English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room - 2014-02-06 (page 1 of 2)

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Jasper Loy

00:00

@Cerberus I have never ever gone on a date, lol.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Why not?

I think we have talked about this.

MετάEd

@JasperLoy Okay so you are saying you have never met someone at a mutually agreeable time and place for food and entertainment?

Cerberus

00:27

You know we mean a romantic date.

MετάEd

@Cerberus If you meet someone of the preferred sex that way, it is romantic.

Cerberus

@MετάEd I'm sure you can point out your own argumentative fallacy there.

MετάEd

@Cerberus I generally don't point out my fallacy during a romantic date.

Except of course, as Miss Manners famously observed, when the affection becomes the entertainment.

Cerberus

Why not? Be vulnerable.

Who is Miss Manners? Emily Post?

MετάEd

00:46

@Cerberus Judith Martin.

"There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted."

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Cerberus

01:02

Does alcohol count as food?

This woman is unknown to me, by the way, wise though she may be.

@GlenTheUdderboat I can't find any new episodes of Basta.

Are you sure there is a new season?

Robusto

01:59

@Cerberus Of course it does. It has carbohydrates that are assimilable by the digestive tract, ergo it is food.

Cerberus

02:55

@Robusto Yay!

@RegDwigнt You might also want to check out the Midweek Sale: Paradox Games! That means Europa Universalis III and IV are on sale, as are Crusader Kings II, Victoria II, and Hearts of Iron III. humblebundle.com/store

I already have EU III (great game) and Crusader Kings II (haven't played it yet), and now I'm buying Victoria II and Warlocks, for € 3,50 each.

Cerberus

03:12

EU III is only € 3,50 as well, by the way. Possibly the best strategy game ever made.

TRiG

04:04

There is a house in Ankh-Morpork,
It's run by Rosie Palm.

Cerberus

04:18

Who is she?

EnglishMaster

04:36

I agree with this video so much

A lot of people are tend to specialise in one kind of English

So if you're physicist and explaining about physics than you can blow me away with your level of English

skullpatrol

05:33

Mathematicians are suppose to have better command of language than physicists, but it never works out that way.

1 hour later…

Glen The Udderboat

06:52

@Cerberus I was thinking of the cool cat/linkse kutminister. But I got the Basta/Rambam names mixed up I see.

1 hour later…

kalina

08:14

morning

Matt Эллен

08:57

morning

RegDwigнt

09:39

@Cerberus I have never so much as heard these names.

2 hours later…

Matt Эллен

11:43

Is there a more technical term for 1/2 than simply one half? — Someone 1 min ago

wails, gnashes teeth

why do you want something that isn't simple?

Jasper Loy

11:59

@MattЭллен Well, there are many nuts on the internet.

Matt Эллен

There are far more people who don't seem to understand that we aren't mind readers

Jasper Loy

Takes a nut to understand a nut, lol.

Cerberus

12:13

@GlenTheUdderboat Ah, yes, that is Rambam.

I didn't like that episode very much.

@RegDwigнt Now you have! Best strategy games every. Historically realistic and deep.

Jasper Loy

What do you call the feeling you get in your legs when you have walked the whole day and now you are finally resting in bed?

tchrist

It’s 11 below.

And no sun in sight.

Angry man:

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Q: "to lay on my stomach"?

He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Is to lay a typo? If I'm not mistaken, one can only lie on one's stomach, not lay on it. For this to be a duplicate question, I would have had to ask, again, what are the differences about the intransitive verb to l...

RegDwigнt

12:36

@Cerberus if they are historically realistic, what is there to play? I can't change history.

Of course you can. Are you actually telling me that if a man with a gun screamed at you, LAY DOWN ON YOUR STOMACH RIGHT NOW!, you would answer, "I can't do that, but I can lie down"? — Susan yesterday

If a man with a gun screamed at me, I would try my best to comply even if he spoke Irish backwards with a heavy Belorussian accent.

Just because he has a gun, doesn't make him a grammar expert.

Matt Эллен

but it might make him right

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Of course you can. That's the fun!

You can start with the dying Byzantine Empire in 1399 and defeat the Turks, if you dare! That's going to be very difficult.

RegDwigнt

Hm.

Cerberus

You can pick any state at any time between 1399 and 1789 in EU III.

RegDwigнt

Everyone defeats the Turks on their first try.

