English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Kitḫ

18:00

Also fined by the FTC.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yeah, that's the one. I guess we don't see those ads much in Canada.

still, identity-theft is so tricky, I think for most people the simplest thing to do is to get insurance.

Ever since I discovered the joy of eating chips with chopsticks, my fingers have been a lot cleaner.

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 No! don't make the unicorns go away!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен Listen! I have a Right-to-Ride, you know!

ok, did some TV show just end, and now all the Europeans are going to enter the chat?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

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A: Part of speech for "please" followed by a verb

I've had difficulties in my attempts to post a new thread on your site - being of a certain age, like. (And I'm not sure why this addition to my original posting seems to pre-date it!) (Ah - now it doesn't!) Please feel free to cut-and-paste from the bullet point to the final ellipsis, cutting o...

Lovely answer.

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 nah, I just caught up with chat, plus the workday is over, here

Kitḫ

18:07

@RegDwightѬſ道 I can't believe Mitch is giving him a hard time when he has made it quite clear that he is confused about how to make the dagnabbit thing work.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен gotcha. It's just that Reg came in right after you.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Also, why is everybody jumping on this question with suggestions rather than dismissing the premise altogether?

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Q: What's a real word for "Equippable"?

Equippable, while not a really a word, seems to be accepted by the gaming community as a term for this can be equipped. Is there a more appropriate word, which is real, singular, and essentially means the same? e.g. I may pick the item up and carry it. However, whether I may put it in my hand ...

Three answers so far. None of them so much as mentions that equippable is indeed a fine word.

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 he follows me everywhere. I'm like Bo Peep for owls, or something

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Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightѬſ道 you misspelled cromulent

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Ah wait, Rimmer does now.

Cerberus

18:17

@RegDwightѬſ道 You're absolutely right: most euphemisms and wordiness are meaningless.

Matt Эллен

anyone who can listen to the BBC iPlayer should listen to episode 5 of series 8 of the Unbelievable Truth. it is hilarious

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Hey @JSB, is this syllepsis yet?

1

Q: I am "adjective" and I am "present continuous" in one sentence

Do I need to use "I am" twice in one sentence, or it is enough to use it only in the beginning? Where does this rule come from? Thanks. My example: I am fluent in three languages and I am pursuing the XXX designation. OR I am fluent in three languages and pursuing the XXX designation.

conjunctions compound-sentences

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Anyone can if he just downloads Tunnelbear!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Cuz I had a question on syllepsis elsewhere, with a great answer by nohat.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus cheeky ;-)

Cerberus

18:21

@RegDwightѬſ道 Yes.

JSBᾶngs

@RegDwightѬſ道 i dunno. what's a syllepsis?

Cerberus

Syllepsis or zeugma.

@RegDwightѬſ道 I remember you linked me to Nohat's answer when I was a puppy here.

Kitḫ

Anyone want some coffee?

Mahnax

Hey @Matt, I got Fanatic.

Matt Эллен

@Mahnax yeah, yeah. rub it in, why doncha? ;) Congrats. It's a tough badge to get.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

18:23

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Q: Ellipsis that results in one word serving as both subject and object

Quoting from Jeff Atwood's blog: [I expanded the team] by adding Kevin, who I didn't know, but had built amazing stuff for us without even being asked to, from Texas. And again by adding Robert, in Florida, who I also didn't know, but spent so much time on every single part of our si...

grammaticality pronouns writing-style ellipsis

Mahnax

@MattЭллен Thanky. And to think that you were so close, too....

RegDwight Ѭſ道

"Coordination of unlike constituents is known as syllepsis, and happens when the coordinated constituents are not parallel in meaning or in grammar."

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

wondermark.com/791

Cerberus

@Kitḫ commits huge faux pas I'll have tea, please.

Kitḫ

@RegDwightѬſ道 Really? I would expect that such things were perfectly acceptable from someone who got in the 99% percentile on their English GMATs.

