English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Matt E. Эллен

2:00 PM

"Est tu", non?

Kit Z. Fox

Hmm. I can't remember if I conjugated pouvoir correctly.

@MattE.Эллен I don't know. Bits of Spanish are getting stuck in there.

I'm mostly just an idiot

How many languages do you know, and to what level roughly @KitZ.Fox?

Kit Z. Fox

Tu es ma grandemarie. Elle est ma grandmarie.

I'm mostly just an idiot

You are my grandmother, she is my grandmother?

Kit Z. Fox

@I'mmostlyjustanidiot Well. There's English; I'm pretty good at that. I used to be fluent in French, but I've forgotten a great deal of it. I have also forgotten a considerable amount of Chinese, which I was advanced intermediate in.

I'm mostly just an idiot

2:03 PM

I think most people want to learn other languages, but never have enough motivation to actually do it. I.e. they want the result but not to put in the effort. That's where I fall right now.

Kit Z. Fox

@I'mmostlyjustanidiot More like "Grammy" or "Nana" but yes.

I've also studied quite a bit of Spanish, a little German, a tiny bit of Italian, Latin, and Irish.

@I'mmostlyjustanidiot The easiest way is to find some people who speak it and just start speaking it.

I'm mostly just an idiot

Maybe you can be a SE moderator of all of these as they pop into existence.

@KitZ.Fox That would be great :D.

Kit Z. Fox

@I'mmostlyjustanidiot Yeah, no. One site is enough.

Mitch

Chinese is hard. They have a different word for everything.

Kit Z. Fox

So does French?

And pretty much every other language...

Mitch

2:06 PM

half their words are the same

for chinese it's everything

Kit Z. Fox

Chinese is very simple grammarwise, so you can just focus on the vocabulary.

I'm mostly just an idiot

And writing the characters is much harder @Mitch

Mitch

there are more words than there are grammar rules.

except for Russian. They have more grammar rules than words themselves

@I'mmostlyjustanidiot the characters is like learning an entirely 2nd language

Kit Z. Fox

Learning the characters is not bad.

I'm mostly just an idiot

@Mitch I wonder if I even have the finger precision to write their characters

Kit Z. Fox

2:08 PM

There are a lot of common elements.

Mitch

The first few hundred, every single one is its own new thing.

Kit Z. Fox

No, that's not true.

Mitch

then you start to see patterns in the more complex ones, the phonetic/meaning bi-characters.

Then you realize that's hardly a rule, just a vague idea.

Kit Z. Fox

Once you learn the most common radicals, the rest gets easier pretty fast.

True that you have to memorize the character, but usually it's something like "three drops of water tree" not like 17 separate strokes.

I'm mostly just an idiot

它看起來很複雜，說實話。

Mitch

2:11 PM

The Chinese will eventually give up characters because they are the greatest barrier to 1) literacy and (at a much different level) 2) usability of computers. Pin yin or bust

Kit Z. Fox

It see what [something] [something] speech.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 could read that better than me.

I'm mostly just an idiot

"It looks very complicated, to be honest." :D

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox sure it's not chaos, there's a pattern to the strokes. but little more than remembering permutations.

Kit Z. Fox

@I'mmostlyjustanidiot Must be google translated.

I'm mostly just an idiot

Or however close Google got to that.

Matt E. Эллен

2:12 PM

山毛榉树香蕉裤

I'm mostly just an idiot

Beech tree banana pants

Mitch

nice!

I have a pair of those

Matt E. Эллен

@I'mmostlyjustanidiot correct!

I'm mostly just an idiot

@MattE.Эллен I am so good at this!

Matt E. Эллен

I used Google translate

Kit Z. Fox

2:13 PM

Mountain feather something something.

I'm mostly just an idiot

@MattE.Эллен Same :D

Mitch

at least google translate is consistent both ways

I'm mostly just an idiot

Yep haha

Kit Z. Fox

These are really bad translations.

Matt E. Эллен

I have no idea what it really means, but Google is at least consistent, going back and forth, if not accurate

@Mitch jinx!

Mitch

2:14 PM

I remember not too long ago someone had created a website that allowed you to put in a sentence, and it would translate it to Japanaese and back to English using googletrnaslate

I'm mostly just an idiot

I'll ask one of my Chinese friends just for a laugh.

Mitch

and it would see at what point the translation-and-back would stop changing. basically the translation fixed point.

often around 5

cycle distance?

