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12:08 AM
@Gigili They're just prepositional phrases, functioning as adverbs I guess. German has those, too. Du siehst echt gut aus is just one of many examples.
Aussehen has the verb and preposition bound together to mean something, the way "goes off" does in English. The only difference is we don't join them the way German does; there is no "offgo" (though there is an "ongoing" :)
Note: I do not mean to imply that "go off" means anything like what aussehen means.
go off, go on, come on, come out, take off, take on, etc., etc. These are prepositions bound to verbs to mean something more than the bare verb.
 
 
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2:13 AM
My face hurts.
waits for it
 
It's killing me.
ba-dump crash
 
But seriously, folks.
Got my first crown today.
 
How hot was it?
 
Old Johnny Carson setup line.
 
2:18 AM
Rims-hot.
 
Johnny: It was really hot today. *waits*
Audience: How hot was it, Johnny?
Johnny: It was so hot you could [insert joke here]
 
Sure.
But where did you get hot?
 
2:35 AM
Just sounded similar to your setup.
something something today
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Anyway, I take it you weren't joking about that.
Was it a laser-etched crown? They do those while you wait now.
 
They designed and milled it on site.
CEREC or Cerec (Chairside Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramics, or CEramic REConstruction) is a method of CAD/CAM dentistry developed by W. Mörmann and M. Brandestini at the University of Zurich in 1980 for creating dental restorations. Using CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing), this process allows dentists to construct, produce, and insert individual ceramic restorations directly at the point of treatment (chairside) in a single appointment, rather than over multiple appointments with labside work in between. The first applications were successfully carried...
 
Yeah, that's how it goes now. Much better than waiting weeks.
 
I always heard a temporary is like tin foil.
 
It's not, it just feels funny. Rough. And you're always worried it will come off.
 
I'm worried about stuff getting stuck under this one.
 
2:39 AM
If the margins are good—and they should be—you shouldn't have any trouble.
 
I have a picture of my tooth-in-a-bottle.
 
That's weird.
 
holds on
Both hands?
 
cause it's closer than ya think / and we're standin' on the brink
 
2:42 AM
I thought you were in Kansas City, not Kansas.
 
The pattern for milling from the blank. Looks like a tooth in a bottle.
 
O brave new world that hath such creatures in it!
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yeah. I was all over future shock last time I got a crown replaced.
 
@Robusto I have a picture of her designing it, too.
 
Well, it's not really "designed", is it?
 
They didn't use the goop.
They took scans and made modifications.
 
2:49 AM
hmm, I don't remember how it worked for me last time.
 
Ahahah, so now I get what you meant.
Wasn't a setup line after all.
 
It was, in a way.
36 mins ago, by cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
waits for it
 
I know. You tricked me.
 
2:52 AM
Yes. You took advantage of my trusting nature.
 
Did you listen to the plane podcast?
 
Umm, remind me?
 
JRE #723
Dana and Hinchcliffe on the plane back from Australia.
 
Oh, Joe Rogen.
No, haven't listened yet.
 
3:03 AM
His are long, so I save them for special times.
 
This one's 2:00.
 
A short one, for him.
Wait, you were in Australia?
Or was he?
 
He.
For Rousey v. Holm
 
mmk
Oh, dig this!
 
gets out shovel
 
3:05 AM
My brother's friend lives down the street from Holly Holm's parents.
 
Right?
He knows the preacher whose daughter she is.
So i saw the actual knockout, btw. DAMN, she took a shot. She shouldn't lead with her head, right?
 
Yeah. Or put her hands down.
She was exhausted in the first round.
 
BUT I was thinking. You really have to hand it to Ronda Rousey, who I like anyway, but what she has done for women's sports is simply amazing. That fight was the biggest thing in sports for the time it happened.
There was no hotter ticket anywhere in the world.
 
Yeah.
My face hurts.
 
3:08 AM
And it wouldn't have happened with anyone but her.
 
She is the Mohammed Ali of her generation and gender.
 
I would argue that Joanna is at least equally dangerous.
 
Ali got knocked out too, btw, got his jaw broken.
 
