks that are confused by it

Anonymous

Well, to be more precise, terminal periods.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

...

Anonymous

Which are essentially useless in chat, anyway.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

17:08

That's just there to annoy the three of us.

Anonymous

No, not ellipses, just periods.

Damkerng T.

Perhaps @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M is trying to compensate the missing periods. :D

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

.................................................................... Help me out ....................................................................

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OK now you can go without periods for the rest of the day.

Damkerng T.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M That message makes me think of comments in some code I've seen. :D

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

LOLCODE?

Anonymous

17:11

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                  .---.  <    > <    >  .---.
                  |    \  \ - ~ ~ - /  /    |
                   ~-..-~             ~-..-~
               \~~~\.'                    `./~~~/
     .-~~^-.    \__/                        \__/
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  (_____,    `._.'               |         }  \/~~~/
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         `-.      |       /      |       /      `. ,~~|
             ~-.__|      /_ - ~ ^|      /- _      `..-'   f: f:

Damkerng T.

Code code!

Stake on the house saurus?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Stake-Go-Saurus

Damkerng T.

Comes with two candles on its tail. :P

Anonymous

There are some (Late Jurassic) periods there. If anyone thinks I'm missing some periods, they can borrow from the Bank of Dinosaur.

Damkerng T.

Hah!

That would ruin the cute dino!

Anonymous

17:14

Well, they can put them back when they're done. :-)

GATA

17:31

Hi all, Could someone please help me to understand this record? This is the file

drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Xd7U33_g5wZ3BoYWptS1d0Ymc/view?pli=1

At 0:9 "childhood now (...) for". And also from 0:24 to 0:28.

Anonymous

17:51

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered at will, childhood now equipped for self-expression.

Damkerng T.

"(mag?) prejudices are to the mind"

Anonymous

that flood of ready-made images which are to the eye like prejudices are to the mind

Damkerng T.

Oh, that word is like?

Ah, yes.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Yes, that word is a lie.

Wait, I can't even listen to the recording thingy.

GATA

Oh thank you snailboat. Thank you very much.

Anonymous

17:54

:-)

Damkerng T.

Now it's hard for me to hear it as "mag" again.

Hmm, it's not that hard.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Recordings aren't typically stiff.

Damkerng T.

Oh, it's much easier on the headset.

Anonymous

He wasn't a typical speaker.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

What do you mean?

Damkerng T.

17:57

@snailboat His voice and accent reminds me of classic Hollywood films.

GATA

it's Orson welles

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Promising himself to listen to it tomorrow ™

Anonymous

And there's no one quite like Orson Welles. Although Brain comes close :-)

GATA

indeed :)

it's a documentary about modern art.

Damkerng you nailed it :)

Damkerng T.

@GATA Oh, it's from an old film?

GATA

18:01

This is the youtube link. youtube.com/watch?v=9L7y6h3AVoE

Damkerng T.

@GATA Thanks!

GATA

YW :)

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