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01:16

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RegDwigнt

01:55

> Would anyone here like to compose something with me (this would be my first time making an original score here).

tchrist

No score.

RegDwigнt

Hm. So you're saying, it wouldn't be original, and you'd still be waiting for your first time.

Today is my first time cooking! Tchrist, make me a borshch.

Phew. That was easy.

tchrist

You are now a borshch.

RegDwigнt

I have always been.

tchrist

See didn't need me after all.

RegDwigнt

01:57

Yes, I promise to give you zero credit.

tchrist

I remember my theory teacher back in the 70s calling a certain chord progression the "Captain Nemo chord", from the famous 1950s movie. It's just some minor-to-major progression, like all white keys to all black keys. I can't remember it and it's bugging me for days now.

Like Am to F# major, but that's not it. I can't remember damn it.

RegDwigнt

Pass. Didn't watch that one.

I might now.

The description matches a few possible things, and I'm kinda intrigued.

tchrist

"20.000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954) Trailer

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I think it might be in the first few bars there.

It's eerie/mysterious, then suddenly uplifting through an unexpected progression.

By now it's probably cheesy.

RegDwigнt

It does start in Am, but it goes to two different places, and neither is F♯ major.

tchrist

Might be Dm to F♯ major, through an inversion with A on the bottom at first?

RegDwigнt

02:09

The first one is from Am to like D major over A.

The second one is Am to some weird shit like F♯ minor, possibly likewise over A.

I don't have perfect pitch and it's 3 at night so I can't check at the piano.

tchrist

The first would just be a normal i-IV like in Dorian mode, right?

RegDwigнt

But yeah, it's a cliché. Not so much by now but more like at the time.

Dunaevsky did very similar things in his music to The Children of Captain Grant.

tchrist

Thanks.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist I just opened the wiki to look up the fuck it'd be called cuz I can never remember them names, as I lamented to you some time ago.

tchrist

He thought it was cliché, a move a composer makes to get a rise out of the audience through a preprogrammed set of harmonics.

RegDwigнt

02:13

But it's not really of help cuz we start in minor to begin with.

So it's minor with a raised VI.

tchrist

Right.

RegDwigнt

Whatever the fuck that's called.

Basically you're in A minor but your subdominant says nah, we're in A major.

tchrist

Scalewise, it's Dorian.

Hm.

RegDwigнt

I would believe you anything at all except maybe Locrian.

tchrist

But yes, that's it, it's fucking with the subdominant.

RegDwigнt

02:15

Yes, but that's standard for the last 400 years. The second time is more interesting. It's also standard, but a different standard of much later. 1920s like.

tchrist

It's a weird tension. That's the eerie thing.

Reminds me a little of Shore's Beacon Lighting progression, but maybe that's just the melodramatic effect.

RegDwigнt

I went to check on MuseScore if somebody had transcribed it by now, but I can't find anything.

tchrist

The Lord of the Rings - How Howard Shore Builds Tension

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RegDwigнt

Of course it will have to be me again that transcribes it. Just like I had to do with The Children of Captain Grant.

tchrist

heh

RegDwigнt

02:21

@tchrist that is an awesome score and it took be fifteen years to even begin to appreciate it.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt I know right.

RegDwigнt

It was so intricate it flew completely over my head. All of it.

tchrist

Me too.

Adam Neely does an acceptable job at conveying what's behind it.

RegDwigнt

There's tons of videos about it on YT by now. I watched like fifty. Including one where Shore himself sat at the piano. And the thumbnail above seems familiar as well.

Is that Sideways?

Ah, no, Listening In.

Yeah same difference.

I don't think I recall a dedicated video of Neely's.

But he mentions it occasionally in his Q&As.

tchrist

Listening In = Adam Neely

Shore really did do the Ring-Cycle thing, a grand opera of leitmotifs.

RegDwigнt

02:27

My youngest piano student is surprisingly into it.

We often play a custom mix of the Shire Theme and the Fellowship Theme.

And he's like six.

tchrist

That's sweet. I mean that in the best of possible ways.

RegDwigнt

But other than that nobody thinks of it.

tchrist

He only has a couple of things that make you wince in that triptych. It's pretty good.

RegDwigнt

John Williams is much more popular, and even weird shit like James Horner.

