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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4350 on: 17 Apr 2014, 20:15 »

Rename Atlanta as Tbilisi, perhaps?
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4351 on: 17 Apr 2014, 22:22 »

Or convince Putin he's the reincarnation of Sherman. He's crazy enough to go for it.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4352 on: 18 Apr 2014, 04:13 »

Arrow's a surprisingly decent show, but it would be infinitely better if the mom was played by Jessica Walter.

Also: New rule - if you share an article with a clickbait headline, you should be required to write a real headline, one that actually gives an idea of what's in the article.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4353 on: 18 Apr 2014, 05:48 »

I like that rule.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4354 on: 18 Apr 2014, 11:33 »

Yo, ChaoSera, I'm up in your old town over the Easter holidays, wanna meet up?

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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4355 on: 18 Apr 2014, 15:48 »

Or convince Putin he's the reincarnation of Sherman. He's crazy enough to go for it.
He's already marched through Georgia, so...

"Putin's dashing Russian boys will never reach the coast,
 So the saucy 'kranians said, and t'was a handsome boast,
 But had they not forgotten alas his masked gun-toting host,
 While he marched through Crimea"


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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4356 on: 18 Apr 2014, 16:17 »

Hehehe :3
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4357 on: 18 Apr 2014, 17:37 »

Yo, ChaoSera, I'm up in your old town over the Easter holidays, wanna meet up?
That'd be awesome, because I'm actually alone over Easter! Wanna send me your mobile number per private message so we can discuss where and when to meet up?
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4358 on: 18 Apr 2014, 17:45 »

So now that it's actually planned that Loki and I meet, you two spontanously decide to meet earlier than we?  :-P

By the way, will any of you guys come too? (KIF 42.0, Konferenz der Informatikfachschaften)
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4359 on: 18 Apr 2014, 18:48 »

I wanna meet you guys ;_;
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« Reply #4360 on: 18 Apr 2014, 18:56 »

You'd probably have to tour Germany for that. I don't think I'll be visiting the US anytime soon.
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« Reply #4361 on: 19 Apr 2014, 02:03 »

I'm only gonna be here, can't come to KIFF. Besides, that sounds like some weed festival.

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« Reply #4362 on: 19 Apr 2014, 03:43 »

That's the intention.
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« Reply #4363 on: 19 Apr 2014, 04:36 »

...Where do I sign up?  :mrgreen:
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« Reply #4364 on: 19 Apr 2014, 06:43 »

Seriously Loki, you should have lead with that

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« Reply #4365 on: 19 Apr 2014, 06:43 »

Kidding by the way. I'm still not going to be able to visit.

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« Reply #4366 on: 19 Apr 2014, 06:48 »

Geez, you guys :roll: It is intended to sound like the verb for consuming weed, yes. Consuming weed is not the main purpose of the event. (Not saying it doesn't happen somewhere, but it doesn't happen openly.)

Kidding by the way. I'm still not going to be able to visit.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4367 on: 19 Apr 2014, 06:48 »

Yo Masterpiece, I require you to look at your phone.
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« Reply #4368 on: 19 Apr 2014, 17:31 »

You guys:

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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4369 on: 19 Apr 2014, 17:39 »

Two good looking guys with two good looking beers, what's there not to like? Woo, hope you're having/had fun.
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« Reply #4370 on: 19 Apr 2014, 17:55 »

So as it turns out, Masterpiece is an excellent guy and awesome to go drinking with. Not that I'd expected anything else, it's just nice to see one's assertions confirmed. Here's to hope he'll be in the area more often so we can repeat this!
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« Reply #4371 on: 19 Apr 2014, 21:18 »

Sooooooooo jealoussssssss
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4372 on: 20 Apr 2014, 02:58 »

Or convince Putin he's the reincarnation of Sherman. He's crazy enough to go for it.

If Putin burns Georgia (the U.S. state this time), I'll kill him with my bare fucking hands. Don't fuck with my family.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4373 on: 20 Apr 2014, 03:40 »

There was a pretty fucking hilarious collection of Facebook posts from the time when Georgia (the country) were invaded and people from Georgia (the state) posted "I can't see no Russians, the fucking news are lying!".
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« Reply #4374 on: 20 Apr 2014, 04:06 »

Sooooooooo jealoussssssss

Me also.
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« Reply #4375 on: 20 Apr 2014, 06:21 »

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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4376 on: 20 Apr 2014, 07:52 »

[Christ has been resurrected! Truly, he has been!]

