English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

RegDwigнt

03:00

De profundis.

Robusto

I don't know. I've never seen a Dutch TV show, to my knowledge.

Cerberus

Or was it just the odd fake-specificity that dreams often throw at us?

Right.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt You misspelled gay profundis.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Really? You're getting larger.

Actually, I think it was late 2010 when I came to this room.

Robusto

@Cerberus Whoa, stop there!

Cerberus

03:01

Which is also when it came to life, or perhaps that happens a short while after.

RegDwigнt

They don't have TV in Dutchland, for you need antennas and they have no hills to mount them on.

Cerberus

@Robusto Well, he used to be seven.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto sorry, autocorrect.

It's all pc these days.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt We're trying to build an antenna that can reach the moon, or halfway there, to peer over the dikes.

Robusto

@Cerberus Now you're talking about dykes. Make up your mind, young doggy!

Cerberus

03:02

@RegDwigнt Yay no Apple.

@Robusto Sorry, autocorrect?

Robusto

Sure. I'll allow it.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus dikes? More like yikes.

Cerberus

Is this room another one of your Dutch game shows?

Robusto

It might very well be.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt They can be pretty.

RegDwigнt

03:04

As can be Trump family members. And yet...

Some things just aren't meant to be. I blame Zeus.

Cerberus

I have a friend related to that refugee island, and she is quite pretty.

RegDwigнt

Lauren Hill?

Robusto

I just YouTubed "Dutch game show" and this is the top pick:

Dumb Blonde (Dutch TV Show)

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Cerberus

Her first name is Greek, though she is Dutch.

Robusto

Geez, if these are Dutch women, @Cerb, no wonder you're gay.

RegDwigнt

03:05

My job here is done.

Now off to transcribe another 50 pieces, record them, and withhold the recording cuz I'm evil.

Take care dudes and dudettes. Abide.

Robusto

Laterz.

Cerberus

@Robusto Dear God. The best of Dutch television.

@RegDwigнt Adieu!

@Robusto The funniest thing is that she doesn't know the word dozen (dozijn).

Robusto

@Cerberus Is that really the best the Nederlanders can do?

Cerberus

So she thinks he's saying dozen, which means boxes.

@Robusto Yes.

Robusto

Hahaha.

RegDwigнt

03:12

@Cerberus Also, the SoundSlice creator comes from Hamsterlevee, so for that reason alone you should learn the violin. QED.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt That's lovelee.

Robusto

Or lolevee.

Cerberus

Out loud?

Robusto

Why not?

Sorry, when you come here to ask your question you can only get more of the same. — Robusto 51 secs ago

CowperKettle

> Зи инкомпрехенсибл Трумп

The correct spelling is Трамп

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Robusto

03:20

Haha, @Cerb, the auto-chat-dictator just asked me if I wanted to move our comments to chat. How to tell it that we already started there?

Cerberus

@CowperKettle Hah.

Robusto

@CowperKettle So Trump is a Tramp?

Cerberus

@Robusto Hmm I don't know how. Have you tried a comment?

Robusto

I suppose I could do that, but then some busybody mod will come and delete everything.

OK, I've done enough damage for one night. Laterz, everyone.

Cerberus

@Robusto Addio!

skull

03:33

Cya

RegDwigнt

No. Nononono. Shia La Beef no. I shall not be corrected on my Russian. Fuck no.

@CowperKettle That is the joke. Thank you for not understanding.

Trump + room.

Get a language degree, mate.

Kthxbai.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt I think that was his joke, as in Trump is a tramp?

RegDwigнt

That would be трэмп, as you well know.

Know as in no. Nonononono.

Shia LaBeouf in "No No No NOo" video

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Зе леди из э трэмп, бат зис гай шур эз ол хелл из нот.

Hello @Gigili. Bye, @Gigili.

CowperKettle

04:47

> 8. After the incubation, wash the plate 5 times with the washing solution as described in step 5.

Will this be okay? There's a list of steps in the procedure.

Cerberus

05:04

Sure, why not?

CowperKettle

05:16

Thank you!

It seemed very odd to me

The Russian original used the word punkt, a borrowing from German probably

Which means "a numbered part of a list (of steps)"

> Wash the plate as described in punkt 5 (0:

KannE

05:36

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Nah, I came here to learn stuff; then it became a mission to help people (a tiny bit at least) before they got deported to the help center; then it became Lack of Reading Comprehension Awareness Day, every day (free RIF wristlets still available in the bookmobile...all of them); then it was...Boo-hoo, I don't want to play anymore; put on your big girl pants (BTW, thanks, guys.); nonstop googling and--Ta-da!--I mighta been born just...but English wuz-ah my name! Still is-ah, the "E"...