And not even, like, My Heart Will Go On, but like Southampton.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Well, isn't that just a borrowed chord?

RegDwigнt

02:29

@Robusto well yeah that's one way to call it. At least in English.

They don't really do that in German or Russian.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Which is what we're speaking, unless I missed something.

tchrist

I am not able to judge, but I find Shore seems to have put more into it than Williams. You can of course find counterexamples of this in both, but you know what I mean.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I certainly isn't, are what you miss.

Robusto

Why are you still up?

RegDwigнt

I am transcribing Rachmaninov.

Or rather, I'm typing in this here window instead.

Robusto

02:31

@RegDwigнt Hmm, didn't anybody warn you about that?

RegDwigнt

Yes, I did. Many times.

That one Prélude has been on hold for like three months now.

I'm doing a different piece now, much easier and shorter.

But it still takes forever because he had such huge hands every staff has five voices and it's total pants to try and enter it all.

Rachmaninoff “Vocalise” - moderate difficulty piano + FREE sheet music

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This one here. In this arrangement of Barton's.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt That sounds weird for solo piano. I've played it on flute, and heard a soprano sing it.

RegDwigнt

Is all I've got so far, and that was like two hours already if you would believe such a thing.

And I've not even voiced anything yet. Just spent most of the time wanking around with the hairpins.

Robusto

Yeah. We've been over this. It's like calculating all your steps instead of just walking.

RegDwigнt

Well, it's easy for the piano. Maybe another hour for the whole thing when it's done.

But just typing up like one bar is already like 20 minutes. You think you've done everything, and then you discover five other things you forgot.

tchrist

02:38

Just like coding.

RegDwigнt

Yeah, but here you're not coding from scratch, here you're copying someone else's code. You'd think simply copying all the letters should be easy.

But then you notice all the slurs and articulations and hairpins.

There may be like twelve notes in the bar, but there's a hundred things in it.

Robusto

My big problem with playing things into a MIDI recorder for scoring was that if you didn't quantize it you got really weird rhythm combinations, where you were a 32nd note before the beat or after it. But if you did quantize it, there went all the life of the performance. You can't win. I couldn't, anyway.

RegDwigнt

Yeah is why I'm not using a MIDI keyboard.

Just enter the notes. Type A for A, B for B. Easy.

Robusto

OIC. Also known as The Hard Way.

Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (Arr. for Flute and Orchestra)

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RegDwigнt

Then when it's all finished you go into the MIDI and start dragging every note every which way by 214 milliseconds or whatever.

@Robusto yeah well. Orchestration. That's what it does.

Robusto

02:44

Does anybody make an OCR for handwritten scores? Surely someone must have come up with that by now, right?

RegDwigнt

Of course. MuseScore has one integrated.

Robusto

So you write it in pencil and it gets read and entered?

RegDwigнt

You can literally just upload a PDF to their website. You don't even need the software. They provide it as a free service.

Thing is, right now the technology is still every bit as rubbish as you'd expect.

Robusto

Kinda what I expected.

RegDwigнt

You'll get better results faster just by typing A-B-A-C-G-B-A on your keyboard real quick.

Robusto

02:46

This is why Mozart played cards while writing out his scores, which were already perfect in his head.

RegDwigнt

Well they had to. Paper was not a commodity. Even to a Mozart.

tchrist

How incommodious in the commode.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Somehow I doubt that. You still have to drag the notes to the right places, make them quarters or halves or sixteenths or whatever, and all the little ties and slurs and what have you.

RegDwigнt

Those are all keyboard shortcuts as well. You just need to know them. I don't know all of them by heart, and I do prefer using the mouse for certain things. But I do use an awful lot. Like halving or doubling note values or switching between voices or adjusting the slurs and the hairpins.

Robusto

And how do you distinguish between the note F and a forte f?

I mean, at some point you're doing the work of an ancient Linotype operator of sorts.

RegDwigнt

02:56

I don't actually remember the shortcut for the dynamics. Because I mess with them so much for each individual note anyway, I just add them later.

But just the notes alone, you can crank out two pages in like ten minutes no problem. Four voices on two staves.

Robusto

Thinking about all that work is making me tired, and it's only 8 pm here (2000).

