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tchrist
tchrist
01:38
@Cerberus Randy finally came back at dusk when I called for him. He's ok but standoffish. He answered with a yelp of surprise when I called which is unlike him. I think he thought I'd left town again.
tchrist
tchrist
01:51
He always gets all weird when I'm out of town. Separation anxiety or something. I'm keeping him close: the moon is too bright, the air too warm, the crickets chirping too fast.
Cerberus
Cerberus
02:07
@tchrist Yay!
Lawrence
Lawrence
@tchrist Glad it's turned out alright.
tchrist
tchrist
02:27
He's crying a lot to go out but I won't let him. It's still 75 out, which coincidentally is how full the moon is as well. When it's warm and bright like this he simply does not want to be inside.
I'm going to shut the office door and leave the balcony door over night and hope the rattler finds his way out in the dark.
Færd
Færd
03:17
Cats are usually smarter than to be bitten around by snakes.
tchrist
tchrist
This is Lorin's fourth rattlesnake this summer.
And biggest yet.
He is just a little kitty not a mongoose.
I don't understand how he's evaded getting bitten.
Færd
Færd
Has he been bitten before?
tchrist
tchrist
No.
Færd
Færd
I guess it's no accident that he hasn't.
tchrist
tchrist
He's also caught two non-venemous snakes this summer . Last year it was the opposite ratio.
Færd
Færd
03:32
If they know that there are snakes living around they are naturally on alert.
tchrist
tchrist
I have about six city blocks' worth of prairie as my back yard. They hear them in the grass.
Færd
Færd
I think they can play with the scariest snakes quite confidently.
Although I don't know how old is your kitty.
tchrist
tchrist
I don't but they do.
Færd
Færd
You should be more concerned about yourself. :)
With all those snakes.
tchrist
tchrist
It's the little guy Lorin who brings home snakes and birds, even magpies and hummingbirds. And rabbits. Randy the larger of the twain brings home mice and voles. One of them even got a bat once.
They're both just turned three.
Færd
Færd
03:38
So they're agile creatures.
tchrist
tchrist
Apparently. Especially Lorin.
Færd
Færd
The first time I saw you talking about them I thought maybe they're your sons. :D
tchrist
tchrist
He brings home dragonflies and hawk moths constantly. How, I will never understand.
Haha. I worry as though they were.
Alive he brings them!
Færd
Færd
Now I can be grateful that we have only cockroaches to pester us here.
tchrist
tchrist
Once he brought a cicada. He didn't know what to do with it.
Lots of grasshoppers
Færd
Færd
03:44
Cool games.
Reminiscent of my childhood.
tchrist
tchrist
03:59
Aye
Lawrence
Lawrence
04:22
2
A: English Idiom for "the squirrel feeds itself arduously"

alwayslearningI am not sure if there's a proverb/idiom with the exact same meaning but I can suggest the following. Every little helps. You just took a baby step. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. First step is always the hardest. Wiktionary: Alternative for...

The above references the following:
every little helps
== English == === Alternative forms === every little bit helps === Proverb === every little helps (Britain) Even the smallest things are helpful when towards a goal....
That wiktionary entry claims: "1. (Britain) Even the smallest things are helpful when towards a goal."
I'm not sure that's BrE.
Not even the claim, with would require something between "when" and "towards".
tchrist
tchrist
Agreed
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Lawrence I can't help but feel that there's probably a direct equivalent that mentions a squirrel in English, because we're very familiar with the way squirrels stash away their food. We even have the word squirrelling because of it.
Lawrence
Lawrence
05:00
@Tonepoet In this case, I was referring to the phrasing of the answer, rather than the content of the question :) . About your point, although there is an objective similarity, squirrelling tends to have a positive connotation - to prepare provisions, rather than to hoard them. Talking about the squirrel's work doesn't convey something negative. I get the impression that the OP is looking for an idiom about tedious chores that are nevertheless important. E.g. "laundry is never done".
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Lawrence I wouldn't perceive the word hoarding as necessarily being negative. You've watched too many talk shows and not enough fiction. =P
Anyway part of the reason I mentioned it is because stashing stuff away is considered laborious. Surely you've heard of the Grasshopper and the Ant.
Lawrence
Lawrence
@Tonepoet Haha. The main 'talk shows' I watch these days take place right here on SE. :P
@Tonepoet When used as a verb, hoard tends to carry connotations of greed, compulsion (in the obsessive/compulsive sense) and the like. What positive connotations does hoard draw for you?
