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12:51 AM
Well this made me feel old.
https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/263470/what-are-these-outlets-and-can-they-be-used-to-connect-ethernet-like-cable
@tchrist Oh dear did I walk in on a Novus Ordo discussion?
 
@jlliagre ugh
 
This Tim Minchin loving heathen is off to see how the adaptation of Matilda is on Netflix. Anyone caught it yet?
 
El Estándar para el andaluz, bajo sus propias normas ortográficas, Êttandâ pal andalûh (EPA) es una ortografía no-oficial del español creada en 2018 por el colectivo EPA para adaptarse a las particularidades de los dialectos andaluces. Si bien su uso es informal, es con diferencia la propuesta de escritura del andaluz que más trascendencia ha tenido.[1]​ == Historia == Diferentes propuestas de escritura andaluza han surgido en el último siglo. Las primeras aproximaciones a un andaluz puesto sobre el papel se encuentran en los escritos de los hermanos dramaturgos Álvarez Quintero (1871,73 - 1938…
@jlliagre Rather.
 
1:09 AM
Is it clearer? Neat.
Already a 1:1 spelling, no?
 
@livresque You feel old? Hell, I can remember when we didn't have plug-in phones. A phone was wired into a wall appliance and couldn't be moved to another location easily. On top of that, the house had a single phone, usually in the kitchen or just off of it.
 
Mine was wired in the kitchen when I was growing up, one later wired in the basement office, house built in 1920, falling apart by the time my parents got there. It was fancy to have a super extension cord on a spindle for the receiver. We later installed older versions of these newer jacks in other rooms. Fast forward to building a house in 96, how can anyone in North America not recognize it, future shock every damn time.
 
Stranger were the devices of Mother Bell.
Than those of today.
La réforme orthographique chilienne (en espagnol : reforma ortográfica chilena) est une réforme orthographique de la langue espagnole, ou castillan, ayant été appliquée au Chili et dans d'autres territoires de l'Amérique hispanique au XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle dans le but d'améliorer l'adéquation entre l'écriture de la langue et sa prononciation. S'inscrivant dans une longue tradition phonétiste hispanique, le projet de réforme naît en 1823 à Londres sous la plume de l'écrivain vénézuélien Andrés Bello. Dans un contexte d'émancipation des anciennes colonies espagnoles en Amérique, et...
 
Should ring the hell
Just to play no pay
Yeah don't get me started on reforms like ognon
 
I deliberately disregard that and feign ignorance.
 
1:24 AM
The Mistralian norm is a linguistic norm for the Occitan language. It was first used in a published work by Joseph Roumanille in 1853, and then by Frédéric Mistral in 1854. Its aim is to make Provençal Occitan orthography more logical, relying on a mix of traditional spelling and French spelling conventions. The Tresor dòu Felibrige, published by the Félibrige in 1878, was written entirely in the Mistralian norm. == Comparison == Some features include: Using the letter o to represent a final [ɔ] or [o], where Classical Occitan uses a. For example, jovença becomes jouvenço in the text above. Using...
 
> La dernière réforme de l'orthographe date de 1990 et a fait l'objet de plusieurs circulaires en France, en Belgique, en Suisse ou encore au Québec.
This is what the verb grandfather was invented for: you don't have to do it if you learned to read and write before 1990.
@jlliagre I recognize that having many possible ways to write one language is always a problem because it causes fragmentation in print media.
 
Epsomlootly.
 
How many people actually read books anymore?
 
Your sentences is two words too long.
 
You may respond to a truncated version of it.
 
1:31 AM
Old English didn't seem to be harmed by having variant spellings, although Middle English had many more variants because the English didn't know how to write the new French words and the new French lords didn't know how to write the old English words. But imagine that globally today.
When every hamlet and isle has its own way of writing things, fluent literacy becomes impossible all the world around.
 
I think most people who speak languages like Arabic or Chinese do imagine it globally today. They can read each other but not speak it.
 
We can't make people speak in just one accent, but we can make them write in just one accent: one that nobody speaks in. :)
 
Absoloopdeeloop
 
Lundi matin, l'emp'reur, sa femme et le p'tit prince...attends.
 
1:38 AM
But I guess why scholarly texts were written in Latin for like forever in Europe: so that everyone could read it even though nobody spoke it.
Jinx.
Mundi Latin not Lundi Matin :)
 
El o El off by a week
A season and a week...
 
