English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

kiamlaluno

00:31

2

A: Should I say "Your order is now complete" or "Your order is now completed"?

Completed in the phrase is completed is used as an adjective, in the same way of warmed in one is warmed by a stove for visitors. Searching for is completed and is complete in the Corpus of Contemporary American, I get the following data (the chart reports the frequency per million of those phra...

Who is this Matt Montag to call me insane?

Cerberus

02:10

A word of general advice: don't downvote when you're drunk, especially on questions related to marketing lingo (not my words). I didn't vote! I know how to control myself.

kiamlaluno

02:34

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Q: Inquiry about an old radio program about American English

After I read an article about the new OED's inclusion of texting acronyms, (http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/jan_freeman/) I got into a discussion with a colleague about the old 'prescriptive/descriptive dichotomy. I mentioned that in the fifties there was a radio program, just a ten or fi...

sociolinguistic

Come on! The site is "English Language and Usage," not "American Television and Movies."

Oh, @Cerberus is not here anymore.

Cerberus

03:54

Closed.

Now I'm off to bed, ciao!

kiamlaluno

05:48

@Cerberus See ya!

@Cerberus You can say you closed the question. :-)

@Robusto Is "not if he is married" referring to "not know it," or to "may be a fool"?

RegDwight

08:14

2

Q: "At the beginning" or "in the beginning"?

Are both expressions "At the beginning" "In the beginning" valid and equivalent? The first "seems wrong" to me, but it has more Google results.

word-choice prepositions

5

Q: "At the beginning of the century" or "in the beginning of the century"?

At the beginning of the century. In the beginning of the century. How to clearly distinguish when to use at, or in?

american-english prepositions british-english

Robusto

10:15

@kiamlaluno — I don't understand what you don't understand.

But it means that if he is married his wife will surely let him know that he is a fool.

JSBangs

12:28

and the retagging continues

@language hacker seems particularly clueless about how to use tags, pretty much always putting down words or meaning. sometimes he gets creative and uses usage

RegDwight

I must get used to your gravatar first, strandja!

JSBangs

i got tired of being the bomb

Robusto

Morning.

RegDwight

Moin-moin.

JSBangs

and i want to express my brooding, emo, 16-bit gamer side

'neata

Robusto

12:32

@RegDwight — "less, less"?

RegDwight

German, Robusto. Not French. That's not moinS.

Robusto

Never heard moin-moin, to be perfectly honest.

RegDwight

Go North. It's all the rage there, and has always been.

JSBangs

How far north?

Robusto

Hamburg area?

RegDwight

12:34

The funny part is, Southerners think that it's a bowdlerization of "Morgen-morgen", but they are wrong.

@Robusto Precisely.

Around those parts, "moin" means "guten".

Robusto

I would have thought "Morgen-Morgen".

RegDwight

So you can say "moin-moin" to wish "guten Abend", too.

JSBangs

i assume that moin = [mojn] = meun ?

Robusto

Or "Mo'en, Mo'en" ...

RegDwight

Oh, Xblast time! TTYL.

Cerberus

12:58

Morning.

JSBangs

'neaţa

RegDwight

@JSBangs So, which game is your char from?

Illusion of Time?

JSBangs

do you have a guess?

RegDwight

Chrono Trigger?

JSBangs

correct w/ #2

RegDwight

13:02

A most excellent game.

Cerberus

Ah, never played that.

RegDwight

Are you serious?

Cerberus

(I have just found out that English howitzer comes from Dutch howitser.)

Yes!

I have heard of it though.

RegDwight

You loved Secret of Mana etc, but never played the game that ruled them all?

Cerberus

How old is it again, and on what kind of machine is it played?

RegDwight

13:09

SNES

Cerberus

Well, yes, I never had a SNES, you know.

JSBangs

it's available on the DS, now

there's also such a thing as emulators

Cerberus

I played it on my babysitter's SNES and much later in an emulator.

JSBangs

(which is where i actually played it -- ZSNES)

Cerberus

Right, I think I have used that one.

RegDwight

13:10

I think I will have to replay it next week on my Xbox.

Robusto

Here's what @RegDwight looks like IRL:

JSBangs

i bought the DS port, which is excellent. contains a few extra goodies not available in the original. a few goodies and a load of ridiculous bloated crap

Robusto

RegDwight

My wife will be outta house.

@Robusto Meh. Too cheap.

Cerberus

I haven't played a great many games any more in the last decade, and before that I didn't know how to emulate.

