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12:00 AM
I find 4 oldstyle TrueType fonts:
528 -rw-rw-rw-@ 1 staff 267520 Mar 30 2009 INLVBI__.TTF
488 -rw-rw-rw-@ 1 staff 246444 Mar 30 2009 INLVB___.TTF
536 -rw-rw-rw-@ 1 staff 270908 Mar 30 2009 INLVI___.TTF
480 -rw-rw-rw-@ 1 staff 244628 Mar 30 2009 INLVRG__.TTF
 
Yes, those.
I have extracted them from the .exe just to be sure.
And installed them...
 
Do you get the same file sizes?
I guess I could move them into my ~/Library/Fonts/ directory and see what happens.
I forget if there is some other magic I am supposed to do to register a new font.
 
Yes, same sizes.
I just threw them into Windows/fonts.
And now I see an a with a sort of acutus! *bhel᪽h
What do you see?
But I actually wonder whether that a can be correct.
It is more like an alpha btw, not a normal a.
A Proto-Indo-European root *bʰel᪽ʰ- doesn't really make sense.
 
Yes, that is what I see too.
Do you trust that?
The OED cannot help me here.
I shall consult Duden...
 
12:07 AM
That font has a ridiculous set of glyphs. Watch:
That’s its entire repertoire, in order.
Extremely curious.
 
Ohh especially those faces must be very useful.
The American Heritage Dictionary gives some candidates, but none resemble what the EWN root could be.
 
Most of those could be composed using combining characters.
Or already exist as precombined versions.
And why they have blackletter versions I have no idea.
 
Very odd.
Ah! But Pokórny has bhelĝh-!
Meaning "to swell", which would be the right root.
I really think that must be what the EWN intended.
 
Ok, they must be assuming that people are using a font with bad combining characters, or a browser, or an OS, or something that doesn’t do stuff right.
What are the first two glyphs in the upper left?
 
Hebrew?
 
12:15 AM
Looks like it, doesn’t it?
 
Quite.
 
And what is the verb you are looking for, something like swell or bulge?
I completely fail to understand why they found “á” U+00E1 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE to be inadequate for their purposes.
Hm, it doesn’t turn into the a form.
Er.
You know what I mean.
The italic one without the funny big overtail.
 
@tchrist Yes.
@tchrist Yes, well, I'm quite certain it must be a g with a circumflex-like diacritic, as in Pokórny's bhelĝh- "to swell", extended from bhel- "to swell" just as in the EWN.
 
Hm.
Not a g with an over dot?
I’ve seen that used in old Germanic renderings.
 
I'm actually not sure what those diacritics mean exactly, except that the ^ makes the g softer in some way.
 
12:22 AM
I forget what it means.
More like a /j/ or something. Not really sure.
 
Could be palatised, yes.
So I'm going to remove those fonts, since they are only misleading.
 
I think so, too. Strange.
You should write them and politely ask them what in the world they were thinking.
 
Perhaps I should...but it probably looks peachy in their printed version.
 
More from the Teuthonista proposal. One wonders what they’ll think of next.
Oh, go look there and figure out what it should be.
Isn’t Teuthonista about squid or something?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuthida
| image =Loligo vulgaris.jpg | image_caption = European squid (Loligo vulgaris) | alt=Photo of squid with 8 short arms and two longer tentacles | authority = A. Naef, 1916 | subdivision_ranks = Suborders | subdivision = †Plesioteuthididae (incertae sedis) Myopsina Oegopsina }} Squid are cephalopods of the order Teuthida, which comprises around 300 species. Like all other cephalopods, squid have a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, a mantle, and arms. Squid, like cuttlefish, have eight arms arranged in pairs and two, usually longer, tentacles. Squid are strong swimmers and certain specie...
 
Huh?
 
12:26 AM
Order Teuthida is the squiddlings.
But they’re thinking Teutonic, which of course is German.
See what I thought squid? They put an h after the t.
 
Teuthonista is a phonetic transcription system used predominantly for the transcription of (High) German dialects. The base characters are mostly based on the Latin alphabet, which can be modified by various diacritics. History The name Teuthonista goes back to the Journal Teuthonista, in which the transcription system was presented in 1924/25. Symbols Most of the characters derive from the Latin or Greek alphabet. Especially the consonants are primarily monotype symbols, i.e. "one character for one sound". Special nuances in articulation can be distinguished by diacritics (e.g. dots or ...
I see.
Dumb squids.
 
