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00:13
Hmm, you left out sacerdotal.
@Cerberus: What does this ^ remind you of?
@Robusto I think not.
macbook# perl -e '$_ = shift; printf "%s %s the pattern.\n", $_, /^s.*r.*s.*l.*y$/ ? "matches" : "fails to match"', sacerdotal
sacerdotal fails to match the pattern.
Oh, I didn't know there was a pattern.
macbook# perl -e 'for (@ARGV) { printf "%s %s the pattern.\n", $_, /^s.*r.*s.*l.*y$/ ? "matches" : "fails to match" }' sacerdotal sarcastically serendipitously subtly seriously 'sports utility' 'sport utility' "sheep's parsley"
sacerdotal fails to match the pattern.
sarcastically matches the pattern.
serendipitously matches the pattern.
subtly fails to match the pattern.
seriously matches the pattern.
sports utility matches the pattern.
sport utility fails to match the pattern.
sheep's parsley matches the pattern.
Obviously, sheep’s parsley was the right answer.
I need to turn -trix nouns into adverbs.
Like from an executrix would be exuctricially, or something.
matrix, matrices, matrical, matrically
Maybe.
Yes, apparently that’s how it works. Ok.
Whence. . . .
I dunno, using words androjocular-emasculatrically seems pretty close to what you want. — tchrist 34 secs ago
00:33
@Robusto Bitcoins?
That's a bingo.
55
Q: A proposal for tag hierarchy on SO

DVKExecutive summary Introduction of sparse hierarchy (partial inheritance relation) into the set of tags on SO, in order to allow more efficient question organization/filtering/tagging (especially via "Interesting"/"Ignored" mechanism). The proposal is designed to achieve its goals while adhering...

@Robusto What about them?
If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do. . . .
@Cerberus Pretty volatile, yeah?
00:35
Kind of.
But that's not such a huge dip...
Less volatile than at other points in time, at least.
> Stoors.
The name of a third kind of hobbit of heavier build. This is early English
stor
, stoor
'large,
strong', now obsolete. Since it is thus supposed to be a special hobbit word not current in the
Common Speech, it need not be translated, and may be represented by a more or less 'phonetic'
spelling according to the use of letters in the la
nguage of translation; but an archaic or dialectal word
of this sense would also be acceptable.
@tchrist but if you've got a nickel, wontcha lay your money down
@tchrist Tolkien would have been happy with the Dutch translation, which is no doubt Stoer.
It sounds the same, and it means "strong, brave, macho".
@Cerberus I thought he had already read the first Dutch and Swedish translations when he wrote that.
He doesn't mention the Dutch, whatever it is...
I wonder whether later editions addressed his beeves.
00:37
Let's hope so.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Credence Carols.
I should think yes, if possible.
I’ve none, so cannot check.
@Robusto I wouldn't hold out much hope for the Creedence.
Hahaha. No, indeed not.
00:38
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Why, the Cree dance delightfully!
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 So did you try it out yet?
I’m thinking of going Gothic.
@Robusto A little. I introduced her to wiffy and logged in. She knew right away that I had already purchased A Ring of Truth.
@tchrist Gothic Sans?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Ah, cool.
Also I named it Corndle.
00:42
Makes sense.
If you had a dog, it would be a corndog.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Nope, Gothic as in 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 𐌸𐌿 𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼.
little boxes, in the chat room / little boxes made of unicode
‭ 𐌰  10330      GOTHIC LETTER AHSA
‭ 𐌱  10331      GOTHIC LETTER BAIRKAN
‭ 𐌲  10332      GOTHIC LETTER GIBA
‭ 𐌳  10333      GOTHIC LETTER DAGS
‭ 𐌴  10334      GOTHIC LETTER AIHVUS
‭ 𐌵  10335      GOTHIC LETTER QAIRTHRA
‭ 𐌶  10336      GOTHIC LETTER IUJA
‭ 𐌷  10337      GOTHIC LETTER HAGL
‭ 𐌸  10338      GOTHIC LETTER THIUTH
‭ 𐌹  10339      GOTHIC LETTER EIS
‭ 𐌺  1033A      GOTHIC LETTER KUSMA
‭ 𐌻  1033B      GOTHIC LETTER LAGUS
‭ 𐌼  1033C      GOTHIC LETTER MANNA
‭ 𐌽  1033D      GOTHIC LETTER NAUTHS
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Not a bug.
That’s why I wanna go Goth.
Speaking of, my mother bought black nail polish the other day.
00:46
The better for parsing Unicode with?
BTW, how was the fight?
@Robusto No, because I want to become invisible to Luddites.
Oh fine, strike the bile from that.
@Robusto There were several. Most ended without going the distance, as they say.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yes, I got the reference.
00:48
@Robusto the nail varnish?
@Robusto that was for @tch.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Of course.
@Robusto No. I think she's going Goth.
@tchrist always builds black boxes in chat, so black nail polish would be the color to use on them.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 We've had soccer moms and grizzly moms . . . why not Goth moms?
Sarah Palin's phrase, IIRC.
Just don't shoot the messenger.
Meaning me.
Matthew 11:2 has “iþ Iohannes gahausjands in karkarai waurstwa Xristaus, insandjands bi siponjam seinaim qaþ du imma”, with Xristaus in the genitive singular of Xristus.
> Joannes autem cum audisset in vinculis opera Christi, mittens duos de discipulis suis
> Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
So they have an X glyph.
Well, a chi glyph.
‭ 𐍇  10347      GOTHIC LETTER IGGWS
@tchrist 大位置
Hm should I grab the T or the TH?
I think THorn. Harder to transliterate.
Grab the T and the A.
00:57
Good idea.
s/tchrist/𐌸𐍇𐍂𐌹𐍃𐍄/g
I like that.
So mote it be.
Idiots.
Typical C#/Windows idiocy.
They don’t grok any code point over 0xFFFF.
Bastards.
The mote in tchrist's eye.
macbook# perl -Mutf8 -le 'print "𐌸𐍇𐍂𐌹𐍃𐍄" =~ /^\w+$/ ? 1 : 0'
1
macbook# perl -Mutf8 -le 'print "𐌸𐍇𐍂𐌹𐍃𐍄" =~ /^\pL+$/ ? 1 : 0'
1
Idiots.
Have I mentioned that they are idiots yet?
01:05
@tchrist Nice! But no dice?
Those are all letters.
They are lying.
01:23
0
Q: Can’t change username to an all-alphabetic word

