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12:02 AM
Hello @JSBձոգչ you look very good in the last photo you posted.
 
@JasperLoy thanks
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 That was my reaction too.
 
Surprisingly cheap.
Though I suppose the balloons are not included.
 
Wut?
 
12:11 AM
I'm in the market for a big wad of balloons.
Wot wut?
 
I am not opposed to the idea, but why did they make Robusto room owner?
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Balloons not included? What kinda scam is that?
 
@JasperLoy Dunno.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 We both grow older this month!
 
@Robusto They would overcharge for that.
@JasperLoy Indeed.
 
12:15 AM
@JasperLoy Everyone does. 'Cept the dead. And even they sorta do.
 
12:43 AM
lies. I did not grow older this month.
I just now shaved and am 15 again.
 
12:54 AM
You and Ice Girl should get together.
 
Ice Girl is not 10, maybe 20, but hey still OK.
@GeorgePompidou Which parts did you shave?
 
sighs
walks away
but I did grow older this month. and last month. two months ago, it was the anniversary of my birth even!
 
1:13 AM
I grow old, I grow old
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
 
I got a star, fascinating.
 
1:28 AM
I get lots of stars.
 
@GnomeSlice Do you have a girlfriend?
 
Take a guess
 
No.
 
ding ding ding
 
Haha. I never did either.
 
1:30 AM
that makes no sense!
not the girlfriend thing.
the older thing that Robusto said.
the girl thing makes sense but is a weird exchange. unless there's some weird thing about GnomeSlice I do not know that prevents him from having a girlfriend, I cannot see why the guess would be so easy.
incidentally, my girlfriend's date of birth celebration was yesterday. she is a year older than she was on her last celebration of date of birth.
which is exactly what I was talking about before that happened to me.
Robusto's thing is from… something in middle school.
poofrock!
the love song of Alfred Prufrock but it's more fun to say Poofrock
 
@JasperLoy s/did/have/
 
2:02 AM
bakes a pizza
some meanie downvoted me but I feel better because FumbleFingers upvoted me and said it was an injustice. ☺️
 
2:23 AM
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A: What part of speech is “there” when used in “There is (blah blah)”?

JasperThe way you punctuated your question is the way that most English teachers and grammarians prefer. As you noticed, this results in inaccurate quotations. As a computer programmer, I find it essential to maintain the accuracy of quotations. Thus, like many other computer programmers, I studious...

What is a grammarian?
 
@tchrist That is not me though.
 
awaits proof
> One versed in the knowledge of grammar, or of language generally; a philologist; often signifying also a writer upon, or teacher of grammar.
You should have used one of those instead.
 
@tchrist John Lawler
 
He's a linguist.
 
2:30 AM
he's a cool guy is what he is. 😎
but it says on his profile grammarian.
 
I am a lunatic.
 
so I can go with that too.
 
I am a banana.
 
now everyone will know your secret.
 
😄💀😄
 
2:35 AM
My spoon is too big.
 
My anus is bleeding.
 
@GnomeSlice I have piles too.
 
my spoon…
is too big.
 
Just in case anybody is unaware of what's happening
 
🙈🙉🙊
 
2:53 AM
I'm glad we're all up to date on late 90s internet memes
 
is a late 90s kid
but that's definitely not from the late 90s.
 
is an old man
 
more 2007-8
 
The three monkeys are much older than that.
 
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Q: Have it assured rules of English intonation?

user3724939I read some articles,and i can not find the really rules in America English.

pahahaha
this is gold!
 
2:59 AM
Hahaha
OMG OMG LOL LOL
 
@GeorgePompidou You'll have to explain how I saw it in 2001 then
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Are you going to have a third child?
 
those advertisements weren't even made until 2004 @Mr.ShinyandNew安宇
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 so, probably lots of LSD.
is my comment going to get me in trouble for making fun of someone?
 
Or pot?
 
if it's like crazy hallucination pot, then yeah.
but you should definitely switch dealers in that case.
 