@Cerberus I'll see what I can do...

user19161

18:25

@Mahnax Good good.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Anyhoo, you will have to sort it out yourselves, I gotta run. Laters.

Mahnax

@WillHunting Yep.

Cerberus

Mahnax

Hmm, I have laundry to do.

user19161

@MattЭллен It's quite easy actually, but not really necessary.

Matt Эллен

18:27

cya @RegDwight

Cerberus

@Kitḫ You mean this guy?

user19161

@Cerberus Nice photo.

Cerberus

Thanks!

user19161

@Cerberus No, he should thank me, not you!

Cerberus

Then why did you say it to me?

Mahnax

18:28

Hahaha.

Ah well, I guess I should do laundry. I'll be back later, bye!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus why do you keep posting that

Kitḫ

There was hardly any half-and-half left. I felt so guilty, I put the empty container back in the fridge.

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Because he was mentioned.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus ... so?

Kitḫ

He looks like my brother.

Cerberus

18:30

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Well...

Hmm would you say your brother and you share facial characteristics?

Kitḫ

Wow. I just found a YouTube video of my brother giving testimony. He looks so professional.

user19161

@Kitḫ In church or in court?

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 By the way, you will be proud of me: I only have 25 tray icons yet in my new XP installation!

Kitḫ

@WillHunting In a legislative committee meeting.

Cerberus

@Kitḫ Oh too bad you can't link it, hehe.

Is he a lawyer too?

user19161

18:33

My friend just had a baptism. He needed to give his testimony in church.

Kitḫ

Robusto

@Cerberus Give it time. You'll be back to your full glory before you know it.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus I have 9. and 4 are hidden.

Cerberus

@Kitḫ Uhhh your brother looks way different.

Kitḫ

@Cerberus No, but if I tell you what he does, you would be able to find out his name easily.

@Cerberus Only because he's not wearing his glasses, is tanned, and is wearing a suit.

Cerberus

18:34

@Robusto Gee thanks for the encouragement. But my context menus are still fairly short. They still fit on one screen.

Robusto

Gotta reboot.

Kitḫ

Also, did not score in the 99th percentile on his English GMATs.

Cerberus

@Kitḫ And probably lost a few pounds?

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ oh, Is he president of the USA?

Kitḫ

@Cerberus Yeah, about 50 or so.

Matt Эллен

18:35

that's an easy one :F

user19161

@Kitḫ At least the hair is of the same colour.

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен No, but close.

Cerberus

@Kitḫ Ahah!

@MattЭллен So you were going to tell us what was so good about the Unbelievable Truth.

Kitḫ

Wait, I'll find a better pic.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Kitḫ Why do you keep bringing that up

Cerberus

18:37

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I'm still considering hiding a few. But I also like to be able to see which programs are running.

Kitḫ

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Because it's funny.

user19161

@mrs Happy CNY! Hope you like my presents!

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Ah, if you didn't know: over overlord Jeff, see above, told us this factoid about himself.

Oh, and I'm also going to consolidate several of my AHK scripts into one.

Currently I have 7, which could theoretically be reduced to 3.

Kitḫ

Yeah? What do you think?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus Oh, well it's a radio quiz where all the contestants (4) are comedians and they have to give a short lecture (in turn) on a topic - the lecture must be all lies apart from 5 truths and the rest have guess the lies. This particular episode was just generally hilarious. The talk about Romans had me in stiches

Cerberus

18:39

@Kitḫ Oh, cool! Still quite different from J.

@MattЭллен Oh, Romans! Yay!

user19161

@Cerberus You mean JA?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

You know, @Kit, you might want to remove that other pic of your brother, if that's him, because it's relatively easy to find where it came from.

Cerberus

@WillHunting Yes. The guy on the photo I posted.

Kitḫ

Oh right. Photo tracing.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus apparently the Romans don't have a word for interesting, as in curious as opposed to important

Kitḫ

18:41

Hey @Reg, do mind deleting the picture of my brother for me?