RegDwigнt

It's just that I only rarely actually do that because my workflow is different. I prefer to make the first bar perfect before so much as starting the next.

Especially when you have a full orchestra score. Or even just a decet, like.

tchrist

2021

Robusto

1958

tchrist

Cor Anglais.

RegDwigнt

02:58

Because if the first bar is fine, then you have like a working template for the rest. So it gets much faster from there.

Robusto

@tchrist Funny, it's a cor Anglais but a French horn.

RegDwigнt

But if you just enter all the notes for the entire piece first and then start thinking about margins and kerning and line breaks, you're basically starting from square one.

Robusto

Except no horn player I ever played with liked hearing their instrument called anything but just a "horn."

tchrist

true

I don't know why. But that's what they say.

RegDwigнt

In Russian, "gorn" would be the trumpet. The French horn is "valtorna".

Robusto

03:01

Yeah, but in German you call violas Bratwursts or some shit.

RegDwigнt

No, valtorna is obviously from Waldhorn.

tchrist

@Robusto Braunschweiger.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Whoa, you're not making this sound at all like fun.

RegDwigнt

And cor anglais is just a straight-up (wrong) translation, in both Russian and German.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Also in English (horn).

tchrist

03:02

@RegDwigнt The Great Hunt echoes forever through the forest impenetrable.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I like it. But now maybe you'll be more lenient about me not giving you a symphony each week.

Robusto

Everyone knows it's supposed to mean "angled" not "Anglais."

@RegDwigнt Too bad. You still owe me OVER 9000 symphonies. So get cracking.

RegDwigнt

The Germans, maybe. The Russians, I don't know. The players themselves, maybe.

@Robusto I have to pay you your OVER 9000 royalties first. And you know how that's been going.

Robusto

BTW, this recording is amazing:

Anna Moffo: Rachmaninoff, 'Vocalise' Op. 34 No.14

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Every note she touches is pure wonderfulness.

RegDwigнt

Well yes, that's the original purpose, hence the name.

Violin is also a popular choice.

Robusto

03:08

Of course. But my point still stands. Her performance is sheer wonderfulness.

RegDwigнt

Incidentally, that's one more reason why everything takes forever. Every piece you begin transcribing, you first sit there for three days on end listening to all the different interpretations and reading up on the history.

Robusto

Heh. Welcome to my world.

You started me on the Vocalise, and what do you think I've been doing all this time?

RegDwigнt

I am usually rather lucky in that I transcribe extremely obscure stuff, so sometimes there are literally zero recordings. Or only very bad ones.

Like, MacDowell or Lack or what have you.

Mitch

DENI'S DEN on WILD CHICAGO (1995)

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It doesn't do justice to being there live.

RegDwigнt

Ah, so that is the most 90s video of all time. I was wondering.

Mitch

03:13

Yeah pretty cheesy looking.

Interviews with the owner's mother

tchrist

@RegDwigнt I hate people whose hands span a tenth naturally.

Makes them write stuff that midgets can't access.

Or diminutive female accompanists without harping.

You might consider why the most natural hand-fit on a standard piano is a fifth.

Mitch

In the middle of all the shots of ouzo and flaming saganaki, more than once a night somebody would get a stack on 1 dollar bills and shoot them out like rain.

Robusto

@Mitch Nothing ever does.

Mitch

@Robusto Except for morris dancing

there's no justice in that by an means at all

Robusto

Apr 22 '15 at 12:50, by Robusto

@Mitch Q. Why do Morris dancers wear bells? A. So they can annoy the blind as well.

@Mitch So when they light the saganaki kefaloteri on fire they yell "Opaaaa!!!!" And if they accidentally catch someone's hair on fire they yell "Faux pas!!!!!"

RegDwigнt

03:17

@tchrist you hate me?

Mitch

@Robusto You know what 'opa' means?

'Ow'

Robusto

@RegDwigнt He's not alone. All human beings who struggle to span a tenth do.

tchrist

@Mitch Speak not ill of the Moorish lest they set their spitting camels upon thee as they ever did anon.

Robusto

@Mitch I did not know that.

Mitch

@Robusto look it up

tchrist

03:19

@RegDwigнt Somehow I took you for a gentleman of normal stature, perhaps 5'10".

