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skullpatrol
skullpatrol
12:16 AM
@medica perhaps this may work: this is a real storm of "shit" for lack of a better word };-)
 
Mitch
Mitch
12:29 AM
Wait...did somebody complain about -using- the word "shuts totem"...I mean "shitstorm" (I was auto corrected)
 
terdon
terdon
@Mitch I think it was the phrase "was it just for shits and giggles?", combined with shitstorm in the same post.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
Over use/mention is never a good thing.
 
terdon
terdon
SE does have a policy about profanity. The general consensus seems to be that I can say whatever the fuck I want in chat as long as the other fuckers don't mind but posts are different.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
The f*ck word is not a good example.
Same goes for the n*gger word.
Far, far too extreme.
 
terdon
terdon
Well, fuck is used here often enough. Nigger is a whole different thing for me. It is orders of magnitude more offensive and as far as I'm concerned, anyone who actually uses it has serious issues. It's one of the few words I wouldn't even use in jest.
There are 1247 occurrences of fuck in this chat room for example. Compared to 69 for nigger, the vast majority of which are mentions, not uses.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
12:44 AM
70 actually because you just added one :)
 
terdon
terdon
True. Damn.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
So roughly twenty times in terms of occurrences
 
Mitch
Mitch
@terdon shit
Chat is different from Q/A
 
terdon
terdon
This one at least. I've had my wrist slapped by a moderator for something along the lines of shit in another room. It depends on the site's culture I guess.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Also, titles need to be bowdlerized, but mentioned in the contents
Oh. Yes. Different sites different rules. I mean this is a language site, you have to allow anything quoted.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
12:53 AM
Good point^
 
Mitch
Mitch
"Anything quoted"... there, now we have our ... derrières covered.
What is the etymology of "shits and giggles"?
 
medica
medica
@terdon Hahaha! indeed.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Did it just "come out"?
!!rimshot
 
medica
medica
@Mitch i've wondered that
@Mitch did what just come out? Hm?
 
Mitch
Mitch
Don't make me splain mah terlet humor!
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
12:57 AM
You call that humor?
 
Mitch
Mitch
To a third grader yes
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
Hi @medica
 
terdon
terdon
Is it actually a thing? I'd never come across it before I read @medica's meta post. Shits and giggles? Really?
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
Old school.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Yeah. It's a thing.
 
terdon
terdon
1:00 AM
Huh, so it is.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Not the doing it but the saying it.
 
Arradras
Arradras
it probably was to make the phrase "kicks and giggles" vulgar
 
terdon
terdon
That's what wiktionary says, yes.
 
Mitch
Mitch
I've never heard "kicks and giggles"
 
terdon
terdon
There's another odd one. Why're kicks fun?
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
1:01 AM
Really, really old school.
 
Arradras
Arradras
I've heard kicks and giggles, not often, but I have
I come from the "great" state of Idaho, USA
 
Mitch
Mitch
What else do you do on Route 66?
 
Arradras
Arradras
so the culture might be part of it
 
medica
medica
Hi, all.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Hi
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
1:02 AM
Hi
 
medica
medica
Really? You never heard *shits and giggles"?
 
terdon
terdon
Never.
Well, I have now.
Read it anyway.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
^ newbie
 
Arradras
Arradras
I've known it for a long time
 
Mitch
Mitch
You can use it in a conversation.
 
Arradras
Arradras
1:03 AM
both the kicks and shits varieties
 
terdon
terdon
Kicks I knew, shits I didn't.
 
Mitch
Mitch
But you probably don't want to.
 
terdon
terdon
Heh, true dat.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Yeah it's vulgar
 
medica
medica
@terdon really! wow.
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:04 AM
They really wanted to go away for Easter despite the bad traveling weather.
 
user4550
user4550
oh
i see
 
Mitch
Mitch
Defy here is more like ignored it
Don't take it too literally
 
terdon
terdon
@medica Well, I have all sorts of weird gaps in my vocabulary like that. Comes from being raised a native speaker but in a non-English speaking country I guess. Most of my vocabulary comes from my Dad's 50ies-speak, books, and 4 years in the UK. I'm bound to miss the more vernacular side of things.
 
medica
medica
@Mitch Um, if someone could mention passing stool and feeling... what was it? ecstacy, than giggles is minor. :0
 
Mitch
Mitch
Like shits and grins, you don't want to interpret that literally
 
medica
medica
1:06 AM
hehehehe
 
user4550
user4550
@Mitch Thank you.
 
terdon
terdon
@Mitch Hmm, would that be a rectus?
 
