English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Mazura

03:12

Look out BELOW!!!!!!!! lol @tchrist

Tonepoet

03:56

@tchrist ordinal-number-word-requests

Everything with the tag would just be dupes varying on the theme of "Is there a specific word I can use to always illicit an ordinal response to a question?"

Meysam

04:51

Hi

ARUNBALAN NV

05:53

hello

Matt E. Эллен

10:18

@Robusto thanks :D

@Robusto thanks, I think...

skull patrol

How long did it take to grow your beard? @MattE.Эллен

Matt E. Эллен

I've been growing it for five years

I cut it back periodically

so, it could be longer

skull patrol

Looks cool.

Matt E. Эллен

thanks :D

Robusto

10:47

I have no trouble growing a beard, but a lot of it is gray now so I don't. Still have only streaks of gray in my hair though.

Robusto

11:11

@RegDwigнt: This just in: Putin goes down with the ship.

Who knew he was so manly?

@tchrist: Two people in Colorado have died from the plague recently? WTF?

tchrist

Yes, well.

Robusto

How do you get the plague in this day and age?

tchrist

Fleas.

Robusto

The next question is how do you get fleas in this day and age.

tchrist

Prairie dogs.

And thence to domestic animals.

Robusto

11:20

Like cats?

tchrist

Robusto

> What a revoltin' development.

So you don't worry about letting the cats out?

tchrist

Yes.

Nothing to be done.

cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00041848.htm

33 years old.

Robusto

> . . . and avoiding direct contact with sick or dead rodents.

There goes my social calendar.

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Q: Is it possible to write thanking you so much at the end of a letter or an email?

well, I've just got an email which seems mysterious to me.at the end of a letter she used this expression ; Thanking you so much Now I confused ! It's not true I think.. But she insisted that its Amirecan style of writing!

grammar

. . .

Get this "Amirecan style of writing" filth off our porch!

tchrist

The prairie dog town about a mile from me is periodically annihilated. I think the previous extinction event was last year.

Robusto

11:32

Annihilated by plague? Or by animal control officers?

0

Q: Influence of Spanish and usage of Spanish words in US English

A recent report by Instituto Cervantes ["El Español una lengua viva, informe 2015"] lists the US as the 4th country in the world with more native Spanish speakers (41.343.921), getting close to Spain (42.982.862), further away from Mexico (117.133.629) and Colombia (47.630.575). The definition of...

etymology american-english usage spanish reference

@tchrist: You might want to weigh in here. ^

tchrist

Hard to know where to start.

Robusto

It's a broad topic.

This is an interesting question, but one that is likely to be closed because the site discourages list questions. I think you'll find, though, that outside of terms for food and a couple of other items (the Chevy vehicle El Camino comes to mind), Spanish and English tend not to mix much in the USA. Spanish remains, unfortunately, an underclass language throughout much of the country. — Robusto 44 mins ago

There is a surprising oil-and-water coexistence of the two languages in the US, as far as I can tell.

tchrist

albatross,barbecue, bonanza, peon, cannibal, cigar, cargo, adobe, tuna, embargo, propaganda, galleon, guerrilla, aficionado, fiesta, alligator, crimson, armadillo, bronco, cockroach, mosquito, mustang, arroyo, breeze, buckaroo, caldera, canyon, playa, sierra, tornado, temblor, hoosegow, chaps, desperado, renegade, lariat, lasso, mesa, ranch, rodeo, stampede, patio, plaza piñata, quinceañera, tango, silo, armada, vigilante, flotilla, canoe, mesquite, iguana, hurricane, savanna, condor, jerky,puma

vamoose

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OFFENCE AND OFFENSE by Bella Thorne on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

incomunicado

anchovy, chocolate, cocoa, cilantro, comrade, coyote, corral, crusade, doubloon, jade, maroon, oregano, pim(i)ento, poncho, savvy, sherry, stockade, suave, sombrero, vertigo, vanilla, zyxxy

maize

yucca

Jude Niroshan

12:01

hi. Greetings everyone!

Robusto

@tchrist I styand corrected.