Robusto

@Mitch I believe you.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist I don't understand those royale with cheese numbers.

I'm 183.

tchrist

I tried trading inches of height for inches of handspan, but the bastards took my money and ran.

user 85795

lol

Robusto

@RegDwigнt You don't look a day over 150.

tchrist

03:21

@RegDwigнt This is why it's wrong.

Robusto

But looks like I have a couple centimeters on you. Who knew?

user 85795

hi, peeps

tchrist

Hi Sporty.

Robusto

I'd be satisfied with comfortable 10ths. I've no aspirations to be a Rachmaninoff or a RegDwight.

RegDwigнt

Oct 2 '19 at 0:30, by RegDwigнt

That's one of my favorite passages in all of Chopin.

Extremely satisfying to play.

Mitch

03:23

@Robusto Not your first mistake.

RegDwigнt

That F3-Bb3-D4-Ab4 in the LH is pure love.

Robusto

@Mitch Won't be my last, either.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt arp arp arp

Robusto

@RegDwigнt And you wonder why people hate you.

RegDwigнt

Yes, love begets hate.

I've read the Jesus.

Robusto

03:24

Nobody fucks with the Jesus.

user 85795

Hate destroys the hater.

tchrist

For how many years did your mother bind your hands when you were young?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto nine-year olds, dude. With hands that span a tenth.

Mitch

@user85795 Players only love you when they're playing

Robusto

@Mitch OK, it means "Oops!" Same difference.

user 85795

03:25

Thunder only happens when? @Mitch

tchrist

The Chinese the feet; the Italians the testicles; the Russians the fingers.

Mitch

haha I was just making shit up

Robusto

@user85795 Players only love you when?

Mitch

@user85795 raining? which is meteorologically not the case.

Robusto

Women they will come and they will go.

Mitch

03:26

it can thunder when the sky is clear

user 85795

1 min ago, by Mitch

@user85795 Players only love you when they're playing

Robusto

@Mitch You never listened to Fleetwood Mac?

Mitch

don't they watch Action News 7, Weather on the Nines?

Robusto

Yeah, who has time to read all your shit?

tchrist

@Robusto He betrays himself in these small ways.

Mitch

03:27

@Robusto Best albums of 1977 - Rumours and Rocket to Russia

OK Animals too

user 85795

70s gold.

Mitch

@Robusto the bitterness

@Robusto not me, that stuff is... well... shit

@user85795 uh... gold.

user 85795

Texas tea.

Mitch

We've already established that anything after 1980 is only -attempt- at greatness

tchrist

I'm in Love With a Big Blue Frog

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user 85795

03:30

Boom^

RegDwigнt

@tchrist anyway. The hands don't even look big. Like, I have ninths in my own writing absolutely everywhere, and there's videos of me playing them, but blink and you'll miss it, it doesn't look like anything. It looks like sixths or something.

Waltz №5 (piano solo)

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Example. Link to timestamp. Spot the ninth.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt I can play ninths. I have to pop my thumb's magic double-joint for a tenth down the tips. And yes, I do have that. It's only in my thumbs. I don't know why. Childhood piano abuse.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt Why be shackled by human limitations

RegDwigнt

Like, I watching right now and most of the time the hands look like they barely span a fifth.

Very closed handshapes.

Mitch

write music to be played by the descendants of ours living on titan

8 feet tall

6 inch digits

webbed toes

and ears

RegDwigнt

03:34

@tchrist well here's the thing, and we discussed that with Rob when I posted that Chopin screenshot originally. Not all tenths are created equal. Chopin was a piano player, and he knew exactly what he was doing. Take that entire chord up just a half-tone, and it's utterly unplayable and shit.

Mitch

yellow irises

tchrist

@Mitch irides my lady

RegDwigнt

I wouldn't want to be playing tenths in C major, either. But Ab major or G minor? Anytime.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt yeah ok

Mitch

@tchrist as a gentleman, how dare you.

RegDwigнt

03:35

The waltz above is in Gm. I'll try it in Am tomorrow or something. Probably hot garbage.

tchrist

@Mitch irides my lady urides da rails

Mitch

no really, why be limited by hand width. just compose it if it sounds good

RegDwigнt

musescore.com/user/27897310/scores/6341657

This piece by Lack, I'm telling you now you can play this in tempo.

