English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Robusto

12:08 AM

Softbank's Pepper: the emotion-reading robot

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If I wanted someone to read my emotions I would have gotten married. Wait . . .

crl

12:28 AM

@Robusto no, just kidding, for making your work hours less painful

Robusto

I'd consider that

crl

but it's probably less fun :/

fastcoexist.com/3036607/… hehe

Robusto

1:01 AM

@crl I have one of these

I need a better bookrest though

as of now the only thing to do is watch tv when i ride this in the winter.

tchrist

1:42 AM

@MετάEd Tuna isn’t so bad to live on from the Mindon.

Robusto

2:05 AM

The Pretenders - Middle of the Road

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Mitch

2:32 AM

The Beatles: Why Don't We Do It in the Road?

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tchrist

Monteverdi - Vespers, "Vespro della Beata Vergine" | John Eliot Gardiner, Palace of Versailles [HD]

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Mitch

2:58 AM

@MετάEd Associations of sitting behaviours with all-cause mortality over a 16-year follow-up: the Whitehall II study TL;DR: Conclusions: Sitting time was not associated with all-cause mortality risk. The results of this study suggest that policy makers and clinicians should be cautious about placing emphasis on sitting behaviour as a risk factor for mortality that is distinct from the effect of physical activity.

In other words, sitting is not the next smoking.

Dunkin Donuts, I'm on my way.

Cerberus

@Mitch Good to know!

MετάEd

3:28 AM

@Mitch I suppose. If I sit all day but I also violently fidget all day perhaps I would dodge the bullet.

RegDwigнt

9:44 AM

@Robusto I googled "how to read" and got this:

amazon.de/How-Read-Book-Mortimer-Adler/dp/0671212095

I don't think Mortimer Adler has really thought it through.

Then again, what'd you expect from someone who uses a surname for their first name.

terdon

10:00 AM

"The stupidest book since How to learn French was translated into French".

RegDwigнt

Oh that's a good idea. You should write "How Not To Learn French", in Greek, and publish it exclusively in American Chinatowns. You will make millions.

terdon

> Blackadder: No, sir, it is not. It's the most pointless book since How To Learn French was translated into French.
Prince George: You haven't got anything personal against Johnson, have you Blackadder?
Blackadder: Good Lord, sir, not at all. In fact, I had never heard of him until you mentioned him just now.
Prince George: But you do think he's a genius...?
Blackadder: No, sir, I do not. Unless, of course, the definition of "genius" in his ridiculous Dictionary is "a fat dullard or wobblebottom; a pompous ass with sweatly dewflaps".

RegDwigнt

I've been meaning to rewatch Blackadder for decades.

Literally, I last watched it in 1997.

Robusto

10:57 AM

@RegDwigнt I tried. It doesn't hold up, sadly.

RegDwigнt

Oh, interesting.

For me, there's an additional, rather crucial, factor to the equation: in 1997, the extent to which I could understand spoken English was pretty much "dónde está la cafetería".

So, for example, "a fat dullard or wobblebottom; a pompous ass with sweatly dewflaps" would have been completely lost on me.

Not that it no longer is, mind you.

Johan Larsson

11:23 AM

How To Uninstall Internet Explorer

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pretty lame

RegDwigнt

What a horrible video.

Johan Larsson

How To Fold a T-shirt in 5 seconds

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RegDwigнt

That person is in dire need of a therapist. Or a deathsman, rather. Too late for therapy.

Johan Larsson

That one is better

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Home is the Headsman.

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Q: “Reasonably good” vs “Unusually good”

I asked this question as a guest and now I have another question as a registered user because I can not comment there! What is the difference between these two sentences' meaning? 1.She writes reasonably good children's books. 2.She writes unusually good children's books.

vocabulary

Blech.

