English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Marthaª

7:00 PM

@RegDwigнt Thwack. Just saying.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt It's worked quite well in France, actually. Paris, even.

Cerberus

@tchrist It's querulant.

Johan Larsson

does it make sense to say that test coverage is spotty?

Jez

@RegDwigнt actually en Paris we generally had them wanting to speak English to us, our French being so bad they presumably couldn't be bothered to speak with us in it

hey @JohanLarsson

tchrist

@Cerberus I said what I meant and I meant what I said.

Jez

7:00 PM

you speak Portugese

RegDwigнt

@Robusto why oh why did you go on to kill all the people who spoke English?

Robusto

The French don't mind speaking English once they see how poor my French is. But what they will not tolerate is any assumption that they should automatically speak English.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt It always works for me. I begin in French, they reply in English. They're happy I tried, and we're both happy I'm not speaking French.

Mitch

@JohanLarsson So you're accusing Paris of being spotty?

Johan Larsson

6 hours ago, by Johan Larsson

@Jez poco

Jez

7:01 PM

@Cerberus and the funny thing is they wonder why English is the lingua franca :-)

Cerberus

@tchrist It's just not a form I would be happy with.

It's querulant.

Jez

@JohanLarsson can you translate that mp3 now?

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus Frankly, y'all are confusing France with Sweden.

Matt Gutting

@Cerberus Querulositous?

Cerberus

@Jez Well, the causal relation is the other way around.

@RegDwigнt Nope, Paris.

tchrist

7:02 PM

@Cerberus Is not!

RegDwigнt

I am off to eat things.

Jez

@Cerberus huh?

Robusto

@Cerberus This.

Cerberus

@MattGutting Waahhh stop it!!

tchrist

> querulation.

Etymology: n. of action f. med.L. querulārī to complain, f. querul-us: see querulous a.

Complaint, complaining. So also (from stem querul-) queruˈlental, -ˈlential a., querulous. ˈqueruling vbl. sb., complaining. ˈquerulist one who complains. queˈrulity, queruˈlosity (cf. querulous a.), habit or spirit of complaining.

Cerberus

7:02 PM

@Jez They reply in English because it is the l.f.

Johan Larsson

@Jez I'm writing a pull request and want to say that parts of the code is more thoroughly tested that other parts single-word-request

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus I don't know which Paris you are talking about, then. Probably the one in Ohio.

Matt Gutting

@Cerberus Sorry. I'm full of ridiculositousness today.

Johan Larsson

@Jez link it agan

Jez

@JohanLarsson that's what the tennis player says? :-)

Cerberus

7:03 PM

@MattGutting You shall speak only Saxon from now on!

Jez

@JohanLarsson game-point.net/misc/rant.mp3

about 12 seconds in

Matt Gutting

@Cerberus On what?

Cerberus

@tchrist I was afraid you'd come up with something like that.

@MattGutting On anything! It's a good thing to do.

tchrist

@Cerberus A querulist is one who complains and hence a complainer. OED && QED.

Mitch

Your fears were realized.

Johan Larsson

7:03 PM

@Jez I'm inviting a Brazilian guy to this chat

Mitch

@MattGutting ridiculosity

Cerberus

Oops I sinned.

tchrist

summons the sexton

Jez

@JohanLarsson interestingly, the player was Portugese and the umpire was Brazilian, so i guess their Portugese flavours haven't diverged so much they can't understand each other

Cerberus

@tchrist gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=WNT&id=M057060

Forsooth, querulant is better.

RegDwigнt

7:05 PM

@Marthaª everyone's ignoring you so I'll be contrarian as usual. Hello.

Matt Gutting

@Mitch Yes, and "ridiculositous", that is, characterized by ridiculosity; and thus "ridiculositousness", the fact of being ridiculositous.

RegDwigнt

It's that time of two years again that Martha is in chat!

tchrist

@Cerberus English for English.

Cerberus

Hey, is our old thwackstress here!

RegDwigнt

Back to eating things, though.

Cerberus

7:05 PM

Hello, @Marthaª!

@tchrist It's Latin, sillie.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus and thwack she did first thing in the morning.

Matt Gutting

@Cerberus "Sillie"?

Cerberus

Good.

Marthaª

@RegDwigнt Greetings. It's OK to be ignored, gives me time to try to figure out what y'all are going on about.

tchrist

@Cerberus Postulants for posteriors. And pestilence too while you’re at it.

