English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

11:49 AM

Capua

Capua is a city and comune in the province of Caserta, Campania, southern Italy, situated 25 km (16 mi) north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain. Ancient Capua was situated where Santa Maria Capua Vetere is now. The modern town of Capua was founded after the ancient one had been destroyed by the Saracens in 841 AD. History Ancient era The name of Capua comes from the Etruscan Capeva. The meaning is 'City of Marshes'. Its foundation is attributed by Cato the Elder to the Etruscans, and the date given as about 260 years before it was "taken" by Rome. If thi...

@Kiam: Right, he gets a red bubble: but what if several accounts are matched, as in Robusto's case?

Does it remember who was / often comes to/in chat?

@Cerberus That's amazing. Do you have affairs with the 'Ndrangheta? ;-)

@Cerberus I am not sure the chat can make a difference.

@Kiam: You Italians have been foisting your culture upon world history so incessantly that we know ALL about your cities, people, etc.

The chat cannot know to which Robusto you are referring. Probably it checks who used the chat, but I am not sure.

I've been to most culturally interesting cities n the country I think...

11:53 AM

That is something about Italian that I didn't know.

Except not Capua.

Did we do that?

Yes.

Your endless stream of great people and architectural trends...

Why am I the last person to know it?

Oh, architectural... Palladio!

Read any history book! For every Italian city, there is something terribly important that happened there and that every kid is taught in school.

11:54 AM

I always wondered why they speak so much of Italy.

It used to be what France was after it.

The cultural center of the world.

@Cerberus That is amazing. I didn't know Italy was cited so much on history. Well, I know it is cited in history they teach here, but I didn't know it was so in foreign countries too.

And financial, though that didn't apply to France.

Financial?

FCOL!

Wha?

11:56 AM

For crying out loud!

Oh.

Well you were.

I am sorry, frequenting an American person influenced my English espressions.

Italy had the highest income per capita of the world, and the most developed financial system.

Wheew! You said "had."

The Low Countries soon took over, but even then I think we were about equally rich.

Indeed, I said "had".

And we were much smaller anyway.

11:59 AM

Don't say "have," or Berlusconi will hear you.

Hah.

@Cerberus — Dinna duet = I didn't do it.

@Cerberus What do you mean with "we"?

@Rob: I got that.... I was just wondering what that spelling was typical of (if anything?).

The Dutch are supposedly the tallest people in the world, on average.

12:00 PM

Yeah.

Tallest? I am 6' 2".

Men are about 1.83 meters on average or something.

How much is that in meters?

It's 1.90.

I am sorry; I am used to say my height in feet.

Oh. It says I am 1.90 as well in my passport, though I think I might be a few centimeters less.

Well, I am taller than the Dutch average, though not by much.

12:01 PM

How tall?

@Cerberus You lied!

1.86.

1.845 m

@Kiam: Nah the guy who gave me the passport said "I'll just write something down" when I didn't know.

That is a good height.

Aww poor Rob... shorty!

@Kiam: What, 1.86?

12:03 PM

@Cerberus Then he was a lier! Suit him for... well, for... declaring the false on an official document!

@Cerberus I was guessing @Robusto were 1.86 meters tall.

Oops I was wrong: looks like Rob is shorter after all: we are 1.848 on average.

Is there any programming language that uses exlamation points, except Ruby? I don't want they say I am writing in a different programming language.

@Kiam: Hey, nobody says it is false... in fact nobody really knows.

If I use parentheses, I am writing in LISP.

No idea.

12:05 PM

@Cerberus At least a person knows it.

I don't.

Therefore, it still a false declaration!

I don't know how tall I am.

@Cerberus God knows all!

But She isn't looking.

12:06 PM

She?

I guess you are looking between the legs of the wrong Person.

Yes, I hope you are not a sexist person?

God can be a girl.

@Cerberus I am not, but I hope no woman has a beard.

She doesn't, if she keeps up with her shaving.

We are a level up to "the angels' sex."

Eh.

Your words, not mine!

But I gotta go.

12:08 PM

You know, once it was "talking of angels' sex."

She disapproves!

Bye!

poof

Now we went to "talking of God's sex."

Buh bye!

@kiamlaluno — C-syntax languages use ! as the not operator, as in != or !== or !var

Javascript:
var bol = (myVar == 0);
if (!bol) {
// if myVar != 0
}

12:35 PM

@Robusto I was thinking more of a programming language that uses the exclamation point at the end of a statement.

Ruby allows object.method!.

I guess some DA users would benefit from using EL&U as well. I don't mean they should ask questions on EL&U; they would flood the site with low-level questions.

I should suggest them "Learn to speak how @Robusto does."

Damn! Now I have to say to which @Robusto I am referring.

(Never write when you drank wine, and you are not used to it.)

Oh well, at least I have an excuse, today.

How long can I use the same excuse?

It seems the wine is really making effect; they say the first effect is that you start to be more talkative.

I am glad the chat doesn't give more details, basing on the number of consecutive posts made by a user. At this time, it would have reported where I live, where I go food shopping, etc.

APL uses ! in some way, I think. Matrix multiplication or something, idk.

F-Script (programming language)

12:56 PM

I don't know APL, but F-Script array processing is taken from APL.

F-Script is an object-oriented scripting programming language developed by Philippe Mougin. In a phrase, F-Script is Smalltalk with support for array programming. Overview F-Script is based on a pure object paradigm (every entity manipulated within the language is an object), its base syntax and concepts being identical to those of Smalltalk (the canonical example of the category) with specific extensions to support array programming as in the APL programming language. F-Script provides an interpreted, interactive environment with support for workspaces, which provide a rich set of func...

I think there is another programming language with a similar name.

fscript.sourceforge.net

I would not know, if I would add F-Script or MacRuby support, in an application. F-Script seems to be used in Bento.

I wonder why people confuse a way with anyway.

It doesn't seem the words are pronounced in the same way.