Jude Niroshan

is this ok ?
For those who may concern more details :
I have prepared the list of hotels alone with the status of availability in BO LIVE node 4. It has attached to this email. You may want to refer to it.

tchrist

palaver, admiral, alchemy, chemistry, alcohol, alcove, alfalfa, algebra, algorithm, alkali, apricot, arsenal, artichoke, assassin, aubergine, average, azimuth, azure, borax, caramel, caravel, cotton, carmine, carafe, cork, creole, fanfare, flamingo, fusillade, indigo, jaguar, jar, negro, orange, saffron, sofa, sultanas, tapioca, tarragon, zenith.

skull patrol

@JudeNiroshan For those who may ~~concern~~ need more details: I have prepared the list of hotels alone with the status of availability in BO LIVE node 4. It ~~has~~ is attached to this email. You may want to refer to it.

Robusto

12:20

@tchrist chemistry? Surely that doesn't come from quimica.

tchrist

albino, salsa, taco, burro, burrito, loco, jalapeño, habanero, nachos, avocado, banana, bravo, tomato, potato, matador, conquistador, parador, ceviche, mojitos, tortillas, chipotle, peyote, tequila, flan, tamales, tostadas, quesadillas, queso, empenadas, cerveza, chorizo, pitaya

Robusto

I ruled out food items.

tchrist

@Robusto Arabic word, transmitted to English via Spanish to French.

Some disputation there.

> a. OFr. alquimie, -emie, -kemie, -camie (also ar-), ad. med.L. alchimia (Pr. alkimia, Sp. alquimia, Ital. alchimia), a. Arab. al-kīmīā, i.e. al the + kīmīā, apparently a. Gr. χημία, χημεία, found (c. 300) in the Decree of Diocletian against ‘the old writings of the Egyptians, which treat of the χημία (transmutation) of gold and silver’; hence the word is explained by most as ‘Egyptian art,’ and identified with χημία, Gr. form (in Plutarch) of the native name of Egypt (land of Khem or Khamè, hieroglyphic Khmi, ‘black earth,’ in contrast to the desert sand). If so, it was afterwards etymol…

Robusto

12:33

I had always assumed a Greek origin for chemistry.

tchrist

agave, booby, saguaro, cholla, ocotillo, mariposa, manzanita, lechuguilla, paloverde, cenizo, piñon, candelilla, sotol, javelina, peccary.

Some better known to denizens of our Southwestern deserts.

Robusto

Did you list canyon yet?

tchrist

Yes.

ramada

bodega

Robusto

I doubt Americans outside the southwest know what a ramada is.

I only knew what a bodega was because I lived down the street from one in Chicago.

Matt E. Эллен

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, or from medieval Latin assassinus, from Arabic ḥašīšī 'hashish-eater'.
More
Words that rhyme with assassin
Yeltsin • sasine

tchrist

12:37

Robusto

@tchrist Most Americans would call that a pavilion.

Matt E. Эллен

looks like a gazebo

tchrist

@MattE.Эллен A lot of the words ultimately of Arabic were dispersed via the Iberian peninsula.

Matt E. Эллен

or should a gazebo have walls?

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен Gazebos usually have half-walls and a roof. They are also usually raised.

tchrist

12:38

Well, we call those ramadas here.

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto ah

Robusto

@tchrist What did you call them in Lake Geneva?

tchrist

Canopies? Shelters?

The sun doesn’t fry your skull in Lake Geneva.

Ramada (shelter)

In the southwestern United States, a ramada is a temporary or permanent shelter equipped with a roof but no walls, or only partially enclosed. Ramadas have traditionally been constructed with branches or bushes by aboriginal Americans living in the region (deriving from the Spanish rama, meaning "branch"). However, the term today is also applied to permanent concrete, wooden, or steel structures used to shelter objects or people from the sun. For example, public parks in desert areas of the United States may contain ramadas with picnic tables, restrooms, water sources, etc. Since sunlight is more...

Robusto

I learned them as pavilions.

tchrist

I for some reason feel like a pavilion needs to seat more than a single picnic table.

Robusto

12:44

Musikpavillon

When we were doing trail rides in Arizona we came upon a lot of makeshift ramadas, but I had never heard the term till then.