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
05:19
Did I say positive? It's just a fairly neutral word. The Wikipedia has a whole article on animal hoarding behavior, which is highly relevant to the context, esp. since you're suggesting that the word squirreling has more positive connotations for the same act, by the same agent. =P
Lawrence
Lawrence
@Tonepoet Strangely, until I read that question, I don't think I've considered the laborious nature of squirrelling. Perhaps it's that they make it seem so playful. As Mary Poppins has it, "In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and - SNAP - the job's a game!"
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
However if you do want positive connotations, one does not need to look much farther than the Kong's Banana Hoard. Look at how happy that big ol' ape is!
Lawrence
Lawrence
@Tonepoet I'll accept your word that you consider hoarding to be able to used as a neutral word; it's hard to prove this kind of neutrality. To me, if someone was said to be hoarding something, it's always negative, not even neutral. (Unless said in jest, but I'd expect that even then, it depends on juxtaposing a neutral/good action with a negative term.)
@Tonepoet That's why I specified the use of the term as a verb. :)
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Lawrence No dice: To have the noun, you must do the verb. =P
Lawrence
Lawrence
@Tonepoet As a noun, it probably gains some 'street cred' the same way that pirate terms do. They're ostensibly 'bad', but have become 'fashionable'.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
05:26
The fact of the matter is that we are prejudiced against pirates and dragons. >_>
Lawrence
Lawrence
@Tonepoet Aye, and for good reason, yer (bleep) ! :P
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Lawrence What a load of hogwash! Do not buy into the lies, slander and propaganda! Didn't you know that Pirates prevent global warming? =P
Lawrence
Lawrence
@Tonepoet "The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" is hardly a credible authority. :D
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Lawrence 'Tis the word of God ye pagan blasphemer. ;-)
Lawrence
Lawrence
@Tonepoet Are you singing a different tune, now? :P
What do you think of this: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/32221436#32221436 ?
I reckon the help pages need some work.
Maybe even the faux-squirrelling sort the other OP was talking about.
user36188
user36188
06:14
english.stackexchange.com/questions/348024/… anyone Guide me for how to Rearrange the Sentences in English,I am facing very Difficult in Rearrnging the Sentences,Anyone Guide me
user227867
06:36
@Tonepoet I would prefer Chambers not have the jocular definitions.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
06:55
@JasperLoy Yeah, I understand. It undermines the rest of the definitions when you don't know for sure which ones are jokes and which ones aren't.
 
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M-J
M-J
08:41
@Lawrence Hi Lawrence, what is the meaning of "life cycle" in this title? <Marketing a product through the life cycle>.
Lawrence
Lawrence
09:33
@M-J Hi!
@M-J It looks like it's talking about the product life cycle. The major stages are introduction, growth, maturity and decline in the model referenced in the link.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@M-J It is a metaphor for the amount of time the product is intended to be offered for sale and supported by the company.
Lawrence
Lawrence
@M-J It's modeled after the biological life-cycle, which traces an organism's life from birth to death. (Or popularly, from being the result of reproduction to being a participant in reproduction.)
Cunningham's Lawyer
Cunningham's Lawyer
10:02
Checking in
Please go to cashier number 4 please
Is there a term for "Please go to"?
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
10:19
a term in what sense?
you could call it "the beginning of a request to go somewhere"
Lawrence
Lawrence
10:55
@Cunningham'sLawyer Courtesy? (Note: please doesn't normally twice in a sentence.)
Cunningham's Lawyer
Cunningham's Lawyer
11:31
@Lawrence Oh yeah. Thanks :)
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus do you actually know the Russian Die Antwoord, too? They occasionally collaborate.
LITTLE BIG - GIVE ME YOUR MONEY (feat. TOMMY CASH)
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Cunningham's Lawyer
Cunningham's Lawyer
@Lawrence I copy pasted it from an email. Should have added (sic)
Lawrence
Lawrence
@Cunningham'sLawyer No problem. :)
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
12:26
I never knew that check is such an oppressive word.
terdon
terdon
@Tonepoet I know how fond of that dictionary you are, but I'm afraid that's not a very comprehensive definition. It's missing at least one common meaning (that of checkmark).
