English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Cerberus

18:00

I don't know how to diagnose the flu.

@Cerberus At any given point in time you have no useful idea what the weather is in just about any part of the world. Only a vague notion. There is way to much variance to consider trying to pin down "march" as "spring". What about the arctic, or tropics? It would be useless.

Cerberus

It would be useful for 99 % of the world's inhabitants.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

However, when I am flying somewhere and they tell me that I arrive at 9am local time, I at least know what to expect: most people will be starting their days.

@Cerberus How?

Cerberus

Because they have seasons.

Although I must confess tropical seasons are a bit...complicated.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus So what? So it's more useful to try and remember when "March" is in a particular locale, than to try to remember what part of the globe it's in and thus what season?

What possible use is it to you to know that it's spring in Manitoba if you have no idea what springtime temperatures are there?

Season labels are arbitrary anyway

Cerberus

18:02

I will have some idea.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

No, you will have next to no idea. All you know is that it is warmer than whatever passes for winter there.

Cerberus

Because I will know the approximate latitude of the place.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus That's not nearly enough useful information.

Cerberus

Isn't it?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Winter in much of Europe is much warmer than winter at the same latititude in Canada because of the Gulf Stream

Winter next to a body of water is very different from winter in a landlocked place.

Cerberus

18:03

You think I do not know this?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

My point is that unless you are already familiar with the geography of a particular place, you cannot possibly hope to accurately predict anything about its weather from the "season".

aedia λ

@KitFox tries to figure out how to transfer freshly made coffee through germ barrier

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

So a calendar that had seasonal labels instead of arbitrary month labels wouldn't help you.

Cerberus

That's not true.

Winter in southern Australia tells me something.

MετάEd

@KitFox I was thinking of noble.

KitFox

18:06

I don't get it.

Cerberus

Probably -15 < T < 20.

MετάEd

@KitFox No, no, not abdominal. You're thinking of the chord that starts on IV.

@KitFox Before explosion: abominable. After explosion: noble.

KitFox

Nope. Still don't get it.

squints

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus I don't see how anyone who knows enough geography to understand something useful about the phrase "winter in southern australia" wouldn't get just as much information about "July in southern australia".

Cerberus

1. I am not in favour of this idea.

2. You are using the type of arguments we used to defend the global-time thing yesterday now.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:08

@Cerberus The situation is totally different.

Cerberus

It is somewhat different, yes.

KitFox

@MετάEd No, no, not subdominant(?), you're thinking of those long metal underwater boats.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Knowing the climate of a place is a completely different proposition from knowing what part of the day it is.

Cerberus

But the kind of arguments you used yesterday could be used to defend this.

aedia λ

@MετάEd No, not subdominant, you're thinking of messages played to people in their sleep.

Drat, not fast enough.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:09

@Cerberus So what? they would be wrong, in this case.

MετάEd

@KitFox No, no, not submarines. You're thinking of slackers.

@aediaλ No, no, not subliminal. You're thinking of when you take vitamin B orally.

KitFox

Not subliminal, just the thing around your iris.

Damn.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerb have you never asked someone in this chat room "what time is it for you" or some equivalent question?

KitFox

Scurvy. No. Ack. I can't keep up. shivers

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Always.

KitFox

18:10

The thing where a solid changes directly to a gas.

MετάEd

@No, no, not sublimation. You're thinking of when you refuse to think of something that bugs you.

aedia λ

No, no, not sublimation, you're thinking of adding two things together.

KitFox

AH!

spine goes out of whack

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus If there was only global time, how would anyone answer that question? You'd already know what "time" it is for them: the same time as it is for you. Whereas now, if I say "noon", you know what that means. You can also guess where I might be.

KitFox

I can't get any of the last four.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:15

@KitFox I thought aedia's was subtraction but it says "adding" so... ?

aedia λ

Summation.

KitFox

Additmation.

aedia λ

But I can't get @MετάEd's either.

@KitFox Hehe.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@aediaλ ah, duh. right.