Matt Эллен

12:41

can I start with a thriving byzantine empire and defeat the turks preemptively?

Cerberus

Hah, you will be thoroughly beaten.

It's not an easy game.

RegDwigнt

The real question is: can you prevent Genghis Khan?

Cerberus

You think you're going to declare war on a neighbour? Forget it, Europe will be outraged. You'll need a casus belli.

Genghis Khan? He is long gone?

You can play the successor states, though.

Matt Эллен

I've got a full belly. is that the same?

Cerberus

The Golden Horde, the Timurid Empire...

You can play China and colonise America, if you want...not easy.

You can play the Incas and fend off the Europeans! Almost impossible, but it can be done.

Matt Эллен

12:43

Can you play as America in 1399 and colonise China?

Cerberus

Oops I'm a Greengrocer.

Matt Эллен

interesting

Cerberus

@MattЭллен You can play an Indian tribe and conquer China, yes. Not colonise properly, because China is already populated.

Matt Эллен

I see

Cerberus

Extremely hard btw.

The Indians suck at tech.

And China is relatively powerful.

But you could e.g. rush towards exploration, colonise Indonesia and the Philippines, and build some strength there.

But will you reach Indonesia before the Europeans?

You will need fabulous skills and strategy.

Matt Эллен

12:45

I will out breed the Europeans

Cerberus

Starting with a tribe of Indians?

Good luck...

Matt Эллен

protestants don't do sex

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus oh yeah just why would a Dutchman think of colonising Indonesia. rolls eyes

Much original, very unhistory.

Matt Эллен

can I unite the Native American tribes under one banner?

Cerberus

forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?589723-EU3-Native-Americans

@MattЭллен Yes! ^

RegDwigнt

12:48

@MattЭллен yes, under the banner of hatred.

Cerberus

This guys is apparently starting by uniting the AmericaS under one banner. Good strategy.

@RegDwigнt Hey, there was a reason why we took Indonesia!

But the Caribbean is also quite lucrative in EU3 to colonise.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus yes, to change the course of history to the default course of history!

> You have to have contact with someone in the 'Latin' (Western European) group to be able to upgrade.

So that is how the world works.

Apparently non-tribal governments are only possible in Europe.

Matt Эллен

yup. everyone steals from the eurozone

RegDwigнt

0

Q: I stand alone at the parking

Does this sentence make sense. Is it grammatically correct? and logically too. I stand alone at the parking.

grammar grammatical-structure

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt They should be possible elsewhere, like in Asia.

China is definitely not tribal, nor is Japan.

RegDwigнt

12:52

So why not if you're an Iroquois?

Cerberus

Because your history is very tribal?

RegDwigнt

So you are always stuck with what you have and can never have new things?

Cerberus

You can't go from tribal to a more advanced state in a short period of time without external influence.

It would take longer than the scope of the game, you could say.

RegDwigнt

Well yes, but the operational word there is "short period of time".

Cerberus

But it can be done, if you open up to outside influences.

RegDwigнt

12:54

So wait, I can't play the game for 2k years, say? Or 10k, even?

Cerberus

Of course the game has various ways to steer the world into generally sticking with the course of history.

No, EU III only goes from 1399 to 1789 or maybe 1800.

But you can export your Crusaders game into EU, I think!

And you can export your EU game into Napoleon's Something.

And maybe you can export Napoleon's Thingy into Victoria.

Or, wait, Napoleon's Game-Thing is actually an expansion to EU III.

So you can just go on playing the game into the 19th century without exporting.

But 400 years is already a very long times.

@RegDwigнt You know what's also cool? If you start as, say, Bremen, you can eventually unite Germany and form the German Empire!

I once united the Netherlands as Utrecht, a small, lack-locked province.

Or maybe that was as the province of Holland.

You can unite Italy as well, and Spain, and Britain, I think.

And maybe Russia?

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus ah now I understand.

Hm.

Cerberus

Anyway, it's really cool.

RegDwigнt

I do not like games with intrinsic countdowns.

I like playing for as long as I want.

Cerberus

Maybe you can continue playing, even. But no new cool things will happen, probably.

Like Civ.

No doubt there is a mod to do that, if you can't.

But chances are you will have conquered the world before 1800. Or gotten bored with your current game and wanting to try a completely different approach.

RegDwigнt

13:01

A year is what, one minute? Ten minutes? 365?

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt You can set it to any speed.

