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RegDwighт

11:32

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A: "Can easily be" vs. "can be easily" — what's the difference?

I think it will be can easily be. Because once I have read that we can use an adverb between two auxiliary verbs.

This just hurts.

Matt Эллен

pain.se

iHungry

i got rejected in interview of big MNC's only due to my bad english verbal communication.... i m happy about this room, because such rooms encouraging and helping to other people communication..... i guess this is the right way use of technology.

Matt Эллен

vs "a picture of the king's s's"

triple-genetive

RegDwighт

Matt Эллен

nice!

any king would be proud

tchrist

11:43

> Close to these are words that are more obviously loan-words, ... Use freely in English, but beware that many are "false friends" when it comes to learning another language (mousse is only some sort of creams in English, any in French, and several words from Japanese used only in relation to sex acts in English are - to the point where I won't give examples - are quite plain and boring words in Japanese that only refer to sex acts when that is clearly the context).

I give. What is this about Japanese sex acts?

From here:

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A: Is it acceptable to mix Latin with English?

There are a few different ways in which loan words or phrases are used in English, whether from Latin or otherwise. On the one extreme, there are words like potato, cello and waltz that are so absorbed into the language that their being loan-words is more a matter of the history of their etymolo...

iHungry

well i like golden crown of king :D

RegDwighт

Bukake?

Matt Эллен

tchrist

Buttcake?

Matt Эллен

RegDwighт

11:45

Bukkake

is a sex act portrayed in pornographic films, in which several men ejaculate on a woman, or another man. Bukkake videos are a relatively prevalent niche in contemporary pornographic films. Originating in Japan in the 1980s, the genre subsequently spread to North America and Europe, and crossed over into gay pornography. Etymology Bukkake is the noun form of the Japanese verb bukkakeru (ぶっ掛ける, to dash or sprinkle water), and means "to dash", "splash" or "heavy splash". The compound verb can be decomposed into a prefix and a verb: butsu (ぶつ) and kakeru (掛ける). Butsu is a prefix derived...

iHungry

LOL its antique word for me

tchrist

Oh, so that is what they call that? I didn’t even know it had a name.

RegDwighт

The more you know!

Matt Эллен

rolf

tchrist

Opposable thumbs for the win.

iHungry

11:47

its really nice concept actually

tchrist

@Cerberus I want you to know what a good boy am I, that I shan’t be pointing out that Barrie has argued himself into a self-contradiction (read: he’s wrong) about his double-genitives.

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A: "A friend of Susan" vs. "a friend of Susan's"

A friend of Susan’s is a double genitive, which has been a feature of English grammar for centuries, and it is the normal alternative to one of Susan’s friends. Just as most people would say a friend of mine, rather than a friend of me, so a friend of Susan’s, rather than a friend of Susan, would...

That is not a double genitive. It is a single genitive with a prepositional phrase. A double-genitive would be like Susan’s’s, or saeculorum’s.

Since it can only be a genitive if it has a morphological inflection.

Q.E.F.D.

Matt Эллен

queefed?

tchrist

Excuse yourself when do you that.

Matt Эллен

hmmm. a supermod came and reopened a question. interesting.

english.stackexchange.com/posts/97171/revisions

RegDwighт

Easier than deleting a Tweet, I guess.

Whoa, we have 368 follower (sic).

Oh, that's supposed to be German.

tchrist

11:59

@MattЭллен Why does the one sound (well, or smell) any less nasty than the other?

Matt Эллен

you were meant to tell us in german?

RegDwighт

Haha, and it even tweeted the meta post about scraping.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist well, a queef would not necessarily involve cum

RegDwighт

tchrist

Nothing that a good Puck wouldn’t fix.

Matt Эллен

12:00

I assumed queef just means expelling air from the vagina

but urban dic seems to imply sex too

wateva

RegDwighт

God the tweeted questions are meh.

Xblast!

tchrist

Folgen, really?

I think queef must be mostly U.K.-only because of the quim connection.

Matt Эллен

also (in theory) there would be no poo particles expelled with a queef, so less poo smell

tchrist

American have no idea what that word means.

Matt Эллен

interesting.

tchrist

12:04

You could teach them. You could be the Quim-Evangelist to the Gentiles.

Matt Эллен

travelling from state to state, city to city, exposing Americans to the wonders of queefing

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a job's a job, I suppose

iHungry

LOL, i excited to see and experience orgy like thing .... i also wonder it happen in the
world!!!!!!

tchrist

You’d think queef were a strong past tense of quaff.

