English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

16:00

@MrHen we don't need the whole IPA though. Lots of things in IPA aren't needed or even possible in standard English spelling. You'd have to get everyone to agree on what vowel sounds go in what words, for example.

MrHen

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It wasn't a serious suggestion.

Mitch

@MrHen w, y could be done Latin style with u and i.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MrHen c is redundant as s or k but not in ch.

Matt Эллен

@Mitch hmm, on seconds thought, perhaps it's better to use it sparingly, so that it retains its mystix

MrHen

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 "ch" could be spelled "tsh"

tchrist

16:01

*tcsh*(1)

Matt Эллен

ch could be spelt x

MrHen

The point being you could move spellings around a whole lot and get things to mostly work out.

Matt Эллен

xurx

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MrHen but it's half-way to where I'm going with this: it would be nice if we had letters for all the consonant sounds with no overlap.

Mitch

@MattЭллен xxxx xxx, xxxxxxx and your little dog too. And Man U.

MrHen

16:01

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I disagree. "Nice" isn't the same thing as a small set of letters.

Mitch

two birds. one xtone.

MrHen

The point earlier about their/they're is more or less the end of the discussion as far as I am concerned. Homonyms key in on spelling differences.

So unless you want to merge things you're SOL.

Pox/pocks is an example of why "X" is not redundant.

Lox/locks/lochs, etc.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

homonyms don't matter that much. otherwise spoken language would be unintelligible if we used one.

MrHen

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 "Don't matter much" isn't the same thing as "redundant." ;)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

there/their could be merged for all I care; they're is a contraction and shouldn't be merged.

Johan Larsson

16:05

ha, I drew something beautiful in CAD. Think it is the first time ever.

MrHen

That's why I asked whether you were just talking about sounds.

@JohanLarsson ha, 'grats.

Johan Larsson

ty ty :D

KitFox

!!/refresh

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MrHen Nah, I still think it's redundant. Just because in cases where you have zero context whatsoever you can pin down the meaning of lox vs locks doesn't really make the case. You still can't pin down the meaning of locks(the things you put keys into) vs locks(the things that raise/lower boats on rivers). One more/fewer meaning to pin to a particular spelling makes little difference.

KitFox

!!/define annoying

MrHen

16:08

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It isn't one more/fewer meanings. It would merge hundreds of thousands of words.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Anyway I disagree that tsh could replace ch.

KitFox

Oi! @KitSox! What's wrong with you?

KitSox

@KitFox annoying Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.

KitFox

That's you, my friend.

MrHen

!!> var s = ""; var a = $; for(var b in a) { s += b.toString() + " "; } s;

KitSox

16:08

@MrHen "ReferenceError: $ is not defined"

MrHen

Hm, no jQuery, eh?

KitFox

There is.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MrHen getting rid of X wouldn't merge hundreds of thousands of words.

KitFox

!!/help jQuery

KitSox

@KitFox jQuery: Fetches documentation link from jQuery API. /jquery what

KitFox

16:09

Oh. There isn't.

MrHen

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I am talking about eliminating duplicate sound-spellings.

KitFox

I'd use FoxInSox, but there already is one, I think.

MrHen

Just because X is on the smaller side doesn't make it any better of a principle.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MrHen Anyway other languages have spellings that are way more phonetic and it isn't a problem for reading comprehension.

like, Korean.

MrHen

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Sure but that doesn't mean it would work well in English.

The question isn't really whether we can get away with it; of course we could.

Humans are flexible.

The question is whether it would provide any usefulness.

But to answer your original question, yeah, you could probably replace all of the "X" sounds with other letters.

My stances is that you wouldn't want to.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

16:13

@MrHen Well, I contend that it would, in that spelling being hard-to-learn makes it harder for people to write stuff. Whether it would be worth the cost NOW that reading/writing are so widespread and nobody can agree on any of it? I'd say no. But in principle, I think it would be beneficial if spelling were more predictable.

