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Robusto
Robusto
5:01 PM
@tchrist See, now you're just over the top. I replied with restraint and decorum. This is just rude.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
0
Q: Do English native speakers say "oh, I figured"?

xczzhhAn English teacher in China made a long list of regular expressions the other day, two of which are: Oh, I figured. (meaning, I saw it coming ) Where can I wash my hands? ( meaning, where is the bathroom?) Do these two expressions really sound natural to native speakers?

expressions
 
tchrist
tchrist
Already voted.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
comment etiquette prevents me from just writing "yes"
 
tchrist
tchrist
@MattЭллен Standing on ceremony, then?
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@JSBձոգչ Probably a distinction without a difference. The point, probably lost by now, is that religious calendars exist in parallel with civic calendars, and it's pointless to argue whether Sunday ends or begins the week because it can, and does, do both depending on what building you're standing in.
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
5:04 PM
@ΜετάEd oh. well, i'm sitting in my house in my pajamas, and i declare that today is the last day of the week because then i get to play Magic tonight and sleep in tomorrow
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@tchrist he must have fallen in front of me
 
tchrist
tchrist
@Robusto No, I’m completist.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@JSBձոգչ I agree. because I am sleeping in tomorrow because I've booked holiday and I have friends from far places visiting
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
@Matt woo! have fun!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
well, far place
@JSBձոգչ thanks!, I think we will
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
5:06 PM
@JSBձոգչ Sure. And then closely aligned with late night gaming sessions, there's the question of when the next day begins. In various religions it's sunset; commonly the civic day begins at midnight.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@JSBձոգչ Play Blue.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
But in my house it ain't tomorrow until you've slept.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@tchrist Well, you can't have everything.
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
@tchrist i hate blue.
 
KitFox
KitFox
@MattЭллен Yay fun!
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
5:07 PM
@MattЭллен Oh, I figured you would follow comment etiquette :-D
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
actually, i'm coming around to blue, but i'm really a white/black/green guy at heart
 
tchrist
tchrist
@JSBձոգչ bows
 
Robusto
Robusto
@MattЭллен See, the cool thing about regular expressions is that you don't have to make long lists of them. They are meant to cover multiple cases. feels proud of self
 
user19161
@JSBձոգչ As you can see, I like all things blue.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
lol
@JSBձոգչ I've been playing the 2013 computer game, and Red seems to be good for the encounters I've done so far
 
tchrist
tchrist
5:09 PM
@JSBձոգչ There is nothing you have that I cannot hack, sleight, control, move, steal, copy, unsummon, counter, or mill into oblivion. I ever prefer to play on your turn, not my own. Your game is mine.
And you will learn to be very polite when playing against blue.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@KitFox Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. :)
@tchrist as in "sorry I beat you again"?
 
tchrist
tchrist
Blue is not there to make friends.
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
@tchrist see, this is why i hate blue.
no, it isn't
but that's okay! i'll just cast thrun off of my cavern of souls and then put rancor on him
gg, sir
 
tchrist
tchrist
@Robusto By their postings shall ye know them.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@ΜετάEd New Year is so overrated. Nobody ever celebrates Old Year — that awesome year in which they could lay back and slack and procrastinate to their heart's content. Instead everybody goes crazy about the year in which they will have to keep all their stupid resolutions. That's like celebrating Monday, to the 52nd power.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
5:12 PM
@Robusto I just saw a "User was removed" explanation on my reputation page from three hours ago. That what you saw too?
 
tchrist
tchrist
@JSBձոգչ You forgot to say mother may I.
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
@tchrist Mom is a white card
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@RegDwightАΑA I like celebrating another trip around the sun.
 
user19161
@ΜετάEd Well, most of us got it I think.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@JasperLoy Huh. Did we figure out who it was?
Wasn't NS.
 
user19161
5:13 PM
@ΜετάEd No, I tried to divine but failed.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@ΜετάEd yes, a trip that has barely even begun, and which for all you know you will never complete.
 