And Holly is Buster Douglas?
 
3:11 AM
Well, yeah.
 
Buster Douglas lost immediately.
 
I mean, you're not the first person to draw that analogy.
 
To Holyfield.
Sure.
I was just checking.
But what I'm saying is, I wonder if she will keep the belt a while.
 
She just might.
She looked awfully tough, and she was way booked up on Rousey.
 
And if we could argue before the fight that the division is weak, it's certainly no stronger now.
 
3:16 AM
No.
 
That said, I'd like to see Holm-Tate.
 
Would be interesting. But I think there will be a big rematch, don't you?
 
Oh sure.
And if Ronda wins, they get three giant paydays out of the matchup.
 
Yup, because they will have another rematch after that. After some undercards get their shot.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Did you see how Holm was wailing on Rousey after she was down? They should've stopped that faster, I think.
 
@Robusto I think Herb was far away.
She did get like three in on her, though.
 
3:27 AM
Coulda killed her.
 
Do you know the word for a device that attempts to do everything?
 
Omni-utilitarian?
Why not.
 
Thanks. I'm so close to remembering it. I saw it on wiki the other day.
 
3:44 AM
All-purpose?
 
Ugh I found it. It was Rube Goldberg machine
 
4:27 AM
 
5:12 AM
Moslems?
 
@skillpatrol what about the people blocking the oil?
 
@skillpatrol Naah.
> Countries with parliaments
Apparently, Saudi Arabia is the only country that has no parliament.
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The others have either unicameral (orange) or bicameral (turquoise) parliaments.
 
@skillpatrol Yes, Greenland is Islamic
 
6:01 AM
> The Consultative Assembly has limited powers in government, including the power to propose laws to the King and cabinet, but it cannot pass or enforce laws, which is a power reserved for the King. It has 150 members, all of whom are appointed by the King. The Consultative Assembly is headed by a Speaker. The current speaker is Abdullah ibn Muhammad Al ash-Sheikh in line with a tradition that kept the post in that family.
 
6:24 AM
@Cerberus TIL, thanks :-)
 
 
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9:48 AM
@Robusto thank you for explaining more of my puns to me. Keep it chumming.
So I wake up to six messages in my inbox, five (five!) of which are from Jasper.
What good is a restraining order if people can't use dictionaries to look it up?
@Cerberus oh yeah, because Belorussia and China and Sudan's having "parliaments" is so much better than Saudi Arabia's not having one.
Why not just straight ahead single out one country on the map and label it "Land of Suck". Much easier than coming up with excuses more imaginary than the US parliament.
 
10:07 AM
Looks like we have the comments of a genuinely nasty troll being discussed in the hbar.
 
There are ingenuinely nasty trolls?
 
in The h Bar, 4 hours ago, by user36790
His funny & nonsensical allegations: Mods get money for their work; DanielSank & dmckee are the same men (wtf!!) ; Danielsank runs the site (call NYPD) ; Danielsank knows no physics (send him to Auswitz); blah, blah, blah..... I think he is from ISIS :P
 
How can one person be the same men, plural?
Besides, everyone knows that DanielSank and dmckee are the same woman.
 
user174558
Here comes Jasper.
 
Also, if you don't get money for your work, you're doing it wrong.
That's no work then, it's slavery.
Or a hobby. Which is just slavery with some bells attached.
 
user174558
10:15 AM
Maybe I should change my ISP. The connection is fucked.
 
Or maybe you should stop fornicating with the connection.
 
user174558
Everything sucks here, but they make it sound the opposite.
 
Dafuq I just looked at.
Oh I see, software India developer.
That explains everything.
 
Yep.
 
Well then, another mystery solved just like that.
South Park should make an episode with a catchy Blame India song.
Go on it, @tchrist.
 
Those guys don't hang out in our pubs and cafés that much anymore.
 
Yes, I suppose they frequent hashish bars these days.
 
11:26 AM
That’s still something of a problem, in a way. You can buy it in dozens of shops, but they aren’t places you can sit around and partake. Course with all these "vape" devices, people can do it anywhere and not be too noticed.
There are no pot-smoking pubs or cafés, properly speaking.
And when I say dozens, I just mean within about 50 yards. There are more, apparently.
 
