English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Mitch

00:27

@jlliagre I was hoping for 'sane washing' but nonw of the contests/surveys picked up on that.

CowperKettle

00:57

Брейнрот

Брейнрот (англ. brain rot, brainrot, буквально — гниение мозга) — разговорный термин, используемый для описания интернет-контента, который имеет низкое качество или ценность и предположительно способен оказывать негативное влияние на психику человека. Этот термин также относится к чрезмерному использованию цифровых медиа, что может привести к снижению когнитивных функций, включая снижение концентрации внимания и нарушение психики. Впервые выражение было использовано в Интернете еще в 2004 году, а к 2023 году его популярность выросла, превратившись в интернет-мем. Его часто используют в контексте...

alphabet

03:50

Something licked this way comes Throws lollipop

CowperKettle

04:06

Why is 9 afraid of 3?

Because he was squared of him.

alphabet

04:17

@CowperKettle So the fear justified itself? Was 3 an immigrant, by any chance?

HippoSawrUs

04:32

@alphabet Does Walmart still sell firearms?

I slept through all that.

A person can only be disheartened so many times

And I'm watching Bloodline again for some reason…

I can't remember 3 seasons of anything.

alphabet

> Walmart sells firearms in approximately half of our U.S. supercenter stores. While we are not the largest volume firearms seller in the United States, we do serve many areas of the country where there is a concentration of hunters and sportsmen/women.

You know, I'm not sure the "/women" was really necessary.

Cerberus

04:47

Hmm what distinguishes sportswomen from huntresses?

alphabet

@Cerberus "Hunter" is gender neutral; "sportsman" only kind of is. My point is that women are not the ones driving those sales, and it seems like an odd time to make a concession to political correctness.

I'm glad Walmart goes to those areas of the country. Someone's gotta do it.

Cerberus

But, really, what is the difference?

Vikas

@CowperKettle None of this would have happened if I were the President.

alphabet

Takes up all the shelf space that'd otherwise be devoted to, I dunno, books.

@Cerberus "Sportwoman" makes it sound more like an athletic achievement and less like a source of recreation or groceries.

Cerberus

So both refer to the same people?

alphabet

04:58

Maybe? I wouldn't know. I don't live there.

Can't they just take up crocheting?

Or knitting. Personally I'd much rather have a warm scarf than a deer carcass, but maybe that's just me.

Cerberus

Knitting is a bit safer of a sport indeed.

alphabet

I hear that you can shoot raccoons in cold blood with no legal repercussions. The government outright encourages it.

@Cerberus Less likely to cut off your testicles, but people seem to think it's the other way around.

Cerberus

I do kind of wish they did something about the seagulls and pigeons.

alphabet

Perhaps they could be fed to raccoons.

Cerberus

@alphabet Do American supermarkets have big labels "WARNING: YOU MAY PRICK YOURSELF" on the knitting-needles but no warnings on the assault guns? That would be typical.

alphabet

05:09

@Cerberus I wouldn't be surprised.

But it's very important. Without hunting, you're not a manly man man. Might as well get a sex change at that point.

Cerberus

Who needs guns for hunting.

alphabet

Anyone who wants to be efficient? Bow hunting seems tedious.

Personally I think deer hunters should be required to engage in close-range hand-to-hoof combat.

If you can't knock down a deer with a single punch, you're just a wuss.

HippoSawrUs

@alphabet Probably not. I've know only one really avid female hunter. And she wanted us all to try to pee standing up when we were all little girls together, so

Just the truth

known

Cerberus

@alphabet Just teeth. You should know.

HippoSawrUs

She married an avid hunter and fisherman and they lived happily ever after

Can't argue with that

alphabet

05:24

@HippoSawrUs Kamala is for women peeing standing up, Donald Trump is for YOU.

@Cerberus I don't think the humans are smart enough for that.

CowperKettle

05:53

My 24-hr urinary cortisol is 1085 nmol/day (reference range: 50 to 600 nmol/day) with the 24-hr collection volume of 2750 mL. After my 'depression' started in 2018, my urinary cortisol similarly hovered at about 150%, but dropped on escitalopram. Now I'm on venlafaxine.

I had a bout of my cortisol hovering at 150% once before 2018, due to an ointment that caused it to elevate, and man, was I in a horrible mental condition during that period. Ruminations and despondency, which lifted instantly when I stopped the ointment and my cortisol plummeted from 150% to deep inside the normal range.

