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See, folks, he typed (lowercase) ah and then replaced it with (lowercase) an. In uppercase, AH is the same as AN in Russian, but AN in russian would sound like AI in English, sort of. Etc. Pages of illustrations.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JasperLoy whoosh.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Same to you!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

8:17 PM

@JasperLoy no, Jasper. Not same to me. Go learn some Russian first. Then get the joke. Then still not same to me. QED.

user19161

That is called a meta-whoosh!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JasperLoy you misspelled МЕТА.

user19161

And now abide the three: jinx, thwack and whoosh. And they all can be meta-ed.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Apr 23 '11 at 23:58, by RegDwight

I could transliterate the entire protocol into Russian.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy Meta-Ed is a person, not an action!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

8:18 PM

Never thought I'd be on it by now.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 But then everyone would be out of work.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto and?

You make that sound like a bad thing.

There's a reason why PlayStations sell better than workstations.

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user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Yeah, that line was so beautiful because there happens to be such a user as well. Yet it is still not starred.

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy again, I never meta-ed I didn't like.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@cornbreadninja boooooo! ;)

cornbread ninja

8:21 PM

:D

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Playstations suck. Sony sucks. Everything Sony does is wrong.

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Gigili

Okay, three is better than one.

But ten is better than three.

Matt Эллен

May 23 at 19:25, by Matt Эллен

I never ate a med I didn't like

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Robusto Yes! I so totally agree with this! It's what I tell all my friends!

Robusto

Also, notice that the little Japanese robot says "Praystation" — and either they're indulging in a bit of racist humor, or else they're putting in a subliminal religious suggestion.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I no rite

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

8:23 PM

@Robusto Sony has sold more rootkits than anyone else has any other kits.

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Robusto

Sony is evil. Sony rhymes with Kony, btw. QED.

cornbread ninja

@MattЭллен remembered :)

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

But yeah. I'm a Nintendo-fanboi with two Xboxen and no pee-asses. The only PS game I ever wanted to play, I just watched on YouTube. (Shadow of the Collossus, if you must know.)

Matt Эллен

@cornbreadninja aye :)

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

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Q: "These sort of things": is it grammatical? (2,670,000 hits on Google)

I was interested in the following sentence which appeared in an article titled “Colorless, Tasteless but Not Dangerous" by Dwight Garner in The New York Times (November 15, 2010). People who do gravitate toward these sort of things, he warns, sotto voce, might be “the wrong kind of white pe...

word-usage

Dupe of a dupe of a dupe, innit?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:27 PM

Personally I hate the fact that Sony's media divisions cause their hardware divisions to do such customer-hostile things. like mandatory DRM that doesn't work properly or rootkits or removing features from the Playstation3 through mandatory software updates. Or the fact that my fucking Sony Eriksson "Walkman" phone couldn't play music worth shit.

Matt Эллен

is it this one?

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Q: What sort of thing?

I can't quite figure out which of the following forms is correct: These sorts of things are ... This sort of things is ... This sort of thing is ... < some other option > So, what's the right choice?

grammatical-number

user19161

Tony rode a bony pony while listening to his Sony.

Matt Эллен

or maybe this one:

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Q: "This kind of things" vs "These kinds of thing"

I have a question about the following text: Last week Alex Knapp at Forbes published an article criticizing my Nikola Tesla comic. I don't normally respond to these kinds of thing, but since it's' Forbes I figured a proper response was in order. I would rather say "this kind of things" rat...

grammatical-number

user19161

Finally, I get a star for the worst shit I ever said.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JasperLoy well of course you can only get a star for a superlative once.

We can't star the rest of your shit because it simply ain't worst.

user19161

8:30 PM

When I see many stars in a short period, it must be @gigili at work.

user19161

She just loves to star every shit thing.

cornbread ninja

whistles, looks at ceiling

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

If you look at ceiling for too long, the ceiling looks at you.

Gigili

24 hours ago, by Gigili

Just for the record, I'm not starring anything.

user19161

@cornbreadninja Oh, you are the new gigili!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

8:31 PM

@Gigili that is a very old record.

Gigili

@JasperLoy I certainly have to flag that.

cornbread ninja

shines a laser pointer in ceiling cat's eyes

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Only in Soviet Russia.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 pfft, I had that record when it was on a wax cylinder and you had to pay Mr. Edison a royalty every time you listened to it.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JasperLoy Whoosh.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:32 PM

who are you wooshing?

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