English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Cerberus

6:00 PM

Nor I.

jokerdino

@KitFox My condolences. How's it going?

Sudhir

Oh! That's very sad.

jokerdino

@Cerberus Do you still burn anyone near you?

user19161

I can hear many tables away in a restaurant.

user19161

I can also see many things in very dim light.

Sudhir

6:00 PM

@KitFox:What doctor suggested?

jokerdino

You are not the 007 I am looking for.

tchrist

This has become too dissolute, dissipated, dissociated, dissentious, dissimulated, dissimilative, dissymmetrical, disserviceable, and dissatisfactory for my tastes — and in that order.

KitFox

I haven't heard from the doctor yet.

jokerdino

@tchrist I am sorry. How can I be of service to you?

user19161

@KitFox Because the doctor was on the wrong side, lol.

tchrist

6:01 PM

dissembles

jokerdino

@KitFox Does it have to do with your not so good ears?

Sudhir

@KitFox: You should take rest.

Cerberus

@jokerdino Umm sure, why not?

Sudhir

I feel extremely sorry for you.

jokerdino

@tchrist let me know when you assemble yourself.

tchrist

6:02 PM

asms

user19161

@Sudhir My health is very bad too, but the details are a secret.

jokerdino

@Cerberus Right. Have you seen the Loch Ness? I am still looking for it.

user19161

@jokerdino I thought you are the monster?

jokerdino

Oh, the attention-queen.

KitFox

@Sudhir You needn't trouble yourself. It does me no good, and won't help you any either.

Sudhir

6:02 PM

Oh. That's outrageous.

Cerberus

Nessie is on vacation. Or campaigning against Scotch independence, I forgot.

jokerdino

@Sudhir What is?

@Cerberus And the Highlander?

Sudhir

@jokerdino: I said for @JasperLoy

user19161

@jokerdino Who is the attention queen?

Cerberus

@jokerdino Umm is that from a film? I don't know.

jokerdino

6:04 PM

@Cerberus Why yes. I am not talking about the undertaker.

Sudhir

@KitFox: You're so good. I appreciate your nature.

user19161

@joker What happened to your photo?

tchrist

Mwahahahahahahahahahaha

jokerdino

@JasperLoy It's a secret

user19161

@Sudhir Your sentences sound strange because your choice of words is not ideal.

user19161

6:05 PM

@jokerdino Ah, so many secrets!

Sudhir

I'm poor in English.

jokerdino

@tchrist Aren't you a good friend of Willy Bank?

user19161

@Sudhir It's OK, you will improve.

tchrist

wonkas

user19161

@jokerdino I am a good friend of Will Hunting, lol.

jokerdino

6:06 PM

@tchrist And al Pac?

@JasperLoy How is he doing?

user19161

@jokerdino Not good.

tchrist

honkas

user19161

@jokerdino He might return to SE next Monday...

Sudhir

@JasperLoy:What's the time at your end?

jokerdino

@Sudhir Beyond the midnight.

user19161

6:07 PM

@Sudhir That is my secret.

Sudhir

Hahaha

jokerdino

@tchrist Do you mean it?

user19161

@Sudhir I am in this world, but I am not of this world.

Sudhir

Its midnight. I'm feeling sleepy.

tchrist

misdemeans

Mahnax

6:09 PM

Good day.

eh.

Good day.

Hullo.

How's everyone doing?

user19161

@Mahnax That picture is terrible!

jokerdino

6:09 PM

@Mahnax Hey! LTNS

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Yes, I remember, thanks. You'd do well not to insult my appearance!

user19161

@Mahnax Are you gonna change soon?

Mahnax

@jokerdino Long time, indeed!

tchrist

It’s your woeful countenance he’s demeaning.

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Nope!

user19161

6:10 PM

@Mahnax Bad, bad.

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Good, good.

user19161

@Mahnax Reduplication, QED.

Sudhir

@JasperLoy: I got the name of country you belong.

user19161

@Sudhir Sure, just keep it a secret.

Sudhir

My trick finally worked.

tchrist

6:11 PM

2 hours ago, by tchrist

sounds NNS klaxon

user19161

@Sudhir What trick?

jokerdino

Secret.

user19161

Have you read the entire transcript?

user19161

Did you hack into my internet?

