English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Robusto

00:11

@RegDwigнt Not even the Kindle version?

@RegDwigнt Wikipedia says System of a Down is "an Armenian-American heavy metal band." I didn't know that was a genre.

Where are the Lithuanian-American bands? The Slovenian-American bands? The Bosnia-Herzegovinan bands?

All of them, of course, from Glendale, California, just like System of a Down.

And actually, @Reg, I was thinking of bands like GWAR and Pantera.

tchrist

00:49

What this town needs is more dog rabid catchers.

The only thing worse than wrong questions attracting wrong answers is when nobody notices.

"What's the adjectival form of audit?" is asking the wrong question so of course it gets wrong answers.

They just need to use it as a modifier. They don't need an adjective, nor wish one.

Mitch

01:57

@RegDwigнt As Hermione wants you to say, it is a noh-vell-AH

Færd

02:48

@Mitch I dno't remember I ever linked to an "Iranian" song here. Maybe you're mistaking me with @Cerberus? There's this cheesy pop band he was infatuated with and linked to a couple times or so. ;P

Feeds

04:46

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Q: Something that is a completely new Idea in a particular field

A new way to think of something which is a gamechanger. for example Video on demand is killing the digital establishment. What can we call the VOD market

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SmokeDetector

07:12

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, +5 more: www.supplentforhealthylifestyle.org/keto-tone/ by singhzchorz on english.SE

Feeds

08:01

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Q: Is there a word or phrase to describe someone who wants to know things they can't, or shouldn't?

A person wants to know what someone else honestly thinks of them, but doesn't want to ask because they might not be honest, or say everything. How would you briefly describe a person who wants to know what isn't said? Someone who wants to know things they can't ask about, like a person's deepest ...

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Feeds

08:46

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Q: How is person who sells information about other people called?

Is there a word or phrase that would describe a person who collects and sells information (possibly some dirt) about other people? I'm not talking about selling data to organisations, more of collecting useful info and then providing it to other individuals for a fee. "If you're looking for someo...

single-word-requests phrase-requests

Robusto

11:25

Mark Zuckerberg? — Robusto 1 min ago

user1732

yeah, karma came back and took a big bite out of fb

user1732

11:50

on the stock market, i mean

Cerberus

@Færd If people are mistaking you for me, you're doing something wrong!

Johan Larsson

Why wrong? You are so awesome.

user1732

12:05

yup, the best

Curio

Is "they didn't either talk to me" correct?

Or they didn't talk to me either?

user1732

they didn't talk to me either

Cerberus

@JohanLarsson I know that, but nobody else thinks so.

Johan Larsson

I just did

Also what happened?

Modding accident?

@Curio I think 'they didn't talk to me either' but you want second opinion from someone who knows the language

de pratade inte med mig heller

there you have it in swedish

Curio

12:21

@JohanLarsson thanks!

@user1732 thanks!

Johan Larsson

derp, I did not see that user1732 posted before

Cerberus

12:35

@JohanLarsson What happened where?

Johan Larsson

> but nobody else thinks so

read it like you are having a bad day

Cerberus

Oh, it was just a random joke.

No bad day.

How is your day?

Johan Larsson

It is a great day, rooted clematis cuttings successfully

Was fast, just three weeks or so.

Feeds

0

Q: A word beginninig with "L" that means moved a lot

I am sorry, I asked my question earlier in an answer box. I am writing my life story and I have looked hither and yonder for a word starting with "L" meaning moved a lot. My theme is Lies, loss and ? (My parents moved a lot when I was a child to adult) A few moves were military but most of the...

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tchrist

@JohanLarsson Good for you! Those things are hit and miss; when they hit (meaning: when they take to your growing conditions), they’re beautiful.

user 2646

12:47

@Cerberus isn't Latin sufficiently similar to Italian that the two Stackexchange sites could be merged?

tchrist

@user2646 -1 trolling

Cerberus

@user2646 If so, then German.SE and English.SE could also be merged.

user 2646

:(

pardon my ignorance

tchrist

@Cerberus I thought of that analogy, but felt it didn't begin to illustrate the gravity and magnitude and breadth.

Cerberus

@user2646 Well, perhaps my reply was a bit snarky.

user 2646

12:49

np

Cerberus

Can you explicate what criteria should, in your opinion, justify merging two language sites?

user 2646

just an uneducated guess

Cerberus

If your main or only criterion is similarity, then I would have to disagree.

