English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

ΜετάEd

2:00 PM

@tchrist Not even the big O can unpack that.

tchrist

@ΜετάEd It’s in Gothic.

KitFox

> “Sexuality is part of the futility of art,” says Lacan. If prepatriarchial narrative holds, we have to choose between textual socialism and materialist discourse. Therefore, Sartre suggests the use of subdialectic materialism to challenge and modify society. KitFox ♦ 14 secs ago

ΜετάEd

@tchrist I think you're a bit late to bring the truth to the Goths.

tchrist

It said Atta unsar þu in himinam.

RegDwight АΑA

> Xblast time! — RegDwight АΑA ♦

Matt Эллен

2:01 PM

> “Sexual identity is impossible,” says Sontag. However, an abundance of discourses concerning subtextual narrative exist. — AllThoseGuys 9 hours ago

KitFox

haha

God, I hate my ex.

Mahnax

Good morning.

Matt Эллен

Hiya Mahnax

Robusto

I wonder ... is antimony the opposite of antonymy? Or is it antipodeal?

ΜετάEd

@tchrist Okay, I think you're a bit late to offer an "atta boy" to the Goths.

tchrist

2:03 PM

@ΜετάEd I once noticed this particular patch where a blazing southern sun was reflecting off two glass-windowed buildings, converging on a now trebly sunlit spot. So I stopped a passing black-garbed Goth, feigning to ask him silly questions, but actually cooking him in his seasonally inappropriate costume.

Robusto

@KitFox That crazy Sartre. Always about the fanservice.

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tchrist

@Robusto Antiposer!

Matt Эллен

@Robusto antimony is just a fancy word for debt

tchrist

Alley moany.

JSBձոգչ

good morning netizens

KitFox

2:05 PM

Morning.

JSBձոգչ

@Kit, what has happened to your avatar?

Matt Эллен

Hullo, JSB

Robusto

@MattЭллен Which version of Antimony-Mony do you prefer? Billy Idol's or Tommy James'?

Sartre was a sexistentialist.

KitFox

@JSBձոգչ That's me!

With a bazooka!

So I can nuke stuff.

Because I'm a mod now.

Well, it's less fun now that I've explained it.

JSBձոգչ

i see

prefer you as a fox, though

tchrist

2:07 PM

Graecum est: non potest legi — tchrist 1 hour ago

Robusto

@KitFox Sounds really Kick-Ass.

tchrist

@tchrist - Can you translate, please? — brilliant 2 mins ago

Simply brilliant!

JSBձոգչ

if you want to be ferocious you could use a picture like this:

KitFox

Geezis.

@JSBձոգչ Well, I'm sure I'll put the fox back on someday.

tchrist

@KitFox I have one of a melanistic specimen with a squirrel hanging from his jaws. Would you like to see it?

KitFox

2:09 PM

That photo is really disturbing.

JSBձոգչ

man, foxen are adorable even when they're being ferocious

tchrist

Best not, then.

KitFox

@tchrist Sure.

tchrist

fuchsen?

Moment.

> The assignment and reassignment of meaning must be investigated as processes in the domain of resilience possessed by each population recognizing itself to be culturally perduring.

JSBձոգչ

tchrist

2:12 PM

cites the path to perdition

Robusto

►

Kit as a mod ^

JSBձոգչ

adorable! and ferocious!

ooh! hummingbird outside my window!

Robusto

It's ... Kit-Girl.

tchrist

Sweet brilliance himself just edited one of my postings to remove the irony. This is the guy who wants a translation of graecum est. How ironic is that?

Robusto

It's graecum to me.

KitFox

2:14 PM

@tchrist translates graecum est

Oh, pretty ironic.

tchrist

@KitFox Keep it clean, foxlet. This is a Family Channel.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@tchrist only when Mahnax is around.

tchrist

The kids’ names should be red so we know when they are watching.

KitFox

You should totally put that as a feature request.