Right, that's another question I have: I don't get how vape devices and hash mix together or even go along.
 
Hash oil.
 
Oh.
Cuz I'm holding one of them vaporizers right now and let me tellya, there's no receptacle for hash in it.
Well oil it is, then.
Another mystery solved just like that.
We're on fire.
 
There are like 100 times more different sorts of cannabis products for sale than any hippy from the 70s ever dreamt of.
It's like: what will they think of next!
 
@tchrist that's because the stuff they took meddled with their REM phases.
@MattE.Эллен the other reviews are even worse.
One is a lame attempt at humour, and the other one seems to be much more coherent English than what you quoted, but actually is not.
> This product is slightly less than great. I would give it 4 stars out of five if I could, but even that would be insufficient to convey my feelings here. Instead, I am reduced to using words to convey my feelings, like a common monkey.
 
11:36 AM
Uncommon is the monkey who conveys his feelings with words.
 
Common is the code monkey who conveys his code with bugs.
 
I convey er belts
 
What a fine stevedore.
 
> when we have and dont have to use apostrophe?
Oh humanity.
 
oh the apostrophe
 
11:44 AM
Apu's trophy.
Manjula.
We should run a daily special: ELU Classics The World Forgot.
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Q: "I'm proud that you are my father"

Nicolas RaoulA friend wrote this as a tribute to her father for his birthday: I'm proud that you are my father I am not a native speaker either, but it to me it sounds like "you are the father of someone great so you must be great". Or does it sound OK?

 
No Star Wars adverts in this chat.
 
Use the mouse, Luke.
 
12:28 PM
@RegDwigнt Not an explanation, a digression. You're so vain you probably think this song is about Carly Simon.
 
@Robusto a common misconception. I am actually so vain I have written this song about Carly Simon. As a bonus, I wrote it not about Carly Simon but about myself.
 
@RegDwigнt Thank you for explaining my jape to me.
 
You're so vain, you can't even see that other people are vainer than you.
 
Your so vein, you have no artery.
 
@Robusto I never said it would be free, though. Where is the money, Lebowski?
 
12:32 PM
It's down there somewhere. Lemme have another look.
 
lets
And what the fuck is this?
 
Obviously you're not a coffee drinker.
 
A determiner?
 
This is me going to get coffee.
@MattE.Эллен That's hard to determine.
 
To quote the excellent 70s porn Garage Girls:
— How hard is that thing?
— It is very,
[a beat]
*very* hard.
 
user174558
12:39 PM
As hard as mine.
 
23 hours ago, by RegDwigнt
THANK YOU JASPER
 
user174558
Thank you for thanking me.
 
user174558
I love to be thanked.
 
user174558
That's why they have Thanksgiving day, to thank me.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I think I just found your christmas present, if you can wrangle it out from someone:
 
user174558
12:41 PM
But I prefer they give me money instead of thanks.
 
Whoa, she made half a million from just one client. At the age of 26. In NYC.
If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere.
 
user174558
You won't make it in Iran.
 
> will be sentenced to four years of probation
Bring it on, suckers!
I'll make 2 more million in that time!
 
user174558
You won't make it in Saudi Arabia.
 
user174558
And no, I am not racist.
 
user174558
12:43 PM
In fact, maybe I am Arab.
 
@terdon idiots on more levels than there are levels.
 
user174558
I wear a white hat.
 
user116848
Hi guys.
 
WHY DO PEOPLE STEP ON LEGO IN THE FIRST PLACE? THAT IS NOT WHAT LEGO IS FOR. EVERY CHILD UNDERSTANDS THAT.
 
user116848
@JasperLoy Really?
 
user174558
12:44 PM
@Arrowfar With 'maybe', you can say anything.
 
user174558
I am going to take a nap. Over and out!
 
user116848
See ya.
 
In today's installment of Basic things France knows but Britain doesn't: French police vs. James Bond.
This has been today's installment of Basic things France knows but Britain doesn't. Tune in again tomorrow, for more basic things France knows but Britain doesn't.
 