user19161
Just a not very active user I guess.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
why haven't all our followers voted on the ELL questions? 5 votes per follower yet there just over 200 votes cast
oh
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@RegDwightАΑA No, not that one. Celebration of the completion of another trip around the sun. Like a birthday.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
maybe there are some down votes...
well, I can't tell
but still, there won't be that many
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
5:15 PM
@ΜετάEd but that's my point, then it must be called "Old Year". Which it isn't.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
one year older one year closer to climate change catastrophe!
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
I mean, that's like celebrating your birthday by calling it deathday.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@JSBձոգչ Tithes you with [gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/….
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
contemplates deathday celebrations...
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@RegDwightАΑA The name New Year's Day doesn't have to mean you're celebrating the upcoming year. Hey, any reason is good enough to pop the top off a beer.
 
tchrist
tchrist
5:16 PM
Dumb thing.
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
that's why i use magiccards.info
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
square followed by square, curved followed by curved
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
For example on a person's first birthday the celebration is, hey, you've been around for a year. That's not a celebration of the future: it's a celebration of the present, and the past.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@ΜετάEd then call it "Any Reason's Eve". And make it happen every day, twice a day.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@RegDwightАΑA Pish. Tosh.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
5:17 PM
NO U
I am having a beer right now. Contemplating about all the things I haven't done in the years behind.
 
user19161
RegDwight should change his username to Reg Dwight.
 
user19161
@RegDwightАΑA What are you waiting for? Get them all done by tonight!
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Sorry, as per Shog, no unicode whitespaces are allowed in names.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Is language of blacks not accepted by majority in commercials in the United States of America? — Derfder 2 mins ago
Harrumph.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
♫ GET N 2 NO U ... GET N 2 NO L ABOUT U ... ♫
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
5:19 PM
Define "language of blacks".
 
KitFox
KitFox
Ebonics.
 
user19161
@RegDwightАΑA Double negation for one.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Define language.
 
KitFox
KitFox
AAVE.
 
user19161
@tchrist What one speaks.
 
tchrist
tchrist
5:19 PM
Define black.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@KitFox yes, that's what the comment right above his says, and yet he goes with "language of blacks".
 
KitFox
KitFox
Hey, did I ever tell you how I'm biracial?
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Did you ever not?
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@RegDwightАΑA Person is ESL. Forgive. Almost certainly referring to black dialect, or whatever you want to call it.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@KitFox You ran twice?
 
user19161
5:20 PM
@KitFox I think so but I forgot.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@ΜετάEd I'm just saying. It takes one person to get offended.
 
tchrist
tchrist
The one thing you can say about blacks’ language is that it is colorful.
Assuming black is a color. Which it isn't.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@tchrist offended
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Black is the absense of all color. Back to physics class for you.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
heh heh heh.
 
user19161
5:22 PM
@RegDwightАΑA absence
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@JasperLoy that was a czech if you were still with us.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@JasperLoy He just does that to try to bait me into correcting him overzealously.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@tchrist Nonsence.
 
user19161
@RegDwightАΑA I am a bit cautious about these, given the case with "practice" and "license" in AmE.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@JasperLoy I am pretty sure that I typed a C there. But this is a Russian keyboard. Where you have C it has S.
 
user19161
5:24 PM
@RegDwightАΑA Ah, I had about 100 keyboards to choose from during installation.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
(I wish David Wallace were around to appreciate my joke.)
 
user19161
I now know that my keyboard is "US English".
 
tchrist
tchrist
sees your satem and raises you a centum
 
user19161
I think the world should be made to use one language and one keyboard and one ...
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@tchrist I check. Show us your centunse.
 
user19161
5:25 PM
@ΜετάEd I just tried out CentOS, not too good.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@ΜετάEd Centumae's.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@JasperLoy Check out Inferno.
 
tchrist
tchrist
calls for ichthyocentaurs to bale him out of deep water
@RegDwightАΑA sends you a cat for your mice
 
Mitch
Mitch
@ΜετάEd so are you agreeing with me? Most people aren't following the ecclesiastical calendar, no matter how religious they are.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@tchrist actually the only reasonable answer you can give, and I am surprised that nobody has done that yet, is, "If you don't have the slightest idea how any of this pans out, you have no business using such expressions in the first place. And this is nothing a stranger from the Internet can teach you in five minutes, either."
 
