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Damkerng T.

14:00

12354678910, apparently.

Jim Reynolds

I don't need his number. Our connection is so spiritual.

MARamezani

@JimReynolds o.0

Damkerng T.

Eww... That's... probably true!

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. robotic malfunction :D

Damkerng T.

Hehe!

MARamezani

14:00

Wait...Robots don't have souls...

Damkerng T.

This one has one.

Jim Reynolds

If he pets his cat, I can feel like I'm getting a massage.

O.o

MARamezani

Or maybe two?

Jim Reynolds

Haha

MARamezani

@JimReynolds So you're a cat?

Jim Reynolds

14:01

He has a dual-boot soul.

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. Sounds like Terminator

Damkerng T.

@JimReynolds Like duo-sim phones?

@Man_From_India Hee!

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. Even better!

Jim Reynolds

A dual SIM mobile phone is one which holds two SIM cards. Devices that use more than two SIM cards have also been developed and released . . . .

MARamezani

Yours doesn't hang, I bet!

Jim Reynolds

14:02

O.O

MARamezani

o.o

Jim Reynolds

Hang? I would remind you that | is a vertical bar!

MARamezani

And | is still a vertical bar!

Jim Reynolds

:-)

MARamezani

And not italicized.

Jim Reynolds

14:03

|

O.O

MARamezani

o.o

Jim Reynolds

It can't be italicized?

Man_From_India

I am off to watch Scooby Doo :D

Jim Reynolds

o.0

MARamezani

Yup.

@Man_From_India And then I'm called a kid...

Damkerng T.

14:04

Hanging on a vertical bar would require a great amount of effort!

Man_From_India

he he :-)

Jim Reynolds

Ok. Man. It's good to know you understand what is important.

Damkerng T.

Hanging on a slash is probably easier.

MARamezani

Hang on!

Man_From_India

Saggy is important, and Scooby too :D I love ghost...

Jim Reynolds

14:05

Ha! @MARa, when you made dol|t, I thought you use two pairs of asterisks.

To make | not italicized. O.0

What a fool was I!

MARamezani

That would embolden it, Do|t!

Jim Reynolds

Did you say embolden?

That's for Dam to hang from.

Damkerng T.

Was that a slash or a bar?

Jim Reynolds

An italicized lower-case L.

Damkerng T.

If it's the latter, I could even hang out in.

Jim Reynolds

14:07

Hhaa

+1

MARamezani

Hehe!

Jim Reynolds

Oh I didn't notice that @Man was listing Scooby Doo characters.

Although he called "Shaggy" the wrong name: Saggy.

Damkerng T.

I'm not too familiar with the characters, but I've watched its movie once.

Jim Reynolds

Maybe he's not feeling very vertical O.o

Damkerng T.

:D

MARamezani

14:09

@JimReynolds You're a dirty mouth!

Jim Reynolds

Slaps MAR.

MARamezani

Ducks

Jim Reynolds

Slaps the ducks.

MARamezani

Or Docks Who knows? 0.0

Jim Reynolds

O.0

As in spaceship???

MARamezani

14:10

0.O

@JimReynolds Witch broom.

Jim Reynolds

THEY SAID THEY WOULD BE BACK TO PICK ME UP 4 CENTURIES AGO!!

:-)

MARamezani

@JimReynolds They don't like your attitude. They told me that.

Damkerng T.

Oh, wow! Scooby-Doo the movie was profitable! (Box office: $275.7 million, Budget: $84 million)

Jim Reynolds

Which broom?

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. That's not as profitable to me.

Jim Reynolds

14:11

For MAR, it's more like, "It has been decided that you are better off not watching Scooby Doo.

O.O

Damkerng T.

lol

MARamezani

@JimReynolds It has been scientifically decided...

Jim Reynolds

Ha! It's probably true.

Why "Begin" and not "begins" in the phrase "Let the adventure begin"?

Sings: Let it goes, let it goes!

MARamezani

When you sing, that means it's definitely wrong. o.0

Damkerng T.

Nice one!

Jim Reynolds

14:13

"1) Kill FF immediately 2) Make a copy of sessionstore.js and its .bak 3) move .bak to .js 4) restart FF"

O.O

22 hours ago, by snailboat

clank, clank, raaaaattchetttt, claclaclaclaCLONK, baCLERNKK, dun, dun, dunnnn whirrrrrr CLANKonkonk

I think snailboat occasionally licks one of her hallucinogenic snails.

MARamezani

He means firefox, not FumbleFingers.

Jim Reynolds

0.O

MARamezani

0.o

Jim Reynolds

You have a dangerous mind.

Are you locked up somewhere, by chance?

MARamezani

@JimReynolds Yes.

Jim Reynolds

14:16

Sighs in relief.

MARamezani

Locked up in the universe. o.0

Damkerng T.

That should be clear in the context I think. How can I restart the other FF? :-)

Jim Reynolds

With a boot?

Damkerng T.

Oh, unless FF is another bot!

Jim Reynolds

Boot to the butt?

MARamezani

14:17

@DamkerngT. Dunno. Nothing's impossible.

But anything other than nothing is possible.

