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Cerberus

12:00

@Robusto Very rarely, I get things.

Robusto

But timing is everything.

tchrist

Alas, that was their swan song. They seldom if ever ascended again to its lofty heights.

Cerberus

@tchrist Isn't it rather "I am your servant" what it means?

Like German Servus!.

tchrist

@Cerberus You’re not helping me get Rob to invest in a pair of kneepads, you know.

Cerberus

Servus

Servus (Slovak: Servus, Croatian: Serbus or Servus, Hungarian: Szervusz, Polish: Serwus, Austro-Bavarian: Servus, Romanian: Servus, Slovene: Serbus or Servus, Czech: Servus, Ukrainian: Сервус) is a salutation used in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe. It is a word of greeting or parting like the Italian "Ciao". These words originate from the Latin word for servant or slave, servus. The phrase is an ellipsis of a Latin expression meaning, "I am your servant" or "at your service". Servus is the origin of the word serf. == Usage == Use of this salute is roughly coincident with the boundaries...

@tchrist How obscoene.

Matt Эллен

12:03

ob scone?

tchrist

Bibit servus cum ancilla.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Yippee with clotted cream!

tchrist

@Cerberus Ok fine, have it your way: he gets one of those little kowtowing pillows for his forehead instead.

Cerberus

And jam!

tchrist

Bibit servus cum clotted cream.

Cerberus

12:04

Is that what servi use these days?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus abscones with the jam

Cerberus

Fie!

tchrist

@Cerberus No, apparently they use ancillae.

Cerberus

Bad orc head!

@tchrist Who doesn't?

Matt Эллен

Don't care :p eats jam

tchrist

12:05

I liked it better as carp.

Cerberus

Tsk.

tchrist

I’m being koi.

Cerberus

Fishy.

tchrist

That’s vichyssoise to @terdon.

The Portuguese spell ciao as tchau.

Cerberus

From Vichy? Why?

They spell kwa in French chat.

@tchrist Really! Tha's funny, looks more like fake German.

tchrist

12:09

@Cerberus He lives in Marseilles. They are famous for their bouillabaisse, also fishy.

@Cerberus Portuguese once had aspirations of being phonetic.

Since that is how it is pronounced, that is how they spell it.

Remember that ch- in Portuguese (as in chá for tea) has the same value as it has in French chat.

So they need the t- to affricate it.

They have their own diphthongs like ão and am (which are respectively the stressed and unstressed version of the very same diphthong), so they couldn’t leave it as -ao lets it confuse people. So they spelled it like they said it and used -au.

Robusto

Gawd, I'm getting tired of server responses where I ask for a stick of gum and get an entire duffel bag of random data in return.

And it's up to me to parse it all on the client.

Why not just give me the whole fucking database?

tchrist

The difference between ão/am and au is solely one of nasalization. The au form is not nasalized; the other one is.

They no longer attempt to spell their own words phonetically, instead making you learn a mountain of rules. For the same reason as in English: orthography froze due to print before extensive changes in pronunciation.

Cerberus

tchrist

But tchau is an import, so they should do it right.

I like that map.

Although I am hardpressed to put a name to each of them.

Cerberus

@tchrist What does Vichy have to do with Marseilles or bouillabaisse?

tchrist

12:16

@Cerberus Vichyssoise sounds fishy, but isn’t. Bouillabaisse doesn’t sound fishy but is.

Cerberus

@tchrist Ohh you mean like fishysoisse, Jebus.

tchrist

¡Cuánto me confundes!

@Cerberus The light bulb at last.

Cerberus

You know those are not mind kind of puns.

tchrist

No, they are mine own.

Coño they’ve made Shiprock a state. Damned the Navajos!

Cerberus

— slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/10/…

tchrist

12:18

And Menominee. And Ogallala.

What is this, some American autocthon restoration movement?

I must confess to having some appreciation for their creativity in naming.

@Cerberus Now do that with Europa.

You know, that East America – West America is rather how the Eastcoasters think.

If it ain’t in Eastern Time, it must be the West.

Cerberus

Europa Occidentalis is somewhat less skewed.

But of course things become exceedingly skewed if you include Septentrionalis and Orientalis.