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Q: "reasonably good" or "unusually good"

Is the second sentence correct? Why? Why not? She writes reasonably good children's books. She writes unusually good children's books. Or is there any differences between "reasonably good" and "unusually good"?

vocabulary

RegDwigнt

11:28 AM

> the difference between these two sentences' meaning

I wish I had a nickel for every time someone uses this horribly convoluted and completely nonsensical and ungrammatical pile of nonsense.

I cannot explain its popularity with mankind.

tchrist

I can't say I've noticed it. It makes too little sense to me for it to lodge in my memory.

RegDwigнt

It's in like every other pineapple question, honestly.

The difference between car.

The difference between person.

The difference between bag.

What the what.

And they wouldn't get it if you went with the honest answer, "there is none".

"There can't be any".

tchrist

Need mod help.

I can't close those as dupes to each other.

Not the same user.

RegDwigнt

Of course you can.

What nonsense is that.

Maybe you got confused with the links and pasted the wrong one?

tchrist

I tried to do what you did and it threw up a block.

RegDwigнt

11:36 AM

Because that's sure as hell what I just did.

tchrist

It said the other had no upvoted answers.

RegDwigнt

And it kept telling me "you can't close questions as dupes of themselves" and I kept telling it "WTF NOU".

tchrist

No, I didn't do that.

RegDwigнt

Hm.

Well I dunno then.

tchrist

It said I couldn't close it because the other had no upvoted answers. It's a non-mod block apparently.

RegDwigнt

11:37 AM

Wut.

Must be new.

tchrist

Yah.

It is, kinda.

RegDwigнt

News to me at any rate.

Also, why.

tchrist

You haven't had it thumb its middle finger at you.

RegDwigнt

It makes no sense.

Just because a question hasn't been answered, doesn't mean you should ask it again.

That never worked that way.

They specifically introduced bounties just for that.

tchrist

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A: Duplicate does not have upvoted answers

Flag it for mod attention. They are able to close anything as a duplicate of anything, even if there are no upvoted answers, if indeed these are the same user.

RegDwigнt

11:39 AM

I suppose there's been, um, a paradigm shift, eh?

BRB reasking hundreds of thousands of questions on SO.

Robusto

@JohanLarsson I can do it in two. I'm just not as fussy as they are.

Johan Larsson

12:06 PM

@Robusto You are special.

Mitch

I thought I was special. sniffs

RegDwigнt

Lost In Translation "Nobody Does" Anna Faris by Arco

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tchrist

english.stackexchange.com/questions/280386/…

Why no onebox?

english.stackexchange.com/questions/280386/…

RegDwigнt

Because racist.

Robusto

@JohanLarsson Fold it in half, then in half again. Done. It's a T-shirt, not a wedding gown.

tchrist

12:17 PM

Oh, did you delete it already?

RegDwigнt

I did no such thing.

tchrist

Hm.

RegDwigнt

Or any other thing, for that matter.

Come to thing of it, I don't like things.

> I am not a native speaker, so please undertand my English isn't smoothe.

You misspelled smoothie.

tchrist

There is only a single -oothe word in Modern English.

And it is not that one.

RegDwigнt

Well. It does begin with an s.

And as we all know, the m is silent before b or after s.

tchrist

12:23 PM

smegmatics

RegDwigнt

The thing of notice here is how smoothe does not exist in any language. They really just made it up, and they knew.

Robusto

Santana - Smooth ft. Rob Thomas

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RegDwigнt

@tchrist yes, a very good example. Note how smegma is pronounced "SEGA".

tchrist

@RegDwigнt It bothers me that you might be right by accident.

RegDwigнt

Explains the quality of Sonic games, by the way.

@Robusto Rob's uruncle.

tchrist

12:25 PM

OED: "not clearly represented in any of the cognate languages"

RegDwigнt

@tchrist it bothers me that you could think my being right had to do with accidents.

tchrist

> smooth /smuːð/, a.
Forms: 1 smoð, 4 smoþe, 4–6 smothe, 5 smoth; 4 smuth, 5 smvythe; 5 smowth, 6 smouth(e, 7 smoath(e; 6–7 smoothe, 6– smooth.