tchristSummary: The alphabetic check is erroneously checking UTF-16 code units not Unicode code points! I attempted to change my username to the Gothic version, and I received the rather rudely rubicund retort of: Now, the string in question was 𐌸𐍇𐍂𐌹𐍃𐍄, which as you can plainly see, is entirel...

Classic Java/C#/Microsoft error.
No excuse for it, really.
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A: Is "woman" really interchangable with "female" as an adjective?

UghThis is all part of the bs feminist movement. All the newspapers are doing also. It sounds uneducated. Most of the papers in the US are now edited by foreigners or complete morons that have been educated in the lovely liberal, aka failing, school system.

That’s offensive.
Really offensive.
Ja.
Flagged. Useless.
02:26
Hello, chat room. Nice to see ya. It's been a long time; you're just as lovely as you used to be.
paws around for robot, gets own youtube video
> Mathom.
Leave unchanged; it is not Common Speech, but a word pecul
iar to hobbits (compare
Smials,
and see III 414). The meaning is defined in I 14 as 'anything that Hobbits had no immediate
use for, but were unwilling to throw away'. It represents Old English
máðm
'precious thing, treasure'.
So mathom does have an Old English origin.
@Cerberus We always knew that.
02:43
Depending on your "we".
Huh, an hour and my flag hasn't been taken care of. Vote Mahnax for moderator.
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chuckles
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 blushes on behalf of the chat room
 
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@HackToHell :3
05:33
@skullpatrol :3
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A: Term or phrase (bygone era) where doodles were part and parcel to writing

tchristAnother word sometimes used for versals is lettrine /lɛˈtriːn/, taken from the French and meaning per the OED: An initial letter, often decorated, and larger than the size of the text it accompanies. In his Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringhurst glosses lettrine as: Lettrine  ...

 
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begging help to correct my english
0
Q: Software in place of Hardware

jackopenI am listing the softwares/mobile app/technology which has replaced actual hardware requirement. Some of the things which i can figure out are as under. 1) Calculator (in fact computer has been built for the same) 2) Virutalization of Computers. (I am not sure about this term) But i guess all o...

for this post
if any mistake
 
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user116900
10:41
The astrologer spam is back, lol.
11:18
> I confused, when one of my friends was writing his name on a lead from vapor of mouth.
I confused too.
 
