English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

8:03 PM

Anyway, there are two kinds of people in this chatroom: those who have inventive gravatars, those who rely on SE-issued kaleidoscopes, and those who use color squares. And there are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't.

user19161

8:15 PM

@Robusto I thought you were talking about Pantene shampoo.

user19161

Pantene

Pantene is a brand of hair care products owned by Procter & Gamble. The product line was first introduced in Europe in 1947 by Hoffman-LaRoche of Switzerland, which branded the name based on panthenol as a shampoo ingredient. It was purchased by Procter & Gamble (P&G) in 1985 in order for P&G to compete in the "beauty product" market rather than only functional products. The brand's best-known product became the conditioning shampoo Pantene Pro-V (Pantene Pro-Vitamin). The product became most noted due to an advertising campaign in the late 1980s in which fashion models said, "Don't hat...

RegDwighт

Πανθεϊσμός

Πανθεϊσμός είναι η άποψη κατά την οποία η Φύση και ο Θεός είναι ένα και συμπερασματικά ο κόσμος είναι θείος. Αυτοί που θέτουν ως αίτημα ότι η Αρχή του σύμπαντος είναι υπερβατική και διαχωρισμένη από τον σύμπαν, θεωρούν ότι ο πανθεϊσμός είναι αθεϊσμός. Έτσι, πολλοί Χριστιανοί θεολόγοι και φιλόσοφοι θωρούν ότι ο Ινδουισμός και ο Βουδισμός, καθώς επίσης και η φιλοσοφία του Σπινόζα, είναι αθεϊστικές. Στο φιλοσοφικό πεδίο ο πανθεϊσμός είναι δοξασία που ταυτίζει τον θεό με τον κόσμο. Δέχεται δηλαδή ότι ο θεός είναι το μόνο πραγματικό ον και ο κόσμος το φανέρωμά του, η απορροή ή η εκπόρευσή του κ...

KitFox

Pa—hey! that's not Cyrillic!

Pavtheismos?

RegDwighт

That's an N, silly.

Robusto

It's Greek to Kit.

KitFox

8:21 PM

Oh? Looks like a v.

user19161

It looks Greek to me as well.

Robusto

That is the substitute n the Greeks are forced to use. It's nothing nu.

user19161

I once memorised the pronunciation of the Greek alphabet in Greek and also in English.

RegDwighт

@Robusto I thought her name actually used to be Κιθ, no?

KitFox

No.

RegDwighт

8:22 PM

So that's a yes.

user19161

Yes, Kith.

user19161

Perhaps that's the female Keith.

user19161

Guys, this Fedora 18 looks very beautiful. Now both Windows and Linux look like phones.

KitFox

No. It was a something I don't remember that @JSB wanted.

An aitch with a little curve under it.

RegDwighт

@JasonBourne Bjarne Stroustrup will be so happy.

> I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone...

You know the rest.

user19161

8:25 PM

@RegDwighт You know, when I first saw this phone interface, I thought WTF, but now I'm loving it.

RegDwighт

Are you McDonald's?

user19161

Jinx.

Robusto

How come he never changes his name to Ronald McDonald? That would fit better than Jason Bourne. The real Jason Bourne never comes into our chat to brag about memorizing the pronunciation of alphabets, or to get whooshed by the dialogue. The real Jason Bourne never gets whooshed. It's in his contract.

user19161

Wouldn't the fox in this chat eat the beaver and the kitten as well?

KitFox

raises eyebrow

RegDwighт

8:28 PM

The beaver is like fifty times the size of the fox.

user19161

But then, the green orc would eat them all!

KitFox

H-breve.

(U+1E2A)

Not a theta.

RegDwighт

Theta-thet.

Robusto

@KitFox Stop that! You know what will happen if you persist.

KitFox

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That's what theta-thet made me think of.

RegDwighт

8:33 PM

Has anybody at all been noticing how few closed questions we've been having on the front page all day? Where are the meta posts full of praise?

Robusto

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Q: Which word sounds better, "special" or "unique"?

I like to know which of these word is better than the other. I think Unique sounds better but I'd like other people views. Thanks :)

word-choice

Here's one.

RegDwighт

Only four closed questions right now. Two dupes, two old as hell. I.e. we closed them ages ago, and they only happened to get bumped.

@Robusto Ah of course.

I knew I could rely on you.

user19161

@Robusto I have been thinking about this for many years. I might take a risk and give a weird answer.

Robusto

I edited it before it could be flushed.

RegDwighт

He deleted it before it could be closed!

The miracles just won't stop!

user19161

8:34 PM

Now I can't show off my answer!

Robusto

@RegDwighт I know. What a brilliant invention. The self-deleting post!

user19161

But I wasn't joking, I really have been thinking about special vs unique.

Robusto

I bet Martha's going to be pissed at him, turning himself away from the site like that.