tchrist
tchrist
5:30 PM
@RegDwightАΑA Well, I told him he would just look stoopid.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
I must have overlooked that. Chances are, so will he.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@Mitch Most Catholics are following it whether they are aware of it or not, if they are participating in any way in weekly mass.
 
tchrist
tchrist
I only typed it in a few seconds ago.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattЭллен also, character limits.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Ah I see it now.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
5:31 PM
@Mitch indeed - enforced etiquette!
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@MattЭллен that's what I took it to mean.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@Mitch And I'm disagreeing with you. You are both right about what day the week begins and so you are both wrong to disagree with one another. One of you is arguing from a civil calendar and the other from an ecclesiastical calendar. You're arguing past one another.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@ΜετάEd Are you seeing double?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@ΜετάEd Are you seeing double?
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@tchrist Yes.
@MattЭллен Yes.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
5:34 PM
Hey some nice Favre-related ping pongs. I get some steady value for my money.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Yeah well, wish I did. It’s easier to drive a camel through the eye of a needle than for me to incur positive rep by light of day.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Pfft. Day.
Jul 1 '11 at 13:19, by RegDwight
@MrDisappointment "Do you agree that the Sun is overrated, because it shines when it's bright anyway, unlike the Moon?"
Moonlight ftw. They even name sonatas after him!
 
user19161
I wonder if we can now live on another planet if Earth is destroyed.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Quick check: how many of you can spell Vierwaldstätter See?
 
user19161
Not me.
 
Mitch
Mitch
5:37 PM
@ΜετάEd OK. I see your point.
But you're effing wrong then
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@Mitch Wouldn't be the first time.
 
Mitch
Mitch
nobody folows the ecclesiastical calendar
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@Mitch The guy arguing that Sunday starts the week does.
 
Mitch
Mitch
And your being wrong can only lead to bad things in this world.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
What's a calendar? Perhaps I follow one.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
5:38 PM
Your "nobody" has already bitten the dust.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Quoth Ulysses.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Yeah, that dude is just playing with an argument, whereas, I and untold millions of unconscious wage slaves, are right.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Bad karma.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@ΜετάEd It bit the dust that remains after the ecclesiastical calendar dried up and blew away.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
Mr Bloom reviewed the nails of his left hand, then those of his right hand.
quoted Ulysses.
@Mitch It's all still there. Ask the Jews what year it is. They'll tell you it depends.
 
tchrist
tchrist
5:41 PM
@ΜετάEd Yes: on whether you ask them now or next year.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@ΜετάEd Gah! are we talking about what people do or what it's fun to talk about?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
indeed, it depends on what year it is. Like this year, it's 2012. last year it is 2011
 
user19161
@MattЭллен 2012 is also the end of the world for some.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@Mitch Yes.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Philistines!
a.d. VI Id. Aug. MMDCCLXV AUC
 
Mitch
Mitch
5:43 PM
I found a coin that said 79BC
I had to pay someone to buy it.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@Mitch Kal. Ian. DCLXXV AUC
 
Mitch
Mitch
@ΜετάEd you missed our discussion of meta votes.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
Ask a Jew what day it is and the answer is 8 August 2012 or 20 Av 5772 depending on what building they're in. Ask a Muslim and add 20 Ramadan 1433. If he's Persian, also add 18 Mordad 1391.
 
user19161
@ΜετάEd Too hard for me. Life should be easier.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@Mitch Hope so. I've already got enough Μετά.
 
Mitch
Mitch
5:45 PM
@ΜετάEd when's lunch?
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
Then there are the Chinese, etc.
And a Chinese etc. is a strange thing, let me tell you.
 
Mitch
Mitch
the Balinese calendar has cycles of length 1.
I know! Right?
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@Mitch Depends on whether it's 8 August 2012 or 20 Ramadan 1433. If the latter, the answer is "sunset".
 