Robusto

If you can't handle TV-MA you don't belong in here.

tchrist

2:17 PM

supersillies the foxlet

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

we should also put an age-verification test on the transcript, just to be sure

So the other day I tried to play the original "Leisure Suit Larry" game

tchrist

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 In Homeric Greek.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

it had a "prove you're over 18" test at the beginning

The test works by asking trivia that only and adult would know

unfortunately, it's really "only an adult in 1989" would know

tchrist

Riiiiiight.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

So if I didn't know the answers then, I don't know them now

thankfully, there's wikipedia.

JSBձոգչ

2:19 PM

i was only a little boy in 1989, but i still know who Leisure Suit Larry is

KitFox

@Robusto You really think so? I think I'm calmer than that.

Mitch

@ΜετάEd there are myths and stories and 'facts' and facts, and then there are the people who try to put them to use, and then the people both those affect.

ΜετάEd

Why in the world would we try to age-verify viewers of the chatroom? That's a parental responsibility.

The only thing the owners of this site need to be careful of is collecting personal information from children.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@ΜετάEd plausible deniability.

RegDwight АΑA

@ΜετάEd Besides, age verification is not that hard. If you can name three Justin Bieber songs, you are too young to chat here.

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JSBձոգչ

2:31 PM

well, that disqualifies Jasper

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

he can name ALL the justin beiber songs.

ΜετάEd

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 You must be this many ems tall to ride this chat.

Matt Эллен

Justin Beeber has 3 songs?

Cerberus

@ΜετάEd Yes. You get just one digit wrong, and you waste an entire night.

Matt Эллен

surely he has one song "Oh, yeah, baby, yeah" or something like that

RegDwight АΑA

2:33 PM

@MattЭллен nice try. For additional effect, make that a "Who is Justin Bieber".

Cerberus

@JSBձոգչ Wasn't that some kind of erotic game?

ΜετάEd

The National Safety Council wishes me to warn you: do not drink and drive. You might hit a bump and spill the whole thing.

JSBձոգչ

@Cerberus "erotic" would be a stretch. but... yeah

Cerberus

Heh.

JSBձոգչ

i never played it, but it was advertised on one of the inserts in Kings Quest, which I did play

Mitch

2:34 PM

@RegDwightАΑA I saw the link targets and still was trolled. except...

english.stackexchange.com/users/24531/…

RegDwight АΑA

@JSBձոգչ And look where it got you!

Mitch

not that far off.

Cerberus

I remember reading about it around that time. Or perhaps a bit later.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightАΑA Who is? Just in: Bieber

Mitch

"Yes, the question is open-ended, but I would precise that this unhelpful distinction persist in some exemplar of thoughtful conservatism informed by an acute literary sensibility. However I feel a sense of intellectual kinship when meet people that are able to think on this issue!"

RegDwight АΑA

2:35 PM

@Mitch that was the point.

Trolling is a art, after all.

Mitch

the only difference is the use of one or two words from the question.

RegDwight АΑA

@Mitch that can be fixed rather easily.

Matt Эллен

@Mitch and the use of precise as a verb

Mitch

next step, join Eliza chatbot with the pomo creator.

RegDwight АΑA

> “Society is part of the ~~futility~~ etymology of ~~narrativity~~ vagina,” says Baudrillard; however, according to Pickett, it is not so much society that is part of the futility of narrativity, but rather the failure, and subsequent paradigm, of society. It could be said that the subject is interpolated into a cultural Marxism that includes art as a whole. Many discourses concerning predialectic deconstruction may be revealed.

See. Not that hard.

Mitch

2:37 PM

@MattЭллен yeah that is a classic europeanism/romanti...cism

Matt Эллен

@Mitch romanti... Wait for it... cism!

RegDwight АΑA

Cis–trans isomerism

In organic chemistry, cis/trans isomerism (also known as geometric isomerism, configuration isomerism, or E/Z isomerism) is a form of stereoisomerism describing the orientation of functional groups within a molecule. In general, such isomers contain double bonds, which cannot rotate, but they can also arise from ring structures, wherein the rotation of bonds is greatly restricted. Cis and trans isomers occur both in organic molecules and in inorganic coordination complexes. The terms cis and trans are from Latin, in which cis means "on the same side" and trans means "on the other side" ...

