English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Robusto

00:00

So it's like an aphrodisiac?

Cerberus

In a way...

Not that I'm interested, of course, but I know she is a student called Audrey.

And she is close.

I might be able to see her...

No idea who she could be.

Vitaly

@Cerberus: does that game load normally?

it looks like my Internetz are oddly broken

Cerberus

I don't seem to be loading anything at the moment.

You should have lived nearby so I could have provided your internet access as well!

Vitaly

Haha.

Cerberus

So Gigi, if I can't ask anything about history, I don't know anything more to ask.

Vitaly

00:05

Oh wait… The ISP is updating the bundles (it's June the 1st, about time)

Cerberus

My official guess will be: Algeria.

Vitaly

so I guess their network systems are overloaded. Meh.

Cerberus

Updating bundles?

Vitaly

Their packages, whatever

Robusto

Well, I finished L. A. Noire if anybody's interested in a mini-review.

Cerberus

00:06

I don't know what those are, I don't think we have them here...

If it's mini I'll be interested, though to be honest I have no idea what that book is about...

Vitaly

@Cerberus 10 Mbps +TV, 30 Mbps +TV, 50 Mbps +TV are three bundles

z7sg

@Cerberus She could actually be a fat bald old man who isn't called Audrey and who just wants to rinse your wifi torrenting midget pornos.

Vitaly

@Cerberus тарифный план in Russian

Gigili

@Cerberus Try an unofficial one.

Cerberus

@Vit: Ah ok, we have those. So they are changing their bundles?

Vitaly

00:08

@Cerberus Apparently yes.

Cerberus

@z7sg Quite possible. Then let him have his midgets!

@Gigi: Is there a lot of oil in your country?

Gigili

@z7sg You said "she", means you've believed the gender.

@Cerberus Haha?

Cerberus

I assumed (s)he was speaking the truth... what else is a body to do?

Robusto

@Cerberus — I hope you mean that ironically.

Cerberus

@Gigili ? So apparently there is no oil?

z7sg

00:10

@Gigili True but in my head, I said it in quotes: "she".

Vitaly

I expect Robusto to post a picture of a properly oiled gurl.

Cerberus

Properly?

Robusto

Nobody but a rural church lady would say "what's a body to do?"

Cerberus

I.e. I.

Robusto

@Vitaly — Ah, you went and spoiled it. I have nothing but pictures of improperly oiled girls.

Or, rather, all the oiled-girl pix I have are improper.

Cerberus

00:12

And, thank you, @Rob, I know that.

Robusto

@Cerberus — Dude.

Gigili

@Cerberus Ok, a lot of oil. Now happy?

Cerberus

I am not one of your oiled-up girls.

Robusto

W00t! Got my first upvote on a double-secret SE beta!

@Cerberus — And, thank you, @Cerb, I know that.

Cerberus

@Gigili Sort of... is it Saudi Arabia, then?

Vitaly

00:14

So now that Japanese is up, you have a commit slot for Literature.

Cerberus

@Robusto Oh? Not so secret any more...

Japanese?

Oh.

Robusto

I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.

Gigili

@Cerberus Not really.

Cerberus

@Robusto It's already only half a secret now that we know of its existence...

@Gigili Hmm... is it Kuwait? No, probably too small.

Robusto

それをお伝えすることはできないよ。

Cerberus

00:17

Wow, that's super secret...

Gigili

@Cerberus No, and don't say Afghanistan please.

Robusto

@Vitaly — There's a Literature.SE in the offing? How could that topic ever be a StackExchange site?

Vitaly

So you are against literature.

Cerberus

@Gigi: Is it larger than Afghanistan?

I am doing @Vit's en.Akinator.com now, and we are at question 31, and it isn't quite close yet...

Robusto

@Vitaly — I am not against it. I don't see how it can be force-fitted to the Procrustean bed of the StackExchange modus operandi.

Vitaly

00:25

@Cerberus Why do you all have to have something obscure in mind!

Cerberus

@Vit: "Bravo. You have defeated me!"

I had Ammianus Marcellinus. How hard is that?

Vitaly

Dude.

Cerberus

The most famous historian of the late Empire.

Robusto

@Cerb: I looked at that Tyrant site, but I was at work so I couldn't delve into it. Why would I want to get involved with that stuff?