RegDwigнt

Oh.

Cerberus

Btw. it's a really sandboxy game.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus so, even one second per second?

Cerberus

You will get some missions, like "reconquer the ancestral land of x" or "get out of your personal union with Hainaut", but you can ignore them (they give small boni).

@MattЭллен If you pause the game, even slower than that!

But, trust me, if you start as Holland as the junior partner in a personal union with Hainaut in 1399 you will really want to get out ASAP!

Matt Эллен

13:08

@Cerberus but could you? or is there a lower limit?

Cerberus

There is a lower limit.

I don't know what it is.

Matt Эллен

hmmm

Cerberus

Now I really want to play Crusader Kings...

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus why would you start as it in the first place, then.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Because it's fun!

If you choose France, you have the easiest game imaginable (though still not easy for a beginner).

Also know as the Big Blue Blob.

Matt Эллен

13:11

in The Bridge, 23 secs ago, by fredley

Why isn't there more terrible content on the site? I want flags to handle!

Cerberus

One of the best things in the game is that you can't easily declare war, and, if you win a war, you can't just conquer a country.

Matt Эллен

a challenge?

Cerberus

You can occupy it, but you will only receive a couple of provinces if they surrender.

And, if your power grows too quickly, everybody else will get angry and maybe even attack you.

Matt Эллен

so you have to keep fighting untill they all surrender?

Cerberus

If the whole world is mad at you?

Matt Эллен

13:13

if you win a war

Cerberus

Technically, it's a peace treaty, and you can have any conditions imaginable.

If you make peace while you have an advantage, like occupying their capital, they will be more likely to cede provinces or money.

Or even become your vassal, yum...

Of course they can refuse any proposal.

Or even refuse to negotiate.

Oh, and you can bribe cardinals to influence the Pope!

And the Holy Roman Emperor!

And you can become the HRE!

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I know... I mean, oh! really! how scandalous

Cerberus

Does @JSBձոգչ know and like Europa Universalis? Best strategy games ever, now on sale in the Humble Bundle Store. EU III is only $5! humblebundle.com/store

@MattЭллен Haha exactly.

Okay, I need to run.

Bye!

Matt Эллен

CU

Cerberus

poof

Mitch

13:55

@Cerberus It's that easy!

Wait...we're not talking about reality, are we?

Matt Эллен

if by reality you mean not in a computer game, then yes, we aren't

skullpatrol

ontologically speaking

Mitch

@MετάEd What did he think of his mother?

@MattЭллен Oh..._sulks_

reconsiders plans

Matt Эллен

consider reconsidering reconsidering

skullpatrol

14:12

recursively speaking :D

JSBձոգչ

@Cerberus haven't played it. looks interesting.

RegDwigнt

Cities in Motion sounds more like a game for me.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt if you want to provide content to be flagged on Arqade, you could ask for a game recommendation

RegDwigнt

14:28

@MattЭллен I think an "identify this game" question will be a huger success with everyone there.

Get more flags faster.

Mitch

@MattЭллен Reconsider which one? The plans themselves, whether to reconsider doing the reconsidering of the plans, or that latter thing? sulks again

Matt Эллен

@Mitch yes

Mitch

Ok...

Hold on...

OK... done.

Matt Эллен

Congrats

@RegDwigнt moaaaar

Mitch

You'll notice the effects on your governments momentarily.

Matt Эллен

14:34

does that mean soon, or not for very long?

Mitch

Essentially, I was holding back. And Matt's advice allowed me to go ahead with my plans.

Matt Эллен

glad I could help

Mitch

@MattЭллен Ha ha, you English person. That'll be the first thing to go.

@MattЭллен de nada.

Wait... that's what you 're saying. I get it now.

Matt Эллен

de rien

Mitch

@MattЭллен It means 'presently'

Matt Эллен

14:36

I see

Mitch

@MattЭллен no worries.

Matt Эллен

Why didn't you just say so in the first place?!

Mitch

Also, cover your eyes and duck a little. You know, to protect yourself from the shards of glass from the windows as the commandos, who are waiting for my signal on your building's roof, to smash through all the windows.

Matt Эллен

ha! more fool you. my building doesn't have a roof

Mitch

I thought you would have figured it by then.

@MattЭллен Aha! that's how good my commandos are!

Matt Эллен

14:39

It did get mysteriously dryer in here

Mitch

If you're missing windows though, that will definitely cause some difficulties.