> Alors que la graphie originelle du français est davantage conforme à la phonétique (celle supposée de l'époque puisque les preuves ne sont pas patentes) et parfois arbitraire, elle est progressivement latinisée dans une tentative d'aboutir à une « orthographe étymologique ».
Shoulda quit when you were ahead. :)
 
Or so that no one could read it, only speak it.
Mais tout l'orthographe est arbitraire !
 
Yes butte nought eash to hizone gute!
I don't know what matters any more.
 
Je m’efforçe de deçharjer notr‘ ecritture dę’ lęttres superflúes, ę la ręndre lizable suiuant l’uzaje de la prolaçíon
 
1:46 AM
hah
 
Louis Meigret (ou Maigret, Lyon, vers 1510-1558) est un grammairien français, réformateur de la langue française de la Renaissance. == Biographie == Établi à Paris depuis 1538, Louis Meigret a écrit en 1550 la première grande grammaire du français. Le premier à mettre la science au service du grand public, il est un défenseur de la réforme de l’orthographe française, qu'il cherche à simplifier en proposant notamment des symboles nouveaux et en favorisant une orthographe phonétique, ce qui le conduisit à polémiquer avec Jacques Peletier du Mans et Guillaume Des Autels. Son traité s'inscrit dans...
 
I'm still wondering why he wrote suiuant that way.
 
Prophet said I, thing of evil
Minims still if bird or devil
Everyone named Louis was named Clovis
 
heh
 
You cannot touch a non-mahram,
That's what the Prophet said.
For even a "Good evening, ma'am"
Can get you into bed.
 
1:57 AM
außi
Nice et though.
 
Ouiiii je kiffe trop, how many s's does that make?
If esset is two, and so are long s, and the ampersand.
 
@Mitch No, here the meaning is that "you, the reader, are surely awaiting something smutty in the last line of the verse" (that's why I love this limerick)
 
This is why langue d'oc and langue d'oeil had so many kids.
 
Gallic goats of many kids.
 
@CowperKettle with father Abraham. And I am one of them, and so are you, so let's all praise the Lord it's a children's song surely not a nasty limerick.
 
2:03 AM
 
@livresque No, I meant the Russian limerick that I posted yesterday :)
 
patiẽce
@Cerberus would approve.
 
Damn and I thought erso mine Ende war so gut.
 
A repetitive song
 
2:07 AM
It's a silly movement/wiggles sing for the kids, helps with cross body movement and coördination too. Plus it can go on forever.
 
I know a great song that goes forever
 
Oh some of these tricks are from the printer, who's using them when he needs them for right-justification.
 
Hi my name is Joe is right there too.
 
Nooo good for you, but when I start singing it i lose my r's.
Some people stah'ted singin' it...
 
2:11 AM
You kind of "can't" sing an English R there. You'll get in trouble.
Why are they tarring the hosses?
 
I dunno. I only rode a horse one time in my life.
 
Genau, Charles Chevalier !
 
The girl who saw after the horses told me that she struck a car several years back, while on a horse.
After that, her vision in one eye was bad. The girl's. She looked tough.
 
A horse ran into a barn, must have been.
 
Word of the day: BM (bowel movement)
I once heard it in a movie, and had to look up
One of the eye's layers derives its name from Lat. uva, "grape"
 
2:15 AM
I had a hard time time with that abbreviation for "buttermilk ranch dressing" when I worked at a restaurant. They used hanging tickets on carbon paper and "BM" meant "ranch."
 
Buttermilk is a fermented dairy drink. Traditionally, it was the liquid left behind after churning butter out of cultured cream. As most modern butter in western countries is not made with cultured cream but uncultured sweet cream, most modern buttermilk in western countries is cultured separately. It is common in warm climates where unrefrigerated milk sours quickly.Buttermilk can be drunk straight, and it can also be used in cooking. In making soda bread, the acid in buttermilk reacts with the raising agent, sodium bicarbonate, to produce carbon dioxide which acts as the leavening agent. Buttermilk...
This is called pakhta in Russian, but I never tried it
 
The Russian term derives from Finnish pyöhtää
 
@tchrist Neither do I.
 
@CowperKettle It was a serious code but they didn't consider somehow that BM meant bowel movement to more people.
 
2:19 AM
I first came across it in a movie where a character said "There's blood in my BM". I wonder if that's a common term.
 