Sudhir

Secret trick.

user19161

6:12 PM

Ha, I have many tricks as well.

user19161

I know many things too that I pretend not to know...

tchrist

Kicks are for trids.

Sudhir

@JasperLoy:6:14??

user19161

@Sudhir That is my secret.

Sudhir

You know better than me.

Mahnax

6:14 PM

@JasperLoy Yes, like -1×-1=1.

Matt Эллен

These are the regulations for the grain offering: Aaron's sons are to bring it before the LORD, in front of the altar

jokerdino

@tchrist On a side note, I really do enjoy your posts about regex and unicodes.

Matt Эллен

Leviticus

6:14

user19161

@Mahnax lol

user19161

@MattЭллен lol

KitFox

6:17 PM

I have this query cut open and halfway eviscerated, and I really just want to leave it and go home.

Haha. Going to hoe would be really funny.

user19161

Every week I pass by Victoria's Secret, and I wonder what her secret is...

jokerdino

Was there any kind of reaction to ELL when it came out of commit stage?

KitFox

startled

Mahnax

@jokerdino Hydrogen gas was produced.

jokerdino

@Mahnax I expected nothing short of that.

user19161

6:19 PM

There is an Argon on Math, lol.

Mahnax

@jokerdino Well, yes. Reactions tend to be somewhat predictable if you know your stuff.

user19161

Next week, I will walk into Victoria's Secret and ask the staff what her secret is...

tchrist

@jokerdino A tortuous path, that one.

jokerdino

@Mahnax I used to be good with my reactions. Over time, I lost interest in them.

@tchrist It was very well done. I'll give you that.

Sudhir

@JasperLoy: Very chill here.

user19161

6:20 PM

@Sudhir What is the temperature?

tchrist

@JasperLoy Why can’t these Yellow Indians ever figure out how not to use the verb belong? They keep thinking that countries own people. Vestiges of the slave-trade, mayhap?

Sudhir

10'c

user19161

Ah, I shall keep the temperature here a secret!

Mahnax

No you shan't, I know it already.

user19161

Shh...

Mahnax

6:22 PM

Don't worry, your secret's safe with me.

user19161

Yes, you know many of my secrets.

tchrist

jokerdino

you are sekrets are safe with me

tchrist

Another 3–4″ of snow bound hither this evening for me.

user19161

@sudhir Thanks for the invitation but I prefer to speak in this room.

tchrist

6:25 PM

Bad things happen in the dark.

user19161

But if I know a user well enough, I would then share my secrets with him via email...

Sudhir

@JasperLoy: You know Reykjavík?

user19161

@Sudhir Is that a place in Iceland?

Sudhir

Yeah.

user19161

Well, heard of it, that is all.

KitFox

6:28 PM

adviza.stackexchange.com/transcript/tEhlZRzPRUKY

user19161

@KitFox Yeah I spoke to the bot too, lol.

KitFox

It's been entertaining me all day.

Sudhir

@JasperLoy: Bye.

Was a nice talk with you.

user19161

@Sudhir Good night.

Sudhir

Good night.

user19161

6:30 PM

@KitFox I told the bot that I was Justin Bieber, Jason Bourne, Jacob Black and James Bond.

KitFox

What did it think of that?

user19161

"We are talking past each other", lol.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox lol

user19161

30

Q: What was that? Chat with an "expert"

Today half an hour ago I visited MSE and I was proposed to chat with an "expert". I tried to discuss some questions about von Neumann algebras that botherd me, but this was not an expert I needed. This was not an expert at all and I think this was just a bot. But why is it here?

user19161

Earned me some meta votes, lol.

KitFox

6:37 PM

I'm off. Later, peeps.

jokerdino

@KitFox Oh cya!

user19161

@KitFox Have a nice day.

Bye Kit!

CU KIt

She is long gone.

6:40 PM

I am going to go eat lunch. Bye!

Matt Эллен

CU

user19161

@Mahnax Have a big one.

jokerdino

@Mahnax On behalf of me too. Thank you!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

7:10 PM

@KitFox slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/04/…

@tchrist please, please send it northward or something this time.

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 frowns

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax not that far!

I don't think that storm necessarily has a passport.

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 You don't need one to get into Canada. All you need is a smiling face and a hefty bribe!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax eh?

suddenly wants poutine

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I don't know, man.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

7:13 PM

Are you in a class? Do you have Spring Break?