Cerberus

7:06 PM

@MattGutting Making the word silly even sillier.

RegDwigнt

@Marthaª too bad you're the only one here who has that time.

Cerberus

@tchrist What?

RegDwigнt

QED

Matt Gutting

@Marthaª You're assuming we're making sense?

Marthaª

@MattGutting I am coming to the conclusion that my premise is flawed, yes.

RegDwigнt

7:07 PM

So many Matts, so little time.

tchrist

animalculist
calculist
contrastimulist
fabulist
formulist
funambulist
globulist
hydraulist
incunabulist
inoculist
monoculist
nebulist
noctambulist
oculist
ovulist
Paulist
philosophunculist
pilpulist
pilulist
populist
querulist
scrupulist
somnambulist
speculist
stabulist
summulist
tintinnabulist
trituberculist
vicambulist
vocabulist
Zaghlulist

RegDwigнt

Why is everyone in here, anyway? To greet the new mods or what?

Jez

my god. is there any room that Caleb isn't in?

Johan Larsson

@Jez I understand a total of 0 words :) Hopefully Brazilian guy is here any minute

Matt Gutting

@tchrist Thanks for the list, it's just fabulist.

Cerberus

7:08 PM

@tchrist Anglo-Saxonist.

Jez

@JohanLarsson thought you spoke Portugese

Cerberus

@Jez What is it you want to know about Portuguese?

RegDwigнt

!!lego 324

Jarvis the Bot

brickset.com/detail/?Set=324-1

Jez

@Cerberus a translation

Marthaª

7:10 PM

@RegDwigнt Well, I'm here because I visited the election chat in a last-ditch effort to get someone to make my decisions for me, in other words tell me who to vote for; and then I thought, well, lessee what them incomprehensible types are up to. And you're just as incomprehensible as usual, so all is well with the world.

tchrist

RegDwigнt

@Marthaª here's not one but two quick tips, then. 1) vote for anyone but me. 2) vote for three anyones at most.

@tchrist now that is offensive. I shall reply with the new Red-Army star!

Cerberus

@Jez Oh, is it for work?

Jez

@Cerberus nope

RegDwigнt

Cerberus

7:11 PM

@Jez OK so what do you need translated?

tchrist

Oilly

Jez

that mp3 clip i linked

RegDwigнt

That's the new Red-Army star. No, really.

Cerberus

@tchrist I don't know what that is, but it looks pretty Anglo-Saxon.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Texaco logo.

Cerberus

7:12 PM

@Jez Hmm that is perhaps a bit too much to ask of my friend.

RegDwigнt

So many American things logo.

Jez

@Cerberus how come

user116848

Hi guys

RegDwigнt

Helloes.

Matt Gutting

@Arrowfar Hi!

RegDwigнt

7:13 PM

Though I'm not here.

Cerberus

@Jez It's not easily done in 1 minute by App.

RegDwigнt

I'm in the garden having dinner.

Johan Larsson

@Jez Brazilian guy could not open the link either

Jez

@JohanLarsson why not? works for me

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Ah I think that's where I ought to be too.

Jez

7:13 PM

game-point.net/misc/rant.mp3

Johan Larsson

@Jez poco means little and it has been > 10 years since I used it.

@Jez blocked, he was at work

Jez

@JohanLarsson lol i thoguht you meant poço which is "well" :-)

oh ffs

work firewalls

user116848

@MattGutting I have never seen you here before :D

André Silva

Who needed help with portuguese up in here?

Jez

me

Matt Gutting

7:14 PM

@Arrowfar I

André Silva

I'm brazilian ! Tell me your problems. :D

Johan Larsson

@Jez prolly the game in the url

Matt Gutting

@Arrowfar obviously press 'Return' too fast

Jez

@AndréSilva i want to know what the Portugese means in this mp3: game-point.net/misc/rant.mp3

starting at about 12 seconds in

user116848

@MattGutting haha

Matt Gutting

7:15 PM

@Arrowfar Meant to say, "I'm new here".

Jez

@JohanLarsson braindead firewall, then

André Silva

Let me see if I can see it in my phone, because company proxy don't like that

Cerberus

@AndréSilva Yay! I need to buy a new book case, can you arrange it for me?

user116848

@MattGutting Yeah I can see that. I see that you are also on fiction stacks too

tchrist

Que pena que não haja ninguém aqui que fale Português!

André Silva

7:17 PM

@tchrist Muita pena mesmo

AJ Henderson

@MickLH chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/16257873#16257873 lol

Cerberus

But we do have someone!

