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12:09 AM
posted on February 25, 2014 by sgdi

There was an old man in a swamp Who was out late at night on a romp He was chasing a hare He’d seen go in there But the swamp was impeding his tromp

 
 
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1:14 AM
Hi
I am looking for a word and I can't remember it.
 
@MετάEd Another Star Trek reference?
 
It's a scientific/philosophical term for an approach of studying something that includes every aspect of a specific subject rather than some specific cause/effect. It's often used by qualitative researchers for example in psychology or policy, that argue that everything is related and can only be understood in the entire context of this particular subject.
 
@Jeroen Holistic?
En hoi!
 
yes!
thank you :)
 
Nederlands? Vlaams?
 
1:19 AM
nl
 
Cool.
Succes met je onderzoek!
 
@Jeroen Oh! I found it. It was between the cushions of the couch.
opposite of reductionist (reducing everything to atomic propositions)
 
You could say that...
But...
Reductionist is broader, I would say.
 
rnx
tnx
 
@Cerberus The fallacy of composition.
 
1:37 AM
no
 
The fallacy of non compos mentis?
The fallacy of compost ions?
The fellatio of cum post-its?
The fellow of summa cum loudly.
The furbelow of 狭い comma, lewdly.
 
> 20946
@Robusto Uhhh...
Whiskey?
Wine?
And furbelow is new to, the word.
 
1:53 AM
It's an old word, but a good one.
 
Yes, I have looked it up.
 
Interesting etymology.
Did you look up 狭い?
Also, tell me if you can hear the morae in this sentence.
You were trying to comprehend that concept a while ago, IIRC.
 
> When I'm having a conversation with someone and they start texting.
> just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they 'll help.
2 examples I found, im my opinion, they is wrong here, since there is someone/anyone before
 
@Cerberus: ?
 
!!wiki Fascinus
 
2:01 AM
In ancient Roman religion and magic, the fascinus or fascinum was the embodiment of the divine phallus. The word can refer to the deity himself (Fascinus), to phallus and amulets, and to the spells used to invoke his divine protection. Pliny calls it a medicus invidiae, a "doctor" or remedy for envy (invidia, a "looking upon") or the evil eye. Public religion The Vestal Virgins tended the cult of the fascinus populi Romani, the sacred image of the phallus that was one of the tokens of the safety of the state (sacra Romana). It was thus associated with the Palladium. Roman myths, such as...
 
meh, sorry
 
Yeah, @Kit, I kinda figured you for a worshiper of "the divine phallus."
 
2:31 AM
@Robusto Only furbelow! I wouldn't even know how to look up Japanese...
@cyril He is better, but nowadays many people use the "singular" they, especially informally, when referring to a single person of unknown sex.
@RegDwigнt 27.297.
@Robusto Wow, that's quite a...roundabout etymology!
So furbelow and fold are ultimately related to plus.
Also related to -plex (as in com-plex) and im-plic-it, com-plex-ion.
@Robusto I wouldn't really know where to begin; all I hear is...Japanese...
@MrHen Beat my 27.297!
Fur future reference, the Proto-Indo-European root of fold, implicit, etc. is *pel-, *pl(e)k-.
So pehaps ultimately *pl-(k-).
 
3:21 AM
@Cerberus or is it reductivist?
 
@Cerberus ok thanks, it's not incorrect so
 
@Mitch No...
@cyril I personally consider "singular they" incorrect and ugly, but some people here would disagree.
 
same, 'one' looks better, too formal maybe (that's what I learned at school)
hmm forget it, 'one' is as much plural as they
but I'd have written 'just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested he'll help.'
!!welcome
 
3:39 AM
@cyril Welcome to the JavaScript chat! Please review the room pseudo-rules. Please don't ask if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they'll help.
 
here's a link you may like youtube.com/watch?v=EZBUDG12Nr0#t=1950
a funny historical story
but the whole video is worth
I have installed R, Matlab, Octave, Visual Studio in case, ready to fight
 
@cyril No, no, one is singular.
@cyril So would I.
It is always one is, but they are.
 
4:27 AM
@cyril Yeah, pretty interesting.
Some of the theoretical stuff is pretty basic, and most of the formulae mean nothing to me, but still.
He is a good speaker.
I thought he sounded Italian, but then there was something funny about this accent.
Turns out he is Egyptian, and they speak/spoke a lot of Italian in Egypt, so I wouldn't be surprised if he learned Italian as his primary foreign language as a child.
 
