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Gigili

17:00

interest lose?

OK, I know what to do with the translator

kills him with one bullet

@Mitch Noted

@skullpetrol Hmmm, guess I am

skull petrol

Cool

Gigili

@Mitch oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/…

Mitch

@Gigili There are all sorts of words in the dictionary and legal formations of words that really just aren't used.

ngram of 'causer'

all those instances (in the first couple pages at least) are stilted, awkward, technical uses.

You would think that it would make it perfect for legalese then.

I am not a lawyer, so I don't really know but 'causer' just sounded really bizarre and awkward in that passage, however 'grammatical' it might be.

Gigili

17:15

Yeah, I agree.

Mitch

17:35

There needs to be a score on the front page of ELU that says how many active questions there are that are SWR -and- are a thinly veiled frat boy/brogrammer asking about some sex thing. "What's a word for a woman who blah blah?"

Robusto

18:07

@Mitch blah-blah byatch, obviously.

Gigili

18:28

It is time for you to bury your hatchets

Mitch

18:54

@Gigili ...in the back of someone's neck

Review for local BBQ restaurant: "Great ethnic white people food, support them because they're dying off"

1 hour later…

Robusto

20:04

> About 34,000 cancer deaths a year worldwide are attributable to diets high in processed meats, according to figures cited by the panel.

In other words, 0.000485% of the global population dies from cancer attributable to eating processed meats.

Call it 1 person per 2 million of population? How is this a grave danger? It's not even a rounding error.

Gigili

statistics are made up

crl

73.2% of the time yes

Gigili

20:23

That too

Robusto

@crl 44.5% of the time people give that answer, but 86.75% of these are full of shit.

And 80% of the world population loves bacon.

Robusto

20:52

-1

Q: Why do people argue about silly things

This is so silly why do this you are making yourself look stupid

Trolling.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

21:10

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Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 That's right, rub it in . . .

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Here's the thing, though.

a) could you get 800,000+ people to show up on 1-2 days' notice to anything not related to sports?

b) could they assemble peaceably?

Robusto

You couldn't get me to show up. I don't care what we won, I'm not going near a crowd like that. No way, nohow.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

B-b-b-but history.

Robusto

History will be made again tomorrow. Go home, get a good buzz on, and drift off to sleep. You'll thank me in the morning.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 BTW, sent you an IM just now on a different topic.

Robusto

21:43

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A: Why is Plymouth pronouced like Plymeth

because it's a plymouth with a supPLY of METH.

OK, now this is getting to be serious trolling.

Please vote to delete or flag a frickin' moderator. I already have done both.

@MattE.Эллен, @AndrewLeach, @waiwai ^^^

MετάEd

22:37

Flagged "serious problems". Technically it's an answer, just an unsalveagable one.

crl

@Robusto Pareto law

MετάEd

@Robusto No it doesn't.

So something happened in Kansas?

tchrist

Mods gone?

skull petrol

They won the World Series of baseball @MετάEd

MετάEd

@skullpetrol Who'd they beat?

skull petrol

22:45

NY Mets

New York fans are known to be pretty nasty about losing.

Robusto

Screw New York and their nastiness.

MετάEd

@skullpetrol Oh, well then it wasn't an official World Series.

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skull petrol

They have a lot of band wagons to jump on with their 6 major league sports franchises.

Yup @MετάEd the winningest team in all pro sports history.

MετάEd

@tchrist Just us rads.

Aequitas

hi quick question: a ubuntu or an ubuntu computer?

MετάEd

22:57

@Aequitas How do you usually pronounce "ubuntu"?

skull petrol

Nothing beats Vancouver and their two Stanley cup riots after losing @Robusto

Aequitas

like ewbuntoo

tchrist

you?

MετάEd

Then it would be "a ewbuntoo". But if you were to pronounce it "oo-boon-too" (which is the original pronunciation), it would be "an oo-boon-too".

skull petrol

^

Aequitas

23:00

why? e is a vowel too tho?

skull petrol

But it's the sound that counts :-)

MετάEd

@Aequitas Am I right in thinking you actually say something like "yew-bun-too"?

skull petrol

For a/an

Robusto

23:14

@skullpetrol Well, you're forgetting about the Blackhawks.

You don't need to riot when you win.

skull petrol

True dat

Aequitas

@MετάEd i say ew like rhymes with cue, idk how to actually say it, i've only seen it written

MετάEd

@Aequitas If you say it like "you" or "yew", then it begins with a consonant "y" and it will be most natural to use "a". If you say it like "oo", then it begins with a vowel and it will be most natural to use "an".

Aequitas

@MετάEd okay so what to use if it's written? since it's a made up word (that's usually only written) the pronunciation is ambigous

sumelic

@Aequitas It's not made up from scratch. Wikipedia says its from a Bantu word in South Africa.

If the word is made up though, you just have to decide how you would pronounce it

Aequitas

23:32

oh okay didn't know that, so if it's made up I can do whatever I want?

skull petrol

Yes.

Pronunciation is not written in stone.

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