« first day (4467 days earlier)      last day (441 days later) » 
00:00 - 16:0016:00 - 00:00

12:00 AM
@Cerberus I would initially read it as a typo but I found a couple of occurrences in forums/comments with the geographical meaning.
Qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons Controversal verse in the French national anthem.
 
I know! Sang means blood
Impur means impure
Abreuve.. I've got no idea.
> May impure blood water our furrows
 
@CowperKettle Provide something to drink, here flood.
 
Oh. Abreuve probably is cognate with ablution
> Inherited from Vulgar Latin *abbiberō, from Latin bibō (“to drink”), undergoing the following phonological process: /abbeβerare/ > /abbereβare/ > /abereβare/ > /abəreβærə/ >/abreuβer/ > /abʁœve/.
"Bibbers or non-bibbers of illicit potations"
 
A watering trough (or artificial watering point) is a man-made or natural receptacle intended to provide drinking water to animals, livestock on farms or ranches or wild animals. == History == In Australia, the watering trough is established so that sheep, cattle and other domesticated animals can drink, but native species such as kangaroos may be attracted. To reduce this, some water troughs are designed to reduce their use of the trough or exclude them from that use. One design is the "Finlayson Trough", which uses a low-lying electrified wire that sheep usually step over but kangaroos cannot...
Abreuvoir
 
> Arfid was first defined as an eating disorder in 2013. People with the condition consume an extremely limited variety of food or a very low amount of food (or both).
 
12:16 AM
@jlliagre Oh. I misspelled. I meant 'racailles'
 
@Mitch Yes, one of the few verlan words that became mainstream.
== Français == === Étymologie === (Verlan) (Date à préciser) Verlan de racaille : \ʁa.kaj\ devenu \kaj.ʁa\. === Nom commun === caillera \kaj.ʁa\ féminin (Péjoratif) Groupe de personnes considérées comme méprisables dans une population. Sofiane avait du mal à l’imaginer en caillera du Mirail comme le désignait avec tant d’aplomb son chef abhorré. — (Pierre Ferin, Tout en part, tout y revient, 2010) Individu considéré comme méprisable. Jeune de banlieue qui s’affirme en tant que tel et symbole de la street-culture. Pour les yeux des autres, tu jouais de mieux en mieux ton rôle,Ton rôle ...
 
@jlliagre mainstream? as in allowable in journalism?
(but not quoted)
 
12:35 AM
@Mitch More often with scare quotes.
Unquoted here
> Un auteur qui naît sous nos yeux
Sous nos yeux, c’est aussi un auteur qui naît, comprenant bientôt qu’il doit délaisser ses récits de SF (dont, du reste, personne ne veut), alors que « tout un pan de la réalité n’était pas montré dans une BD ». C’est cela qu’il lui faut raconter pour marquer son territoire : les cailleras qui lui font peur dans la rue, la brutalité de son enfance en Syrie, la laideur ordinaire de nos sociétés… Et puis raconter le père, bien entendu, nimbé de ce mystère opaque qu’on appelle la folie.
 
@CowperKettle I wonder as well. If you look up IP 91.240.118.252 that's where it takes you.
 
> The term "lymphoma" is from Latin lympha ("water"), a doublet of nympha
lympha and nympha are doublets
We can call it nymphoma then
 
Maybe Zhukov has his own wifi router?
@CowperKettle Or you could call it nymphomania.
 
Zhukov derives from zhuk, meaning a beatle
Probably onomatopoeic?
Oh, a beetle, not a beatle
 
12:48 AM
The Arab of the Future (French: L'Arabe du futur) is a graphic memoir by award-winning French-Syrian cartoonist Riad Sattouf. The work recounts Sattouf's childhood growing up in France, Libya and Syria in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. The first volume of L'Arabe du futur won the 2015 Fauve d’Or prize for best graphic novel at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.Sattouf's father influenced the title of the memoir through his ideal of raising his son as an "Arab of the future." Early in the story, the elder Sattouf proclaims, "I'd change everything among the Arabs. I'd force them to stop being...
A must read!
 
> The present results suggest that the cognitive bias to see meaningful connections in noise can have an impact on socio-political cognition as well as on perceptual decision making.
I did not see any mention of the sample size. An odd article, maybe just a commentary on some other work.
 
1:06 AM
@jlliagre The "2015 Fauve d’Or"? 2015 Wild Beast of Gold?
 
