@Vitaly I don't know about Vasmer. I know Kluge and Duden for German.

@Jsb: Is that JSB junior?

@Cerberus you didn't see anything

i was typing into the wrong window

Typed your password in the wrong window again?

But I saw it. I don't where to use the information anyway.

I saw only ****** anyway.

Try it again.

@Cerberus what do you think about Jan de Vries's dictionary?

@Cerberus Hey! Stop stealing my password! Mine looks exactly like that.

Only it's longer. (Natch.)

@Vitaly Isn't that an etym. dictionary?

If I remember correctly, it was a bit succinct.

@Cerberus yes, Liberman puts it into the same bunch as Vasmer's etym. dictionary because it “reveals the extent of the authors’ knowledge of their subject”, which is what I like about Vasmer

@Robusto Copyright?

My apologies.

Just fork over the royalties and we cool.

@Vitaly So good?

@Cerberus just search encyclopedic in the book

@Cerberus will only search encyclopædic (or encyclopaedic).

Hello.

@Vitaly I have De Vries in my bookmarks, and it is a bit too succinct for my taste. For example, it never goes back to Proto-Indo-European for loan words. I usually use the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, which is about as good as the OED and about the same size, though the layout is less clear. De Vries is probably good quality, though it is hard to judge the scholarship without a thorough comparison. It is certainly nothing compared to Liberman, of course.

Hi.

How's everyone this evening?

@Robusto Correct.

@Mahnax Great.

It is still April 1 for you people.

Not for me.

I thought your country was near Mexico.

@Cerberus For you too, since you are still liable to suffer the stupidities of the April 1 joke bonanza.

Not the same, but, by all means, do your thing.

I will watch from the side line.

Whose country?

@Cerberus I don't do April 1st jokes. Why should that day be special?

@Gigili I was talking to you, silly.

@Robusto Why not?

You're too "mature"?

Oh, puh-lease.

@Cerberus Good.

@Cerberus No. Too immature. I'm saying every day is joke day.

And how did you not get that from my phrasing?

Ah, I see.

I interpreted it otherwise.

I can see that in pineapplese it might mean something quite different.

Since you called the jokes "stupidities".

Context, dear man.

I am not above self-mockery.

Nor above self-contradiction.

In fact, much of my humor is predicated upon it.

Thanks.

I knew you would agree.

@Cerberus I never contradict myself, if I can — wait, I do contradict myself — uh, not. Ish.

@Cerberus I flagged your message, that's why Waiwai is here.

@Robusto Hah. Now you can never claim to be saying anything that makes sense.

@Gigili That is like saying "I breathed air".

Anybody seen the cool 8-bits Streetview?

@Cerberus Ah yes, Google Maps 8-bit.

@Cerberus Me!

@Cerberus Now you're turning my metanoia into paranoia.

Cool.

@Mahnax Does this work?

Oh, that is cool.

@Robusto It's you what done it.

15/0? Nice.

@Cerberus I'd still flag your messages even if I couldn't breath air.

@Cerberus I'm level 15. The guy below me is level 30.

@Gigili Good luck trying that while breathing helium.

I finally found a deck that works reasonably well.

Good.

@Cerberus I said breathing nothing which is quite worse than what you said, silly.

Oh, just noticed I'm not making sense. I flagged you anyway.

It was just an example of not breathing air.

I see.

> Hey, I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I'm certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I've read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I've understood them. They're about girls, right?

Hey I've earned "bronze translator" badge. Juhuu.

********************.

Ha, I win.

************************************************************************************************************************

@WillHunting Nope.

I had to fold mine to get it in here.

@WillHunting and mine is 20.

Mine is 22 and I'm off to bed. Good night.

@WillHunting Good.

@Gigili Night!

Bay.

@Gigili A boomerang exit if I ever saw one.

I am glad Burma is going in the right direction.

Or it has started in the right direction.

Yay, @Vitaly got rid of his retarded spider gravatar and went back to the volvitur in rota "A" gravatar.

Yeah, that's good.

I like people to just keep the same picture always.

Change bad.

@Cerberus I think the fact that it is on the surface of the Earth means it has to go in the right direction. Otherwise there would be chaos.

@Cerberus frowns

There was chaos when the government was killing monks.

Oh my goodness.

@Mahnax What?

What is that supposed to mean?

