English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Mitch

00:02

@KitZ.Fox The betting circuits are the most accurate because they have real skin in the game. For journalists, it's all about making the horse race as interesting as possible, rather than giving a spoiler for the last chapter.

Cerberus

00:18

theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2016/jun/23/…

Map and live blog.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

01:10

yikes, that site shows remain:leave at 46:54

searches for a site with more optimistic results

Google has 49:51

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yes, but that is less relevant.

It only shows whichever districts happens to have finished counting their votes first.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

still.

I don't have enough information to gauge which polling stations I should discount as non-representative.

I think his circuits are overloading

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 All of them.

But, taking all of that into account, Leave is now ahead.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Yeah that's not helpful. :p

Cerberus

And for the first time Leave is favoured by the betting sites.

sports.ladbrokes.com/sports-central/uk-eu-referendum

But I think nobody really knows.

Only a small percentage of the votes have been counted yet...

Mitch

01:25

@Cerberus nice map

ooh...hypothetical:

Cerberus

Thank you.

Mitch

if Britain leaves the EU...

then Scotland will leave Britain...

then Scotland will rejoin the EU...

Cerberus

Quite possibly, yes.

And maybe in ten years the rump state will rejoin the EU too.

Mitch

not finished!!

and then the EU will have to add Scots English to their list of languages they have to translate to.

Zing!!

Cerberus

Hah, not quite!

Mitch

01:33

Irving Welsh will be a god!

trainspotting the bible!!

@Cerberus do you mean what's left of the English government after the English Apocalypse?

I can see the dumpsters burning from here already.

Cerberus

@Mitch After the Scotch break-off.

And maybe also Wales and Northern Ireland...

Mitch

ugh the fumes

Wales might leave britain... oh maybe not from the small returns on the ma so far.

OK totally different question to help us forget the short fuse to things falling apart

Cerberus

Ma?

Mitch

so most people work all day, right?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I just refreshed and it's 51:49 now

Cerberus

01:39

Don't worry, Brexit won't have that great an effect, at least not outside Britain.

Mitch

and what they work at is mostly for customers, right?

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It is better to follow the blog posts on that Guardian live blog: they take into account what is expected of a certain district and how the actual results vary from that, and how the variance impacts total predictions.

Although even those are extremely uncertain at this moment.

@Mitch I don't know...

Mitch

ok bear with me...

but these customers... where do they come from? shouldn't they be at work?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Sure, not that great an effect, unless the EU itself unravels

Mitch

That's the paradox.

explain that, smart man.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

01:41

@Mitch yeah I've often wondered

Like, how did people used to get their banking done when banks were only open 10-3

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Very unlikely.

@Mitch Oh, yes, it all depends on what kind of work they do.

Mitch

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Exactly. all those people taking off from work to go to the bank.

Cerberus

For many people, their work partly entails being someone else's customer.

Mitch

it does leave out business to business people

but who are all those people walking around, driving down the street, visiting all those businesses? Are they taking off time from work? Are they unemployed? do they all work at night and then the day workers go get services from those people working at night?

Cerberus

In many lines of work, people are not sitting in their offices all day long, but have errands to run, meetings to attend, etc.

Then there are students, the elderly...

Artists.

The various free professions.

People with flexible hours.

Mitch

01:53

I demand an explanation! Who are these layabouts?

artists! Augh! where do they get the money to pay for these services they get during the day when other people are working!

Yes! I'm jealous!!

Cerberus

They work at the weekend and in the evening?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Lots of people who work in customer-facing jobs don't work 9-5 because their customers are only present before or after that

traditionally there was also half the adult population unemployed

@Cerberus Well, there have been several threats to it recently

Mitch

@Cerberus Ooh, cheaper relative prices for hotels in London!! Woo hoo!

Except when you get there you'd have to eat British food.

You know what the problem with British food is@MattE.Эллен? it's that the best British food is actually Scottish food.

Zing!

Insults British food and backhands Scottish at the same time! Woo hoo!!

But really, anything fried is better.

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 None to its existence, I believe.

Mitch

02:09

See Britain? That's what you're going to lose when you drop out and Scotland rejoins EU separately. Fried Mars bars.

Cerberus

...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

03:16

49:51. I'm going to bed. Maybe there'll be better news in the morning

Cerberus

03:47

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Doubtful.

Sleep well!