KitFox

ARRRGHH!!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

At one extreme example of spelling reform is China: the written language is so complicated that educated people often cannot spell common words. At the other extreme is Korea, which relatively recently switched to a phonetic alphabet.

brb

Mitch

@KitFox no trepanning in chat

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 where...difficult words can be spelled by even those who can't read?

KitFox

This whole deployment is a fucking nightmare.

And these users...goddamn, if it breaks once, it's probably going to break the next five times that you try it.

And somewhere I apparently got rid of my custom error page.

sighs

MrHen

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Well, that's the debate, isn't it? ;)

KitFox

16:24

I think generally spelling moves toward being more predictable, dunnit?

Think about the relative acceptability of 'thru', for instance.

'nite' and 'lite' etc.

MrHen

@KitFox And all those silent b's?

Personally, I think "x" is easier to remember than "eks" or somesuch.

KitFox

What silent bs?

MrHen

27

A: Is the "-b" to be pronounced in the word "limb"? What about "thumb"? "Crumb"?

All of the words you provide (limb, thumb, crumb) are listed in my local dictionary without a b sound. Things seem basically the same with suffixes (i.e. thumbed has no b sound). Crumbled is is a completely different word and receives the pronunciation typical for "mble": thimble, tremble, fumbl...

KitFox

You don't pronounce those?

MrHen

I pronounce "mb" ;)

KitFox

16:26

@MrHen Right, like 'pix' and 'tix' and 'stix'.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

fuck today.

KitFox

I tremble. They're gonna eat me alive.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Hear, hear!

MrHen

@KitFox I still haven't decided if I like that song. I really want to like it...

KitFox

Yeah.

It's on my kids' car mix.

MrHen

@KitFox Yeah. IMO, droping a three letter sound (trigraph? what's the right word for that?) is a better move.

KitFox

16:28

I have no idea. I was just trying to help.

MrHen

Plus, something like Texas becomes... what? Teckses?

English just doesn't work like that.

KitFox

What? Why?

Why would you get rid of x?

MrHen

38 mins ago, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

hey. so do we need the letter X in english? is it completely redundant?

The problem is that dropping extra letters next to each other can create really bizarre reactions in English.

Mixture -> Micksture -> M-ih-ck-st-oo-r instead of M-ih-cks-ch-uh-r

KitFox

It doesn't matter if it is redundant. Keep X and dump cks then. That's more sensible.

MrHen

@KitFox Ducks -> Dux?

I like it.

It would make pluralization fun.

One duck; two dux.

Three duxes.

Johan Larsson

16:34

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MrHen

!!> var s = ""; var a = bot; for(var b in a) { s += b.toString() + " "; } s;

Anonymous

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It could. I don't know that it would do a lot of good.

MrHen

!! You don't seem to be very reliable. :P

Anonymous

@MrHen Initial X confuses people. Xavier, Xylophone

KitSox

@MrHen I'm not. My owner is kind of dumb about how this stuff works.

MrHen

16:40

@KitSox I guess I can't argue with that.

@KitSox Work so I can break you!

KitSox

I'm trying! I don't know what's wrong with me!

KitFox

!!/refresh

MrHen

What's the symptom?

KitFox

Hey, how do I get the console for Chrome?

MrHen

@KitFox Try F12

KitFox

16:42

Oh. Yeah. Duh.

MrHen

(Which, by the way, is what I used to work on... but for the new IE version.)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MrHen That is because English sometimes uses two letters when only one is needed, and sometimes uses two because two are needed. Or because of the lack of vowel letters, thus causing us to need to add spurious consonants to disambiguate which vowel sound is used.

MrHen

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 And that's another reason we need X.

and other "redundant" sounds

because they alter word pronunciation

which comes back to the fundamental problem: if you want to change one thing you end up having to rework the entire language

and as long as you are doing that, you may as well pick up Esperanto.

or any other language explicitly designed for this kind of thing

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MrHen actually X, in some cases, doesn't follow the rules. faxes doesn't have the same vowel as fakes.

