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12:12 AM
Deutch of the day: hochachtungsvoll - yours respectively
> Der Brief der Fische, Mai 1935
I seem to recall that "achtung" meant "attention"
 
@Mitch Look up "dysthymia" (for depression) and "mild cognitive impairment" (for dementia).
 
> Does artificial intelligence have a role to play in creating a more stable system or will it be the tipping point that drives our current one out of control?
Hochachtungsvoll, Schmachtenberger.
This night, Yekaterinburg firefighters saved a cat.
By providing it oxygen.
 
Yes, the etymology of "amateur" is great :)
 
But this fulgorous question uses ama, which is of course the 2nd person imperative.
 
12:21 AM
But strangely, the verb amate did not mean "love"
> Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate,
And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue,
Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate,
For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?
 
Ámate means love thyself in Spanish. And Latin.
 
@tchrist Amo is a Missouri resident, Amas is a Catholic religious service. Amat is something you wipe your shoes on. "and more" is amore.
 
@CowperKettle Is that the befriend amate or the dismay amate?
 
@tchrist Dismay, dishearten
There's also the amate paper, derived from the Nahuatl language
 
The befriend one has its own origin, combining a- with mate for befriend.
 
12:24 AM
It's curious that there was paper in preColumbian America.
Amate (Spanish: amate [aˈmate] from Nahuatl languages: āmatl [ˈaːmat͡ɬ]) is a type of bark paper that has been manufactured in Mexico since the precontact times. It was used primarily to create codices. Amate paper was extensively produced and used for both communication, records, and ritual during the Triple Alliance; however, after the Spanish conquest, its production was mostly banned and replaced by European paper. Amate paper production never completely died, nor did the rituals associated with it. It remained strongest in the rugged, remote mountainous areas of northern Puebla and northern...
 
Some dumb fairy's word.
The other is the elder one.
 
@CowperKettle I think you mean "respectfully" ... not at all the same thing as "respectively."
 
Ah! Entschuldigen Sie!
I remember "achtung" from a childrens' verse of my childhood
> Achtung! Achtung! Govorit Germachtung! (Attention! Attention! Germany speaking!) - in mangled German/Russian
 
@tchrist sildenafil was known even in 1642
 
12:45 AM
> When you need to pronounce a French word abroad, you have three options:
Pronounce it the French way and look like a big snob
Deny your origins and pronounce it the local way
Make a mix of both
 
@jlliagre The best I can do with French pronunciation is faux. It's close-ish, but with all the subtleties planed off.
Please don't hurt me now.
 
@Robusto Why would I?
 
@jlliagre I was kidding.
I think I still am.
 
I never kid.
 
I'm a kid at heart.
 
1:00 AM
Kids like crème brûlée, don't they?
 
Kids like who?
 
/ˌkrɛm bruːˈleɪ/
 
@Robusto Kids like Little Orphan Annie.
 
Kids like a lotta things that ain't good for 'em.
 
@jlliagre /kʁɛmbʁyle/
 
1:07 AM
Taste different.
 
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
 
Probably what you get when you make a Camembert cassoulet.
 
Stop talking about cheese. It's my kryptonite.
Ooops, I shouldn't have let that slip.
 
Mine's custard.
 
Crema catalana
 
1:10 AM
What is the thema of your crema?
 
So many names for the cow god's gift to children.
 
Yop!
 
La crème chantilly (ou simplement appelée la chantilly) est une crème fouettée, souvent sucrée et parfois aromatisée. == Description == La crème chantilly et la crème fouettée sont des crèmes foisonnées (incorporation d'air par fouettage). La crème chantilly est réalisée avec de la crème fraîche liquide, crème fleurette ou crème à fouetter UHT ou stérilisée,. La crème fouettée contient 75 % de crème ou de crème légère, elle peut être sucrée et contenir des ferments lactiques, des arômes naturels ou artificiels, des stabilisants et des protéines de lait. La véritable crème chantilly, elle, est un...
 
1:17 AM
Lassi
 
I used chantilly.
Boyfriend's birthday—what do you call this?
 
I was thinking something like tart.
 
@Cerberus Birthday cake?
 
But there is no cake in it.
Not a gram of flour.
 