As I read "Change bad," the song I'm listening to said "I've been afraid of changing."

@Cerberus Poorly constructed sentence.

See?

God exists.

sputters

@Mahnax My "what?"?

@Cerberus God exits.

@Cerberus No, your "Change bad."

@WillHunting Security.

@Mahnax Hm I think it is correct.

@Robusto Exists what?

@Cerberus Read those two words again.

@WillHunting I sha'nt.

@Cerberus Well unless it's this: [You] change bad.

@WillHunting was being silly

Better?

@WillHunting Hehe.

Oh, too late to edit now!

@Robusto Yeah I read them correctly, just typoed. So what does God exit?

@Mahnax No, it is change [is] bad.

@Cerberus I think it's wrong then.

@Cerberus My life, after I was about 12.

@WillHunting Yeah.

@Mahnax No no, it's good.

@Cerberus Ah, whatever.

@Robusto Ah. Your parents are/were religious?

@WillHunting I know.

@Cerberus I was forced to go to Catholic school.

@Mahnax I won!!! By war of attrition, i.e. boredom.

@Robusto Oh, dear. Why?

I think you mentioned that before.

@Cerberus Congrats, you beat a sleep-deprived, bored, tired, 15-year-old.

@Cerberus Because my parents thought it would be good for me.

> What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?

@WillHunting Don't add me, I shan't accept.

Anyway, I'm out. Laters.

My parents patrol my Facebook, if I become friends with anyone they don't know of, they get all frumpy.

Bye @Robusto!

@Mahnax Hide your friends from them.

@TimothyMuellerHarder No.

I see no need.

@Robusto Bye!

@TimothyMuellerHarder Your last EL&U question was a bit controversial.

@Cerberus chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/95/conversation/… Thanks. :)

@Mahnax Yes, I saw!

(See above link.)

@TimothyMuellerHarder Ouch.

@Mahnax I think that's the heatedest I've ever been argued about behind my back!

@Mahnax My boredom is almighty—I can even defeat minors and the sleeping.

...not that there's any way I'd know, of course...

@TimothyMuellerHarder I was going to say, uh…

@Mahnax How about your real FB account? Do they know about that?

@Cerberus Very good.

@Cerberus Huh? I have only one.

@Mahnax So you have only one because you want your parents to monitor it?

@Cerberus No, I don't want them to, I'm just not entirely opposed to the idea.

@TimothyMuellerHarder Hi! Yeah, those silly people didn't get that it was a joke, even when I explicitly told them so.

@Mahnax Yeah it doesn't matter that much anyway.

You shouldn't post anything on FB that you don't want the world to see.

@Cerberus ah eheh euh... yeah.

...wasn't a joke. ^^;

heh

Hahaha…

@WillHunting It's a hyphenated last name. My parents joined their last names rather than picking one of them.

It's becoming more common.

(Than it was, not than picking one.)

BRB laundry.

@WillHunting Perhaps they would pick one name from each and hyphenate?

If I ever do get married, I would probably take my spouse's name.

Out of sympathy for our hypothetical children.

Because 14 characters is really too long for a last name.

@WillHunting No, I get enough of "Timmy Moo-Hard" at school, thank you very much.

And this deep, poetical metaphor is for what?

The messages of Jasper in EL&U chat are not Jasper himself. QED.

Oh, @Tim — Jasper is Will Hunting, if you couldn't get that.

@Mahnax Wait, you mean my books aren't the physical embodiment of their authors? And I thought I had a cemetery in my library!

@Mahnax I figured.

@TimothyMuellerHarder He likes to abuse QED as well, so that is why the QED is there.

"QED" is really just "OED" with a tail.

@TimothyMuellerHarder False; QED is quod erat demonstrandum.

@WillHunting -1 no references cited.

I never log out, except to be Uncle Gregory.

Pfft, "help".

@WillHunting Yessir.

@WillHunting I didn't ask all of them.

Just one.

The rest is for you to figure out yourself.

@TimothyMuellerHarder Lies.

@Mahnax @WillHunting Uncle Gregory? Sushi questions?

What?

@TimothyMuellerHarder Go to EL&U, check out the end of page 1 and the beginning of page 2 of new questions.

I see four, not one of which was written by an "Uncle Gregory".

Also:

(Just look. Really.)

@TimothyMuellerHarder UG's Q was deleted.