Kit Z. Fox

That sounds cool.

Matt E. Эллен

9 miles

Mitch

metric

I'm mostly just an idiot

2:17 PM

Norm

Kit Z. Fox

Cycle Distance -- a new thriller from Kit Fox. Coming November 2018.

Matt E. Эллен

((9*8)/5) Km

Kit Z. Fox

The shocking sequel to And Then There Was Cake, released November 2017.

2

I'm mostly just an idiot

$\frac{9\times 8}{5}\, \text{Km}$

Kit Z. Fox

Oh we don't have LaTeX up in here, do we?

Matt E. Эллен

2:18 PM

we sure don't

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox the protagonist goes back and forth between hero and anti-hero. Same with the antagonist.

I'm mostly just an idiot

No, you need this

Kit Z. Fox

There's a script

jinx

Matt E. Эллен

"need" is subjective ;)

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox THanks for reminding me... 2nd breakfast...

I'm mostly just an idiot

2:19 PM

After installing that, we can start doing some Galois theory :D.

Mitch

@I'mmostlyjustanidiot wait, you have to install that yourself? Why des it work by default over at math.SE?

Kit Z. Fox

@MattE.Эллен It makes it so pretty though.

@Mitch They installed it separate for chat.

Mitch

@I'mmostlyjustanidiot Galois? Pfft...overrated.

I'm mostly just an idiot

@Mitch It doesn't. You just drag that into your bookmark bar and click it once every time you go to the chat page.

Matt E. Эллен

I used to have a button for it. It must be on my desktop, not my laptop

Kit Z. Fox

2:20 PM

@Mitch I should say, they can set up the sites differently, but chat rooms are harder.

I'm mostly just an idiot

@Mitch $\Bbb R[i]\cong \Bbb C$

Mitch

@I'mmostlyjustanidiot OMG..I have to do something? But if they can make it happen without 'doing something', why not just have that already done here?

Matt E. Эллен

because, as Reg would point out, it's hella slow

Mitch

1st principle of UX: Don't make me think

I'm mostly just an idiot

@Mitch They just haven't bothered. They would have to apply it for all chat pages apparently, and that would be processing expensive for no gain.

Mitch

2:21 PM

@I'mmostlyjustanidiot I'm just going to read the latex straight.

I'm mostly just an idiot

You have to click, literally one button on your bookmark bar lol.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch think fast! throws knives towards Mitch

Kit Z. Fox

@Mitch render it in ur head, bro!

I'm mostly just an idiot

@Mitch Ok.

Mitch

@I'mmostlyjustanidiot no gain? we should only communicate through math.

I'm mostly just an idiot

2:22 PM

$\overset{\psi:X\to Y}{\frac{2\sqrt{\langle x,y\rangle}}{\int_0^1 f(t)x(t) dt}}\mapsto x^2$

Mitch

then our religious wars would be so much more deadly because everybody would know that their own gods were exactly correct.

Kit Z. Fox

Oh! Oh! The answer is 4!

@Mitch They'd be arguing over which one was the problem previously demonstrated.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен pulls knife out of shoulder

pulls knife out of thigh

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch You like the UX of knives?

Kit Z. Fox

"No! Your god reduces to a solution previously demonstrated by my god."

Mitch

2:24 PM

brushes trimmed ear hair off of lapel

@KitZ.Fox I know. I think grunting is more ... expressive.

@MattE.Эллен No. It makes me... nervous

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch but the handles are so intuitive!

and the pointy ends are easy to use, too

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox Pfft, your god is going down a dead end of irrelevancy, might as well be recreational.

Kit Z. Fox

gasp

Recreational maths!? There ought to be laws against such things.

Mitch

I know. It hurts to see the truth.

Matt E. Эллен

You may only practice maths if you have a licence and have taken a course in responsible use of maths. And then there's a ten day cooling off period before you can write your first proof

Kit Z. Fox

2:28 PM

hahaha

Mitch

No, I don't think we should stop such things. They're very good for getting involved children and slow uneducated adults.

@MattE.Эллен the way it is now, it seems like fornever that that happens.

old man on porch grumbles

proof is almost ignored, too much trouble, just getting the slow children of slow alumni to be able to write a greek letter outside of frat parties is hard enough.

Kit Z. Fox

We were discussing the trouble with transitioning to standards-based learning just this morning.

The focus was on maths.