HippoSawrUs

06:10

My spouse just said, 'Look, I bought Nutella; they sell it in stores now.'

And have since the '80s

That's all Marina and Alejandro would eat…

I think he is in pre-dementia now

Or whatever that's called

Wow

OK, I'm gonna be nice now

Just assume everyone is off a bit

Not my turn anymore

It's hard to tell when inaccurate people are slipping into dementia

I feel robbed

Somehow

He bought Nutella to go in his coffee

Yep

OK then

@alphabet All our registered republicans voted for Hillary and Kamala. They're not crazy-crazy. They just think businesses help people.

Then they select $250 for Salvation Army and realize later that their employer is matching their donation, not making one for them.

alphabet

06:28

@HippoSawrUs Ok, I won't try to pitch them on my "Burn all shops to the ground" idea. Maybe just Wall Street.

Have I gone on a rant about the negative effects of capitalism on the raccoon community recently?

HippoSawrUs

Dummies. Cheap, naive people. I don't hate them. Just scared of crazy-crazy people.

alphabet

After the revolution, the humans will use trash cans accessible for all raccoons, be they elderly, disabled, or pregnant.

And the pharmaceutical industry will finally find a cure for distemper.

HippoSawrUs

@alphabet LOL, I would think capitalism would benefit TRC in general, causing more trash, no?

alphabet

And, for every raccoon the humans turn into a hat, we will be allowed to turn one human into a lampshade.

HippoSawrUs

Hey, what's fair is fair.

I'm very eye-for-an-eye for a…

Hippo, old hippo?

I'm not sure what I am, exactly

alphabet

06:35

And we will receive the full protection of vehicular homicide laws, not to mention the right of way on all interstate highways.

HippoSawrUs

That's just a given

But people are just going to hit deer at 65 mph and keep on truckin'

Ride around with tufts of deer sticking out of their bumper for months

Breathing micro glass shards out of their air systems

In a city with 8 to 12 exits; I stopped counting.

Interstates are terrifying now too

I used to be invincible

But smarter, braver, stronger people died all around me

And now I'm not

That is life

Racoons are very popular now

See infant wear, so cute

CowperKettle

> “Trump suggested to Trudeau that Canada become the 51st state, which caused the prime minister and others to laugh nervously, sources told Fox News. But he continued, telling Trudeau that prime minister is a better title, though he could still be governor”

@HippoSawrUs Your kids?

Vikas

07:33

@CowperKettle He can hire Putin to achieve same.

Special Integration Operation

CowperKettle

07:44

I suspect that the whole story with my 'diabetes', which turned out non-existent, is somehow linked to my body's propensity to over-produce cortisol.

I would be so afraid of taking an anti-cortisol drug on my own, but what else could I do.

No sane doctor would agree to this.

@Vikas "the same"

(sorry for correcting!)

I hope you don't mind corrections.

It's not a big deal, "same" or "the same" really.

HippoSawrUs

08:13

@CowperKettle No, my close friend's. Alejandro is actually a Puerto Rican version spelled with an X, totally unpronouncable. It must be NYPR or something; I can't do it.

CowperKettle

Алехандро

@HippoSawrUs Ah!

Nutella must be a bad food, from the nutrition standpoint.

Although it contains nuts..

I remember it as a very tasty food.

HippoSawrUs

Rose lost 60 lbs, at least, could only eat baby food while carrying him. Then she stopped speaking American-Spanish and named him. Haha, she really did.

For a little while anyhow.

CowperKettle

She lost 30 kg because during her pregnancy she could only eat baby food?

HippoSawrUs

Her kids ate it every single day. Like peanut butter.

Yes, she was obese.

CowperKettle

I wish there were some manipulator worn on a finger that would enable the use of a phone without touching the screen. I'm delivering food on a bicycle, and in rain, the phone perceives raindrops as finger touches, resulting in a chaos.

With a manipulator worn on a finger, you would hover your hand over the screen, and the cursor would follow, and you could just temporarily disable the screen's touch function.

HippoSawrUs

08:23

Her pregnancy actually helped her lose weight she had carried for years.

CowperKettle

It's great!

It's very hard to lose weight.

HippoSawrUs

Anyway, a lot of the kids around us have liked Nutella.

Why does my spouse think it was just packaged in jars?

Very strange

Vikas

@CowperKettle Keep it up!

CowperKettle

I'll do!