RegDwight

13:11

@Robusto The did have a nice Russian radio station in that game IIRC.

Cerberus

I thought Reg was the owl with the commie star?

RegDwight

That's not me, that's my gravatar... d'oh!

Robusto

He is like Krishna, many avatars.

Cerberus

Oh, I thought gravatars were supposed to be one's real face.

My bad.

Robusto

They are. But you're only supposed to have one real face, doggie-boy.

Cerberus

13:13

Well, some of us just happen to be two faced, or even three faced; surely you would not discriminate the facially challenged?

Robusto

You know, we're getting tired of tossing you dog biscuits with all your yapping heads, btw.

Cerberus

The heads are not.

(getting tired)

Robusto

@RegDwight — Which station is it? Somehow I always hear Smashing Pumpkins 1979 over and over, plus a lot of right-wing radio. Maybe I steal the wrong cars.

RegDwight

@Cerberus I don't think we discriminate them. We only discriminate against them.

JSBangs

when i meet @Robusto, I full expect him to have a red kanji floating above his neck

Robusto

13:15

You will only see me in your dreams.

RegDwight

@Robusto I have no idea, honestly. I vaguely recall that the DJ was a female.

@JSBangs Not neck. It's on his nurse drag.

Mar 11 at 17:14, by RegDwight

You know, with the red kanji instead of the red cross.

Robusto

I got tired of GTA4 before finishing. Who knew killing could be such a chore?

RegDwight

@Robusto And then all those hidden pigeons.

Cerberus

@Reg: Oh! You're right, I meant that intransitively. I could have sworn I'd written "against", but hey that's life.

Robusto

Pigeons are OK in AC series.

Cerberus

13:18

Has anyone played the latest Civ?

Robusto

AC = Assassins' Creed for those who don't know.

@Cerberus — I stay away from games I can't put down.

RegDwight

@Cerberus I haven't played, like, the latest ten Civs.

Cerberus

@Reg: Then you're BC or something.

Robusto

Showing up for work with no sleep is definitely a problem in my line of work.

Cerberus

@Rob: You are wiser than what is good for you!

Robusto

13:19

@Cerberus — I'm only as wise as I need to be.

Cerberus

Which is apparently excessively so.

And Europa Universalis?

RegDwight

Everyone should be as wise as possible, but not wiser.

Robusto

@Cerberus — If you mean in the sense of "wise-ass" then I agree.

Cerberus

@Rob: I am afraid this sense is classified. I do apologise.

Robusto

I'm way more of a wise-ass than I need to be.

Cerberus

13:21

You don't say.

So no EU here?

(I just found out I have 52 icons in my system tray, for those who might have been wondering.)

Robusto

Eeeeeeeuuuuuuuu.

Cerberus

Hehe.

It is quite enjoyable.

Robusto

@Cerberus — Thanks for finally announcing that. I win the pot because I took the under in our pool.

Cerberus

Oh, what was the limit, then?

RegDwight

Hey, @@[email protected], welcome to the 10k club!

Cerberus

13:24

What?

RegDwight

I'm trying to summon Jimi.

Robusto

I think the over was the number of bytes addressable in a 64-bit OS.

Cerberus

What is this odd club of no-doubt undesirables?

RegDwight

@Cerberus At almost 10k, you should know better than ask what 10k means.

Robusto

Look! It worked!

Amazing.

RegDwight

13:26

Phantastic. With an ph.

Cerberus

Knowing statistics about a thing doesn't tell one what it is like to be it.

Robusto

@Cerberus — That's the third wisest thing anyone ever said.

RegDwight

Meh, you're only poking fun at me.

That's not wise, that's just entertainment.

Robusto

@RegDwight — Mais certainement.

Cerberus

So no-one knows Europa Universalis... I am disappointed. You can be the Duchy of Moscov too, you know.

RegDwight

13:28

You can be the Douche of anything if you so choose.

Robusto

@Cerberus — Wow, there's an incentive.

Cerberus

Barbarians!

RegDwight

Varvarians!

Cerberus

(You can't be those.)

RegDwight

Da brat mir doch einer einen Storch. Just look at this:

Mar 19 at 13:49, by Cerberus

Uh, I meant 10,000+ as an adjective: those with over 10k rep.

Do you still insist on not knowing what 10k means?

After freaking defining it freaking yourself?