For why should similar languages be on the same site?

Why not on different sites?

tchrist

While the core Italian lexis is ultimately derived from Latin, it takes a true expert in both of them combined with rare expertise in historical Romance philology to find connections between the two not just in syntax but even in morphology. The sound changes alone are profound.

Cerberus

To find any conexions, most, or all?

tchrist

12:53

Oh, most or all.

Little ones poke through, that you can infer post hoc.

Cerberus

And how would you quantify most conexions?

tchrist

17

You need to be a scholar to see the forest for the trees.

Cerberus

I don't think you would need rare expertise in Romance philology for recognising 17 conexions.

Any high-schooler should be able to immediately recognise various Latin roots in an Italian text.

Especially if he should have some basic knowledge of Italian, which unfortunately few have.

tchrist

@Cerberus Ah but I use hexisexagesimal numbers. :)

Cerberus

That is a hybrid word I cannot parse.

tchrist

12:56

I did that on purpose.

Cerberus

Perhaps I need more expertise in Greek and Latin...

I didn't think you would make such a mistake, nor does that make it intelligible.

(I like this use of nor.)

user 2646

@Cerberus isn't English supposed to be more like Latin than German?

tchrist

@Cerberus me too

@user2646 English is not "like" Latin.

user 2646

Loosely speaking :-)

tchrist

English has more words in common use in it ultimately derived from Latin than does German.

Cerberus

12:58

@user2646 English has the syntax of Germanic, and its most common words are Germanic; but the large majority of its words with middling or low frequency are from Latin. As a result, in a more advanced English text, most words will be Latinate.

tchrist

What makes a language "like" another language?

Lawrence

@tchrist Depends on whether you're asking adults or, 'like', teens. :P

user 2646

@Cerberus that answers my question completely, thanks

tchrist

You can easily talk about many things without needing to grab for any words coming from south of the Alps, but it takes some work and after a while you may find yourself empty handed with common words known in common by all, and will have to either make up new ones or else fare south for some loanwords.

But just adding Romance words to the utterance given above does not English Latin make.

NB: "just" is not Germanic.

Notice how very many Latinate words are in that first English sentence.

Cerberus

An example.

user 2646

13:09

excellent use of colour

Cerberus

Merci.

tchrist

The tense system is very, even very very, different in Italian than it was in Latin. Surely you'll see vestiges of the old strong preterites and persons, but voice is gone and there are new synthetic tenses in the future and conditional. Much more.

user 2646

you must get a lot of praise as a good teacher :-)

tchrist

Consider "[Io] ero quello che sei, sarete quello che sono."

From "Eram quod es, eris quod sum."

Where are the first- and second-person markers there, where are the tense markers?

"I was what you are, you shall be what I am."

The suppletive "er-" stem for the imperfect preterite remains, but for the new Italian synthetic future it has been suppleted by a different stem.

But both languages remain pro-drop ones.

Unlike French or English, where personal pronouns must accompany tensed verbs.

(Or equivalent nominal constructions)

The -o verb reflex is the first-person one in Italian; it does derive there from -am in Latin through predictable sound changes.

Don't make me tell you. :)

user 2646

:)

tchrist

13:21

The word order in Italian is much more restricted than in Latin.

Because Latin marks noun phrases with grammatical case.

So you know what role in the sentence each of those is playing without needing to put them in just one place alone to infer it from.

The pronunciation has changed in many ways, but those are the least interesting of changes.

user 2646

Could Greek be combined with Italian?

tchrist

I don't even begin to understand the question.

Wake and bake? :)

user 2646

isn't Greek sufficiently similar to Italian that if there were two Stackexchange sites they could be merged?

tchrist

Greek similar to Italian, whuuuuuuuuuut?

No more bong hits for you!

Italian is "nothing like" Greek.

Even if by "Greek" you mean present-day Greek as it is spoken.

> Kyrie,

I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas.

With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized.

Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic pr…

user 2646

whelp, Ancient Greek and Latin are usually taught in succession, no?

tchrist

13:33

There, does that excerpt show that we could merge ELU with a Greek SE site? :)

Lexis never counts compared with the rest.

Lexis is overlaid on the substrate.