HippoSawrUs

@CowperKettle Wow, that's amazing. I want a golf cart just to go to Walmart now. I was a runner; never saw that coming.

CowperKettle

08:33

@HippoSawrUs I'm sorry to hear that!

But with my rumination, it's torture to deliver food, because of this non-stop feeling of hopelessness and non-stop depressive monologue.

HippoSawrUs

It's okay. I'm try to build up my strength again, on a MaxiClimber. We'll see.

CowperKettle

I keep on talking to myself and this talk is repetitive and very depressive.

@HippoSawrUs Yay!

My brother has ordered some machine for training too.

MaxiClimber Workout | Full-Body HIIT | 20 min | Coach Jessi

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It looks good.

HippoSawrUs

My son becomes moppy if he can't run, like 6 to 12 miles per day.

CowperKettle

@HippoSawrUs This is great! How old is he?

HippoSawrUs

@CowperKettle I still have the poem you wrote for me. I love it. It is very uplifting.

CowperKettle

08:37

6 miles is almost 10 km. I only run about 5 km/day

@HippoSawrUs Really? I don't recall it!

HippoSawrUs

He is almost 40 now.

CowperKettle

Cool!

HippoSawrUs

Ran 100 miles once, when he was younger.

CowperKettle

@HippoSawrUs Does he take part in ParkRuns?

HippoSawrUs

In one day

CowperKettle

08:38

@HippoSawrUs Wow! My longest run ever was only 33 km.

HippoSawrUs

He used to run a lot

Lots of events and awards

But he works more now, as a PCM, PA with regular patients in the military

That's how the military does it

And has for a long time

CowperKettle

My dad used to run 10 to 20 km in his youth, and when he told me about that in my childhood, I thought it was not possible - a whole 10 km or even 20 km in a single run

@HippoSawrUs I want to change my occupation for something like ' dropped ceiling installer' or 'plastic frame window installer', but I'm afraid of submitting my request for position.

HippoSawrUs

Anyhow, I was going to say: Some people really need a lot of physical exercise or they become moppy, actually depressed if it rains too many days in a row

Seriously

CowperKettle

@HippoSawrUs I read about a Spanish guy who ran marathons every day for a whole year, a marathon a day

HippoSawrUs

Oh wow, that might be an addiction

I stopped smoking, so now I just start walking when I'm PO'd for some reason

Haha, but really

CowperKettle

08:44

Ricardo Abad

Ricardo Abad Martínez (Tafalla, January 8, 1971) is a Spanish ultrarunner. He holds the world record for consecutive marathons run on consecutive days, 607. He is famous for executing the project "500 marathons in 500 days", in which he completed 500 marathons in 500 consecutive days. He started on the 1st of October 2010 and finished on February 12, 2012. He ran at least one marathon in every one of the 50 provinces of Spain. Abad sold each of the 21,000 km he ran at the rate of one euro each and donated the money to ANFAS, a Spanish organization that works in favour of people with intellectual...

HippoSawrUs

It works, but I never learned the coping strategies most people have

CowperKettle

@HippoSawrUs Charles Dickens suffered from insomnia and so he went walking around London, and noticed a lot of details which he used in his novels

@HippoSawrUs I love to walk in a park and memorize poetry. I print out poems on sheets of paper, and place those sheets in these plastic covers that are used in office work

Plastic sheet protectors

HippoSawrUs

See there. That would be great. To have a safe place to walk.

CowperKettle

HippoSawrUs

Our streets are still lined with fallen trees after 2 months

CowperKettle

08:50

Some of my printed out poems

@HippoSawrUs After a hurricane?

HippoSawrUs

Well, Helene

CowperKettle

Ah!

HippoSawrUs

IDK what's wrong with this city

It can't clean up the mess

I stormed off the other day, so tough, and had to turn around and call for help at a gully. Trees all down and still sticking out into the road some.

It was Sep 27th

I'm not used to this place yet

In the country, with a lot of trees, people would just take care of them, sell them, burn them, chip them, whatever

The storm hit here Sep 27th, I meant

CowperKettle

Sometimes in a high wind local poplars lose their branches, which could be quite long and heavy.

Sometimes this results in severe injuries to people.

So the city is gradually replacing poplars with frost-resistant apple trees

Thanks to this, Yekaterinburg is quite beautiful in May to early June, with apples blooming

HippoSawrUs

My spoouse paid these city gougers with limited skills over $9k to clear our backyard of fallen trees, like Black Walnut and IDK what else; they just fell over like dominoes, around 9 of them.