Matt Эллен

Chaetodontoplus

Chaetodontoplus is a genus of marine angelfishes in the family Pomacanthidae. == Species == Ballina angelfish, Chaetodontoplus ballinae Whitley, 1959. Bluespotted angelfish, Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus Yasuda & Tominaga, 1976. Orangeface angelfish, Chaetodontoplus chrysocephalus (Bleeker, 1855). Conspicuous angelfish, Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus (Waite, 1900). Velvet angelfish, Chaetodontoplus dimidiatus (Bleeker, 1860). Scribbled Angelfish, Chaetodontoplus duboulayi (Günther, 1867). Black-velvet angelfish, Chaetodontoplus melanosoma (Bleeker, 1853). Queensland yellowtail angelfi...

tchrist

@Cerberus But aren’t all counties unevenly distributed in population?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected, Phone number detected: +91-9950211818 vashikaran specialist in haryana on english.stackexchange.com

Matt Эллен

Thanks, Smoke Detector!

Robusto

12:34

@tchrist No double l there.

tchrist

@Robusto Was trying to copy from the map. But yeah, it looked funny.

You should explain why you think beggar “should” be spelled begger with ‑er instead of ‑ar. There are endless ending in ‑ar and ‑or (not to mention ‑our and sometimes ‑re) that are also pronounced the same as the ‑er words are today. Unless you explain what you meant, the same “reasoning” should produce grammar > *grammer, doctor > *docter, glamour > *glammer, acre > *aker. — tchrist 3 mins ago

username901345

@Robusto hi

Robusto

hello

username901345

can i ask you if my epigram is grammatically correct?

if not sentimentally agreeable to you?

Mitch

I think I heard about jam and scones and clotted cream. mmm...

username901345

12:47

@Mitch could you check my epigram?

Mitch

Where is it?

grammar and sentiment are quite different things. also spelling.

Well, at least the metaphor is not mixed.

grammatically... perfectly fine (to me, but I'm not a stickler). style-wise I find it purple to the extreme (look up 'purple prose', kind of over the top in fancy words. Word choice... I don't know what 'pinion' means even in context, and 'murmur', verbed into transitivity is a stretch.

username901345

i see.

tchrist

Oh noes! We forgot about elixir and tapir!

Mitch

Also, now that you've removed it I can't say any more because I've forgotten.

tchrist

Truly, ELU has reached its nadir.

Mitch

12:51

@tchrist I have not forgotten my tapir. It's in the backseat...I left the windows rolled down an inch.

username901345

I see. like.. Romeo murmuring his love on the wind to Juliet...

Is it not possible?

Matt Эллен

If our member whine more, we could call it grape-y-er

Mitch

@tchrist When you think things are at their worst, when it's totally the darkest, just remember...

It can always get worse.

tchrist

@MattЭллен What’s this about your member?

Matt Эллен

I share it with my other psyches

username901345

12:52

A silver song of a thrush, can't you hear?

Mitch

I'm sorry I'm all congested so can't hear very well.

tchrist

@Mitch Bad to würst? Bad to verse?

username901345

@MItch Thank you for your help.

tchrist

Bad to the bone?

Mitch

@username901345 You're leaving? We've barely begun a conversation!

username901345

12:53

sorry to hear that, Senator...

Are you having a tough fight in your primary?

tchrist

We’ve only just begun. . . .

Matt Эллен

what with all this cut and thrust, I would like a rapier

Mitch

@tchrist 'Bone' is a banned book

tchrist

Badiverse.

Matt Эллен

banned to the bone

tchrist

12:54

Wait, somebody hoisted the Jolly Rodger and didn’t tell me about it?

looks for his dagger

username901345

Is my English bad?

Mitch

@MattЭллен Roasted thrush on a skewer

@tchrist Stand and deliver

Matt Эллен

@username901345 it seems fine

tchrist

extemporizes wildly

username901345

No, an oiled thrush in a pewter would be nice!

Matt Эллен

12:56

@Mitch I'm sure you can get a cream for that

Mitch

@username901345 Which English? Your poetic prose or your regular stuff? Neither is bad actually, very native sounding (no trace of non-nativity at all).

But you did ask about sentimentally agreeable which means anythign goes!