@user2646 Ancient Latin and Ancient Greek are far more alike than Italian and Modern Greek are.

user 2646

ok, thanks I didn't know that

tchrist

They are taught in succession because they share grammatical elements in common that most modern languages lack. So for example, the first and second declensions track each other fairly well.

It is nearly as hard to talk about these things to an anglophone monoglot as it is for a three-dimensional visitor to Flatland to convey his perspective to its denizens. :)

It used to be that part of being an educated person in every corner of Europe meant having studied Latin and Greek plus one if not both of French or Italian.

And perhaps German.

user 2646

45 mins ago, by tchrist

You need to be a scholar to see the forest for the trees.

circa 1533

:)

user 2646

14:12

from the writings of Thomas More

tchrist

> Kyrie,

It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the herecy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonize between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncracy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis should be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists.

Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between politi…

Kinda makes you miss Latin.

Or some writing system that has fewer digraphs.

MetaEd

mornin yall

SmokeDetector

14:32

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Is "outstaffing" a real word? by Luke Glenet on english.SE

Feeds

15:02

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a word which describes the quote or a word related to the quote"asking for help is not weakness,it is strength". It should be a single word.

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Mitch

@MetaEd aha! my prediction is coming true!

@tchrist "numismatic plethora" - too many stamps?

MetaEd

@Mitch Please restate your prediction in the form of a quatrain.

user 2646

15:18

Quatrain

A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines. Existing in a variety of forms, the quatrain appears in poems from the poetic traditions of various ancient civilizations including Ancient India, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and China, and continues into the 21st century, where it is seen in works published in many languages. During Europe's Dark Ages, in the Middle East and especially Iran, polymath poets such as Omar Khayyam continued to popularize this form of poetry, also known as Ruba'i, well beyond their borders and time. Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus)...

Mitch

In the year 2525,
If man is still alive,
Second Person Plural
will become "y'all". Overall.

MetaEd

HAAA

user 2646

but he missed the apostrophe :P

tchrist

@Feeds Who is this Help fellow?

user 2646

curiosity?

has its own reason for existence

Mitch

15:26

@Færd isn't all pop cheesy? but yes, maybe it was @Cerberus who posted those youtube videos. Cerb, do you remember if you did that? and what was the link?

Frontline (an American documentry series on PBS) had two episodes on Iran

user 2646

A frontline and a sideline?

Mitch

Here's the whole show

user 2646

thnx for sharing

Mitch

Made by a Dutch guy who's been living in Iran for the past 15 years.

some of the theme music is by this band that was posted here

And I was trying to find the band name (couldn't remember)

One thing that stood out to me is that, during the show, as content, there are a number of places where modern Iranian pop music is played, and it has a common 'Iranian' (or mideast) sound... but some of the background music was from this band which really didn't have this mideast sound.

Feeds

15:47

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Q: Which of those words should I use?

I have the following sentence: "We currently have no _ demand for skilled workers." I would like to use one of these words instead of the _ and I wonder which one would fit best. Thanks for your help!

single-word-requests word-choice word-usage

tchrist

16:16

> Gaza frequens Lybicum duxit Karthago triumphum.

> Le cœur déçu mais l'âme plutôt naïve, Louÿs rêva de crapaüter en canoë au delà des îles, près du mälströn où brûlent les novæ.

> El pingüino Wenceslao hizo kilómetros bajo exhaustiva lluvia y frío, añoraba a su querido cachorro.

> Ma la volpe col suo balzo ha raggiunto il quieto Fido.

> Luís argüia à Júlia que «brações, fé, chá, óxido, pôr, zângão» eram palavras do português.

> Jove xef, porti whisky amb quinze glaçons d'hidrogen, coi!

> Necesitamos unha tipografía chuliña de cor kiwi, que lle zorregue unha labazada visual á xente.

> Gheorghe, obezul, a reuşit să obţină jucându-se un flux în Quebec de o mie kilowaţioră.

> Quel vituperabile xenofobo zelante assaggia il whisky ed esclama: alleluja!

> Jaz em prisão bota que vexa dez cegonhas felizes.

> Cien kilogramos pesó el extranjero, que vive y se exhibe fumando.

Mitch

16:33

@Cerberus The music that (maybe) you posted is at 29:35 in the above documentary.

