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Jasper Loy

01:50

The men who make war are those who cannot make love.

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SmokeDetector

04:32

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: What reasoning is behind the names of the trigonometric functions "sine", "secant" and "tangent"? by nignognignog on english.SE

Mitch

04:43

@MattE.Эллен Ovaltine: the Nutella of drinks

@Cerberus But the purse of Paris, turned over and emptied, left nothing but old tissues and that lost stick of gum.

Either it's too late or too early. The effect either way is the same.

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J.S

06:41

Hi, can anyone point me in the right direction on the difference between the usage of ":-" and ":"?

For example,
Flow A: - Refunding classes after downtime.
Flow B: - Refunding classes that were disrupted.

Flow A: Refunding classes after downtime.
Flow B: Refunding classes that were disrupted.

Which is correct way ?

englishstudent

07:41

@J.S Just ":" is fine here. Colon followed by a dash ":-" is outdated now and is used in Indian style of writing sometimes.

So your last two examples are good (unless you are in India.)

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Jasper Loy

10:43

@Mitch Ovaltine and Milo are just variations of Hot Chocolate which is the real deal.

@englishstudent Even in India, they are good.

englishstudent

@JasperLoy Morning. Sorry I don't understand. Is my explanation above okay?

Oh I got it.

Sorry.

I couldn't process English just now. :)

englishstudent

10:57

I often see you getting ejected from the room like a pilot from a cockpit. It looks kind of amazing.

They should change the "leave" button to "eject" button.

goes back to work

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RegDwigнt

14:45

@tchrist the answer is: the left one. The left hand or eye.

@Robusto:

エクセルで描く日本の美、76歳パソコン画家の挑戦 Japanese, 76, devotes his twilight years to creating Excel art

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MetaEd

15:05

@RegDwigнt Mornin.

Robusto

15:45

@RegDwigнt Video not available in my country. The overlay in the cameo says something like "The beauty of Japan drawn with Excel, the challenge of a 76-year-old personal computer painter." Took me a while to deduce "Excel" from "ekuseru" ... when I was learning Japanese there was no such animal.

RegDwigнt

16:17

@Robusto oh sorry, I forgot your President has outlawed any products from other countries, including videos. My bad.

This one's about an old man who had no money to buy Photoshop, so he just used whatever software he did have at hand. Excel.

Showcasing many of the pictures, as well as a making-of of one.

And he's now giving classes to other elderly folk 90+.

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Jasper Loy

17:38

@RegDwigнt Twilight years? Nonsense. Humans can live to 120.

englishstudent

17:51

Wow! Who deleted those messages above? NSA?

Anyway, speaking of assassinations when I was a teenager I would always spell “assassination” with a single “s” like “assasination”. Wrong spelling.

Complicated word.

Kit Z. Fox

@englishstudent skully deleted his own messages.

englishstudent

Oh. Ok.

stack

18:34

Is this correct? (English perspective)

> They are pure-experiences which made of years of working in programming field..! That's what makes them great ..!

"They" refers to some "advises"

Kit Z. Fox

No.

You never do ..! ever. That's just wrong.

stack

and what's the correction?

Kit Z. Fox

Just a full stop.

stack

after what word

Kit Z. Fox

And by "advises", I think you mean "advice"?

stack

18:40

oh, yes!

Kit Z. Fox

This advice comes from years of experience working in programming. That's what makes them great.

stack

thx

Kit Z. Fox

stack

19:04

Is this sentence correct?

> Maybe .. But I think even he himself hasn't known what he's doing when he was taking that image. And probably others told him what he has done!

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M.A.R.

21:29

@stack Not wrong, but I'd use ''didn't know''

skill patrol

21:43

@KitZ.Fox did I really now?

Jasper Loy

21:58

When the above two messages get two stars each, you know this chat is running out of interesting things to star. =)

Kit Z. Fox

@skillpatrol no, you didn't. Skully did. As well he knows.

skill patrol

Ok. I apologize @KitZ.Fox

skill patrol

22:53

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