So weird

The stupid Sweet Gum tree did not fall

We could've had trees felled and tap roots dug out for cheaper than that in NC, a forestry state.

@CowperKettle I bet it is. We had an apple tree once.

But it was a crabapple tree, attractive only to a child, for climbing.

Right in the middle of a plowed field, so strange

CowperKettle

09:09

@HippoSawrUs Wow

$9k is double of what I earn per year.

Liquidambar styraciflua

American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), also known as American storax, hazel pine, bilsted, redgum, satin-walnut, star-leaved gum, alligatorwood, gumball tree, or simply sweetgum, is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America and tropical montane regions of Mexico and Central America. Sweetgum is one of the main valuable forest trees in the southeastern United States, and is a popular ornamental tree in temperate climates. It is recognizable by the combination of its five-pointed star-shaped leaves (similar to maple leaves) and its hard...

Never heard of it.

HippoSawrUs

Well, $9k is not worth as much here; I can tell you that. That's why people will vote for anyome here, just literally anyone who might shake up the economy in any possible way.

anyone

It drops spikey balls; kids used to paint them and roll them in glitter for Christmas ornaments. We loved them.

People hate them here, too many, like a nuisance, too many balls to pick up.

CowperKettle

Ah!

I've drunk 7 cups of coffee, but still my brain is not working, and I've translated only 2 sentences in the last 3 hours.

Before November 2020, I would have translated the whole page in less than an hour.

HippoSawrUs

It only costs 1200-1500 to fell a 50-60 ft tree in NC, with birds nests and powerlines to contend with.

CowperKettle

My brain gets tired and produces no variations. I mean, no phrase variations pop up in my mind when I'm translating. I have to literally gouge out each word. And my brain gets tired.

HippoSawrUs

No one would pay to have trees already on the ground removed.

Our son-in-law would have done it for free with a team of coworkers

CowperKettle

09:24

That's why I'm a food deliverer now. Even when I'm feeling not stressed out, my brain just can't work.

HippoSawrUs

@CowperKettle Over 3 cups becomes too much for me

CowperKettle

I cannot send a postcard to a woman I had relationships with. I cannot "think it over", the process of taking a card, writing something and sending it feels too complicated to my brain. I'm not kidding. I've been thinking about sending a card since September.

I told this to the psychotherapist, she did not recommend anything.

She said I seem like a normal person, and I talk like a normal person.

I said I cannot translate fast, and I find it a torture to open and send letters, to open private messages etc.

Ever since November 2020.

I showed her a heap of small sheets on which I keep my time diary, recroding everything I do, in the hope of forcing myself to focus my attention and do something.

HippoSawrUs

I generally write two paragraphs about anything, then try to narrow it to a few sentences. That's what most people can take.

CowperKettle

She said 'so what'.

HippoSawrUs

But your poems are very nice, lighthearted.

CowperKettle

09:28

Thank you!

I keep a psychological diary, and it's full of records of "affect". The smallest things trigger a long-lasting affect state in me.

Affect as in emotion.

I call them sticky affect states (вязкий аффект) because these over-emotional states may last for hours.

I don't know what that means.

It became better when I started on folinic acid.

I suddenly started to notice things, like "my hands look and feel like they are my hands", that is, instead of being submerged in an affective state, I just felt like I'm on the street, delivering food, and these are my hands.

Blissful moments.

Okay, I'll try to focus on translation. See ya!

HippoSawrUs

Too much caffeine (or nicotine, before I stopped) actually causes me more aniety in older age (over the hill). My spouse bought me a weighted blanket for warmth, diabetic episode warmth, and it actually alleviates anxiety, like magic. I had no idea I even had any.

Hope you find something that works for you, like a charm.

MetaEd

12:42

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Conrado

12:54

@CowperKettle Is вязкий a cognate of viscous?

@CowperKettle Yes, those are blissful moments. Congratulations!

I think it is useful to remember that these "sunny" soul-moments are just that: moments; we cannot expect the sun to shine all the time, because sometimes the rain and snow must fall.

tchrist

13:17

@GothomWR Your mental model is missing an entire level of analysis: category ≠ function. When you only think in terms of a word’s category, its “part of speech”, you can't do any higher level syntactic analysis because a POS only applies to a single word, never to a phrase or that phrase’s function as a syntactic constituent. The key concept you're missing is “grammatical role”, which are things like subject, object, complement, predicate, modifier, adjunct, supplement. These are the syntactic functions that govern an individual constituent’s role within the surrounding elements. — tchrist ♦ 3 mins ago

I wish grammar school would actually teach grammar. It does not, so native speakers grow up with a seven-year-old's understanding of linguistics. Sigh.

