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- Sat Sep 26, 2015 11:54 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Dictionary game / Balderdash
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 70337
- Fri Sep 25, 2015 9:52 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Word association, rounded to the following letter
- Replies: 697
- Views: 60453
Re: Word association, rounded to the following letter
African -> Botswana
- Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:51 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Dictionary game / Balderdash
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 70337
Re: Dictionary game / Balderdash
Jayus:
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- Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:10 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Dictionary game / Balderdash
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 70337
Re: Dictionary game / Balderdash
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...
- Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:03 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Dictionary game / Balderdash
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 70337
Re: Dictionary game / Balderdash
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...
- Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:34 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Dictionary game / Balderdash
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 70337
Re: Dictionary game / Balderdash
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.
I've sent him a PM informing him.
- Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:31 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Word association, rounded to the following letter
- Replies: 697
- Views: 60453
Re: Word association, rounded to the following letter
West Virginia -> Charleston -> Kanawha -> Forest -> Wood -> Xylophone
- Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:20 pm UTC
- Forum: Language/Linguistics
- Topic: Adding a possessive to franchise names
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4169
Re: Adding a possessive to franchise names
bigglesworth wrote:In the West Country it can be referred to as "wai-rose-s".
Honestly, that doesn't surprise me much. Corrected, nonetheless.
- Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:13 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Word association, rounded to the following letter
- Replies: 697
- Views: 60453
Re: Word association, rounded to the following letter
Queen Elizabeth -> Britain -> Europe -> Romania
- Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:00 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Word association, rounded to the following letter
- Replies: 697
- Views: 60453
Re: Word association, rounded to the following letter
Nail > Finger > Poke > Disturb > Provoke > Offend
- Sun Sep 20, 2015 3:12 am UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Math: Fleeting Thoughts
- Replies: 382
- Views: 109819
Re: Math: Fleeting Thoughts
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.
- Sat Sep 19, 2015 3:13 pm UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Math: Fleeting Thoughts
- Replies: 382
- Views: 109819
Re: Math: Fleeting Thoughts
Xanthir wrote:Then for 5+, back down to three forever.
Man, 5 thinks it can tell everyone what to do. Fuck 5.
- Sat Sep 19, 2015 2:54 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Great Quotes From the Wrong People
- Replies: 61
- Views: 6628
Re: Great Quotes From the Wrong People
"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 ...
- Sat Sep 19, 2015 1:16 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Misquote the person above you.
- Replies: 4764
- Views: 295034
Re: Misquote the person above you.
Yablo wrote:Would they mess their pants, and all?
That's gross, but plausible.
- Sat Sep 19, 2015 2:21 am UTC
- Forum: Language/Linguistics
- Topic: Adding a possessive to franchise names
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4169
Re: Adding a possessive to franchise names
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...
- Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:35 pm UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Math: Fleeting Thoughts
- Replies: 382
- Views: 109819
Re: Math: Fleeting Thoughts
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...
- Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:47 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Dictionary game / Balderdash
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 70337
Re: Dictionary game / Balderdash
The word is timoptic.
- Fri Sep 18, 2015 12:10 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: ███ █ ████! ███ █!
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3386
Re: ███ █ ████! ███ █!
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- Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:20 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Dictionary game / Balderdash
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 70337
Re: Dictionary game / Balderdash
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...
- Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:13 pm UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: ███ █ ████! ███ █!
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3386
Re: ███ █ ████! ███ █!
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- Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:21 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: Dictionary game / Balderdash
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 70337
Re: Dictionary game / Balderdash
desuetude
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- Wed Sep 16, 2015 3:48 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: ███ █ ████! ███ █!
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3386
Re: ███ █ ████! (█ ███ █ ███)
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- Tue Sep 15, 2015 3:26 pm UTC
- Forum: Language/Linguistics
- Topic: How would you punctuate these?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3959
Re: How would you punctuate these?
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 ...
- Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:44 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: ███ █ ████! ███ █!
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3386
Re: ███ █ ████! (█ ███ █ ███)
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- Tue Sep 15, 2015 1:39 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: ███ █ ████! ███ █!
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3386
Re: ███ █ ████! (█ ███ █ ███)
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- Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:29 am UTC
- Forum: Religious Wars
- Topic: The Pronunciation of Sudo
- Replies: 90
- Views: 38907
Re: The Pronunciation of Sudo
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.
- Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:17 am UTC
- Forum: Forum Games
- Topic: ███ █ ████! ███ █!
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3386
Re: ███ █ ████!
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- Sun Sep 13, 2015 11:32 pm UTC
- Forum: Religious Wars
- Topic: The Pronunciation of Sudo
- Replies: 90
- Views: 38907
Re: The Pronunciation of Sudo
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...
- Sun Sep 13, 2015 12:53 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: ITT: We make xkcd slightly worse.
- Replies: 8631
- Views: 1503871
Re: ITT: We make xkcd slightly worse.
I wanted to have a go at this, but I'm almost certainly making a joke that has already been done.
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Comic 708
- Sun Sep 13, 2015 12:48 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: INTRO THREAD THE THIRD
- Replies: 10891
- Views: 2039804
Re: INTRO THREAD THE THIRD
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...
- Sun Sep 13, 2015 12:42 pm UTC
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Song Identification!
- Replies: 458
- Views: 170257
Re: Song Identification!
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...
- Sun Sep 13, 2015 12:13 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: INTRO THREAD THE THIRD
- Replies: 10891
- Views: 2039804
Re: INTRO THREAD THE THIRD
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.
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:43 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: What's a motto with you?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9859
Re: What's a motto with you?
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...
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:12 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: INTRO THREAD THE THIRD
- Replies: 10891
- Views: 2039804
Re: INTRO THREAD THE THIRD
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...