English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

user19161

1:00 PM

@MattЭллен If I say from 1 to 2 back to 1 do you know what I mean now?

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy not really.

user19161

@Cerberus Really? I thought you are depressed.

user19161

@MattЭллен OK I will send you a season's greetings now to explain things.

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy OK :D

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Yay!

@JasperLoy Why on earth would you think that? I am not.

Matt Эллен

1:02 PM

@Cerberus how did your meringues turn out?

user19161

@Cerberus Well, you have sleep problems and you sounded weird whenever I asked you some questions.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Very well! Except that cocoa just doesn't work very well with meringue, and I didn't like the cinnamon ones much. But the regular ones are good, and consistency is good all over.

Matt Эллен

excellent news, apart from the bits that didn't work

Cerberus

@JasperLoy I don't know what you mean by the latter, but you shouldn't be jumping to conclusions.

@MattЭллен Any suggestions for another flavour?

user19161

@Cerberus Well, just guessing, not jumping.

Cerberus

1:04 PM

It is jumping.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I like ginger. Chilli might work - it goes well with sweet things. add in chopped nuts?

Cerberus

Hmm interesting!

Ginger I have no idea how that would turn out. Chilli is sometimes used with chocolate, but I'm not sure how you imagine that in a meringue. I like the nuts!

Matt Эллен

I had sweet chilli crisps, they taste good

z7sg Ѫ

chilli meringue? :D that's a step too far even for my tastes

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Oh, I see. Hmm I happen to dislike those, mostly. Sorry.

user19161

1:07 PM

@MattЭллен Check your inbox and let me know what you think.

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy will do - when I'm back home :)

@Cerberus ah - probably not a good idea then!

user19161

@z7sgѪ Long time no see!

Matt Эллен

@z7sgѪ even after that Moroccan spice?

z7sg Ѫ

@JasperLoy HI!

user19161

@z7sgѪ WOW! All caps in Mr Shiny style!

z7sg Ѫ

1:09 PM

@MattЭллен i think they are quite particular about their combinations. wonderful cooks though.

Matt Эллен

@z7sgѪ It is fair to say I am not a discerning chef

or a chef

for example, this evening I will be combining noodles, chicken flavouring, chilli powder and ginger

Cerberus

I think crisps are one of the best things in life as regards food.

user19161

@Cerberus No guessing means this might be true, jumping means this is true.

Matt Эллен

mmmmm spicy chicken noodles

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Sounds fine!

@JasperLoy I don't know what you mean; just don't.

user19161

1:13 PM

@Cerberus Anyway you can be a chef I think!

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus agreed. such a good snack food

Cerberus

We all can! Cooking is not hard; you just have to do it.

The stupid can cook too.

user19161

@Cerberus Just do it. Nike.

user19161

@Cerberus If Yan can cook, so can you.

z7sg Ѫ

they seemed to have a fixed idea about what spices go with which meats and so on and do variations around that. one of the citrus and chicken tajines i had was just amazing

Matt Эллен

1:15 PM

@z7sgѪ sounds delish!

user19161

@MattЭллен I shall go to bed now.

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy have a good sleep

z7sg Ѫ

yeah it's really something. the closest equivalent to "fast food" places over there serve up the most healthy and delicious dishes you can imagine

Cerberus

Good night!

z7sg Ѫ

i mean, it's not cooked fast of course they just leave stuff simmering away but you can turn up and eat one straight away.

Cerberus

1:19 PM

@z7sgѪ Yeah northern Europe just sucks.

And I distrust eastern Europe too.

The Mediterranean is just great.

z7sg Ѫ

traditionally up north winter food options would be limited of course but still, that's no excuse for all the crap we eat

Matt Эллен

we need the fat to keep us warm!

that's why deep fried Mars bar caught on up in Bonnie Scotland ;-)

Cerberus

Oh God...

Is that good?

Matt Эллен

I've no idea. Probably for the first bite, and then you'd be full

Cerberus

I must bow in shame and admit I like many candy-bar ice-creams.

Matt Эллен

1:25 PM

Me too!

Cerberus

Oh, dear.

What will become of us?

Matt Эллен

good things?

Cerberus

Hey, am I a freak for liking coconut everything?