They probably only think of constituents as something political. :)

Not as integral, interchangeable building blocks of greater things.

Just because I call you last week doesn't make week an “adverb”.

Nor does it make just because I call you last week a “noun”.

Notice that last week is simply a phrase composed of an adjective plus its head noun. Even when that phrase is serving not as a subject or object to the verb but as a temporal adjunct modifying the predicate, that phrase has never itself somehow become an adverb: category ≠ function.

This is never taught to ANYONE who doesn't study linguistics at university. So nobody understands it.

Give that man a donut. It's on us.

think_meaning_buildß

13:47

and why do you think it is never taught

Perhaps, too much focus on the three Rs.

Robusto

14:09

#travle #720 +0 (Perfect)
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Vikas

14:19

@think_meaning_buildß three Rs = 3 Rupees in India

MetaEd

Robusto

#WhenTaken #280 (03.12.2024)

I scored 877/1000🏆

1️⃣📍3.4 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200
2️⃣📍1.3K km - 🗓️11 yrs - 🥈146/200
3️⃣📍138 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇187/200
4️⃣📍491 km - 🗓️12 yrs - 🥈164/200
5️⃣📍329 km - 🗓️7 yrs - 🥇180/200

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Robusto

14:43

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MetaEd

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pop culture will eat my lunch every time

Robusto

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May 15, 2023 at 17:32, by Robusto

@jlliagre "The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass every day."

tchrist

Why Things Look That Way Under a Blacklight

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@Cerberus The video linked above is chock full of recurring fluo- words pronounced by an American, including fluorite, fluoride, fluoresce, fluorescent, fluorescence. Notice how for this speaker, the stressed vowel in fluo- is only ever that of flow, never that of flew, let alone that of flaw.

In effect, he’s merging or homophoning blossoming’s floresce with glowing’s fluoresce. As all English vowels are prone to doing when unstressed, this vowel centralizes towards schwa moving along a smooth continuum of allophonic alternates.

Robusto

Thomas Dolby - Pulp Culture (Aliens ate my Buick)

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tchrist

Hank Green for the most part speaks pretty normal non-Californian American, although every now and then you can detect a slight hint of his family's origin in Birmingham, Alabama before they moved to Orlando, Florida where he grew up. He's lived in Missoula, Montana for many years, though.

It's harder to say what's what when unstressed, of course: You're right that it's your right have both of those weak forms converging on the same vowel despite starting from different places, theoretically.

MetaEd

15:05

@Robusto Is that a pop culture reference?

I mean, I like it ...

You cannot step twice into the same river, and the sun don't shine twice on the same dog's arse.

jlliagre

#WhenTaken #280 (03.12.2024)

I scored 686/1000🎗️

1️⃣📍3.1 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇199/200
2️⃣📍1.3K km - 🗓️21 yrs - 🥉115/200
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4️⃣📍453 km - 🗓️28 yrs - 🥉109/200
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19 mins ago, by Robusto

May 15, 2023 at 17:32, by Robusto

@jlliagre "The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass every day."

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tchrist

@jlliagre Why does every dog's ass get its own special day in the sun apart from all the others? :)

> to homophone: today he homophones, yesterday he homophoned, he's always homophoning.

to homonym: today he homonyms, yesterday he homonymmed, he's always homonymming.

Robusto

15:28

@tchrist Because "cat will mew and dog will have his day." QED

GratefulDisciple

@tchrist Can I have a donut too? My [natural language] grammar is probably also at middle school level. My only college level Linguistic course was Automata Theory, a prerequisite for taking the Compiler CS course. The NLP part of AI course also made me more appreciative of Linguistics. Do you have a recommendation of a college level Linguistic textbook to appreciate the development of English grammar from its roots?

It's rather sad I learn more grammar of constructed language more than the language I use to speak, listen, and think.

CowperKettle

@Conrado Now that you've mentioned it, I think it might be

No, an etymology dictionary says it's from a root meaning 'to bind'

It's traced to the PIE root *angh etymonline.com/word*angh-

> *angh-
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "tight, painfully constricted, painful."

