English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

hippietrail

13:00

you may borrow this: ♩

Robusto

That is not your car. There is no personal property in Soviet Workers Paradise.

Cerberus

What was going to happen? Chat was going to explode in a puff of big-eyed teenage girls?

hippietrail

now we're pedalling backwards

RegDwight

Sorry, I meant [tag:kore-wa-watashi-no-kuruma-des-ka]

hippietrail

not even pocari sweat flavour?

Robusto

13:01

Assploded!

Cerberus

Hippie, what a lovely avatar. Is that you?

Boob

Arme Cerberus

RegDwight

@Robusto More like boobploded.

Cerberus

falls down under the impact of teenage-girls explosion

You speak Dutch now, Boob?

RegDwight

@Boob Armer. Masculine.

hippietrail

13:02

maybe i'm the blonde on the left

Boob

@RegDwight Army?

Robusto

@Cerberus — Dutch is just the German version of pig-Latin. We've been over this.

RegDwight

Mar 7 at 20:59, by RegDwight

Cerberus

Just as English is the Germanic version of something porcine as well.

Robusto

You just say a German word and drop the meaning and the pronunciation, and bingo! — you've got Dutch!

hippietrail

13:03

better than japanese cheese

RegDwight

Or Japanese ice-cream.

Cerberus

@Robusto Not quite. Perhaps the picture is too complicated, but you also need to be holding cheese.

hippietrail

waroom moet het lefje so moelijk zein?

Cerberus

What?

hippietrail

(and i thought my english spelling was bad)

RegDwight

13:04

Prachtig.

Robusto

Well, I notice we're all hanging out in English chat, not Russian, German, or (especially) Dutch.

Cerberus

Is that Afrikaans?

And what is lefje?

RegDwight

@Robusto Read the room description.

Robusto

My point.

Cerberus

@Rob: More like Deutsche Sprache und Gebrauch, most of the time.

hippietrail

13:05

waarom moet het leven zo moeilijk zijn?

RegDwight

room topic changed to English Language and Usage: aka The Incomprehensible Room

Cerberus

Oh!

I see.

hippietrail

at least we're all translating from english in our heads

Robusto

Why don't you just call it Babelonia?

Cerberus

@hippietrail That is correct. And the reason is Robusto.

RegDwight

13:06

@hippietrail Not Cerberus.

hippietrail

the best part about eurolanguages is there's so many dialects nobody should notice if i have my own

Cerberus

Yeah I ain't translatin' n'n!

hippietrail

if we can comprehend it what need for questions?

Cerberus

Well, I did sort of notice a slight dialect in your Dutch...

RegDwight

Haha.

Cerberus

13:07

I.e. it fit our room's description.

Robusto

@RegDwight — You misspelled "Insufferable" as "Incomprehensible"

hippietrail

i merely spoke double dutch then removed the redundant half

RegDwight

@Robusto Well, that would have to gain some momentum first.

Robusto

I think it has plenty of momentum.

hippietrail

this channel makes my brain laugh

RegDwight

13:08

You only just invented it.

hippietrail

(if i may be so rude as to call it a channel)

Robusto

It's been canalized, so it's not properly a channel.

Cerberus

Channel!?

How dare you!

RegDwight

No. 5.

Cerberus

This is the river Styx. By no means has this been dug by man!

RegDwight

13:10

There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man...

hippietrail

/me waits patiently to be challenged to a duel

Cerberus

Indeed.

hippietrail

i dig it man

RegDwight

/kick hippie real hard

Does that help?

Cerberus

A duel? What weapon?

Rude!

hippietrail

13:10

dual weapons

Cerberus

Free choice?

hippietrail

only traditional armenian weapons

Cerberus

Ehh oh.

RegDwight

Just don't confuse épées with rapiers.

Cerberus

But I want other weapons!

Oh, that again...

RegDwight

13:12

No, not that again, as long as you don't confuse them.

Cerberus

But I might.

You know, memory and all...

But at least I appreciate that there is a distinction.

Does that count?

hippietrail

foiled again

Robusto

時々僕の事思い出して。

RegDwight

@hippietrail May I have a clarification plz. Can hammer and sickle be considered hyponyms of traditional Armenian weapons?

Cerberus

Heh.

hippietrail

13:14

what did the armenians fight off the yataghans with?

Robusto

Capitalization!

hippietrail

@RegDwight: since this is dual weapon duel then yes

RegDwight

Then count me in.

Apr 8 at 20:30, by Robusto

Robusto

Capitalization and punctuation! Great weapons! Give 'em a try!

hippietrail

dOWN wITH cAPITALISATIONISM

RegDwight

13:15

@Robusto ROFLMAO.