@Cerberus — The Dude was a famous historian? Wow. A Lebowski Achiever for sure!

Cerberus

@Rob: Well, I have no idea whether you'd like it. It is a bit like Magic the Gathering, which I've never touched: you battle with cards.

It gets fun after a few missions, when it gets harder. You can also play as a faction against other factions.

Robusto

00:28

Vitaly

@Cerberus On the other hand, it isn't getting my Omar Khayyám.

Cerberus

The good thing about it is that you can walk away at any moment and continue your battle hours later.

@Robusto Yes he looked a bit like that.

Robusto

Who are we talking about?

Cerberus

@Vitaly Never heard of him, but he seems cool.

Vitaly

Duuuude.

Cerberus

00:30

Now someone else... who to pick...

I will pick Göring.

Gigili

@Cerberus Wow, very much. (was comparing the areas, that's why)

Robusto

I'll pick a Czar. In fact, I will pick Царь-бомба.

Cerberus

Hey that isn't a tsar!

That's a nuclear bomb, isn't it?

Or heavy artillery?

It sounds familiar.

@Gigili Okay... is it Iran?

Ah, yes, the hydrogen bomb. I knew it!

It now asks about Göring, does he have many legs?

It said Göbbels! Quite close.

Gigili

@Cerberus Have to go, laptop is producing some weird sounds! I was patient, but you didn't pay attention to me. get rid of naughty thoughts.

Cerberus

Hey, I have been asking you question quite rapidly... well, good luck saving your laptop!

Now it says Hess. Close.

Vitaly

00:37

It will say Hitler.

Cerberus

Now it says Himmler.

Vitaly

I had Göbbels, Hess, and Hitler.

Robusto

Are we playing 20 questions?

Vitaly

Meh.

Cerberus

And I have defeated it!

Again.

Robusto

00:38

How about Canaris?

Vitaly

There is too many those Germans.

Cerberus

en.akinator.com/#

It was partly my fault; I probably gave a wrong answer here and there about Göring.

Now a Dutch woman, Femke Halsema.

Former leader of the Greens.

Vitaly

It finally guessed Göring.

Robusto

Haha, I beat it.

Cerberus

"Is your character delicious?"

Success! It guessed right.

Robusto

00:43

It guessed "Eleanor of Aquitaine" when my character was in fact, Ymma, the mother of Edward the Confessor (and wife of Cnut and also of the king he conquered).

Vitaly

@Cerberus I would have never guessed it would guess something that obscure…

Cerberus

That sounds far off, though to be honest I forgot much about that period...

@Vitaly She's already been played nearly a thousand times.

z7sg

It doesn't know who Wat Tyler is. Guessed Thomas Becket.

Cerberus

Who is that?

z7sg

Which one?

Cerberus

00:45

The first one.

(Looked the other one up, hehe.)

z7sg

Peasants' Revolt

The Peasants' Revolt, Wat Tyler's Rebellion, or the Great Rising of 1381 was one of a number of popular revolts in late medieval Europe and is a major event in the history of England. Tyler's Rebellion was not only the most extreme and widespread insurrection in English history but also the best-documented popular rebellion ever to have occurred during medieval times. The names of some of its leaders, John Ball, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, are still familiar in popular culture, although little is known of them. The revolt later came to be seen as a mark of the beginning of the end of ...

Cerberus

Ah, I see.

z7sg

wiki says 'major event' so can't really be classed obscure

Cerberus

Perhaps it will guess right next time...

z7sg

I was given the option to tell it but I cba.

Vitaly

00:46

@Cer: Almost halfway there.

z7sg

After a while I guess it could guess anything!

Cerberus

Yay!

Lat one for the night: I'm picking Cheng Ho. Should be easy.

It says Sun Yat-Sen. Come on, that's 500 years off!

Kit

@Cerberus Woof.

Robusto

Ugh, I'm not playing anymore. I have the debug version of the Flash player installed and I keep seeing lots of errors. Poor programming.

Cerberus

@Kit Woof!

Ow.

Why a debug version?

Mine is still trying to guess Cheng Ho, or however it's spelled.

Kit

00:56

WTF are you guys playing? Evil Dictator Poker?

Vitaly

17 mins ago, by Cerberus

http://en.akinator.com/#

Cerberus

Defeated it again.

