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Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:16 pm
by mic0
I don't think that person on FB knows what a communist is.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:44 pm
by Marduk
I....I just.... see, Communism is when....
I give up.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:54 pm
by Portia
Dragon Lady wrote: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 ...
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 8:44 pm
by Giovanni Schwartz
I agree with the above statement. Well, both of them. Yellow is a communist, and he's right about cell phones.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 11:11 pm
by Portia
There are some really good things in the
University of Utah's surplus sale, like the bookshelves, bikes, and camera.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:37 pm
by 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.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:05 pm
by Tally M.
I had to stop Duolingo...I was already having so much trouble getting it mixed into Finnish
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:17 pm
by Whistler
nice Katya!
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:18 pm
by Marduk
Katya wrote: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.")
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 9:36 pm
by Emiliana
Marduk wrote:Katya wrote: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?
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 10:02 pm
by Marduk
"ya" is generally translated as "already" or "now."
So a rough translation would be "you are now a very intelligent student!"
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:38 am
by 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.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 5:49 pm
by Emiliana
Marduk wrote:"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.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 7:31 pm
by Genuine Article
We just got a thing in the mail saying we get to participate in the Nielsen ratings. I'm so excited.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 8:08 pm
by Digit
Interesting. So there's nothing against telling people, just selling your viewing?
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 9:37 pm
by bobtheenchantedone
Guys. Do not break falls with your face.
That is all.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:14 am
by Portia
The coy Lolita reader drives me absolutely insane.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:29 am
by mic0
I think they are hilarious!
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:36 am
by Portia
mic0 wrote: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?
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:50 am
by Giovanni Schwartz
There's a whole Wikipedia article with that exact title? TIL