@Robusto BTW more than a calque from BrE, I would say that was a calque from German. "Ja mach das" is something I hear every day. And my violin teacher uses it like every single lesson, whenever I tell her about my plans for the next week.
If I had the time, I'd photoshop the Nike swoosh with the slogan "Yeah do that" underneath. Alas, I don't have the time.
Anyways. I have a theory that any language that can't combine yeah, do, and that, easily the three most common and most innocuous words, any language that can't combine them without sounding condescending is clearly in total disrepair, doomed to fail, and will die a horrible, terrible, no good, very bad death very, very soon.
Is Corbyn really anti Semitic? I have no idea. For the half second I've seen him he doesn't seem like the overthetop charlatan that Johnson is. But all I'm seeing on Twitter is 'I'm leaving the country if corbyn wins because I'm jewish'
Like where would they go, the US?
I must apologize, some idiot kid got hold of my ELU and is posting politics.
But even so, I'm... I mean he's interested in an answer.
@Mitch I think a chief rabbi denounced Labour for anti-Semitism, which is probably ultimately due to Labour's/Corbyn's friendly stance in support of Palestinians and criticism of Israel.
They're calling Johnson an Islamophobe, which sticks better I think.
They'd do the same to Sanders if he was not Jewish himself. He might be conferred the title of "self-hating Jew" tho, sooner or later.
@RegDwigнt BTW, don't get defensive (and don't defensively say you're not getting defensive). I just told you about that because it is a commonplace in English to use that phrase in the way described, which is something you just don't get from text. As I've stated many times, you have an excellent command of idiomatic English (written English, which is the only way I've experienced your use of the language), so my nota bene was just an effort to help you be even better.
You, however, it must be noted, have been not nearly so nice (at times) about my German solecisms. Of which there are many.
So ... "smoke in your pipe and put that in," as Stephen Sondheim said.
> “Can I ask you a personal question? Where are you from? No, I know you’re American. I mean, your background. Like, where is your mom from? New York. And your dad? New York, too, huh? But you know what I mean. What is their background. What is your background. I just want to know. I’m just making polite conversation. I mean, everyone from the United States is an immigrant, you know, except the actual Native Americans.”
On that note, @Robusto, can I ask you a personal question?
@Robusto I won't defensively say I'm not getting defensive. Instead, I will say that very, very indefensively.
That should do the trick, right.
@Robusto it was never a part of my plan to be unnice about that. However, I am always curt, and that's because time is a factor here.
Anyway, I believe all your sins shall now be forgiven forevermore, because I just got someone to comment this on one of my scores:
> Спасибо! Я люблю эту песню! Я хочу выучить песню! Я тоже русский, я никогда не знал, что ты! В любом случае, песня хорошая, она мне понравится!
And that is most definitely not Russian. Not even a good try.
I will need all my energy for maybe the next couple years to ridicule those solecisms. So you're off the hook.
Here's my accurate translation into English:
> Thank! I love this song! I want learn song! I also Russian, I never knew that you! In any case, song good, one day I will like it!
I am twelve and what is this grammar.
That's really quite bold a move. Not sure what motivated it.
On a side note, it only just occurred to me just how much wronger calling a waltz a song sounds in Russian.
In English it's basically the norm by now, and I've heard it begin creeping into German as well. But in Russian it is literally unheard of. This is the very first time I hear it.
It's just that it always translates it as something, and that something often makes way too much sense. Not the original sense by any means. But not 100% cryptic.
It needs to be a completely garbled up collection of words.
I'm not fighting Google's Russian, I'm fighting its English.
Well what I mean is, imagine you have some shibboleth that should translate to "damp sock, above longing sober", but then Google goes and translates it as "Gentleman, just fun". So it's still gobbledygook, but it's not gobbledygook enough. In the context he could take it to mean that I'm wishing him fun with my waltz, and that I'm being very polite about it.
Oh I don't want to reply something random. I want to leave a proper reply alright, saying "nice try mate, but that's not Russian, what made you think this was a good idea, don't you realize that I actually speak the language".
But put it in a way that leaves him with "damp grandfather's clock in nonely fluid changer".
I just earned six new Announcer badges and I still don't understand what the badge is all about. Share a link to a post later visited by 25 different IP addresses? I never never never fucking ever share posts. This is some kinda bullshit.
I've not announced that many things in total over the course of my entire life. Much less specifically on the Internet specifically from this site specifically in the last ten years.
I shared like five or six things back in the beta days. On Reddit. Got like two badges for those. Then nothing for like five years. Which is how it should work, because nobody reads old Reddit posts anymore. If you don't get 25 hits right away, you don't get 25 hits ever. You can't hope for random people to just occasionally keep trickling in over the years.
But even if over a full decade it somehow did miraculously happen for each and every single one of those posts, that's still a total of five or six. Not twenty nine.
Last night a random thought crossed my mind, how we went from laughing at people who still had no phone in their home to laughing at people who still do.
I am reminded of that again by looking at that cover. How many people these days will even recognize it.
It used to be fucking iconic.
Just like Dark Side of the Moon's.
Actually a few years back I remember watching a video about the designer. Now I don't even recall his name.
@Robusto not quite sure if this is what you're asking about, but when you share a link, it appends to it your user ID on that SE site.
In this context, "to be drawn to a person" means "to be attracted to a person". This does not necessarily mean sexually or romantically, but it is often used that way.
You may be thinking of "drawn" in the artistic sense, as in making a sketch, but that would be phrased as "you are drawn by her"...
So there, you click on that, they give me a +1 for that question.
Well not here in the chat they won't. But anywhere else I post that link, they'll keep track of it.
Right so the best garbledygook I've got so far is "Somehow very thick, comrade foreman." Tell me if that makes sense to you, and if so, what that sense is.
Yeah that'd be fine by me. Except because of "thick" also meaning "stupid" he might take that to mean I'm calling him stupid. While also addressing him as comrade.
Alternatively alternatively, he might take it to mean "that's a bold move, comrade". Or something along those lines.
Well we've established I'm cranking this shit out in-between violin lessons and trying to remember the name of that guy who designed the Dark Side of the Moon cover.
Well here's a thing. Recently I've been listening to Ave verum corpus a lot. Because that's one of the pieces we'll be singing in a retirement home this Sunday.
And that's like two minutes long.
But then there's that Bernstein rendition which is like six.
Oh. Well, then the news can't possibly be depressing.
On a side note, Jesus fuck, I never realized how often I say "thank you" in this chat. That has to stop. Took me a full ten minutes now to find that one message to counter @Robusto's argument.
BTW @Rob I've been meaning to thank you apropos of nothing. Remember we were having that discussion one day, about the ending of No Country For Old Men. I think I was on the fence about it or something. Maybe still am. And then you said a thing. It ends here because he's said everything he had to say.
Read on from there. If it's too short, that's because I've learned it all from you.
I'd rather leave the listener longing for more than have them check their watch.
Quitting while you're ahead, ending on a high note, and all that jazz.
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