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2:00 PM
@skullpatrol Hmm, but I don't see any bullying there. Who bullied him?
 
The bully is gone to.
Two or three years ago.
It was sad to watch.
I think they were both grad students
Or post docs
Like you said @JasperLoy it could have all been an exaggeration, you never know on the internet.
 
@skullpatrol Yes. But I can tell you that my mental illness and suffering is not an exaggeration.
 
Did you contact your doctor @JasperLoy?
 
@skullpatrol Nope. I currently don't intend to go back anymore. I will figure it out myself.
 
Why?
 
2:08 PM
@JasperLoy I don't think you have read the insults that Jeff deleted later.
 
@Cerberus Alright.
 
I don't easily forget unfair treatment from people who have power over me.
 
@skullpatrol I don't think they will help. I might look for a counsellor somewhere else if needed.
 
Ok, as long as you can find some kind of help pal @JasperLoy
You can ask your family doctor to recommend you to a counsellor @JasperLoy at least you will have a real life person to talk to.
 
@skullpatrol Well, I know where to look for free counselling.
 
2:14 PM
Where?
 
Here in Antarctica of course.
 
:D
Penguins?
 
@Cerberus Could you give me one example?
 
I don't remember the exact wording, it was many years ago.
Our whole site was crap.
 
OK.
 
2:18 PM
The community sucked.
 
Was there swearing?
 
I don't remember, does it matter?
It's the content that counts.
 
Sometimes that pushes people over the edge...
...but yes racist content can do it to.
 
What pushes me over the edge is when people say I am lazy and unmotivated to get well.
 
Like George did to me.
 
2:23 PM
Oh well, I am fine with George now. Try to make up with him.
 
Calling asians retarted is unforgivable
 
Are you Asian?
 
user136984
I have a SOH!
 
user136984
I think anyway...
 
@Toroidal What is SOH?
 
user136984
2:25 PM
Sense of Humour apparently...
 
user136984
SMH!
 
Putting in my $0.02 because I don't think this comment chain is long enough yet. — Robusto 1 min ago
 
@Toroidal It's weird to pop in and say that all of a sudden.
 
user136984
SMH!
 
user136984
(Shake My Hand)
 
user136984
2:26 PM
I think anyway...
 
@Cerberus Recently? Or historically?
 
@Toroidal Are you OK?
@Robusto Historically.
 
user136984
@JasperLoy: Y
 
@Toroidal I don't understand why you come in and say these random things. So there must be a problem.
 
user136984
2B~not2B
 
user136984
2:28 PM
That ain't not why!
 
user136984
I have gone crazy reading this guide for too long...: netlingo.com/acronyms.php
 
@Cerberus Usually you say "festive environment" or "festive atmosphere" when it comes to weddings, parties, holidays?
 
user136984
YOLO!
 
@Robusto Now that should be flagged as unconstructive.
 
@Robusto Several years ago.
 
2:31 PM
@Cerberus Clearly you are still disturbed by it.
 
user136984
2G2B4G
 
@JasperLoy You're so censorious.
 
@Boris_yo Those mean slightly different things, but you most likely mean festive atmosphere.
 
user136984
Oh dear... I cannot remember for the life of me what I just said...
 
@JasperLoy Not disturbed.
 
2:32 PM
What's wrong with Toroidal?
 
It's just the reason why I distrust the central organisation of Stack Exchange.
 
@Cerberus Hey, the euro is so cheap I might come and visit y'all Eurotrash this year.
Wapo says Europe is in a depression worse than the one in the 1930s.
 
@Cerberus "Besides to adding touch to the festive atmosphere" - how's that for grammar?
Not sure I need "the"...
 
@Robusto Yay! We will present all our trash to you.
The crisis is over in Europe, in fact.
The economy has been growing in most places for a while now.
 
@Robusto Don't come visiting my place. Nothing worth seeing.
 
2:34 PM
No fear, Jasper.
 
@Boris_yo I don't know what it is supposed to mean, but it sounds wrong.
 
I am notorious for never wishing to take a 20-hour plane trip to visit a too-hot country with an oppressive government.
 
@Cerberus Here's it's about adding something to event's environment that would make it more beautiful.
 
Okay.
What is the complete sentence?
> In a study about ticket prices for concerts, the Princeton economist Alan B. Krueger found that between 1983 and 2003, a period in which MTV, Napster, the iPod and other technologies extended the reach of top acts, the share of concert revenue taken by the top 5 percent of artists increased to 84 percent, from 62 percent.
This is interesting, but it makes sense.
 