Jolenealaska

06:07

@terdon Are you around?

Færd

06:42

Telegram keeps crashing ...

Feeds

06:58

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Q: Another word for 'slithering'

I need different word to use instead of slithering in a story I am writing. The sentence that it is in is "He had a large tattoo of a snake slithering around he's leg.

CowperKettle

> Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious Russian phrases to translate,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping an ELISA plate.
"'T is some analyst, "I muttered, "tapping an ELISA plate –
I'll go crazy at this rate".

Faheem Mitha

08:15

@Cerberus No, you weren't there.

I don't say this often, but it's possible this room has need for a mod. it's a bit chaotic.

KannE

@FaheemMitha I have no idea what you're talking about...

Their once was a gal named Stormy
Who dreamed of a little pony,
So she dropped to one knee
And yelled, “Im-puni-tee!”
And swallowed a little worm-y.

Faheem Mitha

08:30

I rest my case.

KannE

08:42

What people should be worried about...the hostile AF way they treat someone with one point who just wants a synonym...at least throw a word or two at them first...what's the point of voting down someone with only one point? The problem with self-monitoring--there's no such thing. I searched for a synonym for "slithering" for 30-45 minutes in Roget's and came up squat practically. Could someone help her, please, and then maybe lambaste her later? Ugh!

*came up with squat

Feeds

10:41

0

Q: How to describe this body gesture?

How to describe the body gesture in this image? (Sculpture by Anthony Gormley, photo from Teri Gidlof via Pinterest) Is it natural to say this guy is curling up himself, with his arms holding his knees? Are there any other terms which can be used to describe him?

single-word-requests phrase-requests expression-requests

KannE

10:56

I apologize. Of course, I meant "there" once was a gal (not "their"). Oh, and the other thing, too--all those ellipses--it's like being trapped in a dot matrix. It's not funny...or fun anymore, just disturbing. If people weren't so readily turned away...they'd really come to love this chat room. Gn or Gm, whichever.

terdon

11:40

@Jolenealaska Nope, I was fast asleep. Am now though, what's up?

GATA

12:57

hey guys. could someone please check this sentence?
Quality-wise is there any difference if your system is analog or digital?

Feeds

13:37

0

Q: Is there a single word for "just because someone has it worse, it doesn't mean you can't be sad?"

Basically, I'm just trying to find a single word/phrase that echoes the sentiment of "someone has it worse," etc.

single-word-requests word-choice phrases

Feeds

14:45

0

Q: What is a latinate word for the experience of eternal time?

Temporality is a deceptively complex topic. For instance, Heraclitus wrote, "Time is a child playing draughts (checkers)." Aristotle's conceptions of time occupy much of book IV of the Physics. He eventually defined time as, “The number of change in respect of before and after.” St Augustine writ...

single-word-requests

Educ

15:29

I would like to express to the community of latex that I need the cells be able to show the very long text as horizontal line to looks like that

Educ

15:43

@Mitch i have another question could I say : "this is very useful thank you for having spirt of sharing "

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

16:20

@Educ "This is very useful info. Thanks for sharing!"

Educ

Thank you

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Educ this isn't TeX/LaTeX chat. It's this one: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends

Educ

but i asked here to correct my english

Jolenealaska

17:37

@terdon Hi there! I just want to talk to you about a few things that we discussed elsewhere. Do you use Discord?

RegDwigнt

18:48

@KannE lead by example. Give her the word yourself. Which is exactly what you've done, so all is well. If you can't think of more after searching for 45 minutes, it's probably unreasonable to expect others to do better. As far as I'm concerned, I can think of a dozen things off the top of my head, but they are not synonyms for slithering. They are replacements for the metaphor as a whole. At which point this is writing advice, and as such should be taken to Writers.SE.

In any case, I see no lambasting going on in the comments. If anything they are exceptionally civil for our standards.

RegDwigнt

19:23

Family Trees in Other Languages: our world's 7 kinship systems

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Cerberus

20:26

@CowperKettle Well, you could say "point 5" in a list in English?

@Jolenealaska Hey Jojo!

Buenas dias!

@FaheemMitha Hmm why do you say this? What situation were you thinking of, and how should it be changed?

This room is usually dead...

Jolenealaska

@Cerberus Hey Cerby :)

The starred comment here would cause Cascabel fits.