KitFox

Ugh. It's on the tip of my tongue.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:18

No no, not summation. you're thinking of that ancient race that invented writing.

KitFox

Subsume keeps popping in there instead.

Mine was subluxation, by the way.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Now Creole is the only thing i can think of.

aedia λ

No, no, not Sumerian, you're thinking of what Cerb wants to put on the calendar.

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I wouldn't ask that question.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@aediaλ No no, not Summer. You're thinking of the other surviving Stark direwolf.

Cerberus

What use is it anyway, except "fun"?

RegDwighт

18:20

Habemus papam.

simchona

@RegDwighт I just saw

Cerberus

@RegDwighт Ohh welcome, your Excellency!

Rats. I mean, owls.

KitFox

Hahaha.

Cerberus

Who is it this time?

simchona

No announcement yet

Supposed to be an announcement within the hour

Cerberus

18:21

OK.

KitFox

Just the smoke then?

Cerberus

I can't see the smoke signals from here.

KitFox

Supplement! Was that it @MετάEd?

And maybe suppress?

simchona

Yeah, white smoke only now

Cerberus

By the way, I bet it is Scola.

Or whatever his name was.

KitFox

18:23

Scalia? No way!

I had no idea he was Catholic.

simchona

They elected a scalene triangle?

Cerberus

The judge?

aedia λ

I'd bet on it being what's his name. Who else?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Anyway, my last statement on timezones is this: when dealing with local matters, local time is better. when coordinating inter-time-zone events, some kind of universal coordinated time is better. And we have one of those. It's UTC. And 99.99% of the time one never needs to worry about it because one usually deals locally with local matters. It doesn't matter to me what time a store is open in Moscow, it matters that I have to pick up my daughter from daycare by 6pm.

KitFox

Of course a triangle, what with the Trinity. It makes perfect sense.

Cerberus

18:24

Well, they were considering Thingamabob too...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Triangleman for pope!

Cerberus

The African guy.

Haha.

aedia λ

Surely not Whatchamacallit.

simchona

He wouldn't be the first African, if he were elected

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I don't agree with the last half, but the first half is true.

@simchona Was Augustine ever Bishop of Rome?

Must have been an early pope, then.

Earlier than ca. 700 AD.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:26

@Cerberus So you more often deal with inter-timezone matters than local?

Pope Victor I

Pope Saint Victor I was Pope from 189 to 199 (the Vatican cites 186 or 189 to 197 or 201). Pope Victor I was the first bishop of Rome born in the Roman Province of Africa: probably he was born in Leptis Magna (or Tripolitania). He was later canonized. His feast day is celebrated on 28 July as "St Victor I, Pope and Martyr". Before his elevation to the Roman episcopacy, a difference in dating the celebration of the Christian Passover/Easter between Rome and the bishops of Asia Minor had been tolerated by both the Roman and Eastern churches. The churches in Asia Minor celebrated it on the ...

Cerberus

No: it doesn't matter whether I call the hour I have to pick up my daughter from daycare 6 pm or 4 am, as long as it is always the same for me.

aedia λ

@simchona Pfft, of course not. Does he look 200,000 years old? ;)

Cerberus

So for local purposes it doesn't matter either way.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus And you don't think it's natural for people to want to call mid-day "12:00" or "noon" no matter where they are on the globe? For people to want to get up at 7:00am whether they live in Toronto or Vancouver? For the evening news to be on at 6:00pm in every city in north america? Somehow it'd be better to have to know that in THIS time zone, sunrise is at 07:00 but in another city at the same latitude sunrise is at 06:00 and in another 05:00? This is beneficial somehow?

So when I go visit Vancouver, I don't have to change my watch, just all my notions about when things happen?

Joe Dimaggio

Hi, do this expressions sound right 'I have to remember to do it ', 'I will remember to do it'

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:32

@JoeDimaggio They are grammatical

They don't mean the same thing

KitFox

So this is interesting. The other day, on my way home, six cop cars went past on the interstate. Turns out there was a guy who was pulled over, a stand-off, then he committed suicide.