Matt Эллен

depends on what you mean by everything

Cerberus

Well, just everything!

Matt Эллен

1:26 PM

like a coconut pizza doesn't sound great

Cerberus

Hmm maybe not...

Matt Эллен

nor does coconut apples

Cerberus

Then again, it can go with salty food.

Matt Эллен

or carrots in coconut shavings

Cerberus

Coconut apples might be good?

Carrots too!

I think I might like those.

Matt Эллен

1:27 PM

maybe, maybe raw. but definitely not cooked

Cerberus

They put coconut in everything in Thailand.

Matt Эллен

I might like coconut kebab meat

Cerberus

They have dishes with coconut and carrot for sure.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен I ate a coconut pizza. It was alright. Could have been better but the coconut part was ok.

Cerberus

I happen to dislike kebab, but I see what you mean.

z7sg Ѫ

1:28 PM

just mind you don't go coco loco

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Also: new tim minchin video: youtu.be/_SFdUJLebzU

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I knew it!!

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I see. also Hello! I will withold judgement until I try it

Cerberus

I like him.

But I'm afraid I'm not getting many of the references.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен Well, it certainly wouldn't be for everyone. But I thought it was ok. Ham, coconut, pineapple, and hot chili peppers, I think it was. I think overall it was a bit too sweet, so maybe I'd improve it by doing coconut-cooked chicken instead of raw coconut on the pizza.

Cerberus

1:35 PM

Ah.

z7sg Ѫ

how about coconut flour in the dough?

Cerberus

I'd remove the pineapple and most of the peppers.

JSBᾶngs

i'm currently at 22,999 rep, which pleases me

Cerberus

And chicken instead of ham?

JSBᾶngs

@MrShinyandNew安宇 i find raw coconut kind of disgusting, so it doesn't sound like it's for me.

however, some coconut-cooked things are fine

Cerberus

1:37 PM

Oooh I totally understand why you should hate raw coconut, what with its slightly rotting smell, but I like that too.

Though the fibres can be a bit tiring.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBᾶngs well, I merely wanted to point out that people can, and do, eat coconut pizza. (Granted: I never ordered it a second time... :) )

Cerberus

Excellent.

z7sg Ѫ

what? rotting? i don't remember that. i like the whole process, getting a whole one and cracking it

Cerberus

What if you just chucked some Thai curry on naan?

That would be a great pizza.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus To my knowledge I've never had Thai food. So... I dunno.

Cerberus

1:38 PM

@z7sgѪ Not actually rotting, but it smells a bit like old milk.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Huh? What?

JSBᾶngs

@MrShinyandNew安宇 thai food is the best. by far my favorite asian cuisine. (indian takes second)

Cerberus

It is the best eastern food!

z7sg Ѫ

don't ruin it for me please

Cerberus

Jinx!

I like Indian and Japanese a lot too.

And Vietnamese, so far as I know it.

Chinese, not so much.

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus yeah, japanese and vietnamese are good. chinese isn't great.

Cerberus

1:39 PM

Finally someone who agrees!

JSBᾶngs

the order is: thai > indian > vietnamese > japanese > szechuan > cantonese

Cerberus

Chinese is too sweet and nondescript to me.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Shocking, I know

JSBᾶngs

well, you really do need to distinguish szechuan from cantonese. cantonese is more common overseas, at last

Cerberus

Hmm I barely know what Szechuan tastes like; but Cantonese?

JSBᾶngs

1:41 PM

most generic chinese food outside of china is cantonese

Cerberus

Okay, perhaps Cantonese is what is sold in most cheap restaurants here? I know Szechuan is fancier.

Jinx again.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Try it! It's really good.

Thai curries are fucking delicious.

JSBᾶngs

canton = hong kong, and given the early prominence of hong kong in contact with the west, "chinese food" as it came to be known in the west is mostly cantonese

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs Uh, no.

Canton = Guangzhou.

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus oh. huh. i guess i was completely wrong about that.

Cerberus

You Americans and Honkong! Kit thought it was Hainan.

In any case, it is the same general area.

JSBᾶngs

1:43 PM

i knew that Canton was something other than Canton in modern naming, but i had it mixed up

Cerberus

Huh?

What do you mean?

I know only Chinese Canton and Swiss cantons.