Mitch
Mitch
Stool passing euphoria...ICD-10 code 87P00P
 
medica
medica
lol
ah! that's the one! I would have been embarrassed to ask anyone to correct that. But, then, cultures are different.
@Mitch lol!
 
terdon
terdon
So, where does for kicks meaning for fun come from? It's an odd phrase when you think about it. Perhaps the same origin as it packs a kick I guess.
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:08 AM
It's probably a jazz thing
 
medica
medica
I think I'll look that up tonight, as well as "shits and giggles"
sounds 20-30s, yes
 
Mitch
Mitch
You have a "look it up" thing for slang?
 
medica
medica
Yeah, called google
 
Mitch
Mitch
A "book"?
 
terdon
terdon
> Figurative sense of "complain, protest, rebel against" (late 14c.) probably is from the Bible verse. Slang sense of "die" is attested from 1725 (kick the wind was slang for "be hanged," 1590s; see also bucket). Meaning "to end one's drug habit" is from 1936. Kick in "contribute" is from 1908; kick out "expel" is from 1690s. To kick oneself in self-reproach is from 1891. The children's game of kick the can is attested from 1891.
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:10 AM
Oh i have that too!
 
terdon
terdon
None of those are remotely fun though.
 
medica
medica
you clearly have the OED at your fingertips. So jealous!
 
Mitch
Mitch
Kick the can is fun
 
terdon
terdon
Me? I wish! That was etymonline.com
 
Mitch
Mitch
Look up kicks
 
medica
medica
1:11 AM
I was just thinking that, but I honestly never played kick the can.
 
terdon
terdon
@Mitch Not if you're the can. Or if you're the corpse.
 
medica
medica
@terdon ah. I thought you had it through your library.
 
Mitch
Mitch
I've played kick the rock, but that doesn't work too well
 
medica
medica
hehehe
 
terdon
terdon
No, my Dad has a nice print copy with its own little magnifying glass but that's in Greece and I'm in France.
@Mitch Well, y'know, sometimes you kick the rock and...
 
medica
medica
1:12 AM
I played kick the tree and broke my toe once...
afk
 
Mitch
Mitch
"...." What? What? What happened next?
 
medica
medica
Oh, my big toe was broken. I had to ask my DH to set it, I couldn't do it myself.
Laugh riot, it was.
 
terdon
terdon
@Mitch Well, the rock kicks you, silly!
@medica Ouch...
Was the tree OK?
 
medica
medica
I've had worse
the tree died
(jk)
 
terdon
terdon
@medica Kinda figured :) I'm sure you pack a kick but killing a tree takes some doing .
 
medica
medica
1:15 AM
My goats were always stepping on my toes. Broke three of them.
@terdon My boys did that with hatchets (brats). We have a lot of woods here, and I didn't know they were hacking into the trees with their hatchets (meant for small branches).
Walk through the woods to find a tree girdled. grr...
 
terdon
terdon
Yes but the hatchet is mightier than the toe.
 
medica
medica
indeed. My feet look a sight now with crooked toes and a short big toe.
Luckily I am long past the age when anyone would be looking at my feet.
That was a shitstorm. I believe in calling a shovel a spade.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@medica Is a shitstorm a storm of shit? LOL.
 
medica
medica
yes, it really is. An umbrella is vital.
who is lightness travels in orbits (or whatever the name is) anyway?
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
6 more weeks to a new year, I am excited.
 
medica
medica
1:20 AM
:-)
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
2015
 
medica
medica
I can't think that far ahead.
Day to day for me at the moment.
 
Mitch
Mitch
The new year just started if you're Jewish
5775?
 
medica
medica
If you're a young earther, is it 6001?
 
Mitch
Mitch
I can't even do today, I'm still working on last month.
 
medica
medica
1:22 AM
@Mitch :-)
I was freezing in my house for a day and a half. I thought I was just being a wimp. I finally went to turn up the heat and realized the heat was broken! D'oh.
Finally got it repaired. It was 51° in the house.
 