1:21 AM
Tarte.
 
OK I'll use that.
 
Did it have ground nuts and egg as a binder instead?
 
Yes, and chantilly.
Layers of meringue, whipped cream, chocolate ganache.
 
I'll think of it in a bit. Three days, probably.
 
All with hazelnut-caramel paste throughout.
Three?
It's relatively easy to make.
 
Just a lot of parts.
 
@Cerberus My memory is not.
I'll think of the thing we call that in three days' time.
 
Nor mine.
All I think think of was tarte, too.
 
I love baked goods but I am rubbish at baking.
 
In Dutch, everything this shape is a taart.
@Robusto This one I could teach you!
 
1:24 AM
Well, there are tartlets that are smaller.
But it reminds me of an ice cream cake or a Ukrainian tart made with ground hazelnuts.
 
@Cerberus I would be happier if you were to bake something for me.
 
@Robusto Oh, very well.
 
Yeah so tart.
 
> The years have turned the rusted key, and time is on the jog,
Yet spend another night with me around the boree log.*
What is the meaning of "on the jog"? gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500051.txt
 
1:26 AM
@CowperKettle To jog is to run.
 
Although somehow I expect flour in a tart in English, whereas Dutch doesn't seem to care about the ingredients.
@CowperKettle On the run, running.
 
Noun: boree (plural borees)
  1. (Australia) Any of various species of wattle tree (genus Acacia), especially Acacia pendula and Acacia glaucescens.
  2. boree (plural borees)
  3. Obsolete form of bourrée.
  4. c. 1728, Jonathan Swift, Tom Mullinix and Dick
  5. Dick could neatly dance a jig,⁠But Tom was best at borees;
 
Clemens Non Papa = "papa is not clement"?
 
@CowperKettle No no no no ... a boree is the person who is being bored to tears by someone else, usually a borer.
rex quondam rex semper
 
1:28 AM
@CowperKettle Not the pope.
 
Mar 28, 2012 at 22:56, by Robusto
Does the pope smoke dope? Nope.
 
I think it's some Dutch joke.
Not kidding.
> Ego flos campi et lilium convallium
Sicut lilium inter spinas, sic amica mea inter filias:
Fons hortorum et puteus aquarum viventium,
Quae fluunt impetu de Libano.
Wrote he.
 
> A heavy silence seemed to steal
On all at this remark;
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed a piece of bark.
Monsignor Patrick Joseph Hartigan (13 October 1878 – 27 December 1952) was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poet, writing under the name John O'Brien. == Biography == Born at Yass, New South Wales Patrick Joseph Hartigan studied at St Patrick's Seminary, Manly and St Patrick's College, Goulburn His poetry was very popular in Australia and was well received in Ireland and the United States. Hartigan died in Lewisham, an inner suburb of Sydney in 1952. == Works == Hartigan wrote under the pseudonym "John O'Brien." His verse celebrated the lives and mores of the outback...
Oh, it was written by a catholic priest
 
I refuse to eat salad in a sallet.
 
A sallette is a very small salon.
 
A salon is a small saloon.
 
Word of the day: artillery sabot -- From Middle French savate (“old shoe”), of unknown origin. Possibly from Tatar чабата (çabata, “overshoes”), ultimately either from Ottoman Turkish چاپوت‎ (çaput, çapıt, “patchwork, tatters”), from Ottoman Turkish چاپمق‎ (çapmak, “to slap on”), or of Iranian origin, cognate with modern Persian چپت‎ (čapat, “a kind of traditional leather shoe”).
A rare Tatar word in English.
 
Jan 4 at 17:13, by CowperKettle
Etymology of the day: sabot -- From Middle French savate (“old shoe”), of unknown origin. Possibly from Tatar чабата (çabata, “overshoes”), ultimately either from Ottoman Turkish چاپوت‎ (çaput, çapıt, “patchwork, tatters”), from Ottoman Turkish چاپمق‎ (çapmak, “to slap on”), or of Iranian origin, cognate with modern Persian چپت‎ (čapat, “a kind of traditional leather shoe”).
Déjà vu!
 
1:51 AM
Yes, it again came around in my Anki software :)
 
Stop sabotaging the chat, please.
 