I think quaff is the only verb ending in -aff that has the FATHER vowel not the CAT vowel. Faffing about. Well, ok, some people say laugh pompously, but that is spelled without an -aff.

Matt Эллен

uh, it's more of a southern English accent than a pompous thing

tchrist

Gotcha! I was teasing you. :)

Matt Эллен

12:09

oh you!

tchrist

It is so easy to stick it to RP.

Matt Эллен

:D

@iHungry we discuss most things here.

tchrist

The only dialect that has RAHZBRIES and QUEEZARDILLERS in the same room.

And taecos maequismo.

iHungry

hmmm

Matt Эллен

I'm getting hungry just thinking about them

iHungry

12:12

hahaha

me too ;)

tchrist

Honest. I was at some Mexican restaurant in one of your London circuses (:-) and heard a man order queezerdillers for quesadillas (kaysadeeyas). Just the funniest thing.

Matt Эллен

well, when in Ingland

lunches

tchrist

It’s like Americans who rhyme jalapeños with gelatinous. And yes, some really do.

Well, close to it. You get the idea.

I’m not IPA-arsible this morn.

iHungry

Endia .... LOL

tchrist

@MattЭллен “Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?”

@MattЭллен That is, hickishly saying jalapeños as /d͡ʒəˈlɒpəˌnoʊz/ in Appalachian American instead of something that more closely approximates /χalaˈpeɲos/ — like, I dunno, “hollow penis”, maybe. You gotta admit, the hick pronuncification slips under the tongue better. So I guess you’re no worse than we are. We just each mangle different words in our own risi-inimitable ways.

Which is why it is too early to be IPA-arsible. Gosh.

How come we seem to see people writing o’clock so much less these days? They say it just as much. But it seems to have disappeared from writing.

...mmm... txtspk...

Matt Эллен

12:41

"garden leave" and "gardening leave" give too many false positives in ngrams

and in the book search behind it

tchrist

@RegDwighт Kris is on a “quoted bold italic” editing kick. :)

@MattЭллен Try prefacing with “on”, or some similar strategy, to try to weed out the falsies.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist good call!

tiny extracts from google books seem to suggest that "gardening leave" came from the British military and moved to politics and then into everyday life. But it's not enough for proof

tchrist

Yes, evidence, not proof. Proof is a high mark.

Matt Эллен

and even as evidence it's a bit weak

RegDwighт

13:16

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@FumbleFingers — Jack Robbin Feb 12 '12 at 13:04

Great comment.

Matt Эллен

wow. it's so insightful, it should be an answer

Robusto

You should ask @RegDwight to tell you why schon isn't always translatable into English. Same with doch and gleich and a bunch of others. It's the little words that get you. — Robusto 16 hours ago

Did you see that question, @Reg?

RegDwighт

No.

Hugo

Hello! Do you think this " losing your rag" is the same sense as "to get angry"?
http://books.google.com/books?id=svHvhERHLD0C&pg=PA128&dq=%22lose+your+rag%22+OR+%22lost+your+rag%22+OR+%22losing+your+rag%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AsDuUJyPO4fxsgae04DgAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22lose%20your%20rag%22%20OR%20%22lost%20your%20rag%22%20OR%20%22losing%20your%20rag%22&f=false

Robusto

Hmm, I wonder if it didn't ping you because I didn't have a tau at the end of your name.

RegDwighт

13:29

Actually in German I can see myself using bereits there.

Robusto

So you don't think he meant schon?

RegDwighт

Same difference.

tchrist

@Cerberus There, my good deed for the day is done.

RegDwighт

Not to mention same sameness as far as English is concerned.

As in, both translate to already.

tchrist

@Cerberus It is rough, because I had only 3 bloody hours of sleep. Please feel free to revise, or I will try to improve it once I am better rested.

RegDwighт

13:31

@Robusto it didn't ping me because you can't just randomly ping people from anywhere on the site.

tchrist

We won‘t tell Barrie. :)

Robusto

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Q: She was carrying twins and a bulky bag in her hands

I am not sure if this is Indian English but the verb carry is often used in India to speak of a pregnant woman and often without an object as, his wife was carrying when he joined the army. So my first question is, does that sound ambiguous to a native English speaker? If that doesn't soun...

Dupe.

RegDwighт

They have to have participated in the exchange, or edited the post.