Mahnax

It's my last day of Spring Break.

So far, I've eaten breakfast and done laundry.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Oh noes! Wait, what? It's Monday.

Mahnax

I stayed up… rather late last night.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Day-in-lieu of Easter, or something.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax OIC

Matt Эллен

bank holiday!

just like in the UK

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

7:15 PM

I think we have Easter Monday, but it goes mostly unobserved that I've observed.

Mahnax

We had a rather irate lady tell us how utterly shameful it is that we're open on Easter Sunday a few days back.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Dangit. Missed those.

Mahnax

They weren't important.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax so what was she doing there?

She just came in to shame you?

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Getting coffee, of course.

It was on Saturday, I think.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

7:18 PM

Hmpf.

Oh, okay.

Mahnax

"You know, some things are sacred."

"That's great, ma'am. Here's your drink."

:D

Hehe.

:D

Did anyone see the Norwegian Forest Cat yesterday?

It was beautiful.

Matt Эллен

7:26 PM

maybe. in this chat?

Mahnax

yesterday, by Mahnax

A truly majestic creature.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

gazes upon majestic creature

Cerberus

Hello.

I'm about to buy my first bitcoin.

Matt Эллен

:O

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

gazes upon majestic canine

Cerberus

7:28 PM

What does the kitty think?

Matt Эллен

clearly you are a drug dealer

Mahnax

@Cerberus Whatever for?

Cerberus

And the bread? And the face?

Mahnax

Drugs? Weapons?

Cerberus

@Mahnax As an investment.

See how it goes.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

7:28 PM

Are you investing in K Mikey M?

Mahnax

@Cerberus Ah, yes, it's on the rise.

Cerberus

One bitcoin is € 80–88.

It will be fun.

Mahnax

Lordy.

Cerberus

I do need to check the reputation of the site first.

bitonic.nl

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

kmikeym.com

Mahnax

7:30 PM

Spending € 80 is fun?

pokes chat

chat pokes back

aiee!

chat laughs evilly

Bad chat, bad!

chat whimpers

Jez

hey.

Mahnax

7:38 PM

Hi.

Jez

went to see Hamlet on saturday, performed by the RSC in Stratford

Mahnax

Ooh, how was it?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Whoa.

Mahnax

That sounds like it would be an awesome experience.

Cerberus

@Mahnax Well, I can cash them at any time.

Mahnax

7:41 PM

@Cerberus Hm, true. It's just a conversion, really.

Cerberus

It's just an experiment.

Yeah, albeit with a high transaction cost through this site, about 10 %.

Mahnax

Ouch.

Jez

@Mahnax it was good, but it was weird because they cut it off early

Mahnax

@Jez That's strange. Where did they stop?

Jez

the last line was Horatio saying "why does the drum come hither?"

i don't understand why they missed the rest off. it wasn't that much and was an explanation for his question

Mahnax

7:44 PM

@Cerberus Wait, what? No way!

Cerberus

No?

Way!

Mahnax

Wow. It's gone through the roof in only two years.

Cerberus

The actual rate is about € 80, USD 100.

Today.

Mahnax

Crazy.

Cerberus

I think I'll wait until tomorrow.

Yeah!

Mahnax

7:47 PM

It was around $0.87 for one bitcoin a couple years ago.

Cerberus

Yeah.

You could have made a fortune!

Mahnax

I know!!!

Should have jumped on that bandwagon when I had the chance.

Jez

just realized, that "talk to an expert" is april fools

thought it looked weird

Cerberus

You still have a chance.

@Jez Haha slow!

Jez

adviza.stackexchange.com/transcript/9z4x3rek0eDn

lol

Cerberus

7:51 PM

Wow, you made it leave!

Jez

8:02 PM

-2

A: have feelings for someone

To have feelings for someone doesn't necessarily mean to be infatuated (or fall in love) towards that person. But, it does suggest a positive (Sympathetic) feeling for the other person.This feeling can suggest that you care for that person. And this care can be any type like: like a lover, like a...

why is this answer on -2?

Cerberus

Because it is wrong?

Suppose someone said, "Jez, I have feelings for you."