TIPS

08:26

48:52.

:(

TIPS

08:45

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 1 hour ago, by Bart

Brexit. Cameron out. Now let's get Boris Johnson in, and have Trump be president in the US ... I'll head for my Swiss nuclear bunker.

Matt E. Эллен

09:04

@TIPS yup

TIPS

Too bad; Arau hated this Boring Johnson dude.

Matt E. Эллен

and fascism rises another rung on the ladder

TIPS

I can't believe it reemerges, after all's happened in this world.

We're back to 1930s.

Magisch

09:26

@MattE.Эллен I can't believe we're making this mistake again less then 100 years after the last time it cost millions of lives.

Matt E. Эллен

@Magisch yup

TIPS

@MattE.Эллен yup

Matt E. Эллен

Anyway. Enough morose naval gazing. This is EL&U, after all. We should be arguing about the price of semicolons and how split infinitives were better in my day

RegDwigнt

10:39

Haha, farewell suckers. Good riddance.

Matt E. Эллен

11:01

yeah... don't worry about the robot apocalypse https://t.co/Fvlk5JpTbv

Tweeted by internetofshit on June 24, 2016 at 8:46 AM

TIPS

@MattE.Эллен And that's how you deal with Skynet.

This man explains why Brexit happened.

RegDwigнt

11:19

Brexit happened because 52% of Brits finally grew some balls and admitted to what 8 billion people around them had known for decades.

Like, the US holding a referendum where 52% say they don't believe in evolution. Shrug.

The only one sad thing about this affair is that 48% of Brits are selfish millenial pansies who would prefer to lie that they are somehow in the EU when they clearly aren't. Just so they can gentrificate to death one Berlin after another. Now all they can do is go back to London and gentrificate Matt's kitchen some more.

All very well with me. I say I say I say: vote Farage for next queen.

Matt E. Эллен

I forgive you, Reg

TIPS

You changed my life Reg

RegDwigнt

I have changed many a life, and ended more still.

@MattE.Эллен hey I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not the one gentrificating your kettle. sips Ceylon

user208178

Good day.

user208178

hello @KitZ.Fox. you are early today.

Mitch

11:49

Shit. dumps euros

rethinks emigration

user208178

move to Canada.

user208178

well I might.

Mitch

Even if they remained, Cameron should have resigned

Canada is just as bad plus it's cold

The south seas are pleasant but rising waters

Cuba is opening up but their cars are so old

India is cheap but the streets are dusty

user208178

well subcontinent is very diverse.

Mitch

Switzerland is so sensible but you have to be born there and inherit a gold factory to afford a cup of coffee

user208178

11:54

ha ha

Mitch

I know someone who is a Swiss citizen because they were born in a plane flying over Switzerland at the time.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch why are you dumping euros? it's the GBP that took the hit

Mitch

The markets in Europe are also falling apart over night by ripple effects. Also I save all my pounds because of the pretty pictures on them

Matt E. Эллен

you should put them on spikes

Mitch

Euros just have dumb drawings of some village hall I've never heard of

@MattE.Эллен all my spikes are in my drinks

Matt E. Эллен

11:59

So long as they're your drinks, that's OK

Mitch

It's pretty embarrassing to roofie yourself. But at least you're compatible

"Farage: I love the poorly educated!"

(Headline I just heard)

user208178

12:12

@Mitch move to middle east.

user208178

;)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

gazes morosely at Britains' navals

Mitch

12:42

@VitaminC hmm...they're all pro-dude. And I'm a dude. So that might work.

MετάEd

Cleared my review queue. The queue is still pretty bad.

Cerberus

13:14

@MattE.Эллен Nah, not fascism?

stack

Which one?
- which sends an email to reset the password.
- which sends an email to reset password.

Cerberus

The.

stack

thx

Cerberus

Or a possessive.

stack

@Cerberus may you please give me an example for this?

Cerberus

13:24

It depends on context:

stack

Also there is a link in the Login page named forgot password which sends an email to reset the password.

Cerberus

Your password (if you're talking to the user).

The user's password (if it is necessary to mention that it is the user's).

Etc.

stack

@Cerberus ah

Cerberus

@stack That is fine.

stack

ok thx ^ :-)

Cerberus

13:25

Probably.

Kit Z. Fox

13:42

@VitaminC I got your request. I feel you should be patient and wait, so I'm going to respectfully decline. You should feel free to ask another mod if you want.