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user116900
12:57
Morning @KitFox!
13:12
Hi.
13:43
@Mahnax Two of my flags are over two days old.
we have energy efficient air con in this office. it breaks down on hot days.
So it uses no energy. Presumably that fulfils the objective of reducing the bills.
I assume so. Except now there seems to be a bunch of desk fans going
@Robusto It makes total sense. It happens to me all the time. Just don't wipe in after, no bus clean.
@MattЭллен Isn't it a bit early in the summer for all that? wait until august.
August will be cold and wet, as usual. Summer's arrived now. Enjoy it while it lasts.
13:54
Stupid weather. Is there nothing to look forward to? only mildly annoying weather?
Actually, it will be cold and wet by next weekend, because that's a Bank Holiday weekend.
@AndrewLeach Nice. cancels plans
plans to remember to stop making plans. cut out the middle man and all that
@AndrewLeach Which two? I will get right on them.
@AndrewLeach Well, mine's been taken care of now.
@KitFox Flagging user76426 to blat (now done, but flag remains); and user75266. And there are several others which are more recent.
user116900
14:08
I actually prefer the default view when one logs in to show the newest questions first.
user116900
How many of you agree with me?
@Robusto heh.
Yer purty when ye blush.
@JasperLoy Newest by asking? Or newest by activity?
user116900
@AndrewLeach Newest by asking.
@AndrewLeach I got about ten of them. I'll keep my eyes open.
user116900
14:10
Currently the default is newest by activity.
@KitFox Thanks. user76594 still exists, it seems. Might as well make it as difficult as possible to post by removing miscreant accounts.
user116900
Oh well, these miscreants probably have a hundred email addresses to post, lol.
@JasperLoy I prefer newest by activity.
@AndrewLeach I must have missed that one.
I'll get it now.
user116900
That was my first lol for the day, lol.
14:13
12
Q: More concise word or phrase for "people who have been taken advantage of"

Sam WashburnI’m hoping for a single descriptive word for “people who have been taken advantage of”, but a shorter phrase would be ok. These are people who now have a lack of trust and are in need of loyalty in their relationships.

I thought we were getting more aggressive at closing swrs.
@Mitch we take what we can get on the island
user116900
I have gotten 16 flags from the astrology spammer.
I must have a similar number
user116900
At this rate, I can get the deputy badge soon, lol.
user116900
I wonder which other sites he posts at.
user116900
14:20
It is strange that @OliverSalzburg and @HackToHell have similar avatars, lol.
@JasperLoy 55 here.
@MattЭллен You should be more proactive.
@Mitch theft is wrong
user116900
@MattЭллен Not always. I believe one has the right to steal when one is desperate.
steals @JasperLoy's summer weather for winter in the UK
user116900
14:36
Weather and food are the least important factors in considering which country to live in, as far as I am concerned.
user116900
I am too embarrassed to mention the two most important factors to me, lol. Perhaps I will say in my email...
Access to free and clean trebuchets is far more important
user116900
Why does this have so many upvotes? english.stackexchange.com/questions/171454/…
because a lot of users up voted it
@MattЭллен Trebuchet may be free, but should it really be used?
14:40
@AndrewLeach I think unused trebuchets are creating a drain on the econmy. we should make them accessible to the general public and encourage community maintenance
If I can't fling a goat over a church on a Saturday afternoon, then I don't know what democracy is for.
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user116900
I need to look up trebuchet, I have a small vocab, lol.
user116900
It's nice to get 2 points for an edit.