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Hmm can you use it in a sentence?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

For example, I now know your brother's wife's name and his kid's name.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus That bird's plumage is interesting

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Eww creep!!

Kitḫ

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Then you can watch his YouTube video!

I assume you know his name as well?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:42

@Cerberus Well, I wanted to know how hard it would be to find it out based on the image.

@Kitḫ yeah

should I watch his video?

Kitḫ

I thought about it briefly when I used a public image.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I already closed the tab and forgot everything I read

Kitḫ

I didn't realize how easy it would be.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yeah I was a bit surprised too

Kitḫ

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Sure, if you want. It's pretty boring.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:43

It makes me rethink my whole online life.

Kitḫ

That's him in the striped shirt.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I knew it!

Matt Эллен

so... you know Ernie?

Kitḫ

Here's when he was crowned Miss America.

Also...

Matt Эллен

so pretty!

Kitḫ

18:45

Olaf.

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 If only we can selectively forget whatever we want.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен You could use oblectans or delectans if you want a word that literally has "interesting" as in a dictionary. Or you could say "this bird stimulates my interest" etc.

user19161

@Cerberus The last sentence sounds wrong.

Cerberus

...

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus Oh! I thought you'd have something to say on the matter :) The researchers need to brush up on their skills.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:52

@WillHunting I selectively forgot what I read.

Kitḫ

Bloody hell. How do I capture a click event on the column header in a listview? Tell me! shakes Microsoft by lapels

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Or, more accurately, selectively made no attempt to remember.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен That, and they make the same categorical mistake as all those single-word requesters here.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus how do mean?

@MrShinyandNew安宇 which on is @MetaEd?

Kitḫ

18:53

Aww. Minifig-Me wants to have a threeway with minifig Aragorn and minifig Legolas.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Kitḫ using jquery: $('th').click(function() { /* your click handling here */ });

(where 'th' is a string containing a CSS selector that finds the DOM element in question)

Kitḫ

scowls

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Well, whether something is said in a single adjective, a single other word, or several other words is ehmm not very relevant to anything.

Oh God, it's the hobbits!

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I see what you mean

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Kitḫ if you don't have jquery, you can always traverse the DOM trying to find the elements in question, or, if they have IDs, you can do document.getElementById().

Cerberus

18:56

I presume the blue is Boromir?

user19161

0

Q: wavelength and frequency notion are they interchangeable?

Is the sentence "We dont have same wavelength" is equal to "We are not in same frequency notion"

phrases sentence

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus ah! He reminded me of Eddy Izzard. So I couldn't figure it out

user19161

At first I thought it was a physics question.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Main this is that saying "language x doesn't have a word for y" suggests that language x can't express y, or less easily so.

@MattЭллен Yeah I just counted to 9.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus Yes. It's like saying English didn't have a word for schadenfreude, well then how can we describe what it means?

Kitḫ

18:58

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Why can't I just use the onclick event handler?

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Exactly! So your whole culture must be more altruistic.

MetaEd

@MattЭллен I'm the one with the smirk, probably.

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ does the listview header have an onclick event handler?

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен The <th> element does, and it's part of the listview layout template.

Oh. duh. Oh, idiot. Duh.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus That's how it works - strong Sapir/Whorf hypothesis engaged!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

19:00

@Kitḫ well, you need some way of attaching the onclick event handler to the dom element. Can you do that right in ASP code? if so, that should be easy. Otherwise, you have to do it in HTML.

MetaEd

I thought Sapir/Whorf was Star Trek slash.

Matt Эллен

@MetaEd dirty, dirty, dirty. You should wash your mind out.

MetaEd

How do you do that.

Matt Эллен

@MetaEd it's how Vulcans control you mind

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Yes. He's also Eddard Stark.

Cerberus

19:01

@MattЭллен Yeah!