Mitch
Mitch
:D
 
medica
medica
So now I feel like less of a wimp. :)
 
Mitch
Mitch
That's what humility will get you
 
medica
medica
Me Jane.
 
terdon
terdon
Ah!
 
medica
medica
1:24 AM
:)
 
terdon
terdon
> 1520s, from kick (v.). Meaning "recoil (of a gun) when fired" is from 1826. Meaning "surge or fit of pleasure" (often as kicks) is from 1941; originally literally, "stimulation from liquor or drugs" (1844). The kick "the fashion" is c.1700.
 
medica
medica
1941. That's not very long ago.
 
terdon
terdon
But the "stimulation from liquor or drugs" is from 1844 and that is clearly linked to packs a kick so I guess it makes sense.
 
medica
medica
(Wasn't that a movie with Dan Aykroyd and John Bellichi?
1844. Respectable.
 
terdon
terdon
@medica I don't think either was alive back then. Nor movies either. :P
Have they done anything but the Blues Brothers together?
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
1:28 AM
SNL?
 
medica
medica
Blech. I'm grading papers (yes; 1941!) for my daughter. Latin tests.
Got to get back to it. Only... 75 x 40 questions more to go.
 
terdon
terdon
@medica Fun!
Ask @Cerberus for help.
 
medica
medica
my brain is fried. I can do medicine all day and not feel this fried. :)
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@medica Why do they make people study Latin when it is a dead lang?
 
medica
medica
It's great for vocabilary, learning other languages, and analytical thinking.
Like music.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
1:30 AM
Oh, I would prefer to study a living language for that, lol.
 
medica
medica
(well, that doesn't help your vocab, but it's good for thinking.)
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
I would think one major reason is to study ancient literature.
 
terdon
terdon
All knowledge is useful. Especially when the knowledge is of a language that so many others are based on.
 
medica
medica
Latin is so cool. I loved it.
I once was able to read hieroglyphs passably. What a waste. That is a doubly dead language.
But I loved it.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
The only reason to study Pali for instance would be to read the suttas. They are not used anywhere else.
 
medica
medica
1:32 AM
@JasperLoy Most people read the translations.
But, yes. Esp if you're interested in church-type stuff.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
Things get lost in translations.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
Things also get lost in language learning, lol.
 
medica
medica
well, back to grading papers. nite, all.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
Later pal
 
medica
medica
:-)
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
1:34 AM
Anyone here used Assimil before? I want some feedback.
 
terdon
terdon
@medica Seriously? Egyptian ones? That is very cool!
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@terdon Ubuntu Mate 14.04 LTS was released a few days ago.
 
terdon
terdon
@JasperLoy Nice. Have you tried it?
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@terdon Yes, I am on it now. Might be my favourite choice.
 
terdon
terdon
I was quite fond of Mate when I used it.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
1:38 AM
With Ubuntu Mate, I no longer need Mint Ubuntu Mate. But then there will be Mint Debian Mate soon, and also Debian Mate, lol.
 
terdon
terdon
@JasperLoy Not really. Most distributions aren't tied to their desktop environment like Ubuntu is. You can just install the one you prefer. I normally have at least 3 installed for example.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@terdon Oh 3 is nuts, lol. I normally have only 1 at a time.
 
terdon
terdon
I've had many more. They don't normally interfere with one another. I've had gnome, kde, xfce, cinnamon and mate all installed at the same time for example.
It's trickier these days but it is still quite easy.
 
 
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Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
2:45 AM
Hello @mahnax!
 
tchrist
tchrist
3:15 AM
I nominate JBJ for the job opening of Speaker to Humans for tchrist.
@JanusBahsJacquet of course has the right of it: this is a perfectly ordinary and established term for this domain, used again and again with this precise meaning, so if others’ educational backgrounds and google-fu alike are neither of them up to the task of respectively recognizing or locating suitable references, then I like Fermat can but regret that these marginalia should lack the space to elaborate the requisite exposition and demonstrations which would remedy these lacunae. In short, either look harder or else post a proper question via the Ask Question link—and ye shall receive. — tchrist 24 mins ago
I quickly found about 8 references before stopping and deciding that people were just being lazy and/or ignorant and/or stupid, but then found I hadn’t the space to list them.
I keep finding myself wanting to vote on votes.
Or rather, on moderatorial actions.
I’m too old for a fist-pump, and they haven’t emojied it yet anyway.
When in Rome: 👍
 
tchrist
tchrist
3:52 AM
0
A: Word for "partially buried"?

tchristWhen it comes to partial burial, there can be no more obvious Germanic choice than half-buried, with learnèd Latinate alternatives semi-interred, semi-inhumed, and semi-intumulated all being available for those faint not of heart nor pen. All would be grave terms indeed, especially the Latinate ...

