English Language Learners

Anonymous

8:00 PM

They're so fast!

They stole my lettuce!

> You made it! You eat the watermelon whole. You are as good as new!
Good job, Ace! You won the game! The End. Turn to Page 1.

Hooray!

user116848

Yay!

Damkerng T.

nom nom

Anonymous

You win!!

Anonymous

Congratulations.

Damkerng T.

8:02 PM

enjoying the watermelon...

user116848

Whole watermelon is very big though :-) (If it the large one)

user116848

*is

Anonymous

Watermelons are one of my favorite fruits. Pears are my absolute favorite, though.

Anonymous

@Arrowfar It's supposed to be silly :-)

user116848

All fruits are my favorite

Damkerng T.

8:03 PM

It was quite fun!

user116848

Except a jack fruit lol

Anonymous

I'm not familiar with that fruit

user116848

I hate the jack fruit :-)

user116848

Jackfruit

The jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), in Malayalam : ചക്കപഴ also known as jack tree, jakfruit, or sometimes simply jack or jak) is a species of tree in the Artocarpus genus of the mulberry family (Moraceae). It is native to parts of South and Southeast Asia, and is believed to have originated in the southwestern rain forests of India, in present-day Kerala, in Tamil Nadu (in Panruti), coastal Karnataka and Maharashtra. The jackfruit tree is well suited to tropical lowlands, and its fruit is the largest tree-borne fruit, reaching as much as 80 pounds (36 kg) in weight, 36 inches (90 cm) in length...

user116848

It literally tastes like shit lol :D

Damkerng T.

8:05 PM

It's not that bad. :D

user116848

Oh, You think?

user116848

I see :p

user116848

For me it is

Damkerng T.

nods -- The species we got here goes together with coconut ice cream really well.

user116848

Well I hear it is very good for health

user116848

8:06 PM

Ah I see

user116848

In the US they eat avocados. Which is not common in asia.

Damkerng T.

Next time you could try it with some ice cream. Coconut flavor would be the best, imo.

user116848

@DamkerngT. Yes I will :-)

Damkerng T.

I'm not familiar with eating avocados.

user116848

Me neither

user116848

8:09 PM

Oh, I love a good pineapple :D

Anonymous

Some people do.

Anonymous

Not me.

Anonymous

Eat avocados, I mean.

Damkerng T.

Pineapples are good, too.

user116848

But pineapples are very tricky to cut :-) (If they are not cut already)

user116848

8:10 PM

Once I almost cut my finger while trying to cut a pineapple

Damkerng T.

I think Durians are the trickiest one!

Anonymous

There's a type of pizza called Hawaiian pizza which has ham and pineapple as toppings.

user116848

After that I always pass the cutting to someone else :-)

Damkerng T.

@snailboat We have Hawaiian pizza here, too, at Pizza Hut!

Anonymous

Oh, you have Pizza Hut!

Anonymous

8:11 PM

I don't eat at Pizza Hut

Damkerng T.

We do!

Anonymous

I always forget that chain restaurants have achieved world domination.

Anonymous

I don't usually eat at chain restaurants

Anonymous

In Japan some of the chain restaurants are a bit different than in the US. It makes me wonder if they're different in Thailand, too :-)

user116848

@DamkerngT. Pizzas are expensive in Thailand?

Damkerng T.

8:12 PM

@Arrowfar Relatively, a bit expensive.

Anonymous

I love pizza, but I only eat it a few times a year

Anonymous

I think that if I ate pizza all the time, I could get pretty fat. :-)

user116848

@DamkerngT. Here in Pakistan Pizza hut is expensive too

Damkerng T.

nods

Anonymous

Pizza Hut isn't exactly a top-tier pizza joint

user116848

8:13 PM

But we have others that make very good pizzas :-)

Anonymous

So you'd think they'd be cheap, but no

Damkerng T.

About the taste, I think everything would taste different when they go worldwide.

user116848

@snailboat True

Damkerng T.

@snailboat I developed delivery system for Domino Pizza Thailand. Too bad that the franchise didn't stay long.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Pizza Hut in Japan tends to have mayonnaise on everything. :-( :-(

Anonymous

8:14 PM

@DamkerngT. Ah!

user116848

You hate mayonnaise?

Anonymous

I hate mayonnaise.

user116848

I think it's okay

Damkerng T.

Oh. Here, it is probably ketchup.

Anonymous

I don't have an irrational dislike of it, you understand.

Anonymous

8:15 PM

I only hate mayonnaise because it's evil.

user116848

Evil? ")

Anonymous

shudders

user116848

@DamkerngT. You mean on computer?

Damkerng T.

Yes. The system that enabled them to make the delivery happen.

user116848

@snailboat Oh, so you shudder from the name of mayonnaise :-)

Anonymous

8:16 PM

Neat!

user116848

@DamkerngT. I see. That's very cool of you :-)

Anonymous

Pizza delivery order systems in the US took a long time to get modernized.

Damkerng T.

Thanks!

Anonymous

@Arrowfar Yeegh!!