Robusto

Why does pirate end in Arrh! instead of er . . . ?

terdon

@Mitch That's ridiculous! Who in the world would ban Bone? Such a wonderful book!

username901345

@Mitch Really? That's the best sort of compliment that anyone could ever ask for; but then people on this forum are all great with such eloquence that anyone who's new here is always struck dumb to the bones.

tchrist

@terdon You’re right, they’re ripping my skin off.

-2

Q: Holes in badge display for unawarded badges

It looks like someone ‪ ‪ something out! When you bring up the badges page, it currently leaves gaping holes in the display for badges that have not been awarded yet: That big hole there looks funny, as though it were a bug. I realize that it is not a bug and that this is complete...

Mitch

12:59

@MattЭллен "Doctor, I got a bad case of loving you"

tchrist

Or merely excoriating me, if you prefer the Latin.

Fileted alive.

Mitch

@terdon and pretty tame too. half of the plot is about the main character liking some girl. and that's it. He just likes her.

tchrist

Nice girls finish first.

terdon

@tchrist I see you backed down. I do agree that Awarded three times is fine. Certainly better than thrice which does not really sound natural any more. Yes, I also use it at times but it's not in most people's normal vocabulary as you well know.

username901345

@Mitch is my sentence there grammatically ok?

terdon

13:00

@Mitch IKR? And screamingly funny to boot.

Matt Эллен

Nice, Finnish girls first.

username901345

@Mitch struck dumb to the bones part...is this ok in that context?

tchrist

@terdon Being ripped a new asshole because some prudes don’t like thrice is insane. They do this to @RegDwigнt all the time, though.

terdon

Do they? Poor man must be chock-full of holes by now then.

Mitch

@username901345 "to the bone" (singular)

Robusto

13:02

@tchrist Also nadir. A nadir is one who nads, obviously. Ralph Nader got it right.

username901345

other points? @Mitch

tchrist

@terdon I believe he is.

terdon

@Robusto And zenith? A lisping philosopher perhaps?

Mitch

" struck dumb to the bones." sounds a little weird, but probably becaus eof mixed metaphor ('struck dumb' implies to the point of not being able to talk.)

@terdon that would be 'thenith'

username901345

i wanted to say "so suprised that you cannot speak..."

terdon

13:05

@Mitch And aren't you thenithetht thing!

Mitch

Yes, the meaning comes across.

Robusto

How about "struck dumb" all by itself?

tchrist

@Mitch Don’t know much Spanish, do you now?

Mitch

@terdon Thank you.

username901345

yes

Robusto

13:06

@username901345 Adding words doesn't make a statement more powerful. Usually it works the other way.

username901345

thank you but what about other parts of the sentence

Mitch

@tchrist I'm speaking English at the moment.

Now I'll try spanish.

tchrist

Did you know that zenith was a medieval transcription error for azimuth?

azimuth > a zenith

terdon

Nice.

Mitch

OK. I finished Spanish.

Matt Эллен

13:08

bismuth > two zeniths

Mitch

@Robusto "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter" - everybody

Matt Эллен

@Mitch well done

username901345

What is God that he should outlive man?

Matt Эллен

God

Mitch

Exactly. The chutzpah.

username901345

13:09

In Moby Dick it's the reverse

tchrist

@terdon From here.

username901345

What is man that he should outlive God?

tchrist

Itchy.

username901345

just a funny rephrasing...

Funny?

witty+

tchrist

Ecce l’uomo.

Mitch

13:10

OK...what is clotted cream? It sounds gross.

Matt Эллен

cream that's been clotted

tchrist

Only in Devon.

Matt Эллен

and Cornwall

Mitch

@MattЭллен well there you go. Disgusting. You chould have the cream well before it ever comes to that.

Matt Эллен

> Clotted cream is a thick cream made by indirectly heating full-cream cow's milk using steam or a water bath and then leaving it in shallow pans to cool slowly.

tchrist

13:12

@Mitch You really do need to get out more.

terdon

@tchrist Huh, not a word I'd ever written in Spanish, but I would have done so with a z.

Mitch

@tchrist I saw a window once. Does that count?

tchrist

@terdon One “can’t” write ze in Spanish.

Mitch

@tchrist You just did.

tchrist

Where zero > cero and zebra > cebra.

terdon

13:13

Oh? Now that you mention it, it does look odd. So, whenever the vowel is one that would make the c soft, the c is obligatory?

tchrist

@Mitch Actually, I didn’t.