Meanwhile you could order meatloaf with fried apples, whole kernel corn, and sweet whole baby carrots and I'd write L913. Done.
 
Air layering
 
Yes common term especially in the oldest and younger populations. In elderly care, that's the euphemism for "poop," which is obviously too much to say.
 
Happiness is a 1998 American black comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz, that portrays the lives of three sisters, their families, and those around them. The film was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for "its bold tracking of controversial contemporary themes, richly-layered subtext, and remarkable fluidity of visual style," and the cast received the National Board of Review award for best ensemble performance.The film spawned the pseudosequel Life During Wartime, which premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. == Plot == Trish Maplewood, the eldest...
In this movie
 
@jlliagre en peu de temps, c'est clé.
 
2:24 AM
I forgot the movie's script, there are too many deuteragonists.
I'll go yomp to ParkRun, to serve as a timekeeper. I wonder how many people will take part in the run at minus 20°С
 
@CowperKettle It is the most popular American salad dressing, and it's shite. Just my opinion but if you were to take a survey of what dressing anyone has in their fridge, it's ranch. And ew for my two sous.
 
@livresque Oh! In Russia, we use smetana for salad dressing
Smetana (or smotana) is a type of sour cream from Central and Eastern Europe. It is a dairy product produced by souring heavy cream. It is similar to crème fraîche (28% fat), but nowadays mainly sold with 9% to 42% milkfat content depending on the country. Its cooking properties are different from crème fraîche and the lighter sour creams sold in the US, which contain 12 to 16% butterfat. It is widely used in cooking and baking. == Uses and distribution == Smetana is also used in other central Central and Eastern European cuisines in appetizers, main courses, soups and desserts. For example, it...
Word of the second: chilling effect (the inhibition or discouragement of the legitimate exercise of natural and legal rights by the threat of legal sanction)
 
Yes, a dairy cream based dressing. But ranch is its own seasoning and just ubiquitous in the States to the point or gross, more dressing than salad.
 
@Livresque One of the justifications for the spelling reforms was to allow women (who had no knowledge of Latin but only of vernacular French) to read and write easily...
 
I'm always afraid of opening the fridge, for fear of coming across a salad dressing
 
2:31 AM
> Une revendication des Modernes

Les préfaces de dictionnaires ou certains articles, les préfaces de traités d'orthographe et d'autres ouvrages comme la Cosmografie du mathématicien Jourdain, 1671, se font l'écho de toutes sortes de revendications pour une orthographe plus simple, pour l'accès à l'écrit d'une couche sociale plus large, pour l'accès aux sciences en français.

Accès à l'écrit et aux sciences, en français, à une couche sociale élargie

Somaize, dans le Grand dictionaire historique des pretieuses(1661), sous l'article « Ortographe », se fait l'écho de revendications de femmes
 
Ciel d'été forbid we let children read and write easily @jlliagre
 
Ciel d'été?
 
I loved the sample writings you shared. If American schools used handwriting paper teaching within 2 mm we'd be so much closer to the EU.
*Le ciel d'été
Remplit nos cœurs d'sa lucidité
Chasse les aigreurs et les acidités
Qui font l'malheur des grandes cités*
 
Ah, Nationale 7
 
Et la reprise de Stéréo totale youtu.be/oS58Yr7TZMM
 
3:12 AM
There is nothing of use for us on Mars.
A colony is not possible.
Two reasons to ignore the idea, for the time being.
 
3:28 AM
@livresque Released in French as La cages aux poules likely in reference to La cage aux folles
 
@Cerberus red dirt?
I could use some
 
Buy paint.
 
@Cerberus Book and film titles are always a gamble, but that's a good one to point out.
Pardon that was @jlliagre. Red dirt here is pretty sink or swell soil, the red earth of Tara/terra and all that, it's hard to build on in this atmosphere alone.
 
@CowperKettle when we were kids there were the two euphemisms BO and BM. We knew that neither particularly nice but that a BM was worse
@Cerberus so fake
 
The idea of withstanding the radiation alone. Come on Eileen.
 
3:40 AM
Mars is kind of a place to rest on the way to the asteroids and Ganymede
@livresque that dress
 
Or on the way into space.
Let's build a colony at some arbitrary location in space.
(Probably easier still than on Mars, what with zero gravity.)
 