Cerberus

13:32

sigh Since when is one supposed to be consistent over several days, let alone weeks? I could never keep that up.

RegDwight

@Cerberus Since birth.

Cerberus

Aww come on.

RegDwight

You make little Buddha cry big fat tears.

And them's not of joy.

JSBangs

pffff. consistency is overrated

Cerberus

Well, Buddha should have lost some weight if he doesn't want the bullying.

3

RegDwight

13:33

@JSBangs Look, I mean, even you are consistent in not starting sentences with a capital letter.

Cerberus

Hear, hear!

RegDwight

Constistency isn't that hard. Even JSBangs can do it.

Cerberus

"Even", don't underestimate his talent. No-one could withhold any and all capitals so fastidiously without an ascetic life style.

RegDwight

Well, he does have a freaking lot of them in his handle.

JSBangs

@Cerberus that totally deserved a star

@RegDwight the shift key is also overrated

Cerberus

13:35

thank you

RegDwight

@JSBangs THEN USE CAPSLOCK. D'OH!

Cerberus

Hah I am sure the day will come when a cap-happy newcomer will visit this room.

RegDwight

Nyuszika? As soon as she turns 18.

JSBangs

@RegDwight MY GOD YOU'RE RIGHT. I'LL BE TYPING LIKE THIS FOR THE REST OF THE DAY

Cerberus

Hehe.

RegDwight

13:36

@JSBangs Excellent.

Cerberus

Is there a block function?

RegDwight

Of course.

Cerberus

No...

Not that.

RegDwight

You can even ignore users all by yourself.

JSBangs

NO THERE ISN'T. DON'T LISTEN TO HIM

Cerberus

13:37

Oh!

RegDwight

I don't have to hold your hand.

Cerberus

But how does one do that? Is it related to this fabled saying "no" to people?

RegDwight

@Cerberus I dunno, I'm ignoring you. Ask our Captain Cool and the Capslock of Tomorrow.

Cerberus

Yes.

JSBangs

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE PEOPLE. SO CHAT IS BUILT ON THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUAL ANNOYANCE.

RegDwight

13:39

@JSBangs Just so you know, you will be held up to your promise.

Cerberus

An admirable principle, no doubt. But I don't really feel the annoyance yet.

RegDwight

You must type like that for the rest of the day.

Cerberus

Oh dear.

RegDwight

And not just here, since you didn't specify.

On the main site, too.

Cerberus

Hah!

JSBangs

13:40

@RegDwight AYE AYE, CAP'N

RegDwight

And in whatever code you're currently hacking at.

Cerberus

And in your research papers!

JSBangs

@RegDwight THAT WILL MAKE IT SOMEWHAT HARD TO WRITE CODE

Cerberus

That is your problem.

JSBangs

GUESS I'LL JUST BE USING C MACROS FOR THE REST OF THE DAY

RegDwight

13:40

@JSBangs Your problem, mista.

Jinx

Cerberus

Sometimes it feels as though I had a fourth head attached.

JSBangs

OR MAYBE I CAN SWITCH TO VB OR SOME OTHER LANGUAGE WITH CASE-INSENSITIVE IDENTIFIERS

AM I STILL ALLOWED TO USE THE SHIFT KEY?

RegDwight

You never were in the first place.

Cerberus

Oh, true.

RegDwight

7 mins ago, by JSBangs

@RegDwight the shift key is also overrated

JSBangs

13:42

THEN HOW CAN I TYPE A QUESTION MARK?

Cerberus

You copy-paste it.

RegDwight

You can't. You have to copy-paste from Wikipedia.

Jinx FFS.

Cerberus

Just as you are doing it now, OR SO I PRESUME.

@Reg: Haha you are crazy.

I actually have this bug where I can't type spaces in Gmail when rich editing is on, so I have to copy-paste spaces.

RegDwight

Okay, Cerberus, now that you're in my head, plz do my otha works as well. Kthxbye.

Cerberus

No, you are one of my heads, and the other three are the lazy ones.

Robusto

13:44

@RegDwight — Buddha only laughs. There's no crying in Buddhism.

RegDwight

@Robusto Not even in the rain?

Cerberus

He just pretends he is laughing to tears.

RegDwight

I am ha-a-a-ai on emotion!

Robusto

@RegDwight — It's an optical illusion.

Cerberus

Sorry.

Robusto

13:46

@RegDwight — Dopamine high.

RegDwight

If Christina Aguilera is Xtina, then I suppose Chris de Burgh is X?