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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4377 on: 20 Apr 2014, 08:12 »

The usual English form of the exchange is: "Christ is risen!  He is risen indeed!"
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4378 on: 20 Apr 2014, 08:17 »

I always found it interesting that people say "Christ is risen" rather than "Christ has risen". I get it, but it seems odd to make risen an adjective instead of a verb.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4379 on: 20 Apr 2014, 08:20 »

(Verb, specifically past participle, not a noun.)
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« Reply #4380 on: 20 Apr 2014, 08:22 »

Bah, fixed, I meant to say instead of a verb. Move along here. I didn't even realize I had said noun until I saw your post. So...yeah.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4381 on: 20 Apr 2014, 08:23 »

"Christ is risen", as opposed to "Christ has risen".  But the point is to place it in the actual present rather than an indefinite past.
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« Reply #4382 on: 20 Apr 2014, 08:24 »

I guess, but they say it on Easter, which is supposedly the anniversary of such rising. If it's a present thing, wouldn't it always be true?
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« Reply #4383 on: 20 Apr 2014, 09:01 »

Yes, it is always true - hence the present tense. Easter commemorates it, it doesn't just happen again each year like some kind of weird groundhog day.
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« Reply #4384 on: 20 Apr 2014, 09:55 »

At my family's church they often sing a hymn that says "Christ has died, Christ hasrisen, Christ will come again" to end service. But then sometimes (especially on Easter) the priest will say "Christ is risen" and everyone replies "he is risen, indeed."

Anyway, onto my random thought. I spent yesterday installing useful apps on my new phone. A flashlight app (I had to go through several), Flipboard (by far the best news app I found), a really cool volume control app. While using the Google Play store website on my computer (a lot faster than using my phone to search for apps, and I usually get better results) I discovered that you can ring, locate, lock, and wipe your device through something called the Google device manager.

I had installed a very space-consuming app called Lookout for that purpose. And in fact have installed it on the other two smartphones I've owned as well. I even wrote a glowing review of it because of an incident a couple years ago where I left my phone at a restaurant and was able to use the app to make sure it was safe and hadn't been taken. My mother finally got a smartphone recently and I told her she should install it as well. Now I feel stupid.
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« Reply #4385 on: 20 Apr 2014, 10:02 »

No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...

Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...
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« Reply #4386 on: 20 Apr 2014, 10:11 »

Of course, as well as it being Easter, there are those who are remembering that it is 4/20...

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« Reply #4387 on: 20 Apr 2014, 10:12 »

94ssd, that's a common part of the liturgy, but I'm fairly sure it is actually "Christ has died, Christ is risen". It could be a variation between churches though.
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« Reply #4388 on: 20 Apr 2014, 10:14 »

No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...

Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...

Ukrainian? I don't actually know how to tell the difference between cryillic languages or how different they are from each other. Recently I had the revelation that Arabic and Persian are nothing alike. I had just assumed the shared writing system meant they were linguistically related as well.

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« Reply #4389 on: 20 Apr 2014, 10:15 »

No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...

Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...
It's Ukrainian. Without knowing any Ukrainian, I can tell because it has the letter 'i' and Russian does not.

No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...

Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...

Ukrainian? I don't actually know how to tell the difference between cryillic languages or how different they are from each other. Recently I had the revelation that Arabic and Persian are nothing alike. I had just assumed the shared writing system meant they were linguistically related as well.

Related:  !المسيح قام! بالحقيقة قام (al-masiḥ qam! b-al-ḥaqiqata qam)
It's pretty common in areas that are conquered by other nations for the conqueror to force their writing system on the conquered, even if the languages are nothing alike. Some examples of that would be Mongolian, which uses the Cyrillic alphabet, or Vietnamese which uses the Latin alphabet.
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« Reply #4390 on: 20 Apr 2014, 10:15 »

I am looking forward to starting my Arabic classes :) I have found a free website with some very basic vocabulary just to get a feel for the language.
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« Reply #4391 on: 20 Apr 2014, 10:19 »

I am looking forward to starting my Arabic classes :) I have found a free website with some very basic vocabulary just to get a feel for the language.