Le Fauve, mascotte officielle du festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême, a été créé en 2007 par Lewis Trondheim – qui était alors président du jury de la 34e édition du festival. Le Fauve incarne l’image du festival d’Angoulême. Il est utilisé comme signature sur l’ensemble des supports de communication (programme, signalétique...). == Présentation == À partir de sa création initiale, Lewis Trondheim a imaginé de nombreuses déclinaisons du Fauve, qui mettent en scène la mascotte du festival dans des situations particulières, liées aux divers événements et manifestations spécifiques...
 
Fauvism /ˈfoʊvɪzm̩/ is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a group of early 20th-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1904 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only a few years, 1905–1908, and had three exhibitions. The leaders of the movement were André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Henri Matisse. == Artists and style == Besides Matisse and Derain, other artists included Robert Deborne, Albert Marquet...
That's all I know about les fauves.
 
@Robusto Fauve usually means a wild big cat like a tiger or a lion, here it is used ironically as it looks like a simple cat. Fauve d'or as an award like Palme d'or or Golden globe.
 
@jlliagre Yeah, I knew what it meant. The choice of name seemed a bit odd to me, though.
I suppose it's not a whole lot different from calling an Academy Award an "Oscar" ...
 
1:21 AM
Our "Oscars" are the Césars.
The César Award is the national film award of France. It is delivered in the Nuit des César ceremony and was first awarded in 1976. The nominations are selected by the members of twelve categories of filmmaking professionals and supported by the French Ministry of Culture. The nationally televised award ceremony is held in Paris each year in February. The exact location has changed over the years (in the Théâtre du Châtelet from 2002 to 2016). It is an initiative of the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, which was founded in 1975. The César Award is considered the highest film honor in...
 
@jlliagre So the New Wave directors were too early to win those awards?
 
> From Middle French fauve, from Old French falve, from Late Latin falvus, a borrowing from Frankish *falu, *falw- (compare Dutch vaal, English fallow and German falb), from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (“pale, grey”).
> The adjectival sense of "savage, fierce" comes from the noun sense "wild animal," which is in turn a shortening of bête au pelage fauve (“animal with tawny fur”).
Oh. I knew the word bete: bete noire
I wonder if French programmers issue bete versions of software
 
@CowperKettle Don't forget the circumflex (bête) because French wants you to know there is a letter messing.
It wouldn't do if you weren't aware of things being omitted.
It would be unseemly.
Your spelling must be done comme il faut.
 
> probably partially borrowed from Classical Latin bēstia (“beast”)
We have the word бестия in Russian
 
I thought that was Избестия.
snork
 
1:30 AM
LOL
 
@Robusto Too early indeed, but the Festival de Cannes was already there.
 
Oh right ... which seems like much the greater award.
I wonder why you touted me off the Palme d'Or for that fauvist thing.
 
@Robusto Or missing. The accent is also there to give a hint about how to pronounce the E.
 
An old Perestroika-era joke pictures a line of men standing to buy their morning papers. The manager of the newspaper kiosk pops out her head and yells: — "Правды" нет! "Советская Россия" продана! Остался только "Труд" за три копейки! (There's no "Truth" anymore! "Soviet Russia" is sold out! Only "Labor" for 3 kopecks is left!)
 
@CowperKettle These are bêta versions. The Greek letter, not the beast.
 
1:46 AM
nods
 
Nods (French pronunciation: ​[no]) is a former commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. It is the seat of the commune of Les Premiers-Sapins. == Geography == Nods lies 8 km (5.0 mi) from Vercel. == History == On 1 January 2016, Athose, Chasnans, Hautepierre-le-Châtelet, Nods, Rantechaux and Vanclans merged becoming one commune called Les Premiers-Sapins. == Population == == See also == Communes of the Doubs department == References == == External links == Nods on the intercommunal Web site of the department (in French)
 
@CowperKettle You always have to write bête noire with the circumflex so you know its invisible s isn't there. :)
 
I'm not planning to learn French perfectly :)
I haven't learned English yet.
Word of the day: ventouse (a tool for assisting the delivery of a child). Russian cognate word: вантуз (force cup for cleaning toilet bowls and kitchen sinks)
 
@jlliagre Does 'racaille' (and/or 'caillera') have an implicit connotation of ... 'orientale' (arabe)? (I remember when Sarkozy used it during some démonstrations Parisiens and was criticized for being racist)
 
If you learn Spanish or Italian or Latin before you learn French or Portuguese, it makes much more sense when you see the letters the latter pair leave out and sometimes leave funny diacritics in their wake.
 