@hippietrail Whoa!!!! Now, now. Hear that, Robusto?

Cerberus

@Robusto If only! I'd gladly be subjected by those.

RegDwight

Even I have never insulted our Capitalizationist that much! And it's not like I'm not trying.

Cerberus

Don't forget JSB...

Robusto

J. S. Bach?

Cerberus

I haz to goes, coffee date (and I don't even drink it).

@Robusto His equivalent.

Robusto

13:16

Prelude and fugue-state in d-lowercase?

RegDwight

Johann Gambolputty

Cerberus

Heh.

hippietrail

my weapons shall be the † and the ‡

Cerberus

You know JSB, the guy who refuses capitalization.

RegDwight

8

Q: What's the meaning of the symbol ‡?

I am trying to get the meaning of the symbol ‡. I saw it a couple of times: as a tattoo in a little boy finger, and on Wikipedia. How is this symbol called in English?

Robusto

13:17

@hippietrail — Sir, you stand there as an unarmed man to a flying tank.

Cerberus

Well, later, my noble Armenian-weapons-wielding flock!

Robusto

Laterz, doggiez.

RegDwight

@Cerberus Right. Whatever happened to my soup-related plans?

hippietrail

nobody ever called me stupid before so i thought this move might help

RegDwight

I think I'll go check out where the kitchen is.

Cerberus

13:18

They walked into the soup, as we'd say in Dutch.

Bye!

Robusto

@RegDwight — Hint. It's in the kitchen.

RegDwight

@Robusto I'm still looking for the bed.

Robusto

1 min ago, by Robusto

@RegDwight — Hint. It's in the kitchen.

Oh wait ... that's the bed of lettuce. Never mind.

hippietrail

soup? bed? walking? no wonder i'm getting peckish

Robusto

今日冴えてるね。

hippietrail

13:24

do japanese swamis use a futon of nails?

Robusto

場合によるね。

hippietrail

strong my cut and paste muscles become

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对不起，我不会说日文。

Robusto

Well, don't be surprised if Google translate doesn't make much sense out of those. They're colloquial.

hippietrail

if you have any yamagata-ben tidbits to share i'm all ears

Robusto

13:30

@92MGRXvmoFfCkCd1JH4p9jpZjFQRKp — No problem. I don't speak Chinese.

hippietrail

i'm surprised when google translate makes much out of anything but not as surprised as when linguaphile makes more out of it than google translate

Robusto

BTW, you're supposed to put your username in the name field and your password in the password field. Your username doesn't have to be hack-proof.

hippietrail

boku mo

ok i'm off on the hunt for extruded savoury snacks

92MGRXvmoFfCkCd1JH4p9jpZjFQRKp

I'm experimenting with usernames which convey nothing about me

so i've been using a password gen to make usernames

hippietrail

nice to bound my brain around in this pit a little...

Robusto

13:32

Well, I've put it off long enough, so I guess I have to finally clean my office so I can set up my new router. Laterz.

Miss

14:08

hi all

Vitaly

14:32

Boob

XD

Hmmm Nice eyes

How they connect us to each other

Miss

oo hi @boob

how are you?

@vitaly... cool

Boob

@Miss Ganz gut, danke

Miss

@vitaly: what?

any ways .. see ya bye .do enjoy and bye

Boob

14:48

He seems to have an inborn talent for being cool

hippietrail

i'm not in denial and i don't have an addiction!

Boob

Check again

hippietrail

oh yeah my bad

RegDwight

@Vitaly Hey, I'm not wearing mascara today.

hippietrail

i went to buy extruded snacks but came back with corn chips and beer nuts

Miss

14:50

what is mascara ?

Vitaly

@RegDwight Your gravatar does, if you zoom it in.

hippietrail

pongo mi máscara

Miss

what does that mean?

hippietrail

mascara is the spanish word for mask

and the english word for mascara, oddly enough (-:

RegDwight

@Vitaly You're zooming it wrong.

Vitaly

14:55

You do realise that I only posted that to get the higher-res version? ;)

hippietrail

interestingly mascara comes from italian though

Boob

I helped him by the way

Vitaly

Makes it easier to shop stuff.

RegDwight

@Vitaly You do realize that you are the only person in this chat to know too well where the high-res version resides?

Vitaly

I cannot be bothered to go and catch one.

RegDwight

14:59

If you zoom in and enhance a few times, you can see my reflection in the owl's eyes.

Anyways, I'm out again.