I was trying to understand some Russian artillery terminology, and picked up this English term. The Russian term I was trying to understand was podkaliberny (under-calibre), an artillery round that is smaller than the bore of the gun. Such rounds use sabots to make them fit in the bore.
 
Geppetto, zapata, zapato, zapatilla.
 
> Spanish: metonymic occupational name for a cobbler or shoemaker from zapato 'half boot'.
 
Ayup.
Emiliano Zapata Salazar (Spanish pronunciation: [emiˈljano saˈpata]; August 8, 1879 – April 10, 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary. He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo. Zapata was born in the rural village of Anenecuilco in Morelos, in an era when peasant communities came under increasing repression from the small-landowning class who monopolized land and water resources for sugarcane production with the support of dictator Porfirio...
 
1:55 AM
Yes, a famous guy.
 
Le chien lécha sa patte.
 
chien = dog?
 
Cave canem.
 
Yes, and sa patte is his paw.
 
Comment ça-vatte?
Traîne-savate
 
2:01 AM
I'm fine, thanks
 
Però el gos no porta sabates a les potes.
 
> traine-savate {m} · good-for-nothing
Verb: traîner la savate
  1. (intransitive) to idle, to bum around
To drag one's slippers.
There's the 1990s expression for "to bum around", булки мять - "to knead/squish (one's) bread rolls"
 
A gos can be some gandul goof-off person.
 
I didn't like it when I heard it in the 1990s. It was usually used by the dumbest morons.
 
malfeiner = slipshod
Bums.
 
2:06 AM
Gosse hasn't the same meaning in France and Québec.
 
How so?
No Mother Goose, please.
Noun: gos m (plural goses)
  1. dog
  2. gos m (plural gossos, feminine gossa)
  3. dog
  4. Synonyms: ca, quisso
  5. (figurative) a lazy man
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"Gos" is a common official root in Russian, from "gosudarstvo", state.
Like gosekzameny - state exams (in schools)
 
Noun: gosse m or f by sense (plural gosses)
  1. (colloquial) child, kid
  2. gosse f (plural gosses)
  3. (Canada, colloquial) testicle
  4. gosse f (plural gosses)
  5. (Louisiana) hull, husk, shell, clove (of garlic)
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Verb: gosse
  1. inflection of gossat:
  2. first-person dual present indicative
  3. third-person plural past indicative
  4. gosse (present tense gosser, past tense gossa...
 
Does Occitan have gos/gossa?
 
2:10 AM
And the main digital government website for citizens is GosUslugi (State Services), it's amazingly well-built and useful. I recently renewed my passport without any problems via the website, while back in 2002 it took a long queue in some corridor.
 
Yes, or can.
 
@tchrist Old occitan had, later we used can/canhs/chins.
 
Right.
 
One can pay taxes via the website, or schedule an appointment with a doctor.
 
I still don't fathom why they think gos is onomatopoetic.
 
2:14 AM
A nice musician.
He spent 9 months in Queen.
But was forced to leave for kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach.
 
Purple reign.
 
2:43 AM
@jlliagre Nothing's worse than Americans who try to pronounce "croissant" the "French" way.
This is 'murica, where we say [kɹ̈ɪˈsɑnʔ] (excuse my IPA)
 
@alphabet Americans trying to pronounce écureuil maybe.
 
@jlliagre I'd just give up on that one and say [ɛkˈɚ.ju.wɪl]
 
Argh...
 
@jlliagre Ah well, at least we don't say "pasta" with an [æ] like those British types
 
2:52 AM
Phonetics Daddy, of course, has a video on this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=eFDvAK8Z-Jc
 
3:03 AM
@alphabet That one is because of the conservation of frontitude. These are silly people who think bath and raspberry have an elongated low back [ɑ] for their stressed vowel (and make raaaaahzbrih bisyllabic to boot) even though of course it's really a front [æ]. So what's happening is they are offsetting their mistake by erroneously migrating taco and macho to the fronts of their mouths like exactly nobody says it.
 
Question: why is it so hard to say "roar" as [ɹ̈oɹʷ], but easy to say it as [ɹʷoɹ̈]? For some reason it's easy to go from postalveolar to molar, but incredibly difficult to go the other way.
 