4:54 AM
yes pretty arabic accent
 
Right.
 
 
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7:16 AM
!!define directory
 
@cyril directory A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.
 
is it correct to say "Why are you twitching your eyes?" suppose I asked this my friend who has a weak eyesight and unable to see properly. Is "twitch" proper in this situation?
 
7:59 AM
@SandeepDhamija I think you probably mean "why are you blinking?"?
To blink is to quickly close and open your eyes.
Twitching is more like a weird movement.
 
8:20 AM
@Cerberus You are still awake?
 
Yes.
 
@Cerberus You are nuts, lol.
 
You?
Thanks.
 
I went to sleep and woke up long ago.
 
Wise.
 
8:20 AM
Now I am going to take a nap.
 
Good idea.
I shall go to bed soon.
 
You should sleep soon.
Let me know when you find your Mario!
 
You too.
 
8:57 AM
Thanks @kitfox for bringing sox back :-)
 
@RegDwigнt Haha.
Empire, strike back!
Look, I know things and I'm referring to them, too!
 
9:40 AM
@RegDwigнt Don't push it, croc.
 
10:06 AM
How do you know he's not an alligator @cerb?
 
Oh it's a crocodile alright.
Look at the lower jaw.
 
!!wiki alligator
 
An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The two living species are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). In addition, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains. Alligators first appeared during the Oligocene epoch about 37 million years ago. The name "alligator" is an anglicized form of ', the Spanish term for "the lizard", which early Spanish explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator. Species (extant) File:AmericanAlligator.JPG|American alligator (A. missi...
 
I had specifically looked up the differences before building.
Though of course I have since forgotten them all again.
 
!!wiki crocodiles
 
10:08 AM
Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) or true crocodiles are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Crocodylinae, in which all its members are considered true crocodiles, is classified as a biological subfamily. A broader sense of the term crocodile, Crocodylidae that includes Tomistoma, is not used in this article. The term crocodile here applies only to the species within the subfamily of Crocodylinae. The term is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes Tomistoma...
 
I think one had to do with teeth sticking out.
 
!!google difference between alligator and crocodile
 
10:38 AM
grrr people who can't handwrite $\sigma$ σ, who write 6 instead
 
11:00 AM
Yeah, like writing u for μ.
 
11:19 AM
     struct timeval {
             time_t       tv_sec;   /* seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 */
             suseconds_t  tv_usec;  /* and microseconds */
     };
 
12:01 PM
What is a super-user second, and why is it a thing.
 
I have oft wondered the same thing.
   The type ssize_t shall be capable of storing values  at  least  in  the
       range  [-1, {SSIZE_MAX}].     The  type useconds_t shall be an unsigned
       integer  type  capable  of  storing  values  at  least  in  the   range
       [0, 1000000].  The  type  suseconds_t  shall  be  a signed integer type
       capable of storing values at least in the range [-1, 1000000].
Got it.
It’s signed micro-seconds.
Just as ssize_t is like the unsigned size_t but allows -1, and hence is signed.
They want the -1 for an out-of-band return value, like undef in Perl.
Note that there is a struct timespec that has a tv_nsec where struct timeval has tv_usec.
So nanos.
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Q: second to nanosecond - struct itimerspec

kingsmasher1i am populating the timespec structure. The intention is, user will always enter values in seconds (can also be 0.01 secs), so we are converting the seconds to nanoseconds using: lt_leak_start = atoll(getenv("LT_LEAK_START")) * sec_to_nsec; where variable static long sec_to_nsec = 1000000000; and...

The guy was only off by a few orders of magnitude. How bad could that really be?
I don’t know how real the nanosecond resolution is.
Er, legit.
It’s not a real, it’s a long.
Still doesn’t mean it can be bigger than a billion.
@RegDwigнt But thank you for asking, because I’d been wondering that exact same thing for a long time and never looked it up.
 
12:21 PM
I will ask again on ELU, for super reps.
 
The sousaphone is a brass instrument, related to the tuba and hélicon. It is widely employed in marching band and tanjidor. Designed so that it fits around the body of the musician and is supported by the left shoulder, the sousaphone may be readily played while being carried. The instrument is named after American bandmaster and composer John Philip Sousa, who popularized its use in his band. History The sousaphone was developed in the 1890s at the request of John Philip Sousa, who was unhappy with the hélicons used at that time by the United States Marine Band. The first sousaphone ...
 