RegDwighт

@Robusto I guess Shog noticed my suggestion and forced his slaves to implement it.

Matt Эллен

maybe he read the faq after posting and realised his mistake

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RegDwighт

8:36 PM

Mar 19 '12 at 16:08, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

The default should be, your question is closed, and you have to find at least five people who think it should be opened.

Robusto

@MattЭллен Stop trying to be funny. You know that couldn't possibly be the answer.

RegDwighт

That actually was funny.

Unusual for a Brit.

The miracles, alas.

user19161

Also, that day I wanted to answer cannot be overestimated/underestimated, but the asker deleted the question due to an erroneous comment.

Robusto

It is the Ides of January. Anything-can-happen day.

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Q: What is the difference between "dichotomous", "binary", "boolean", etc.?

To classify species we use a method called: dichotomous biological key. It works base on true and false cycles. In computer sciences true and fulse working is called boolean and binary is a 0 and 1 system (which is like true and false). what is the difference between them? Can I use term "Binary ...

differences

I'd like this one to be self-deleting too.

RegDwighт

Or it's not a joke at all. He really did realize his mistake — of posting it on ELU and not Biblical Hermeneutics.

yes you are right — MySky 38 mins ago

Robusto

8:39 PM

BTW, when I try using "true and fulse" in my coding, I get an error.

RegDwighт

True and Fulsem Prison Blues.

user19161

Geezis, how come nobody wants to hear my special/unique answer? NVM!

RegDwighт

That's the full name. You can't just use your random shorthand like that.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwighт har har. like Germans know about humour

RegDwighт

@MattЭллен the problem is not that they don't know, but that they won't tell.

Robusto

8:40 PM

@MattЭллен Sure they do. Humor is when other people are in pain, nicht wahr?

RegDwighт

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Robusto

Try saying that in lederhosen.

@Robusto. True, but there's a limit to how much we can spell out in an answer. — Barrie England 22 mins ago

I don't think he reached the limit yet. He's not tchrist, after all.

user19161

@MattЭллен I thought the Finnish don't laugh at all? Was it Mahnax who said so?

user19161

@Robusto Most of his answers are two lines.

RegDwighт

I can spell out seven words in an answer. Then I switch to glibberich.

user19161

8:43 PM

Sounds like gibberish.

RegDwighт

It's a trap. It's nothing like that.

Matt Эллен

@JasonBourne I don't know. I only know the xenophobic prejudices I've been raised with.

user19161

Has the private beta begun already?

RegDwighт

Dec 4 '12 at 13:52, by RegDwighт

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user19161

Geezis, there is now a dragon in this room...

RegDwighт

8:48 PM

@JasonBourne we haven't even decided on what the sign should say to be put up out in front of the place. So far we've only agreed on "storage".

user19161

@RegDwighт It's only private, not public.

Robusto

@JasonBourne That's an elephant.

user19161

OK, so guys here is my take on special vs unique, even though you didn't ask for it.

Robusto

Tween!

Too late.

Nobody cares anymore.

Matt Эллен

Fully grown adult!

Robusto

8:50 PM

Shoulda been faster.

RegDwighт

Sabrina the Teenage Tweener.

Robusto

Mar 15 '11 at 10:53, by Robusto

@Cerberus — You're only young once, but that's no reason you can't be immature forever.

user19161

Many people say that unique is better than special, because unique is one of a kind. But I say that special is better than unique, because no two persons are the same, so everyone is unique but not everyone is special. QED.

Robusto

Bullshit. You're the same.

Semper idem, semper fidelis.

RegDwighт

Who you call infidelis?

user19161

8:51 PM

There is only elephant shit here.

RegDwighт

Not if you look away from the monitor and to your left.

user19161

Each piece of elephant shit is the size of a beaver.

RegDwighт

The Bourne Proctology.

Matt Эллен

semper pie

RegDwighт

Life of Semper Pie

Semperoper

The Semperoper is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera) and the concert hall of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra). It is located near the Elbe River in the historic center of Dresden, Germany. The opera house was originally built by the architect Gottfried Semper in 1841. After a devastating fire in 1869, the opera house was rebuilt, partly again by Semper, and completed in 1878. The opera house has a long history of premieres, including major works by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. History The first opera house at th...

user19161

8:56 PM

@matt Will you be running for elections this year?

Robusto

He only runs for erections.

Wait, that's Cerberus.

user19161

Geezis.

Matt Эллен

I probably won't

RegDwighт

@tchrist just dropped from 71 to 56 on a whim. Within two minutes. Looks like some timing threshold was reached.

Robusto

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Q: Another way to say: "Evidences that show that..."

I need to write something similar to this: Evidences that show that this method is both safe and provides clinical benefits support its recommendation. I would like to say it without using "show". I had "Evidence of that this method...." written, but I think that it's incorrect. Which w...