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11:11 PM

@PauloCereda Technically, very likely. However, I've never actually tweeted. (I don't think. I once tried to tweet a bus company but I'm not sure whether I actually succeeded or not.) I follow 2 people. One is the bus company. The other is somebody I followed by mistake when trying to follow the bus company. (For some reason, the local bus company only seem capable of communicating information which is approximately true on twitter. Any other medium is entirely hopeless.)

@JosephWright Allegedly, they lacked the facility to print with more than so many letters and 'k' got the boot. (This makes no sense to me: how were they printing English in that case? Unless they were assigning Welsh's double letters to single blocks but why would that matter for printing?) So Middle Welsh has 'k', 'v' etc. but Modern Welsh doesn't.

@JosephWright Not that it isn't just as well. Welsh is infinitely more phonetic than English. (Or as near infinitely as makes no difference.)

Faheem Mitha

I actually don't under the "je ne regrette rien". Since "rien" is nothing, that seems to translate as "i do not regret nothing", which makes no sense in the context.

under -> understand

egreg

11:30 PM

@FaheemMitha French requires the “ne” particle to introduce a negation: “Je ne parle pas français”; the “pas” particle is omitted if something else with negative connotation appears, such as “rien” (nothing) or “personne” (nobody).

Faheem Mitha

@egreg I see. Thanks. Languages are weird.

egreg

@FaheemMitha Yes. In Italian we say "non ho visto niente”, literally "I have not seen nothing”.

Faheem Mitha

@egreg Ok. You speak French, then?

egreg

@FaheemMitha Un petit peu.

Faheem Mitha

@egreg Ok

egreg

11:34 PM

@FaheemMitha A couple of days ago I gave directions to a French lady; I hope she understood. ;-)

Faheem Mitha

@egreg Where was that?

egreg

@FaheemMitha In front of my house. I was coming back from work.

Faheem Mitha

@egreg Oh

yo'

evening, everybody! :)

egreg

@yo' Ciao!

yo'

11:46 PM

@egreg hello and Merry Christmas! How's it going?

egreg

@yo' Very well, thanks! I ate too much, as usual. :)

yo'

@egreg tell me that, all this turkey schnitzels, potato dumplings, christmas sweets, christmas bread etc.

@egreg Got nice presents? :)

egreg

@yo' And tomorrow there's the replay, with my sister who couldn't come today.

@yo' A very nice sweater. And you?

yo'

@egreg ah, my sis came today, 'twas cool :)

egreg

@cfr Why did you remove the split answer?

yo'

11:50 PM

@egreg I've got a sweater too -- merino cardigan, it's lovely (and warm), and I've got a lot of other cool stuff, too

egreg

@yo' Problem is I have three sisters! Two of them came today. Also one brother, the other one lives too far.

yo'

@egreg ah a wide family, huh? :) Btw, I get gifts from the scouts each year, too, that was also very cool

egreg

@yo' Quite crowded. ;-)

yo'

@egreg well, yeah. It's always heavy. Also, I've already heard the Luke's gospel Christmas reading 5 times in 4 languages :) And I've played like 20 songs in the church during the last week, and more to come on Sunday and on the New Year's Eve -- we're hosting a large Taizé meeting in Prague next week -- 35 thousand people

egreg

@yo' Wow!

yo'

11:58 PM

@egreg well, 3 of the 4 languages are Czech of course :) And for the Taizé meeting, it's gonna be big, but I'll participate only for the one service since I've got other things to do.