@tchrist I wouldn't be surprised if a spelling with Teuth- was also used for the Teutones before the first World War.
 
Their IPA renderings aren’t so hot: the diacritics don’t center well.
 
12:42 AM
Teuthones.
 
1:10 AM
Howdy @KitSox
Shall we play a game?
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 How are you?
 
@KitSox Pretty good. Opened an Etsy store today. You?
 
> A neutrino could easily pass through 1000 light-years of lead, so an ocean would pose no problem whatsoever. Indeed, some scientists have suggested that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations could communicate across vast distances in space using neutrino beams.
 
@Cerberus And intercept them how?
 
That is exactly the problem.
But it is possible.
They are affected by weak nuclear forces and gravity.
Still reading.
It is still impracticable.
 
1:46 AM
@tchrist You don't intercept them. You feel their vibrations.
It's far out, man.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I sent her over to the hangman room. y u no play?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Oh! With your felt stuffies?
 
@Cerberus "The first ever transmission of information using a beam of neutrinos has be achieved by physicists in the US." Hmm. I guess copy editing ain't what it used to be.
 
I guess copy editing edits ain't what it used to be[en].
cetfy
 
@Robusto Oh, you wouldn't be what typos I see on the web.
 
Oh, and the problem they're trying to solve is a military one. By all means, let's spend billions so that submarines can communicate better.
 
It's shocking, verily.
There are other uses...
 
1:59 AM
@Cerberus I would not be what typos you see on the web. That is a true statement.
 
Such as...communicating an emergency message to the other side of the planet?
Haha, wow. My typo was actually accidental.
 
More importantly, to remove the delay when I'm communicating with my secret base on the moon.
 
Uhh neutrinos won't be faster than radio.
 
That's also so awkward and comedic.
 
"Good design is as little design as possible."
- some German motherfucker
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
 
2:01 AM
Hello.
 
Didn't @Reg post that like yesterday?
 
Reg posted that page here yesterday.
 
Hello!
Aw he did?
 
Hi didÉ.
 
Now I feel dumb.
 
2:01 AM
 
Not so much dumb as late.
 
I saw it on gasp Facebook.
 
Never heard of it.
 
Huh. He probably saw it on Reddit.
 
2:02 AM
@Cerberus It's an incredibly popular website.
 
I'm not clicking random links.
 
And why did you see it on the book's cover, instead of in the book itself?
 
Pretty much everyone in the world has a profile on it.
 
The people who say facebook is dumb don't use it right
 
2:03 AM
It must have been printed yesterday to be so up to date!
 
I think it is dumb.
 
Well, I'm about a dozen years older than you.
 
I mostly just use it to post music and chat with my friends
I pretty much use Twitter exclusively for following indie game developers and pornstars
 
My preferred means of communication is in person or via phone.
 
2:04 AM
Fuck Facebook. Anyone can see people's faces, 24/7. We need Assbook.
 
Nobody wants to see my ass.
 
I wasn't talking about you.
 
nsfw ^
 
@Robusto Why the hell not?
 
Why should I?
 
2:05 AM
mind = blown
 
@GnomeSlice That's hotter than two rats fucking in an old sock in the Sahara desert.
 
> PhRMA and some companies in the copyright sector funded efforts to investigate the sources of funding for NGOs working on intellectual property issues, and to press those foundations to end their support of consumer advocacy.
 
@Robusto Is that good?
 
Oh I see. Rob's been into the liquor again.
 
2:07 AM
@GnomeSlice I never did the experiment. Try it and get back to me.
@KitFox What do you mean again? Like I ever stopped.
Truth to tell, I'm stone cold sober. Just feeling contrarianish, as usual.
 
Whatevs.
See? I can talk like a hipster.
 
Seriously, did we need a table on a website to divide (or multiply) by two for us?
 
@KitFox -e
 
> [Pro-copyright organisation NFTC] approached someone..., with a proposal to provide information on Knowledge Ecology International and other NGOs working on intellectual property issues, as part of a program to counter NGO advocacy efforts on behalf of consumers.”
... NFTC contracted with the Romulus Global Issues Management... The managing partner of Romulus is John Stubbs, whose wife is Victoria A. Espinel, a former Romulus employee. Espinel was U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IP czar) for the Obama administration, and is currently the CEO and President of the Busine
 
2:10 AM
@GnomeSlice kthx
 
@KitFox no probs
 
I am soundfree atm. You'll have to ping me later.
 