ΜετάEd

I think cis-transisomerism is against the law in most places.

Cerberus

> I've never had anyone ever give me an excuse not to hang with me when I ask like this. Especially when it comes to girls. And if they hesitate or start throwing excuses, you can be direct by saying: "Look, I'd really like you to come. I think your clever sense of humor will lift everyone's mood."

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus I thought I deleted that?

Cerberus

2:39 PM

This explains a lot about our world.

Nope.

Mitch

those pomo texts are extraordinarily..coherent... if only the individual words had meaning. As in, the discourse refers back to things in ways that look meaningful. So it looks relevant.

KitFox

@Cerberus WTF?

Cerberus

Please let it stay up, it's great.

Matt Эллен

@Mitch you are pomo?

RegDwight АΑA

A great dilemma.

tchrist

2:40 PM

@RegDwightАΑA Writing Society is part of the f̵u̵t̵i̵l̵i̵t̵y̵ etymology of n̵a̵r̵r̵a̵t̵i̵v̵i̵t̵y̵ vagina in chat is especially challenging . . . for the pre-enlightened.

KitFox

Ur messin up my chat!

Cerberus

@Mitch Not to me! I strongly distrust real pomo texts as well. Not all, but many.

tchrist

@KitFox bows

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist don't let me go Brothers Lumière on your poor hitherpart.

Mitch

@MattЭллен 100% real juice.

Cerberus

2:42 PM

in lɪŋˈgwɪstɪks, Jun 26 at 1:33, by Cerberus

My maxim: if an explanation is needed to understand a certain philosophical text—then why is not the explanation the text?

I.e. it's bad.

@KitFox I know!

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Q: Polite way to tell people when to arrive on an invitation

We’re inviting some of our friends but we are not so close, so I need to tell them when we’re expecting them to be at our house. Would you please tell me how to say it? I was thinking of saying: We're expecting you to be here at 8:20 PM. But I am not really sure that this is a polite way t...

sentence

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus because then it would stop being philosophy, and start being a recipe.

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA Unless it’s by thee not me, ’tis a netherpart. And I would know if mine had gone walkabout.

Robusto

@KitFox But now you have da Power!

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist that's what she said.

Cerberus

@RegDwightАΑA No, it would stop being bad philosophy (or bad x—this happens in any field, a lot) and become good philosophy.

RegDwight АΑA

2:43 PM

@Cerberus yeah yeah, no true philosopher is Harry Potter.

Mitch

@Cerberus coherent in the sense that it repeats the target phrases 'sexual identity' deconstructed capitalism' etc, as though it really is referring to an idea that it is building meaning on.

Cerberus

@RegDwightАΑA What?

@Mitch All right, so you mean there is some kind of referring going on?

Mitch

@Cerberus that's just loser talk.

Cerberus

It's sane talk!

Mitch

oh..if you want to play that way.

Cerberus

2:45 PM

@RegDwightАΑA Do you see now why I would never run for moderator?

@Mitch The sane way?

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus Oh, sorry. I forgot it was you. No true1 philosopher is Harry Potter2.

Mitch

@Cerberus not real referring, yeah, it's total gibberish.

tchrist

@Cerberus adds the politesse tag

RegDwight АΑA

Gah stupid formatting.,

Matt Эллен

The caricature of narrative that belies the notions of Baudrillard and Cousteau tangles in the webbing of analysis they portray in their works. Treating the castigation of variation through mobility of meaning is a metaphor frequently observed in the discursive topics.

Cerberus

2:46 PM

@RegDwightАΑA You are as bad as the PMG. As to this line, see my quoted line.

@Mitch Yay!

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA y/12/¹²/

Cerberus

@tchrist Thanks, I guess?

Mitch

@Cerberus well, duh..I'm not -totally- an idiot

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist nope, I wanted square brackets, too.

Cerberus

@Mitch By "yay" I wasn't suggesting that you were!

RegDwight АΑA

2:47 PM

@Cerberus why would I see your quoted line? It was about philosophy.