Matt Эллен

we run on windows 7

Mitch

They really look forward to the smashing windows things. Do you have anything they could smash? It'll take a bit of the edge of when they do their on -the-spot interrogation.

Matt Эллен

I think there are flowerpots

Mitch

Nice. That'll do. Hold on... they're telling me that that's out, because it'll hurt the flowers.

Can you pull the flowers out first?

Matt Эллен

14:42

I'll have to call in the gadeners

Mitch

Oh. Um. Wow. Well played. The commandoeses only weakness. whisper whisper whisper

Operation all called off. Elevenses?

Matt Эллен

We can break for tea :)

KitFox

drinks tea

Matt Эллен

trys to stay awake

RegDwigнt

stays awake to try

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Q: What are 7 or 8 words to clearly indicate increasing levels of experience?

For a game that is being designed, the troop units are given a title for the number of battles they have faced, as a rough indication of their combat experience. I am looking for 7 (possibly 8) titles to award at each step that clearly as possible gives an idea of how experienced a troop is in re...

Opinion-based all the way.

Matt Эллен

14:55

1.utterly completely hopeless noob 2. utterly hopeless noob 3. completely hopless noob 4. very hopless noob 5. hopeless noob 6. almost hopeless noob 7. noob

RegDwigнt

1. Noooooooob, 2. Nooooooob, 3. Noooooob, 4. Nooooob, 5. Noooob, 6. Nooob, 7. Noob.

JSBձոգչ

lately it takes OVER 9000 minutes to change a tag on something

RegDwigнt

Wow, that is OVER 9000 minutes!

Matt Эллен

15:12

Monsieur l'hippo

how does one say "I was dead at the time" in French?

KitFox

Ich spreche Français meilleur que lui.

Matt Эллен

the mars bar machine ate half my money!

I put in £1.20 and expect 60p change, but got 10p :(

I want two bars. I am dissappoint

KitFox

shakes fist at vending machine across the pond

Did you try kicking it?

Matt Эллен

I was tempted, but I didn't think it would help

KitFox

If you were here, I would share my Hershey bar stash with you.

Matt Эллен

15:25

awwww, thanks :)

RegDwigнt

15:57

@MattЭллен j'etais mort à l'époque?

Matt Эллен

cool, thanks

RegDwigнt

Morte if you're a woman.

KitFox

in EL&U Blog, 37 secs ago, by KitFox

I got up to make coffee and forgot what I was doing.

I am very sleepy.

RegDwigнt

You were getting up.

Matt Эллен

I forget what I'm doing all the time.

RegDwigнt

15:59

I always remember that I'm doing nothing.

Matt Эллен

then I remember and I'm disappointed. It could have been anything, but it's this.

RegDwigнt

See. Doing nothing wins.

KitFox

Du kannst Deutsch lernen. Das ist fun und profitig.

JSBձոգչ

@KitFox Fier profundlich

Matt Эллен

It's all Greek to me

KitFox

16:05

Nein, fomf profundlich.

RegDwigнt

Ihr seid doch alle schwul.

There, learn German now.

Matt Эллен

Learns Greek

nope, I still don't get it

RegDwigнt

Charisteos su agapo lari-fari Charybdis.

There, learn Greek now.

KitFox

Great, now I have Wrapped Around Your Finger stuck in my head.

Matt Эллен

a finger stuck in your head?!

RegDwigнt

16:12

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A: Can I use the term 'America' to signify just the United States?

In Canada the word America means specifically the USA. In Germany (if not all of Europe), when one says America, they are referring to North (or sometimes North and South) America. Which to me as a Canadian living in Germany, is extremely exasperating.

That is so not true.

Of course I still believe him he'd feel that way as a Canadian.

Perception bias.

KitFox

So I'm looking up stretches for the upper back and holy crap, this is HARD CORE!!!. I feel like a juice monkey just looking at the page.

RegDwigнt

16:28

Totally NSFW.

100% monkey-back guarantee!

tchrist

@JSBձոգչ Everyone fears liches.

user image

RegDwigнt

Reichlich erfreulich!

(Very pleasing, for our non-native Lich speakers.)

tchrist

Rightly frightful.

RegDwigнt

Rightly in German would mean judicially.

Rechtlich fürcherlich.