MetaEd

How fast do you type, matt?

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Who is that?

MetaEd

Or am I having petit mal seizures after I post?

Matt Эллен

sometimes slow, sometimes fast, sometimes there is lag

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus ... what? Who is Eddard Stark?!?!?!

Matt Эллен

19:02

so it looks like I've typed really fast, only you've just not seen the update because lag hates you

Cerberus

I know nothing about films, pop music, or sports. You know that.

And it's not even just snobbery: we never had cable television.

Matt Эллен

Oh! Sean Bean is Eddard Stark

I had to look it up too

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus So, Eddard Stark is a main character in a book called "A Game of Thrones" which is also a popular TV series now.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Who?

user19161

@MattЭллен Often with wrist spiders interfering.

Cerberus

19:04

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Oh, ah. Haven't read/watched the series yet.

Though I've heard good things.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Do you like medieval fantasy?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus boromir!

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Possibly. The only thing I might dislike about the GoTh is that there are so many cliff hangers.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

It's basically medieval-european-history-inspired fantasy with a bit of magic. Very well written.

@Cerberus you mean, in the TV series? in the books?

Cerberus

I don't remember. Probably both?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

19:05

The biggest problem is that the series is incomplete.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Ah so the same guy plays both Boromir and Eddard?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

the first 3 books were really, really good. The next two were late, and not as good.

@Cerberus yes

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus aye

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Sean Bean

Cerberus

OK.

aedia λ

19:06

Phew, I've missed all the confusion, right?

All sorted and back to normal levels of incomprehensibility?

Cerberus

Hi!

Sure.

Matt Эллен

Sean Bean - famous as Sharpe in Sharpe, Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye, etc.

Kitḫ

punches computer

aedia λ

@Cerberus Hiya!

Matt Эллен

OW!

Kitḫ

19:08

Oh! Sorry, @Matt!

Matt Эллен

You have PoIP enabled ;)

Kitḫ

rofl

unchecks box

Matt Эллен

what's you're computer doing to upset you?

Kitḫ

I thought I had figured out why I couldn't get the click event, but no. It just wants to be bitchy.

Matt Эллен

boooo, stupid computer

Cerberus

19:11

I'm trying to enable Dutch spell check. Not working either.

Kitḫ

Microsoft can make it so that you have to always and forver un-doublespace email messages, but they can't figure out how to make getting click events simple.

Bunch of bitches.

Cerberus

They suck!

It is Microsoft that's refusing to cooperate with me too!

Office.

MetaEd

Microsoft is designed to make money.

Cerberus

No way.

MetaEd

For that it's pretty good (for Microsoft).

Cerberus

19:13

They are a charity.

MetaEd

Gotta hand it to them.

user19161

Use Debian instead.

Cerberus

Debian Office 2003 NL?

user19161

Libreoffice.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Matt Эллен

19:13

@Kitḫ I always get confused using ASP.NET, and other web frameworks for that matter.

MetaEd

I run my network services on Ubuntu LTS. But my desktop is a mix of Windows 7, Windows XP, and Cygwin/X.

Cerberus

@WillHunting I guess I will in fact use LO for spell checking, I was just going to test that on my laptop, where I have LO installed.

Kitḫ

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Brain hurts.

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Heh very bright.

MetaEd

No gravity on the moon. That reminds me of a close friend of mine. He said if you ask people if there's gravity on the moon, many, many people will say no. He said if you ask them what happens if you hold an object up in front of you on the moon and let go, a lot will say it will just stay there. Some will say it will fall to Earth.

Kitḫ

19:15

Yeah, but that's Texas.

user19161

@Cerberus You should only trust yourself and your dictionary for spellchecking.

MetaEd

Then if you ask them, how come the astronauts can walk around on the moon? They will answer, they are wearing very heavy boots.

Matt Эллен

it will, obviously, fall to Earth. Earth has gravity

Kitḫ

Hahahahaha

MetaEd

That's his Heavy Boots Theorem.