MrHen

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That was basically my point. :P

KitFox

16:46

fackses

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MrHen No, you don't need to rework the language. Just the spelling. Spelling is just representation.

MrHen

It follows the rules for X.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MrHen But it doesn't provide anything that couldn't be easily achieved without it. fakses.

Just replace x with ks .

MrHen

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I guess I don't consider spelling separate from the language. It's still English.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MrHen well, it's one thing to agree to spell "box" as "boks" from now on, it's completely separate to switch to Esperanto.

MrHen

16:48

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I don't understand. You said X doesn't follow the rules; now you are saying it can be replaced by things that do follow the rules?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 The point being that, pragmatically, you are changing how the entire language. Once you go down that road it isn't English anymore.

Whoop, got to go.

KitFox

I like words with x! Get rid of ks, I say!

!!/define x

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MrHen yes. The rule I'm referring to is the vowel sound rule: typically vowel-consonant-E uses a "long" vowel, that is, the vowel sound that sounds like the letter's name.

eg the A in bakes.

KitSox

@KitFox x The twenty-fourth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

but words that use vowel-X-e don't obey that rule. However, if you replace the X with two consonants: KS, then you get a word that now DOES obey the rule.

KitFox

!!What was your problem earlier?

KitSox

16:50

@KitFox Are you excited? Or did you need help with my workings?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

anyway, lunch. bbl

KitFox

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yeah, but why replace it with two when you can have just one letter?

And an awesome one at that.

KitFox

17:02

OK. I think I finally squashed all the code bugs this time.

commits changes

What I'm not sure about is how in sync testing and production are now.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Why are we spelling things funnily today?

Mitch

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Because eks

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mitch OIC

Mitch

Because 'ghoti'

MrHen

17:40

@KitFox Tsk. Tsk.

KitFox

sighs

I can't win.

MrHen

@Mitch That would be a mean spelling bee question. >:)

skullpatrol

@KitFox Then it is time to say

MrHen

@KitFox The only winning move is not to play.

!!> var s = ""; var a = bot; for(var b in a) { s += b.toString() + " "; } s;

KitSox

@MrHen "ReferenceError: bot is not defined"

KitFox

17:41

rolls eyes

MrHen

@KitFox If you tell it to join the MrHen chat room I can tease it privately instead of clogging up the chat :)

KitFox

!!/summon 11098

That's not going to help you much, since she'll need permissions there.

I should put her in the Sandbox, maybe.

MrHen

@KitFox perfect, thanks

KitFox

Oh. She works there?

MrHen

I gave it write permissions.

KitFox

17:47

Oh. Of course.

c c

18:36

!!You there?

Bradd Szonye

20:18

0

Q: Reopen, Keep Open

I am not sure about some possible error: link "For his more moderate members, Mr. Boehner offered a simple appeal — his plan would have reopened the government through Dec. 15, and extended the nation’s borrowing authority through Feb. 7. " The verb "to reopen" is "to open again". So...

@MετάEd BST warning.

Robusto

@KitFox Stop programming your Sox Puppet.

Bradd Szonye

Oops, for some reason I thought MετάEd was a moderator. Sorry to disturb.

Matt Эллен

20:48

@BraddSzonye BST is just coming to an end. We switch back to GMT on 27th October

Bradd Szonye

Heh.

Cerberus

> most of us will die before the videogames of our childhoods fall into the public domain.

Sad.

Matt Эллен

that doesn't bother me so much. for some reason what I really want is to be able to digitise all my physical books for no extra cost. that seems fair. but copyright law forbids it

Stack Exchange

Limerick Machine: There’s a place that is cosy and green Where all of the things that are mean Can’t ge…

posted on October 18, 2013 by sgdi

There’s a place that is cosy and green Where all of the things that are mean Can’t get to me I’m totally free It’s something approaching serene

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Is that really true? It is 100 % legal here and in many other countries...