André Silva

@Jez That is portuguese from Portugal

Jez

@AndréSilva the player is Portugese, the umpire is Brazilian. I think.

Matt Gutting

@Arrowfar I pop up a couple-few places; you never know where I'll be next ;-)

user116848

7:18 PM

@MattGutting Yeah :)

Cerberus

@AndréSilva Where they still use vos?

André Silva

As far as I can understand from that weird accent

Cerberus

@MattGutting Mount Doom?

Jez

@AndréSilva "weird"?

Cerberus

By the way, this room is super crowded! Three rows of silly icons.

user116848

7:19 PM

Silly?

Matt Gutting

@Cerberus No, it's bad for my asthma.

Cerberus

Just wear the One Ring.

And you'll have worse things to worry about!!

André Silva

0:12 - 0:15 : Eu tava apoiado ali e escorreguei, caralho
I was supported there and slipped, fuck ( just some random bad word )

Cerberus

Caralho!

Caramba!

tchrist

¡Carajo!

Jez

7:20 PM

hah! i always find it funny that it's ok to swear in non-English at Wimbledon

Matt Gutting

@Cerberus I already wear one ring. I think my wife would be annoyed if I were to wear another One. :-P

Jez

i wonder whether swearing in English is OK at Roland Garros?

Matt Gutting

Then I would have more things to worry about.

Cerberus

@MattGutting Oh, dear. She must have hated Eregion...

aedia λ

Afternoon y'all! So many new faces.

André Silva

7:21 PM

0:15 - 0:19 : (blabber ) Ele escorregou duas vezes lá e uma vez aqui.
He slipped twice there and once here

Matt Gutting

@aediaλ Hi There!

Cerberus

@aediaλ Woof!

RegDwigнt

Wait, you have a garden?

I thought you only have a neighbor with an open tap.

André Silva

0:19 - 0:22 : Onde ele tava?
Where he was ?

0:22 - 0:24 : Eu tava parado. Eu tava assim.
I was standing. I was like this. ( Probably showing how he actually was )

RegDwigнt

Y por eso los grandes amores de muchos colores me gustan a mí.

tchrist

7:23 PM

Verde verde te quiero verde.

André Silva

0:24 - 0:26 : É, eu sei. Ela tá nova ainda.
Yeah, I know. It is still new

RegDwigнt

Verde verde verde, tú no verdes nada.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt I was hoping to receive a ticket to your garden at a reduced price.

And, a tap??

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus the one flooding you.

Ohh that one.

7:25 PM

He insisted it came through the walls/windows.

It had been raining very, very heavily.

tchrist

No no no, no nado yo nada; veo mucho.

André Silva

Hahaha 0:43 - 0:45 : Quero que se foda esse microfone, meu. I don't give a fuck about this microphone, dude. ( Translating a kind of expression )

Cerberus

So either he was lying and he left a window open, or it was truly through some weird crack that the water came in. Not his tap.

André Silva

0:46 - 0:47 : É inacreditável.
It is unbelievable

RegDwigнt

7:26 PM

Una me da nada, otra me da nada, y otra me mantiene nada la senada.

Cerberus

Iberica sunt. Non leguntur.

tchrist

Y la última te da la leche.

Cerberus

Fez!! Yay!

André Silva

Damn it

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus only LEGO is leguntur.

André Silva

7:27 PM

@Jez I guess that was it.

Cerberus

André Silva

@Cerberus You saw nothing. :X

Cerberus

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RegDwigнt

Hey I know that cat. It was hunting Indi Jones!

Cerberus

7:27 PM

You put a fez on it.

@RegDwigнt Haha ding!

RegDwigнt

In Venice.

André Silva

It happens :(

tchrist

Venereally.

user116848

Too many people here

Cerberus

Did you know that lego really means "I pick, collect"? In Greek, it came to mean "to collect words in order to speak, to speak", whereas in Latin it came to mean "to collect words in order to read, to read".

Matt Эллен

7:28 PM

not enough people here!

André Silva

I'm reading documents and comparing with worksheets while translating a portuguese sort of different of mine :(

Johan Larsson

@AndréSilva ty sir

Matt Gutting

Jez

@AndréSilva lol thanks, so he was mainly complaining about the grass bring slippery

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Yes, we need three more. And everything will assplode.

user116848

7:29 PM

@MattЭллен How much more should we have then? :)

André Silva

Haha it looks like

Matt Эллен

at least three more

Jez

i dunno how you made those words out, listening to it it doesn't sound much like the words you typed!!

user116848

Why three?