Cerberus

19:16

@MetaEd But who are those people? Infants?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus What is LO?

MetaEd

These are graduates of public school systems around the country.

Cerberus

@WillHunting Who's talking about trust?

@MattЭллен Libre Office.

user19161

@MetaEd Never heard of, but I won't be too surprised there is one.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MetaEd That's awesome

Matt Эллен

19:16

@Cerberus Ah, thanks :)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I am going to have to start asking people.

MetaEd

@WillHunting Referring to what?

Cerberus

@MetaEd They should be dropped in space a few thousand miles above the moon's surface.

Kitḫ

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Don't. It will just make you cry.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Kitḫ It will also make me feel smugly superior.

Cerberus

19:17

What's the moon's gravity acceleration?

MetaEd

@Cerberus Do you want to put a suit on them?

Isn't it about 1/6 Earth?

user19161

@MetaEd I just mean that there are all kinds of weird names for theorems, not that there really is one.

MetaEd

1/6 G?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus 1/6 that of earth

Cerberus

@MetaEd Sure why not. But it is a waste of money, since they're supposed to fall to their deaths.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 OK, so about 1.6.

MetaEd

19:18

@Cerberus But don't you want them to observe on the way down?

aedia λ

@Kitḫ Just listening to people by accident in a crowded area is enough to do that

Kitḫ

Thing is, I have no idea how to raise my child in a way that will allow him to be successful in society with people like that out there. I mean, lots of them and in important positions.

Cerberus

@MetaEd I was thinking it didn't matter as long as the earth was rid of them, but I suppose you're right! With some cameras this could be a new reality show.

MetaEd

162 cm/s² or 5.31 ft/s² apparently.

Kitḫ

"I'm sorry, honey, your teacher is wrong. Just tell her what she wants to hear, and pass the class."

Cerberus

19:19

@MetaEd Yay! I was very close.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Kitḫ sigh

Kitḫ

Now that I think about it, I hated school.

Cerberus

@Kitḫ Send your children to a different school if there's more than one such teacher there.

MetaEd

And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

user19161

I remember asking my math teacher about X times as many as and X times more than.

MetaEd

19:20

@WillHunting We get that a lot in the detergent business.

user19161

Well, teachers are humans and humans make mistakes.

Kitḫ

@MetaEd You're a whale! A flowerpot! A whale that turns into a flowerpot! Or the other way around!

Cerberus

@Kitḫ I had one or two stupid teachers too in elementary school. But it never held me back or influenced me in any way.

user19161

As long as the mistake density is low it is OK.

Kitḫ

@WillHunting And some humans are just stupid.

MetaEd

19:21

If this is diluted 10:1 does that mean one part concentrate to 10 parts diluent, or 10 parts use solution?

Cerberus

At what speed will a human fall to his death?

Kitḫ

@MetaEd The former.

Uh. Or maybe not.

user19161

@Kitḫ True, I know some PhDs like that. Nowadays there are many online PhDs you can get easily.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

sigh, I just noticed that the teacher wrote "their is no"

MetaEd

@Kitḫ Exactly. One needs to be clear about it.

Except when writing marketing material.

Kitḫ

19:22

That might just be a dropped e!

user19161

@metaed For examples of weird theorem names, there are Ham Sandwich Theorem and Hairy Ball Theorem.

Cerberus

Let's say 200 km/h, so about 60 m/s. That means they need to fall down for about 40 seconds on the moon to reach the appropriate speed.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Kitḫ which do you think is more likely?

MetaEd

It reads "their".

"Theirs" not really any question about it.

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ nay, the whale continues to be a whale, and then a dead whale - the other missile turns into a bowl of petunias, a reincarnation of someone Arthur Dent kills many times

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

19:24

I din't even knowtice it! know theirs too things rong with it!

MetaEd

I no. I'm like fingernails on a blackbored.

