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RegDwigнt

23:00

I suppose it could be Dunning-Kruger. Still looking for the John-Cleese video, though.

@Cerberus you are funny man, and you get a funny star for that.

You should have misspolen a couple words to really deserve it, though.

Cerberus

Eek.

RegDwigнt

Also, Dunning-Kruger is technically five words, not one.

Cerberus

You see, since misspelling is my normal modus operandi, the lack of typos is actually "funny".

RegDwigнt

You are very good at explaining.

Some sense might even arise in the process. Some.

Cerberus

Eek again.

Hades forbid.

RegDwigнt

23:06

Now stop channelling @marthaª already.

Cerberus

How was your night? Had any "soup"?

Oh, yes, that was her word.

RegDwigнt

In (un)related news, kalina never got you after all. Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise.

@Cerberus actually I did. Borshch.

Cerberus

By the way, I wanted to ask you whether Germans used any diminutives or pet names for "euro"?

@RegDwigнt I am utterly shocked. She LOSES.

RegDwigнt

I had guests staying over last night, so now I can eat up whatever they have left.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt I liked Borshch in Petersburg.

RegDwigнt

23:07

@Cerberus I do not think so.

Like, really not. At all.

Cerberus

For example, people here say euri as a plural.

> 6 euri.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus you have not tried borshch till you have tried my borshch. True story.

Cerberus

Yay!

> 6 eurootjes.

> 6 euries.

> 6 eurietjes.

And people even say e.

> 6 e.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus What, your people are now Italian? I am missing major new world politics developments.

Cerberus

Almost.

It is jocular, but people actually say euri.

RegDwigнt

23:09

I do hope they pronounce it Eh-oorri, with a rolling R.

Cerberus

Nope!

RegDwigнt

Well, high time they began.

Cerberus

À la Olandese.

RegDwigнt

Oori.

Cerberus

No, just euri.

RegDwigнt

23:10

But is eu not oo?

Cerberus

Never!

RegDwigнt

Your spelling is almost as stupid as the Englishes'.

Cerberus

Oe is oo.

Boek = book.

RegDwigнt

That I know no thanks for nothing.

Cerberus

Alas.

RegDwigнt

23:10

Voetbal.

Cerberus

Exactly!

Eur is just as in French.

RegDwigнt

You are so submissive to the French, just like the Englishes.

Cerberus

/ɜːro/

Yes.

But eu is only like that before r.

RegDwigнt

R messes with everything, but again you are copying it from the Englishes.

It does not mess with nothing in, oh I dunno Russian.

Cerberus

Otherwise it is like Scandinavian Ø.

It is nothing like English!

RegDwigнt

23:12

Öre.

Cerberus

Yes, like long ö in German.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus repetition of assertion proof does not equal.

Cerberus

There is not a single word in which English and Dutch pronounce eu the same way!

RegDwigнt

I wish we could drop this stupid intermediate means of communication and just converse in your stupid "language", but I must drink way more for that.

Cerberus

I'm sure you could.

RegDwigнt

23:13

Kinderspeelplaats.

Cerberus

You have watched whatsisname, Ebeling or something, often enough.

That is correct!

RegDwigнt

Of course it is correct, I saw it in Vlieland.

Cerberus

Oh, you have been there?

Like all of Germany.

RegDwigнt

Oh come on.

Feb 3 at 17:17, by Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Haha, WTF, Vlieland?

Nov 22 '13 at 19:28, by Cerberus

I fell off a pony on Vlieland.

Cerberus

Is your memory so bad that you forget that I forget everything, even after all those 4 long years we have been together in this room?

RegDwigнt

23:15

Anyway, on Vlieland I learned three words: Kinderspeelplaats, terug, and Het Huis.

Which was the name of some restaurant there.

Cerberus

There you go with your single-word trolling.

RegDwigнt

NOU.

I would totally write Kinder Speel Plaats. It's you who's merging things.

Cerberus

We don't have spaces inside words! Dutch is a real language, unlike English.

RegDwigнt

Amen to that.

Cerberus

~~cross~~ SWR sign

RegDwigнt

23:17

Your syntax and punctuation leave room for interpretation, and also desire of much.

Cerberus

Pah.

At least we have no silly marks on our vowels!

RegDwigнt

They are just hidden behind all the diphtongs.

Cerberus

And We Don't Feel We're So Imporant We Need Capitals On Every Frikking Word.

RegDwigнt

Who the hell leaves J as a silly mark on an I? You do, that's who.

Cerberus

What?

We have the letter ij, capitalised as IJ.

RegDwigнt

23:19

Jul 4 at 23:06, by RegDwigнt

Ijijij, verpoorten.

Cerberus

So random.

RegDwigнt

Do you not have commercials for Verpoorten?

What do they say instead?

Not sure what Ei is in Dutch, come to think of it.

Cerberus

What is Verpoorten?

RegDwigнt

Oh. Ei.

Cerberus

My Dutch teacher's name was Verpoorten. After she had married her wife.

RegDwigнt

23:21

@Cerberus Eierlikör. And going by the name I thought it was Dutch?

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt You're sooooo smart.

@RegDwigнt It sounds Dutch, but what the hell is eierlikeur? Sounds gross?

RegDwigнt

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Cerberus

Ohh is that advocaat?

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus eierlikör is the beverage of choice of all vrowen in Germany. All vrowen. Every single one.

@Cerberus yeah.

Cerberus

Haha.

RegDwigнt

23:22

Actually we have a couple bottles here.

My wife likes it.

Cerberus

Awesome commercial.

It is rather old fashioned.

I think my parents sometimes drank it in the eighties.