Kit

@z7sg BTW I'm 2,000 rep now, so you can talk to me. ;)

z7sg

@Kit Welcome to the 2k club!

Cerberus

Congrats!

Robusto

00:59

Welcome. Another 1,000 points and you can vote to close posts.

And please hurry. We need votes to close things like this:

0

Q: How to start a formal e-mail

Hey guys! Can you suggest some ways to express "i would like to bring to your attention the fact that .." in a different way.

business-language

Kit

@Robusto That is my dream.

Robusto

@Vitaly, @Cerberus, et al., get out those voting clickers!

Kit

@Robusto You can always just upvote everything I do.

Robusto

@Kit — If I start doing that then my votes will get Hoovered up by @Jeff Atwood.

Kit

@Robusto No kidding. What if you actually thought that everything I did deserved an upvote?

Cerberus

01:03

Voted.

Kit

@Robusto I mean, seriously. It's me. I'm great, right?

Robusto

@Kit — Then I would have lost my mind.

Cerberus

Now I must go to bed.

Vitaly

CU @Cerberus

Robusto

I don't even think @Cerberus is always worth an upvote.

Night, doggy.

Kit

01:04

@Robusto Ha ha ha. I'll convince you of my jeenyus someday.

Cerberus

Adios all!

Kit

@Cerberus Night night, pooch.

Vitaly

@Cerberus: will continue later today? Ah, never mind.

Cerberus

And thanks, Vit! I always leave my PC on, so if "Audrey" doesn't clog my connection it should be waiting for me in the morning...

Vitaly

OK.

Cerberus

01:05

"Today"? I thought you lived in Moscow?

Kit

@Cerberus Shh! Vitaly doesn't talk about that stuff.

Cerberus

I call the current hour "evening"...

Oh, I see.

Well I must go. Bye!

Vitaly

It's 5 AM. Almost day.

Bye.

Robusto

Laterz.

Kit

01:37

Um, bye!

Martha

03:41

Does that Akinator game guess anything correctly? I've played Széchenyi four times, telling it the correct answer each time, and it still didn't guess correctly. It didn't do any better with Szent-Györgyi.

RegDwight

09:24

@Vitaly Ah yes. Thanks. So I wasn't misremembering it.

Vitaly

10:29

@RegDwight: can mods delete rooms?

RegDwight

@Martha I've played Yuri Gagarin, and it guessed Andrey Chikatilo (serial killer, Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper; also, Anderson Silva's former nick); I then played Valentina Tereshkova, and it guessed Zaha Hadid (an Iraqi-British architect).

@Vitaly I've marked that room private already, it should go away from the home page shortly.

Vitaly

@RegDwight Oh, hm, thanks. I still can load it anonymously (without logging in), is that a glitch?

RegDwight

Ah wait, you mean that other room.

The room I have marked private is gone already.

It's only now that I see your room at all.

Vitaly

Haha.

RegDwight

Well, that's what you get for creating rooms faster than they can be killed.

Vitaly

10:33

I was kind of surprised that the room owner couldn't mark a room private or delete messages.

For the record, it's the first room I've ever created.

I see it's gone, thanks.

Robusto

10:53

MORNING.

RegDwight

HELLO.

Vitaly

May 14 at 12:57, by Vitaly

YO.

RegDwight

MAMA.

Robusto

Stupid caps key. Whaddya gonna do.

RegDwight

Mar 17 at 18:32, by RegDwight

Yes, and I am SORRY, but what is a poor boy to do?

Robusto

10:55

You ain't no poor boy. All comrades in Soviet Workers' Paradise are rich.

►

These ain't poor boys either.

Well, the private beta I'm involved in asked for intelligent questions, but the level of discourse so far seems not all that elevated.

Vitaly

Let me guess. They ask to translate anime?

I bet Literature won't go as low as that. /nudge nudge

RegDwight

Wow, J'Lo is live?

Didn't realize that.

Vitaly

10 hours ago, by Vitaly

So now that Japanese is up, you have a commit slot for Literature.

RegDwight

GLU is now open to everyone BTW.

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German Language & Usage – german.stackexchange.com

Beta 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 public beta.

Vitaly

OLD.

