Hah.

AI regulating itself.

Odd.

@Cerberus what's that

Your game.

Well, not really.

But to a naïve eye.

@Cerberus riiight. There's something over there that requires my attention.

runs

@Cerberus what if I asked "why is 'manus' feminine because that's crazy"?

@Mitch libido

@tchrist oh, have to try that one

Mitch is so gender-torqued about manus being feminine he probably thinks libido should be masculine, too. But it's not: just ask Venus.

libido, boil, bold, diol, ibid, idol, lido, lobi, loid, olid, bid, bio, bod, dib, dob, dol, lib, lid, lob, obi, oil, old, bi, bo, di, do, id, io, li, lo, ob, od, oi. Oi! Boil old oil, bold idol.

@tchrist He knows ... I read his magnum opus.

He's too hung up on genders instead of on declensions.

He's never gotten over the bloody dogwood, doncha know. Cornus sanguinea.

A koan from Huddleston & Pullum:

> Exclamative utterances normally have the force of exclamatory statements.

@M.A.R. You will receive the packages at the border, worry not!

@Mitch Then you would be gently guided to the exit.

Which is the caves at the lacus Avernus leading...downward.

It's quiet here...

@jlliagre you've said too much already

@Cerberus that seems like poor planning

Me without coffee.

Do I sense a dependency?

Absolutely.

Me on coffee. ^

No jokes, please.

This just convinces me I need more coffee.

@Robusto bites tongue

squirms

punches wall

Stop fidgeting. You're supposed to be working.

struggles. to. resist._

rends garment

Easy now.

sews garment back up

puts on hair shirt

gets the willies

takes shirt off

Better have another cup of coffee.

mmm...

I started making chai from a recipe.

There. Better now?

@Mitch 1. Buy chai. 2. Brew. 3. Drink.

it's basically milk tea with spices but instead of just steeping the tea and adding milk, you boil the tea and spices, then add milk, boil some more, then simmer.

Weird.

And while it -is- objectively better, it's kind of a pain in the ass.

Or you could just by it from the chai vendor, ready made.

So it's back to tea with added milk afterwards.

@Robusto So American. Probably has a brand name.

@Robusto Well, yeah, but those guys ain't around here.

Marketing opportunity. nods

@Robusto Finder's fee dude. Remember who was there at the beginning.

You will be mentioned in our brochure.

Tip for the dealer

@Robusto Awe. Some.

I expect profits in the tens of dollars.

I mean once all the equipment is paid for.

@Robusto Yeah I thought so too but I guess the idea has two benefits. You're cooking the shit out of the tea so it is stronger, and then you're scalding the milk to, shit, I don't know, make it creamier?

Did I mention it is actually quite good? But it takes active prep (whereas regular tea you just wait a bunch), and you have to clean a pot.

@Mitch Dude, that's un-American.

@Robusto I think I read somewhere maybe yesterday that the SBF fraud guy has been fined $500M and I'm wondering how he's going to pay that and I feel like it's going to be real easy for him to pay it out of 'other' of his investments.

He should have gone into chai vending.

@Robusto un-American to do it for yourself. Very American to outsource it.

Also, still working on branding

Better to work on brandy.

I think chai tea will be the way to sell it. chai is not an actual word.

@Robusto better to work with brandy

having drunk brandy

drunk on brandy

I think I need brandy

@Mitch Easy enough. 1: Go down to the brandy store on your coffee break. 2: Buy brandy. 3:Keep the bottle in the bag. 4: Take swigs as you walk back to the office.

Don't forget #3. Otherwise you'll look like a drunk.

Does that really convince anybody?

How about tea in a bag?

You can have whatever else in the bag you want. But the main ingredient is brandy.

@Robusto Frankly, the brandy ruins the tea

Yeah, but who wants to drink tea out of a bag?

Makes people think you're a drunk?

All the benefits, none of the drawbacks

I'll have a brandy chai latte, please.

See? Coffee does help.

Classical Nahuatl xīcalli > Early Modern Spanish xícara (Modern Spanish jícara) > Portuguese, Galician xícara. But Portuguese does also have taça < Old Spanish taça (Modern Spanish taza) < Arabic ṭās < Middle Persian tšt’ as well. So both words occur in both Iberian language groups, but they've come to occupy different uses/nuances/registers. The Persian word derives from a PIE root.

Same thing with the Galician cunca, from Latin concha shell, Ancient Greek κόγχη. Galician has both xícara and taza but tends to use cunca instead with tea.

> Puderaghju una tazza di tè caldu, per piacè, cù limonu è zuccheru ?

That first "May I have" bit in Corsican is interesting. Starts out like a polite pudiera .. yo but then with something weird happening in the middle presumably with their habere verb.

Italian could use per piacere, which is more like the Corsican, or it could use per favore or even just prego.

@tchrist I know piacere from "a piacere" in scores.

We aim to please.

I'm working on Debussy's First Arabesque at present.

My teacher/coach says I have absolute carte blanche to wallow in rubato after the key change. ^_^

Perchance to dream? Aye, there's the rubato.

Debussy is such a genius. You think his haunting harmonies are so exotic, and then you realize this or that is just a major seven or added six or even just a major chord in a strange inversion, stretched over the keyboard.

It's how he puts them together that makes them sound exotic.

A ṁî me gusta.

> although chai is often prepared unspiced.

Reminds me of funny thing. So some workers work working at our old home. They usually drink a lot of tea from time to time. Like 5-6 times a day (maybe more). The owner of the place (my parents in my case) where they are working have to give them that tea. So that consumes milk and also time. So you tend to get tired giving them tea and also you tend to add less milk to save milk for later use. So the result is more black tea (which is not a good tea according to standards here)...

Mainly it's water + tea + insufficient milk.

So one day the worker jokingly asked me (I was a kid): It's almost time for the hot water. When are you bringing hot water?

To troll us.

[Replace worker by laborer above]

@Vikas ☕️👍,🌶👎

Indian Chengyu

> Glamorous vice president of Russian bank Kristina Baikova, 28, 'plunges to her death from 11th floor apartment window' in Moscow in latest mysterious fatality involving country's top execs

@tchrist The sentence is questionable. I expect Possu avè una tazza de te caldu, cù limonu è zuccaru? Puderaghju is a future built from the infinitive pudè and the indicative present of avè: aghju like all romance languages (Italian potere + ho : potrò, Spanish poder + he : podré, French pouvoir + ai: je pourrai).

di te caldu

@Vikas Oh, no.

How do you think Indians would respond, if such a thing happened in India?

@jlliagre I didn't know whether it was the present or the imperfect habere tacked on.

I don't trust the Google much anyway.

@Robusto Me, después de una buena cena.

@jlliagre Yo.

Read a teeen books and your words will flow like a river.

@Vikas As I've said before, Russia really needs better building codes. Clearly the glass they use is far too weak.