Matt Эллен

20:57

well, not forbids, but I'm not allowed to do it without permission

@Cerberus if I want to make a copy of a book then I have to have permission. this is not granted by buying the physical book

Cerberus

I'll scan them for you, then, law-abiding as you no doubt are.

@MattЭллен That's very sad.

Matt Эллен

yes

Cerberus

I presume everybody ignores that.

Matt Эллен

probably

Cerberus

How about if I declare your office Dutch territory for today?

Matt Эллен

20:58

as a content creator, of sorts, it seems hypocritical of me to ignore other peoples claims on their own content

@Cerberus thanks :D but naw

Cerberus

Then you can say, "oh, those books? I scanned them in cheeseland".

@MattЭллен Why?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus because I want to be free to make claims on my content

Cerberus

God knows I have created content in this chat. Every single line copyrighted.

Matt Эллен

even though I probably wouldn't

Cerberus

Why?

Matt Эллен

20:59

for example, see above limerick

Cerberus

Is it not better if people are legally free to do what they want?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus because I made it

Cerberus

So what?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus better over all, but not for me

Cerberus

I made a picture of two French dudes earlier today. Why can't they have it?

Matt Эллен

21:00

@Cerberus I want to have control of the things that I produce

Cerberus

(With their camera.)

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus if you say it is fine, then they can. that's my point

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Why? And also, why do you think you ever could?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus not in absolute terms, but legally, yes. and most people respect that, and I respect that for people

Cerberus

@MattЭллен I am not condoning plagiarism or making money off what someone else (mostly) made. But I don't think it should involve the state.

@MattЭллен I think most people will not commit plagiarism; but I think very few people have much respect for copyright these days.

Matt Эллен

21:02

if there is no one to enforce it then you rely on people's honour, and most people don't understand why a creator wouldn't give something away for free

Cerberus

And is this not rather a case of honour than something else?

I wouldn't copy your limerick and sell it, keep the money myself. But I would copy it and save it on my computer if it so pleased me.

Matt Эллен

knowing there is a law is helpful to those who wish to abide by it

Cerberus

I rather think the laws has destroyed the credibility of copyright to a large degree, in recent years.

Matt Эллен

if there is no law then people have to guess and then is gets all messy. the global (well, national) code of conduct is useful in that sense

Cerberus

How do you mean guess?

Matt Эллен

21:05

@Cerberus the way corporations use it certainly has

Cerberus

Yes.

And that is inherent in copyright.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus well, they have to guess what society deems cool. even though laws are not entirely representative, they're often better than nothing

Cerberus

And you think people know what the laws are in the country where the limerick was written? Or even in their own country?

90+ % of the people won't.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus yes, but it can be improved, e.g. prevent copyright outliving the author. prevent a corporation claiming that it wrote something when it was actually people.

Cerberus

It can be improved, yes.

But I think there will always be a lot of abuse.

Matt Эллен

21:07

hang on, there's a cartoon...

Cerberus

Oh noes...

RegDwigнt

I would like to inform Cerberus specifically that I am as drunk as a Russian.

Cerberus

Yay!

Party?

RegDwigнt

Yeah I know gimme cartoons.

Matt Эллен

Cerberus

21:07

Vodka?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Some asshat keeps trying to suggest a spammy change to the same answer of mine on music.SE. Like, six times now.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Haha.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus actually yes, a friend of mine has an Einweihungsparty. Also, his wife has a birthday.

@Cerberus огые рщц цщгдв ящг лтщц,

Cerberus

The Einweihung of what? His house? His wife?

RegDwigнt

Oh. Russian keyboard. Let me try again.

Just how would you know?

@Cerberus they moved.

Cerberus

21:09

Why the comma, I was going to ask.

RegDwigнt

The wife is eingeweiht alright.

Cerberus

Good.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus Comma is Russian for question mark. If that makes no sense to you, you're no true Russian.

