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African -> Botswana

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Jayus:

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Ladies and gentlemen, this round is now over! ⋅ ( Lawrencelot ) A quantum property of photons traveling through an optic waveguide, where the expected time delay of the photons is negative. (Yablo, 12obin) ⋅ ( Vytron ) Having a dream where you live again a very detailed past even...

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Timoptic , is it: ⋅ A quantum property of photons traveling through an optic waveguide, where the expected time delay of the photons is negative. ⋅ Having a dream where you live again a very detailed past event. ⋅ In astroomy, the inference of the existence of radiatin...

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12obin hasn't logged in for nearly a week. I'll continue without him if he doesn't log in by the 24th. I don't want to leave it too long.

I've sent him a PM informing him.

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West Virginia -> Charleston -> Kanawha -> Forest -> Wood -> Xylophone

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bigglesworth wrote:In the West Country it can be referred to as "wai-rose-s".

Honestly, that doesn't surprise me much. Corrected, nonetheless.

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Queen Elizabeth -> Britain -> Europe -> Romania

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Nail > Finger > Poke > Disturb > Provoke > Offend

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Dason wrote:I heard 5 saying some pretty harsh things about your mother the other day too. As if you needed any more reason to hate it!

I'd fight back, but I heard 5's best friend is 10, and he's like twice the size he is.

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Xanthir wrote:Then for 5+, back down to three forever.

Man, 5 thinks it can tell everyone what to do. Fuck 5.

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." - 50 Cent "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Josef Fritzl "I can't change the direction of the wind, but ...

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Yablo wrote:Would they mess their pants, and all?

That's gross, but plausible.

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Is it only things that sound vaguely like personal names? I can't imagine someone saying "I stopped at Best Buy's for a printer cable." In Britain we have a grocery store called "Tesco", and we generally refer to it as "Tesco's". We have another grocery store named aft...

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I never really liked the number 5. To me, 1 is barely a number, and 2 is just two. Both are still really cool, don't get me wrong, but the first number-y number is 3 for me, and I like that because three points define a plane. 4 is a power of 2, and I like 2 because it's the only even prime. And the...

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The word is timoptic.

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Desuetude ; is it 1. A state of disuse causing obsolescence 2. One of a series of persecutions directed by King of Navarre against French Protestants, in which troops were quartered upon them. 3. The state of being noncommittal or indecisive 4. Being certain of something despite a lack of justifica...

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Whizbang wrote:█ ███ ████ ██ ██████ ███

██ █████ ██ "█" ██ ██?

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desuetude

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Vytron wrote:██ ██, ███ ██'█ ████ ██

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I generally exclude punctuation from the end of a quotation, unless the sentence continues on after it, or if the entire sentence is the quotation. For instance: 2A. Did she say, "I like that show"? 2B. Did she say, "I love that show"? 2C. Did she ask you, "Do you like that ...

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Vytron wrote:███ █ █ █ █ ██

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Flumble wrote:Should you also pronounce the u in sudo like the u in user, making it shoodoo?
I like it, but I'll say pseudo regardless.

I pronounce pseudo as /ˈsjuːdəʊ/ and the u in user as /ˈjuː/ so, yes.

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I always assumed that sudo derived from su, and that su stood for "switch user" or "substitute user". So, sudo is short for "have the s ubstitute u ser do ". But no matter how much I try to remember that, I keep saying it as "pseudo" in my head, and it shouldn...

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I wanted to have a go at this, but I'm almost certainly making a joke that has already been done.

Comic 708

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xyweasel, if you want to learn about a silly parody on evolution of language there is a thread where a dialect evolved (warning, that tread is massive). Also there are real language discussions there and some attempts at decoding a language in the comic it's about (Randall invented what we call Bea...

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If anybody knows the song "Hands Swollen With Grace" by the band "Dakota Suite", there is another song that sounds almost exactly like it, but has a man singing words, of which I remember none at all. I don't remember if it's also by Dakota Suite, or by another band of the same g...

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Monika wrote:Did you see the various language practice threads?

I didn't until you told me they exist. I feel like a kid in a candy store, now. Thank you.

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My old school had a very memorable motto that has stuck with me to this day. Quas dederis solas semper habebis opes. This translates as " What you give will be your only permanent riches ", or as my French tutor paraphrased it, "You get out what you put in". It serves as a source...

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Hello everyone. I'm called Xy. It's pronounced "xy". I'm from Britain. I like science, politics, writing, and travelling. Travelling and visiting cities around the world, especially. I know my way around a few cities, and really like discovering little coffee shops and eating places, about...

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