1:18 PM
@RegDwigнt And in how many Bond films does Bond lose? Zero, that's how many. Hey, he does it in a tux. The man has style.
 
I see you're confusing "James Bond" with "Britain".
perhaps clippy can help you
 
@MattE.Эллен Wait . . . they're not the same thing? checks notes
You think they'd get Daniel Craig to play you in a movie? No. They'd get Richard Kind.
 
@MattE.Эллен no, you're confusing "I can perfectly understand what's wrong with these pictures" with "everyone else in Britain does, too".
Or perhaps you're with MI6 and that was a clumsy attempt to pretend it does not exist, and if it does, then not in Britain? If so, you have a lot to learn from KGB.
@Robusto Richard Kind? Make that Pierre Richard.
 
@Robusto his jaw doesn't open wide enough. they'd need to do a lot of CG, especially with all the green skin
 
@MattE.Эллен No, that was intended for @Reg, whose jaw is humbler in proportion than your own. Sorry for the confusion.
 
1:30 PM
@MattE.Эллен More to the point, his eyes don't open wide enough. They'd need to do a lot of CG to hide the fact he's played by Renée Zellweger.
@Robusto no apologizing for confusion in this chat.
 
@Robusto lol
 
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Q: Are these sentences correct in regards to using prepositions

user79773 "34 is the number of the house off the roof of which Anne jumped off." "34 is the number of the house Anne jumped off the roof of. Do these make any sense?

Wut?
 
@RegDwigнt ah, but who isn't played by Renée Zellweger?
 
Prepositions are the last of your concern, pineapple breath.
 
34 is twice 17. that's all I can tell you
 
1:32 PM
@MattE.Эллен No, 34 is 34. It isn't even 17 once. Only 17 is, was, or can be 17.
If you persist, I will have to invoke the Law of Identity and have you arrested.
 
@MattE.Эллен Renée Zellweger is not played by Renée Zellweger.
 
@RegDwigнt This is why we can't have nice things.
 
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Only one of these plays Daniel Craig in Spectre. And it's not the right one.
Nov 9 at 10:40, by RegDwigнt
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Why you pick on aging starlets?
 
1:35 PM
I don't pick on anyone.
If someone chooses to keep a whole lemon in their mouth at all times, that is their choice and I respect it.
 
@Robusto I'll invoke the power of commutativity and leave
 
I do reserve the right to pick on non-aging starlets, though.
 
@MattE.Эллен Identity trumps commutativity and associativity.
 
I'll see your identity and commutativity and raise you closure :P
 
@RegDwigнt Have at 'em. They have bodyguards, you know. You'll be on your ass before you can pick your first pic.
 
1:37 PM
And buying an all-new face, just because your personal fetish is talking to TSA employees for extended amounts of eras, is sort of the opposite of non-aging.
@Robusto roflmao, so you think the bodyguards can tell it's her they should be protecting and not, oh I dunno, you? You look much more like her than she does.
 
@skillpatrol This chat provides no closure. It just goes on and on, creeping in this petty pace to the last syllable of recorded nonsense.
 
THE END
 
Fail.
 
No, it's just that you are Peter Jackson. But that's not our issue, it's yours.
 
Hmm, I wonder if there will be a sequel to The Hobbit.
I mean, I don't think he managed to stretch it out quite enough yet.
 
1:41 PM
Bobbit?
 
You really don't understand how movies work, do you? There will be a prequel.
Titled the Wizard of Oz. Five seasons of twelve episodes of seven seasons each.
 
It will be called Log Jammin'.
 
IN IMAX 45DD.
And then, in the director's cut, they'll fix the cable.
 
Don't be fatuous.
 
there will a hobbit / harry potter / matrix cross over film. starring Renée Zellweger as Frodo, Hermione, and obi wan kenobi
 
1:43 PM
The cable named desire.
 
@MattE.Эллен Except Frodo will become Frito, Hermione will become Germany, and Obi Wan Kenobi will be the starting center for the L.A. Lakers.
 
