English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

tchrist

00:00

@Cerberus Many people were out walking, running, and biking today. Some were also snow-shoeing or cross-country skiing.

But the latter set were mostly up higher.

@SanathDevalapurkar I am afraid I don't know that problem domain well enough to suggest a name.

Cerberus

@tchrist Speed and capacity of the roads for bikers and pedestrians will be compromised.

tchrist

@Cerberus But surely this is true irrespective of the mode of terrestrial conveyance. And you really need to tell the children to stop walking down the middle of the pavement and stick to the sidewalks instead, lest bloody tragedy ensue.

Cerberus

Which is why I said what I said.

I don't get why people who have to go places like snow.

I like it when have nothing to do, at my parents' house.

It's also easier on cars.

tchrist

Beauty.

Cerberus

Because they are stabler.

And because their lanes are more likely to be well cleaned.

tchrist

00:15

Our bike lanes are just as plowed as our motor lanes. If they adjoin, the same plow takes them. If they are their own thoroughfares, an alternate device is used such as one would clear the sidewalks with. Only dirt trails are left to their own fate.

Is it not the same there?

But I don't recommend biking during a blizzard, since visibility is so poor.

It is lovely though, a wonder to behold.

But lay down a fresh cubit of new snow, and serenity shall blanket the pedestrian world.

> Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,

Mitch

00:35

@TRiG I know. But we were being nihilist before about 'change comes from within' and stuff. I was following a theme.

@tchrist They make a straight line.

Those two points though? I don't see the direction.

@Cerberus Snow is the best when you're inside looking out at it.

@SanathDevalapurkar math vocabulary is all made up. the names from one generalization to the next hardly ever make sense. ring - integral domain - euclidean domain - field? vector space - inner product space - hilbert space?

that is, n-trivial is as good as marked or scaled. If you want something metaphorical, just make something up (maybe that's exactly what you're asking us for help with). Do you get any interesting properties going from scaled to n-trivial?

oh another terrible metaphor: sheaves, bundles. even 'manifold'. they're only slightly better than people's names.

user105491

01:06

@Mitch Yeah, of course, that's true. I can list countless examples that follow that, I was just wondering if this could be an exception (because I do know of some exceptions, not from the top of my head though). Thanks anyway!

Robusto

02:19

> You can now read 71.6% of all real Spanish text

Cerberus

02:35

@tchrist I don't think we have any ploughing.

Just salt.

And not on many bike lanes.

Probably because it is not absolutely necessary.

Biking over a bit of snow is just very annoying, but not impossible.

@Mitch Just like...rain!

Mitch

03:00

@Cerberus I was thinking the same thing. But then snow looks better than rain anytime, inside or out.

Robusto

I dunno, snow looks to me like white death.

Mitch

better than black death

Robusto

Spring Snow

Spring Snow (春の雪, Haru no Yuki) is a novel by Yukio Mishima, the first in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy. It was published serially in Shinchō from 1965 to 1967, and then in book form in 1969. Mishima did extensive research, including visits to Enshō-ji in Nara, to prepare for the novel. == Plot == The novel is set in the early years of the Taishō period, and is about the relationship between Kiyoaki Matsugae, the son of a rising nouveau-riche family, and Satoko Ayakura, the daughter of an aristocratic family fallen on hard times. Shigekuni Honda, a schoolfriend of Kiyoaki's, is the main witness...

Mitch

DOn't tell me, they all die at the end.

Robusto

@Mitch It's Mishima, so . . .

Mitch

03:02

Yeah, like the French, the ones who die are better off.

tchrist

03:18

@Cerberus INCONCEIVABLE!

Cerberus

Not really.

Perhaps they would plough everything if otherwise cycling weren't possible at all.

tchrist

@Cerberus Even snowfalls of one or two become challenging for bikers. Of course we pluff!

Cerberus

Well, challenging, you just have to be more careful.

And your shoes get dirty.

tchrist

You've made a measurement error.

Cerberus

As long as you go slowly in curves and at crossroads, you can cycle on any surface.

It is easier than walking.

Stabler.

tchrist

03:23

Remember; In Colorado, we measure snowfall in feet, not barleycorns. Best of luck biking on one or two unpluffed.

Unless you are an elf, perhaps.

Cerberus

49 mins ago, by Cerberus

@tchrist I don't think we have any ploughing.