Jim Reynolds

1) It is possible; 2) It is not possible; 3) It is both possible and not possible; 4) It is not the case that it is both possible and not possible.

O.O

Damkerng T.

o_O

Jim Reynolds

I think Fantasier is watching us. Studying us.

Perhaps choosing one of us for it's next meal.

0.0

Damkerng T.

:D

MARamezani

0.O

Damkerng T.

14:19

@JimReynolds You go first, I'm sure. :P

MARamezani

I remember he was an engineer. Maybe he wanna reverse-engineer us?

Jim Reynolds

I'm tough and chewy.

MARamezani

@JimReynolds Nice side-dish.

Jim Reynolds

He's going to look for the fattest one.

Damkerng T.

@JimReynolds Yet the only edible!

Jim Reynolds

14:21

Why isn't @MARa edible?

MARamezani

@JimReynolds I'm an athlete. In your face!

Damkerng T.

@JimReynolds I remember that MAR is some kind of acid.

Jim Reynolds

Typing is not an olympic sport, ok?

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. Yep. Aqua regia.

@JimReynolds Biker.

Jim Reynolds

0.o

MARamezani

14:22

A biker acid.

O>O

Jim Reynolds

o,o

MARamezani

0-0

Damkerng T.

o^o

Jim Reynolds

O.O

MARamezani

o[]o

Jim Reynolds

14:22

Haha

@Dam's was the most . . .

Well, maybe it's just me.

MARamezani

[O][O]

Damkerng T.

It was an upside-down view.

Jim Reynolds

:)

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. We're not bats!

Damkerng T.

:D

Jim Reynolds

14:24

@MARa's reminds me of cooking eggs.

Yum.

I want an egg sandwich.

MARamezani

May I remind someone that acids burn aliens too?

Jim Reynolds

Puh-leeze

Here is my acid, right now: guidelive.pegasus.imgix.net/img/photos/2014/07/15/martini1.jpg

MARamezani

Okay, I won't burn you. Just this time.

Damkerng T.

3

Q: what does "up" mean?

I am reading a Harry Potter fan fiction. Hermione go back in time when Tom Riddle is a student. She get to be in Hogwarts as a year seven pupil. (as Dumbledore's niece. Aberforth Dumbledore adopt her. so her name became Hermione "Dumbledore". not Hermione "Granger".) On Hogsmeade weekend trip, ...

meaning

Oh, too bad. I thought it was a new question!

"Harry Potter fan fiction" always sounds like fun.

Jim Reynolds

Up at (place) can mean that it's to the north, or at a higher elevation.

Like if a school is on a mountain.

Up at the school.

But I think this kind of phrasing, "up at", "down at", "over at", etc., has become something that is sometimes just used without regard to relative location.

Sort of just as an option or a way to make speech more colorful.

I have spoken. Final ruling.

Slams hammar.

Damkerng T.

14:32

Here is the text on a page at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com: "Near to is not usually used before the name of a place, person, festival, etc." Please note the word name. So, the note is just against things like "near to John", "near to London", "near to Glastonbury Music Festival", etc, — Damkerng T. 14 secs ago

Make sense?

@JimReynolds The judge has spoken!

Jim Reynolds

Yes. We wouldn't use "to" in any of those phrases.

Since snailboat isn't here, I'll add:

That is referred to as the non-collocative pharyngeal oscillatory negation.

Damkerng T.

o_O

Jim Reynolds

o.0

Sound ok, if you don't think about it too long, right?

Damkerng T.

I didn't dare to think about it!

Jim Reynolds

Smart.

Damkerng T.

14:38

:D

Jim Reynolds

0

Q: had we just not found

Why was that? Was he the sort of “exceptionalist” phenomenon that transcended explanation—or had we just not found the events obscured by history, the missing piece of the puzzle that might constitute evidence for an explanation? Source: Ron Rosenbaum: Explaining Hitler, p. viii. I am thinking ...

tense

Wut ?

MARamezani

Wat?

Damkerng T.

Oh, I haven't read that one.

Jim Reynolds

I bag your pardon?

Put's MAR's pardon in a bag.

Damkerng T.

I think it has to be had because it's an inversion!

MARamezani

14:40

What exactly is someone's pardon?

0.o

:}

0

Q: Military order to execute instructions issued so far

What is the common phrase in military, ordering the soldiers to get to work - start executing instructions issued? Say, a civilian (expert) is presenting tasks that need to be completed in detail. Then the officer issues a short order that boils down to "Do what he said". What is the word/phrase...

phrase-request military

Jim Reynolds

That is a good question, MAR. Very philosophical.

MARamezani

SF!

Damkerng T.

Oh, it's just a plain question, not an inversion.

MARamezani

That guy's a legend!

Damkerng T.

He(?) joined ELL before I did.

Jim Reynolds

14:42

My problem is ... I would await present perfect – we have not yet found the explanation for the personality of Hitler.

He is awaiting present perfect?

Anonymous

Plain questions are inverted :-)

Jim Reynolds

They are, are they?

o.o

Damkerng T.

@JimReynolds Possibly the work of some Autocorrect!

MARamezani

@snailboat Hullo!