Pick a flag, any flag.
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A: Is there any dictionary that decomposes an English word into prefix, root, and suffix?

rainbowbananafuck yea bitches wanna have incredibly exciting time with me??? call 010n3876 2522

 
tchrist
tchrist
4:25 AM
This is not a matter of public information, but friends know that thrice was despondent at being always the bridesmaid to twice, and rarely appearing alone. The release of the movie A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, however, was the last straw; after witnessing the laughs associated with Zeno Mostel's line "He raped Thrace thrice", deep depression ensued, followed by a formal suicide with a formal dagger †. Thus †thrice. — John Lawler Jan 13 at 21:16
Evening, young sir.
I who never drink pop have recently become acquainted with the most delightful recreational beverage: a wonderful tangerine-based soda imported from Italy. It is light and bubbly and tart and delicious.
It’s like it has more bubbles, and tinier ones, and it does not cling to your palate.
And apparently, I am not alone.
Whole Foods carries it in 750 ml bottles, in tangerine, grapefruit, and blood orange.
It’s a "generic made-for-Whole-Foods store brand" there, but it is clearly the same thing as described in that article.
The bottles look just like the Agrumi ones, with a different label.
 
user4550
user4550
hi
 
 
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Anonymous
6:46 AM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Oh, the article is open access! nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n9/full/ncomms1133.html
 
Anonymous
I associate "twice or thrice" with non-native English because that's mainly where I've heard the phrase, but I have to admit I quite like it
 
Anonymous
I suppose I just like thrice in general.
 
Anonymous
 
Anonymous
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
8:41 AM
 
 
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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
10:20 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keywords in title, URL in title: packers and movers mumbai by Akash Kumar on english.stackexchange.com
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
10:34 AM
is 7 minutes of exposure really worth it?
not even 15 minutes of fame
 
user08742
user08742
HI
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
10:54 AM
hi
 
user08742
user08742
11:05 AM
what does it mean? "the country is in pawn to foreigners"
I know the words, but
doesn't make much sense
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
it doesn't make immediate sense
I would guess that "in pawn" is being used to mean "has been pawned"
 
terdon
terdon
 
user08742
user08742
@terdon i know the definition
i dont know the meaning
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
either that or they're using the archaic noun meaning of pawn, as in security on a loan
 
terdon
terdon
@user08742 Sorry, not sure I understand the difference.
> in pawn: n. in the state of being pledged.
If you know the meaning, what is it that confuses you in the sentence?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
11:13 AM
@terdon oh. I didn't see that one
 
terdon
terdon
It's the only one on the page O_o
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
yeah, I was looking at ODO
seeing it required scrolling
 
terdon
terdon
@MattЭллен That's what you get for being highbrow :P
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
:D
@user08742 now you have the definition, try rewriting the sentence, substituting in the definition
 
user08742
user08742
The country is pledged to forgeiners? What state is that?
 
terdon
terdon
11:25 AM
New York, I think.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
11:43 AM
hi @RegDwigнt!
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Helloes!
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Hell!
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I'd like to make some joke like "and who are you" or "have we met before", but I'm completely uninspired right now.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Nobody would blow you?
You know that's what "inspire" means.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
See time, no long
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
11:55 AM
You sound Chinese.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
You sound English
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Sea time, tea time.
Pea time.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
Brie time
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
La vache qui Brit.
That shall totally be my new nickname for the UKnians.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
:D
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
11:59 AM
UKnians sounds just like UKrainians. And coincidence sounds just like Hitler. I am onto something.
But first I must write an email.
 