It forms all or part of: agnail; anger; angina; angry; angst; anguish; anxious; hangnail; quinsy.

GratefulDisciple

15:43

@alphabet Yes, I also much prefer crocheting to hunting. Cannot really relate to men who like hunting, as probably the case for men who wouldn't appreciate the craft that a classical musician would care about. I went to a Baroque chamber concert the other day. One of the best days in 2024 for me as I sit up close enjoying the cellist + harpsichordist playing the basso continuo while the 4 violinists do their thing.

Robusto

@GratefulDisciple Music is the best friend you can have, IMO. It has seen me through parlous times.

Through bad times and good, music always speaks to the soul directly.

GratefulDisciple

@Robusto It sure is.

CowperKettle

> Well, the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend until the end
Until the end, until the end

Robusto

@CowperKettle The end came for him rather too early.

CowperKettle

GratefulDisciple

15:47

@Robusto My organ professor taught me how making music is a communion-of-souls activity: 1) communion with the composer (in his/her artistic vision); 2) communion with other performers; 3) communion with the audience, 4) communion with other musicians in that era (say, Baroque) in imagining the score in the way they would have performed it, 5) and communion with your instrument maker (bringing the best that it was designed to produce).

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Robusto

@GratefulDisciple Whenever I played with an orchestra I absolutely loved being inside this great musical engine powered by all the musicians who communed to create something beyond any individual.

And it is a communion even if you play it only with yourself.

GratefulDisciple

@Robusto Yup, never played with an orchestra myself, but I can imagine. One bucket list item for me is to join a chamber group and perform with them.

CowperKettle

> Thanks to cheap Chinese solar technology imports, Pakistan is expected to add an estimated 17 GW of solar power in 2024, which is more than a third of the country's entire generating capacity. The surge is "probably the most extreme" case "that has happened in any country in the world with the speed that has happened," according to energy analyst Dave Jones.

Great news. Pakistan has an abysmal power supply per person statistics

GratefulDisciple

@Robusto Sure is. The 3 communions still applicable when playing solo in the practice room. Oh, I forgot to add, 6) communion with yourself (discovering your inner artistic vision).

Cerberus

15:55

@tchrist To me it just sounds like a 'fast/sloppy' pronunciation where it is not unexpected for the u to be dropped.

CowperKettle

I've just finished translating a document containing 2900 characters (with spaces). It took me from 10:00 to 21:00, with a break of about 2 hours, so.. 9 hours in total for less than 2 standard pages (a standard page is 1800 chars with spaces).

The text is easy, but for some reason I can't maintain a focus.

I don't know why.

I can't explain it to the psychotherapist. I say "I kinda feel my head getting tired ultra-fast"

I wonder if that lesion in my tectum plays any role, but there are no specialists who can even guess about that.

A lesion in the tectum can even lead to a psychosis, but that person's lesion was larger academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/46/5/1296/…

"Her symptoms started with persistent, constricting type of diffuse headache, which increased when she was reading" - Wow: I could barely read due to weird symptoms in 2010-2012, and a lesion was discovered in my quadrigeminal plate, just like here. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4801500

> Two weeks later, she woke up one night with a sudden cry and shouting, expressing that she felt pain all over her body as if something was pressing on her.

In 2000, when my "diabetes" was beginning, I had two episodes of severe pain all along the surface of my left hand/arm, which happened suddenly in the night, waking me up. Basically the whole symptoms of "diabetes" were headaches, pulsating pain in left arm, numbness/weakness in left hand. And the lesion in my tectum is in the right hemisphere.

alphabet

16:18

@tchrist Wait, are the stressed forms of you're and your non-homophones for some speakers??

@Robusto Music indeed. Who could survive adolescence without One Direction?

Mitch

@CowperKettle How dare you.

It's one of the basic food groups.

Candy, candy cane, candy corn, and Nutella.

MetaEd

@Mitch Irish Coffee is the perfect food because it contains all four food groups - they are sugar, alcohol, caffeine and fat.

Mitch

16:33

@MetaEd Since it's 'the season' here now, you can't get away from all the xmas movies so I'll just join in. What's your favorite xmas movie and don't bother answering it is 'Elf'.

But It's a Wonderful Life is chock full of everything, like I Love Lucy, there's always something to relate.

