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3:00 PM
I can actually help you out. I know some COBOL and Turbo Pascal 5.5.
 
Kit
With a very prestigious cough state university.
 
@RegDwight — People who are involved with Knight Industries can't admit anything about their affiliation. You know that, and yet you persist with this line of questioning.
 
@Jez kaw kaw kawwwwwfie, yes. Preferably delivered at the stomp of a hoof by an army of crows with little mugs. Y'all say it funny on your side of the pond.
 
@Robusto Well, there are only so many ways in which I can fail Turing tests. So cut me some slack.
Wow. @Eldros pays us a visit.
 
Kit
@RegDwight We only use those languages with the Decepticon support bots.
 
3:02 PM
@Eldros: Too busy on GLU, huh?
@Kit <makes notes>
 
@RegDwight I wish
My holidays began only a few days after GLU beta began
 
@Eldros Well, you have four questions already. That's four more than I have.
 
Sure, but the first three were asked on the first day I logged in
Now, that I am back at work, I have a lot of stress because of bug fixing
 
Yeah, introducing bugs is so much easier and so much more fun...
 
@RegDwight — That's loser talk. The possibilities for failing Turing tests are virtually unlimited.
 
3:07 PM
@Robusto Sure. I never said anything else.
"there are only so many ways in which I can fail Turing tests"
I fail so much, I even fail at failing. But I dunno, does that, like, surprise you or something?
 
@RegDwight Don't be sad! Everybody's a winner at failing!
 
Oh, I'm never sad. I'm sometimes more indifferent than other times, that's all.
 
Firefox began to freeze on me, switched to google chrome...
 
Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
 
May 27 at 12:29, by RegDwight
I am a Turing-incomplete pineapple.
 
3:12 PM
anyway, I have a quick question: is other as an acceptable alternative for other than
 
@z7sg What took you so long?
 
For example
> Installing on other releases as the one described
 
May 27 at 20:02, by RegDwight
Turing tests are hard.
:)
 
@Kit I prefer my fail image.
(Search for "useing grammer".)
 
Jez
3:15 PM
 
Kit
@RegDwight Thanks for the help. Epic fail?
Mar 14 at 17:14, by RegDwight
user image
 
Hector's battle with Achilles was epic fail.
 
Kit
Oooh, look what I found:
in Ask Ubuntu General Room, Apr 12 at 19:28, by TheX
@RolandTaylor I suck at grammer, I am a computer export not a English person :P
 
@Robusto Not for Achilles.
 
Kit
That's beautiful.
 
3:18 PM
@Kit Trolling is a art.
 
Jez
i may be a computer export too, or a brain in a jar.
 
@Eldros "Installing on releases other than the one described" sounds most natural to me but I think "Installing on other releases than the one described" or "Installing on other releases besides the one described" are possibly acceptable, or at least I'd say them aloud (maybe not write them)
 
@Jez — I'll bet 200 kwatlus that you are a brain in a jar.
 
Ah. Dang it. Someone actually had an actual question.
Sorry @Eldros.
But that's how we roll.
 
Kit
@Robusto NO STAR TREK REFERENCES!
 
3:20 PM
@Kit — I was just probing you for weaknesses. I think I've found one.
 
Kit
@aedia I agree. Using "as" in your example is confusing to me.
 
Now, if only I could use the materials at hand to invent some kind of primitive lathe ... fashion a weapon to use against you ...
 
Kit
@Robusto Sh*t.
@Robusto I...don't...know...what you mean...
 
"Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?"
 
@RegDwight — "He's dead, Jim."
 
3:23 PM
Hello everyone!
 
@Alenanno — Buon giorno!
 
Buonasera.
 
@Robusto Buon pomeriggio is better
almost buonasera
 
Kit
Buon parmigiano?
 
lol!
 
Kit
3:25 PM
Buon asiago?
 
if you mean the cheese, it's parmigiano
ops
ahah
 
Azzurro, il pomeriggio è troppo azzurro e lungo, per me...
 
@Kit you like cheese?
 
@Alenanno — What's Eyetie for STFU?
 
Kit
@Alenanno Got it thanks.
@Alenanno Yes, especially asiago.
 
3:25 PM
eyetie?
 