1:53 AM
27 mins ago, by Robusto
@CowperKettle Don't forget the circumflex (bête) because French wants you to know there is a letter messing.
 
@tchrist Persiflage !
 
@jlliagre I know this word too.
 
@Mitch Often, but not necessarily.
 
Also badinage.
 
One would pronounce bète similarly but it would sort differently.
 
1:55 AM
> Beneath the tree’s umbrageous limb
A hungry fox sat smiling;
He saw the raven watching him,
And spoke in words beguiling:
"J’admire," said he, "ton beau plumage!"
(The which was simply persiflage.)
 
Or birdinage.
 
or Badinage artistique (pun on figure skating)
 
If there's a badinage, there ought to be a goodinage.
 
Of cabotinages and kings.
 
Yes, like benefits and malefits
Is the word supergrass commonly known?
 
2:00 AM
macaque maquillage
 
Never heard of it. Well, maybe back when I smoked grass it might have been used as a descriptor of a high THC content.
 
@CowperKettle Nope.
 
But certainly nothing regular.
 
The Supergrass is a 1985 British comedy film directed by Peter Richardson, (who also plays a major role) who also wrote the screenplay with Pete Richens. The film stars Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith Allen, Nigel Planer, Alexei Sayle, Ronald Allen, and Robbie Coltrane. The Supergrass was the first feature-length film by the 1980s alternative comedy group The Comic Strip. The soundtrack to the film featured original music from Keith Tippett, plus music from P. P. Arnold, Grace Jones, and Bob Marley, among others. == Plot == After returning from a holiday in the West Country...
> The girl is unimpressed; however, he is overheard by the police, who persuade him to become a supergrass and inform on his associates.
 
@CowperKettle could be easily well-known in the UK.
@jlliagre That always sounded to me like one of those obscure leafy plants that you put in soup only out of desperation.
It still could be.
I wouldn't know.
 
2:11 AM
@Mitch Persil?
 
@jlliagre again, danged if I know.
Isn't Persil a laundry detergent?
 
haha what if
Oh shit
 
@Mitch When sodium perborate and silicate, yes. Also French for parsley.
 
I never cared for parsley so that explains a lot.
 
2:21 AM
@Mitch The feeling is mutual.
Parsley is always complaining about you.
 
Fair enough
 
@Mitch It's commonly used in French cuisine. You'll love it as a persillade in snails!
 
Apr 16, 2015 at 12:13, by Mitch
De gustibus non disputhatsgross.
@jlliagre I've been to a snail farm
 
If I ever need to fall back on my acting career, whenever I need to conjure up a face for abject horror, I'll think back on the rows and rows of glistening protuberances.
 
2:27 AM
Escargot rhymes with embargo.
 
Finally! Someone says the truth that no one is courageous enough to say out loud!
What's the list of non-rhyming words?
 
Escargot doesn't rhyme with snail. I got one.
 
Oh you
The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes—that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwards. The list was compiled from the point of view of Received Pronunciation (with a few exceptions for General American), and may not work for other accents or dialects. Multiple-word rhymes (a phrase that rhymes with a word, known as a phrasal or mosaic rhyme), self...
 
2:50 AM
@Mitch Maybe the problem is that you think the shell should be eaten. Only what is inside is delicious!
 
3:00 AM
Like seashells.
 
@jlliagre my memory of that is vague. They showed us the rows and rows of ... I don't know what to call them but the places the snails were crawling around and growing, but it was some inverted trough that they turned over for us to see but it was very dark under there, not well lit.
 
3:15 AM
Mar 25, 2021 at 21:34, by Robusto
Calling a snail escargot doesn't make me want it more.
 