Now apparently, he and the woman who was with him killed some sex offender earlier that day.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox and today, we have a new pope! coincidence? I think not!

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yes, exactly.

Time should be immutable, only what we do should change.

KitFox

Except maybe not that day. Because they didn't want maid service at the hotel, and they asked for a couple of large trash bags.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus I'm sorry, I don't see how that'd be beneficial at all. It would be so confusing.

Cerberus

18:35

@KitFox Oh, dear. Sounds like a nightmare.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Just takes some getting used to.

Joe Dimaggio

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yeah I know they don't mean the same thing

Cerberus

Whereas one cannot get used to the current way to calculate things.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus I'm still not seeing any benefit at all.

KitFox

I feel bad that the guy felt like he had to kill himself. I don't think anyone will be terribly upset about the sex offender.

Joe Dimaggio

just wanted to know if they are natural contractions @Mr.ShinyandNew安宇

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:35

@Cerberus speak for yourself. I find adding a few hours or subtracting a few hours pretty easy. It's just addimation!

KitFox

Yay! I made a new word! Yay!

Cerberus

@KitFox I don't know, it's not exactly fun to have to go to prison for a decade...

KitFox

@Cerberus He probably would have gotten off without jail time.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JoeDimaggio I don't see any contractions. You could contract "I will" to "I'll" but (except maybe in British english?) you cannot contract "I have to remember" to "I've to remember"

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It already starts with "is it subtract or add if they say it is "earlier" in location x? Does "earlier" mean according to my time? Waaahh!"

@KitFox Huh? For murder?

KitFox

18:38

They keep mentioning that this sex offender was a child rapist. I wonder if the guy was one of his victims.

simchona

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I was about to say the same. There weren't any contractions, natural or no

KitFox

@Cerberus For murdering a sex offender.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus You can't easily think of whether or not a city is east or west of you?

Cerberus

You can murder sex offenders without going to prison?

KitFox

Maybe.

Probably.

Cerberus

18:39

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I can think of that, but I can never remember whether to add or subtract.

Oh, I have to go.

Seeing as it is 19:39, you will know what I am going to do now.

KitFox

Drinking!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Listen, If you can't remember that the sun sets in the west, and therefore cities west of you are earlier than you, how are you possibly going to function in that city when nobody gets up at 7am, they get up at 4am? and stores are open at 6am? how will you remember all of that?

Cerberus

Alas! My daily cycle is apparently so different that we have dinner at this hour first, so you can't predict me, muwahah!

Okay, okay, there will be drinking during dinner.

Joe Dimaggio

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I am sorry, I meant natural construction

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JoeDimaggio Ah, yes. they are perfectly fine sentences.

Do they mean what you think they mean? Who knows :)

Cerberus

18:42

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I am listening. I know where the sun sets, although I have to think about it every time. The only way I can remember it is by knowing that the orient is the east and what the Latin word means. I'm 100 % serious here: I really find that hard to remember.

Orior = to come up; occido = to fall.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Yes but I already know you're an anomaly.

Cerberus

Everybody has trouble remembering these things.

Joe Dimaggio

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 something like that ;) just making sure

Cerberus

You must be the exception.

At any rate, I must away now.

Toedeloe!

Or toedeledokie!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Think of it in terms of first principles. It is day where the sun is. If the sun is around the part of the earth to the west of you, those people have daylight. If you just had daylight and don't now, those people must be earlier than you.

@Cerberus have fun, you whacky creature.

Cerberus

18:43

I would have to think about that every time.

Of course I can figure it out, but it is always annoying.

KitFox

There's an app for that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus I don't know why you can't remember that, but at least you can compensate for your bizarre inability to understand timezones by understanding ancient latin and geometry.

Cerberus

Besides, you could reason, "they get to get up hours after me in the Americas, so they get up later, so America is later".

See?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox yeah seriously. His phone can already show him what time it is in any city he cares about.

Cerberus

It is just like "right" v. "clockwise".