Freedom Frito!
From Adolf Hermiotler!
It takes Wan to know Wan!
 
Mu Gu Gai Pan.
 
Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom.
 
John Wayne Bobbitt (born March 23, 1967 in Buffalo, New York) and Lorena Bobbitt (née Gallo, born October 31, 1970 in Bucay, Ecuador) are an American former couple, married on June 18, 1989, whose relationship made worldwide headlines in 1993 when Lorena cut off her husband's penis with a knife while he was asleep in bed. The penis was subsequently surgically reattached. == IncidentEdit == The incident occurred on June 23, 1993 in Manassas, Virginia, and the legal case surrounding the incident subsequently took place throughout 1993 and 1994. Lorena claimed in a court hearing that after coming...
 
1:45 PM
I fear I've just justified racism:
 
@skillpatrol Ironic name for a guy who got his dick cut off.
 
Since you say you have no accent (and few hear it first anyway)and your supervisor approves of your work, this sounds like your personal experience is different from the language question. The post-docs are probably judging on superficial appearances and expectation (one's first language is usually one's best; they don't know your personal history). — Mitch 16 mins ago
 
@Robusto They don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say.
 
@RegDwigнt if puns are the lowest form of wit, then porn puns are worser
 
1:50 PM
Well it's not a pun.
Obviously you've not seen the movie.
 
I wonder if the prequels will feature a young, sexually active Gandalf who finds he can't get laid and has to sublimate his energy into wizardcraft in order to compel women to sleep with him.
 
@Mitch that'd only be racist if you hadn't justified racism. Now that you have, nothing is racist anymore.
Everyone thank that Chinaman Mitch for his vodka-drinking cheese-eating efforts.
 
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because ELU is not a transcription service — FumbleFingers 7 mins ago
 
@Robusto that... sounds way too much like the next, or previous, or any, Rob Schneider movie.
 
That doesn't mean it won't gross nine figures.
 
1:54 PM
ELU is a transcription service. It's just not a free transcription service.
If you pay me a million dollars, I totally will transcribe the word "Johnson" for you.
 
the chat transcript is free
 
Just because you've been stealing it, doesn't mean it's free.
Meet my friends GEMA and RIAAAAANNA.
 
noöne's asked me for money. at least noöne I'm willing to pay
 
I HAVE ASKED YOU FOR MONEY FIFTY MILLION TIMES.
IN THE VERY TRANSCRIPT YOU STOLE.
 
yeah. but you don't own the transcript
 
1:56 PM
Now that you stole it, I no longer possess it. But I still very much own it.
 
I own it!
 
Your legalese is not worthy of a Bill Clinton playing hooky on Legalese 101.
Or a Bill Clinton playing the sex o'phone.
 
Luckily I'm not one of those
 
Or a Bill Clinton hot having a sexual relationship with that woe-man.
 
@RegDwigнt well, duh of course it is, the author is using a double entendre of one tool for another, like he's holding a wrench but really means a screwdriver.
 
1:58 PM
You're a tool.
If you think "hard" is a tool, you suck not just at language, but at home improvement, too.
 
@RegDwigнt I take offense at that. I do not heat cheese.
 
— Honey, can you pass me the hard?
— The 3-inch or the 10-inch?
— We don't have a 10-inch in the house.
 
@RegDwigнt That's a mean thing to say.
 
Average, even.
 
Median, odd.
 
2:03 PM
@terdon Those are cute but in my house Lego does not go on the floor. We have standards. And strict, strict rules.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That's what everyone says.
 
@Mitch O,d,d, yeah you know me.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yeah I tried to argue just that but then gave up. There are more things wrong with that link than there are things.
For starters, Lego does not go on the floor, as you say. Lego goes on Lego. For hot Lego-on-Lego action.
Then, these slippers are just overpriced regular slippers.
 
In my case, Lego goes on the table I specifically bought for Lego.
 
Then, they are overpriced regular slippers saying "LEGO". That's like fighting the ISIS under the ISIS flag, or fighting Nazis while sporting swastika tatoos across your face.
 