Legally frightful.

tchrist

> OE. líc str. neut. = OFris. lîk, OS. líc (LG. liche, like, Dutch lijk), OHG. líh neut. and fem. (MHG. lîch fem., also weak lîche, G. leiche dead body), ONor. lík (Sw. lik, Da. lig), Goth. leik:-OTeut. *lîkom neut. Comparison with the cognate words (see liche, like a., like v.) suggests that the original sense was prob. ‘form, shape’. The OE. líc became by normal development lich(e in the south and like in the north; hence the diversity of forms above. Cf. ditch, dike.

@RegDwigнt Right as reign.

RegDwigнt

16:38

Legally in English, in turn, works cuz it means anything from legally to not legally.

tchrist

Or is that right as rain?

RegDwigнt

@tchrist that's a different one.

tchrist

Or maybe right as rein?

Or even right as reine?

So many rains to choose from!

Matt Эллен

sprite as sprain

tchrist

> lich [lɪtʃ]. Obs. exc. arch. and in Comb. Forms: ɑ. 1-2 líc, 4-5 liche, lyche, 6 lytche, 7, 9 litch, 3-7, 9 lich, lych; in comb. 5 lege-, 6-9 leech-, 9 leach- (see also lich-gate, lich-owl). Pl. 1 líc, 3, 5 liches. β. 2-5 lik(e, (4 lijk), 7, 9 like, lyke. Pl. 9 likes.

I wonder whether the 3rd edition has recognizes its resurgence?

Thanks to Gygax.

RegDwigнt

16:40

Regieren (Latin, regina), regnen (Germanic, rain), recht (Germanic, right), richten (Germanic, related to the last one, cf. Old English rihtian).

tchrist

Or WotC.

@RegDwigнt Thanks.

RegDwigнt

NP

=P

tchrist

quants

RegDwigнt

sine quants non

tchrist

lich-bell, a hand-bell rung before a corpse
lich-fowl = lich-owl
lich-holm, a shrub of some kind
lich-house cf. Du. lijkenhuis, a dead-house, a mortuary
lich-lay, a rate levied to provide a church-yard (cf. lay sb.⁷ sense 4.)
lich-path = lich-way
lich-rest, a place for a corpse to rest, a burial-place
lich-song, ? singing at a lyke-wake
lich-stone, a stone to place the coffin on at the lich-gate
lich-wal, -wale, a plant (see quots.)
lich-way, a path along which a corpse has been carried to burial (this in some districts being supposed to establish a right of way)

RegDwigнt

16:43

Lich-fowl = lich-owl?

I take offense.

tchrist

@Cerb: I would not’ve realized that a Dutch lijkenhuis means that!

@RegDwigнt That surprised me, too.

RegDwigнt

What's not to lijk about mortuaries?

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Owls frequently take the fence, if not higher, to survey their prey.

RegDwigнt

But it's another lijk entirely, of course.

Cf. German Leiche.

Leichenhaus.

!!wiki Leichenhaus

KitFox

KitSox?

RegDwigнt

16:45

So Brickset is up, but now our bot is down.

KitFox

Not again.

Matt Эллен

!!hello

KitFox

!!refresh

I'll have to fix her when I get home.

tchrist

Aber wo ist unser Füchsin heute?

KitFox

General Tso's tofu today.

Matt Эллен

16:46

didn't he want it?

KitFox

I guess not.

tchrist

Matt!

Matt Эллен

Me?

RegDwigнt

So lich and Leiche are actually related, interesting.

tchrist

Thou.

KitFox

16:47

Better watch out, though. Shuo Caocao, Caocao lai.

RegDwigнt

That opens up so many possibilities.

So many possibilities.

tchrist

Do you have an online sub/access to the OED3 handy right now?

Matt Эллен

@tchrist yes

RegDwigнt

@KitFox Ciao-Kakao, as they say in German.

KitFox

spittake

tchrist

16:48

Could you please check to see whether they’ve updated the entry for lich since OED2 for me? Thanks.

KitFox

But that's funny. Germans aren't funny.

tchrist

@KitFox Isn’t that a Japanese culinary experiment?

RegDwigнt

@KitFox Well, I can assure you it is not funny in German.