Robusto

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Q: Using verbs with multiple meanings

Is it grammatically incorrect to use a verb with multiple-meanings so that the meanings are used at once? I'm thinking of a line from the classic Flanders Swann song Madiera M'Dear: ...he hastened to put out the cat, the wine, his cigar and the lamps. Is there a name for this kind of struc...

grammar

RegDwighт

I had a question on syllepsis, too. One nohat answered.

Robusto

13:32

@RegDwighт Hmm, I get pinged from comments. At least I think I do.

tchrist

Yes, of course.

Also, you get pinged even if you are not mentioned if you are the post owner or the only other interlocutor.

But you cannot just mention @somebody in random places on the site and expect them to hear your ping in the vasty deep.

RegDwighт

@Robusto I just randomly pinged you from a comment thread. Good luck finding it.

Robusto

OK, OK. Here's hoping.

tchrist

The “only other interlocutor” rule is somewhat fuzzy, somewhat fluxy.

RegDwighт

Haha.

tchrist

13:35

Anterolocutors.

RegDwighт

@Robusto it's kind of the point, innit. That people don't start going hey Rob this, hey Rob that. "Please answer my question @Robusto!"

Robusto

Well, I'm not sure of the point of any of it. Rules is rules, and people have to draw a line somewhere.

RegDwighт

In fact we had a bunch of pseudo-pings of that kind. Where people said they'd only take answers from person X.

Robusto

Pseudo-pings ... we are entering a brave new world here. I wonder if there are meta-pings too.

And don't say there are on meta.

Matt Эллен

I drew a line on my hand

RegDwighт

13:38

I drew Barrymore.

Robusto

Bush drew a line in the sand.

MετάEd

I draw the line at sand.

Robusto

He said, "This aggression will not stand, man."

RegDwighт

The aggression immediately fell over.

Robusto

In the sand.

RegDwighт

13:38

Right.

That's how it happened.

Robusto

It's hard to stand
If all you have
Beneath your feet
Is lots of sand

Of course, that could be "Are lots of sand" as well. Maybe I will rattle the pineapple cage with a question like that today.

RegDwighт

A lot of sand.

Robusto

Better still, "Do you rattle a pinapple cage or shake a pineapple tree?" grammar foodstuffs

RegDwighт

You nick all as cage.

Matt Эллен

I drew lots of sand on my hand

Robusto

13:41

I take Coppolas notes.

RegDwighт

The uncle doesn't fall far from the nephew.

Matt Эллен

The apple doesn't fall, it gets picked.

Robusto

Is there a county in England called Taliashire? Or was that in Italia?

RegDwighт

Alitalia.

Robusto

Al Italia. The patron mobster of New Jersey.

RegDwighт

13:43

Robusto

Maybe America has a New Taliashire. I'll have to check.

Matt Эллен

butcher and more?

Robusto

Books and more.

RegDwighт

Butcher and sea.

Matt Эллен

@Robusto I don't think there's a taliashire in the UK

Robusto

13:44

King: Lear und air das mare.

RegDwighт

It's a ~~short~~ long story by Hemmingway.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwighт ah!

Robusto

13:55

@MattЭллен Have you looked behind the refrigerator?

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Q: What is the difference between "clearance" and "sale"?

I want to understand the difference between "clearance" and "sale". So are these words synonyms or not? E.g. Receive 60% - 90% off CookiesKids Clearance from Cookie's Kids. Receive 50% - 85% off After Holiday Sale items from Woodwind & Brasswind.

meaning differences synonyms

Matt Эллен

I dread to think what I'd find behind that

Robusto

Why are there questions like this? ^

And of course Matt tweens me at the most inopportune moment.

Can we declare a moratorium on these questions?

Matt Эллен

can we pay to have the questions executed?

@Robusto better than the least inopportune moment.

RegDwighт

I'll take opportune over opporbassocontinuo any time.

Robusto

I don't like the tenor of this conversation. So I'm going to commute.

Matt Эллен

14:10

disgust is the bass ick instinct

RegDwighт

14:38

A disgust of fresh air.

tchrist

@Robusto I hate questions that pretend to be about grammar, and which are not.

RegDwighт

14:50

@Robusto First principles, Clearance. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?

RegDwighт

15:01

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Q: How should I deal with an employee who has slept with my wife?

I'm the owner of a business with about 30-40 employees. Recently, I found out that one of my employees has been having an affair with my wife. The employee has worked for me for 4 years. I felt like I was his mentor, since I recruited straight from university, taught him the ropes, and promoted h...

work-environment relationships

33k views.

Cerberus

15:26

@RegDwighт What do you mean? I don't see this CW? It says Cerberus to me.