user08742
user08742
"Whether they could actually turn back Soviet policy depended on many factors that Moscow might yet choose to test by upping the ante"
the object of "test" is factors?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Haha.
I'm sure Hitler had plans for England that were similar to what he did in the Ukraine...
@user08742 The object of test is that, but that refers to many factors, so it amounts to the same thing.
 
user08742
user08742
so
but
test factors...isn't it odd?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
A little bit, but it makes sense in context.
 
user08742
user08742
Moscow might yet choose to test many factors by upping the ante...and whether they could actually turn back Soviet policy depended on those factors? Is this the construction?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
12:06 PM
In this sentence, factors sort of stands for limits to our ability to turn back Soviet policy.
@user08742 Yes.
 
user08742
user08742
phew..relieved but still doesn't sink in semantically...
thanks for your help
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
12:19 PM
javascript:(function(){$('.message').html('omg i haxxed erry1');})()
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@user08742 There were limits to their ability to turn back the Soviets. Moscow might choose to test (=try to break) those limits by trying harder, and then they would be unable to turn back Soviet policy.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
12:50 PM
I don't understand how people can become so upset when a question is closed as a dupe.
That's a guarantee that your answer will live on forever and collect reps for you forevermore.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@RegDwigнt Have you heard of Assimil?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Nope.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@MattЭллен wow! that's a really cool script that everyone should paste into their address bars and run
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@RegDwigнt I am surprised. I thought everyone in Europe knows about Assimil, lol.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt Hmm so reps don't disappear on dupes?
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
12:59 PM
@MattЭллен thanks, that is cool :D
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus why would they?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@skullpatrol yeah!
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
And how can you ask that after being on the site for 9000 years?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Haha OMG I am haxxed!
By the way, did you know that Firefox now automatically removes "javascript:" from the beginning if you paste that in the address bar?
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@matt Maria said one sentence to me after not talking to me for 3 weeks, lol.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
1:01 PM
@JasperLoy good?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt I...don't know. I guess I never post duplicate questions?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@Cerberus oh! so it does. tricky old firefox
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@MattЭллен Well, better than nothing. I should be contented with 1 sentence per year until I actually get to meet her, lol.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Indeed.
But I can't blame the old fox.
At least bookmarklets still work...but I may have had to enable them in tricky ways, by installing some extension.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
A merge can occur at a moment's notice. We usually allow some time to pass, though. I am not sure what signs you are expecting to see that a merger is likely to occur. (Other than the duplicate notice, that is, which is essentially saying just that.) When the merge occurs, it can be in either direction, not necessarily new into old. Not that it really matters — when all the answers are on the same page, who cares what that page's URL is. As to question titles, that's a red herring because a) these can be edited, and b) they don't need to be edited, as they will point to the same page anyway. — RegDwigнt ♦ 18 mins ago
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
1:08 PM
@RegDwigнt I would like to link you to a German book and you tell me if it is too hard for a beginner to learn German from. Here is the link. amazon.com/Living-German-R-W-Buckley/dp/1444153919 You can see the preview of course.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@JasperLoy I am already stumped by the explanations on the very first page.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@RegDwigнt Exactly. I thought it was too hard, considering I don't even know English grammar terms.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
have you thought about hanging out in the german chat room?
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
Yes, I have, but Reg will do, lol.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@JasperLoy well, what I mean is that I don't even understand what they are saying.
I can't parse their explanations.
In point 2, what exactly are they saying? Where does that orphaned "after" belong to? What is this formatting?
I honestly don't understand this explanation, and that's although I already know the pronunciation of all these words.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
1:16 PM
I was very happy to find a "grammar-based course", but it is too hard for me.
 
Andrew Leach
Andrew Leach
@RegDwigнt after belongs to the letters following it. "Breathe as in the Scottish loch where ch appears after a, o, au, u."
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@AndrewLeach and ch?
The list does not stop after U.
Every which way you read it, it's horrible formatting.
Also, there is a U in EU.
 
