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IRC fun (after Mr. Saturday was de-opped): * MrSaturday peels a lemon <MrSaturday> Do you know how hard it is to peel a lemon? <MrSaturday> I mean, peel it like an orange? <MrSaturday> Hint: Pretty fucking hard. <MrSaturday> That's how pissed I am. <MrSaturday> I'm going to eat a fucking lemon. <Wh...

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You know what I meant. I must admit, I missed the irony when I wrote it.

At least I get quoted.

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I think HardPoreCorn is Abbastanza.

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I don't know if Xadim = Khang or not, but the font with "pagina" in can be seen in Xadim's signature.

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Look in Xadim's signature.

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Delalyra wrote:I'm confused.....

i.e. it doesn't say "phallus" in the definition, but rather "thallus". "Phallus" could perhaps be erotic, but I don't like to imagine one being flattened.

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The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.

Note that it's <th>, not <ph> so it's not really very erotic.

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Still, how did you come up with the "gen-"? Or was it just random?

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Genackets? I've never heard that one before, and neither has Google, apparently. I can see that "squackets" is from "square brackets", presumably, but how is "genackets" derived? "General brackets" is all I can think of, but that doesn't really make sense.

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Echobeats wrote:() ? brackets
[] ? square brackets
<> ? angle brackets
{} ? curly brackets.

Pretty much what I say, except I would usually call "<>" angled brackets.

But I know this whole thing is a British/American difference.

I didn't know that.

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Technically yes, but I was just being colloquial. In informal speech calling "()" brackets is perfectly acceptable, IMD.

Seriously, I did know that difference but I'd forgotten about it. And in informal speech I do just call them brackets.

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If I type "/slashes/ and (brackets)" what does your screen-reader say? It says, quote slash slashes slash and left parenth brackets right parenth",. Okay. I thought there was a slim possibility that it read "/" and "(" as the same thing, for some reason, so that your "mistake" would have been justi...

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I've noticed some people confusing /slashes/ and /brackets/ in regard to phonetic transcription, and this bugs me for some reason. I don't think it's only them. I' prolly being dense, but I don't quite see the humour in that... :? Well, "slashes" and "brackets" have both been enclosed in slashes by...

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Delthayre wrote:Oh my. I only bothered with the Dwarfism (as the interviewer put it) part and I very nearly burst out laughing. It sounded less like a dwarf than it did the Swedish Chef from The Muppet Show having an asthma attack.

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Weird, sure, maybe in some places a little too weird, but nevertheless the asskickage remains. What was this with reference to? I'd like to suggest a rule for this thread whereby we have to link to the post we're quoting, so that anyone who wants to can read it in context. We don't necessarily need...

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Delalyra wrote:
Trebor wrote:I think this thread ought to be stickied to prevent it from being pruned.
Ohhh, is that what a sticky thread means? You learn something new every day! And I agree.

It also means the thread will stay at the top of the page and be seen more easily.

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