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA y/[]/［］/

RegDwight АΑA

And I am not philosophizing here.

Mitch

but the use in the pomo text creation code is attempting to add some coherence by repeating concept terms. makes it -look- like there's a train of thought being developed.

Cerberus

4 mins ago, by Cerberus

@RegDwightАΑA No, it would stop being bad philosophy (or bad x—this happens in any field, a lot) and become good philosophy.

Mitch

@RegDwightАΑA no 'not-philosophiznig' in chat. You'll get everyone all worked up.

Cerberus

2:48 PM

@Mitch Repeating words, yes—even call centres and marketing departments know this, i.e. the lowest of the low.

Mitch

@Cerberus right...or rather, I don't know. Really call centers do that?

filling in the gaps.

of something not there.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus I've just had an epiphany! I could use a pomo generator to script the tech-support call-centre!

Cerberus

You don't know?

RegDwight АΑA

No true［¹］ philosopher is Harry Potter［²］.

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I believe that patent was registered around the time the first computer helpdesk was founded.

RegDwight АΑA

2:49 PM

That's hideous, @tchrist. I need proper superscript.

Mitch

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 people will trust that it knows what's going on, reboot their computer, and viola it works.

Cerberus

You mean, and fuchsia it works.

Mitch

@RegDwightАΑA ah the true Scottish philosopher.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Our customer support call-centre is in the Philippines which are currently under water. So the phones aren't being answered.

Cerberus

Oh, dear.

Mitch

2:50 PM

@Cerberus that sound like you just flushed.

Robusto

@Cerberus Fuchsia doesn't mauve me at all.

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA Looks purdy by me.

Cerberus

What were you thinking, a call-centre on a bunch of islands?

@Mitch Good.

tchrist

@Cerberus The last circle is reserved for traditori.

Robusto

Hey, @Matt: Congratulations on having endured the Olympics from afar. I myself endured them from afarther.

Mitch

2:51 PM

@Cerberus you don't want to start in the water, there's no sense of progress.

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist

Cerberus

@Robusto Oh, only your own image moves you, narcissus.

RegDwight АΑA

That ain't pretty.

Matt Эллен

@Robusto thanks. it's over now. I'll never have to worry about it again!

Cerberus

@Mitch We did it. It worked, more or less?

tchrist

2:52 PM

@RegDwightАΑA That’s what I see, too. I guess you would rather it were all supered? Try ⁽¹⁾

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Is it over? Congratulations!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Well, I wasn't thinking it. TPTB thought it.

Hello¹.

That is just wrong.

That sucks.

2:53 PM

@Cerberus yup, closing ceremony was Yesterday or the day before. Now I have my broadband speed back to normal :)

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus NO U

For starters, test.com is not a URL.

tchrist

Or just ⁽ʳᵉᶠ⁾. You don’t need distinct numbers.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Yay! The enemy has been vanquished!

Matt Эллен

:)

Mitch

An excelent explanation, expressed in terms that can be understood without the need of lots of philosophical knowledge, but I would express my firmly conviction that 'dialectic' cannot be fully comprehended without an understanding of death and, for this scope, you should have posted another answer to avoid the death of the first @Henrik Erlandsson's comment! — Xavier Vidal Hernández 15 hours ago

RegDwight АΑA

2:54 PM

@tchrist tell that to Wikipedia. I was going with their style.

Cerberus

Oh, it works!

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA They have numbers for a different reason.

Cerberus

1 min ago, by Cerberus

Hello¹.

tchrist

It is so you can go down to the bottom and enumerate them.

But you are not doing that.

So you need no numbers.

Just links.

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist I don't care about reasons if my whole point is to mimic their style.

Cerberus

2:55 PM

@tchrist You are right, but if one wants to emulate Wiki style per se...

tchrist

Oh be that way.

@Mitch Are these to be considered spam?

Cerberus

@RegDwightАΑA So why didn't you just do what I did?

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus because yours is not their style.

Cerberus

You really want the square brackets?

tchrist

so many stylists, so little style

RegDwight АΑA

2:56 PM

THAT IS THEIR STYLE GORRAM.