RegDwigнt

14:32

@Robusto I wouldn't call that facial expression manly.

Pussily, perhaps. Manly? No. No way.

@MattE.Эллен you look like John Lennon with no glasses and no beard.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt OK :D

RegDwigнt

Or, since this site requires it to be a single word, you look putin-in-submarine-pussily.

Matt E. Эллен

I guess I look musical :D

RegDwigнt

Seriously though, stop depriving the Irish of their potatoes for your photography needs, get a proper bloody camera, chap.

One just can't possibly tell where your beard is in the picture.

Matt E. Эллен

the camera is fine. I deliberately distorted the image

RegDwigнt

14:44

Yeah yeah yeah. Said every person on MySpace ever.

Matt E. Эллен

yesterday, by Matt E. Эллен

EightBitify.me

@RegDwigнt my beard is disguised as a t-shirt, so number two is the correct answer

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен well. They suck. Here's what you really should look like in eight bit:

Matt E. Эллен

I could make it do that, but that's too indistinguishable

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Wait, I know that guy!

RegDwigнt

Of course you do.

Matt E. Эллен

14:50

lol

Robusto

Doesn't Photoshop have a Lego-ify filter yet? That would work.

RegDwigнt

John Oliver - The Taliban's Leader

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Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto I think it's John Lennon without Paul McCartney's beard

RegDwigнt

> Hair: black
Nationality: Afghan
Height: tall

(c) CIA

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен I thought it was Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck's chest hair.

3

Q: What is a word for someone who prefers to be lonely?

A word that means someone isn't a peoples person and feels much more comfortable without the need of friends or family and keep to themselves.

single-word-requests

Uh-oh. Might wanna protect that one.

RegDwigнt

14:53

Might as well close it.

Robusto

Only way to be sure.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

The less said about gazebo eight, the better.

Robusto

BTW, what are the mechanics for when a high-rep user can protect a question? I almost never see a "protect" button.

Hey, it's @cornbread.

How're things?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto butters self

Things are many in number.

Robusto

That is a property of things, yes.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

14:56

I have tennis class tonight. Still sore from crushing it on Monday.

Robusto

Man, I haven't played tennis since basketball ruined my knees.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I think nonmods must wait 24 hours or some such.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto I have many things.

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Don't think we haven't noticed.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Your knees.

RegDwigнt

14:56

I have seven things.

One of them is hundreds of thousands of legos.

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Wait, you have my knees? When can I get them back?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto how about never? Is never good for you?

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 cries

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto okay, okay.

Ack, conference call.

turns off Billy Squier

Robusto

The unkindest call of all.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

14:59

@Robusto I am WFH, so I get to use the LiveMeeting audio and shout at my laptop!

Robusto

I shout at my laptop regardless.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@RegDwigнt what else have you?

@Robusto Yeah.

Robusto

I also shout at browsers when they are behaving stupidly, like not running my code correctly.

RegDwigнt

Louis CK - Incurable Shitty Ankle

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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Canceled!

Robusto

15:00

It's their fault, after all. Stupid browsers.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 The best outcome possible!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto that's the truth.

@RegDwigнt my mother complains about pain like she's young enough to be fixed.

She also shows cleavage like someone who's young enough to show cleavage.

Anyway.

RegDwigнt

Tonight on How I Met Ninja's Mother...

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Marge Simpson laughter

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Parents are embarrassing.

So are Republicans.

RegDwigнt

Fact: most mothers are boards.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

15:09

Broads?

Oh.

@Robusto she's 68.

Robusto

When the Republicans were trying to impeach Clinton I kept saying, "Enough already! Listening to how Clinton was supposed to have had sex with Monica Lewinsky is like listening to a description of your parents fucking. Everybody knows it happened, but nobody wants to hear about it."

Nobody wants to imagine their parents' O face.

RegDwigнt

Good thing Democrats never bring up whom Dubya or Cain were fucking. Vote Democrat!

Robusto

Cain? You mean the guy who killed his brother in the bible?