"You can't feed a society exaggeration, hyperbole and propaganda for over a decade, and then claim surprise when people don't seem to be making rational decisions on the basis of well established truth.

There's a cost associated with not telling the truth. There's a cost associated with polarized, adversarial public discourse. There's a cost associated with media more concerned with profits than the public interest.

It is, apparently, time to pay the piper."

@MattE.Эллен, ^reaction to Brexit from another Brit on FB.

Brits do everything posher.

user208178

@KitZ.Fox Yes I understand. It's fine.

Kit Z. Fox

> According to Google Trends, there was a 250 percent spike in searches for “what happens if we leave the EU” around midnight British time, which is after the voting ended and presumably around the time global currencies went wild and Scotland started saying again it didn’t want to be part of the UK anymore.

This is in support of "the Brits didn't know want they were voting for", but it doesn't show who was googling. Maybe the rest of the EU was wondering.

terdon

@KitZ.Fox Presumably, that wouldn't have been "we"

Kit Z. Fox

13:59

@terdon If I lived in Greece, wouldn't I also google "what happens if we leave the EU"? Isn't 'we' relative to the group?

terdon

@KitZ.Fox Exactly. So if the rest of the EU were googling, I would expect the peak to be for "what happens if they/the UK leaves the EU" instead.

Kit Z. Fox

Right.

What happens if we leave the EU?

Because the UK already has.

For instance.

Is what I'm saying here.

terdon

Ah! I see, right.

It's the language that threw me off. Apart from Ireland, nobody else would be likely to run the search in English.

And nobody but the Brits would be presumtious enough to assume the "we" would be understood :P

Kit Z. Fox

could be Americans.

We're dumb enough to think that we are part of the EU.

Matt E. Эллен

@KitZ.Fox it's a fair point

@Cerberus well, tories are authoritarian and right of centre. ukip is authoritarian and right wing. maybe they can hide the beaks under a bowler hat, but I can hear them quacking

terdon

14:10

@MattE.Эллен Why would you call the tories authoritarian?

Matt E. Эллен

Anyway. I want to leave this topic alone. I am depressed and angry, so it isn't a good idea for me to encourage discourse on the subject.

terdon

Ah. Never mind then :)

Matt E. Эллен

:)

Kit Z. Fox

The quacking was actually my breakfast.

Cerberus

Everything will be all right.

Kit Z. Fox

14:12

Also, I can't find my cleavage pics, sorry.

Matt E. Эллен

:D

Cerberus

EU rules will still mostly apply in England.

And there is a chance that England will rejoin the EU in 10 years.

It's just a hiccough.

terdon

@MattE.Эллен just for the record, I find the tories to be bigoted, close minded idiots. I just wouldn't have called them authoritarian and was wondering what you knew that I didn't. No need to reply, just clarifying that I ain't no tory lover.

Matt E. Эллен

@terdon it's cool. :) I feel all politicians are authoritarian in the dictatorial sense

i.e. if they could be Caesar, they would

terdon

Oh, generalizing. That's fine then.

We agree

t.co/0r7KouIHW1

FFS

Matt E. Эллен

14:16

David Catmeron

terdon

twitter.com/starbex/status/746220617041481728/photo/1

Matt E. Эллен

Clearly a Slytherin Animagus

terdon

Grr. no one box, but yeah :)

Hope that's making you smile rather than rubbing salt in the wound.

Matt E. Эллен

:)

Cerberus

Haha.

Kit Z. Fox

14:24

Someone said "I voted Leave, but I didn't think it would actually happen." My friend replied, "Well, that's the trick with protest votes."

Matt E. Эллен

lol

Kit Z. Fox

Is that pork 'n' beans?

Is that a British thing?

Matt E. Эллен

I think it's just beans

for some reason the poster thinks that baked beans are a British invention

Kit Z. Fox

I have little t...tr...omg, what are those little dishes called? My brain refuses to tell me.

Matt E. Эллен

unlike toad in the hole, Cornish pasties, and spotted dick

Kit Z. Fox

14:25

@MattE.Эллен That's a Boston invention.

Well, at least you can flee to Scotland. You won't even have to leave the island.

Plus, despite the haggis, I hear it's a pretty cool place to live.

Matt E. Эллен

yeah, fingers crossed they leave, this time!