> : a mark typically √ placed beside an item to show it has been noted, examined, or verified
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/check
Or is that actually the 1828 edition with no updates?
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
12:47
@terdon It's the 1828 edition with no updates. That's part of why I love it. I think you should say checkmark when you mean checkmark. =P
terdon
terdon
@Tonepoet No, check also means the same thing. I am more familiar with check than with checkmark in that context, actually.
Heh, the crappy dictionary in my browser doesn't even recognize checkmark.
What's the point of a dictionary if it hasn't been updated in almost 200 years?
Why not get a modern OED that has both historical and modern usage?
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
That's probably because it's more commonly spelled as two words. Only Collins Complete and Unabridged 12th edition recognizes the compounded form on The Free Dictionary by Farlex, meaning the American Heritage Dictionary 5th edition doesn't recognize it either.
terdon
terdon
Makes sense. Still, check is perfectly valid and often used like that.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
I specifically wish to filter out modern usage as a sort of perversion of words, as far back as the language can still be considered our own. I think Noah Webster's influence on the language is as far back as we can realistically do that, given the half-succeeded spelling reform and significant prior changes in grammar. Some of the entries are also much better written. As an admittedly extreme case, you should read the entry for the word "of".
It reads more like a Stack Exchange answer than a dictionary entry.
terdon
terdon
@Tonepoet Oh wow, really? How do you define modern?
And what's the point of adhering to archaic standards that might no longer have any relevance to how the language is used today? Do you feel that the arbitrary point in time when Webster wrote his book somehow defines "correct" English?
Do you go around using the word ejaculate to mean to exclaim, for example? That's a valid usage but unlikely to help you communicate today.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
12:58
@terdon Hmm, well part of it is because I think the language changed much less since he wrote the book than it did in the 200 years prior.
terdon
terdon
I doubt that, especially given the wealth of new words and expressions in the copmuter era, but even if true, what difference does that make?
Language is a living thing and constantly changing. Attempting to pin it at any particular point in time is doomed to fail and, in my opinion, quite pointless anyway.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
Webster's dictionary is not the only one I consult. I welcome new words, once they pass a certain threshold of context specific usage, but the word is a tool of recollection so I prefer to retain their specific meanings. If I think a specific word is too especially troublesome, I'll avoid it altogether if I can. I'd say exclaim to mean exclaim.
terdon
terdon
I;m sure you look at others, I just don't understand why you would want to ignore modern usage. All that will do is eventually render you incapable of communicating.
And language is worse than useless if it doesn't allow communication.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@terdon I can agree with that sentiment, although our strategies for implementing it are quite different.
terdon
terdon
Your strategy seems to be "if a word meant X 200 years ago, I don't care how it is used today, I shall use it to mean X and X only". If so, it seems like a very ineffective approach to communication.
Mitch
Mitch
13:04
'Every little helps'? Does it a verb? Wiktionary the worst. Or does British English not verbs? — Mitch 1 min ago
terdon
terdon
We're all attached to the meanings words had when we were growing up and I too will often kick against change but, despite my kicks, change is inevitable and one must move with the times.
Mitch
Mitch
@terdon It fills a void for some people. Something to do. Something to show that you care.
@terdon Very effective for time travellers.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@terdon I'm not so attached to the meanings I learned as a child, otherwise I woudn't be resorting to a dictionary that existed long before I was born.
terdon
terdon
@Mitch languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=749
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@terdon If the vast majority of the words did not retain their meanings it would be ineffective. However there is some merit to retaining a specific use. One is that it allows much more specific expression. I'll only ever use the word "pervert" to refer to moral corruption. I can use lewd or lewdster to fill the lexical gap. As new meanings are continually accepted, and more words fall into disuse, it becomes harder to be specific.
I like to joke that we'll only ever have different inflections of the word *uck at the end of the lingual evolution. >_>
Mitch
Mitch
13:13
@terdon There's a academy style group of people in charge of creating new words for Latin. Because you know they're all dead, but if they came back to life they'd have to tell someone:
Proin clibano ardens
@terdon haha. Thanks Tesco!
@Tonepoet That's perverse!
You've perverted the meaning of the focal!
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Mitch When did I say focal?
Mitch
Mitch
Every day I permute the attachment of focals to their sentiments. Og kens cen og blather.
It's like the Navajo wind walkers in WWII who used their own language as a code that no one else knew.