Matt E. Эллен

για σου

I'm hungry and I have no food. BBL

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен They say a sharp knife is much safer than a dull one. I don't know. If I slip with the sharp one, I guess the sliced off part of my finger will be easier to put back on?

Kit Z. Fox

Which is that my eldest is measured for his "evidence report" (formerly known as a report card) against the 2nd grade standards, which he meets.

Tonepoet

2:32 PM

Lawn clippings are only useful for mulch guys.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox woo hoo!

@Tonepoet That's racist

Kit Z. Fox

@Mitch Well yes, except that he's well past that, and is in a group of advanced math learners and still ends up learning from worksheets instead of with peers.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox I don't know. measuring things is in a very general sense better than not knowing.

Tonepoet

I'll race you Mitch...

Kit Z. Fox

It's good that they are moving him up once he meets the standard. The problem is that they haven't figured out how to make the peer-group education thing work yet.

Mitch

2:34 PM

@KitZ.Fox well, then, he has a way to progress and the 'measuring isn't getting in the way.

Kit Z. Fox

Right. But it's confusing, not just to us, but to other parents.

Mitch

@Tonepoet ha ha. wait...are you running already?

Kit Z. Fox

I want to know where he is relative to himself. What is he working on? What has he recently mastered? I know he's met all the standards for second grade--so where is he then?

@Mitch No, you're missing what I'm saying. It's a "peer group" but they aren't actually his peers. He's ahead of them as well. He should be up two grades, with the advanced fourth graders.

Tonepoet

@Mitch No, I'm driving. This is a N.A.S.C.A.R. race. =P

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox Oh. well, start giving him puzzle books. Martin Gardner and such.

Kit Z. Fox

2:38 PM

Yeah. He doesn't need more worksheets.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox or always the next level workbook

oops...antijinx

Kit Z. Fox

He needs other kids who are at the same level and are excited to learn about math too.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox hm... I tend to think of math not as much of a social thing as an individual skill. and learning about it is individual. If there are other people of like mind then that's all the better, but not necessary.

Tonepoet

@ Kilt Z. Fox I used to have Core Knowledge series books when I was younger. Those don't have any worksheets and they are fairly informative.

Mitch

there's math camp, but that's for much older kids.

Kit Z. Fox

2:40 PM

@Mitch That's applicable for older children and adults, but at his age, sitting and reading educational texts is exhausting.

Tonepoet

They kinda give a comprehensive abridgement of history and some abridgements of popular myths and stories.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox yeah. reading and writing is hard at that age.

Kit Z. Fox

Interesting. I'll look at those. He's read a whole bunch of myth books recently, and then started in on Revolutionary and Civil War histories.

Mitch

is he beyond the magic tree house series?

Kit Z. Fox

He reads a ton, but it's recreational and sneaky-informative.

@Mitch He read one chapter and said "these are stupid" and wouldn't try them again.

Mitch

2:42 PM

ha ha.

they are kinda

how about magic school bus. I liked those.

Kit Z. Fox

He is a sophisticated reader. He notices when an author is condescending.

Mitch

maybe too much for 2nd grader.

Kit Z. Fox

He does like Magic School Bus, but he doesn't love them. He liked Encyclopedia Brown.

Tonepoet

You'll have to explain that Pluto is no longer considered a planet if you have the kid watching the astronomy episode....

Kit Z. Fox

We've been over the planets many times.

The youngest is the one who likes astronomy best.

Mitch

2:44 PM

the problem with astronomy is that it is cold at night.

and all the trees are in the way

Kit Z. Fox

The best time to stargaze is winter, and it is very cold here.

Early darkness is good for the small people though.

Mitch

that too.

Kit Z. Fox

Maybe I will get him a telescope for Christmas.

Mitch

do they have those electronics kits anymore?

isn't radio shack going out of business?

Kit Z. Fox

I'm getting something like that for the eldest. A soldering kit.

Mitch

2:46 PM

There's arduino and raspberry pi, but that's for much older

Kit Z. Fox

Eh. Not so sure about that.

He is very surprising in his capabilities.

Mitch

nice

Kit Z. Fox

The thing I worry about is that he is very hard on himself when he doesn't understand something right away.

Mitch

trying hard is hard to learn

Kit Z. Fox

Yes. I didn't know how to learn things until college.

Mitch

2:47 PM

me not even then.

Kit Z. Fox

Because I'd sit in class and whatever they taught stuck.

Mitch

"what? you have to study?"