 Root Access

For all you Super Users out there. You have backups, right?
@MattЭллен Why stop at goats?
We all have smileys :D
14:43
Democracy should mean that deselected MPs get to have a go too.
user116900
I am not concerned about democracy.
user116900
I am more concerned about whether politicians can think or cannot think.
user116900
Most of them seem quite stupid to me.
They think they can think.
I wonder if that means that they can think...
user116900
14:44
Anyway, once I get well, I will try my best to leave this country.
I think therefore I can?
@MattЭллен Recipe for humiliation.
I'm already fairly humile
user116900
In fact, I don't even feel safe talking in this chat. Who knows what they can use against me?
user116900
I cannot even buy chewing gum here, ridiculous.
14:46
That's because chat rooms don't sell it.
user116900
Yes. Nowadays I don't want to display my location in my profile, lol.
More importantly, how will you convince them that you're not a dog?
@JasperLoy I'm sure the NSA already know that.
user116900
@mahnax should run for mod if there are elections this year.
15:11
@JasperLoy No, I'm too inactive here. All I do is chat.
Of course, were I a mod, I'd do mod things diligently. But I don't ask or answer questions anymore, and I don't know how much time I'd have in the future for mod duties.
16:01
@MattЭллен suspects @Cerberus is not a real dog
@Robusto How dare you!
16:44
@Cerberus Hey, the sources I consulted list you as a "mythological creature"—ergo not a real dog.
Myths are real.
Reality is a myth
also hard to spell
@MattЭллен You're bragging
@JasperLoy authorities notified
intervention team dispatched
@JasperLoy Your tone suggests future intention.
@MattЭллен You pay for your weather? Ours is subsidized by advertising.
@JasperLoy Travel Advertisement for Russia
I can see that Mitch is catching up on the transcript.
17:10
@KitFox I'm as transparent as an atom-thick sheet of invisibulum. Separating a vacuum.
That's pretty transparent.
@MattЭллен These unused trebuchets are the basis of the economy. If they were all brought out at once... hell YEAH!
:15605032 (removed also)
What? That's horrendous.
I figured it was too petty a grievance to keep around.
If by hoorrendous you mean... HELL YEAH!
17:13
debates abusing power
abuse it! abuse it!
This is the English chat, after all.
sneezes
Oops.
blinks
@KitFox bless you
Oh, looks like Mitch fixed it. Nice!
17:14
@Mitch Thx
@Mahnax Argh...my legacy... disappeared like a political prisoner!
@KitFox Now that you're a saint, I have a miracle to ask of you.
I listen.
Oh. You mean to ask one now? I thought I'd save it up for later when I really need it.
@Mitch Welcome to Guantanamo McDonald's. May I take your order?
Do you have any bottled water?
17:16
@Mahnax These french fries taste a little ... funny.
Gotta run, folks. Exam soon. Take care!
@MattЭллен No, only canned water. Sorry!
@Mahnax break a leg. when in doubt, choose 'c'. Also, Moby Dick is the last great American novel (that's for your essay)
@MattЭллен I have watered bottle...
17:34
Hi, can someone please tell me if this is a correct usage of "on line": How to get customer care executive on line after calling railway enquiry number 139?
Are you talking about getting someone on the phone?
I don't understand the meaning you are trying to convey.
@MattЭллен Live or dead (before the launch)?
@KitFox yes, that's what I meant
@its_me Is it supposed to be a complete sentence, or a title?
I have a faint memory of hearing something like that before. Isn't that common/correct usage?
@KitFox Actually a title. Turned it into a question for clarity's sake
17:42
You want "on the line", not "on line".
Ah, ok
@KitFox Otherwise, is the usage wrong?
How to get a customer care executive on the line after calling railway enquiry number 139.
user116900
Just watched "Henry's crime" starring Keanu Reeves, lol.
An executive though? That's pretty high up. I should think you meant customer care representative or agent.
And the usage is fine.
@KitFox That's what I hear when I dial the number
17:44
Huh. OK then.
:) Probably wrong usage of the word. It's India.
It's possible that everyone has an elevated title to make the customers feel special.
right
I've worked places where everyone was "manager" or "director".
So the customer would feel they were talking to someone important.
Ah, hmm... makes sense
user116900
17:50
Hey I found someone on math who looks like Matt Damon, let me show you.
Yeah, he does.
A young version. He probably cultivates it.
Name sounds Scandinavian...
user116900
I am not gay but I find him rather attractive, lol.
user116900
In other news, Linux Mint will be releasing only LTSes from now except for LMDE. So we will get one release only every two years.
user116900
17:58
I had 3 cups of coffee today to prevent myself from taking naps.
Gay or bi.
user116900
Hehe.
@Mitch live. I'm not some kind of monster
user116900
@MattЭллен You are a green monster, lol.
posted on May 19, 2014 by sgdi

I was having so much fun My limerick plan came undone So now here are two New lim’ricks for you I’m counting this as the first one

