English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Mitch

00:36

@Cerberus I know!

pardon me

@Cerberus "I barely knew her"

Cerberus

pardons you

No capital punishment for you, Mr.

tchrist

@Cerberus Careful, somebody up there appears to be listening after all.

tmz.com/2018/09/04/…

I keep looking for glitches in the Matrix.

tchrist

01:56

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Q: How to mention this "YES" moment?

Can anyone help me how I can describe a small achievement between different successful results? Something like your team had already scored a lot of goals and you came up from the bench and score one more goal. So, it's not a lot, but a lot for you. You'll do something like "Fit Yes" to yourself....

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Q: I have a sensory details chart that needs to be filled out for my college class soon!

I need a few words to describe what the rural outdoors tastes, sounds, and smells like. Something to describe the air or a lake maybe?

single-word-requests

Robusto

Right on.

Cerberus

02:12

@tchrist Now, if only the server hosting the whole "new design" débâcle could be hit, too...

tchrist

I just got my very firstest Reversal badge.

On meta, of course.

Feeds

02:44

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Q: Single word for "in a different way"

If "in a different place" is "elsewhere," is there a single word for "in a different way?" The sentence is, "We might be able to make sense of this in a different way." Thanks, SL

single-word-requests

SmokeDetector

08:56

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body: Alpha Size Fuel Review by Uted on english.SE

RegDwigнt

10:11

So I wander in here and the first thing I see is five people not being able to think of an adverb for different. And the second thing I see is another five people discussing whether a fact is a physical creature with a mouth.

And the third thing I see is a guy asking for "a few college level words to describe what the rural outdoors taste like".

This site should be renamed from ELU to TROLOLOLU.

Now that would be a design change I'd support.

Meysam

11:22

What's it mean "to stand something on edge"?

> Do not move your mattress, box spring, or frame, or stand them on edge. Doing so could cause the bedbugs to scatter

Robusto

11:50

@KarlG: I've worked in the business as a front-end developer for over 20 years. Before that I was a creative director, and dealt with graphic issues like type and color all the time. I know all the tricks, all the problems. What we had before here looked professional (even though it wasn't to my taste); what we have now does not. — Robusto 48 secs ago

@RegDwigнt You'd find something wrong even with that. LOLOLOL

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12:17

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Q: Use of contiguous for time

Can I use 'contiguous' for time periods that immediately follow each other, or is usage restricted to geography? For example, would it be correct to say that "session B will be taught contiguously with class A", if I mean to say that class B will start as soon as class A ends? If that use is no...

single-word-requests word-usage

RegDwigнt

12:40

@Robusto no. Finding requires that I first go look for it. And I never need to look for horribly wrong things. They are always horribly apparent. Alas.

$user image$

Don't put the mattress upright on its side.

Mitch

@Meysam A mattress is a 3-dimensional object, with length, width, and height, and sosix flat surfaces, the main sleeping one (two of them) which usually are parallel to the floor, and 4 narrow faces. Those narrow faces, while geometrically would not be called edges, are so thin in comparison to the sleeping surface that it is easy to think of them as edges of the sleeping face. Standing a mattress on its edge is tipping the mattress (I suppose) up against a wall so it is 'on' the 'edge'

RegDwigнt

Let it lie down.

Mitch

jinxed and tweened

ha

RegDwigнt

@Mitch I spent the last three minutes typing just that and then I said fuck it and found a pic instead.

If someone can't understand what an "edge" is, then certainly saying things like "surface" and "3-dimensional" and "comparison" and "parallel" and "narrow" is not exactly going to help.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt I see your point but raise you a 'sometimes, when you can't just show a video, using more words that are synonyms tells you the appropriate nuance'. He might have been thinking that the surface is not an edge (which it isn't literally re your picture) but is somewhat metaphorically if you think of a mattress like a piece of paper.

RegDwigнt

12:50

@Mitch what is raise means.

Matt E. Эллен

make higher

RegDwigнt

oh so smoke pot

Matt E. Эллен

usually by putting four bricks underneath

RegDwigнt

why is Mitch smoke pot

Mitch

elevate?

RegDwigнt

12:51

is that before twelvate?