@Cerberus there are some engineering benefits to being on a planet
What those are I don't know
I'm just pretty confident there are
 
I confess. Humminah humminah amen, ten hail Marys and two hello Dolly's.
 
Oh...uh... Nope
 
@Mitch But also problems.
 
3:44 AM
More problems in space
 
Isn't the space station the colony in some arbitrary location?
 
More radiation in space
 
Yeah so the benefits again were...?
 
You can set up for mars in a geostationary (areostationsry?) a small (1km diameter) thin (mm thick) shield against solar wind
@livresque oh you can dig underground tunnels to avoid the radiation
In space you have to tote all your shielding up
Also osteoporosis is slower on a planet
 
Oh boldly going, and never returning, split infinitives like atoms, and in it see the burning... "We can live outside the breakers, watch the world die?"
 
3:51 AM
I wonder if birds get osteoporosis, and, if so, does it make flying easier
 
But over 60 you'd never come back, right, the radiation would be too much. You'd have to secure your little retirement village somewhere ouuuut there beneath the pale moonlight.
I think hollow bones have their purposes, much like hemochromatosis.
 
Also no moonlight on Mars
 
Vitamin D3 issues would be different to say the least.
 
I heard that they're thinking that radiation shielding will be too expensive to carry up so that instead they're just thinking that people will just have to have s higher probability of cancer and the only way to mitigate that is through medication
Or drugs for -when- you get cancer, not shielding to prevent it.
 
The only way is accepting that no one's taking that much extra medication or shielding up there with so many unknowns. Cut your lifespan in half as a plan that prolly paid for the luxury trip. When to meds get developed on Earth it's too late for at least the first few gens, and no one knows how they work on Martians.
Groweth sed and bloweth med
And springth the wude nu
Sing, cuccu!

Awe bleteth after lomb
Lhouth after calve cu
 
 
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5:29 AM
@Mitch Oh! BO meant body odour?
 
5:49 AM
Noun: orthophemism (plural orthophemisms)
  1. An orthophemistic term, one that is neither euphemism nor dysphemism.
I wonder what I could use instead of my finger when pressing a smartphone's screen. I was a timekeeper today at the ParkRun, and it was too cold, so my fingers turned numb of frost.
It was minus 20°C
 
6:17 AM
@livresque Oh, it has Dolly Parton. I should check it out, I like her songs
 
 
1 hour later…
7:20 AM
> Labourers Pulling a Heavily Laden Cart on Jacob van Lennepkade, Amsterdam, by George Hendrik Breitner, 1900
 
7:45 AM
A creativity test online. You need to think of 10 maximally unrelated words datcreativity.com
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> Your score is 87.5, higher than 92.26% of the people who have completed this task. The average score is 78, and most people score between 74 and 82. The lowest score was 24 and the highest was 96 in our published sample. Although the scores can theoretically range from 0 to 200, in practice they range from 6 to 110 after millions of responses online.
I didn't really try to be more creative, I just wanted to see how it works O_O
Maybe it's programmed to present one's results in a rosy light.
 
8:06 AM
Wordle 560 4/6

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9:25 AM
Now I can finally understand the Korean split.
Dutch of the Day: autoluw (Autoluw is a Dutch urban planning concept meaning "nearly car-free". It's put into use in cities all across the country.)
from luw - windless, lukewarm -- /lyu̯/
Adjective: luw (comparative luwer, superlative luwst)
  1. windless
  2. lukewarm
 
10:13 AM
yesterday, by jlliagre
QE2, KP, next one in a tight spot is the EPBXVI.
It didn't take long.
 
10:24 AM
@CowperKettle I'm just an average guy: Your score is 78.65, higher than 53.9% of the people who have completed this task
 
10:40 AM
@jlliagre I used some common words, only tried making them different: bridge, prejudice, mole, liver, sail, star
I don't think that such a test really measures creativity anyway ))
 
@CowperKettle Do did I: cat, house, blue, transistor, mind, baker, hole
 
11:33 AM
> Your score is 91.94, higher than 98.16% of the people who have completed this task
I think, without reading about the methodology, that it's a test that's quite easy to cheat and not very connected to creativity
Just choose a bunch of unrelated topics and pick a fancy word, I suppose.
I used words like "demagogue" and "valency"
 
Nice!
 
Bah. More pop science BS probably. Best case scenario, it means nothing. Worst case scenario, it will contribute to a harmful corporate psychology trend with no sound scientific basis that will take actual scientists two decades to debunk.
 
