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Robusto

1:18 AM

Foreign Affairs: Unrest continues for a seventh day in former British colony

Interesting to see this all through a different glass, darkly.

Robusto

1:31 AM

@RegDwigнt What qualms did you have? I thought most of it was pretty interesting. I didn't like the thing with the psychologist bringing in the "paranoid personality" diagnosis (300 years after the fact), but it was definitely interesting seeing Bach as a human being. I perceived him my whole life long only through his music—which is still the only way to really see him, in my opinion.

Quite simply, Bach's music transcended his life, and pretty much anyone else's.

Robusto

1:56 AM

I guess what impresses me most is that he wrote virtually all the cantatas in the space of three short years. Excuse me? Those alone would be a magnificent life's work for anyone else.

Mitch

2:33 AM

@tchrist behemothian? I was good with it all up until that.

Does it rhyme with Midlothian? Or Malathion?

@Xanne Hm... yeah... but is that a common cultural artifact of Northern Europe?

Mitch

2:51 AM

@Robusto I seriously was wondering ... Ghana? Myanmar? Belize?

CowperKettle

Word of the day: jejunum

tchrist

3:21 AM

@RegDwigнt Bless you.

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Captain Bohemian

11:02 AM

what are the semantic differences between "incubate, hatch, brood"?

Matt E. Эллен

there are lots of differences. you can incubate a human baby, for instance, but you can't hatch one

brood, as a verb, either applies to incubation of laid eggs or something someone does when they're upset

my mistake, it also applies to frog eggs before they're laid

anyway, I'm only touching the surface. (not of the pond) you could go much deeper

Captain Bohemian

@MattE.Эллен but human baby isn't an egg.

Matt E. Эллен

@CaptainBohemian ovum, then

my point is the semantics of the three words is incredibly divers, you could write pages and pages on the differences

Captain Bohemian

@MattE.Эллен but incubating human ovum doesn't usually successful.

Matt E. Эллен

sorry, I don't have time to discuss this, otherwise I would

Robusto

12:05 PM

@Mitch Yes. Kinda takes you by surprise, no?

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tchrist

1:07 PM

@Mitch Like Midlothian but unvoiced.

@Mitch Gaura. O Angmar my Angmar. Febrize.

Mitch

1:23 PM

@tchrist Near where I grew up, the th in Midlothian was unvoiced.

Southlothian?

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tchrist

3:03 PM

@Mitch Who's just the justest justice, the one who just rules justlier than all others if only just, or the one whose just rules just rule the unruliest?

Also, have I just broken any rules?