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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
12:04 AM
@Xanne yes I recognized him, it's only adding to my suspicion that the OP are German and must have the false friend from there.
 
Robusto
Robusto
12:45 AM
@RegDwigнt So what was the outcome on the waving question?
 
Xanne
Xanne
1:19 AM
@RegDwigнt I’m not sure what you mean by “false friend” here. But the image seems to come from a program (an app) called gyfcat—an app used by many people capturing a few seconds of an image. I’ve found the image but can’t capture a url that leads to it. There’s even a gyfcat subcategory for gestures.
 
Xanne
Xanne
1:38 AM
There he is, gesturing.
 
Xanne
Xanne
2:11 AM
Sorry, gfycat, they’re called. Short-form videos, so as not to stress your attention span.
 
 
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Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
5:00 AM
@TerranSwett It turns out "twin" just means either of two children or animals brought forth at a birth; I considered it means the two persons at the birth. Thank you very much.
 
Terran Swett
Terran Swett
5:27 AM
Yep, that's right.
 
Jasper
Jasper
I see you changed your name @TerranSwett lol
 
 
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Gigili
Gigili
9:58 AM
> Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
> Well, your scientists were so preoccupied with what my scientists were doing that they didn't stop my scientist from doing it
A smart evil villain always blames the good guy
 
Gigili
Gigili
11:00 AM
> They're all fired, yours and mine altogether
 
 
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Robusto
Robusto
12:36 PM
@tchrist: I think you'll ace it, but there are some surprises.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
False friend
In linguistics, false friends are words in different languages that look or sound similar, but differ significantly in meaning. An example is the English embarrassed and the Spanish embarazada (which means pregnant), the word parents and the Portuguese parentes and Italian parenti (which mean relatives), or the word sensible, which means reasonable in English, but sensitive in French, German, Italian and Spanish. The term originates from a book by French linguists describing the phenomenon, which was translated in 1928 and entitled, "false friend of a translator". As well as producing completely...
@Robusto no idea. I think it was like a year old anyway. I only bumped into it by accident. There probably aren't any current developments to take note of.
 
Robusto
Robusto
1:26 PM
@RegDwigнt I always find embarazada to be worthy of a smile whenever I encounter it.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url in title, potentially bad ns for domain in body, potentially bad ns for domain in title (98): Do you write "AT 123.com", or "ON 123.com"? US English by Misc Stuff on english.SE
 
 
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
2:44 PM
@Robusto Trademark names aren't fair
I was expecting to rate high there
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:58 PM
@Robusto Nice.
What's your score?
Some were easy, others were hard.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@M.A.R. I got 14, pretty near to random. I thought I knew both.
@Cerberus They added some accents to the medications. NOT FAIR!
But totally fair.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Mitch I agree!
I assumed one with a diacritic had to be Tolkien, although I did not know.
Conversely, I assumed one ending on -th couldn't be a medicine (wouldn't be approved by authorities, I assumed). It also had a k, so I assume it was some barbarian city of Tolkien's.
 
Mitch
Mitch
What this means to me is that the pharmaceutical manufacturers, if not already, should be mining the Silmarillion for new names
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Who says they haven't?
There is also this American billionaire who owns various military companies, all named after things from Tolkien.
Like Palantir.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Right...the 'barbarian' words in Tolkien all have gutturals
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
3:01 PM
Which does mass surveillance on citizens, too, I believe.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus It says what it is.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@Mitch 15
 
Mitch
Mitch
@M.A.R. Nice!
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
I recognized Cymbalta, and Amantadine wasn't a trademark name
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus OMG
@M.A.R. What's interesting is that it's omni-linguistic (?)
That the pharma words have similar patterns in European languages.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
3:04 PM
They're not pharma words to be fair
Sure, Aza- is chemical
And so is -fen
(I got that one wrong, BTW)
 
Mitch
Mitch
@M.A.R. Sure they are. Commercial or generic, someone made them up. The generic terms tend to be more recognizably biochemical substances though.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Mitch I think they are established internationally.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Companies here are much less creative with their names. Like, Sina Darou adds some sort of "sin-" or whatever to the drug's name and be done with it.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus I'm always surprised when the European names are different (because I'm from the biggest provincial country ever.)
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Granted, they're also essentially toe nails compared to big Pharma
 
Mitch
Mitch
3:06 PM
Like 'paracetamol'. When I first heard that I thought I had landed on Mars.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
I never it was an American/European distinction
 
Mitch
Mitch
@M.A.R. Protip: don't clip your toenails in an open office.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
It's just two different names for the same thing.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Mitch Maybe some older medicines have different names, but recent ones don't?
 