Word of the day: camptocormia -- Greek "to bend" (κάμπτω, kamptō) and "trunk" (κόρμος, kormos)
Noun: κορμός • (kormós) m (genitive κορμοῦ); second declension
  1. (botany) trunk of a tree (with the boughs lopped off)
  2. Synonym: ξηνός (xēnós)
  3. log of timber
  4. κορμός • (kormós) m (plural κορμοί)
  5. trunk of tree
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Should have put your Greek capricorn jargon in that test
 
11:45 AM
On Google Images, κορμός gets me this.
Looks like my favorite food in childhood.
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Shortened url in answer (58): Confusing structures with modal verbs‭ by Patriciate‭ on english.SE
 
@CowperKettle χριστουγεννιάτικος κορμός
 
/xristuʝeˈɲatikos/
Χριστούγεννα (Christoúgenna, “Christmas”) +‎ -ιάτικος (-iátikos, “suffix for adjectives denoting time”).
OMG
Bûche de Noël
 
12:02 PM
You name it!
 
@CowperKettle I bought finger cut gloves. Especially for when I use mouse.
Made in China.
 
@Vikas Oh, it's great!
My fingers numbed to a wooden state today during the ParkRun.
I was pressing the buttons on the timekeeping program to timekeep the runners.
I now discovered that one could easily use a swab covered with some foil.
The phone's touchscreen will assume it's a finger.
Due to conductance, probably.
So I'll take some foil-covered swabs and will be wearing gloves next time, to spare my fingers.
I hope my phone does not die of cold though. This time, it died shortly after I returned home. And was quickly revived upon some warming-up.
It was minus 20°С
 
12:20 PM
I wouldn't survive in minus 20
 
Nah, it's easier than surviving in plus 35°C :)
In a hot weather, you'll surely die. In a cold weather, it depends on your clothing.
A wet-bulb temp of 35°C is deadly, but with a low air moisture, one can survive quite a bit even at 50°C
> Humans’ ability to efficiently shed heat has enabled us to range over every continent, but a wet-bulb temperature (TW) of 35°C marks our upper physiological limit
An old Russian photo. The sign says "photocopy shop"
Kserokopiya, derived from the company name Xerox.
Putin's new year address.
 
12:36 PM
@CowperKettle What are colors?
Density?
I think continents and then densities.
 
@Vikas Oh, I did not think of that. Probably yes
There are air raid alerts for the whole of Ukraine.
 
10 years ago there were very few houses near our house. Lot of empty area to play. Now it's filled a great deal with houses.
 
There are a lot of new buildings here too.
 
@CowperKettle No more for another two weeks. They don't have to run out of missiles.
 
Although the population did not increase greatly. Maybe by 100 thousand people.
 
12:47 PM
North Korea ended the year with missile launch.
 
1:03 PM
Average weekly spending by Russians, in nominal terms.
In purchasing power terms, they are 12% below last year's spendings.
 
1:32 PM
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At last one whose flag I knew.
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Behemoth's favorite place, over the heating radiator.
 
Wordle 560 4/6

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#Worldle #344 1/6 (100%)
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1:49 PM
Daily Quordle 341
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This seems pretty arbitrary to me.
@CowperKettle ^ I wasn't sure what they meant by "different".
 
2:08 PM
Yes, they seem to explain it on the test results page, but I wasn't reading it closely :)
 
2:39 PM
Discovery of a one-eyed sheep led to the discovery of several anti-cancer drugs.
Cyclopamine (11-deoxojervine) is a naturally occurring chemical that belongs in the family of steroidal alkaloids. It is a teratogen isolated from the corn lily (Veratrum californicum) that causes fatal birth defects. It prevents the embryonic brain from separating into two lobes (an extreme form of holoprosencephaly), which in turn causes the development of a single eye (cyclopia). The chemical was named after this effect, as it was originally noted by Idaho lamb farmers who contacted the US Department of Agriculture after their herds gave birth to cycloptic lambs in 1957. It then took more than...
The name derived from Cyclop
 
2:51 PM
@CowperKettle 250 seems awfully low. I would think there are more terms than that associated with farming alone.
 
3:08 PM
@Robusto Yes, it's clearly a fantastically low figure
I didn't understand his last statement about "origin of language" in any case.
The origin of language is tens of thousands years in the past, there's no relation to some 19th century anecdote.
 