Sou est le nom porté par différentes monnaies, de compte ou de règlement, de l'antiquité à nos jours. Le nom trouve son origine dans le solidus. La longévité de son utilisation l'a ancré dans de nombreuses expressions courantes de la langue française. Antiquité romaine Le solidus est une monnaie de 4,5 g d'or créée en 310 par les empereurs Dioclétien puis Constantin. Haut moyen âge Faisant honneur à son nom, la nouvelle monnaie allait gagner sa réputation d'inaltérabilité en traversant presque inchangée le déclin et la chute de l'Empire romain d'Occident, les grandes invasions et...
No English wiki, mind you.
 
SUSE Linux (; ) is a computer operating system. It is built on top of the open source Linux kernel and is distributed with system and application software from other open source projects. SUSE Linux is of German origin and mainly developed in Europe. The first version appeared in early 1994, making SUSE one of the oldest existing commercial distributions. It is known for its YaST configuration tool. Novell bought the SuSE brands and trademarks in 2003. Novell, one of the founding members of the Open Invention Network, decided to make the community an important part of their development pro...
@RegDwigнt Ce n’est pas necessaire pour le lire.
Should be Dr Seuss Linux.
Or Sousalinux.
 
Dr Süß Linux.
 
Damn it I was typing that.
Couldn’t find the eszett on the kb so was running a shell command.
I may have to resort to lyric poetry now.
Well, insofar as Seuss is lyrical.
I am so dumb.
It’s Opt-s for a sharp s of course.
Whereas Opt-b is a long s. Hm.
 
12:29 PM
It makeb benbe.
 
Most of the Mac kb short cuts for non-ASCII are super intuitive.
I should have just gone and tried the most logical thing.
Try reciting this aloud as trochaic tetrameter, reading column-major:

  basal    cresol   eusol    guzzle   mesel    pausal   sizzle   tuzzle
  basil    cresyll  fizzle   haysel   mizzle   phrasal  snoozle  twisel
  bezel    crizzle  foozle   hazel    Mosul    pizzle   snozzle  twizzle
  bezzle   crozzle  frazzle  hazzle   mousle   puzzle   snuzzle  vasal
  bozal    dazzle   frizzle  housal   musal    quisle   sozzle   wasel
  buzzle   deasil   fusil    housel   muzzle   reesle   spousal  weasel
#End of lyric poetry.
And yes, those are all in the OED.
I have no idea what most of them mean.
I just grepped on sounds.
But it is fun to read aloud.
 
If a basal hits a spousal on a snuzzle on a port, and the bus is twizzle-waseled as a very last resort...
 
Danny Kaye!
@RegDwigнt And Geisel did it sans grep no less.
 
I thought it was Ziegler.
!!wiki gene ziegler
 
@RegDwigнt The Wikipedia contains no knowledge of such a thing
 
12:43 PM
Hah.
A thing.
Should've capitalized it, eh.
 
I thought it was Hoober-Bloob.
 
Hooker Boob?
Hail Bopp?
Hypno Toad?
 
Hypnotic Spectre
Synoptic Gospels
 
Go spels, go!
 
This is no Game, Sir.
Nor hex.
HEY!
Why they change our colors???
 
12:50 PM
They changed the yellow the other day, so now they have to change the orange.
 
What order is that?
 
Flags, edits.
Which is so weird.
 
Like, why are flags merely orange and edits red?
You have same weird colors, just other places.
 
12:53 PM
Probably to better fit with the color scheme of some site.
 
Aye, but whose?
Ours??
 
@tchrist yes, hence my question. Why is your order different?
 
I don’t know. I don’t know why yours are split up like that.
But your orange flags still come before your burnt-red edits.
Just separated by extra gunk.
Which extra gunk I have too, so why split?
 
I don't mind the change, as I have stopped reviewing edits on purpose, and the new color makes them all but invisible to me.
 
The contrast is poor.
If I had an HSB sampler handy, I could show that the B was much too close.
Or HSV, whateverz.
Random UI changes.
I always want to fix the edits I review.
 
1:00 PM
@tchrist openSUSE is one of the worst distros I have tried.
 
Cuzza?
 
Well, various bugs now and then. Once there was always pixellation when I opened LibreOffice, rendering it unusable.
Also, unnecessarily difficult to get the internet working.
 
pixel [n.]
pixelate [v.]
pixelated [adj.]
pixelation [n.]
Pixelvision [n.]
 