Kit Z. Fox

And they have such nice dialects up there.

Matt E. Эллен

@KitZ.Fox I'm not too much a fan of the cold and the darkness

Kit Z. Fox

And a unified Ireland! Can you even imagine? 16 + (6 - EU) = 1.

Matt E. Эллен

:-o

that would be something

I hadn't thought of that

Kit Z. Fox

14:27

I'm sure there's a way to make that equation both funnier and correcter.

Matt E. Эллен

I don't understand it...

Kit Z. Fox

Well, Northern Ireland has to leave the EU to motivate them to leave the UK, like Scotland...maybe...?

I'm feeling really American right now.

puts head in hands

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

(6- EU) = 1 - 16
- EU = -15 - 6
EU = 21
Don't they teach maths in the UK?

Matt E. Эллен

Yes, but with phonics

you get answers that sound about right but you've no idea why

Kit Z. Fox

Just when I was feeling reassured that there is no way Trump will be elected.

Matt E. Эллен

14:31

Americans are smart, right? They invented the internet...

Kit Z. Fox

I think democracy sucks.

What do you call it when only people who are educated about and impacted by the issue are allowed to make decisions about the issue?

Matt E. Эллен

meritocracy?

Kit Z. Fox

That sounds like "deserving" which is wishy-washy.

But maybe.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitZ.Fox What about people who are impacted but uneducated?

Kit Z. Fox

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Then they should either get educated or give up their right to have a say in it.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

14:39

@KitZ.Fox And how do we ensure that people are receiving proper education?

I'm just asking cuz if we can solve this problem it would help a lot.

Kit Z. Fox

Well, we aren't going to solve it, are we?

Because Mississippi. And Texas. And California.

Because people who don't know anything about education are in charge of deciding what needs to be taught.

terdon

@MattE.Эллен What? They aren't? They're certainly popular in the UK.

Well, I'll be damned.

> In the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore the term baked beans usually refers to tinned beans in a tomato sauce. They were originally imported from American companies, first sold in the UK in 1886 in the upmarket Fortnum & Mason store in London as an expensive foreign delicacy.

Matt E. Эллен

@terdon so are croissants, Belgian chocolates and German beer :D

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitZ.Fox California is a problem?

terdon

@MattE.Эллен True, true, I've just only ever seen baked beans in the UK.

Matt E. Эллен

14:44

ah!

I guess I hadn't thought about it

Kit Z. Fox

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I don't know. I'm ranting.

Cerberus

@terdon Hilarious.

terdon

Wow. Baked beans as "an expensive foreign delicacy". The mind boggles boggedly.

Kit Z. Fox

Beans are about the least expensive thing ever.

Rice is probably less expensive.

terdon

Ah, but these are foreign beans, y'see.

Matt E. Эллен

14:46

@terdon Γίγαντες are nice, too. not popular here, though

Kit Z. Fox

I'm listening to a British woman fake an American accent.

Matt E. Эллен

how's she doing?

Kit Z. Fox

Pretty good.

terdon

@MattE.Эллен That they are.

Kit Z. Fox

ASMR THERAPIST ROLE PLAY (AMERICAN ACCENT)

►

Now I've got to listen to her regular accent.

Whoa.

Sounds Scottish.

giggles, stares off into space

Oh, I guess she does Scottish and British accents, depending on what she feels like.

Cerberus

14:50

@terdon I think they're like 30 cents a can here...and they taste pretty bad, sweet.

Matt E. Эллен

I've left my headphones at home :( I'll have to give her an appraisal later

terdon

@KitZ.Fox How do you listen to these videos? Do you put the volume way up or is not hearing her well part of the point?

Kit Z. Fox

@terdon My volume is about 20%. This one doesn't seem so quiet to me.

terdon

@KitZ.Fox Earphones, I guess?

Kit Z. Fox

But yes, usually I don't try to pay too much attention to what they are actually saying.

@terdon Yes, I work in an office.

terdon

14:52

Fair enough

Kit Z. Fox

I'd love to do a Scots accent, but I can't manage it.

I feel like I'm having my brain scrubbed. I really needed this today.

user208178

does anyone here use "straightdope"?

Kit Z. Fox

The expression? Yes, but I'm old.

user208178

@KitZ.Fox do you ever chat from home? or just from office?