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus > Guangzhou (Chinese: 广州; Mandarin pronunciation: [ku̯ɑ̀ŋʈʂɤ́ʊ̯]), known historically as Canton or Kwangchow

Cerberus

Oh, I see.

Well, it is still Canton.

Just like Peking, Bombay, Calcutta, etc.

Matt Эллен

New Amsterdam

JSBᾶngs

but we agree that @MrShinyandNew really needs to try some thai food

Cerberus

1:45 PM

@MattЭллен Now that's different.

JSBᾶngs

@MrShinyandNew where do you live? are there any good thai restaurants nearby?

Matt Эллен

:D

Cerberus

But London is still Londen in Dutch, and Den Haag is still The Hague in English.

I'm sure there are plenty of Thai restaurants in Toronto.

And Mr is very much into things Asian, I heard...

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus oh, yeah, toronto has everything

@Cerberus what do you mean by that?

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs I believe he and nearly all of his co-workers married Asians.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:47 PM

@JSBᾶngs The problem is that I'm allergic to peanuts and I understand that those are very common in Thai food

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Peanuts? Hmm I have never noticed any; in the curry paste, perhaps?

JSBᾶngs

@MrShinyandNew安宇 just get the non-peanut dishes. there are plenty of them.

Cerberus

Certainly no whole peanuts.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBᾶngs Sure, the non-peanut-non-peanut-contaminated ones

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus peanut sauce is very common in thai dishes

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:48 PM

@Cerberus my brother too

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs Hm OK, never noticed that.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Good score.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus and most of my local friends

Cerberus

Funny.

JSBᾶngs

@MrShinyandNew安宇 you all married asians en-masse? was there a group ceremony?

Cerberus

There must be some explanation.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:49 PM

@JSBᾶngs no, it just sorta happened.

JSBᾶngs

@MrShinyandNew安宇 you want phad see lo or phad khee mao. (spelling may vary)

Cerberus

Something about the industry you all work in?

@JSBᾶngs drools even seeing those unfamiliar-but-Thai-looking names

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus part of the explanation is that some of my local friends are actually the husbands of my wife's friends and they were a group a chinese girls that hung out together in school. So, it's somewhat of a tautology that they are all in relationships where the woman is asian.

Cerberus

Yes, I see.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Another part of the explanation is that some of my friends are Chinese so it's natural that they seek out Chinese wives.

Cerberus

1:51 PM

But your brother? And your co-workers?

I can't imagine what it would be like to be living with Asians all day.

Is it very different, socially and culturally?

Or not at all?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

But here at my workplace every single person on the development team has studied Chinese, Korean, or Japanese, and the four married guys are married to asian women and only one of us is Chinese already

Cerberus

Have they/you been assimilated?

@MrShinyandNew安宇 So why have they all studies Asian languages? Work related?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus no, just personal reasons

Cerberus

Then the coincidence is that they all ended up working there?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus probably, yes

Cerberus

1:53 PM

Or does everybody study Asian languages in T'to?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus it seems that way sometimes

JSBᾶngs

my favorite thai dish

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

At least 4 families that I know of at my daughter's daycare are mixed-race families (I mean, mixed caucasian-asian) and probably another half-dozen at my son's daycare

JSBᾶngs

@MrShinyandNew安宇 so you're the ones creating all those stereotypes about white nerds liking asian girls ;)

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Huh, at daycare too!? Could it be something about your neighbourhood?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:55 PM

ironically my Chinese classes have traditionally been heavily filled with Chinese students who want to learn their "native" language

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs Ahh I think I know that dish. I like!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBᾶngs Well, I'm certainly not helping things. But my brother is hardly a nerd, he works in construction.

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Huh? Chinese students, as in students from China?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Could be, except not all the kids at daycare live near here, some are from far away but their parents work here.

@Cerberus students who are ethnically Chinese

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 So second-generation immigrants or something?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:56 PM

My neighbourhood IS near a small Koreatown, but most of the mixed people I know are Chinese not Korean (though I do know some).

@Cerberus Yeah, or first-generation-but-came-here-when-very-small.

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 So is it that a great many people working in the offices nearby are somehow Asians? I'm trying to solve this demographic puzzle.