Cerberus

Fundamentalist.

RegDwight АΑA

Next time you tell me something in English, I will grill you for ten minutes on your reasons for not telling me in Mongolian instead.

Cerberus

Or, as we say, fundi.

Ugh, I should be packing my bag.

tchrist

［１］［２］［３］

Cerberus

I hate vacation.

Matt Эллен

2:58 PM

@XavierVidalHernández Perhaps, referring to the narrative of custodianism, one could suggest the underlying fictitious nature of the fractious, meaningless, profanity and of the classical view of death, incumbent? — Matt Эллен 35 secs ago

tchrist

\N{FULLWIDTH LEFT SQUARE BRACKET}\N{FULLWIDTH DIGIT ONE}\N{FULLWIDTH RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET}\N{NO-BREAK SPACE}\N{NO-BREAK SPACE}\N{FULLWIDTH LEFT SQUARE BRACKET}\N{FULLWIDTH DIGIT TWO}\N{FULLWIDTH RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET}\N{NO-BREAK SPACE}\N{NO-BREAK SPACE}\N{FULLWIDTH LEFT SQUARE BRACKET}\N{FULLWIDTH DIGIT THREE}\N{FULLWIDTH RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET}\N{NO-BREAK SPACE}\N{NO-BREAK SPACE}

Cerberus

@MattЭллен +max

RegDwight АΑA

I need a script that automatically deletes all comments that have "ism" and "itious" in them.

Cerberus

How about paroxysm and vicious?

RegDwight АΑA

How about you pack your bag?

Cerberus

3:00 PM

Okay.

tchrist

@Cerberus abysm cataclysm aneurysm

RegDwight АΑA

Клизма (инструмент)

Кли́зма как инструмент (устар. клисти́р) — медицинский инструмент, приспособление, предназначенное для постановки одноимённой процедуры, для очищения и промывания прямой кишки и толстой кишки либо для введения в прямую или толстую кишку растворов лекарственных веществ. Классификация клизм как медицинского инструментария С резиновыми наконечниками Клизмы в форме груши с мягкими резиновыми наконечниками (называются спринцовками) имеют преимущество в меньшей травматичности и болезненности при введении, поскольку мягкий резиновый наконечник не может повредить или поцарапать слизистую ...

tchrist

@MattЭллен Again I ask: are these to be spamflagged?

JSBձոգչ

Finally an important question about the nature of our perception of shape properties has arrived! But, really, it would take time and mental effort to figure these things out, and, however, there is no reason to doubt about the reference you quoted! — Xavier Vidal Hernández 17 mins ago

KitFox

Oh dear.

Such a dilemma of ethics.

Cerberus

3:04 PM

I just don't understand a word of what that guy is saying, ever.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist well, I did flag one of Xavier's comments the other day because it made no sense (I flag it as other), and he does seem to like to use a lot of words where none will suffice. Flag mine if you wish, I was only poking fun.

Cerberus

Haha.

Where none will suffice.

We should all vote your comment up instead.

tchrist

I only want to flag them if @reg @kit etc think this appropriate for spamflagging.

RegDwight АΑA

I have a dilemma: would it be considered abuse of mod powers if I replaced every comment of his with a link to the Postmodernism Generator?

tchrist

Alas, yes.

But I understand the allure.

Matt Эллен

3:06 PM

@Cerberus thankee kindly

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist I could also edit your post to say "Yes!!! Do it!"

Mitch

@tchrist oh.. No. These are not flaggable at all.

tchrist

You should only delete, or edit to remove spamminess.

Cerberus

@Matt: This. The perfect analytic synthesis of structuralism and deconstructivism. — Cerberus 15 secs ago

Matt Эллен

lol

Mitch

3:07 PM

Even more mixed up word salad is not flaggable.

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA Yes, and so could I or any man. But do they come when you call them?

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus don't feed each other, trolls.

Cerberus

I think that guy may be serious and not a troll btw.

Mitch

They just have the scent of ... pompopsity.