Kit
And baby spinach.
@Alenanno He means Italian.
 
Ah
 
Hahaha. I just got my Peer Pressure badge. english.stackexchange.com/questions/28985/…
 
Kit
@Robusto Ouch. You been trolling for that?
 
No, I realized I misread the question after someone downvoted me, so I figured I'd just wait and see if the mistake was badge-worthy. It was.
 
3:28 PM
@aedia Thanks for the answer :)
 
@Robusto The only expression that comes to my mind for STFU in italian is "chiudi quella ca**o di bocca" lol but it's rather vulgar... the "*" there stand both for "z"
 
Kit
@Robusto I deleted an answer with two downvotes, then kicked myself for a week afterwards.
 
Jez
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Horses

Proposed Q&A site for people mad about horses, and questions on horse-related topics. Questions about recreation and competitions. Both for amateurs, new horse-lovers, and professionals.

Currently in definition.

"How can I make my horse faster?"
hmm
drugs?
 
lol
 
Kit
"Is it true that having sexual relations with horses can rupture your anus?"
 
3:30 PM
Don't we have a proposal for Unicorns yet?
 
Kit
@Robusto Unicorns are horses with horns. Still covered by the existing proposal.
 
Jez
and zebras are painted horses
 
@Kit Wow. And you pretend not to be a guy???
 
Kit
@Jez And quagga are ancestor horses.
 
I disagree. The difference is one of kind, not degree. Unicorns are a whole different class of animal.
In fact, if unicorns produced bacon, they'd be the perfect animal.
 
3:31 PM
Are zebras white with black stripes, or black with white stripes?
:D
 
Well I will be going now
See you around folks
 
@Kit Yes, it's true.
 
@Alenanno I'm sure you can find the answer to that on Skeptics.
 
Jez
or philosophy
 
@Eldros CU.
 
Kit
3:32 PM
Come on. It was big news on that long ago.
The Enumclaw horse sex case was a 2005 incident in which Kenneth Pinyan (June 22, 1960 – July 2, 2005), an American Boeing engineer residing in Gig Harbor, died from receiving anal sex with a stallion at a farm in an unincorporated area in King County, Washington, near the city of Enumclaw. He had videotaped previous sex acts with the horses and distributed them informally under the name Mr. Hands. During a July 2005 sex act, videotaped by a friend, he suffered a perforated colon and later died of his injuries. The story was reported in The Seattle Times and was one of that paper'...
 
@Kit Yes, I know.
 
Kit
@Alenanno Black with white stripes.
 
Enumclaw ... hmm ... sounds like a Java concept.
 
Kit
@RegDwight So how does that make me a dude?
@Robusto Ha!
 
@RegDwight — Word.
 
Kit
3:34 PM
@Alenanno They're born all black with white blotches.
 
@Kit — Chromosomes or it didn't happen.
 
Kit
@Robusto No Y in my Xs, honey.
 
@Robusto We eat starlight and poo bacon. You just can't see it.
 
@Kit I can tell by the pixels and from having seen many actual women in my life.
 
@Kit — So are Russians, I hear, but that doesn't mean anything.
 
3:36 PM
@aedia We can see you vomiting, though.
 
Kit
As you can clearly see in this picture:
 
Also, here:
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A: Why aren't there any unicorns?

RegDwightThe unicorns are in the garden. Eating roses and lillies. That's how they roll. I can see at least two of them right now, just by looking out of my browser window: Generally speaking, if you can't see something, that means that you must have a bug installed in your PC. Simply remove it, and e...

 
@RegDwight thanks :D
 
@RegDwight Oh c'mon, everyone pukes rainbows in college.
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Kit
@RegDwight Jebus! Is that Gary Busey? Yikes!
 
3:39 PM
Who knows Charlie the unicorn? If you don't, WATCH IT!
 
I can totally see how this room is considered incomprehensible... just look at the top starred posts...
 
@aedia You poo bacon, or you eat 'poo bacon'?
 
Kit
@RegDwight Seems perfectly understandishable to me.
 