Ah, single l.
 
@JasperLoy The OED does not appear to countenance your double-barrelled pixels.
You were doubtless misled by all the decoys.
appellation [n.]
† bucceˈllation [n.]
cancellation [n.]
castellation [n.]
compellation [n.]
constellation [n.]
crenellation [n.]
† culteˈllation [n.]
cupellation [n.]
† debeˈllation [n.]
† dueˈllation [n.]
† esteˈllation [n.]
exflagellation [n.]
flabellation [n.]
flagellation [n.]
haustellation [n.]
instellation [n.]
interlamellation [n.]
interpellation [n.]
† marveˈllation [n.]
† meˈllation [n.]
ˌmisappeˈllation [n.]
morcellation [n.]
noise cancellation ← noise [n.]
oceˈllation [n.]
panellation [n.]
 
1:04 PM
:-O
 
They left one out.
fellate [v.] ← fellatio
fellatio [n.]
feˈllator [fem.] ← fellatio
feˈllatory [adj.] ← fellatio
feˈllatrix ← fellatio
 
could you look up a word for me in the oed?
 
I think the second word needs an n at the end of it.
And I believe fellatrix is the feminine, not fellator.
@skullpatrol Maybe.
Oh, I wonder if the [fem] got misapplied in my index.
 
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Q: Uniformalize vs uniformize

skullpatrolIn my standard college dictionary "uniformalize" is listed as rare, while "uniformize" is not listed at all, yet wikipedia is the opposite.

 
Looks like it should have gone with fellatrix all along.
uniform [adj.]
uniform [n.]
uniform [v.]
† uniˈformable [adj.]
uniˈformal [adj.]
uniformaliˈzation [n.]
uniˈformalize [v.]
uniˈformally [adv.] ← uniˈformal
uniforˈmation [n.]
› uniform branch ← uniform
› uniform case, clothes, coat ← uniform
ˈuniformed [adj.]
uniˈforming [vbl. n.]
uniformist [n.]
uniformitarian [n.]
uniformitarianism [n.]
uniformity [n.]
ˌuniformiˈzation ← uniformize
uniformize [v.]
ˈuniformized [ppl. adj.] ← uniformize
ˈuniformizing [vbl. n.] ← uniformize
ˈuniformless [adj.]
ˈuniformly [adv.]
Or do you want me to actually pull out the defs?
uniˈformalize, v. rare.

Etymology: f. uniformal a. + -ize.

trans. To make uniform; to reduce to a uniform system.

1805 Ann. Rev. III. 294 - It is desirable to uniformalize the circulating medium of both countries.
1830 W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry I. 161 - By uniformalizing coins, weights, and measures.
It says "very rare".
 
1:09 PM
whatever you can find out would be appreciated
 
And uniformize is says is “rare”.
uniformize [ˈjuːnɪfɔː˞maɪz], v.

Etymology: f. uniform a. + -ize. Cf. Fr. uniformiser, Pg. -izar, med.L. ūniformisāre.

1 trans. To make uniform; to reduce to a uniform system. rare.

1866 [implied at uniformized below].
1889 Nature Oct. 563 - The formation of..an International Commission to fix units and uniformize methods.

2 Math. To transform (an equation or expression) so that each variable is expressed as a single-valued function of a new parameter; to parameterize.

1899 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. CXCII. 1 - The only automorphic functions known hitherto which have been applied to unifor
At least in sense 1.
In sense 2, it is normal.
 
@tchrist perfect, thank you
 
I need to swap "ː˞" when they appear.
The long mark interferes with my reductions.
 
I tip my hat to your abilty to raise a Catholic, @Cerberus
 
0
Q: Art Imitates Life – Life Imitates Art: Are They One and the Same?

whippoorwillMovie critics frequently say, ‘Art imitates life’ and ‘Life imitates art.’ Are these two phrases synonymous? If not, can you provide an example of each phrase to illustrate the difference? The phrases seem to be used a lot within the realm of the motion picture industry. Thank you.

 
1:13 PM
> uniformize [ˈjuːnɪfɔ˞ːmaɪz], v.
Better!
 
Art imitates life and life imitates art means just that.
 
Now the other reductions will work, too.
> murder [ˈmɝːdə(r)]
 
The real question: does queef imitate fart?
 
@tchrist I couldn't find uniformization in my dictionary, and it sounded strange.
 