In the key.

But take it from Db to D, and you'll break all your fingers even at largo, and I don't mean that figuratively.

That's why he managed to get to the Paris Conservatory as professor for piano. And that's why they kept him there for sixty years.

He would never write shit in D that should be written in Db.

tchrist

Racist.

user 85795

:O

RegDwigнt

03:39

Mais oui, monsieur !

user 85795

please gentlemen, no racism on the internet :P

🙉🙊🙈

instead, enjoy this little gem

Paul Dirac Interview, Göttingen 1982

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RegDwigнt

@user85795 a Brit with a Croatian name who died in Florida and was born to a Swiss father, giving an interview in Germany?

Preposterous!

It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous

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Anyway, that's me for today. The day resets in Animal Crossing in 13 minutes, I need to go water all the flowers again.

Toodlepips.

user 85795

cya

Mitch

noq that he's gone we can get back to the racism

@Robusto OK here's one: -opera- isn't made any better by being in person.

all that screaming

SmokeDetector

09:25

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SmokeDetector

11:52

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Conrado

@Robusto Færd?

RegDwigнt

13:40

@Cerberus van harte gefeliciteerd, nog vele jaren in prachtige gezondheid!

Robusto

13:59

@Conrado Could be.

@Cerberus: Is het je verjaardag vandaag?

Cerberus

14:49

@RegDwigнt искренняя благодарность

@Robusto Inderdaad...

5

Robusto

Happy happy.

Conrado

@Cerberus Many happy returns. I wish you peace, health, love and money.

Robusto

What's with all these February birthdays?

Conrado

(In order of importance, not necessarily related to time.)

Perhaps health is less important than love.

Matt E. Эллен

@Cerberus happy birthday, to you.

Cerberus

14:55

@Conrado Muy gracias.

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto lots of summertime romances

Cerberus

If that is at all correct...

@MattE.Эллен To me! Thank you.

Matt E. Эллен

:D

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен Or indiscretions.

Matt E. Эллен

true

Robusto

14:57

> The birds do it, the bees do it
Even educated fleas do it

Matt E. Эллен

One of the best parts of the Tank Girl sound track

Robusto

This is where they got that:

Cole Porter - Let's Do It.

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Cerberus

@Robusto What scandal.

Robusto

> The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it
Not to mention the Finns.

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto doesn't have quite the same kick ;)

Cerberus

15:00

Oh, the Finns.

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен You're such a child of the post-apoaclyptic comic book genre.

Matt E. Эллен

it's true

Robusto

Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)

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There, that one sounds like you could have heard it in Fallout: New Vegas.

Cerberus

Ah, that game.

I don't looking shooting-games.

Should I still play it?

Robusto

@Cerberus You don't what?

@Cerberus It's Ella Fitzgerald. How bad could it be?

Cerberus

15:03

?

Robusto

Oh, you mean that kind of play.

No. Play Fallout 3 instead.

Cerberus

But it also has lots of shooting...

Which is utterly boring and unfun to me.

Robusto

Yeah, but it's so funny and weird.

Cerberus

I'm sure I'd like the rest of it.

I think I have one or the other in my Steam.

Oh, I have New Vegas + expansions.

Robusto

Fallout: New Vegas has a serious problem, in that if you don't guess the right upgrade schema you can't beat the final boss. That's what happened to me. I even knocked the difficulty down from hard to the lowest setting and I still got wiped every time.

Cerberus

15:05

Hmm.

They have not yet patched that?

Perhaps there is a mod for it.

Robusto

Dunno. Maybe there is, but that game is dead to me. Especially since I had it for the XBox 360, which I haven't played in maybe a decade?

Cerberus

Alas.

Robusto

Water over the dam.

Cerberus

And under the bridge?

Robusto

Of course.

Or over the bridge.

Cerberus

15:08

I hope we shan't have that over our dam here.

Robusto

But I seldom like sequels. My favorite video game of all time, The Last of Us, I got bored with its sequel.

It just seemed like the same thing all over again. Only now with 95% more lesbian sex.

But The Last of Us was a really great game. Check out how it opens:

The Last of Us - Full Opening

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Cerberus

Hmm.

Sequels can be disappointments.