I will have run out of pings by then.
 
@KitFox Your life sounds terrible. =[
 
Oh darn.
I am not writing right now. I am talking to the two of you. This just goes to demonstrate 1. how easily distractable I am, 2. how much I want to be not writing right now, 3. how much I like attention, 4. how do you spell "distractable"?
distractible distractable
Stupid spell-checker.
 
2:14 AM
@KitFox 4. a-t-t-e-n-t-i-o-n w-h-o-r-e
 
That's it. Thanks.
 
I'm here to help.
 
I thought you were here to contradict.
 
That's not it.
 
suppresses giggle
!!are you thinking what I'm thinking?
 
2:15 AM
@KitFox I think so, Brain, but isn't that why they invented tube socks?
 
Perfect.
 
No. That's why they invented tube steaks.
!!tube
 
@Robusto That didn't make much sense. Use the help command to learn more.
 
Fuck your help command.
And in case you're wondering, I talk to the TV too. And other drivers on the road who can't hear me.
 
Chill out on the mecha-fox. She's not actually real.
 
2:16 AM
Yeah, right.
 
My boys laugh when I talk to the other drivers.
 
How do you know it's a she if it's not real?
Not-real things can be whatever you want. That's the beauty of unreality.
 
Because I have seen her insides.
OK I have to go write or I'll be mad at myself later.
I've already wasted almost two hours gallavanting around SE.
 
I've already eaten too much Beef Wellington this week. But it's so good.
 
galavanting galevanting
 
2:18 AM
And we still have leftovers from the practice round. And the BIG EVENT is coming Thursday. ZOMG. I should never eat again after this week.
 
Stupid spell-checker.
!!wiki Beef Wellington
 
Beef Wellington is a preparation of filet steak coated with pâté (often pâté de foie gras) and duxelles, which is then wrapped in puff pastry and baked. Some recipes include wrapping the coated meat in a crêpe to retain the moisture and prevent it making the pastry soggy. A whole tenderloin may be wrapped and baked, and then sliced for serving, or the tenderloin may be sliced into individual portions prior to wrapping and baking. Many spices may be added to enhance the flavour; some examples are curry, allspice, any grilling mix or ginger. Naming The origin of the name is unclear. Ther...
 
Oh god, why would you do that to a perfectly delicious slab of meat?
 
We wrap it in prosciutto with duxelles and a dijon mustard paste before applying the puff pastry.
@KitFox Because it's amazing.
 
It is astonishing.
 
2:21 AM
!!urban tony danza
 
@GnomeSlice Tony Danza When you are giving it to a chick from behind, you yell out "Who's the boss?" She'll get confused, turn her head around, at this moment, you [donkey punch] her in the face and then scream TONY DANZA!!!
 
heeeeee
 
Didn't you ask that one already?
 
Clearly nobody who's ever had sex would think that's a better idea than sex.
 
Clearly.
Well.
 
2:23 AM
@KitFox I already knew the result, I just find that one hilarious.
 
considers past sexual escapades
@Robusto Mostly I agree.
 
@RegDwigнt: My Russian colleague tells me three fingers on the shirt front indicates "time for a drink" in po-Russki. I asked him if there was a gesture that doesn't mean "time for a drink" in po-Russki.
But he elaborated anyway. "When you have three people, you can afford a bottle of vodka."
I felt like breaking into my George Thorogood act and busting out "I drink alone" but it was time for stand-up anyway.
And so to TV. And the lazy mind. And bed.
 
ooooooo daaaaaaaaamn!
 
2:44 AM
@Robusto Everything’s better en croûte.
 
2:58 AM
All too true.
 
I was going to add même si elle ne s’en est rendu compte — but someday she shall.
But got tangled up with concordance.
I also don’t understand what même si takes the indicatif.
But it’s French. It isn’t supposed to make sense.
> En effet, à en croire nos plus éminents spécialistes, la chose est entendue : dans la conjugaison de se rendre compte, « le participe est toujours invariable ». Voilà qui est dit. Inutile pour autant d'espérer trouver la moindre justification à cet état de fait dans les comptes rendus de Girodet, Thomas, Hanse, Bescherelle et consorts : derrière le bel unisson, aucune explication. Une telle vérité aussi laconiquement partagée ne pouvait que paraître suspecte.
> Malgré ce glissement sémantique, l'invariabilité du participe passé – pleinement justifiée dans le sens premier – a été conservée dans le sens moderne.
> Moins machiste aussi : les femmes se sont "rendues" compte de la discrimination de la grammaire française ("le masculin l'emporte").
Yeah right.
Ok.
It’s supposed to be 14 degrees tonight but 63 on Wednesday. That’s ridiculous. Welcome to Colorado, I suppose.
Arctic parka by night, shorts and a fleece pullover by day.
If that.
Requires extra packing.
 
