English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

4:00 PM

Besides, my original question still stands. If I ask why X is true, then saying X is true is not much of a hint.

@JasperLoy yeah no, I suppose I'll pass, then.

@tchrist stuffs Nutella packets into prison uniform

@RegDwigнt well, it's not obvious to many people the missing steps. p,q odd -> pq odd -> pq+1 even-> even means divisible by two -> divisible by anything other than one is 'not prime'

Anonymous

Oh, I like that bolding and italics in markdown sometimes work in the middle of words now.

Matt Эллен

yeah

Undo

Itdoesnow?

Ooh cool

Mitch

@RegDwigнt It's more like JL said 2+2 is two twos therefore it equals 4.

Undo

4:03 PM

IIRC it only works with *'s and not _'s

Anonymous

Yeah, which makes things a little easier on Japanese.SE :-)

Undo

this__is__atest

thisisatest

Anonymous

That's right

Anonymous

> 「吾輩は猫である」は雜誌ホトヽギスに連載した續き物である。

Anonymous

> 「吾輩は猫である」は雜誌ホトヽギスに連載した續き物である。

Matt Эллен

4:05 PM

thatwasatest

Anonymous

> 「吾輩は猫である」は雜誌ホトヽギスに連載した續き物である。

Mitch

You didn't say it three times.

I don't trust you anymore.

Matt Эллен

ititit

tchrist

Must use stars. Underscores are wrong.

RegDwigнt

1612541256800854126109882

Anonymous

4:06 PM

Hmm, how did I break the "inter-word" bolding last time?

tchrist

You titted it?

Anonymous

I was in the middle of something and didn't make a note of it.

tchrist

Maybe the past of tit is tat.

English needs stronger verbs.

tuts

RegDwigнt

Yes, by analogy to the past tense of it being at.

tchrist

Dint you say at before?

Matt Эллен

4:07 PM

I it
I have ut
I at

RegDwigнt

I fly to Italy, I flied to Ataly.

Matt Эллен

I y
I have own
I eww

Anonymous

> 「許さない、（許さないのは）**絶対にだ！」　→　「許さない、**絶対にだ！」

RegDwigнt

I wanted to buy ten items but then bought ten atems.

tchrist

macbook# perl -le 'print 3x2x3'
333333

Anonymous

4:10 PM

I had to insert spaces in that to make it bold properly.

tchrist

macbook# perl -le 'print 3**2**3'
6561

Anonymous

> 「許さない、（許さないのは） 絶対に だ！」　→　「許さない、 絶対に だ！」

RegDwigнt

What's with the two asterisks.

That looks better.

tchrist

Power.

RegDwigнt

No, not you, snailboat.

tchrist

4:11 PM

Glory.

Anonymous

@RegDwigнt Bold failure :-(

RegDwigнt

How is six times three OVER 9000?

Wait, don't tell, I shall ask Jasper on Math.

@snailboat so I figured.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Knuth power sets.

macbook# perl -le 'print 6 ** 6 ** 6'
inf

And inf > 9000.

Kinda.

RegDwigнt

Every time you type that shit I imagine how your macbook is all pretentious talking in French.

Le Perl sez, le six times six is le 12.

tchrist

macbook# perl -Mbigint -e 'print 6 ** 6 ** 6' | wc -c
   36306

RegDwigнt

4:14 PM

Water closet with no closet?

That is a very elaborate way of saying "water".

tchrist

macbook# perl -Mbigint -le 'print length(6 ** 6 ** 6)'
36306

Now tell me how I know that’s the right answer.

Undo

it looks right

tchrist

Because it ends in 6, and has a number of digits that is a multiple of 6. A very large multiple of 6.

macbook# perl -Mbigint -le 'print substr(6 ** 6 ** 6, -30)'
491705629432886056717863878656

factor(36306) => 2 3 3 2017

Where the 2017 came from I give you 2y2m3d to figure out.

Mitch

What? Why does the number of digits of a power of 6 in decimal base necessarily have to be divisible by 6?

RegDwigнt

Because le Perl sez so.

I don't understand a single anything of anything tchrist has posted in the last fifteen minutes.

tchrist

4:22 PM

macbook# perl -Mbigint -le '$n = 5 ** 5 ** 5; print length($n); print substr($n,-20)'
2185
85876941680908203125

RegDwigнt

Commute!

Matt Эллен

CU

Jasper Loy

Kris got 9 downvotes again today, haha.

Is Kris on fire?

Matt Эллен

hopefully not

Jasper Loy

I am considering changing lol to haha and hehe.

Please star the above important message.

Matt Эллен

4:36 PM

um...

Jasper Loy

I reached 2k, lol. But maybe it will drop later, lol.

Johan Larsson

@JasperLoy shift focus?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt Mini Cooper alternate build: flickr.com/photos/48587314@N04/15451929387

Jasper Loy

Fumble has enough rep to cast a single close vote and close the question, haha

tchrist

5:06 PM

@JasperLoy No, he doesn’t.

Jasper Loy

Aha!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@tchrist It seems that that page says he does? But only for limited circumstances.

tchrist

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 You don’t need rep.

You need a gold tag badge.

Not rep.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Ah, and the badge is based on votes, not specifically rep. Well, subtle distinction.

Jasper Loy

english.stackexchange.com/questions/204818/… has so many questions in it I am not sure what the question is.

Jasper Loy

5:32 PM

I just got 2 points from user removed.

tchrist

Good luck figuring out who it was.

Jasper Loy

Not trying to figure out. Probably a very low profile one.

Cerberus

Hello.

ProgramFOX

Hello.

Cerberus

Hi.

I want a modular Nexus phone at a low price.

Is that too much to ask??