@Boris_yo Maybe you mean "Besides adding a touch of festive atmosphere . . . "
 
2:37 PM
@Robusto I want to say that besides adding a touch to your wedding's atmosphere, this can also be used for something else.
I wnt to emphasize that this gift does not only serve decorative purpose but other.
 
Then why not say that?
 
> “Bewitched,” starring Nicole Kidman, cost an estimated $85 million and had taken in only about $62 million at the American box office by late 2005. Yet there is a bedrock belief that the winning formula consists of the right star in the right movie.
 
@Robusto It's not just how I say but how I spell.
@Robusto Wait, I want to add a touch to already festive atmosphere.
 
A touch of what?
 
@Robusto Of beauty, decorativity...
 
2:40 PM
Then add "a beautiful touch to an already festive atmosphere" and go on about your business.
 
Do I have to write "already"?
 
No. But it might help.
 
How about this:

"By adding touch to event's festive atmosphere ... "
 
No.
If you say "touch" and not "a touch" it implies that you are talking about one of the five senses.
I take it you're Russian.
You really need to get hip to articles in English.
 
Because I am Boris? Yes.
 
2:45 PM
No, not because you're Boris. Because you eschew articles.
 
What do you mean?
 
Do you know what articles are?
 
Yes. Our everyday articles we find in newspapers and internet.
But I don't avoid articles.
 
No. Articles like "a", "an", and "the".
"By adding [a] touch to [the, an] event's festive atmosphere . . ."
An article (abbreviated ART) is a word (or prefix or suffix) that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. Articles specify grammatical definiteness of the noun, in some languages extending to volume or numerical scope. The articles in the English language are the and a/an, and (in certain contexts) some. 'An' and 'a' are modern forms of the Old English 'an', which in Anglian dialects was the number 'one' (compare 'on', in Saxon dialects) and survived into Modern Scots as the number 'ane'. Both 'on' (respelled 'one' by the Normans) and 'an' survived into Modern...
 
@Robusto Understand. I also suck at conjunctions and prepositions...
 
2:57 PM
@Boris_yo Я не говорю по-русски.
 
@Robusto No comrade?
 
Я полностью не владеющие русским, товарищ.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Did you try your nose?
 
Are you pulling his nose?
Or his leg?
 
3:17 PM
His leg. He may pull his own nose himself.
 
user136984
Why does the description of this chat assume that everyone here is a dog? "No barking while people are trying to sleep."
 
Who says it assumes everyone is a dog? The chat description addresses only those who identify as dogs.
3
 
user136984
Ahh.
 
19 hours ago, by Cerberus
woof
See?
 
user136984
Yes
 
user136984
3:23 PM
What about cats though that make noises while people are sleeping, are they allowed?
 
We haven't encountered that particular problem yet. If we do, we may amend the sign.
 
user136984
Ok
 
3:39 PM
@Robusto "Fragment: Consider Revising"

This is what I have for one of sentences in Word 2007. Do you know what is the problem?
 
@Boris_yo What's the sentence?
 
@terdon Excellent as wedding favor, general party favor, gift for dinner hosts or classy prize to bestow upon wine tasting guests
 
Which is, presumably, the description of some product or other, right?
What's a "wedding favor"? Do you mean a wedding gift?
 
@terdon Yes it is. Is there no such thing as wedding favor? Favor and gift is same?
 
@Boris_yo No, not at all.
 
3:47 PM
Isn't favor about saying thanks for accepting invitation or something?
Kind of conditional gift?
 
@Boris_yo Yes. The problem is you're using Word's grammar checker. Stop that.
 
Well, there is a meaning like that, yes.
 
@Robusto This grammar is better than me. There is no other better I know of. Can you recommend?
 
@Robusto would you understand wedding favor as a gift? Or a concession of some sort?
 
It will only confuse and confound you further.
@terdon It's a small token gift for attendance at an event.
 
3:51 PM
@Robusto OK. I didn't know that meaning.
I was thinking of favor as in she gave the knight her favor. I guess that's where it comes from.
By the way, seals also bark.
 
Yes, I know.
I once had a girlfriend who lived in a high-rise overlooking the Lincoln Park zoo. We were sleeping with the window open one night and could hear the seals in the zoo. She pointed that out to me, and I recited the caption to the cartoon above.
See, I was a cut-up even in my 20s.
 
