The major problem is most of the people I interact with are second language English speakers

@Veo You can say that, but it's not great phrasing.

People would understand what you meant though.

It's a cultural centre

@JasperLoy Cheers

@KitZ.Fox how could it be put in a formal context?

@JasperLoy he learns Spanish and about Spanish history :D

@Veo He has frequented the cultural centre for many years. He is well-known to the cultural centre denizens.

Along those lines.

The second option is great! Love it, thanks.

@JasperLoy That's a bit too much there.

for SWRs.

@terdon also the soap opera effect: I've been watching it for so long I'm invested in the characters.

@Mitch yes

Also, Swindon

@MattE.Эллен Hey, I've seen at least three seasons of the damn thing. At least there's Carlyle.

See also: aisle.

which also happens to be a surprisingly terrible Scrabble word

I was told it had

But what would I know?

tchrist

@terdon there are a few good Brits and Aussies in there. Will Scarlet is pretty good in Being Human. Robin Hood was good as a child actor. Dr. Whale was in Heroes, I mean, sure, Snow White, Prince Charming, Emma Swan, Regina and Henry are all pretty bad at acting, and they make up the bulk of the show, and the writing is just plain bad, but it has its charms

At last, there's a feature that makes me want to switch to Perl (6)

@MattE.Эллен That about sums up my opinion of it as well. I have watched it after all :)

:D

Beg our pardon, Dr. Whale is American

@MattE.Эллен ow. that hurts

WOO! @MattE.Эллен Woo! WOO! does a little dance

Check the site, dude. What do you not see?

birthday? Nobel Prize? hot snapple factoid?

Would you recommend Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as a well-written, thought-provoking text?

@Mitch OK. But it's something that particularly Matt will not see.

@MoonOwl22 Well-written, yes. Thought-provoking, not really.

there is no interrupting here. we're all interrupting each other all the time.

@KitZ.Fox woo! amazing!

@KitZ.Fox thought jinx.

@MattE.Эллен First time since um. Around when you were elected? Before that even maybe.

yeah, so what's so great about it? I always site Jane Austen as the best ever, but when you realize it is not very thought provoking, that sort of diminishes it.

@Veo "exceptional consideration" doesn't say what you mean it to say.

@KitZ.Fox nah, I've cleared them out before :D but the first time probably since June

Can you guys do that for the review queue too then?

I was watching the School of Life and there was a mention about it being a significant text in the cultural development of what we now identify as marriage

"His parents contacted me as president to request an exception in accepting their child to the centre" or something like that.

@MattE.Эллен Oh. Well. Still.

@Mitch Could? Yes. Would? No. Do your own job.

:P

@Mitch spend hours clearing flags? well... I suppose. Can't the high rep users do it?

jinx :D

@KitZ.Fox hmm... I've heard the phrase Petition For Exceptional Consideration somewhere, though

@MoonOwl22 Oh. Well, that is true.

@KitZ.Fox actually, maybe March. I can't remember when it was.

It was around the time when marrying someone because you loved them, rather than for station or wealth, was just coming into vogue.

:D

@Veo Oh, well, if it's the name of a form, then I guess it would be understood in that context.

@MattE.Эллен Woo!

@KitZ.Fox for rich people. for poor people I don't know

Well, poor people have always just done whatever they wanted.

<.< >.>

Also. psst @MattE.Эллен points to dark corner

whisper whsiper whisper giggle whisper

snurkle

@KitZ.Fox This drawing confuses me. Is it pointy boobs with low nipples, one facing left, the other right?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 No, it's shifty eyes.

I'm not Madonna.

@KitZ.Fox They don't have to be your boobs

Maybe you're drawing Matt's boobs. moobs.

Pretty sure I made them...

Do orcs have moobs? Would they be called ooobs?

Wait...what are snickering about about Matt?

We're not snickering about Matt. huffs

Matt and I are snickering about you. <makes silly serious face>

snickers seriously

That's me in the corner?

That's you in the spotlight?

Looking like a pigeon?

trying to keep the rye on you?

It's bigger than me

instead of sharing it? Even though I really want a reuben.

losing my russian dressing

consider that. Konnichiwa

@JasperLoy they're much too ontopic

Ontopic: ask your doctor

entoptic

I heard someone say 'apoptosis' as 'a-pop-tosis'. It sounded funny.

would you mind kindly euphemizing "bitches"? I know you mean it as a joke, but I'm feeling sensitive to it right now.

@Mitch How do you say it?

uh PAH- toe- sis

I only know one deviant, she said it 'apo-tosis'

if you want you can say ...ptoe-sis

Like halitosis?

@Mitch Huh. Literally everyone but her I heard it a-pop-tosis.

dang it...goes to check.

@Mitch Thanks, I appreciate it.

/ˌæpəˈtoʊsɪs/

stupid dictionary.

what do they know.

according to wherever Google got it from

Now I'm going to have to think.

ah

@KitZ.Fox classic line from chappelle. the race draft. when the asians claim the wu-tang clan as asian.

@Mitch I know. It was hilarious.

Frigging exploding children. brb

and their sign off line was 'konichiwa, female canines!'

