@JasperLoy Yes, it's unity.

This might be my last day on Ubuntu though. My mother bought some rubbing alcohol so now I can clean the C.P.U. of my other computer's C.P.U. and install the fan. It's just easier to play games on Windows 7.

I'm probably going to put it off though since it's not urgent.

@Tonepoet But it is not the locus of the language.

RP is still the most respected variant, and it's taught around the world.

Descriptivism: It only applies when convenient. =P

Not sure what you mean by that...

In the intermediate future, most speakers of English will live in India.

Would you change its name into "Indian" then?

Eeeh, that doesn't appeal to frequency of usage though.

Why not?

It will.

Because like I said, they use it as a second language.

The Indian variant of the language will have the most users and will produce the most text.

They will speak it as a first language eventually.

@JasperLoy Because I doubt whether China will ever speak mainly English.

Maybe they will. I can't predict the future. At that point though, yes, I'd consider it yet another language.

@Tonepoet Another language? Not the same language?

Yes, another language. It's just as unrealistic to say that we speak Old English as it is to say that we speak Latin.

@JasperLoy Yes, it is possible. If half of India speaks English as a native language, that's more than the rest of the Anglophone world.

Even the language of Shakespeare is significantly different from our own.

@Tonepoet And then what would you call the language that will then be spoken in England and America?

One thing that needs to be kept in mind though is that dictionaries have significantly retarded change.

Old English is still called English...

@JasperLoy Yes, the large majority, although I think it's often hard to understand someone who speaks Mandarin but from a different region in the countryside?

Like in any country.

I find it nigh impossible to understand people from remote provinces.

Or even from some regions that aren't very far away.

@JasperLoy I mean, a dialect within Mandarin.

English is an appropriate epithet for the Language, since it was used predominantly by the English.

However let me ask @JasperLoy something.

And I thought you wanted to change its name...

Can you read this?

I think he can. It's English.

Oh, that.

You're thinking about Early Modern English.

That's Old English.

@Tonepoet Who is?

The Lord's Prayer, I think.

@Cerberus When you said "Oh that." I presume you meant something more modern.

Why?

Well 'cause you said he would be able to read it because it's English. =P

I posted that before you posted your image.

I was joking.

Hehehe.

I actually expected you to post something in Chinese.

> Can you read this? — Yes, I can read "can you read this?".

@KitZ.Fox kinda. Maybe they need to redo the carpet. One bad rain and a little leak.

It's an untenable practice to call whatever that picture represents the same language we speak today.

Why?

You need a definition of "language" first.

That's true.

Which one do we use? Perhaps Tongue?

That's not much of a definition?

I'm sure you get the joke.

Font is lame.

Anyway @cerberus My favorite definition of the word Language is the one found in The American Dictionary of the English Language, but not the one used as an entry.

Rather, it is the one that starts the introduction of the book.

@Tonepoet no ur fadder

@Cerberus define definition

I really like Gothic's trident-looking equivalent of thorn.

"Language or speech is the utterance of articulate sounds or voices, rendered significant by usage, for the expression and communication of thoughts." "But Language in its proper sense, as the medium of intercourse between men, or rational beings, endowed with the faculty of uttering articulate sounds, is the subject now to be considered. Written Language is the representation of significant sounds by letters or characters, single or combined in words, arranged in due order, according to usage."

The main point here is that I can not comprehend whatever tchrist is posting up, so while it is a language, it is not one I know.

@JasperLoy Hi Jasper! I wanted to have an interesting-looking avatar, glad someone noticed :)

@Tonepoet Thor not grok

@JasperLoy I remember seeing you in chat before, but it was a past account. I think the avatar was pure blue. It's good to see you back again.

@Mitch It O.K. Me no know eider.

@Tonepoet ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I like ultraviolet

It's more of an aspirational like

Does the Buddha answer summonses?

He'll be all chill like an show up when the feeling strikes

Or show up years later when you don't need him

@sumelic I can't post the entirety of my thoughts on that adequately in chat. =P

Or worse years earlier when you have no idea

Well, actually...

And he's giving you advice but he's really annoying. Like your friend

Holy crap. Your friend has reached buddhahoid already?

Isn't he kinda young for that?

@JasperLoy I just started using it. It seems pretty complicated. Which is useful in some cases, but I have to look up how to do everything. What I used to use was a "Paintbrush" app.

@sumelic The 1980 Sesame Street Dictionary, written for 3 year olds, defines a word better than Oxford does:

@JasperLoy I like gimp. Because it is free