3:03 AM
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Q: How to distinguish "can" and "can't" pronunciation in America English?

user3724939I am a student of China,and begin to learn America English. I have listened some video and I found it is hard to distinguish "can" and "can,t". who can give me suggestions by experience,tks very much

 
@GeorgePompidou it says 1999 in the video itself
@JasperLoy no
 
@JasperLoy that one's not as hilarious. just a struggle. I gave him a youtube video for an answer.
poor guy.
 
KnowYourMeme says it's from 2000
Facts! The bane of @GeorgePompidou's existence
 
damn, defeated by facts again.
waves tiny white flag
 
@GeorgePompidou You should not confuse him with that stupid comment
 
3:11 AM
@Kit Thanks!!
 
@GeorgePompidou You really should remove that mountain lair comment.
 
his question is going to be deleted anyway.
huh. I guess someone didn't like my answer. I think it's better nonetheless; the other one the poor guy won't even understand.
@tchrist good call on airline choice. they have fun animals on all their planes ^.^
like that happy fox.
 
3:26 AM
> I think it points out very well that many times in quick American English, can't is pronounced like you'd expect can to, and can gets much shorter—this is also the best thing I'd have thought of on my own.
1. That sentence is not grammatical.
2. It is also hardly something you thought of on your own: it is precisely what the other answer had already said.
3. Yours is not an answer.
 
@JasperLoy I have but one vote.
But that which I have, I give to thee.
 
@tchrist yeah, but the question will either be closed or moved, and mine helps the asker immediately.
I stand by it, because I did something for the guy rather than throw some confusing characters at him.
 
@GeorgePompidou I find your answer a bit confusing. If I didn't already know what you were trying to say I wouldn't be able to decipher it.
 
and in the end, helping the asker is more important than pleasing a guy named Tom.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 gah! well tough titties then. I'm going to sleep.
fix it if you really have a problem with it.
 
3:36 AM
I'm okay with letting it stand as it is, attracting downvotes.
 
let's see how many.
I could try to be a record holder.
 
Sadly it's not bad enough to warrant that.
Also anything that warrants downvote-record-breaking usually also warrants summary-deletion-by-mod
So... good luck.
There, I helped it along. USA! USA!
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Or tertiary deletion by trustees.
 
I couldn’t find a word to indicate by three trusted users.
I can’t call it triassic, considering how cretaceous it is.
But I am happy to let the flies do battle.
 
3:49 AM
aaahh, ok. three delete votes. hm.
 
That is not my stone to cast today.
In fact, if it gets negative enough, I’d even be willing to undelete it. :)=
 
@tchrist I want to use "trially" for that.
triadically
ternarily
The OED lists ternal, so why not ternally
wait, we need adjectives. ternal should do
So one of my "Facebook friends" has started posting bikini selfies of herself.
I don't know what to make of it.
I almost wonder if she knows we can see what she's posting?
 
Well, she does or she doesn’t.
But even she doesn’t, hm.
I’m going back to a vote-only lifestyle.
 
4:06 AM
The other day she posted a pic of herself sunbathing topless (face down, so it was safe-for-fb). Of the 100+ people I have on FB, she is the only one who does that.
Sure, sometimes people post holiday pics or beach pics and they happen to be wearing swimsuits. But her latest pic is a selfie in bikini in her bathroom.
 
they love the attention
the applause
 
I'm trying to decide if her pics are more, or less, annoying than my cousin's random posts, like "Ooh, you know better than to mess with me!" or "Some people should learn when to shut up" or whatever.
@skullpatrol yeah but from what I can see she gets zero comments or likes for these photos.
 
as long as people are talking about them, they are happy
 
But there's no evidence that people are.
She doesn't know about this conversation.
 
I'm sure she expects people to talk.
Isn't there a classic novel called Great Expectations?
 
4:15 AM
I've just looked at her postings for the last 3 weeks. There is one pic of her daughter, one pic of her in the bathroom (mirror selfie), two pics of her in the bathroom in a bikini, and the topless one I mentioned earlier, along with approx 9000 re-shares of random crap.
And the oldest bikini pic is now up to 8 likes, so I guess she's getting her positive feedback.
Time to put this to rest.
unfriends her
 
congrats :-)
 
@GeorgePompidou Just because you’re a typical American who doesn’t understand even basic IPA doesn’t mean that it is reasonable to assume that an international student would not. In fact, in my estimation, they are a great deal more likely to understand it than someone like you is.
 
