English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

user19161

23:00

@SonicTheHedgehog I am not in the US in case you forgot.

Sonic The Hedgehog

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Mahnax

@SonicTheHedgehog Overreaction.

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog Why do the ELU folks keep thinking I am in the US or use AmE when I clearly spell color as colour?

Mahnax

@JasperLoy I downloaded a massive file full of applications for using TeX. Now I don't know where to start...

Sonic The Hedgehog

user19161

23:02

@Mahnax OK what file is that and from where?

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog That is also a naughty image.

Mahnax

@JasperLoy From here: tug.org/mactex/2011

N3buchadnezzar

I speak Latex fluently.

Better than English, hahaha.

user19161

@Mahnax I have not installed MacTeX before obviously but are you done with the installation?

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Yes.

Sonic The Hedgehog

23:04

Guys, you want to see scary image?

N3buchadnezzar

Only windows though

Mahnax

@SonicTheHedgehog Not really.

N3buchadnezzar

@SonicTheHedgehog NO! We do not want to see any more of your "adventures"...

user19161

@Mahnax Have you installed any LaTeX editors? Does MacTeX come with TeXworks?

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Idk lemme check.

@JasperLoy Yes!

N3buchadnezzar

23:05

I preffer TexMaker, but it is a matter of taste.

user19161

@Mahnax Then please read my post on how to configure texworks. I just fixed some errors in the post. And also read my post on learning latex.

Mahnax

@N3buchadnezzar I've never done TeX before so it's all new to me.

@JasperLoy Ah, okay. Forgot about those.

N3buchadnezzar

Think about the big file you downloaded as an engine, you need a controllboard. That is what TexWorks and TexMakers allows you to do.

user19161

@Mahnax My blog is not USELESS you know.

Mahnax

@JasperLoy I know, I know.

user19161

23:06

@sim Is everything alright? You're not saying anything.

simchona

@JasperLoy I'm fine. I'm living a life.

Mana

@JasperLoy One's silence in an online chatroom does not indicate nearly anywhere near as much as one's silence in a real-life conversation.

hah, "nearly anywhere near as much". That's a new one Mana. shoots self

user19161

@simchona OK good.

Mahnax

I tried this, from en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Absolute_Beginners

user19161

@Mana I know.

Mahnax

23:08

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
Hello World!
\end{document}

I got some tiny text.

That said Hello World, of course.

user19161

@Mahnax Very good.

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Not really.

Very simple.

Mana

@Mahnax Just wait, that's the hardest part: the first step. You'll be a LaTeX nerd in no time.

Mahnax

@Mana Oh good.

user19161

@Mana That's true. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

N3buchadnezzar

23:12

@Mahnax No, you won't

But you can get quite good =)

Sonic The Hedgehog

In Old saying in Korean,

Mahnax

@N3buchadnezzar dies use a frumping apostrophe like you're supposed to! Please.

Mana

Soon you'll start writing your math/logic homework in LaTeX and start convincing yourself that it's fun; it'll take a traumatic experience where you don't finish an assignment in time to realize that it's actually not that efficient to write your homework or anything in LaTeX, it just looks nice

Sonic The Hedgehog

The first step is the half

Mahnax

@Mana Yay!

Mana

23:13

At least, that's my experience. And I know nothing.

N3buchadnezzar

Although a giant walks much farther than you in a thousand steps.

user19161

@Mana Actually it's not that efficient with pen and paper either. Considering you have to do edits, using the comp might be faster ultimately.

Mahnax

Thank you @N3b.

N3buchadnezzar

@Mana I do my (handinns)? in Latex,

Mana

Like I say, I know nothing.

user19161

23:15

@Mana No, that was your opinion. Everyone has opinions.

N3buchadnezzar

But I did cry and sober the first months, doing so.

user19161

No right or wrong, just different opinions.

Sonic The Hedgehog

I always do my homework in comp, unless its algebra.