@KitZ.Fox what a mess.

All books will soon not be published, but will only show up online.

You're welcome

I like American Heritage because they have a huge appendix on indo-european roots (in English) and another one for Semitic roots (also in English. I know right!)

@Mitch Yes, I even use it myself sometimes.

It took me a while to figure which question named Se quitó el usuario I had answered on ELU.

@tchrist haha

@tchrist I lost 10 reps for that blooming question!

Woo! It's a 27-paycheck year!

I got excited.

?!

26 * 2 = 52

Are there enough weeks in the year for that?

so you get paid once per fortnight?

@MattE.Эллен every other Friday.

or did they round up this time?

@KitZ.Fox how unusual

So apparently, every 11th year, we have 27 paychecks in the annual cycle.

checks moon

@KitZ.Fox Eclipse cycle, obviously.

jinx

burns herbs

eviscerates goat

@MattE.Эллен Not especially, although I'm paid monthly myself.

And because all our benefits are paid on a 26-paycheck cycle, this one is basically nothing but net. Nice.

no I don't see it.

I also have to go wash my hands

@tchrist It's unusual for salary earners, I think, to be paid biweekly.

I thought leap month was a 19 year cycle?

@KitZ.Fox Agree. It's usually a wage thing.

@KitZ.Fox not in the UK, then

@tchrist something something are the wages of a salary earner.

@KitZ.Fox Yeah usually it's one big cheque Jan 1.

semimonthly?

right?

It's interesting that I earn a salary, since my job classification means I'm supposed to be a wage-earner.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 hell yeah!

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Then you cash it and roll around in it for the rest of the year.

along with no more paper books, also, there will be no more employees, just consultants with fees.

I mean, that salary earners are paid monthly in the UK

all the big downtown office buildings will go bankrupt out of lack of business renters.

@KitZ.Fox yeah but leading up to that first paycheque is rough.

but then they'll get back in the black by filling up the old offices with sarcophagous hotels.

Happens all the time.

So this guy goes back in time to protect the mother of the leader of the resis...

argh... another one!

@KitZ.Fox no that's me going back in time to assassinate this young upstart assassin who is hiding out with the woman and her super psychic child and it turns out all three guys are the same person. I'd cast Emily Blunt as the hot mom.

@Mitch I thought that was Groundhog Day...

@KitZ.Fox hm... no one dies in that one, except...

@KitZ.Fox That was a good one. Should be up there with Blade Runner and ... what's a good non-scifi movie? Citizen Kane?

well, I gotta jet. bbl/tomorrow. keep the queue clean.

blows kisses

keep the exploding kids where the pieces won't stain the walls. or I guess plastic sheeting.

CU

@Arrowfar that's a clever one.

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/… .

music notes have sad names in other languages :) (than fr)

Français	do	ré	mi	fa	sol	la	si
Allemand	C	D	E	F	G	A	H
Anglais	C	D	E	F	G	A	B
Espagnol	do	re	mi	fa	sol	la	si
Hindi	स (sa)	रे (re)	ग (ga)	म (ma)	प (pa)	ध (dha)	नि (ni)
Italien	do	re	mi	fa	sol	la	si
Japonais	ハ (ha)	ニ (ni)	ホ (ho)	ヘ (he)	ト (to)	イ (i)	ロ (ro)
Russe	До (do)	pe (rie)	ми (mi)	фа (fa)	соль (sol’)	ля (lia)	си (si)

Do you really say "D", "E" in English? oh indeed yes that reminds me something

I mean "common", not very musical, they sound a bit the same

hi

@crl So Do La Fa Mi Do Re, So Do La Ti Do Re Do

From the sound of music. But in practice, no, in English we mostly just use letters. Much easier to use. Sort of like how it's easier to do arithmetic with Arabic numerals than with Roman.

ah indeed, the order is simpler to get

@crl The table isn't lined up right. "C" = do, "D" = re, etc.

tab delimited

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 AIEEE! A BOOBROG HAS COME!

anglais is 7 chars but francais is 8

@Mitch Yes exactly. So when he asked do we really start with "D" "E" in English the answer is no.

@MετάEd oh. but I don't think @crl was asking if it starts on D, but rather why are the note names in English so boring.

@MετάEd Hm, that raises the question, do balrogs have boobs.

@Mitch "Do you really say 'D', 'E' in English?" I figured this was because 'D', 'E' are lined up where 'C', 'D' are in German (Allemand).

@crl so what exactly is your question? is it "Do they start on D in English?" or "Are notes in English boring?"

@Mitch It starts on C in English in that table. The formatting is just off.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Are you kidding? Do clams got legs?

checks some clams

@Mitch latter yes

but not so much Cee, Dee, Eee, Eff, Gee, Aii, Bee (it would sound boring in French though)

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 The ur-image that I was referring to:

Aww. I can see it.

@Arrowfar Hi.

Congrats.

@JasperLoy I know it seems crappy, but we are making slow upward progress. Life for everyone is better now than it was a thousand years ago. It's hard when you focus on the really awful stuff, so I do what Arrowfar does -- I don't take in information that I can't act on.