There is apparently a Dutch series with this idea of the apocalyps.

The whole earth was flooded except the Netherlands.

Robusto

@Cerberus Haha, you'd be the first to go.

Cerberus

Certainly not! We have dikes.

Robusto

@Cerberus Not built up higher than Switzerland, say.

Cerberus

15:16

No, indeed.

Robusto

Or New Mexico.

Cerberus

Although it can be done, no doubt.

At great cost, over centuries.

Robusto

Anyway, The Last of Us has shooting in it, but that's only as a last resort. If you go into it expecting to get by with shooting, you will not get very far.

Cerberus

Hmm.

Robusto

The game starts with an epidemic, just like today's. Only, yeah, a bit worse. Check out the opening, seriously.

Cerberus

15:18

I have the game on my watch lists already.

Robusto

Yeah, but ... Watch. The. Opening.

Cerberus

I must be confusing it with something else. Doesn't exist for PC.

Robusto

Yeah, it's only for PlayStation.

I bought a PS-4 based on that game alone.

Robusto

15:58

I made an instrument to play Popcorn acoustic cover

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Gigili

16:19

@Conrado Is it?

Robusto

Joel Did Nothing Wrong - The Importance Of Ambiguity

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Gigili

@Robusto Awesome.

Robusto

inorite

rednaZ

17:36

Does an approach suffer from a problem or does an approach exhibit a problem or does an approach bear a problem?

M.A.R.

@rednaZ Your approach suffers from a distinctive lack of pizza.

Robusto

17:53

@rednaZ First two are fine, but it would be a tad strange to say an approach bears a problem; native speakers would be more likely to say an approach "comes with" a problem.

rednaZ

18:09

Thanks. Is this the right place for this kind of questions by the way?

Or is there a better one?

user 85795

19:06

I was going to jump in at the this is fine room @tchrist but you looked like you had them on the ropes :-)

tchrist

@user85795 It's just typical hate-speech.

user 85795

yup

nice citations, btw

tchrist

I wouldn't be surprised if they thought I was swearing at them in German when I said ablaut.

user 85795

lol

tchrist

< Latin ab lout, from the idiot

Folx eddiimology is so attractive, who can resist?

user 85795

19:12

it's all about doom and gloom in there, anyway

Intersting, he removed this, by accident?

And this?

Should I ask @tchrist what's going on?

U.S. life expectancy plummeted in 2020 and the drop was particularly steep for Black Americans, with life spans declining by 2.7 years. And Black and Latino Americans are not getting equal access to vaccines.

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Robusto

20:27

@rednaZ Yeah, if you don't overdo it.

Mitch

@tchrist goddamit I went there hoping to see some nazi pistols to the back of the head and all I get is prescriptive grammar water cannons

Robusto

Did I miss a meeting?

Just a phone pic, but I love how insignificant civilization looks compared to the majesty of mountains and sky.

Mitch

20:44

@Robusto NYC looks so small from NJ

Robusto

I'll take NM over NJ or NY any day of the week.

Besides, there aren't all that many views of NYC from NJ anyway. All you see are buildings close to you. And in my pic the farthest mountain is 60 miles away, which would be like trying to see the Empire State Building from Bridgeport CT or the Delaware Water Gap in NJ.

M.A.R.

21:03

Wait, I sense a high density of birthdays this month

Robusto

6 hours ago, by Robusto

What's with all these February birthdays?

M.A.R.

I couldn't be sure it wasn't some sort of an inside joke

Robusto

I don't think there are many inside jokes here, except maybe Tom's, and his are so far inside most of the time that I think only he understands them.

Mitch

@M.A.R. I thought all these people had birthdays last year?

OK yesterday I did the whole Clash oeuvre (sans Sandinista, look man I'm not crazy that would be a whole extra day)

Today is Ramones

Three chords, two songs, one pair of jeans among them?

Robusto

At that rate you'll need a month for all the chords in Elvis Costello's oeuvre.

Mitch

21:15

hanging out on fifth avenue, eating chicken vindaloo

Mitch

21:51

oops

that's -second- avenue

gotta be accurate

stick to the script

dot the p's and q's

close the parentheses

Robusto

The Ramones are rolling over in their ... wait, are they still alive?

I guess a few are. Not the main ones, though.

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