Mana

That was just my experience. And really, it should have been the learning experience that prompted me to get good at LaTeX so I could finish my assignments on time, but instead it just turned me off of using LaTeX altogether.

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog it's

N3buchadnezzar

23:16

Haha, algebra is the simplest homework to do on a computer. Try physics.

Sonic The Hedgehog

I wish things were like Matrix.

I mean, you just sit in the chair

let your head plug in

insert a floppy disk

and you can learn in matter of seconds.

I'll love it

Mahnax

@SonicTheHedgehog Love those things.

Sonic The Hedgehog

It will save a lot of time

Mahnax

Hmm, it smells like chicken in my house.

N3buchadnezzar

My handins take about 50% longer now, than what they take doing them on paper.

Sonic The Hedgehog

23:17

@Mah why?

Mahnax

I am leaving for work in 23 minutes.

N3buchadnezzar

But I still do them in LaTeX, because I seriously want to learn using it =)

user19161

@Mahnax Well I am starting to think you smell like a chicken. Since you eat KFC everyday.

Mahnax

@SonicTheHedgehog I don't know. I shall investigate. I'll be right back.

@JasperLoy Nah, I shower.

user19161

@N3buchadnezzar It will be reversed when the math gets more complicated and you have to do many edits.

N3buchadnezzar

23:18

And this is the beginning of the tragic story of how Mahnax, was eaten by a giant chicken.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Kentucky Fired Chicken or Kennedy Fried Chicken?

user19161

@Mahnax Actually I eat chicken everyday too.

N3buchadnezzar

I am already taking advanced mathematics, in university =)

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog fried

Sonic The Hedgehog

@N3buchadnezzar I should make Polemonstroi out of that.

Or Bellicophagery.

N3buchadnezzar

23:19

Just finished taking an introductory course to Linear Algebra

user19161

@N3buchadnezzar finished

N3buchadnezzar

WORST SUBJECT EVER to write handins in LaTeX.

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Oh good.

user19161

@N3buchadnezzar LaTeX

Sonic The Hedgehog

@N3buchadnezzar When you gonna start on Logarithium?

user19161

23:20

@SonicTheHedgehog logarithm

N3buchadnezzar

@SonicTheHedgehog Thanks for the laugh ^^

Sonic The Hedgehog

@Mah what was the sorce of smell?

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog source

Mahnax

@SonicTheHedgehog A ham. Not sure why it smelled like chicken.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Yeah, my English is off.

user19161

23:20

Now I get to correct both @sonic and @n3b.

Sonic The Hedgehog

@Mah Ham???

Mahnax

@SonicTheHedgehog Turn it on then!

@SonicTheHedgehog Yeah.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Send it in here.

Mahnax

Send the ham in?

Sonic The Hedgehog

yep

Mahnax

23:21

I can't, it's in the oven!

Sonic The Hedgehog

Damn

Mahnax

Watch your language.

Sonic The Hedgehog

then send the oven in.

user19161

Send in the chickens.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Virtually.

Evil Chickens!

Mahnax

23:22

Bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk SQUEEEEAAAAL!

Sonic The Hedgehog

You know, there is this game called "Realm of Mad God".

It features Wow stuff,

Mahnax

@SonicTheHedgehog I don't wanna.

Sonic The Hedgehog

And it has Evil Chickens and Bunnies in it.

user19161

@sonic Please refresh browser, I changed back to JB.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Its Chrome

Mahnax

23:23

@JasperLoy I would vomit, but I can't.

Sonic The Hedgehog

I don't need to.

user19161

@sonic I am waiting for you to change to MJ.

Sonic The Hedgehog

K

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog it's

N3buchadnezzar

Oh and Linear Algebra is about matrices, quite different from the algebra taught at high school and below.

viewdocsonline.com/document/1k0kzl

user19161

23:24

@N3buchadnezzar taught

N3buchadnezzar

One of my handins, quite a pain in LaTeX.

user19161

@N3buchadnezzar You will move from matrices to vector spaces or maybe you did that already.