I never puked rainbows in college, by the way
 
"everyone pukes rainbows in college" — "Mr. Tea would never claim that. Not if he ever wanted to have sex again, I mean" — "Well, you can never entirely trust a country that has machines that vend used schoolgirl panties." — "the opposite of planet is Pluto. the opposite of giraffe is toad. the opposite of Turk is Greek."
And thank God all of them are in English, at least.
 
Kit
3:40 PM
schoolgirl panties.
 
Doesn't happen too often.
 
I put rainbows in my mouth but I did not ingest them.
 
@z7sg Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! English is a terrible language.
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I need to go learn Lojban straightaway.
 
Lojban?
Ah ok I searched it
 
Lojban (pronounced ) is a constructed, syntactically unambiguous human language based on predicate logic, succeeding the project of Loglan. The name "Lojban" is a combination of loj and ban, which are short forms of logji (logic) and bangu (language), respectively. Development of the language began in 1987 by The Logical Language Group (LLG), who intended to realize Loglan's purposes as well as further complement the language by making it more usable, and freely available (as indicated by its official full English name "Lojban: a realization of Loglan"). After a long initial period of de...
 
3:44 PM
Try Toki Pona, tastes better.
May 25 at 13:35, by RegDwight
Bilingual in Lojban and Toki Pona?
 
I never liked artificial languages, honestly...
 
Kit
@Alenanno All languages are artificial.
 
You know what I mean.
 
Kit
Installing update 3 of 271465709...
Dammit.
 
Italian is a synthetic language.
 
3:46 PM
Natural languages are those who weren't planned but were born and developed naturally. Artificial languages are those created intentionally.
synthetic?
 
Kit
@Alenanno You're probably opposed to adoption too. :)
 
@Alenanno What about pidgins and creoles? Where do they fit in?
 
@Kit no no, I'm not against it
 
@Alenanno Yes, synthetic.
A synthetic language, in linguistic typology, is a language with a high morpheme-per-word ratio, as opposed to a low morpheme-per-word ratio in what is described as an isolating language. This linguistic classification is largely independent of morpheme-usage classifications (such as fusional, agglutinative, etc.), although there is a common tendency for agglutinative languages to exhibit synthetic properties. Synthetic and isolating languages Synthetic languages are frequently contrasted with isolating languages. It is more accurate to conceive of languages as existing on a continuu...
 
@RegDwight ah ok I knew another word for that
 
Kit
3:48 PM
@Alenanno I was just joking.
 
@Kit didn't catch it, but it's ok :D
 
Kit
"Agglutinative" makes me hungry.
 
@Kit Careful...
 
Kit
Lunch date with my spouse, then twelve webpages to build, and twenty-odd stored procedures to modify.
@Martha What? I'm just being honest.
 
That honesty is from hunger.
 
Kit
3:50 PM
Doesn't that make you think of taffy? Or gummy candy?
Those spearmint leaf thingies with the sugar coating...
 
It makes me think of pasta or bread
lol
 
@Kit Ah, ok. Crisis averted.
(It's just that Hungarian is an agglutinative language. So you could have been making a very, very bad pun.)
 
Kit
I'm feeling a little dizzy. Luckily there's Little Debbie snacky cakes in the main office.
@Martha Seriously? Oh, man, that would have been awful!
Maybe next time.
 
@Martha lol
 
Kit
Well, lunch beckons. TTFN.
 
3:53 PM
@Kit bye!
 
@Kit Bye!
 
What is this question for you? To me it seems easy to look for in some online dictionary:
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Q: What is the correct plural of "stadium"?

UrbycozIf my memory of Latin lessons serves me correctly, it should really be stadia However, I think most people would probably write stadiums Which is right?

I mean, any dictionary I checked mentioned both the plural forms.
 
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Q: Which style of Latin plurals should I use?

SidMany Latin words in English have both Latin-style plurals and English-style plurals: referendum – referendums, referenda. minimum – minimums, minima. gymnasium – gymnasiums, gymnasia. aquarium – aquariums, aquaria. amoeba – amoebas, amoebae. antenna – antennas, antennae. form...

 
dupe?
 
You be the judge, as I gotta run. TTYL.
 
3:57 PM
I say yes. Unfortunately, I've already voted to close it as 'general reference'.
 
Man, that guy has a 56% accept rate...
 
@Alenanno I think so but I cannot vote
 
You cannot? Why?
 