In that case, perhaps @Boris_yo could say something like "Excellent as a wedding or party favor, a gift for dinner hosts or a classy prize to bestow upon wine tasting guests."
@Robusto Wow, you mean that even back then, you couldn't come up with your own, original material?
 
@terdon "The young poet mimics; the mature poet plagiarizes." — T. S. Eliot
 
Fine, cite antisemitic geniuses at me.
Good line though.
 
@Robusto Like the boy who cried wolf?
 
3:57 PM
Do wolves bark? They probably do.
 
In any case, it was a witty reference. When one is spent from making love to a beautiful woman one may be forgiven for not cranking out original witticisms.
@terdon Wolves howl. And growl.
 
And also bark, apparently.
A bark is a sound most commonly produced by dogs. Other animals that make this noise include wolves, pinnipeds, foxes and quolls. Woof is the most common representation in the English language for this sound, especially for large dogs. Other transliterations include the onomatopoeic ruff, arf, au au, bow-wow, and, for small dogs, yip. “Bark” is also a verb that describes the sharp explosive cry of certain animals. == Barking in dogs == Dog barking is distinct from wolf barking. Wolf barks compose only 2.3% of all wolf vocalizations and are described as “rare” occurrences. According to Schassburger...
 
I have never known a wolf, so I could not tell you.
> Wolf barks compose only 2.3% of all wolf vocalizations and are described as “rare” occurrences.
I think they meant comprise there.
Stupid Wikipedia authors.
 
@Robusto Maybe they were thinking musically.
 
If they were Stephen Sondheim, perhaps.
 
3:59 PM
@Robusto I mean you thought your girlfriend "Cried a wolf" and that's why you said seals bark?
 
Into the Woods is a musical that includes lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway on November 5, 1987. Bernadette Peters's performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim to the production during its original Broadway run. Into the Woods won several Tony Awards, including Best Score, Best Book, and Best Actress in a Musical (Joanna Gleason), in a year dominated by The Phantom of the Opera. The musical has been produced many times, with a 1988 US national tour...
@Boris_yo Whoa, easy on the articles. You don't need one there. It's "cry wolf" not "cry a wolf."
 
@Robusto There, fixed.
 
Thanks.

:Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Da Vinci
@Robusto Alright. Can you recommend me software that would help me?
Not long ago there was software advertised all over the internet ...
 
I cannot. I have never used software for learning English.
 
@Robusto I need something better than Office.
 
4:01 PM
Everyone needs something better than Office.
 
@Boris_yo duolingo.com
 
4:16 PM
@Robusto Everyone who is trying to get better at English?
I grew up on Cartoon Network, living in former USSR part...
 
You could try being born with parents who speak English. That takes a lot of work though
Livemocha
 
@Mitch What?
Being born or raised?
 
Raised
 
Born too. Can't be easy. It certainly isn't for the mother.
 
Ha ha!
 
4:28 PM
in Ask Ubuntu General Room, 18 hours ago, by hbdgaf
"AAAAA - American Association Against Acronym Abuse"
snort
 
tee hee
snerkle
Wait... I got milk up my nose.
 
Well, snort then!
 
I find cartoons hard because of the word play,
When learning a language everything is literal
 
5:12 PM
@Mitch Depends on cartoons you watch.
 
5:39 PM
@Boris_yo which ones do you find good?
 
5:50 PM
Hello.
Is it appropriate to suggest presents to people when you are graduating?
My friend is getting her PhD, and the invitation has "present tips"...being (exclusively) to give her an (unspecified) amount of money to buy a couch.
 
@Cerberus Are you graduating?
 
She should be glad we are willing to come and listen to her (probably very boring) thing!
 
@Cerberus Ugh. In my experience, the friends get together and decide on something. What you describe sounds depressingly materialist.
 
Indeed.
 
Like the new fashion of including bank details in marriage invitations.
 
5:53 PM
Haha yes.
It's horrible.
But I wasn't even talking about the vulgarity of the money thing yet.
I mean the mere suggestion of presents for a PhD ceremony.
There is no actual party.
There will be "drinks" following the ceremony around 4PM, but that's not exactly a graduation party.
 
4PM?
4PM?
 
Free diptych inspection now available here:
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A: A series of three is 'trilogy'. A series of two is______?

tchristDiptychs, duologies, series, cycles, and sagas TL;DR: Use diptych for one novel published in two halves, duology for two completely different but still ordered novels, but simply use series if ordering doesn’t matter. Less commonly used words for related collections include cycle, saga, and leg...