@jlliagre My what strange molluscs I perceive that you have there! People used to think percebes were molluscs, too.
Instead of the crustaceans they are.
Sang Barnacle Bill the Sailor.
> The Cantabrian coast of northern Spain, along which lies Cantabria itself, the Basque Country, Asturias, and Galicia (which also has an Atlantic Ocean coast) provides this country’s largest bounty of seafood. And that’s true not just in terms of quantity but in variety, especially when it comes to mariscos (shellfish) such as gambas (shrimp), cigalas (lobster), vieiras and zamburiñas (scallops), mejillones (mussels), nécoras (velvet crabs), centollos (spider crabs), berebechos (cockles), and navajas (razor clams). But the most unusual and prized of all is something most of us would associ
Barnacles were first (mis)classed as molluscs. They drove Darwin mad. They're crustaceans, at least as to their order not their class.
> So how do you actually eat goose barnacles? The most classic way – and that interferes the least with their natural flavour – is to boil them in sea water (or at least salted water); some also add a laurel or bay leaf and/or a dash of white wine. You eat the stalk with its orange tip, and the taste of this sweet flesh has been described as a cross between lobster and clam.

One of Galicia’s main centres for the percebeiro industry is the tiny Coruña-province town of Corme, reckoned home to Spain’s best goose barnacles by size and quality. In fact, it’s the site of a Festa do Percebe held
They can run you as much as a hundred bucks a pound, I've heard.
I think they may only be eaten in Iberia not in France.
> Percebes, known as goose barnacles in English, are a Galician delicacy from Spain and are among the most exclusive seafood in Europe. Customers in Spain and Portugal pay up to 200 Euros per kilo for superb quality Percebes. This extraordinary price results from the extreme circumstances in which the rare barnacles are harvested from the rocky cliffs off the Galician coast.
I've never had them.
Le pouce-pied (ou poucepied) de l’Atlantique-est (Pollicipes pollicipes) est une espèce de crustacés cirripèdes marins à pédoncule charnu et court, qui vit fixé aux rochers battus par les vagues. Son aire de répartition se limite à la zone intertidale le long de la côte atlantique de l’Europe et de l’Afrique du Nord. Parfois également appelé à tort « anatife », il est alors confondu avec les véritables anatifes qui appartiennent au genre Lepas et vivent fixés à des objets flottants. Comestible, il a longtemps été une source de nourriture pour les habitants des côtes. Depuis de nombreuses années...
> Depuis de nombreuses années, une forte demande existe pour cette ressource en Espagne et au Portugal où il est particulièrement prisé.

Il a fait l’objet d’une pêche intensive qui a conduit à une surexploitation et à un fort déclin de ses populations dans plusieurs régions. La faible productivité de l'espèce, liée à une croissance lente et à une possibilité d'implantation réduite en raison d'exigences écologiques fortes, en fait une ressource peu abondante et fragile à l’exploitation.
> La production française est, pour l’essentiel, destinée à l’exportation, en particulier vers l’Espagne. Le pouce-pied est généralement commercialisé collé à la pierre pour une meilleure conservation lors du transport18. La demande du marché espagnol a brusquement augmenté, déjà entre 1941 (date approximative de la 1re exploitation) et 1982, à la suite de l'épuisement de la ressource sur les côtes basques espagnoles et de Galice.

L'escalade des prix qui en a résulté a encouragé l'exploitation de sites plus difficilement accessibles et à rendements plus faibles19.
Don't bother reading the English version. It's miserable.
 
3:42 AM
@tchrist I have heard of percebes / pouce-pieds but I never eat any. too bad they are disappearing. Reminds the frogs that suffer a similar fate.
 
Yes.
> Unha das grandes cousas das costas nosas, das bravas, do Ortegal, do Fisterre, das illas de Sálvora e de Ons, das penedosas costas dos ártabros, por onde anda co vento e as grandes olas a voz do bardo Pondal, son os percebes. (...) Parece coma si souperon, nos longos meses atemporalados do inverno, que hai que ofrecer ao golpe de marnos cons, na penedía mariñeira toda á que se pega, unha estructura resistente: non medrar, engordar, aguantar o golpe do mar na unlla. Así están, digo eu, estes coma viquingos de mouro vestidos nunha asemblea de cascos, que era unha das maneiras que os poetas
I eses percebes xustifican unha longa espera, unha golosa espranza.
> un zugo roxizo, que é unha perda, que están millor na boca que na camisa
ha
> Agora andan moi escasos, e máis caros que a langosta ou a centola, ou as ostras.
Hard to imagine that they're so pricey.
But rarity does that.
Canada doesn't export them anymore. There are too few.
 
Galician?
 