Anonymous

@Jim They mean "expecting"

Jim Reynolds

14:42

Or Auto-robot?

Ah!

Damkerng T.

Good morning @snailboat!

Jim Reynolds

ok. Did you see my snail pic with Chinese on a sign just for you?

MARamezani

OK. No.

Damkerng T.

going out to check the water...

Jim Reynolds

snailboat speaks ELLese.

to check the .... ?

Anonymous

14:43

Not yet—I'll check back later from a computer

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. Water what?

Jim Reynolds

OMG. He's poisoning the water supply in Thailand!

ok. I'll post it again for you later.

MARamezani

@JimReynolds Nah. Robot revolution hasn't happened yet.

Jim Reynolds

Maybe it's a small-scale test.

Kill Fumble Fingers and poison Thailand. It's a good start.

MARamezani

Yeah. I wish them luck!

@JimReynolds But what about the restart FF part?

Damkerng T.

14:46

@MARamezani For my tea.

Yikes! Why it went so big!

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. The water?

Damkerng T.

The talk!

MARamezani

Big, as in?

Damkerng T.

I used to have no intention to kill or poison anything.

MARamezani

I expect elephant as an answer

@DamkerngT. Too bad. Wait, used to?

Damkerng T.

14:49

Yes, until just a few cycles ago, right after I saw the talk!

MARamezani

Now you wanna poison me? Sobbing

Damkerng T.

Hee

MARamezani

How does an acid sob?

Damkerng T.

trying to comfort the acid...

MARamezani

I'm conforted!

Damkerng T.

15:22

In my Analytical Writing GRE, I'm behooved to use many different structures. So, I wanted to know whether this structure is correct. — siamak 2 hours ago

Interesting!

Is the test taker required to write in Analytical Writing GRE?

MARamezani

Wait, Siamak asked that? So he's pretty much talking about Iran.

Damkerng T.

But GRE?

MARamezani

Maybe the question is: How do you think the economy is where you live?

Damkerng T.

Oh, hmm...

That's quite possible.

And he has to write a short essay on that.

MARamezani

Yep.

books.google.com/ngrams/…

Damkerng T.

15:25

lol

> Your essay responses on the Analytical Writing section will be reviewed by ETS essay similarity detection software and by experienced essay readers during the scoring process.

What?!

"will be reviewed by ETS essay similarity detection software"

MARamezani

That'd be the only software you don't have.

Damkerng T.

Can't they think of something creative as a topic (so memorizing the template wouldn't be a problem)?

MARamezani

No.

books.google.com/ngrams/…

Nope is dead.

Damkerng T.

In books, maybe.

MARamezani

And with a red line. Red is dangerous, right?

Damkerng T.

15:28

I think that chart is incorrect.

google.com/…

MARamezani

Yes. Google is searching the books.

Damkerng T.

Plenty of "nope".

MARamezani

Let's burn Google down.

Damkerng T.

lol

Or look at it another way, there is plenty of nope's, but no outnumbers nope by several orders of magnitude.

MARamezani

Maybe. But then a reasonable chart would show the triviality, rather than a straight red tape.

Damkerng T.

15:34

You could write a letter, asking Google about that!

> Dear sir, ...

MARamezani

Dear ngram...

Damkerng T.

Hehe!

MARamezani

Damkerng T.

Wow!

MARamezani

It's a fake.

I mean, the text is modified obviously.

Those many answers and 2 views?

Damkerng T.

15:44

Could be.

MARamezani

Unless robots from your generation hacked SO.

Damkerng T.

The system doesn't report the time a question was asked, but the time the latest answer was posted, I think.

Oh, it said "asked".

MARamezani

See?

Damkerng T.

I see.

MARamezani

But it was worth some posting and a ununfounder.

Damkerng T.

15:46

:D

3

Q: What does the term "undefined" actually mean?

I have read articles on many sites to understand what undefined means? On some site of Mathematics, I read that it could be any number. and on some sites, I read that it may be anything. These are two major meanings of undefined but I think, they have a clash. Since, Any number means "any number"...

terminology

Somehow that sounds like an ELL question!

MARamezani

You think that's an ELL Q, look at this one:

-1

Q: What's the difference between features and properties?

What's the difference between features and properties? I don't understand. In my dictionary, these words are equivalent. Is the ebullition the same as condensation ?

homework terminology

Damkerng T.

Hah!

Maybe features is possible in computational chemistry. Just a wild guess.

MARamezani

It would be just as much valid as features is in every-day life.

Damkerng T.

:D

user116848

Aloha!

MARamezani

15:58

Salam!

Damkerng T.

Hi!

user116848

@MARamezani Wsalam!

CopperKettle

Privet!

user116848

@CopperKettle Privet! :-)

MARamezani

Hullo!

CopperKettle

15:59

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MARamezani

OMG long time no see!

Damkerng T.

@CopperKettle Hey, look who's here!

CopperKettle

Hi, @DamkerngT.!

MARamezani

How's the proofreading going?

CopperKettle

@MARamezani I'm doing something else now. (0:

Damkerng T.

15:59

Welcome back!

CopperKettle

@MARamezani How is chemistry?

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