For example, (and here is how it is relevant), the scen were Clarence the Angel-in-Training and Jimmy Stewart (I can't remember the character's name, it's unimportant), and in the upside down world, the bar is now "Nicks" a rough bar where men go to get drunk, and Clarence asks for...

jlliagre

Martial law in South Korea. Huh.

Mitch

He hesitantly asks for, he can't remember the name it as a drink he had a long time ago oh yes a flaming rum punch no no no how about some mulled wine?

I think about that a lot.

I mean what he's asking for isn't particularly macho, but it'll certainly get you drunk fast.

@jlliagre Dude... you're not trolling me to look at the news are you?

jlliagre

> President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea declared emergency martial law on Tuesday, banning “all political activities,” in an extraordinary reaction to the political deadlock that has hobbled his tenure.

The full extent of what martial law entails was not immediately clear, but the announcement enabled the president to take command of the news media. His declaration set off protesters clashing with the police outside the National Assembly, and an immediate effort by opposition lawmakers to halt the decree. It was the first time a South Korean president had declared martial law since the mi…

Mitch

@jlliagre Oh.

jlliagre

Maybe Macron will follow.

Mitch

16:40

That doesn't sound particularly liberal.

@jlliagre It can't be that bad. Strikes are kind of like a special holiday for everyone.

jlliagre

@Mitch Not just strikes, French government is about to collapse and there is definitely a parliament deadlock.

CowperKettle

16:53

@Mitch I loved candy as a kid, because after 1986 it totally vanished from the stores

Chocolate-containing candy was especially hard to find in stores

Perestroika started, and small cheap chocolates that were on sale in our school's canteen just vanished.

Because small-scale businesses were permitted, and due to the all-permeating corruption, they became outlets for selling the most precious goods at exorbitant prices.

You can't easily combine a capitalist and a state-based economy, especially starting with a 90% state-based economy.

Under Stalin, some tiny-scale businesses managed to survive, but Khruschev put paid to them.

Maybe if it were done without democratization, without freedom of speech, the system would have been more manageable. I mean, it would have been handier to tinker with settings, allowing more and less free enterprise and adjusting it.

MetaEd

17:29

@Mitch Die Hard

Cerberus

@jlliagre Wow.

I did not expect this at all.

I thought South Korea was stable.

Chinese/Russian infiltration in the army?

Mitch

17:53

@jlliagre I'm trying not to ruin my entire day by looking at the news, but surely a French 'collapse of government' has an expected better outcome than the US 'orderly transfer of power' that we'll get in a month.

Cerberus

Yeah, it's just the ministers, not the most important person in government.

Mitch

@MetaEd Yes, there is a lot in that one too. Like being caught in a terrorist hijacking of a building with no shoes on.

Not the building.

The person caught in the building.

jlliagre

@Cerberus Yes, the outcome might just be a new government which will fall more or less quickly. By the way, unrelated but your newly elected Commander-in-chief will be in Paris this weekend.

@CowperKettle Stalin is underrated.

Cerberus

18:14

@jlliagre Exactly.

Commander in chief?

jlliagre

@Cerberus Oh, sorry. Not yours!

Cerberus

Eichelsheim?

I had to look it up...

Oh.

jlliagre

I was referring to the US one.

Cerberus

OK.

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18:54

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Robusto

20:22

@alphabet I was thinking of something more substantial.

Mitch

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Q: Limiting Reviews by User

Now that we have revised reasons to close questions and have many fewer questions to deal with, how about reducing the daily limit on reviews, especially votes to close? This would give others a chance to acquire skills in this area and earn such points and badges as may be available. I think two...

@Robusto very interesting how the question is at 4 upvotes, no down, but your answer is at 1: 4 up and 3 down. I really don't see the difference between the direction of the question and the directino of your answer.

Robusto

@Mitch I guess my answer ruffled some feathers. Oh well, who needs to be popular?

Mitch

of course there are details, like the question itself emphasizes allowing newcomers to earn badges because presumably with such a small limit, the usual suspects will hit their max quicker, and allow others to use their votes to close. I kinda don't see how that's that important.

Robusto

@Mitch I said the same thing, only in a more provocative way.

It needed to be said.

And it needed to be said that way.

Mitch

The important point, which wasn't said there, but we've all stated here often enough, is that there is too much closing.

Robusto

I thought that was understood.

Mitch

20:57

I think the response to Maria should have been that we've all tried to vote to reopen but that's not enough, the trigger happy closers should be held back.

@Robusto To you and me maybe but it wasn't expressed so clearly in the question.

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