RegDwigнt

Well I figured if I'm allowed to shorten the pres, then I was all the more allowed to shorten a fricken nobody.

Am I wrong? Am I wrong, dude? Am I wrong?

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 That is over the age of preemptive cleavage.

Hey, I never said you were wrong. I just asked a question.

RegDwigнt

15:13

My buddies didn't die face down in the mud so you could ask questions.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

You're not wrong, Walter. You're just an asshole.

RegDwigнt

Well, that's just like, your opinion, man.

Robusto

If it hadn't been for The Big Lebowski, much of my past 18 years of life would have big blank spots where conversation should have been.

That and Pulp Fiction.

RegDwigнt

And then you'd have to fix the cable.

Robusto

Well aren'tcha?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

15:17

@Robusto be cool, honey bunny.

Robusto

I have to go pee.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Once you go pee, you never go _____.

Robusto

Q?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

A.

QED.

RegDwigнt

Speaking of which. After watching the trailer for the hateful eight, and in light of my suffering through Django Unchained, I guess I will wait till it's out for free.

Robusto

15:19

That's a new QT film?

RegDwigнt

Yeah.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I don't think I've seen anything after Four Rooms.

Robusto

RegDwigнt

Wait. Wait wait. That's not the trailer I saw.

Robusto

Do you recognize this walrus?

RegDwigнt

15:20

@Robusto that is more like it.

So anyway.

Eight people, one room, three hours, and no Sally Menke. Thanks but no thanks.

I'll go watch Reservoir Dogs twice in that time.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

WTF did I just watch?

RegDwigнt

THE HATEFUL EIGHT - Official Teaser Trailer - The Weinstein Company

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Yeah sorry.

This here is the actual trailer I had in mind.

That other guy is apparently a spammer.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Janis Joplin!

Kurt Russell as Sam Elliott.

Matt E. Эллен

guy spammer. not good a making films

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Is he the one married to Madonna?

Matt E. Эллен

15:25

slightly better than guy ritchie

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I dunno, I'll prolly see it.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Ha!

Matt E. Эллен

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I think they're cousins

Robusto

Big Brother & The Holding Company - Big Brother & The Holding Company - 08 - Down On Me

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You asked!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

What a fabulous typeface!

It's track 08, even.

Robusto

15:27

That is young Janis. Not that there was ever an old Janis, mind you, but the point is worth noting.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver young?

Robusto

No. Not 14.

Though I imagine Janis had a few miles on her by the time she was 14.

I don't think she was chugging a quart of Southern Comfort by that time, but I could be wrong.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Dusty Louisiana miles.

Robusto

There's a guy here who takes half-days of vacation. I think he needs to look up the word in a dictionary.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected, offensive title detected: trying to teach my son how to add emphasis withoug using fuck or fucking, he's 24! by Camille Markham on english.stackexchange.com

Cerberus

15:30

The Sail festival has begun.

Robusto

"What the fuck you talkin' about?"—The Dude — Robusto 9 secs ago

Cerberus

Many ships are sailing to Amsterdam.

Robusto

@Cerberus Looks more like the snail festival.

Cerberus

Well sailing is faster than walking!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Black sails in the sunset.

Johan Larsson

15:32

Tired dogs today, youngest walks like a lizard on hot sand.

Matt E. Эллен

MVI 4935

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Robusto

@JohanLarsson When did you start writing poetry.

Johan Larsson

never tried

sail

Cerberus

@Robusto Apparently, speed sailors can go 95 km/h.

What's the top speed for bikes?

Johan Larsson

Not the best song but a great fit with wingsuiting.

Robusto

15:35

Sarah Vaughan - My Ship

►

Segue.

Cerberus

> The highest speed officially recorded for a bicycle ridden in a conventional upright position under fully faired conditions was 82.52 km/h (51.28 mph) over 200m.

Robusto

@Cerberus Depends on how fast you're willing to let yourself go downhll.

Cerberus

Sure.

Robusto

I never let myself go over about 50 kph.

Cerberus

If I drop a boat from a plane, I'm sure it can go faster than 95.

Robusto

15:36

Too dangerous.

Cerberus

Yeah.