Jez

it seems fine to me

in your example it would likely mean romantic feelings because you don't tend to say that directly to someone in any other way

but I think you can describe a son as having feelings for his mother

etc.

if it's in question as to whether he cares about her

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A: Where does the word "dog" come from?

My thoughts on the subject are this I believe that they were a gift from GOD as God there loyalty is undieing THERE LOVE for there human family can not be compremised.And you could never find a truer friend hense Who ever put the name on this wonderful creature must have known God and therefor t...

erm.

Cerberus

Your theory has merit. I shall have to reconsider my origin and my answer. — Cerberus 24 secs ago

Jez

was that answer written by Gene Ray?

MετάEd

8:29 PM

Huckabee, Santorum urge GOP not to go soft

Cerberus

Cerberus, Jez urge GOP to stop using this ridiculous abbreviation

or suffering being called that

Jez

9:02 PM

@MετάEd Not like the GOP not to be able to maintain an erection. Maybe some Viagra?

but yeah, Huckabee is pathetic

RegDwighт

So is the Skeptics.SE 2013 Moderator Election supposed to be an April 1st joke?

I was never notified about the nomination phase or the primaries, yet I got notified just now that the actual election has begun one hour ago. I'm highly skeptical!

tchrist

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Well, you know the old saying: April blizzards scare the lizards.

Jez

@RegDwighт how appropriate

tchrist

9:21 PM

Isn’t this spam — basically an unsolicited commercial?

-1

A: Where does the word "dog" come from?

My thoughts on the subject are this I believe that they were a gift from GOD as God there loyalty is undieing THERE LOVE for there human family can not be compremised.And you could never find a truer friend hense Who ever put the name on this wonderful creature must have known God and therefor t...

It’s so poorly written that I’m not sure. Today is the day for Fools, after all.

Cerberus

> I've been a pro tem moderator on Parenting for almost 2 years

Does this mean "I have a two-year-old child"?

Matt Эллен

maybe it means they're a new foster parent

tchrist

It means he’s passed the amateur stage of tem moderation.

Matt Эллен

or, new-ish

Cerberus

Probably.

@MattЭллен Hey Matt, I have a request, but I'm afraid to ask.

tchrist

9:25 PM

cowers

Cerberus

If you ever happen to be in the mood this month or the next, maybe you could look at the brilliant user script you wrote for me: they changed the site and it stopped working.

RegDwighт

@Cerberus not unless he plans to kill his child.

Cerberus

I tried to fix it, but I failed.

@RegDwighт Almost-two-year-old child, then.

RegDwighт

That's not what I mean.

He says pro-tem.

tchrist

Looks protean to me.

Bad font.

Matt Эллен

9:27 PM

@Cerberus oh, yeah, no probs. not right now, though I'm just off to bed. ping me tomorrow evening.

RegDwighт

You can only be a pro-tem parent if you plan to cease to be a parent.

tchrist

Rent-a-rent.

Matt Эллен

also, my internet connection keeps flaking out

RegDwighт

Rend-a-reindeer.

@MattЭллен nice try, April's fool.

I do not believe you.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Ok cool!

tchrist

9:28 PM

I’m uncervidivorous.

RegDwighт

I'm mostly just un.

Matt Эллен

unfortunately for me, your belief doesn't fix my connection problems

Cerberus

@RegDwighт Well, one the birds fly out into the big, wide world...

tchrist

And your wife, no doubt, it yun.

RegDwighт

@MattЭллен It doesn't break mine. Is all that counts.

tchrist

9:30 PM

un y un a lovely pear do make.

Matt Эллен

I suppose so. Well, I'ma fix my problem by not wanting to be online. CUs

Robusto

Hai and bai.

tchrist

@Rob I thought you were dead?

Cerberus

Bye!

tchrist

@MattЭллен Didn’t we just have a question asking whether connection wasn’t too sexually charged to use?

Robusto

9:32 PM

@tchrist Wieso?

tchrist

@Robusto See starboard.

Robusto

Why does jokerdino want me dead?

tchrist

Thereon hangs a tale.

Robusto

Just give me the Cliff's Notes.

RegDwighт

@Robusto them's Ubuntu pranksters. It's funny, you have to laugh. Haha. Like that.

Robusto

9:33 PM

Ha — ah, to hell with it.