By the definition of the "I" in IPA :)
 
5:07 AM
Morning.
 
hi pal
 
It's 7 AM and I've just come back from a birthday party.
Tom would have gone nuts. Or fallen asleep, rather.
 
Tom who?
 
@Cerberus you're still up?
if Cerb is still up and it's 7am, and Mr. Shiny and New is here to see it, it means Mr. Shiny and New needs to go to bed. bye!
 
later pal
 
5:13 AM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Haha, am I your clock?
@skullpatrol Tchrist.
 
icic
 
nods
 
5:25 AM
shouldn't that be times 3? :-)
 
times 3
It should.
 
or do you prefer exponentiation?
the cube of nods ...
... sounds poetic.
 
5:44 AM
My heads are alas not exponential.
I am not my near sister Hydria!
 
Hydra were cool to observe in biology...
 
5:59 AM
The plural is hydrae or hydriae.
 
Thanks :)
 
6:16 AM
That awkward moment when...
 
7:09 AM
You are early @MattЭллен
 
you are here late
I am exactly where I'm meant to be! /Gandalf
 
early bird gets the worm /Bird
 
Uh Canada gooses go to US becas it too cold to survivable? Why not think of that BEFORE they be born in Canadan? If that even a real country
my favourite bird
 
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A: What is the meaning of "... to felicit you ..."

Jasper LoyHe might have meant facilitate you and your work. The only way to know for sure is to ask him.

I think my guess is right.
 
maybe
certainly asking the cow orker and not us is the best plan.
 
7:16 AM
cow?
 
cow orkers
it's a pun
 
Whoosh!
 
maybe "cow orca" would be better
 
icic
perhaps
 
That would be those black-and-white cows, presumably.
 
7:21 AM
whose language is close to English ;)
 
An orca is a whale.
 
a cow orca is a female killer whale
 
@AndrewLeach Do you currently have a beard?
 
so ask a female killer whale?
 
full of wisdom
 
7:24 AM
their brains are bigger than ours
 
their teeth are sharper, too
 
and they can swim faster
 
sounds like orcas should be in charge!
but we can run faster, and climb trees better
 
ask an orca to climb a tree and it will feel stupid all its life
 
It's terribly hot here.
 
7:27 AM
how many Celsius?
 
No idea. But the aircon usually leaks when this happens.
 
oh dear
 
My mum put a pail below it to collect water.
 
Advicetip to gradulates: congrandulation, now you can spread your wings and soarOH WAIT I SORRY YOU CAN'T. Arms not so fancy now are they???
 
WTF is he?
 
7:32 AM
he's a robin who tweets about the issues faced by birds
 
I am looking for simple questions to answer.
 
> hell i'm yang and i'm not gay.
Wut.
 
indeed
 
Oh he means hello, I suppose.
 
7:44 AM
ah. probably
 
Well then it's fine. The rest is a sensible warning.
 
Warning to who?
 
Jul 30 '13 at 21:16, by RegDwighт
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@JasperLoy to the people who would drag him to a cockpit that might be a gay bar. Or drag queens for short.
 
@RegDwigнt Ah, I thought you would say warning to me, lol.
 
@JasperLoy well, would you or would you not drag him to a cockpit that might be a gay bar?
 
7:46 AM
@RegDwigнt I would not, since I am not gay.
 
Okay then the warning does not apply to you indeed.
 
Are you homophobic?
 
Who?
 
@RegDwigнt You should make your comment on late an answer.
 
@JasperLoy I dunno if it's too basic. Or too half-assed.
@skullpatrol homos will totally get you fired. So beware.
 
7:48 AM
I like to give one line answers a lot.
 
Right. So does Barry.
 
You mean Barrie, lol.
 
lol
 
olo
looks like a fishman
 
My excessive consumption of coffee is causing much reflux.
 
7:54 AM
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A: Does the word 'late' comes in a bad sense?

RegDwigнtBeing late is not a good thing. In pretty much any culture, I guess. But the word "late" is neutral. For starters, it has more than one meaning, and can be more "pleasant and wanted" than the alternatives. "Late Nelson Mandela" is much preferred over "dead Nelson Mandela". Same for later. It cou...