Færd

16:48

@Cerberus That's an out-of-character and humble response to a pointy tease. Have you converted to a pacifist religion recently? You made me repent.

There's not all that wrong with that band. I guess this is the link you were looking for, @Mitch:

Jun 19 at 15:23, by Cerberus

Barobax - Baba To Ki Hasty OFFICIAL VIDEO

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@Mitch If by pop music you mean the subset of popular music that is characterized by cheesiness, then yes, by definition. But I think there could be a lot to explore and enjoy even in pop music.

@Mitch At last they translated the series! I watched the first season in Dutch. Struck my fancy, generally soeaking.

tchrist

It's thundersnowing in the mountains. How depressing.

Or maybe exciting.

Maybe that pink stuff is hail not snow.

Now, that would be red.

Must be sleet.

Færd

Thundersnow!

tchrist

Indeed.

Færd

The heat is letting up over here too, at last. Today's high was below 40 °C.

tchrist

That just isn't very impressive compared to saying you've gone from triple digits to doubles. :)

Færd

16:57

Indeed! It was purposefully ironic.

Dinner awaits me.

tchrist

We really need a semi-logarithmic temperature scale the way we have with decibels.

Maybe something like the Richter scale.

Færd

17:35

To clarify, the ironic part was the 40°C-vs-thundersnow incomparability, even tho that's technically not an irony. Anyways.

@tchrist But the Celsius scale has its origin at the freezing point of water!

That's more convenient in winter compared to saying the temperature's above or below 32 °F.

@tchrist Do we naturally respond to temperature logarithmically?

As it happens, there has been attempts at defining a logarithmic temperature scale.

But it yields its fruits near the absolute zero of the thermodynamic scale, as it better demonstrates the unattainability of the absolute zero.

tchrist

@Færd The Fahrenheit scale is also based on the freezing point of water, but this time it's salt water brine. This provides a far more convenient scale for human experience by several measure. Now zaroff to a hundred covers the range of temperatures people most commonly encounter, and anything outside that range looks as extreme as it feels.

Furthermore, humans can readily perceive single-degree changes in temperature when measure ed in Fahrenheit. With Centigrade the degrees are too far so you perceive changes that aren't integer degrees.

Færd

I think the change in the natural environment is more drastic around 32°F than around 0°F.

tchrist

That isn't what I'm sayimg.

Færd

@tchrist The two degrees are in the same domain of magnitude roughly speaking. I haven't tested that tho, so maybe you're right there.

I get what you're saying.

tchrist

17:50

I'm saying it's more convenient to have a 1 to 100 scale that fits with our common human experience.

No negatives. No wasted numbers on top. No decimal points or fractions.

And by common experience I mean weather not pizza ovens.

Færd

That's an option with its own conveniences. Another would be to demonstrate the radical changes in our surrounding nature by a change of sign.

I like it (or maybe I'm just used to it) that below freezing point is negative.

tchrist

I don't like negatives. How would you like it if your weight were measured against that of a big block of ice that counted as zero and you weighed something negative if you were more slender? ;)

It's not like it has to be below freezing for you to freeze to death.

I imagine that outside temperatures below freezing are exceedingly rare for you. Is that so?

Færd

Well, it's not like the Fahrenheit system doesn't have a zero anywhere!

@tchrist It helps.

@tchrist Oh no, winter goes below zero frequently.

It would plummet even below zero Fahrenheit when I was very young.

But that's history now.

Mitch

@Færd excellent! Thanks, that was it. Barobax

tchrist

Sure but 0F is far less frequent than 32F. 7 or 8 months of the year here hit the freezing mark. That means with your system it's mostly bobbing in and out of negative numbers.

@Færd Did you know that once it does so you can no longer toss salt upon the ice to make it melt all by itself without added friction or sunlight?

Mitch

18:01

Excellent! (That was in French)

[upsidedown exclamation point] Excelente!

Færd

Seasons are all messed up these days. We got heat waves last winter after brief snowfalls. Then a nice spring overall.

Mitch

Ausgezeichnet!

Færd

@tchrist That's right. I didn't think about it before!

@Mitch You're welcome!

Mitch

How do you respond enthusiastically in Farsi?

Færd

In a number of ways.

tchrist

18:03

Heat waves like in it melts the snow or heat waves like going swimming in the lake?