Cerberus

03:50

> It said that Tesla "will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology." That "in good faith" claim had a few scratching their heads, and pointing out that still gave Tesla an out.

"...pointing out that still gave Tesla an out": is this a typo or a sports term?

tchrist

Neither.

The sports term would be striking out. This is a way out.

In other words, a loophole. A way to get out of their commitment.

I've been regaled with pizza and whiskey.

Did you have a good birthday? Why are you still up?

@Cerberus gnip

Double U

04:17

In my online experience, it seems to me that people who identify as women tend to be very sensitive toward rudeness, whereas people who identify as men are willing or are able to tolerate contention to some extent and not interpret it as rudeness.

tchrist

That's a rather rude thing to say.

Double U

@tchrist How so?

tchrist

It's sexist bigotry.

Double U

@tchrist In the sense that men are better than women or women better than men?

tchrist

It's a statement that invites ridicule.

But perhaps you are a young child and so know no better than to play the troll.

Double U

04:21

Never mind. I think some things shouldn't be said at all.

tchrist

Too bad you didn't realize that a bit earlier, eh? ;)

Double U

I was merely expressing what I experienced. I did not intend to invite ridicule or play the troll. :P

I've seen men and women make generalizations all the time.

tchrist

Which one are you then?

Double U

Yes, many generalizations are either wrong or oversimplified, but the expression itself may be considered a mere hypothesis.

I am open to discrediting myths.

infinitesimal

Everybody's different.

Double U

04:28

In real life, I was in a classroom, and I could hear a girl whispering to another girl, "Oh, ____ is so rude," whenever I quickly borrowed someone's eraser on the table right next to me and quickly put it back. I guess I should have asked, but I couldn't believe how some people are so picky about manners.

infinitesimal

We all have our own built-in expectations of what is appropriate when we come online, don't you think so?

Double U

Some people, men and women, but mostly women in my experience, are extremely observant when it comes to manners and social graces.

tchrist

I can but ponder your age and ethnicity and experience.

Double U

So, I learned how to deal with them: assume everyone is extremely observant. It never hurts to act "like a normal person". This usually means copying what others do, so you don't stand out.

tchrist

Ah, Asian.

Double U

04:34

@tchrist Huh?

tchrist

Add emotica to everything I say.

Double U

@tchrist Eh?

tchrist

Quaerendo invenietis.

Double U

@tchrist The inscription Quaerendo invenietis, found over Canon No. 9, alludes to the Sermon on the Mount ("Seek and ye shall find", Matthew 7:7, Luke 11:9).

That is so random.

On a lighter discussion, I recently saw the verse "seek and ye shall find" on a website that was essentially about evangelizing college student unbelievers.

tchrist

Not random, but its antithesis.

Double U

04:44

@tchrist What is "its"?

tchrist

looks for an interpreter

Double U

I have met one person in the past who always loved to use idioms. Half the time, I didn't know what she was saying!

I tried to flip through a phrasebook on the Internet, but that didn't help much when it came to context.

In some instances, my lack of understanding of some idioms can be beneficial. I don't know when a person has insulted or criticized me!

tchrist

Wisdom comes not from Internet phrasebooks, but from experience, and experience from error.

Idiom != Proverb

Double U

@tchrist So, is that the original or is that the antithesis?

tchrist

What is the antithesis of random?

infinitesimal

04:50

Planned.

Double U

@tchrist Non-random.

Planning is a form of non-randomness.

infinitesimal

Anti-random :-)

tchrist

Unfree = deliberate.

infinitesimal

Deliberate = Intentionally

tchrist

And thus?

Double U

04:55

@tchrist It's funny how the world works. On one hand, mistakes are discouraged. On the other hand, mistakes are necessary in order to improve ourselves.

infinitesimal

Are we assuming transitivity?

tchrist

For wisdom, yes.

Double U

The fact seems paradoxical.

infinitesimal

We learn from our mistakes

tchrist

One can hardly expect to learn from another's.

Double U

04:58

You would think that in a perfect world, everyone would be free from making mistakes, because everyone would be perfect. Nope. Ain't happening. Because then you'd wonder how in the world are you going to learn?

tchrist

Define perfect.

Double U

@tchrist having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be.

@tchrist absolute; complete (used for emphasis).

infinitesimal

First define "learn".