In order to destroy the Japanese, the Navajo sent each other their laundry lists.
Lawrence
Lawrence
@Mitch Indeed. :P
Mitch
Mitch
Wittgenstein claimed that there is no such thing as a private language. I think there is ample evidence that many people walking down the street have their own private language that no one else shares.
terdon
terdon
@Tonepoet I have nothing against retaining old meanings. I object to rejecting new ones. And while I've often heard the claim that new meanings somehow make it harder to be specific, I have yet to see any evidence for it.
@Mitch Read the note at the end, apparently several hundred years older than tesco
Mitch
Mitch
13:22
@terdon I object to all meaning. Meaning is overrated. Just point.
Lawrence
Lawrence
@Mitch There's truth at both ends of this. We each have our own idiolect, but there's a huge amount of overlap in many cases. The first explains (some?) misunderstandings, and the second, successful communications.
Broadly uniform classes (particularly within a locale) helps with the latter.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@terdon Every time somebody "misuses" a word is evidence for it. Except for the foreseers, we can only ever examine a word's propriety to its past usage. It's just a matter of how long ago we are willing to consider the past in order to make that judgement.
Mitch
Mitch
[1791 J. O'KEEFFE Wild Oats V. iii. 64 It is'n't much, but every little helps.
1840 MARRYAT Poor Jack xiii. 90 It's a very old saying, that every little helps.](http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=749#comment-11634)
@Tonepoet haha. I'm just messing with you.
terdon
terdon
@Tonepoet How so? First of all, who gets to decide what a "misused" word is? But, more importantly, if you add a new meaning to a word (what you call misuse), you are expanding the language and the possibility of poetry. Perhaps at the expense of specificity, granted, but still worth it. However, once that new meaning has taken over, the language is, once more, as specific as it was.
And it's the principle find fundamentally flawed. Your approach presumes the existence of the platonic ideal of language and every change is taking us away from it.
That's as wrong when it comes to language as it is when the same argument is used to describe the process of evolution as going from worse to better. Change is change. Sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Mitch
Mitch
There is a difficulty. Those who use a word in a new way may be misunderstood. And holding people to education reduces that misunderstanding. So the there really are mistakes. eg people who use imply for infer. It may be confusing for the learners, but it's that much worse for those who know.
terdon
terdon
13:28
Some new meanings and new words make the language more specific and beautiful. Others, less so. But you can't lump all change together as bad.
Mitch
Mitch
But you also can't say all change repeated is good. They can be repeated mistakes.
terdon
terdon
@Mitch True. A classic example is momentarily to mean "in a moment". However, as this latter usage is getting more and more common, it seems very likely that it will completely replace the original meaning of "for a moment". At that point, those of us using what we presumptuously dub the "correct" meaning will no longer be understood.
Mitch
Mitch
Stupid old people not getting with the times
terdon
terdon
And don't get me wrong. I bloody hate those things myself and don't actually use it. As far as I'm concerned, hopefully means "full of hope" and momentarily means "for a moment". I have just stopped trying to impose my views on others and have accepted that I'm on the losing side of the argument.
And a few years down the line, nobody will remember the words once had other meanings 'cause that's how she rolls, our language.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@terdon Maybe the guy that virtually everybody else pretends to be to lend themselves credibility. How many dictionaries use the name Webster now? It wasn't exactly an arbitrary choice.
terdon
terdon
13:34
?
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
The 10th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has "The Voice of Authority" on the cover.
terdon
terdon
I don't understand what you're referring to.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
Your question about who gets to decide.
terdon
terdon
So some prescriptivist who's been dead for two hundred years gets to dictate how we should speak today? That seems passing strange.
It's a great dictionary and all, but you can't stop time there.
Mitch
Mitch
That leads me to believe that you have a way of stopping time somewhere
terdon
terdon
13:38
@Mitch Shhhhhh!
Mitch
Mitch
:D
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Mitch Maybe it'd work better better if I picked 1755 instead of 1828, but then I'd have to spell music as musick. >_>
terdon
terdon
By the way, @Tonepoet, since I don't know where you're from, I should mention that I come from a culture that's often argumentative and have, in the past, gotten myself into trouble with people thinking we were fighting while I was having a very interesting discussion. So, to clarify, I find your position very interesting and you have arguments to back it up so I have nothing but respect for you. I just enjoy the argument (also, I think you're wrong :P).