Mitch
Mitch
@M.A.R. I think we should have an argument about how two different names for the same thing are different.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
3:08 PM
There is also a different between a medicine that is generic and one that is a brand name, I think?
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
para-aminobenzoic acid = para-carboxyaniline. In one you're saying it's a PhCOOH with an NH2 across and the other is a PhNH2 with a COOH across
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus Marketing-wise the associations of a name are very important for saleability, so I'd figure that any numances are very language specific.
@M.A.R. but....
they're the same -thing- right?
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Yeah, exactly the same thing
 
Mitch
Mitch
But if you are a chemical receptor, if the molecule backs up to you the wrong way....'whoa dude turn around man!'
So embarrassing
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Bigger chemicals can have a jillion names, one of them is PIN (Preferred IUPAC Name), some can be retained names (used so commonly that IUPAC yielded and accepted it), preselected names (kinda weird, like retained + IUPAC), and of course, a lot of wrong names in that they're ambiguous
@Mitch Haha
But that's different
p-aminobenzoic acid isn't chiral because it's planar
 
Mitch
Mitch
3:11 PM
@M.A.R. gloves off
FIGHT ME!
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
En garde
 
Mitch
Mitch
Touché
If this were epee, you'd have won already.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
━━o(･ω･｀)
 
Mitch
Mitch
I hope that's not a rude gesture
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Why, you're shorter than me?
@Mitch Nobody's fingers are that long
Unless you're referring to the receptor
 
Mitch
Mitch
3:13 PM
I don't see the finger in that emoticon. I don't see anything at all.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
That's the point
Why would I show weakness
 
Mitch
Mitch
Kids these days with their secret handshakes and secret doo knocks and secret coughs.
wait...
get that guy tested.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
My coughs aren't secret
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
17/24 very tricky
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
OBJECTION! The test was biased towards Brits
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
3:14 PM
:D
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
And I actually also misclicked 'Celebrian' facepalm
 
Mitch
Mitch
That's one that took me a while to get.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
Celebrian: a nickname of Brian when people found out he was a virgin. Brian was the eleventyeth king Grombor
 
Mitch
Mitch
And by the time I got it, the authorities had already been dispatched and were rapeling down from the roof to smash in through my windows
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
all British people know that
@Mitch Tinyman Square
 
Mitch
Mitch
3:17 PM
@MattE.Эллен Oh, I thought it was his parents being happy that he kept his virginity pledge.
A TRIPLE SCORE PUN!
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@Mitch I mean, that's what he said, but we all know
@Mitch I stole it from Stephen Colbert
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattE.Эллен I had to follow the thread to the end before I got it.
@MattE.Эллен I got it from Agnes.
Lucky Pierre.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
:D
 
 
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Cerberus
Cerberus
4:55 PM
@Mitch But medicines are sold internationally?
It would be an issue if different medicines with very similar names were sold in different countries: if one were imported into the other's country, that could be deadly.
So I'm sure there are international agreements, at the very least.
About naming.
 
Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
5:26 PM
so hungry now
Champion Pumpkin Seed Cookies can't stave off hunger
Lonely God is too salty
 
 
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Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
7:00 PM
sleepy
the late meal store opens until 3 am
and it's 3 am now
so I got food when going there
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus I only got 18/24.
You beat me by a point.
Statistically insignificant, I should think.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Robusto Probably, but I'm happy regardless.
 
Robusto
Robusto
About 50% of my answers were guesses.
So 75% is right on the money.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Hmm.
I knew probably more than half of the Tolkien names.
Like Haldir, Fingarfin, Narmacil, Círdan, etc.
 
Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
7:15 PM
when I went to the store, the moon was so bright and quite circular with bright cloud in an expensive region around it and when I was back, the moon was covered partly by cloud.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Some of the others I could guess, because their morphemes seemed Tolkien.
Conversely, some of the medicines sounded rather un-Tolkienesque.
That left a group where I didn't know the Tolkien character, or the name of the medicine was close enough that it might have been one.
 
Robusto
Robusto
But it seems the drug companies were channeling Tolkien in more than a few cases.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Like Narvi: such a short name, and I just didn't remember it.
 
Robusto
Robusto
That one feels more like Old Norse than a few of the others.
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
It appears Facebook has been banning people for calling out white supremacists?
Zuckerberg is such a slimeball
Guardian of the emperor's supporters
 
Robusto
Robusto
7:36 PM
@skillpatrol Yup.
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
With Floyd testing positive for coV, they need a mask on the Statue of Liberty.
 
Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
a lunar eclipse is going to take place.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@skillpatrol Who?
 
Captain Bohemian
Captain Bohemian
but it's difficult to perceive.
because it's penumbral lunar eclipse.
 
Robusto
Robusto
George Floyd?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
8:02 PM
Admired and respected abroad?
Perhaps that was the case 70 years ago.
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
the generation that were in their teens 70 years ago are the most at risk for coV
old attitudes can't stop this downward spiral
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Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus Don't go there.
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
Anderson Cooper is calling out The Emperor now?
:-/
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@skillpatrol Haha.
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
:-)
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
8:17 PM
@skillpatrol Getting trashed on CNN is probably high on Trump's everyday to-do list
I don't think he minds
 
Robusto
Robusto
Faux "News" will kiss his ass until he feels better.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus Sure, but the names in stores can still be different from country to country.
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
Let's not forget the thug is guarded by convicted felons @M.A.R.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Mitch Also for newer medicines?
 

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