English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Kitḫ

4:00 PM

The civil engineer has taken her can opener and used it to bludgeon the can of beans until it broke open.

MaX

haha :D

The President's __________ behavior, in refusing to re-negotiate the terms of the deal led to the failure of the talks.

Kitḫ

The mathematician sits in the corner, rocking back and forth, staring at the unopened can of beans, whispering "assume the can is open, assume the can is open."

MaX

lol :D

Nice one Kith :-)

Kitḫ

@MaX insightful scornful ludicrous justified

user19161

Sociology is applied psychology. Psychology is applied biology. Biology is applied chemistry. Chemistry is applied physics. Physics is applied mathematics.

aedia λ

4:02 PM

@Kitḫ giggles

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Kitḫ It's a good one, I've heard it before though. Maybe you've heard this one?

MaX

Sshhhshhh, don't ever say that when a Physicist is around ;)

Matt Эллен

@MaX crackpot, blissfully ignorant, judicious, orange

Kitḫ

@aediaλ I get them from my brother. He's a mathematician, I'm an engineer. We both laugh about what huge geeks we are that we even get the jokes.

user19161

@Kitḫ The can can be open and closed at the same time. It will be a clopen set in topology.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

4:03 PM

A mathematician is being interviewed for a job as a firefighter. The chief says "What would you do with a dumpster that's on fire?" "Throw water on it". "Good, what would you do with a dumpster that's not on fire?" "Light it on fire" "Why would you do that!?" "Because then I've reduced the problem to one I've already solved."

Kitḫ

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Yes! One very similar actually.

Matt Эллен

lol

MaX

orange ??! @Matt

aedia λ

@MaX ridiculous, uncooperative, erratic, haughty, risky

Kitḫ

"Thus reduce the problem to the previous solution," I think was our catchphrase.

aedia λ

4:05 PM

orange was the best!

Matt Эллен

@MaX I'm not sure how you feel about the president's behaviour :D

user19161

Pink is more beautiful than orange.

user19161

But a banana is the best.

MaX

haha :D Orange is fruit right?

Kitḫ

@MaX What we are trying to say is that we have no idea how to fill in these blanks if we don't know what you want to convey.

Matt Эллен

4:05 PM

@MaX and a colour

user19161

@MaX I am just talking rubbish as usual.

Matt Эллен

so it's an adjective

MaX

haha, I get your point

user19161

@MaX A point is infinitesimally small and so does not exist.

Kitḫ

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Have you heard the one about the psychiatric patient who terrorized the other patients by shouting "I differentiate you!" at them?

MaX

4:07 PM

A point always exist but it has no dimension

Kitḫ

It has one dimension.

Matt Эллен

much like Twilight characters

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Kitḫ yes

MaX

Despite, his wealth, he was _____,___ all luxury.

Matt Эллен

or am I being too generous

MaX

4:08 PM

how about modest,shunning ?

or humble

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен lol. I don't know.

Modest if he didn't brag about his wealth, humble if he didn't use his wealth.

user19161

@MaX It exists only as an abstract concept, an element of Euclidean space, after the reals are constructed from the rationals via Dedekind cuts and we take the Cartesian product.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Did you hear that Heisenberg was pulled over for speeding? The officer asked him "Do you know how fast you were going?" and he replied "No, but I know precisely where I am."

Kitḫ

ROFL.

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