Double U

@infinitesimal Learning is the act of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing, existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences.

tchrist

Delphi's doors are closing.

infinitesimal

05:01

Put your foot in the door.

tchrist

γνῶθι σεαυτόν, Tom adiosed gnomically.

infinitesimal

Skull wishes to say metaphorically.

infinitesimal

10:27

Science in the making.

2

Q: Two severe cyclones connected by a monsoonal trough

At the time of writing, areas around the Northern Territory (TC Lam) and Queensland (TC Marcia) in Australia are in the path of severe cyclones (category 4 at the moment, with the Queensland one - TC Marcia predicted to reach category 5 - Category scales used for Australia and Fiji). These cyclo...

A Beautiful Mind

12:05

Hi @matt.

Matt E. Эллен

Hi

I'm playing the candies game that Johan posted :D it's very silly

user116848

12:44

Hi

A Beautiful Mind

@MattE.Эллен I am still really bad. I hope I have a breakthrough soon.

user116848

Like a miracle?

A Beautiful Mind

Maybe. You stopped changing your picture.

user116848

Yes, I did. I like this one.

user116848

I'll change it though :-)

user116848

12:48

I was thinking about changing my name back to Arrowfar.

user116848

It is very boring here today.

Matt E. Эллен

@ABeautifulMind I hope so too

user116848

Hi matty.

Matt E. Эллен

HI @Farooq

Cerberus

@tchrist I actually meant the first part of the phrase.

> "...pointing out that still gave Tesla an out"

But I see it now: "...pointing out [that] that still gave Tesla an out"

I had drinks with a friend.

When was your birthday again?

user116848

12:53

Mine is in October. I don't celebrate it though.

user116848

I used to :-)

Matt E. Эллен

@Cerberus in Kuala Lumpur?

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен Kuala Lumpur? I barely knew her!

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch brims hot

Cerberus

@MattE.Эллен That would be difficult, I being in Amsterdam.

Matt E. Эллен

13:07

@Cerberus good dribniks, anyway?

Cerberus

Who are they?

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен me too. I just want to know how it's supposed to turn out.

Matt E. Эллен

Dribniks, from Drubni, in the Eastern Bloc

@Mitch yeah. it's weird

Mitch

I liked the squirrel

Matt E. Эллен

I can't beat it at tic tac toe

Mitch

13:11

It was tasty

@MattE.Эллен do two x's in the grid, then the last one outside.

literally thinking outside the box.

Matt E. Эллен

wow!

Mitch

or x'ing outside the box

Matt E. Эллен

that was unexpected

Robusto

13:46

> When you start talking about solving a problem this fundamental with tooling, you are saying something like:

> “The red cars won’t explode as long as you drive on these roads we specifically built for them. These roads are closed on wednesdays.”

daemon.co.za/2014/03/…

Robusto

13:58

0

Q: What's a word that means success and rhymes with "max"?

Writing a scientific poem and I'm stuck. I'm looking for a word that rhymes with "max" - this could be a loose rhyme, I'm not too picky, and means something like success or ability to thrive.

rhymes

How do I hate questions like this? Let me count the ways . . .

Mitch

Dude, he's not too picky. Offer 'numbnuts '. It's a loose rhyme

Robusto

I reject the notion that one can write a "scientific poem" and get "stuck" doing so. Did you publish your findings? Submit them to peer review? What was your methodology? What was your hypothesis?

Matt E. Эллен

14:28

@Mitch I need to find out what's in the box. I hope it's not Brad Pitt's wife's head

Thomas W.

which is the more proper to use: 'en masse' or 'in mass'

Matt E. Эллен

en masse

Thomas W.

thanks

Robusto

Unless you actually mean "in mass" in some kind of physics context or something.

A Beautiful Mind

14:43

Just use neither if you are not sure.

Matt E. Эллен

use both at the same time if you're sure

Robusto

And let's not forget massé if you're playing pool or billiards.

massé = pi * the speed of light squared.

A Beautiful Mind

Really?

Robusto

You doubt me?

A Beautiful Mind

Yes. Without googling, I don't think masse means that.

Robusto

14:54

Well, you're no fun.

Also, I said massé, not masse.

I don't think you googled massé.

A Beautiful Mind

Well, I did not google anything. Maybe you are right.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен ugh. but somebody else's head would be OK, right?