The idea is always that you're supposed to look at a foreign word's letters and ignore anything about how ignorant foreigners would say that word, and instead say it as though those letters made something English sounding but extra loudly.
Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama comes out with the vowel of ramify instead of that of father. Just crazy stuff.
Rama (; Sanskrit: राम, romanized: Rāma; Sanskrit: [ˈraːmɐ] (listen)) is a major deity in Hinduism. He is the seventh and one of the most popular avatars of Vishnu. In Rama-centric traditions of Hinduism, he is considered the Supreme Being.Rama was born to Kaushalya and Dasharatha in Ayodhya, the capital of the Kingdom of Kosala. His siblings included Lakshmana, Bharata, and Shatrughna. He married Sita. Though born in a royal family, Rama's life is described in the Hindu texts as one challenged by unexpected changes such as an exile into impoverished and difficult circumstances, ethical questions...
Bad onebox!
> Rama (/ˈrɑːmə/;[4] Sanskrit: राम, romanized: Rāma; Sanskrit: [ˈraːmɐ]
That would be the American pronunciation. Brits would put a frontal [æ] there.
@alphabet So well, that's something else. Some Brits can't but say that as raw with an R at the end, whereas you and I say it as row with an R at the end.
 
@tchrist It's interesting. It's the difference between the "molar/bunched R" [ɹ̈] and the normal postalveolar [ɹʷ]. For some reason, [ɹ̈oɹ̈] is easy, [ɹʷoɹʷ] and [ɹʷoɹ̈] are possible, but trying to say [ɹ̈oɹʷ] is incredibly difficult (at least for me).
 
3:22 AM
@alphabet What happens if you try it with their [ɔ] instead of with our [o]?
 
[ɹ̈ɔɹ̈] is a bit of a mouthful. I think [ɹ̈] is uncommon in BrE.
I think I did finally figure out how to say [ɹ̈oɹʷ]. It helps to try to say [ɹ̈oʃ] first. It still makes my brain hurt to try to deliberately choose between [ɹ̈] and [ɹʷ].
I suspect that there's some sort of complicated rule whereby the surrounding vowel sounds determine the preferred allophone. Though there's surely also a lot of variation between speakers.
 
3:57 AM
Syringa vulgaris, the lilac or common lilac, is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to the Balkan Peninsula, where it grows on rocky hills. Grown for its scented flowers in spring, this large shrub or small tree is widely cultivated and has been naturalized in parts of Europe, Asia and North America. It is not regarded as an aggressive species. It is found in the wild in widely scattered sites, usually in the vicinity of past or present human habitations. == Description == Syringa vulgaris is a large deciduous shrub or multistemmed small tree, growing to 6–7 m (20...
 
4:08 AM
> There will be rose and rhododendron
When you are dead and under ground;
Still will be heard from white syringas
Heavy with bees, a sunny sound.
 
 
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5:33 AM
Polish party leader who died of heart attack after reading Khrushchev's speech of 1956 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boles%C5%82aw_Bierut
Stress is bad.
 
6:24 AM
> Ex-Google CEO claims AI tools like ChatGPT can kill people
Years later, TV and newspapers are probably laughing at me because I had thought online news and YouTube are better because they are free and there are no ads.
 
 
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11:09 AM
> In 2023, solar power spending is due to hit more than $1 billion a day or $382 billion for the year, while investment in oil production will stand at $371 billion.
The first year of solar beating oil in terms of investment.
 
@tchrist Kyrie Eleison youtube.com/watch?v=38d95F3UIg4
@tchrist It doesn't seem to render nicely like every one else's youtube links alas youtube.com/watch?v=38d95F3UIg4
 
 
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12:44 PM
#Worldle #490 1/6 (100%)
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⭐⭐🏙️🪙
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
🌎 May 26, 2023 🌍
🔥 14 | Avg. Guesses: 4.55
🟧🟥🟩 = 3

globle-game.com
#globle
Wordle 706 6/6

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Yikes.
Daily Quordle 487
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m-w.com/games/quordle
 
1:53 PM
Word of the day: muskeg
I wonder what it's called in Russian.
 