There, just for you.
No seriously, just for you.
 
@RegDwigнt Delete your comment.
 
@JasperLoy I deleted it before posting the answer. Delete your cash.
Sorry, I mean cache.
Man, that video is quite awful.
I didn't realize just how much Ms. Minogue likes to make that half-stupid half-drugged face...
Now it strikes me that she does it in like every second video of hers.
@JasperLoy I didn't want the NSA to know who I was talking about. Now you spoiled it!
 
National Socialist America
 
That is thought crime.
 
Maybe I'll be sent to thought prison!
 
8:03 AM
More like a prison nobody dares to think of.
 
Oh dear. I dare not think.
 
And she said, "dear John I'm moving on
By this time I'm gonna be long gone
Dear John c'est la vie
Dear John so long
You've seen the last of me".
 
@RegDwigнt Have you finally watched Sommersturm?
 
@JasperLoy no, but I was thinking about it just the other week.
 
Title of question does not match body of question:
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Q: How to Divorce my wife

ParkFallsHow do I kill my wife? I married a assassin girl thing and if I attack her in my house will she attack back? Or will my housecarl then attack me? I'm stumped

 
8:09 AM
Meh.
 
Call the police.
 
Ever since the "when is a corpse safe to eat" that site has been all about copycatting.
Everyone tries to recreate its success, and everyone is failing.
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Q: How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat?

Larry WangI am a human wizard, and I just killed a monster, leaving a corpse on the ground. How do I tell whether it is safe to eat this corpse? I leave the monster unspecified because I am interested in "how can I figure out whether this is edible," rather than whether any particular monster is edible. L...

 
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Q: Late/early for numbers other than age/year

painfulenglishWhen referring to age or to periods in time, it is quite common to use expressions such as He is in his late twenties or The best music was produced in the early eighties I have recently heard somebody use it in the sense of The number of shoes I own is in the late thirties/ear...

LOL
 
yeah. also "how to divorce my wife" has been answered before. slightly different question, though
 
It's all pretense anyway. Real nerds are more interested in "how to get a wife in the first place".
 
8:13 AM
:D
@JasperLoy your answer might be better as a comment. (the question might be better off closed)
 
@MattЭллен You can do what you deem fit.
 
@JasperLoy your answer might be better as a video.
May 16 at 14:44, by RegDwigнt
 
@RegDwigнt The woman is quite pretty.
 
More arguments in favor of converting it.
 
I heard an Italian song with felicita in it too.
 
8:19 AM
@Matt might deem it fit but my gosh he just doesn't know it.
 
BTW, gosh is Austrian for "piehole".
And of course French for "left".
 
piehole being British for mouth
left being AmE for communist
 
Yes and yes.
Shut your gosh and listen: at the end of the street you have to turn to the gosh.
 
shuts his communist. turns to the piehole
 
8:33 AM
Good boy, have some langosh.
Lángos (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlaːŋɡoʃ]) is a Hungarian food speciality, a deep fried flatbread made of a dough with flour, yeast, salt and water. It is also traditionally made in Vojvodina, where it was introduced by the local Hungarians. == Variations == Lángos is a dough made of water or milk and flour, with a dash of sugar and salt and fried in oil. Adding sour cream, yogurt or mashed potatoes to the dough is optional, in the latter case it is called Potato Lángos (in Hungarian krumplis lángos). It is eaten fresh and warm, topped with sour cream and grated cheese, or Liptauer, ham...
 
mmmm. bready
 
> Lángos is a dough made of water or milk and flour, with a dash of sugar and salt and fried in oil.
The second time around they forgot yeast.
 
it's a variation
 
I thought yeast was the whole point of lángos. Perhaps @marthaª can comment on that.
 
8:36 AM
looks more like Vegeta
 
I ate a lángos just three days ago. The one pictured, actually. With sour cream with herbs and grated cheese.
It cost a frigging 4 Euro. Cheaper to just fly to Hungary.
 
I have gone to Hungary in my mind.
 
It only costs less than 4 Euros to fly to Hungary?
 
@skullpatrol as always the case with jokes, there's a grain of truth to it. I think Ryanair actually lets you fly for free.
Or they have to charge a symbolic price according to some law, so they just charge one buck.
 