N3buchadnezzar

Already been there, starting to take the next course in a few days.

user19161

@N3buchadnezzar Good good.

N3buchadnezzar

Linear Algebra with practical applications or something, now we can finally put some of those eigenvectors to use!

But yeah, Linear Algebra at a basic level in LaTeX, is a bad idea.

Sonic The Hedgehog

23:27

Strange

changed my Gravater..

Cleared Cache...

and nothing.

Mahnax

@SonicTheHedgehog Takes a while.

user19161

@Mahnax Old.

Mahnax

@JasperLoy What?

user19161

@Mahnax Just saying that is common knowledge, hence old. Now you know why people always misread me.

Mahnax

@JasperLoy Ah.

Sonic The Hedgehog

23:29

@Jasper you are different from us, in blessed way

Mahnax

@SonicTheHedgehog It's here now!

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog Change to FF then!

Mahnax

Everyone refresh.

Sonic The Hedgehog

We see things in bias... what?

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog I am cursed. You just don't know me.

Sonic The Hedgehog

23:30

Woot!

@Jasper Then tell me.

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog You may read my blog for a start, no comment here.

Mahnax

I like playing with knives.

Sonic The Hedgehog

@Jasper where is your blog?

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog linked from profile

Mahnax

@SonicTheHedgehog On the Internet.

Sonic The Hedgehog

23:31

?

Where is it linked?

Mahnax

@SonicTheHedgehog Russia, maybe Belarus.

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog I see your MJ now!!!

Sonic The Hedgehog

Maybe I should change that to better image.. hold on...

Mahnax

@Jasper Thank you for leaving and promptly returning. I feel enlightened.

Bye all, almost work time!

Sonic The Hedgehog

Bye!

Bookmarked your blog

Now I am going to try to comment on them

YES

Ava Changed

more handsome image of MJ...

user19161

23:47

@Mahnax Have fun eating chicken!

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog Is it done already?

Sonic The Hedgehog

@Jasper Sorry, afk..

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog Am I seeing the new MJ now?

Sonic The Hedgehog

Yeah

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog Not bad, but I know sim finds him creepy.

Sonic The Hedgehog

23:50

Meh.

He looks good in this one.

simchona

@JasperLoy Extremely.

Sonic The Hedgehog

@sim common...

simchona

@SonicTheHedgehog I think you mean "come on." "Common" is something else

This answer is just wrong:

-1

A: How and when to use "wont"

Old question, but wrong answer. The word you want is "want". "won't" is a different word - a contraction of "will not". The usage in your given sentence is uncommon and will probably confuse most.

Sonic The Hedgehog

shamon.

user19161

@simchona Downvoted.

user19161

23:53

@simchona Jinx.

Sonic The Hedgehog

@sim wont means accustomed, I presume?

difference in wont and won't...

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog Salmon? That is my favourite sashimi. I hate kimchi but love sashimi.

Sonic The Hedgehog

@Jasper "Shamon" is one of the phrases MJ uses in his music.

simchona

@SonicTheHedgehog Mhm, which is not the same as the contraction "won't" or "will not"

Sonic The Hedgehog

Perhaps this is a correct sentence: The poor man is wont to complain that this is a cold world

user19161

23:55

@SonicTheHedgehog dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/wont_1

user19161

General reference.

simchona

Interestingly, I've only run into "wont" in context of "as he was wont to do" rather than present tense

Sonic The Hedgehog

wonder where the actual word originated from...

simchona

etymonline.com/index.php?term=wont&allowed_in_frame=0

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog I keep calling you chaos.

Sonic The Hedgehog

23:57

@Jasper You do?

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog Yeah a few times then I realised and edited.

user19161

It's all your fault.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Meh, All this time I thought..

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog Meh is your favourite monosyllabic word. For jez, it is yup.

Sonic The Hedgehog

"Rule number one: You do not interrupt Chazz in middle of his monolog!

user19161

23:59

@SonicTheHedgehog Who is Chazz?

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