Mitch
Mitch
There was this guy once on ELU, about 5 years ago, who had this agenda of 'fixing' English by using more anglo-saxonisms. They had a tendency to be more saxon than angle so it was hard to figure out wth he was talking about.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
Actually, maybe that would be an improvement given how terrible pop. singers are!
@terdon That seems like me! ;-)
Mitch
Mitch
13:42
@terdon 'very interesting discussion' = 'bruises only; no blood drawn'
terdon
terdon
Good, I just didn't want there to be any misunderstandings. I was living in the UK quite a few years ago and had what I thought was a wonderful, animated political discussion. I was informed the next day that I was actually fighting with someone.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
Noah Webster's half-successful spelling reform proposal was a bad idea. Johnson's strategy of "making no innovation without a reason sufficient to balance the inconvenience of change" was probably better from a consistency viewpoint. Then again, I guess Webster did suppose he had good reason. He was very concerned with making things easier to teach.
terdon
terdon
Spelling would indeed benefit by rules. It's the attempts to get meaning set in stone that I don't like.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
Samuel Johnson seems to have wanted to do that too, if you read the entirety of The Plan for an English Dictionary he wrote above. He may have very well succeeded if his definitions were more accurate and Webster didn't meddle in the matter. One of the more significant things about Webster is that his efforts were set at a prime period. There weren't many other competitors in the lexicography field, aside from a plagiarist he had the misfortune of hiring as an aide.
Mitch
Mitch
13:58
found it used 'byspel' presumptively as a synonym of 'example'
terdon
terdon
Johnson also forgot to include sausage, the git!
BlackAdder3 - Dr. Johnson says "Sausage"
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Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Mitch You're right Mitch.
terdon
terdon
It was the first though. That should count for something.
Hmm, I wonder if he actually had forgotten sausage.
I'd always assumed the writers of the show made that up.
Mitch
Mitch
uh..I think people had the idea and execution of dictionaries before Johnson
he just added some extra features, and it was more famous
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@MetaEd yo mama is maybe a gray area.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
14:00
Maybe I am a foreseer! =P
I didn't realize I was editing that. Oh well...
terdon
terdon
> the Blackadder episode may be quite perceptive about one of the problems that faces people who make dictionaries, its fidelity to history is limited (for instance, it has Jane Austen as Johnson's contemporary, sporting 'a beard like a rhododendron'), and it is responsible for a few funny ideas about Johnson, notably that he forgot to include in his magnum opus the word 'sausage' - which he didn't.
Read more at http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/a-history-of-the-dictionary-dr-johnson-i-presume#YMBX3YTpHJ23M5l2.99
Oh well. . .
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Blackadder is maybe a gay area.
So I see the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is in action again. Just a couple hours earlier I watched some Blackadder outtakes, and now y'all's watching Blackadder, too.
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwigнt The terrorist plot to repeat sightings.
terdon
terdon
It's worse. I'd actually posted that same video in another chatroom a couple of days ago.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
Anyway where was I? Oh yeah, probably one of the major differences between Webster and other Lexicographers is that Webster had the advantage of being the prime authority in an emerging nation. He died just nine years before compulsory education was implemented by the U.S. state of Massachusetts. and Merriam-Webster's subsequent dictionaries weren't undergoing major revisions yet. Their 1847 dictionary is the same one rebranded.
Mitch
Mitch
14:05
I was eating cheetos the other day and holy crap this guy comes on TV with hair and skin like powdered cheddar flocking
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Σαλάμι.
Mitch
Mitch
And then
@RegDwigнt No, that's not it.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
It actually is. The poor Greeks are missing out. They think that all sausage is salami.
Mitch
Mitch
@Tonepoet ?? I don't get it. So what if he died nine years before?
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Oh if only they knew.
Mitch
Mitch
14:08
@RegDwigнt and the English think all Japanese alcohol is sake
wait... it is
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@tchrist thanks but no thanks. I prefer to recite it aloud in alexandrine. As I always do with all things.
@Mitch Asahi is not.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
σαλίμι
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwigнt You're so not English.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Neither are Kirin and Sapporo.
Also, that whiskey Bill Murray recommended in Lost In Translation is a beer as well. Which is no sake.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Mitch Well one of the original reasons for compulsory education was to prevent such lingual perversions. It was compulsory attendance to grammar school specifically. I imagine people would have been reading Webster's dictionary there.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
14:10
Isn't Kirin a creature type in Magic: The Gathering?