@Cerberus Actually I was looking for "squint"
 
1:16 PM
@skullpatrol There is a uniformization theorem for Riemann surfaces.
 
how are you new books, @JasperLoy?
 
    # reduce to pre-ligated versions
    s/ː˞/˞ː/g;
    s/ə˞/ɚ/g;
    s/ɜ˞/ɝ/g;
    print NFKC($_);
 
@JasperLoy Indeed.
 
@MattЭллен They look nice on my shelf, but I intend to read them only when I begin seriously studying, as they are all math books.
 
@JasperLoy You're not tempted to read them anyway? Just to see what they say?
 
1:18 PM
@MattЭллен I browse through them every day.
 
did you get rid of the others?
 
The ˞ is a modifier letter not a combining one, so just sending it back through NFKC for output won’t put Humpty-Dumpty together again.
 
@JasperLoy good, good
 
@skullpatrol Well, I did, sorry.
 
:(
:'(
 
1:19 PM
@skullpatrol Are you currently studying math in an institution?
 
what a waste
:''(
 
> curser /ˈkɝːsə(r)/.
Hm.
 
A curser is one who curses?
Not a cursor I guess.
 
@JasperLoy yes
 
@JasperLoy Well, yes, but a cursor is one who runs.
As in a cursorial hunter.
Or Cursor Mundi.
Cursor Mundi (Latin for "Runner of the World") is an anonymous Middle-English historical and religious poem of nearly 30,000 lines written around 1300 AD. The poem summarizes the history of the world as described in the Christian Bible and other sources, with additional legendary material drawn primarily from the Historia scholastica. It was extremely popular in its time, as the large number of manuscripts in which it is preserved proves. The Cursor Mundi is divided in accordance to the seven ages of salvation history. It was originally written, as certain peculiarities of construction an...
Cursorial hunters are very rare in nature.
The two most famous of which are man and wolf.
Which may explain why we have poodles.
Cursorial hunting, also called endurance hunting, is a hunting strategy practiced by animals that are much slower over short distances than their quarry but have superior endurance over long distances. The hunters will pursue at a relatively measured pace a targeted quarry which in response will make short but high energy sprints to escape. Eventually the relentless pursuit will exhaust the quarry allowing it to be brought down by its pursuers. Wolves, African wild dogs, hyenas, lungless spiders and humans are all animals that are well adapted to using this hunting strategy. See also ...
 
1:26 PM
One thousand one hundred and four
I tire of terrible scores
This game is a timesink
No matter what you think
I will not play threes anymore
 
@JasperLoy Surely you didn’t think cursor were some neologue, did you?
 
@tchrist I only knew that it referred to what you see on the computer screen.
 
It is a word from time immemorial.
Which in English Common Law by definition means it antedates the Conquest.
 
I don't read much, so I have a small vocabulary.
 
Since which time dating your auntie is considered to be in very poor form.
 
1:29 PM
I am now going to testyourvocab.com again to test myself.
 
Sorry, it was July 6th, 1189.
 
hi.
 
hI.
 
quick question- I asked John how old he was. John said 30 but in actual he was 20. Then I said "John. why are you ____ your age?" I thought about "misrepresenting" but it does not imply whether the "falsified age" was more than the actual age or less than that. I need something similar to "overstate".
 
1:33 PM
"in actuality" or "actually". not *"in actual"
 
@MattЭллен noted
 
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A: Verb agreement with two nouns

RegDwigнtLooking at the actual usage stats from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, singular agreement in this construction is possible, but rather uncommon: decades of research has 2 decades of research have 14 decades of [nn*] has 4 decades of [nn*] have 60 centuries of [...

This is complete news to myself.
I would never ever say "months of research has".
But lo and behold, that's what people actually do.
 
@tchrist Wait...before then it was OK?
 
huh
@SandeepDhamija "lieing about" is what I would say.
 
Haha, I was very strict with myself this time, and got 9330 on testyourvocab.com, haha.
 
1:35 PM
@RegDwigнt Nor would I.
 
Note the very strict.
 
We must have read the same books as children.
 
Not in the same language, though.
That's the funny part.
 
@MattЭллен What are you lying about now?
 
@JasperLoy were you whipping yourself at the time?
 
1:35 PM
@MattЭллен I need a word that tell his actual age is lesser than what he told.
 
@MattЭллен Sort of.
 
@tchrist how good I am at spelling
 
@MattЭллен Is that sentence interrogative or exclamatory or declarative or defamatory?
 