Robusto

And XBlast is Christina Blast?

RegDwight

For X's sake!

XBlast is Chris Blast.

The rules aren't that hard.

Robusto

So Xmas is Chrismas?

JSBangs

I DEMAND CLARIFICATION ON WHETHER X = CHRIS OR X = CHRIST

RegDwight

13:51

Jesus X, Jesus Xt! Who are you? What have you sacrificed?

Cerberus

Iesos Christos Theou Huios Soter

Robusto

@Cerberus — I always knew you were a fishmonger.

Cerberus

Ding!

JSBangs

SO X = ΙΧΘΥΣ ? I DID NOT THINK THAT HER NAME WAS ΙΧΘΥΣINA AGUILERA

THOUGH IT DOES HAVE A NICE RING TO IT

Cerberus

There is something fishy about her though.

RegDwight

13:53

@JSBangs A RING OF FIRE?

Robusto

@Cerberus — If by fishy you mean slutty, then most of the world agrees with you.

Cerberus

It includes that, yeah.

I remember the girl from Genie in a Bottle, which I liked when I was 17. Haven't heard much of her since.

RegDwight

That was the single most worstest "song" in the entire history of mankind, past or future.

JSBangs

I THINK THAT YOU ARE WRONG

RegDwight

Nobody listens to you, you always say that.

Cerberus

13:57

Hey, I think I was actually 16 then, and in a phase where one starts going out and drinking and stuff. It was cool then.

JSBangs

YOU PERHAPS HAVE NOT GROKKED

►

@RegDwight IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT YOU ARE WRONG WITH SUCH REMARKABLE CONSISTENCY.

RegDwight

@Cerberus Drinking stuff is always cool. But listening to Xtina is always the exact opposite of drinking stuff.

Cerberus

It was the time when Britney Spears scored her first hit, and we were the same age. Probably still are.

RegDwight

@Cerberus You are still 16?

Cerberus

That is ellipsis class for you.

Robusto

13:59

@RegDwight — If you're talking mental age, I think that's over-generous of you.

Cerberus

To vary on a certain obscure, local meme.

RegDwight

In that case, be informed that them has leap years in America.

Cerberus

Leap years...

RegDwight

Leap of faith years.

Cerberus

Whither do they leap?

Robusto

14:00

@Cerberus — Local memes don't count. Otherwise you could just say any damn thing and call it a local meme.

Cerberus

@Rob: And the bad part is...?

RegDwight

... you!

Cerberus

Hey! Why be good if you be a baaad dawg.

Robusto

... you!

Jinx!

Cerberus

Wow what a coincidence!

Robusto

14:01

That was actually Dinx! (delayed Jinx).

RegDwight

Mar 11 at 17:06, by RegDwight

That's the slowest jinx in history.

Cerberus

It was actually a fake attempt at a jinx!

RegDwight

You can't just repeat what I said yesterday and then invoke Jinx.

Robusto

Yes, I faked it.

Don't tell my wife.

Cerberus

I calls it fingxs,

from fingo, "make up".

Aww your poor wife. What if she is allergic?

Okay scratch that. But you started it.

RegDwight

14:03

What?

Cerberus

Huh?

RegDwight

Another Dutchman...

Thomas Stock, Ghent, Belgium

111 3

expressions

...from Belgium.

Robusto

How do you know he's not Phlegmish?

Or Wallooney Tunes?

RegDwight

@Robusto Because he said so, and thwack.

Robusto

I don't believe you.

RegDwight

14:07

I think I gotta go post something with prachtig on each of his posts.

JSBangs

I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE BELGISH COUNT AS DUTCH

ANY MORE THAN CANADIANS COUNT AS AMERICAN

Cerberus

I agree that the southern rebels should give up their dream of independence and rejoin the mother country. They broke away in 1930, and look what has become of them.

RegDwight

@JSBangs How come you didn't post that as your answer?

And how come your answer is not in caps? I have to reprimand you!

JSBangs

THE ANSWER WAS WRITTEN BEFORE MY VOW OF CAPITALIZATION. CHECK THE TIMESTAMPS

Robusto

@JSBangs — A Canadian is just an American with health care and no handgun.

Cerberus

14:08

Americans count as English and they should get over their "independence" as well.

RegDwight

@JSBangs Come on, four minutes give or take.

Robusto

@Cerberus — Then you should get over your "independence" from Spain.