Mitch

my excessive pot smoking is not the issue here

RegDwigнt

it is now, young sir

Matt E. Эллен

it's before enervate

RegDwigнt

yes it needs a nerf alright

Mitch

I always thought 'enervate' was a good thing utnil I learned its meaning

RegDwigнt

12:52

Lol and now I have to react to flags in Russian.

Matt E. Эллен

some of the tomatoes are orange

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен I don't think that'll take care of the bedbug problem

@RegDwigнt those are easy. always valid

RegDwigнt

No, that's the thing. That flag totally isn't valid.

Mitch

the words that are not offensive in Russian are useless

Matt E. Эллен

Don't Laugh News: Bed Bug Alert!

►

Mitch

12:54

@RegDwigнt Read between the lines

Matt E. Эллен

those Russian flags keep coming

Mitch

"там в политоте сидит kvaz1r и открыто говрит что русских надо убивать, особенно тех кто за путина" so obviously talking about someone's mother

@MattE.Эллен They look political

Matt E. Эллен

yeah, although I don't trust google translate.

Mitch

But flaggd as offensive by 3 people, so maybe there's a point

RegDwigнt

@Mitch you only say that because you learned Russian from me.

Nov 22 '13 at 19:24, by RegDwigнt

Did you know that every second word in Russian is a euphemism for "drink all things now"? The rest being euphemisms for "your", "mother", or some combination thereof.

Mitch

12:57

@MattE.Эллен I was about to say 'GT doesn't return anything offensive', and then realized my rookie mistake.

Matt E. Эллен

mother all your things, now drink

RegDwigнt

@Mitch it's worse, he's talking about Putin. And killing all the Russians.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt you miss one word, like 'killing', and people start to judge you.

or 'not'

Matt E. Эллен

Putin Killing Russian? must be Fake News™

RegDwigнt

Yeah I'm leaving that kindergarten alone.

tchrist

12:59

@RegDwigнt What the hell are all the Russian flags?

Oh kindergarten, right.

RegDwigнt

Kindergarten.

You said she said he said but mommy I said then he said but wah.

tchrist

ufunny

RegDwigнt

Even if someone did say "kill all the Russians", that's not a flaggable offense per se.

I just typed those very words myself, look.

Matt E. Эллен

put the room in timeout

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен Excellent. Red and yellow teams have been deployed. Cover your eyes and ears.

@RegDwigнt flagged

obviously

Matt E. Эллен

13:01

if everyone eats all the tomatoes where do we get the seeds from?

RegDwigнt

Yeah you might as well, I gotta run anyway, have violin class in an hour.

@MattE.Эллен from chihuahua excrements.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен Oh Matt

RegDwigнt

Who was first, the tomato or the chihuahua? Discuss.

Mitch

Poop. We get them from the poop. Toilets are seed reclamation devices.

Matt E. Эллен

that makes sense. mystery solved.

RegDwigнt

13:02

You're a semen reclamation device.

Matt E. Эллен

flagged

RegDwigнt

No wait, I have to say it in Russian first.

Matt E. Эллен

lol

RegDwigнt

Ёр э симен рикламэйшн дивайс.

There. Now go.

Don't collect the 200 roubles.

Matt E. Эллен

flogs

RegDwigнt

13:04

The horse is dead, long live the horse!

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Eiffelturm.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist сам такой.

tchrist

Talking about your mother again, I see.

RegDwigнt

Srsly tho I need to go brush my teeth and floss them too and then put on my tutu.

@tchrist always am. She just wrote me the other day. Now I have to reply. Gah.

Meysam

@RegDwigнt I know what an edge is, but I had a hard time trying to make sense of that sentence.

thanks

@Mitch thanks

What does "A door tag will be left noting appropriate reentry time" mean?

> You and your pets must vacate your unit for a minimum of 4 hours. A door tag will be left noting appropriate reentry time.

You cannot enter?