RegDwighт

Wow you can switch to Arabic in the middle of a laugh!

tchrist

Young toughs terrorizing the neighborhood.

RegDwighт

You mean 40-yo keyboard warriors.

Which, of course, is young by Rob's standards.

tchrist

I thought there were some minors there that @Jasper was hitting on again.

RegDwighт

Right. He went by the name Seth.

Me, I wouldn't hit on a Seth Lord.

tchrist

9:35 PM

Right, the one who fancies himself a Lord.

But to each his own.

Damn tweenerkin.

@RegDwighт I rather doubt it’s that long.

RegDwighт

And you are free to doubt it! USA! USA!

Robusto

9:38 PM

Yours is fantasy. THIS is reality.

RegDwighт

It has a higher resolution than reality.

tchrist

@RegDwighт Why am I so certain you’re siegheiling when you say that?

RegDwighт

@tchrist because you are often certain of complete nonsense.

tchrist

What, you have red-white-and-blue pompoms instead?

RegDwighт

Actually I watched The Producers the other day.

The original, with Willy Wonka and Zero.

Man did it not age well at all.

So unfunny. So unfunny.

tchrist

9:40 PM

Yeah.

RegDwighт

I mean. It's Mel Brooks, so I was sort of warned. And yet I wasn't.

Robusto

@RegDwighт Yes. I watched that back when it was in the theaters, and left wondering WTF.

RegDwighт

And then I had to rummage through endless piles of IMDb comments that heil it still today.

I think there was exactly one mildly negative review.

Robusto

I never thought Mel Brooks was funny. Ever.

tchrist

@Robusto Er, you were how old in 1968??

RegDwighт

9:42 PM

Old enough to be in the precise age for actually having a chance at finding Mel Brooks funny.

Robusto

@tchrist Old enough not to know better than to see a Mel Brooks film.

tchrist

@Robusto I think you have to be from a certain time and place, and perhaps genetic background, to find him funny.

I remember getting smuggled into drive-ins by my folks.

RegDwighт

I do know we watched some Mel Brooks flicks with friends when we were teenagers.

I don't even remember which.

Last month I started watching Space Wars, and had to turn it off fifteen minutes in.

tchrist

Blazing Saddles. Young Frankenstein. High Anxiety.

Spaceballs? Yeah.

RegDwighт

I remember actually laughing at one scene from it as a child.

Robusto

9:44 PM

His humor makes me feel unclean.

RegDwighт

Don't remember which scene, though. But it was late in the movie. And I just couldn't last that long now.

@Robusto exactly.

It was actually gross.

So yeah. There you have the value of an Oscar for original screenplay.

Robusto

May 23 '11 at 11:35, by Robusto

"¡Arriba!" dije el Sol. "Mañana," dije la Luna.

RegDwighт

Abierto y alto, digo.

Actually I thought Rob was going to leave before me, but I guess the death thing kept him hooked.

Robusto

Huh?

RegDwighт

Anyway now that he's seen it I guess I can unstar it for good, like I did with these pranksters' other posts.

Robusto

9:50 PM

I'm not afraid of no jokerdino.

But I do have to tend to supper. Otherwise I'll have to clean up, and nobody wants that. Laters.

RegDwighт

Joker is the name, dino is the game, we'll play right here on this bed, and then we'll bet for the biggest stakes yet, the souls of the dead.

Mahlzeit!

tchrist

I glad to see that they’re coming up with eco-friend solutions to Europe’s overpopulation problem.

Cerberus

Looks very commercial.

tchrist

Pends whether they put bounties on the surplus population.

Seth

@JasperLoy Yes.... tell you more about in the my main room ;-)

user19161

10:04 PM

@Seth Sure!

Jez

10:30 PM

ugh, too much chocolate

a chocolate bunny and Maltesers - why does my mum still buy me this stuff? i'll only eat it.

tchrist

11:37 PM

I have to run an errand, but if somebody industrious wants to try their hand at tightening and clarifying the wording in this question, do please go for it.

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Q: "whomever runs it's" or "whomever runs its"?

I know that "its" is the possessive form of "it", but does this rule apply to the possessive form of phrases ending in "it"? Should I say, "the program runs on whomever runs its computer" or "the program runs on whomever runs it's computer" (also I hope I'm right that that should be "whomever" a...

possessive case noun-phrases saxon-genitive

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