KitFox

No.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist they have. what the additions are isn't specified

> lich, n.
OED First Edition (1902)
OED Second Edition (1989)
OED Online version 2000
OED Online version December 2013
Revision of the OED is a long-term project. Entries which have not been fully updated since the first edition (1884-1928) may incorporate:
• corrections and revisions to definitions, pronunciation,
etymology, forms, date or style of citation, or quotation text
• new senses or phrases which have been added in
◦ the Supplements to the OED (1933, 1972-86)
◦ the OED Additions Series (1993, 1997)

RegDwigнt

16:49

facebook.com/Ciao.Kakao.Ciao.Kakao

tchrist

Did they strike the archaic bit?

Or have cites more recent than 89?

KitFox

Ow, hot, ow, hot, ow, hot.

tchrist

And thank you!!

RegDwigнt

Ciao Kakao is even on Facebook. And I am not.

Matt Эллен

still archaic/obsolete

RegDwigнt

16:50

The word "ciao" (; ) is an informal Italian verbal salutation or greeting, meaning either "hello", "", "", or "". Originally from the Venetian language, it was adopted into the Italian language and eventually entered the vocabulary of English and of many other languages around the world. The word is mostly used as "goodbye" or "bye" in English, but in modern Italian and in other languages it may mean "hello" or "goodbye", similar to the word shalom in Hebrew, salaam in Arabic, namaste in Hindi, annyeong in Korean, or aloha in Hawaiian. The Vietnamese word chào ("hello" or "goodbye"), ...

> Russian: чао, chao; ("goodbye"); also jokingly - чао-какао, chao-kakao (from чай — "tea" and какао — "cocoa")

Wut.

tchrist

> n fantasy fiction, a lich (/ˈlɪtʃ/;[1] sometimes spelled liche, cognate to Dutch lijk and German Leiche, both meaning "corpse") is a type of undead creature. Often such a creature is the result of a transformation, as a powerful magician or king striving for eternal life uses spells or rituals to bind his intellect to his animated corpse and thereby achieve a form of immortality.

> Liches are depicted as being clearly cadaverous, bodies desiccated or completely skeletal. Liches are often depicted as holding power over hordes of lesser undead creatures, using them as soldiers and servants.

@RegDwigнt Chow means grub.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist I don't see anything earlier than 1898

tchrist

@MattЭллен no no, later than 1989

RegDwigнt

@tchrist and Grab is German for grave.

tchrist

It’s a D&D thing.

RegDwigнt

16:51

So we are back to liches again.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist sure, but it's not online

tchrist

No, no, it’s ghouls who eat the dead, not liches.

RegDwigнt

But the liches are the dead.

KitFox

Oh that reminds me, I need to write a new quest before next weekend.

tchrist

Chowtime for a ghoul is raiding the lichyard.

RegDwigнt

16:51

Leichen. Lijken.

KitFox

@tchrist Do you mind? I am eating here.

RegDwigнt

So does the Facebook Like button in Dutch actually say "dead body"?

tchrist

Not just totendüde?

Matt Эллен

@tchrist sorry, I mean I don't see anything later than 1898

I got befores and afters mixed up

RegDwigнt

"I have 146 dead bodies on Facebook." — "I have 158!"

tchrist

16:53

@KitFox (;~}·

> Various works of fantasy fiction, such as Clark Ashton Smith's "Empire of the Necromancers", had used lich as a general term for any corpse, animated or inanimate, before the term's specific use in fantasy rôle-playing games. The more recent use of the term lich for a specific type of undead creature originates from the 1976 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game booklet Eldritch Wizardry, written by Gary Gygax and Brian Blume.

RegDwigнt

user image

tchrist

A copy of which I still own from when I purchased it upon its first issuance.

KitFox

Blah blah, join the club.

RegDwigнt

Who is Blah blah and why does he get an invitation I don't?

KitFox

Du bist Clubmember already.

RegDwigнt

16:55

Oh but I got to run.

Lators.

KitFox

@RegDwigнt Ciao-Kakao.

Matt Эллен

me too!

tchrist

@KitFox Might I be so intrusive as to suggest a spoon full of sugar?

Matt Эллен

byeee

KitFox

@MattЭллен Bai!

@tchrist No.

Hot, burning.

Unhappy.

tchrist

16:56

I see that.

Hence the sugar.

KitFox

I just hope it's killing off the virus.

Sugar will only feed it.

tchrist

Cold creamy sugar and hot salty rings: these are a few of my favorite things.

KitFox

omg, you are my neighbor.

He was singing almost exactly that this morning.

tchrist

pitches a nice fresh bismark over the property line

KitFox

hides from German overlords

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