Right is stupid, clockwise is accurate.

Sudhir

18:45

@KitFox: Your talks and jokes makes your friends always wants you.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus No, it's morning there, so it's later HERE.

Cerberus

Because the bottom half of the clock turns towards the left.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 See how you could reason both ways and get confused?

Okay, BAI!

Sudhir

Is it correct sentence?

simchona

@JasperLoy New color?

Sudhir

@simchona:you tell?

simchona

18:46

@Sudhir Please stop directing questions at people. If people have time to answer, they will. Otherwise, they are annoying.

user19161

@simchona Yes. Your kitten still stares at me fiercely!

KitFox

@Cerberus No it doesn't!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Sudhir "your talks" means something like "the speeches you gave", the presentations you made. It doesn't mean "your speech" or "the way you talk" or "the things you say"

simchona

@JasperLoy The green is lovely.

KitFox

And you might not want your friends to "want" you.

Since that has sexual connotations.

user19161

18:47

@simchona It is simply "green" in the GIMP.

simchona

@KitFox Oh baby.

KitFox

Right. Like that.

user19161

@simchona That sounds like a Justin Bieber song.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Sudhir Also, your verb "makes" and "wants" don't agree in number with their nouns. "your talks and jokes" is plural, and so is "your friends", yet you used singular "makes" and "wants"

simchona

@JasperLoy Bieber and "sexual connotations" should not be in the same sentence

KitFox

18:48

Your clever wit and passionate rhetoric make your friends crave your company.

Sudhir

I was confirming with you.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox passionate rhetoric eh? Is your rhetoric, er, passionate? know-what-I-mean? nudge nudge, say no more!

3

KitFox

Oh golly.

That is so wrong.

user19161

@Sudhir The grammar there is totally messed up.

Sudhir

Its incorrect.

KitFox

18:49

Awful.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Sudhir There are three sentences and two are totally wrong.

KitFox

Well, the "you are intelligent" part is right.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

"why people likes me" is completely wrong. "Why do people like me?" is correct.

user19161

@Sudhir The whole thing is so badly written that I am not sure what it means.

simchona

What is this I don't even

KitFox

18:50

That's a nice drawing of me, though.

aedia λ

Nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat.

Sudhir

It should be "Why people like me".

simchona

@Sudhir Not in that context, no

KitFox

@Sudhir Yes, it could be that. But then it is a title and not a question.

simchona

Since she's asking a question

KitFox

18:51

Why people like me:
1. I'm funny.
2. ???
3. profit

aedia λ

@Sudhir Right, if it's a statement. If it's a question, Why do people like me?

KitFox

Thusly.

aedia λ

@KitFox 3. Profit?

Sudhir

Your talks and jokes make your friends always wants you.

KitFox

@aediaλ Yeah. Profit.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:53

@aediaλ If Kit were a capitalist, she'd profit. Since she's a socialist, she has to give the profits to the state.

simchona

Unless you want a giant friend orgy.

@Sudhir No.

Sudhir

Is it right?

simchona

Or a friend harem.

KitFox

4 mins ago, by KitFox

Your clever wit and passionate rhetoric make your friends crave your company.

Sudhir

@simchona:why?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

18:53

@Sudhir "your talks" is not the right word here unless you are talking about someone who is a public speaker.

KitFox

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Hey, who says I'm a socialist? Just because I love the Russkies?

simchona

@Sudhir You're not listening.

7 mins ago, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Sudhir "your talks" means something like "the speeches you gave", the presentations you made. It doesn't mean "your speech" or "the way you talk" or "the things you say"

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox You're all pro-union, pro-socialized-healthcare, pro-obama. Clearly a socialist. ;)

Sudhir

always want you

or

KitFox

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Oh well, I suppose if you're going to appeal to the whole you're-socialist-because-you're-socialist argument, then you got me.

Sudhir

18:55

always wants you

KitFox

Always want you. But that means "always want to have sex with you."

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Sudhir I answered this already

aedia λ

Mmm, ice cream socialists.