Hmmm....

wobbles heads

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus well, demographically, there are quite a lot of East asian and south asians in toronto

Although I noticed this phenomenon a lot when I was in Vancouver

Plus I'm sure that I am under a quite large confirmation bias. After all, non-mixed-couples are certainly not noteworthy.

But I know SO MANY mixed couples.... I see so many kids with just one parent and I think "That kid is mixed, where's his/her mom/dad so I can confirm..."

JSBᾶngs

you know, @MrShinyandNew, I always thought your kids looked half-asian, but i never commented on it

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

One day my friend was in a drug store and every single other couple there was a mixed white guy/asian girl

JSBᾶngs

@MrShinyandNew安宇 lol

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:01 PM

@JSBᾶngs I guess you missed the conversation back when I added the 安宇 to my name :)

@JSBᾶngs (also he is married to an American/Chinese girl) (actually she's the illustrator of my book)

JSBᾶngs

@MrShinyandNew安宇 what does that mean anyway?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBᾶngs They are part of my kids Chinese names

daughter = 正安 son = 正宇

The 正 part is their generation's character from the family motto

JSBᾶngs

@MrShinyandNew安宇 i see that character as a-circumflex

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

The family motto is quite long, and not even my mother-in-law knows what it means because it's written in Classical Chinese

@JSBᾶngs really!!?! What browser/OS are you using? Sounds like you have the wrong character encoding, maybe?

JSBᾶngs

unicode, baby. this is chrome on Win7

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:04 PM

@JSBᾶngs very very odd

Matt Эллен

I see 正, in Win XP, FF 8. That is, it looks like a person stood next to a flat tree

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus btw, i made mozarella cheese at home earlier this week for the first time

@MattЭллен that's another a-circumflex

ok, my OS locale is set to ro, so that could be the reason

Matt Эллен

maybe

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

unicode.org/cgi-bin/refglyph?24-6B63

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs Wow!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:05 PM

unicode.org/cgi-bin/…

Cerberus

@MattЭллен I see it too.

Matt Эллен

We see the tree!

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus also a whey ricotta. they both turned out delicious. i was amazed.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 it looks fine on that page

Cerberus

Better than store-bought?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBᾶngs It's odd though, why would your browser not show the page using unicode

Cerberus

2:06 PM

I used to have that problem too.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Also when ping me and it fills my name in, do you see the two characters there?

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus way better. store-bought mozarella here is tasteless. even the relatively high-grade stuff

Cerberus

Until I installed this:

Code2000

{{Infobox font | name=Code2000 | familyname= | image= | style= | classifications= | creator=James Kass | commissioned_by= | foundry= | foundries= | creationdate= | releasedate=2008, v1.171 RTM | trademark= | based_on= | aka= | variations= | sample= | shown_here= | sample_fullimage= }} Code2000 is a pan-Unicode digital font, which includes characters and symbols from a very large range of writing systems. As of the current final version 1.171 released in 2008, Code2000 is designed and implemented by James Kass to include as much of the Unicode 5.2 standard as practical (whereas 6.0 is the...

JSBᾶngs

@MrShinyandNew安宇 that actually works now

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs Hmm OK. And the ricotta too?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:08 PM

Is it possible that you've got the wrong encoding for this page?

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus it's hard to buy ricotta here. mine turned out a lot dryer and firmer than most ricottas, almost like a cream cheese, but it had a wonderful flavor.

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I have auto-detect encoding off, and UTF-8 enabled.

@JSBᾶngs OK, interesting! And was it a lot of work?

Matt Эллен

Ultimate Text Force 8

JSBᾶngs

@MrShinyandNew安宇 encoding is utf-8. i have no idea.

Matt Эллен

it's a new superhero comic for proof readers

JSBᾶngs

2:09 PM

@Cerberus it took about 1.5 hrs, and i got a pound of mozarella and a half-pound of ricotta

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs 1.5 hours both together?

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus yep. pretty quick.

Cerberus

And I presume you had to wait for a few days after that? I have no idea how those cheeses are made.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBᾶngs on the unihan page, or on chinese.stackexchange.com, do you see chinese characters?

Cerberus

Still a nice produce:time ratio.