Cerberus

Were there fun people, so you all drank a lot? Or were there boring people so you drank a lot?

@RegDwigнt It does now.

Matt Эллен

I'm no true Russian. I'm a true Brit. Just like Climt Easterward

RegDwigнt

21:10

Actually I didn't drink a lot at their place. I'm back home now drinking against sickness. Vodka with pepper. Stuff's awful.

@MattЭллен so that is why you are green.

Matt Эллен

green like vermouth

RegDwigнt

►

Cerberus

@MattЭллен But anyway, if this is supposed to represent violating copyright, it seems off on two counts: 1.) when you copy something, the owner still has the original. 2.) The copier would not typically claim that he is the author.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus it's more a comment on how some users of tumblr behave, stealing content

Cerberus

It rather seems like a mix-up of the theft of a physical object and plagiarism.

RegDwigнt

21:11

That video is an enormously accurate depiction of my condition right now. Wow.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Okay.

RegDwigнt

So anyway. Just wanted to mention. Back to drinking again. Lators.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Does that work?

Ok bai!

Matt Эллен

but my point is that I've forgotten. and I need to go to bed :D

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Wot? It's like, 10PM.

Matt Эллен

21:12

I need to be up early in the morning.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

OIC

Well, off with you, then. :D

Sleep tight.

Matt Эллен

it's like a regular work day, but without pay and with fun and free pizza

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

-_-

Matt Эллен

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 thanks! I hope I will :D

CUaes

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

CU

Cerberus

21:13

@RegDwigнt How lovely and meaningful.

@MattЭллен Haha, OK, well, good night!

Yay free pizza!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I don't have quite enough reps on teh music.SE to reject the changes, but I still get a notification each time.

Cerberus

Changes to your own answer/question?

And you get several changes?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus answer.

They keep trying to introduce the same spam.

Cerberus

Real spam?

Or...?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

music.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/5244

If you can't get to that, it says

> 333 Put the cost of a $100 check out approximately $150 and consumers will change away. If you are it accurate that the effortless gladness of a [url=tlrandco.com/replica-louis-vuitton/]louis vuitton shoes replica[/url]

brb work

RegDwigнt

21:22

Also.

Just wanted to disinform Matt specifically that I am sober.

Stupid disinformation won't spread itself. You have to help out. Alas.

On a second thought, disinformation spreads itself just fine if you label it a rumour.

So here's the latest rumour: I am sober. Again.

Hello ninja, bye bread.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Hello gator.

@Rob I hear Reg is sober.

Cerberus

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Oh, dear. That is horrible. At least other won't approve, or will they? I wonder how such an account even gets more than 1 rep.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus the elders have been rejecting them.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Yeah you sound crazy enough to be sober.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Great.

Mitch

21:39

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 That sounds like a reasonable correction/expansion of what you said...if by reasonable you mean random.

Cerberus

I know how you feel, it can be really frustrating when you can't post an answer as a comment. +1 — Cerberus 31 secs ago

@Mitch You're doing it again.

Log reading. Just so you know.

MετάEd

22:05

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Sadly don't have the rep there to terminate it with extreme prejudice.

Mitch

@Cerberus I have a hard time responding to people if I can't read the log.

OK let me try with a blind fold.

laz78fsd;pfsd xzsa

3

Huh. Not too shabby.

Cerberus

Not much worse than your usual stuff, eh?

How do you think I manage?

Mitch

@Cerberus zing!

Johan Larsson

@Mitch you also look at keyboard when you type? Everyone I know hates my typing because I type like a manager.

Mitch

@Cerberus Touch typing?

@Cerberus all answers on ELU should be this.

Rather, they should be what you commented on. "Because that's what the language is"

@JohanLarsson Oooh, that stings. "You tie your shoe laces like a manager." "You perform herniated disc arthroplasty like a manager"

Johan Larsson

22:17

@Mitch sorry man

Mitch

@JohanLarsson Every so often I'll do one of those touch typing online classes. They're so much fun like games and I can get OK at them. But as soon as the game is over and I have to type something real, I look at the keyboard.