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch sure

Mitch

@Robusto whoa dude...where did the 'pi' come from? The universal coefficient is 1/sqrt(pi)

Matt E. Эллен

so long as it's not my head

Robusto

15:00

@Mitch ok, sqrt

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен what if it's your own... oh.

@ABeautifulMind einstein left out the coefficient. what an idiot.

Andrew Leach

@MattE.Эллен I'd guess it would make you angry, though. (Was that sin number 7?)

Matt E. Эллен

@AndrewLeach angry or dead :D

A Beautiful Mind

@MattE.Эллен Kit seems to be busy. She doesn't come to chat every day.

Matt E. Эллен

aye.

Mitch

15:06

If I saw my own head in a box, I'd turn it over to look at the back to see how the barber did. It's really hard to do it with mirrors.

A Beautiful Mind

I starred a lot of things in this chat but since they usually have one star only, they get unstarred.

Should we do away with the policy of unstarring single star items after a day? Please star this.

Matt E. Эллен

there is no such policy that I am aware of

A Beautiful Mind

OK, I guess Kit felt it was appropriate to do so. It's alright, either way.

Mitch

@ABeautifulMind resists urge to star exactly once

A Beautiful Mind

@Mitch I think you should star that.

Mitch

15:11

@ABeautifulMind I can't star my own thing.

A Beautiful Mind

@Mitch Star what I said.

Mitch

Like that?

A Beautiful Mind

@Mitch Not that.

Mitch

How about that?

A Beautiful Mind

You are very naughty.

Mitch

15:12

You realize of course that you're dealing with someone with the mind of a recalcitrant, intransigent (no I don't know what that means), petulant (not that either, something to do with petunias?), 11 year old.

what's the word I'm looking for?

Robusto

Wow, you're old.

A Beautiful Mind

@Mitch Ah, now I know you have an identity disorder.

Mitch

Impertinent.

Robusto

0

Q: what does imperative mean as an adjective?

I've just read a line "Many so-called “imperative” languages that followed (such as FORTRAN, BASIC, and C) were abstractions of assembly language". how do you perceive imperative?

imperative

GR

Mitch

@Robusto Thanks, Mr. Mature.

Robusto

15:13

You'll be in the sixth grade next year.

Mitch

Victor Mature

Victor John Mature (January 29, 1913 – August 4, 1999) was an American stage, film and television actor. == Early life == Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Marcello Gelindo Maturi, later Marcellus George Mature, was an Italian-speaking immigrant from the town Pinzolo, in the Italian part of the former County of Tyrol (now Trentino in Italy, at that time part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire); he was a cutler. His mother, Clara P. (Ackley), was Kentucky-born and of Swiss heritage. An older brother, Marcellus Paul Mature, died at 11 in 1918 from osteomyelitis. Victor Mature was...

A Beautiful Mind

I wish I can go back to high school. Then I would not have gone mad.

Robusto

@Mitch From what I can tell, he was neither mature nor victorious. False advertising!

Mitch

@Robusto um... with my impertinence, I'm going to do 4th grade again. Until Im really good at it.

@Robusto His middle name was Dolores.

He had a painful childhood

!!rimshot

Robusto

Well, according to your link his middle name was John, so he was some kind of commodore.

Mitch

15:16

@ABeautifulMind Yeah, it's virtual reality body dysmorphism syndrome. My avatar thinks it is a guru.

@Robusto Admiral of the Fleet.

Matt E. Эллен

> You stumble upon a naked monkey wizard.

Mitch

He needs to pop up to the poop deck.

Robusto

@Mitch Nobody wants to be Admiral of the Slow.

Mitch

Oct 1 '14 at 2:04, by Mitch

How do you say "Pop up to the poop deck" in Latin? What else do people use dictionaries for?

Robusto

Better than pooping up to the pop deck.

Mitch

15:18

@MattE.Эллен Wow...you're so lucky! I haven't done that!

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch I can't beat it. it jumps over me

Mitch

"anything's better than posh isolation"

Matt E. Эллен

maybe using teleport wuld help...

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен where did you find it?

Robusto

@Mitch How about Posh Spice?

Matt E. Эллен

15:20

@Mitch in the caves

@Mitch how far are you into the game?