Cerberus

x = at^2, I think it was?

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ no probs :D

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен I couldn't remember. Thanks.

MetaEd

3

Q: What's the word for something that is sad and funny at the same time?

The title says it all. Looking for a single word that describes that.

single-word-requests

aedia λ

19:25

@MattЭллен I couldn't remember either! How do you recall these things?

MetaEd

Am I allowed to comment, "This question"?

Cerberus

So 1.5*160 = 240 meters above the surface of the moon.

Matt Эллен

@aediaλ just out of love, I think

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

aedia λ

I can barely recall the names of characters in books I adore.

Kitḫ

19:25

@aediaλ He's British. It's in their blood.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 weeps

Cerberus

@MrShinyandNew安宇 OMG

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Kitḫ reinforces sense of smug superiority

Cerberus

@aediaλ Same here!

aedia λ

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Oh no no no I am not looking not looking

Matt Эллен

@aediaλ I am mostly the same, but the Guide to me is practically a religious text

Cerberus

19:27

@MetaEd The big thing embraces you in darkness.

MetaEd

@Cerberus I like how you worked that all out.

What big thing?

Cerberus

@MetaEd Thanks! I'm a bit slow, and I'm not even sure I did it right.

@MetaEd Moon.

Matt Эллен

MetaEd

How many know why this D phase of the moon is called a quarter moon. That boggles a lot of people.

Cerberus

Dutch Spelling checker works fine in LO.

@MattЭллен Haha, very nice.

That is The Oatmeal style.

@MetaEd I didn't even know it was called that, but it makes sense.

MetaEd

19:31

It's the First Quarter. Reversed is the Third Quarter.

user19161

@Cerberus Is there only one kind of oatmeal or many kinds?

user19161

I have not had oatmeal for very long.

Cerberus

@MetaEd Reversed? Hmm so we don't always see the same half of the moon?

aedia λ

@MattЭллен Ah, but the radio version, or the tv version, or the books? I have a secret fondness for the radio version as I heard it before I even read the books...

user19161

I think I will go get some oatmeal.

MetaEd

19:31

Lunar phase

A lunar phase or phase of the moon is the appearance of the illuminated (lit) portion of the Moon as seen by an observer, usually on Earth. The lunar phases change cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing relative positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun. One half of the lunar surface is always illuminated by the Sun (except during lunar eclipses), and hence is bright, but the portion of the illuminated hemisphere that is visible to an observer can vary from about 100% (full moon) to 0% (new moon). The lunar terminator is the boundary between the illuminated and u...

By reversed I mean the shape is reversed. There is probably a glyph for that.

Cerberus

@WillHunting theoatmeal.com/comics/airplane_heard

Kitḫ

Funny, I never really thought about moon phases.

I guess I always assumed that quarter had to do with quarter of a month.

Matt Эллен

@aediaλ The books are what I was referring to. I love the radio show too, but I haven't heard it in years - we had it on cassette when I were a lad. I used to have the TV show on VHS, but it was my least favourite medium

Cerberus

@MetaEd Ah OK.

MetaEd

No reversed D in Unicode. Dang. What good is it.

Cerberus

19:33

In Dutch, it is called half moon, by the way.

Wait isn't it called that in English too?

MetaEd

A lot of people refer to it as a half moon by extension from full moon.

Cerberus

Yeah.

MetaEd

Growing up though I learned it as first and third quarter, and that was what was on calendars and almanacs. They taught my daughter that too.

That's how astronomers call it.

or first and last quarter.

Cerberus

We call the crescent of the moon found on Islamic flags a half moon too.

@MetaEd Good.

aedia λ

We had this.

As a child, I always thought that Arthur ought to have a face more like this dude, though I later realized it must be meant to be Ford and Arthur is just panicking in the background.

