There's an even cuter picture of her sitting in her mommy's lap completely nekkid, no diaper even, but I decided against posting it because (1) her mommy probably would object, and (2) see above about completely nekkid. (It was very warm in the reception hall last Saturday.)
so on this server, that I'm never really on, I'm the 42nd most active chatter, I'm the third most on meta, and the ninth most on chat.SO... and my wife wonders what I do during the day :p -- corrected ;)
@balpha I know, I'm actually in the process of writing my own webservice there, but I'm shying away from using lots of pre-built middlewares, as I want to be able to handle more than 600 requests per sec ;)
@Martha and that actually hints at a third reason for me to move off the German handle ;) I don't really speak German anymore. So having an actual German nick on a website that handles Deutscher, that could be baaaaad ;)
@JSBangs — It is impossible to confirm anything about French pronunciation. For that, you would have to ask a Frenchman (or woman) and he/she will disagree with however you pronounce it.
@Robusto Yes, I got that reference (damn, I'm old)
@JSBangs — Just be thankful she's making her presence felt here. Imagine the shenanigans certain folks would get up to if she weren't silently watching us every minute.
(I would rather like if somebody who is not participating in DA would avoid coming on the meta, and pretend things are done as he likes better. Does this make me a Communist?)
HEI GUYZ. i just discovered that I can sing the theme song to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire substituting "Welsh Patagonia" for "West Philadelphia". it's much improved that way
I have often wondered what makes sports personalities heroes. I have always thought of hero referring to someone who risks their life to save others. For example soldiers and to a lesser extent emergency services.
Is it accurate to describe athletes as heroes?
@Kit, that's why I answered meiwenti which is Chinese for "no problem".
Hoping that that would be close to the Japanese. I can't speak or even write Japanese but they share quite a lot. May be @Robusto can confirm/infirm if that makes any sense at all in Japanese.
Hoping that that would be close to the Japanese. I can't speak or even write Japanese but they share quite a lot. May be @Robusto can confirm/infirm if that makes any sense at all in Japanese.
Speaking about Frigg, I find it fascinating that all days of the week are named after deities in English. Is that so in other languages? French? Spanish? Something?
@AlainPannetier That's not the issue so much as my pinyin is rusty at best, and I have to keep pulling out my dictionary to look up the correct character.
@JSBangs Scholars theorise that they go to the same common deity (pretty much like Yahweh and Elohim in Ancient Judea and Israel, who became united into one deity later), but it doesn't seem to be commonly accepted. For what it's worth, Wikipedia has separate entries for them.
it's supposed that having the highest diety be a thunderstorm god is a proto-indo-european thing, since it shows up in some form in pretty much every IE group
@JSBangs hmm…That's actually interesting. What can be said about Yahweh/Adonai/Elohim/El, Allah, Baal in that respect? Baal particularly seems to be associated with thunderstorms.
I don't know what he was associated with in the really old times, but during the Yahwist period he was a god of war certainly (Yahwism predates Judaism)
anyway, you'll notice that the PIE speakers are from places with thunderstorms, while the Middle East and the semitic urheimat, presumably don't have them, but have a lot more sun
@Vitaly war is not really what i meant by "natural phenomenon"
in other words, I don't know for any natural phenomenon associated with Yahweh
well, I do, but I don't know if that particular claim is substantiated as well as everything else: it's claimed he was a dust demon (basically, a god of the desert) in the pre-Yahwism period
@JSBangs That's why I decided not to mention it at first. The book I read didn't provide any evidence for that particular claim.
Have a nice lunch.
From Wiki:
> For example, Karel van der Toorn (1998) suggest that the name Yahweh may have been taken from the name of a god in ancient Semitic religion, in origin a storm god both related to and in direct competition with Hadad (Baal).
@JSBangs One could argue that war is indeed a natural phenomenon. ;)
…given how humans roll.
And from Wiki, about El:
> He may have been a desert god at some point, as the myths say that he had two wives and built a sanctuary with them and his new children in the desert. El had fathered many gods, but most important were Hadad, Yam, and Mot.
Yahweh + El (+ Asherah and many other gods; Asherah was the goddess of fertility, so when they excised Asherah from their mythology, Yahweh had acquired the power to give fertility) = the modern Judeo-Christian deity, roughly
(This also explains why Hungarian calendars use Monday as the first column: it's right there in the name of the friggin' day that it's the head (= first day) of the week.)
@Martha I started in with "No, it's not" but then realized that I've never really thought about it. I usually do all my coding in VB.Net, with a few markup Evals for databinding. I never thought of that as javascript.
@Cerberus: we're under attack, and I don't seem to be able to win a single match. See if you're more lucky. I'll stop right there, so as not to pile up even more negative points and make matters even worse for you.
@Martha Instead of writing the If statement in a function, it's used to evaluate (in this case) whether or not something is visible. <lbl Visibility='<%# If(some = all, "true", "false") %>' /> -ish pseudocode
> We asked all the children if a certain illogical sentence was grammatically correct: “Apples grow on noses.” The monolingual children couldn’t answer. They’d say, “That’s silly” and they’d stall. But the bilingual children would say, in their own words, “It’s silly, but it’s grammatically correct.”
“I gave him all the help I could” sounds more familiar for the first case. I'm not sure about the second case, and applying this reasoning doesn't seem to make it any easier..
“Quite a number of people in Britain realised what there was of truth in the German grievance,” “I know not of what harmony pervaded her whole person”?
@Vitaly This sounds awkward, though. This use of "of" is slangy/deliberately incorrect, so its presence in an otherwise formal-register sentence is confusing.
I can interpret "I know not of what harmony" as an archaically-phrased "I don't know of the harmony", but I can't similarly rephrase "there was of truth".
Here is the sentence where i struggled to find the grammatically correct form:
Just curious – what did you think of Mila , as a woman and as a person , when you met her?
and
Just curious, what did you think of Jesica -- as a woman and as a person -- when you met her?
Which one is c...
When do you use commas and when do you use parentheses to provide more detail about something?
For example:
The suspect, Tom Wilson, is now being charged with murder.
The suspect (Tom Wilson) is now being charged with murder.
John Smith, a member of the jury, agreed with the verdict.
John Smit...
As the title says, really.
Is there even a difference?
I have often wondered what makes sports personalities heroes. I have always thought of hero referring to someone who risks their life to save others. For example soldiers and to a lesser extent emergency services.
Is it accurate to describe athletes as heroes?
When do you use commas and when do you use parentheses to provide more detail about something?
For example:
The suspect, Tom Wilson, is now being charged with murder.
The suspect (Tom Wilson) is now being charged with murder.
John Smith, a member of the jury, agreed with the verdict.
John Smit...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…