18:12
@KitFox I don't quite understand
You were looking for bottled water, but I have only watered bottle.
oh. oh well. I was trying to set up for some sort of "no, we only have it straight off the board" joke
but I was being quite oblique
@MattЭллен You mean you're not like the kind of monster on the other side of the church who will catch the live goat in its mouth?
@MattЭллен I had to think about that a long time to try to figure out what it must mean.
@KitFox - Kit, if it's an ok time, I'd like to ask about a problem in private.
18:24
Sure. Just a minute.
@JasperLoy I doubt there’s even a word for that, being attracted to a mathematician. Must be quite a rare occurrence.
@Mitch yes
@KitFox this is why I'm not a comedian
user116900
I am trying to keep my rep at a multiple of 5. The +2 from each edit helps me do this, lol.
@JanusBahsJacquet !!rimshot
@Mitch Of him?!
Well that escalated quickly!
18:29
@JasperLoy I'm trying to keep your rep at a multiple of six and a half. Thanks to real numbers, it's very easy.
user116900
@MattЭллен Yeah, real numbers are real while complex numbers are complex, lol.
that's real complex
@JasperLoy Paradoxically, I’m certain real numbers are complex, but I have no idea if complex numbers are real.
Is deleting an answer and then reanswering with an identical answer just to get rid of comments to the answer considered kosher?
user116900
@JanusBahsJacquet It's weird but it's OK.
Fairly annoying thing to do, though. It’s basically trying to cheat the system—get rid of the comments criticising your answer (as well as the downvotes associated), and then just start afresh.
18:36
sounds like gaming the system
I would take a dim view of it.
If you want the comments gone, flag them and let me look.
That was exactly my thoughts.
It's just I get so many "not constructive" flags on things that say "You haven't provided any evidence. Please include some links." and stuff like that.
user116900
@JanusBahsJacquet Actually, you can just ignore the comments, like I usually do, lol.
Those are exactly constructive.
18:39
I’m referring to this answer by Josh61. I had commented on a previous answer (identical, but without the link to the page he was quoting, and as now with no real indication that he’s quoting someone, rather than rephrasing), and someone else had commented something that I think was critical, too—and then all of a sudden, the answer just disappeared and a new, identical one appeared in its stead.
Well, ftfy.
Oh, I see now that Frank’s comment wasn’t critical after all. But thanks—this feels more like a truthful course of events. :-)
Greetings!
If it isn't our two-faced friend.
I win.
Goedenavond, o fake dog!
Hey!
I'm realer than you, but thanks for the Dutch.
18:45
@JanusBahsJacquet I made the edits you obliquely suggested as well and removed your comment so it wouldn't be confusing.
@KitFox Thankies! :-)
Bitte.
@Cerberus Both mythological, but I’m from a more recent mythology, and humanoid (or at least anthropomorphic)—thus, I am realer.
Pah.
You are wholly divine, are you not?
I am at least partly animal.
That I am. And fabulous.
18:47
Rawr!
If you say so.
g2g bai!
Although talking animals are found more often in fables than...the likes of you.
@KitFox Ooh, incidentally, I’ve been meaning to ask. Can mods see whether a flag is on an answer or a comment, and if so, which comment? I flagged a comment as “not constructive” once, but it was declined (though it was entirely unconstructive)—but when I click that flag, it takes me to the answer (which wasn’t unconstructive), rather than the comment I flagged.
Damn, typing too slow.
But … did Cerberus ever talk?
I thought he just bit and ate people.
Hmm possibly...
I don't remember.
It was a while ago, after all.
18:51
Those people that came down here, it was so long ago.
Exactly!
I normally don't have anyone to talk to here.
So I tap this wire to go online. But typing is not speaking, or is it?
Except your other heads. You can still have a good three-way conversation without ever leaving your own … body.
Only if you’re also saying the words out loud as you’re typing.
@JanusBahsJacquet That would be weird!
I'm not schizophrenic!
Merely polycephalous.
Presumably you are only of the only being that would be a literal schizophrenic, though.
Or at least polyphrenic, if not schizo. That sort of depends on the finer details of cerbero-cerebral anatomy, I guess.
user116900
19:03
I read the wikipedia entry but I still don't understand what autism is.
@JasperLoy Just watch Rain Man.
user116900
19:15
@JanusBahsJacquet My favourite movies are Good Will Hunting and A Beautiful Mind.
No one would have guessed.
@JanusBahsJacquet Haha, exactly.
I don't believe the two words are related, though.
@Robusto I am as shocked as you are. I need booze.
user116900
No booze here, I just had some water, lol.
user116900
@JohanLarsson Better no jobs than nose job, lol.
Hola todos!
Que pasa?
Buenas dias!
user116900
Granada
19:49
Sevilla?
user116900
I am pretending to know foreign tongues, lol.
I am actually eating a beef tongue sandwich.
posted on May 19, 2014 by sgdi

The water was so very wet As wet as some water could get Much wetter by far Than a big pool of tar Wetter than anything yet

@Mitch Estoy bien... pues, estoy un poco cansada. ¿Y tu?
20:09
no esta mal. Siempre podría empeorar. Which is not to say things aren't looking up.
I just saw 'Amores Perros' the other day. And, not knowing any Spanish, all I did was pick up a lot of Mexican profanity.
20:27
I am trying out marinating large open cup mushrooms in a mixture of dark soy sauce and mango chilli chutney. I will report on the results tomorrow. I hope it's not horrible
oh, I will be grilling them
21:12
@MattЭллен Ah.. a lie detector test... yes, the chutney adds a little sting when they lie, those damn dirty mushrooms.
And the soy sauce? Salt in the wound?
 
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@JanusBahsJacquet Yes.
If you give me a link to the answer, I can give you more information.
@MattЭллен You can’t say that.

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