 
Man, you northern types and your hours.
 
Yes, well, the ceremony starts at 14:00.
How do you mean our hours?
At what time would your graduation take place?
 
I found the existing answer lacking.
 
5:57 PM
@tchrist Oh, I had a question about America.
But I forgot what it was.
@tchrist That looks impressive. No dilogy?
 
@Cerberus It's the drinks at 4 that seems strange. Mine took place around then but then we went for food, then drinks at 9ish until late.
 
Hi
 
@terdon Well, go for food, you would offer dinner to hundreds of people immediately after the ceremony and at 4PM?
 
@terdon A Word on Dill, by Scott Adams.
 
@Mitch Dhaka is the capital of ..............
 
6:00 PM
@Cerberus No. I went for food. I don't know what the others were doing :)
 
Bangladesh.
@terdon Um and your friends and family and professors...
 
@Cerberus Well, we had a pica pica (light brunch perhaps) then people were left to their own devices and then we met up again at night.
 
Well, this is just the pica pica at 4 PM.
There will hopefully be some snacks.
What you are talking about is the graduation party. Which may or may not be on the same day, here.
In this case, it's not.
 
@tchrist ?
 
@terdon Dillogy and Dilbertiana.
 
6:03 PM
@Cerberus OK, that makes more sense. It was the term drinks that confused me. I
 
@terdon Did you see that what’s-her-face completely wasted her 400-rep bounty? Tee hee! Now that it’s expired, we can close it again. 😈 It’s all about her being pissed at me for citing dictionaries that call things like yesterday an adverb. She’s off her rocker, and bent on jihad.
She also ignored a mod notice to cut out the edit-war crap. That cannot end well.
 
@tchrist Huh? Where did the bounty go? It wasn't refunded.
Reimbursed? Whatever.
 
She chose not to award it at all, finding that she could not award it to herself, and no answer met the needed criteria. So it was pissed away into never never land.
 
Evening!
 
Morning.
The awarding of bounties, even the halvsie version, still requires that certain criteria be met.
 
6:09 PM
Little question: how is it better: Image resources used for <my name>'s projects. or Image resources used in <my name>'s projects.? Or how can this be improved?
 
If they are not, then it’s gone forever.
I see no difference.
 
Updated, sorry. :-)
 
@Cerb Was triskaidekology the right derivation, howsoever fugly it may be?
Stoopid sophtwear.
I had to drop the -a from deka.
 
@IonicăBizău I'd say that in is slightly better in this case but either can work.
 
@terdon Thanks, what about putting a the before <my name> ?
 
6:15 PM
@tchrist It should probably be -a-.
 
That’s what I wasn’t sure about.
 
Numbers often keep or get -a- instead of the the normal theme vowe -o- in compounds.
 
But smashing deka up against ology bugged me.
 
Well, there is no -ology.
There is -logy.
 
D’oh.
Logos is a word, not ologos.
 
6:16 PM
Had it truly been an -ology, you would have kept the -o- and dropped the -a-.
However, had it not been deka but a normal word as the prefix, the theme vowel -o- would have been used.
 
@IonicăBizău No! Not unless your name is actually a title. You would say "For Jane's projects" but "For the Doctor's projects".
 
@Cerb Thanks!
 
So ge- + -logy → ge-o-logy.
 
@terdon Thanks! You have +50 from me. :-)
 
Etc.
 
6:18 PM
@IonicăBizău Great!
 
Oh my, you were right: there is a dilogy.
 
Di- is I believe the normal numeral prefix. But, it being Greek, pace @Terdon, there are various options.
 
@IonicăBizău woah! Thanks, but please don't do that! You know about the automatic reversal of targeted voting right?
 
> † ˈalogy [n.]
† amˈbilogy [n.]
† amˈphilogy [n.]
analogy [n.]
analogy of attribution ← analogy [n.]
analogy of proportion ← analogy [n.]
analogy of proportionality ← analogy [n.]
antilogy [n.]
archelogy [n.]
aretalogical [adj.] ← aretalogy
aretalogy [n.]
brachylogy [n.]
burˈsalogy [n.]
† cryˈstallogist ← cryˈstallogy
† cryˈstallogy [n.]
† derˈmalogy [n.]
ˌdianoiaˈlogical [adj.] ← dianoialogy
dianoialogy [n.]
dilogy [n.]
disaˈnalogy [n.]
dyslogy [n.]
× ecclesialogy → ecclesiology
† ˈelogy [n.]
 