Mitch

13:20

@Meysam Well, you should not enter before that time or else you'll probably breathof the bedbug killing gas (which is what I'm guessing is happening )

'cannot' means 'unable' like the door is locked. 'should' means 'we have deemed it unsafe'

'a door tag' is just a note left on the door or door handle

Meysam

@Mitch yeah I know

Mitch

'a minimum of 4 hours' means you shouldn't come in before 4 hours, and actually it will probably take longer than 4 hours, so look at our note to see when. It might be 4 hours, but more likely longer. Definitely not in 3 hours.'

Meysam

does it mean as long as the door tag is there, you shouldn't enter again and no excuses will be accepted?

@Mitch The second sentence is the issue, not the first

Mitch

I think the notice on the door will give a time when it is safe to re-enter. There's no police guard preventing you from entering before that time, but they know from experience that before then it will not be good to breath the air in there.

The time given on the note will say when you can come back in, and you shouldn't before then.

Meysam

got it

thanks

Mitch

13:25

also, you should take any pets with you.

before the gassing starts.

I suppose fish will be OK if you cover the aquarium.

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Q: Term to name a person who is a mother/father from a person who is not?

Is there a term to name a person who is a mother/father from a person who is not? There are different adjectives to describe a person: single married divorced parent What would be a person before he/she becomes father or mother?

single-word-requests

Matt E. Эллен

13:57

@Mitch fish taste awful, so it's best to keep them alive so you don't have to eat them

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен is that before or after bedbug gassing?

Matt E. Эллен

I hadn't considered. Both, I think

Mitch

14:17

hm... a true connoisseur

Kit Z. Fox

14:28

@Lawrence I left for a while because I had lung cancer and was undergoing treatment. I haven't been present much since then, mostly because the other mods have been doing just fine without me.

Matt E. Эллен

hi Kit :D

Kit Z. Fox

Hi Matt!

So, thinking of Nano this year?

Matt E. Эллен

Nah. I haven't even been able to keep up writing the 2nd draft I started in July

Are you?

Kit Z. Fox

Thinking about it, but haven't decided firmly on it. I have a conference in November, and the elections, and I haven't finished a draft in two years, and I haven't written much recently.

@RegDwigнt Thanks! and you're a milestone subscriber - 150th! Sesquicentennialist!

Matt E. Эллен

hmmm. It might be funny to try and do a stream of consciousness nanowrimo, or like maybe not every day, but 3 or 4 days a week in November

Kit Z. Fox

14:36

That could be really fun.

ledonter

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ax_to_grind
> He was flattered by the stranger into turning the grindstone

What does it mean to 'turn the grindstone'?

Matt E. Эллен

maybe aim low, like 30k instead of 50k

Kit Z. Fox

That's what I tried to do for ... one of them. Ended up as a story. Maybe the first one?

@ledonter A grindstone is used for sharpening blades. In the days before electricity, you turned one by hand. It requires a lot of effort.

Matt E. Эллен

@ledonter it looks literal

Kit Z. Fox

The sentence means that the stranger used flattery to convince the man to turn the grindstone, and thus sharpen his blade.

ledonter

14:39

I guess I just don't know precisely what grindstone is and how it can be turned :D

But ok I got it

Kit Z. Fox

It's a big heavy rock, shaped like a wheel.

Grindstone

A grindstone is a round sharpening stone used for grinding or sharpening ferrous tools. Grindstones are usually made from sandstone.Grindstone machines usually have pedals for speeding up and slowing down the stone to control the sharpening process. The earliest known representation of a rotary grindstone, operated by a crank handle, is found in the Carolingian manuscript Utrecht Psalter. This pen drawing from about 830 goes back to a late antique original. The Luttrell Psalter, dating to around 1340, describes a grindstone rotated by two cranks, one at each end of its axle. Around 1480, the early...

You lay the blade against it at an appropriate angle, and it basically files the edge smooth. It takes skill to do it well.

Lawrence

14:52

@KitZ.Fox Good evening, Ms Fox.

Good to see you around.

Kit Z. Fox

And how are you, @Lawrence?

Lawrence

I'm well, thanks.

Kit Z. Fox

What's new with you these past two years?

Lawrence

There was a winter bug going through a while back (Australia), but it seems to have mostly cleared up now.