Mitch
Mitch
And IPA is a town in Polynesia
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@MattE.Эллен no.
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Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
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@RegDwigнt yes
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
FFS there I was saving your face, but no you have to insist to be labeled as a dork.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
Orc
It's spelt Orc
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
14:12
Johann D'Ork.
Mitch
Mitch
@Tonepoet Webster was a prime authority by dying nine years before. If he had had the poor misfortune of surviving till the start of compulsory education, he'd still die eventually. That's biology.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@MattE.Эллен Actually they're just goblins.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Blin being Russian for pancake.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
I'll just goblin you!
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Go, blins!
Blini
A blini (sometimes spelled bliny) or, rarely, blin is a light, thin pancake, traditionally made from buckwheat flour and served with sour cream, butter, caviar, and other garnishes. It typically lacks a leavening agent. Some English dictionaries record usage of the forms blin as singular and blini or bliny as plural, which correspond to the originally Russian forms, but some dictionaries consider this usage so rare in English that they do not mention blin at all and only record the widespread modern regular usage of blini for the singular and blinis for the plural, for example the American Heritage...
"A blini"?
English people are retarded.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
14:13
@Mitch I'm just establishing a timeline. His last act was finishing the appendix to the latest printing of his dictionary three days before.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
It's a well-known phenomena.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
I think you'll find it's everyone else who can't spell
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Because their penii is too small.
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwigнt I take great offense at that. Some of us are merely moronic
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Mitch you misspelled "all of the us is"
Mitch
Mitch
14:14
@RegDwigнt NOU
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
some of us is all of us
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
jes the too've us
Mitch
Mitch
@Tonepoet First he was born, then he died. Timelines will kill you in the end
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Mitch They won't if I drink Horai Elixir. >_>
Mitch
Mitch
@Tonepoet I think his last act was 'Argh! That's so painful!'
@RegDwigнt tum tum tiddly tum 'Me and my tapeworm' tiddly bee!
tchrist
tchrist
14:17
@RegDwigнt Have a biscotti.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Mitch very super titties!
Mitch
Mitch
@tchrist Let's meet the hoi poloi at the La Alhambra
user227867
I will be deleting my account by the end of this week.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I just called to say I loathed you.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@JasperLoy ok.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
14:19
@Mitch the la?
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwigнt I know!
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Mitch Hmm, maybe. Anyway what made Webster the authority is what he did before. The American Dictionary of the English Language was just his magnum opus and representative of what his efforts actually achieved. It's the Grammatical Institute of the English Language that got him started, esp. that "blue backed speller" as everybody calls it (because the title was inconsistent).
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
The Beatles "Have A Banana!"
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Les the Humphries visited the la Alhambra to do some the algebra and talk about el the der Allah.
user227867
@RegDwigнt There is a musical about Bill Murray, called Martin Shkreli's Game, with lyrics written by Lauren Gundrum.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
14:21
And la then...
Mitch
Mitch
@Tonepoet What is the face if the unborn Webster?
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@JasperLoy I actually didn't know that.
user227867
@MattE.Эллен I hope you and Maria get married soon and live happily ever after.
Mitch
Mitch
@Tonepoet That's so cruel of them to call him that. 'Blue back' was the painful disease he died of.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Yay I learned something today. Unlike all of the US in all of its history.
user227867
14:22
@RegDwigнt She became a lyricist after leaving SE.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Wait. You mean it's the Lauren? Or rather, the la Uren?
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwigнt la la la, la la la laaaa. la la la, la la la laaaa
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@Mitch I dunno Mitch but I guess maybe it looked something like this?
Mitch
Mitch
14 notes. Guess the tune
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Someone's been stalking again.
The Liberty Bell March - John Philip Sousa
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user227867
14:23
@RegDwigнt You can see samples of her musical work at laurengundrum.com.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Yeah yeah it's okay I think she's fine when one person stalks her at a time.
Oh and also this:
Aug 4 '15 at 11:51, by Robusto
@RegDwigнt Just like poets: There are millions of people who write poetry, and hundreds who read it.
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwigнt close!
Sesame Street: Elmo's Song
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wait for the chorus!
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Sorry I am at work I am not watching the red pedobear.