@SandeepDhamija "Why have you said you are older than you are?"
@tchrist defamatory
 
ic
 
1:37 PM
@MattЭллен I can rephrase it myself. What i was looking for a word which is similar to "overstating"
 
Lying.
This is a cultural difference.
 
@JasperLoy any classics? or better, what is the most recently published one?
 
What Asians and Indians and Eskimos call being somewhat parsimonious with the truth, we in English call lying.
Fabulation.
Fabrication.
 
@SandeepDhamija overstating is fine
 
Embellishment, and not in a pretty way.
 
1:39 PM
@MattЭллен hortatory. jussive. pejorative.
 
Boasting.
Braggart.
 
@Mitch Well, they are the books I told you about last time. Cohn's Classic Algebra, Cohn's Basic Algebra, Cohn's Further Algebra and Applications, Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis, Rudin's Real and Complex Analysis, Rudin's Functional Analysis, Lee's Introduction to Topological Manifolds, Lee's Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, Lee's Riemannian Manifolds, lol. I had some softcover versions but this time I got the hardbacks.
 
Embroiderer.
 
@SandeepDhamija as an aside less, not lesser. At your level you can use as a rule of thumb that the word lesser does not exist.
 
Spinner of webs of deceit.
Dissembling.
 
1:40 PM
Hello Everyone!
 
Puffery.
Fudge factor.
In the end, it all comes down to the same thing: lying.
 
@Utkarsh Hi! What brings you here?
 
@JasperLoy My Boredom
 
@JasperLoy Nice. I didn't hear the titles before. I am vaguely aware of those, but not Lee.
 
@RegDwigнt Did you read Hesse in Russian, German, or English?
 
1:45 PM
@Mitch Cohn was a classic, Rudin is a classic and Lee is becoming a classic.
@tchrist I watched the movie Siddhartha, but did not read the book by Hesse.
 
anbe o
 
a be. be doesn't start with a vowel sound
 
@tchrist I never read Hesse.
 
@JasperLoy Spoiler alert: the dog dies at the end.
Shit. That's Marley and me. I get them confused all the time.
 
@Mitch I have forgotten all about the movie, lol.
 
1:51 PM
I do that all the time. It's kinda nice because it allows me to enjoy it all over again.
 
OK, I just answered a simple question, please don't kill me, lol.
 
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Q: Is this is a proper sentence

user67092 Still I am unable to access the svn. I have attached the screen shots so that whether we are doing any mistake from our end. Please let us know.

roof preading
 
@JasperLoy Wow...is there anything else to math? Algebra, Analysis, Topology. Everything else is just commentary.
 
@Mitch adding up and taking away
 
@Mitch Well, these are the three big branches. I chose the nine books because they more or less cover the qualifying exam syllabuses in most places.
 
1:55 PM
@RegDwigнt Oh. You’re supposed to read Demian as a teen and Steppenwolf when you hit middle age. Not sure when the others are supposed to be read.
I read them all in college.
Some Mann.
 
@MattЭллен ooh...I know one...multiplying. there's another one...
 
@Mitch there's that thing like halving but with any number
 
@tchrist And Siddartha when you are born and dying.
 
@tchrist I know, which is precisely why I don't read Hesse. I missed all the marks.
 
@RegDwigнt You still have time for Steppenwolf.
 
1:57 PM
@MattЭллен ??? That makes no sense. ??? Why would that even be a thing?
 
I wonder whether it would take on new meaning now. Hm.
 
Just don't multiply by two to begin with.
 
@Mitch << 1
 
@tchrist I listen to Born to be Wild thrice a day. That not enuff?
 
Were you Born Free?
 
1:58 PM
@Mitch for cutting up pies
 
I was not born in the USA, so I got the Springsteen Seal of Approval.
 
@tchrist No that book is too long. Like War and Peace, with historical annotations, read one word a day.
 
I think Africa would have sufficed.
 
I have ranked the continents in terms of quality of life.
 
I was also not made in England, so I got the Elton John Seal of Approval as well.
 
1:59 PM
@MattЭллен Ohhhh... knifematics.
 
@Mitch Steppenwolf is long? What, are you on drugs? Try Das Glasperlenspiel.
 
Try Der Proceß.
 
From best to worst, Europe, North America, Australia, South America, Asia, Africa, lol.
 
@Robusto I'm sorry, what?
 
@JasperLoy That is correct. Lol is the worst.
 

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