RegDwight

11:03

@Vitaly I'm still catching up. Yesterday's transcript is huge. You guys just wouldn't stop blathering.

Vitaly

@RegDwight I hope you don't mean all the transcripts.

Robusto

My first question (to which I actually knew the answer) was "How rude is it to say 寝ぼけてるんじゃねぇよ！" I thought I'd see how good the folks around there were. Some decent answers, but the only one who nailed it was a guy who put his answer only in a comment.

Vitaly

@Robusto — hahaha!

Robusto

His reply was "Depends entirely on the context. Not only does it have to be an appropriate levels of politeness but it has to be well calibrated. You see the flipside of this when Japanese learners of English overuse expletives in English and end up sounding a little inappropriate."

He shoulda made it an answer so I could accept it.

RegDwight

Tell that to him, not to us.

Vitaly

11:05

Wait, that's interesting. Why do they overuse expletives in English?

RegDwight

@Vitaly BTW, commitments are not released like that. You have to actually fulfill them first.

Robusto

@Vitaly — They do it kind the way @RegDwight overuses slangy forms and spellings: showing off their knowledge.

RegDwight

Nice save there, you pineapple.

I only use slangy forms to masquerade my absence of knowledge of what's correct.

Vitaly

@RegDwight — Is there a question to upvote, because I have no clue which ones are good over there, especially if they are in German?

RegDwight

@Vitaly When in doubt, don't vote on questions at all. I feel like we have too many upvotes on questions already.

Vitaly

11:09

I want the supporter badge. :P

RegDwight

I have eleven answers. :P

And at least two of them are actually good.

z7sg

@RegDwight absence ahem

RegDwight

@z7sg My point precisely.

Had I written "me only masquerade's my absense uv noledge", you wouldn't have objected.

z7sg

@RegDwight I would have thought you were showing off.

RegDwight

Yeah, sure.

z7sg

11:13

Also, it's a person who masquerades as someone else. You don't masquerade a thing.

God this is fun!

RegDwight

You can say Reg to me.

z7sg

:P

RegDwight

Also, how would you know whether or not I masquerade things???

Vitaly

I think things can be said to masquerade just as well.

RegDwight

I can masquerade whatever I want, mine is a free country.

Vitaly

11:15

E.g. “@RegDwight's gravatar masquerades as a picture of Anna Kournikova”

z7sg

Yes, true but that is sort of metaphorical.

You can't say, masquerade a monkey as a prince, it has to do the masquerading itself.

RegDwight

"3. (transitive) To conceal with masks; to disguise. To masquerade vice."

Vitaly

> 1654 Cokaine Dianea ii. 131 Wicked man,..how skilfull thou art to mascherate thy excuses!

RegDwight

As always, Communists show a better understanding of how English works than Fahrenheits.

Robusto

I'll leave all you Celsii alone for the moment. Back after commute.

RegDwight

11:19

CU.

Third Idiot

Good luck!

z7sg

@Vitaly WHat is that??? Not even English. :?

Third Idiot

With commuting, I mean

Vitaly

@z7sg — huh?!

RegDwight

@z7sg Now that Third Idiot is here, you can stop trolling in his stead.

Third Idiot

11:20

@RegDwight What does trolling mean?

RegDwight

You misspelled "What does trolling means?"

Third Idiot

@RegDwight Ok! I'll edit it.

troll
1 [trohl] Show IPA
–verb (used with object)
1.
to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice.
2.
to sing in the manner of a round or catch.
3.
to fish for or in with a moving line, working the line up or down with a rod, as in fishing for pike, or trailing the line behind a slow-moving boat.
4.
to move (the line or bait) in doing this.
5.
to cause to turn round and round; roll.
6.
Obsolete . to hand around, as a bowl of liquor at table.

RegDwight

TL;DR.

Third Idiot

Couldn't find anything used in this instance, can someone help me please?

Vitaly

May 13 at 21:11, by Vitaly

‍

z7sg

11:22

@Vitaly What is that a quote from, srsly?

RegDwight

Let me propose a more concise answer: "Trolling: 1. a art".

Third Idiot

@RegDwight So, it's an art? Somehow I am incredulous...

Vitaly

@z7sg Oh, you are serious? Sorry. It's an English quote dated 1654 from the Oxford English Dictionary; 1654 is already Modern English (the Early Modern English era is said by Wikipedia to end in 1650).