We always call it simply advocaat, never heard of the brand.

RegDwigнt

There used to be tons of them on German television, all saying, or actually singing "ei ei ei verpoorten" at the end, as the trademark tune.

Cerberus

Smooth.

RegDwigнt

Sort of the opposite, actually. Very dickflüssig.

You could hammer a nail into it.

Cerberus

Danach werden Frauen ganz hmm, lass ich mir sagen.

RegDwigнt

23:24

Yeah. Totally.

The first commercial that does not lie.

Cerberus

Was ist das hmm?

RegDwigнt

I can only submit it's a euphemism for wild sex.

Cerberus

I hab's nicht verstehen können.

RegDwigнt

I didn't even listen properly.

Cerberus

I feared as much.

But I couldn't make out the word.

Maybe gewillig?

RegDwigнt

23:25

Ah, willig.

Cerberus

Or is that only Dutch?

RegDwigнt

Willing.

Cerberus

Right, that's gewillig in Dutch.

RegDwigнt

"After it vrowen become willing, I've been told."

Cerberus

Vrouwen.

RegDwigнt

23:26

See, stupid diphtongs again.

QED and all.

Cerberus

Au is also a diphthong in German...

RegDwigнt

It's not like you couldn't write it vrowen. Or Frauen. Alas, you are all special, la dee da.

Cerberus

And au and ou sound exactly the same in Dutch.

No, no, vrowen would sound very different.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus you are right, yours is like a triphtong, then.

Cerberus

Vrouen, it would have to be.

RegDwigнt

23:27

@Cerberus not if you agree to write it that way.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Not really. The w adds nothing to the pronunciation.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus that would get you sued for copyright infringement by the French.

@Cerberus whatever. All I'm saying, you're using three where two will do.

Cerberus

We only have a couple of Napoleonic laws any more...

Nieuw.

RegDwigнt

Exactly. High time you got invaded to get some more.

Cerberus

Eeuw.

RegDwigнt

23:28

Nonono, you mean eeeeeuw.

Cerberus

Haha.

RegDwigнt

I don't have a trema for an E, sorry.

Cerberus

If zeeëeeuw made sense semantically, it would be a valid word.

RegDwigнt

Never stopped you before.

Cerberus

Properly formed.

Haha tsk.

RegDwigнt

23:30

Whatcha call a Seekuh?

Zeekoeien

Zeekoeien (Sirenia) zijn een kleine orde van plantenetende, in zee levende zoogdieren. Ze worden tot de Afrotheria gerekend en zijn daarbinnen het nauwste verwant aan de slurfdieren. Naast de walvissen en de zeeroofdieren zijn de zeekoeien de derde grotere groep zeezoogdieren. Anders dan zeeroofdieren hebben ze geen geschikte ledematen om zich op het land voort te bewegen en in tegenstelling tot walvissen houden ze zich steeds in de buurt van de kust of zelfs in zoet water op. De orde van Sirenia omvat binnen twee (nog) levende families, de Dugongidae (Doejongs) en de Trichechidae (Lamantijnen...

See. More useless vowels.

But they are sweet whichever way you misspell them.

Cerberus

Ding!

RegDwigнt

Anyway, I haven't been drinking for minutes, so I have to take part with you for about as many.

Cerberus

Just because we already use u to stand for /y/. We have no single letter for /u/.

Take part with me?

RegDwigнt

More failures. Gigantic failures. Total failures.

Cerberus

Part with me is less fun, but that's probably what you typoed into oblivion.

RegDwigнt

23:32

I mean many things when the day is long.

Cerberus

Yeah, that.

RegDwigнt

I also typouewe them a lot.

Cerberus

Only two e's, and none consecutively?

RegDwigнt

I did tell you I stopped drinking!

Cerberus

I've only drunk three beers tonight.

RegDwigнt

23:33

See how afwul it has become? I must be off.

Cerberus

Viel Spaß!

Or should that be, vielen Spaß?

Alraxite

@Cerberus So it probably was a 1536 and a 768.

Cerberus

@Alraxite I think so.

Alraxite

Very good.

Cerberus

Or maybe only a 384...

Alraxite

23:35

You'll need three 384's.

You get about 60k from 1536.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus also you are wrong. One of the Es is totally consecutive.

Come to think of it, each of them is. Just not both.

Cerberus

@Alraxite Right. Three 384 would be too much!

@RegDwigнt More like executive.

Alraxite

If it weren't for those pesky random high tiles, 3072 would be easy.

RegDwigнt

In fact, all letters in all my words are consecutive. I am pro like that.

Alraxite

But I will admit that sometimes these tiles have expedited my reaching 768.

But more often they have expedited my losing.

Cerberus

23:43

Same here.

@RegDwigнt And all cities are in a row?

Alraxite

I wonder what seen x ago means.

Does it mean when our computer last responded when the server sent it a signal?

Cerberus

Last activity?

Probably something like that, yes.

Alraxite

Then it only tells us whether the person has the chat open in their browser.

Nothing more.

Cerberus

If the tab is not active, then perhaps there is no interaction with the server?

Alraxite

What is an inactive tab?

A tab which you've not done any activity on for a sufficiently long period?

In that case, no.

Because almost everyone's seen is usually less than 2 minutes.

Unless they decide to leave. In which case their avatars fly away after about 10-15 minutes.

I'm going to predict that RegDwigнt's avatar is going to disappear soon.

Since he was seen 13 minutes ago.

Which means he closed this chat's tab without clicking on the leave link below the room's description.

The 10-15 minute range might not be completely accurate.

KitFox

23:58

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This one?

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