Many bikers go too fast, in my opinion.

Only a tiny thing has to go wrong for them to bite the dust. Or even die.

Robusto

On the other hand, your comparison is poor because the ship gets its power from wind, not human muscle. A better contest would be between a rowed vessel and a bike.

Cerberus

Haha.

Johan Larsson

I noticed a new sound in my bike a couple of weeks ago. Checked it, the front wheel was loose.

Cerberus

Well, it started with your complaining about the slowness of sailing, did it not?

@JohanLarsson Dangerous!

Robusto

15:38

@Cerberus No. The picture looked like snails on a beach, not ships in the water, until I blew it up.

Johan Larsson

@Cerberus yeah, too old and fat for stunts

Robusto

I'm too old and smart for stunts, myself.

Johan Larsson

yep, js people must be smart :)

Matt E. Эллен

you can't spell javascript without s, m, a, r, and t

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Kid About It/Interview/Man Out Of Time (Live On Letterman 1982)

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@Robusto ^

Robusto

15:49

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Nice. And DL mentions Columbia, MO!

function spellJavaScript() {
  return 's' + 'm' + 'a' + 'r' + 't';
}

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Letterman looks like he's live from the set of Newhart.

Robusto

function spellJavaScript() {
  var ret = String.fromCharCode(115);
  ret += String.fromCharCode(109);
  ret += String.fromCharCode(97);
  ret += String.fromCharCode(114);
  ret += String.fromCharCode(116);
 return ret;
}

For people who like it to be more opaque.

Johan Larsson

looks like both allocates heavily

microoptimization opportunity

Robusto

16:06

You could say that about any Rube Goldberg contraption.

Cerberus

I'm getting less fat.

I'm already down 3 kg, 6 to go.

Until I reach a perfect weight.

But, yeah, it would have been really nice if liposuction were free and wholesome.

Robusto

Exercise helps.

Cerberus

I don't know, it just makes me eat more.

But I do it nonetheless.

Luckily, I've always had strong knees.

@tchrist -flexion, -nexion, -pexion (but not -spection), -plexion. These are the Latin verbs where -ection would be a malformation in English, instead of the proper -exion. Note also that conexion is better than connexion.

Johan Larsson

16:25

@Cerberus Current height weight?

Robusto

@Cerberus Probably you haven't stressed them much.

Cerberus

@JohanLarsson Hey, that's private!

Johan Larsson

ok, we are private now, adjusting

Cerberus

Hehe.

But my BMI is just insie the "normal" range.

Johan Larsson

Summer is good for losing weight, hot weather makes me want light food.

+ outdoor activities

Cerberus

16:27

I'm afraid nothing makes me want to eat less.

Robusto

Mine is a little below average. I should eat more, but I don't. Unless I'm on vacation.

Johan Larsson

I'm fat, getting skinny arms though.

Starting to look like a programmer

Robusto

You should exercise more.

Johan Larsson

yes

Robusto

Nothing makes me feel better than exercise.

Johan Larsson

16:31

true story

Robusto

Probably I'm addicted to endorphins.

Johan Larsson

best drug

Robusto

And why I've trashed my body pursuing them.

We are chemical beings, my friend.

If I ever get too old/infirm to exercise, I don't know what I'll do.

Johan Larsson

Try Haskell if it happens.

Robusto

When I had my knee surgery I didn't exercise vigorously for about a year. I gained weight and was depressed. It was awful.

@Cerberus Freedom of speech alert!

You can't a worthwhile discussion of profanity in language without using profanity. And one person's "frick" is another person's "fuck": the euphemisms soon become offensive to the more easily offended among us. — Robusto 1 min ago

Cerberus

16:40

@JohanLarsson Except But not very fat, right?

@Robusto Excersise rarely makes me feel good at all. More like miserable.

You're so lucky.

Robusto

You have to work up to it.

Cerberus

What does that mean?

I run several times a week.

Hate it every time.

Robusto

I bike every single day, and I keep getting better.

Cerberus

Only sprinting I enjoy somewhat, but that is no good.

Robusto

And I love it every time.

Cerberus

16:42

You're lucky to have the endorphins.