3

Sorry, don't know where that thought came from.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7 mins ago, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Sudhir Also, your verb "makes" and "wants" don't agree in number with their nouns. "your talks and jokes" is plural, and so is "your friends", yet you used singular "makes" and "wants"

simchona

@Sudhir If you're going to keep asking questions, listen to the answers you're getting

Otherwise I'm going to kick you

Joe Dimaggio

18:56

@simchona I answered a similar question on ELL

for @Sudhir

Sudhir

@simchona: Didn't understand.

Joe Dimaggio

this is ridiculous

simchona

@Sudhir Well then pay more attention

Stop being annoying

Asking the same question over and over won't give different answers, unless you ask a better question

Joe Dimaggio

I mean he asked a similar question on ELL yesterday 'you wants', I don't know why he keeps on asking the same question

simchona

@JoeDimaggio Which one?

Sudhir

18:57

Now I got it

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Sudhir Do you know what singular/plural mean? and how verbs in English have to agree in number with the nouns they refer to?

Sudhir

Yes

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Sudhir okay. so "wants" is singular agreement and "want" is plural. "your friends" is plural, so it should be "your friends want". Does that makes sense?

Sudhir

Yes

Thanks for the explanation.

I always get confused.

That's a silly mistake.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

in many cases, it seems as if there always has to be an "s": "Your friend wants you to visit", "Your friends want you to visit"

Sudhir

19:01

Ok

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

That trick doesn't work with some nouns or verbs but it works with lots.

Sudhir

Thanks

for your support.

I'm weak in English grammar.

I'm native speaker of Hindi.

So don't get irritated if I use wrong grammar.

@simchona: Sorry

don't mind

I always appreciate you guys.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Sudhir I think most people here won't be irritated about your grammar. Some of your chat-room behaviour can be irritating as you may have noticed.

simchona

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 This.

Sudhir

now I'd take care of it.

I'm always eager to learn this wonderful language.

Its too late here.

So good night guys

Thanks once again for your collaborations.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

19:08

@Sudhir you're welcome. good luck.

aedia λ

@Sudhir Using a verb conjugation table can help too.

simchona

Pope Francis

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MετάEd

@KitFox Oh! It was sublingual.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@simchona meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

KitFox

@MετάEd Oh dur.

MετάEd

19:22

No, not dur. You're thinking of the old Sumerian city.

KitFox

Ashur. No, that was a tribe, wasn't it?

I hate my job. Anybody got a job for me? I can telecommute.

No, no, not Ur. You're thinking of that thing you paint naked Greeks on.

MετάEd

@KitFox No, not an urn. You're thinking of exactly what does a Grecian urn and how much you ode him. No, I mean you're thinking of that snarky puppet.

KitFox

19:40

Snarky puppet. Snarky puppet. Hmm...

All I can think of is Lambchop.

Mmm, kebab.

aedia λ

No, no, not Ernie. You're thinking of someone I'm awfully fond of.

I'm not sure you meant Ernie. I don't see him as snarky, except perhaps through Bert's eyes. And even then, he's just endearingly exasperating, right?

KitFox

No, no, not rubber duckie. You're thinking of that guy on the box of bath powder.

On the "Which Sesame Street character are you?" test, I was...wait. Can you guess?

aedia λ

Now all I can think of is Mr. Clean. Hmm.

KitFox

Pink.

He was pink. I don't remember much else, except it came in a box.

aedia λ

@KitFox Hmm. Elmo?

KitFox

19:47

feelings hurt

aedia λ

Aww. But everyone loves Elmo.

Big Bird? I'll be Snuffy if you play Big Bird.

You're probably not Big Bird. But I'm struggling to come up with a character that reflects your energy and isn't a naif.

tchrist

I’m tired of people re-asking questions about how to spell and/or pronounce the letter c in English. This should stem the tide:

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A: Why is "k" added to "panic" when suffixes added (as in "panicky")?