Matt Эллен

Because that's what Cerberus said :D

Cerberus

7:29 PM

@MattGutting Hmm I don't know the Muppets well.

André Silva

Because the letters don't have the same sound in portuguese, it really depends

user116848

Heh

André Silva

Some sounds really remember german

tchrist

@AndréSilva Os lisboetas são sempre assim.

André Silva

And objects have sex ;p

Jez

7:30 PM

@AndréSilva i think i have found a new candidate for "most incomprehensible language" beyond French

Cerberus

RegDwigнt

> The situations you describe would engender apprehension and anxiety in some people

Chat is so much easier to understand than the main site.

Matt Gutting

@Cerberus Sorry, it's Fozzy Bear in The Muppets Christmas Carol playing Mr. Fezziwig/Fozziwig.

Cerberus

Hmm but it seems to change.

André Silva

@tchrist Lisboetas = Pessoas de Lisboa ?

tchrist

7:30 PM

@AndréSilva Sim.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Very good, servant Orc-Head.

@MattGutting Ohh OK. Cute.

André Silva

@Jez Haha portuguese is one of the hardest language to learn if it isn't your native language

Cerberus

Why?

Matt Gutting

@Cerberus Always worse trying to explain the jokes :-/

André Silva

@tchrist De onde és ?

RegDwigнt

7:31 PM

@Cerberus make your window smaller for more rows.

Cerberus

I find Portuguese considerably easier than Chinese.

André Silva

That is why I said one of

Jez

@AndréSilva I find it interesting that basically the Spanish and Portugese can't understand each other, even though they have quite a close history and are geographically next to one another

André Silva

Haha, but too many rules make it really hard

RegDwigнt

@AndréSilva Gah, French punctuation in Spanish!

Cerberus

7:32 PM

André Silva

Be right back, one second

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Chat doesn't look happy.

Johan Larsson

@Cerberus what's with the pics?

RegDwigнt

You just forgot to look up happy again.

Cerberus

@Jez My Brazilian friend says it's not than hard for Brazilians to understand Spanish with little practice...

tchrist

7:33 PM

@AndréSilva Um estado bem colorado.

Cerberus

@JohanLarsson The number of rows of icons.

@RegDwigнt The icons aren't bouncing all over the screen.

Jez

we had this discussion the other day. why does Spanish all round the world (and English, pretty much) stay mutually comprehensible, considering the Spanish-Portugese split, the French-Quebecois split, and to some degree the Portugal-Brazil split?

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus Which dictionary is that definition from?

Cerberus

@Jez Umm I don't believe those "splits" are very different?

RegDwigнt

Also, I am bouncing like mad.

Jan 24 at 19:47, by RegDwigнt

►

Jez

7:34 PM

@Cerberus yeah they are

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Marriam-Webster, of course. It's the best dictionary.

tchrist

@Cerberus No veo un coño.

Jez

Quebecois is crazy

Cerberus

Then why can I understand Québecois?

tchrist

@Cerberus This is true.

RegDwigнt

7:35 PM

You just answered your own question.

tchrist

It’s certainly truer than most of the other related statements here.

Jez

For instance, look at this question I had to ask about a Quebecois expression the other day:

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Q: Quebecois: "ta farme tu ta yeule"

Sur le web j'ai vu cette phrase de temps en temps: Ta farme tu ta yeule ! Je crois que ça veut dire en français normal: Ferme ta bouche ! Mais évidemment, la première phase n'est pas du français habituel, c'est une tournure de phrase québecoise. Je ne comprends pas complètement la ph...

Cerberus

@Jez I'm sure it depends on 1. how long ago the communities split, and 2. how much contact there remained since the split. I don't think there is much more to it?

Jez

there are about 10 weird parochioal Quebecois oddities in there you need to know to understand the expression

RegDwigнt

@Jez sorry, how is that incomprehensible?

Cerberus

7:36 PM

I'm 100% sure there will be dialects in Mexico with expressions that Madrileños won't understand.

Jez

@Cerberus you'd think Spanish would split up a bit more. there wasnt that much contact between Spain and South American colonies compared to France and Quebec was there?

RegDwigнt

I've never even been to Quebec, and I understand it immediately.

tchrist

@Cerberus Madrileños son, no *madrilenos.