Yes.
O percebe (Pollicipes pollicipes), tamén denominado mixote, percebe da pedra, percebe da sombriza e percebe mexón, segundo M. C. Ríos Panisse e máis Rosa Ramonell, é unha especie de artrópodo pertencente á familia dos policipédidos da orde dos pedunculados e infraclase dos cirrípedes, do subfilo dos crustáceos, estando en consecuencia ligado de lonxe cos cangrexos e as lagostas. Algunhas autoridades académicas consideran os cirrípedes como clase plena. A especie foi descrita por primeira vez polo químico e naturalista alemám Johann Friedrich Gmelin en 1789, baixo o nome de Lepas pollicipes. Das...
 
Ar vortepezenn, pe troad-moc'h, pe poch-pez, (Pollicipes pollicipes pe Pollicipes cornucopia), a zo ur c'hresteneg mor mat da zebriñ hag a vev stag ouzh ar reier. Droukvesket e vez a-wechoù gant ar garili. == Doareoù pennañ == War-dro 5 cm eo he hirder. Un troad du skantek a ya d'ober lodenn izelañ he c'horf pa eo tric'hornek ha goloet a blakennoù arwenn (un dek plakenn vihan toget gant 5 plakenn vrasoc'h) he lodenn uhelañ. Etre ar plakennoù-se e vez gwelet ar gwiennoù du. Neudennoùigoù a zispak diouzh un toull e penn ar plakennoù brasañ ha ganto e vez tapet krog er boued : ar plankton. ...
 
Yeah, I can't do Celtic tongues.
 
3:54 AM
I only know a handful of Breton words and that's it. Too complicated.
It's 5 AM, time to go to bed!
 
Me too, long past. Good night!
 
 
1 hour later…
5:25 AM
@Mitch Maybe. The more I think about it, more I realize the inner voice.
@jlliagre I saw this in Mr. Been episode. He ate both things weirdly.
 
5:59 AM
What does a politician do when he dies? He lies still.
> In a recent experiment at Princeton, Karthik Narasimhan, a computer scientist, and Anirudha Majumdar, a roboticist, taught a robotic arm to use tools it had never seen before by pre-training it with a language model, the way humans might read a manual.
 
6:49 AM
My mother recalled that at her university, one girl's father had the name Remir, which translates as "Revolution, Electrification, MIR", with mear standing for "peace".
Thus, the girl's patronymic was "Remirovna"
Which was very unusual.
 
7:24 AM
YouTube physicist Sabine Hossenfelder said that she does not believe them to be economically feasible.
That's too bad. I think she must know a lot about this.
Why then are they even trying?
 
8:08 AM
:62684283
Might be
Wordle 594 6/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Might be
 
8:21 AM
Word of the day: water butt (a water tank used to collect and store rain water runoff, typically from rooftops via pipes. Rainwater tanks are devices for collecting and maintaining harvested rain)
 
Wordle 594 5/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
8:38 AM
@jlliagre Oh yeah movie actually.
Mr. Bean*
@CowperKettle And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
 
8:59 AM
 
 
2 hours later…
11:22 AM
@Vikas The waiter is a very famous French actor, Jean Rochefort.
Lost in La Mancha is a 2002 documentary film about Terry Gilliam's first attempt to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a film adaptation of the 1605/1615 novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The documentary was shot in 2000 during pre-production and filming and it was intended as a "making-of" documentary for the film. However, Gilliam's failure to complete his film resulted in the documentary filmmakers retitling their work as Lost in la Mancha and releasing it independently. Written and directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, Lost in La Mancha presents Gilliam's effort to make Don Quixote...
 
12:16 PM
@jlliagre LOL
 
@jlliagre Oh. Funny how he "forced" poor Bean to eat the food 🤣
 
@Vikas These nice delicacies need to be eaten alive!
 
So they were alive when he was eating? I could notice some movement.
 
hi!
 
Hola
 
12:28 PM
i am now here.
rejoice, plebeians and high rep people
 
I have lowest rep here
 
yey im not useless
 
12:41 PM
What’s Whitney Houston’s favorite type of coordination?
HAAAAAAAAAND EYEEEEEEEEEE
 
12:59 PM
@Vikas Oysters move, but not enough for it to be visible on a movie. We usually pour drops of vinegar or lemon juice on them and if the react, we are sure thay are alive.
@parz Reputation shouldn't be taken au pied de la lettre. It measures activity and seniority more than talent / skills.
they* react
they* are alive
 
1:19 PM
> "Through 1974, psychologist John Money at Johns Hopkins experimented on thirteen XYY boys and men (15 to 37 yo) in an unsuccessful attempt to treat their behavior problems by chemical castration w/ Provera, with side effects of weight gain (avg. 26 lbs.) and suicide." (Wikipedia)
It's amazing that the XYY karyotype is not that rare. One in 1000 newborn boys has it. Thus, more than 100 000 XYY males in the US alone. And yet, it was discovered only in 1961, by sheer chance.
@Vikas Please tell the Universe that I did not want "depression", it misheard me. I wanted a hiking trip in the Altai mountains.
It probably uses some quaint language.
Word of the day: punt volat
 
1:37 PM
@jlliagre Oh.
 