@terdon Yes!

terdon

@Mitch he wrote it in German accented English actually.

Mitch

@tchrist It was bad Spanish but Spanish nonezeleth.

@terdon That's Dutch!

tchrist

@terdon P.e.: azulejo v. acimut.

terdon

@Mitch Tsk, you're getting your blondes mixed up.

Mitch

13:15

@MattЭллен You and your 'definitions' and 'knowledge' and 'facts'... pfft.

tchrist

@Mitch nonzalez

Mitch

@terdon pushes beer away

terdon

Better.

tchrist

@Mitch ¡Y que dejes las monjas en paz, cabrón!

Mitch

@username901345 just so you know, and the rest of life is like this, no one here is trying to make people feel dumb, we're just screwing around. and half of everybody is a non-native speaker... in some language

terdon

13:17

Yeah, don't touch the thithters!

Matt Эллен

@Mitch I'm such a prescriptivist

tchrist

@terdon cítaras

@MattЭллен Hey my knee hurts, can you help me out?

Robusto

@tchrist No need to be insulting, pendejo.

Matt Эллен

@Mitch I mean, earlier I was telling someone that words only mean something in context.

terdon

@username901345 not to mention that some of the most eloquent and articulate of our users are non-natives.

Mitch

13:19

@tchrist How dare you speak of your mother like that.

tchrist

Donde cítara < κιθάρα, desde luego.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist yes: you are wrong, knees are not allowed to hurt.

terdon

@tchrist Yup, got it :)

Mitch

@MattЭллен oh. can you give me a prescription for my pffting problem? I'm trying to stop all this drooling.

@MattЭллен Hah!

Matt Эллен

@Mitch I prescribe before I write

Robusto

13:21

Matt is not a prescriptivist, he's a proscriptivist. So watch yourself.

Mitch

@MattЭллен oops...I meant 'horse'.

tchrist

se va

Mitch

It doesn't meana much except for what little there is.

@terdon I represent that remark.

username901345

oh...i am sorry...

You are making me look and feel so dumb. I am so sorry.

terdon

@Mitch That's precisely why it was not meant to describe you. Not when you go making such basic mistakes.

@username901345 ??

username901345

13:23

I didn't wanna come across as a man of pesky pedantry.

terdon

I doubt you'll find any regular here who is not a pedant of some stripe or another.

Robusto

@username901345 Then you came to the wrong place, pardner.

Kind of jinx.

Mitch

@username901345 haha...that's all there is here!

Robusto

Triple jinx!

username901345

What?

Matt Эллен

13:24

it's pedants all the way down

Mitch

@terdon Mine are horizontal.

Robusto

Anyone care to make it quad jinx?

username901345

what?

Robusto

@MattЭллен Quad jinx! We did it!

Mitch

jinx

Matt Эллен

13:24

:D

username901345

you guys pedants, ok, i will be one then!

with pride

Matt Эллен

glad I could oblige

terdon

@Mitch Aww, you poor thing, don't you know it's the vertical that are slimming?

Robusto

@username901345 You can't just become a pedant, you know.

No arriviste pedants in chat, please.

username901345

at least an air of it...

I will attire myself in it.

Robusto

13:25

There is a redolence of pedantry in chat. Proust would be proud.

Mitch

@terdon I was going to go with diagonals but I could decide between upper left to lower right or lower right to upper left.

terdon

Life is made of tough choices.

Mitch

@Robusto I think he's already here.

@Robusto Prost!

Robusto

Parvenu.

username901345

upstart

terdon

13:26

I wear my pendant proudly.

Mitch

Downwind

username901345

I am bozo.

Robusto

Nouveau-cliche.

username901345

and a toff

Mitch

mmm... toffee

username901345

13:27

I will flit on to the next tree so ...

terdon

@Robusto Hmm, do you rhyme that with nouveau riche?

Robusto

What else?

Otherwise the pun doesn't work.

And before you can sic the Academie Francaise on me, I will tap the "poetic license" sign.

terdon

But, but, that's not how it's pronounced! splutters.

Robusto

Do you see an accent grave over the e there?

terdon

@Robusto They know where you abide.

@Robusto No, but that's just adding insult to injury.

Robusto

13:31

@terdon The Academie can choose not to be insulted. But they never do.