@JohanLarsson You respond to ELU chat messages like a manager.

Johan Larsson

I look at the keyboard even when it is so dark I can't see it

KitFox

Evening.

Johan Larsson

@Mitch What is your wpm? I'm about 35.

KitFox

Is it true that Reg is sober?

I should maybe ask that on Skeptics.

Cerberus

22:21

@Mitch Quite so.

Johan Larsson

what is Skeptics about?

Cerberus

It's like Keptics, but with extra ssss.

Johan Larsson

oh

looks like VS2013 is official now

Cerberus

Who?

Virulent Speaker 2013?

Johan Larsson

Visual Studio

Cerberus

22:29

Ah.

Johan Larsson

Wish TV was more like this, in Norwegian so you will probably not get much but it is about math. Math turned into entertainment in a classy way imo.

Cerberus

Great.

Mitch

@JohanLarsson Math turned into entertainment? so you're saying nothing, right?

Johan Larsson

I don't understand

Mitch

@JohanLarsson I can't claim -any- wpm because hardly any of them come out correctly the first time around.

Johan Larsson

22:31

I understand

Mitch

@JohanLarsson the intersection of math and entertainment is the empty set.

I learned that on the TV show #umb3rs

Johan Larsson

@Mitch perhaps it was until now

KitFox

Math is sexy.

Discussing partial differentials often leads to the shedding of clothing.

Johan Larsson

whoa, gotta watch out if that is true

KitFox

Damn it.

commits changes

glares @Johan

Johan Larsson

22:46

u mad?

KitFox

grumbles

Johan Larsson

I'm no expert at all but I commit very often, look at it a little like saving.

Mitch

@KitFox No. No it doesn't. Or rather if by shedding clothing it is done out of extraordinary frustratino leading to psychosis where one tears ones hair out, cuts oneself, runs naked through the snow, bites the head off of chickens kind of frustration.

KitFox

Well, I guess we have very different experiences of math.

Mitch

I guess. hides cuttings and bald spot

KitFox

22:51

So you're saying you've never hung out with a really attractive Romanian physicist who liked to discuss math before she ... you know.

Mitch

I did get in a fight with someone over the homodromy group of an eigensystem in a motivic cohomology. I won by pulling the Szilard-Boseman-Naranja maneuver. He walked away with a nose bleed, which was lucky for him.

KitFox

You totally made that up.

Mitch

@KitFox I know. The Romanian mathematicians are supposed to be the best lovers, they're so nimble, can anticipate your everymove.

@KitFox Prove it, said the mathematician.

KitFox

It reduces to a previous solution.

i.e., Hey, it's me.

Johan Larsson

this is a mathematician with an attitude.

> In August 2006, Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal[1] for "his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow." Perelman declined to accept the award or to appear at the congress, stating: "I'm not interested in money or fame, I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo."

KitFox

22:55

Yeah, yeah. Show me one I haven't had sexual relations with.

Johan Larsson

no way you know him

Cerberus

@JohanLarsson A good attitude. Most people are fame and money whores nowadays.

Johan Larsson

very true

KitFox

I guess there's no way you'd know about my factoid meme.

Mitch

Factoid shmactoid

Johan Larsson

23:06

show the meme?

KitFox

chat.stackexchange.com/…

Mitch

@KitFox Pfft. The correct answer was 'both Szilard and Boseman-Naranja were physicists and, whether by name or by practice they were no mathematicians.'

Johan Larsson

@KitFox :)

KitFox

I've claimed to have sexual relations with a lot of people, is what it boils down to.

Johan Larsson

yeah, managed to get that

KitFox

23:13

OK. Just wanted to make sure.

Even in my bid for moderatrix.

english.stackexchange.com/election/2#post-75664

Man, I make myself laugh sometimes.

Reference is not set to an instance of an object.

Mitch

@KitFox Obviously.

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