English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

tchrist

2:00 PM

@JasonBourne Keep it clean.

Robusto

Commute.

user19161

Wow, Ed Guiness changed his pic again.

user19161

Ed Guiness, United Kingdom

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user19161

Looks very much like James Bond there.

Matt Эллен

looks like he has a light shining out of his head

bit of a white spectrum going on

TRiG

2:02 PM

@JasonBourne I thought Gravatar issued very long caching headers, meaning that if you change your image it can take ages for the new one to propagate. I'm planning to change my e-mail address in order to get new Gravatar icons.

user19161

@TRiG Just to update you, one can now bypass gravatar to upload an avatar on SE, but it doesn't work too well for now.

user19161

@TRiG No, it only takes about 5 minutes usually. You need to refresh your browser, that's all.

Matt Эллен

but there are times it takes days

user19161

@MattЭллен Seldom...

Matt Эллен

not seldom enough!

user19161

2:04 PM

It works well for me usually.

Dumb Cow

@JasonBourne I am getting rid of the name and the picture.

user19161

@DumbCow What is your new name then?

Dumb Cow

@JasonBourne 2 days more.

TRiG

@JasonBourne Aye, so it seems.

web-sniffer.net/…

Expiry date is only a couple of minutes into the future.

user19161

@TRiG By the way, I have chatted with you under several usernames...

TRiG

2:08 PM

@JasonBourne Why do people change username?

user19161

@matt Remember I said that Chrome has a problem with chat? Maybe the new Chrome is better, or maybe it works better under CentOS than Debian, I don't know.

Matt Эллен

so, fewer problems so far, then?

user19161

@TRiG For fun mostly. In my case, for fun. I hope you know that I am JL.

user19161

@MattЭллен Yes, indeed.

TRiG

@JasonBourne Right-O.

in The Upper Room, Oct 19 '12 at 13:10, by TRiG

@AffableGeek The tradition on h2g2 is for everyone to wear Halloween masks by converting their names to anagrams for the season.

tchrist

2:10 PM

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user19161

@TRiG I can be identified by my default gravatar, or a square of some blue shade, or a pic of Justin Bieber or Mariah Carey.

tchrist

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What a difference!

TRiG

@JasonBourne Why Bieber?

user19161

@TRiG I like his Baby.

tchrist

The British vowels are squishier: look at all the overlap.

I never realized that that was happening.

Luke

2:11 PM

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Q: All mods are equal, but some mods are more equal

All mods are equal, right? Except for Kiamlaluno. Real funny... Bug found here. I'm using Chrome 23.0.1271.97

bug moderators stackexchange.com

user19161

@tchrist Indeed! I am shocked.

Luke

Real funny @kiam

TRiG

@JasonBourne Nah,

in Mos Eisley, yesterday, by TRiG

And as for Bieber's song "Baby" (the first and only of his that I heard/saw), I can only say that acting like a creepy stalker and refusing to take "No" for an answer is not cool.

user19161

@Luke Wow, amazing. I deleted my MSO account because I often find bugs which nobody thinks is important.

user19161

@TRiG Oh dear. Don't worry, I am not a creepy stalker.

Luke

2:13 PM

I need to speak with kiam about this one.

Matt Эллен

@Luke lol

tchrist

@JasonBourne Plus they have a three-fold distinction where we have only a two-fold one. No wonder I could never find a minimal triple in rhotic speakers!

@TRiG Most but not all the Irish speakers of English I know are rhotic; are you?

hopes he hasn’t overstepped the bounds of propriety

Luke

RegDwight looks kinda sick...

tchrist

@Luke Purple Haze.

user19161

Ah, some of my stars have disappeared!

user19161

2:17 PM

Why do people unstar what has been starred?

tchrist

To make you cry.

user19161

Anyway, I don't do stars in chat.

tchrist

@JasonBourne Not even Justin Bieber?

user19161

Of course, I may star something for a few seconds to see its effect, but after that I'll unstar it.

TRiG

@tchrist No. Because my accent is weird.

Luke

2:18 PM

You know you want to star this message. You know it. C'mon now, just do it

tchrist

Did you move around a lot as a kid or something?

TRiG

I think I'm slightly rhotic in some instances (I can remember working out specific examples a month or so ago), but I'm usually not.

@tchrist My parents are English, and I was brought up on BBC Radio 4. I have an Irish vocabulary (I say grand a lot), but an English accent (and grammar: I don't say I seen).

user19161

I don't even know what rhotic is, LOL.

Luke

Of, relating to, or denoting a dialect or variety of English, e.g., Midwestern American English, in which r is pronounced before a consonant (as in hard) and at the ends of words (as in far)

TRiG

Oddly, my younger brother and sister both sound significantly more Irish than I do, perhaps because they're both more extroverted than I am.

user19161

2:22 PM

@Luke Oh, OK, I know what rhotic is now.

tchrist

@TRiG Oh that would do it. I knew an Irish family living in London where the girl was non-rhotic but her two brothers were rhotic. They were not trying to fit in, but she was.

user19161

Due to the influence of American television, many people here adopt a slightly rhotic accent.

tchrist

@JasonBourne I don’t even know what ʟᴏʟ is, rhotic.

user19161

It sounds very silly and pretentious.

tchrist

Rhotic accents, pretentious? Come again?

user19161

2:24 PM

Read the previous line.

tchrist