Færd

آخ جون!

جانمی جان!

ایول!

احسنت!

...

@tchrist of the latter.

Mitch

"Khaylee khub!" ?

tchrist

That is certainly unusual.

Færd

It's becoming the norm here, unfortunately.

@Mitch That's about moderate approval in my book.

Although it translates to very good.

Mitch

"Khubamee khub!"?

Just tying to read very slowly

Færd

18:07

You misread the ج as خ. :D

tchrist

We had only a single day of 105 this summer. Winter was mild, seldom below 0 even at night.

Færd

I would swap climates with you.

tchrist

So for us normalcy of 1 to 100 works well. For now

Mitch

Can you do that?

Without moving?

Færd

I never move.

Everything else moves around me.

Mitch

18:08

It keeps things cooler that way

Færd

@Mitch It's joonamee joon! Very informal.

Mitch

Lately though with humidity and heat I've found that you get a small breeze moving

@Færd I get beh and nun mixed up and Jim Che he kheh all mixed up

tchrist

I nearly died In Pittsburgh's 80s and 90s. And yes it was because it was both.

Chang Kai Shek?

Mitch

It's like left and right. They're entirely different. I know one is one and the other is the other, but the labels don't stick for me

Færd

@Mitch It's be.

That's impressive tho.

Mitch

18:12

Baby steps

Færd

I'd imagine reading our alphabet is harder. Yet my reading speed in Farsi is at least twice as much as in English.

@tchrist Um, both decades you mean?

.

> as it happens
PHRASE
Actually; as a matter of fact.

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/as_it_happens

No notion of chance?! That shouldn't be true.

CowperKettle

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Q: Meaning of "community adolescents" in a research study

From "Early Variations in White Matter Microstructure and Depression Outcome in Adolescents With Subthreshold Depression": Neuroimaging and clinical data were obtained from a large sample of community adolescents recruited around age 14 in middle schools from eight sites in four European cou...

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Three answers, and I still don't get it..

Feeds

19:18

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Q: A synonym for "simple" with positive connotation

I have developed an algorithm that performs at least as well as others in the field, but it is much simpler. That is to say, it does not depend on complicated models or advanced mathematics and is more straightforward. When writing it up, I would like to call the method "simple," but I feel lik...

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MetaEd

@Mitch Hey! It's Bad Poetry Day!

tchrist

20:02

@Færd No no, 80s and 90s in both temperature and humidity. See how nice having matching scales is? :)

Mitch

@MetaEd You're next. I already did one.

in terze rima

just three lines

man it's hard to find short poetry schemas

RegDwigнt

20:19

@Robusto oh yeah GWAR and Pantera. Now you're speaking my language. Only took you eight years. Well yes, my point. Ain't nobody who even knows them names anymore.

Mitch

@tchrist Wait, you want temp to be on a percent scale?

So that 100 degrees is the hottest of hot?

absolute 100?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto oh right, now that you say. I do have a Kindle. Got it from my Godson's father for free. Never used it really. Haven't charged it in months. Not my thing.

I need dead trees. (c) Hailey Joel Osment.

Mitch

Haley Joel Chestnut

RegDwigнt

Yeah I just googled. No I, apparently. Wevs.

Mitch

Pas moi dit le chat

RegDwigнt

20:23

phrase-request In Dschömann we say when you get something for free, it fell off a truck. Or a lorry, if you must. What is english for word phrase that equivalent.

Patricia Kaas - Mon Mec a Moi

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Mitch

'fell off a truck' means you got it in a shady way, and don't want to say exactly how. Like in gangster movies, as a euphemism for a truck was hijacked. But I suppose it could mean you got it for free from a friend who just gave it to you.

But just getting it for free?

RegDwigнt

You saying that exists in langage english?

Mitch

Exactamundo

RegDwigнt

Yes, shady way connotation.

Mitch

Genau

RegDwigнt

20:26

Fuck you Mitch since when are you fluent in German.

Mitch

En point?

Zhen qi guai?

RegDwigнt

Ничего не понимаю.

Mitch

I couldn't tell you how to say 'fell of a truck' auf Deutsch if a truck fell on me and squished it out.

@RegDwigнt You understand quite a bit

RegDwigнt

You know full well it would just be Ifatruckfellonmeandsquishedmeout.