3:40 AM
@KitFox :O
 
 
2 hours later…
6:09 AM
Does it make you look poor if you drive Civic?
 
 
5 hours later…
11:27 AM
!!hi
!!hello
!!eval 'this'
I can't seem to query the bot when it runs on my account
that is I am me and the bot at the same time
 
Nov 22 at 19:24, by RegDwigнt
Did you know that every second word in Russian is a euphemism for "drink all things now"? The rest being euphemisms for "your", "mother", or some combination thereof.
I have to add though that indeed, in Russia you need three people to drink. Not two, not four. It's always three. Don't ask. I have no idea. It's how it's.
 
what happens if the number is different?
 
The part about "afford" is a lame excuse. Anyone can afford vodka in Russia all by himself. It's just that you'd never drink it alone, or with one other person.
@MattЭллен a meteor goes down over Chelyabinsk.
 
I see
caesum
MALLEUS TEMPUS!
hmmm
MALLEUS TEMPUS!
this is the only thing that's working for me
what?
hmmm
 
Okay what's going on here.
 
11:44 AM
I'm playing with te bot code, but it's not responding to my commands, except it picks up stop
HAMMERTIME!
I thought it might be because I was running it in the sandbox room, but running it here doesn't change things
caesum
good
MALLEUS TEMPUS!
 
So you're running the bot under your own account?
What is this, an incomprehensible room?
 
yes, but only in the sandbox room, now
oh
except it seems to still be running in here
 
He who can use his eyes to see is at an advantage.
 
stoy
ZABIVAT' VREMYA!
damit, how do I stop this thing?
!!unsummon
stahp
HAMMAHTIME!
 
Well well. Looks like I'll have to delete your account.
 
11:55 AM
stop
HAMMERTIME!
how? how is this happening?
why won't you die?
 
Spoiler: that's what someone asks someone else in the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad.
 
stop
it must be dead now
 
I sang that to the tune of "Girl, you'll be a woman soon".
 
excellent
I agree, sorry about that, I lost control of myself. — Hardy Stewz 1 hour ago
 
12:15 PM
I have a better one.
-1
Q: Plural of verbs and Adjectives

VijayaRagavanDo verbs, adjectives have plurals like nouns do? Consider the case where we say, He reads/ They read. In both cases the action (To Read) is the same. Does it have plural form? Plural verbs are those that refer to the plural subjects or are they themselves plural like nouns? I found this Questio...

"Do verbs have plurals?" is right up there with "Passive voice should never be used".
Hm. Just got a suggested edit from one Jasper Loy.
 
He just won't stop.
 
HAMMERTIME!
 
Oh come on.
 
WTF?
I started it in a different room :(
does it just work everywhere
!!hi
 
12:22 PM
I must write a bot that says "Hammertime flies like a banana". Every 42 seconds.
@MattЭллен that's why you never sell your soul main account to Satan robo-Satan.
 
:D well, it looks like I've stopped it for now
 
Did you stop it or did it stop?
Hm, no hammertime.
Hammertime flies like a banana.
 
I closed the tabs and came back
 
12:43 PM
testing
@MattЭллен Boo!
Guys, I am back to SE.
 
@tchrist C'est vrait.
 
Hey @Robusto
 
Hullo, Jasper.
 
@JasperLoy Welcome back
 
@MattЭллен I am in a terrible situation now, mentally. I hope I pull through this one.
My doctor changed my meds, not that any of them will produce miracles.
 
12:56 PM
@JasperLoy We wish you all the best. And I mean that.
 
@Robusto Thanks, I read about your cooking on thanksgiving.
 
@JasperLoy I hope so, too. Keep at it.
are you still having to do your military service?
 
I just did a little bit of it, it was simple, mostly lectures.
There is another one in April next year.
 
@JasperLoy In case you're interested, we are working with a variation of this recipe. For one thing, we are adding white wine to the duxelles, and using a different sauce.
 

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