RegDwighт

Because I took care of it, duh.

tchrist

Is this a real question?

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Q: When to use ellipsis (suspension points)

Continuing this thought. Learning English as a second language I was taught that suspension points meant uncertainty, ommision of words or interrupted thoughts. There are plenty of threads explaining the meaning but I'm looking for explanation on a few examples; In subjects of emails. Email ...

punctuation writing-style ellipsis

Cerberus

@tchrist Barrie et al. reserve the right to treat other phenomena than tenses differently: they claim that tenses can only be a single word, but other things can be many. Somehow they like to reverse any tradition, because of John is traditionally not called a genitive, but a possessive, whereas will do is traditionally called a tense. Very odd.

RegDwighт

Haha, someone just upvoted the question and downvoted the answer WTF.

Cerberus

@RegDwighт Oh! Thanks! I guess I edited it too many times? I hadn't noticed.

RegDwighт

15:28

Yeah, 11 in fact.

Cerberus

I couldn't stop.

tchrist

@RegDwighт I am always a target.

Cerberus

Why does it turn into CW if the edits are by one user only, one wonders...

RegDwighт

Nov 15 '12 at 15:13, by RegDwighт

►

tchrist

Therefore, if somehow doesn’t like something I say, they must compensate by upvoting the question and downvoting me.

RegDwighт

15:30

Of course it's favorited as well.

Cerberus

@RegDwighт Haha that's me.

tchrist

Of course.

RegDwighт

And I know by whom. :P

Holy crap he sure likes to favorite everything.

Cerberus

Who does?

tchrist

am searching

RegDwighт

15:32

A certain user.

tchrist

Kris.

Cerberus

Oh, her.

tchrist

And you are right.

257 favoritissimos.

Kris always downdings me.

RegDwighт

And out of the latest 90 about 80 are favorited by nobody else.

tchrist

Now we know where all the dumbass favoritings are coming from.

Gotta love all his deleted faves.

Cerberus

15:37

I wonder why she does that.

tchrist

Chemical imbalance.

Matt Эллен

a need to click all the buttons

or a desire to make users feel welcome

tchrist

Remember we learned that there was a SE blog posting advising new user’s to click as much as possible.

RegDwighт

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1× 70

tchrist

Hah.

RegDwighт

15:45

74.3% not favorited by anybody else.

Cerberus

Haha.

RegDwighт

So. Um. Crosscheck for sanity.

Matt Эллен

"a question only Kris could love"

RegDwighт

Who's got a comparable number of favs?

I have 65.

Can anybody offer more?

Matt Эллен

not I

RegDwighт

15:46

I guess there was a SEDE query...

Cerberus

14 here.

RegDwighт

Then I'll just tally myself.

Cerberus

How can you like so many questions?

Matt Эллен

I have lucky 13

Cerberus

Yay!

I always figure too many make it useless, because then I will never be able to find the ones I want.

Matt Эллен

15:47

two of them are favourited by only me

tchrist

mode is 1 @ 186, median is 1, mean is 2.33865, stdev is 5.9111

Cerberus

@MattЭллен I have one.

I have one deleted question, being an April's Fool joke.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus you have two!

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Q: In non-spatial contexts, when should I use "this" versus "that"?

I'm always quite confused to choose which word should I put in the sentence like this/that :) That/This is not a problem at all. To be or not to be, this/that is the question. I know which one I should choose in terms of positioning. But still I don't have that/this feeling for not an object.

pronouns this-that

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Q: What part of speech is the "be + verb" here? What tense are these sentences in?

I shall have him be killed. She is to be stoned for adultery. What are the constructions be +verb called, grammatically? I feel like the above sentences are very adjectival in nature, more so than I shall have him killed. She will be stoned for adultery. Is that correct? Al...

grammar tense

RegDwighт

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Robusto

@RegDwighт We should migrate that to EL&U.

Cerberus

15:53

@MattЭллен Oh wait, I mislooked. I thought they were ordered by fav votes.

RegDwighт

30.1% not favorited by anyone else for myself.

Cerberus

You're so emo, you have your own particular interests.

Matt Эллен

FF is at 75% favourited by only him

Cerberus

You're an Individual.

RegDwighт

Not particular enough.

@MattЭллен four is not a sample size.

Matt Эллен

15:55

:D

Cerberus

Heh.

It is a size...

RegDwighт

@Cerberus yeah. More to the point, I never actually look for anything using the favs.

Cerberus

@RegDwighт Neither do I...but I just might!

And then it would be useless.

Can't have that.