2:18 PM
@jlliagre yeah that's is. a long low partial cover, with lots of snails roaming around underneath. I remember vaguely the covering being metal and continuous (ie not wood and not with gaps every foot, but open along the bottom lengthwise). But that is probably some weird memory reconstruction because I haven't been able to find anything like that on the web.
@jlliagre winces
 
@Mitch about "reputation" value?
 
(haha but I think that a lot about a few of the high rollers on ELU, present company excepted)
@jlliagre yes
An uncontroversial example, there is one guy who asked -a lot- of questions. In fact, only questions. They were all excellent questions. Really excellent. and the voting and scoring give him a very high reputation. But reputation on SE is generally expected to be a reflection of how well you know the subject. And I wouldn't expect this guy's answers to be reliable.
(this response is not really the best example of what I'm talking about since it is nice. And any real example I could give would be mean)
no names
Except...
except that one guy
he knows what I'm talking about
haha he'll never read this
except if
removed
removed again
another thing I shouldn't be saying removed
 
#Worldle #378 1/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐🏙️🪙
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
 
@Vikas It's hard to separate because if we want to describe our thoughts to someone else, we are necessarily using language to do so, so it seem like the original thoughts are in words too
 
@jlliagre Ahem Except in my case.
 
2:30 PM
@Mitch I also have a couple of FSE users in mind, like ███████and█████ ;-) Reciprocally, there are some extremely smart and knowledgeable users with an unimpressive reputation. They simply only answer to the questions they have some interest with, or they are busy elsewhere and have no time to lose with beginners.
 
🌎 Feb 3, 2023 🌍
🔥 21 | Avg. Guesses: 4.99
🟨🟥🟩 = 3

globle-game.com
#globle
Wordle 594 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
@jlliagre There was one guy on ELU years ago that used to answer SWRs quite a bit by simply cut and pasting from wiktionary, which is bad enough, but they also had this unnerving ability to choose word suggestions that were not right. Maybe in the ball park, but just not the right word. BUt still upvoted enough and done with enough frequency he ogt a good rep.
 
@jlliagre When I first got on EL&U I treated it like a game (which it kind of is). Eventually I grew bored with that. Then really bored with the quality of questions. Now I seldom respond at all.
 
@Robusto I mean, you started with 0 reputation, like the rest of us, and I guess you weren't substantially different at the time.
 
See above.
I was very different at the time. Like I said, I treated it like a game, and I won. 0 to Legendary in 7 or 8 months, 50K rep in 9. Now I can't be arsed to gather more reputation.
And haven't for quite a while.
 
2:44 PM
@Robusto 🟪🟦🟩🟨🟧🟥🟫⬛️ Are the color blocks that all these things use... are they all emojis?
What if I want another color?
 
Ello
 
@Mitch I don't know. I thought they were boxes from text. They behave like text. But I suppose emojis do as well.
 
@Robusto also, it feels like there are more interesting questions that no one is asking here. Like mostly on Reddit or Quora
@Robusto enojis -are- text aren't they?
 
Yes, as I said.
 
✅Ⓜ️👀🏷📞🎀
 
2:47 PM
Yes, they are emojis
 
Are you using Apple device?
 
@Robusto I don't care that much about the quality of questions on FSE, there isn't a lot of traffic there compared to EL&U. I more concerned about the quality of some replies which kind of force me to provide a different view, just not to abandon learners in a parallel world.
 
@Mitch LMGTFY
 
I doubted it because the 'success' metrics fronm the games looked very flat and the emojis seemed to have gradients to them
 
OPs are often the least qualified to judge the quality of an answer, and they often upvote answers, even select them as "good answers" because they seem reasonable and required an effort, even when in fact they are just bullshit.
 
2:49 PM
 
and the image above shows that both are complex images (that are emojis: unicode code points that use images instead of points)
 
@jlliagre ^^
 
That's me.
 