Jez

funny how Quebec wants to preserve "French". they need to start by actually speaking French.

Cerberus

@Jez Why not?

@tchrist Ah, I was going to look that up...

Jez

7:36 PM

@Cerberus why would there be more?

Cerberus

Because there is also quite a bit of contact between such states?

Jez

and?

that would be "American Spanish"

Cerberus

?

Jez

yet it's basically stayed the same as "Spain Spanish"

Cerberus

Argentinian Spanish sounds very different from that of, say, Cuba.

tchrist

7:38 PM

Spain is a cruddy adjective.

Jez

with English, actually, I'd say things have changed either side of the pond but the other side gets dragged over because of the large UK-US communication

tchrist

@Cerberus Udderly.

Jez

like calling children "kids"

or "folks"

or whatever

Cerberus

@tchrist It's horrendous. It is like BBC News.

> China president lands in London

Ugh.

RegDwigнt

American Spanish is not the same as Spain Spanish. For starters, all the words are different. Like, tequila and nachos. What the hell do these even mean?

Cerberus

7:40 PM

And guacamole, I like guacamole.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Te quila = the gila monster is killing you

Cerberus

I'll eat anything with avocado.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist effective tchrist bait is effective.

Jez

Any Americans in this room?

Cerberus

No, they're not allowed in any more.

Alraxite

7:41 PM

Nah.

RegDwigнt

No. Only Kabardino-Balkarians.

Jez

how does "Autumn" as a season sound?

RegDwigнt

The response is overwhelming.

@Jez not English.

Cerberus

It sounds like autum.

RegDwigнt

The English word for "autumn" is "fall".

Jez

7:41 PM

nonsense

Cerberus

What are you doing?

RegDwigнt

Look it up.

Autumn is from French.

Seriously, that's ELU 101.

Matt Gutting

Didn't find China president.

Cerberus

But fall is from Proto-Indo-European.

Matt Gutting

Did find President china

Jez

7:42 PM

yeah i know it used to be "fall" before we figured out Autumn was better because it's not some generic verb

Matt Gutting

Jez

why don't we just call Summer "the hot"

:-)

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Ni conoces ese monstruo celebérrimo.

Jez

The Hot, The Fall, The Cold, and The Temperate?

Alraxite

You forgot rainy.

RegDwigнt

7:43 PM

The Rain, the rain, the rain, and the rain.

Jez

where do you live then

RegDwigнt

That is a very personal question. I will answer it for three thousand pounds.

Jez

im not aware of anywhere it rains year-round

RegDwigнt

Oh wait, why the heck are you using generic weights for money? How about calling them dollars? Geez.

Matt Gutting

@RegDwigнt Of what?

Jez

7:44 PM

and if it did, it wouldn't be a 4-season climate

RegDwigнt

@Jez look up the tropics. I'll wait.

tchrist

The months of the year are Wheezy, Sneezy and Freezy; Slippy, Drippy and Nippy; Showery, Flowery and Bowery; Wheaty, Heaty and Sweety.

Jez

@RegDwigнt except that we don't use pounds for weights anymore. not the civilized, anyway. :-P

RegDwigнt

@tchrist pretty close to Ukrainian there.

Cerberus

@MattGutting What do you mean?

> China President Xi Jinping hails ties with Africa (BBC News)

Jez

7:45 PM

> "Tropical" is sometimes used in a general sense for a tropical climate to mean warm to hot and moist year-round, often with the sense of lush vegetation.

> Many tropical areas have a dry and wet season.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Snow White is in Kiev these days?

Robusto

@Jez You still use pounds for money; you can buy weights with money; ergo you can use pounds for weights.

RegDwigнt

@Jez thank you for following my instructions. Now pay me three thousand pounds already.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt He’s stuck with stones.

Jez

@Robusto ...

RegDwigнt

7:46 PM

@tchrist tis from Snowwhite? I knew not.

Matt Gutting

be back ...

Robusto

And for the record, we had metric money while you people were still mucking about with tuppence ha'penny.

RegDwigнt

So who are the new mods anyway?

tchrist

@RegDwigнt No, ’tis from the Bloody French Republican Calendar. Just sounds Disneyesque.

Jez

@Robusto but not metric weights or distances

André Silva

7:47 PM

@tchrist Colorado? Eu só consigo pensar em Rio Grande do Sul aqui no Brasil

RegDwigнt

Still twelve minutes! Gah I will be watching Gre vs Civ then.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt More to the point, do they still have that new mod smell?