RegDwighт

On the few occasions that I did try, I either remembered the title verbatim, or the question had been long deleted (and I remembered the title verbatim).

Cerberus

> I either remembered the title verbatim

...

You must be of an alien species, or I.

RegDwighт

15:58

Well most titles are "I have question". Easy to remember.

Matt Эллен

I look up the "are you feeling tense" question in my favs

but the rest, not so much

RegDwighт

Yeah perhaps I should start doing that.

Because somehow it is a PITA to search for.

Cerberus

@RegDwighт Haha OMG and it is even true.

RegDwighт

I usually have to give up googling and go via Rob's profile.

tchrist

Well, now you did it.

Robusto

16:01

Adultery: it's not just for adults anymore (if you live in Texas, where you can marry at 16).

RegDwighт

Who did what.

tchrist

You made it a community wiki question.

Robusto

Used to be in Tennessee the legal age for marriage was 13 for "men" and 12 for "women". I think they had to be first cousins, though.

tchrist

Single first cousins, or double?

Robusto

Twice removed.

tchrist

16:03

We call that quasi-grandchildren.

Your grandparent’s cousin or your cousin’s grandchildren are your first cousins twice removed.

Robusto

Actually, in most states the legal age for marriage is 16.

tchrist

They have the same genetic consanguinity R=1/32 factor as your second cousins, but they are your first cousins twice removed.

RegDwighт

Pro tip: if you remove your cousins surgically, you only have to do it once.

Robusto

Missouri If you are under 18 years old, you must have parental consent. Anyone under the age of 15 must have the approval of a county judge to receive a marriage license.

tchrist

Some states allow first-cousin marriage (R=1/8) but disallow double–first-cousin (R=1/4) marriage.

RegDwighт

16:06

@Robusto note how it says nothing about receiving a judging license under the age of 15.

Loophole! USA! USA! USA!

Robusto

So a judge in the Show-Me state can decide to, say, allow nine-year-olds to get married.

Matt Эллен

it's important to learn about commitment when you're young

tchrist

@Robusto Only one.

That judge can allow a nine-year-old to marry a fifty-year-old.

Robusto

Can you imagine being married for ten years without being able to take a legal drink of alcohol? It boggles the mind.

tchrist

Go to Wisconsin.

Matt Эллен

16:08

do not pass go, do not collect £200

Robusto

That dodge is over with. Wisconsin is 21 now too.

tchrist

Your parent can always give you a legal drink in a bar, and your spouse can, too.

Nope.

It only takes one spouse to be 21 to serve the other in a bar.

In Wisconsin.

Also, parents can always serve children.

It is . . . unusual.

Robusto

But before they changed the law, people (and I mean 18-year-olds) used to drive up to Kenosha to get hammered. Then suddenly you couldn't do that anymore. Nobody said anything about getting married and being allowed to drink, or more people might have done it.

@tchrist Isn't that supposed to be "On Wisconsin"? grammar spelling americas-dairyland honk-if-you-love-cheeses

tchrist

@Robusto Yes, this happened all the time. LG was a magnet.

It was 18 when I was.

Cerberus

@Robusto That's...young.

> “In Nederland kreeg ik ook het idee voor de Pebble”, zegt hij. “Ik kon niet, zoals Nederlanders dat wel doen, tegelijkertijd fietsen en op mijn telefoon kijken. Zo werd de Pebble geboren.”

The guy who made the Pebble says he can't ride a bike and look at his phone at the same time.

Is it that hard?

tchrist

16:12

I went into a few bars now and then when I was 16, but they let me get away with it because I was, well, sponsored.

Cerberus

They are trying to raise the age where you can buy drinks to 18 here.

What do you think high-schoolers are going to do?

It's so silly. Of course they will drink.

tchrist

Duh.

Matt Эллен

they've raised the minimum smoking age to 18 here, despite it meaning that fewer people will die younger

tchrist

I am not sure I actually drank in bars at 16.

Cerberus

And the most debauched kids will be the first.

tchrist

16:14

I wasn’t into drinking.

But I sometimes went there, when everybody else adjourned there for a snack and a beer.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Hmm...

RegDwighт

What is the difference between Tim and Curry?

tchrist

Phaal.

RegDwighт

Sorry, what's a difference between them.

Cerberus

One is only eaten by cannibals?

Matt Эллен

16:15

Tim Curry. How can you have a difference between one thing?

tchrist

Those are two things. See the space?

RegDwighт

You forget he's a sweet transvestite.