RegDwight

No. It's not an art. It's a art.

Third Idiot

@RegDwight Haha!

I get you!

You get me?

Vitaly

11:24

@z7sg the thy means your, as in thou, thy, thine, etc; art = are, etc.

Third Idiot

Come and get me!

RegDwight

@ThirdIdiot I'm too busy ignoring you, but once I'm done with that, I might consider getting you, yes.

Third Idiot

@Vitaly Did you know...thine is used preceeding words starting with vowels, thy is for consonants. My brother told me that.

z7sg

@Vitaly Yeah, I know that I just had trouble finding Cokaine Dianea.

Third Idiot

@RegDwight Come to Australia. It is beautiful land.

Was that trolling?

Did I do it right?

RegDwight

11:26

May 7 at 20:32, by RegDwight

I could teach you but I have to charge.

Third Idiot

@RegDwight How did you do that?

I mean, quote a previous post

z7sg

@Vitaly That is interesting, as it is a translation, he was apparently unable to translate mascherate so just left it.

RegDwight

Apr 19 at 18:15, by RegDwight

Hover over the message → click on the arrow to the left → click on "permalink" → copypasta.

Vitaly

@z7sg Reference

z7sg

I wonder if there is anyone from the Cokaine family still about?

Vitaly

11:28

@z7sg — Actually, there are earlier quotations: “1587 Harmer tr. Beza's Serm. Cant. 134 The Masquerada of a high masse,” but for the noun, not the verb.

Third Idiot

@RegDwight Cool! Thanks

Trial here

1 min ago, by RegDwight

Apr 19 at 18:15, by RegDwight

Hover over the message → click on the arrow to the left → click on "permalink" → copypasta.

@RegDwight How do you do that for a question? As in a question on main.

27 mins ago, by RegDwight

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German Language & Usage – german.stackexchange.com

Beta 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 public beta.

Like this one.

RegDwight

Post the link all by itself.

And that one is not a question, it's an Area51 link.

Third Idiot

english.stackexchange.com/questions

Didn't work.

Not yet.

Try again.

Never gave up.

RegDwight

You asked how to do that for a question. Not all questions.

z7sg

ha!

Third Idiot

11:30

0

Q: Term for pronunciation technique

Sometimes there are words that are foreign, and a bit hard for anglophones to articulate. Such as "Dvorak", or "dvelja". When trying to refer to these words in our conversation, sometimes an extra vowel is added between the two consonants, so that it is easier to pronounce. For example, "Dvorak" ...

word-requests

Oh cool!

confound my rheumatic fingers!

They hurt so much!

@z7sg Reminds me of one of my favourite characters in a storybook. Said,"Aha!", when only a baby!

Felicitations, my dear!

Kit

Installing update 2 of 271465709...

RegDwight

Oh wow, are we at update 2 already?

z7sg

@Vitaly OK, this is quite interesting that the transitive mascherate was the first use of the word because this isn't given in Oxford or M-W: oxforddictionaries.com/definition/masquerade merriam-webster.com/dictionary/…

Vitaly

Surely you mean 2147483647?

RegDwight

More like 3141592653589793238462643383279.

Kit

11:35

@Vitaly I actually though of making that joke, but don't know the upper limit off the top of my head. That's why my number starts with 2714

Third Idiot

@Kit Fingers just randomly hit the numberpad, I suppose!

z7sg

And it sounds wrong to me, if that has any relevance at all. I guess it doesn't as I am just a native speaker

Vitaly

@z7sg — There are two other quotations under the transitive section that date 1681 and 1717. They are all marked Obs. rare, though.

RegDwight

At last he understands.

Kit

@RegDwight Heathens.

RegDwight

11:36

Apr 13 at 14:11, by JSBangs

@RegDwight heathen

z7sg

OK, I will allow Mr Dwight this usage as he is a rare bird indeed.

Third Idiot

@z7sg I thought mascherate was Italian?

RegDwight

Reg strikes back!

Vitaly

hahaha.

Third Idiot

@RegDwight How did you find that so quick?

!

RegDwight

11:37

@ThirdIdiot By searching for it.

Vitaly

Rara avis.

Third Idiot

@Kit I remember when you said you didn't gigle

@RegDwight How did you search?