Etymology: OE. smóð, found only once (the usual form being sméðe smeeth a.), and not clearly represented in any of the cognate languages.

1. a. Having a surface free from projections, irregularities, or inequalities; presenting no roughness or unevenness to the touch or sight.

RegDwigнt

Why bother being right by accident if you can just be right.

Smudo

Smudo (* 6. März 1968 in Offenbach am Main; auch S.M.U.D.O., Mikrofonprofessor Smudo; eigentlich Michael Bernd Schmidt) ist Texter und Rapper der Hip-Hop-Band Die Fantastischen Vier, außerdem arbeitet er als Synchronsprecher und Schauspieler. == LebenBearbeiten == Smudo wuchs in Paderborn-Schloß Neuhaus auf und besuchte später ein Gymnasium in Gerlingen und schloss dieses 1988 mit dem Abitur ab. Nach dem Abschluss ging er mit Thomas D für dreieinhalb Monate in die USA. Smudos musikalische Karriere begann 1986, als er mit Andreas Rieke das Terminal Team gründete. Zur gleichen Zeit begann er auf…

He's one of the Fantastic Four.

So of course he has no cognates, duh.

tchrist

not impress

RegDwigнt

No double negations in this chat.

Just use "press".

tchrist

12:31 PM

gang presses

RegDwigнt

That don't gang press me much.
You got the brains, but have you got the touch?

tchrist

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A: The expression "And how!"

And how is used to show the extreme reaccurance of a situation. Eg: "The school bus breaks down so frequently, I think they need to replace it with a new one." "And how!" That's my thought on the phrase.

Nice pelling.

Betraying a complete lack of appreciation for Latin, Reverend.

RegDwigнt

In reference to reverend, my reverence to Riverdance.

tchrist

The best river dances are ice ballets skating upon the frozen Rhine.

RegDwigнt

Why so Rhineocerius?

tchrist

12:41 PM

Sirius sets, and now the night is ended.

RegDwigнt

Hence the saying, there goes Sirius Black.

Robusto

@tchrist That is simply wrong. It's like saying "Hot damn!" is used as a birthday greeting: "You turn 50 today? Hot damn!"

-1 for the answer and for bringing religiosity into it.

RegDwigнt

You can't use it as a greeting? Hot damn!

What good is it even for, then? Hot damn...

tchrist

@Robusto So you're saying that two wongs don't make a right, but they do make a Chinese laundry?

RegDwigнt

Chinese don't do laundry. Much less make it, you ananas. All Chinese make is cheap plastic.

Robusto

12:45 PM

I'm saying two Wongs don't make a white.

That's racist.

tchrist

Indeed, six numbskulls flagged me as offensive the last time I made that joke, IIRC.

RegDwigнt

Being racist requires a brain. Flagging does not.

A stone can't be racist. But you throw it at a keyboard, it might just flag seven things at once.

tchrist

Fortunately there was a moderator in the room at the time, which fixed the problem. But numbskullism is rampant.

I wonder which letters are silent there.

RegDwigнt

Haha. Of course there was. It was you.

tchrist

No, I didn't unban myself. :)

RegDwigнt

12:49 PM

Hm. What a shitty mod, doesn't even know how to use the tools.

tchrist

See my history; it's the last one.

RegDwigнt

Ugh. Okay my turn to be a shitty mod, I don't know or care who or where history is.

I'll read up on your history once it's published on Facebook.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Here.

RegDwigнt

That's no Facebook.

tchrist

At least it's an ungooglable.

And yes, that's a count noun.

RegDwigнt

12:52 PM

Of course it's count. Google returns 8 results.

Including this gem:

> What is the meaning of inappropriate content?

tchrist

You can count your ungooglables on ℵ₁ fingers.

RegDwigнt

Don't you go aleph on me, lest I go Old Church Slavonic on you.

tchrist

@terdon So, what did you think of Mercy?

