English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Mitch

17:00

Apr 7 '11 at 14:50, by JSBangs

@Martha well, but that's before you start eating all these baby ears

Feb 21 '11 at 15:17, by Kosmonaut

Yes, haha

Dec 12 '11 at 13:32, by Kitḫ

Why do you ask?

user208178

May 29 '14 at 19:37, by Mitch

Knock it off... brat

Mitch

May 17 at 13:08, by terdon

@Szabolcs Ooh, nice!

user208178

heh

TIPS

@Mitch Hey man, copy right and stuff

terdon

Apr 21 at 13:19, by Mitch

I'd stop.

Mitch

17:06

Jun 30 '13 at 13:32, by tchrist

So you’re saying that we’ve gone to the dogs, or that everything has?

terdon

May 4 at 15:12, by Kit Z. Fox

"I said stop."

Mitch

4 mins ago, by Mitch

May 17 at 13:08, by terdon

@Szabolcs Ooh, nice!

TIPS

18 secs ago, by Mitch

3 mins ago, by Mitch

May 17 at 13:08, by terdon

@Szabolcs Ooh, nice!

terdon

May 4 at 14:33, by Kit Z. Fox

My brain ... hurts.

Cerberus

@Mitch I'd never!

TIPS

17:08

Sep 7 '12 at 1:31, by tchrist

Junk.

Mitch

Jan 3 '15 at 10:51, by Cerberus

He has been dead for a while now.

Cerberus

Dec 23 '10 at 0:57, by Cerberus

So is this an actual chat room, or more like a discussion forum?

Mitch

@Cerberus There's a difference?

user208178

All right, I'll pop in again when there are some real people talking here.

Cerberus

There probably was in 2010!

Mitch

17:11

chat is more like a transcript of messaging but right in your face in real time.

and a discussion isn't real time? you have to refresh your browser if you want to see new responses?

TIPS

@VitaminC Note that there is a portion of this chat that believes @TCh is not a ghost.

Cerberus

@Mitch Yes, probably.

Mitch

@Cerberus I remember 2010. My first iPhone. All those apps. I still had an atlas, those books made out of paper with a bunch of maps. On paper.

user208178

@Mitch good, I'm here. Mission accomplished!

Cerberus

Shhh.

Kit Z. Fox

17:12

Jun 1 '11 at 11:22, by z7sg

@Vitaly What is that a quote from, srsly?

Cerberus

You must censor the unmentionable here.

Kit Z. Fox

B-zap!

TIPS

@Mitch I don't remember when I quit trying to have a update atlas.

They all were from a year before I bought them.

Mitch

@Cerberus argh... you're _always mentioning that.

TIPS

I thought buying atlases would make me a science person as a kid.

Mitch

17:15

@TIPS It didn't?

terdon

@TIPS I know how you feel. That's what I thought about PhDs

TIPS

You tell me

Mitch

@TIPS flirtatiously No you!

user208178

@Cerberus who? I don't follow. Ghosts?

TIPS

@Mitch Yuck

@VitaminC @Mitch

user208178

17:19

@Mitch flirtatiously? Mitch are you... like... gaaay?

user208178

j/k

TIPS

@VitaminC No, he's not a chemical.

I think.

Mitch

@TIPS what chemical is that?

TIPS

@Mitch CHAt MeSSAgE

Mitch

@TIPS Look man, I know science. I had an atlas when I was a kid. So don't tell me that's a chemical.

TIPS

17:23

@Mitch [T]hat's a chemical.

Mitch

I'm a bag of chemicals if you must know

@TIPS haha. I have no idea!

user208178

I had many altases when I was a kid.

Mitch

What of?

TIPS

@VitaminC Quiz 1 Q1. Who killed atlas?

Mitch

Obviously the earth. but any others?

TIPS

17:24

@Mitch I have an atlas of neptune. The maps are . . . less interesting than you may think.

user208178

@Mitch I don't remember. Maps etc. mostly.

user208178

There are anatomy and other subjects' atlases too but my doc friends use them.

TIPS

Here's a map of United States of Neptune and United Nepdoms:

user208178

Btw @Cerberus I hope I didn't offend you with my comment the other day. Apologies if that's the case. Well anyway, something that popped into my mind.

Cerberus

@Mitch Never!

@VitaminC I cannot say it, for it is unmentionable...

@VitaminC You didn't? What comment?

user208178

17:34

@Cerberus Oh nothing. I get confused sometimes :)

Cerberus

17:48

Ah OK.

NVZ

@KitZ.Fox Can I talk to you in private? :)

Kit Z. Fox

18:45

@NVZ I'm not at my computer right now. It'll be a couple of hours before I'm available.

NVZ

19:04

@KitZ.Fox It's fine. If possible please set up a private chat room. I wish to discuss something with you.

@KitZ.Fox Or any mod, if that's possible. I chose you first because you have best answered my recent meta questions.

TIPS

19:19

Oh, fun drama-ish stuff.

Mitch

@TIPS How dare you!

Well I never!

Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth!

Any fat that is solid at room temperature is probably saturated. You should prefer a poly unsaturated fat that therefore melts at room temperature for good heart health

Oh. Thank you for such well-informed and science based dietary advice.

TIPS

in SO Close Vote Reviewers on Stack Overflow Chat, 7 hours ago, by Cerbrus

Apply lotion to burned area.

Mitch

... and scene

drama ended

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Should there be a comma before the first "or"? by Cathy on english.stackexchange.com …

Mitch

ugh...drama started up again

TIPS

19:28

@Mitch An alkene with 100 carbons is and isn't.

user208178

@Mitch drama? where? I don't see any.

TIPS

@VitaminC Working on it.