2:16 PM
Daily Octordle #487
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Score: 66
 
Daily Octordle #487
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Score: 67
Daily Quordle 487
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6️⃣9️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
🌎 May 26, 2023 🌍
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.32
🟨🟧🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩 = 8

globle-game.com
#globle
#Worldle #490 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
A shame I didn't get the currency.
Wordle 706 3/6

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2:38 PM
#Worldle #490 1/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐🏙️🪙
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
 
3:05 PM
It's the same country we discussed about last time. I forgot the name.
 
Aug 7, 2022 at 13:22, by Vikas
@jlliagre Ah! Definitely baby Africa.
 
@CowperKettle It's not clear to me what the torus represents. I remember around this same time (a year ago?) there was some research that showed that there was some kind of internal organization of neurons (In the hippocampus) that is 'isotropic' (maps from external 3d space to neurons that are connected in a similar 3d pattern (3 perpendicular grids).
From his description in the video it is not immediately clear to me how the toroidal cloud of points corresponds to any of this. What the space of that graphic is is not clear.
For example, the space of a video game screen where the top edge is connected to the bottom edge, and the left edge connected to the right is a toroidal space (so that you can fly forever in any given direction and show up on the other side of the screen with no problem).
What makes it provably a toroid and not a sphere is that on a sphere any curve that is a loop (like a circle) could be shrunk to a point. But there are loops on a torus (like the video game screen) that can't (for example a curve that goes off one edge and comes back from the other - there's no way to shrink this curve to a point (exactly like how a curve that goes around the center of a donut can't be shrunk).
> ...we show that the joint activity of grid cells from an individual module resides on a toroidal manifold, as expected in a two-dimensional CAN. Positions on the torus correspond to positions of the moving animal in the environment
I'm not sure how to process this... joint activity of grid cells are on a torus and they correspond to physical positions.
oops...the 'medial entorhinal cortex' is in the temporal cotex and connected to the hippocampus
 
3:36 PM
@jlliagre That was the easiest part.
And I'm really surprised you didn't get the Globle right off.
I was going to mention something about what it turned out to be, but I couldn't think of a way to express surprise without giving something away.
Wow, talk about wretched excess ...
The only thing less useful is an NFT.
 
@Robusto I'm really surprised to see how fast you generally found the countries. I would need to use a drawing compass on a real terrestrial globe to compete...
 
@jlliagre I suppose I have good spatial awareness. Plus a very good knowledge of what countries look like and where they are.
I do get fooled from time to time. When I started I didn't even get how to do GLoble at all.
@jlliagre You can book up on countries, too. This puzzle game helped me fill in a lot of African countries I was cloudy on when I started doing this stuff. They have them for Europe, Asia, etc. Plus capitals.
So you see my average has gone from above 6 guesses to under five.
I'd be curious to see how such practice would help you move your average down.
@jlliagre What surprises me is how well you do on the various Wordle languages. You nearly always beat me even on the English one. Like today.
 
3:59 PM
@Robusto I sometimes surprise myself :-) Today I was lucky with my first pair of Wordle words so guessing the missing letter was easy. Too bad you don't play the French or the Spanish ones.
 
Yeah, but I have to draw the line somewhere.
Already I waste too much time on puzzles. But they do get my brain moving in the morning.
And since I don't program much anymore, I need some puzzles to feed my brain.
 
Le Mot (@WordleFR) #502 4/6

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https://wordle.louan.me
La palabra del día #505 6/6

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https://lapalabradeldia.com/
Ho indovinato questa parola italiana di 5 lettere in 3/6 tentativi.

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Riesci a indovinare questa parola?
https://wordlegame.org/it?challenge=bG90dGE
Latin Wordle 510 6/6

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#ElMot 511 5/6

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#WordleCAT
elmot.gelozp.com
 
4:21 PM
@jlliagre Yeah 😅
 
 
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6:12 PM
🤣
This post was shared on opposition party page in India.
The person is Modi.
 
7:08 PM
@Vikas it's a common attack against popular politicians but is it ever effective?
 