Jasper Loy

5:40 PM

I have a weird question. Do you think that for an ant, the ant's life is worth living?

Johan Larsson

Are people buying newspapers in your countries?

Jasper Loy

@JohanLarsson Of course there are buyers, why?

Johan Larsson

In Sweden sales are down much and it is not a new thing

Cerberus

@JohanLarsson Most newspapers are holding out fairly well.

Johan Larsson

I think part of the problem is that they don't sell journalism any more. They sell klicks to ad buyers.

Cerberus

5:43 PM

But I think the trend is downwards in the long term.

But services like Blendle may turn the tide electronically.

Johan Larsson

also new competition from blogs etc.

Cerberus

Blendle

Blendle is a Dutch online pay-per-view news platform that aggregates articles from a variety of newspapers. The key difference to previous other pay-per-view websites is the participation by otherwise commercially unrelated news services in one website/online format, and the ability for users - once signed up - to easily pay small fees, even on an article-by-article basis. It has been called an "iTunes of News" in various media. One of the co-founders of the project was Alexander Klöpping. Blendle has backing of the Dutch government during its trial phase starting in April 2014. == References... ==

Blendle is doing well, it seems.

Mitch

@Cerberus It's all down hill from here.

Cerberus

A consortium of the New York Times and some German organisation has just invested €3 million in Blendle.

@Mitch Well, the hill is far steeper on your side of the pond.

Jasper Loy

Kris tends to make extremely misleading comments. Since he has over 20k, people might be inclined to take him seriously.

Mitch

5:45 PM

@JasperLoy That's a weird question. Shouldn't you be asking ants?

Cerberus

@JasperLoy I am not a fan.

Jasper Loy

@Mitch Yeah, but I can't talk ant language. Next question. Do you think for a North Korean, his life is worth living? Hmm...

Mitch

@Cerberus If you're on a bike going down it's great.

Jasper Loy

@Cerberus I am also not a fan, but I have some fans at home since it is hot here.

Mitch

@JasperLoy I think that's presumptuous. If you were you inhabiting the body of an ant (or North Korean), you might feel restricted to the point of not being able to stand it. In the other direction, they may not feel comfortable living the way you do.

Cerberus

5:49 PM

@Mitch No, that's dangerous.

Jasper Loy

@Mitch I ask because I am not sure whose lives are worth living anymore.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy I meant a fan of Kris.

Jasper Loy

@Cerberus Whoosh.

Cerberus

Um, oh, I get it.

Mitch

@Cerberus The wind rushing past... leaning into turns... hitting the guard rail... flying...

@JasperLoy everybody's

Jasper Loy

5:52 PM

@Mitch OK. I am still thinking of my answer to the question. Rather, I am still searching for the answer.

Cerberus

@Mitch ...dying...

Mitch

See Monty Python's 'The Meanng of Life'.

@Cerberus augh... you're supposed to stop enumerating before that. If you don't list it, nobody will know.

Jasper Loy

Today I asked a deity for his answer to a problem of mine. I went to a temple and got a divination lot.

Mitch

►

Jasper Loy

I do not know the exact identity of this deity, but so far in my life, all the divination lots were true.

Mitch

5:58 PM

"but I didn't have the mousse"

Stack Exchange

8:43 PM

Limerick Machine: A man who could no longer blink Found his eyes started to shrink Back into his skull His...

posted on October 27, 2014 by sgdi

A man who could no longer blink Found his eyes started to shrink Back into his skull His brain’s bony hull His brain was a strange shade of pink

RegDwigнt

9:04 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 that is quite sick indeed.

One day when I really, finally, honestly-honestly stop buying sets, I should try and venture into the terrain of alternative builds.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt You don't need to stop buying sets in order to build something with an old set.

Anyway, have a good evening. bye!

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yes, but it takes quite some time for me to learn that.

Bye!

Anonymous

9:21 PM

🐌 🐌 🐌

RegDwigнt

9:38 PM

Three squares!

Which means that the square must be true.

Jasper Loy

I am very happy that I got 2k on Eng SE. It is now time to retire, but I will come to chat.

RegDwigнt

You only need 15 for that. Duh.

Or was it 20?

At any rate, OVER 9000 LESS than 2k.

Jasper Loy

I think it is 20.

Johan Larsson

10:06 PM

!!define fickle

googled it

Jasper Loy

10:20 PM

Do suggested edits disappear from the queue after a day or something?

Undo

IIRC no

SrJoven

10:43 PM

@SrJoven Are you implying that they (who voted to close the question) think I'm trolling? When you reply to my comment, make it straight and clear, please. — ivanhoescott 9 mins ago

I just ... wow.

Jasper Loy

SE is full of drama. It is a distraction from everyday life.

SrJoven

it's like language pr0n

Like going through the site trying to find all the [questions] that appeal to you and then trying not to be distracted from that by the single word requests.

Jasper Loy

I am on SE to have some fun and maybe find a girl, lol.

SrJoven

So, do you like linguistics?

Jasper Loy

Not really. I know nothing about it. I only know simple English.

SrJoven

10:49 PM

"My vocabulary is bigger than most men's."

ELU pick-up lines

Jasper Loy

Aha! Well, it is well known in this chat that I have an extremely small vocab. I used testyourvocab.com to find out that my vocab is about 18,000 words lol.

That is because I use simple words all the time. With 18,000 words I can express everything I need to.

Jasper Loy

11:39 PM

I broke a record. I have not slept for 24 hours!

Mitch

11:59 PM

@SrJoven tchrist had it right. don't feed the troll. (well, I think by definition a troll is insincere, and I believe ivanhoe to be sincere, but the principle is the same. Let's say don't feed the fire.

@JasperLoy That doesn't sound like a good record to break on purpose

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