Kit Z. Fox

@VitaminC Both, on my phone sometimes too, but not often.

user208178

15:03

@KitZ.Fox no I meant the site: straightdope.com

user208178

It's a Q/A site.

Kit Z. Fox

Oh. No. That's how old I am.

user208178

heh

Kit Z. Fox

Sounds like Skeptics.SE

user208178

Yeah. about general questions, politics, debates etc.

Saladin

15:18

Mars has a diverse security profile with the main highlights being the only Moon MSSP in country, along-with Jupiter as sole technology partner as well.

I don't know how to juggle repeating of meaning?

Like "being only one in country"

Kit Z. Fox

The Jupiter-Mars technology partnership has a diverse security profile featuring the only Moon MSSP in the country.

Saladin

Thanks Kit , but Mars is a company like Google and Moon and Jupiter are ones Mars is in sole partnership

MετάEd

Mornin.

Kit Z. Fox

15:36

@MετάEd Hello, my friend, hello.

@Saladin I have no idea what that means.

> Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK’s Independence Party, celebrated the vote by saying Brexit was achieved “without a single bullet being fired.” He apparently forgot that one week ago, MP Jo Cox was fatally shot and stabbed in broad daylight by a man shouting “Britain first.”

Saladin

Mars has a diverse security profile with the main highlights being the only Intel Macafee MSSP in country. Following the trend of first adopters of latest security technologies, Just recently, Mars has also become Jupiter sole partners in the country as well.

MετάEd

Neil Diamond. Not a bad soundtrack for today.

Matt E. Эллен

@KitZ.Fox that man. just. 😠

Kit Z. Fox

It's extra tragic for the UK because that never happens there.

So it should really be more memorable.

Matt E. Эллен

yeah.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

16:04

> Donald Trump celebrated Britain’s stunning vote to leave the European Union on Friday during a visit to Scotland, saying that the people of the United Kingdom have “taken their country back," musing that it could benefit his Turnberry resort and arguing that running a nation is a lot like running a golf course.

“I think it’s a great thing that happened," Trump told reporters shortly after his helicopter landed at Trump Turnberry. “People are angry, all over the world. People, they’re angry.”

Count on Trump to say the dumbest possible thing about the Brexit.

Matt E. Эллен

there was a blip this morning against the euro, but the pound isn't doing badly against it. It's lowest point in 5 years was mid July last year. It's been much worse against the dollar, too.

terdon

16:22

I wonder what Jez voted.

Care to bet?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I'm sure he's super happy today

Matt E. Эллен

aye

rgb colour spectrum background js fiddle: jsfiddle.net/6ovzqw6a/1

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

16:35

@MattE.Эллен Neat, here's one in CSS: jsfiddle.net/u1n05wa2

Matt E. Эллен

nice

Cerberus

@terdon Noooo idea.

Matt E. Эллен

better than mine, as it has proper yellow, cyan and magenta

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yours has math though, mine is just relying on the browser vendors to know math

Matt E. Эллен

Happy Swedish midsummer everyone! Now you can finally succumb to that urge to dance like a frog around a phallic piece of wood.

Tweeted by SimoneGiertz on June 24, 2016 at 4:34 PM

Mitch

16:40

That's so SWRist — Mitch 57 secs ago

Matt E. Эллен

saturday night swrist?

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox THe US should join the EU, just to spite the UK.

@MattE.Эллен hides bowler hat

Doubles as a soup tureen!

Matt E. Эллен

such a useful device

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox Oh my god, you monster, those poor poor live ducklings

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 dental refugees

@KitZ.Fox Venus is leaving the consortium I heard. holds back a single tear

Matt E. Эллен

17:07

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 fixed it! jsfiddle.net/6ovzqw6a/2

Kit Z. Fox

@Mitch Look, some of my best answers are on SWRs. Those are the good ones. I think you'll agree that there are good SWRs and bad SWRs, and quite frankly, the bad ones should just be deleted. They don't belong here.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattE.Эллен while I'm logging bugs against your work, might I suggest that it compute its work in relation to the size of the canvas, so that it can work on smaller canvases?

Matt E. Эллен

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 that sounds hard. I thought about it, too, but it would need antialiasing stuff in there

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

As a user I don't care how hard the programmer's job is :p

Matt E. Эллен

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 as the user I don't want it to do anything else :D feel free to do it, though. It's open source ;)

TIPS

17:22

in Language Overflow, 7 secs ago, by TIPS

Funny how 99% of the internet is against Brexit. Where are the 52% now?

