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CopperKettle
CopperKettle
09:59
@snailboat Yep! And 'twas a nice bicycle ride! (0:
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user116848
14:34
Knock, Knock.
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
15:28
who's there?
user116848
Scold.
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
Scold who?
user116848
Scold outside—let me in!
user116848
:-)
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
lol
:D
It's empty in here.
user116848
15:35
Yeah.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
16:22
Solstice!
user116848
Happy Solstice!
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Yup, I celebrate my Solstice with one of my computers down. Hehe!
(Still celebrating...)
user116848
Haha!
user116848
What do you do on the Christmas day? Do you celebrate it?
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Nope. Probably nothing this year.
user116848
16:27
Same here. For me it is like any other day. We celebrate Eid here.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Oh, oh, maybe I'll buy something for myself anyway. :-)
user116848
Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Fitr (Arabic: عيد الفطر‎ ʻĪd al-Fiṭr, IPA: [ʕiːd al fitˤr], "festival of breaking of the fast"), also called Feast of Breaking the Fast, the Sugar Feast, Bayram (Bajram), the Sweet Festival and the Lesser Eid, is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting (sawm). The religious Eid is a single day during which Muslims are not permitted to fast. The holiday celebrates the conclusion of the 29 or 30 days of dawn-to-sunset fasting during the entire month of Ramadan. The day of Eid, therefore, falls on the first...
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@Farooq Oh, but that's around mid-year.
user116848
Yeah, it passed a few months back :-)
user116848
@DamkerngT. So there which day do you celebrate according to Buddhism?
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
16:32
Oh, it's throughout the year. Basically, three occasions.
user116848
ah, three occasions.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magha_Puja, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesak, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asalha_Puja.
(They're based on Lunar calendar.)
user116848
nods
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Don't worry, we Thai people love to celebrate every possible occasion! :-)
user116848
:-)
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
16:36
New Year we celebrate. Chinese New Year we celebrate, Thai New Year we celebrate. :-)
user116848
Yeah, I like to celebrate new year etc. too. It's fun.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Halloween we entertain ourselves. Valentine's we celebrate, too. And of course, Christmas is a great time for gifts!
user116848
So here I enjoy the weather that is around Christmas. I mean the winters.
user116848
Summers are kind of tough to live here in my opinion.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Ah, I remember you don't like it warm.
user116848
16:39
Yes, I don't :-)
CopperKettle
CopperKettle
17:17
Good evening all!
Congratulations with the longest night in the history of the Earth!
vox.com/2014/12/21/7424371/winter-solstice
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user116848
@CopperKettle Good evening!
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I guess that today next year will be longer than today this year.
CopperKettle
CopperKettle
Yes (0:
user116848
@CopperKettle Cool cycling pics above.
CopperKettle
CopperKettle
@Farooq Thanks, Farooq!
Not a lot of cycling, really, just 25 kilometers (0:
user116848
17:21
I see :-)
CopperKettle
CopperKettle
Tried out heating pads inside my boots. Worked like a charm. (0:
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Nice!
CopperKettle
CopperKettle
They come in an airtight packaging. You open the packaging, and they start getting warm.
And last for 7 hours.
Other guys danced around after about an hour after we stopped to make fire.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
It's one of today's marvels!
CopperKettle
CopperKettle
..although it was very warm today. It's still +1 C here
user116848
17:23
user image
CopperKettle
CopperKettle
A nice deer.
user116848
Yeah, a nice pic.
CopperKettle
CopperKettle
Or elk. (0:
I'd better log off, I'm trying to do a test translation. See you later, Farooq, Damkerng!
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
See you!
user116848
See ya!
user116848
17:37
@DamkerngT. You are on the other computer I guess, right?
user116848
I got awarded a solstice hat!
user116848
Yay!
user116848
It is like we get hats by the way :-)
CopperKettle
CopperKettle
From a translators' forum: "Did you know that the Russian word for «sock» is «no sock»?" (0:
@Farooq Yay!
 