Robusto

I prefer Peter Gabriel's "Mercy Street."

tchrist

I’m speaking ancillarily.

RegDwigнt

12:56 PM

I prefer Dire Straights' "On Every Street".

Quick, name less than fifty songs with "street "in them.

Because if you're not quick, you'll name like five hundred.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Oh, were they all straights?

RegDwigнt

They were in dire need of gay.

But they never had the intelligence to use the twelve keys.

tchrist

That's hard to do without the Keymaster.

Robusto

"Green Dolphin Street" is one.

RegDwigнt

Yeah with the Keymaster, you won't know how it happened. It'll be faster than the eye could blink.

tchrist

12:59 PM

Isn’t the Green Dolphin Strait on the Yellow River?

RegDwigнt

Oh, we're playing for real now?

Okay.

Robusto

John Coltrane On Green Dolphin Street - YouTube.flv

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RegDwigнt

Streets of Philadelphia.

Rockefeller Street.

tchrist

Le Green Dauphin Strait est sur le Rhône.

RegDwigнt

Streets of London.

And of course the winner, A Street by Leonard Cohen.

tchrist

1:01 PM

UBStreet&IBL8TR

Robusto

You forgot "lol" . . .

RegDwigнt

It's frightening how few song titles have "lol" in them.

Frightening because one day they'll notice and start putting it in every title. Like they did with streets.

tchrist

@Robusto o̲̅

RegDwigнt

Green lantern?

tchrist

ō̲

Fitty shont.

ō̲

renders himself

RegDwigнt

1:04 PM

Hey after the edit it doesn't look like green lantern anymore.

@tchrist that one looks like a chess bishop.

tchrist

ō̲̲̄

ō̲̲̲̲̲̄̄̄̄

ō̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̄̄̄̄̄̄̄̄̄̄̄̄̄̄

Now we're gettin’ somewheres.

perl -CS -E 'say "o" . "\N{COMBINING LOW LINE}\N{COMBINING MACRON}" x 15'

Multiplication binding tighter than addition, natch.

RegDwigнt

Mar 5 '12 at 22:03, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

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Robusto

1:24 PM

@tchrist Looks like you were trying to make the female symbol, but got your lines uncrossed.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt I read that recently. It's OK. Nothing earth shattering. Mostly just 'pay attention'.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Does he fight his arch-enemy, Breve?

And that's the long and the short of it.

Mitch

@MετάEd They did mention fidgeting (in publicity reports, not the article) as a possible confounder. But supposing sitting does kill yuo and fidgeting really does successfully counteract that. I don't think telling people 'if you sit, you should fidget more' will work. People don't choose to fidget. They just do it naturally.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt I thought lol was over?

RegDwigнt

No, many people still have quite prachtige lollen.

Cerberus

1:28 PM

And prachtige ikonen.

Mitch

they hardly ever stfuppen

RegDwigнt

@Robusto hence the saying, it's not female if the lines don't touch.

terdon

@tchrist Not through it yet. Haven't had much time to read these past few days. I like what I've seen but I think I'll have to reread the entire series. I have forgotten too many of the details from the previous books.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt What? It's not female if they aren't Dutch?

RegDwigнt

You're so gay, you probably think this song is about you.

Robusto

1:37 PM

You're geh for peh. To the tune of $3000.

RegDwigнt

Meh.

tchrist

@terdon I found it better than book two although not as good as book one.

terdon

Sounds about right, so far. I'm just not sure how many of its shortcomings are down to my not remembering the previous books in enough detail.

tchrist

I wouldn’t bet on that.

RegDwigнt

I found The Tempest not as good as The Temper.

terdon

1:40 PM

Cerberus

@Mitch That consonant cluster is allowed in few languages.

tchrist

The entire Fugitive series is good.

terdon

Hey, I got a great idea, let's design a fighter plane with a huge bull's eye and "Bozo" written on it!

Cerberus

@Robusto That's quite a compliment. I thought more like 0,50.

@terdon Hah, is that real?