Matt Эллен

19:36

I don't think ours had a picture on it. The tape inserts made a rainbow in the right order though :)

@aediaλ Yeah, I made that mistake at a first glance :D

aedia λ

@MattЭллен Oh that's cool! I don't recall the tapes being particularly special in ours. The box was a very plasticky plastic, that would creak against itself in a high-pitched way, like ice cracking (when you tried to open or close it), but I don't recall anything else about it.

Matt Эллен

I'm not sure who I would choose to be from HHGTTH, either Zaphod or Ford.

aedia λ

I wanted to be Trillian except for in the ones with the Bug-Blatter Beasts of Trahl (forgive my spelling)

Matt Эллен

What happened then?

aedia λ

Well I think in the radio versions she just plain gets eaten and doesn't return

Matt Эллен

19:45

:O

aedia λ

That's the beast in the black black invisibly black ship right?

Matt Эллен

Oh. Not in the book, that I recall...

I'm not so good at remembering the radio show

aedia λ

I'm pretty sure that's just about the end of her in the radio one, because it's so much shorter, but the book has a much different path

I get them a bit muddled

MetaEd

The Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal? That's the one that you protect yourself from by pulling your towel over your head. It's so stupid that it thinks if you can't see it, it can't see you.

aedia λ

List of races and species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

This is a list of races, fauna, and flora (as well as creatures without category) featured in various incarnations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Races Aldebarans The popular anti-teleport song claims that "Aldebaran's great, OK", but the Aldebarans are better known for their liqueurs (sold at Milliways), and fine wines (as Trillian prepared for Zaphod after deactivating all the Heart of Gold kitchen synthomatics). Altairians Advanced species known for their intense hatred of rabbits. It will take less than thirty of their dollars a day for hitchhikers to see the universe; so ...

Matt Эллен

19:47

Yeah. I think the radio show has a humongous statue of Arthur dropping a cup of coffee, on a planet populate by bird people

but that's not in the book

aedia λ

Yes!

I love that.

MetaEd

Kitḫ

> Friday isn't going to work for me, I am in [another town] that day.

Matt Эллен

lol

Kitḫ

^ My project lead's response to a meeting request.

Matt Эллен

19:48

oh, is that anonymisation?

MetaEd

@aediaλ I edited that page.

Kitḫ

What a prick.

MetaEd

Turns out a lot of people can't spell Sqornshellous.

Imagine.

Matt Эллен

@aediaλ I think they evolved to fly because their shoes were all so terrible

aedia λ

@MetaEd Nerd :P

I mean, thank you.

MetaEd

19:50

lol

Matt Эллен

@Kitḫ How charming. Why don't I just rearrange my life for you?

Cerberus

@MetaEd Nooo it's coming towards me!

aedia λ

@MattЭллен Oh my gosh yes the shoe place. Was that the one with the Lyntillas and the crisis inducers?

Kitḫ

@MattЭллен At least suggest a different time.

Cerberus

@Kitḫ Exactly!

Or you could just decide without him...

Has anyone read Der Process? Dutch Wiki says Josef K. is innocent, but I wonder what they base that on.

Matt Эллен

19:51

@aediaλ ah, I don't remember, but could well be!

aedia λ

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series written by Douglas Adams was first broadcast in 1978 and was the first incarnation of his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy franchise. The terms Primary Phase and Secondary Phase describe the first two radio series of the tale, which total twelve episodes. The series followed the aimless wanderings of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and his book, the eponymous Guide. It introduced unfamiliar music, By the time the sixth episode was broadcast, the show had become a cult. A Christmas special would follow, many repeats and a second series. The two...

Wikipedia has an embarrassingly complete summary of the radio broadcasts

I didn't know

Kitḫ

headdesk I just want this stupid control to work.

thinks harder

aedia λ

Oh gosh I have to stop reading this. I should just get the recordings and listen again. Maybe that'll be my next thing after I finish introducing my husband to Asimov's Foundation series...

@Kitḫ proffers bbq chips

Kitḫ

@aediaλ thx

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