JSBangs

C'MON WE ALL KNOW THAT BELGIUM IS A MADE-UP NON-COUNTRY

Robusto

@Cerberus is still tetchy because his family sank all their holdings into tulip futures just as the market peaked.

JSBangs

I MEAN, "WALLOON"? THIS IS CLEARLY A PRACTICAL JOKE

Cerberus

14:10

@Rob: That was the result of several unfair wars of succession; the county of Holland and most of the other provinces were fine when they belonged to the HRE.

RegDwight

12

Q: Explain this pickup line: "If Bangkok invaded Djibouti, would Greece help?"

I was at an Model UN conference and often notes like the following get passed. As I'm not a native speaker, I assume that this has to do with some pronunciational issue. Can you please explain what's so funny about this sentence? (Djibouti seemed to be often used in such context.) If Bangkok ...

pronunciation pun obscene jokes

Robusto

@Cerberus — Well, I suppose it's no accident that all you people who used to have empires now are ruled by queens ... I'm just saying.

Cerberus

Oh not that one again.

RegDwight

BTW, I'm a bit surprised that Portugal folded before Spain.

Cerberus

@Rob: What's wrong with Queens? You Manhattan snob.

Besides, I think Angela is doing a terrific job.

Robusto

14:12

@Cerberus — Everything named after the Dutch in New York kinda sucks, actually.

Cerberus

So would Hillary have done.

RegDwight

Kevin James lives there.

Robusto

Who wants to live in Harlem or the Bronx?

Cerberus

@Rob: I'll grant you Wall Street.

But Broadway is all right?

Robusto

►

"This is bullshit and I want my money back."

Cerberus

14:15

Right.

We need more checks and balances in haute finance.

(The movie star business is beyond me.)

kiamlaluno

(Spread the good habit, and somebody will imitate you. Now I am not the only one to use parentheses.)

Holy cow!

I mean, is it already 4 PM?

RegDwight

If you think you invented parentheses, then your case of megalomania is rather severe.

kiamlaluno

I am not that megalomanic (or megalo-man); I am referring to the usage of parentheses here in chat.

Cerberus

Reg is slow, he doesn't get things.

That's what happens if you fly around town all night.

Robusto

@RegDwight — I call curly braces parenfeces because that's what they kinda look like: {}

Cerberus

14:26

You have a vivid imagination.

kiamlaluno

I fly when I dream, or when I fly to USA.

Cerberus

(By the way, semi-date cancelled for the 4th time yesterday. Next time a date is proposed I won't have time.)

kiamlaluno

By the way, do flies fly?

Cerberus

Yes.

And then you crush their heads against the wall.

kiamlaluno

Do they use radars too? Do they have radar-flies?

Cerberus

14:29

No, they lack radar. They are just annoying parasites.

RegDwight

Fruit flies like a banana.

Cerberus

Then they should stick to social conventions.

Or buy social radar.

JSBangs

@RegDwight THAT SORT OF SEMANTIC AMBIGUITY WON'T FLY HERE

kiamlaluno

Be aware of flying bananas: they are like boomerangs.

Cerberus

@Martha you are needed!

Hey!

kiamlaluno

14:31

Hey! What's up?

Cerberus

Oh work calls, bye!

I'm late already, I see.

Ciao!

RegDwight

See you, vengaboy.

kiamlaluno

@Cerberus I was offering you to join a new club: "give flies a radar."

(It could be also "give flies a home.")

RegDwight

Wrong SE.

56

Amateur Radio

Proposed Q&A site for amateur radio experts.

Currently in definition.

kiamlaluno

I knew it!

As I said, spread the good habits and somebody will imitate you.

Is there a proposal for radar experts too?

RegDwight

14:34

18

Meteorology

Proposed Q&A site for people with an interest in identifying and understanding weather related phenomenon.

Currently in definition.

kiamlaluno

OK, what is about an "Area 51" proposal?

RegDwight

29

Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Theorists

Proposed Q&A site for people wanting to know what's REALLY going on!

Currently in definition.

kiamlaluno

UFO?

RegDwight

8

Extraterrestrials

Proposed Q&A site for people studying, or just interested in the very exciting possibility of intelligent life beyond Earth.

Currently in definition.

kiamlaluno

I didn't choose a good replacement for the shift key; I keep to hit the command key.

RegDwight

14:38

44

Shell Hackers

Proposed Q&A site for all the hardcore shell hackers, Python, Bash, ksh, sh,zsh, Perl, PHP, Ruby, AWK, sed, grep, Wget, Curl, and what not!