KitFox
KitFox
0
Q: Dimensional reduction with synonomy and polysemy

SiddI was wondering something for a computer science project I am doing. Documents usually have too many distinct words to process on a computer efficiently. One solution is to map all words to a single synonym. For instance, 'giant' and 'enormous' and 'huge' would all map to big. I also want to acco...

synonyms
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@Mitch lunch time is doubly an illusion
 
Mitch
Mitch
5:48 PM
@ΜετάEd pick your depends, then what? I'm picking Euro-US-centric. Answer: Monday.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
That is a really fascinating question, but I don't think it is a good fit for our format. I don't think we could give you a definitive answer, and the site isn't set up for discussions. You could come and discuss it in our chat room if you have enough reputation. — KitFox 1 min ago
This looks so much more authoritative on the left side of a diamond.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattЭллен That's not right to say things like that.
Unless you get to eat lunch twice.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@Mitch > Time is an illlusion, lunch time doubly so
 
Mitch
Mitch
@ΜετάEd yeah, but no one ever comes to chat for that.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
— Douglas Adams
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
5:49 PM
@Mitch Right. You can pick whatever you want. It's just a mistake to tell the other guy that he's wrong when he says it's Sunday.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@ΜετάEd yeah you can if you set the parameter.
 
KitFox
KitFox
@ΜετάEd giggles It is so hard to sit on my hands.
 
Mitch
Mitch
otherwise there's no 'depends'.
 
user19161
@KitFox The diamond must be huge then.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@KitFox flagged
 
KitFox
KitFox
5:50 PM
Hahaha.
You guys make me lol.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@KitFox friends. nose. ~friend's nose.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@KitFox That's what we're for.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@KitFox laughing is also wrong.
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
i have no problem with the notion that Monday is the first day of the week in Europe
b/c it is
 
Mitch
Mitch
eff it. I'm not waiting. I'm getting my own goddamn coffee cake.
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
5:51 PM
but the first day of the week is Sunday in America
 
Mitch
Mitch
@JSBձոգչ OK. that seems rational.
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
and the American custom is more in line with history and traditional usage
that's all i'm saying!
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
22 hours ago, by ΜετάEd
Coffee cake all around.
Coffee cake was yesterday.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@JSBձոգչ and that also, if all you're talking about is printed calendars, where Sunday is the first day on the row of a week.
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
i like coffee cake, though
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
5:52 PM
no, Tuesday was yesterday
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
can we have crumb cake?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
unless you're renaming the days now
 
Mitch
Mitch
But that does not correspond to how people act. they act as though Mocnday is the first of the week.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
Let's rename today to Wednesday. Nobody will suspect!
 
Mitch
Mitch
@ΜετάEd OK, now you're just taunting me.
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
5:53 PM
@Mitch that's why we have the word "workweek". to distinguish different kinds of weeks
 
Mitch
Mitch
@ΜετάEd settled.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@ΜετάEd hmmm, it's ok, but how about wensdee?
 
KitFox
KitFox
@ΜετάEd I'm asking about migrating.
Oh, wait, it was coleopterist who suggested it.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@KitFox I see that, and I flagged it.
And the author agreed. So it's a great idea whose time has come.
 
KitFox
KitFox
I have to check with their mods first.
Wahoo! I did it!
in lɪŋˈgwɪstɪks, 27 secs ago, by KitFox
These big girl underpants sure feel good.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
5:57 PM
yay!
 
user19161
@KitFox That sentence is polysemantic.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
You already said that to me. I'm sorry, but you can't use the same sentence twice in this room unless you quote it.
 
KitFox
KitFox
Look, Reg, look! I migrated a question all by myself!
 
user19161
yesterday, by Jasper Loy
@RegDwightАΑA This sentence is polysemantic.
 
user19161
5 mins ago, by Jasper Loy
@KitFox That sentence is polysemantic.
 
user19161
6:02 PM
Note that the two sentences are distinct @reg.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
Jul 27 '11 at 14:06, by Matt Ellen
yay!
 
KitFox
KitFox
@Matt I sent you an email.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
I will find it!
 
user19161
@KitFox Wow, I am jealous now.
 
KitFox
KitFox
Oh sorry. Nothing personal.
Well, it's kind of personal. There's no good way to answer that.
I'm not stealing your boyfriend, Jasper.
;-)
 
user19161
6:05 PM
Hehe, I am not gay, though I can be attracted to guys.
 
