Happy Days in Random Chatter 10

[mic0]

I don't think that person on FB knows what a communist is.

[Marduk]

I....I just.... see, Communism is when....

I give up.

[Portia]

Yellow just got called a communist on Facebook because, in a discussion of "What smartphone should I get?" he commented:

Note, people: For the sake of making a decision, saying "iPhones suck" or "Android is garbage" isn't useful unless you specify *what* it was you didn't like. I doubt he's going to buy a phone purely based on how many people voted one way or the other. Talk about features and performance and apps and stuff, not just "it was good" or "it was bad".

My night is made. Hah!

Um, this is a direct quote from The Communist Manifesto. Not that there's anything wrong with that ...

[Giovanni Schwartz]

I agree with the above statement. Well, both of them. Yellow is a communist, and he's right about cell phones.

[Portia]

There are some really good things in the University of Utah's surplus sale, like the bookshelves, bikes, and camera.

[Katya]

You guys, I said an entire sentence in Spanish today that was actually germane to the conversation and not just a canned sentence I'd learned from Duolingo.

[Tally M.]

I had to stop Duolingo...I was already having so much trouble getting it mixed into Finnish

[Whistler]

nice Katya!

[Marduk]

You guys, I said an entire sentence in Spanish today that was actually germane to the conversation and not just a canned sentence I'd learned from Duolingo.

Que bueno! Ya eres un estudiante bien inteligente!

(Also, my spell check just told me I spelled every word in that sentence wrong, except, for some strange reason, "un.")

[Emiliana]

You guys, I said an entire sentence in Spanish today that was actually germane to the conversation and not just a canned sentence I'd learned from Duolingo.

Que bueno! Ya eres un estudiante bien inteligente!

(Also, my spell check just told me I spelled every word in that sentence wrong, except, for some strange reason, "un.")

What is the "ya" in that sentence?

[Marduk]

"ya" is generally translated as "already" or "now."

So a rough translation would be "you are now a very intelligent student!"

[Portia]

We had a conference call. The guy said "arrows," but the way he pronounced it sounded like "hours" to both of us. Between that and the ambulance sirens, I wasn't surprised when I looked up the company and they were based out of NYC/NJ.

[Emiliana]

"ya" is generally translated as "already" or "now."

So a rough translation would be "you are now a very intelligent student!"

I was expecting that to be something much more grammatically complicated ... Now I feel silly for not just looking it up myself.

[Genuine Article]

We just got a thing in the mail saying we get to participate in the Nielsen ratings. I'm so excited.

[Digit]

Interesting. So there's nothing against telling people, just selling your viewing?

[bobtheenchantedone]

Guys. Do not break falls with your face.

That is all.

[Portia]

The coy Lolita reader drives me absolutely insane.

[mic0]

I think they are hilarious!

[Portia]

I think they are hilarious!

How long does it take to read Lolita? Don't they realize always referring it to as "this book I'm reading" ups the perv factor? Maybe this person is from Iran?

[Giovanni Schwartz]

There's a whole Wikipedia article with that exact title? TIL