As in, what engine did you use?

I mean, what tool did you utilise?

RegDwight

The SE engine.

The search box is in the top right corner.

Third Idiot

@RegDwight Thanks a lot!

Kit

@ThirdIdiot Bring it.

Third Idiot

11:39

@Kit Due to RegDwight's search engine, I discovered I was addressing another lady, and mistakenly remembered it as you. I sincerely apologize for falsely alleging you did not giggle.

Kit

@Vitaly Now back to my original joke, I should have said, "More like 9,223,372,036,854,775,808!" BOO-YAH! Snap

RegDwight

Wagwan.

Third Idiot

@Kit Was that your back?

Kit

@ThirdIdiot Another lady? WTF?

Vitaly

I heard there is an easter egg in the chat search engine. They say that there is a certain flag that allows you to search within a proper interlinear translation of Genesis in Hebrew, that starts “Brashith bra aleim…” (“In the beginning, gods created…”). Can't say if that's true, though!

RegDwight

11:41

@Kit He means the nurse in drag.

Third Idiot

@Kit Boob

Assuming she is a lady

I mean, the user is a lady

RegDwight

The lady is a tramp.

Third Idiot

@RegDwight Drag? What's that?

Kit

@RegDwight Ah, thanks.

Third Idiot

@RegDwight Hahahaha! I cracked up over that

RegDwight

11:42

@Kit Actually, he doesn't.

Third Idiot

What did I mean?!

Kit

Is this on-topic?

1

Q: who invented the cc and bcc?

Ok I've just realised that CC is carbon-copy and BCC is blind-carbon-copy. basically I'm wondering.. who the hell made up these weird terms (which became defacto anyway)

grammar vocabulary slang language-evolution

If yes, it needs to be cleaned up.

Third Idiot

@Kit Depends.

It's partially origin.

partially history

partially English

RegDwight

@Kit Yes, especially the tags.

Kit

@RegDwight Want me to take a crack at it?

RegDwight

11:44

If you wanna.

Kit

Now that I have full edit privileges?

RegDwight

Knock yourself out.

Kit

I'm not sure what "language-evolution" is. How is that tag distinct from "etymology"?

Third Idiot

@Kit Have you edited yet?

RegDwight

etymology is about a given word.

Third Idiot

11:46

language evolution refers to how a word changed, whereas etymology refers to its origin.

RegDwight

language-evolution is about general processes or whatever. In any case, more broad.

Kit

@RegDwight Ok, thanks.

RegDwight

@ThirdIdiot No, language evolution refers to the evolution of the language.

Third Idiot

@Kit Basically, I translated Reg

RegDwight

Word evolution is commonly referred to as word evolution.

Third Idiot

11:48

@RegDwight When defining a word, avoid using the word being defined.

At least that was what I learned

Perhaps things have changed

RegDwight

When understanding a joke, avoid not understanding it.

Vitaly

That's what you get if you don't understand evolution.

4

Third Idiot

@RegDwight Misunderstood that one!

Kit

How's this?

1

Q: Where did cc and bcc com from?

I've just realised that CC is carbon-copy and BCC is blind-carbon-copy. Basically I'm wondering, where did these terms come from?

etymology vocabulary language-evolution

Better?

RegDwight

@Vitaly Actually, how come we have language-evolution but no [tag:intelligent-language-design]?

Kit

11:50

Oh, probably should drop the language-evolution tag, huh?

RegDwight

I'm on it.

Kit

@RegDwight Thanks. I could use some practice with tags.

Vitaly

@RegDwight — hahahaha!

19 hours ago, by Vitaly

@JSBangs Oh come on, all linguists are wrong beyond repair. Humans speak different languages because they tried to build the Tower of Babel. Everyone knows that.

Kit

@RegDwight Isn't that what Lojban is?

Vitaly

May 14 at 15:44, by RegDwight

Skeptical questions on Evolution

Questions which doubt evolution will for sure be voted down.

Third Idiot

11:58

@Vitaly Apparently there is evidence for its existence, the Tower of Babel. Herodotus visited it

He's a Greek historian, by the way. So it is possible Vitaly is right.

Language difference may have originated from the Tower of Babel

Vitaly

Mar 22 at 19:15, by RegDwight

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Skeptical questions on Evolution

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