Robusto

0

Q: New Etymological Knowledge

If a scholar or layperson, wanted to submit a discovery of the origin of some obscure word or phrase not previously known, what would be the criteria they should follow acceptable to the academic community? I have heard of what is referred to as 'peer reviews' as part of the process. Where and ho...

etymology history

Move to Linguistics, perhaps?

Some mod? Looks at @MattE.Эллен.

A Beautiful Mind

No staring in this chat.

Mitch

@Robusto a little in the sauce hollandaise

Robusto

No sauciness in chat.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен i'm trying to battle the octopus king in the caves and I don't have enough health to stand it.

Matt E. Эллен

15:24

@Mitch ah, yeah. I had to figure out how to make health potions

Mitch

@Robusto no sass in chat.

wait... it's all sass all the time.

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto feels like a dupe to me...

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен what? why don't they just tell you to do that!!

Matt E. Эллен

23

A: What are the criteria to adopt new words into English?

For a phrase to be adopted into a language, enough people have to start using it. There is no set of criteria beyond popularity. There is no way to force a phrase into someone's language at an individual level and to make sure it means what you want it to mean. Think of words and phrases as i...

hmmm. maybe not

OK. I'll migrate it

@Mitch it's an adevnture game! you have to figure these things out

have you got the couldron yet?

also, you don't have to fight the octopus or the monkey, just walk past them

Robusto

What game are you playing?

Matt E. Эллен

15:27

17 hours ago, by Johan Larsson

http://candybox2.net/

Andrew Leach

@MattE.Эллен I thought that was what you did for a living. Or something.

Matt E. Эллен

@AndrewLeach something like that, but also very vry different

Robusto

Someone entertain me. I just handed in my notice and now I'm bored until I start my new job.

Also, my next video game won't be available until midnight.

metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/the-order-1886

What, no one-boxing for metacritic reviews?

I'm having a sale on pronouns. Anybody want them?

Andrew Leach

15:46

Thanks, but the person called Andrew has no need of any of the pronouns offered by Robusto.

On the other hand...

Robusto

@AndrewLeach The person called Andrew is doomed.

To be precise, the person called Andrew Leach who is a moderator on English Language and Usage StackExchange site.

Andrew Leach

Well, when I run out of pronouns I'll come to you to get some. My stock is diminishing.

Robusto

You just used up some of your valuable pronouns.

Matt E. Эллен

16:02

we've been asked if we can reduce the resolution of the animated gifs in the following answer.

0

A: Near, near to and nearby. What's the difference?

I've been considering this for a while, now. Here's what my thoughts are: Near Near is a good option when you're considering geographical proximity of two stated locations. If you're literally saying "A is ___ B", it feels most natural to use "near" rather than "near to", "nearby to", or "nea...

seems like none of the mods can do it, so I throw it out to you

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен Done.

Matt E. Эллен

thanks!

Robusto

np. Gimp2 + 5 minutes.

Robusto

16:31

> You can now read 72.1% of all real Spanish text

Mitch

17:17

@MattE.Эллен I know your supposed to figure things out, but that's annoying I just want to know what to do. What do you mean, walk right by? That's an option?

Also these days I bet it's just as hard to do ascii art as it is to do real art. Just cut and paste images from the Internet.

Noah

18:09

@Cerberus

Are you there

infinitesimal

I am his brother Orthus :-)

may i be of assistance?

A Beautiful Mind

no

infinitesimal

:(

@ABeautifulMind did any of that make sense?

Cerberus

@Noah Hello.

Robusto

Helloah Noah

A Beautiful Mind

18:22

@infinitesimal Yes.

infinitesimal

@ABeautifulMind which part?

A Beautiful Mind

@infinitesimal All of it.

infinitesimal

Happy New Year!

:D

A Beautiful Mind

@infinitesimal I don't really like Chinese New Year. I prefer New Year.

Enthusiastic Student

Hi

I have a question

could you please help me?

infinitesimal

18:32

@ABeautifulMind They're all just another reason to celebrate living.

A Beautiful Mind

@infinitesimal I have struggled with my mental illness for so long that I have almost lost my sense of identity.

Enthusiastic Student

Is there any question on this site about the exact usage of words undergraduate and postgraduate degrees?

I can not find....

A Beautiful Mind

@EnthusiasticStudent What's so hard about these words?

infinitesimal

Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate 1971Remastered + Lyrics.