Andrew Leach
Andrew Leach
Yes, horrible. But a new sentence starts with the next capital letter. They should have formatted that a, o, au, u section like the next one.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Anyway, I'm three pages further now, and it's not getting better.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
Anyway @RegDwigнt Assimil is a French company that publishes language teaching books. What I showed you is not from Assimil.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
1:21 PM
> Sentence stress is very similar to English
That says nothing. And what it does say is wrong.
> with a tendency to emphasise the important words
Oh thank you, that clears it up.
> Individual words have root stress as in English
Okay, that's pretty true. But wait for their examples!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
mit einer Tendenz, die wichtigen Worte zu unterstreichen
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@RegDwigнt It comes with a CD though, though I am not sure that would help much with the pronounciation, since it is only 1 CD for the whole book.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
First off, how do you stress an N.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
like constipation
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Second off, this list actually demonstrates a hugely important difference between English and German.
The Germans always stress their negational prefixes. The English never do.
It's not IMpossible, it's imPOSsible.
But it's UNmöglich, not unMÖGlich.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
1:25 PM
Good good. I won't buy the book then, lol.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Anywevs.
I have no idea how this compares to other books out there. So for all I know it might be the bestest ever.
Oct 21 at 15:21, by RegDwigнt
@JasperLoy I never learned German from a book. But haven't you asked this before?
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
Did you learn a language using any book at all?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I tried learning Arabic as a child using a book the size of a child.
I still know the words "book" and "housewife".
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
OK. Anyway Assimil is very popular in Europe.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Which is more Arabic than 90% of the world's population have mastered, so I am quite proud of myself.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
1:28 PM
I sent Assimil an email yesterday, still no reply, lol.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
That book really was huge, BTW. Like 16 by 20 inches. And about four inches thick. A monster.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
The biggest book I have seen a few times at least is the Oxford Dictionary of English, lol.
I do not intend to buy a copy because it may drop on my toe.
@RegDwigнt I have heard quite a lot of Arabic from watching Muslim preachers, lol.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
2:03 PM
@RegDwigнt Too bad you don't know the words for "Lego" and "Detective Agency"
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
first relationship-advice question we've had in a while :D
it didn't even use the tag!
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@MattЭллен They need me to answer, lol. I am the expert, lol.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
expert... OK
in The Overlook Hotel, Oct 3 at 20:29, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
My dad always said: A consultant is a man who knows 200 ways to make love, but doesn't know any women.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 why would I need them in Arabic?
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
Nobody has had as many Marias as I have, lol.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
2:06 PM
@RegDwigнt Just in case.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Just in case I needed people to know I'm a Westerner up for kidnapping.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
I have left a message in 4 chat rooms asking for feedback on Assimil, even though I have read 9000 reviews online already, lol.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
@JasperLoy You should go out on a limb and just try the product yourself.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Arabs don't collect LEGO, they collect Nintendo.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@RegDwigнt Is Nintendo even legal there? Hmm...
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
2:09 PM
I wonder if that's allowed under sharia law
lol jinx
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
Jinx.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
double jinx.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
Sometimes, I feel I am living in Saudi Arabia too, lol.
It's not much better here, lol.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
2:51 PM
@JasperLoy You only say that because you've never had to live there.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 OK. Because of my personal issues, I tend to exaggerate a bit now and then, lol.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
@JasperLoy ha. "a bit"
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
It's quite amusing that different parts of this world are so different.
Sometimes, I feel as if the human race is made up of several different species which think very differently.
 
terdon
terdon
Am I wrong here? See Kris's comments.
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A: bigger/larger number of mole(s)

terdonA much better alternative would be greater: In the empirical formula, there would be a greater number of moles of water per mole of anhydrous salt than if the compound had not spilled. Or, even better: In the empirical formula, there would be more moles of water per mole of anhydrous sa...

I am quite intrigued though, a bigger number of X sounds very bad to me but I can't quite put my finger on why.
 
user08742
user08742
The results haven't changed over a ten year interval.
What does it mean?
over a ten year interval..
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
2:56 PM
@user08742 It means over ten years.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
@terdon "a bigger number" sounds to me like it could mean you wrote it in a larger font. But it also means a number with a higher (absolute? depends on context?) value.
@user08742 What part of that isn't clear to you?
 
terdon
terdon
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I know it does, I just would never use it.
I'd say a bugger problem but not a bigger number of people than expected
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
a bigger number of people use "greater number"
 
terdon
terdon
^^ :)
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
often, when people in the UK have a problem, they will shout "bugger!"
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
2:59 PM
@terdon I think that's it though: we use "bigger" for physical size more often than numberic size
 
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