RegDwigнt

When I was a kid, Bozo the Clown was the clown, bar none.

terdon

1:43 PM

@Cerberus Apparently.

tchrist

@Robusto At first I thought you were still going on about my εἱκονογραφία.

Mitch

@Cerberus anything goes in lolspeak

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Et tu, WGN?

Robusto

@terdon That is not a Tempest. That's a Spitfire.

tchrist

Do a barrel roll.

Robusto

1:44 PM

It do if you put it on its side.

Cerberus

@terdon Nice.

@RegDwigнt Really, in Russia? We have Pipo de clown.

tchrist

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Q: Why are plurals ‘*humen’ and ‘*Germen’ not conventional?

Studying English in school as a second language, I learned that human being would be the proper noun to describe a member of the homo sapiens species, but it seems human is perfectly acceptable in English nowadays. It can even sometimes substitute (supposedly gender-specific) man where that was u...

etymology grammatical-number gender-neutral

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I don’t know what a hu or a ger or a nor might be.

Or a sha.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@tchrist nor = North, right?

tchrist

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It was, it was.

Vikings come to Gaul.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

So *Normen would at least be reasonable.

Robusto

1:48 PM

The plural of nor is normen.

jinx

And the plural of oar is oarmen.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus it's a reference to a show they show on a thing called TV. You wouldn't know.

Robusto

He's not aware that there's a thing called TV and that on TV they show shows.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

OED has that OE had Normen

Robusto

And the plural of for is foramen.

RegDwigнt

One little step for amen, one huge leap of faith for amenkind.

tchrist

1:58 PM

@Robusto foramina

Robusto

@tchrist No, that's not the same pattern as one sees with hu and ger then.

You clearly know too much Latin to be of use with questions like these.

RegDwigнt

What does that say about hu 'n' gery?

Robusto

I'm more concerned with Ben & Jerry.

RegDwigнt

That's racist.

And antifeminist. What about Jen & Berry?

And Gene Roddenberry?

terdon

> whether or not this is internet garbage is unbeknownst to me.

My feeling is that unbeknownst is incorrectly used there but I can't quite put my finger on why. Any ideas?

Is it just pompous or is it actually wrong?

RegDwigнt

2:09 PM

It is used incorrectly, because the word does not mean what he thinks it means.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Is it like a shoe?

@RegDwigнt: Then answer me this question. Is it never useful to explain what factors caused a certain form to become used or not used, if such factors can be identified? — Cerberus 2 mins ago

terdon

@RegDwigнt Yeah, that's what I thought. However, the definition on MW states:

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Agreed.

terdon

> 1
: happening or existing without the knowledge of someone specified —usually used with to <unbeknownst to us rumors were flying>
2
: unknown

I'd like to see a reference clearly showing that the word can't be used in that way.

tchrist

> From a diachronic (historical) perspective, the distinction between ablaut and umlaut is very important, particularly in the Germanic languages, as it indicates where and how a specific vowel alternation originates. It is also important when taking a synchronic (descriptive) perspective on old Germanic languages such as Old English, as umlaut was still a very regular and productive process at the time.

Cerberus

2:14 PM

Correct.

tchrist

@terdon It doesn’t work as a be complement.

> 1848 Mrs. Gaskell Let. 11 Nov. (1966) 61 ― You don’t see me, but I often am sitting in the rocking-chair unbeknownst to you.
1854 Huxley in L. Huxley Life & Lett. (1910) I. 111, ― I hate doing anything of the kind ‘unbeknownst’ to people.
1854 Poultry Chron. I. 331/1 ― It was found that she was sitting on a nest of eggs,-unbeknownst.
1887 Kipling Plain Tales fr. Hills (1888) 147 ― Perhaps they were afraid that their wives had come from Homo unbeknownst.
1907 J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World iii. 70 ― Burying your poor father unbeknownst when··we could have given him a decent burial.

terdon

@tchrist Yes, that's what bothers me, the is unbeknownst.

tchrist

Should just be is unknown or isn’t known.