Not enough rep :(
 
You're almost there!
:)
 
3:59 PM
Well, hurry up and acquire enough rep! Sheesh.
 
ahah
 
You and Kit.
 
@RegDwight — Take a look at your own starred chat posts sometime.
 
igen :)
 
That's "igenis" in this context. ("igen" = "yes"; "igenis" = "yes, ma'am/sir".)
 
4:05 PM
What language is it? Hungarian?
 
Naturally.
 
You speak it natively, I mean, it's your mother tongue?
 
It's the first language I learned, yes. (I'm not as fluent in it as I am in English, though, just because I've lived in an English-speaking country all of my life.)
(For example, I can't do math in Hungarian.)
 
thanks... i like the sound of it but it must be so hard to learn
 
Let me ask you something... Does Hungarian have cases?
 
4:08 PM
Depends on how you define "case". If you include suffixes, then yes.
 
I mean nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental
etc
 
You just broke the record I saw with Finnish, which has 15 cases
wow
:D
 
Supposedly Finnish and Hungarian share common origins. With Japanese, no less.
 
Hm, I thought Finnish had more cases?
 
4:12 PM
I just re-checked to be sure
they are 15
 
Canadian has the most cases. We're talking beer, right?
 
@Martha see here
This article deals with the grammar of the Finnish language (the article "Finnish language" discusses the language in general and contains a quick overview of the grammar). There is a separate article covering the ways in which spoken Finnish differs from the formal grammar of the written language. Pronouns The pronouns are inflected in the Finnish language much in the same way that their referent nouns are. Personal pronouns The personal pronouns are used to refer to human beings only. The personal pronouns in Finnish in the nominative case are listed in the following table: {| class=...
 
Well, I always say those aren't really cases in Hungarian - they're just prepositions that come after the word and happen to be attached to it.
 
I don't know Hungarian, so I have to rely on you :D
@Robusto lol
 
In fact, the Wikipedia article on Hungarian grammar puts "case" in quotation marks - they don't think these are really and truly cases, either.
This page is about noun phrases in Hungarian grammar. Syntax The order of elements in the noun phrase is always determiner, adjective, noun. Grammatical marking Hungarian does not have grammatical gender or a grammatical distinction between animate and inanimate. Plurality Hungarian nouns are marked for number: singular or plural. However, Hungarian uses the plural form sparsely for nouns, i.e. only if quantity is not otherwise marked. Therefore the plural is not used with numerals or quantity expressions. Examples: öt fiú ("five boys"); sok fiú ("many boys"); fiúk ("boys"). In phras...
 
4:23 PM
I see
I found this "The concept of grammatical cases was first used in the description of Sanskrit and Latin grammar, which are fusional languages. Over the centuries the terminology was also used to describe other languages, with very different grammatical structures from Indo-European languages. Some linguists believe that the concept does not fit agglutinative languages very well.
Rather than using the "case" paradigm and terminology for describing Hungarian grammar, they prefer to use the terms "(case) suffixes" and "endings". Despite these opinions, nowadays the term "case" is used by most Hungarian linguists.""
I didn't thought of that
Well I gotta go... Later, everyone!
 
Bye!
(Sorry, I'm engrossed in reading about the intricacies of Hungarian grammar. Lordy, I'm glad I learned this all before I understood the concept of grammar.)
 
Kit
4:57 PM
Taking goofing off to the extreme: Playing Angry Birds on my cell phone while chatting on EL&U.
Know what I'm not doing?
Work.
 
Kit
5:17 PM
142 left to go. Come on nomadic!
And hybrid word!
 
Back to work!
 
Kit
Look, I just created two new tables, two new sets of relationships, and I've already finished one of twelve pages and I'm starting on the matching stored procedures right now. And trying to think of a good EL&U question. I think I could probably sneak in one more level of Angry Birds, right?
 
I was trying to dissuade myself from the obvious temptation to chat incomprehensibly with fellow shirkers.
 
Kit
@z7sg Why, whatever do you mean? We're boring and unengaging here. Not a good place to shirk at all.
You can tell, because I've been talking to myself for nearly a half hour.
 
Yes... you're quite right it's a damming confirmation of my extreme laziness, if one were needed.
 