@Mahnax :(

@TimothyMuellerHarder Hahaha…

@TimothyMuellerHarder I know!

I'm off to bed, and I'm determined not to come back online.

Please do your best to shun me if I attempt to break this will.

Thank you and good night.

May you be forever nurtured by His Noodly Appendage.

I reject your blessing.

Get thee hence!

:(

@TimothyMuellerHarder Haha, perfect.

Good luck not coming back!

@Mahnax Why dost thou reject it?

The layout of the Apple SE site is really awkward, by the way.

@TimothyMuellerHarder The premise is flawed.

@Cerberus The iPad thing is a little silly.

@Cerberus How so?

@Mahnax How so?

@Mahnax How so?

@Timothy Mueller-Harder How so?

(Just to be fair.)

It looks as though there were all sorts of windows on top of other windows.

Wow, you are fair.

@TimothyMuellerHarder He has no noodly appendages.

@Cerberus I don't see it…

@TimothyMuellerHarder It stares into my soul.

@Mahnax Sure he does!

nuu

@Mahnax OK, point taken.

I'm leaving, gotta focus.

Bye!

Bye!

@Cerberus /me scratches head

Still don't see that.

It looks like a normal page with an iPad behind it.

I see a grey window with rounded corners on a grey background. Then a darker grey window with a black title bar saying "Ipad" on top of that. Then the window that contains the question. On top of that, on the right, the yellowish little "Welcome" pop-up.

That's because of their challenge week or something. Click on the iPod thingy on the grey background, thenewipadishere.com

@Cerberus Wow. I am stymied.

But yes, the iPad is temporary.

It'll be gone Tuesday!

@Gigili Uhm I'm not clicking on any Apple things, sorry.

@Cerberus The iPad is clearly behind the window, to me.

@Cerberus Click on it or else I shoot.

@TimothyMuellerHarder I meant the "Ipad". That looks like two windows to me.

@Gigili Try it.

@TimothyMuellerHarder Oh God, so the site is directly advertising for Apple?

mumbles unintelligible things

Wow, held out long @Mahn!

@Cerberus I focused.

Very good.

On another tab, you mean?

@Cerberus No! It's for a contest!

No, on my references section.

@Cerberus The winners get the new iPad.

So that contest appears to be a marketing scheme...

@Cerberus For Apple.SE, sure. Not for Apple.

@Cerberus I will, especially now that I have a toothache, Wait for the moment.

Don't look at me, don't talk to me. I'm an antiapple.

@Cerberus A rotten apple?

You could say that.

Less rotten than Gigi's tooth, though.

You know what they say about rotten apples.

That monkeys get drunk on them?

No, that they spoil the whole bunch.

Or that wasps get drunk on them.

Your choice.

@TimothyMuellerHarder Oh, well, yes, what do you think I'm trying to do here?

@Cerberus Get wasps drunk?

Nope, spoiling you Apple boys.

Whoop whoop!

Nah, you're probably spoiled enough in other ways.

Hi!

@Cerberus :\

@KitFox Had a fun night?

@Cerberus Ouch.

@KitFox Hi!

@KitFox M'yellow.

@TimothyMuellerHarder It's nothing personal. It would be unfun if you weren't.

Hi.

@Cerberus Fun enough.

OK.

Good.

@Cerberus Wait… but what exactly do you mean by "spoiled"?

I mean it, I want to know.

Nothing in particular. I just assumed you would be.

Do you deny it? Do I have to ask your parents?

Have you been drinking again, @Cerb?

@Cerberus Nope.

@Cerberus I do.

@KitFox All sober. You?

The only reason I have an iPad is that I won it.

@Cerberus Stone cold.

Heh.

In what battle did you win it?

WWII

@KitFox How come?

Because I haven't had anything to drink.

@Gigili I'm actually listening to a famous song from WWII now (Lili Marlene).

@Gigili blog.hunch.com/?p=22334

A drinkless party? Why not.

@Cerberus It says "Karen" won it, because I'm under 18.

'Ello Kit.

OK, now I really am going to bed. Good night for real.

@Cerberus I know, that's why I said it.

@TimothyMuellerHarder Wow! You deserved it. And I didn't mean that sarcastically.

Bye!

@Gigili Wait, are you that girl standing in the street outside?

@TimothyMuellerHarder Good night!

@Gigili 'Ello, sweetie.