7:34 PM
@Robusto nice game. Sporcle has a lot of similar web page interactive games, but not as easily findable as your suggestion.
Something about Sporcle and your link that I noticed, they both take -a lot- of processing power. Both start my fan running and everything is slow, and then the fan stops after I close those sites. So both are running all sorts of javascript in the background.
The only other websites that act like that are some news sites (like CNN) which are running a bunch of videos and ads all at the same time.
Do you have any insight as to why Sporcle and your link are so computation heavy? They don't seem to be running videos or sound in the background.
 
8:07 PM
@Vikas My daughter-in-law's father is a fan of Modi. I guess he's very conservative.
@Mitch Hmm, my fan doesn't start running unless I have a video game with wild graphics.
I don't think JavaScript needs a lot of processing power, especially for things like what they're doing. Either that or they are trying to add and remove event handlers in the granular parts of animations and the like. I have seen (and fixed) that kind of code before when back-end coders would try to do front-end work.
 
@Mitch You do not block advertisements?
 
8:25 PM
@M.A.R. I don't know. If you're die hard fan of Modi then it won't change your views no matter what content they share. They are sharing a lot of posts this year just like this. I think it's targeting young generation because they love memes.
 
@Robusto 93% 03:46.341
The first time I played it.
Got a few tiny countries wrong.
Islands, Swaziland, Burundi, one of the Guineas.
 
@Cerberus Good job. The first time I played it I was in the 80s somewhere.
 
Not bad at all.
Of there were some semi-guesses...
But I never needed more than two guesses for any country.
 
I still miss some and make misclicks. But generally I can get them all in under three minutes.
 
Oh I didn't play as fast as possible...
 
8:29 PM
There are a lot of African countries.
Took me a while to get the islands straight.
 
@Cerberus I do so maybe I'm exaggerating.
@Robusto Does that link sow things down for you?
 
@Mitch Sporcle?
 
no the one you suggested.
 
Oh. No, not at all.
But I have a fast processor and 32GB of RAM, plus a decent (for 2020) graphics card.
 
I mean if you get the same with Sporcle that'd be interetesting to know, but I actually don't want to encourage you to visit there since it is a huge processing sink for my laptop and I don't want to encourage you to have that to.
@Robusto I do not have that at all
 
8:36 PM
I just tried a few games on Sporcle and it was no problem.
 
European Cities (Difficult): I got somewhere in the 80s.
 
I have two parrots, an elephant for long term storage, and a bicycle generator for the fan
 
A few I had no idea of, like Gomel.
 
@Cerberus Cities are hard.
 
@Cerberus is that a word?
 
8:37 PM
It was the straw that broke the Gomel's back.
 
@Robusto Most are easy, some are medium, a few are very hard.
 
@Cerberus Yeah. But the ones that are hard are very hard.
 
8:57 PM
@Robusto Which ones did you find very hard?
There's one in Turkey I had never heard of.
Gomel I had only vaguely heard the sound of.
In Russia, I knew only two: the rest kind of guessed a bit.
 
@Cerberus Yeah. The "other" city in Turkey besides Istanbul and (surprising omission) Ankara.
 
Though I assumed Nizhni Novgorod was father away.
I knew Voronezh must be someone close to Ukraine.
 
@Cerberus I got that one, but missed the Llub-whatever one. I knew the name was Russian, but I didn't think of Russia as having cities so far south.
 
Which one?
Krasnodar?
Rostov?
Ljubljana is in Slovenia.
 
No, there was Something "-On-Don" that was Russian, I think.
 
9:00 PM
Rostov.
 
It was a while ago that I took that test, so I don't remember clearly.
 
OK.
 
I do remember I misclicked on Budapest when the name was Bucharest. Duh.
Aren't all consonants the same?
 
Ahh.
Yeah those two are alike.
 
Nice.
@Cerberus I did 96% in 1:21 just now. Missed Serbia.
 
9:07 PM
Not bad.
I tried to do this one fast.
I knew I'd suck at this...
 
I only got 92% on US cities, mainly because some have the same names. Charleston, for example.
 
@Robusto That's just unfair.
I didn't know whether San Francisco or Los Angeles was the one to the south.
The rest of the world I got right.
OK I'll stop posting.
 
9:23 PM
@Cerberus I got 97% in 2:01. Switched two cities in China.
 
Poor China.
 

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