Apr 30 at 16:35, by RegDwight

@PaulCalcraft yeah, sorry, stupid beer just won't buy and carry itself.

hippietrail

you can train it by drinking it

Boob

What about training an untrainable beer

hippietrail

there's a song about that

Boob

What about up-voting my answer, if there is not any song about it

hippietrail

about undrinkable beer?

Boob

15:09

Untrsuntable tear

hippietrail

reminds me of buffalo

Boob

Sorry?

You're planning to run away? don't worry, I can tolerate everything

hippietrail

you can't tolerate buffalo beer from nicaragua, nobody can

Boob

Um, Is it helpful to get to 3k?

hippietrail

i think you get a free boob job

Boob

15:20

Free job Boob

Miss

what is this going on?

mean?

hippietrail

i will be free of a job this time tomorrow

Boob

@Miss He's accusing me of something !

Miss

ahh so are you ready.. what do you want?

Boob

Pardon?

hippietrail

15:22

i don't want to drink bufalo again

Miss

btw, @boob, what type of "some thing" he wants from you?

and who?

Boob

@Miss Better to ask him now or never

Miss

but who?

is that @hippietrail?

Boob

@RegDwight 2 duplicates per second .. dps

Miss

hmm

Boob

15:27

Muss weg

Miss

what does mean by Muss weg?

hippietrail

who is whom?

ich muss weg = german : i must go away

Miss

heheh @hippietrail: why what happen?

Robusto

16:03

Boob

16:13

@Robusto Coming soon to Cinemas?

Robusto

16:30

In your dreams, pal.

Vitaly

17:02

Boob

@Vitaly Pfff, Could you please stop attracting me

RegDwight

17:19

@Vitaly How come you're not active on GraphicDesign.SE?

Vitaly

@RegDwight I guess because I am not a graphic designer.

RegDwight

Your postings here suggest otherwise.

Unless you outsource the shopping to your wife.

Vitaly

I could go on and on about what's wrong with my pictures.

In the last one, the collar is totally wrong.

It's flat.

RegDwight

Well, it's Hitler collar.

Robusto

@Vitaly You misspelled "color" as "collar"

Vitaly

17:23

That, too.

Robusto

BTW, my awesome sunset shot was taken in Maui. Where they have nothing but, like, awesomeness. All the time. Really.

RegDwight

Sounds a lot like Soviet Russia, to me.

Robusto

Uh-huh. Nothing but beaches and bikinis. All the time. Right?

RegDwight

Well, that and some communism here and there.

So it's actually doubleplusawesome.

Robusto

And by "beaches and bikinis" I mean, of course, "bitches and bliny" ...

RegDwight

17:30

Right, make that tripleplusawesome.

Robusto

You can't spell tripleaplusawesome without USA. As in tripleaplUSAwesome.

Vitaly

Who needs bikinis when there are fur hats!?

RegDwight

Who needs fur hats when there are fur bikinis?

2

Robusto

Umm, have you guys even seen a real bikini?

RegDwight

Robusto

17:33

That is tripleaplUSAwesome.

RegDwight

I will complain about your morphology to @Kosmonaut.

Robusto

I think he will see it from my point of view.

Vitaly

Good thing I am not in the USA, or else I would have been sued by American females for looking at that picture.

RegDwight

@Robusto I think he will support my point of view that triple is not spelled "triplea". You pineapple, you.

Robusto

Admit it. The dumpy hausfrau glimpsed between the middle bikini-wearer's legs are what got you Russkis hot in that picture.

@RegDwight — Ah, I thought you meant "triple A-plus awesome" instead of merely "triple plus awesome" ... so I overestimated you. Again.

RegDwight

17:37

@Robusto How is my admitting or not admitting stuff relevant to your points of view?

Robusto

@RegDwight — So it's true. I knew it!

RegDwight

See, my point exactly.

200

German language

Proposed Q&A site for students having questions about German, expert speakers of German wanting to discuss the finer points of the language and translation questions from any language to German.

Currently in commitment.

Bingo!

> This proposal has reached 100% commitment. We are preparing for its launch and expect to create it soon.

Robusto

So ... will there be an Austrian.SE as well? And will that prompt German.SE to have another Anschluß?

RegDwight

Wait and see. Internet Nazi Hitlers don't disclose their plans like that.

Robusto

But we're not talking about just any Internet Nazi Hitlers. We're talking about Soviet Internet Nazi Hitler Owls.

RegDwight

17:42

That doesn't really complicate the matters for you.

Robusto

どうして？

RegDwight

It only complicates the matters for me.