@CowperKettle Maybe hundreds of thousands of years.
 
3:36 PM
> As reported, the head of Ukraine’s defense intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said that due to heavy losses at the front, the Russian leadership decided to launch a new wave of mobilization from January 5.
This is serious if true.
 
4:01 PM
@Vikas Source?
 
@Robusto I can't find that link now but same is posted here also kyivpost.com/post/6300
 
4:23 PM
2023 New Year's Resolution Woodshed Hanon for at least 20 minutes before daily piano work. May alternate with Czerny.
 
4:57 PM
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5:27 PM
Daily Octordle #341
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@jlliagre Pipped ya!
To "pip" someone means to win a game by a single point.
 
@Robusto Les dés étaient pipés !
== Français == === Étymologie === Étymologie manquante ou incomplète. Si vous la connaissez, vous pouvez l’ajouter en cliquant ici. === Adjectif === pipé Truqué dans le but de faire perdre un adversaire. Et d’expliquer les mécanismes : « des responsables d’achat organisent cette corruption via des appels d’offres pipés, des hausses artificielles de prix, des faveurs pour la promotion de produits et d’autres irrégularités au service qualité et au contrôle financier, notamment sur la compliance », raconte le juriste. — (Benjamin Quenelle, « Auchan face à des révélations de faits de corr...
 
@jlliagre C'est très intéressant !
 
Faux-amis ;-)
 
The English expression comes from the single seed of a fruit, like an orange, which is sometimes called a pip. Cf. the Sherlock Holmes story "The Four Orange Pips" by Conan-Doyle. It gives the sense of something insignificant, which may be why Dickens chose it for the nickname of Philip Pirrip ("Pip") in Great Expectations.
 
5:40 PM
left engine fire. ACS failure"
 
5:50 PM
@CowperKettle 1) clever 2) so that word means a line of text like in poetry? (Does that word also mean a fishing line?
@CowperKettle yes
 
@Robusto The French expression comes from a small flute (pipeau) that was used as a decoy to attract birds and trap them, hence the idea of deception, cheating.
 
@jlliagre Cool.
 
@CowperKettle I wrote a couple of limericks in that vein. The idea is that they set you up for a payoff including a "dirty" word, but leave it as a deceptive cadence.
Feb 6, 2020 at 14:26, by Robusto
If men are from Mars, not from Venus,
Then you women — a much different genus —
Must when handling my spear
Get it stowed right, my dear,
So that nothing at all comes between us.

A Shanghai gal's passion for Heine
Gave her husband a painful angina
Her lovemaking lyric
Was victory Pyrrhic:
He expired ... oh, somewhere in China.
So you wind up as the one with the dirty mind!
@jlliagre What, even in the Alps?
 
Both peach pits and apple pips were pinched from the Dutch, although Romance has more associations with the latter.
> Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: Dutch pip, pippe.
Etymology: < Middle Dutch pip, pippe (probably 14th cent.; Dutch pip) < either post-classical Latin pipita (although this is attested comparatively late: 9th cent.) or an unattested post-classical Latin form *pippita (see below). Compare Middle Low German pip (German regional (Low German) pipp, pip), Old High German pfipfiz (Middle High German phiphiz, early modern German pfipfis, pfipfs, also pfiffe, German regional (southern) pfipfes, pfipfis; compare German †Pfipps, Pips ( < German regional (Rhineland)).
But it's possible both have the same ultimate origin. Not clear to me. In South Africa they apparently use pit for the delicious "pine nuts" of piñon pines.
> Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch pit.
Etymology: Apparently < Dutch pit stone or pip of a fruit, kernel of a nut (see pith n.).
In quot. 1947 at sense 1b after Afrikaans pit; compare dennebol n.
 
6:07 PM
@Robusto Good snow only over 2000m in the Alps.
 
Everything is open for skiing here. I probably still have half a foot of snow even way down here at the balmy elevation of 5360'.
> 1. b. South African. An edible seed, esp. a pine nut.
Now chiefly as second element of the fuller South African expression dennepit.
 
:-)
 
The OED has 10 different headwords for pip.
@user2236 Because the clay tablets were lost in a flood.
 
How's the wild fires?
 
Long dead.
 
6:12 PM
Not so wild after all, hey.
 