Mitch

@terdon grammar storm troopers rappelling down the outside of your building now.

terdon

@Robusto That's a characteristic of the nation, not the organization.

@Mitch Hut, hut, hut.

Or perhaps, hutte, hutte, hutte.

Mitch

@terdon The sound of geese stepping on hats?

terdon

Chickens, actually.

Or frogs, to keep on subject.

Mitch

@terdon Nice!

Robusto

13:36

America is the final resting place of the accent grave.

Matt Эллен

It migrated all the way from Europe, just to lie in a shallow grave in Tinsel Town

Robusto

Tinstle Town?

Matt Эллен

Maybe

It's a word I never have to spell. A silent tea is natural for a Briton

terdon

@MattЭллен Very nice save there!

Robusto

New question for ELU: Why is busy pronounced with a z sound but Busey with an s?

Matt Эллен

13:40

@terdon bows

terdon

@Robusto Because one is about buziness, while the other concerns buses.

Robusto

That is wrong on so many levels.

terdon

And buziness gets its z from lasiness.

Robusto

Gary Busey

Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944) is an American actor. He has appeared in films such as The Buddy Holly Story (1978) Big Wednesday (1978) Lethal Weapon (1987), Point Break (1991), Under Siege (1992), Black Sheep (1996), and The Gingerdead Man (2005), and has had guest appearances on Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, Scrubs, and Entourage. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1978 for his role in The Buddy Holly Story. == Early life == Busey was born in Goose Creek, Texas, the son of Sadie Virginia (née Arnett), a homemaker, and Delmer Lloyd Busey, a construction design...

This is all about Buseyness.

Call it "show Buseyness."

terdon

:)

Matt Эллен

13:44

booze boose
ooze oose

Robusto

@MattЭллен So rust is russ in Britain? Communist!

Do you often pronounce the t in "often"?

Matt Эллен

not often. someimes

Robusto

Lier!

Lire!

Lyre!

Lyer!

Lyre, lyre, pans on fyer!

Matt Эллен

I'm no liar in my lair
There's pyre for that pair
And for hire there's a hare
In some wire underware

terdon

@MattЭллен oose? Did you mean the river ouse? Which does tend to ooze.

Lyre, lyre, strings on fire.

Matt Эллен

13:53

@terdon that makes me think of the river Ankh :D

terdon

@MattЭллен So it does :)

I always found the name of the ouse funny. And it does have a nice deep and utterly unappetizing brown color.

Matt Эллен

:D indeed!

terdon

Though, seeing as the damn thing overflows its banks pretty much once a year, it is a good deal less viscous than the Ankh.

There's actually a pub on its banks that has two entrances/bars. Once on the ground floor and one on the first for when it floods.

Matt Эллен

ha! yes. The ankh might rise, but I imagine it would go up vertically

terdon

Yes, and it would instantly become covered in graffiti.

user153963

14:07

hi , i m a non native english speaker , I want to about determinant , how to use it mostly "the"

terdon

Hi @user153963. Not sure what you mean but you will probably get better answers on English Language Learners.

Matt Эллен

@user153963 I agree with terdon. However, EL&U does have a wealth of questions about the definite-article

user153963

thanks

Jasper Loy

@MattЭллен I not only promise I will not delete my SE and email accounts, I also promise I will not change my username again. =)

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy OK!

Jasper Loy

14:15

Mariah Carey is coming here for one night in Oct. Zubin Mehta the same in Nov. Wow.

Matt Эллен

are you going to either?

Jasper Loy

I think probably neither. I don't want to spend too much of my mum's money.

I only spend money on books these days. I allow some indulgence in that.

Jasper Loy

14:45

Wow, another XXX downvoted me without commenting.

Matt Эллен

yeah, me too, although I'm not sure I should have answered that question

Jasper Loy

These XXX probably do not know why they are downvoting, lol.

Please approve my edit.

Matt Эллен

there are no edits in the queue

Jasper Loy

1

Q: Whats the meaning of "vertical" in a software project description

I'm a programmer from brazil and have here a software project to estimate. In the description I found this sentences: "...to provide the use cases for the vertical they might be interested." "...that would be suitable for that particular user and vertical." "...and the selected vertical." I r...

meaning american-english software

Matt Эллен

approved!

Jasper Loy

14:57

To keep my rep at a multiple of 5, lol.