Kit Z. Fox

So I thought that was learning.

You said it, and I remembered it, and I can apply it, so I'm done.

Tonepoet

@Mitch I think it's more like "I have to actually verify what you're telling me?"

Kit Z. Fox

I didn't learn the "how do I figure out what I need to remember" part.

Mitch

2:49 PM

There was this guy, a journalist in soviet russia who was eidetic (Or whatever they call photographic memory)

Kit Z. Fox

Yeah, eidetic

Mitch

and there was some question about one of his stories and his editor asked him for his notes and he said he didn't have any.

He didn't understand that everybody else took notes to remember the facts.

I don't get mnemonics. Why not just remember the list of things to begin with?

Kit Z. Fox

haha

Mitch

@Tonepoet oh. well I didn't think they were lying.

Tonepoet

Eheheh, I realized my supposition was too presumptuous when you mentioned remembering things. That is a skill I have yet to acquire...

Mitch

2:59 PM

The trick (that I've read about but don't do) is to attach them to something visually striking.

kind of like that movie where the guy was playing who wants to be a bajillionaire but was able to answer all the questions correctly because each answer was attached to some life changing event in the back story.

SO he was lucky is all.

Kit Z. Fox

Yeah, you need a framework to hang things on.

Basically.

Once you understand how the pieces fit together, then you can forget things because you can always figure them out again later.

Like I have no idea how many electrons are in the outer orbital shell of beryllium, but I know how to figure it out, and what shape the orbital has, and how to figure out how many oxygen molecules it could bind to, and therefore what molecular shape the resulting compound would have and also how to name it.

user174558

Is the training over @kit?

Kit Z. Fox

And also that all of those things are dependent somehow on how many electrons are in the outer orbital shell.

@JasperLoy Yes, it was over yesterday.

user174558

My Firefox keeps asking me to get the iOS and Android version. Wonder if it is a bug.

Kit Z. Fox

That relates to what I was saying earlier in the sense of "what I need to figure out to remember" is how it works, not what it is. Memorizing the periodic table helps, but I can always look it up if I need to.

user174558

3:07 PM

libebcnofnenamgalsipsclar

user174558

That is how I memorised the first few elements.

Kit Z. Fox

lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon...

sodium magnesium aluminium silicon phosophorus sulfur chlorine argon

huh I know those. Didn't realize it.

Tonepoet

@mitch Lying should probably be considered but it isn't the only way misinformation can be conveyed. Legitimate beliefs, even from the wisest among us, can be erroneous for a variety of reasons such as misinformation or faulty rationale.

Mitch

@Tonepoet I don't believe you

Tonepoet

You probably should not, since I am incredible.

Mitch

3:13 PM

Awesome

user174558

@Tonepoet What made you come to this chatroom?

Tonepoet

Oh that. I got the Compact O.E.D. yesterday incredibly cheap. It was virtually a steal from a thrift store.

Mitch

@Tonepoet see the introductory remarks to 'Guidance for the Perplexed'

user174558

@Tonepoet The compact version of the big OED?

Mitch

@Tonepoet nice. with the magnifying glass?

Tonepoet

3:18 PM

Yeah, that one. The lens wasn't in the slipcase drawer. It's the 12th printing from '76 so it's technically just the first edition though. I'm surprised at how much they skimped on x-z.

user174558

I do not like etymologies. I do not like history.

user174558

I slept a lot today. I slept 4 hours, then woke up, then slept 4 hours, then woke up, then slept 4 hours.

Tonepoet

Perhaps you do not but everybody needs principles Jasper. =P

user174558

Principles? What kind of them?

Mitch

@JasperLoy but that doesn't prevent you from liking a history of etymologies. well, actually, yeah it probably does.

Tonepoet

3:22 PM

I suppose historical principles would be traditions, eh?

user174558

Principal and principle always trips me up.

Mitch

@JasperLoy 'Principles' sounds like a really good cafe drink, like a double shot macchiato with choco spinkles.

and coffee cake on the side.

user174558

Principessa is a princess.

Mitch

Which reminds me. I never liked coffee cake as a kid because I thought it had something to do with coffee which I know I didn't like.

All those missed years of coffee cake eating. so sad.

@JasperLoy I knew a princess once. She married into it. Well, I didn't really know her that well, just met her. She was nice I guess.