And then comes the verb. (c) Mark Twain.

Mitch

Squishing sort of means you're not full anymore

That's how truck falling works

If a truck falls from the overpass and there's no person below it to get crushed, it's still a pretty effing awesome sight

please let it be an oil tanker

RegDwigнt

20:30

Oh I got that reference. You're talking about Forklift Klaus now.

Staplerfahrer Klaus 2001 BluRay- Rip / Grüße An alle Zukünftigen StaplerFahrer!

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Mitch

Maybe.

Really I was hoping to sell it to the Furious Five people

RegDwigнt

I'm the Hateful Eight, sorry. Wrong address.

Mitch

And there's a girl standing right under the overpass where the truck is going to land, and Vin Diesel or Ving Rhames or some other V person jumps onto a train with his motorcycle, his parachute deploys, he floats down and snatches up the girl just before the truck hits her and explodes.

RegDwigнt

Hold on, I'll put that to music.

I only wrote eight pieces today, I need a ninth.

@Cerberus that is gay.

There's your German syntax with Latinate words.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt that's a good one. it's not like your others

I don't think that was real blood though

Cerberus

22:28

@Mitch Yup, that's the documentary I posted here earlier for @Færd. What did you think?

That's also where I first heard Barobax.

@RegDwigнt Oh, is gay really Latinate?

I know it's French.

But I don't know where the frogs got it from.

@RegDwigнt OMG I want that.

I need it.

tchrist

@Cerberus The Germans.

Cerberus

Ah.

Then Reg was wrong.

tchrist

> From Middle English gay, from Old French gai (“joyful, laughing, merry”), usually thought to be a borrowing of Old Occitan gai (“impetuous, lively”), from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (gaheis, “impetuous”), merging with earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), from Frankish *gāhi;[1] both from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“to stride, step”), from *ǵʰēy- (“to go”).[2][3] Cognate with Dutch gauw (“fast, quickly”), Westphalian Low German gau, gai (“fast, quick”), German jäh (“abrupt, sudden”).

Why Wiktionary is into soft porn now, I have no idea.

> Du vieil espagnol gayo, lié au haut-allemand gâhi (« prompt »), jähe.
Pour De Cange, l’origine pourrait-être le nom propre latin Gaius, qui était un nom de bon augure, et que les langues italiotes offrent sous la forme de Gavius, lequel semble signifier « le réjouissant ». Gaius aurait donné sans peine *gajo ; mais les formes intermédiaires manquent.
Pontanus dérive ce mot du flamand occidental gay, ou du hollandais.
Le Dictionnaire universel françois et latin donne de manière indifférente les deux écritures gai et gay [1].

Cerberus

Hmm lots of different possibilities.

tchrist

Apparently.

Cerberus

22:38

Porn where?

And I thought it was Du Cange?

tchrist

gay

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK, US) enPR: gā, IPA(key): /ɡeɪ/ Rhymes: -eɪ === Etymology 1 === From Middle English gay, from Old French gai (“joyful, laughing, merry”), usually thought to be a borrowing of Old Occitan gai (“impetuous, lively”), from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (gaheis, “impetuous”), merging with earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), from Frankish *gāhi; both from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“to stride, step”), from *ǵʰēy- (“to go”). Cognate with Dutch gauw (“fast, quickly”), Westphalian Low German gau, gai (“fa...

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Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange

Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange or Du Cange (French: [dy kɑ̃ʒ]; December 18, 1610 in Amiens – October 23, 1688 in Paris) was a distinguished philologist and historian of the Middle Ages and Byzantium. == Charles du Fresne == Educated by Jesuits, du Cange studied law and practiced for several years before assuming the office of Treasurer of France. Du Cange was a busy, energetic man who pursued historical scholarship alongside his demanding official duties and his role as head of a large family. Du Cange's most important work is his Glossarium mediae et infimae Latinitatis (Glossary of medieval...

tchrist

Looks du to me.

Cerberus

@tchrist Where is the pornography?

tchrist

@Cerberus The picture unshown. :)

Cerberus

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You mean the women almost touching lips?

tchrist

I'm kidding. Just chicks swapping spit.

Cerberus

You prudish American boy, if you think that's pornography...

@Færd Oh, why was that out of character?

No need to repent. People here can take innocuous jokes.

But, religion? Really?

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