Kit Z. Fox

As a user, I like to tell the programmer that their job is not difficult so that I can feel better about myself.

Matt E. Эллен

:D

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattE.Эллен oh, wait, the canvas is used as a background element on the document. ah, so you could set the width of the body and set the background attachment or fill or whatever so that the browser resizes it

Matt E. Эллен

@KitZ.Fox you just need to make it work at any resolution

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

would that be cheating? making the browser resize it?

Matt E. Эллен

17:24

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 at the moment, it would make the pattern non-repeatable

Kit Z. Fox

@MattE.Эллен Like this -- takes out phone and demonstrates pinching gestures

Matt E. Эллен

:D

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattE.Эллен non repeatable in the X direction?

Matt E. Эллен

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yes

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I always have to look up how to attach backgrounds

but that's what I want: not to have it repeat in X, because I want it to fill the width just one time.

Kit Z. Fox

17:27

So the wavelength should be scaled for the ...

Matt E. Эллен

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 oh! yeah then do it on resize. use the css rule to stop x repeating. it will still have a problem, because it uses the width of the canvas to determine how many pixels in the width of a rainbow. you could fix that with some cleverish maths, but I don't want to do that right now. maybe later.

Kit Z. Fox

falls asleep on the keyboard

MετάEd

I just made coffee.

Matt E. Эллен

but of course, then the problem with x repetition goes away

MετάEd

And that's exactly why, too.

My excuse is I was up before 6.

Citation: Negation in bounded commutative DRℓ-monoids. Contains the property ¬(x+y)=¬x−y=¬y−x=¬y−¬¬x=¬x−¬¬y, which makes no sense whatsoever if "negation" isn't the extension to monoids of "multiplication by –1". — Peter Shor 15 mins ago

Best. Citation. Ever.

Matt E. Эллен

17:35

is the symbol after DR a cursive l?

"el"

MετάEd

@MattE.Эллен en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterlike_Symbols

"Script Small L"

Matt E. Эллен

ah! thanks

ℓoopy ℓoo

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

it's weird that in "DRℓ-monoids" the D and R and ℓ are part of an acronym (dually residuated lattice ordered monoids), but it isn't written DRL monoids... wikipedia suggests that the ℓ is meant to represent a more easily-disambiguated L...

MετάEd

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Q: Expression to describe self-inflicted fall from a position of strength

Twelve months ago, Mr David Cameron — the British Prime Minister in government alliance with a smaller party — won a surprise outright victory in a general election. This put him in a position of considerable power. However he subsequently called a referendum on British Membership of the EU, camp...

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@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Maths are weird.

@MattE.Эллен I believe every Unicode character has its own Wikipedia page. You can just drop a character into the Wikipedia search box and find the page.

Matt E. Эллен

@MετάEd good point

Mitch

17:53

@KitZ.Fox haha! of course. delete bad questions. of which there are many that are SWR. I'm just wondering if an extra 'don't go away mad, just go away ... to this other place' is a problem.

Kit Z. Fox

@Mitch I think you missed my joke.

I was using typical racist speech patterns.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox Oh. haha. rereading it is actually funny now that it has been explained.

Also, that's racist-ist

Except that actually sounds really reasonable. about SWRs.

I feel queasy

Kit Z. Fox

Creepy, innit?

Mitch

I know.

first they came for the SWRs

Kit Z. Fox

Then they came for the orthography

But they stayed for the shagging.

Mitch

17:59

!!!

I bet linguist conferences are just as ... euphemizing... as other conferences

Kit Z. Fox

What? Your command of the English language doesn't get you laid?

Mitch

or were you talking about the upholstery?

Kit Z. Fox

Huh. Maybe I'm falsely attributing my prowess.

Mitch

looks go a long way

also...

Kit Z. Fox

Right. What else might explain it?

Mitch

18:00

Meeting!!

BBL

Kit Z. Fox

kbai

Matt E. Эллен

℃

I hope the vote doesn't mean we abandon metric

I think that's what set this off. all the people who got forced on to the metric system had had enough converting between kg and lb

Kit Z. Fox

Mwa hahahaha

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:49

@MattE.Эллен You could always re-unify with America, like in the good ol' days

Matt E. Эллен

so the Queen could rule over all of North America. It's a good idea.

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