I'm kinda glad I didn't get into the mod team, what with the new changes and all. :)

Kit Z. Fox

That's good. I have a friend who lives in Moe. I sent him a present, completely forgetting that we were on opposite seasons.

Lawrence

14:57

What do you think of the new themes?

Kit Z. Fox

@Lawrence Eh, you'd have adapted just fine, I'm sure.

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox Haha, it's nice dreaming about the opposite seasons. Then we grumble when we get to them in real life half a year later.

Kit Z. Fox

@Lawrence I don't think much of them, I'm afraid. I haven't looked much though, to be honest.

Lawrence

How have you been over the last couple of months?

Kit Z. Fox

Up and down. Mostly OK.

Lawrence

14:59

@KitZ.Fox Thanks, that's very kind of you. :)

@KitZ.Fox A lot of people don't like them. But it seems they're part of a cost-conserving measure, so it's full-steam ahead.

Kit Z. Fox

I can relate to that.

I have more work than I have resources for and business keeps delaying my projects despite the large increases in risk I keep telling them about.

But they keep paying me, so I can't complain too much.

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox Glad to hear it (the "Mostly OK" bit). Yeah, life throws a few curves now and then. I can relate to that.

@KitZ.Fox Ha! Overworked and not underpaid? It's a different sort of risk for the business owner, I suppose.

Kit Z. Fox

Well, and not even overworked. I tell them "I don't have resources for this, so it is not getting done. If you want it done, I need more resources."

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox Sounds like a nice job. Still in programming?

Kit Z. Fox

Yes. We switched over to Agile ... I don't even know how long ago, maybe two or three years? So I get a variety of tasks, which I like.

I have a broad skillset, and working this way keeps it fresh.

Lawrence

15:09

We went through a down-sizing after the GFC. Can you believe it's about a decade ago now? Still, interesting work in embedded systems.

Kit Z. Fox

Wow. Seems like that happened...not so long ago.

Lawrence

I know. We produced electronics, and lead times for components just went through the roof.

What should have taken weeks started to take the better part of a year.

Kit Z. Fox

0.0

Lawrence

Software is so much easier to manage.

Kit Z. Fox

I can't even imagine how complicated embedded systems must be.

My husband did a bunch of work with PLCs. That was the most complicated it got for his job as an electrician.

He said it was certainly more complicated than running conduit. Haha.

So what's your part in the process?

Lawrence

15:16

@KitZ.Fox We were looking at using them for a gate relay control.

Mitch

@Lawrence What's 'GFC'?

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox Mostly the architecture.

@Mitch Global Financial Crisis

Mitch

Oh. Duh

Lawrence

Financial crisis of 2007–2008

The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the global financial crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.It began in 2007 with a crisis in the subprime mortgage market in the United States, and developed into a full-blown international banking crisis with the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008. Excessive risk-taking by banks such as Lehman Brothers helped to magnify the financial impact globally. Massive bail-outs of financial institutions and other...

Kit Z. Fox

@Lawrence Is it fun? Or more like, an engaging challenge?

Lawrence

15:17

@KitZ.Fox Actually, I have overall responsibility, but my area is in architecture. It's a lot of fun. When the electronics get fabricated and we can see the LEDs light up, it 'comes alive'.

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Q: Is there a word for someone who is not a parent?

You can say of a person that they are single/married/divorced/widowed, even that that person is a parent (father or mother). But is there a single word to refer to someone who is not a parent? I can only think of some compounds such as childless or kidless, but I'm not sure if they convey the me...

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Mitch

@Lawrence Not knowing the acronym, I thought GFC was some country-wide regulation on electrical component development, lengthening your cycle.

Kit Z. Fox

@Lawrence That sounds quite rewarding.

Mitch

Software seems so obviously easier to change than hardware, but I'm always impressed with how quickly 'upgrades' happen (or annoyed depending on if you're the one who has to procure the object)

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox Then we plug it into the back end and browse the front-ends. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. We had a hardware engineer who said that the future was in the software. I don't think he was wrong. We still need hardware, of course, but a lot of it seems pretty generic.

There's quite a bit of work that goes into it, though. Not intending to put that role down.