Tonepoet

Principal and principle is a rather tricky one, which is not just because they are so similar but also because both words signify several different things which makes it difficult to establish a concise guideline.

user174558

3:25 PM

I think I will try to use English to learn French up to C1 and then use French to learn German up to C1 using the Assimil products.

Mitch

Geting up to C1 takes a while doesn't it?

Duolingo only claims getting A1, right?

and that takes a couple months

user174558

Anyway, these claims of getting to a level may or may not be true.

user174558

If one studies all day long, it will be very fast.

Mitch

3:37 PM

Right

Kit Z. Fox

@Mitch omg me too. sooo sad.

Tonepoet

Don't come down with the mubble-fubbles folks.

user174558

4:05 PM

@KitZ.Fox I see you are a panda now. Fits well with my black square.

Kit Z. Fox

Why are you a black square @Jasper?

Delta Escher

It's orange you fool @KitZ.Fox

user174558

@KitZ.Fox No particular reason. I just choose whichever colour I feel like.

user174558

@DeltaEscher You must refresh!

Kit Z. Fox

@DeltaEscher Refresh your browser.

Delta Escher

4:09 PM

is not current'

dleta is cri

user174558

@DeltaEscher Fits well with your black and white too!

Delta Escher

In spirit of recent event, I also changed my picture

Enjoy

Kit Z. Fox

Aww. Why are you crying?

user174558

It's Fri here. I should go out for a walk tonight.

user174558

Wow, this black and white combo is really nice. Imagine if suddenly the entire SE changed to that!

Delta Escher

4:18 PM

Terror would ensue

Fights would break out in the comments

There would be anarachy

I LOVE IT!

I feel as if no one really comes to rooms I'm in

There's about 13 users in the backlogs and I've only met five

Mitch

@DeltaEscher wawa that already happens with color

user174558

There is a very good set of books to learn French, German, Italian and Spanish. It's the BBC Talk Complete French/German/Italian/Spanish series.

Delta Escher

@JasperLoy Or Rosetta

Andrew Leach

Mitch is colourful.

Delta Escher

It's a weird colorful

Mitch

4:21 PM

I have all of them

Delta Escher

I enjoy it

user174558

@DeltaEscher I think Rosetta Stone sucks. It's just a bunch of pictures.

Mitch

duolingo, livemocha, memrise

all good introductory

Delta Escher

Rosetta stone is so boring I'd rather hit myself in the head with it than read it

Andrew Leach

@JasperLoy Well, the hieroglyphics are pictures, anyway.

Delta Escher

4:22 PM

Going to start an online course in computer programming

Mitch

Rosetta don't 'gamify' things

Delta Escher

The process of it starting is agonizing

Tonepoet

There should be a little bit of Greek lettering on it too Jasper.

user174558

I recommend Assimil, Teach Yourself, Colloquial, or BBC Talk.

Mitch

I recommend being born in that culture and living there for 5 years.

Delta Escher

4:23 PM

Retrograde Amnesia also helps

Mitch

looks for that app

All apps do that

Delta Escher

rimshot ensues

Mitch

ha ha

Delta Escher

My new icon refuses to load on this computer

It only shows my old one, which infuriates me

Mitch

what is prograde amnesia? forgetting what you plan on doing?

Delta Escher

4:25 PM

@Mitch Average American Joe

rimshot

Mitch

milk of amnesia: after that you'll want to forget that you ever had it.

Jaegermeister and something else equally disgusting to mix with it.

Matt E. Эллен

I don't recall having it

Mitch

ba dum tish!

irish cream liqueur... I don't feel so good.

Delta Escher

the simplicity of that scares me @Mitch

Mitch

This is what I was really thinking of: Propofol has been referred to as milk of amnesia (a play on words of milk of magnesia), because of the milk-like appearance of its intravenous preparation.

It's also what Michael Jackson supposedly OD'd on.

Lesson learned.

@DeltaEscher you can refer to a specific comment by clicking the down arrow just to the left of a comment. that way, we'll know exactly to what you are referring... to.

Delta Escher

4:33 PM

Baking Soda and Vinegar

Andrew Leach

I had Milk of Magnesia once. It was supposed to settle my stomach. I threw up on the carpet.

Delta Escher

@AndrewLeach Maybe you had pure mint instead

That stuff is weird

Mitch

@AndrewLeach I know. That stuff is nasty.

Delta Escher

You know what's going to be fun?