But they should just say they don't know.

RegDwigнt

They should just shut up, they don't know so any contribution of theirs is worthless.

terdon

@tchrist is there a Portuguese equivallent to tener una flor en el culo? An expression meaning lucky involving the posterior?

tchrist

2:30 PM

@terdon The literal translation ter uma flor no cu doesn’t seem to occur.

terdon

Greek, Italian and French all have rectal expressions for luck. I was wondering why.

Besides the obvious easy jokes when it comes to the Greek.

RegDwigнt

A Greek, an Italian, and a French walk into a bar. Asks the bartender, "what's with the rectal expressions?"

terdon

Is there such an expression in Russian?

RegDwigнt

I am actually not sure which Greek, Italian, and French expression you have in mind.

So can't comment with confidence.

terdon

@RegDwigнt Any that mean someone is lucky and somehow involve the rectum. In Greek and Italian "to have an ass" is to be lucky, for example. In French it's "to have an ass fringed with noodles" and in Spanish "to have a flower in your ass". Anything similar in Russian?

Robusto

2:42 PM

Any JavaScript mavens in here?

I'm curious why one would write a higher-order function to return a named function.

Why have a wrapper there?

RegDwigнt

I've not written a function in years, so I'm out.

Also, I only just tried to use CSS only to remember what a %&!&§ton of !%"$ it is.

Robusto

function foo() {
  return function bar() {
    console.log('Hello world!');
  }
}

What does the wrapper buy you there?

RegDwigнt

Yes, I understand what you meant, but the question is unanswerable without context, as I am sure you know.

Robusto

I'm seeing this kind of thing in our code and wondering why it's like that.

RegDwigнt

Maybe he needs it for some weird compatibility reasons. If only compatibility for an arcane and ridiculous standard he himself wrote for himself.

Robusto

2:45 PM

@RegDwigнt It's answerable. Just not by you.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto first thing I said!

You can't blame me for being true and honest and technically correct.

@terdon so yeah the French and Spanish are way too convoluted, but I see where you're going with Greek and Italian, and no, I can't match that in Russian, I don't think.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I can blame you for anything. Watch yourself.

RegDwigнt

No. You may blame me for anything. But you are simply physically incapable. Stop pretending.

Robusto

I point the shame finger in your direction.

RegDwigнt

You want to point in my direction? You can't handle my direction!

tchrist

2:50 PM

Somebody put a lid on those.

@terdon dicionarioinformal.com.br/…

Not the same thing.

terdon

Yeah, that one means poor, I guess.

tchrist

Yeah.

But not having in the butt blah blah is for that.

Maybe if they did have it, they wouldn't be poor.

RegDwigнt

I'm now refreshing my memory by reading the Russian article on the Russian word for arse on the Russian Wiktionary, which I myself wrote ten years ago listing every Russian idiom in existence that involves arse, and so far I'm not seeing anything.

жопа

= Русский = === Морфологические и синтаксические свойства === жо́-па Существительное, неодушевлённое, женский род, 1-е склонение (тип склонения 1a по классификации А. А. Зализняка). Корень: -жоп-; окончание: -а. === Произношение === МФА: ед. ч. [ˈʐopə], мн. ч. [ˈʐopɨ] === Семантические свойства === ==== Значение ==== анат., груб. ягодицы, задница, попа ◆ Начиная с того, что я видел голую жопу Государыни (Екатерины II-ой, в день её смерти). А. С. Пушкин, «Дневник», 1833–1835 г. (цитата из Национального корпуса русского языка, см. Список литературы) ◆ Конечно, я мог бы называть жопу,...

In fact, quite a few mean the opposite, to be out of luck.

Or do everything wrong.

Cerberus

3:05 PM

You have a productive past.

RegDwigнt

Someone's gotta have it.

Cerberus

nods

RegDwigнt

I also found your long-lost brother.

Cerberus

Wowie.