Kit
5:31 PM
117. Thanks to nomadic, although he says it isn't what he wanted, so now that's going to bug me.
 
I upvoted... I have an alternative though
Oh too late he accepted it
 
Kit
@z7sg You might as well pop it in. Is it "itenerant"? I was just going to add that as a comment.
 
Yeah it is. I don't know... I hate the single-word-requests tbh. Especiallly those that get +10 votes
 
Kit
Crud, I just realized I misspelled "itinerant."
@z7sg What's tbh?
 
"tbh means "to be honest" however, it is so overused that its now become common place to see it after anything."
 
Kit
5:36 PM
Ah. Thanks.
 
Hi again!
 
Kit
@aedia Hi!
 
I am trying to be productive but I think I need more coffee. How's your work, Kit?
 
Kit
Um. Right. Work.
I find if I slow down too much, I start noticing that I'm doing this all wrong.
Problem is, I'm T plus 4 weeks. That means I'm four weeks past the code freeze/transition to test deadline. Oops.
 
@Kit If things got done on time, that'd be weird. It's work, after all.
Deadlines usually bear no relation to the stuff involved in 'em, in my experience.
 
5:49 PM
Unicorns!
 
@Kit When that happens here, certain people start going into a sort of frenzied panic.
Not me though, I'm always calm and collected.
 
Kit
@z7sg Luckily there's just me and my boss. He's in Guam or something right now.
The marks don't know how far behind I am.
 
@Cerberus Monsters!
 
What, where? looks about
You must be mistaken. combs serpent manes
 
Unicorns, mythical three-headed dogs... this place is starting to lose its credibility.
 
Kit
5:50 PM
@aedia Monster? You've never seen a tricephalic dog before?
 
I know, right!
 
Kit
Totally.
I gotta find me a mythic avatar.
 
I guess that is the sort of prejudice you have to face every day, @Cer
 
Kit
What goes with "Kit"? Sphinx? Sylvester?
 
Yes, life can be a burden...
 
5:52 PM
@Kit: I bumped you for "nomadic" even though the OP should have been able to find that for himself.
 
@Robusto True.
 
Maybe a knight from one of the old legends... to underline your affiliation with Knight Industries.
 
Kit
@Robusto Thanks.
 
And yet the OP didn't seem to like the word.
 
@Cerberus — Especially if you're a three-headed doggy who speaks a made-up language.
@Cerberus — Some people are so hard to please. That is the textbook definition, though.
 
Kit
5:53 PM
@Cerberus Yeah, he was looking for something else. Maybe a word that's harder to find.
 
@Rob: Hey! At least I am not some gibberish weird mark.
 
Kit
67 to go, but at least 2 have to be accepted answers.
 
@Cerberus — You only dreamed that.
 
@Kit He mentioned pastoral...
@Robusto Perhaps, but it was still gibberish!
 
Kit
@Kit It'll probably have to wait until tomorrow.
But soon, soon the world will be mine!
 
5:55 PM
You know what? In the game I'm playing, my commander is Lord of Tartarus, and I am also using Cerberus...
 
Kit
Oooh. Freaky.
 
:1115764
May 21 at 16:03, by Robusto
user image
 
Thanks!
Must. Stop. Dreaming. About. Robusto.
 
I'm thinking I should have gone with a hotter red now. More shading toward orange.
At least for that pic.
 
It's fine. Quite hot enough.
 
5:57 PM
Kit, you got your check mark, what are you complaining about?
 
@Kit Kitsune!
is the Japanese word for fox. Foxes are a common subject of Japanese folklore; in English, kitsune refers to them in this context. Stories depict them as intelligent beings and as possessing magical abilities that increase with their age and wisdom. Foremost among these is the ability to assume human form. While some folktales speak of kitsune employing this ability to trick others—as foxes in folklore often do—other stories portray them as faithful guardians, friends, lovers, and wives. Foxes and human beings lived close together in ancient Japan; this companionship gave rise to le...
 
Kit
@Cerberus Who? Me?
@Robusto It bothers me. I feel like I didn't earn the check mark.
 
@Kit — Hey, I charge $200/hr. for psychotherapy. And I'm not even licensed.
 
@Kit You too.
 

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