Matt Эллен

I like to keep mine as a multiple of 1

Jasper Loy

However, once I reach 2k, I will stop doing that, lol.

thefragmenter

15:17

Hi, my senior manager is taking his mother for a medical appointment which he notified by mail now. What would be a professional response?

terdon

@thefragmenter I hope she gets better soon?

Are you looking for The Workplace?

thefragmenter

@terdon Not really, I just want to know the right words to reply to him. Thank you for that.

terdon

@thefragmenter I have no idea. Are you his boss or is he yours? What is the issue? Should he have let you know earlier? Should he not go? Are you worried about his mother? Are you pissed that he's missing work? Is it an emergency? How would we know what you want to say?

Matt Эллен

15:34

@thefragmenter What do you think you should say?

thefragmenter

He is my boss, its not a emergency issue. He is just letting us know he wont be at desk for next 2 hours. Nothing much, I replied back 'Hope she gets well soon". I think its more of a appointment than anything else.

terdon

Sounds good to me.

Matt Эллен

I agree

terdon

By the way, @Mitch, surely the sound of geese stepping on hats would be goosh.

Jasper Loy

17:03

Welcome home @matt. I think I have decided on my language and LaTeX books now, lol.

Deep

17:26

I have a quick question: What is the word for what the actors are doing on stage? (E.g. :An actor is cowering from another etc.) (I'm writing about The Tempest for some homework)

Cerberus

@tchrist Oh, sure, but it depends on how large you would make the countries.

@Deep I'm not sure I understand.

Lobbying in Brussels.

Notice how most of those companies are not even European parasites.

At least a Dutch company is in the top 5, yay!

Deep

Our teacher taught us a word for what actors are doing on stage, and I would like to use it in my work. What should I clarify?

My initial thoughts were Stage Directions, which is wrong, and Cinematography, but thats to do with films

A better explanation would be "The word for what the audience see on stage" An example from The Tempest may be if Caliban is cowering from Prospero During Act 1 Scene 2

@Cerberus

Cerberus

@Deep I'm sorry, I do not understand the question. I will give you a couple of answers that are probably not what you're looking for, so you can tell me why not.

> acting

> a play.

> cowering

> theatre (= the genre/practice of performing plays)

> choreography

hey

17:57

My chromium theme automatically changed to old Internet explorer theme!!

Cerberus

Congratulations!

hey

OMG same the case with firefox theme!!

Cerberus

Umm.

Perhaps you have installed some kind of malware?

hey

nope i was doing experiments with commands in Terminal, lol

But i know askubuntu will help.

terdon

@hey Don't do that! If you want to play around with random commands, at least create a different user for it.

hey

18:06

Ya i know i should take care of it. I

terdon

Well, let me know if you need help.

WTF?

@Eric: Spanish, Filipino (+ others?) use illnesses as curses. — smci Sep 30 at 0:36

The Spanish don't as far as I know. What, Eres una puta gripe? @tchrist

Mitch

18:26

@terdon How dare you!

terdon

Stop griping!

Mitch

y tu mama tambien has a cold.

hey

@terdon You can help me here

Mitch

You piece of...

... athlete's foot!

terdon

@hey That looks like you changed the GTK rendering agent. The simplest solution will probably be to log out and back in again or to reboot. Try that and edit your question to mention that it's still a problem if it doesn't fix it.

@Mitch Oy! That's a horrible line of clothes!

Mitch

18:28

@terdon Gah! You mean Foot Locker?

terdon

No, I mean athlete's foot. I couldn't believe the name either.

Mitch

Free shoe laces with every pair!

terdon

theathletesfoot.com.au

Mitch

OMG. I'm going barefoot then.

terdon

Isn't that incredible? Perhaps Athlete's Foot doesn't mean the same thing in au_EN

Cerberus

18:33

I think it is a disease?

Or at the very least an affliction.

terdon

A fungus, yes.

Ewwww!

Cerberus

Lovely.

Why did the subject come up?

terdon

32 mins ago, by terdon

@Eric: Spanish, Filipino (+ others?) use illnesses as curses. — smci Sep 30 at 0:36

And the subsequent exchange.

:18020632 Removed that since there's no reason to be staring at it. Anyone who wants to can go here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlete%27s_foot

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