Cerberus

@RegDwightАΑA But we're hungry, as always!

KitFox

3:07 PM

covers eyes lalalalalalala

I'm off for lunch.

Cerberus

See, Kit's attitude is more productive.

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus so was Genghis Khan.

Cerberus

Bye!

@RegDwightАΑA And look at his offspring, i.e. one out of every 7 people in Asia.

Mitch

He's totally serious. Look at his activity:

english.stackexchange.com/users/24531/…

not problematic at all.

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus I am his offspring.

Cerberus

3:08 PM

@RegDwightАΑA Gosh, I'm so surprised.

JSBձոգչ

i strongly suspect that this guy is a troll

a pretentious lit-crit troll

RegDwight АΑA

@JSBձոգչ There's more than that going on. But I can't comment on that.

tchrist

notes that @Mitch always takes matters more seriotragicofarcically than he

Mitch

it ain't a troll just because we pick on him for how he says stuff.

Cerberus

@tchrist Stop your hybrids!

tchrist

3:09 PM

@JSBձոգչ This is the root of the problem.

Cerberus

covers eyes

JSBձոգչ

I'm wondering if the downvoter is desirous of being interested in linguistical profession! — Xavier Vidal Hernández 20 hours ago

Cerberus

lacks two paws

Mitch

@tchrist i thought I understod that...when I filled in the gaps...of my own ellipses.

tchrist

@Cerberus Portmanteaux, my dear, portmanteaux.

Mitch

3:10 PM

@JSBձոգչ !! that I think was a retort.

Cerberus

@tchrist It is barely a portmanteau, even!

RegDwight АΑA

Aug 9 at 14:14, by RegDwight АΑA

Swollen Fennel

portdoily

Sounds like a book by Brian O'Nolan.

tchrist

3:12 PM

@RegDwightАΑA Budgell, actually.

Cerberus

starboardmantliquide

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist I thought he was doing soundtracks for the Coens now.

tchrist

doily /ˈdɔɪlɪ/, sb. or a.

Also doiley, doyly, -ley, erron. d’Oyley, d’oylie.

Etymology: from personal surname Doiley or Doyley. 1712 Budgell Spect. No. 283 ⁋18 The famous Doily is still fresh in every one’s Memory, who raised a Fortune by finding out Materials for such Stuffs as might at once be cheap and genteel.  1727 Sir H. Sloane in Phil. Trans. XXXIV. 222 Mr. Doyly, (who was a great searcher after Curiosities, and gave Name to a sort of Stuffs worn in Summer).  1750-1800 Pegge MS. Note (Skeat, Philol. Trans. 1885, 91) Doyley kept a Linnen-draper’s shop in the Strand, a little West of…

RegDwight АΑA

Does "imply" imply connotations "connotation"?

Mitch

@RegDwightАΑA what do you mean by that?

RegDwight АΑA

3:15 PM

Main site. JSB is excavating again.

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Q: Does "generosity"/"generous" imply connotations "giving of your own resources"?

The question is about the context attached (or rather not attached) to the term "generosity"/"generous" (defined in Merriam-Webster as "liberal in giving"). The question is, is there a widely/universally understood context of "giving of your own resources" (and not someone else's) when using the...

meaning meaning-in-context

Mitch

oh.

RegDwight АΑA

1

Q: Does "generosity"/"generous" - as character quality - imply connotations "giving of your OWN resources, not someone else's"?

The question is about the context attached (or rather not attached) to the term "generosity"/"generous" (defined in Merriam-Webster as "liberal in giving"). The question is, is there a widely/universally understood context of "giving of your own resources" (and NOT someone else's) when using the...

meaning meaning-in-context

tchrist

BAH!

RegDwight АΑA

Ich sehe doppelt!

tchrist

imply connotations => connote

RegDwight АΑA

3:16 PM

@tchrist my point. Thank you.

Robusto

@RegDwightАΑA "That's OK, I've got one gun for each of ya." — Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.

RegDwight АΑA

@Robusto poor Val.