JSBᾶngs

2:11 PM

@Cerberus no. mozarella is a fresh cheese, which means that it isn't aged. it's actually best the day that you make it

@MrShinyandNew安宇 yes, yes. and i can see the characters in your name, and the second character in your children's names. it's just that one character which shows up weird.

it's probably not worth bothering with now

Cerberus

Or just install Code2000.

Mitch

2:43 PM

random gripe...what is it with english.stackexchange.com/users/14191/larry-morries and the bursts of marginal questions?

for example: english.stackexchange.com/questions/52568/…

and english.stackexchange.com/questions/52569/meaning-of-whoa

JSBᾶngs

@Mitch it happens. vote to close.

Matt Эллен

Aye

he's a serial poor to middling question asker

Kitḫ

3:09 PM

Ohai!

Matt Эллен

Ohayou gozaimasu!

Kitḫ

I came to tell a story.

Then I'm off.

Anyone want to hear a funny kid story?

Matt Эллен

sits ready to listen

JSBᾶngs

@Kitḫ yes plz

Kitḫ

So a friend of mine has two kids.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

3:14 PM

Very funny.

Kitḫ

The youngest, we'll call him Alex, is in Kindergarten.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Oh sorry. It ain't over yet.

Kitḫ

Alex's daddy gets a call from school to come pick up his son.

Alex is getting kicked out of kindergarten for fighting.

Matt Эллен

!!

JSBᾶngs

good for Alex. i hope he punched that kid hard.

he had it coming, the punk.

Kitḫ

3:15 PM

The teacher is apologetic. She says, "Just so you know, Alex didn't start it, but our policy is to send both kids home."

On the ride home, Alex says "Daddy, I need to tell you something about the fight I had with Jake."

"I did what I was supposed to do, Daddy. He pushed me and I said 'Jake, please stop pushing me.'"

"I said please, Daddy. I really did."

"He wouldn't stop pushing me."

"I said 'Please stop pushing me, Jake.'"

"But he wouldn't stop."

"So I punched his fucking lights out."

5

Matt Эллен

LAWL

Kitḫ

I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard at that one.

JSBᾶngs

awesome

Kitḫ

I love the "I said please, Daddy."

Matt Эллен

indeed :D

Mahnax

3:19 PM

That is great!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Kitḫ Tell me this is a true story and not embellished

Kitḫ

@MrShinyandNew安宇 This is a true story.

Mahnax

@MrShiny I have a French question, do you think you can help?

Kitḫ

Except the names have been changed.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Kitḫ awesome

@Mahnax maybe

Kitḫ

3:22 PM

I should say likely true; it is as related by his daddy.

Mahnax

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Well, have you ever heard the outdated insult "tête-carrés"?

Kitḫ

Blockheads?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Mahnax my mom uses that to refer to the "english"

Kitḫ

That's pretty outdated in English too.

Mahnax

@Kitḫ Squarehead, aka nerd.

FallenAngelEyes

3:23 PM

@Kitḫ I think my parents would've grounded me forever for using that language

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@FallenAngelEyes I would have said, "Alex, honey, we don't say "fucking" in this house"

Mahnax

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Okay. Would you say you have a square head or you are a square head?

Kitḫ

@FallenAngelEyes I probably would have ignored it. But it would have been hard to discipline when laughing really hard.

FallenAngelEyes

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Haha, yeeeeah. Also, neat, your snowman is blue.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Mahnax Either probably works, my mom uses it (jokingly, I guess) thus: "les anglais ont les tetes carres"

Kitḫ

3:24 PM

OK. I have to go. Later, folks!

Mahnax

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Ah, okay.

@Kitḫ Bye!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@FallenAngelEyes different from other snowmen?

Matt Эллен

cya @Kit! merry yuletide

Mahnax

@MrShinyandNew安宇 In one of the other rooms it's red.

Sandbox, that is.

FallenAngelEyes

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Our highlight color in The Bridge is orange, so it's orange there.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:26 PM

@Mahnax But in French, as far as I know, you can call someone by a defining attribute if you want to emphasize that that is the essence of what they are.

@FallenAngelEyes hm.... is the Snowman a CSS snowman then?

someone ping me, I've got Firebug open

FallenAngelEyes

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Maybe? Ask @balpha!