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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
20:15
@Farooq You noticed that! :-)
@Farooq Yay!
@CopperKettle Hehe!
user116848
Hi back!
user116848
So your computer is giving you troubles. It happens to me sometimes. It sucks.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I'm wearing the Solstice Hat the way the Laughing Man would do. :P
user116848
@DamkerngT. Awesome!
user116848
It looks very funny!
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
20:19
:D
user image
(The Laughing Man style. :-)
user116848
Haha!
user116848
@snailboat Top of the morning to you :-)
user116848
Here it is midnight though.
user116848
@DamkerngT. Is that you?
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Ah, nope. Just something I found on the web. :D
user116848
20:24
I gave an answer today.
user116848
@DamkerngT. I see :)
user116848
20:36
So when I speak English I try to speak it clearly. But some people say to me that I stammer (not stutter).
user116848
> To stammer is generally to speak with involuntary pauses or repetitions, as from nervousness or confusion
user116848
It is not a stutter in my opinion because I don't have any speech impediment.
user116848
But still there are some involuntary pauses or repetitions.
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. "Is it idiomatic, what I just said?" is right dislocation
Anonymous
It's true that it's characteristic of speech and not writing
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
20:50
nods
I think I wrote a comment about that a few hours ago.
Anonymous
Yes, I'm responding to your comment here
Anonymous
Thing is,
Anonymous
> Is it idiomatic, what I have written above?
Anonymous
This is possible, I suppose, but "what I have written above" sounds at least semi-formal
Anonymous
That seems slightly at odds with right dislocation
Anonymous
20:52
@Farooq Hello!
Anonymous
It's not morning here, either.
user116848
Yeah, I remembered later. It is afternoon there :-)
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@snailboat They might help each other to write a board or a sign or something. :D
user116848
@snailboat Feel free to correct my comments here as well :-)
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@snailboat Ah, you have the Waffle Hat! (Yummy!)
(I guess it might be something related to changing our mind in doing something on SE.)
@Farooq Why "as well"?
user116848
20:58
@DamkerngT. Yes, because snail corrected some past comment of yours above. I was referring to that.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I don't think it was a correction.
user116848
Oh.
user116848
I couldn't find what you wrote though.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Well, strange that you assumed it was a correction.
It's a bit strange that your sentence is about "what I have written above" but you're asking if it is "acceptable in English speech". I think in real life, people sometimes say something similar: Is it idiomatic, what I just said? or Is it idiomatic? I mean, what I just said. It's because it's spontaneous. If we have a little time to think about what we're going to say, then it's more likely that it'll come out as Is what I've just said idiomatic? — Damkerng T. 4 hours ago
user116848
@DamkerngT. Ah, okay. I didn't know the context :-)
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
21:01
You could say that it's a perfection, though. :D
user116848
Yes, it definitely is a perfection :-)
user116848
I gave it +1
user116848
To make up for what I said.
user116848
:-)
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Aww... That's not really necessary. But thanks anyway. :-)
user116848
21:03
Sure.
Anonymous
I was responding to the comment with additional information
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
NVIDIA Control Panel works rather strangely. It dims everything else on my screen, as I told it, except for the mouse cursor!
My mouse cursor is quite a visual attraction at the moment!
Old news: I've just noticed that Intel has stopped manufacturing their mother boards.
(Correction: Only the desktop boards. I think they still do server boards and something else called NUC.)
I got something weird. My "sh" sound whistles!
Aww... It was gone!
I think it's because of the right amount of wetness of my tongue and my mouth.
Anonymous
21:46
Maybe my tone is off.
Anonymous
There've been other times when I've left comments and people assumed I intended them as corrections
Anonymous
So I've gotten responses along the lines of "I don't see how that contradicts what I said"
Anonymous
Oh, well. This communication thing is hard, sometimes.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
22:05
> "How is he?"
"I don't think so." Haram answered.
http://ell.stackexchange.com/q/43605/3281
@snailboat It's hard indeed. "I don't think so" can be an answer to "How is he?"!
(I think the answer could even be just "No.")
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. That's definitely infelicitous.
Anonymous
In context, it could mean . . .
Anonymous
"How is he?" "I don't think [you have the right to ask that.]"
Anonymous
But without further context, it seems like the reply makes no sense
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
It's rather obvious that they share a context that is not obvious to us unless we know what happened during the scene.
I think I've watched this movie in Thai before. Maybe before that line they were trying to find the survivors, with the implication that most of them didn't make it.
 
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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
23:22
21 C!
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
:O

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