Mitch

15:21

and I've heard that hardware manufacturing projects, not just electrical, but much further afield like civil engineering, are starting to use 'Agile'.

Lawrence

@Mitch Haha. It had a huge impact on our development cycle.

Mitch

@Lawrence are you still working for the same company as then?

Lawrence

@Mitch The trick is to stop the engineering team from starting from scratch ... again.

@Mitch Yup.

@Mitch How do they do iterations? Too many spins (PCB production) and price starts to add up.

What do you do, @Mitch?

Mitch

@Lawrence software

Lawrence

Fellow coder. :)

Mitch

15:24

;)

secret handshake

it's just a handshake

Lawrence

not sure which hand to shake

look up the interface

Mitch

just a usual business handshake

Lawrence

Ah...

secret handshake

Kit Z. Fox

haha

Mitch

but same here it's weird because who actually shakes hands except for people in ties

Kit Z. Fox

15:26

quick, somebody speak the shibboleth! we need in-group signalling stat!

Lawrence

look up shibboleth

Mitch

hitchhiker's guide!

Lawrence

404

tchrist

serifim

Mitch

shibboleth is a shibboleth

Kit Z. Fox

15:26

@Lawrence 403

I just made myself guffaw.

Mitch

using quotes badly is an antishibboleth

@KitZ.Fox hur hur hur

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox Laughter ... the best medicine.

Do you get Reader's Digest over there?

Mitch

I'm pretty sure penicillin works a lot better for some things

Lawrence

These days, with the super bugs, people are starting to recommend dirt instead.

Mitch

@Lawrence If you remove the third, fifth and sixth letters, it's Red Digest, comrade.

Kit Z. Fox

15:28

@Lawrence Yes. We used to read the Drama in Real Life at camp. Pretty sure that's where I got most of my childhood trauma.

I've heard rubbing bacon on it will do the trick.

Lawrence

@Mitch Actually, I seem to find them mostly in dentist's offices.

Mitch

I don't remember that

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox Was that the section that would detail some emergency and how it got sorted out?

Kit Z. Fox

@Lawrence Yes. A whole bunch of eyewitness accounts of tragedies.

Only sometimes with happy endings.

Mitch

I used to read my Grandmother's copies when visiting her because she and my mom would talk about boring adult stuff (I'm guessing the benefit of annuities vs t-bills?).

Kit Z. Fox

15:31

Hahaha

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox We did tragedies at high school (Lit). Almost a form of child abuse.

Mitch

And so later on I realized how ripped off I was when I discovered what 'digest' meant

Kit Z. Fox

Were you required to wail and rend your garments?

@Mitch Right!? All those gotdamn readers -- summarized!

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox No, but ... the poor characters.

Kit Z. Fox

Yeah. I was recollecting that I was required to do a presentation where I dressed as Anne Frank and told the story of "my" life.

augh

Lawrence

15:33

Ooh, glad we didn't have to identify that deeply with the characters. Reading about them was bad enough. I much prefer the stories with happy endings.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox haha. I thought I had read War and Peace and didn't get all the problems people had with patronymics and geography and who did what to whom where. I mean All you need to know it was something about Russia

Kit Z. Fox

something something something Russia.

Lawrence

@Mitch But then you wouldn't know whether it was Animal Farm or War and Peace.

Kit Z. Fox

Or ... um. that Dostoyevsky one.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox In the schools here (Massachusetts) in 5th grade (10-11 year olds?) you get assigned a random person on the Mayflower to re-enact, and 1/2 the kids get someone who died on board and didn't step foot on North America

Kit Z. Fox

15:35

Weird.

Mitch

not exactly the same as Anne Frank. But still.

Kit Z. Fox

Do they assign kids to Native Americans too? >.>

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox Doctor Zhivago: snowy, Russia, stirring music

Lawrence

There's a lot of James Bond set there, too.

Mitch

wait, that's War and piece too

Kit Z. Fox

15:36

hmm, I could watch that.

What's the Russia thing I've been thinking about recently?

Mitch

Dr Zhivago: War and Peace, but with a doctor. It's in the effing title

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox "that Dostoyevsky one"

:P

Kit Z. Fox

ah yes, that was it.