Mitch

@DeltaEscher 'Live' interview with Randall Munroe and Andrew Weir (author of the Martian)

Delta Escher

4:38 PM

If one of the savage tribes had the right god

Mitch

(I don't think it is live)

Delta Escher

@Mitch my computer refuses to load that at school

Mitch

for your later reference

MετάEd

4:58 PM

Ho hum.

Which is somewhere between ho ho ho and bah humbug.

Kit Z. Fox

Hello @MετάEd.

MετάEd

@KitZ.Fox What's new.

Kit Z. Fox

I'm thoroughly trained on teamwork.

And completely non-productive.

Matt E. Эллен

@KitZ.Fox you don't need to be productive, that's what your team is for!

Kit Z. Fox

yeah. the training put me in a very weird headspace.

MετάEd

5:02 PM

@KitZ.Fox Sounds like there was a consultant involved.

Kit Z. Fox

How did you know?

MετάEd

Ha!

Kit Z. Fox

Here's the funny part:

17 hours ago, by Kit Z. Fox

There were a bunch of scores that were supposed to tell you what kind of teammate you are, and apparently I rate high as "moderator".

Matt E. Эллен

:D

tchrist

@skillpatrol Nope, sorry.

user174558

5:19 PM

It's about time the hats come.

Kit Z. Fox

Soon, @Jasper. They will be here soon.

user174558

Your panda is very cute.

user174558

Alfredo Kraus "Je crois entende" Les Pecheurs des perles

►

Kit Z. Fox

@JasperLoy thank you

user174558

I have yet to watch Schindler's List, even though it often has good rankings.

Kit Z. Fox

5:33 PM

It's very moving.

user174558

I don't like that it is black and white.

user174558

But I have watched a few of this type.

Kit Z. Fox

huh. I don't remember it as black and white, but now you mention it, there was a scene with a girl wearing pink. That was significant.

Because it was the only color in the movie.

Matt E. Эллен

Shindler's Lift is very moving. Lots of highs and lows.

user174558

Ah, Wikipedia says there are a few splashes of colour in it, weird.

user174558

5:36 PM

This makes it extra weird.

Kit Z. Fox

@Matt I'm pretty sure I know what that Russian word means.

If only @Reg were here.

user174558

It means banana? LOL.

Matt E. Эллен

@KitZ.Fox yes, I mentioned in the TL

user174558

@MattE.Эллен What would you look like if you made that pic black and white?

Matt E. Эллен

@JasperLoy I'll try and find out...

user174558

5:45 PM

Geezis Cries.

Kit Z. Fox

5:58 PM

Maybe @MattE.Эллен should make his California avatar B&W. We can have B&W day.

I kind of like the idea of the mod avatars matching in some way.

Matt E. Эллен

:D

Kit Z. Fox

Damn.

That would look great with some hats all over it.

Matt E. Эллен

maybe when hats start, then

Kit Z. Fox

makes squinchy face

Matt E. Эллен

or what is your plan?

Kit Z. Fox

6:13 PM

Nothing.

OK. Really I was debating stealing your face.

Matt E. Эллен

lol

Kit Z. Fox

I'm not sure if that would be funny or weird though.

I have been thinking about putting on a man face, see how people's reaction to me changes.

Matt E. Эллен

noöne at EL&U would know you looked like me

Kit Z. Fox

I do kinda look like you.

So it would only be a little fibbing.

yoink

Matt E. Эллен

6:33 PM

:D

crl

6:44 PM

Why The English Alphabet Is Stupid

►

Kit Z. Fox

Isn't that like the third or fourth time you've posted that?

crl

chat.stackexchange.com/…

Kit Z. Fox

You do need K. You don't need C.

Except then we need a new ch.

Matt E. Эллен

how do you spell chat without c?

jinx

crl

yes good point

Kit Z. Fox

6:48 PM

Oh. Probably ought to mark that NSFW?

Can't remember what the usual policy is.

crl

ban me!

Kit Z. Fox

Yeah. No.

crl

well I reposted it from JS chat, to see your reaction :)

Mitch

That a lot of heavy weather and film editing over c,k, and s. FFS

Kit Z. Fox

Should have spelt it gnee.

@crl Mine particularly, or EL&U generally?

crl

6:54 PM

ah forgot the s, sorry, although I love you

Kit Z. Fox

I'm confused now.

It sounds like John Oliver summarizing Mark Twain's famous rant.

crl

confused people are adorable too

Kit Z. Fox

I like both of them, and British dialect makes it sound funnier and more posh.

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