@Cerberus All of which you probably know and handle better than I.
 
6:20 PM
I wouldn't be so sure!
 
@terdon Yes, but this will not be reversed I guess. :-) But if they will be reversed, just tell me. ;-)
 
However, it means something else.
 
@terdon You probably have way more...intuition.
 
> dilogy /ˈdɪlədʒɪ/, /ˈdaɪlədʒɪ/. Rhet.
Etymology: ad. L. dilogia ambiguity, a. Gr. διλογία, f. δίλογος, f. δι- twice + -λογος speaking. In mod.Fr. dilogie.

1. The use of an ambiguous or equivocal expression; the word or expression so used.

1656 Blount Glossogr., ― Dilogy, a doubtful speech, which may signifie or be construed two ways.
1832 J. C. Hare in Philol. Museum I. 460 ― A double meaning or dilogy is the saying only one thing, but having two things in view.
2. Repetition of a word or phrase, in the same context. In recent Dicts.
 
@tchrist Yes. But that need not be a problem for formations in English.
 
6:21 PM
@Cerberus Of course. But that's not because I'm Greek :P
 
No?
Is it because you are a woman?
 
I don’t care for duology at all.
 
Nah, that's just my natural intelligence.
 
@terdon No comment.
 
:)
 
6:22 PM
@tchrist Meh, I don't know.
 
Damn it, more spelling mistakes mine.
Pentalogy not *pentology.
 
Yeah, numbers.
Tetralogy, hexalogy...
You know the prefixes from geometric shapes.
Or figures.
 
Yes, I’ve fixed the tetralogy and pentalogy now, suggesting the jocular fourology to avoid spelling mistakes. :)
Sigh. And heptalogy.
Stupid words.
The main problem is that people keep trying to apply -logy to things that don’t deserve it.
A single serial novel published in N parts is not an N-logy.
It’s still just one novel.
In literature, a serial is a publishing format by which a single large work, most often a work of narrative fiction, is presented in contiguous (typically chronological) installments—also known as numbers, parts, or fascicles—either issued as separate publications or appearing in sequential issues of a single periodical publication. More generally, serial is applied in library and information science to materials "in any medium issued under the same title in a succession of discrete parts, usually numbered (or dated) and appearing at regular or irregular intervals with no predetermined conclusion...
 
6:43 PM
@Mitch Today? NONE!
 
Biology?
 
Bilogy
Bilelogy.
 
@tchrist It's complicated, I'd say.
 
crl
7:13 PM
what comes after a fourology? pentalogy?
 
Fiveology.
 
crl
oh
 
These are jocularities.
 
crl
ah, neologisms
 
We can ask @medica or @Cerberus or @terdon what the big long Greek word meaning “tongue-in-cheekness” might be.
Medically speaking, of course.
Not so much neologisms as jokes.
 
crl
7:16 PM
right
 
A dialogue is an account by two persons, a quadrilogue one by four persons.
 
crl
then comes a pentalogue, an hexalogue
 
The OED does record quadrilogy but it glosses it as a tetralogy.
Careful: decalogue is taken. :)
 
Thou shalt not use decalogue.
 
It refers to the Ten Commandments.
Quite.
> 1382 Wyclif Rom. Prol. 299 ― The noumbre of the firste maundementus of the decaloge.
 
crl
7:20 PM
catalogue too, but it wouldn't collide
 
Then there’s a corprologue or corproloquy.
Which is not the same as a stultiloquy, but often enough overlaps.
We aren’t always sure whether to clutch for Latin or Greek in making these. Perhaps it doesn’t matter, since both seem to happen often enough.
There are heptaglots.
 
crl
 
Unfortunately.
It is a catachrest.
> trialogue /ˈtraɪəlɒg/.
Etymology: Erroneous formation on supposed analogy of dialogue, the first syllable of this being mistaken for the prefix di-2 = two. Cf. med.L. trialogus (Wyclif).

A dialogue or colloquy between three persons.

1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 431/2 ― As though it wer a dyalogue, or rather a tryalogue betwene himself, the messenger and me.
1691 Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 21 ― Trialogue between Tho. Bilney, Hugh Latimer, and W. Repps.
1721 D’Urfey Two Queens Brentford v. i, ― This Epilogue··is a Trialogue, and to be perform’d between Sol, Rain, and Boreas.
 
crl
there's proctologue in French, a fun job
 
And there's a Logue in Burkina Faso, a fun place.
 
crl
7:28 PM
@tchrist Did you rather mean catachresis?
 