No, wait. It was Reg I was thinking about.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox Oh.. hm... can't remember. They did do a lot about the local Wampanoag Indians... but I can't remember if anyone was assigned that.

Kit Z. Fox

Probably ought. To be fair.

Lawrence

15:38

Crime and Punishment?

Kit Z. Fox

"And then the settlers raped my sister and I died of smallpox. The end."

Mitch

Frankly that story would have been 'Dead from European measles well before the Mayflower set sail'

Kit Z. Fox

@Lawrence Yes, that's the one.

I listened to it in the car during my commute.

And wished that I could study Russian so I could read it properly.

Mitch

I think most of the villages had been reduced by 90% before colonists started coming because fishermen had brought diseases to the NE coast.

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox Ha! Am I good or what.

Actually, it was more of a lucky guess.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (English: ; Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, tr. Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ dəstɐˈjɛfskʲɪj] ( listen); 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The...

Kit Z. Fox

15:39

Well, that's his most famous one, innit?

Lawrence

It's just about the only one I recognised. :)

Mitch

@Lawrence Poor woman killed out of existential absurdity. Guy eventually gives himself up.

Kit Z. Fox

Could have been The Brothers Karamotzov ... Karomaztov... Carrotmoztoff

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox That'll be hard. They have different words for everything.

@KitZ.Fox No. That's the group of jugglers

Kit Z. Fox

Meh, no harder than Chinese. They have the same word for everything.

Lawrence

15:42

Haha!

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox figuring out which one is the hardest part

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox There was a comics-inspired movie that had something like that, taken to the n-th degree. A talking tree that could only say 2 phrases.

Kit Z. Fox

One phrase, wasn't it?

Lawrence

Ah, groot.

2 phrases, technically: "I'm Groot" and "We're Groot".

Without the contractions.

"I am Groot" and "We are Groot"

Kit Z. Fox

ah yes, I had forgotten that dramatic ending.

Lawrence

15:46

Stored in a pocket dimension?

Or completely erased?

And potentially un-erased at some later point.

Mitch

In some Michael Myers movie (Wayne's World), he's talking with his Chinese girlfriend in Chinese and it's subtitled and either he says one word in Chinese and the subtitles go on and on and on.

Or the other way around

Or both

Kit Z. Fox

Flippityback Humblebutt knew what he was talking about. The only way to win was to give up the time stone. Obviously, they will fix it later. The end.

@Mitch Oh I forgot about that. That was really funny.

Lawrence

@Mitch Then there are those Kung-Fu send-ups where the mouth moves first and the sounds of the words follow a little later.

@KitZ.Fox Sort of ... "just give it time", hmm?

Mitch

@Lawrence THAT'S WHY DUBBING IS A HORRIBLE CRIME AGAINST AESTHETICS.

Right @Cerberus?

Lawrence

It might have been Eddie Murphy that did that send-up.

brb

Kit Z. Fox

15:53

@Lawrence Yes. Exactly. Haha.

Lawrence

I'm back

Kit Z. Fox

@Mitch It's not just aesthetics. The voice acting on dubs is usually horrible.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox But...

What about cartoons?

It's all dubbed

Kit Z. Fox

Video games too. And crap voice acting can easily kill it.

Mitch

Supposedly the German version of Finding Nemo was really good because they found lots of local dialect actors to give it ... color.

or am i thinking of Harry Potter?

which is mostly not animated

expect for the story about the three deathly hallows

Lawrence

15:58

@Mitch I heard on the radio recently that Disney's cartoons had such good soundtracks because they had these orchestra musicians hanging around between stints with Humphrey Bogart or whoever, and the lead musician decided to hire them.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox I only know gaming voices scripts from walking through another room next to the one where it is going on, and it doesn't sound like it's bad or good just kinda... flat.

"I am killing these guys bloop bleep bloop"

Lawrence

Disney's voice overs were also mostly (exclusively?) done by just one person, at least in the old days.

Mitch

@Lawrence Heroin

Lawrence

Eh?

Um, no thanks. I'm good.

Mitch

Heroin makes eerything sound better

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