@MrShinyandNew安宇 ping ping

Mahnax

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Ping again.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Ah, okay. That makes sense.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Yeah so it's a CSS snowman

Matt Эллен

clever! So user script could be written to turn it into something else...

Mahnax

@MattЭллен Ooh, devious.

Matt Эллен

3:32 PM

Well, I'd have to figure out user scripts first :D

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

jsfiddle.net/43kGh

Mahnax

We should turn it into a giant letter 𝒳

@MrShinyandNew安宇 OOH.

Matt Эллен

barf you can set content from css? But the whole separation thing?!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен well, it's supposed to be presentation content

Mahnax

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I made him green, with a black hat, and black letters.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:37 PM

like adding quote marks, or something

I mean, you can add image content, right? so why not text content

Matt Эллен

I suppose

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Mahnax You have to click "save" or "fork" to get a link to your fiddle

Mahnax

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Ah.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен like just about every part of HTML/CSS, it can be used for good or ill

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@MattЭллен It's really useful for adding colons to all entries in the first column of a table, say.

Or ellipses to cut-off stuff.

Mahnax

3:39 PM

jsfiddle.net/DQPaE

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

It's like a Ring of Power. You can do great things with it but it will turn you into a wraith

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Or " (Russian)" to all links that lead to sites that are in Russian.

Stuff like that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightѬſ道 may as well just delete those links, nobody would click on them anyway

Matt Эллен

Yes, I can see that as a matter of style you might want to do something that changes the content. Still feels a little weird

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Well, no true Russian would link to them from an English-speaking site. The first rule of Fight Club and all.

The Russian part of the Internet is self-containing.

It even has its own name, Runet.

Matt Эллен

3:41 PM

so, not some much inter then

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Exactly.

Matt Эллен

unless that's now short for internal

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Nobody uses Google there. And everybody uses ICQ.

Matt Эллен

:D

RegDwight Ѭſ道

It's a world of its own.

Mahnax

3:42 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Can... can you take me there?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Learn Russian.

Mahnax

вью

RegDwight Ѭſ道

That makes just as much sense as its English equivalent DM:

Mahnax

Пуц куцал ацт.

JSBᾶngs

hey, @Reg, you never told me whether you've been to vladivostok

RegDwight Ѭſ道

3:44 PM

Well, you never told me whether you've been to Castrop-Rauxel, either.

JSBᾶngs

(it is, of course, way on the other side of the continent from you)

Mahnax

@RegDwightѬſ道 I'm just button mashing with my keyboard set to Russian layout.

JSBᾶngs

@RegDwightѬſ道 but you never asked me whether i've been to Castrop-Rauxel

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Mahnax No, really?

@JSBᾶngs And you never asked me whether I've been to Vladivostok.

JSBᾶngs

@RegDwightѬſ道 i pinged you yesterday with that question. you must have missed it.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

3:45 PM

Oh? Then I apologize.

Mahnax

@RegDwightѬſ道 I lied. I tried to make it look like words, so I spaced them and made the first letter uppercase. It was careful button mashing.

JSBᾶngs

@RegDwightѬſ道 np.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBᾶngs HAVE you been to Castrop-Rauxel? Because now I'm curious

JSBᾶngs

Пуц ("putz") is plausibly a real Russian word

@MrShinyandNew安宇 i've never even HEARD of Castrop-Rauxel

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JSBᾶngs and куцал is plausibly a real Russian verb in past tense.

In fact that's a valid sentence right there.

JSBᾶngs

3:47 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 true

but ацт does not look much like a real word

Mahnax

Bah. Just about, then.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JSBᾶngs Works for me.

Also, it could be an acronym.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBᾶngs now you know where to go for your next vacation

JSBᾶngs

@Mahnax i know only epsilon russian. i'm only guessing here based on a general knowledge of russian phonotactics.

@RegDwightѬſ道 it's not forbidden by Russian phonology, but really how many words end in -tsC?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Seven. No wait, eight.

Mahnax

3:49 PM

@JSBᾶngs Hm. I don't know any Russian. Except Pushka, as it is my friend's cat's name.

13 hours ago, by JSBᾶngs

so random question: has anyone here ever been to Vladivostok? maybe @Reg or @Jasper?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I am pretty sure we had a user from Vladivostok.

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