But that's behind the scenes.

You'll only ever see the end result.

Robusto

I think that's between you and your shrink.

RegDwight

I don't have a shrink.

Do I sound like someone who does?

Robusto

That explains a lot.

RegDwight

17:45

That's why we go over these things.

Hm, if I had a free commitment, I could single-handedly push Japanese L&U into beta.

Robusto

Commitments are rationed?

RegDwight

Drei Stück pro Nase.

235

Japanese

Proposed Q&A site for speakers, students, learners and teachers of the Japanese language

Currently in commitment.

235 people committed, still no cigar.

Robusto

How many does it take? 250?

RegDwight

Because them's not have enough awesom.

@Robusto 200. That's the point.

You need 200, but you also need some of them to have displayed a reasonable level of activity on any of the existing sites.

Throwing 2000 total newbies at a proposal won't help.

Robusto

分からなかった。

Well, I committed to Japanese. That should count for, like, 50 all by itself.

RegDwight

17:52

Very much so.

That's why I'm saying that if I had a free commitment, I could easily push it from 98% to 100%, all by myself.

But hey, now that German L&U is getting created, I'll probably get that commitment back in no time. <knocks on wood>

Robusto

Instead you wasted it on a language you already speak.

RegDwight

Actually, I wasted it on Board and Card Games.

Robusto

You speak that language too.

RegDwight

I am fairly certain it won't take me 200+ days to release my commitment to German.

But on BCG, it just takes foreva.

I can't think of any questions, and I don't have many answers.

F'x (was it F'x?) tried to cheat by posting like ten questions a la "what games should I play in a pool".

3

Q: Good games for playing in a pool

Are there interesting board games out there suitable for playing in a pool (supposing one has a pool, friends, nice weather, and not too many waves in the pool so that cards can stay at relatively fixed positions)? With a deck of floating waterproof playing cards, belote or any other game is pos...

recommendations

Robusto

Actually, makes me feel like going off and playing L. A. Noire now.

RegDwight

17:58

Ha. We have commercials for that one all over the place.

Have fun.

Robusto

Oh, absolutely. Later.

Vitaly

Later.

How would you describe an archetypical German?

RegDwight

Boring.

Vitaly

What kind of hat? What kind of outfit?

RegDwight

No, really, that's the most accurate description I can think of.

@Vitaly Germany comprises 16 states. A Bavarian looks nothing like someone from Mecklenburg.

Boob

18:05

Hey LISTEN LISTEN

I'm accepted

Hooooraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

:D

RegDwight

@Boob Grats. But keep an eye on the ratio.

Vitaly

@RegDwight What about someone from Saarland?

Boob

@RegDwight you're invited to dinner

RegDwight

@Vitaly google for Heinz Becker

Vitaly

Perfect / thx.

RegDwight

18:09

Heinz Becker (Bühnenfigur)

Heinz Becker ist seit 1982 die wichtigste Figur des Kabarettisten Gerd Dudenhöffer. Grundidee der Figur Heinz Becker wohnt mit Ehefrau Hilde und Sohn Stefan im eigenen Haus im saarländischen Bexbach. Seine Person lässt sich als Biertrinker, leidenschaftlicher Heimwerker (in dieser Eigenschaft wohl eher ein Dilettant), Besserwisser, Nörgler, Spießer, Vereinsmeier, Stammgast im „Eckstübbche“ und mit dem „Maier Kurt“ befreundet beschreiben. Sein besonderes Erkennungszeichen ist eine Schiebermütze („Batschkapp“), ohne die man ihn grundsätzlich nie zu sehen bekommt. Ein oft zitierter Dauerw...

(It only just occurs to me what fundamental error I have made. Cue another shopped picture...)

Vitaly

:)))

You have got a problem with my pictures?

Then you have a problem with me!

/draws his rapier

En garde!

Oh, my rapier. Long, and sturdy. I am quick to make it rise, but only if the need be.

Vitaly

19:22

Kit

19:58

Um, Reg? How come you have a picture of a woman in a fur bikini?

RegDwight

I don't. Google has.

Kit

@RegDwight Riiiiight. Google has.

RegDwight

And that's not a woman, that's Laetitia Casta.

Kit

@RegDwight A wink is as good as a nod to a blind man.

RegDwight

@Kit Well, it was the top result for "fur bikini".

Kit

20:00

@RegDwight I can see why.

Boob

@Kit Why?

Nice reason, I'm satisfied

Cerberus

22:54

Hail.

Robusto

23:54

Hey

Mr. Disappointment

Howdy

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