KitFox
KitFox
I'm not gay either, even though I engage in sexual relations with women.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
I'm not gay all the time, either. Sometimes I'm sad.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
Whose boyfriend Jasper are you not stealing exactly?
 
user19161
Like I said before sexuality is a continuous spectrum.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@JasperLoy If you're not having sex continuously, you're doing it wrong?
 
user19161
6:07 PM
Nobody lies at the extreme ends. In an extreme sense, everyone is bisexual.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@JasperLoy Nobody can look at bonobo behavior and think about "sucking up at work" the same way again.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
nobody can look at a bonobo beaver
 
KitFox
KitFox
facepalm
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
unless there are some crazy genetic experiments going on that I don't know about
 
Robusto
Robusto
@ΜετάEd Yes.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
6:15 PM
@KitFox and I saw it, and I was proud, and still am.
 
KitFox
KitFox
:D
 
user19161
Careful, foxes eat owls.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Owls also eat frogs, who eat foxes. QED.
 
KitFox
KitFox
Snowy owls are much too big for a little foxen like me.
 
ΜετάEd
ΜετάEd
@KitFox Is that the "royal" foxen?
 
KitFox
KitFox
6:19 PM
Y..ye...um...y...yeah. yesh. yes.
 
user19161
@matt I visited your website again. Still the same colours. You like them? It looks bad to me, but as long as you like it it's fine.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
I still like them
I have been considering a redo, but I've not come up with an idea yet
 
KitFox
KitFox
Geezis. I read that as "I still kill them."
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
murder on the mind
 
user19161
Well, my idea would be to change the entire background to a nice blue.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
6:21 PM
Really? Not a hideous blue?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
lol
 
user19161
Blue is not hideous by definition.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
So your sentence makes even less sense.
 
KitFox
KitFox
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
I think #0000FF would be unsightly to say the least
 
KitFox
KitFox
6:22 PM
Reg is amazing.
 
user19161
Try "steelblue".
 
user19161
I use it everywhere.
 
user19161
#4682B4
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@KitFox that's how tanks work.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@MattЭллен That is the hex equivalent of a blow to the gut: OOOOFF!!
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
6:23 PM
Not remarkable in the least. Take any tank and see for yourself.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@JasperLoy No stealing blue in chat.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
#6699cc. Nuff said.
 
user19161
@Robusto You missed out the "this".
 
user19161
The standard form is "No XXX in this chat".
 
Robusto
Robusto
@RegDwightАΑA Boring.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
6:24 PM
@Robusto hence the nuff.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwightАΑA what is that, dark brown?
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Though of course saying #ccc is boring is like saying that C♯ is boring. The question is what you make out of it.
@Mitch blue. And not dark.
I try to sneak it onto all our sites.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@RegDwightАΑA New synonym for boring? You phrasemaker, you.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@Robusto that's Phrasendrescher for you.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@JasperLoy You take your standard forms and shove 'em. I'm non-standard all the way.
 
tchrist
tchrist
6:29 PM
@RegDwightАΑA Am eager to see these vulpivorous frogs.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Of course you are. Goes without saying.
I will show you for 100 tögrög.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
I will go and get something resembling food. tögrög pip
 
tchrist
tchrist
@JasperLoy She’s still not stealing your boyfriend, because borrowing is not stealing. Just make sure she sends him through the laundry before returning him.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@RegDwightАΑA argh...oh...is that exactly Jasper's? I had to translate out of hex and then try it in effing Windows color picker.
 
Robusto
Robusto
What does vulpivorous frog kibble look like? Little foxen?
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
6:32 PM
@tchrist For best results, just download your friends.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@Robusto Pretty sure shoving is often pretty standardly involved in sex.
Pretty picture or no.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@Mitch I have no idea what Jasper's is, but it's not unsimilar.
 
KitFox
KitFox
Reg's is bluer. Jasper's more green.
Both nice picks.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Oh. I'm dunb. Jasper just gave his as 4682B4 which is of course not terribly far away.
 
user19161
@Mitch Yes, mine is "steelblue", no more no less.
 