Robusto

Poor Val? Maybe the best role of his life.

tchrist

is as crapulent as incentivize for motivate, which isn’t so hot itself.

RegDwight АΑA

@Robusto I mean that he has that medical condition or something. All swollen and all.

JSBձոգչ

3:18 PM

i noticed that we have a very stupid contexts tag

i'm killing it

Robusto

I especially dislike impact for affect, but as a good descriptivist I am forced to allow it.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist we have to push the envelope when it comes to embigulating our vocabularities

Robusto

@RegDwightАΑA Yeah, he is no longer the pretty boy he once was.

RegDwight АΑA

@MattЭллен then why don't you stop pushing envelopes and start pushing bottles, say?

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightАΑA where would I push bottles?

Robusto

3:19 PM

@MattЭллен You misspelled embiggening. Poser.

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Mitch

@JSBձոգչ like the english.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/word tag

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA swallet

RegDwight АΑA

@MattЭллен back into his molehill?

JSBձոգչ

@Mitch we've killed that one a few times

RegDwight АΑA

Matt Эллен

3:19 PM

lol

RegDwight АΑA

@JSBձոգչ word.

Matt Эллен

@Matt But in that way you reduce the Hegelian 'dialectic' to the phenomena of desire, struggle, labor and speech! — Xavier Vidal Hernández 5 mins ago

RegDwight АΑA

People. Stop wasting your precious lifetimes to the "purge comments" button.

tchrist

@MattЭллен Haveabeer is just elizing you postmodernistically.

Robusto

I'm glad to see we still have word-salad to aid us in our quest for unembiggening our supply of ESL questions.

Matt Эллен

3:22 PM

@tchrist indeed. it's quite funny :D

RegDwight АΑA

@Robusto that one will get burninated pretty soon.

Just link the questions here and label them ELL.

Robusto

We must fight to keep it alive.

tchrist

Burnination is stupid because it doesn’t killfile it.

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist swall-E.

Robusto

@tchrist Stop dropping BOMs and EOFs in chat.

tchrist

3:23 PM

@Robusto Letrae non sunt.

RegDwight АΑA

So. Um. No close votes on the implied connotations?

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA That’s what the Beave says when bro shows.

Mitch

@RegDwightАΑA really? it's so old. why bother trying to close it now?

Robusto

@tchrist "Look thou character" — Shakespeare, Hamlet

tchrist

@Robusto And to thine own.

RegDwight АΑA

3:26 PM

@Mitch why bother trying to close anything? Given enough time, it will be old, too.

Robusto

@tchrist But it proves they were using Haskell way back in the '50s.

tchrist

@Robusto Wayback machine fails to confirm.

Robusto

Eddie Haskell

Edward Clark "Eddie" Haskell (also referred to as Edward W. Haskell) is a fictional character on the Leave It to Beaver television situation comedy, which ran on CBS from October 4, 1957 to 1958 and then on ABC from 1958 to June 20, 1963. The character was also featured in the later series Still the Beaver, and in the film remake of the original series. Character overview The son of George and Agnes, Eddie Haskell was the smart-mouthed best friend of Wally Cleaver. The character, played in the original series by Ken Osmond, has become a cultural reference, recognized as an archetype fo...

Wrong.

You brought up The Beave.

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist Wayback machine fails because it's not written in Haskell.

tchrist

Nope, Reg did.

RegDwight АΑA

3:28 PM

I never bring up anything. I only bring everyone down.

Robusto

@RegDwightАΑA Sometimes you bring up my lunch.

RegDwight АΑA

@Robusto sometimes you dream.

tchrist

hears the ELO playing in Reg’s rafters

Robusto

@RegDwightАΑA I dream of losing my lunch? Hardly.

RegDwight АΑA

Sometimes you dream, sometimes it seems
There's nothing there at all.
You just seem older than yesterday
And you're waiting for tomorrow to call.

You draw to the curtain and one thing's for certain
You're cozy in your little room.
The carpet's all paid for, God bless the TV
Let's go shoot a hole in the moon.