Mitch
Mitch
oh sorry. NSFWBOWTYAI
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Why is it that when he hits the piano keys it sounds like a guitar with xylophone? WHY DO AMERICANS LIE TO THEIR CHILDREN FROM SUCH YOUNG AGE ON?
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
14:28
not safe for working bears or working tigers you are interviewing
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Not so fast, white boy, or what time you artichoke inhaling?
Mitch
Mitch
It's funny when Snufalupagus is about to sing his part, and he say's 'Stand back'. It's funny because you really have to stand way back. Ha ha. because he's so big. Get it? He's really big so you have to stand back pretty far.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
No wonder all Americans play the guitar, but the only Americans who can play the piano are either blacks or jews.
user227867
I cannot play the piano, sad panda.
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwigнt Nope, the other guys were closer.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
14:30
lol
Mitch
Mitch
If you could play a sad panda, that would be something.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I could play a sad panda for $3000.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
not if you're not in the Screen Actors Guild!
Mitch
Mitch
writing out check
user227867
After I delete my account tomorrow, I will no longer return to SE in this lifetime. This will be my final account.
Mitch
Mitch
14:31
mailing check
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@MattE.Эллен I will always be your guildy pleasure.
Mitch
Mitch
waits
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Tom is out to buy smokes, sorry.
terdon
terdon
For $3000 I'd play an enraged panda! It would just be a very short and very percussive concert.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@JasperLoy how will you account for yourself?
Mitch
Mitch
14:31
Well?
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Oh noes not the el Terdon with his the σαλάμι again.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@RegDwigнt Maybe it's not a piano. Maybe it's a harpsichord.
Mitch
Mitch
@MattE.Эллен By double entry bookkeeping!
rimshot
I don't get it.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Tonepoet maybe it's a celesta.
user227867
@MattE.Эллен I hope you have my latest email, the one that begins with m.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
14:32
Maybe it is a banana. That is beside the point.
The point is, it is not a piano.
user227867
Banana is my favourite fruit.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@JasperLoy I do
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@JasperLoy You're my favourite fruit.
user227867
@MattE.Эллен She says 'I do' too, lol.
user227867
@RegDwigнt I cannot be eaten.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
14:33
Whoosh.
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwigнt my favorite fruit is mixed nuts.
kinda salty
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Mitch whatcha mean, well? I'm playing a sad panda as we speak. I play him hard.
Your money was well-invested.
terdon
terdon
Which probably explains why he's sad.
Poor panda.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
You can't have your panda and eat it, too.
user227867
@Tonepoet I have finally decided to get the ODE. It is finished.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
14:36
@JasperLoy Did you order it yet?
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@terdon And you of all things keep quiet, just a second ago you were proposing to percuss him with a short salami. For money. Tsk tsk tsk.
user227867
@Tonepoet Not yet, but soon. I will probably get it from Book Depository.
terdon
terdon
@RegDwigнt What do you mean short!?
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwigнt Sorry, I was pulling out a bad tooth. And I couldn't hear over the screaming. But now I can spit in two directions at once! Yay!
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
5 mins ago, by terdon
For $3000 I'd play an enraged panda! It would just be a very short and very percussive concert.
Oh sorry, very short. My bad.
user227867
14:37
@Tonepoet I would get AHD or NOAD if I were American.
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwigнt You don't eat a panda like that all in one sitting
terdon
terdon
The concert would be short! The salami is, well, about average I guess. That's what my girlfriend says and I believe her!
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Mitch in two directions at once, you say? Say no more.
YouTube Comment Reconstruction #1 - 'One Direction: What Makes You Beautiful'
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Mitch
Mitch
@JasperLoy America is the best. Except for the exceptions.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@JasperLoy Tell me when the book is at your doorstep and it's too late to ship back. XP
user227867
14:39
@Mitch I think Merriam Webster is overrated.
user227867
@Tonepoet Don't forget me when I delete my account.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@JasperLoy I'll try not to do so.
Do note that I rarely use my email though.
Mitch
Mitch
@JasperLoy I used to have their big three volume version. It had a multilingual dictionary as an addendum. 7 languages + Swedish
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@RegDwigнt Who said it was a piano?
user227867
@Mitch The problem with MW is that the unabridged has not been updated since 1961 and the collegiate does not have as many words as a full sized.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
14:41
@Tonepoet I can tell from the pixels and from having seen a piano in my life.