Because that is the standard rule in English. The OED says: Hence, in modern English, C has (1) the ‘hard’ sound [k] before a, o, u, before a consonant (except h), and when final, as in cab, cot, cut, claw, crow, acme, cycle, sac, tic, epic; (2) before e, i, y, it has the ‘soft’ ...

Note that epicene is something else than an epicky period. :)

It really is a genref question. Sigh.

But I was out of close votes, so answered instead. :)

aedia λ

20:04

Do you really spell demosaicing demosaicking? I learned it without the k, I think, but I don't know that I have ever heard it said aloud.

KitFox

@tchrist Interesting strategy.

And it was Bert.

tchrist

@KitFox The problem is that the best reference is paywalled.

But it was also because of the miserable non-quality of the only non-deleted answer. And in a couple of hours, too.

It’s like people who ask whether to spell the past tense of beg as begged or as beged. It is like they were truant the day that rule was taught.

I don’t know whether this says more about the decreasing quality of the education system or just the increasing stupidity of students. I suppose both may apply.

Robusto

@aediaλ But I love birthday cake with demosa icing on it!

KitFox

@tchrist I think it is about the ease with which illiterates can communicate in the modern world.

Robusto

@tchrist The two are related.

KitFox

20:11

Increased exposure.

tchrist

@aediaλ Yes, certainly. It is The Rule.

aedia λ

@KitFox I didn't say Bert because I think of myself as very close to Bert, down to organizing stuff, and you're more... You seem less likely to be wallow-in-sadness-y, and more energetic, than me, so I didn't think you would be Bert.

tchrist

The only boobs who spell it *demosaicing are the same dingledorks who cursed us with HTTP_REFERER — may they be forever damned.

They should go back to school to make up all those days their minds were elsewhere.

KitFox

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Q: How to use commas around the word "both"?

In the following sentence, how should I place commas around the word "both"? Should there be a comma before AND after "both", or ONLY after it? Should there be commas at all?: "This includes strengthening my knowledge in the fundamental subjects of this field, and gaining more experience in, bot...

punctuation

Oh god. I have to go.

tchrist

The Ladies’ is just down the hall, ma’am.

aedia λ

20:13

giggles

KitFox

The revolution will not be vomitious.

Later.

aedia λ

Bai!

tchrist

20:41

Think of it this way: if you have a tiled floor, and are very very lucky, it might even be mosaicked. The rest follows from there.

MετάEd

@KitFox No, no, not vomitious. You're thinking of when something bodes well.

tchrist

Somebody’s getting married?

Bodas de sangre

Bodas de sangre es una tragedia en verso y en prosa del escritor español Federico García Lorca escrita en 1931. Se estrenó el 8 de marzo de 1933 en el Teatro Beatriz de Madrid por la Compañía de Josefina Díaz y Manuel Collado y fue llevada al cine por Edmundo Guibourg en 1938 y en otra versión por Carlos Saura en 1981. Es una producción poética y teatral que se centra en el análisis de un sentimiento trágico. Desde lo antiguo y lo moderno, en la manera de ver la tragedia. Todo ello enmarcado en un paisaje andaluz trágico y universal. El tema principal tratado en este gran drama es la...

Not all marriages bode well. :)

MετάEd

21:01

@tchrist Yes, and then there's Oedipus.

MετάEd

21:51

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A: What might be an appropriate term for a long-term, very serious, girlfriend?

There is a word that sums it all up: concubinage. Wikipedia: Concubinage is an interpersonal relationship in which a person engages in an ongoing relationship (usually matrimonially oriented) with another person to whom they are not or cannot be married. The inability to marry may be due to...

I realized when I read this: I am a concubine.

tchrist

22:24

> 2 A male paramour. Obs. = L. concubīnus, F. concubin.

@MετάEd So, you’re saying you’re obsolete then?

MετάEd

@tchrist I'm not the word, I'm the thing.

tchrist

23:15

¿Tenemos papa — argentino?

KitFox

23:52

@MετάEd No, no, not propitious. You're thinking of A natural inclination or affinity for something.

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