Cerberus

Haha.

Well.

What can I say.

I unpinned it, was all I could do.

Jolenealaska

... and iPhones are gay

Cerberus

Quite!

I see you've been catching up on your reading.

Jolenealaska

That one's old :)

Cerberus

20:39

@Færd It was a power outage in a data centre here.

But they fixed it before I woke up, luckily, so I never noticed.

The Telegram outage, I mean: the power was only out in a remote area.

@Jolenealaska True, true.

So how are things in husky land?

I should reopen my favourite room!

I opened a new Firefox session so my tabs didn't come along.

Jolenealaska

We've had several short power outages this weekend. My poor old 'puter.

Cerberus

Oh, dear.

The last outage I experienced was maybe a year ago.

Jolenealaska

@Cerberus Well, in new news, I'm living with an Eskimo.

Cerberus

Really!

That's cool.

Is he good with computers?

Jolenealaska

@Cerberus Yep. Not romantic, but it did kind of start that way. He knows nothing of computers, he knows walrus ivory and baleen.

He makes his living as an artist

Cerberus

20:44

That is way cooler!

How long ago was the romantic phase?

Jolenealaska

Cerberus

You'll be the computer nerd in the house.

Wow, that looks complicated to make.

I like the seals!

Jolenealaska

@Cerberus I'm a computer nerd to this whole state.

Cerberus

Heh.

What does the text on the wooded piece say?

Jolenealaska

Winter is Coming. The whole thing is a Game of Thrones thing.

Cerberus

20:46

Ahh nice.

I mistook the i for a t.

Jolenealaska

The romantic phase really wasn't. It was a one-night-stand that lasted 2 days.

Cerberus

Ah, OK.

Do you think such a singular experience could be repeated at some point with this guy?

Like when you're drunk?

Jolenealaska

We met when he answered an ad from me on Craigslist looking for a ride to the local gay bar for the Superball party.

Cerberus

Hahaha.

Jolenealaska

I wasn't drunk, but I was in a mood.

Cerberus

20:49

Hilarious.

Jolenealaska

Tall would be entertained. He (Travis) is 38 going on 15.

Cerberus

@Jolenealaska Sure, but drink may trigger a mood at some indeterminate moment in the future. I imagine sharing the same house with someone you're...compatible with could result in such moments from time to time.

@Jolenealaska Ohh you have an Eskimo boy toy.

Well done.

How is the gay bar, by the way?

@Mitch Oh, dear, an event. I see/presume you're been busy...

Jolenealaska

The gay bar is fun. We only have two (that I know of) in town. Unfortunately, even when I've been on the make, I've had no luck.

The boy toy thing is not completely off, but we have moved on from it.

Cerberus

21:10

@Jolenealaska Hah, you were 'on the make' for a girl?

@Jolenealaska I understand.

Jolenealaska

Either way, actually. Like I said, I was in a mood.

Mitch

@Educ Correct the English of what text? The text in that picture is OK 'Very long text'.

Jolenealaska

@Cerberus That I'm not totally straight is not exactly new news :)

Cerberus

@Jolenealaska Even so!

Jolenealaska

21:28

@Cerberus Right now, probably 'cause of recent interesting events in my head, I'm more "on the make" in general than I have been. Girls are, quite frankly, safer.

Cerberus

Hah.

Why are they safer?

Jolenealaska

Lower propensity for violence, less possibility (for 2 women) to transmit disease.

Cerberus

Ah, OK.

How...rational.

Jolenealaska

That's what my shrink said.

Mitch

@Cerberus Did the event happen? Did everybody enjoy it?

Cerberus

21:42

@Jolenealaska Hah!

Nothing wrong with rational.

@Mitch I should ask you!

I'm here, waiting for It to happen.

Educ

thank you mitch but i was talking about my sentence thank any way

Jolenealaska

@Cerberus (I knew you'd like that) :)

Cerberus

Heh.

Educ

"Say Something" but it's recorded with things found in my kitchen!

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it's recorded only with sounds taken from tools found in kitchen

Mitch

@Educ Which sentence?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

21:55

@Mitch "thank you mitch but i was talking about my sentence thank any way"

Educ

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ is my last sentence contains lots of mistakes :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Educ I guess you're doing quite okay if the goal is communication. If it's posting on SE or some professional revenue, that's a different story

Educ

I would like to improve my english to ask question on SE (Mathematics, Latex and English ), also for communication

so to do that I try to write even I know that I made mistakes

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

22:10

I would recommend chatting

Educ

22:44

yes thank you

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