Obligatory XKCD reference.
 
@jlliagre Yes. WHen other people are wrong it is awful.
 
2:50 PM
@Robusto 🤣🤣🤣
 
@jlliagre Yes, I agree with that 100%. That sort of thing may work in coding, because the result is measurable and, in most cases, unequivocal.
 
When I'm wrong, I'm just a little bit sorry, if even that. It was just a mistake, what's the big deal.
 
@Mitch I thought I'm the only one who often types "Th" as "TH". E.g. I type THanks (not to be confused with Tom Hanks).
 
@Mitch That sounds like the rationale of a sociopath.
There should be a public square for SE sites where people weep and rend their garments in apology for being wrong, even a little bit.
 
@jlliagre But also other people who vote seem to be swayed a lot by things having nothing to do with correctness. LIke already higher voted, or answered early or not nuanced, or etc
 
2:52 PM
"I have sinned!"
 
@Mitch What color you need?
 
@Vikas स्वागत!
@Vikas My problem is that I can't see it often enough to correct it before I press 'send'.
@Robusto Aren't we all sociopaths to some degree?
 
@Mitch That's exactly what a sociopath would say.
 
@Vikas Chartreuse
 
@Vikas Puce.
 
2:56 PM
@Robusto Also, sociopaths would deny it.
 
@Mitch Actually we don't use that particular word to respond to thanks in Hindi. Unlike English. Where we use welcome.
 
@Mitch No. Psychopaths would deny it. Sociopaths would rationalize.
 
@Vikas What would you use? (if anything)
 
Admitting that you were wrong when you were is the only way to go. Some users go crazy if they are proven wrong, they just never accept it.
 
@Robusto Oh. great choice.
@jlliagre I don't like it when other people do it, put other people seem to do it a lot, mostly it seems to save their ego.
 
2:57 PM
@jlliagre This.
@Mitch Do you mean salve their ego?
 
@Robusto Sure, that too.
 
"Momma, @Mitch was wrong on the Internet! Again!"
 
@Mitch There are many ways. I usually say "koi baat nahi" (equivalent to "no problem").
> There is no direct equivalent for " you're welcome" in Hindi.

The response to dhanyavaad or Shukriya ( Thank you) can be one of the following:-

* Koi baat nahin (" Dont mention it" or ".it doesn't matter ")

* A more formal response can be:-
Sharminda mat karo (".don't embarrass me")

* App toh mujey Sharminda kar rahe hai. (" you address embarrassing me)

* ye toh mera farz tha (" it was my duty")
Copied from Quora.
 
@Vikas Google translate gave that as one alternative, but when you don't know a language, you have absolutely no idea which one fits or is most common or has the right nuance.
 
@Vikas Coquelicot.
 
3:00 PM
@Mitch For that you'd need thousands of emojis of yellow and green arranged alternatively in a grid. That should give you an impression of that color?
 
@Vikas सिर्फ करो, जल्दी
 
@Robusto Similar trick for this maybe.
Now you're all playing with me 🤨
 
Daily Quordle 375
8️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
quordle.com
 
@Vikas I'm just pointing out the limitations of emojis. They have a thousand emojis but very few actually usable.
 
You would perhaps prefer jacqueminot?
 
3:03 PM
@Mitch I think they just chose the common colors.
Yeah I agree very few are usable. Or I use.
🎈 Emoji of the day.
(Not everyone will get it).
 
@Vikas Get it? I can hardly see what it is unless I blow it up.
Oh, it's a red sperm cell.
 
@Robusto LOL
It's a balloon.
 
@Vikas I don't get it.
 
Hence the blow ups.
 
It was Chinese spy (unconfirmed) balloon.
 
3:08 PM
Name three things that coquelicot and jacqueminot share in common.
 
@Mitch Possible answers to merci: de rien, je t'en prie, c'est moi, avec plaisir, tout le plaisir est pour moi, je vous en prie, c'est tout naturel, ce n'est rien, c'est la moindre des choses, c'est moi qui vous remercie, à votre service, service, pas de problème, bienvenue (Qc), ...
 
@tchrist All three are French, have four syllables, and are italicized.
 
@Robusto All three?
 
@jlliagre From an English point of view, yes.
In French maybe they have three syllables?
Anyway, perspective wasn't considered, so I will accept my own reply.
 