Matt Эллен

"There is nearly half a century of age difference between Tim Curry"

RegDwighт

That's true.

Mar 7 '12 at 11:32, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

Mar 7 '12 at 11:31, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

tchrist

He was good in Clue.

RegDwighт

16:18

If that's the movie I'm thinking of, it was funny.

Matt Эллен

He was good in Legend, too

tchrist

Rush Hurry. Tim Curry. Coïncidence?

RegDwighт

Of course not, duh.

I am channeling the main site.

Oh I see he fixed the "what's a difference" within the grace period. Now it's just "what's difference"

tchrist

So much better that way.

Cerberus

I are Borg.

The Oculus Rift.

Looks very comfortable.

RegDwighт

16:23

Natural selection.

Cerberus

Indeed! I'd like to see him check messages while riding his bike.

Although I presume the machine shows him a live video of his surroundings. But still.

RegDwighт

Don't worry, the video has just the right amount of lag.

Cerberus

Yay!

Carnage!

The new note.

Notice how they have added the Cyrillic, probably for...I don't know? Estonia?

RegDwighт

Right in time for the new dollar note.

Cerberus

Wow, a break-through design.

And such a lovely signature.

But I have to run.

RegDwighт

16:27

That's the point.

Cerberus

Later!

RegDwighт

policymic.com/articles/22583/…

Lators.

@Cerberus Bulgaria.

Cerberus

Bai!

@RegDwighт Bulgaria is in the Euro now?

RegDwighт

I guess.

Unlike Estonia.

Cerberus

I don't think so.

RegDwighт

16:28

Who don't have Cyrillic to boot.

Bulgaria and the euro

Bulgaria aims to join the euro zone in less than three years. The country has set itself a target date of 1 January 2015 or further depending on the Eurozone crisis developments. The euro coins have not been designed yet, but the motif for all coins has been chosen to be the Madara Rider. Selecting the design The Madara Rider was one of the favourites to become the symbol of Bulgaria to be used on the national side of the country's euro coins. Other eminent pretenders for the title ‘Symbol of Bulgaria' were the ancient tradition of the nestinars (Bulgarian fire-dancers), Cyrillic, the Ri...

Robusto

@Cerberus A eurine specimen?

Cerberus

So they have already added just in case B. will join?

Otherwise it would have to be Estonia, Slovenia, or Slovakia, none of which probably have Cyrillic. Oh, well.

@Robusto Hah. Hah. Yes.

Bai!

Robusto

CU

RegDwighт

I wonder why they left out Turkish.

Cyprus is in the Eurozone.

tchrist

Both halves?

RegDwighт

16:31

Though I suppose only the Greek half.

Jinx.

simchona

Quick poll: Do I really need to say it wasn't Scottish English in an old answer?

As many people said, it is not Scottish, however, it is Yorkeshire English. If your answer is to be final I suggest adding that statement and further describing this fact as this is what the asker was interested in as well as aiding future viewers. — cbbcbail 12 hours ago

Robusto

Where is Yorkeshire? Is it near Yorkshire?

tchrist

Wanna bet the complainant lives too close to the Wall?

Robusto

Hadrian's?

simchona

Me saying "Middle English" does not mean it definitively came from Yorkshire, so I have no idea why I'm supposed to add that in.

/endgrumbling

tchrist

16:38

@Robusto Americans regularly confuse accents from the north of England with those from Scotland. This is probably someone who has some vested interest there.

simchona

@tchrist But it's not about accent

tchrist

Yes, there are vocabulary differences.

Robusto

simchona

It's not about who uses it, but how it came to be

Matt Эллен

@simchona if you add it in you might get a vote back, if you don't it's no big bother

simchona

16:40

@MattЭллен I don't think it's necessarily right or worth my time, so I'm going to leave it

Robusto

@Matt: Do you spend much time in the Bodleian Library?

Matt Эллен

@Robusto I'm not allowed in. members only

I mean, I can walk through the tourist bit, but I can't use the library, only look through the windows

RegDwighт

Commute.

Robusto

@MattЭллен Kind of takes the thrill out of living in Oxford if you can't visit the Bod, innit?

user19161

@Robusto Just visit the Body.

Robusto

16:51

Aug 18 '12 at 13:26, by Robusto

Another county heard from.

Matt Эллен

@Robusto I wonder what would happen if I just walked in...

toodles!

Robusto

@MattЭллен You should propose that the Bodleian install a drive-thru for researchers on the run.

David Wallace

@Cerberus Cerbia

Robusto

In the constellation Canis Minor.

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