Very nice picture, assuming it wasn't 'shopped.

RegDwigнt

One of the candidates for the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards this year.

I'd link to the site but it's pretty much down right now.

Here's the Spiegel gallery with 16 photos.

Cerberus

3:10 PM

About Fröschen: we have kikvors in Dutch, which means either just frog or male frog (not sure). The normal word for frog is kikker.

RegDwigнt

I'd assume frosch is cognate with frog.

There's also Kröte for toad.

Or one of the slang words for money.

Matt E. Эллен

3:45 PM

bucks

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Yeah, and then (-)vors will also be related.

Robusto

4:06 PM

@RegDwigнt No no no no. French is cognate with frog.

I mean "non non non non" . . .

MετάEd

@Robusto Three, sir. Three.

Robusto

But "non" has three letters.

Matt E. Эллен

so does "nom"

Robusto

4:26 PM

OK, then I mean "nom nom nom nom" . . .

No wonder the French are all about food.

Matt E. Эллен

4:37 PM

nom merci

MετάEd

5:05 PM

Merdre merdre merdre merdre merdre.

Matt E. Эллен

Redrum redrum redrum redrum redrum redrum.

MετάEd

5:56 PM

Redress redress redress redress redress.

@Mitch Agree. And I certainly don't fidget enough.

Matt E. Эллен

7:00 PM

@MετάEd I'm not undressed

crl

Can someone help me? Is jsbin.com/yuyucu down for you?

I was working on it, then now can't connect anymore to jsbin at all (timeout), even through proxies I can't access this url

MετάEd

@crl Rickrolling?

crl

no it's serious, I'd like to recover the content of it, for continuing to work

(that's the damn risk of working a script online..)

skull petrol

It's down for me.

crl

ow, ok

is jsbin.com/raqepo/edit?html,js,output down too?

I guess all my scripts are

user685252

7:09 PM

That one is ok

jsbin.com/raqepo/edit?html,js,output

crl

ok (not for me yet), I'll chill, and wait, thanks

Matt E. Эллен

@crl it makes my browser freeze

@crl this works fine

MετάEd

@crl Chrome goes into a tight loop and gobbles memory. Had to kill the browser.

crl

ah, ok even jsbin.com/yuyucu/3 ? this one shouldn't do that, sorry if it does again

sumelic

@RegDwigнt: I have a new request about tag synonyms that needs moderator action; can you help? meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/7201/…

Johan Larsson

7:27 PM

in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 3 hours ago, by Jerry Coffin

@ElimGarak "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw)

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tchrist

@sumelic Reg checked out for the weekend, although @MattE.Эллен's still kicking around. Last time I mentioned all the tagsyn stuff to Reg he said it looked like a buncha work.

MετάEd

@crl Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. :-)

crl

@MετάEd it's really serious, there's no malicious things..

MετάEd

@crl Oh I believe you, it's not malicious.

crl

github.com/jsbin/jsbin/issues/2583

skull petrol

7:30 PM

Nice quote @JohanLarsson thanks for sharing pal :-)

Johan Larsson

@skullpetrol one more then

perfect friday music

skull petrol

:D

sumelic

@tchrist Thanks. It's too bad that it is difficult to work on; I wish Stack Exchange would revise the tag synonymization process.

tchrist

7:45 PM

Well, tags on SO are arguably working pretty differently from here.

But yes, unless you have a moderator go through and fix stuff, it can be impossible. And mods aren't apt to do much without a specific impetus from the community. That said, it's a thankless task.

skull petrol

But somebody's gotta do it :P

Matt E. Эллен

@sumelic what needs to be done?

skull petrol

They say that it's the thought that counts; but not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Where does that leave the thought?

Matt E. Эллен

@JohanLarsson I'd say I'm reasonably unreasonable

skull petrol

Perhaps reasonably unaccounted for :-)

Robusto

7:58 PM

@MattE.Эллен Funny, I thought you were unreasonably reasonable.

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