Currently in definition.

kiamlaluno

What is the number close to the title? I didn't know it was possible to vote proposal.

RegDwight

Followers.

When in definition.

JSBangs

@kiamlaluno WHAT IS THE PURPOSE BEHIND YOUR ABUSE OF PREPOSITIONS?

kiamlaluno

To spread prepositions?

RegDwight

Omitting != abusing.

JSBangs

14:41

@RegDwight ONCE AGAIN YOU ARE WRONG

RegDwight

Jeez, buddy, that's so news to me, not sure I can handle it.

JSBangs

TO FAIL TO USE CORRECTLY IS TO ABUSE. TO OMIT IS TO FAIL TO USE CORRECTLY. QED.

kiamlaluno

I could have misunderstood "spread the proposals."

@JSBangs Why are you screaming?

RegDwight

@JSBangs Next time you omit hitting your wife, I'm calling the cops.

JSBangs

@kiamlaluno BLAME @RegDwight

RegDwight

14:43

Yeah, right. Come on, blame me. Pffft.

JSBangs

IN THE INTERESTS OF PEACE I WILL CONCEDE THAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID "OMITTING" RATHER THAN "ABUSING"

kiamlaluno

@JSBangs Do you mean @RegDwight is deaf?

RegDwight

@kiamlaluno I sure play a mean pinball!

Pinball Wizard

"Pinball Wizard" is a song written by Pete Townshend and performed by the English rock band The Who, and featured on their 1969 rock opera album Tommy. The original recording was released as a single in 1969 and reached #4 in the UK charts and #19 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The B-side of the Pinball Wizard single is an instrumental credited to Keith Moon, titled Dogs Part Two. Despite similar titles it has no musical connection to The Who's 1968 U.K. single Dogs. Story The lyrics are written from the perspective of a pinball champion, called "Local Lad" in the Tommy libretto book, a...

Martha

@Cerberus zzzzzzz snrk Huh? Whatchawant? /yawn

RegDwight

For the incognoscenti.

JSBangs

14:45

1 hour ago, by RegDwight

@JSBangs THEN USE CAPSLOCK. D'OH!

kiamlaluno

That could explain why he says he cannot hear the sounds in a video, but there could be another explanation, as somebody has stolen his speakers.

RegDwight

@JSBangs Well, you did say that I was right!

I mean, you could've just said that I was wrong!

It's not like you'd never done that before!

kiamlaluno

I cannot imagine what would have happened if @RegDwight would have said "jump the bridge."

RegDwight

@kiamlaluno I can.

kiamlaluno

Before somebody else says it, you don't jump the bridge; the bridge jumps you!

RegDwight

14:48

173

Board and Card Games – boardgames.stackexchange.com

Beta Q&A site for people who like playing board games, designing board games or modifying the rules of existing board games. Card games, too, because some games really can be classified as both.

Currently in public beta.

JSBangs

@kiamlaluno AGAIN WITH NOT USING THE PREPOSITIONS. ARE YOU ON STRIKE? A NEW PREPOSITION-ABSTINENCE DIET?

Robusto

@RegDwight — mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/The_Side_Hackers

RegDwight

@kiamlaluno Please direct all bridge-related nonsense directly @Cerberus.

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight Why? Is he a bridge owner?

RegDwight

@Robusto "Joel exposes a Slinky to radiation and ultraviolet light and creates Gretchen the Pet Slinky."

kiamlaluno

14:50

@JSBangs I cannot hear you well, if you scream. I am in a little room, and the echo is quite strong.

RegDwight

@kiamlaluno "I am a little room". FTFY.

Robusto

@RegDwight — I like his "Junk Drawer Starter Kit" idea best.

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight I told you I am not megalomanic; I am not a room; I am a person.

RegDwight

@kiamlaluno You will be surprised to hear this, but μεγαλο ≠ room.

Robusto

@RegDwight — Have you never seen MST3K?

RegDwight

14:54

@Robusto I don't think I have.

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight I am not megalomanic, nor am I a room. In that case, I can say "megalo = room."

RegDwight

Logic according to Italians.

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight It's the same logic you applied to your sentence.

My logic is not the logic of all Italians, and vice versa.

RegDwight

@kiamlaluno It's the exact opposite of my logic.

Robusto

@RegDwight — Opposite in every particular? Like in Bizarro world?

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