@Robusto It is a well accepted phenomenon among typicals (ie not psycho- socio- whatevero-paths) that you ascribe blame to others with intrinsic causes (it's a property of that other person (eg bad personality made them do drugs or crime), but for yourself the blame is extrinsic (bad friends/environment led me to do drugs or crime).
 
3:10 PM
@Robusto I would say both are French, rhyme and have three syllables.
 
@jlliagre Being a Frenchman, you would say that.
 
@Vikas Oh haha that's is -all- over the news.
 
You left out italicization. Italicization.
 
which we should be thankful for, that is, that nothing worse is happening.
 
@tchrist I think it was asked in Harry Potter movie by Snape.
 
3:12 PM
@Robusto Only three things were asked.
 
Or maybe they're covering up the worse thing that actually -is- going on.
hides under covers
 
1. They're both colors.
2. They're both named for the reddish flower of that name.
3. They both have "blue" eye-dialect spelling possibilities.
 
OK, new game. Figure out the song from the emoji cluster: 🌹💋
 
Hindi translate gave me totally different results.
 
@jlliagre He's covering all four bases.
 
3:13 PM
Think of forget-me-nots: cock-lick-its and jack-me-nots.
 
@jlliagre But that one is better than rhyme, since everything rhymes in French already.
 
@Robusto They're too small. Can you blow them up?
 
@Mitch If I blow them up in chat someone will get hurt.
 
Coquelicot is the color of the common Red Poppy, a brilliant red with an admixture of orange. Jacqueminot is a red-flowered, hybrid perpetual variety of rose; also, formerly used for a color resembling that of the flower.
 
@tchrist First time I see jacqueminot. I would have no idea about its meaning without context. Looks more like someone's last name.
 
3:16 PM
Or Jacques Minot.
 
@Robusto OK then. I'll try first: Sympathy for the Devil
 
Coquelicot is on the other hand very common.
 
The British free companies in France in the 14th century would have incorporated jacqueminot into English as "Jack Minnow" ...
 
@jlliagre It is in plain fact derived from a gentleman's surname.
 
And I am sure, though I can't prove it, that runcible (as in Lear's "runcible spoon") was incorporated from the French municipality of Roncesvalles .
 
3:19 PM
Yes, it really isn't used much as a color-name any longer. It still means the Général Jacqueminot rose.
 
@tchrist Jacques (James) → Jacquemin (little James) → Jacqueminot (little little James).
 
Sounds like a new Jacobite plot to me.
 
Jacques, Jack, James, Iago.
 
Tiago, Diego.
 
Santiago
Jaime
Jaume
 
3:21 PM
sans Tiago we are nothing.
Jaimecito.
 
Giacomo
 
Jock.
Chaikel.
 
From 1999 through 2012, Jacob was the most popular baby name for boys in the United States.
 
Séamas.
@jlliagre And in earlier eras, I trust. In the generation previous to mine there are many such.
 
When is Poindexter going to make a comeback?
 
3:24 PM
As a first name?
 
And Aloysius?
 
Dec 4, 2019 at 16:29, by tchrist
The source is someone famous
But how is rather heinous
We got it from the shamus
Who pulled it from his
 
@Mitch All surnames become given names in the South.
 
Ghjacumu, Xacobe
 
@tchrist Coriolanus?
 
3:25 PM
Jiminy Cricket.
 
We need more Bookers and Luthers.
 
@Robusto I only know Dexter Morgan
 
@jlliagre Right.
 
No comeback planned
 
If we have a Dexter, oughtn't we to have a Sinister as well?
Daily Octordle #375
4️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🕚
5️⃣7️⃣
🕛🔟
Score: 66
 
3:29 PM
@Robusto She's his sister.
 
He was right: she got left behind.
 
Sor Sinistra.
 
My coffee is wearing off. I got up too early.
 
I went back to bed.
 
I'm going to wait till it's warmer out to take my ride.
Winter sucks. It's 27 °F here (~-3 °C) right now.
 
3:37 PM
Whoa. I have exactly +50.0F here.
With snow-eater winds, the chinooks.
 
Some kind of temperature inversion, I guess.
 
February is the shortest month, and also the longest.
 
3:53 PM
Daily Quordle 375
9️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
quordle.com

Daily Octordle #375
🕚🕛
🕐🟥
6️⃣🔟
3️⃣8️⃣
Score: 77
no luck...
 
00:00 - 16:0016:00 - 00:00

« first day (4467 days earlier)      last day (441 days later) »