I wonder if you're classes will use Al-Kitaab. That seems to be the standard most places. Then you'll get to learn all about Maha and how she's waHida (lonely).

EDIT: I just thought of an interesting Arabic fact I learned recently that shows what a cool language it is. So, all Arabic works have a root-and-stem pattern. Once you learn how to recognize these three-letter roots, it becomes a lot easier to ascertain the meaning of new words. كتب is both the root meaning "writing" and the unconjugated form of the verb "to write." كتاب (Kitaab) means "book." مكتب (Maktab) means "place of writing," aka an office.

Lonewords like كمبيوتر (Computer) usually don't follow this root and stem pattern, with a few exceptions, most notably بنك (bank), which has also become the root meaning "banking." So now بنوك (banook) means to invest your money.
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« Reply #4392 on: 20 Apr 2014, 10:33 »

I took Beginning Arabic my freshman year of college and dropped it a few weeks in because we were still learning how to write the alphabet. I was 19 and impatient, but damn it, I wanted to learn how to read and translate. I would never have need to write anything, really, computers exist. I kind of regret not sticking with it (I switched to Ancient Greek, which led to me being a Classics major), but...yeah.
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« Reply #4393 on: 20 Apr 2014, 10:42 »

I took Beginning Arabic my freshman year of college and dropped it a few weeks in because we were still learning how to write the alphabet. I was 19 and impatient, but damn it, I wanted to learn how to read and translate. I would never have need to write anything, really, computers exist. I kind of regret not sticking with it (I switched to Ancient Greek, which led to me being a Classics major), but...yeah.

Learning Arabic is a really slow process at first. We didn't finish learning the alphabet until about halfway through first semester, although we were learning vocab and grammatical stuff at the same time.

We only got into how to make words plural (which is a real fucking pain in the ass because all root patterns have their own plural rules, but there's also rules about human vs. non-human plurals) in the first few weeks of my second semester learning it. We don't know any verb tenses yet (he did briefly mention past tense but it hasn't been covered in the book), I'm pretty sure by this point in my learning of Spanish we had to know 5 different tenses.
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« Reply #4394 on: 20 Apr 2014, 10:50 »

I am looking forward to starting my Arabic classes :) I have found a free website with some very basic vocabulary just to get a feel for the language.

Why are you learning Arabic May?
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« Reply #4395 on: 20 Apr 2014, 11:09 »

It's just a short course and I think we're focusing on spoken Arabic rather than written - but I don't know which sort. Presumably the one that's spoken most commonly.

I'm taking the classes because I'm interested in Islam, the Arabic world etc and also because I want to learn the basics of a few of the languages the women I care for speak. I couldn't find a Punjabi class and although Polish would be useful, I went for Arabic first.
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« Reply #4396 on: 20 Apr 2014, 11:51 »

No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...

Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...
It's Ukrainian. Without knowing any Ukrainian, I can tell because it has the letter 'i' and Russian does not.
For the record, I noticed that. (Also, the Russian version sounds more archaic.)
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« Reply #4397 on: 20 Apr 2014, 13:39 »

It's just a short course and I think we're focusing on spoken Arabic rather than written - but I don't know which sort. Presumably the one that's spoken most commonly.

I'm taking the classes because I'm interested in Islam, the Arabic world etc and also because I want to learn the basics of a few of the languages the women I care for speak. I couldn't find a Punjabi class and although Polish would be useful, I went for Arabic first.

maSri (Egyptian) Arabic has the most speakers. However, you live in the UK, correct? So most Arab immigrants will speak in the shaami (Levantine) or Khaliji (Gulf) dialects. I'd say that Khaliji would probably be more useful because it encompasses Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the U.A.E. among others.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4398 on: 20 Apr 2014, 13:55 »

I'm really craving a chocolate milkshake.

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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #4399 on: 20 Apr 2014, 14:34 »

I just want more Chocolate.

Shoulda brought another Egg.
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