I wonder what people think when they always see that I start from 0 rep. They must be confused, lol.
 
8:43 AM
@RegDwigнt If you bring back some langos with you, you could make money on the deal :)
 
Good thinking.
Lángos and LEGO.
 
Legolas.
 
Both cheaper in Hungary.
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Q: Have it assured rules of English intonation?

user3724939I read some articles,and i can not find the really rules in America English.

Okay, here I can't even guess at the intended meaning...
 
I can guess.
"Are there standard rules of intonation in English?"
 
8:50 AM
I was just going to say "but Jasper can".
Because the OP probably lives across the floor from him.
 
"I read some articles, and I cannot find standard rules in American English."
 
Excellent.
So the answer is yes and yes.
 
yes?
 
Yes.
 
yes.
 
8:52 AM
Yes there are standard rules, and yes you cannot find them.
 
yes
 
Who would write down intonation and to what end? You just listen to a random American movie and there you go, there's your intonation.
 
Here are three intonations:
1 min ago, by skullpatrol
yes?
1 min ago, by skullpatrol
yes.
1 min ago, by skullpatrol
yes
 
By definition, you can't learn intonation from writing.
Get a coach, or rent a video.
Google will not teach you shit.
 
You can learn tone.
 
8:55 AM
No you cannot. I have been reading all about tone for decades. I still can't say "ma" to mean "mother", it still comes out to mean "horse".
 
Define: tone.
 
Well you define it, then. You used it first.
 
how angry you sound
 
I'm just going with the flow.
@MattЭллен Greek.
It goes from one to eleven, then Romanian, then Greek.
 
where is passive agressive on that scale?
 
8:58 AM
@RegDwigнt Some writing styles have a different tone than others.
 
@MattЭллен around minus two.
 
meeting, bbl
 
later
 
Russian borrowed meeting to mean "demonstration". As in, a public protest, not a tool demo.
 
9:42 AM
When there's written $\int_{[a,b]}f(x)d\lambda(x)$ for a Lebesgue integral, what is $\lambda$?
is it a "mesure" (in French), measure?
the counting measure on $([a,b], \mathcal P ([a,b]))$
 
you are in the ELU room, but i think the answer is yes :)
 
o indeed sorry
 
a measure is still abstract to me
La théorie de la mesure est la branche des mathématiques qui traite des espaces mesurés et est le fondement axiomatique de la théorie des probabilités. == Histoire == En 1894, Émile Borel énonce la première définition d'ensemble négligeable. En 1897, il définit les ensembles mesurables. En 1901, Henri-Léon Lebesgue introduit la notion de mesure. La théorie se développe jusque dans les années 1950. Andreï Kolmogorov proposera une axiomatisation du calcul des probabilités basée notamment sur l'intégrale définie à partir d'une mesure. Lebesgue et ses successeurs ont été amenés à généraliser la notion...
 
Try to relate it to what physicists call "measurement."
 
9:49 AM
All I can relate to is on the Real line, \lambda([a,b]) = b - a, is the length of an intervalle
 
yes, length is a measurable quantity
the length from 0 to b minus the length from 0 to a is b - a
b - a is the difference between the two measurements of length
 
or from -\infty to a to -\infty to b
 
that^ requires a formal definition of "infinity"
you can not "measure" infinity
 
In mathematics, the affinely extended real number system is obtained from the real number system R by adding two elements: +∞ and −∞ (read as positive infinity and negative infinity respectively). These new elements are not real numbers. It is useful in describing various limiting behaviors in calculus and mathematical analysis, especially in the theory of measure and integration. The affinely extended real number system is denoted R or [−∞, +∞]. When the meaning is clear from context, the symbol +∞ is often written simply as ∞. == Motivation == === Limits === We often wish to describe ...
I live at \infty Nach street
 
These new elements are not real numbers.
 
9:55 AM
yes, right, hm
 
Physicist MEASURE only real numbers.
 
I was meaning \int_[-\infty,a] f - \int_[-\infty,b] f = \int_[a,b] f
you can deal with infinite values on the sets where you integrate
 
@nosmoking sorry, I changed it to MEASURE
 

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