Robusto

I'm sure you have endorphins too.

How far and fast do you run?

Cerberus

Depends.

Usually about 40 minutes.

Johan Larsson

@Cerberus prolly not but abs are not visible even when the light is ideal :)

Cerberus

7 km or so.

tchrist

> † amˈplexion [n.]
annexion [n.]
anteflexion [n.]
circumflexion [n.]
complexion [n.]
comˈplexioning [vbl. n.] ← complexion
connexion [n.]
deflexion [n.]
† deˈvexion [n.]
disconnexion [n.]
exion [n.]
flexion [n.]
genuflexion [n.]
† imˈplexion [n.]
inconnexion [n.]
inflexion [n.]
interconnexion [n.]
oscul-inflexion [n.]
† perˈplexion [n.]
retroflexion [n.]
† tranˈsexion [n.]

Johan Larsson

16:45

hi Tom :)

Cerberus

But I have run faster or less fast, for longer and shorter periods.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Cerberus

Hardly ever do I get any endorphins.

tchrist

Dems all you gets.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

For @Cerberus - that's a new taoist temple near Toronto

Robusto

16:45

@Cerberus You don't get them unless you push yourself.

Go farther or faster and see what happens.

Cerberus

@tchrist Good.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Looks like Lego!

But it is a nice effect, I'll give you that.

@Robusto I have done that. I only feel more miserable.

Gladder that it's over.

My body is just rational, I suppose.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus you like it?! ugh, I think it's hideous. It's made of concrete and rust.

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Well, as often with modern architecture, the materials are ugly, and the details are hideous or absent.

Robusto

@Cerberus I don't know what to tell you. I never felt that way. Even when I'm tired and spent, it's a good form of tired.

Johan Larsson

@Cerberus Go for a 14h walk with 15 kg backpack.

Cerberus

16:48

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 But at least the general shape is interesting, whereas even that is meaningless and dull in most modern buildings.

Johan Larsson

Preferably a scenic place.

Cerberus

@Robusto Yeah. I'm just jealous.

@JohanLarsson Haha, that sounds even more horrible.

I hate sweating, except when I'm really exercising.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus I think it should be a crime to deliberately make a building out of rust.

Robusto

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I guess you're not a fan of CorTen steel then.

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I think the architectural trend of modernism should be a crime. But what can we do?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

16:50

@Robusto No, I'm not, and that's exactly what I'm talking about.

Robusto

Weathering steel

Weathering steel, best-known under the trademark COR-TEN steel and sometimes written without the hyphen as "Corten steel", is a group of steel alloys which were developed to eliminate the need for painting, and form a stable rust-like appearance if exposed to the weather for several years. U.S. Steel holds the registered trademark on the name COR-TEN. Although USS sold its discrete plate business to International Steel Group (now Arcelor-Mittal) in 2003, it still sells COR-TEN branded material in strip-mill plate and sheet forms. The original COR-TEN received the standard designation A 242 ("COR...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

it's hideous

Cerberus

Alas, using rusty metal like that is no longer rare in modernism.

Robusto

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 But isn't there some East-Asian aesthetic in it?

I think they like it in Japan?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

16:51

enh. Sculptures are one thing. Buildings are totally different. They should not be rusty.

@Cerberus Well, as you say, the shape is interesting, though I'm not a fan, really...

but the rust offends me.

rust is a thing to be removed or prevented, not encouraged.

Robusto

Never bothered me.

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I like your sounding so conservative.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I'm not trying to be conservative! I like things to be new

I was at a store and they were selling "distressed" furniture.

FUCK THAT

I want new things to be new when I buy them.

Cerberus

Now imagine what the wrong use of Latin words is like for me! It's worse than your rust. It is like buildings in the shape of giant turds, made of rust only. With an army of sexist Barbie dolls glued to them.

Robusto

@Cerberus You two could have a hate-off to determine who hates what more: you and misuse of Latin or Mr. Shiny and rust.

Cerberus

16:58

I'm sure we could!

I don't know who would win.

Robusto

That would make betting all the more interesting.

Johan Larsson

How is hate measured?

rants per day?

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