@crl Sure.
 
crl
@GlenTheUdderboat What is it?
 
@crl A town.
@crl Catamaran comes from Tamil.
 
crl
interesting
Always wondered why catamaran, why not duomaran when there's trimaran
 
> actinologue, aeglogue, aetiologue, analogue, apologue, archaeologue, astrologue, catalogue, cattologue,
chalcologue, chronologue, collogue, cologue, Decalogue, diabologue, dialogue, doxologue, duologue,
eclogue, eglogue, Egyptologue, ennealogue, epilogue, euchologue, genealogue, geologue, grammalogue,
hecatologue, homologue, ideologue, isologue, magalogue, martyrologue, mataeologue, melologue, metalogue,
micrologue, monologue, monopolylogue, myriologue, mythologue, necrologue, nugilogue, pentalogue,
 
crl
7:32 PM
quadrilogue is a bit like tetralogue
 
Ya think? :)
 
crl
yap
 
@crl I tend to think that a 'trimaran' is also a 'catamaran'. Subset.
 
crl
most trimaran always lie on only 2 hulls
 
7:35 PM
@crl I liked it more before the edit. Monocoque might be as common as monohull. Or maybe that's long ago.
 
diabologue
 
crl
@GlenTheUdderboat coque is the French for hull
diabologue (plural diabologues)
(archaic) A book of sayings and quotations attributed to Satan.
 
@crl And cocq is weirdly spelled. Lots of French words ending with a q?
 
crl
@GlenTheUdderboat coq (the male of the hen)
there's also cinq and faq
 
@crl frequently asked question?
 
crl
7:41 PM
yes an "englicisme", no sorry , it's foire aux questions, same acronym
CINQ - CINQ inv. adj.num.card.
COQ - COQ n.m.
FAQ - FAQ n.f. Inf. Foire aux questions.
IQALUMMIUQ - IQALUMMIUQ adj. D'Iqaluit (Canada).
NASDAQ - NASDAQ n.m. (Nom déposé) Marché boursier américain spécialisé dans les technologies de pointe.
NUNAVIMIUQ - NUNAVIMIUQ adj. Du Nunavik (Québec).
NUNAVUMIUQ - NUNAVUMIUQ adj. Du Nunavut (Canada).
TAMACHEQ - TAMACHEQ n.m. Dialecte berbère parlé par les Touaregs.
 
So, not only do you have words with nothing after the q, you also have words with a q followed by something that is not a u.
'You' including Canada.
 
crl
@GlenTheUdderboat yeah, they are really needed in Scrabble scrab88.fr/listes/qsansu.pdf
 
@crl Hey, that's useful!
 
crl
It's weird that there's qatari, qatarien but not qatar
only country adjectives, not the nouns
yes that's it, French is allowed, but not France, that's stupid...
I finally notice Qatar is the country of qats
like Argentina is the country of argent (french for silver)
China is the country of chins
Australia the one of autruches (ostrichs)
 
7:57 PM
Go on.
"First attested 16th century, from Latin terra austrālis incōgnita (“unknown southern land”), from auster (“the south wind”). Used also in 1693 (quotation below). Popularised by Matthew Flinders in 1814 (quotation below)."
 
user136984
woof!
 
user136984
Oh...
 
user136984
No barking...
 
user136984
Ooops!
 
user136984
Did I wake someone up?
 
crl
8:00 PM
@GlenTheUdderboat oops hehe
Espagne (spain) is the country of people with a pagne ( loincloth)
Germany the land of germs
France the one of frank people
Holland the land of hoes
Poland the land of poes
 
8:22 PM
@tchrist glossomagoulia might work. Cerb might come up with something better, I'm not sure that magoulo meant cheek in ancient greek.
 
Thanks!
 
@crl That one is actually true. As is France and the Francs.
 
The French won't tell you anything
 
crl
they are too stubborns
 
8:45 PM
I have a question, in the comments under something, I saw two people say "i'm kiwi and [...]", and "[...] I'm a Kiwi too [...]". Does this refer to a country? Which one?
 
crl
New Zealand (/njuː ˈziːlənd/; Māori: Aotearoa [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses – that of the North Island, or Te Ika-a-Māui, and the South Island, or Te Waipounamu – and numerous smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres (900 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long isolation, New...
 
Alright, thanks... That doesn't seem to make much sense, but okay
 
crl
"Demonym: New Zealander, Kiwi"
 

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