►

Enthusiastic Student

Are these words used for people studying in bachelors and masters degrees, or for people who have finished their studies?

A Beautiful Mind

18:34

@infinitesimal I wish I was not mentally ill. I might have won the Fields medal by now.

Enthusiastic Student

What is the exact usage of these words

A Beautiful Mind

@EnthusiasticStudent An undergraduate degree is for people to get their bachelors. A postgraduate degree is for people who have gotten bachelors. Roughly speaking.

infinitesimal

@ABeautifulMind wish for the best in the future also

Enthusiastic Student

?

Cerberus

@Robusto Ahh no.

A Beautiful Mind

18:36

@EnthusiasticStudent What is so hard to understand?

Robusto

The Temptations - Get Ready

►

Go for the original. Rare Earth was a tribute band for The Temptations.

A Beautiful Mind

@infinitesimal Haha, I am too old for the Fields medal, but I can still win the Abel Prize, LOL.

Robusto

Ever since Perelman refused the Fields it cheapened it for the rest of us.

Enthusiastic Student

Can it be written as: I have an undergraduate degree in some degree and a graduate degree in other degree? instead of I have a bachelors degree in some degree and a masters in another degree. I think the second sentence is correct...

Robusto

I mean, who would want it now?

A Beautiful Mind

18:38

@Robusto He can refuse the medal, but he should have taken the money and given it to me at least.

infinitesimal

@ABeautifulMind You can go for the Nobel too :-)

A Beautiful Mind

@EnthusiasticStudent You should write the second to be more explicit. Writing the first makes you sound stupid.

Robusto

@ABeautifulMind You would have spent half of it on drink and women, and blown the rest.

A Beautiful Mind

@Robusto Nope. I would save most of it for living expenses for the rest of my life.

infinitesimal

@ABeautifulMind There isn't much difference between theoretical Physics and Mathematics.

Robusto

18:40

@ABeautifulMind Whoosh.

A Beautiful Mind

@infinitesimal I am not exactly interested in applied math. But who knows, maybe one day I will work with some differential equations.

@Robusto Geezis, I am always whooshed.

Robusto

@infinitesimal Sounds like a physicist talking. We'll wait to hear from those purists known as mathematicians.

infinitesimal

@Robusto They agree.

Robusto

I never met a mathematician who didn't think his discipline was superior to physics, which, after all, involves real things.

infinitesimal

At that level they are indistinguishable in some areas of study.

Robusto

18:43

Einstein struggled with the math that he needed to describe his theories.

infinitesimal

True.

A Beautiful Mind

Seems that the Jews are very smart. Many great mathematicians are Jews.

Enthusiastic Student

@ABeautifulMind Thank you :)

A Beautiful Mind

@EnthusiasticStudent Welcome, I am a bachelor but not a master of my own mind.

infinitesimal

The mind is a complex organ.

A Beautiful Mind

18:46

I wish I can reverse time and do things correctly. But I think I did my best. So I should not regret.

infinitesimal

No regrets.

Enthusiastic Student

@ABeautifulMind But you answered my question as professional as a PhD holder. Thank you very much.

A Beautiful Mind

@EnthusiasticStudent I have, in some sense, a Permanent Head Damage.

infinitesimal

semi-permanent

it ain't over yet

A Beautiful Mind

It's very painful to struggle every day like I have been doing for so long. It hurts my mum to see me like that too.

Enthusiastic Student

18:48

@ABeautifulMind So you have a PHD and answered my question like you have a PhD ;)

A Beautiful Mind

@EnthusiasticStudent If a miracle happens and I recover from my mental illness soon, I will do a PhD.

infinitesimal

You should get better right in front of her and make her proud of you.

Enthusiastic Student

@ABeautifulMind I also hope you do a PhD... Wish you all my best. :)

A Beautiful Mind

@infinitesimal It's interesting that Nash mentioned 'miracle' in the documentary at the end, but I am not sure what he was referring to...

infinitesimal

@ABeautifulMind Don't dwell on his problems, you need to concentrate on your own.

A Beautiful Mind

18:52

@infinitesimal I have been watching it over and over again. It makes me feel better.

infinitesimal

@ABeautifulMind He was an Ivy League golden boy, right?

Arrogant, etc, etc,...

That's the stuff for movies.

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