Mitch
Mitch
@JasperLoy words after 1961 are just slang.
user227867
@Mitch Even the collegiate's last edition was in 2003, though there are minor revisions.
Mitch
Mitch
or tech.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Words after 1961 are just Apple propaganda.
Mitch
Mitch
or cultural references
user227867
14:42
This time, you all will be surprised that I shall not break my promise of not returning.
Mitch
Mitch
what I'm saying is... if you want a dictionary that will help with learning...
hm... dictionaries are overrated.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
That's why they got replaced with dicpics.
user227867
I declare AHD as the most beautiful dictionary in the world. Get the fifth hardcover edition.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Boring.
Go talk to Susie Dent.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@RegDwigнt It sounds like Merriam Webster persuaded you to shill for their New International Dictionary, Third Edition when you say that. =P
user227867
14:44
I think the Oxford dictionaries are the ugliest in the world.
Mitch
Mitch
@JasperLoy The spine and cover? Or the font and indentation?
user227867
@Mitch The dust jackets and the covers.
Mitch
Mitch
@JasperLoy Oh.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Tonepoet alas, no prophet is accepted in his own hometown. But do be warned. Apple will take away your power outlets, and make you pay for it.
user227867
I am very happy that I have contributed a 45 vote question to ELU during this account.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
14:46
You will be powerless and poor. And an Apple fanboi. Better to just stab yourself to death now.
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwigнt There was that one guy.
@RegDwigнt please use the phone jack in the new apple. it'll be cleaner that way
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I'm sorry Dave I can't do that.
user227867
Recently I learnt the difference between USB earphone and earphone jack.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@RegDwigнt Actually it's too late for the last one. My first computer was a Performa 6116CD.
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
@JasperLoy ah, thinking of buying a new phone?
user227867
14:49
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 No, I was just looking at the holes different earphones go into in a computer.
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
ears. Those are the holes.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
I miss Apple's rainbow colored logo.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@JasperLoy surely I'll only need one? maybe two if I keep one in the car?
five seems overkill
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
My first computer was a Compaq, and I still use it to this day. I bought it four years ago and it still works!
Unlike this fucken Google Chrome.
user227867
@MattE.Эллен I would like to mention that the paperback differs in content. It is severely abridged, not just missing the pics.
user227867
14:51
@RegDwigнt These days I use Firefox without any Flash.
user227867
I still can watch most online videos.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I would rather use NN 4.4 again that touch Firefox with a ten-foot pole held by someone else.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
@RegDwigнt I feel almost sorry for you. You have probably never known the joy of a microswitch keyboard like the Apple Extended Keyboard II.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I am typing this in Firefox, I should know.
user227867
Whichever browser I use, it still freezes.
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
14:53
Too bad that used Apple Desktop Bus instead of U.S.B. Apple never made a U.S.B. keyboard that was as good as that.
user227867
Time for me to write a brand new browser.
Mitch
Mitch
@JasperLoy Isn't there a way to do that easily? some kind of modular set up where you can pick parts you want, like a webkit renderer here a javascript interpreter there?
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Tonepoet I have known the joy alright. You're probably way younger than me, and I've known all kinds of joys to which you're not even privy. I'm just saying I never paid for it.
Like, who buys a computer?
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwigнt Unpaid privy joys. got it.
user227867
I wonder if SE will still exist in 10 years from now.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
14:56
Much less a computer that admits it's really just a fruitcake.
user227867
Fruitcakes and mooncakes are two terrible cakes.
Mitch
Mitch
@JasperLoy usenet lasted forever..until it withered away from disuse. SE has a money making company behind it.
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Cake Tahoe and Cake Michigan are horrible as well.
Mitch
Mitch
What does IBM do these days except run ads?
user227867
The worst cake is the one you produce in the bathroom.
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
14:58
they terrorise the countryside, looking for lesser cakes to absorb into themselves. when a fruitcake meets a mooncake carnage usually ensues, as one will fight the other for territory
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Mitch it makes sure that Ken Watanabe still has a living even though he's not done a thing in two decades.
Mitch
Mitch
@JasperLoy mooncake is not cake. They should rename it to 'dry crumbly brown tofu' then peope will be impressed that actually has a taste.
@MattE.Эллен like two kilkinney cakes
user227867
Now durians however are underrated. Really the smell may be weird, but the fruit is really nice.
user227867
Once you actually eat durian flesh, you will enjoy the taste and the smell.
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