And Roy Rogers is riding tonight
Returning to our silver screens.
Comic book characters never grow old
Evergreen heroes whose stories were told.
Oh the great sequin cowboy who sings of the plains

tchrist

3:30 PM

►

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist that's not Roy Rogers.

tchrist

Downer.

RegDwight АΑA

Daune

Eine Daune (auch Dune oder „Unterfeder“, lat. pluma) ist eine Feder mit kurzem Kiel und sehr weichen und langen, strahlenförmig angeordneten Federästen ohne Häkchen. Beim lebenden Vogel sind die Federäste durch Körperbewegungen negativ geladen und haben so immer den größtmöglichen Abstand zueinander. Hierdurch bilden sich im Dunenkleid Luftpolster, die vor Kälte oder Hitze schützen (Wärmedämmung). Daunen bilden bei den meisten Vogelarten das unter den Konturfedern befindliche „Unterkleid“; bei einigen Vogelgruppen (z. B. Laufvögeln) sind sie nicht vorhanden. Die Nestlingsdunen, die das F...

tchrist

aurora germaniae

Mitch

@RegDwightАΑA but it's not really -closable- because the title is dumb. Why not just edit the title so that 'implies connotations' is 'means' or 'connotes'?

Matt Эллен

3:35 PM

@Mitch it's a dupe

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist Sarà, sarà l'aurora, per me sarà così.

Matt Эллен

que sera sera

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA Stop cozening Sarah. She doesn’t like it.

@MattЭллен tsks the missing accents

Matt Эллен

I can pronounce it fine without

RegDwight АΑA

que buona sera, buona sera

ΜετάEd

3:37 PM

@RegDwightАΑA How cute! It's a Tribble!

tchrist

che sarà, sarà ≠ qué será será

RegDwight АΑA

That's like saying that спутник ≠ sputnik.

tchrist

@ΜετάEd I only see one.

ΜετάEd

Quella fiamma che m’accende, piace tanto all’alma mia, che giammai s’estinguerà.

RegDwight АΑA

Si.

tchrist

3:40 PM

@RegDwightАΑA No, it’s like saying πολύχρωμος ≠ multicolored.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist /kjuː/ /səːɑː/ /səːɑː/

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist whatever. My point is that you're working hard on losing your title of The Character and becoming someone else entirely.

tchrist

@MattЭллен insert("ɾ") || die

Matt Эллен

@tchrist har har. I'll do that when they do

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist that's "die, Sir" to you.

tchrist

3:42 PM

@RegDwightАΑA Would that be of the sphere or ball variety?

Dyson sphere

A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure originally described by Freeman Dyson. Such a "sphere" would be a system of orbiting solar power satellites meant to completely encompass a star and capture most or all of its energy output. Dyson speculated that such structures would be the logical consequence of the long-term survival and escalating energy needs of a technological civilization, and proposed that searching for evidence of the existence of such structures might lead to the detection of advanced intelligent extraterrestrial life. Since then, other variant designs involving bui...

RegDwight АΑA

Dyson (company)

Dyson Ltd is a British technology company, founded in 1992 by James Dyson, which designs and manufactures vacuum cleaners, hand dryers, bladeless fans and heaters. It sells machines in over 50 countries and employs 3,100 people worldwide. The company prides itself on engineering products which work in different and better ways than their predecessors. Dyson’s founder, James Dyson, famously created 5,127 prototypes of his first machine, the vacuum cleaner, in a workshop behind his house, before developing one that he considered worked perfectly, the DC01. History In 1971, Dyson disco...

Matt Эллен

also, no time to insert such sounds

no time to be here naether

RegDwight АΑA

Muting commies here as well.

Mitch

@MattЭллен of what? oh, never mind. I'm slow.

Robusto

3:58 PM

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Q: what does "reeling" mean in "difficulties have left budgets reeling"?

After reading this sentence: A near-decade of two simultaneous foreign wars, topped off by the most brutal recession in two generations, has left federal and state budgets reeling. I was left wondering about the meaning that was intended to be given by "reeling" in the sentence. From th...

word-usage

Gen ref, surely.

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