@RegDwigнt They're more of a joke than a serious product.
 
2:06 PM
And then, of course, they call Lego "Legos" for some reason. Like it's Orlando Bloom who fell over a barrel in Hobbit 7 and lost one of his syllables.
 
Well. that's just the article.
not the slippers' fault.
 
And then, of course, they're more of a joke than a serious product, which makes it even worse.
 
I think that's what makes it okay. It's just a joke.
 
Serious products are shit all the time. But when you make one up using your imagination to make a joke then why on Earth does it have to be shit?
 
You're forgetting your relation to the Hanseatic League. Them's good burghers, Walter.
 
2:08 PM
I can get you a toe by three o'clock. With nail polish.
 
@RegDwigнt Jokes are sometimes funnier when you allow license for things you wouldn't let pass in serious talk.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 excellent advice. Now do follow it. Apply it to the last fifty comments of mine.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 What, you need a license for that now?
 
@Robusto Ever since WWII jokes have been classified as munitions.
 
From left to right: some LEGO munitions.
 
2:19 PM
Speaking with all sincerity, emojis are crap. Why not just learn Chinese a real language, not something made up by some graphic artists who needed work.
Moby Dick in emojis isn't even a flash in the pan, it went off before it got out of the delivery truck to the kitchen
 
There's a Moby Dick in emojis?
 
Also, all dogs go to heaven. Cats ... pfft.
@RegDwigнt duh! keep up with crap news!
 
Why would I.
 
well, maybe people are just talking about the idea.
 
I don't even keep up with the non-crap ones.
 
2:22 PM
Exactly
even refugees being tripped as they enter Hungary know about Moby Dick emojis
 
Whether it exists yet or not, the writer would have to suffer from a very severe case of first world problems.
Haha, funny you should mention refugees from the third world.
A complementary jinx.
 
I should, but there is no more third world. They've all moved to second. And the first world feels embarrassed to talk about it. Do we call it economically challenged or other-moneyed?
@RegDwigнt That's not funny
 
@Mitch easily 99% of all news is not information, and easily 99% of information is not knowledge, and easily 99% of knowledge is crap you don't need.
 
Which is the punch line to "how many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?"
 
What the fuck do I need the knowledge for that there are 5038 fish species living at 5 miles underwater?
 
2:25 PM
@RegDwigнt I didn't need to know that. Or read it.
 
How does it help me to know that the President of Russia is called "Putin"? What does it help me with?
 
@RegDwigнt I don't know. You might be able to use that at your artisanal fish restaurant "Five miles under" specials this week.
 
And how is it of even the remotest use to anyone that 5000 years ago, the President of Russia went by the name "Genghis"?
 
@RegDwigнt SO you can say stuff like "Hey. Hey you! No you. Yeah you waht's your name. 'Putin'? No fuck you you putin, and quit stepping on my toes."
@RegDwigнt Now that's perspective.
 
@Mitch Now that's perspective.
Just because you can't laugh at Hungarian journalists beating up children from Syria, doesn't mean that Hungarians can't.
 
2:39 PM
"If I hear there is a swarm of kittens approaching, I'm grabbing a shotgun and going to high ground, because I'm not going to let those furry fuckers take me a live"
 
Reading the recent comments on that video makes me despair.
Hundreds of people verbally abusing John Oliver for being personally responsible for the Paris attacks.
Who were apparently committed by the recent hordes of refugees.
The refugees fleeing their homelands from just such terrorist attacks. Of course! They come here to terrorize us! That makes perfect sense!
It's not like the terrorists were French or Belgians or anything.
 
Shut up with your 'logic' and 'appeal to facts' and 'reasonableness'!
 
2:56 PM
The icing on the cake was a Swede, no less, commenting "when Europe is in flames, how can we help anyone? You must help yourself before you can help others, that's just common sense."
I never realized ti was Sweden that was in flames, rather than Syria.
 
@RegDwigнt Wait, Europe is in flames?
jinx
ish
@RegDwigнt *most flamous
FTFY
 
clears throat
Dr. Nick's voice
'Most flamous' means 'flamest'? What a country!
 

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