AKA coming soon

Oh wait, @TCh's here. Show's over.

tchrist

I was here before. I merely chose to decloak.

MετάEd

20:03

@Mitch It is après l'après-midi d'un faune, certainly.

@Mitch What did he ever do?

@tchrist steals cloaking device

Mitch

@MετάEd time for tea then

MετάEd

That's pronounced timmy for tee-uh.

Mitch

A likely story. I bet you say it 'roofs'

MετάEd

No, no, not roofs. You're thinking of that thing that sounds the same forwards and backwards.

Mitch

no no not palindromes. You're thinking of that thing that can't figure out what the answer is supposed to be... is.

Spoofs? Loofahs? Troofs (what a cockney calls the opposite of a lie)? Sloops? A pun? Is it a pun? It's a pun, right?

MετάEd

20:18

No, no, not a spoof. You're thinking of that word for animal tracks.

Kit Z. Fox

@NVZ Are you still here?

You're still discussing roofs?

NVZ

I'm here

TIPS

Hullo here

Kit Z. Fox

@NVZ You should be able to enter now.

MετάEd

@KitZ.Fox We're at least two words past roofs.

But we do seem to be circling back.

Cerberus

20:27

Still?

What have I done...

MετάEd

@Cerberus Whatever it is, it's probably your fault.

Cerberus

I know.

But it may be good. I don't know.

Kit Z. Fox

@Mitch For real or joking?

Wow, three pings. Sorry.

MετάEd

@KitZ.Fox Jackpot!!!

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox joking. smokedetector is usually a sign of absolutely no drama at all.

Kit Z. Fox

20:34

Oh. That question came through earlier too.

MετάEd

Is that thing good against smoke knights?

Mitch

@MετάEd no not not footprints, you're thinking of something that will stop even idiots from doing it

Shafizadeh

There is a word like "ew" which people use it when they have a bad feeling about something. Anybody knows what's that word?

Cerberus

"Ew" is what people say when they are disgusted.

It's not exactly a word, but more like an exclamatory sound.

Like "haha".

Shafizadeh

Ah I see

Also is there any alternative for "I see" or "got it"? I used them too much, I'm trying to find a new word which means "I understand" :-) ..! Is there something?

Cerberus

20:52

@Shafizadeh We all experience this problem.

But it's okay to use "I see" a lot.

"I understand" is fine too.

MετάEd

@Shafizadeh It's "ew".

Shafizadeh

@Cerberus ok :-)

NVZ

Oh, I see.

Shafizadeh

@MετάEd yeah I got it

NVZ

Ok

Cerberus

20:53

"OK" is also fine, although it is informal.

NVZ

Okay?

Cerberus

Uh-huh.

MετάEd

@Cerberus "Ok"'s ok, ok?

Cerberus

OK.

NVZ

Is okay better than OK?

Cerberus

20:53

I would say it doesn't matter.

NVZ

Fine. :)

MετάEd

S'alright?

►

NVZ

Nice. And from that I saw this. World's greatest ventriloquist. youtube.com/watch?v=HQcwJTn_FHM

Shafizadeh

What's the name of {"} and what's the name of {'} ?

apostrophe?

NVZ

single and double quotation marks

Shafizadeh

21:08

ah ok

Cerberus

21:59

> The first garden strawberry was grown in Brittany, France during the late 18th century.[3] Prior to this, wild strawberries and cultivated selections from wild strawberry species were the common source of the fruit.

The strawberry fruit was mentioned in ancient Roman literature in reference to its medicinal use. The French began taking the strawberry from the forest to their gardens for harvest in the 14th century. Charles V, France's king from 1364 to 1380, had 1,200 strawberry plants in his royal garden. In the early 15th century western European monks were using the wild strawberry in…

@tchrist So it seems that the Romans already used strawberries.

So it didn't come from the New World.

Only the now most commonly used species do.

Shafizadeh

Is this a correct sentence? "Well that's why sex is for."

Cerberus

> Well, that's what sex is for.

Shafizadeh

ah ok

Cerberus

You can't use a preposition (for) if you already have why.

Shafizadeh

I see

Cerberus

22:03

Now I'm curious whom you're talking to!

Shafizadeh

:))

Cerberus

(You also need the comma after well, by the way.)

Except in very informal language.

Shafizadeh

@Cerberus Why did you use "whom"? I think you have to say "who"

MετάEd

Those have several purposes besides quotation.

Cerberus

@Shafizadeh Formally, it has to be whom, because it is whom...to, so whom is the object of to. And who formally becomes whom when it is an object.

In informal English, you can use who for objects.

Shafizadeh

22:06

I see. ok thx

Cerberus

> This is the man who saw me. (subject of the verb)

> This is the man whom I saw. (object of the verb)

> This is the man to whom I gave the money. (object of the preposition to)

Shafizadeh

Got it ..! Just as a note, how do you write a comment like these ^ ? (having a left dotted border)

Cerberus

> bla bla

Shafizadeh

> test

Oh I see :-)

Cerberus

Yay.

Haha.

Shafizadeh

22:52

Is this sentence correct? "It should be noted that I was doubt to accept your solution or that one. Your solution is really clean. Thanks again anyway."

I mean of "accept" is "as accepted answer"

Cerberus

23:05

> It should be noted that I was in doubt whether to accept your solution or that one. Your solution is really clean. Thanks again anyway.

Accept is perfectly fine.

Shafizadeh

very good .. thx

Cerberus

Thanks anyway suggests "you did not help me, but thank you for trying".

So I would probably remove anyway.

Shafizadeh

@Cerberus yes yes

Cerberus

If you say that one, that means you have already talked about a specific other solution.

Shafizadeh

well I did

Cerberus

23:07

Ah OK, good.

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