Robusto
Robusto
6:34 PM
Huh, guess that's not the "official video" I thought it was.
 
KitFox
KitFox
You dawg.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Saw The Graduate just the other day.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Oh for goodness’ sake, I’ve run out of close votes today! Life has no meaning.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@tchrist here, take mine.
 
tchrist
tchrist
gobble gobble
 
user19161
6:37 PM
@Robusto At first I thought that was something NSFW.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Gibblegobble burtasyub nicetrump. — delete Aug 26 '10 at 1:31
 
tchrist
tchrist
Have to...
-1
Q: What is the difference between close friend and closed friend?

giraI am wondering what is the difference between close friend and closed friend? Is closed friend a correct form? Thank you.

word-choice phrases
Unless it’s about closet friends.
 
user19161
@tchrist LOL
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@tchrist the difference is that between a close question and a closed question.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@RegDwightАΑA @Mitch says there’s no difference, but he’s elocutionally challenged.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
6:41 PM
He's a locust?
 
user19161
@tchrist I think a closed friend would be the opposite of a close friend; one has shut him out.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@JasperLoy I think a made up answer is the opposite of a useful one.
 
user19161
@RegDwightАΑA It could also be a close friend who is too closed he is not ready to open up and share his secrets.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Yay! A what is this grammar question!
 
Robusto
Robusto
@RegDwightАΑA And?
 
Mitch
Mitch
6:44 PM
@tchrist I would think that is more visually challenged unless you doubt my ability to use the word 'no' consistently.
argh--- I thought you were talking about colors.
 
KitFox
KitFox
@RegDwightАΑA Well, he did apologize for the breadth.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@KitFox Apologies for halitosis are not acceptable.
@RegDwightАΑA Hm, which?
 
Robusto
Robusto
@RegDwightАΑA "Keep your friends close and your enemies closed."
 
KitFox
KitFox
Hey, so the problem I had with my data not binding was...I wasn't binding it.
 
user19161
0
Q: What is this structure?

EnglishAsASecondLanguageConsider the following sentence: The Bactrian camel is well adapted to the extreme climate of its native Mongolia, having thick fur and underwool that keep it warm in winter and also insulate against summer heat. My question is about the italicized part. My usage of English is grounded ...

grammar
 
tchrist
tchrist
6:46 PM
Damn it, Reg!
You always get updates minutes before me.
Wait!
I know!
SE is on a 30-second delay that only mods get in real-time.
Splains everything.
My work here is done.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@JasperLoy This looks like a planted question.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@KitFox use some butter and flour.
 
KitFox
KitFox
I added an egg too, for good measure.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
Doesn't work for soups, which is what my business is all about.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Not looking forward to Windows 8.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
6:48 PM
Looking backward to Windows ME.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@Robusto Upgrade to Mac.
@Robusto Upgrade to Linux.
@Robusto Upgrade to (pace Seymour) Crayola.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
@Robusto pfft. Of course Gabe Newell will hate Windows 8. He still vividly remembers what happened when he tried to install Vista.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@RegDwightАΑA Hahaha.
Still, Windows 8 is looking like, uh, an enormous turd in the making.
 
RegDwight АΑA
RegDwight АΑA
And that's about the time when turds look best.
 
user19161
Windows 8 looks good to me. It would be the best Microsoft OS ever.
 
Robusto
Robusto
6:56 PM
OK, fanboi. Noted.
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
i think that Win8 has a good chance of being both the best Microsoft OS ever and a huge commercial flop
 
user19161
I never used Mac, it's true.
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
i've been using it for a while and think it's fine, but it's certainly different, and runs a big risk of consumer backlash
 
user19161
@JSBձոգչ The preview?
 
JSBձոգչ
JSBձոգչ
yeah
 
user19161
6:57 PM
Daniel is using it too.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@Robusto Wrongo mi Bobo. Merely a vehement and vociferous livelong adversary to the Horror Out of Redmond. I’d opt for nose-booger seppeku before I would suffer that witch to live. Back to the swamps with you, spawn of Satan!
 
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