Anonymous

Not from the name, but perhaps from the concept :-)

user116848

8:17 PM

And ketchup? You hate that too?

user116848

Well I love cheese!

user116848

But these are all fatty products. Yes sir!

Anonymous

I don't eat cheese.

Anonymous

I don't generally eat dairy products.

Anonymous

If I eat pizza, it's cheeseless pizza.

user116848

8:18 PM

I see.

user116848

How can you eat cheeseless pizza?

Anonymous

I'm lactose intolerant, so if I did eat dairy products (at least those retaining lactose) I'd have to take lactase tablets.

Anonymous

@Arrowfar Very well, thank you for asking!

Damkerng T.

I had to have a lot .When they failed making their doughs (they had to train their staffs to make pizza at the same time I developed the system), they would send the failed products up to our floor. :D

user116848

@DamkerngT. you mean you used to eat pizza a lot when you worked there?

Damkerng T.

8:21 PM

Yup. Me and my staffs. :D

user116848

ha-ha

user116848

That's nice

user116848

Oh, I watched X-men today :D

Damkerng T.

You probably wouldn't say that if you had to have it every day. :D

@Arrowfar Nice!

I don't know how lactase tablets work.

user116848

It's title seem to very ungrammatical. I mean look at this: "X-Men: Days of Future Past"

user116848

8:23 PM

But when I watched the movie I understood it perfectly :p

Damkerng T.

@Arrowfar Sounds sort of like "Back to the Future".

user116848

Because------> They travel in time back and forth

user116848

@DamkerngT. Exactly!

user116848

@DamkerngT. I didn't get it at first. How did you figure it out without watching the movie :)

Damkerng T.

Probably because of the Future Past. :D

user116848

8:25 PM

Yes. So is it okay to say "Future past" like this?

Anonymous

Future past is perfectly grammatical.

user116848

I mean shouldn't it be "Future and Past"

Damkerng T.

And I watched Days of Thunder before, so what was left for me was just to figure out what "Future Past" would mean.

Anonymous

The question is what it means, and that may be somewhat unclear without context (although you can make some guesses).

user116848

@snailboat Can you give a little exp

Anonymous

8:26 PM

Even nonsensical phrases can be grammatical.

Anonymous

Hmm.

Anonymous

It would help to compare similar phrases.

Anonymous

Ghost of Christmas Past

The Ghost of Christmas Past is a fictional character in the well-known work A Christmas Carol by the English novelist Charles Dickens. == Description == The Ghost of Christmas Past is the first of the three spirits to haunt Ebenezer Scrooge. The spirit shows Scrooge scenes from his past that occurred on or around Christmas, in order to demonstrate to him the necessity of changing his ways, as well as to show the reader how Scrooge came to be a bitter, coldhearted miser. According to Dickens' novel, the Ghost of Christmas Past appears to Scrooge as a white-robed, androgynous figure of indeterminate...

Anonymous

It could be parsed much like Christmas Past is here.

Damkerng T.

Oh, neat. I think I've seen a version of it.

Anonymous

8:29 PM

I think almost all native speakers of AmE and BrE are familiar with A Christmas Carol

user116848

We all know about it

Damkerng T.

Ah, I watched the one Jim Carrey voiced Scrooge: imdb.com/title/tt1067106

user116848

It's very jingle belly!

Damkerng T.

Oh, he voiced everything!

Anonymous

But I think that Future Past is ambiguous

Damkerng T.

8:30 PM

> Scrooge / Ghost of Christmas Past / Scrooge as a Young Boy / Scrooge as a Teenage Boy / Scrooge as a Young Man / Scrooge as a Middle Aged Man / Ghost of Christmas Present / Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

Anonymous

You can't tell without context whether it's past modifying future postpositively or future modifying past attributively

Anonymous

You really need some context to tell what it means for sure.

Anonymous

(Like you would get from seeing the movie, presumably.)

Damkerng T.

@snailboat They might want to have both senses at the same time.

user116848

@snailboat Wow! how did you guess about the 'modifying' past without watching the movie? Did you watch the trailer?

user116848

8:33 PM

I mean before watching the first few minutes I couldn't say anything about the 'modifying' part in the film.

Damkerng T.

I think sometimes it's like that, though rather rarely.

user116848

True

Damkerng T.

I still wonder why ISO = International Organization for Standardization.

(See the letters swapping?)

user116848

hah yes

user116848

See ya! peeps

user116848

8:37 PM

later!

Damkerng T.

See you, too!

I like the sound of "Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come".

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Officially, ISO is just ISO

Anonymous

But it has a few expansions

Anonymous

Wikipedia says:

Anonymous

> The three official languages of the ISO are English, French, and Russian.[3] As its name would have different abbreviations in different languages ("IOS" is English, "OIN" in French, etc.), the organization adopted "ISO" as its abbreviated name, derived from the Greek word isos (ἴσος, meaning equal).[5]

Anonymous

8:45 PM

For me mentally, it's always "International Standards Organization"

Anonymous

Regardless of what may be officially :-)

Anonymous

@Arrowfar I didn't watch the trailer

Anonymous

Those are just the only two parsings that occurred to me when I saw the text

Anonymous

I am only assuming that the movie makes the meaning clear

Anonymous