RegDwigнt

@tchrist wait, but the French year has ten months.

tchrist

@AndréSilva Heh. I live in Colorado. I was born in Wisconsin. I’ve lived, studied, and worked in Spain. I’ve also worked in Portugal and Brazil.

Robusto

New car smell

New car smell is the odor that comes from the combination of materials found in new automobiles. There is some question about whether the chemicals in the odor pose a health risk. Chemical composition Both the scent and what produces varies somewhat in different kinds of cars. Most of the interior of an automobile consists of plastic held together with a number of adhesives and sealers. When the car is first manufactured, these materials are left slightly unstable, and continue to release volatile organic compounds into the air afterward (cf. outgassing or offgassing). These fumes may al...

Only for mods.

Matt Эллен

7:48 PM

Apparently my name might hold up proceedings.

Robusto

And I expect that the new mod smell comes with health risks.

tchrist

> The Republican calendar year began at the Southward equinox and had twelve months of 30 days each, which were given new names based on nature, principally having to do with the prevailing weather in and around Paris.
Autumn:
Vendémiaire in French (from Latin vindemia, "grape harvest"), starting 22, 23 or 24 September
Brumaire (from French brume, "fog"), starting 22, 23 or 24 October
Frimaire (From French frimas, "frost"), starting 21, 22 or 23 November
Winter:
Nivôse (from Latin nivosus, "snowy"), starting 21, 22 or 23 December

RegDwigнt

What has the world come to. Nobody explains Rob's jokes, so he has to do it himself.

Matt Эллен

I didn't realise or forgot that it did last time, so Shog tells me :D

Jez

@AndréSilva so do American Spanish and Spain Spanish sound very different to your ears?

Robusto

7:49 PM

@RegDwigнt Hey, I never know what the pineapple quotient of the room is.

RegDwigнt

OVER 9000.

tchrist

@Jez You kinda can’t even ask that question. It does not make enough sense.

RegDwigнt

On Sundays, OVER 9001.

Robusto

I should have expected that.

Jez

i kinda did

RegDwigнt

7:50 PM

Noöne expects the pineapple quotient!

tchrist

Well, then you deserve a stupid answer.

RegDwigнt

Also, why is the room description wrong again?

Jez

kit changed it

tchrist

Good effing question. Imprehense it, por favor.

RegDwigнt

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: The Incomprehensible Room — now with old subtitle (no tags)

Cerberus

7:51 PM

@Robusto Hah, you must have created that article yourself.

No wonder English Wikipaedia is the biggest.

Robusto

Only a pineapple would think so.

Cerberus

squeaks

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus until you add up the German, Bavarian, Rhinean, Ripuarian, and Pennsylvania Dutch ones.

Robusto

And English Wikipedia is the biggest because the creators of the internet are native English speakers. QED

tchrist

The Spanish of Cádiz sounds nothing like that of Oviedo, nor does that of Tijuana sound like that of Buenos Aires. And I could pick a dozen or two more cities the same could be said of.

Johan Larsson

7:53 PM

@RegDwigнt make Rob, Mitch & Matt owners, pretty sure they can produce a steady stream of hq room titles.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto then why the hell is everybody's English so awful?

Cerberus

*because speakers of English come up with more crap

tchrist

So it is a stupid question with neither good sense nor good language.

Cerberus

(Just look at what they spew out in this room.)

RegDwigнt

@JohanLarsson I will make them owners for three thousand pounds. Each.

Jez

7:53 PM

@tchrist they're all mutually intelligible though. the French want subtitles for Quebecois :-)

RegDwigнt

Caveat emptor: I cannot make people owners.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Because everybody's everything is awful when projected onto a normal curve. The odds that you are going to run into excellent prose are about 1 in 10. The odds that it will suck balls, probably about 2/3.

tchrist

@Jez That’s their conceit bleeding through.

Cerberus

cavet

André Silva

@tchrist Oh Colorado is how a crowd that cheers for a certain football team is known here in Brazil, that is why I got confused haha

RegDwigнt

7:54 PM

@Robusto so you're saying the odds are 1:1, or 100%. I see!

tchrist

@AndréSilva heh

Johan Larsson

@RegDwigнt just do it, no harm in it.

André Silva

@Jez Any spanish sound weird but American Spanish and Castellano sound very, very weird

tchrist

@RegDwigнt /= 2

RegDwigнt

@JohanLarsson emptors should read caveats.

Cerberus

7:55 PM

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