Wild enough. A year ago more than a thousand homes went up in the conflagration here then, accruing more than two billion dollars' worth of damage.
I'm a little unclear how each home was worth two million dollars, though. :)
The coal seam fire still burns beneath the surface. It is inextinguishable.
 
Sounds like the fires in hell.
 
@tchrist Pépin, pépite ?
 
@tchrist What, where you live?
I've heard of coal seam fires in Pennsylvania, but not in Colorado.
 
6:19 PM
@jlliagre Yes. But those I think you took from Spanish pepitas.
@Robusto Remarkably.
La graine de tournesol est en fait le fruit du tournesol (Helianthus annuus). Sur le plan botanique, c'est un type d'akène, fruit sec indéhiscent contenant une seule graine), et plus précisément une cypsèle, fruit caractéristique des Asteraceae. Il est constitué d'une « amande », qui est la graine proprement dite, et d'une « coque » ou péricarpe. Selon l'usage auquel elles sont destinées, on distingue les graines oléagineuses, contenant plus de 40 % d'huile, généralement de couleur noire, et les graines de bouche, contenant environ 30 % d'huile, dont la coque brune ou blanche, présente des rayures...
And you don't seem to use the word for those ones above.
Oh pepitas are from pumpkins.
Or zucchini.
But "pepinos" sounds like a little pepper to me.
 
A wonderful show. Highly recommended. Very gentle and about the farthest thing from the MCU as you can get.
 
In Asturias they have pipes (pipas), for one or the other. Can't remember if it's sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds, but they're popular salty "frutos secos" snacks.
 
"Pips" are the marks on cards also.
 
Aye.
They're much more common west of the Continental Divide, but we have our own here.
It's 50 degrees and sunny. The plowed sidewalks and streets that have been in the sun are dry now. Probably snow later.
 
6:35 PM
@tchrist Pépites certainly but not pépin which already existed in Old French.
 
@Robusto I watched the first season. It was great. Then the second one became boring and one-trick-y, and self-congratulatory like how a lot of British TV shows end up as
 
Pepin the Short (French: Pépin le Bref; c. 714 – 24 September 768), also called the Younger (German: Pippin der Jüngere), was King of the Franks from 751 until his death in 768. He was the first Carolingian to become king.The younger was the son of the Frankish prince Charles Martel and his wife Rotrude, Pepin's upbringing was distinguished by the ecclesiastical education he had received from the monks of St. Denis. Succeeding his father as the Mayor of the Palace in 741, Pepin reigned over Francia jointly with his elder brother Carloman. Pepin ruled in Neustria, Burgundy, and Provence, while his...
 
Guess where I am @Robusto
 
 
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7:54 PM
@Gokuカカロット 今日本に住んでいますか?
 
@Robusto はい!
 
おめでとうございます
 
ありがとうございました
 
?!
 
@M.A.R. What was interesting was the way the characters were handled. Not to everyone's taste, I'm sure, but I prefer quirky, off-the-beaten-path kinds of shows.
 
8:01 PM
Then re-watch the world cup final and note France did not get even one touch of the ball in 70 minutes in Argentina's penalty area.
And the quirkiest thing is the ref awarding a penalty kick in extra time.
But definitely not off-the-beaten-path. In fact, in-front of the entire COVID-19 ravaged world.
 
@Mitch No, it does not mean a fishing line :)
 
8:21 PM
Pippin is a 1972 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto. The musical uses the premise of a mysterious performance troupe, led by the Leading Player, to tell the story of Pippin, a young prince on his search for meaning and significance. The 'fourth wall' is broken numerous times during most traditional productions. The protagonist, Pippin, and his father, Charlemagne, are characters derived from two historical figures of the early Middle Ages, though the plot i...
 
@CowperKettle do you actually read their blog to get these "/insights"?
 
So many Pips you don't know what to do.
 
@user2236 he probably found it shared on his favorite social medium
 
riiight
 
Riiiiiiiight
awkward tippy tap
 
8:27 PM
There should be a third category of "face."
 
8:45 PM
@user2236 No, it's from Twitter, the community called "Terrible Maps". I'm on Venlafaxine now, an antidepressant that takes first place in suppressing libido, and therefore I haven't visited PornHub for many months.
I don't think these insights are very insightful, but funny.
 
8:58 PM
I don't have a pro- or anti- stance on watching pornography. Maybe it could be bad in terms of spending your time on something that will not really interest the opposite sex. Reading books, doing sports, these are among the activities that make a person interesting.
 
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